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Vol. 40

No. 07

Feb. 272009

March 2Choir Concert, 7 p.m.

March 3STUCO Meeting, 7 p.m.

March 4Band Concert, 7 p.m.

March 5 College Night, 7 p.m. March 7Mother/Son Brunch, 10 a.m.Father/Daughter Dance, 7 p.m.

March 9NHS Meeting, 7 p.m.

March 10Academic Pep Assembly, 1 p.m. Orchestra Concert, 7 p.m.

March 11 STAR Meeting, 6 p.m. March 123rd Quarter Ends

March 16-20 Spring Break March 27 Variety Show, 7 p.m.

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Facebook celebrates its fifth anniversary

this year. See how its popularity has evolved

this social network.

Another Ryan Howard? LHS grad David Freese will potentially start at

third base for the Cardi-nals this season.

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Reporters review the classic St. Louis favorite, toasted ravioli, from four

area restaurants. See page 12

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INSIDE: A motorcycle accident helps the Gilmans to appreciate the blessings of friends and family.

Passionate. Enthusiastic. Selfless. These are the words that came to mind as students and fellow staff members described Lafayette’s 2008-2009 Teacher of the Year, AnnMarie Gilman.

Gilman, whose policy for student success is, “Learning is NON-negotiable, zero tolerance for ze-ros, respect for everyone,” teaches Human Anatomy and Physiology blocked, standard and Flex.

Language arts teacher Melinda Bond nominated Gilman for the award. Bond said she has known Gil-man since they took Masters classes together nine years ago.

“Mrs. Gilman has always impressed me. She loves her job. She loves her students. She loves life. That impresses me,” Bond said.

Students in Gilman’s classes said they are better able to understand classroom material because of the connections she helps them to make. One instance of this is when she uses string cheese to describe the anatomy of muscle fibers.

“She really likes to get into the lessons that she teaches. She will yell and do activities and loves helping us out with the dissections that we do. You can tell she is really interested in the subject,” senior Tyler Royse said.

“She’s helped me to have an interest in the medi-cal field. The human body has become a lot more interesting to me; I’d never really cared that much about it until I took the class. If a teacher takes that much of an interest in her subject and helps her stu-dents to like it that much, then she deserves to be Teacher of the Year,” Royse said.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Gil-man oversees National Honor Society (NHS).

“As the NHS sponsor, Mrs. Gilman dedicates a great deal of time and effort in order to make sure that our community service projects are all success-ful. She attends nearly every event, and is always ready to help out when needed,” senior Hannah Bliss, NHS Officer, said.

Bliss said Gilman is deserving of the title “Teach-er of the Year” because she genuinely cares about her students and is devoted to them.

“One of the aspects that separates Mrs. Gilman is her sincere care for her students and her selfless atti-tude. Even through some extremely difficult times in her family this year, she still made sure her students were taken care of, and that means a lot to me,” Bliss said.

Other finalists for Teacher of the Year were Dawn Indelicato-Faw, language arts; Melissa Noël, lan-guage arts; and Lori Sanders, FACS.see pg. 9

Erik Dauster, News Editor

Science teacher Gilman wins 2009 top honor

Empty: one word to describe the Incentive Area in the Commons.

The couches, the tables and the teachers working on their laptops are all people see pass-ing by, during a restroom break.

To be allowed into the roped off section, stu-dents must apply and be accepted into the Stu-dent Incentive Program.

To be in the Incentive Program a sophomore must have six credits, a junior must have 12 credits and a senior must have 18 credits. Every-one must have a clear discipline record (no ISS/OSS), parental permission, no fees or fines, no failing grades from the previous semester and no unexcused absences from the previous se-mester.

With teacher permission, students in the pro-gram can leave class to go to the Incentive Area, the Library or the Academic Assistance Center.

But not all teachers will let their students leave their class early.

“It really depends on the student and what we are doing in class. The answer would most likely be no,” French teacher Gina Luerding said.

Luerding also said, “I think students are afraid when they ask [to leave], the message will come across that they don’t want to be in class.”

She said the foreign language teachers are pretty much against letting students leave class.

FACS teacher Alison Harris likes the Incen-tive Area. But she said it is, “under utilized com-pared to what they had hoped for. They [stu-dents] might think it is only for seniors.”

“I would let students leave class if they were eligible. Some people work better in that area. It is comfortable and away from other students.”

One staff member is in the Incentive Area ev-ery hour to supervise.

However, more teachers visit the Incentive Area than students.

Spanish teacher Theresa Gornet watched the area 1st hour on Feb. 12. She said, two students were there, “both listened to iPods only, doing no homework or talking to anyone. There were four teachers there however. I was grading, another was working as she chatted with two teachers who were apparently just there to visit.”

This is the busiest the Incentive Area gets during the day because seniors coming in late to school for Senior Option go to the area before the next class starts.

Junior Taylor Foley, who qualified for the Incentive Program, said, “I’ve never used the couch area. I use my incentive card to get out of class. I just go sit in another class or I’ll hang out in the Gifted Counselors’ Office.

“[The Incentive Area] is a big waste of space,” Foley said. “I don’t think kids actually know about the program.”

Principal John Shaughnessy agrees the word has not been communicated well.

He said, “What we are trying to figure out is how we promote it with our kids. Because kids from all grades levels apply for the incentive, where during the school day do kids have the time to go?”

As of now, the school is not sure of how to get the word out.

Shaughnessy also said improvements are still to be made to the Incentive Area. He said he has

plans for several additions to make it more com-fortable for students.

“We talked about adding a television some light fixtures to make it a little more student friendly, work with the Art Department. I would love to see more of the student artwork hung up in there, displayed in there. So it really does re-flect our students,” Shaughnessy said.

The Incentive Area was funded by the Lancer Parent Organization through a grant.

Foley thinks the money used to fund the area should have been used somewhere else.

“Give a kid a scholarship. Don’t put couches in the Commons,” Foley said.

Foley added, “Each time you mention it to someone, they think ‘what the heck is that? I’ve never heard of it before.’ So I think it either needs to become more known or cease to exist all together.”

Student incentive gives no incentive

UnoccupiedThe Incentive Area in the Commons remains empty most hours during the school day except for the teachers assigned to supervise the area. The lack of activity can be traced to teachers not allowing students to leave class and under promoting the Incentive Program.

Photo by Daniel Clutter

Kara Campbell, Staff Reporter

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stars & gripes

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•At long last, after over a year spent in the gripes section, the water machines. It’s truly com-forting to know that at least someone reads this section of the paper, and acts on our gripe section. We toast you with our rows and rows of new, fresh and unflavored water.

•Spring Break. Whether it’s lying out somewhere on a posh beach, helping out Hurricane Katrina victims in Pearlington, MS or simply sitting around doing nothing, we all deserve a break from the daily grind.

•Wrestling qualified eight men to the State meet. Even though only one, Robby Campbell, placed, we still com-mend the team on a banner season.

•Senioritis. Not com-pleting homework or studying has proved to improve morale among seniors.

•National Scholastic Journalism Week. It’s kind of a big deal around here when we celebrate our right to speak and write freely.

•Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Ground-hog Day. Unfortunately, Phil was correct, as we’ve had several cold spells since the begin-ning of February.

•The Salmonella scare nationwide. We love pea-nut butter, but we don’t love tainted food and the nine reported deaths across the country as a result of the disease.

•Girls, at least as far as Turnabout is concerned. We thank you for your poor showing at the dance, in numbers and in spirit. The 2009 dance was eerily dead.

•The New York Post’s editorial cartoon showing Barack Obama as a mon-key. If you think our last cartoon was bad, take a look at this sucker.

•Alex Rodriguez. If Major League Baseball has any credibility left, it’s no thanks to this admitted self-injecting cheater.

•The Dow Jones Indus-trial Average reached a six-year low only one week ago. Time to stock up on bread and toilet paper and dig in for the long haul.

•Facebook’s threat to sell all of its users data publicly. The prophecy of internet stalkers is fulfill-ing itself. All we need now is a price tag.

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“Picking up where we left off, and then some. In the studio writing and recording a new album. Pre-paring to tour the world yet again. Friendships reformed. Seventeen years deep in our legacy. Summer 2009. Thanks and get ready…”

Three weeks ago, blink-182 sent out that message to the world.

The backwards flat-bill and Hur-ley shirt are making a comeback.

The garage door will be closing one more time, leaving three early 90’s minds to create what arenas have filled to hear.

Honest, let’s make, this night last forever. Blink is back.

The screw-the-world sound is back.

That monotone voice will un-derlie that other recognizably na-sally one, telling us that they miss us. Or they Miss You. Or they miss somebody. Whoever they miss, it’s why they are back.

Either that or they are Staying Together for the Kids.

It’s going to be awesome to see that garage band persona running around in front of an arena again.

But a part of me is a little upset.I am a huge Angels and Airwaves

(AVA) fan (Tom DeLonge’s post-blink band). I am obsessed beyond belief. The cool melodic touch they complement each harmonic bass line with. The continuous feel of ascension through each verse, then to the chorus, then to the bridge; it really is musical genius.

Now, I hope you can understand why I am a little upset about this

blink reunion.As much as I love blink, I’m un-

easily uncertain as to the future of my favorite band, AVA.

While I have read multiple sources saying that AVA will be fine and that this blink reunion will not harm AVA’s plans for another al-bum, I still cannot be sure.

These same sources stated, with such certainty, that blink was never going to reform. But poof, a near-death experience raises blink from its ashes, like a phoenix, and it comes soaring back into our ears.

And right here is where I get ex-cited again. Blink is back. I am not sure what to feel.

I can’t speak for any of the plus 44 fans (Travis and Mark’s post-blink band), but from an AVA fan’s point of view, we want to see and hear more.

The blink concert is going to be so awesome. I can almost guaran-tee it will be sold out within days of announcing.

There is going to be so many old fans, along with the new fans they have gained from their spin-off projects since the 2005 ‘hiatus.’

I have been thinking though; now that these three wannabe-teen, punk stars are going to be tak-ing the stage, one more time, what exactly will the concert be like?

Between all the bands that these three have been apart of in the past 10 years, there are nine different members to blink-182, AVA, plus 44, and Boxcar Racer.

These guys really do have the

potential to create an epic show.In a recent podcast on Tom

DeLonge’s website, Modlife, Tom said, “blink has been working on some rad stuff, that will be poten-tially affiliated with Angels and Airwaves.”

My guess is they will mix. Somehow.If you are a blink fan and take

offense to that, I kindly ask you take that scowl off your face.

Tom, Mark and Travis are some of the greatest musical in-novators of our time, and they are not new to the music industry. These guys are businessmen, they know what to do to make money.

The picture that I have painted in my mind is glorious. It’s like when Travis announced the come-back at the Grammys, he handed me a blank canvas and said, “Here, make of this what you want…”

Less then a day later, I had al-ready drawn out the picture on the canvas – the canvas in my mind.

I can imagine the three of them running out on stage, bringing with them that presence that enticed the youth of the nation in the first place. Running around, screaming and having fun. Every decibel being another measure of nostalgia.

About five songs in, the complex is filled with “Dysentery Gary,” and you won’t even miss a beat. Just another awesome blink song, with another awesome performance.

As smooth as a transition as Tom made from blink to AVA, he will do it one more time - on stage.

The bass line is isolated from all other sounds, and it slowly changes to that cool, vast tonality of, “The War,” and the members of AVA walk out on the stage, with a single light on Tom, as he lifts his arms, and just starts…

“Believe, you want this…”We’ll all be able to witness the

fusion of, not only two bands, but the fusion of friends, fans and a message. The maturity and growth that blink will show on this upcom-ing tour is going to be what sets them apart from old blink. It will not be “screw the world, and screw you, too.”

While yes, that has been the blink message, I can assure you we aren’t seeing the same blink.

It will be a shell of their old selves, filled with what they have become. You can be the judge of whether or not they will last, all I am here for, is to let you know that it’s a new blink - a much more adult version.

2009. Here begins the return.

I detest West County’s tendencies. It upsets me to be powerless to stop the tendency of people around me to ride their high horses, to care only about themselves and to act arrogant just because they can.

Like a great deal of you, I work a part-time job. It is within the ultra-clean walls of Chesterfield Target that I see the worst of West County.

But before I arrive at work, I must commute. A few weeks ago, on my crowded drive to work, I al-most lost my sanity.

As I sat at a stoplight on my way to work, I took a look at the auto-mobiles whizzing past me. I was angry at what I saw.

Seven consecutive SUVs drove past my small sedan, all with one passenger inside.

I’m not talking compact SUVs. All seven were gas guzzling, too large-sized gargantuan whales on the road. And they all had one pas-senger. Not eight like they’re de-signed to hold, one.

I reiterate: I’m not a tree hug-ging environmentalist. I think the constant badgering about the planet they put society through is obnoxious.

But really, folks? Do you need an eight-passenger SUV that gets 15 miles to the gallon to drive around West County all day by yourself?

According to the Federal High-way Administration, the typical driver uses 683 gallons of fuel a year. Congratulations Ms. Esca-lade, you use 900.

Does it make you feel young

driving around town? To those women who drive

their enourmous Escalades around all day: it doesn’t make you any younger. You aren’t a part of my generation, one who will not waste the planet’s resources.

Does it raise your self-esteem to parade around in your huge Subur-ban, running red lights and block-ing the view of everyone else?

I hope so, because you sure make the rest of us who can never see around you angry.

Yes, I realize that some large families need large SUVs. I hope Congress passes a Federal mandate for miles per gallon standards that make these available to you at a reasonable level of performance.

Or there are these wonderful vehicles called minivans. If you’re lucky enough, you might even see me driving my mom’s to school from time to time.

Enough about cars and SUVs, though. Let’s talk about work.

I like my job; it’s easy, fun and the people I work with are generally very well grounded and likable. It’s the customers that give West Coun-ty a bad name. They rip respect to shreds.

My favorite instance of this was Coupon Woman.

As she entered my checkout lane, I greeted her with a smile and asked her how she was. She looked me in the eye, rolled her eyes, and said nothing. I know she saw me.

Unfazed, I proceeded to check her out, item by item, careful not to break anything or even disturb

the contents of any packaging, even with a huge line behind her.

As I neared the finish of the transaction, she snapped at me. “Um, excuse me, I have coupons. You’ll need to scan them.”

Instead of saying “Thanks lady, I wasn’t planning on scanning those for you or any-thing,” I simply responded with “I’ll scan them when I fin-ish up, ma’am.”

There was a problem, though. Coupon Woman didn’t show me any coupons. She had been rude to me for no reason. She didn’t even have them out of her purse yet.

Maybe it was my polo shirt or something, but when she finally fished them out of her Coach purse, she threw them at me.

Good thing I’m blessed with quick reflexes or her expired stack of coupons would have flown all over the floor.

Wait, did I say expired? Coupon Woman had expired coupons?

She did. Though I tried to ex-plain to her that February is the second month of the year and not the fifth, she wouldn’t have it. Cou-pon Woman went nuts.

This story ends with my man-ager kissing up to her, and taking her expired coupons, and with a dirty look sent my way as Coupon Woman exited the store victorious.

I asked my manager why she let Coupon Woman have her way. She told me that the coupon total was a

mere $1.55.One dollar and fifty five cents.I’m not certain of Coupon Wom-

an’s socioeconomic status, but if I had to guess, I’d say she probably lives pretty well; she did have a Coach purse.

The snobby attitude is conta-gious, though. Every shift I work, I see high and mighty customers treating my co-workers and I like dirt, just because we work retail.

West Countians haggle over merchandise they think should be cheaper, complain about lines to check out and honk at the poor individual (usually me) who has to push the carts back into the store for impeding their progress.

I have been sworn at, and I have had many obscene gestures thrown my way in the Target parking lot.

You should be ashamed of your-selves.

Just because you deem those who make less money than you lesser humans doesn’t mean you need to treat them that way.

Grow up, West County.

I was excited to see the Inaugura-tion on the front page of the Janu-ary issue. It was the most attention that any limb of Lafayette gave the historic day. Kudos to you.

Additionally, I thought that Erik Dauster’s article about his first-hand experience at the Inaugura-tions targeted the blatant disre-spect of George W. Bush as he left the White House-was exceptional, even though I am Democratic in my views. Respecting the person who devotes four to eight years of their life to the United States is something that often falls upon deaf ears. You can detest Mr. Bush, but the Presidency is no easy job, and he still deserves a measure of esteem. I sat back from Erik’s col-umn refreshed and elated.

But then I looked at the cartoon, and my heart sank.

Whereas Erik Dauster wrote on respect, the cartoon did anything but promote this fundamental val-ue. Instead, it portrayed President Obama as a buffoon, a slouching id-iot who could not even pronounce his own name. Any notion of re-spect that I could have walked away with from the Image promptly blew out the window. There was stutter-ing in his swearing in. But does that provide any insight into his intelli-gence or capabilities as President of the United States? Absolutely not. The cartoon accurately illustrated how such fundamental values-like respect-are quickly disappearing from our society.

Here’s to President Obama, and here’s to the next four years.

Sincerely, Lexi Thoman,

As I walked out of the gym from my last basketball home game, I was excited with the team’s win over Parkway South. Yet, I also had a feeling of disappointment digging deep inside me. Throughout the game, as I looked across at the hun-dred or so South fans, all dressed in red, I tried to understand what made them such better fans than us. It blows my mind that we have the highest number of Superfans ever this year, and we have to beg people to come to home games.

There were only six all year, and I only saw about 10 actual “Super” fans at each game. People showed up for the Marquette and South games, but they were just faceless people in the crowd. Did anyone re-alize how many people were there until the last few seconds of the game, when the crowd EXPLOD-

ED with noise? Each time I turned around to call out a new cheer, I was met with little support from anyone besides the first two rows of Super-fans. To those fans, I thank you for your support. You have been there all year long. To everyone else: What are you afraid of? Making a fool of yourself at sporting events is what high school is about.

Anyone who has ever been to or watched a college sporting event can see that. I began this year with a lot of hope for Superfans, and, with only the Spring sports left, I’m sure I will once again be one of the very few true fans attending the games. My final plea to all 222 Superfans: Come to the games. Did you pay $35 for a T-shirt and a few football games?

Sincerely, Tyler Sellers, 12

Dear Editor,Cartoon, lack of fan support spark student voice

West County’s citizens are truly immature

We don’t need to whisper anymore, Blink is backFacebook users beware: Privacy Invasion

Dear Editor,

12Pasts are like yesterdays; everyone has one. Fortunately for our gen-eration, there is a web site to keep track of our pasts for us.

Facebook, commonly referred to as a social networking web site, tracks our whereabouts and our ever-changing interests as we live.

For some of us, it’s a great way to keep in touch with friends as we change schools, careers and life-styles. It can be fun to see what oth-er people have turned into. Even adults now use Facebook; several Lafayette staff members even have their own pages.

It’s easy to access photographs and profiles of anyone in the net-work. A few clicks and you can look at celebrities’ pages, join groups and compose messages to anyone.

However, the Image staff be-lieves that with this ease of access comes great potential for trouble. Simply put, anything you put on-

line can be used against you.Recent actions by the Facebook

web site creators have caused a stir within the school. As many of you may have heard, the site toyed with the idea of selling its members pho-tos to anyone willing to buy them.

Advertisers, magazines and publications would all be granted access if they were to pay. Though Facebook revoked its new policy quickly, and says it will look more closely at their terms of use, the fact remains that the photos on its web site are Facebook’s property.

What does this mean for the stu-

dent body?Spring Break is two weeks away.

We all enjoy this time of year, as some of us travel, some of us reunite with family and some of us simply do nothing but take a break.

Some choose to enjoy it under the influence of drugs and alcohol. We’ve already seen this year that we don’t even need a break or a week-end for some students to drink. So it will come as no surprise to our staff that some of you will stupidly drink and use drugs.

Those of you who choose to par-ty may also want to take pictures, because you won’t be able to re-member what you did or where you were. Just be careful where you are and who takes your picture.

If you’re dumb enough to drink and have your picture posted on Facebook, keep in mind that it will be out in cyberspace for all to see.

Even when you take pictures

off of your Facebook page, the site keeps them in its giant database. If Facebook does eventually decide to sell photos, your illegal drinking ac-tivities will be visually available to anyone willing to pay for them.

Ask yourselves this: how could this affect me in the long run?

Five years down the road when many of you will be looking for a job, what happens if your employer checks your background and finds you doing something illegal on Fa-cebook?

Or within the next two years, if a University looks up your profile only to discover you’re an underage drinker and drug user, you’ll have some explaining to do.

Don’t put yourself in that situ-ation. This Spring Break, be smart about what you’re doing and who is watching you and taking your pic-ture. You never know who’s watch-ing you.

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Nixon leaves university projects hangingSnow days and seniorsThree snow days have set the seniors’ schedule back, but that hasn’t stopped Rockwood from finding a solution to the difficult situation.

The district’s original calendar stated that the last day for seniors would be May 21. But after using three snow days, it seemed seniors would have had to attend their last day of school after graduation.

The Rockwood calendar was created a year ago, but left some events off, such as graduation.

“Graduation was left off because we were in the process of leaving Queeny Park and going to St. Louis University,” Principal John Shaughnessy said.

Every senior is required to attend 174 days of school in order to graduate. The seniors last day would have been May 21. Since three snow days have been used, the schedule has been revised.

“Because we have missed three school days due to inclement weather, it is necessary to change the calendar in order for our seniors to meet the requirements of attendance as noted by the state education department,” Kim Cranston, Rockwood Chief Communications Officer, said.

Graduation practice for seniors has been moved to May 22 and will serve as the seniors’ last day, leaving graduation on May 24.

If Lafayette has any more snow days, then it pushes the seniors last day back.

“Unfortunately we have a calendar that doesn’t have a lot of wiggle room in it,” Shaughnessy said, “so if that is the case, then we get into some bigger issues.”

Some actions taken if extra snow days do occur could be moving the graduation date, attending school on days that students have off or attending school after graduation.

If seniors are forced to go to school after graduation, many are convinced not many students will go because not many will care enough to come.

“I doubt if any of the seniors will go. I highly doubt it,” senior Jordan Fullmer said.-Katharine McLaughlin, Staff Reporter

In this current recession, companies have already begun to go bankrupt, stocks have failed and funding cuts have become necessary, both from the government and employers.

So, with a storm facing Mis-souri, one of the first targets for Missouri’s cuts is now the Educa-tion Industry.

The Lewis and Clark InitiativeSpecifically, the Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative is one of the larger programs to take the fall.

The Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative was implemented in 2007 by former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt and was to receive approxi-mately $350 million for about 30 improvement projects that would benefit 14 of Missouri’s public col-leges and universities.

Among these universities to re-ceive updates was the University of Missouri—St. Louis (UMSL).

“The Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative marked $28.5 million…for renovation of Benton and Sta-dler Halls at UMSL,” Bob Samples, Associate Vice Chancellor for Com-munications at UMSL, said.

“Benton and Stadler Halls are the oldest buildings that comprise our science complex,” Samples said.

“They are integral to our teach-ing and research mission and im-portant to area companies that employ our science graduates and depend on faculty innovation to improve existing products or create entire new product lines,” Samples said.

Money would also be focused on Missouri’s scholarship programs, on new general revenue for im-provements to Missouri’s Federally Qualified Health Centers and on Missouri’s community colleges for capital improvement projects.

There are many other projects located in the boundaries of the Lewis and Clark Discovery Initia-tive.

Reviewed and ReopenedThe projects are quite expensive though, and because of funding is-sues, Governor Jay Nixon has put a pause on the initiative and all that came with it in order to review both the initiative and its projects.

Four projects were suspended indefinitely by Nixon in January, including a $31.2 million new El-lis Fischel Cancer Center at the

University of Missouri—Columbia (Mizzou) and a $4.5 million new business center at Southeast Mis-souri State in Cape Girardeau.

Yet, a Feb. 13 Press Release from the office of Governor Jay Nixon re-opened the floodgates of the Lewis and Clark Initiative by stating that 18 projects have been given the go ahead signal for funding.

According to the release the renovations or constructions of various projects including the Plant Science Building, to be located at the University of Missouri—Mexico and Pershing Hall at Truman State University, which were to be halted, would be receiving partial funding.

Other projects such as the $2,427,856 Autism Center at Southeast Missouri State Universi-ty and the $14,301,775 Health Sci-ences Building at Missouri South-ern State University are fully on for construction or renovation.

The SourceIn order to fund all of the projects created by the Lewis and Clark Initiative, the money had to come from the Missouri Higher Educa-tion Loan Authority (MOHELA).

MOHELA was created by the General Assembly in 1981 to help make a middle market for purchas-ing loans for college from Missouri banks and to ensure that banks would keep the funds necessary for the ability to offer loans to stu-dents.

In the past 28 years, MOHELA has become one of the largest pur-chasers and servicers of student loans in the United States.

But now, MOHELA has become a loan agency for the government, financing the Lewis and Clark Dis-covery Initiative with $350 million to be paid in $5 million increments every quarter until September 2013.

“The Lewis and Clark Initia-tive was somewhat controversial at Truman [State University],” col-lege counselor Christopher Ramsay said.

Ramsay said, “With people won-dering where the money was com-ing from and some students upset because though it is helping with facilities, students were wondering why the money wasn’t being used for loan assistance and grant assis-tance.”

Yet, in March of 2008, MOHE-LA fell $2.3 million short of their $5 million quarterly payment and has pushed payments back due to financial woes.

Whether it be due to the econ-omy’s state at this present time or the $5 million payment necessary for the Lewis and Clark Discovery

Initiative, MOHELA is currently playing catch up.

“The review was needed because MOHELA has failed to make its payments to the state. The remain-ing balance on the MOHELA list proposed by the previous adminis-tration is $107,109,486 more than is currently in the MOHELA fund,” the Feb. 13 release stated.

The press release also said that there is $118,319,642 in the MOHELA funds, but after the re-leased projects are completed, that funding will drop to a balance of $266,888.

Accounts of the AffectedYet, according to the press release, Mizzou’s Ellis Fischel Cancer Cen-ter and UMSL’s Benton and Stadler Halls, among other projects, still remain suspended.

The biggest of the projects that have been stopped indefinitely is the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the Mizzou Health Sciences Cen-ter, Vice President for Finance and Administration at the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Nikki Krawitz said.

“In the case of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, it [cuts] impacts our ability to have a facility where we can provide cutting edge cancer services to patients throughout the state of Missouri, particularly to

mid-Missouri,” Krawitz said. Krawitz said, “With regard to

the science complex in Saint Louis [Stadler and Benton Halls], it im-pacts our ability to provide cutting edge facilities for teaching and re-search in the sciences.”

Krawitz said if the funding set up by the state does not come through on any of their projects, then none of those projects will be completed.

Samples said he was not worried about funding.

He said, “We [UMSL] think this is a prudent approach given the economy and are confident an objective review will show that the Benton-Stadler renovation remains the most important capital project among all public universities.”

He continued, “It has headed the recommendation list from the Coordinating Board for Higher Education for several years. Couple that with the fact that UMSL stu-dents are the largest users of MO-HELA.”

Samples said, “It seems more than reasonable that the Benton-Stadler renovation project will be the first project to receive MOHE-LA or state funding after the review process is complete.”

Ramsay added, “He [Nixon] came out in support of higher edu-cation but this whole Lewis and Clark Initiative, he has to cut it somewhere and unfortunately he probably has to do it from there.”

Max Thoman, Staff Reporter

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Economic slump prompts Rockwood to search for ways to cut spendingAs the economic crisis continues to spiral down, many families, groups and companies have started to change the way they do things in order to cut costs. The Rockwood School District is among them.

Rockwood is looking at a $4.6 million deficit this year, as costs for maintenance, construction, educa-tion and transportation increase.

Rockwood Chief Financial Offi-cer David Glaser said, “It is like the perfect storm.”

Property tax revenues, sales tax revenues and other means by which Rockwood makes money have been seriously hurt in the last year.

The area’s biggest tax payers, Chrysler, which makes up 3.35 percent of Rockwood’s funds has already closed one of its two local plants; it is unlikely the second will stay open.

While the district is looking at a deficit, it does have about $53 million dollars to spare from past school year surpluses.

“We try and run the district in good times for a surplus,” Glaser said.

When it comes to cutting basic costs, Glaser said, “We are pushing the theme of sheer sacrifice.”

He also said that Rockwood is going through its expenditures looking for ways to save money.

School administrations through-out the district are looking for ways to save money.

“For now we will be piggy back-ing on district efforts while we are trying to find basic ways to make Lafayette more cost effective,” Prin-cipal John Shaughnessy said.

These include not having bever-ages and snacks at staff meetings or other school meetings, as well as having teachers attend fewer conferences and workshops, which should dramatically cut travel ex-penses for the school.

The district will be cutting trans-portation costs by 50 percent this year. Glaser said there will be few, if any, vehicle replacements.

“Like a household, when times are tough you keep your vehicle running for another year or two,” Glaser said.

Another area the district is look-ing to save money with is person-nel.

“We are looking at a hiring freeze,” Shaughnessy said.

Rockwood will be evaluating whether or not they should replace leaving employees, but it is unlikely that they would replace support staff.

Shaughnessy also said the dis-trict may be considering cutting out parts of the school curriculum, such as the actual driving portion of Driver Education.

The school may also be postpon-ing some expenditures.

“We may be putting several pur-chases back several years,” Shaugh-nessy said.

Junior Michelle Withington dis-agrees with parts of the school’s ap-proach.

“Instead of cutting back on things that matter, they should have just not made a new lunch area or new Theater,” Withington said. “We were fine before it.”

The school’s current budget is divided into 71.7 percent for in-struction, 12.6 percent for facilities and maintenance, 6.8 percent for school administration, 4.6 percent for district administration and 4.3 percent for transportation.

“I’m all for the school trying to save, but there are still things that should be worked on,” Withington said.

Sophomore Marco Eshraghi thinks if the school wanted to save money, it should not have done some of the recent construction projects.

“The new Library is a waste,” Eshraghi said. “Our current Library is quite dandy the way it is.”

“Let me make a list of what the school has done wrong recently: a new library, new lunch lines and the fingerprint scanners,” Eshraghi said.

When asked how she would go

about cutting spending and sav-ing the district and school money, Withington said, “They should stop building unimportant things. We didn’t need a new lunch line. It’s ac-tually not as fast as it was supposed to be, and we didn’t need a new Theater. The old one was fine.”

However, funding for construc-tion projects like the new addition and kitchen remodeling came from bond issues, not the district’s oper-ating budget.

“All the faculty positions in the school are very important; like the administrators, they have to take care of everyone,” freshman Jean-Luc Panchot said in regards to where he would cut funds.

Shaughnessy said, “It is neces-sary for people to realize we have to cut costs.”

“We do not want it to negatively affect teachers and students at our school,” he added.

Glaser agrees that what the dis-trict does to cut costs should have as little effect on the students as possible, such as saving money by decreasing heating and air condi-tioning by two degrees.

That plan was abandoned be-cause of the effects it would have had on students. “Everyone decid-ed it was not worth it,” Glaser said.

“The focus is on the kids,” Glaser said. “We want to minimize what we do that impacts the kids.”

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A Peer Mediation Program has been formed by Voluntary Interd-istrict Choice Corporation (VICC) supervisor Jon Pierre Mitchom and counselor Deborah Parker.

Peer Mediation at Lafayette first began in 1995 with 37 students, and was led by former Assistant Princi-pal Jim Harrod.

The program was created for the same reason LHS has decid-ed to restart Peer Mediation this year: to help students learn how to problem-solve in real life situations through their peers.

In hopes of reducing violence and promoting peaceful ways to deal with conflicts between stu-dents, Peer Mediation is designed to allow students and their peers to be more proactive rather than hav-ing teachers get involved.

Parker said 29 sophomore, ju-nior and senior mediators “were selected for their ability to listen, their leadership qualities and their ability to communicate with oth-ers.”

On Jan. 7, these trainees met in the Theater during school to strengthen communication, listen-ing, problem solving and question-ing skills.

Their training consisted of a lecture, physical activities, small group work and a mock mediation.

The training session was led by the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NCADA).

A peer mediator’s job is to over-see the situation of two disputants and help them resolve their con-flict without showing judgment or giving bias suggestions to either party.

The outcome of a successful me-diation would result in a peaceful agreement where both students are able to be respectful of each other.

Junior mediator Paula Vickers said, “My hope is that by co-mediating con-flicts, the school is more functional for everyone. We [the me-diators] don’t come up with solutions and we don’t pick sides; we enter in as non-biased parties.”

“Although we are their peers, we keep things confidential. I’m not there to judge, I’m not there to pick sides and I won’t pick who is right and who is wrong,” Vickers added.

A mediation consists of two me-diators and both disputants and is a completely private process as mediators all agreed to sign a confi-dentiality paper.

While two disputants openly

share, mediators listen and try to figure out a solution together.

For the reassurance that a me-diation will go as smoothly and peacefully as possible, two media-tors will always be present.

But not only will mediations be beneficial to the disputants, it will also be helpful for mediators.

Mitchom said, “It is important to staff and students that these peer meditations are non-biased and non-judgmental in nature and

that they are opportunities for con-flicting students to corroboratively work together to come up with their own solutions to conflicts that they can mutually agree upon.”

Moreover, mediations between peers can help produce a more pos-itive classroom environment rather than having teachers handle certain situations.

With a total of eight mediations so far, all have been very success-ful.

“Mr. Mitchom and I have been sitting in on everyone’s first me-diation and we have been very impressed with our mediators and disputants,” Parker said.

“The disputants have (for the most part) been very open and will-ing to come to an agreement to re-solve the conflict,” she added.

Students can expect mediators to not sway disputants one way or another.

While they don’t give their personal suggestions for a solu-tion, student mediators have been trained to provide an alternative environment to resolve conflicts between students.

“They [the mediators] sound so professional while remaining fair, calm and caring, in addition to tak-ing a leadership role in helping the disputants solve their own prob-lems,” Parker said.

A few topics in which mediators deal with are, “He said/she said a thing... which escalates into I want to fight. He/she pushed me... now I want to fight. He/she is spreading rumors about me and I want it to stop, etc,” Parker said.

Mediations are held during school hours and forms to schedule a session can be found in the Guid-ance Office.

LHS brings back Peer Mediation GroupMina Yu, Staff Reporter

Rose AwardsThe Rose (Rockwood Outstanding Service in Education) Award is for the teacher who demonstrates character excellence, great leader-ship, performance and dedication to the Rock-wood School District.

Fifteen staff mem-bers from Lafayette have been nominated for the award; they are Nichole Ballard-Long, Mike Berenc, Kory Brown, Marybeth Desloge, Colleen Fields, Heather Floodman, David Free-man, AnnMarie Gilman, Paige Hereford, Karen Hilf, Danna Phillips, Lori Sanders, Robin Sangui-net, Cindy Slama and Nick Tygesson.

Winners will be noti-fied March 3.

Essay WinnersThree students from Tracy Gladden’s 9th grade Honors Language Arts classes received Honorable Mentions in an essay contest spon-sored by the Makeshift Gentlemen, a rock, Indie band featuring LHS grad Jake Ferree.

Freshmen Andrea Drake, Elizabeth Reynolds and Amanda Rightler wrote a 150-300 word essay about their favorite song from the Makeshift Gentlemen’s debut album Casanova, which was released in August, 2008.

Red Light CamerasRed-light cameras have been installed at the intersection of Man-chester and Clarkson Roads by the city of Ellisville, for the purpose of making intersections safer.

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The 2009 Turnabout Court in-cludes senior Micheal Berry, senior Danny Kenny (escort), senior Kelsey Calvert, senior Shelby Fenster, se-nior Michael Tomaro (escort), junior Madison Conklin, junior Jacob Ripp, sophomore Rachel Dennis, senior Brent Folan (escort), freshman Kayla Hall, freshman Nicholas Messer, se-nior Queen Ashley Mace and senior King Alex Mace.

This year’s dance, “Country Club-bin’”, on Feb. 21, had lower ticket sales than in previous years. Student Council (STUCO) sponsor David Choate said 167 couples tickets and 100 single tickets were sold, totaling

434 students, compared to 800 stu-dents that usually attend Turnabout.

In fact, some members of the Court did not show up for the dance, so other students filled in as escorts for Court members.

Choate said the lack of ticket sales can probably be blamed on the struggling economy, but he also no-ticed that many upperclassmen did not attend this year’s dance. He said about 100 fewer juniors and seniors were present.

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This year on its birthday cake Facebook blew out five candles.

Mark Zuckerberg, at the age of 19, launched the web site, originally called thefacebook, in 2004 from his Harvard dorm room.

Members previously had to have a valid email ID from one of the 30,000 recognized colleges to create a profile.

“The amount of people trying to find a way on it (Facebook) when it was more limited was crazy. I remember one of my friends, who opted to go to a commu-nity college rather than a major univer-sity, figured out a way to steal someone’s email address so he could get on Face-book,” Liz Foss, Class of 2005, said.

Now the web site boasts 150 million worldwide users, making Zuckerberg a successful billionaire.

Facebook’s look has changed drasti-cally over its short, five year existence.

“It was extremely basic compared to what we have now. It allowed you to con-nect only to a handful of other colleges, and had none of the applications Face-book now boasts. I remember how angry people got when the newsfeed function was added,” Brian Klesh, Class of 2003, said.

Now anyone can join by signing up. According to Facebook.com adults 25 years or older are becoming the fastest growing group of users.

Language arts teacher Jeff Landow fits into that category since he set up his account last year.

He said, “I set it up specifically for the kids. The only people who are my ‘friends’ are the kids, so it’s not like they are tapping into any other part of my life.

I think it’s fun because I get to talk to them in a different kind of forum.”

Similarly, language arts teacher Me-lissa Noël set hers up last fall to find classmates.

She said, “My 20th class reunion is coming up this spring. I figured I could find some friends there, and I did. I re-connected with some old friends that I haven’t seen since 1989.”

So how much do long time users log on and will Facebook continue to excite its users?

Some users admit they use it less, while others remain addicted.

One of the original users, Allyson Angle, Class of 2005, said, “I definitely use it a lot more than when I first got it. I check it multiple times a day and use it a lot.”

On the other hand, Lauren Fiedler, Class of 2004, says she uses it less.

She said, “When it first started ev-eryone was actively searching for all the people they ever knew. I would spend hours on it especially since it was right after I went to college. Now I am on a lot for my job, but not nearly as much as I used to be.”

A girl in Foss’ folklore class conducted a poll about Facebook.

Foss said, “She interviewed everyone in her sorority at Truman and the aver-age person got on eight times a day.”

But will all these devout users con-tinue into their old age? Will they be log-ging on in nursing homes?

Junior Nick Goldstein said, “I am sure there is going to be something way better than Facebook like cakebook and it’s a cake that you can contact people with.” When asked if she will be using Face-book in her 70s, Kristen Klesh, Class of

2005, said, “Probably not. At that point, I’ll be in contact with the people closest to me, if there is any big news, I’m sure I’ll hear it through the grapevine.”

However, Angle believes she will be using Facebook in her old age.

She said, “It’s a great way to keep in touch with people. My grandmas are 86 and 87, and started using email a few years ago. So I can’t see why our genera-tion wouldn’t use something we’ve used since we were teens. I think it makes a lot of sense that people will still use it when they’re older.”

So how much longer will Facebook last? Or is it just a fad?

History teacher Don Kreienkamp feels that Facebook is a current trend.

He said, “I think it is a fad. I mean it’s the same thing as instant messenger and no one ever believed that would go away. When I was in high school and college people had 10 screens up talking to ten different people at one time. And they’re like we are never going to get rid of this. Well, then texting comes along and of course we change. The medium is just going to change how we communicate.”

Sophomore Kayla Yoder agreed with Kreienkamp.

She said, “I think it will always still be there but a lot of people are going to get over it and not think it’s such a big deal anymore.”

Senior Amber Riegerix said, “I think it’s a fad, I feel like there will be some-thing else that comes out that everyone else will like more.”

But Goldstein still sees potential for Facebook’s existence.

“Facebook will be around as long as there are songs for people to quote as their status,” he said.

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Will this be you?Facebook users question the web site’s ability to last

When senior Taylor Paglisotti returned from Winter Break in January, she was feeling a little down. Like most of the stu-dents, she dreaded returning to times of storm and stress, but there was another reason for her lack of enthusiasm.

The first week of January, Paglisotti’s father, a 25 year stationary engineer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, was laid off. Several unemployment reports state Pa-glisotti’s family was one of more than 2 million that lost a source of income in 2008, and unemployment is expected to snowball further in 2009.

Paglisotti said, “Transitioning back from winter break is always kind of rough for me, but with this looming over my head, and not feeling like I could talk to anyone about it...I mean what do you say? ‘My Dad’s been laid off and I’m freaking scared’? What is going to happen? What does this mean for us?”

The Effect on St. LouisAccording to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Paglisotti’s father is one of the 6 percent unemployed in St. Louis. The Federal Reserve Bank predicts this percent to spike to nearly 7.5 percent by 2010.

However, Michael Allison, economics professor at UMSL, thinks St. Louis has not been as affected by the recession as much as other manufacturing-based cit-ies.

“We feel it [the recession], but it’s not especially severe in St. Louis. We’re not as bad off as Cleveland, Toledo, where they’ve been going downhill for awhile,” Allison said.

Sociology teacher Krista Silvernail said the layoffs are “probably the best example of the public issue versus private matter”- a unit she teaches in her class.

“The private matter is what affects an individual. For example, when your par-ents become unemployed, it effects you, because you’re part of the family. It be-comes a public issue when the unemploy-ment rates go up and it affects an entire area,” Silvernail said.

Silvernail said the layoffs in St. Louis stopped being a private matter once An-heuser-Busch laid off workers.

“I think people would say that it is definitely becoming a public issue when many people are being laid off all over the U.S., but it hits close to home when we have AB and so many St. Louisans that have lost their job,” she said.

The private matter of Paglisotti’s job loss has turned into a public issue of a re-cession and further layoffs.

“[Layoffs are] hard, it’s stressful. It’s stressful on a family, it’s stressful on a

marriage,” Silvernail said.“I was so upset my parents were

so calm about it. It almost made me seem like I shouldn’t talk to them and I shouldn’t let them know I’m so freaked out They were like, ‘This is just another opportunity, this is just how life has hap-pened.’ Initially I was like this is insane, this cannot be happening,” Paglisotti said.

In January, President Obama pressed for an Economic Stimulus package to jump start the economy and help individ-uals in Paglisotti’s position. Two different versions passed in the House and Senate, meaning a compromise was made to the tune of $789.5 billion.

Though Allison doesn’t believe St. Louis will significantly benefit from the package, he said it does help “lessen the severity of the recession.”

“Without it the economy would even-tually recover, but it would take longer,” Allison said. He called St. Louis a “stan-dard of the mill place” that would benefit no more from the stimulus package than any other city.

The bottom line, said Allison, is that despite seemingly devastating layoffs, St. Louis should not be worried for their fis-cal future.

The College DecisionBut there was even more inconvenience for Paglisotti in the timing of the layoff: in the fall Paglisotti would be a freshman in college. This is a problem many seniors from single-income families are facing.

“And I’ve been thinking about col-lege...What if things don’t work out? What if this is a permanent situation? I think I could make [a full ride] happen academically, financial wise. That’s kind of the way I’ve always relied on things,” Paglisotti said.

Her goal is to be a doctor, but with the loss of two-thirds of her family’s income, she is worried about how to pay for medi-cal school.

“I still really want to be a doctor, I’m really passionate about science. Even though I would like to go into a really prestigious medical school, if it comes down to it and I end up having to go to a graduate school that is a state university, I’ll do that,” Paglisotti said.

But college scholarships and financial aid opportunities are disappearing fast in a shaky economy.

Seniors are now applying for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which gives money based on need, but there has been a sharp increase in student aid requests. College specialist Beth Brasel said even local scholarships from businesses are dwindling.

Brasel said, “I don’t know how it is go-

ing to shake up this year. I think we will definitely see a larger percentage of stu-dents staying in state.”

Brasel emphasized that families who think they won’t benefit from filing the FAFSA should because “the loans are typ-ically much better through the FAFSA…the interest rates are capped, and there is a 6 month deferment payment plan.”

Unemployed parents scrambling for work to start college payments will have another obstacle due to mass layoffs.

“You’ve got a lot of people with similar skills looking for a job, and that’s a prob-lem because they are competitors for the same job,” Allison said.

Students will have to compete with a skilled market of unemployed adults.

The End ResultThe United States has seen recessions be-fore.

However, none of this magnitude have impacted society in a long time.

Though this is a severe one, Silvernail, Allison and others say it is not the De-pression.

“It is functionalism. You change one piece of society and everything else changes. I hope we’re able to turn [the economy] around before it ever gets to that degree, but if it does become like [the Depression], it will be a much scarier situation,” Silvernail said.

As for Paglisotti, she said, “Things have been getting easier…things are slowly go-ing back uphill.”

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Motorcycle Mishap“It happened on Nov. 23, a Sunday after-noon. I was eating lunch. Twenty min-utes after my husband left for the gym, someone knocked on my door. My son told me the police were here; I thought he was joking,” science teacher AnnMa-rie Gilman said.

The police came with the news that her husband, Jim Gilman, was in a mo-torcycle accident.

He sustained a severe concussion, multiple fractures, and short-term mem-ory loss; he could not retain anything longer than 30 seconds.

“Jim asked the doctors over and over again, ‘Where am I?’ He essentially lost everything; he had no sense of time nor any idea of what was happening,” Ann-Marie said.

Now, three months later, Jim is back to work and healing well. He goes to physical therapy three times a week. He has started going back to the gym, but can’t lift anything too heavy.

“I am feeling much better these days,” Jim said. “Before the accident I was very active and participated in running events and triathlons. I have not been able to run since the accident, so I’m looking forward to doing those things soon.”

Although Jim’s short-term memory has fully recovered, he still has no recol-lection of the accident.

“I can remember leaving the house that afternoon on my motorcycle,” Jim said.

“The next thing I remember is being at the hospital and looking at the end of my hospital bed at my daughter Rachel. I don’t remember anything about the ac-cident, the ride in the ambulance or being admitted to the hospital,” he added.

Jim’s family does not know why he lost control of the motorcycle, but they know that he was the only one involved in the accident. Two former Lafayette students were the first to arrive to the scene.

“I’ve never met the boys who found Jim, but I would like to resolve the un-known. It’s frustrating not knowing why he lost control. He owes those boys a huge debt. It makes me so proud to know Lafayette students stopped and helped him,” AnnMarie said.

Harrison Grubbs, Class of 2008, found Jim lying along Strecker Road. As Grubbs was driving, he noticed a man on the ground, not moving.

Grubbs said, “As soon as I was within 15 yards of him, I stopped my car and di-aled 9-1-1. As I ran to the person, I noticed his motorcycle did not seem to have any major damage. When I got to him, I real-ized he was knocked unconscious.”

Grubbs and Steve McMahon, Class of 2008, asked Jim questions about where he lived, what he was doing on his bike and if he remembered any telephone numbers.

Jim could not answer any of the ques-tions, so the boys knew he suffered some head injuries.

“I don’t think I was as afraid as much as I was shocked,” Grubbs said. “I’m pret-ty sure that anyone in my position would have stopped and helped him. I will admit that my heart was racing.”

Within 10 minutes an ambulance, fire truck and five St. Louis County police cars arrived. When Jim gained consciousness, he mentioned pain in his left shoulder and chest.

Grubbs said, “I never had Mrs. Gil-man’s class, nor did I know the man was her husband. Yet I do remember hearing her name and that other students liked her.”

AnnMarie uses the accident to teach her students and refers to it in her Hu-man Anatomy class. She told her class everything that happened. She wants her students to appreciate how well the body

can repair itself.“Mrs. Gilman tells her life stories and

compares them to what we are learning. We know that her husband could have died without a helmet, and that she won’t let him ride his motorcycle again,” senior Jevon Huang said.

Since the accident, the Gilmans have received support from students and staff. Language arts teacher Melinda Bond or-ganized a schedule for those who wanted to bring AnnMarie meals.

Bond said, “We brought her six meals a week; one per school night and two for the weekend. People would take the food up-stairs and put it in the fridge behind Ann’s desk. I actually had to turn down people because there were so many volunteers; it was amazing how people came forward and helped.”

AnnMarie did not have to cook a single meal until Winter Break. People sent her cards, emails and notes.

The administration allowed her to have a flexible schedule, so she could take her husband to doctor appointments or get his medicine.

“People have been unbelievably help-ful. This might make me cry. The people in this building are just an extension of my family. Life would have been much more difficult without them. I received food,

love, friendship, prayers and patience. I could just go on and on,” AnnMarie said.

“Mrs. Gilman is a very good friend of mine and I just knew they could use the meals. So many people asked to cook for her; all I did was coordinate it,” Bond said.

Holly Thurauf, one of the board members of the National Honor Society (NHS), also organized ef-forts to help the Gilmans.

NHS made a giant card for the family and sent them cookies from the NHS holiday cookie bake. Thurauf said, “Mrs. Gilman does so much for NHS, so we wanted to do all that we could. She is a great sponsor. All of the members were very con-cerned and wanted an up-date on how Mr. Gilman was doing.” Junior Rachel Gil-man, Jim and AnnMarie’s daughter, has also received support from students and staff.

“All of my teachers were great. They were all very understanding about homework when I missed school. I received support from my friends and family, but everyone was very caring,” she said.

Rachel added, “My dad’s accident has impacted my life a lot. It made me realize that even though I’m young, I’m vulner-able. Not only that, but it made me appre-ciate my family more. The accident could have been so much worse, and I thank God that my dad is essentially fine.”

Rachel views the accident as a learning experience that she took a lot from. Ann-Marie also changed because the accident.

“My entire perspective is different. Everyday is a good day because we have health, and because I have Jim. I learned not to take people for granted, because you never know when life will change,” AnnMarie said.

AnnMarie views herself as a different person since the accident. She tries to not sweat the small aggravations and to ap-preciate everyone.

“I’m more committed to helping peo-ple understand how God loves them; we have a purpose and should maximize our time here. We should do the most good we can for the most people; that is the simple message,” AnnMarie said.

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Living on a PrayerTop: On a trip to Chicago, the Gilmans relax together. The two have been married for nearly 20 years. Bottom Left: Jim Gilman lounges on the couch. He recuper-ated after the accident at home, while his wife AnnMarie Gilman coordinated classes around being home to look after him.

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The History U.S. patent number 98,304 is something people around the world enjoy every day. The sweet breath freshener was first invented, patented and marketed by Thomas Adams as “Adams New York Chewing Gum” in 1869. According to the Mint Industry Research Fund, it was first marketed as a licorice tasting sweet, created from the sap of chicle trees in Mexico.

The Mint Industry Research Fund web site states chewing gum has been marketed as a digestive aid, breath freshener, candy and teeth whitener. But today, consumers think less about the alleged health benefits and more about their own enjoyment.

Health Myths Gum has been surrounded by several myths: it is

undigestable, the aspartame levels will cause cancer and acts as an appetite stimulant

(despite marketing to the contrary). But what is legend and what is fact?

Nurse Lynn Weaver said de-spite the myth that gum survives seven years in the stomach, gum gets no special treatment from your digestive system.

“Depending on the type of gum, there are some that help clean your teeth but that’s pretty much it on the health benefits. Some food, depend-ing on your GI tract, can stay

with you for an extended pe-riod of time,” she said.

Another myth about gum is that its mint fla-vor is thought to help stimulate your brain

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mend mint gum before standardized tests for “aiding concentration and

mental clarity.” However, the article does not cite any scientific research to support this.

School Rules Junior Emily Bur-gess has chewed every type of gum- from her least fa-vorite ink gum that turns your tongue black, to her favor-ite gum with liquid in the middle. It is safe to say she is gum-obsessed.

But gum chew-ers like Burgess are not always allowed to chew freely. At school, some teach-ers don’t allow stu-dents to chew gum while in class.

Music teacher Michele Rodgers is one of them. She doesn’t allow her students to chew gum for two reasons: their health and their vocal performance.

Rodgers said when sing-ing, it’s necessary to take air in quickly, and gum can block the wind pipe causing the singer to choke.

As far as vocal perfor-mance is concerned, the sing-er may be forced to open their mouth oddly which causes a poor sound.

Burgess takes a guitar class with a “no gum” rule, but this doesn’t phase her. Burgess said she sneaks gum, and hopes not to get in trouble.

“We’re not supposed to chew gum because if you get it on a guitar you’re screwed, but I do it anyway. I usually say it’s my rubber bands for my braces,” she said.

Weaver thinks some teachers don’t allow students to chew gum for different rea-sons. She thinks it is a clean up issue because kids get tired of the gum and don’t bother getting up to throw it away.

“That’s how you get gum all on the desks and everywhere. Kids are pigs, I say that warmly, but they pretty much leave stuff wherever they want. But adults do it too, if they are driving they might throw their gum out the window,” she added.

Rodgers says at the beginning of the year she tells the students it is an expectation, and most willingly abide by the rule. And if a student forgets, she will remind them, and then they apologize and remove it.

She has never allowed students to chew gum in her classes, but she has had students choke while hiding gum.

“It is very scary and the happening [when a student chokes] and it usually travels through all the choirs. After a choking event – which I haven’t had in a long time –gum is not a problem,” she said.

In the end, the matter lies in the power of the student handbook. As long as this rule is to teacher discretion, students don’t have another option.

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Students start businesses, earn big bucks

Hemp jewelry allows creative outlet

When sophomore Jaime An-drae noticed people wearing hemp jewelry, she prompted a friend to teach her the craft.

For each piece of jewelry she makes, Andrae selects different glass beads and dyed hemp. She finds her more unique beads on the Delmar Loop.

“It keeps my hands busy because I move a lot. It keeps me entertained and shows my creative side,” Andrae said.

Bracelet making has also served as something more for Andrae: a source of income.

Most of her creations cost $5 apiece. Andrae has sold upwards of 80 pieces.

“I’ve learned how to have a business, really. The hardest part has been getting my name out there,” Andrae said.

Magician starts business, hauls in the cash

After senior Blake Douglass attended a magic show in Las Vegas at 8-years-old, he be-came obsessed.

“It was after that that I started my business,” Doug-

lass said.His business, Beyond Magic, offers a

variety of different performers including balloon artists, jugglers, stilt walkers and a magician.

Now, Douglass can make up to $300 an hour. He estimates he practices his magic roughly six hours a day.

“I love learning a slight of hand that takes months and months to get down,” Douglass said.

“Magicians nowadays are confused. They think its all about the magic. But it’s about the audience,” Douglass said.

Artist gets published young, keeps at it

The first time sophomore Tim Kuklo was published, he was in 5th grade.

In 2006, Kuklo’s father helped him publish illustra-tions in Orthopedics, and The American Journal of Ortho-

pedics. “Everything has a certain proportion

to it. And that’s really what makes anat-omy much easier than an abstract draw-ing,” Kuklo said.

Kuklo has also illustrated an exercise band pamphlet, a comic book and com-pleted work for a Chiropractics firm.

“When publishing work, I realized that you are no longer drawing or creating something for yourself, or for your per-sonal satisfaction,” Kuklo said.

As he has gotten older, Kuklo has kept alive his dream of being an artist, while also considering physical psychology and art therapy.

Kuklo consistently declines payment. “If I’m never paid for my art, I’m to-

tally cool with it,” Kuklo said. “I know that people say that some art

is transient and it happens immediately, and once you get inspiration, you can’t stop it. But much of what I do is very time consuming,” Kuklo said.

Photographer sells picture for a pretty penny

Last year, senior Mike Kurlowski sold a photo for $1,500.

“The photo is of a water droplet hitting Plexiglas,” Kurlowski said.

“For some of my pictures, it took me 300-400 shots to get the one I wanted,” Kurlowski said.

Kurlowski has also freelanced for the Post-Dispatch on assignments.

“You’re going into somebody’s busi-ness or somebody’s home. You have to communicate with them and make them feel comfortable,” Kurlowski said.

Kurlowski plans to attend Mizzou for photojournalism, and work for National Geographic.

“It’s never been about art. Because when it comes down to it, art is a sub-jective term. I just love to take pictures,” Kurlowski said.

Student draws the deceased in charcoal

During the summer, sopho-more Lauren Rismiller works for Schrader’s Funeral Home, drawing two or three por-traits a week. It began when she drew extended family by

meshing together photographs.“We know the funeral director. He lives

right down the street. So I showed him my portfolio,” Rismiller said.

Many of the families of the deceased have paid her.

“Depending on their facial structure, it

takes an average of two hours,” she said. Rismiller doesn’t exhibit her art. “I

don’t really go into shows or contests be-cause I think that people should come and see it.”

She plans to be a mortician, “because they need more people that can work with dead things,” Rismiller said.

Amateur beautician cuts and dyes friends’ hair

Sophomore Holly Livingston cuts hair. “It all started when I went to a salon in eigth grade. They messed it up re-ally badly. So I decided next time I’m going to do it my-

self,” Livingston said. Livingston began by experimenting on

friends and herself. “If I’m coloring someone’s hair, I

charge $5 because there’s a lot of equip-ment you need and I have all of it at home. I’m not a professional. I can’t charge that much,” Livingston said.

“Most people really don’t want to ex-periment with their hair. If I mess mine up, there’s no one to complain to,” Liv-ingston said.

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An Artist’s EyeStudent photographer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, senior Mike Kurlowski snaps a picture at a Lafayette-Parkway South basketball game. Kurlowski has sold one of his pho-tographs for $1,500, and plans on majoring in photojournalism at Mizzou.

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Most cities across this nation have a food that represents the cultural and culinary influences of that specific area.

St. Louis is no exception, by visiting the downtown area you can experience many different cultural influences which make up our city’s original foods.

Of those a main traditional appetizer is the toasted ravioli which is served in countless restaurants city wide, and has become a St. Louis tradition.

“Toasted ravioli was invented in 1943

at Oldani’s on “The Hill” by Chef Terry Lane and according to the legend, Chef Terry accidentally dropped the ravioli into oil instead of water,” FACS teacher Lori Sanders said.

And almost 65 years after its creation on “The Hill,” the appetizer remains a St. Louis tradition.

“The perfect St. Louis style of ravioli is unique and delicious. The ravioli is stuffed with some type of meat or cheese. In St. Louis, the meat is usually beef or pork. Then breaded and deep fried and served with marinara sauce. Parmesan cheese

may also sprinkled on top,” Sanders said. St. Louis area restaurants are not the

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oli called “Louisa’s” that can be found at a number of grocery stores.

“About once a week my mom throws some Louisa frozen toasted ravioli in the oven, an STL favorite for sure. In fact we are making dinner for some people who had never been to St. Louis before who just moved here and my mom insisted we make them some toasted ravioli. Nothing says lovin’ like some ravs in the oven,”

sophomore Alex Eklund said. Sanders said, “Marinara sauce is the

best sauce for toasted ravioli. It consists of onion, garlic, celery, carrots, crushed tomatoes, bay leaves, salt and pepper.”

Of the many restaurants that serve toasted ravioli a few around the West County area include Pasta House, Imo’s, B. Donovan’s and St. Louis Pizza and Wings.

Each of the toasted raviolis served at these restaurants were tasted at the restaurant and then evaluated on their sauce, texture, meat and taste.

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In 2007, he watched the Homecoming As-sembly, he participated in the parade and he was at the football game, just like any other regular high school student.

But little did then-freshman James Ryan, or anyone else, know that a week later he would be diagnosed with cancer.

During the Homecoming Parade, James was on the Lafayette Hockey float, when his mother, Lauren Ryan, noticed something wasn’t quite right.

“I said to another mom ‘Look at James’s eye, it looks a little swollen right under the brow’, she agreed it looked swollen,” Lau-ren said.

“My eye was sort of droopy and I felt something there touching my eye. My mom was worried,” James, now a sopho-more, said.

Lauren then called James’s doctor from the parade to schedule an appoint-

ment for the following Mon-day.

Once at his doctor’s of-fice, “They said ‘Let’s wait a week, it’s prob-ably a hockey injury,’” Lau-ren said.

So James and his mother waited a week as he contin-ued his normal life.

That follow-ing Monday James and his mother went to see his doctor again.

“We went into the doctor Monday and by Tuesday we went to an eye doctor, then we went to get a MRI on Wednesday and then the doctors saw the tumor beside his eye,” Lauren said. “And surgery was scheduled two days later for Friday morn-ing.”

By Friday, James was at Anheuser-Busch Eye Institute for surgery to remove a tumor behind his right eye about the size of a hardboiled egg.

“When you first hear the diagnosis . . . when your son is just going into sur-gery to have a tumor removed, and the surgeon comes out and says ‘It’s cancer,’ you are hit over your head with a ton of bricks. And then there is all the informa-

tion you hear over the next few weeks. It’s like study-ing for a college final in 10 minutes, it’s overwhelming and it’s life threatening,” Lauren said.

James had Rhabdomyo-sarcoma, a type of cancer that is usually found in chil-dren.

“They then finished re-moving the tumor. Right after his surgery he got into a wheelchair and went to Cardinal Glennon Hospital. It was one of the quickest growing cancers,” Lauren said

Luckily, the cancer had been caught in stage one out of four stages, so there was a good chance for a full recovery.

“I knew I was going to get better because it was caught it in its first stage. The cancer was deadly but they caught it at the perfect time. If they caught a month or two later I could still be in a hospital bed,” James said.

The first stage to getting James back to stable health was treatment.

“Once the doctors figured out in was cancer, I had to go through 46 weeks of chemo-therapy and a month and half of radia-tion,” James said.

This required James to go the hospital frequently.

“For chemo, I would go in once a week, it would make me really tired and make me feel awful for the rest of the week and as treatment went on and on it would make me feel worse and worse.”

James explained, “Then while I was doing chemo I also had a month and a half of radiation where every day after school I went to the hospital.”

The treatments caused James to lose most of his strength.

“I couldn’t exert much energy because I didn’t have any energy. I couldn’t skate hard for hockey because I could collapse,” James said

Once James’s treatment started he knew that he would nauseous and would also lose his hair.

But instead of letting his hair fall out, James lost his hair to something that he loved instead: hockey.

The hockey team’s seniors usually

shave all the new players’ hair off as a tra-dition, but that year the team moved up the date of the event so James could have his head shaved before he lost his hair.

“When he was about to lose his hair the hockey team got together and shaved off all their hair. I know that he would lose his hair three weeks into treatment so the Hockey team shaved their hair a little ear-ly so James would lose his hair to hockey, his passion, not to the disease,” Lauren said.

Through all his time in the hospital many, including James knew he could get through this difficult time.

“I just knew he was going to pull through,” Parkway South sophomore Mitch Garlik, who plays hockey with James, said.

Lafayette sophomore Nico D’Antonio agrees.

He said, “I knew he would [survive].”After 46 weeks of weekly and daily

treatment James had finally finished chemo in September 2008.

“His last chemo, September 8, 2008, we had a party for him at the Kemp Auto

Museum and there were over 200 people and James raised $5,000 for Friends of Kids With Cancer and the National Hock-ey League’s Fights Cancer,” Lauren said.

“There was a private auction, dancing, a live band, and a magician. A lot of people showed up, it was a lot of fun," D’Antonio said about the celebration.

James not only raised money for the charity Friends of Kids With Cancer at the end-of-chemo party but Lauren said that James also participated in the 16th An-nual Friends of Kids With Cancer Fashion Show to raise money for this cause.

“He is such a determined kid, he fought daily and he is still fighting, he has neuropathy from all the drugs and he couldn’t walk up the stairs at school. You fight it [cancer] in so many ways, cancer is a horrible illness and it’s a 24-hour fight.” Lauren said.

James is still coping with the ways can-cer has changed his daily life but he said he is back on the road to good health.

James said, “I feel better but I’m still recovering every day, I’m getting there, every day getting stronger.”

Student’s strength inspires hopeChelsea Coleman, Staff Reporter

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Wrestling sends eight to State, brings home one medalThis past weekend, the wrestling team sent eight wrestlers to State.

Among them were seniors Robby Campbell and Andrew Olejnik, juniors Chris Cooper and Vince Farinella, sopho-mores Kyle Black, Dan Droege and Dan Wrocklage, and freshman Ryan Jones.

While the team itself didn’t qualify, they still had a good performance from the individual wrestlers. Campbell was the only wrestler to take home a medal.

On Feb. 20, he won the Quarterfinals and advanced to the Semifinals where he

lost to Wesley Bell from McCluer. In the Semifinals for the third place

match, Campbell lost to Casey Wiener from Kickapoo, but beat Andrew Mueller from Raymore-Peculiar in the fifth place match.

“It was a lot of fun but tiring. I’m glad I was able to accomplish my goal of placing at State,” Campbell said.

The wrestlers had a successful season with a 7-1 dual meet record, with the only loss coming from the Northwest meet.

They placed first at the DeSmet Invi-tational and first at the Lafayette Invita-tional.

Melanie Hinzpeter, Co-Sports Editor

He never had intentions of playing base-ball after high school, but it seems that the Lafayette Class of 2001 grad David Freese is following in the footsteps of the Lafayette grad and Phillies player Ryan Howard.

“It was a dream come true,” Freese said, after hearing that he was going to be brought up to play third base for the St. Louis Cardinals after playing on the mi-nor leagues for the San Diego Padres and the St. Louis Cardinals.

But, back in the day, the 6’1” 160 pound senior had no dreams of playing baseball after he graduated.

“I didn’t feel the itch to play after se-nior year,” Freese said. He went to Mizzou with intentions of living out a normal life.

“I woke up the day before my sopho-more year (at Mizzou) and something hit me,” Freese said. He never looked back and enrolled himself at Meramec Com-munity College and spent a semester playing ball there.

Freese had a couple of schools looking at him and eventually chose University of South Alabama on a full scholarship.

After two years of playing third base, Freese was drafted in the ninth round of the 2006 MLB draft by the San Diego Pa-dres. From there, he went up the minor league ranks.

“It was fun. A lot of good and bad days, but staying positive is key,” Freese said.

With that attitude he played, as he said, “one play at a time” and by his sec-

ond year was up to Triple A.In the summer going into the 2008

season Freese was in a big two-player trade to the St. Louis Cardinals for Jim Edmonds.

Varsity Baseball Coach Steve Miller said “We still tease him because he was traded for All-Star Jim Edmonds.” Miller watched Freese play in high school, al-though he was not the head coach yet.

Miller and Freese still talk and they met up for hitting practices over this past winter break. Miller loves Freese’s work ethic and believes he found success by “taking advantage” of his opportunities.

Freese also keeps in contact with an-other friend from Lafayette, Driver Edu-cation teacher and assistant boys basket-ball coach Matt Landwehr.

The two have been friends since ele-mentary school and Freese lived with him over the summer.

Landwehr said, “(He’s) such a com-petitor and (the) maturity from five years of college baseball helped”. They kept in touch as much as possible, usually by text messages.

Freese’s first year in the Cardinals system was a good one. He won Minor League Player of the Year for the Mem-phis Redbirds in the Cardinal’s system.

But the real test will come during spring training since starting third base-men Troy Glaus is out for the first months of the season with shoulder surgery, giving Freese a big opportunity to really shine.

With spring training coming around, he’ll try to prove he is a Cardinal starter.

Grad could see playing time for CardinalsAndrew Martin, Staff Reporter

Play at ThirdDown in Florida for the Cardinal’s spring training, David Freese practices his fielding while playing third base. Freese graduated from Lafayette in 2001 and was brought up by the Cardinals to be a third base infielder.

Photo courtesy of Lynn Freese

Pin DownAt the Jeff City Tournament, senior Robby Campbell pins his opponent, winning the match. Campbell was the only wrestler to bring home a medal from State.


Girls swimming and diving won their 24th consecutive Conference title this season.

This gave them the opportunity to ad-vance to State where almost every year they have finished in the top three.

At State this past weekend was no dif-ferent.

The girls finished third with 201 points behind Blue Springs with 290 points and Glendale with 269.50 points.

“It was really awesome. We did pretty well. We all swam amazing and are very proud of ourselves,” junior Samantha Wright said.

Along with a third place finish, the 400 freestyle relay team finished first.

Juniors Ashleigh Grammar, Jessi Holz, Shannon McCoy and Wright were on the relay team and finished with a time of

3:30.49, setting a new school record.“It was definitely a goal of ours to

break the record, but we never thought we would break the dream team’s record by so much or be so close to breaking the State record. We were so excited,” Gram-mar said.

Another record was broken at State. When Holz finished fourth in the 100 freestyle, she set a new school record with a time of 52.12 seconds.

“It was an amazing feeling. I never expected to break Marissa’s record, but when I saw my time I was like wow, now my name gets to be on the board. That’s awesome,” Holz said.

The season ended undefeated except for the Parkway South Invitational.

“(The) season went well. We were hop-ing to do well in State, and we did that.” McCoy said.

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Booster clubs improve experience for school’s student athletes, fansThink back to the last major sporting event you attended at Lafayette. Whether it was a home football game or a basket-ball game in front of a packed crowd, your experience was in large part thanks to one of the school’s seven booster clubs.

Football, boys and girls basketball and swimming all have official booster clubs which raise money for their programs.

Not every athletic team has a booster club however.

Many teams and departments have parent volunteer organizations who orga-nize fundraisers that aren’t recognized as official booster clubs.

The athletic budget, Lancer Parent Or-ganization (LPO) and the school’s student

activity account also play a large part in fundraising for athletics and fine arts de-partments.

Activities Director Steve Berry is re-sponsible for managing the budget.

Berry said the school’s booster clubs pay for what his budget either partially covers or does not cover at all, such as team banquets. The school pays $100 to-wards each banquet and the booster clubs pay for the rest.

“Booster clubs pay for things not cov-ered by the school budget,” Berry said, “for example, it’s the difference between taking a charter bus and a yellow bus.”

Some sports such as swimming rely on booster clubs for the program’s survival.

“Without the booster club, we couldn’t compete at the state level,” head swim-

ming and diving coach Todd Gabel said.As a smaller program than football or

basketball, the swimming team’s booster club has to work to gain attention.

“We contact the (Suburban) Journal and the West County News to put articles out about our swimmers,” Gabel said.

Rob Woodsmall is the president of the football program’s booster club which provides team meals and technical equip-ment.

Varsity Head Coach Boyd Manne said booster club volunteers are responsible for away game snacks, paying for extra equip-ment and painting the Weight Room.

The booster club also organizes team activities such as barbeques and other get-togethers.

“I like the pancake breakfast and the

barbeque,” sophomore Kyle Woodsmall said, who plays varsity football.

Jim Shaffer has been boys basketball booster club president since last March. In November, Shaffer helped organized a boys basketball night at the Brickhouse restaurant. The restaurant donated 10 percent of its profits that night to the boys basketball program.

“The Brickhouse was really good, espe-cially after we played a game,” freshman basketball player Luke Kreienkamp said.

“The booster club gives us opportu-nities for new stuff,” freshman Dominic Bisesi added, “When we play varsity, it’s really going to help.”

“It allows coaches to take care of the actual activities,” said Assistant Varsity Coach Matt Landwehr.

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The boys basketball team finished the reg-ular season at 17-8 and on a eight-game win streak with 53-39 at Mehlville on Feb. 20.

That impressive win gave Lafayette its sixth straight conference title.

On Feb. 24, they opened District play-offs against the winner of the Washington and Eureka game at Washington High School.

Tonight at 7:30 p.m., the team could play Rockwood Summit or Parkway South in the District Championship game if they beat Washington or Eureka on Feb. 24.

“We’re expecting good competition,” senior Jake Finley said, “We have to take it one game at a time though.”

As for the girls, they are also starting District play this week.

On Feb. 24, they played Eureka in the first round of the District Tournament at Rockwood Summit High School.

Based on the results of that game, the girls are either finished or will go on to play Parkway South in the District Cham-pionship tonight.

A win tonight means they advance to Sectionals.

“We are going to try our hardest and do what we can to be successful,” senior Kelly Dowling said.

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Jump ShotDoing his part senior Will Kirksey drives to the lane against Conference rival Parkway South. The Lancers defeated Parkway South 57-53 for the Conference title. They placed first in the Suburban West and were fourth in offense and first in defense among the schools. The Lady Lancers placed third in the Suburban West, and were third in defense and fifth in offense among the Suburban West schools. Both basketball teams are making a run at a District Championship this week, with a solid winning record behind them. The girls are 18-7 and the boys are 17-8 at the end of the regular season prior to the District Tournament.


“It takes three things; dedication, right mental attitude and ability,” Hidden Val-ley Ski Team (HVST) coach David Coulter said.

The HVST has been around since 1992, when coach and creator of the team Brett Borgard attended Lafayette High School.

“We had sort of a race team, but noth-ing really organized. Just a couple guys, racers, messing around setting up gates, but nothing really organized,” Borgard said, “I raced for University of Wyoming, came back, raced with friends when some guys a Hidden Valley asked where I went for races and I said I traveled. Then we started racing together, and then soon enough I started coaching them.”

With coaches like Borgard and Coulter, who have been skiing since 1975 and 1977 respectively, HVST knows what to look for in team members.

They want skiers who are dedicated and love the sport.

“Parents can give them (their kids) the option to go to the race or not, but if they’re not in the right frame of mind, they will resent the sport,” Coulter said.

“Take a lesson first. Lessons help out right away instead of coming out free for all,” Borgard said.

There are three ski teams all based on age group to ability: Introductory, Devel-opment and Travel Team.

The Introductory level is self explana-tory. It’s an introduction to the team for people who are unsure of how much they really want to join.

The next level is the Development team to develop skiing skills, abilities and techniques. Finally the Travel team is for

skiers who are ready to challenge their abilities in competitions all around the United States.

On the travel team is sophomore Kirstin Wintermute, who has been skiing since she was 7-years-old.

“I love to ski for the competitiveness of the sport, and racing with friends,” Win-termute said.

The coaches encourage having fun, be-cause according to Borgard, the records and times will come once the fun and learning has started.

“The biggest thing we focus on is hav-ing fun with the team. As coaches we don’t expect them to be number one. We just want them to have fun and make a memorable experience,” Borgard said.

Wintermute added that the coaches make her experience enjoyable because they don’t put pressure on them to get a certain time.

“They just want you to have fun,” Win-termute said.

However, the Travel team drives 5-15 hours every other or every weekend for different competitions.

“It takes a toll on these kids because they miss a lot of school. They miss their friends, dances…,” Borgard said.

Eureka High School sophomore Am-ber Oswald said the traveling is her favor-ite part of the team.

“The traveling makes me come back every season. Racing with people from other states and skiing at other hills at the same time, it’s wonderful,” Oswald said.

But when Hidden Valley closes, the ski team is still hanging out with each other at pools, pizza parties, bike rides and even float trips.

There is even more training to be done

during the off season, but not on snow, on dry land.

“On a pavement down at Old State and Manchester there is a parking lot, pretty steep, and we set up gates and we get on our roller blades and go up and down the hill with ski poles and everything,” Bor-gard said.

“We start dry land the first day after Labor Day. We dry land train as much as we do on snow. Except for October and November,” Coulter added

But the ski team doesn’t include snowboarders, so freshman Lucas Hake couldn’t join.

There are separate competitions for snowboarders and Hake competes in them.

“I like doing competitions because I like to see what other ticks people can do so I can learn form them,” Hake said.

But even if there was a snowboarding team and Hidden Valley, Hake said he probably wouldn’t join because he’d rath-er do things his own way.

“Anybody who thinks they may be in-terested in skiing but don’t really know for sure, we encourage them to come out and ski with us before they make the deci-sion,” Coulter said.

Hidden Valley Ski Team provides competitionMia Schenone, Staff Reporter

Flying HighA member of the Hidden Valley Ski Team hits the slopes during a competition held at Hid-den Valley. The team has three levels of skiers: Introductory, Development, and Travel.

Photo courtesy of Hidden Valley

As spring time nears, I unfortu-nately can only begin focusing my mind on one distinct thing: gradu-ation.

I am not addicted to the fact of graduating, I am just really looking forward to it.

And with graduation slowly ap-proaching, the infectious disease of senioritis is quickly taking over.

I don’t think that the whole se-nioritis thing can be avoided: I told myself I would never get senioritis because I needed to keep my grades up.

Well, is it just me or is every one experiencing the same third quar-ter slump that I am?

I blame senioritis. Although, my parents don’t seem to see this as a viable excuse, I do really blame se-nioritis.

As I sit down to do my home-work at night, I say ‘oh, I can get this done tomorrow’ or ‘I can do this right before class’ and in the end I have a mound of homework yet to be done as I walk into each class the next day.

And I can compare this to the spring lacrosse season fast ap-proaching.

Even at pre-season, I can see it happening.

Our team has the ‘senioritis’ of sports and if we don’t shake it, it is going to affect the rest of our sea-son.

We don’t have a bad case of it, we just have the case which comes on as you begin a new season of a sport.

It’s the type that makes you re-

ally realize how out of shape you are so you don’t try as hard.

But, I can see this senioritis slowly going away as each practice ends which is what it should be do-ing as the beginning of the season nears.

The only challenge will be to make sure that us seniors keep this senioritis to a minimum as the reg-ular season starts.

I know, to use lacrosse as an ex-ample, that we had 3 seniors quit last year at the mid end of the sea-son because they lost the drive to play and win.

None of us saw it coming, and it tore a big hole in our starting line up.

Let me give every player some advice on that area, not just se-niors.

If you don’t feel 100 percent committed, just walk away.

That may be a bold statement, but in my utter honesty, it is true.

I would rather that you quit the team than slack off and screw around the entire season.

If the commitment isn’t there, don’t take on a sport that you don’t feel you will be able to give your all to.

It will affect the entire team and it affects how the other players per-form.

If you are trying hard and are in it to win it, other players will take notice and push that extra step to keep up with the example you are setting.

If you are slacking off and are messing around, other players will

also take notice of that. They will then think that it is

ok to screw around and then there goes your winning team.

Seniors, we have a big example to set as we being our final season of high school sports.

Yes, we want to have fun and we want to enjoy our final season, but we can’t let that interfere with our performance.

And part of that performance that needs to remain high comes from the adrenaline that the fans watching give off.

But where will those fans be to cheer us on? Do Superfans even ex-ist during the spring time? The an-swer is yes.

Or at least they need to exist anyway.

It seems that there is a domino effect occurring as we progress through the school year.

School spirit was high and fly-ing for the first football game of the season against Eureka.

It stayed at this level for the rest of the season, and then basketball season came around.

There has been a small group of Superfans that seems to be sup-porting the boys in their season, but other than that they really haven’t been around.

Tyler Sellers called the Super-fans out on this, by saying “I am se-riously disappointed with the abso-lute lack of Superfans at the (boys basketball) games” in his letter he sent to the entire Superfans group on Facebook.

Tyler has a point, in that we re-

ally do need to boost our school spirit.

I know it sound’s really cliché, but it really does make a difference between a loss and win.

For example, the Parkway south game.

The boys basketball team squeezed out a 57-53 win, and there was a massive Superfan sup-ported blackout seen throughout the crowd.

The stands were packed on the student section, and it was clear that the Superfan blackout had a positive effect on the team overall.

After each point, the stands would erupt into a chorus of cheers, boosting the morale of the team overall.

There is no doubt in my mind that the cheering crowd had an impact on that final winning score, and there is no doubt in my mind that if we bring our cheers together, we can have a big impact this spring season.

Just don’t let the senioritis get in the way of fans or sports.

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18Winter SigningsTennisCarli BisesiWilliam Jewell College

Chelsea TravisMaryville University

SoccerMatt BleazardRockhurst University Korie KlostermanUniversity of Evansville

Kyle LeonardLindenwood University

Megan LinkSouthwest Baptist University

Samantha MartinezQuincy College

Stephanie WeiderAustin Peay State University

BasketballKelly DowlingCentral Methodist University

BaseballKyle GranaAllen County Junior College

Luke VoitJohn A. Logan Community College

LacrosseJackie Henke Lindenwood University

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FootballIan MooreUniversity of Northern Iowa

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Cross Country/Track and FieldBrooke ThibodauxWilliam Woods University

Spring Has SprungOn March 2, spring sports will begin with many weeks of pre-season conditioning behind them. The teams hope that this extra practice will give them the advantage to begin the season on a high note.

Lacrosse Coach Dee Wilkinson: “I hope they are run-ning.” The girls practice every day after school, running or scrimmag-ing.Key Players: Seniors Tessa Aslin, Melanie Hinzpeter, Caroline Johnson, Anna Mar-gherita, Jackie Henke and Anna Rueschhoff, and juniors Hillary Lawless and Kelsey Steis, and sophomore Courtney BakerFirst Game: 4/1 with Parkway South at 4:15

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Baseball Coach Steve Miller: “A lot do summer pro-grams and things on their own. We ended open gyms to give them time off before they start the season”Key Players: Seniors Tyler Boraz, Kyle Grana, Nate Goro, Luke VoitFirst Game: 3/25 with Rockwood Summit at 4:15 p.m.

Girls Track Coach Marty Mar-galski: “We want the athletes to come in ready to go. They know what they need to do” so he doesn’t do any pre-season with the girls team. Key Runners: “Until they come out and we see them, we don’t have any keys (runners) right now,” Margalski said, “Every season is different.”First Meet: 3/27 at Missouri Relays

BoysVolleyball Coach Doug Ell: “Right now they are doing open gyms two times a week. We’re just regrouping. The boys have a lifting program but they usually do their own thing.”Key Players: Seniors Tyler Rigman, Cam Slauter, Ryan Verner, Jake WelchansFirst Game: 3/27 with Rockwood Summit at 5:30 p.m.

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Boys Golf Coach Gaylen Laster: “This is our first year doing the whole pre-season thing. We have been going to the range every Wednesday in February to get the dust off before season.”Key Players: Seniors Zeke Dieckhaus, Ryan Orr, juniors Ian Davis, Austin Goodman, Anthony Meldrum, and sophomore Conner Katsev.First Match: 3/31 at Mehlville at 3:30 p.m.

Water Polo Coach Jamie Waecker-le: “Many of my players have been playing for club water polo teams. SLAP (St. Louis Area Polo) and Mad Dog Water Polo club during the offseason.”Key Players: Seniors Chris Powell and Spen-cer WellsFirst Match: 3/24 against Oakville at 5:15 p.m.

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3-D is here to stay. According to Film-Releases.com, there are 14 3-D movies being released in 2009 alone.

It is safe to say that the technology is not just a fad. In fact, 3-D very well might be the future of the movie indus-try.

The very first 3-D movie was re-leased in 1922 but it was not until the 50’s that 3-D really began to take off. During this “Golden Age,” such titles as House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon were major hits. But it wasn’t long lasting; the fad saw a lull and the “Golden Age” only lasted from 1952-1955.

3-D saw another major boom during the early 80’s, particularly in the horror genre.

Some notable films included Jaws 3-D, Friday the 13th Part 3 and Ami-tyville 3-D.

Now it seems like every 30 years or so, there is a reemergence of the tech-nology, but there is strong evidence that this time it’s for good. DreamWorks, Pixar and Disney have both recently an-nounced that all of their animated films will be shot in 3-D.

Only three out of a dozen animated films being released in 2009 are not in 3-D, because they are being released by studios other than the three men-tioned.

Most people may think of a cheap gimmick when they think of 3-D, but the gimmicky, jump out 3-D of the past is becoming more and more dated. This generation’s digital 3-D truly makes the

movie come to life. Real D Cinema is now the leader in

digital 3-D technology. Those head-ache-inducing red and blue cardboard glasses are obsolete: the glasses are now black and sleek. They look more like Risky Business-esque Tom Cruise shades than a paper doll kit.

Unlike the 3-D of the past, Real D does not require two projectors, but instead is projected by a single digital projector.

“Real-D is essentially a very high powered transformer used to project the necessary light on screen. It’s a 6000 watt bulb compared to the 4000 watt bulb we use in a traditional audito-rium. It’s combined with software that it uses to convert the digital format to a 3-D image. So it’s a combination of a typical projector and computer technol-ogy,” explains Brian Hastings, General Manager of AMC Chesterfield 14.

At AMC Chesterfield 14 tickets for 3-D movies are $2-$3 more than tickets for a regular 2-D movie.

As predicted, Hastings does not be-lieve audiences are scared off by the higher prices.

“The ticket prices are higher because the experience is better. There’s no question about it that the audience pre-fers the 3-D content,” Hastings said.

Generally, his opinion seems to be correct. According to Studio Briefing, only 44 percent of the 2,299 screens Coraline was showing on were 3-D, but 70 percent of all tickets sold for the movie were for the 3-D version.

But in these cash-strapped times, Lafayette students are not willing to

pay the extra money for the so called better experience.

Junior Alyssa Barford be-lieves 3-D movies are a waste of money. “Why would you spend three extra dollars on glasses?” Barford asked.

When it comes to the enter-tainment factor, the consen-sus from students is mixed.

Freshman Alex Vander-heyden recently saw My Bloody Val-entine 3-D and said, “It was scary… the blood sprayed on you and stuff. It’s amazing!”

Not everyone seems to be such a fan of this new-found craze.

Junior Lindsey Carper said 3-D gives her a head-ache. Junior Paige Kaprelian doesn’t like 3D movies. “I hate it. I just like the 3-D glasses,” she said.

Though not ev-ery movie begs to be released in the format future gen-erations just may see the majority of their films in the third dimension.

Studios boast more 3-D film releases than ever beforeDavid Adams, Staff Reporter

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March 31Feb. 27In theatres:Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Street Fighter: The Leg-end of Chun-Li

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March 20In theatres:Duplicity, I Love You Man, Knowing

March 24

DVD Releases:Bolt, Quantum of Solace

March 21: Twilight released on DVD

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March 27In theatres:Monsters Vs. Aliens, Adventure-land, 12 Rounds

“And at least until the music industry can find a way to make downloading music pay as well as selling actual tangible product, CDs will con-tinue to be released and they will always require packaging,” said Mal Peachey, the editor of the book The Greatest Album Covers of All Time.

Everything comes in phases, especially the design of album covers. With CD sales reaching lower and lower numbers each year, few are able to appreciate the art of an album cover.

For those who do buy CDs, they are able to see noticeable trends among albums.

As of lately, a circus theme has proven to be popular among Pop artists. Three specific cases of this, are Britney Spears: Circus, T-Pain: Thr33 Ringz and Pink: Funhouse.

The Spears cover features her sitting on a cur-tain with primary colors for a border, her name and album title.

T-Pain’s Thr33 Ringz uses primary colors as well.

The kaleidoscope of colors spiraling around the center accentuates the circus silhouettes with those primary colors. T-Pain is featured as

the ring leader, sporting a top hat and cane. Behind him are various circus acts, such as a

girl with an elephant and a man being shot out of a cannon.

In a pink show costume, Pink rides on a car-ousel horse with her arm and leg thrown up in the air on the cover of her latest album.

The background is faded red & yellow, the same archetype of colors seen on the T-Pain and Spears album covers.

The name and album titled scrawled across the background are very similar to the fonts used on the T-Pain CD. The root of this circus inspira-tion could possibly stem from the Rolling Stones live album, Circus.

This was their first album not to be released on vinyl. The live recording included appearanc-es from various different artists including John Lennon with Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, The Who and others, too.

These other acts may play a part in the circus motife. The Rolling Stones being the ringleader; others featured being the lion tamer, tight rope walkers and clowns, metaphorically.

All very important to the creation of the circus, centered around the ringleader. T-Pain, Britney

Spears and Pink serve as their own ringleaders, with special appearances from fellow artists.

The upbeat tempo, and the catchy tonality of these Pop artists brings a very lighthearted tone, much like a circus.

Rock music follows a seperate trend, how-ever.

Gas masks have been making their appear-ance on various rock album.

Since the 1980s, Rock albums have featured this trend, which were used to symbolize indus-trial rock, which is more experimental.

During riots police often use gases to scatter the crowd; they themselves wear gas masks. So gas masks can also be seen sort of as a sign of anarchy.

Due to the current wartimes in America, rock-ers have begun to use the gas mask as markings of protest to the war.

Rise Against’s new album, Appeal to Reason, pictures a man in a suit and a gas mask saluting.

Surrounding him are darkened symbols of war, such as barbed wire, a target and a tank barrel. The cover throws all these elements into chaos.

The members of Rise Against are very politi-

cally active, so it’s no surprise their album speaks out on the war.

They marched in protest at the Democratic convention, and their concert stopped multiple times to give their support towards President Obama.

Listening to the album, the cover is a perfect fit. The lyrics ignite the covers political outcry.

Senses Fail’s new album also features a man in a suit and a gas mask on the cover of “Life is Not a Waiting Room.”

Although not directly about war, their songs evoke the feelings of a man whose life could end at any moment.

Lyrics from the album include, “There are gal-lows deep inside my lungs.” “Last night I found Heaven, it was on the tip of my tongue.”

With their lyrics and their album art in mind, they have utilized the gas mask as a symbol of death.

Through gas masks, circuses or any other symbol, bands and genres have used the art-work to speak out on what their music usually preaches.

These trends, along with many others, have and will forever be seen across the music world.

Melina Loggia, Entertainment Editor

The Physical Aspect Album cover trends have

been used to speak out on the message of the music

Feb. 27, 2009

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