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There’s something to be said for restraint in a society hell-bent on promoting openness. With cell phones and websites like Face-book, people can share anything from the mundane details to the juiciest gossip with just about anyone at any time. This constant communication makes all information easily acces-sible and the state of being “unreach-able” an idea of the past.

But maybe some things are better left unsaid.

Not everyone wants to read the mushy-gushy sweet-nothings of a cou-ple or hear an hour-by-hour update of so-and-so’s existence. There’s such a thing as too much information.

This constant exposure society sup-ports is dangerous because it leaves nothing to the imagination. But what society fails to mention is that set boundaries aren’t just for football fields.

Boundaries in life are healthy, something set to avoid going too far. Here’s the line. Don’t

cross it. But today, the line, better left uncrossed, is trodden over too many times. A set boundary

can give a person the chance to stop and think before let-ting temporary passions rule behavior.

Let’s face it, though. Teen-agers regard boundaries as much as they regard the speed limit. Especially in re-lationships. Restraint seems to be a non-issue. Emotional-ly, it’s hard to hold back when feelings felt for somebody are reciprocated. But too of-ten, I see couples already in love after two weeks of devo-tion and then, maybe three months later, the same couple is non-existent.

A relationship is give and take: give your time, emotions, secrets, insecurities, and trust to somebody and hope they return the favor. But in the end, if and when it doesn’t work out, the

person who cares least, gave least, walks away undamaged. Relationships themselves are not bad; forging a successful relationship can be very rewarding. But discretion could have saved somebody all the heartache that comes with too much openness in a relationship built on a shaky foundation.

In the movie She’s the Man, a modern version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the main charac-ter Viola finds herself forced into a program cen-tered on making her a debutante. In the scene of the debutante luncheon, Viola lacks proper table manners, chewing with her mouth wide open. At this point, her instructor leans over and says, “Chew like you have a secret.”

This phrase lends itself to the idea of minimal exposure. Live like you have a secret. Refuse to join the masses in broadcasting every emotion all over the internet.

Become unreachable sometimes. Try to go a day without using your cell phone. Resist the urge to waste countless hours on Facebook and go easy on the status updates. Practice restraint, save face... and spare me the details.

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Hannah Davisopinion editor

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Every year, the staff allows for a real pine tree to be displayed in the middle of the commons in order to celebrate the holiday season. The sweet smell of pine wafts throughout the cafeteria bringing a sense of spirit to our school. However, this is one of the few signs that the popular holiday is coming closer, because as we grow older and politically correctness be-comes more important, we aren’t allowed to say, “Merry Christmas” with-out thinking of all those who celebrate other holidays. We have to include all in order to not hurt someone’s own holiday.

But as we go back in time, as children in elementary school, we delight-fully remember making Christmas craft after Christmas craft, even weeks before the holiday. There were countdowns, colorful trees made out of painted-green handprints, paper stockings and Santa Claus ornaments that held our picture in the middle that we still hang on our tree today, and glit-tery snowflakes and snowmen. Teachers decked out their classrooms with lights lining the walls and other fun posters of the season. Those were the days when the spirit was in full and being a kid during Christmas was all the more exciting.

Because of political correctness in our society, we need to be more cau-tious in acknowledging celebrations of all religions. Thus, there are less crafts and basically no decorations, except for the prominent tree in our cafeteria. We understand the cut-down from the elementary schools days, but we would still like to thank the staff for acknowledging the holiday and permitting some spirit in the halls.

Along with the tree, we applaud music teachers Jason Jasper and David Hartman for playing music through the years in the mornings of final exam week. Their spirit and wonderful tunes fill the mornings with happiness and liveliness for the final week before the winter vacation, when all stu-dents are on the brink of going crazy from cramming and studying.

For the beautiful tree and for the amazing music, we thank the staff for the effort even after all the political correctness. Regardless of the decora-tions being intended for Christmas, everyone can still appreciate the uplift-ing and spirited environment.

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Every once in a while, a musical artist, song or album is released that makes us realize the genius, the creativity, and the enjoyment that music can make us realize and receive from some of the sim-plest things in life.

Jay-Z has released a new album that does these, and it’s safe to say that his newest may be his best. Jay-Z has been a revolutionary and ground-breaking artist of his time, and he has almost created a new style of hip-hip music. Into his songs, he incorporates many sam-ples from classic songs and songs from other artists.

In his new album, The Blueprint 3, Jay-Z brings his incorporation of other artists, who he features in his songs, and styles, when he uses hooks from musicals, retro songs, and even current songs from other artists that he changes lyrics to, to a new level. Many of the songs feature other artists, and it’s obvious that he tried to send a message with this album, that among all of the similar-sounding and typical songs that are played on the radio today, there is still good music.

On this album, he features many big-name art-ists. Some include: Drake, Kanye West, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Young Jeezy, Kid Cudi, Mr. Hudson, and Pharrell. All of these artists have had success-ful music careers on their own, and combined with

Jay-Z and his creative mind, the sounds of this al-bum are better than many in recent times.

In “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” Jay-Z talks about the styles of music today, and how he does not approve of and thinks that the artists who pro-duce these tracks are not talented and do not make genuine, interesting music.

Another of his best tracks on this album is “Em-pire State of Mind.” In this song, he features fellow New Yorker, Alicia Keys. They created this song as a tribute to their home-town and the city that they love. They include some of the high-lights of the city that they believe make it great, and they use specif-ic examples such as, street names, neighborhoods, historically sig-nificant events, and famous plac-es that many people can identify with in the song.

One of the other very popular songs on this album is “Young Forever.” In this song, Jay-Z fea-tures Mr. Hudson, who sings in

this track, and samples part of the track from the 1984 classic, “Forever Young,” by Alphaville. Jay-Z adds in his own rap into the verses, and this song makes for another great hit.

Jay-Z has done it again. He has released a new album that has multiple hits on it and that really speaks to many generations and a diverse audience. He has incorporated many artists and songs into this new album, that is sure to be a classic for a long time.

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Eavesdroppingat its funniest

“I thought you were asking for a writing utensil to eat.”-English hallway

“Someone stole my nucleus!”-Science class

“He told me he had a farm and the only vowels I could use were E-I-E-I-O.”-Adv. Comp.

“I wouldn’t go that way if I were you. Zombie infestation.”-Math hallway

“Wait, is it a square cylinder?”-Geometry

“I’m going to start an atheist church.”-Sophomore Caf-eteria

“It takes a real man to wear a Freddy Mercury t-shirt.”-English hallway

“I don’t like men that cry.”-Journalism room

Teacher: “How big was the junk?”Student: “The junk was huge!”-AP World History

“I make friends with the dust... oh, hey, Joe!”-Foreign Language hallway

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When I first saw the pre-views for the movie [A Christ-mas Carol] I knew I had to see it. The film is based off of the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his unexplained hatred for the Christmas holiday. Since this was, in fact, a well-known story, I did worry that the movie might not do it justice.

Acadamy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis shot the movie. It stars the hi-larious Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge and six other roles as well including the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

Carrey's kooky personal-ity works out well in this film. He plays the character in a way only he could, using different accents to help illustrate each of his characters. He also did his own stunts in the movie, in-cluding sliding and flying over various virtual rooftops, chim-neys and stairs.

Filmed in its entirety and then turned into a 3D animation, the movie looks as real as it could.

Though paying extra money for the 3D may put a strain on your budget, the feature definitely makes the movie that much bet-ter.

A Christmas Carol begins at the

funeral of Ebenezer's busi-ness partner, Marley. The scene helps portray to the audience what kind of char-acter they're dealing with. The plot starts to develop on Christmas Eve seven years later when Scrooge falters back to his dark, abysmal mansion, alone.

A spiraling chain of events occur with each ghost that he encounters and Scrooge is forced to revisit events in his past that he has longed to for-get, to recognize and observe the effects of a family in need due to his lack of compas-sion, and to understand the consequences the future has in store.

The original story’s mes-sage is still as relevant today as it was 166 years ago, to re-mind us to treat the people we know with love and re-

spect and to help out those less fortunate. Even though it has been told

a hundred times over, and pre-sented in over a hundred differ-ent ways, this 3D motion picture captures the remarkable essence of the classic Dickens tale.

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Major Lazer is a collaboration between overachieving, globetrotting electro DJ/producers Diplo and Switch, but the proj-ect – and its namesake – is fronted by a Jamaican commando who lost an arm in the Zombie Wars of 1984. He was rescued by the U.S. military, given a laser-powered prosthetic limb, and now leads a double-life as an undercover renegade soldier working as a burgeoning musician and owner of a dancehall nightclub. Not daunted by his disability, he still fights vampires and mon-sters, parties hard, and rides around on his very own rocket-powered hovercraft.

Not really. I haven’t lost it, I swear.Major Lazer’s just a front.Diplo and Switch, who first worked

together while working on M.I.A.’s “Pa-per Planes”, are just two white guys who still have their limbs and have never, ever fought a zombie. Their war’s on the music front. That’s it.

In short, the duo traveled to Jamaica spe-cifically to take advantage of local dancehall artists, and then dragged a litany of more familiar artists into the project, including Santogold and Nina Sky. The result is the most self-indulgent, flat-out ridiculous al-bum of 2009. And it’s awesome.

Zombies Don’t Kill People... Lazers Do! is an experiment in, well, experimentation and takes some chutzpah to sit through. It’s loud, it’s raucous, it’s weird. The first track, “Hold the Line”, features Santogold rapping in double-time to neighs, a sam-pling of Dick Dale’s “Misirlou”, cellphone rings, and the thrusting-ly boisterous Mr. Lexx, the track’s requisite Jamaican musi-cian. And somehow – somehow-- it works.

“Hold the Line” kicks off the album’s first stellar to killer seven tracks, ending at “Mary Jane,” a thinly veiled satire of Ja-maica’s stereotypical national affection for marijuana set to tuba, toms, and a mean-dering, appropriately drugged-out chorus of vacant voices and guffaws.

The rest of the album, though not bad, is typical, plateau-ing at Nina Sky’s frightful-ly Top 40-esque “Keep It Goin’ Louder.” It’s worth sitting through, but is comparison to the first half… egads. It’s just not the same.

Zombies is, as one reviewer deemed it, a “shake-your-a** dancehall party-in-a-bag record.” If I could get away with dropping a few flattering expletives, I would, because if any album deserves ‘em, it’s this one.

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As winter sweeps its way around the increasingly chilly wind, students begin to notice a migration – a migration of a spe-cies foreign during the winter months. Un-doubtedly school-goers have encountered them, those soft, furry creatures that roam these halls and classrooms, savoring the comforts of the school’s warmth. Undoubt-edly they’ve observed these cuddly crea-tures’ interspecies variability: some are brown, others black; some are short, others tall; some are bona fide, others counterfeit. They’re boots – Uggs, actually – one of the many fashion trends evident at school.

Now, before scoffing at a feature about “fun fall fashions,” consider this: lots of people sport Uggs; others Chucks; still others prefer slippers. What does this mean about fashion? It’s subjective – and that fact remains true within the confines of this school.

To senior Shannon Lavis and junior Natalie Finchum, personal fashion is something they’ve managed to discover and perfect during high school.

“Freshman/sophomore year of high school was when I really started putting effort into my ‘style’,” Lavis said, “prob-ably because the pressure to ‘look good’, even if it was by other people’s standards. But through that I found my own sense of

style that I could be comfortable with.”Finchum polished her own personal ex-

pression through cotton during her sopho-more year, when she finally figured out what she liked and what she didn’t like.

“I guess seeing what other people wear influences some of what I like to wear – but only the things that I like,” Finchum said. “I kind of just mix things I like with what other people wear.”

Lavis said she was also influenced by what others wore; including both her old-er cousins and mall-side mannequins. By mingling the different styles and combi-nations of this exhibited clothing, she de-signed a style of her own by deciding what looked best to her. Lavis also commented that finding herself and the experiences she’s had during high school affected her personal fashion.

“Because to an extent, what you wear represents who you are, not to say people should be judged by their clothing, but the things you wear do reflect an image of your mood, self-expression, and interests,” Lavis said.

Senior Jason Rowe believes this might be true for some people, but not for him personally. To him, “fashion” isn’t exactly his passion. Rowe doesn’t mind what he wears – as long as it’s clean.

“I think that having multiple pairs of shoes in multiple colors to match outfits is an enormous waste of money and it’s re-ally not a big deal,” Rowe said. “And if my high school experience were to affect what I wore, what would really change? T-shirts to hoodies? Regular pants to skinny jeans? Not likely.”

Fashion: it’s a personal choice and it’s a personal interest, especially within the walls of this high school. In Noblesville, some students walk around town wearing designer jeans and Ed Hardy shirts. Oth-ers pride themselves in an eclectic ward-robe all their own, others treasure their vintage pieces warped into the modern world, and still others standby the clas-sic hoodie and jeans. And some students couldn’t care less.

“If fashion’s what’s important to them, fine,” Rowe said. “Who am I to say, ‘You’re dumb for what you like’? I like cake, what if someone decided cake wasn’t impor-tant? Would they be in a position to criticize me for liking cake? Absolutely not.”

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Not-so-rare species migrate

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From left to right, Shelby Flora rocks an eccentric band t-shirt, junior

Paige Peebles keeps warm in a cozy

scarf, senior Trevor Blossom flaunts his colorful kicks, and sophomore Luciana

Lira stays current in her skinny jeans and popu-lar Buffalo plaid shirt.

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“Forest Park ‘fo sho’, Nik Haney and I went once and we were

using a tube, and we later found out that at the bottom of the hill

there was rocks. We fell off the tube and I cut my hip. It was great.”

-- Junior, Taylor McKiernan

“My first time ever sledding, my brothers pushed me down the hill

on the cardboard, and I was freaking out. Once I got over the fear,

it was an amazing experience, and I just wanted to do it again.”

-- Junior Josh Clemence

“I remember one time I went down the hill so fast, I went into the

creek at the end and got soaking wet.”

-- Senior Maddi Corry

“In my neighborhood (Wellington Northeast), there is a church. Be-

hind the church, there is this totally awesome hill that is like super

steep and pretty much everyone in my neighborhood goes there

for sledding.”

-- Sophomore Molly Grooms

“One time I was with a group of friends at Verizon and we piled

everyone on one sled (5 people) and everyone fell off by the end,

but the sled made it to the end.”

-- Sophomore Sarah Jarrett

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#2 S. Harbour Dam (Buttonwood Dr.)

#3 N. Harbour (Westchester Blvd.)

#4 Wellington Northeast (Greenfield Ave.)

#5 Verizon Wireless Music Center

Top 10 techie gifts#1 Nintendo DSiThis portable gaming system comes in a variety of colors and

features two interactive digital cameras that can be used for both

videos and still pictures. Gamers can also be granted Internet ac-

cess with the proper connection.

#2 Samsung CL65 cameraThis digital camera comes equipped with Wi-Fi capabilities, a GPS

system, and Bluetooth technology, allowing users to wirelessly

transmit photos.

#3 iPhone 3GSApple’s latest iPhone edition offers features such as video and pic-

ture capabilities, a compass, messaging, and internet connection.

#4 Amazon Kindle DXThis device allows users to read complete books without having to

flip a page. Stories are displayed electronically.

#5 iPod NanoThe newest edition features a built-in video camera as well as FM

radio capabilities.

#6 Sprint Palm-Pre#7 Samsung HMX-R10#8 MacBook Pro

#9 Klipsch Earphones#10 Clue: Secrets and Spies game

#6 Mill Grove(Mill Creek Dr.)#7 Fort Harrison State Park (Indianapolis, Ind.)#8 Dunn Meadow(IU campus)

#9 Slayter Hill(Purdue campus)#10 Pokagon State Park (Angola, Ind.)

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Winter Song

Sarah Bareillis and Ingrid Michaelson

Photographer Phoebe DavisAll I Want for Christmas is You

Mariah Carey

Writer Alex GookinsWinter Wonderland

Jason Mraz

Web editor Matt Loria

Grown Up Christmas List

Mariah Carey

Production editor Nathan Brown

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NHS Exam Schedule Dec. 16 Dec. 17-18

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Quiz Bowl strikes with new members

“Yeah, we use buzzers.”Senior Heather Stephens, varsity mem-

ber of the Quiz Bowl could only smile and laugh when asked the particulars about the academic team. Her favorite part about answering the challenging and sometimes random trivia questions Brain Game throws at her?

“When I know the answer,” Stephens joked.

Stephen’s teammate, senior and captain Lauren Quimby, has participated in Quiz Bowl since her sophomore year, and loves it – buzzers, questions, and teammates in-cluded.

“It’s been my favorite part of school since I joined,” Quimby said.

Quimby and Stephens are just two of the 18 current members of the Quiz Bowl Team, which meets on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at seven sharp until the first bell. At these meetings, the Quiz Bowlers prac-tice for competitions by answering trivia questions from previous contests.

These questions vary from subject to subject, with trivia categories ranging from math to fine arts; literary works to history.

This year, the Quiz Bowl has competed in two tournaments. At the Dec. 5 Browns-burg Dog Fight Quiz Bowl, the team had three wins and two losses, but did not qual-ify for finals.

The team also competed at the Brain Game and won their first round match against Brown County High School. The public will actually be able to tune in to this tournament when it airs on WTHR-13 on Dec. 19. The Quiz Bowl Team will then com-pete for the third time at the WRAL Tour-ney on Jan. 23.

The team’s success has also fueled a boost in popularity.

“We’ve gotten a lot of new members from overzealous recruiting. We don’t even fit on the minibus anymore,” Quimby said.

However, while Noblesville’s packing in the students and running out of room, other schools are experiencing the opposite prob-lem. The consequence: less tournaments.

“The Cardinal Quiz Bowl Tourney at Ball State was cancelled this year due to lack of funding at BSU. They hope to have it next year, but that is yet to be determined,” sci-ence teacher and Quiz Bowl director Gary Hipes said.

According to Hipes, the team also partic-ipates in the Tri-County Skill Bowl league, however that league is down to five schools, so there will not be a tournament. The can-cellations may seem inconsequential, but they do affect the Quiz Bowl team.

“A lot of the smaller schools have trouble getting enough people together for a team. One of my favorite tournaments was can-celled this year though, so I was kind of sad,” Quimby said.

Those interested in joining Quiz Bowl should see Hipes in room 250.

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In years past, the finals schedule has required students to attend school only for their fi-nals, after which they were free to go home. However, according to assistant principal Dan Swafford, the state now mandates students to be in school for at least six hours. Due to this new requirement, the adminstration was forced to revise the exam schedule.

Although the finals schedule has been changed, seniors who have honor code and have met the requirements, may break the mandatory six hour school day rule just for finals.

On Dec. 16, students will have three blocks of review time and finish the day with their seventh block final.

With the block scheduling and new state requirements, students will also have 105 min-utes to take each final, 15 extra minutes from years past. Semester classes will use the extra time to turn in their textbooks on the day of the final instead of a few days before. This way students will be able to use their books for review up until the day of their final.

The extra study halls will give students the opportunity to review for their upcoming finals. These study halls will be the first block of Dec. 17 and Dec. 18. They will last for 55 minutes.

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50 Little Birds began in early this year to help fund needs at Blue Stone Folk School, a traditional arts program in Noblesville. Each handcrafted ornament and carving is created by Geoff Davis, the school’s director. Prices range from $10 - $112.

Still in the works, Brainchild Designs offers greeting cards, invitations, and small, handbound books with an emphasis on Japanese papers and origami details. Prices, although not de-termined for all products, are generally lower than $5.

Established by a pair of NHS students, Daisy D’s busted into the jewelry world early. Peruse their selection of detailed , or-nate necklaces and button bracelets. Prices range from $30 -$40.

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Varsity boys take it to overtime against Carmel

The rivalry between Noblesville and Carmel trac-es back to before the births of the players themselves. No matter the score, the two teams fight out every game to the very last second or millisecond, as Dec. 4’s game showed.

With the Noblesville student section roaring above the hisses of the Carmel student section and with a seventh of a second left in overtime, sophomore Dan-iel Purvlicis stepped up to the foul line.

“There wasn’t as much pressure as you would think, but I could still feel a fair amount. My reassur-ance was that I had two shots, and since the game was tied, if I made one, we won, if I missed both, the game wasn’t over,” Purvlicis said.

Purvlicis sunk the first basket to put Carmel away in overtime. He experienced intense pressure at the foul line, but the team as a unit was flushed with pres-sure over the game as well.

“We went into the game with the mindset that this was no different from any other game. We planned on playing our game, executing properly, and playing tough on defense. I told the boys to be focused and don’t ignore the pregame butterflies, but get them to fly in formation,” Coach David McCollough said.

Purvlicis knew that the team could win, but he knew what it would take to do it, and it would not be

easy. “We had to make sure to play our game. We would have to take out

what they do best and keep them away from our basket. As long as we didn’t get down I knew we could win it,” Purvlicis said.

Senior Brandon Mattox was just as confident in the team’s ability to pull out the win over Carmel in overtime.

“When he (Carmel player) made that shot I was kind of in shock. I guess I expected him to hit it though. We got down a few times and it was tough, but we came to play, and that’s what we did,” Mattox said.

After Carmel tied up the game with the three pointer, the two teams prepared mentally and physically for a grueling overtime.

“Before overtime started I told the team that this was a new game now. We were down and got it to overtime. Now we have it to a four minute game, let’s win it,” McCollough said.

The overtime between the two powerhouse teams played out to the very last second, or rather, last seventh of a second. The foul on Purv-licis placed Noblesville at the foul line and sent the team home victori-ous. The team hopes to carry the momentum of the win to other games in their season.

Senior Brandon Mattox takes a shot at the foul line against Carmel. Sophomore Daniel Purvlicis made a free throw to in overtime to help the Millers beat the Greyhounds 68-67 on Dec. 4.

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cd releases

Emerson TheateriwrestledabearonceDec. 17

Gwen StacyDec. 19

Every AvenueJan. 9

Bowling For SoupJan. 15

Murat Egyptian RoomBreaking BenjaminDec. 16

Chris IsaakDec. 30

Clowe’s HallThe Color PurpleDec. 29

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Fall Be KindAnimal Collective

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