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Ashley HawkinsJessica Lynk

A multitude of students received a mysterious Facebook friend request from a person by the name of Cori Barker on August 26.

No one knew anything about her, as her Facebook page contained no picture, no status updates, and minimal information.

“I had never heard of [Barker] before, and she had no picture or out of school friends,” sophomore Kaytee Okon said.

Within 24 hours of activating the account, Cori accumulated over 200 friends. The numbers continued to rise in the following days. As of press, the final num-ber peaked at 558 friends, including past, present, and future District 214 students.

Only a handful of people stepped forward and inquired more about Barker, who was created by The Correspondent to investigate students’ Facebook practices.

Some people didn’t believe her story. “She said she was coming to Hersey, but not a lot people just add everyone at their new school before they actually go there,” Okon said.

The fact that she got so many friends shows that students will add random people, even if they have never held a conversation with them in real life.

“If I see I have any mutual friends with them, then I will add them,” soph- o -more Jenna Pecora said. “If the mutual friends are peo-ple from my family or my school, I have no problem adding a person who sends me a request.”

To the contrary, some students will take extra precautions when it comes to accepting friend requests on Facebook.

“I don’t add anyone unless I talk to them, even if we have mutual friends. It’s creepy to have people on there that I

don’t know,” sophomore Carly Mandernach said.When looking through Barker’s news feed, the

behavior found on Facebook was quite surprising. Most, but not all, students seemed to limit the

amount of inappropriate content they publicized. The goal was to justify how careful students are

when it comes to Facebook. The reality is that Barker could have been anyone from a policeman to a school administrator, or an employer.

The New York Police Department set up a social media unit to catch criminals through Facebook and Twitter. NYPD has responded to shootings and mur-ders that occurred at house parties that were adver-tised on Facebook.

Universities and employers are now doing back-ground checks through Facebook and other social media sites to determine whether or not this person is

suitable for admission or hire. According to a survey

conducted by Proofpoint in 2009, twenty percent of companies investigated the exposure of confiden-tial, sensitive or private

information via a post to a social networking site.

“Employers definitely look at Facebook. When it

comes down to choosing be-tween two different candidates,

the one who has pictures of partying wouldn’t be picked,” career adviser Cin-dy Behar said.

Some students have realized what’s posted on Facebook

has an impact in life. “I’ve seen more

and more of it [damaging posts], and it seems to be

coming from people who just don’t care. I think they’re stu-

pid and should get a clue,” junior Tyler Vainisi said.

Junior Tad Murase said, “I re-ally don’t care what people do in real

life, but I just don’t understand why they tell the world what illegal actions

they make. One, no one cares. Two, you’re setting yourself up in your own trap.”

“Everything you do in high school and what you post can follow you forever, so it’s important to watch your back and not put things people can make fun of or find inappropriate on the Internet,” Behar said.

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Polish clubreturns afterfive years

Another club has joined the plethora of activities offered here- the Polish club.

“It was discontinued be-cause the leader five years ago, Karolina W. (Wasiniewska), went to study abroad, and there was not enough student leader-ship for it to continue,” human geography teacher Missy Mabry said.

Now, however, it is back in business. “I do think a good number of students will join. We already had 20 at the first meeting, and I know there is a buzz around the school about it,” Mabry said.

“I want to join the Polish club because it looks like a fun club, and it would be interest-ing to learn about my heritage because I’m Polish,” sophomore Maddie Chwalinski said.

“You do not have to be Pol-ish to be in the club,” Mabry said.

The new club will definitely not be short of activities;

“Some of the things we are interested in include playing the the Culture Clash soccer game, hosting a bake sale, taking a ski/snowboard trip, decorating a hallway for Homecoming, and maybe the Polish parade down-town,” Mabry said.

“I’m excited about joining the club because it sounds really cool,” Chwalinski said.

While some clubs seem to be increasing in student atten-dance Polish club isn’t looking for these sky rocketing num-bers.

“I do not think we will be as big as LASO, and I’m not sure how active the other clubs are, but I foresee a fun group of students who get together 1-2 times a month,” Mabry said.

The club is open to anyone who is interested in learning about the Polish culture.

“You do not have to be Pol-ish to be in the club. I’m half Polish but do not even speak the language. All are welcome,” Mabry said.

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Jessica Lynk

The community came to-gether to help raise money for senior Shea Anderluh’s family on April 16. Anderluh was di-agnosed with Hodgkins Lym-phoma in August 2008, and has been battling it since.

Thomas Middle School and South Middle School staff played the seventh annual Crosstown Classic Showdown volleyball game to raise funds for Anderluh and her family.

“It was important to bring awareness and support Shea. We are showing that Hersey stands behind her,” freshman Cait Nagle said.

The fundraiser took place in the gym,which was filled with people who came to sup-port Anderluh.

Thomas teacher Carol Golemo planned the whole night with the goal of raising $10 thousand.

The event raised $9,311 and counting, raising money for Shea as she travels to New York to combat her disease.

They charged $5 at the door and sold $10 t-shirts, as well as having a serving contest in the court after the first game.

The event was a big hit for middle school students and for the Anderluh family.

“The event was all about the community coming togeth-er for Shea and her family. Love and support was in the air,” Golemo said.

The event raffled off prizes ranging from letter man jack-ets, baskets full of Starbucks treats, and a signed baseball from the baseball team.

A silent auction took place, as well as a raffle giving every-one an equal opportunity to donate to the Anderluh family.

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Academic events coordinator Dale Dassonville was recently given the opportunity to plan a visit from former Republican nominee hopeful Rick Santorum.

“It was very sudden. We started planning it two days before the actual event,” English division head Dr. Charles Venegoni said.

The school was able to arrange the visit because of a parent’s interest.

“A parent who works with Santorum called and asked if we would want to fill a plot in his schedule. They knew we have a curriculum in civic dimension. We did not solicit it,” Venegoni said.

Visits by politicians is nothing new here. Recent visitors include former gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady and Illinois senator Dick Durban.

“These kinds of things happen all the time. The politicians who visit the school represent all parts of the political spectrum,” Venegoni said.

In order to go, students had to have their eighth period teacher take their class.

Students were able to submit questions to Vene-goni and Dassonville to ask Santorum. Venegoni not-ed that most of the questions came from his College Western Literature and Thought class.

From there, the teachers screened the questions for content. “The only questions we screened out were those that were blatantly disrespectful,” Venegoni said.

Three questions submitted were written by seniors and all-state debaters Ty Nocita and Moriah Mulroe.

“They slipped the questions under the door. They had questions that they wanted to ask and questions that they could ask,” Venegoni said.

Nocita mentioned that he’d been interested in Santorum’s campaign for a while.

“I’ve disliked Santorum for a long time. It wasn’t hard thinking of things I could get him on,” Nocita said.

The day of the event, the questions were submit-ted to Santorum’s staff for approval.

“The campaign staff said the questions were ‘tough but fair,’” Venegoni said. “His campaign staff read through the questions and rejected those that dealt with social issues like contraception, marriage, and religion.”

One of the conditions of Santorum’s visit was that he had to equally divide the time between a speech and student questions.

“I made it clear when his entourage came here that we meant business about the time he had to talk. We told them that at half time if he didn’t stop, we would stop him,” Venegoni said.

Once the half-way mark hit, Santorum was still talking. Dassonville got on stage and asked Santorum to stop speaking and start accepting student questions.

Two of the questions that were asked were written by Nocita and Mulroe, and another by senior Stefan Vucicevic. Many were disappointed with Santorum’s answers.

“I thought he did a great job avoiding the actual questions. Masterful evasion,” senior Zavier Henry said.

“I think we got him. He stumbled a lot and came off as arrogant and condescending,” Nocita said.

After senior Hannah Johnstone asked a question, Santorum cut the forum short. Senior Monica Burck-hardt was next in line to ask a question that she wrote.

“I was the fourth person scheduled to ask a ques-tion. As Hannah finished up I got to go over and get ready. The campaign manager waved me away. I saw Dr. Cantrell try to negotiate with him,” Burckhardt said. “I looked up at the clock and there was 15 min-utes left.”

Cutting the forum short meant that Santorum did not meet the 50/50 split agreement.

Venegoni noted his disappointment in this.“We’ve had Dick Durbin come here, he had the

exact same circumstances. Durbin only spoke for a couple of minutes and then he answered questions that weren’t screened. The questions were all tough,” Venegoni said.

Santorum’s visit caused some controversy in the community, in part caused by coverage by local and national media.

“There were editorials accusing us of forcing stu-dents to listen to and accept Santorum. They were also criticizing us the other way. Everyone reported some-thing other than what actually happened,” Venegoni said.

Nocita also noticed the inaccurate portrayal by the media. “I think his press team did a good job of making him come out more personable. The way the press made it seem differed from the way many stu-dents saw it,” Nocita said.

Venegoni received several calls by disappointed parents. “There were a number of calls that criticized us for having him. It was mostly people who didn’t like Santorum that accused us of holding a Santorum rally. They were satisfied once we explained the reason for his visit,” Venegoni said. “We’re too professional to en-gage in arguing with the community.”

Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum made a lo-cal stop on his campaign to visit students during eighth

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The semester has come to a close and finals are next week. Grades come down to one test.

Most students begin to focus on studying the week or weekend before, but often find it difficult be-cause teachers generally have tests that will boost or destroy grades the week before finals.

“A few of them decide my grade, so I have to study now too,” junior Sarah Mulroe said.

While some students are hesitant about the tests, many think it’s a good way to review for fi-nals.

“I like it because it’s a good chance to learn more recent things,” ju-nior Mike Perlongo said. “And a good way to boost grades.”

To help students cope with the high stress levels, the Arling-ton Heights Memorial Library is teaming with Whole Foods Market in Palatine to provide brain friendly snacks.

Also, presentations by breathing and meditation specialists from Pulsation Yoga, Willow Yoga and Yogi Ram will be avail-able to any high school students.

Along with the brain friendly snacks and the breathing presentations, a section of the li-brary will be put off for high school students to have quiet study groups.

“Our library is looking to provide services for teens and this was a program I have seen been successful in other public libraries, so we decided to give it a shot,” director of teens at Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Tom Spicer said.

The quiet atmosphere entices many stu-dents to attend.

“It sounds helpful. It sounds relaxing, I would probably go,” sophomore Brianna Lear said.

“I will go, it will be quiet and easy to fo-cus,” junior Nicole Borst said.

Mulroe agrees, “Yoga’s calming and my nerves are not calm right now.”

Some students have distinct styles of studying that wouldn’t mix well with the Li-brary’s Lounge.

“I like studying on my own. It’s a good idea, but it probably wouldn’t help me much,” junior Amanda Petro said.

Finals generally cause a lot of stress. Grades, colleges, and GPA’s can boil down to how well finals are done.

After a few years of finals under their belt, upperclassmen have a few tips for underclass-men and peers.

“Start studying earlier, it’ll make you more pre-pared,” senior Kristen Pedersen said.

Preparing early is just as important as sleeping well the night before. The brain doesn’t retain knowl-edge as well on minimal hours of sleep.

“Don’t put stuff off, start working early, eat break-fast, and sleep well,” Perlongo said.

According to Mayo Clinic, positive think-ing results in better coping skills in hardships and times of stress.

“Make sure you study the things that matter and, most importantly, you be-

lieve you can do well on finals,” senior Andy Bisceglie said.

The library will be hosting the Li-brary Lounge from Monday through Thursday next week during all library hours, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. This will offer a peaceful atmosphere for students to get studying done.

“We want to show teens that the li-brary is a great place for group study, to find useful resources and just hangout,” Spicer said.

“It’s tough leading up to finals but the week is

overall relaxing.”

“Finals week is my favor-ite week because it gives me time to catch up on

my sleep.”

“I like finals week because I love getting out of school early.”

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Go green! It’s a saying many have heard but maybe haven’t applied to their everyday lives. Busy teenagers may find it dif-ficult to fit in helping the envi-ronment.

The newly formed 4 R’s Green Team can give students the opportunity t o help the environ-ment.

The club stands for reduce, reuse, recycle, and most impor-tantly, rethink. Led by campus security guard Nancy Anderson, they hope to do one simple thing- make this school a better place.

From now on, late days will now be renamed to Re-cycle Thursday to represent the Green Team’s new project. Ev-eryone can become involved in the collection of old things. Toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and pumps, dental floss dis-pensers, scotch tape dispensers, cell phones, batteries, and old athletic shoes are all being col-lected at the three bins by each

main entrance.Any day at any

time they’re accept-ing these items, Recycle Thursday is just a weekly re-minder for students

to go home and bring any of these items in to be re-cycled.

This is a easy, helpful way to participate. “Why wouldn’t they participate, we’re all sharing this earth, so why not contribute,” Anderson said.

Recycle Thursday is not only a way to help the environ-ment, but it can also help the school.

Terracycle Bri-gade Program is World wide collection pro-gram that will pay the school money for the collection of the items.

“I think this is a great idea be-cause it’s something ev-eryone could easily do and will help in the long run,” sopho-more Erin Moody said.

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Students may have been puz-zled by the presence of a tall, out-going, well-dressed man roaming through the halls on Feb. 9. Faculty members approached him with a smile, shaking hands and showing him around.

This man, Gordon J. Sisson, is the new face of Hersey, replacing Dr. Tina Cantrell as principal next fall.

“I am absolutely thrilled. Hersey is one of the finest educa-tional institutions. I’m excited to join the Huskie family,” Sisson said.

A week prior, Sisson was an-nounced as principal at the District 214 board meeting at Forest View Educational Center.

Leading up to the announce-ment, a panel was chosen to inter-view candidates for the job. It came down to four finalists, with Sisson having all the necessary creden-tials.

“I hope he brings the same passion for our students, curricu-lum, and activities as I do, but you can’t understand the school until you’re a part of it,” principal Dr. Tina Cantrell said.

Sisson began teaching Eng-lish in 1978 at Marshfield Junior High in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He became assistant principal, then principal at Grant Elementary in Marshfield. In 2002, he was named assistant principal at Marshfield High School, then principal in 2008.

According to The Washington Post, Marshfield High School was ranked number one in Wisconsin in its National High School Chal-lenge, under Sisson’s leadership. The list awards schools that take extra steps in preparing their stu-dents for college.

Sisson has been actively in-volved with his community, taking part in the YMCA and the Wiscon-sin State Music Association Boards, the Norwood Mental Health Hospi-tal Human Rights Committee, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Advisory Council, and the Kiwanis Club of Marshfield.

Sisson plans to get to know the school before he makes any big changes.

“I want to learn what Hersey is all about first, and go from there,” Sisson said.

Students have high standards and hope Sisson will live up to their expectations.

“I’m looking for someone who can run the school as well as Dr. Cantrell did,” junior Melissa Giovannini said. “I’m looking for-ward to see what he has to offer.”

As far as changes go, some would like to see a few tweaks in the academics and co-curricular codes.

“I’m hoping the new principal gives a new energy to Hersey, and has the ability to connect and com-municate with everyone,” junior Jenna Borrelli said. “I hope he can be somewhat lenient about some school codes like hats, cell phones, etc., but I hope he continues to bring out the Hersey pride.”

Cantrell seems to be confident with this choice, academically. “He seems to understand the curricu-lum. He took the ‘Hersey Model’ up to Wisconsin and used it there.”

Others want structural im-provements. “I am hoping that he works on some school improve-ments, like building up our school with some new construction,” ju-nior Jenny Bishop said.

Students also want Sisson to place equal emphasis on fine arts as well as athletics. “What is really important to me is that I hope he keeps supporting the arts as Dr. Cantrell does now,” sophomore Lisa Norling said.

Although students are excited to meet Sisson, they are still sad to see Cantrell go.

“I’m going to miss Cantrell’s humor, she’s really funny if you get to know her on a personal level,” Borrelli said.

“She was a good principal and helped me out during some situ-ations,” sophomore Brian Ozaeta said.

Cantrell hopes that Sisson will come in with an open-mind and believes that the transition will be smooth. She also believes that this school is great the way it is.

“We are not a school that needs to be fixed, Cantrell said. However, she added, “It doesn’t matter how good you are, you can always be better.”

Dr. Cantrell is confident that the current staff will lead Sisson through the transition. “Every-body does their job efficiently and the infrastructure of our school is so strong,” Cantrell said.

Sisson is looking forward to leading the school, and will likely be walking the halls again within the next few months. He encourag-es students to not be shy and greet him.

“I am very approachable and quite friendly, be sure to say hello in the halls,” Sisson said

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Runners and walkers around the community will come together on Sunday to support Gina Gianc-ola Suicide Awareness For Every-one (SAFE) Foundation on May 20 at 8 am. The 5k run and one mile walk will take place at Thomas Middle School.

The event and foundation were created by the Bailey fam-ily in order to promote awareness about suicide prevention, raise money, and award a female ath-lete with a college scholarship. The Giancola family has been thor-oughly involved with the planning of this race.

“This will hopefully make it easier and more comfortable for a child to seek out help. Knowing that help and support is available at school is huge when a child feels they have no one else to turn to,” Domenica Giancola, G. Ginanco-la’s older sister, said.

The run will help raise student awareness that people are out there to help them, and also will help other students heal.

“I’m looking forward to par-ticipating in the run with the Hersey family and doing some-thing special to remember Gina,” sophomore Lauren Solberg said.

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A comedy, improv show is always a great way to end the year. Lots of laughs, great humor, and a good cause. The Big Bonanza premiered last night and continues to-night at 7:30 in the theater. All the proceeds to this show go to the Anderluh family and Shea’s fight against cancer.

Not only is this show for a terrific cause, it also is some-what seen as a tribute to the senior class. All of the actors or players of The Big Bonanza consists of seniors making the show more relevant to their class.

The creators of the show are seniors Tyler Zanona and Matt Left, who created this show almost as a spin-off of the 2010 End of the Year Ex-travaganza comedy show held here created by Ian Hamilton and Mike Capra.

This show is also featur-ing other senior actors Carlos Andina, Molly Jahrling, and Meghan Griffin, (she was part of the original cast in End of the Year Extravaganza.)

“I think people will have a really good time and hope-fully we will get a good crowd and raise some money for Shea’s family,” Andina said.

Even though it seems as a senior event, it’s open to all age groups. The Big Bonanza is being advertised for every-one.

The Big Bonanza is a sketch-based show with dif-ferent scenes and different plots at each sketch. It is a Sat-urday Night Live type of show.

Even though they have rehearsed, in these type of shows there’s always room for some improv.

As part of The Week of Wishes, The Big Bonanza is for a great cause-to support the Anderluh family.

Tickets can be purchase on lunch hours or at the door for $5.

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Front lawn garden for Christenson

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Every so often a teacher comes along who has the ability to impact with her students. English teacher Sarah (Kathy) Christenson was the perfect example of a teacher who embodied that trait.

The school lost Christenson to cancer on Nov. 18. Following that loss, students and staff were in-spired by the goal of creating a gar-den in her honor. Next Wednesday, the dream will become a reality with the dedication of the garden as a close to the ‘Week of Wishes.’

She pushed for each student to be an individual and supported them in their efforts. Christenson was a key member in developing the snowboarding club. She was quite the snowboarder and looked to give students the opportunity to tear up the slopes.

As the idea has progressed, there have been a variety of efforts to generate money for the proj-ect. National Honor Society had a bowling fundraiser to support the garden. “We had a great turnout at bowling, and we are now selling shirts for the garden as well,” senior Claire O’Donnell said.

The support from former stu-dents has been a great showing of showcased how those she taught were impacted by her teaching.

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The memorial garden dedication will take place next Wednesday

during all lunch hours. The garden was set up in memory of English teacher Sarah (Kathy) Christenson.

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The Week of Wishes continues tomorrow and Sunday with Flower Power for Shea. Red’s Garden Cen-ter donated flowers that the Cor-respondent will be selling for five dollars to help raise donations for the Anderluh family. Shea Ander-luh, an editor-in-chief, has been fighting nodular sclerosing lym-phoma for the past three and a half years.

The Correspondent is hoping to raise as many donations as pos-sible to help the Anderluh family. Send checks in made out to John Hersey High School, care of The Correspondent or come to the fun-draiser from 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday on the west side of the school. “I think this fun-draiser is perfect for her because it connects with Shea and how much she loves nature,” Kelley said.

In April, teachers from Thom-as Middle School and South Mid-dle School teamed up to play a vol-leyball game here to raise funds. This event, Showdown for Shea, raised $12,000 for the Anderluhs to help cover the costs of traveling back and forth from New York for hospital visits.

These flowers can be planted just about anywhere- at school, at home, or even in the Ander-luhs’ backyard around the “Corre Tree,” a willow tree planted by The Correspondent in the Anderluhs’ backyard for Earth Day in 2008. Anderluh, a nature lover, is excited to see the flowers planted around her tree.

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Evanston’s city council voted to decriminalize mari-juana last Monday, a move that will replace jail time with fines for the possession of ten grams of pot or less. Recently dis-cussed in school, the news has stirred mixed feelings among the student body.

“Other than for medical uses, I really see no reason for legalizing it,” senior Ang Char-czuk said.

While full legalization may not be on the list of priori-ties for students, decriminal-ization has its supporters as a logical step.

“[Decriminalization] is more rational than six months jail time, and they will most likely make a lot of money busting people for it,” senior Eric Lebolt said.

Decriminalization of the drug has become a growing trend, with Skokie recently de-criminalizing small amounts of pot and similar policies being discussed in Chicago.

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After assistant principal for student services Rich Golminas abruptly resigned on Nov. 23, the administration has been struggling to find a suitable replacement.

Though Golminas resigned for personal reasons, members of the administration and staff wish him well. “We respect him and we’re sorry his situation caused him to resign,” principal Dr. Tina Cantrell said.

“Whatever happened, I wish him the best,” special education teacher Margaret Tobias said.

Despite the resignation, the school is in need of a new assis-tant principal for student services (APSS) immediately. For the time being, a temporary replacement will be offered a position at the beginning of January. The replace-ment will stay in the position for the rest of the school year.

“We are most likely going to get a retired administrator to fill the position. That way he or she will be able to transition out, and we will be able to have our permanent re-placement for next year,” Cantrell said.

As mentioned, a temporary re-placement, different from the per-manent replacement, will be given the position so that he or she will be here for the rest of the school year.

“For next year, starting July 1, we will be hiring a full-time re-placement,” Cantrell said. “The re-placement will need to be special-ed certified, as well as someone

whose philosophies are consistent with ours.”

Although both faculty and stu-dents are confident that the new sit-uation will go over well, one hard-ship of Golminas’ departure is the responsibilities left in the adminis-trations’ hands.

“Mr. Golminas was in charge of organizing graduation this year, the eighth grade orientation, and su-pervising certain events,” Cantrell said. “We won’t let that get in the way of anything, though. Mr. Kiol-bassa and I will be able to supervise events, and the permanent replace-ment will most likely be able to take over the other responsibilities.”

Whoever the replacement may be, he will be in charge of various duties throughout the building. As part of the APSS position, the re-

placement will be expected to lead the efforts of the special educa-tion departments, special services, school psychologists, and nurses.

These divisions have ex-pectations of the replacement as well.“We need someone creative and who has ideas to meet the in-dividual needs of kids,” Tobias said. “It should be about what the kids need, not about money.”

Another potential duty of the replacement will be to do teacher evaluations. “Finding someone who is qualified in all these areas might be difficult,” Cantrell said.

Faculty and the administra-tion are not the only people that have opinions on the departure of Golminas. Some students feel con-fused and uninformed on the cur-rent situation.

“I didn’t find out about Gol-minas leaving until really recently. I mean, I guess it’s not really any of our business, but it seems real-ly sudden and I just want to make sure that everything is under con-trol, which I’m sure it is,” junior Jenna Callahan said.

As for the issue regarding re-placement of the APSS, students agree that the replacement should serve the students.

“As long as he or she works well with students and the certain sections of the school that he or she needs to, I’m fine with it. I guess the assistant principal isn’t the person that kids always see the most, so as long as they do their job right, things should be good,” junior Car-ly Bell said.

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The presentation also featured keynote speaker Dr. Jo Wolthu-sen, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist practicing in Arlington Heights. Wolthusen’s speech focused pri-marily on what depression is and how to spot it.

She discussed what separates depression from the everyday mood swings of an adolescent. Ac-cording to Wolthusen, some ma-jor warning signs are sensitivity to criticism along with sleep and ap-petite disturbance.

Wolthusen then gave way to resident social worker Jeff Bondora and school psychologist Meghan Muldoon. They spoke about the school’s system to serve those in need, whether it be academically, socially, or emotionally.

Hersey’s crisis response system works by assigning a POD team to a struggling student. A social worker, dean, and sometimes even a nurse will team up and develop a plan for the student.

If the POD system isn’t effec-tive, the group then becomes an In-

tervention Assistance Team, which brings an administrator and the Head for Special Education into the mix.

“It’s like if your ankle is sprained. The doctor ices it, and if it still hurts after a while, he sends you to Physical Therapy. He doesn’t directly send you to a more intense program if you don’t need it,” Bon-dora said.

After Bondora and Muldoon’s presentation, the stage was given to counselor Allie Evans and so-cial work intern Parisaw Fayezi. Evans came from Alexian Brothers Health System to discuss the hos-pital’s role in District 214’s mental health program.

The hospital was recently given a grant allowing them to give stu-dents and their families to a wide array of programs such as individu-al and group therapy to specialized programs for self injury and school phobia at free or reduced cost.

Evans also encouraged parents to look at their private insurance policies in case they had some men-tal treatments covered. “It doesn’t hurt to give a call,” Evans said.

The students who were in at-tendance did have some feedback for the presenters. “It was more of an informational thing; an insider’s look in,” senior Roberto Serna said.

“I’ve been through depression and have been hospitalized before, so I knew all of this already. Most of this was for the parents,” Fish said. “I wished they focused more on how it feels to be depressed.”

Students also had ideas on how the presentation should have been advertised. “HTV should’ve shown something about it,” junior Tess Campbell said. “Everyone would’ve gone then.”

After the presentation was over, the student board was asked what they would say if they could speak to the entire student body.

“Just talk to someone. Don’t be afraid to open up,” Cassie said.

“Be nice to everyone, you don’t know what they’re [other people] are going through,” Kathleen said.

“Make sure you guys don’t change who you are and can be honest with yourself,” Dan said.

“It gets better,” Rachel said.

Students miss out on information delivered by speakers

Assistant principal for student services Rich Golminas resigned

on Nov. 23 for personal reasons. The school is now in need of a replace-ment.

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“Little Women” will be performing at the Illinois High School Theater Festival (IH-STF) on Jan. 5 through 7. An encore performance will be held on Jan. 4 in the theater at 7 p.m.

“This cast has dedicated a Herculean amount of time and energy to this production,” se-nior Grace Petit said.

The IHSTF sends review-ers to each performance who meet Nov. 25 to choose which production will perform at the festival.

“For them to have the op-portunity to perform for a state-wide audience is an experience they will never forget,” director Kyle Marquette said.

“This production was the perfect selection for Theater Fes-tival because the theme at this year’s Fest is ‘The Art of Con-nection.’ Our show is all about connections - whether between family members or friends; it depicts the importance of con-necting with people,” Petit said.

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Despite disappointment of not receiving iPads, students were pleased to hear the news that social science teacher Bradley Abel had won the Milken Award.

The Milken Award recognizes outstanding teachers in the nation and awards them $25,000 for personal use. Abel was surprised when he was announced the winner of the award at an all-school assembly.

“Mr. Abel is definitely deserving of the award. He goes over homework when we need it and explains things in detail in a way freshman can understand,” freshman Jenifer Cheu said.

A human geography teacher, Abel is also the girls varsity soccer coach and has won awards in that too.

After the big announcement, Abel was

speechless. Lost for words, the surprised Abel thanked his colleagues and his hundreds of stu-dents.

“The award for me means more to the school as a whole, rather than an individual honor. It wasn’t an individual award, but rather a “school” award. There are so many mentors and colleagues that I have had throughout the years that have helped me to where I am today in my teaching career, “ Abel said.

With the prize on the mind of students, many wondered what he would use the money for. Although he has not yet received the mon-ey, Abel has began brainstorming ideas for the money.

“I plan on spending some of the money on myself, possibly to take a vacation to the Eu-ropean Soccer Championships in Poland and Ukraine next June and July. I’ll probably think more about what to do with money when it ar-

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When students received their school pic-tures this year, some were surprised to see they were missing something: their cleavage. Even in cases where visible cleavage would have been very little, alterations are still visible.

“They blurred out my top area to make me look flat like a man. It’s really irritating because I’m not,” sophomore Jiana Maestro said.

The alterations have surprised both stu-dents and faculty, and the reason for the air-brushing seems to be a mystery. Even the year-book staff was unaware of the changes.

“I was completely surprised that they did that,” yearbook adviser Panagiota Merris said.

The feelings of surprise were common among faculty, but student emotions have been

more unyielding.“That is not right for them to do that be-

cause that means they would have had to look through the pictures, look at girls’ cleavage, and then blur it out. That’s a violation of a girl’s pri-vacy of their body,” senior Kelsey Martin said.

“It’s kind of degrading that they would think to do that,” Maestro said.

Whether surprised or affronted, the feeling that this practice is out of the ordinary is defi-nitely mutual, especially since few people are aware of any policy that would authorize the practice.

“I’m surprised that they would do this with-out notifying anyone. That seems odd,” choir di-rector Sara Michael said.

Root Photography stated that they did not have a policy against cleavage showing and that

the school sets the dress code for the pictures.

Nobody at school seems to know who is re-sponsible for the alterations.

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“My brother cried for three days when he heard the news; he lost his lifetime idol,” senior Molly Gritt said.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Jobs was di-agnosed in 2004 with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and underwent a liver transplant in 2009. His health has been declining since the diagnosis, and this heavily influenced his decision to leave Apple. Jobs will be replaced by Tim Cook.

Carol Bartz, former CEO of Yahoo!, was informed that she was being let go on Sept. 6. After the announcement, Yahoo!’s share prices jumped 6.27 percent, hinting at inves-tors’ approval of her removal. According to Yahoo! News, Bartz’s lack of progress is what ended her time.

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Flu season starts earlySummer’s end and

school’s start isn’t the worst part about fall. Soon into the school year, classrooms seem to shrink as kids visit the nurse and substitute teachers finally get their chance to teach while the school population falls victim to the flu. The season is coming quite early this year.

Though flu season is in-evitable, there are many ways to prevent getting sick.

“Don’t share eating uten-sils or cups, and wash hands throughout the day,” school nurse Martha Messer said.

According to the Illinois Department of Health all kids are recommended to get a flu shot over the age of six months. People with high risk of flu complications should get vaccinated.

Any student who devel-ops a fever should stay home until it goes away. Another way to prevent getting sick is to avoid exposure to those al-ready infected. Students who are sick should stay home un-til they get well.

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Since the recent switch from MyGradeBook to HomeLogic, stu-dents and teachers alike are finding trouble with the new site. Devel-oped by SRBN Education Studios, HomeLogic is the new online grad-ing system now in use.

Homelogic is packed with more features such as the display of attendance, schedules, up coming events, fees, assignments, and even the amount of credits a student has earned throughout his high school career.

“I like logging into one place with everything there. I think that giving students and parents ac-cesses to those extra things is ben-eficial,” math teacher George Bed-ingfield said.

Even with all of the informa-tion that can now be accessed on-line, students find it troubling to get to the main point, their grades.

“Sometimes grades are not very clear because I had some as-signments that don’t have a per-centage, and they didn’t factor into the overall current score,” senior Arne Anderson said.

“There’s only a few snags. I tried to enter grades on a screen I could previously see, but it wouldn’t let me,” English teacher Kent Man-they said.

Students are finding trouble with reading their grades and find-ing their overall scores. They are also unhappy about receiving non deserved calls home.

“It (MyGradeBook) was more straight forward and less confus-ing, because grades were the only things it showed, not transcripts and attendance records,” Anderson said.

“Last year’s MyGradeBook was easy to login and just check your grades,” junior Angela Andolfi said.

However, many people find the new site exceptional.

“I think it’s much more orga-nized and much easier to access. It’s altogether a lot better than the middle school website,” freshman David Kuntz said.

“I have not found anything

dramatic, it’s all part of a learning something new. There are little nu-siances we have to get used to, it should get easier,” Bedingfield said.

Gabriella Stetz Jackson, the academic tech. coordinator, who runs Homelogic for this building, explains that there should be prob-lems within the system itself.

With any system comes a few dilemmas, but Stetz Jackson is do-ing her best to work through them.

“Everything should be work-ing fine, most of the problems are user error. There are ‘Trailblazer’ teachers in each department who have been trained extensively on how to use HomeLogic, so they can help other teachers in their depart-ment,” Stetz Jackson said.

“Last time we switched sys-tems, it was a disaster and took about six months to fix. This has been going much better than last time. Parents will find it nice to be able to check everything.”

To help out students under-stand the new website, people have been coming into class rooms to explain how to work everything.

“Freshmen and seniors got an explanation last week about the new system. On Monday, Tues-day and Wednesday during sopho-more’s world lit classes and junior’s world history classes, they will get the same orientation as well,” Stetz Jackson said.

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After many years of business, Sharon Rossman (also known as Mrs. Peep) decided to retire, thus closing longtime school favorite, Peep’s Hot Dogs on August 12.

Positioned on Rand Road and Thomas Street, Peep’s has had a long history in the area. It was founded in 1967 and was bought by Rossman in 1981 when it was still a trailer, then she built the addition.

A popular spot for lunch dur-ing school time, Peep’s was also a place to hang out outside of school. Junior Meredith Ward went to Peep’s with her brother over the summer.

“It was very cheap food and it was close to my house. I have been going there since I was a kid. I thought the environment was wel-coming. It was in a good spot for people to go to,” Ward said.

Owner Sharon Rossman con-tributed to the pleasant environ-ment. “[Rossman] was so nice and always happy when we walked through the door,” Ward said.

“Mrs. Peep” will be missed by all of her loyal customers, as well as anyone who found his way into Peep’s and met this woman.

Library substitute Sandra Meyer went to Peep’s a few times in the 25 years she worked here dur-ing lunch with secretary of the P.E. department, JoAnn Skarosi. Peep’s appealed to her because it didn’t have so many people.

“Peep’s wasn’t crowded like Luke’s or Nikko’s,” Meyer said.

Peep’s Hot Dogs closed due to lack of business, but it will be missed by its customers.

“I was surprised [that Peep’s was closing] but so many restau-rants are being closed and this is just one more that’s gone,” Meyer said.

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When October rolls around, most students gear up for shoe shop-ping, tuxedo fittings, and dress shopping for Homecoming. This year, that season seems to be coming up quickly, forcing students to start that pro-cess sooner.

Homecoming is scheduled on Oct. 1, a week earlier than last. Several teachers have worked with this schedule to try and fit everything in while still accommodating the needs of students. Numerous conflicts take place during this week including Rosh HaShanah, various sports events, and field trips, but staff members have arranged activities around these events.

Swimming, golf, tennis, cross country, and football have games on Friday or Saturday, which can conflict with preparation time and increase tired faces at the dance.

Some students have to sacrifice homecoming activities due to prior commitments. “I kind of think it is unfair, but I guess we’re all excited and we all decided to go [to the invite] for the seniors because it is their last year,” freshman varsity tennis player, Annie Korff said. This positive out-look seems to be what most students are trying to take on the scheduling issue.

This issue stems from the scheduling of the MSL conference because they scheduled four home games, leaving that Friday game as the only op-tion. This forced student council to push forward the date, as the week of homecoming last year has fallen on Yom Kippur, scheduling that original game to a Thursday. This happens to be the only home game in Oct. leav-ing the 30th of Sept. the only day for the homecoming game.

For some Jewish students and teachers, they will be missing out on the annual bonfire and coronation. The bonfire has been moved, com-pared to past years, to Wednesday because of the non-attendance day on Thursday due to Rosh HaShanah.

“We decided to have the bonfire on Wednesday night because of hav-ing no school on Thursday. We realized that this would be an inconve-nience for a few students who have to celebrate the Jewish holiday, but we felt that the attendance would be more than if we had it on Thursday night after not having school that day,” assistant principal director of student activities John Novak said.

Though many are upset at this scheduling issue, many positives have come out of this. Warmer weather and the bonfire before a non-atten-dance day can be one of the many benefits to this week.

“I think homecoming is good early because it won’t be as cold out-side, so my mom won’t make me wear tights,” junior Samantha McKinnon said. Homecoming is always the time for school spirit, dressing up for the the themes, and getting excited to be back in school, no matter when it occurs.

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Although stu-dents helped save lives on Oct. 21, another blood drive was held last Thursday. In this blood drive, 96 students do-nated blood, saving about 300 lives.

“Last May, we collected 75 units [of blood],” organiz-er Mark Gunther said. “This March we collected 96 units. We got 21 more units by moving it [the blood drive] to March.”

Though the process of do-nating blood may seem fright-ening to some students, many students decided to donate. “[Students fear it] mostly from the unknown.” Gunther said.

Many overcome their fear of donating blood after donat-ing. “The kids that donate, es-pecially the first time donors overcome their fear or anxiety,” Gunther said.

When put into perspective, the fear is a small thing. “It’s a small price to pay for the good feeling afterwards.” Junior Marat Kucherina said.

By overcoming their fears, one student saves up to three lives, which would make anyone feel good.

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“Even if it doesn’t necessar-ily end a war, since conflicts like these have very often risen from before the time many of us were born,” Beric said.

“I think that the awareness that’s most important because it makes us more knowledgeable about these situations, and hope-fully encourages people to realize that these tragedies happen all over the world,” Beric said.

“It will be hard to accomplish things individually, but together we can spread the word and get other people involved it in,” Charczuk said.

“I feel that our senior class has been rather involved in the move-ments, especially this year and it’s nice to see the worldwide attention it’s getting. I hope that once more people decide to join the move-ment, we will actually make an im-pact,” Charczuk said.

Creator and spokesperson for the Kony 2012 campaign, Jason Russell advocates for peace in the Ugandan nation, leaving much of the opportunity for intervention in the hands of today’s youth. “This year, 2012, is the year we can finally fulfill it. And if we succeed, we can

change the course of human his-tory.”

In the video, Russell explains that about 99 percent of the world does not know who Joseph Kony is. In a recent poll of 150 students, 85 percent of students stated that they know who Kony is.

The student body is in the per-fect position to make a difference in the Kony 2012 situation, as they are part of that one percent of the world that actually knows who the villain is.

“The fact that a large majority of kids know what’s actually go-ing on with Invisible Children and Kony 2012 is really good. It shows that we have the power to actual-ly make a difference. If we helped with Invisible Children, we can definitely help with Kony 2012 to make a difference,” junior Emmie Norwine said.

“Hersey is definitely being proactive, and that’s important,” Gutierrez said.

Just like most successes, Invis-ible Children and the Kony move-ment have been the butt of much criticism. Groups like “Visible Children” question the effective-ness and validity of Invisible Chil-dren.

The group claims that the cre-ators are not properly handling

donations and that all of the pro-ceeds do not directly benefit child soldiers in Uganda.

On both their website and in a letter sent to President Obama on March 7, Invisible Children of-ficials vehemently refute these ac-cusations.

Through much education, fac-ulty and students also refute these accusations.

“The people that criticize the Kony movement and Invisible Children don’t understand the be-ginnings. The group was created by a bunch of college students who wanted to go to Sudan,” Bowes said.

“Along their journey, they ended up meeting a woman from Uganda who told them about the horrors going on their with the LRA- there’s no self promoting go-ing on,” Bowes said. “People that say they are ‘movie-makers’- dang it you’re right. Who wouldn’t want to watch something that’s not good?”

Along with the help of English teach Matthew Michelin, Bowes was able to come to a consensus regarding the validity of the group.

“Mr. Michelin and I actually researched the group and they are completely transparent. As far as fi-nances and other things. What they have provided the people in Ugan-da with is remarkable. They have created schools and education, which is incredible,” Bowes said.

Students also disagree with a lot of the flack the Kony movement has been receiving recently.

“I just don’t really see how someone can criticize a group like this,” junior Christine Frenzer said.

“What they’ve done is amaz-ing and is clear. I have donated to a lot of other charities in my life, and regardless of whether or not 100 percent of the proceeds actually go to the organization is beside the point. I am proud to be a member of Invisible Children.”

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Last semester, the Career Life Skills Sociology class, organized a book drive during lunch periods for Reach Out and Read. This se-mester, the sociology class is will-ing to help once more and give back to the children at St. Jude Research Hospital.

Sociology teachers Ari Hirschfeld and Craig Ameel are leading this organization.

Hirschfeld and Ameel sent e-mails to every faculty member asking second period classes to do-nate at least one gift for a child at St. Jude. “All gifts must be new and in the original package. We want gifts that range from a toddler to a 10-year-old child,” Hirschfeld said.

If purchasing a gift is too much, Ameel and Hirschfeld are

asking each person to donate at least $1.

The students in the sociol-ogy class, seniors Brandon Foltan, David Kolbiarz, Karinna Segura, Karina Espiritu, Danny Platt, and Ali Lopez, were major contribu-tors in helping St. Jude. Hirschfeld chose to include his six sociology students to assist the children at St. Jude, so they could learn what giv-ing back meant.

“I want my students to learn life time skills and experiences. I also want them to get involved as much as possible,” Hirschfeld said.

The Sociology students are more than thrilled on working with this organization. “I am so excited. I think it’s a great project, and we all can contribute a lot to the other kids,” Kolbiarz said.

Hirschfeld wants not only his

own students to understand the meaning behind giving back, but also the school as a whole.

Hirschfeld and Ameel are not expecting thousands of gifts to be donated, but something that will make a difference in the lives of the children at St. Jude.

“If we don’t get 200 toys, I’m fine with that. I just want kids to understand the value of donating. It’s always the quality and thought behind it that matters most,” Hirschfeld said.

The final day for donations will be March 21. Any donation should be sent to room 133. Send-ing a simple gift such as a deck of playing cards or a puzzle is enough to change the life of one child.

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A new club has joined many others to start combating teen depression. Erika’s Lighthouse, which originated at New Trier High School, was founded to get rid of stereotypes of depression and educate students about it.

“I think it’s good to let people know that depression shouldn’t be a taboo topic,” sophomore Lenna Fotos said. “It is beneficial so people know the warning signs [of depression].”

The club members have been speaking in health class-rooms, planning an activ-ity night that will take place in April, and creating teen panels to talk to middle schools to try to combat the stigma around de-pression.

Students who have joined the club will be working closely with neighboring clubs to take on the ninth annual walk-a-thon on May 20 at 2 pm at Hubbard Woods Gazebo.

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As Peter J. Titre (school’s founding and long time associate principal) spent his last moments at Monarch Hospice, his final requests were to honor veterans, grow the S.O.S. club, and to aid the hospice that cared for him during his final weeks.

Exactly one year after P. Titre’s death, his son, Mark, partnered with the school’s Titre foundation, founded to fulfill those wishes. On March 5, “Hersey’s Fallen Heroes” presentation honored two graduates who enlisted in the mili-tary and died in action.

Assistant principal John Novak began by saying a few words about P. Titre before hand-ing the podium to M. Titre. “Pete built this school out of brick and mortar. It was an honor and privilege for me to have known him,” Novak said.

M. Titre then discussed his organization “God Bless The Troops.” “The group is dedicated to honoring fallen heroes and Gold Star fami-lies by giving them custom artwork,” M. Titre said. The artwork that was donated that day was called “America’s Valor,” depicting a bald eagle with an American flag in its beak.

“This particular piece was painted by Pete’s granddaughter,” M. Titre said. A copy of the art-work was also being raffled off with all of the proceeds going toward Monarch Hospice.

M.Titre introduced the audience to the two

departed soldiers.The first honored soldier was Army PFC

William Newguard. On Dec. 29, 2006, New-guard sustained wounds from an IED that ex-ploded near his vehicle. He was 20-years-old when he passed.

“He loved his country, and the freedom that we have. Will was willing to do anything to protect that freedom at all costs,”M. Titre said. While in Baghdad, Newguard was selected to a serve as bodyguard for foreign diplomats as they traveled through Iraq. His parents were present-

ed with a copy of “America’s Valor.”M.Titre then introduced Army Major Paul

S. Syverson III. On June 16, 2004, Syverson paid the ultimate price for freedom when mortar rounds hit his convoy. He was 32-years-old.

Syverson graduated in 1989, was part of the football state-championship winning team in 1987, and played in the orchestra. M.Titre presented Syverson’s mother with a copy of the featured artwork. Finally, M. Titre surprised Principal Tina Cantrell and Novak with a copy of “America’s Valor” for the main office.

“I had no idea that they were going to do that,” Cantrell said. About the event itself. “I think the ceremonies are testimony to the val-ues this school holds down. Pete was an inspira-tion to all of us.”

M. Titre then gave way to Monarch Hospice founder and CEO Gina Minao. Minao’s organi-zation cared for P. Titre during his final days and received all the funds gathered from the raffle, which amounted to about $12,000.

M.Titre returned to the stage with his mother to announce the winner of the raffle. Fred Carlson, neighbor of M. Titre, was the win-ner, but was not present to collect his prize. Wal-ter Jasinski (former dean)closed the ceremonies by leading the audience in a rousing rendition of “God Bless America.” A reception was held afterwards in the Titre room.

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Amidst the current eco-nomic crisis, the majority of America has had to deal with unwelcome hardships as high unemployment and falling wages. This so called “99 per-cent” has recently begun to protest across the country to the unfair financial and eco-nomic advantages of the other “1 percent.”

“I agree with their cause, but I think they’re not protest-ing in the most effective way,” sophomore Kenny Mleko said.

The protests started in New York City with the Oc-cupy Wall Street movement on Sept. 17, and have since spread to over 70 major cities in the U.S. and 900 cities worldwide.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are still prevalent and represents the state of the U.S. economy.

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Sophomore Gina Giancola had been suffering from depression for over a year. She was undergoing intense therapy. She was trying to get better. But un-fortunately, she took her own life on Oct. 22.

“She was always working hard, doing what they told her to do [in therapy]. She wanted to get better, wanted it to go away. But it was consistent. Nothing worked. She always felt the same,” Ju-lianne Giancola, Gina’s mother, said.

Some people wonder if more could have been done, but as far as the Ginacolas are concerned, all that could be done, was.

“Julie [her mother] gave 110 per-cent just to Gina. There was nothing we wouldn’t do for Gina. It just wasn’t enough,” Mark Giancola, Gina’s fa-ther, said.

In circumstances such as G. Giancola’s, students and teachers alike saw a girl who was lively and loving, a soccer player, a member of the year-book staff, and a girl who tried to help everyone, but unfortunately couldn’t help herself through this disease.

“Nobody knows what’s going on on the inside. Nobody knows what anyone is going through,” M. Gianc-ola said.

“I’d hate to have Gina remem-bered for how she died. I want people to remember her for what she did,” M. Giancola said. He hoped people would remember her as someone who included oth-ers.

“The people that aren’t the coolest, the people who had trouble fitting in, Gina included all of them,” M. Giancola said and he hopes students will, “make it inclusive,” not being so judgmental of people.

Being proactive seemed to be G. Giancola’s motto

in life, proactive in her studies, proactive in her sports, and proactive with family and friends.

“She lit up a room every single place she went to. She was extremely friendly to everyone, it didn’t mat-ter who they were,” sophomore Delaney Fiorito said.

The Giancolas want to advise that suicide isn’t the answer, that living life is too important to give up and to always look for other ways to get help.

“Having depression doesn’t mean the end will be the same as Gina’s. People need to hang on and keep

trying for the right therapist or medicine. There is always hope, stu-dents just need to find it,” M. Gianc-ola said.

“Get help. Talk to people. There’s so many people wanting to help you,” Domenica Giancola, sis-ter of Gina, said.

Help isn’t far away. The school guidance counselors are available and willing to help students with whatever troubles they are endur-ing.

“Speak up, talk to friends. Handling depression alone is a lot harder than handling it with people surrounding you,” sophomore Ryan Garrett said.

One of the key ingredients to coping with depression, or even stress is leaning on others’ shoul-ders, or in the opposite case, letting others lean on each other for sup-port and guidance.

Being there for others is gener-ally something that can give anyone

the feeling of being safe, cared for and protected.“We cannot stress enough that we’re here to sup-

port the students in any way. Students deal with life struggles. We’re here for that, and we encourage stu-dents to utilize this to get help,” guidance counselor David Galarza said.

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•Continued from page 1The cast of the fall play have also stepped up to

do their part. “People in the play are putting boxes out in front of the theater for the book collection,” Bowes said.

Choir has helped out as well. “Choir members asked participants of the Happy Hersey Halloween to bring in books,” Bowes said.

Orchesis is planning to help out during their con-cert. “Orchesis is choreographing a dance about Invis-ible Children. They’ll show footage in the background. During intermission, they’ll ask for donations,” Bowes said.

“Our goal is to reach $5000. That means that if everyone at Hersey donated $5, we would be well over our goal,” Harris said.

“If you want to help, donate books, give money, or go to the ‘I See’ Facebook page and just ask what people need help with. There is so much to be done; any contribution is welcome,” Nocita said.

Bowes is planning to hold a meeting to coordinate all of the different efforts. “I want to hold a meeting to brainstorm ideas. Anyone interested in helping out should come,” Bowes said.

Each year, Bowes shows the documentary “Invisi-ble Children: The Rough Cut” to her sociology classes.

“I don’t remember how the video came into my possession; I think it was given to me as a gift. I started showing it in 2004. Last year, it hit people really hard, and we decided that something needed to be done,” Bowes said.

“I took Sociology 1 and 2 here at Hersey and one of the videos Mrs. Bowes showed us was the original film of the ‘Invisible Children.’ She told us that each year she always wanted to do something for the cause,” Harris said.

The goal of Invisible Children is to, “use the pow-er of the media to inspire young people to help end the longest running war in Africa,” according to the Invis-ible Children website.

The premise of the war involves the LRA, a rebel group attempting to overthrow the Ugandan govern-ment. It started after Alice Lakwena, a woman living in

Uganda, received a vision from the Holy Spirit telling her to fight the government because of their mistreat-ment of the Acholi people.

This movement, called the Holy Spirit Movement, was popular with the local people because of a uni-versal dislike of the government. Eventually she was exiled and her cousin Joseph Kony took over.

Kony formed the LRA, which received less sup-port from the Acholi people than the Holy Spirit Movement. Because of the dwindling support, the LRA resorted to abducting children from villages to join the troops. These abducted children are the “in-visible children.”

After seeing the docu-mentary that depicted this conflict, Harris decided that she wanted to do something to help the Invisible Chil-dren cause.

“What attracted me to the cause was knowing that I could help the people of Uganda escape the LRA and improve their education.”

Bowes, Harris, and se-nior Rachel Terry searched the Invisible Children web-site for ways to help, and came across the idea for a book drive. The book drive ends tomorrow, and pro-ceeds will go to scholarships for Ugandan children.

When Invisible Chil-dren heard about what Bow-es was doing, they contacted her.

“Invisible Children got a hold of me by calling me. They asked if they could come. We decided that be-cause Becca and Rachel are seniors now, it should be shown to the senior class,” Bowes said.

Students join forces to fight against Lord’s resistance army

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As the next few years roll around, many students may be found ditching textbooks for iPads. Throughout the district, many more pilot programs have begun to see if our schools really want to make the switch to textbook-free iPads. In some freshman classes here, they have begun to pilot them.

“We don’t know if iPads are the way to go. We’re trying different things out, but not all pilots should work- some should fail,” Superintendent David Schuler said.

“I would definitely want an iPad because I’d feel that I could better organize myself for class, if our assignments and notebooks, and such were on iPads,” sophomore Alyssa Pearson said.

Many students seem to be on board with iPads, but nega-tive input can come with them.

“I think an iPad is not nec-essary for students because we already have computers and have full access to them,” junior Demi Bandolik said.

On a daily basis, students can access the internet, so for some the iPad would be unnec-essary and a waste of money, however both sides are repre-sented in student opinions.

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AT&T has now begun a com-petition in Illinois high schools named the “It Can Wait” pledge. This contest involves students here, as well as other schools across the state, making a pledge to end the problem of texting and driving.

When students take the pledge, they make a commitment to put the cell phone down when they get into the driver’s seat of a car. They pledge to not pick it up until they park the car.

Cell phones have played a crucial role in shaping society into the technologically reliant people who society has become. When one hears their cell phone ring or vibrate, they instantaneously reach over and indulge into their conver-sation.

This action is not normally one to put people in danger, but when the text recipient is behind the wheel of a car, the hazards in-crease drastically.

“I would never text and drive. It is so dangerous and can lead to so many accidents,” senior Lindsay Boivin said.

When texting, students spend about ten percent of the time they are driving outside of the lane they should be in. This is problematic in any circumstance because drivers are always sharing the road.

Students often neglect the fact that in just a few seconds a car can move one-hundred feet. Although

this is just a small portion of a mile , it may be a difference be-tween life and death.

“In seconds, the car in front of you may stop, a pedestrian may run across the street, or the light may change colors,” student resources officer Pete Hamrick said.

As simple as sending a text saying “k” takes the hands off of the wheel and the mind off of the road.

According to distraction.gov, using a cellphone(hand-held or hands-free) can take the mind away from the task of driving as much as having a blood alco-hol content of .08 percent. This means that using a cell phone while driving is the equivalent of driving at the just legal-limit of alcohol.

One of the problems is being able to speak up when not behind the wheel.

“I hate when my friends do it, and there would be so many people alive if people didn’t text and drive,” junior Karlie Bless said.

It may be hard to tell friends to stop, but it may end up saving a life. It can be helpful to tell a friend to stop texting the moment they start.

With these hazards constantly surrounding the roadways, stu-dents have no excuse to even pick up the phone.

Some students may also not even be aware of what the finan-cial consequences may add up to in

only a short amount of time“The ticket price for texting

and driving is between $75-120 without the court fees,” Hamrick said.

Even with these consequences students still find it hard to put the phone down.

“I do text when I drive, but only on side streets,” senior Emily Labbe said.

A study has recently shown that forty-six percent of 16 and 17 year-old students admit to texting while driving. This statistic shows the scale of the problem at hand.

“I believe that this [the pledge] is a great opportunity for this

school,” Hamrick said.To take the pledge, students

should text WAIT to 464329 from their cell phones(not when driv-ing).

Students should tell their friends, parents, and siblings to text AT&T as all votes will be counted.

The contest ends on Nov. 30 and the winning school will receive a cash prize from AT&T.

“LOL is not important, your life is,” Bless said.

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Continued from page 1Only a handful of juniors were actually taught

how to use the system, and other grade levels are still not completely educated.

“Juniors didn’t even get taught how to use it un-til after homecoming votes were due. How were the juniors expected to vote if they hadn’t even been told user names and passwords?” Odegard said.

Homecoming votes were carried out t h r o u g h

the new G m a i l

accounts,which encouraged some students to use their GAPPS account, even if they had not been formally trained.

“I haven’t used it so much, but I did use it for homecoming voting. Maybe that will make me use it more in the future,” junior Lisa Myszkowski said.

According to student council sponsor John Dyer, who was in charge of the voting this year, voting had gone over as student council had hoped.

“Voting has gone very well. We had a great turn-out. [...] We were very pleased with the number of re-sponses and how the voting went. We plan on voting this way in the future,” Dyer said.

Although homecoming induced greater usage of the GAPPS accounts, the overall usage by students is still in its beginning stages. In a poll of 200 students, 40 percent stated that they do not often or have never checked their student e-mail account.

“I’ve used it once or twice, but I will probably use it more if I need to use it for classes or something,” senior Grace Sinopoli said.

Teachers also can now get in contact with stu-dents by way of HomeLogic through their GAPPS

accounts. Each student’s HomeLogic account is regis-tered with their GAPPS account, so if a teacher needs to contact the whole class or a larger group, HomeLog-ic will send an e-mail to each student’s account.

The new e-mails are in place to promote positive, professional relationships.

For step-by-step instructions on how to log on or set up your account, visit CorrespondentLive.org or ask a technical adviser for further details.

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Cantaloupe outbreak kills 16 people

Cantaloupes from Colora-do have been linked to a strain of listeria that has, to date, in-fected 72 people. The Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion has confirmed deaths in seven states. Cases of the illness have been reported in a number of additional states, including Illinois.

The outbreak has been traced to Colorado. There is currently a recall on the canta-loupes, which can be identified by a number of different stick-ers; however, not all of the can-taloupes are marked. Anyone who has a cantaloupe that may or may not be infected has been advised by the CDC to dispose of it, because listeria can grow at room and refrigerator tempera-tures.

Symptoms of listeria, which include fevers and muscle aches, can take up to four weeks to show. The disease only affects the elderly, pregnant women, and others with compromised immune systems. “It’s a relief to know that I’m not really at risk,” senior Skye Mooney said.

With as many as 16 people dead, the infected cantaloupes have become the deadliest food outbreak in a decade.

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Students succeed on PSATThe 57th National Merit

Scholarship Program (NSMP) semi-final results are back and students here made a impact on the list. Four of the 11 students from the district who make semi-finalists are from here. The semi-finalists were seniors Cath-erine Kemp, Claire O’Donnell, Alexander Roznai, and Grace Sinopoli.

“We found out in the spring that we were either a semifinal-ist or commended scholar but didn’t know which one until September, so I was excited and proud when I finally found out I was a semi-finalist,” Sinopoli said.

Approximately 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2012 NMSP last October by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

To be considered as a final-ist for the Merit Scholarship, stu-dents must have high academic performance throughout high school. This scholarship picks students based off of skill and potential for success in college.

16,000 students throughout the U.S. will move on to win one of 8,300 National Merit Scholar-ships. Next spring, $34 million in scholarships will be given away to the winners.

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S.O.S. has sponsored a new program to help spe-cial needs students interact with their peers. “[The goal of Best Buddies is] to make friendships and promote inclusion. Each member is matched up with a CLS stu-dent and they form a friendship,” senior and chapter president for Best Buddies Kara Miller said.

“We want to create opportunities for new friend-ships and integrate students with intellectual and de-velopmental disabilities,” senior Molly Gritt said.

The Best Buddies program is be-ing renovated this year and has ex-panded much from last year. “It was not very big at Hersey last year. I know they went to the zoo, and I heard that was very successful,” Gritt said.

Throughout the school year, members and their “buddies” par-ticipate in different activities. “All the students involved meet for chapter activities a few times a month. Some examples include the match part, breakfast buddies, lunch buddies, circus, and movie nights,” Gritt said.

It’s easier for the CLS students to socialize when they have leaders with positive attitudes who are will-ing to spend a small of their time to bond with them. “A lot of people don’t know how to act around kids with intellectual or developmental disabilities. They don’t know if they should talk to them or how they

should talk to them, so they assume it’s better to stay away from them. They can become friends. It helps members grow as people,” Miller said.

Members of the Best Buddies program will be spending a lot of time with their buddies. “This is dif-ferent from a lot of S.O.S. activities because it is a full year commitment. Each set of buddies will hopefully develop an actual relationship. Students have to take initiative and want to do things even outside of school with their buddies,” Gritt said.

The club got started when S.O.S. teacher Mark Gunther decided to join the program where Best Bud-

dies originated. In order to make this possible, Miller had to attend a leadership confer-ence to become the chapter president.

Members of Best Buddies are satisfied with the club and what it has to offer. “I always wanted to help kids with spe-cial needs, and it is a great way to help out. I love the feeling of helping others,” sophomore

Rachel Cleven said. “The club helps kids understand how it is like having a good friend.”

As the months of the school year pass by, the club will be looking for new ways to have fun and get in-volved with the CLS students.

There are many opportunities to join and help out with Best Buddies, and help is very much appreciated. “Bring your friends! It’s so much fun!” Cleven said.

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Queen Kelsey Martin smile as they start to walk around the Carter Gym.

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Students take steps to aid epilepsy cureMatt Stadnicki

Everyday, people face many challenges, dealing with epilepsy is one of those challenges.

According to the U.S. Nation-al Library of Medicine, epilepsy is a brain disorder where disturbed brain activity causes seizures over time. These seizures can happen at anytime. Also, a person with epi-lepsy was not necessarily born with it. “The saying is that if you have a brain, you can get epilepsy.” Debra Schmidt, the mother of Paul, said.

Seizures can trigger cardiac ar-rest, which can lead to death, as in the case of Paul Schmidt, a former Hersey student.

According to the Paul’s Run for Epilepsy website, at the age of 15, Paul had his first seizure. Shortly afterwards, he was diagnosed with epilepsy. After six years of battling seizures, doctor examinations and implants, Paul went into cardiac ar-rest from a seizure. On October 17, 2008, he passed away. On that same day, a year later, the first annual Paul’s Run for Epilepsy took place.

“My parents are friends with Paul’s parents, and my older broth-er was friends with Paul,” sopho-

more Eric Wingeard said.The run takes place every year

on or around October 17, the day that Paul died. At 9 a.m, the run starts at Gary Morava Recreation Cen-ter in Prospect Heights, with a va-riety of activities, including the run. The run is always an emotional ex-perience, bring-ing many different people together.

One of the parts of the day that stands out for Schmidt is “how wonderful our fam-ily, friends, neigh-bors, and even new people who have come into our lives as a result of the 5K have been throughout this journey of ours,” Schmidt said.

New events this year include a one mile run for kids ages 12 and under. There are also 50,

100, and 400 meter races for kids under 12. For those over the age of 12, the actual run is five kilometers

(3.1 miles) and is profession-ally timed. The run extends into the surrounding streets in Pros-pect Heights. “As the morning goes on, I love to look out on Elm Street and see it becomes a sea of orange and pur-ple [the color of the shirts of run-ners].”

The cost for the race, which is donated to epi-lepsy research, is

20 dollars for stu-dents under the age of 17, and 30 dollars if over the age of 17.

Medals are available for the top two winners in each age and gender category, and a 100

dollar gift card to Running Unlim-

ited, a running store in Palatine, is awarded to the top male and female runners.

More importantly, this run will raise funds for CURE (Citizens United in Research for Epilepsy). CURE is a non profit organization dedicated to raising funds to help research a cure for epilepsy. Ac-cording to the Paul’s Run for Epi-lepsy website, the money raised by the race will be given to CURE, which in turn will be used to re-search this important cause.

While donating to charities is a nice thing, one of the main ways that causes are made known are through runs like this, especially if a cause is relatively new or unheard of. “Epilepsy receives very little funding, but more people die each year from epilepsy than they do from breast cancer.” Schmidt said. Run/walks help fund research from fees to run.

“It raise awareness on the problem,” sophomore Brentyn Le-ong said.

Whether it’s a run in a small town, or a massive run in Chicago or New York, every step taken saves lives.

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During its 200-year run, the United States Postal Service has de-livered mail on time almost every-day during a revolution, two world wars and multiple depressions.

Today, however, the Postal Ser-vice is struggling to survive. After losing $2 billion in 2010 and being on pace to lose over $7 billion this year, the General Accounting Of-fice has said that the Service is on the verge of bankruptcy and could shut down before Christmas.

The crisis is a product of mul-tiple new factors. The economic downturn has forced citizens to trim their budgets and stamps are being cut out, resulting in a loss of 20 billion pieces this year.

The internet is also causing problems as e-mail has now be-come the way to distribute docu-ments. Online stores like Amazon now prefer to ship with UPS and Fed-Ex, deeply cutting into the

Postal Service’s business.“If online stores shipped with

the post office instead of Fed-Ex or UPS, they’d be set,” said senior Erik Kowols.

The USPS is undergoing dar-ing measures to stay afloat.

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has borrowed the last $3 billion available to them from the U.S. Treasury for the rest of the year. The USPS is also planning to shut down low-traffic branches.

The Service is also asking Con-gress for the authority to cut up to 120,000 workers with no-layoff clauses in their contracts and the ability to stop Saturday delivery.

While the USPS isn’t a direct agency of the federal government and doesn’t receive direct taxpayer dollars, Donahoe has made mul-tiple visits to Congress to ask for emergency funding. However, the divided climate in Congress makes a compromise on a rescue package unlikely.

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Senior wins national writing awardBecky Pauwels

Senior Monica Burckhardt was the only recipient of the prestigious National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Achievement in Writing Award from District 214 this year.

“From a total of 1,649 candidates, there were 520 winners, 37 from

Illinois, myself among them,” Burckhardt said.Burckhardt had to do a lot of work to even

be considered for this award. “Three juniors were entered into the competition with the rec-ommendation from their English teacher. Mr. [Jim] Miks suggested me last year because of my performance in his class,” Burckhardt said.

From there, she had to put together a port-folio to enter the competition. “I had to compile 10 pages of my best writing and submit a re-sponse to a prompt that I completed during two hours at school. These samples were then sub-mitted to Mr. Schifferl for NCTE judging around May,” Burckhardt said.

“It’s really exciting to be recognized for my writing, and I’m truly grateful to be given this op-portunity. It’s been great to have competed with so many excellent writers, and I’m proud that I can represent District 214 in this way,” Burck-hardt said.

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Senior Monica Burck-hardt was the only

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After almost six years of serving their commu-nity with high-quality produce, the Arlington

H e i g h t s branch of local grocery c h a i n Garden Fresh will close

their doors no later than March 4. The Wheeling-based company notified the

Illinois Department of Commerce and Eco-nomic Opportunity of the closure on Jan. 5, cit-ing that the store wasn’t generating enough rev-enue to sustain itself.

The store has been displaying signs out-side and around the building saying their store would be closing down on March 4, but for a temporary remodeling instead of permanently closing.

Approximately 76 people are employed at that location and it appears that all but six will

be laid off. “It’s really painful, but we have to do it,” said

corporate general manager Golan Mor. “It hurts everyone, but we don’t have too many choices. We’re going to try and save as many jobs as pos-sible.”

The company is encouraging their affected employees to apply to different locations. “We’d rather show favoritism with people that have worked with us before, but we’re still subject to all the same regulations that we’re held to be-fore.”

Mor also discussed the signs around the store. “We were considering remodeling the store but decided against it,” Mor said. “They’re going to change the signs.” He also ruled out any other stores closing down in the near future.

Local students are mostly disappointed with the store’s closure. “I really like the diver-sity in their stores,” freshman Kayla Knauss said.

“It’s a shame that they’re closing down; it

was a decent store,” s e n i o r Jamie Miller said. “I liked their vegetarian options,” freshman Kaidlin Janowiak said.

“I didn’t like them; their ground beef wasn’t very good,” junior Nick Doughtery said.

Students are also unhappy with the store’s handling of their workers and their signs. “They shouldn’t lie (about closing down),” sophomore Joshua George said.

“It’s a rude move, lying to their customers,” Miller said.

“A lot of people need jobs right now. If it’s closing up, that could affect the worker’s fami-lies,” George said.

“They need to make sure that their work-ers know so they can find new jobs,” freshman Kristen Jackson said.

“They should try to transfer their employ-ees to the other stores in the area,” Knauss said.

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Speech team reaches sectionals, grows in number Ashley HawkinsEmily Swanson

The speech team is full of students willing to memorize short stories, poems, speeches, or radio broadcasts and compete against other dedicated individuals. On Feb. 4, four students qualified for Sectionals at Hoffman Estates: Ra-chel Campbell in oratorical declamation, Aremi Arroyo in poetry, Claire O’Donnell in special occasion speaking, and Andrew Napora in ra-dio. At Sectionals this past weekend, O’Donnell made it to finals in her event, but did not qualify for state.

“I was the only one that broke into finals; I got fourth place. It was disappointing, but last

year I was the only person who qualified for sectionals. This year we did really

well overall, we’ve done better than past years,” O’Donnell said.

Success didn’t come easy. The team put forth a lot of effort throughout the season. “We practiced a lot after school with our coaches, looking at all the details that go into our speech-es,” Campbell said.

The improvements were apparent to every-one. “It was definitely a growing year. We almost doubled in size, we were still extremely success-ful,” coach Amanda Ams said.

Overall, the team was proud of their sea-son, excelling individually and forming tight bonds with one another.

“We had an amazing team this season. They all did a great job performance wise, and I wouldn’t substitute them for anyone else. [I en-joyed] the people. I get to know new people who

I can compete with. My team and my coaches have become my family,” Campbell said.

Freshman James Crim agreed. “Everyone is just awesome. I enjoyed getting better at per-forming after each competition, and of course, all of the hilarious moments we had this year.”

“We had a very successful season, and we really grew and came closer as a team which is the most important thing to look back on,” Campbell said.

The team looks forward to next season, en-couraging anyone interested to join.

“Be on the lookout for speech summer camps, and lookout for auditions in the fall,” Ams said. “Everyone is welcome! We’re not just public speaking, we also have acting events.”

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Debate brings home third place trophy from ICDAJessica Lynk

The debate team trekked to Illinois Con-gressional Debate Association’s State Champi-onship on Feb. 10-11 and did not come back disappointed. The team placed third overall in state.

Team captain Senior Moriah Mulroe led the team to victory. Personally, she took second individually, scoring one of the highest scores in the entire tournament.

“I’m so proud of every debater on our team for giving it their all and pulling through in the end,” Mulroe said.

Sophomores Melanie Cohodes, Mike Feltes, and Ben Goldberg came within reach of Wheel-ing and Stevenson who took first and second in the tournament, missing the mark by 1.5 points.

“The tournament was a wonderful experi-ence, and a lot of us came away with awards,” Feltes said.

Cohodes also placed second on all state team earning a record number of nominations for the entire season.

On the Invitational level, junior Vivek Shah

an sophomore Mike Miller both won two indi-vidual honors, scoring with first place speaker and presiding awards.

“We entered 11 students, and out of those 11, 9 of them got speech nominations,” head

coach Jack Stanislaw said. All of the debaters

seemed to be overall happy with all of their new awards

and reflected with a positive outlook on the event.

“Most people exceeded their personal expectations and every-

body can be proud,” freshman Logan Maurer said.

The team also brought home an award for their bill about whales. Stani-

slaw was overall impressed with the team as a whole, especially when it came to the sophomores.

“I was pleasantly surprised at how we did. Three of our four students (in the upper levels) were sophomores, go-

ing up against seniors,” Stanislaw said. The debaters will travel to Bloomington for

the Illinois High School Association finals on March 15-17. This competition focuses more on the individual, whereas the last championship was a team effort.

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In the fall of 2011, the class of Computer Repair and Networking competed in the U.S. Cyber Chal-lenge. Those who participated in the challenge were estimated to be about 2,034 students from 169 schools and 32 states. Hersey was proud to be one of the schools in the state who participated.

The U.S. Cyber Challenge is a high school competition for those interested in the fields of cyber security such as network-ing, operating systems, and sys-tem administration or those who want to pursue a career in cyber security.

The competition included a variety of quizzes and tests that would allow the students to demonstrate their skills with cyber security fields. Accord-ing to the U.S. Cyber Chal-lenge website, the first quiz was on Oct. 21, the second on Nov. 4, and the third on Nov.

18. Those who had the top scores, were ranked in the top three in the school, state, or nation. Those who completed at least two of the three quizzes would be eligible for awards and scholarships.

Tom Polak, the computer re-pair teacher was the one in charge and who registered the class for the challenge.

Polak, aside from teaching at Buffalo Grove, Wheeling, and Pros-pect, decided that Hersey’s Com-puter Repair class was the one he knew would place well in the com-petition.

First time competitor senior Nate Gramer was the top scoring student. Still, being the top scorer in the state of Illinois had to take much preparation.

“They gave us a curriculum to study beforehand and it explained the entire process we would go through. The quizzes were 500 sec-onds per question, so we all got a hint of what was coming,” Gramer said.

Not only was Gramer ranked first here, but also

first in state, earning himself the title of state champion.

Nevertheless, Gramer was not surprised to have won the title. “Winning was expected, since we were the first school in the state to participate,” Gramer said.

Even though he might not have reacted as the other winners possibly had, Polak and his fellow classmates were definitely over-joyed.

“I was very happy that [Nate] won. I figured he would, since he is very good with that type of ac-tivity,” senior Jeremy Huene said.

Nonetheless, for Gramer winning wasn’t everything. “I enjoyed most seeing where I stood across the nation against the other competitors,” Gramer said.

Although not everyone placed to their contentment, each individual enjoyed taking part in the U.S. Cyber Chal-lenge. “Even though I wasn’t in the top, I was very satisfied with my performance in the competition,” Huene said.

Cyber Challenge generates new winner

• Courtesy of the Debate team

Team captain Moriah Mulroe and sophomores Ben Goldberg, Michael

Feltes, and Melanie Cohodes celebrate their third place victory. They compete next in Bloomington on March 15-17.

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