The Review November 2013

Ottawa High School • 1120 S. Ash St. • Ottawa, KS 66067 • 785.229.8020 November 2012

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Students voice their opinion on the presidential election through a mock election hosted by the Political Science Club on Nov. 5. The results, stu-dent reactions and much more.4Presidential election

Photo by Rebakah Wade

2 Students make a difference

3 Fall musical a success

6 Winter sports expectations

8 TIme to carve the turkey

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Students and teachers work together to make bowls on Make a Difference Day on Oct. 26. The bowls made that day will be used at the third annual Empty Bowls fundraiser on Feb. 21. Photo by Stevie Hart.

By Kaitlin Schulz|reporter

Over 120 students participated in Ottawa High School’s Make a Differ-ence day on Oct. 21.

Some students baked sugar-free cookies and delivered them to Vintage Park residents. Some students played kickball with the adults from COF. Some students made bowls for Empty Bowls 2012. All made a difference.

Senior Hannah Thomas, president of StuCo, organized and coordinated all of the activities for Make a Difference Day at Ottawa High School this year.

“Organizing everything for Make a Difference Day this year was a lot of hard work. It took a lot to put every-thing together, but it was definitely worth it when I got to see all of my peers come together for the better of their community,” Thomas said.

Students met at Ottawa High School, then dispersed to their designated vol-unteer activities. Some community partners of Ottawa High School’s Make a Difference Day were Hope House, Old Depot, COF, Vintage Park and the indi-viduals volunteering for Empty Bowls.

“Hannah Thomas did such a good job. She kept contact and sent pictures and a thank you note already, it was re-ally neat,” Mary Louise Yates, Director of Hope House, said. “The volunteers that came wrapped about 20 food box-es for Christmas. They worked really hard. We had the boys stain the wood in the back of the building. We had some girls address letters and completely redo our bulletin board. Everyone did a fantastic job,”

Ottawa High School’s Make a Differ-ence Day was a part of National Make a Difference Day, which is held every-

where on Saturday, Oct. 22. In America, there was a total of three

million individuals who volunteered this year according to handsonnetwork.org.

"I get most of my clothes at Forever 21, Goodwill, Charlotte Russe, and Wet Seal, the one thing that I enjoy most

are my skirts." -Jacke Duran, senior

"I get my clothes at Hollister, American Eagle, Abercrombie, and

the item I like to wear the most is my pink underwear."

-Tucker Spears, sophomore

FASHION FINDS

The newspaper’s primary obligation is to inform its readers about events in the school and community and of issues of national or international im-portance which directly or indirectly af-fect the school population.

The newspaper, while serving as a training ground for future journalists as part of the school curriculum, rec-ognizes all rights and responsibilities under the First Amendment.

Operating as a public forum, stu-dent editors will apply professional standards and ethics for decision making as they take on the responsi-bility for content and production of the newspaper.

While the student staff encourages constructive criticism of any part of the newspaper, authority for content rests in the hands of the student members of the newspaper staff. Students will not publish material considered to be legally unprotected speech, or li-bel, obscenity, material disruption of the educational process, copyright in-fringement, or unwarranted invasion of privacy.

Editor-in-ChiefMorgan Fredricks

Reporters Cydney LewisAnthony HendricksMyKenna Sharp-HadlCallie SheaKaitlin SchulzSabrina Kalm

Photographers Stevie HartEmily SandsSam HepplerRebakah WadeCelsie PowellKara Eckard

Adviser Rachel Urban

Students make a difference

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Sydney Normile, senior

Ryan Tipton, senior Kimmi Beauchamp, senior

Elle Woods

Lance Behning, senior

Emmett Forrest

Warner Hunington III Vivienne Kensington

Legally Blonde Leads

By Callie Shea|reporter

Ottawa High School students and faculty produced another successful annual fall musical at the Ottawa Mu-nicipal Auditorium on Nov. 8, 9 and 10. This year under the direction of Lori Underwood, vocal instructor, Courtney Williams, band instructor, and Colin Sandell, middle school vocal instructor, OHS students put on a production of “Legally Blonde the Musical.”

The 28 person cast included two dogs, a nine-person ensemble and eight-person production crew. The cast and crew spent months preparing for the show’s three nights. Filled with 16 scene changes and 18 songs, the show ran about 2 hours long.

“It’s one big, constant song,” Ryan Tipton, senior, said. Tipton played Warner Huntington III.

The audience that consisted of OHS

students and faculty, family and friends of the performers and community mem-bers were left with positive reviews.

“It’s a lot better and more humorous than what I thought it would be. Very

well done,” Shelby Ferguson, senior, said.

Though the opening night (Nov. 8) outcome wasn’t what they were expect-ing, the cast was hopeful for the next

two shows. “I think we had a really good perfor-

mance opening nights. The crowd was a bit weak. ” Tipton said. “Saturday night we had an awesome crowd, they were into it. Friday was big. But, Friday and Saturday night were by far the best.”

It was estimated by Underwood, and vocal music instructor at OHS, that 900 to 1,000 people had attended the shows over the span of three nights.

The musical itself was based off the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Though very similar, the show did have its differences.

“I like that they used actual refer-ences from the movies, but put a twist on the story,” Drew Snider, junior, said. “It was enjoyable and a good play selec-tion.”

Pink production: Students put on ‘Legally Blonde the Musical’

Kelsie Ferguson, junior, Ashley McCullough, junior, and Nancy Kuczmarski, sopho-more, belt out “OHMIGODYOUGUYS!” in the opening number of “Legally Blonde the Musical” on Nov. 8.

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the ohs review | FEATURE FEATURE | the ohs review 54By Morgan Fredricks|editor-in-chief

Ottawa High School held a mock election for the presidetial election on Nov 5. This election was put on by the Political Science Club. The students voted for either Gov-erner Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama or chose to write in a vote. Students could vote before school or during their lunch hour. The school announced who won on Nov. 6.

WHO?

WHAT?

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Anyone can join. For more information, talk to Spencer Morgan, sophomore, Frankie Hernan-dez, junior, or Candie Campbell, social sciences teacher.

Planning to spark student interests in politics and to debate political issues.

Meetings will be held on Tuesdays in Room 102.

Political Science Club

President of the Political Science Club, Spencer Morgan, sophomore, counts votes to see who won the mock election on Nov 5. Photo by Rebakah Wade.

“I was so excited and I’m ready for Obama to lead for the next four years.”

-Chandler O’Neal, senior

“I did’t vote because I was not knowledgeable about each po-litical representitive.”

-Jessie Matney, senior

“I was mad. I liked more of Romney’s morals and the changes he wanted to make. I feel like he would have done more things than Obama will.”

-Ashlyn Brown, senior

“I am not 18 so I was not able to vote. When I found out that Obama won, I was thrilled knowing that a leader that has the same views as I do would be president for a second term,”

-Ashlee Larkin, senior

Students react to election outcome

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National election results

Political Science Club hosts mock election

*according to the Associated Press

Barack Obama: 96 votesMitt Romney: 88 votes Write-ins: 4 votesWrite-ins included Kaden Shaffer, senior, Aaron Miller, junior, and Bill Snyder

@Hannah_Edges (Hannah Hedges) 6 Nov.Refraining from tweeting about the election actually isn’t too hard. Now, let’s all go to bed and stop hating and what not. #Obama

@Biancamegan (Bianca Webb) 6 Nov.Can’t wait to see Tumblr’s reaction to whoever wins to-night.

@HaleStorm1010 (Abby Hale) 6 Nov.I’m officially moving to Canada... What the heck is wrong with you America?!?! #NOObama

@Hunter Peoples (Hunter Peoples) 6 Nov.I have never been more disappointed as an American than I am tonight. The future looks gloomy. Bad day for America #scary

Tweeting CyclonesElection Time

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By Cydney Lewis|reporter

Ottawa High School began its win-ter sports season on Nov. 12. Girls and boys basketball started two-a-days—also known by the teams as “hell week”—and along with them the wrestling team started practices once a day.

Basketball coaches used the first three days of two-a-days as tryouts to weed out those who aren’t ready or serious from those who are ready to go to work.

“Just like every other year we are going to try to get as much covered as possible in two-a-days,” Jon McKowen, boys bas-ketball head coach, said. “The mornings really consist of a lot of mental work and a lot of movement because we are only in

there for about an hour and fifteen min-utes and then we can slow down quite a bit in the afternoons and be more detailed because we have a little bit more time.”

Girls and boys basketball coaches are excited to get the season on its way. Whether it be finding out who will step up and fill big shoes or just being excit-ed to be in the gym every day with their teams.

“It’s going to be different this year... when you lose a player that we did, we have shoes to fill,” Cliff McCullough, girls basketball head coach, said. “I think it’s going to be exciting to see who steps up and takes on that role. I don’t think any one person is going to be able to take on this role, I think it’s going to be more

of a team effort.”The basketball teams had been attend-

ing open gym sessions at the high school on Sundays and Wednesdays around 6:30 p.m. for several weeks prior to their dead week period. “Dead week” is the week before “hell week,” when the teams are denied access to the high school gyms so they must relocate to other places around town to play.

“The ones that show up are dedicated and the ones that just stay home are being lazy and don’t want to come out to the open gym.” Deonna Lane, freshman, said. “Those who aren’t coming, their absence shows what they are going to play like during the season.”

The wrestling team goes through a

similar, yet more challenging week. They don’t have the two-a-days but have some of the most difficult practices. The wres-tling team does a lot of drilling and calis-thenics in their first practices.

“Compared to ‘hell week’ for basket-ball, wrestling practice is a lot worse. It is the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Caleb Parenti, junior, said.

The first week of practice also con-sists of determining whether athletes need to cut weight or gain weight which is decided by the coach.

Girls and boys basketball will open their season against St. James Academy on Nov. 30. Wrestling will begin its sea-son at the Wamego Invitational on Dec. 1.

By Cydney Lewis|reporter

The Ottawa High School boys cross country team ran at the state meet in Wamego, Kan. on Oct. 27. The team advanced to the state meet after finishing as one of the top three teams at regionals. Brandon Yates, freshman, was one of the boys that ran at state. Yates said the regional meet was a bit more nerve-racking than state.

“When we got to state it didn’t seem as difficult as regionals. We were just really glad that we made to the state meet,” Yates said.

From an individual standpoint, Yates thought he ran well for going up against the best runners in the state. Yates finished 46th out of 104 runners with a final time of 17:51.60. The top time at state was a

15:46.10 ran by Josh Hanna, a Winfield High School junior.

The boys finished 10th out of 12 teams at the state meet.They are now ranked number 10 out of 64 teams in class 4A.

Kris Kornhaus, cross country coach, said he thought the boys did well being the first time any of them had ran at a state level meet. They had to deal with the pressures from the nerves and being the new kids on the course compared to teams that have made to state many times over.

The team left the morning of the race at 11 a.m. The runners that didn’t quite qualify had the option to go and support their fellow runners.

“I was proud of the boys, I think they did very well at state.” Sharissa Daw, sophomore, said.

Basketball, wrestling teams begin season with ‘hell week’

Boys cross country team participates in state meet

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Ottawa High School hosted the annual Community Blood Center of Overland Park Blood Drive on Nov. 1. A total of ap-proximately 120 students donated blood.

“I am very excited and very nervous at the same time.” Nicole Crawley, junior, said just before giving blood. “I love that I am donating blood to help people, that’s why I wanted to do it. I love that it goes toward a good cause.”

Beth Black, math teacher and Student Council sponsor, worked with StuCo to or-ganize the blood drive.

“Donating blood is the gift of life. A drive at the high school makes everything easy because the Community Blood Center comes to us,” Black said.

Black and the members of StuCo worked together to make posters and much

more to get the word out. They scheduled and reminded donors of their donation times. They also scheduled StuCo students to help with the setup and teardown. StuCo students worked shifts throughout the day to help make sure things ran smoothly.

“I would also like to say that I am also the official blood drive hand-holder,” Black said.

Every time Black was asked by a donor who was scared or nervous prior to giving blood, she held their hand willingly.

StuCo will be hosting another blood drive in the spring.

According to the Community Blood Center, by just making one donation, you can help as many as two patients. Commu-nity Blood Center sends out almost 3,600 units of blood components each week to treat patients in over 70 area hospitals.

StuCo holds blood drive

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Sophomores get taste of reality

Carrie Shaffer, physical education teacher, directs Kylie Foster, sophomore, to her next step for the “Reality U” program on Nov. 7. The 2012 “Reality U” was the third annual event. Photo by Sam Heppler.

After giving blood, Ciera Gardner, senior, grips a stress ball while a technician removes the needle from her arm on Nov.1. Photo by Celsie Powell

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By Anthony Hendricks|reporter

It is almost time to break out the turkey fryer and stuffing for a Thanks-giving holiday feast. People usually spend their time around the table with family and friends enjoying a warm home cooked meal by their family members and recalling old memories of times spent together. It is also the time to play games with cousins, aunts and uncles, and give thanks to any-thing important in life, and who can forget Thursday night football?

“We eat a lot of food. My favorite would have to be hashbrown casserole. It’s cheesy, zesty and salty. We don’t have any family traditions so far,” Mi-randa Holland, sophomore, said.

Some families have their own tradi-tions that they celebrate each year, like a certain game they play or a place

they enjoy going to. There are also many foods that are commonly eaten throughout the day.

“We usually go to our Aunt Patty’s house and eat,” Weston Roth, junior, said. “My favorite dishes are ham, sweet potato casserole, rolls, corn, pumpkin pie and mash potatoes. You know the food is made with love. Afterwards, we all go to the Plaza to watch the lights turn on.”

Every year, Kansas City Power and Light celebrates Thanksgiving by putting on a light show at the Country Club Plaza that starts at 6:50 p.m. on Thanksgiving night. This will be their 83rd year putting on the light show and the lights will shine every day from 5 p.m.-3 a.m. after Thanksgiving day until Jan. 13 according to country-clubplaza.com/Events/Plaza-Lights.

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