CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 48, Issue 2November 14, 2012

EDITOR IN CHIEF: BRENNA PATRICK

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AP Literature students find

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Seniors Mauston Beauchaine Taylor To-saya, and junior Kyle Hartman won the top High-Income coun-try award at the 2012 Frank Church All-Stars Economic Summit on Oct. 16 at the Stu-dent Union Building at

Boise State University. “It felt great when we won Top Income country,” Hartman said. Since he had been at last year’s Econ Sum-mit, Hartman had a “lit-tle bit of background in-formation” for this one. Beachaine said, “That felt really awesome because this was my first Econ Summit and

we won our division.” The Economic Sum-mit is held each year in which teams, who have individual coun-tries, compete to make their nation have the best standard of liv-ing. Beauchaine, To-saya, and Hartman were Team Norway. Beachaine said, “My job was to take the cur-

rent events quiz, so I brushed up on articles for that. I basically prac-ticed doing fast paced traits [for the summit itself]. I didn’t really do that much stuff to prepare for it though.” “We did research on our country and we ba-sically looked up more specifics about Nor-way on what their GDP

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Team Norway wins $300 at Econ SummitJonathan Reff OPINION EDITOR

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On Oct. 5, the Ida-ho State Board of Education awarded the Additional Year-ly Growth Award (AYGA) to Capital High School for 2012. “Obviously this is a very nice award for us to receive because

Capital’s hard work earns prestigious AYGA award from Board of Education

sometimes with any type of testing or data it takes a long time for the hard work that all the teachers and kids and staff is doing to really show up,” vice principal Janet Cherry said, “ We know there’s not an im-mediate fix to things.” We were just one of six schools to earn this achievement this year. To qualify for the

AYGA schools must make the Adequate Yearly Progress for two consecutive years and based on a grade level test: show an increase in at least one group or subgroup in ethnic-ity or special programs and the groups or sub-groups must have at least 34 or higher in student population. “I’m pretty excited

about this because it’s all about growth,” Principal Jon Ruzicka said, “We received this award strictly on those two groups.” “Knowing that for the past two years we have met the goals we set as a school and we have achieved them to re-ally help those students that need help is re-ally nice,” Cherry said.

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ISATA gives deserved recognition to honor teacher

Brenna PatrickEDITOR IN CHIEF

Debate teacher Patri-cia Rich received “The Debate Teacher of the Year Award” at the Met-ro debate tournament at Capital on Oct. 27. The Idaho Speech Arts Teacher Asso-ciation met in Sun Val-ley where Rich was chosen for the award. Rich said, “There are a variety of awards that coaches can be given, but this award is cov-eted, so I was truly sur-prised and honored.” Rich has been teaching debate since the 70’s, moving from Highland High School to a team in Shoshone, Idaho in the 80’s. Rich has been coaching Capital’s de-bate team since 1997. “Working with de-baters to learn the top-ics we have to study together is my favorite

part of coaching. De-bate has a way of taking a student with a decent education and chal-lenging him/her in a way that no other activ-ity can do,” Rich said. Rich said that once her debaters, “Get over the shock of having to work really hard, they generally become very intelligent people who can learn and discuss just about anything.” As for being quali-fied for this honor, Rich thinks she has met the expectations. “Just about every coach who sticks it out for a few years deserves this award. If a coach is managing a good classroom environment and getting their stu-dents to plenty of tour-naments they deserve recognition. You have to love it to do it and that’s when it’s good for education,” Rich said.

On Halloween Capi-tal students and staff were able to partici-pate in trick-or-treating during break, con-tinuing a tradition that started last year. Student Council bought over 30 pounds of candy for the 23 teachers on the top floor of the school to distribute among the students who dressed up for the holiday. To receive candy, there were certain guidelines to follow to be able to participate, including an appropriate costume. Students were able to identify which teachers were “open” for trick-or-treaters by a big or-ange pumpkin sign that was labeled, “Trick-or-Treat here” that Student Council members cre-ated the Sunday before. Senior Student Coun-cil member Theresa Konecni was one of several who helped put together this event. Konecni said there were many things they had to do to prepare for the occasion to make it run smoothly. “We had to talk to a bunch of teachers, fig-ure out how much can-dy to get and advertise a lot,” Konecni said. Konecni was excit-ed for the event and to see, “Everyone’s costumes and all their creative ideas.” Junior Colin Gar-

cia took part in the spirit of the holiday by dressing up as Bat-man’s sidekick, Robin. Garcia was most ex-cited to be able to dress up as a super-hero for Halloween. “I love superhe-roes, so it was awe-some to be one for a day,” Garcia said. Garcia said he got lots of candy dur-ing the break as well,

which made it better. As for the teachers’ costumes, Garcia said his favorite was, “Mr. Fuhriman as Superman.”

Garica is hoping Capi-tal does this again next year, because “I have a better costume for next year planned.”

(Gross Domestic prod-uct) is and everything like that,” Hartman said. To win, the teams receive points for cos-tume of their country, table display, trade al-liances in which teams work together to not pay tariffs, imports and exports of their own in-dividual country, con-tracts to pay resources

and tariffs later, and the debate for proposals. The debate is only for the top six teams who have the best proposal. The proposal is based on an underlying prob-lem that is facing most of the world and the solution in which they proposed. In the end the thirty-three teams voted for the best proposal.

Capital debate teacher Patricia Rich poses with the “Debate Teacher of the Year Award” that she received at the Metro Debate Tournament at Capital on Oct. 27.

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Junior Brandon VanSlochteren, senior Kieron Teets and junior Colin Garcia dress in Halloween costumes to trick or treat Oct. 31 on the second floor of the school.

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Costumes get students 30 lbs. of candy

Coach meets expectations of

“coveted” award

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News Wednesday, November 14, 2012

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Students impressed with bonsai tree pruning demo

An ancient artistic form that is sparking a career interest was brought to Tom Wilmot’s horticul-ture class on Oct. 10. Susi Dettmen and Bar-bara Gough from the Boise Bonsai Society did a bonsai demonstra-tion in the green house. There were two ses-sions of the demo; one was set for the zero and first hour classes and a second was for the second, third, and fourth hour classes. Bonsai is a form of art from Japan that uses small shrubs or trees that are pruned careful-ly manipulate the plant to have the appear-ance of different age, strength, artfulness, and design. The process is labor and time expen-sive, but when done correctly, they look as if they are decades old. “[Dittmen and Gough] were very excited about presenting to a high school horticul-ture program, I thought the ladies did a fan-tastic presentation of the history, methods, and techniques of cre-ating a bonsai tree/shrub,” Wilmot said. Junior Emily Seganos said, “I liked it a lot. It’s something I’d love to do if it didn’t take so long to make it perfect.”

“The students were very impressed with the amount of effort needed to create and maintain a bonsai. They are excit-ed to create a bonsai of their own,” Wilmot said. “[The demo] shows that horticulture shows isn’t really dead and it

isn’t just taking care of a everyday garden, but actually an art and life form,” Seganos said. Seganos said, “I would love to do this as a profession because I love anything dealing with art, and this would expand my taste.”

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Sixty three Fam-ily and Consumer Sci-ence students had the opportunity to care for a simulator baby for 72 hours over the course of three weekends. The unit in the class covers everything from child abuse to how to prop-erly care for a baby. Each student is graded based upon how they handled the actual sim-ulator, their response time, and ability in car-ing for the fake child. Family and Consumer science teacher Tera Chase enjoys this unit because it teaches stu-dents responsibility. The whole project was designed to show teen-agers how difficult it is to have kids at this age. All the simulators “are based on actual infants.” They all include sen-sors in them to record how each individual cares for their child. Senior Mo Kha-lid named her baby “Jacob” and, after the weekend, said she thought the experi-ence “felt amazing.” Khalid got very attached to her baby but caring for “Jacob” was difficult. Doing simple things like taking a shower were interrupt-ed and it became very frustrating. She also had

to get used to the con-stant staring of people wherever she went. Overall Khalid had to care for Jacob 115 times. She rocked the baby 15 times, completed 24 dia-per changes, 27 burps, and fed the baby 24 times, all in three days. Sophomore Meghan Chavez also took a child home and found the time with it to be difficult. The hardest part for her was “getting motivated to wake up in the middle of the night,” Chavez said. When caring for a child, “You lose your emotions. It’s not about you anymore, and you’re constantly on edge,” Chase said.

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Above: Susi Dettmen and Barabara Gough show horticulture students how to maintain and create bonsaisduring the first session of the demostrations on Oct. 10.Bottom: Students crowd inside the green house to get a good look at the various bonsais.

On Thursday, Oct. 25 Rob Parson’s vid-eo broadcasting stu-dents went to Channel 7 KTVB’s news sta-tion for a field trip for the ten o’clock news.

Sophomore Kendra Mills and senior Daniel Davis interview sophomore Meghan Chavez in class after she took a baby simulator for a weekend on Oct. 29. The questions were about what it is was like caring for a baby.

Sophomore Kendra Mills holds her newly assigned simulated baby that she will be taking care of over a weekend.

Senior Weston Durland said, “Parsons has awe-some conections” for the students to go there. “[It was an] awe-some experience. It gave me some ideas for our own show,” said Durland, because they got to meet the people

that work behind the scenes and see how they do it, research the news topics and how the station operates. The students also got to meet and talk to news anchors Mark Johnson and Carolyn Holly after the news segment ended.

Devin Ramey NEWS EDITOR

Above: The KCHS crew, sophomore Jesse Helton, instructor Rob Parsons, sophomore Whitney Rich, junior Kevan Hess, senior Weston Durland, and senior Dallas Renick poses with Carolyn Holly in the KTVB news station Oct. 25.Below: Senior Weston Durland and junior Kavan Hess talk to main news anchor, Carolyn Holly.

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NewsWednesday, November 14, 2012

Editor: Ryan Naramore

Five long days of surveying to

create maps

Ryan NaramoreNEWS EDITOR

New murals give front office a festive atmosphere

LDS teenagers celebrate Idahoan culture in honor of newly renovated temple

Andrew WelkerARTS EDITOR

Senior Melissa Rodriguez began painting murals after Homecoming in the front office windows and doors with the help of art teacher Cathy Younger’s students. “The art students can choose to vol-unteer. It’s a great

help,” Younger said. Rodriguez said, “It was the week before Homecoming and I asked my art teacher if we could paint the win-dows for Homecoming, she said she talked to Ruzicka and she did.” Principal Jon Ruzic-ka said, “These murals make the school a little more festive and bring a sort of fun environ-ment to the school, and I think the stu-

dents will enjoy it.” After that it was decided to continue the mural so it would fit the time of season for the holidays. Other student’s who have participated are junior Maria Becer-ra, and senior Emily Brixey, who did a tre-mendous part in the murals. These students are highly artistic. They practice their designs in Younger art class. “The kids that do this

blow me away. I per-sonally couldn’t do this even if I took classes… it will make things a lot more festive, it will be exciting to see what else they do,” Ruzicka said. “The next murals that will be in the front office and on the door windows that lead to the front office is Christmas and the holidays so everyone can feel all nice and jolly,” said Rodriguez.

Luis GarciaENTERTAINMENTEDITOR

PHOTO BY KAT DAVISOne of the murals in the office painted by Senior Melissa Rodriguez,that she painted the week before Homecoming

Junior Eddie Teets dressed as Cat in the Hat Oct. 31.PHOTO BY JACQUELINE MORENO

More Halloween fun

Family/Consumer Science teacher Tera Chase as Minnie Mouse.

Five LDS teenag-ers have been practicing since late September to produce a cultural celebration in honor of the rededication of the Boise Idaho Temple. The Temple was closed during the summer of 2011 for extensive ren-ovations, and will be reopened and dedicated as a House of God by Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on Nov. 18. Boise’s celebration originally expected

seven to eight thou-sand teens to par-ticipate, but a recent count numbered 9,100. Junior Joe Hansen said the cultural cel-ebration is “a big show with singing and danc-ing” that will com-memorate the heritage of the region around the Temple. It will be put on by youth that live in that area. The choirs, formed of volunteering LDS teens, will sing songs like “I Love to See the Temple” and “God Bless America.” The dancers, also all volunteers, were split up into groups

Human Geography teacher Steve Faulkner, had his fourth and fifth period create a detailed physical map of the complete area surrounding Capital, including roads, land-marks and suburbs. Students were per-mitted to go off cam-pus under the super-vision of Faulkner to tour the area surround-ing Capital known as Bayhill starting from Milwaukee through Ustick onto Cole and ending on Goddard. The students stopped along the way at the tourist attraction, the Old Farm House on the corner of Cole and Mountain View and at Delsa’s ice cream par-lor for a snack on the last day of surveying. Faulkner’s class mea-sured the longitude, latitude, and elevation of multiple places. Most of which would be in quarter mile increments

of a given location. The group began on the corner of Goddard and Milwaukee and moved down through Milwau-kee and stop every quar-ter of a mile to mark down the measurements predefined by Faulkner. Students have until the end of Thanks-giving Break to complete the map. Sophomore Jeff Courtright, a Human Geography student had participated in all five days of the surveying. “It was cool to hear and see of the differ-ent areas because they were all unique. The time period that they had been created in determined their struc-ture,” Courtright said. “It’s very challeng-ing to find and put the information in a scale representation of Bay-hill,” Courtright said. Courtright thinks that Faulkner is, “A great teacher who cares about the sub-ject he is teaching.”

called Regions depend-ing on where they live. Representatives from each region chose one of the themes to follow in dancing. Region 1 lives in the Boise Stake, or the col-lection of congrega-tions that are located in a certain area in Boise, and chose the theme of “Treasure the Faith,” specifically the faith of people that came before us and the things they gave up and sacrificed so we could have our faith today. They will be danc-ing like pioneers, with brooms, blan-

kets, buckets, wash-boards, and barrels. Hansen called it a big “spiritual show.” Region 9, from the McCall and Nyssa areas, will be per-forming with them. Teens from the Boise North Stake, a stake surrounding Capi-tal, will swing dance. Other dances include the Mexican hat dance, Basque and Asian danc-es, and the Charleston. Hansen and Senior Gillian Chandler helped decide the vari-ety of dances. They were chosen to repre-sent the Boise Stake

at large meetings of 62 representatives from the 31 stakes that would be assigned to the Boise Temple. So why have the celebration? Latter-day Saints believe the Temple is the most sacred place on earth and where very important prom-ises are made with God. Sophomore Colby

Larson, who helped teach Region 1 their moves, said that “Presi-dent Monson wants us to be having fun, but in a way that shows why we’re doing it and what for is sacred.” Hansen said when we do something spe-cial for the rededica-tion of the Temple, it will help us remember how important it is.

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Arts Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Editor: Andrew Welker

Victoria HolmSPORTS EDITOR

Candle-making talent burns bright

To make the emblem on this candle, Mathis covered an orange core with red wax, then carved the fire shape into the side.

A candle made to look like a drink of champagne. Mathis used a real martini glass to hold the wax.

PHOTO BY JACQUELYN MATHIS

Multimedia class makes stained glass windows

Ryan NaramoreNEWS EDITOR

These stained glass windows, seen in room 226, were made by (top to bottom) Gabby Becker, Bailey Garner, and the teacher, Pat Rich. The theme for the windows was music, represented by music notes, bands, and dancing.

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Seniors Kira Hughes, Hollie Barrie, and Bailey Clark carved this pumpkin for the Heart of Darkness assignment. It represents the heart of darkness theme, with a heart shape detailed with a devil’s head. To protect the pumpkin from rotting, the students covered it with vasoline.

This project was made by Senior Heather Haws. It repre-sents the overall creepiness of the book and how women areportrayed as blind and ignorant.

AP Literature and Composition teacher Paula Uriarte had her students create physi-cal representations of Joseph Conrad’s book “Heart of Darkness” to understand the sto-ry’s deeper meaning. On presentation day there were proj-ects including a duet singing about sav-ages, a heart piñata, and a giant steam ship. The classes presented their projects Sept. 17 to 19 and had roughly a week to complete the project either by them-selves or in a group. Students were graded on whether or not they accurately and clearly described one of the book’s motifs, themes, or anything else that occurred repetitively within the literature. There weren’t any restrictions on how they expressed their ideas as long as they included quotes from the book and followed the basic structure of what they were sup-posed to reference. Senior Heather Haws did an individual proj-ect of a skeleton to represent the theme of darkness found within the book that took her approximately 10 to 12 hours to complete. “I made a skeleton to

represent the darkness and put a blindfold on it to further represent how the women are perceived in the book as being blind and ignorant.” “The heart in the hand represented the charac-

ter Kurtz’s heart and the leaves represent the sav-agery and the madness in the book,” Haws said. “I think it turned out pretty well. Every-body seemed to like it,” Haws said.

Senior Jacquelyn Mathis started mak-ing candles right after she found a book with detailed instructions and many of the materials at Hobby Lobby. She said, “I like playing with fire so I decided to go for it.” She makes all types of scented candles includ-ing apple pie, pumpkin pie, and cinnamon bun. The pumpkin pie candle is a light brown with a cool white leaf icing on the top. Mathis can also cre-ate volcanoes, Cham-pagne glasses and even Avatar the air bender themed candles like air, water, earth, and fire. The pie candles can be cut up and used in scentsy warmers.

These candles are made of Puritan wax, a type of jell that is squishy and clear. Mathis first melts the wax, then adds scents and colors according to the specific design. It sets overnight, then icing, which made from a thinner type of wax is added depending which candle is chosen, which is made from a thinner type of wax. Usually people in her classes buy the candles, but she’ll sell them to anyone who wants them. The can-dles cost range from $5 to $24, depending on the type desired. If you want to get ahold of Mathis to order some of her can-dles her two emails are egyptiajam@hotmail.com or Jacquelyn_a_mathis@hotmail.com.

Multimedia teach-er Patricia Rich had her students create a simple project that required them to cre-ate their own, indi-vidual piece of stained glass out of tissue paper and poster board. The annual assignment took place on the second week of school and it took the students around a week to complete. “There are many steps to the assignment and like anything, if you follow the steps, you will be successful. The planning involves learning some con-cepts and vocabulary and the actual cutting of the poster board is pretty hard physi-cal work because it is fairly thick,” Rich said. As an example,

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AP Lit class puts their hearts into book project

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PHOTOS BY PETER HUANG

PHOTO BY JACQUELYN MATHIS

junior Jacqueline Moreno decided to create a pattern that was made of Hello Kitty playing a guitar.

“They seem to enjoy seeing the project through to completion so they get put up on the windows,” Rich said.

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EntertainmentWednesday, November 14, 2012

Editor: Luis Sarria-Garcia

Play Review : Andrew WelkerARTS EDITOR

How to survive while preparing for college

Emily LundquistSPORTS EDITOR

Crazy Cartoon Doodles

Movie ReviewFrankenweenie’s quirky humor shinesRyan NaramoreNEWS EDITOR

Many High School students find them-selves stressing once they reach their senior year due to the fear of not being prepared enough for college. Throughout students’ educational experi-ence in elementary and high school, teachers try to prepare students for college. How do we as hopeful future college students pre-pare ourselves for both the academic and the ‘real-life’ scenarios? With a few help-ful tips, students will feel a little more con-fident in their future college experience.1. Research: If you don’t know what you’re looking for in a col-lege, or even what you want to do as a future career, it’s helpful to consider all your per-sonal qualities and how you can apply that to your decision making. Many websites supply

surveys for students to see what they would be good at in the future. Just be sure to con-sider what you want in a college and what you want to get out of it; whether it be religious, location, tuition, co-ed, dorms or a major. All these facts can make or break your educational college experience. 2. Go on college vis-its: Many colleges wel-come high school stu-dents who are interested to see the campus and what they have to offer. College websites or newsletters you can sign up for can supply you with this information. 3. Stay in contact with your guidance/career counselor: These pro-fessionals are there to help you get on track with your future, so if you’re ever stressed or have any questions, they’re the people to see. Robbie Cupps is Capital’s Career Coun-selor, and she always has many resources and college visits scheduled for curious students about any information.

4. Start doing more on your own: When going to college, you’re not going to have your par-ents to lean on for every-thing. You’re going to have to prioritize your own time for studying, socializing, and other activities without your parents nagging over your shoulder. So, while you’re in high school, start with small things, like waking yourself up, getting yourself to school on time and pay-ing attention and taking control of your grades and it’ll pay off once you experience the ‘cul-ture shock’ of college.

The movie Franken-weenie is enjoyable because of its artistic merit and the humor that seems to find its way out through the character’s being so laughably awkward. The movie is directed by Tim Bur-ton, stars a variety of voice actors, including Tom Kenny, famous for voicing Sponge-bob Squarepants, and Martin Short, a famous Saturday Night Live performer. The story is about a young boy, Victor, who’s dog, Sparky, passes away after a fatal car crash. After Sparky’s death Victor has trou-ble coping with the death of his best friend. Victor eventually becomes so consumed by his depression that he resurrects his dog via electricity. After Sparky is resurrected, Victor continues his life with his best friend, but similar to the movie this story very cleverly parodies, Frankenstein,

it’s not all as it seems. This movie does not fall short on anything it promised, it is an artistic phenomenon in its strategic use of colors. The concept of Frankenweenie’s black and white color is dar-ing and it is nothing short of a gimmick but I found myself enjoy-ing it. The movie has an enormous amount

of shadows in it, add-ing to the already estab-lished ghoulish tone. Though this movie is very quirky, it lacks a solid amount of humor. Most of the humor comes out of Sparky’s curiosity or how creepy Victor’s friends can be. But humor does find its way out in the movie’s enormous amount of quirkiness.

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Dr. Emily Ph.D in Google

The drama depart-ment performed Alice in Wonderland at Koel-sch and Mountain View elementary schools on Oct. 26 and 31. Junior Cali Houdek, who played Alice, enjoyed the audi-ences’ enthusiasm. Houdek said that after the play little girls kept coming up to her to give hugs and high-fives. At both schools the cast ate lunch in cos-tume with the students before productions took place. Houdek enjoyed the “awesome looks” on the students’ faces. Houdek hopes that the kids from the audience will want to join drama when they’re older. Senior Shelby Cart-er, who’s role was the Cheshire cat, said, “In

theater I don’t have to be afraid to be myself.” Carter said that in Wonderland everyone is crazy and Alice is stuck in the middle of it all. Carter thinks Alice in Wonderland is a great way to show people they can have the same confi-dence to be themselves. Before the play began, cast members applied makeup, did hair and put on costumes in the dressing room. Houdek said she loves the bond that is made in the dressing room. Doing the hair of people you don’t know with the risk of burning them with the curling iron creates a strange and weird bond. Houdek especial-ly enjoyed all of the girls getting pumped for the production in the dressing room by singing and dancing along to Disney music.

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The cast of “Alice in Wonderland” that performed at Koesha and Mountain View Elementary Schools.

Alice in Wonderland remade Elementary style

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SportsWednesday, November 14, 2012

Editor: Emily Lundquist

Athleteof theMonth

Sport: Football

Years playing: 10

Loves the sport because:

It’s challenging, yet rewarding

Favorite opponent:Timberline High

Benefits of the sport:

Get in good shape

College plans:

Go to College of Idaho or BSU

Difficulty level:9

One word to describe the sport:

Enjoyable

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

15+

Dylan Hale

Andrew WelkerARTS EDITOR

PHOTO BY TRISTEN ZACHARY

Senior Steven Matlock and juniors Ian Kinkead and Sam Ball celebrate a touchdown against the Borah Lions made by senior Makena Simis on October 19. Capital won a close game 35-34.

XC places 2nd at State, 1st at Districts

Varsity Football:

Team gets close calls, but overcomes

Boys’ Varsity cross country team won 2nd place at the State meet at Hells Gate State Park near Lew-iston on Oct. 27. Seniors David Steele and Jackson Turner, junior Tanner Eastep, sophomores Drew Schultz and Corbin Wil-liams, and freshmen Jacob Davis and Joe Mullener represented Capital in the race. Their times for run-ning a 5k ranged from 15:54 to 17:13 minutes. Steele wasn’t sur-

prised with the team’s success, and said it was just a product of their hard work. Turner said he enjoyed running at State, but two days later he still “felt like crap” from running so hard. Freshman Olivia Konecni went to State as an individual, scor-ing 26th out of 84 with a time of 19:26.80, an interesting rank con-sidering the times from past State competitions. Senior Savana Schil-ling scored 14th place at State as a sophomore in 2010 with a time of 20:20. Only the top four female runners

Jonathan ReffOPINION EDITOR

Eagles suffer disappointing loss to Madison High in quarter final game

had times beneath 20 minutes, and in 2011 it was only the top three. Konecni is now .4 seconds off Capital’s record for fastest girl’s time, currently held by senior Julia Taylor. On the way back down from Lewiston Konecni and the Boys’ Varsity team ran into trouble. The charter bus they were riding broke down unexpectedly and the team and coaches wait-ed for four hours for a Nampa school bus to come pick them up. They arrived in Nam-pa at 2 a.m., where par-ents came to pick up the exhausted runners.

Cross Country runs ‘full speed’ all the way to succeed at State

PHOTO PROVIDED BY KATIE ACKERMAN

PHOTO PROVIDED BY KATIE ACKERMAN

PHOTO PROVIDED BY KATIE ACKERMAN

Above: Senior Jackson Turner paces himself at the Bob Firman Invitational on September 22.Left: Juniors Eddie Teets and Preston Thomas run neck and neck with opposing schools at the Bob Firman Invitational on September 22.Below: Senior Theresa Konecni and sophomore Sydney Taylor run at the Bob Firman Invitational on Sep-tember 22.

Fall Sports Record BoxVarsity Football:

7-3

JV Football: 4-4

Varsity Volleyball: 9-14

JV Volleyball:12-4

Soph. Volleyball: 10-5

Boys Vasity Soccer: 7-11

Boys JV Soccer: 10-3-3

Girls Varsity Soccer:0-13-1

JV Girls Soocer:0-14

Cross Country: Boys 2nd at State, 1st at

DistrictsGirls individual 26th at State

Swim Team: Girls 5th at DistrictsBoys 6th at Districts

Capital ended the regular season against Centennial High with the only shutout of the season with a score of 26-0 on Oct. 26 at Dona Larsen Park. They went onto play Madison High School in the first round of the state playoffs at Holt Arena in Pocatello Nov. 2. They lost that game 28-14 which ended their overall season. Capital suffered a tough

loss to Rocky Moun-tain High School dur-ing Homecoming week with a score of 35-7 but got back on their feet to cream Meridian High School with a score of 68-20 on Oct. 5. Capital beat Boise and Borah High School by one point in the end. Boise High fell to Capi-tal with a score of 42-41 on Oct. 12 while, prob-ably the greatest game throughout the season, according to fans, with Borah ended with their defeat with a score of

35-34, which clinched the number three seed in the playoff on Oct. 19. When asked what had three years of Capital football done for him, senior wide receiver Dylan Hale said, “I think it shows us hard work and that you have to do that to get along.” Senior offensive line-man Steven Matlock said, “Our football coaches are our life coaches. They have opened up opportunities for sure and made me the person I am today.”

Senior

Opinion Wednesday, November 14, 2012

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tion of the men’s death in his criticism of the current administration, her comment can be extended one step fur-ther. Those who died in Libya were working to-wards a goal, the goal of establishing a just social system for all, and they should not be exhumed by either political party for petty squabble. Instead of trying to de-fend themselves against the Benghazi incident, Democrats should ad-mit their fault, take re-sponsibility, and focus on shaping their poli-cies and attitudes so that they can prevent such deaths from ever hap-pening again. Instead of trying to make the Obama administration seem inept and murder-ous, Republicans should focus on what they themselves are striving to achieve for America. Then again, this might all be too idealistic.

incident of intense and grotesque violence, and they should be remem-bered for their attempts at striving to improve the world by discussing political directions with the Libyan government. Their deaths should not be slung around in the political arena like ballistics. The tension between the two politi-cal parties over the Ben-ghazi attack displays the deplorable direction the election campaigns are heading. Instead of hon-oring the men who died, politicians are digging them up and using them to heap criticism on the opposing party. Barbara Doherty, the mother of a Navy SEAL who died in the Benghazi at-tack, declared a power-ful sentiment when she said, “It’s wrong to use these brave men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama.” While she was referring to Romney’s incorpora-

On September 11, 2012, a group of mil-itants raided the US consulate mission in Benghazi, Libya. As a result of the violent attack, Chris Stevens, the ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans lost their lives. Following their deaths, an argument began to break out be-tween the two politi-cal parties of America. The Obama admin-istration has been crit-icized heavily by the Republicans and other

people for its lack of preparation for any form of violence in Libya. Every person in the United States knew the turmoil and instabil-ity in the Middle East, and the Obama admin-istration still decided to lessen security in Libya by withdrawing three diplomatic security teams, despite requests for increase in security. The Obama admin-istration stated that it had prepared readily for incidents of vio-lence but did not expect an assault on the scale of the Benghazi at-tack. Republicans then went on a fact-finding trip to Libya without a Democratic presence in the party, to which the Democrats cried foul on the basis of possi-ble Republican bigotry. There is something altogether wrong about the argument between the two political parties. Four men died in an

Peter HuangJUNIOR

Deaths in Libya should be remembered, not used in politics

New cussing rule:administration failed?

Devin RameyNEWS EDITOR

Last year Capital High instituted a new rule on students cussing on school grounds to decrease the growing number of students cursing by suspend-ing them, and it was met with little success. Students will cuss, with or without a ty-rannical and overrated rule looming over their heads. I think that this rule is pointless due to it not completing its intended goal. Soon the school will be at-tempting to cover itself with excuses on why it hasn’t worked thus far. Many students can remember how the school’s administra-tion went on a witch-hunt for students that may be breaking this new rule at first, then the witch-hunt slowly disappeared, and the multiple public ser-

vice announcements that were shown on the morning video an-nouncements. Some of them contained vocab-ulary errors, like saying to stop using profound language, not profane. These slip-ups caused mass joking towards the rule, and I think the administration lost a lot of respect from the stu-dent body as a result. I believe that this was blown way out of proportion by the ad-ministration and the overall school staff has failed to uphold this cussing rule correctly. Yes, there are many students in the in-house room because they cursed, but that is just a small hand-ful of the population that does break it. Staff members give out more warn-ings than punishing the students with its full force, to me that equals a failed system. A symphony of pro-fane words doesn’t ring throughout the halls anymore, but what is said behind covered mouths and behind staff members’ backs is still growing. There is none. All this rule has done is waste students’ and staff members’ time.

CARTOON BY ARIELLE SARGENT

Evolving machines change humanity

Luis SarriaENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

essays on a piece of pa-per now we type cause it’s easier, sure, but what happens when we want to make what is already easy? Will we have computers where you use your voice to make a letter or write a paper? When does this stop? It doesn’t stop be-cause of one inescap-able fact humans are getting lazier and lazier by the generation. Many people look around and say there’s nothing wrong with that, but yes there is, when the earth’s population is exceeding over 7 bil-lion people and half of those people are using advanced technology. So unfortunately by the time the next gener-ation rises, they won’t even walk, they’ll have hove around chairs just like in Wall-e and for you who have never seen Wall-e, that is horrific. So for the people who agree with me, there is only one way to change this and that is to quit using things that make your life easier. Life is hard enough, deal with it.

Time goes on and on and we still are evolv-ing and not evolving in a positive manner. Everyday we show the world how lethargic we are becoming, but when I mean lethargic, I mean instead of stapling a piece of paper now we have electronic staplers. Instead of using a hole puncher now we use electronic hole punch-ers, instead of using regular hole puncher. Instead of riding bikes we use scooters and not ones you need gas for but the ones you plug into a wall and the next day you get on the scooter and ride away. Some other examples are instead of writing

What do you think of the cussing rule?

“I think the only way they’re are going to stop people from swearing is for the teachers to also stop swearing.”

“I believe the cussing rule at Capital is just another exten-sion of the school’s overreach on how children act.”

“I think its good in a way…but I also think that if they [students] are surprised [and cuss] then they shouldn’t be punished.”

“I feel like it’s a really good thing to have because the things I hear in the halls now are better than before.”

“If they really don’t want us to say anything like that [swear-ing] then they [teachers] should set the example that they want.”

“I think it’s a dumb rule. It hin-ders our freedom of speech. But if they [students] are saying something derogatory about someone then it should be punished.”

“I feel kind of mixed on it because it is an infringement on free speech, but swear-ing infringes on the rights of others.”

“I think we shouldn’t be able to cuss certain words. I think you shouldn’t get sent to in-house the first time you cuss.”

Jonah EgbertSENIOR

Jacob PriceJUNIOR

Alma DelicJUNIOR

Lennin RodriguezSOPHOMORE

Ashley TooneSOPHOMORE

Kieron TeetsSENIOR

Nick HooverSENIOR

Denisha HullSENIOR

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Sports Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Editor: Victoria Holm

Athleteof theMonth

Sport:Cross country

Years playing:5

Loves the sport because:

The feeling of accomplishment

Favorite opponent:My favorite race was

the silverwood coaster cross

Benefits of the sport:To get in shape and to be around great

people

College plans:Hopefully run for DI

or DII school

Difficulty Level:10

One word to describe the sport:

Commitment

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

At least 18 hours

Julia Taylor

Blecha said the play-ers became much bet-ter at, “becoming an actual team by talk-ing and passing.” Junior libero Kendall Jones broke Capital’s record for the most digs during a season and said she improved most on “defense,” in the season. Blecha was second on the team for get-ting the most digs throughout the season. Jones said the team improved most on, “playing together and staying positive.” Jones thought the new coach did a good job this year. “Coach Wooten was fully invested in helping

Emily LundquistSPORTS EDITOR

Swim team dives into records completing their season

Brenna PatrickFRONT EDITOR

J.V. Football ends season, prepares for next year

Ryan NaramoreNEWS EDITOR

Girl’s soccer overcome obstacles in season

Luis SarriaENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Boys soccer ends with a “successful season”Brenna PatrickEDITOR IN CHIEF

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The Varsity volleyball team ended their season with a record of 9-14. The team took 6th in Districts tourna-ment. Vallivue placed 1st, and Rocky Moun-tain came in 2nd. Head Coach Shelley Wooten said the team improved most on, “learning from their mistakes and working on how to improve on them going forward.” Senior setter Akiaya Blecha believed the best part of the season was all the new friend-ships that were made.

us become better players and people,” Jones said. As for the J.V. vol-leyball season, the team did very well in Districts, getting third overall on Oct. 13. Head J.V. Coach Megan Browne said the team did well all-around during the season. “They were great at both offense and individual defense,” Browne said. Junior Hannah Kopp said the team improved most on “working together and communicating.” Junior Maliea Fel-ton agreed, and said her favorite part was, “getting to know all the girls.”

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Swim team dove into the final stretch of their season, compet-ing in Districts Oct. 27 and State Nov. 3 at the West YMCA. The results for Dis-tricts was the Girls team receiving 5th place and the Boys came in 6th overall accord-ing to senior swim-mer Mattie Cupps. “We had a lot of really good swimmers this year,” Cupps said. A lot of the team had

beaten their personal best times at Districts. Cupps competed in the 500 and 200 IM (Individual Medley) at State and said, “It’s fun. There’s a lot of strat-egy that goes into it.” Cupps said the hardest thing about the sport is “just getting the nerves out,” before competing. Senior swimmer Mariah Southwick who also competed in both District and State said her biggest accom-plishment was plac-ing second in the 500 Freestyle at Districts.

Southwick’s favor-ite part about being on the team is, “We always

Volleyball teams learn from their mistakes

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The Junior Var-sity football team finished this year with a record of 4-4. At the beginning of the year starting quar-terback Colby Lar-son broke his collar-bone against Mountain View. In response the team moved sopho-more Danny Eledge to the starting position. According to Eledge he can play the quar-terback position because he has a nice arm and, “can throw a ball pretty well.” To play the quarterback position Danny says it requires a, “good arm and good leadership.” “I have built a very strong bond with my teammates,” Eledge said, “we mostly just

wanted to get better and win some games.” Eledge has expec-tations that his team will “work hard, exe-cute and play well.” Eledge believes that coach Nick Calaycay is a, “good coach, very offensively minded.” Junior Danny Sin-clair plays nose guard and, “a little left guard.” Sinclair plays for both the Varsity and Junior Varsity team. “I play nose because coach put me there last season and I enjoy being in the middle of the action. You have to be tough and able to take a beating as a nose guard. You are right in the middle of the trenches,” Sinclair said. “I have high expec-tations of my team. I expect us to work as hard and as fast as we

possibly can. I have a great time with the team, we are the Capi-tal football family,” Sinclair said. “Coach

Simis is great. He pro-vides the kind of stan-dards and expectations a great football team needs. Down at junior

Girls Varsity and J.V. soccer had a rough sea-son with Varsity with a season record of 0-13-1 and J.V. with a season record of 0-14 They continuous-ly played hard and earned respect from their fellow team-mates and developed a family, even though

either team could not pull away with a win. Varsity senior Jamie Killbrew when asked on what the team could work on she replied, “We can work on everything and most important not being scored on.” Killbrew also said, “The team chemis-try was a little iffy…” J.V. Junior Zaira Ray-on said, “The team did better than expected, but in the end the team was family (Ohana).” According to Ray-on, “We overcame a lot of obstacles and improved more on scoring in games.”

PHOTO BY TALON MEDIA GROUPSenior Javier Ruiz chases the ball down home field trying to score against Mountain View High Oct. 2 but came up short, losing the game 1-3 in the end.

Sophomore Bowen Grange

varsity, Coach Calay-cay follows the same high expectations, and prepares the Junior Var-sity guys for Varsity.”

J.V. Defensive back sophomore Steven Alley runs the ball down the field at the Timberline game Set. 20.

Varsity Boys soc-cer season ended with a record of 7-11 and the J.V. boys with a record of 10-3-3. Varsity Head coach Zo Omercevic, or “Coach O,” thought the hardest part of the season was “Getting the guys to believe in themselves and that they could win games.” At Districts Omercevic said the team lost three games but beat Eagle High in the competition. Omercevic thought the best thing that happened

during the season was “Just the fact they were able to be more like a family. They worked really hard, better than they’ve done in awhile.” J.V. Head Coach Dino Hamzic said, “It was a successful season.” His favorite moment was when a few of the guys on the team poured water and ice all over him after the win against Centen-nial High School. Out-mid fielder soph-omore Jesse Goodwin said the season was much better than the last years and immense-ly enjoyed when the team shaved the assis-

Senior

Teams couldn’t end season with win but

“earned respect” from team

tant coach, Bennis Omercevic’s head, after successfully scoring

a goal in the first five minutes after half time in one of their games.

Team beats Centennial High, setting their final record of 4-4

act like a family and we are always there for each other and that

we aren’t swimming to only win but to also improve ourselves.”

Varisty Volleyball players gather in a huddle to get pumped up for their game in the capital gym.