such as various FIRST competitions, including the Michigan State Championship. “The [OCCRA] county championship is like a warm up,” junior Ben Bray said. “We want to use it to prepare ourselves for the tougher competitions up ahead.” So far, this year, the Adambots robotics team has won many

local competitions, most recently winning First Place in an OCCRA Tournament in Birmingham. Now, the team is working to adjust the robots for the County Championship. The game for this year’s championship is based on the classic game of tic-tac-toe with some variations. This game is

With the final basket, the Adambots robotics team won the 2010 Championships at the Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association (OCCRA) with their robot that played basketball and are now preparing for their next championship at Holly High School on Nov. 19. OCCRA is much more scaled down version of FIRST (For the Inspiration of Science and Technology), an international competition meant to inspire students in the fields of science and technology through competitions, according to the Adambots website. Thirty high schools from Oakland County participate in OCCRA, which requires students to participate in games with their robots. For the county championships in 2010, the Adambots team built a robot to play basketball. According to the Adambots website, OCCRA is a student-only competition where no adult help is used. OCCRA serves to help the students perfect the art of robot-building and to prepare for future competitions

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Crocheting makes a comebackSee pg. 7

Get ready to roll with the new bowling team! See pg. 4&5

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It shoots, it scoresby Soumith Inturi

Online Editor

(Please see “Recycling” on page 2)

Tic-tac-toe: Above: The Adambots prepare their robot for competing in the Tic-Tac-Stack game. They placed third in the competition. Right: The Robot’s “hands” pick up balls to stack.+ The Adambots have been working on their robot since the beginning of the year.

Royal Oak High School and Oakland Schools Technical Campus Northeast won the county championships. Pontiac High School and Clawson High School won second place. “I am [really mad] that we didn’t win,” Bray said. “We would’ve at least gotten second place if Pontiac didn’t cheat.” According to Bray, Pontiac cheated by trying to destroy

Voices that rose and fell in harmony vibrating against the walls of Great Oaks Country Club. These voices were of the Select Chamber singers.

On Nov. 20, eight members for Chamber Singers performed bits and pieces of classic holiday songs for the Rainbow Connection community. Christmas carols from Hark the Harold Angels Sing to Jingle Bells rang throughout the lobby as the Select Chamber Singers a cappella group sang to guests entering the lobby of Great Oaks Country Club.

The Rainbow Connection is an organization based in Rochester that grants kids with medical conditions wishes like flying to Las Vegas to meet Celine Dion, or flying to Disney World to meet Mickey Mouse. These children are called Wish children.

The octet of students sang to the Wish families, supporters, staff and Board of Directors of the Rainbow Connection. Additional special guests of that evening include: the Mayor Barnett, several city council members, the founder of The Rainbow Connection Oakland

County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and Mr. Fred Clark, the Rochester Community Schools Superintendent. Along with the carolers’ performance, there was a dinner, a live and silent auction, and a fashion show put on by ten of the Wish children.

So, it makes sense that this Celebration of Dreams in an annual event at The Rainbow Connection and was sold out soon after the tickets went on sale.

Rainbow Connection’s executive director Mary Grace Mccarter approached senior Lindsey Scullen about finding carolers for the event, as Scullen worked with the Rainbow Connection over the summer.

“Everyone there is so friendly and wonderful to be around,” Scullen said. “I miss working there, so I was very happy to hear that they wanted us to sing.”

Over the years, Stoney has supported The Rainbow Connection in many ways. Mccarter knew that The Rainbow Connection would not be let down if they included the Stoney Creek in this event.

“We have reaped the benefits of the gift of time and talent from Stoney Creek students and are so grateful,” Mccarter said. “I knew [Mr. Ulrich’s] students would do a wonderful job at our event with no worries.

Junior Kyle White, the newly instated leader of the Select Chamber Carolers project, hopes to continue the program in the future.

“Mr. Ulrich asked us in class if any of us wanted to do it, and I

volunteered, and he

Students Carol for Rainbow Connectionby Charlotte Spehn

School Team

Everyone there is so friendly and wonderful to be around.

Senior Lindsey Scullen

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You can never underestimate the competition and you can always strive to be better.

senior Danielle Twarozynski

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(Photos by Nick Cruz)

by Christiana Tanner

School Editor

The earTh advocaTes

club has been volunTeer

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sInce The begInnIng

50%

Earth Advocates appeals to School Board for recycling program

100%volunteer

recycling of bottles

volunteer recyling of

paper

Advocating: Top: Bottles from the recycling bins bought by Earth Advocates last year. Middle: Earth Advocates members dump bottles from the bin into bags which are then moved to one of the member’s homes. Bottom: Paper recycling fro within the Abitibi dumpster.

Earth Advocates (now with the help of Key Club)

collect and dispose of bottles. They began to plan for this last year and

began collecting this year .

The CITIP class took over collecting recycling from classroom boxes for the club and Abitibi Bowater pays the school for the paper per pound.

called Tic-Tac-Stack. For this game, nine pillars are arranged in the familiar layout of a Tic-tac-toe board and the robots take turns placing colored balls into the tower. The topmost balls are used to determine the winner of the “Tic-tac-toe” game. According to Stoney Creek Mentor and CAD teacher Lois Davis, the bigger robot must be able to fit in an 6 feet by 2 feet by 4 feet box and the smaller

robot must fit inside an 18 inches by 18 inches by 18 inches box. Both of these robots will compete in the competition. The smaller robot will either compete separately or help the bigger robot acquire balls for the Tic-Tac-Stack game. “Tic-tac-toe itself may seem simple enough because it only involves a piece of paper and pen, but with a robot having to stack the balls one on top of the other, it

can be time consuming,” senior Danielle Twarozynski said. “We were really excited for this competition,” Bray said. “We hoped to win first place in the county championships for our fourth year in a row.” This year, the Adambots robotics team won third place at the county championships.

other robots. Without this, Bray believes that Stoney could have won second place. However, the team continues to look forward to future competitions. “All in all, we learned a lesson from this [experience],” Twarozynski said. “You can never underestimate the competition and you can always strive to be better.”

Robotics team takes third place

(Photos used with permission of Ben Bray)

Mean GreenMachine

recyclingEvery Thursday after school

members of the recycling group of the Earth Advocates

club don rubber gloves, empty the school’s two recycling bins, and

collect recyclables from each classroom. They even go so far as

to rummage through each trash can to ensure total recycling.

“[The bins] fill up in three days and every three days

we all have to take them back, and it’s

really gross, and it takes forever, and it’s really

hard to move them all with such small cars,”

vice-president of the club junior

C o u r t n e y Bourgoin said.

T h e p r o b l e m is that they have nowhere to put the h u n d r e d s of bottles they collect

each week as the Rochester

School district does not have a

district-wide waste-hauling program

that includes r e c y c l i n g .

M e m b e r s

of the club and Tigue have been keeping the bottles “on hold” while they work towards a solution, with bottles in student’s garages and in Tigue’s classroom storage room, according to club president senior Lindsey Diamond.

In October the club discovered that the Rochester Community Schools Board of Education was in the process of reviewing bids for a new waste-hauling contract, so they decided to appeal to the board to choose a program that includes recycling.

“We had been like, ‘Well, you guys are trying to make this decision, we’re trying to do this for our school and it’s environmentally friendly and there’s this Go Green Initiative’ and so it made sense,” Diamond said. “We have classes in our school …teaching us the basics of recycling. You can’t go and teach us these things in school—because that’s what you’re spending these tax dollars on—these teachers who teach us this material, and the second we walk out of class what they’re teaching us is literally going in the garbage.”

After the club made its appeal during the meeting, School Board President Barb Cenko advised them to work with the three other high schools and their PTA groups.

“We hear it from all schools, and some do more recycling than others, but hopefully, from this grassroots student movement we can move forward on that,” Cenko said during the meeting.

According to Cenko, the board has not taken a position on a recycling program as of yet; a committee is reviewing proposals and a recommendation will be made in November or December.

“The board must always balance the additional costs of new programs with reductions in other programs or services. Currently the district is

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Source: Students are strange beings. What’s the most bizarre [PG-13] thing you’ve ever been told?Lockwood: Oh man, that’s hard. I’ve had some pretty bizarre things said to me. I don’t know if it’s really bizarre, but it was a back handed insult to me. A kid asked me what unit I served in when I was in Vietnam. I was like, “Wow, how old do you think I am?” And he was like, “Well, my dad was there.” First off, how old is your dad? He said, “Oh sixty something.” I repeated, “How old do you think I am?” I’m only 38. It was a tad bit of a slap. Unfortunately, that’s the factor of the gray hair. That’s probably the worst thing I’ve gotten. But you’re right, you guys are weird. But that makes it fun!Source: Oh, I know.

Source: Has anyone ever told you that you look like Steve Martin? Not to insult your age or anything. Lockwood: No, and that’s funny. Did other people mention that one?Source: Nope. Just a thought I had.Lockwood: Yes. I typically get Steve Martin. Actually today I got Anderson Cooper. Personally, I think he’s way better looking than I am. I’ll give the brother some credit. But, yeah, typically I get Steve Martin or Tim Gunn.Source: Tim Gunn?Lockwood: Project Runway? He does the fashion show. When I used to wear glasses I’d be in the rimless glasses with the full suit for Pfizer. I can’t tell you how many times I had women coming up to me going, “You look just like Tim Gunn! I know he’s a gay man, but he’s a very good looking gay man!” So I took it as a complement because he’s a very well put together guy. But Steve Martin is who I get the most. I tend to act like him, too.

Source: Have you seen the movie Love and Other Drugs? You worked for Pfizer, so I might as well ask.Lockwood: I have and you wouldn’t believe how close that launch video was—actually they said it was for training, we don’t do that for training—but that looks identical. All of my friends and I who were in Pfizer were like, “They nailed that one.”Source: I just watched it the other night.Lockwood: Yeah, it encompasses all the things I hated about that job. I was like, “Nope, I’m done.”Source: How long did you work from them?Lockwood: Several years. Longer than I should have. It sucks your soul out. But all the time I was in the military I planned on retiring from the military and becoming a teacher.

Source: Is there a current fashion trend you’d love to try? As in, Man Uggs, hair feathers, yoga pants… Secretly all men have one.Lockwood: Ha ha! I really want to get a murse! Source: But that’s practically just a satchel. Lockwood: I know, but it’s a hard thing to push against. You either try to do it rugged and pretend you’re Indiana Jones, or you come off as a weird European dude. I just want to carry my iPad with me. That’s all I want.Source: Go for it! Start a trend!Lockwood: I don’t think I’m going to do it. My wife is the fashionista and it took her forever to get me dressed up correctly. Years of having to wear a uniform in the military dulled my fashion sense.

Source: Now… the gray hair. You’re only 38. Would you ever dye it? Blue’s really in—if you’re Katy Perry.Lockwood: Done it. I did it for many years. My original hair color is auburn.Source: What, you just can’t be bothered anymore?Lockwood: No. It’s a pain in the rear. Plus, it just looked silly. Especially when you don’t keep it up, you get the gray in the middle and it looks kind of silly. I realized I just need to embrace it. I’ve been going gray since I was fifteen. It’s genetic. By the time I started college I was gray all along the sides [of my head].

Fun Facts about This Guy

He bought Call of Duty •

the night it came out

like a true gaming nerd

His favorite TV shows •

are Castle and The

Walking Dead

He was a student •

teacher for Mr. Bennion

There’s a man who occasionally roams these third-lunch-littered-halls. A substitute teacher and an avid gamer, this man is known by some as, “that guy who looks like Steve Martin.”

Of course, Steve Martin doesn’t teach here, but every now and again, Jeffery Lockwood does. After spending a few years with the drug company Pfizer, and ten more in the Air Force, Lockwood finally found his calling in the classroom educating the future of America—a somewhat daunting task.

“The biggest thing I like about substitute teaching is the fact that I see a more diverse group of kids than I would if it were just my class,” Lockwood said. “I get to see different students every day.”

To put it simply, he’s a charismatic social studies teacher known for his sense of humor. Why not put that humor to the test?

(photo by Charlotte Spehn)

with

Jeffrey LockwoodIntroducing...

Mr. Substitute Guy

Personally, I think he’s way better looking than I am. I’ll give the brother some credit.

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anticipating a 11 million dollar deficit and important programs will be impacted,” Cenko wrote in an e-mail.

The club’s appeal and another made during the same meeting by Susan Geritts, chair of the green committees for McGregor Elementary and for the PTA Council drew

attention to the problem and the Rochester Post wrote an article on the club and their efforts.

Since the article was published two local businesses offered to help the club, one offering a recycling dumpster and the other offering a monthly pick-up truck for the recyclables. The club will decide whether or not to accept these offers after the board makes their decision, according to Tigue.

Also, junior Rachel Bowman has set up a Key Club service that will collect bottles from

the lower level of the school every Wednesday to lighten the Earth Advocates’ load.

The club was grateful for the attention the Post article brought to their plight.

“We thought that it was really exciting because when we went to the meeting we felt that people didn’t really care about what we were doing,” Diamond said. “And by the woman writing the Post story it was like people do care, you know? It brought some attention to [the problem].”

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Recycling(continued from p. 1)Caroling

said ‘ok you’re in charge’,” White said laughing.

Junior Tricia Goble is another member of the ensemble of eight. She was very excited to sing to the Rainbow Connection community.

“I love to sing, and I love to share that with others,” Goble said. “It feels really good to be able to give my voice to the holiday spirit.”

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Smelly Hallways- No one knows exactly what happened, but the senior and junior locker bank stunk during Thanksgiving week.

Gruesome- Breaking Dawn made alot of people want to puke.

Sold Out- Students were unable to get tickets to the popular basenector concert.

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NUMB3RS Video game releases- Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Assassins Creed: Revelations, Saints Row: The Third, and Call of Duty: Modern War-fare 3 all hit the shelves during November.

Breaking Dawn- The first of a two part finale is out in theatres for fans of the twilight series.

Justin Verlander- Justin Verlander, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, was awarded the prestigious MVP award and the CY Young award.

Recycling

80 billionAluminum soda cans used in a year

1 United states rank among the trash producing giants

Golf

4Number of top ten finishes by

Gabby Yurik in the State

Finals

0Amount of golfers better then gabby Yurik In the state

Christmas

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Sources: christmasspirit.wordpress.com org, recycling-revolutionMIprepzone.comGolf.about.com

Last year the Earth Advocates, led by science teacher Elizabeth Tigue held the Big Green Gig to raise money for plastic recycling bins to be placed around the school. The advocates were successful in getting new bins, but they were unsuccessful in developing a plan to transfer the plastic bottles to a recycling plant.

We do not feel it is the responsibility of the school to pay for a second recycling program of a student organization when media personal and other school employees are being sacrificed.

According to School Board President Barbera Cenko the district is expecting an ll million dollar deficit this year. During a time when the district must tighten its belt, this recycling program

is simply a luxury that we can’t afford. If the media center is being cut back and directly affecting classroom activities, then spending money on a program like this would be like a father buying candy instead of a proper meal for his family.

We believe that recycling is very important; but we are simply saying it should not be priority for this district. This program is a student driven issue; as such, the club behind it should take this opportunity to continue working together and develop a stronger solution to the issue.

In the past they have had a lot of success with fund raisers. What is stopping them from raising funds to pay for the recycling program? The Big Green Gig raised $2,000 according

to Earth Advocates president Lindsey Diamond. Why not use the funds from a Big Green Gig two?

We completely support Tigue’s and the club’s effort to institute a recycling program. In a perfect world, the district would fund such a worthy cause. But we are not living in a perfect world or in perfect financial times.

Luckily, the club has received many generous offers from waste processing groups in the area to provide free shipping and processing of the plastic bottles since a story about the club’s effort was published in a local paper. This is a good temporary fix that the board should quickly approve.

But at this time the school board should not add the additional cost to their new waste management plan.

Recycling shouldn’t be a district priority

The School district should not pay for the recycled bottles.

Staff Vote:

THE EDITORIAL

Plastic bottles used in U.S per hour

2.5Million

iPhone 4s has many unexpected flaws

15.8Amount of money

spent on new holiday decorations in 2005

Billion

Cost of the average real Christas tree

41.90

18Amount of holes in a round of golf

60Days for a recycled can to return to the

supermarket

401Minimum distance (in feet) for a women’s par five.

175Average length of a women’s drive

15’6’’Height of the white house Christmas tree

40%of customers consider holiday shopping a chore

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We can’t pay for librarians, we can’t keep the media center open, and a few years ago we were

forced to privatize the food and custodial staff. So how can the district justify paying for water

bottles? It can’t.

Sleek, refined, high tech. For avid Apple followers, these three words constitute their life. Literally.

Otherwise commonly known as drinkers of the Apple “Kool-Aid,” their ability to absorb technology is incredible. With help from Apple’s gadgets, multitasking has never been easier.

Of all that Steve Jobs has done for the world, his final product, the iPhone 4s, or the “iPhone For Steve,” came out on Oct. 14, just after his death on Oct. 5. Previously proclaimed as “the best thing that apple has ever made” by Steve Jobs, the iPhone 4s has skyrocketed the

sales as was expected. But could the iPhone 4s

be so different from iPhone 4 or other smartphones that have already been released? According to Apple, the iPhone 4s contains qualities that you will never see in another phone, aka the “you-can’t-believe-it’s-on-a-phone” camera, the “all you have to do is ask” Siri, and other features such as its iOS 5 and retina display.

According to eWeek, there are many other smartphones that carry the 8-megapixel camera. And, lo and behold, there are. Among dozens, the most popular is Motorola’s Android X. According to PC world, the Android X also has the iPhone’s retina display.

What this is saying is that not all of Apple’s qualities are

solely available to iPhone users. Other phone makers offer some of the same features that the iPhone 4s offers its customers.

The current issue with the iPhone 4s is its low battery life. During his famous lectures, Steve Jobs stressed the improvement of battery life span in introducing the iPhone 4s to the public. Due to an unexpected failure in the iOS 5 installed in iPhone 4s, the phone is experiencing a battery reduction that customers are not happy about.

Part of the problems with the battery span has to do with a planned standby time reduction from 300 hours to 200 from the transfer from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 4s. That’s 100 hours that the phone loses while it’s sitting on the bedstand.

Siri is partially to blame for the reduced battery life, according to ZDNet. Because the voice system takes up too much energy, the company cut short on its standby hours and increased its call time from 7 to 8 hours instead.

Siri itself has additional internal problems. According to eWeek, Siri can’t comply to all commands, as the virtual assistant sometimes cannot catch on to what the customer says. Siri can only be artificial, after all.

Because of these factors, although the overall customer response is fairly positive, the iPhone 4s is certainly not flawless. It seems as though there are some severe limits as to how far technology can reach.

Dissenting Opinion: While the staff editorial presents a respectable case, some members of the staff would like to express our disagreement with the staff opinion. We feel, as chair members of the Earth Advocates club, that our point of view was not justly represented. Members of the Earth Advocates club work hard every week to ensure that our school is provided with clean places to recycle, but we have been overwhelmed with the amount of bottles that pile up. We don’t have enough man power to hand pick bottles and drive them to a recycling plant every week, and

it is unfair of us to ask our already overly-devoted members to take extra hours out of their schedules for a service that should be provided by the school. Likewise, we would gladly use our already earned funds to hire a recycling program if it wasn’t an action that needed district approval.

The school board has yet to vote on whether or not a bottle recycling program will be adopted, and while the editor may feel that it would be a waste of money and time, a large portion of the student body recognizes that recycling is not a luxury,

but a necessity. Our students should not have to deal with overflowing recycling bins, and we believe that the voice of the students needs to be expressed.

It is not a matter of valuing recycling over librarians or custodians, but rather a matter of distributing the district’s money properly. We understand that the district’s budget is limited. However, bottle recycling is a basic service, similar to garbage and paper recycling, and we feel that a recycling program should be a higher priority on our school’s agenda.

Agree: 50% (8)Disagree: 37.5% (6)

Undecided: 12.5% (2)

by Soojin Chun

Lifestyles Editor

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SOURCE SPORTSNovember 30, 20114

Bedposts

A 7 and 10 split

Granny’s Teeth

An assortment of pins

(one version)

Tandem

When one pin is behind

another

Bucket

Four pins in a diamond

shape, either in ththe front

left, or right (one version)

Head Pin

The pin in the front or in

the center

or

A bucket, minus one pin

(one version)

Three Quarter

Bucket

Seniors start high

school bowling league

Senior Andrew Boe lifts

the bowling ball slightly

behind him.

He hops a step, lets his arms

fall, and frees the ball.

The ball shoots to the right

and travels on the edge of the

alley.Boe leans and motions his

hands to the left.

The ball finally curves left

and rockets right into the pins.

Strike.

Boe, along with seniors Matt

Rolain and Matt Pitlock, share

a passion for bowling. The boys

want to share their passion

with other students by starting

a bowling league between the

three Rochester Community

Schools high schools. They

took the idea to Principal Larry

Goralski for approval, who

until recently, left the boys

unanswered.

“I went up, put my hand on

[Goralski’s] shoulder, and asked

him if we could do a bowling

league,” Rolain said.

But the idea wasn’t really

Rolain’s at first. North Hill

Lanes Owner Tom Langan told

the boys the idea of possibly

putting something together for

high schools in the area.

“We thought it was a good

idea,” Rolain said. “So I went

into the office and scheduled

a meeting with

Mr. Goralski—”

“—multiple

times,” Boe

i n t e r r u p t e d ,

right before

throwing a ball

down the alley.

“ Y e a h ,

several times,

actually,” Rolain

said, laughing.

“He said it’s a

good idea, that

he doesn’t know

why anyone

hasn’t done it

before.”

To make the league work,

the bowlers need to find at

least four teams of five players.

Goralski will also try to get a

teacher team together. And

on top of that, the bowlers are

going to try to get teams from

Rochester and Adams to join

the league, according to Boe.

“It’d be nice to get all the

schools involved,” Langan said.

“The big thing for us is just to

start somewhere.”

Rolain realizes that this

program will only start small

and work its way up.

“Basically this year it’s just

going to be a club instead of an

actual league,”

Rolain said,

“but hopefully,

it’ll turn into a

league.”

G o r a l s k i

still has to

decide the

sponsor of it if

it’ll be a club.

“I have to

decide, that if

[Tom Langan]

gives us a good

price and if it

fits in the club,

then I can

actually have him be the sponsor

of it, or if a teacher wants to run

it.” Goralski said. “If not, like

the basketball league, we just

run it informally.”

Goralski plans to run the

bowling league the same way he

runs his basketball league. Since

Stoney opened, Goralski has

run an intramural basketball

league on the same concept of

the bowling league.

“The goal is to see if we

could do the same thing with

bowling,” Goralski said, “[if we]

could do a six, eight, ten week

season and at the end run a

tournament.”

Apart from the possible

future bowling league, Boe,

Rolain, and Pitlock bowl in a

current youth league at North

Hill Lanes.

The boys have been bowling

in a league at the local alley for

two years. For 15 weeks out of

the year, the boys bowl every

Saturday for three games from

9:15 to 11:30 a.m.

“One time Pitlock threw a

double gutter ball,” Boe said,

laughing. “He threw it in the

gutter, it bounced out and rolled

into the other gutter.”

“You got to have a better

memory than that,” Rolain

said to Boe, shaking his head.

“My favorite memory is when

we used to go bowling like five

times a week last year.”

“Oh yeah,” Andrew perked

up. “We’d go on Fridays and

like four times on Saturday.”

Rolain found that bowling

is more than just bowling for

him.“We found out that it’s

actually our passion in life.”

Rolain said.

by Nick Cruz

Managing Design Editor

“He doesn’t

know why

anyone hasn’t

done it

before.”Senior Matt Rolain

Bowler Bio

Andrew BoeAdam Rolain

Matt RolainMatt Pitlock

Grade: Senior

Highest score: 182

Average score: 130

Average speed: 12.5

mph

Bowling Ball Weight: 12

lbsStyle: Two-handed

Grade: Sophomore

Highest score: 145

Average Score: 107

Average Speed: 15.5

mph

Bowling Ball Weight: 12

lbsStyle: One-handed

Grade: Senior

Highest Score: 169

Average Score: 141

Average Speed: 16 mph

Bowling Ball Weight: 12

lbsStyle: One-handed

Grade: Senior

Highest Score: 199

Average Score: 119

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The “seasonal sport” has lost its meaning from what it used to be. Before, one could play several sports a year only focusing on a sport depending on when that’s sport’s season is. Fall sports would be played in the fall; winter sports would be played in the winter, and, as crazy of a concept as that may seem, that’s how it worked.

In the modern day sports world, an athlete is pushed by coaches and teammates to join AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) and club teamsfor year round play. Athletes do this so much so that the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) has put restrictions on an athlete’s participation in sports affiliated

with school sports outside of the season. For example, an athlete who plays football in the fall is not allowed to have practices in pads in the spring.

Restrictions such as these are often looked down upon from a coach’s perspective, but they do serve a valid purpose. These restrictions create fairer competition and allow students to participate in other sports.

“We can only have four man work outs in the summer (during a certain period of time). More players would be against the rules,” varsity basketball player Ben Temrowski said.

Temrowski’s coach, along with any coach, has limits on the number of players he can train because it would create unfair competition. These restrictions make it so that competing high schools won’t be at a disadvantage.

But it’s not only the other schools that could be put at a disadvantage, upcoming players trying out would not be given a fair chance.

If a player such as Temrowski wishes to participate in year-long sports teams, they are available for him; just they cannot be coached by the school team coach.

“The majority of the varsity soccer team plays on a club winter team after the season is over,” said varsity soccer player Billy Kobus. “But if people had other sports, it would come first.”

By Kobus and other players knowing that other sports come first, they are not forced to play all year round.

Restrictions by the MHSAA are done for a reason. Athletes should not have the ability to play all year round for their school because it would create unfair competition force athletes to make decisions on whether or not to play multiple sports. Although the restrictions have been criticized by some, overall they are a good, essential piece of sports practices today and are a solid limit to athletes and coaches.

She’s a fresh start, a different impression. Shes Amanda Czarnik, the new coach.

Czarnik, the interior design teacher, was notified of her new coaching position on Nov. 1, just six days before tryouts after being recommended by Melissa Mathie.

The former cheer coach for two and a half years, Claire Mozer, resigned from her coaching position after making the Pistons cheer team and deciding she needed more time to finish her college education.

“It was very understandable, her reasoning was sound, and she will be missed,” Head varsity cheer coach, Tricia Williams said.

“I was sort of disappointed at first,” freshman Sam Pankey said, “but then I got excited to try to work with someone new and see a different way of

coaching.”This is Czarnik’s first time

coaching at Stoney. “It all basically fell in my

lap,” Czarnik said, referring to how she got the job.

“I sent out applications and we ended up with three canidates and she was definitely the best,” Williams said about Czarnik’s coaching eligibilty.

Throughout high school Czarnik had been a “wanna-be” cheerleader. When she began her student teaching, she was asked to be the seventh grade competitive cheer coach for Harrison Middle School. She later coached the freshman team at Howell until she moved to the Rochester area.

“I had always wanted to be a part of the Stoney Cheer program, knowing how talented the girls were, but I didn’t expect to be in my first year of teaching,” Czarnik said with a smile.

Even though she is excited, Czarnik is faced with some difficulties after not having the time and opportunity to create

routines for the team.“I feel a lot of pressure, and I

don’t want to let anyone down, or take away from my classes,” Czarnik said.

The cheerleading season is split up into two parts, football sideline and competitive. During football season coaches are able to learn their team’s abilities and begin forming cheers and motions for competition rounds.

By Jan. 14 the girls must have memorized three completely different rounds carefully coordinated by the coaches based on the team’s strengths.

“We have a lot to do, and I am a little worried. Lucky for us, Coach Claire had already taught us the precision drill,” Pankey said about the little time they have.

“I hope to have a team that all gets along together,” Czarnik said. “I feel that if their friends on and off the mats, we will have tight bonds and it will show at competitions.”

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For three straight years she has been one of the best, but not the best. She knew that during her senior year there wouldn’t be any excuses.

Senior Gabby Yurik won the individual state golf

championship on Oct. 15 with a

total score of 153, edging out Sarah W h i t e from East Kentwood by

four strokes. In past seasons

she has finished fifth, second and

third, according the MIPrepzone.com.

Yurik knew that her high finishes in past state

tournaments would breed a lot of expectations for this

season. She also put a lot of personal pressure on herself to reach this new height.

“This was my last chance to reach the highest level you can get to,” Yurik said. “I had opportunities to get there before, but I didn’t come through.”

While she was confident throughout the tournament, Yurik admits there was adversity.

“It was pretty discouraging to think, ‘Wow! I’m down by four and I only have one more day’.” Yurik said, she was worried that her high school career would end on another close finish and not a victory.

Yurik has always gone to her dad to help herself focus.

“I talked to my dad and we were like ‘alright we are just gonna go out there and play’,” Yurik said, “and if this girl beats me she beats me.”

By shedding off all of her

expectations, Yurik was able to take advantage of some key opportunities on the second day.

According to Yurik her mental toughness was an advantage against White.

“I don’t think mentally she was ready to stay in and win,” Yurik said.

On the final day of the tournament both golfers were truly tested in heavy winds. Yurik took the lead several times until finally grabbing hold on the fifteenth hole.

“After the fifteenth hole I had gone through so many lead changes of losing the lead and getting it back that I was set,” Yurik said. “I said to myself I was not going to give the lead back and I just hung tough.” Once she built her confidence on the fifteenth hole, Yurik was able to play consistent golf for the rest of the tournament.

Until she ultimately won with a four stroke margin. Senior Anna Rode knows that the team was extremely happy for Yurik.

“She is our leader and often sets the tone for the rest of the team,” Rode said. “We couldn’t have been happier when she won it all.”

Head Coach Tony Lafferty agrees that Yurik is a great influence on the team.

“She leads by example,” Lafferty said. “She is the best golfer in the state and when you have the opportunity to watch the best golfer in the state, you learn from it.”

Yurik knew she had the support of her team the entire way, but she was happy to finish her career with no regrets.

“It was a big relief to kind of get that off my back,” Yurik said. “I kind of reached my potential and didn’t leave anything out there.”

by Matt Pitlock

editor-in-Chief

Focus: Yurik crouches to read the breaks of the green before her putt. She relied a lot on strong putting to improve her score dur-ing bad weather.

Following through: Yurik tries to hit ac-curate shots to keep the ball in the fairway. During the state tournament the wind made blew the ball at 40 miles per hour.

Victory: Yurik lifts the trophy above her head in victory. She beat East Kentwood’s Sarah White by four strokes.

Are stu-dents forced to play sports all year?

“But if people had

other sports, it would come

first.” Junior Billy Kobus

Going through the motions: Czarnik corrects the freshman team’s placement. She supervised her team’s sequences with a critical eye.

(all photos used with permission of Tony Lafferty)

(Photo by Darian Roseman)

Senior Emily Collins guides the crochet hooks with speed and precision, her eyes

never look down. She sits in her second hour anatomy class, her brain focused on the human

anatomy while her fingers create art. For Collins, crocheting comes naturally. It’s her release from

stress of life.“I don’t have to think about anything when I’m

crocheting,” Collins said. “My mind literally goes anywhere. I can sit there for hours and not think of

anything. It’s kind of cool.”At first, it was a pastime—something she did during

class or at home to wind down. If she needed to relax, she crocheted. Then it turned into something more practical.

“It [crocheting] started out because I hate going purse shopping,” Collins said, rolling her eyes. “I hate it so much. They’re all ugly and hideous so I said, ‘Screw ev-eryone else’s purses, I’m making my own!’ It was some-thing I could accomplish.”

It wasn’t until Collins started showing others her work that she realized she could do something with it, and possibly use it later in life. Junior year she showed counselor Paul Carlin a Gandalf doll she’d knitted for a friend. Carlin emailed art teacher Diane Heath, and it was then that Heath discovered Coilllins’ talents.

“Art trends like fashion, and right now one of the big trends is the home craft direction,” Heath said, going on to share how she recruited Collins for her AP Studio Art class. “I sent a pass for her and told

her, ‘Emily, seriously, this stuff is amazing. You could do an entire portfolio with crocheted,

felted, fibers—it’s hot!’ And Emily said, ‘Re-ally, you think I could?’ and I said yes.”

With a new reason to keep up cro-cheting, Collins let the ideas roll, creat-

ing bags, hats, jewelry, shirts, and even a bikini out of crocheted

and felted wool. Even the wool itself is

a passion for Collins. It’s something she’ll gladly spend hundreds of dollars on, or seek out specially when purchasing clothes.

“Oh my gosh! I love wool,” Collins said, sigh-ing contentedly, and talking animatedly about her wool obsession. “My favorite is probably Merino wool. I wear it all the time. Merino’s nice because it’s one of the softer wools, and it felts really nice. I love Merino, you have no idea!”

Although Collins doesn’t plan to pursue art in col-lege—her heart lies in the science departments— she can still use it to her advantage when filling out college applications. She can even use it later on in life as a part time job, or maybe just “a really intense hobby” as Col-lins put it.

“Just because someone’s in my AP art class doesn’t mean they’re going to go into art,” Heath said. “Art makes things so much richer, so that when you get down the road and you’re applying to college, that art portfolio sets you apart from all the other applicants.”

In the back row of her AP Literature class, Collins’ friends look on smiling, watching her crochet away. This time it’s on a DNA scarf. Feet of white, twisting wool lay across her lap and the table, multiplying as time goes by. Periodically she sets the needles down and returns to a notebook, scribbling down new ideas.

“It’s pretty entertaining [watching her think of ideas], because she comes up to me and says, ‘If only I could draw!’ but, she’s actually good at drawing,” senior Meredith White said, laughing as she thinks of her friend and fellow artist, then turning a little more serious. “She’s an expert. She knows exactly what’s going on. She makes these incredible pieces, and they turn out awesome every time.”

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His eyes remain steady on his hands, never breaking his gaze. Swiftly and smoothly, he weaves the thick wool through the crevasses of the needles with ease. Finally, after a prolonged silence, he looks up.

“And it’s as easy as that,” senior Marcello Mol-teni said with a smile and a shrug, proudly flashing his finished product.

Out all the teenage hob-bies, Molteni’s is one of a kind. He crochets beanies, or tight-knit winter hats.

“It all started after prom,” Molteni said “I stayed out too late and didn’t tell my parents where I was… long story short, I got grounded for a long time. So

one day I was bored and de-cided to try it out. It all just kind of took off from there.”

Took off is exactly what his beanie branding did, and they’re in a higher demand than ever.

“Since winter is rolling around, I guess a lot of people want beanies. They’re really good for skiing and just winter fashion,” Molteni said.

And because beanies are in style right now, Molteni has to increase his production speed. While balancing his hobby between work and school, he has managed to make over 50

beanies and hopes to turn his hobby into a business.

“We’ll see what happens,” Molteni said modestly “I hope I can continue with it though.”

Currently, ski shops in Bir-mingham have agreed to sell some of the handmade bean-ies. If the products sell well, the shops will increase their demand from Molteni and he’ll get a cut of the profits.

In addition to ski shops, Molteni’s friends and class-mates have adopted the beanie bravura.

“’Cello makes great bean-ies,” senior Matt Connors said “Keeps my head nice and warm!”

Senior Kelly Hoyer is also excited about Molteni’s busi-ness, and has already placed an order for a custom hat.

“It’s nice to wear something home-made. I think it’s more genuine than anything from a factory,” Hoyer said.

As far as expenses go, the price for every beanie is differ-ent.

“Each beanie is unique,” Molteni said, “so the prices vary. If I use thicker or more expensive wool, the beanie is more expensive.”

Molteni makes beanies in all different colors, patterns, and styles, and scales the price between $12 and $15.

So are his beanies for guys or girls?

Molteni provides his last words of wisdom with a laugh: “Beanies are for everyone!”

Let’s get the yarn ball rolling : Senior Emily Collins work hard on their crochet creations. She uses school time as a chance to get in a few extra stitches .(photos by Kira Bucks-baum)

The crocheting craze has hooked new followers, and they aren’t over 70, either.

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“Something a little extra” Lagniappe in Downtown Rochester

Lights twinkle in Downtown Rochester

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Lights

It seems as though Downtown Rochester will be sunny with the chance of “a little something extra” this holiday season.

Defined Lagniappe for short, merchants in Downtown Rochester will be celebrating the holiday of floating lanterns on Nov. 29 by giving their shoppers a “small something” in thanks and gratitude for their support throughout the year.

According to Rochester Media, the Rochester Downtown Development Authority will also be offering the Lagniappe celebration as well.

An organization designed to support and improve the Rochester Downtown area, the DDA is in charge of most, if not all events that occur within range of the downtown area. Created in 1982, the DDA serves as the voice of the town, the lagniappe of the dark.

According to www.ci.rochester.mi.us, the members

of the DDA are made up of business owners, property owners, residents and liaison members from the City Council, the Chamber of Commerce, Rochester Community Schools and Oakland University, and are well-rounded and represent the public fairly.

According to the DDA, their mission is to increase economical development in Downtown Rochester for the benefit of the community. Therefore, as part of the Lagniappe celebration, the DDA is hosting “Kicks for a Cause,” an event designed to collect donations of shoes for kids who do not have the luxury of being able to afford a pair of shoes.

Partnering with the Rochester Area Neighborhood House, the DDA plans to open and dedicate this event to the public from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the corner of E.Fourth & Main, according to Rochester Media.

Besides the DDA, other specific events during Lagniappe

will be sponsored by many different places. The Downtown Rochester Holiday Shop will be having its grand opening on the day of Lagniappe. According to Rochester Media, the shop will hold Christmas ornaments and holiday cards, the sort of festive goods early Christmas shoppers are on the search for.

When it comes to entertainment, Waltonwood University will sponsor the free horse-drawn trolley rides down Main, available at E.Third and Walnut Street, while holiday carols will be sung by the Meadowbrook Carolers, Heart of the Hills Barbershop Chorus, and Oakland University’s Gold Vibrations a Cappella.

The Lagniappe festival is hosted one day every year. A day of sky lights, melodious voices, and horses trotting through the streets, this festival in Downtown Rochester will certainly be sunny with the chance of “a little something extra” this holiday season.

Soojin ChunLifestyles Editor

Downtown Rochester

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“I’m just high on life man... high on life.”

“I drew a diagram of Grandma’s teeth!”

“I want to cut my feet off and soak them in ice water.”

“I don’t care. I’m putting the sandwich in my pocket.”

“You don’t get a lollipop. I never really liked you that much.”

“‘Death by rabies’ is not a motif.”

“They can’t be together! That’s like Santa and the Grinch getting married!”

“Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice and pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

“I would definitely wear my mom’s jeans.”

“I got distracted by pictures of cats on the internet.”

“Have you seen him in his Gumby suit?”

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The twinkle of lights, the joyous cries of families, the sparkle in children’s eyes as they stare up at their favorite Downtown restaurants. These are many of the signs that you are currently at

the Big Bright Light Show. The Sixth Annual Big Bright Light Show in Downtown Rochester is set to premier during the Lagniappe festival on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. Every store or restaurant in this area streams dozens and dozens of Christmas lights on the front and sometimes sides of the building, from the South Bridge, all the way to Romeo Road. These lights will continue to be strung along Fourth Street structures from Walnut Street to Water Street, according to the Downtown Rochester website. Every night after the unveiling, the lights will be lit 6 p.m. to midnight. The Big Bright Light Show will end on Jan. 1. When this display originally began in 2006, each building was covered in 500,000 lights, according to Dominique King, of the Midwest Guest website. However, in this year’s extravaganza there is estimated to be over 1.5 billion points of light, according to the Downtown Rochester website. Sponsors include Oakland University, Rojo Mexican Bistro, Pixley Funeral Home, and Studio One Salon. As well as the Big Bright Lights, there will be the annual Christmas tree placed on University Drive and lit during the festival. Kristi Trevarrow, the Rochester Downtown Development Authority executive director, is in charge of the Big Bright Light Show. However, Nancy Voges, DDA marketing coordinator, spoke on her behalf. “We budget about $250,000 per year,” Voges said. This includes the cost of installing and, in the case of emergency, replacing the lights. J. Ranck Electric begins putting the lights up at the beginning of October, so that they are ready to run by the end of November. These lights are hung by eye hooks and are about two to three inches apart and LED lights are used because they are 95% more efficient than the average Christmas lights, according to Voges. Voges said that there are many fundraisers for this big night. Along with these, many holiday cards and photos of the show (both framed and un-framed) are sold for the holiday season. “[The purpose is] to raise awareness of downtown, and make it a destination,” Voges said. She also said that this extravaganza may attract attention and therefore, draw attention to our area, and help the businesses that thrive in Downtown Rochester. Students in the area are apparently drawn to the excitement of the Big Bright Light Show. Junior Rachael Bonin, who has gone to the Show in 2009 with her dad and friends, said she liked the solid-colored lights; however, the multi-colored lights were more enjoyable. “It draws my attention more,” she said. She didn’t go to the show more than one year, but already she said that she likes to check out all the lights with her friends. “To me, when I’m down there, it’s peaceful,” Bonin said.

(Compiled by Danielle Blessing)

Typical Lagniappe Items