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RODNEY EDWARDSSports Editor

Not Under The Lights

Crowds. Lights. Even fame. All of these are experienced by Division 1 College athletes every weekend, when thousands upon tens of thousands of people fill the stands. No matter the sport, the athletes who compete Division 1 are subject to near the same level of analysis and fandom as Ma-jor League athletes. Yet while they don’t receive nearly as much coverage, other levels of collegiate athletics are just as important.

For high school athletes across the country, “going D1” is the ultimate goal. However, making it into Division 1 is extremely competitive; many aren’t able to achieve it. Those who wish to contin-ue in their sport but unable to make the division, turn to lesser known colleges, including division 2, division 3, or Junior College, commonly re-ferred to as JUCO.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA is the major governing body for inter-collegiate athletics, simply the organization that runs college sports. According to Prepscholar, NCAA classifies the 1200 colleges it governs into 3 groups: Divisions 1, 2, and 3. They do this in order to level the playing field, making sure that programs that might have less funding and re-sources to perform well, don’t end up playing pro-grams who spend millions on staff, equipment, and recruiting. All sports fans love an underdog story, but seeing Alabama or Louisville score 20 touchdowns in a row against Northern Central Idaho State wouldn’t be appealing to anyone.

While schools in Divisions one, two, and three can change divisions as they get compari-tavely better or worse, JUCO, or Junior College, is in a league all of its own. Unlike their division-al counterparts, all JUCO schools are two year programs. Athletes play only against other JUCO programs, hoping to gain the attention from 4 year university scouts.

When players go to JUCO schools, the stan-dard pathway is stay for 2 years, and then transfer to a four year university once they earn their asso-ciates degree. However, many Division 1 schools scout JUCO schools for talent, for reasons rang-ing finding hidden talent or getting more players so they don’t have too many students graduate at the same time.

While it may seem as though the divisions below are lesser than division one, the opposite can certainly be true. Division II, III, and JUCO schools provide a competitive opportunity for athletes who may have financial troubles, grade issues, or still need time before they fully develop their talent. Programs such as Northwest Missouri St. and West Georgia have skilled football teams, while local Midlands University has a strong bas-ketball tournaments.

Millard North has sent great athletes to school such as these. In just only baseball, Logan Sisson committed to Wichita State, Nick Engle committed to Hutchinson, Cole Johnson com-mitted to Hutchinson Community College, and Aaron Gerdes committed to Hawaii. Our athletes and many more have proven themselves. What-ever the case, while non division 1 schools have not have the immediate fame others have, they are still a viable and strong options for athletes.

What fictional character are you?

Favorite round object?

Dream retirement location?

What do you sing in the shower?

Jock Talk

BEN KING LINDSAY WILBUR JOSEPH ROTH RACHEL BRADERFOOTBALL GIRL’S GOLFCROSS COUNTRYSOFTBALL

A basketball

Bart Simpson Pheobe(Friends)

Arthur Leslie Knope

A softball- duh! A large taco pizza from Godfather’s

POPSOCKETS

Florida A good ole farm in Smalltown, USA

A beach in Florida Anywhere on a golf course

Nothing. Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band

Taylor Swift It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

CAUSING A RACQUETHub and Bub take the court as #2 doubles partners

LEILY ZHUNews Editor

One of the first rules you learn in tennis is that love means nothing. It’s equivalent to a score of zero. The boys varsity tennis team has had lit-tle love in their scores this season, but the love on court between teammates has soared to an all-time high.

With a team name like Hub and Bub, the duo that forms the team must be something special. Two doubles partners senior Grant Hubbard and sophomore Isaac Sivinski may not be related by blood, but they just might be long-lost twins.

Both players were born with tennis in their blood. Hubbard and Sivinski’s fathers are both tennis professionals who coach and own their own tennis businesses. The partners have played on varsity since their freshman year. Both Hub-bard and Sivinski also each have an older sister, both with the same name, who were captains of the MN dance team during their respective senior years—Abby Hubbard and Abbie Sivinski.

Even more remarkable, both boys have un-cles who are firemen and both strive to become paramedic firemen. This partnership of Hub and Bub turned out to be the joining of twins that look nothing alike.

Individually, Hubbard and Sivinski are re-ferred to on a first-name basis. But as soon as they set foot on court, they become “Hub and Bub.” Hub is self-explanatory; it comes from Hubbard’s last name. Bub is derived from Sivinski’s child-hood nickname “Bubby” which his mom, Angie Sivinski, yells from the stands. The name stuck and they officially became Hub and Bub.

“Grant has been kind about taking Isaac un-der his wing as an underclassman. It’s perfect. They’re Hub and Bub,” Angie Sivinski said.

Hubbard, former two doubles state champi-on, helps Sivinski with doubles’ strategies.

“They never get mad at each other. I’ve nev-er seen the other put the other one down. They’re both quiet and both very encouraging and they never lose their temper,” Angie Sivinski said.

Staying focused is an important part of the game, but there’s still room for inside jokes.

“High high-fives tire me out, so I told Isaac to do only low high-fives. It’s a pretty big operation,” Hubbard said.

Hubbard and Sivinski were partnered based on not only skill level, but their teamwork. It was chance they ended up being non-related twins.

“Isaac and Grant’s games combined go well together. They have come a long way since their first match. They are a great team together and are for sure a very strong team,” varsity tennis coach Josh Raymond said.

Shouting and cheering for Hub and Bub can be heard from the sidelines from vocal MN tennis supporters at each duel and invite. At State, it’s no different, except the volume of the cheering is at least tripled. The two doubles team placed second at Metros and fifth at State.

“Overall it was a very fun and exciting sea-son, and I am very thankful for having a great partner that was funny and a good role model,” Sivinski said.

Hub & Bub Dub:Senior Grant Hubbard and sophmore Isaac Sivinski finished 5th at the State Tournament. Even at their last tournament, the similarities between them are striking.Photograph byOdochi Akwani

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MOVING ONE-TO-ONELaptop HPX360 to be deployed to students second semester

Rodney EdwardsStaff Writer

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Library in Transition

For every MN student, Christmas will come twice this season. On Jan. 5, 2017, each student will receive a laptop as the school achieves its goal of giving each student their own laptop.

The program, called one-to-one, starts when students and staff return from winter break; fresh-men, sophomores, and juniors will be directed to Mustang Time and all seniors will go to the au-ditorium. Every student who filled out their in-surance forms and paperwork will be given a lap-top.

“The laptop is a HPX360, able to switch be-tween a standard laptop and a tablet. It has a solid HR drive and plenty of ‘oomph’,” Technology Ad-ministrator Jeff Yost said.

On the laptop itself, there are several pro-grams that will be vital to students, including Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. To com-plement the desired use of Google Classroom, the laptops already have Google Chrome and other Google products downloaded.

Aside from the laptops themselves, the ad-ministration has taken steps to support the use of the laptops.

“The biggest challenge the school will face is

providing the appropriate infrastructure to sup-port the devices. Almost a full year of planning by the MPS Tech division has lead to the installa-tion of hardware throughout the school to provide adequate bandwidth,” Assistant Principal Casey Lundgren said.

From the mobile printing stations to putting an internet access connection in every classroom, the school has taken these steps and more to ac-commodate the the massive surge of technology.

However, the school is not finished yet. Yost and the tech assistants will be setting up laptop re-pair carts dedicated to helping students. Located in the tiled hallway between the library and the

staircase leading to the language hallways, stu-dents can visit this cart and fill out a ticket. The assistants can then find the problem, and assign it to be fixed.

Even with preemptive measures, Yost and the other staff expect there to be a learning period. Students initially unfamiliar with the models will have several resources online in the form of the school’s Twitter Updates and Tips, and the ability to download class specific apps will be available on a website that will be presented the day stu-dents receive laptops. With this ability, Lundgren hopes that staff and students will be able to work well with the technology.

Tech Check:Tech facilitator Jay Hutfles and tech specialist Franco Fioini image laptops at Ron Witt prior to deployment. The laptops will be delivered at the start of second semester. Contributed byJeff Yost

One-to-One Need to Know

Q: Will I be able to leave my computer at school?A: No, students must take devices home and are expected to bring them to school every day.Q: What should I do if my computer is having issues?A: Reboot the computer. If that doesn’t work, students can submit Helpdesk tickets or visit the Tech Support Center.Q: What is the Helpdesk?A: Helpdesk is an online system in Millard that allows stu-dents to submit requests for work on their computers.Q: When is the Tech Support Center open?A: Face-to-face support is available 7:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Laptop DeploymentThursday, Jan. 5

MT 8:00-8:45Seniors go to auditorium

Distribute laptops to MT rooms

Watch video produced by tech division

Learn about laptop use and care

STUDENTS WITH NO PAPERWORKWILL NOT RECEIVE A LAPTOP

1. Download the Destiny Discover App on your personal

device2. Choose Nebraska under

United States3. Type “Millard N High Sch”

4. Login with your school user-name and password

5. Find a title of Digital Audio or E-Book

6. Click “Checkout”7. Digital books will be auto-matically turned in after two

weeks

Visit one-to-one.mpsomaha.org for info

What’s In

What’s Out

New classroom space

Green screen use

Charging stations

Extra study space

Study Collaborations

Readbox

Clutter

Computer Monitors

Extra chargers (bring your own)

Crowded Tables

Empty Library

Overdue books

On June 16, 2016, Arianna Quan was the first Asian-American to be crowned as Miss Michigan. Born in Beijing and naturalized at age fourteen, her platform was about the acceptance of differ-ences and appreciating diversity. But unfortunate-ly, she was attacked on social media with hateful comments regarding her appearance; she suppos-edly wasn’t “beautiful enough” to be crowned Miss Michigan even though she had fairly won the title.

Those who took their negative comments to the Internet claimed that Quan was not beau-ty pageant material, that she represented neither Michigan nor China, that she was was “too ugly.” However, our shaming society must be put to an end, wherever and whenever it should occur.

Quan was not the only person to recently be attacked on social media for the way she looks.Plus-size model and body activist Ashley Graham was unfairly body shamed as well.

After posting a picture her hairstylist had snapped on Instagram, Graham received the feedback that she looked too thin to be a plus-size model. Comments that she was fake and starting to conform to Hollywood’s standards were posted and Graham ended up taking the picture down due to the magnitude of the shaming. The truth was that Graham hadn’t lost any weight at all.

However, not only has Graham been body shamed for looking too thin, but she has been criticized for the opposite as well. When cellulite was spotted in her legs, it sparked the criticism that Graham encourages unhealthiness and even obesity. On the other hand, the reality of the sit-uation is that Graham has been a huge advocate for a healthy lifestyle in which an individual feels comfortable in his or her own body.

Graham has gotten shamed for looking both too thin and also too big, but this shaming must stop. Without knowing the entire story, shaming is occurring everywhere, especially on social me-dia.. As a society, we are constantly looking for the criticisms that must be pointed out, and are failing to look toward the whole truth and what is being done correctly.

For instance, while Quan was attacked on social media for “not being beautiful enough,” it is important to realize that she also won the tal-ent portion of the Miss America Pageant with her impressive piano performance. This is not to say that she is not a gorgeous individual, but it must be noted that thirty percent of the final score of this pageant is based off of the talent competition. Being able to win such a rigorous and competitive portion of the test should be celebrated, but many individuals felt inclined to criticize instead.

Fortunately, both Quan and Graham were able to fight the shaming. Quan has continued to voice her opinion on acceptance while Graham wrote a letter to express herself. While it is for-tunate that both women were in a situation that allowed them to stand up for themselves, it is im-portant to realize that many people cannot. We must combat our shaming society and the first step is to try to understand and humanize these individuals. Rather than resorting to the shaming of individuals, we must be able to see the situation in a positive light, or at least make a true attempt to understand the entire story.

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PRINTER PERFECTMillard welcomes new printing kiosks

NOAH SACCOStaff Writer

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Christina YounCo-Editor-in-Chief

An End to Shaming

At the beginning of the school year, MN re-ceived numerous additions to its building. One of these new additions was the installation of print-ing kiosks in every MPS high school.

Each printing kiosk includes two printers that have multiple paper drawers, holding over 1500 sheets of paper. The printers are attached to one computer, and are stationed in several, easy to access, areas around the building.

The kiosks can be found at nine different lo-cations in each department throughout the build-ing. Their locations are in the Media Center, Mus-tang Center, the Math/IT, Language Arts, World Language, Art, Science/FCS, Science/Physics, and Business/Social Studies Areas.

One of the special features that accompany the new printing stations are the brand new color printers. As well as the traditional black and white printers, students now have the option to print with color instead of being stuck with the mun-dane option of only printing black and white.

Additionally, the printing kiosks allow for students to print and pick up their papers at dif-ferent locations throughout the school. Now, stu-dents can print a job for later from the Language Arts kiosk and pick it up at the Media Center when they’re ready.

The decision to change the printing systems not only made color printing more accessible, but had other motives as well.

“The motivation of the printing centers is to decrease the number of print jobs that the school goes through. Mainly, it is used to reduce the overall cost of the printing. As a school, we burn through a lot of paper on a yearly basis. The new printing kiosks are a way the school can reduce that volume of paper, which is a benefit to the school and to the environment,” Technology Fa-

cilitator Jeff Yost said.Despite the benefits, there could be

some negative aspects to these new printing centers.

“I haven’t really noticed any flaws with the printing kiosks. However, printing has be-come more time-consum-ing and sometimes it won’t print for a minute or so,” senior Trevor Daubert said.

With some p r o b l e m s arising from the printing centers, the question of how suc-cessful they are is posed.

“I think the new printing sta-tions are really beneficial because the kids who needed to print color, but didn’t have a color printer at home, are able to do so at the kiosks. People are also very judicious about how much they choose to print, knowing that they have a set amount of printing money at the stations,” librarian Stephanie Burdic said.

Printing is a vital part of high school and it serves as the cornerstone of many students’ successes and failures in their classes. Therefore, these new printing kiosks will serve to be more beneficial in the future.

“I think they will be necessary when everyone is one to one. We are going to have a school full of students with laptops who are go-ing to need places to print, and having them al-ways go to the library to print will be too much. It will be more convenient for classes as a whole when they’re using those one to one devices,” En-glish teacher Monica Kauffman said.

How to use the printer kiosksStep 1: File print

Step 2: Choose a print color

Step 3: Find 1 of the 9 printer kiosks in the school

Step 4: Log in with your username and password/student ID

Step 5: Click “print” on your print queue

Step 6: You have successfully printed your paper

MN has nine printing centers throughout the school

These printing kiosks are now in all Millard schools

The paper drawers hold over 1500 sheets of paper

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GOING PROMusical crew works with professional set designer

ODOCHI AKWANIOnline Editor

FEE FREE FIELD TRIPSPolicy changes field trip routines

LEILY ZHUNews Editor

Setting the scene: Set crew members Braxton Kramer and Hunter Holoubek carry wood in to start working on the staircase. The crew will have to complete the set in two months for the October shows. Photograph by Odochi Akwani

“I’ve got a daughter here.

I think that’s [field trips] are

an important opportunity so

I would have no problem

donating $5-$10 for her to have that

experience.”

Chad ZimmermanActivities Director

Often times when the musical is spoken about at school, the focus is centered on the actors and what they are doing on stage. While necessary and noteworthy to mention their accomplish-ments, what goes on behind the scenes helps set the foundation for the production as well.

For the 2016 fall musical, ‘Catch Me If You Can’, the set crew will be receiving help from an outside source, John Horton, a professional set designer. He will design a blueprint of the set based on the designs of Elizabeth Meyers. Hor-ton will also be working alongside the students to teach them how to build the set following his blueprint designs. With his influence they hope to create a more sound and stable set.

Director of Choral Activities Megan Tantil-lo, was the decision-maker, who chose to seek out professional help.

“The musical this year, ‘Catch Me If You Can’, is one with an enormous double staircase. This would be a lofty challenge for any high school set crew, so it was necessary to look for external help,” Tantillo said.

Along with that, there is a time crunch this year for the musical. Instead of the usual three months to prepare for this production, they have a mere two months to get ready for the shows on October 14-16.

Set chief Danny Igo, believes with the help of the blueprints from Horton, the set will be done in time.

“If the architect gives a full visual, it will be done faster,” Igo said.

The full visual will delineate to the set crew what they need to create and the ways in which to do so. By working with a professional, the stu-dents are able to get a feel for how a real life set design works. It’s given them the opportunity to work side by side with a man who has made a ca-reer out of this. Set crew member, Jayson Smith even helped in the creation of the blueprints en-suring they will be easily understandable to the rest of the crew.

“They’ve had real professional experience of what stage productions look like in the real world,” stage manager Courtney Tompkins, said.

Students on set crew are learning the in’s and out’s of carpentry and the proper way to use tools

such as the power drill and the table saw. On top of that, they are learning about different types of wood and their uses.

“I’m learning a lot. It was intimidating at first, but now I’ve got into the groove of it, especially the drills because we’ve been using them so often,” set crew member Emma Gibbs said.

The students are calling this staircase “The Monster” with its 7-foot-tall frame that is said to take up half the stage, eliminating the possibility

of multiple set changes.The designer will supply the students with

the blueprints as well as the necessary amount of wood for them to build this mass of a set.

The production is scheduled to be put on mid-October.

“We are very excited for this year’s musical, and we look forward to seeing the seats filled come opening night for this one of a kind story about a con-artist’s life.” Tantillo said.

Many high school students still get that kin-dergarten-like flurry of excitement that popped up without fail in the days long past when the two words “field” and “trip” are spoken together. It’s a chance to leave school during the day. Of course, we would pay to be able to do that. Well now, we no longer have to.

A field trip policy has been newly enforced statewide that public schools in Nebraska are no longer allowed to charge for field trips that are part of the curriculum. The reasoning behind this is that all students are allowed and entitled to a free education and they cannot be charged for a class grade.

This does not mean they are now free. Trans-portation costs still exist, along with whatever other possible costs the destination and activities may have. But now, rather than requiring the stu-dent’s family to cover those costs, MN, as well as all public schools across the state of Nebraska, has to devise ways in which to pay for these educa-tional experiences.

“There are some grant opportunities out there if teachers still want to do field trips because they are an important element, potentially, of a particular class,” Activities Direc-tor Chad Zim-merman said.

Some of the cost will also be covered by the department bud-gets. However, the school is al-lowed to solicit for donations from parents, MN alumni, and outside orga-nizations. This way, payments are not required, but greatly ap-preciated.

“I’ve got a daughter here. I think that’s [field trips] are an important opportunity so I would

have no problem donating $5-$10 for her to have that experience,” Zimmerman said.

Field trips are an integral part of the Law Studies class. Each year, the class visits the Doug-las County Courthouse and the Omaha Correc-tional Center to observe criminal trials, both misdemeanors and felonies, and to interact with the judges who stay after to answer questions. The students also have the opportunity to visit the prison. Interaction is limited, but two offenders are provided to speak with them.

“It’s an opportunity to teach about the system, to see how courts function in real life. The admin-istration has been more than helpful in coming up with ways to pay for these field trips to ensure the kids get the opportunities,” Law Studies teacher Jeff Salberg said.

This updated policy can change the way class curriculums function, but there are still many ways to continue these annual educational field trips.

“If they’re meaningful, important activities to a class, then we’ll find a way within our building budget to support those activities,” Zimmerman said.

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Careful measures: Set chief Danny Igo and set crew member Delaney McCoy measure wood to get precise numbers for the set. The musical will be performed October 14-16. Photograph by Odochi Akwani