Volume 32, Issue 3 Nov. 13, 2015

Goepfert’s recovery slow but steady According to the National High-way Traffic Association, a pedes-trian is injured in a car accident every eight minutes. On Monday, Oct 26., one of Roswell’s own be-came a part of this statistic. Senior Brian Goepfert was crossing King Rd. on the way to the Row-ell Church of Christ’s parking lot when he was hit by Senior Julia Hipp in her Hyundai Genesis. Hipp said, “[After the acci-dent, I went] into shock. I didn’t really know what was going on until the ambulance/police showed up, but I had several wit-nesses nearby comforting me”. Thankfully, neither student was fatally injured. While Goep-

fert broke both of his legs, he still managed to smile for a hospital selfie with Hipp after the accident. Goepfert’s friend since the seventh grade, Senior Felicia Agostini, said, “He’s been re-ally happy about it. When he saw Julia, [his main concern] was how [she] was doing”. Roswell is taking steps towards preventing any future accidents, whether pedestrian or vehicular. Officer Sean Alexander said, “The situation is bad, but hope-fully we can use this as a learn-ing tool, and we can get through this... Help is on the way”. It’s safe to say that the whole community is thankful for the

safety and protection of everyone involved. Goepfert’s mother has expressed her gratitude for his survival in multiple social media posts throughout the last week. She said, “[I realized] you can-not protect them forever. [I] know that yes, your heart can and does live outside your body. I would give up my own life for this boy. Praying for less pain for him”. The school will continue to show their support for these two students as they sort out their respective challenges to come in the next few weeks.

by Alyssa Howard and Kayden Cann

Hipp said, “It was amaz-ing [visiting] him in the hospi-tal. It was awesome talking to him. He is such a good person”. Photo credit: Julia Hipp

Don’t be a turkey, give thanks!by Amanda Shadmani and Mckenzie Glaze

Art Credit: Thuy West

The staff asked the student body what they were thankful for and they delivered. Obviously people are thankful for general friends and family, but there are some things that are important to people that other people are pretty confused about. Check out the turkey below to see those things for which your peers are thankful for this season!

Fried Turkey Smoked Turkey Roasted Turkey Turduckin I don’t like turkeyEw, I’m vegetarian Ew, I’m vegan I’m allergic

News

[ ]News 2

World to RHS: Global, U.S., Local NewsWorld News

• “Stars Wars: The Force Awak-ens”, featuring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, is going to be released on Thurs-day, Dec 17.

• Hurricane Patricia stands as the strongest landfalling Pacific hur-ricane on record, classified as Category five.

• After announcing the one-child only policy in China being re-voked on Oct 30th, China further updated the people that the new law will not be valid until March.

• Under the fighting name of Jo-elle Hunter, 17 year old Gheeda Chamsaddine is attempting to create the first female wrestling division in the Arab area.

• France lifted their ban on gay men being blood donors and will begin accepting spring 2016.

United States News• “Sesame Street” introduced new

autistic cast member, Julia, to spread awareness for children facing autism.

Photo Credit: http://www.cnn.com• Pop artist Taylor Swift is being

sued for $42 million for suppos-edly stealing the lyrics to her song “Shake it Off” from R&B singer Jesse Braham. He claims to have written “Haters gonna Hate” in 2013.

• Records broken as November heat wave reaches the US.

Georgia News• Since this month is recognized as

Diabetes Awareness Month, At-lanta hosted Step Out 2015 yes-terday. Step Out 2015 is a walk towards raising money to stop diabetes.

• The winners of the 2015 Roswell City Council Elections are Mar-celo Zapata for Post 1, Mike Pal-ermo for Post 2, and Don Horton for Post 3.

• Lionsgate Entertainment plans on buliding a new entertainment center in metro Atlanta that will be a theme park inspired by the “Hunger Games” series. It is said to be opened in 2019.

Roswell High School News• Relay for Life 2016 dates and

time were released for this year. The event will be taking place at the school as usual on Sat., April 23, from 4pm to midnight.

• Thanksgiving break goes from Nov 23-27.

• “The Vox”, Roswell’s literary magazine, wants your work sub-mitted before Dec 1.

• The Hub is Roswell’s newest meeting place for student semi-nars, college and career prep, and student wellness programs.

by Mckenzie Glaze

by McKenzie Glaze November, recognized for Thanksgiving, fall break, and Black Friday, now claims another reputation. Around 30 million people in the United States, both children and adults, are being recognized this month for fighting diabetes. And yes, that includes some of Roswell High School’s very own students. “A daily challenge I face with diabetes is that I’m not able to eat whenever I want, I always have to test my blood sugar, carb count, give insulin, and then I can eat”, said anonymous, “I still try every day to overcome the challenges, but what really gets me through diabetes is keeping a positive attitude and knowing that diabetes is a blessing instead of having something worse.” Clinic assistants Kelly Price and Denise Jobe claim that common struggle is within the cafeteria. They said, “If they eat in the cafeteria, we have to help manage the carbohydrate count for them.” This month’s new meaning raises awareness for the ongoing disease by educating people with the truth behind diabetes through campaigns and events. One common myth about diabetes is a diabetic person’s eating habits.

Anonymous said, “Something that people constantly get wrong about diabetes is that everyone attempts to convince me that I can’t eat sugar or certain food but I’m actually allowed to eat anything I want. I just have to give myself a shot.” Although eating habits is a major factor that can be easily overlooked, other aspects have been misread and misinterpreted, also. “People should know that it’s not contagious, you can’t prevent it, and you’re allowed to eat whatever you want,” said anonymous. Along with misread facts about diabetes, there also comes the treatment and reactions of others discovering if a person has it. Anonymous said, “I don’t think people treat me differently. The only reason people would treat me differently is when food is involved. I remember one time when my teacher got everyone in the class candy canes for the Christmas season and he didn’t give me one because of my diabetes and that really hurt.” Overall, misconceptions and mistreatments derive from not being educated about this particular subject. By raising awareness this month, associations can be one step closer to putting a stop to diabetes.

National Diabetes Month:a day in the life

School Pysch Awareness Week by Kayden Cann This year’s School Psychology Awareness Week is from Nov 9-13. The theme is Connect the Dots and THRIVE, which recognizes an individual’s strength, skill, and ability to create a positive change. The goal is to cultivate a safe, comfortable school environment where students can excel, while fostering social and emotional growth. Schools are encouraged by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) to host various activities throughout the week that will promote team building, uplifting behavior, and individual goal-setting. This includes helping students find ways to set and accomplish said goals, build beneficial relationships, and overcome all of the challenges that high schoolers face on a regular basis. Psychologists and counselors,

“The goal is to cultivate a safe, comfortable school environment where students can excel, while fostering social and emotional growth.”members of the school staff whose priority is to support students’ ability to learn and teachers’ ability to teach, are specialized in the areas of mental health, learning, and success-building

behavior in children. According to the NASP newsletter for Awareness Week, these staff members provide “direct support and interventions to students, such as individualized learning and behavioral assessments to identify students’ strengths and needs, academic and behavioral interventions, counseling, and social skills training”. While consulting with parents and teachers, the student services

d e p a r t m e n t helps students connect mental, academic, and social skills

together in order to thrive. They have the opportunity to improve daily school environments through their one-on-one and group wide interactions with the school body.

Photo Credit: http://cgu.edu

Promotional Ad for the Relay For Life campaign.Photo credit: http://chamber-master.blob.core.windows.net

Photo Credit: https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com

The Sting

Roswell High School 11595 King Road, Roswell, Ga. 30075 (770) 552-4500 The Sting

Opinion

Sting Staff 2015-2016Justin Marks | Editor-in-Chief, Senior Page EditorAlyssa Howard | Managing Editor, Opinion EditorKayden Cann | Managing Editor, Opin-ion Editor

Alex Vanden Heuvel | Editor-in-Chief, Business Manager, News Editor Imogen Evans | Chief Layout Editor, Content/Copy Editor, Feature EditorMason Marks | Sports EditorBrian Patrick | Lifestyle Editor

Teacher Tattoos: Tacky or TastefulPro

by Lindsay Boyle Con

by Kayden CannTattoos in the workplace: a never ending argument. Where does one draw the line between creative art and tasteless recklessness? The an-swer is, we don’t. Teachers are no exception to freedom of expression. People worry about the profes-sionalism of tattoos in the work-place. Some may feel that having a tattoo is a parallel to being unpro-fessional and irresponsible. I think that a person’s tattoo in no way de-nounces their level of profession-alism. We are taught at a young age to never judge a book by its cover, so why do so many people connect tattoos to capability? A lot of my favorite teachers have one or more tattoos. So, just to recap, the fact that someone has a tattoo doesn’t mean that it was decided upon when the person was a col-lege-aged, immature, party animal. Tattoos are a loud and color-ful creative outlet. They allow in-dividuals to express themselves permanently and publicly every-day. Many tattoos have deeper

meanings to a person’s life. I think that seeing teachers outwardly express themselves in any envi-ronment, especially school, sends a positive message to students about being themselves and not being ashamed of who they are or what they’ve been through. I think that a teacher’s tattoo and its explanation are one of the few unique insights that students get to their teacher’s personalities. I also notice that teacher’s with tattoos are interesting and relatable. I tend to enjoy classes taught by tattooed teachers more than others. I think this is because of the personality of a person in-terested in a tattoo. I believe that individuals with tattoos are more interesting and fun than some without tattoos. The rebellious, relatable, and outgoing person-alities of tattooed teachers lead to students’ respect of teachers. All in all, I think that tattoos on school teachers are com-pletely acceptable and justified.

McKenzie Glaze | News EditorKasey Cwalina | News AssistantLindsay Boyle | News AssistantKayla Avila | Feature EditorAmanda Shadmani | Feature EditorNolan Michael | Sports Editor

Sting Staff 2015-2016Sean Sweeney | Sports EditorGabrielle DuChateau | Lifestyle EditorNikki Cunningham | Photo EditorMegan Volpert | Staff Advisor

Tattoos are a topic on which any-one could debate for hours. Taste-ful or trashy? Unique or overdone? Creative or cliché? When it comes to teachers’ tattoos, the argument gets even more complicated. Is it professional? Are they respect-able? No and no, absolutely not. I get it, I really do. You turned eighteen and that Chinese symbol on your shoulder felt like freedom, but now you’re forty-five and your “freedom” symbol is start-ing to sag. Not so cute anymore, huh? Maybe if you would’ve lis-tened to your folks (like you’re always telling us we should do) when they told you it was a bad idea, you wouldn’t be wearing long sleeves in summer weather. Picture this: you’re trying to explain to your boss that stu-dents aren’t respecting your au-thority, and he/she glances at the permanent ink staining your arm. You wonder why no one takes you seriously as you flashback to checking the “yes” box when

your job application asked if you have any visible tattoos or pierc-ings. You can do one of three things: work for minimum wage at Hot Topic in your “Tattooed and Employed” sweatshirt, have your faded tattoo laser-removed, or plan every single outfit around covering up that pesky ink. Tough. The truth is, you’re not the same person fresh out of high school as you are with a degree. You’re not dating your first love anymore, you wrecked your VW Bug, and you laugh at the outfits that used to be in style. You’ve evolved completely; that not-so-trendy tattoo, however, has not. Teachers, we know you want to express your individuality, but we can’t focus on the lesson with that purple butterfly playing peek-a-boo on your wrist. It’s embarrass-ingly unprofessional, and we’re not going to take your advice on think-ing smartly when you clearly didn’t in that sketchy downtown parlor. Keep it classy, Roswell role models.

Erica Maybaum-Editor in Chief

From “Planet of the Apes” to “Star Wars 7”, everyone is talking about the brand new “old movies”. Remaking movies or using old brands with new creations is inno-vative and allows multiple genera-tions to relate to the film. Not only does it make the movie more re-latable, but also brings in revenue. The continuation of this suc-cessful movie or brand brings in large amounts of revenue. “Planet of the Apes” grossed over $73 million and analysts at Citi ex-pects “Star Wars 7” to gross over $1.75 billion worldwide. The renditions of these clas-sic movies lets people relive the memories of their childhoods. The

modern twists to the classical films also allow for current generations to be able to relate to the movies, as well as be more interested in. Sometimes the remakes of the classical films even end up being better than the original, due to the advancement in tech-nology and digital skills. Mov-ies like “Dawn of the Dead” and “Scarface” that were remade and added special effects to ended up turning into successful re-boots and both the classic and the modern film are loved today. These movies both bridge generation gaps and bring in revenue for the film compa-nies. What could be better?

Hollywood is officially out of ideas. The amount of movie se-quels that are coming out this year and next year are ridiculous. For instance, “Ouija”, “Project X”, “Ghostbusters”, “Ice Age”, “Cap-tain America”, “Neighbors”’ “Bar-bershop”, “Zoolander”, “Kung Fu Panda”, and many more have sequels coming out next year. “Ice Age” has four sequels al-ready, why a fifth one? There is the excuse that it was a huge part of our childhood, but what about the younger kids who have never watched the series since the be-ginning? They need new movies to tell their kids about someday. Also, some of the movies that

are being recreated are extremely old. The original Ghostbusters was made in 1984 and the se-quel was made in 1989. Now they are making a Ghostbusters with women instead of men. The cast looks hilarious, but still it has been over twenty years since the original came out. The spin-off could be a complete disaster. Yet, it is smart on their end to bring back old favorites and clas-sics, but are the sequels ever bet-ter than the original? In some cases, yes, they are, but not al-ways, not all movies need se-quels. It’s like keeping something around longer than it needs to be. So let’s just stick to the original.

Has Hollywood taken it too far or not far enough?

Tell us what you think!

by Alyssa Howard and Kayla Avila by Amanda Shadmani

Email us at stingstaff@gmail.com or tweet us @theroswellsting

Opinion 3[ ]

Feature

[ ]Feature 4

Stigma has a negative connota-tion, describing the shame and dis-grace that society puts on individu-als, and it is commonly associated with mental illnesses. The shame that people feel from society when admitting to having a men-tal illness causes many individuals dealing with these issues to feel isolated and embarrassed. Mental illnesses are highly stigmatized to the point where individuals are too afraid, guilty, and anxious to seek help, or even too ashamed to sim-ply speak out about it. The lack of comfort from society to talk about mental disorders is incomparable to the amount of discussion, sup-

port, and awareness toward other physical disorders. This lack of support discourages individuals from getting help and often causes more difficulties for students in school, who are already under a lot of stress at their age. Because of constant criticism in society, individuals refuse to talk about their mental illnesses and feel as if they must disguise themselves. For example, I constantly masked what I was going through and became oblivious to every-thing else. I was afraid of what others would think of me and that my friends wouldn’t like me because of my mental ill-

ness. I eventually realized that I needed to face these problems in order to get well and live my life normally again. I am no longer afraid to talk about my depression. “Whenever I start to talk about mental health, the room goes silent. Mental health is an un-touched topic, and people seem to be so afraid to talk about it. It’s like they don’t know what to say. Mental health is as important as physical health just as all illnesses are equally important,” Sopho-more Nathasya Tadjudin said. The “No-Shave November” cause encouraged mental health advocates to start “No-Shame

November” in order to elimi-nate the disgrace surrounding mental disorders. Students from Mindsupport asked other stu-dents to tell them some things that they aren’t ashamed of. No-Shame November will continue throughout November in order to raise the awareness about mental illnesses and start stigma-free conversations about mental health. Once the negative attitudes toward mental illnesses are eliminated, people will be more open to speaking about men-tal disorders and will no longer feel the need to mask themselves.

Check this out: No-Shame Novemberby Elizabeth Chan

Social Studies Teacher Bo AndersonSenior Fredi Torrijos Junior Matt Hashemi

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Chan

The Biebs: A music comeback to remember According to Billboard.com, Justin Bieber has sold 44.7 million albums in the U.S alone. He’s had 24 songs on the top 40 Billboard list and earned 77 million dollars in from his last tour, “Believe”. But, having this kind of success comes with consequences. Bieber suffered through some very public problems which, of course, turned into unflattering tabloid headlines. Weeks after releasing his latest album, “Jour-nals”. Bieber was arrested in Jan of 2014 for drunk driving, resist-ing arrest, and driving without

by Nikki Cunningham a valid license. Being one of the biggest artists in the world made Bieber an easy target for more embarrassment. His mugshots became a viral joke. Everyone thought he was having his “Brit-tany breakdown”. Some expected Justin’s career to end there and for him to lay low for a little bit. He definitely did lay low for awhile. Making no appearances at award shows, no new music releases, and having no relationship with pop artist Selena Gomez. By the looks of things,it seemed he fi-nally decided to throw the towel on the whole thing. But, if there’s one thing Americans like best, it’s

a good comeback. Bieber released “Where Are U Now”, a collaboration with elec-tric dance music, artists Skrillex, Diplo, and Jack U. Billboard did an interview with Bieber’s man-ager, Scooter Braun, where he talks about the single. “I think the ‘Where Are U Now’ record gave him confidence”, said Braun, “that was a very personal record that he wrote. To see it doing so well, and to see Skrillex and Diplo embrace him… He feels like he’s found his lane”. Apparently, Braun was right. Bieber recently released a single, “What Do You Mean”, which Bieber performed at the

2015 MTV Video Music Awards.To say it was an emotional per-formance would be an understate-ment; the performance featured a spoken-word outro of Bieber re-flecting on his “journey”. Bieber was then lifted skyward to fly over the crowd. When the performance ended, Bieber was doubled over, crying. Both “What Do You Mean” and “Where Are U Now” will be on Biebers next album, “Purpose”, which is set to release, Nov. 13, 2015.

Photo Credit: www.slate.com

The Sting

[ ]Feature 5

Sting’s declassified school survival guide

by Kasey Cwalina In the ever evolving world of high school, the latest trends are hard to keep up with. With factors such as social media and the con-stant stream of songs, mixtapes, and albums being released, the general public’s vocabulary is ex-panding. Considering the majority of these words cannot be found in a dictionary, it seems fitting to educate all those lost souls try-ing to decipher what seems to be a foreign language. High school is survival of the fittest; don’t get left behind. Glow Up: when someone be-comes really attractive after they hit puberty Here’s what it’s not: “Glo up? Isn’t that when you eat a radioac-tive doughnut and your mom is all like ‘Why are you glowing?’ and you’re like ‘I just ate a radioactive doughnut.’” Junior Nick Hop-kins said. Dab: a popular dance move

in which you perform the same movement that you would if you were to sneeze Here’s what it’s not: “Oh like when there’s a stain, right? Dab don’t rub.” Junior Sadaf Khan said. Swerve: Often used to imply dodging someone Here’s what it’s not: “When you’re ripsticking and your wheel’s about to go in a crack so you gotta swerve outta there real quick.” Sophmore Katherine As-man said. Yeet: Term used to express ex-citement; especially used in bas-ketball when someone has shot a three-pointer that they are sure will go in the hoop. Can be used as an exclamatory (YEET!) Here’s what it’s not: “When you have an eating disorder that only allows you to eat yellow foods.” Senior Hanley Jones said. Until next time, gotta blast.

Thanksgiving around the world

by Kayla Avila Thanksgiving may be all about turkey and pumpkin pie to your family, but each culture has a dif-ferent way of celebrating. In some cultures, the turkey isn’t even an essential part of the meal like it is for Americans. For some people, it’s all about make it all about the ham, chicken, or even lasagna. In some Hispanic families, the main focus is not turkey most of the time. Sometimes it can be “ta-males” or chicken dishes. As for other cultures, in Indian cultures there is usually samosas, idlis, and Moroccan chicken. There’s also Italian culture. My mother, who lived there for more than a couple Thanksgivings, stated that pasta plates were of course always on the menu. Along with the pasta came lots of vegetables and deca-dent desserts that would be way too fancy for Thanksgiving cel-ebrations in America. In China,

they celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, which is set on the day where the moon is supposed-ly the brightest and roundest. On this day, you are also supposed to be able to rekindle friendship and romance. It is also packed with mooncakes. All around us there are so many varieties of different cultures and beliefs that contrib-ute to each and every celebration. Next time you’re sitting at the dinner table saying what you’re grateful for and eating turkey re-member that the girl that sits in front of you in math class could be doing the complete opposite.

Photo Credits: http://www.runnershighco.com

This turkey’s gotta blast out of America, where they won’t eat him.

Like every good idea, inspira-tion came from somewhere. “The Sting's declassified school surviv-al guide” comes from the Nickel-odeon show, “Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.” The show is about the main character, Ned Bigby, and his two best friends, Cookie and Jennifer, trying to get through middle school. Ned gives advice all throughout the show on dating, classes, friendship, parents, and loads of other things. While some of the advice was given

Ned’s declassified: Where are they now

on things most middle schoolers aren't going to experience, it was still quite humorous. For many of the students here at Roswell, Ned's Declassified was a huge part of your childhood. And like every other childhood show, once it ends, the stars drop off the face of the earth. So, to go along with this month's “Sting's Declassi-fied,” we've decided to bring back a few of those stars and see how they've changed from then to now.

by Nikki Cunningham

Coconut Head (Rob Pinkston)

Ned Bigby (Devon Werkheiser)

Meme of the Month by Nikki Cunningham

What’s not relatable about a screaming monkey? I’m sure many people make this face when they realize they had homework they forgot to do, or when their crush posts a cute selfie on Instagram.

Photo Credit: www.pinterest.com

The Sting | Feature| Nov. 13, 2015

Photo Credit: www.rebloggy.com

Lifestyle

Lifestyle[ ]6

Ray Goren new EP review : Yay or nay? Recently I listened to rising pop musician Ray Goren’s EP that was released on Aug 21, and let’s just say it wasn’t right down my alley. Ray is 15 year old singer/songwriter influenced by gos-pel, funk, and 60’s soul; I prefer some good 80’s rock. You’ll also be sure not find any gospel or funk in my Spotify playlists. I’m going to be honest, I was expect-ing a bit more edge and spotlight to the electric guitar in his songs, but instead I received a more cliché, “High School Musical” type feel in his first work “Those Days.” The lyrics I could work with, but the beat and style made make me feel like I was in a mu-sical and had to dance procarelsly around a room full of strangers. As for the lyrics I did not prefer, there was”Light my Fire” which had a bit more of an attractable beat to me, but the lyrics were the complete opposite. I am a very im-patient and forgetful person, so the

by Kayla Avila pace of each lyric and the difficul-ty of understanding what he meant was too much for me to handle. The beat was slower and featured more instrumental solos, which re-ally brought my attention back in. Photo credit: www.amazonaws.com

This album was rated 2 out of 5 Ro-swell Hornets. “Down & Out” contained a nice piano intro, highlight to vari-ous jazzy instruments, and some very relatable lyrics. I genuinely like this song a lot more than the ones before, and would recom-mend this to people who might prefer slow, crooner style songs. When it comes to the fourth song on his EP,“Song For Me” ,I

think he really should’ve kept the song to himself. I tend to highly dislike repetitive songs and if you do too, I would not recommend the last 3 minutes of this song because it’s the same as the first minute. Lastly, “It’s On You” was one of the more appealing songs as well. The lyrics weren’t too repeti-tive, the instruments were clearly audible, and the beat was nice and relaxing. There is also an elec-tric guitar solo, which is what I’d been waiting for in the first place. It’s another slow one, but if there is one song you should hear on this EP, it’s definitely this one. Although most of his songs weren’t my type of music, I give him props for putting himself out there and showing his music to the world,because I did enjoy some of it and will most likely be listening to his new music coming out to see if he changes it up a bit. I might not be listening to half of these songs anytime soon, but I wouldn’t throw it out completely either.

The 1975: New hit single “Love Me” The 1975, a British alternative rock band, released a new single “Love Me’ on Oct 8. The new sin-gle consists of ambient guitar parts and decadent vocals. This is a ma-jor change for the band shifting them from their melancholy theme to a more bright and vibrant look. The 1975’s new album, “I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It” is said to release in Feb-ruary 2016. Lead singer of the band, Matty Healy, says the al-bum is going to be more colorful. “It’s a transformation from their old music to their new era.They changed their style and now it’s shown through the colors, lyrics and music,” said sophomore Car-oline Kragh. “I’m really excited!” I personally am looking for-ward for the new album. We have not heard new music from the band in a while due to the fact they were on a world tour. I am in

love with the new single I am also very pleased with the transition to an early 80’s/David Bowie vibe. Some fans are not happy with the change to a new era. One iTunes reviewer says, “Why did you guys make a song that is completely the opposite of your first hit album...count me out I’d rather listen to the first album.” Even though a lot of fans are mad about the change many other fans are still listening and got “Love Me” to number one on their page on Spotify. “Every song on The 1975’s last album was pure and amaz-ing,” said sophomore Kayla Kennedy, “I hope they will serve it justice with the new album.” The 1975 released a music vid-eo for “Love Me”, on Oct. 28 and I guess you could say the entire fan base freaked out. The video features Matty dancing around with card-board cutouts of celebrities from then and now. The video is a con-trast from the bands typical black

and white videos. This is their sec-ond music video that is in color. A very noticeable pop of color in the video was Matty’s blue eye shadow and pink eyeliner. Does that explain Matty’s eyeshadow in the love me teaser picture? So, keep an eye on The 1975 and be looking out for new sin-gles, music videos or their new album coming out in February.

by Gabrielle DuChateau

Fall recipesby Kasey Cwalina

Its fall! That means cozy sweaters, bonfires, friends, and your typical fall foods. Check out this pumpkin bread recipe from Mrs. Kemp and the Bak-ing Club to fulfill your fall needs!

Pumpkin bread What You’ll Need:1-16 oz. can pumpkin 1 2/3 cup sugar 2/3 cup vegetable oil 2 teaspoons vanilla 4 eggs 3 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground cloves

What to do:1. Preheat oven to 350º

2. Grease bottoms only of 2 loaf pans. Line bottoms with parch-ment paper.

3. Mix pumpkin, sugar, oil, va-nilla, and eggs in large bowl.

4. Mix flour, baking soda, bak-ing powder, salt, cinnamon and cloves in separate bowl.

5. Add dry ingredients to wet in-gredients and stir just until mixed.

6. Pour into pans and bake 50 to 60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

7. Cool in pans 10 minutes.

8. Loosen sides of loaf with knife; remove from pans.

9. Cool completely before slicing. Photo credit: www.the1975.com

The Sting

Photo credit: Clip Art

The Sting | Lifestyle | Nov. 13, 2015

[ ]Lifestyle 7

Almost, Maine review by Alyssa Howard

“Almost, Maine”, a series of short love stories, was per-formed by Roswell’s own the-ater students. Two shows were put on the week of Nov. 18 and not only was the acting profes-sional and well done, but the tech crew also made the transitions and sounds almost flawless. junior Dawson House’s performance was the high-light of the entire show be-cause of the way he portrayed his character made the scene entertaining and hilarious all at once. The scene was com-plimented further by Junior Chelle Leary. Leary truly made her character come to life.

However I was most im-pressed by junior Ian Cramet, who took on an important and challenging role the day of the last performance due to another actor being unable to attend. The script was over all, too cliché. The ending of the scenes were blatantly obvious which made them almost pain-ful to sit through. The clever use of props made the play slightly more interesting but it couldn’t make up for the lack of origi-nality in the lines. The actors did the absolute best they could with the script they were given. I give Almost, Maine 4 out of 5 Roswell Hornets and I can’t wait to see what production the drama department puts on next, I will definitely be in attendance. Almost, Maine is hav-ing an encore prefromance that is tentatively sched-uled for Dec. 11 and 12th.

Best of film legend John Hughes, movie round upby Gabrielle DuChateau

John Hughes is the direc-tor of some of the most suc-cessful movies in the 1980s and 90s. Some of his most famous films, including “The Breakfast Club”, Sixteen Candles”, and “Pretty in Pink” were popu-lar among teenager in these decades but are they still as

popular among teens today? “The Breakfast Club” is about five teenagers of all different stereotypes, like the jock, the nerd, the bad boy, the rich girl, and the weird girl. They all get detention on a Saturday and find out they had a lot more in com-mon than they actually thought. “The Breakfast Club” is one of my favorite films because it is so nice to see them all come to-gether,” said sophomore Lady Cortes, “The movie also has such an original story and you don’t see that a lot anymore.” “Sixteen Candles” is about Samantha Baker’s (Molly Ringwald) anything but ‘sweet sixteen’ as she suffers from continuous embarrassment throughout her day like the senior boy she thinks is per-fect finding out she likes him but, is stuck dealing with the freshman who wants an older women to impress his friends.

“Sixteen Candles’ is a really good movie that people tend to look over because it’s old,” said sophomore Athenacia Wise, “It is an old classic and is re-ally captivating with several plots and numerous amount of romance in different aspects.”

\

“Pretty in Pink” is about Andie (Molly Ringwald) is an outcast at her school and always seems to hangout at the record shop she works at or with her friend Duckie (Jon Cryer), who has a crush on her. When wealthy Blane (Andrew Mc-Carthy) asks Andie out she re-alizes it’s hard dating someone from a different social group. “I have never seen Pretty in Pink, but that movie sounds real-ly interesting ,” said sophomore Brandon Hines, “it sounds like what if a hipster dated what she despised the most, a jock, which seems interesting to me.” So, it seems that these mov-ies are still being viewed and enjoyed by high school students now as they were in the past de-cades. These are classic films that every teenager should see.

Photo Credit: www.rogerbert.com

Photo credit: www.IMBD.com/

Sports [8]

Sports For decades, cheerleading has been a staple of Friday night football games, pep rallies, and all around hornet spirit here at RHS, but lately has claims have been made that it is in fact a sport, and not just a hobby. Students, teachers, and anyone who attends football games see the girls with bows in hair in Pom Poms in hand chanting encouraging words to the fans, so naturally one would see them as a merely compliment to the football atmosphere, but mem-bers of the cheer squad beg to differ. “We lift people instead of weights and work on our flexibility for our jumps and we try to take ex-tra tumbling and conditioning class-es to help us improve our endur-ance,” said junior Taylor Brown, “We throw girls 10+ feet in the air, and must be able to catch them and be ready to throw them up again.” Even with RHS cheer’s in-tense demands and long practices, some girls take up the challenge of competition cheer, which is a total-ly new ballgame. “For all star we’re expected to flip and do two spins at the same time while girls are thrown 7 feet in the air to kick their legs up and spin twice and hope 3 of their teammates catch them,”said sophomore Karson Melnick

Cheer: is it a sport? by Sean Sweeney

NBA season previewIt takes a lot of work in preparing for the short amount of time they have on the floor with their routine. And for the immense amount of team-work it takes to put a routine togeth-er, with different levels of technical difficulties making a routine filled with higher leveled skills including tumbling, stunting and jumping abil-ities,” said junior Ashlyn Chester. Not only is the sport physi-cally demanding, but is also very dangerous, as senior Abby Stuart said, “We perform lots of stunts in which we hold girls up and throw and catch them. We also tumble on a hard floor. The most common in-juries from those are concussions, broken noses, displaced and bro-ken joints, and pulled muscles.” Seeing another point of view on anything can change one’s opinion, and if these girls didn’t give the insight needed to prove that cheer truly is a sport, nothing will. Cheer truly is more than just waving Pom Poms and chanting!

by Nolan Michael

RHS student section tradtionsBy Lindsay Boyle Friday night lights are an im-portant and exhilarating part of being a student at Roswell High School. Many traditions surround the student section. Friday Night football has been both an American tradition and a staple for the city of Roswell for decades.at the football games. Stu-dents of all grades are able to partici-pate in most these beloved traditions to show their amazing school spirit. At the first blow of the whis-tle that signifies kick-off, the hun-dreds of fans cup piles of flour in their hands. The flour rockets into the air at the moment the kicker makes contact with the football. Excited students bring bags of the powder to the stadium and pass it down the rows. This tradition is a favorite because it makes for leg-endary pictures, and the flour sticks around caked in fans’ hair and dust-ed on their green, black, and white clothes. Another memorable tradition for the football season at Roswell High School is wearing of camo. Sorry Freshman, Sophomores, and

Juniors; this one is only for the Se-niors. Every Friday when there is a game, the entire senior class sports their camo all day long. The Seniors go all out with pants, shirts, over-alls, hats, and more. During the games the band is in-credible at keeping the student sec-tion and crowd dancing and excited. One tradition of the Roswell High School band is the drumline perfor-mance. During the fourth quarter of the game, the drumline moves down in front of the students and shows the stadium what they are made of. The demonstration is a huge hit for all of the students; everyone gets pumped up and knows every beat the group drums. The last student section tra-dition that comes to mind is body paint. A select group of students usually decides to brave any weath-er and arrive at the game with a painted chest. The bodies usually spell out “Roswell Hornets!” or “Go Hornets!” It is an amazing display of school spirit and it is a beautiful sight under the Friday night lights.

With the NBA season just be-ginning, many fans across the country hope that their team can finally do something big with what they have. Though for some fans, they don’t have to worry due to the consistency throughout the years to continuously make the playoffs. The Golden State Warriors hope that they can compete for another championship, while other teams such as Georgia’s own Hawks, Wizards, Raptors, Clippers, etc. hope to move deeper into the play-offs than years before. `“As a Clippers fan, I’m really excited to see the new ad-ditions go to work,” said sopho-more Aaron Goodwin. “There have been many questions about Chris Paul’s ability, but I believe he’s motivated, so I’m not too worried. Of course, I’m also ready to see Blake Griffin, my favorite player, get back to work and into action. I believe he’ll have his 6th straight all-star season and captain his team to hopefully a western conference championship.” On the other hand, some teams haven’t had too much suc-cess in recent years. The young 76ers team has been among the

worst in all aspects of the game along with the Timberwolves, Knicks, and Lakers. “I couldn’t be more ex-cited for the season to begin,” said sophomore Gurtej Narang, “As a Hawks and Lakers fan, it’s been bit-ter sweet the past couple of years. One of my teams, the Hawks, has been stellar, but my other team, the Lakers, have been dreadful and pa-thetic. After the long awaited emer-gence of the hometown Atlanta Hawks last season, fans have been antsy all offseason in anticipation of the success we all hope they will have. On the other hand, with my Lakers, we’ve dealt with Kobe be-ing injured constantly making it very tough to win ball games day in and day out. Now that the season has begun, and Kobe is back, hope-fully our team can pull out more wins to try to get to the playoffs.” As the NBA season pro-gresses, it will get easier and eas-ier to see who in the league is a contender and who is a pretender. Hopefully this season will

The Sting

Photo Credit : http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MlVfD-

3bxpBM/Tiex9AZ4VSI/AAAAAAAAE4E/0VMC52r2zHE/

[ ]Seniors 9

“Nicest boy in the history of boys”:Brian Goepfert

Justin Marks Bar of the Day

“Thanksgiving gone wrong”: Daisydoodle for November

In the last couple of weeks, there was a fast and furious spread of ru-mors of an RHS student hit by a car. Students, teachers, and parents took to Snapchat, Twitter, Insta-gram, and Facebook to share what they thought had happened. The rumor’s ranged from a car plow-ing through 25 kids to some people saying no accident even occurred.

Well, if you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know, here’s what happened: Senior Julia Hipp was leaving school around 3:45 and suddenly collided with Senior-Brian Goepfert who was walk-ing across King Road to his car. This isn’t a story about the ugly

Justin Marks’ Bar of the Day:

“Hello. It’s Me.” -Adele

Senior

by Justin Marks

The Sting

by Daisy Perez

details of the accident though, if you want the details then head back to Page 1, this is all about how great Brian Goepfert is, the man who went head to head with a 3,515 Pound Hyundai Genesis and is still alive to tell the tale.

Goepfert is quite the human being. Aside from breaking his leg in three places, Goepfert has been granted acceptance to Bel-mont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he will pursue his guitar career. Goepfert is also on his way to becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest honor for Boy Scouts. His mother had very kind words to share about Brian, say-

ing on Instagram “[Brian] is the beat of my heart, the sun in my sky and one of the great loves of my life!!! So truly blessed that god protected him from greater harm”. Fellow Senior and friend Emily Freeman said that, “Bri-an is the nicest boy in the his-tory of boys.” She also added “One time I hit his car a little and he said don’t worry about it!”

Goepfert’s close friend, Senior Felicia Agostini said “I went to visit Brian in the hospital, and when I walked into the wait-ing room I saw so many groups of people. There were football players, cheerleaders, random

theatre kids, and band kids from all different cliques at the school, and they all came to see him be-cause he has so many friends and impacts a lot of people. He’s just a really good guy.” Agos-tini added that when he saw the driver, Julia Hipp, he wasn’t mad or angry, he just “asked how she was doing, and if she was okay.”

Brian Goepfert is a standup guy, musician, and student. We wish him a quick recovery and a fantas-tic future at Belmont University..