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With the increase in body art, from lip piercings to fa-cial tattoos, comes a growing conflict with the employers of these devotees of body en-hancement. However, some jobs are surprisingly accepting of the trends.

More traditional workplaces suggest that employees hold off on the piercings in favor of an appearance to customers. “It all depends on what you’re doing,” said Chad Koeppel, a manager at the family-oriented establishment Waffle Stop. He also added, “Having things on your face isn’t really appropri-ate. You’re dealing with the public.”

This is a general rule in many establishments. Visible

piercings and tattoos are con-sidered inappropriate, due to the fact that these establish-ments cater to a wide variety of people. A sample of these people may not approve of vis-

ible body art and modification, and that could turn them away from the businesses.

Other workplaces openly accept tattoos and piercings. “We’re very comfortable with it,” said Anthony Ryckman, a manager and employee at Mo-hair Pear, a popular boutique in Cedar Falls. “For a business like us, having people with piercings helps us sell jewelry ... it’s an advantage,” Ryckman said.

Because Mohair Pear ap-peals to a more alternative crowd, it is actually more at-tractive to the target custom-ers if the employees have body modifications and art. This method of advertisement is becoming more commonplace

in the workforce. Places all over Cedar Falls and Waterloo are opening up to body art.

That trend is matching the changing available workforce. Nearly a fourth of men and women between the ages of 18 and 50 have tattoos, and 15 percent have at least one piercing, according to a survey taken in 2006 by Northwestern University, and the numbers are only rising as they become more available to children un-der 18 and more acceptable for adults over 50. It’s no lon-ger unusual to get a tattoo or piercing at some point in one’s life.

Yet there will likely always be some workplace restric-tions. “[There are limits] for

certain professions, based on what society thinks,” Ryckman later said regarding how he felt about more radical body modi-fications. “You wouldn’t want to be a lawyer ... with face tattoos and two inch plugs. I didn’t even get tattoos or piercings until I started working here,” Ryckman said.

There’s a general consen-sus on that point; there’s a time and a place for everything, and it’s all about how employers re-ally want their image to appear. Ryckman said simply, “Society does judge you.”

Workin’ It Tattoos, piercings becoming more common in the workforce

Staff Writer Linne

“There’s a general consensus on that point; there’s a time and a place for every-thing, and it’s all about how employers really want their image to appear.”

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Mohair Pear manager

RyckmanAnthony

At left, an employee at Ritual flaunts his many tattoos while

helping a customer. At businesses like Ritual, tattoos and piercings

on employees are an effective form of

advertisement. At top, Lexy Abbas and Cam Nielsen sport various

piercings in the halls of CFHS.

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Don’t be too quick to point the finger at the culprit. Was it filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula with the movie in Southern California? Was it Youtube with the “Innocence of Muslims” in the computer room? Was it protesters with mob attacks in Libya? There is no secret envelope to open after the guesses have been laid on the table — no explanation of the crook, the weapon, the place. Yet there are many dirty hands.

Who can we accredit the blame for the Libya di-saster? Revolving around an explicit Youtube video mocking Prophet Mohammed, the U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans working for the State Department in Benghazi were murdered.

Living in the United States, we are promised our First Amendment rights. Our freedom of speech leaves little room for censorable measures. The afore-mentioned video has been widely spread across the Web, and in response, Youtube has restricted access to it in India, Indonesia, Libya and Egypt. However, Youtube does not intend to take the video off their site completely because that would destroy the at-mosphere of their “express your opinions here” claim in countries where this is legal.

Unlike in the board game Clue, the actions our government takes and the decisions we make as in-dividuals impact the world we live in. The decisions of a major company such as Youtube (independent of pleas from the White House) have the influence to save or suffer lives.

Who takes blame for lost lives?

The men’s and women’s cross country teams raced Thursday, both placing second at the Rich Engel Clas-sic. (Above) Juniors Amanda Fishel and Molly Gettman run together to keep pace. (Left) Junior Timothy Sevick and junior Jonathon Smith cross the finish line togeth-er. (Right) Seniors Brianna King and Allison Gregg lead a pack of runners around a bend.

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The CFHS class of 2012 has gradu-ated and moved on from high school to different colleges around the state and country. Some close by graduates shared how their school year is going, why they chose the college they chose and more.

The students had many reasons why they picked the colleges they now at-tend. “I chose UNI because it is a great school, and I’m still close to home,” 2012 graduate Maddie Gary said. Another 2012 grad, Paige Mill-er, chose H a w k e y e Communi ty College. “I chose Hawk-eye because I thought it would be a good transi-tion out of high school for me, and it’s close to home. Also, it’s cheap, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to major in, so I am just get-ting my liber-al arts done then will fig-ure it out,” Miller said. Jake Bermal, also a 2012 graduate, chose the Univer-sity of Northern Iowa for his education. “I mainly chose UNI because of the golf program,” Bermal said.

These students have moved out of their parents’ homes and are now expe-riencing living on their own. “I live in a dorm on campus. It’s weird living on my own, but I like it,” Gary said. Miller and Bermal also live in dorms. “I go to Hawkeye and live in the Towers at UNI. I wanted to stay close to home but still get the dorm experience. I love it,” Mill-er said. “I live in the dorms at UNI. The only negative is having to do my own laundry,” Bermal said.

College life is much different than high school life. “I miss Friday night football games and being around peo-ple I’ve grown up with my entire life. I miss being with all of my friends all the time. I love the independence and free time that I have in college,” Gary said. Miller also misses football games and powderpuff. “People always say live up your high school years and that is

so true. They go by fast,” Miller said. “I definitely miss all my friends. In college you have a lot more free time to do your homework because you get to schedule your classes,” Bermal said.

The classroom environment and teachers are not the same in college as they are in high school. “The teachers here expect you to be on top of every-thing, and they don’t really reach out to you if you’re struggling. You have to make the first move. Some profes-sors here don’t even tell you when you

have assignments. You have to look at the syllabus,” Gary said. “At Hawkeye my classes are similar to high school. I have 15-20 kids in all my classes, but you have a big range of age difference, which is kind of weird, but it doesn’t bother me at all,” Miller said. “The teachers in college are not as interactive with the students. Mostly we just get a lot of lectures and hardly any classroom participation,” Bermal said.

For seniors making major decisions about college, these three graduates have some tips from personal experi-ence. “Advice I have to seniors would be look into a lot of different colleges and don’t be too quick to make your decision,” Gary said. “If you don’t know what your major is I believe that a community college is the way to go. It’s a lot cheaper too,” Miller said. “You should go on a lot of college vis-its. You always want to check out the campus and see what the school is all about so you know for sure which col-lege is right for you,” Bermal said.

College experiences differ in formLast year’s seniors share what it is like to be students at Hawkeye Community College and the University of Northern Iowa. They compare the differences from high school and what it is like to live independently for the first time in their lives.

Junior Christina Brammer takes college classes online to get ahead while still in high school.

CFHS graduate and freshman at UNI, Maddie Gary, cheers for the Panthers along senior Andrea Martinson and junior Holli Benson.

Junior Christina Brammer works hard at her online college class load in addi-tion to her high school schedule.

Completed Classes:College Chemistry I (through UNI on cam-

pus)Principles of Speech (online through Iowa

Community College Consortium)Economics (online through Kirwood College)Digital Photography (online through North

Dakota Center for Distance Education)

Currently Enrolled Classes:Calculus I (online through Iowa Community

College Consortium)C++ Programing (online through Iowa Com-

munity College Consortium)College Writing and Research (online through

the University of Northern Iowa)

Photo By Lauren Nickerson

NICKERSON By Staff Writer Lauren IZER

By Staff Writer Karly

Managing a normal day of high school is challenging enough, but junior Christina Brammer is doing the ultimate challenge by taking online col-lege classes along with her nor-mal high school education.

Over the summer, Christina took a speech class from Iowa Community College Consor-tium and a General Chemistry class from UNI. These online classes are getting her ahead and preparing her for college life.

“My goal is to get a major in electrical engineering at UNI, so getting ahead as much as I can is what I’m concentrating on,” Christina said. “Instead of taking the AP classes here at the high school where you are not guaranteed to get the college cred-it if you don’t pass the test, I think that taking these online classes will really help me get ahead and start working right away after college.”

There were many questions as to if this was the best decision for her, but dad, Michael Brammer, was confident that this was what was going to get her ahead and ready. “I believed Christina was ready for college classes since she has a good idea of what she wants to major in,” Michael says. “She also did very well with the honors classes she took her sophomore year at the high school, and the classes were an excel-lent preparation for college level work. The stress on the forced schedule at the high school was not healthy for her, and she would have repeated that same scenario this year if she had stayed with high school classes.”

Apart from getting ahead, Chris-tina is getting a preview of what col-lege work entails and how she has to plan her time to get everything done. She has the advantage over other stu-dents that are not taking extra college classes because she knows what to ex-pect when she gets to college. One of

the main concerns for her is keeping up with her regular high school classes.

“You have to manage your time real-ly well,” Brammer said. “For the online classes I took, you had a week to get a certain amount of assignments done, so you can not procrastinate.”

Also, keeping up with grades is something that Brammer seems to be handling well. “I am satisfied with the grades I’m maintaining. This year I took on a much lighter class load because I already have the credits I need, so a lot of my classes are electives, and I have two study halls, so I have opportunites to get my class work done at school.”

Brammer plans on taking more on-line college classes this fall. She is going to take a C++ course for an advanced computer language program that fo-cuses on hardware and operating sys-tems. This course is offered through Iowa Community College, along with a Calculus II class that she’ll take, which is based on physics. Christina will also be taking a college Geography class later this semester which will meet the requirements for Iowa’s standards in So-cial Studies. All of these classes are very advanced and will challenge Brammer to work her hardest to accomplish her goal of being prepared and ready for her engineering career.

Michael has always been ac-tive and involved in his children’s education and also in the educa-tion opportunities in the state. “The Iowa Community College Consortium is not well publicized, but it is an excellent opportunity for high school students to gain college level credit without hav-ing the leave the CFHS campus during the school day,” he says. “ Access to UNI is also a great ad-vantage for CFHS students.”

Only time will tell what’s ahead for Christina, but she’s definitely prepared for what her future will bring.

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Cedar Falls Superintendent Prepares to Propose K-6 Bilingual Program Plan

According to the 2010 census, 35 million United States residents spoke Spanish at home in 2009. That makes America home to the second largest population of Spanish speakers in the world. In the American job market, employers consider bilingual-ism, especially the ability to speak English and Span-ish, a valuable skill. Due to globalization, knowing how to speak many different languages becomes

i n c r e a s -ingly nec-essary.

D e -spite the d e m a n d , the United States is the only developed c o u n t r y that does not require students to learn two languages. Most of America’s larger pub-lic high schools do offer Span-

ish and often other languages as elective courses; however, four years is rarely long enough to learn a second language, especially when the four years occur when students are teenagers.

Principal Diane Bradford works at Hoover Ele-mentary School in Iowa City, a school that offers its World Language and Culture Program to kindergar-ten through sixth grade students. “The best time for a child to learn another language is in the first four years of life; Hoover parents and teachers are hoping to close a gap for our children. Our students should not have to wait until junior high or high school to learn new languages,” Bradford said.

Superintendent of the Cedar Falls School Dis-trict Mike Wells would also like Cedar Falls elemen-tary schools to teach students a second language, Spanish, through a possible K-6 bilingual program that is currently in discussion. “Any decision to add K-6 Spanish would be done through a col-laborative effort with our teachers, administrators, parents, community members, students and board members. No decisions have been made, but we are having conversations about a K-6 Bilingual pro-gram,” Wells said.

Wells and Director of Elementary Education Pam Zeigler will meet with the district’s elementary schools this month, compiling a list of improve-ments that would make Cedar Falls Elementary

I am very excited about the possibility of having Spanish taught at an early age

because it is when learning a foreign language is so much easier for anyone

to acquire.

It’s great, except why just Spanish? I think it’s the right move, but we don’t

want to get rid of other languages because we will want to offer students

options and diversity.

I think the sooner we can start with kids, the better it is. The enthusiasm at that age level, and the ease of learning

makes it important for us to start as soon as we can. Having learned Spanish

might give kids an opportunity to ex-plore another language at high school.

Schools “world class” schools. “In the first two meetings, bilingual education has been identi-fied, and I anticipate it to be recognized as a weakness in our system in the other four build-ings,” Wells said.

Then, in October, they will develop an ac-tion plan regarding the possible program. “[The action plan] will list what we are going to do, when we are going to do it, how we are going to pay for it and who is responsible to make it happen,” Wells said.

They will take the plans to a group of stu-dents, probably high school students, and PTA/PTO groups in November, asking for input about them. Using the insight, they will finalize the plans in late November or early December to present at the December school board meet-ing for consideration.

Using the same process with secondary schools, they will present another plan by the end of the school year. If approved, it will be enacted in August 2013. “The committees will decide the language. Spanish is one possibility and a probable language selection, but at this point, it is only speculation,” Wells said.

The program is estimated to cost about $200,000. Wells plans to build this into the budget by shifting funds and sharing teachers between schools.

If they create the program, Wells predicts they would need to hire new staff. “Teachers must be certified teachers in elementary to teach elementary Spanish. It is possible to part-ner with UNI to find such teachers and student teachers,” Wells said.

Despite the drawbacks of needing to hire more teachers, teaching elementary students a foreign language in school has many benefits. Spanish teacher Danielle Eivins teaches at Wil-lowwind School, an elementary school with an in-class K-6 Spanish curriculum, in Iowa City. “Children’s minds can more easily adapt to an-other language at a young age. They are less afraid to make mistakes and more willing to ac-cept new sounds. Learning through songs and games is fun and normal for young children, and learning Spanish is just one more thing they do in a day. It also prepares children to acquire a third, or even fourth language later in life,” Eivins said.

Wells also said he thinks that learning Span-ish at a young age might give students the op-portunity to study another language from junior high until they graduate. “It would be pos-sible for students to be trilingual during their K-12 educational experience if we could offer Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Russian or Japanese beginning in grades seven through

Black—World Language Teacher Patricia

Brost—World Language Teacher Gunda

Breddin —World Language Teacher Melissa

“Children’s minds can more easily adapt to another language at a

young age. They are less afraid to make mistakes and more willing to accept new sounds. Learning through songs and games is fun and normal for young children,

and learning Spanish is just one more thing they do in a day. It

also prepares children to acquire a third, or even fourth language

later in life.”

Elementary Bilingualism

Eivins — Iowa City Spanish teacher at Willowwind School Danielle

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advantage. “We are wanting to help develop 21st century leaders. Helping students learn another language besides English would help them become better problem solvers, critical thinkers and collabo-rators,” Jennifer Hartman, principal of North Cedar Elementary said.

Despite the successes of some schools, and the plans of others, K-6 language programs are rare in the United States. “The benefits of bilingualism are many and I wish all children could have the opportunity to truly become bilingual. We have a long way to go toward that goal in our schools and society. At Wil-lowwind we are providing a unique opportunity to au-thentically engage with another language at a young age and I believe it is one of the best gifts we can give children growing up in the 21st century,” Eivins said.

Despite the benefits a K-6 bilingual program could offer to Cedar Falls elementary students, executing the program would uncover more challenges than just the cost.

Although it has not yet been decided when they would teach the foreign language, if the plans are ap-proved, difficulties arise from nearly any possible time. Hartman does not think that an after school program like Hoover’s is the way to go. Because of transporta-tion issues, not all of the students could participate in

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12,” Wells said.There is also evidence that bilingualism improves

cognitive functioning. ”The major benefit is that it im-proves the brain’s executive functioning capabilities and a heightened ability to monitor the environment. As a bilingual person, one is able to keep track of multiple changes around them at one time,” Bradford said.

According to neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, becoming bilingual could make people more resistant to dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

Most clearly, teaching children a new language exposes them to a new culture. “Best of all, learning another language opens the world to children. They realize that people around the world are similar to and different from them. And by learning another language they can communicate with more people, understand more cultures and reflect on their own language and ways,” Eivins said.

The ability to communicate with more people has increased in importance as international communica-tion has become easier. “Technology has created a much ‘flatter’ world. Our students will be entering a world much different than the world most middle-aged people entered when they graduated. Our students are at a disadvantage competing by being monolin-guistic,” Wells said.

Now more than ever, the world is connected in many ways, and that’s the reason learning a second language has become such an important task. It opens doors not only in business, but in your personal life as well, for other languages al-low you to communicate with a lot of different people, have new relationships, and experience new cultures — the main purpose of an exchange program, for example.

In my case, knowing English helped in sev-eral ways. I’m from Brazil and have been studying this language for 10 years, since I was 7. Improv-ing my ability to speak English besides making the opportunity to live in the United States possible helped me to make friends faster because I could communicate with people already in my first day here. Being an exchange student is not easy, and I wonder how limiting it might it be if I could barely communicate.

Those who learn a new language can tell you that it is not only about the language itself. The language is based on a culture, and to learn it is a long process where you need to be in contact with the mentality of a place, of a people and with what else was taken to build it.

In my country, dedication to learning another language, such as English and Spanish mostly, is very common. Almost everybody gets involved with it. It’s one of our college’s test subjects, and many enterprises require it to keep their inter-national relations and contacts. Besides, a lot of people are interested in being exchange students so than they can learn new things and bring them back to our country in ways to improve it.

In this exam you can choose between English, Spanish or French. It is so hard to get in (public universities are the best, so competition is huge, and the test is really difficult). People do their best

to know every subject well. We start taking special courses as soon as we learn reading, so schools dedicated only to different languages are really common and popular in Brazil.

The same happens in Thailand, according to exchange student Na-ranineen Wama (Deni), who has been study-

ing the language for six years. People in her country start at a very young age, in 4th grade, and take it as their second language, although it doesn’t mean they speak English in their daily lives. Besides English classes, students can choose to have math and science classes in English.

In Nigeria, on the other hand, people start learn-ing English at home with their families. Exchange stu-dent Faith Aruwan said that it is important to start as soon as a kid’s first words, at the same time they are learning their own dialect. “English is like a borrowed language for Nigerians but is a cultural thing to know one of your dialects,” she said. And she said all of her classes, except for the ones where they study their lan-guage, are in English.

In an exchange program, one can find people who are able to help you. Every time when I make mis-takes, my family and friends help me to use it in the correct way so I can learn faster and feel more com-fortable to use the language, which is a good thing, because I used to think I was really good at English before I got here, but now I realize I was only good, since I learn tons of new things every day.

We agree that it is also a way to be profession-ally accomplished in any career. In Brazil, for example,

people earn more money for knowing more than one foreign language and some aim to work for big enterprises in another country. “Because most of the companies collaborate with other compa-nies abroad and do a lot of travelling, a lot of the Norwegian companies even do their meetings and communication in English with other Norwegians,” exchange student Simon Bjelland said about his country, Norway, where everybody is required to take English

English is a language of a lot of influence: mov-ies, TV, music, media in general, so it’s everywhere, but it still asks for a lot of dedication. Maybe due to the lack of contact with another type of influence, Americans aren’t so interested in other languages or cultures, so my advice is to start early and to try to be as close as you can to it through the culture like movies and music, for example. Identify your-self with it. Understand how people’s minds work is the key to understand how their language works. “Go to the country that speaks the language you want to learn and adapt to it is the best way to deal with it,” Wama said.

Another language transports you to a different world, to a different people, to a different place, to a different way to think, to act, to express. As soon as you arouse your curiosity to things like that, better and easier it will be. “My advice is to start early; you learn language faster when you’re young. Dedicate yourself to it and try to use it as much as possible,” Bjelland said.

Doesn’t matter which language you choose. Be interested and go for it is already a good way to start, and I learned that it doesn’t matter where you go. A smile is a great way to get along with people, because there are no different languages for it.

the program as opposed to the completeWe would have to be creative in scheduling foreign

language lessons throughout the day, but I think it can be done. We can hopefully be creative as a district to hire qualified staff and work together to make this a quality program for our students,” Hartman said.

Maureen Schafer, the creator and overseer of Wick-ham Elementary’s after school Spanish program, in Cor-alville agrees. “The only pro to having this as an After School Program is that compared to nothing, it at least provides something. We would much rather Spanish be part of the curriculum at the elementary level, not only because kids can learn it easier at a younger age but also because many school districts across the na-tion offer foreign language at the elementary level and our kids are missing out,” Schafer said.

Teaching elementary students a new language could serve as a way to adapt to a changing world. With rapid globalization due to technological ad-vances, and other, non-English-speaking, countries’ developments in world politics and economics, the idea that people who come to America should learn English and no one needs to learn the language of a country they do not live in, no longer applies. “Ameri-cans, in general, are arrogant, and we feel everyone should conform to English and to our beliefs. In the 1900s the United States dominated world economics. That is changing,” Wells said.

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FEATURE6GOING CLUBBIN’

Art Club Sophomore Amme Redington

Q: What are you most excited about coming into art club?

A: I’m most excited about meeting new people that have a common interest in art, and I’m also excited about the projects, such as designing T-shirts.

Q: What’s a project that you would en-joy?

A: Anything really. I enjoy painting, but exploring other areas in art is something I also look forward to.

Q: What is the atmosphere of Art Club like?

A: Very fun and exciting. The people are friendly, and it’s easy to meet new people.

Q: What do you hope to gain from Art Club?

A: I hope to gain new friends and obtain new inspiration in the field of art.

Art Club is a club where anyone with little or exces-sive art experience can join. In Art Club, one will explore different areas in which they may be familiar with or may not be familiar with. It’s a wonderful way to get in-volved if you are artistic or looking for something to do in your free time. Art Club meets every Tuesday after school in the art room.

Senior Natalie Rokes: State Officer of DECA

Q: What is your favorite thing about DECA?A: Meeting new people is always a fun thing

to do and we also travel a lot. Last year we trav-eled to Salt Lake City.

Q: What opportunities do students doing DECA receive within the business field?

A: In DECA, students have the opportunity to practice business situations and real-life scenari-os. It really gets people ready for future careers. In DECA we also have the opportunity to travel places.

Q: What has DECA accomplished?A: For me, joining DECA has given me better

leadership skills. For others, it raises money for charities and gets people ready for the future.

Q: What skills do people acquire from DECA?

A: They acquire confidence with test taking and public speaking. People also become more outgoing.

DECA DECA, or the Distributive

Education Club of America, is an organization related to Marketing and Entrepre-neurship Education. It also gives many opportunities to students for projects and competitions in marketing areas and actual business situations.

PRISM, also known as the Gay/Straight Alliance, is a club that tries to promote tolerance towards people of different sexual orientation and gender expression. The club is open-minded and gives a safe envi-ronment for people to come together and socially interact with one another. PRISM meets after school every Monday in world language teacher Melissa Breddin’s room unless stated otherwise.

Senior Katie Nielson

Q: What do you think is the best thing about PRISM?

A: Probably the interaction with other students along with the amount of accep-tance towards one another that we have.

Q: What has PRISM accomplished?A: It brought a safe place for people of

different sexual orientations to hang out within the school.

Q: What are some goals of PRISM this year?

A: A large goal is to be able to go out of the school district and get involved within the community.

Q: What do people gain by going to PRISM?

A: They gain a sense of togetherness and acceptance, a safe place where they can be open about themselves without the fear of not being accepted.

PRISM

Senior Katie McClintock

Q: What is Model UN all about?A: Discovering how other countries

think and learn about how they view inter-national issues is a big part of Model UN. Also, we discover how the U.S. views inter-national issues.

Q: What’s your favorite thing about Model UN?

A: My favorite part is, in spring, when we get a country to represent during de-bates over world issues.

Q: What abilities do you think people acquire from this club?

A: Definitely public speaking and dip-lomatic skills.

Q: What has Model UN accomplished for you or would accomplish for other peo-ple?

A: It causes others to be more open-minded and outgoing since we have to speak and collaborate with each other a lot.

Model United Nations is a club that discusses actual issues happening within the world. Students are assigned to rep-resent a country during these discussions. There are two ma-jor activities involved with this club: a Governor’s Youth Day in Des Moines in October and a simulation activity in April at UNI. Those who are interested can contact Tim Kangas in the ALPHA room.

Model UN

Check out these options for group funJENSEN

By Staff Writer Alyssa

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FEATURE 7Friends Program is a good idea

for people interested in working with elementary school children. Each person is assigned a child in an elementary and is destined to work with them throughout the se-mester. This program is only open to seniors first semester and juniors and seniors for second semester. There are applications available in the counseling office for those who are interested in joining this pro-gram.

Jared Hylton

Q: What is Friends all about?A: The group goes once or twice a week

during free period to an elementary school to help children who are falling behind or to help children that are advanced.

Q: What’s your favorite thing about Friends?”

A: Working with the children who are al-ways happy is a lot of fun and getting to know them is nice as well.

Q: What skills do you acquire from Friends?

A: It gave me an advantage in the teach-ing field. Friends gives people a feel for how a teacher feels in the elementary school class-room.

Q: What has Friends accomplished?A: It’s helped kids who need more help

within different areas in the elementary school classroom. We help them with homework, studies and things like that. Friends has also accomplished working with kids who are more advanced and are at a much higher grade lev-el than the grade they are actually in.

Friends Harmony is an organi-zation welcome to anyone who would like to promote acceptance to the diversity of others within the commu-nity. Just as the Friends Pro-gram, there are applications available in the counseling office for those who would like to join.

HarmonySenior Wes Bostwick

Q: What’s your favorite thing about Har-mony?

A: You see a lot of different places in the community and get to know an assortment of people from different cultures, backgrounds and heritages.

Q: What are some things Harmony does?A: We help the homeless, the disabled and

basically just learn about different cultures and societies that differ from ours.

Q: What types of people do you work with?

A: Many different people. People who are gay, disabled, African American, from different backgrounds and countries ... basically every-one.

Q: What did you gain from joining Har-mony?

A: Well, I’m mixed and disabled from my burns, so I get looked down a lot, but going into Harmony, I met a lot of inspiring, positive people that are open-minded and accepting of everyone.

The FIRST Robotics club is for students who have an interest in science. Students in FIRST Robotics build robots that are later used for regional and na-tional competition. Those who would like to join this club should contact physics teacher Kenton Swartley.

Sophomore Lauren Harter

Q: What has FIRST Robotics accomplished?A: Within the 2012 season we went to the Inter-

national Championship after defending our title as reigning champions of the Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional. We received awards for Gracious Profes-sionalism, our web site, industrial design and we also were a finalist for the industrial safety award.

Q: What skills do you think people in FIRST Ro-botics acquire?

A: In FIRST Robotics we learn about leadership and how to work with others as a part of a team. We can learn how to work well with professionals and problem solve with real problems which might occur in our future careers. The students acquire motivation to continue education past high school and into re-warding careers.

FIRST Robotics

Book Club is a great way to get involved with books and digging deeper within those texts. It’s a good way to discuss ques-tions or opinions with other avid readers. The Book Club also introduces members to books they may not normally read or pick up in the library.

Junior Rachel Fix

Q: What’s your favorite thing about Book Club?

A: My favorite thing is the people there and the atmosphere they pro-vide.

Q: What’s the atmosphere of Book Club?

A: The atmosphere is friendly and playful. We like to joke around and think of possible get-togethers to watch movies.

Q: What have you gained from Book Club?

A: I have gained the opportunity to meet people who share the same interest in books who are also willing to chat about them.

Book Club

SADD, or Students Against De-structive Decisions, is an organization that helps drug awareness and pre-vention. It also promotes other stu-dents to be above the influence and to make wise decisions by doing the right thing.

SADDJunior Alyssa Vuong

Q: What is SADD all about?A: Keeping students safe from

any harm is the main theme through-out the club. Last year we worked mostly with bullying.

Q: What has SADD accom-plished?

A: Last year, we made a video against bullying, and we also put up posters promoting safe decisions before prom. We did a lot with red ribbon week and chalked up the out-side of the school. Also, North Cedar had asked us to speak at their school to the children.

Q: What will you take away from this organization?

A: I learned a lot of life lessons and made a lot of friends. SADD is a very close-knit group.

Anime is a club where students can go and watch movies and TV shows revolving around Anime. Stu-dents also play Anime games and draw Anime characters.

AnimeJunior Mitchell Moore

Q: What are some of the things the Anime Club is planning to do this year?

A: We’re planning to take a trip to Yumei’s, a Japanese theme store in Cedar Rapids, a trip to an Anime movie/film festival in Feb-ruary, having a fanfiction contest and a drawing contest and maybe even a costume contest. We also would like to learn a few Japanese words and to learn how to draw Anime characters.

Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012HI-LINETiger

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Weekofthe

TigersActionin

Football (4-0) Beat Waterloo West on Friday

Next up: Linn-Maron Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at Linn-Mar

Volleyball (10-6)Lost to DNH on SaturdayNext up: Waterloo East

on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. at EastWomen’s CC

Finished second on ThursdayNext up: Varsity Invitational

on Sept. 20 at 5 p.m. at Mason City

Men’s CCFinished second on Thursday

Next up: Varsity Meeton Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m. at

BontragerWomen’s Swimming Beat Iowa City High on

SaturdayNext up: Linn-Mar on Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. at home

Men’s GolfNext up: Linn-Mar on Sept.

24 at 9:30 a.m. at Hunters Ridge Golf Course

Sometimes running in the off-season to stay in shape can be difficult, but senior Jaime Zarate knows just what to do. Zarate left Cedar Falls late fall during his junior year to move back to Torreon, Mexico, but now he is back for his senior year to take on all of the chal-lenges running brings.

“When I was in Mexico I was just doing a bunch of tri-athlon stuff mainly. So, I was just kind of swimming with the swim team, my school, running with a couple runners from my town (this group of really good runners). So I was running with them and doing some workouts and long runs. And then I’d go on a bike ride with a group of bikers, so I was just kinda swim-ming with swimmers, running with runners and biking with bikers,” Zarate said.

With the cross country sea-son almost halfway over, Zarate continues to push himself in every practice and during races. He is listening to what head coach Troy Becker knows is going to help the team suc-ceed and help Zarate succeed individually.

“Well, I’m just going to fol-low the training plan for the cross country team because it’s what helps the best for cross country, and coach Becker knows what he’s doing. We’ve talked, and we both have high goals for me this season, and he’s going to help me achieve those,” Zarate said. Becker knows just what to do to help Zarate come out strong in the end, with a second place team finish at State last year and third place team finish the pre-vious year.

While in Mexico, Zarate got the chance to train outside in warm weather during the win-ter rather than the the slick streets around Cedar Falls — an advantage he took full use of with multiple options for running and biking.

“I guess one of the biggest differences is the weather, the weather there [in Mexico] is al-ways warm, so it was almost an advantage to get to train out-side all winter with really nice weather. It’s a bigger city, so there’s a lot more places to go to to train,” Zarate said.

Even though Zarate’s fam-

ily is over 1,600 miles away, they’ve always been on the sideline cheering him on — from the start of the race to the end.

“I started running by putting one leg in front of the other and then doing that repeatedly re-ally fast, so that’s how I started running.” Zarate jokingly said. “I’m kidding, I started swim-ming when I was very little. I started swim team when I was about five and in the winters on my swim team we would start doing some base work so we would do some running, so I kinda started to really like do-

ing that, and then eventually I started doing some running races. I started doing pretty good, so I really liked it [run-ning], which with the swimming and the running it led into tri-athlons,” Zarate said.

Many runners believe that if something worked well for them at one race, it’ll give them positive results in another race, which is how routines develop. Although not fool-proof, many runners have their own way of preparing for a race.

“Well, it usually starts a couple days before the race, usually one or two days. I make

sure to hydrate a lot; I drink a lot of water and go to bed ear-ly. The day of the race I usu-ally just try to stay calm, not to think about the race too much during school. When we get on the bus, I drink my Ensure (a nu-tritional shake), and then I take about a 30- to 45-minute nap. When I get to the race site, we, the men’s cross country team, do the race stuff like going over the course, and then I watch some of the other races. At camp I have to take a 10- to 15-minute nap. After that, we start our warm up, and then when we’re going to start sprint drills I take my Clif Shot Bloks, an energy chew,” Zarate said.

Long dis-tance runners always tend to lean toward the healthy, high in

nutrition foods be-fore races. Staying

hydrated always plays a major role in running, which is why many runners point out that hydration is key.

“I eat Clif Shot Bloks or the Gatorade Carb Energy Chews. Those are pretty good; I take those about 15 to 20 minutes before the race. I try not to eat too much, like an actual meal, at least three or four hours be-fore I race. [I drink] water, or like I said, Ensure because I like to keep my stomach pretty light,” Zarate said.

Zarate’s comeback marks victory for Tiger Cross Country

Kemp By Writer Maddie

Senior Jaime Zarate finished first for the Tigers at the Rich Engel Classic on Thursday, Sept. 13.

How have you been pre-paring for the season?

I’ve been working re-ally hard this year during the practices.

How are you getting ready for the rest of the season?

We have all been making sure everyone is on the same page and trying to make it to State.

How is the team chem-istry?

We have very good chem-istry because we are all very good friends.

What do you do right be-fore a game to get ready?

I go home and rest.

Megan Evans Volleyball

Sydney Schoentag photo