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Volume 93, Issue 6February 17, 2015

1701 E. Capitol Drive, Shorewood, WI 53211The Student Newspaper of Shorewood High SchoolShorewood

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American Idiot impressesGroundbreaking show thrives at Shorewood

The new Metro Market store located on Oakland Avenue opened on February 16th. The store is the largest of all the Metro Markets and the only one with two levels.

“I am excited to be able to bring this to the community,” said Anthony Kuchinsky, store manager.

The store is looking to build a strong relationship with Shorewood.

“I have already started reaching out to city planner and manager and we have started to help out with events,” Kuchinsky said.

Metro Market catered a dinner for the MSO and Shorewood orchestra before their side-by-side concert last fall, and, according to Kuchinsky, the store is looking forward to sponsoring other Shorewood events like the annual bike race, holiday tree lighting and arts and crafts fair. They also plan to donate to food banks and other community organizations.

“I think people are really

looking forward to having a regular grocery store in town,” said Jenny Vulpus, community member.

The store has many new amenities the previous Pick’n Save did not have, including a smoothie

Metro Market prepares for openingby Martha Dix

The Metro Market building show little signs of construction as it prepares to open its doors. The store opened February 16.

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bar, spice shop, candy shop, soup bar, sandwich bar, salad bar, rolled to order sushi, fresh oyster bar, barbeque bar, build your own trail mix bar, bulk foods, fresh and natural juices and a grill station where a person can order anything from the meat or fish counter and

have it grilled right there.“We thought having a store

that was a little higher end with more amenities was something this community would embrace,” Kuchinsky said.

“With all the food bars they have there it will be really nice place to have lunch,” said Becky Jonen, junior.

Metro Market is also trying to foster a relationship with the high school. According to Kuchinsky, when the store first made its hiring plans one of the first things it did was meet with Tim Kenney, principal.

“We talked to him about doing job fairs and pairing up with the school,” Kuchinsky said. There were about 200 job opportunities that were available to high school students.

“We really wanted the first candidates that got job opportunities to be high school students,” said Kuchinsky.

Jonen was hired to work at Metro Market 15-20 hours a week. “It has given me a lot more

by Sydney Widell

Board members listen at the school board meeting on February 9. The board election notice was posted late this year, which troubled Shorewood residents and presented legal concerns.

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Board works to improve communicationcontinued on page two

The school board published notification for the April 5 elections a week after the deadline to do so passed, having left the district open to the potential for fines and investigation.

Chapter 120.06 of the Wisconsin state statute on school district proceedings mandates that a school district must publish notice of the spring elections by the fourth Tuesday in November prior to the elections themselves. However, notice of Shorewood’s elections was not posted until December 3, by which point the January 5 deadline to announce candidacy was only one month away.

Paru Shah, school board president, apologized to the community on behalf of the school board at the January 12 meeting.

“I apologize for the board for the oversights on the posting. I feel confident that those things will not happen again,” Shah said.

Due to the district’s quick response to the problem, they do not expect to see any state-issued follow-up.

“We followed up with the government accountability board

at the state level right away and there will not be any legal ramifications. They basically told us not to let it happen again,” said Bryan Davis, superintendent.

“There are only a few mandatory things you have to do as a board, and this is one of them,” said Gregg Davis, resident, no relation to the superintendent, in an address to the school board during the January 12 meeting.

“It came down to miscommunication within this

office. We are working with new personnel and getting the kinks out of our system,” Bryan said. “We corrected it immediately and discussed it at the next school board meeting, so the issue was brought out to the community.”

But Gregg’s worries run beyond any legal implications.

“By [failing to announce elections], they are excluding the community they were elected to represent,” Gregg said. “This is representative of a much bigger

issue, and it fits into a behavioral pattern that this board is known for.”

Transparent communication in general is an area he feels the board could improve in.

“The school board is not being as open a government as possible,” Gregg said.

Gregg speculates that measures like the new public comment policy have been implemented to prevent situations like last spring’s, when district-wide tensions about over enrollment and curriculum peaked in a series of confrontations that brought board proceedings to a near standstill, from occurring again.

While Shah respects the community sentiment Gregg and others are giving voice to, she disagrees and credits the growing mistrust of the board to politics.

“This is an issue of trust. In politics there are times when the person who delivers the message will be mistrusted no matter what,” Shah said. “We continue to be as transparent and as open as possible.”

Shah has found that the implementation of the comment

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This winter, the Senior Resource Center worked to connect the elderly to students or adults to help them shovel their snow.

“Every year, older or disabled residents contact the Senior Resource Center because they have trouble removing the snow,” said Elizabeth Price, coordinator and Senior Resource Center director. “We maintain a list of people who are willing to shovel for money, and we keep their address and when somebody calls in, we will give them the name of someone who’s within six blocks of them.”

P r i c e s a i d companies that offer shoveling services are often unaffordable or inflexible, so she put a request for shoveling help in the January school bulletin email.

“Every year, we recruit at the spring and the fall yard clean-up day. This year nobody signed up at the fall-yard clean-up day so that’s why I sent out that email to recruit, and that actually was more effective,” Price said.

The email resulted in seven students and two adults volunteering to shovel when needed. Some people arrange shoveling help ahead of time while others call the Senior Center looking for assistance when it starts snowing.

Judy Olson, resident, started looking for shoveling assistance in November and this was her first time coordinating for it through the Senior Center.

“We’ve contacted different people in a whole variety of different ways and we had a

Recently, the Niche Ranking System evaluated schools all over the country based on factors such as academics, educational outcomes, resources, sports and teachers. The Shorewood School District and all of its schools received very high state rankings: the district ranked 4th, the high school ranked 5th, the intermediate school ranked 6th , Atwater ranked 12th and Lake Bluff ranked 6th.

“The Niche Rankings help support and confirm the fact that we have very high quality schools here in Shorewood,” said Ted Knight, chief advancement officer.

“Seeing our district ranked 4th among 420 plus districts in the state is a validation of the great learning opportunities our district offers.”

Bryan Davis, superintendent, points to the staff as the district’s biggest strength.

“I am proud of all our schools,” Davis said. “We are preparing students for their future, not our past.”

“The key to keeping our ranking high is to [have] a combination of great leadership, outstanding teachers and community members who care about their schools, and I think we have all of these key ingredients here in Shorewood,” Knight said.

According to Tim Kenney, principal, the ranking is not surprising.

“We have so many strengths,” Kenney

Students shovel snowby Sabine Peterka lot of trouble with people not being reliable,

not showing up and that sort of thing. So I thought, well this time we’ll give it a try through the senior center and see if there’s anybody available,” Olson said.

Price connected Olson with a student.“As it turned out – I was very impressed

– when we had that big snowstorm [the student] was not at home; he was at his grandmother’s, and his brother and his friends came over and [shoveled] for us so it was awfully nice. So we got it all done in a timely way, and they did a good job,” Olson said.

If snow is not shoveled after 24 hours, S h o r e w o o d s e n d s people to remove it, but at a high price. Paying a student to shovel can be cheaper.

“ I t h i n k t h a t Shorewood is lucky that [the elderly] feel like they have a place to call where they can try to get support,” Price said. “I think that they feel more connected that way, and I do think they feel more connected if they get linked with a student.”

P r i c e s a i d t h e system has potential to

build relationships across generations.“It helps out the elderly just by doing

something that they can’t and you learn a lot from them,” said Antonio Chappa, sophomore. “One of them was born in Iraq and it was interesting to hear about his story and how he came to America and how he felt about our American relationships with Iraq.”

Chappa found out about this opportunity through a friend and signed up to shovel.

“It’s a great way to make money and you feel good about yourself afterwards,” Chappa said.

confidence in myself because … it has really helped with my interpersonal skills,” Jonen said.

According to Jonen, the previous Pick’n Save had a high level of distrust toward teenagers.

“I don’t know how they managed, you used to have to pay first and then come back with the receipt to receive what you bought,” Jonen said.

Jonen thinks the large amount of teenage employees will help ease potential tensions.

Shorewood was chosen as the location for multiple reasons.

“The old Pick’n Save that was there made the most money per square foot of all the Pick’n Saves even though it was

quite small,” Vulpus said. “We know what success a grocery

store could have in this market,” Kuchinsky said.

According to Kuchinsky, he felt the old Pick’n Save was outdated and the space for them to build was open.

One of the goals of the Metro Market is to provide traffic for other businesses.“We are going to bring a resurgence to the Oakland Avenue district,” Kuchinsky said.

Jonen expressed concern that the Metro Market may be causing Shorewood to become commercial instead of the small business feel Shorewood is known for.

“I feel like they could have chosen a bigger city to put it in, but Shorewood could really benefit,” Jonen said.

Shorewood finds employment

Atwater School was recently ranked 12th in the state, according to an evaluation conducted by the Niche Ranking System.

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District ranked fourthby Ananya Murali said. “When we go and do stuff, we seem

to do everything well. I don’t see really any areas of weakness, but we can always continue to improve.”

“There are so many ways that you can measure a school in how successful it is,” Kenney said. “So whenever there’s a ranking system that goes on, they have to pick just a

[few] things and then make comparisons across schools. I wish there was a way to measure all the things. I would like to see the ratings take a lot more into consideration, like student involvement and co-cur r i cu la r a c t i v i t i e s , c l u b activities, the arts and diversity.”

A c c o r d i n g t o Davis, this ranking not only fosters a sense of pride in the district,

but also is something that families from out-of-state look at and notice.

“The rating helps us in recruiting staff and students to work and learn in Shorewood,” Davis said.

Kenney said the rankings are a positive representation of the district, but that they will not affect the progress and goals of administration.

“The work that we’re doing is working toward improvement and providing more opportunities for students, and it’s all about getting better and doing better,” Kenney said. “Rankings take care of themselves if we keep striving to improve.”

There will be several new additions to the high school curriculum next year, including AP Environmental Science, AP Music Theory, Project Lead the Way, and a visual journalism class that will be co-taught by Michael Halloran, english teacher, and Jeffery Zimpel, art department chair.

“That’s the start,” Kenney said. “But these things were underway before these rankings even came out.”

“It’s like when I coached the boys cross country team. Running at the state championship is just like running a school,”

Kenney said. “On the day of the state championship, you’re not trying to win the state championship. What you’re trying to do is have your best performance on that day. Because if you perform to the best of your ability on that day as a team, then things like victories, first place finishes, that’s an outcome of something much bigger. It’s the same thing with running a school. We’re just going to keep on pushing and trying to improve from within, offer more courses for kids to take, and by doing that kind of thing, an outcome is high rankings.”

“We’re just going to keep on pushing and

trying to improve from within...”

-Tim Kenney,principal

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“Older or disabled residents contact

the Senior Resource Center because they have trouble remov-

ing the snow.”-Elizabeth Price,

Coordinator and Senior Re-source Center director

Employees prepare fervently in the moments before the grand opening. The Starbucks inside already employs several students from SHS.

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Boutique Blowout, hosted in the Atwater cafeteria on February 15, was a one-day clearance sale for a collection of several Milwaukee-area businesses, boutiques and home-goods stores.

“It was women’s clothing and accessories, so a lot of jewelry, scarves, sweaters and winter clothes,” said Jennifer Anderson, an organizer of Boutique Blowout. “There [were] kid’s clothes, some men’s clothes, and we have a number of house ware items.”

The Boutique Blowout event was spread out in the Atwater cafeteria, allowing each vendor to do what they wanted with their assigned space.

Boutique Blowout featured many Shorewood vendors such as: The Workroom,

Swanky Seconds, SHOP, Olson House, Min’s and Miss Cupcake.

Another organizer of the Boutique Blowout is Liz Leblanc, whom is also the owner of participating boutique, SHOP. SHOP has been in business for eight and a half years.

“It was the second year that we [SHOP] were in business, and after the holidays there’s just left-over inventory,” Leblanc said. “I figured that there were other stores that were in the same situation as us, so I just contacted a bunch of local boutique owners and they were all interested in participating and that’s how the first event happened.”

SHOP sells business casual and casual women’s clothing and accessories.

“We try to carry brands that aren’t available at other stores,” Leblanc said. “It’s sort of a reflection of my own personal style,

Boutique Blowout supports communityby Cela Migan

Shorewood businesses and village residents attend annual event

and it’s interesting to look back on the past eight years and see how it’s stayed the same but also evolved.”

This is the eighth year of Boutique Blowout, and Anderson said that the usual count of attendees is around 400.

Two first-time attendees to the Blowout were Lolly Rickun and Shirley Weiner, Shorewood residents.

“We both live in Shorewood, and I saw the sign passing by … and when we saw “Boutique Blowout” we just figured they would have some really good deals,” Rickun said.

In addition to the merchandise sold by the vendors, Boutique Blowout also sold SEED raffle tickets for various prizes.

“I hope that all of the vendors were able to get rid of a lot of their clearance merchandise and I hope that the customers found some things that they really love at a great deal. I also really liked that we have a

Shoppers browse the merchandise at an Atwater School craft fair. This year, The Boutique Blowout event drew nearly 400 vistors.

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charity aspect of it,” Leblanc said.Boutique Blowout had a door fee, and

all of the money from the fee went to the chosen charity of the year.

This year’s charity was the Round Up for Recreation program, which is the recreation department’s program for providing financing for anyone who cannot afford the recreation department’s programs.

“Anybody, regardless of age can participate in the programs regardless of their ability to pay and the Round Up for Recreation department fund helps defray those costs,” Anderson said.

State Representative David Bowen also attended the Blowout.

“I’d never been to the Boutique Blowout before, but it’s a really cool event,” Bowen said. “A lot of vendors and a lot of stakeholders are from around Shorewood and the district, and it’s really cool to come by and support local businesses.”

Vendors display their wares during a recent craft fair at held at Atwater School. The event attracts local sellers as well traveling merchants.

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policy has improved board efficiency while also enhancing public communication.

“People forget that this is our meeting in public, not a public meeting. By law, we’re not even required to take public comments. Board meetings are our time to talk to each other, and in the past, the comment situation has severely limited our ability to conduct efficient, serious meetings,” Shah said. “Instead, we came up with other ways to get in touch with the community outside of meetings. I feel like I’ve spoken to many more community members outside of meetings, and I’ve infiltrated many more perspectives into my thinking.”

In light of the upcoming elections, Gregg feels that it is more important than ever for the public to be aware of current

problems so that they can cast their ballots accordingly.

“What it comes down to is what kind of board the public wants: one that is responsive to the community and that includes the community in decision making, or one where public input doesn’t really count,” Gregg said.

Bryan is confident that the delayed election notifications have not deterred anyone from posing for candidacy.

“We have four good candidates and we’re looking forward to starting the election process,” Bryan said.

The seat held by Colin Plese, board vice president, and the temporary seat held by Joanne Lipo Zovic, interim board member, are the two places up for election this April.

See page 9 for a complete list of school board candidates.

The school board convenes for their Febuary 9 meeting. The board defends their public comment policy which has recenty come under question.

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New director on the books at library by Katie Eder

Rachel Collins will be joining the Shorewood Public Library staff on February 29 as library director.

“It’s an incredible opportunity,” Collins said. “Part of the attraction is the village itself. It is clearly a huge library-loving community, a real library-supporting community ... People really love their library.”

Collins will be replacing former director, Beth Carey, who served in the position for 17 years and retired on January 1.

Collins has worked for the Milwaukee Public Library system for the last 11 years. Most recently, she was a branch manager for the East Branch.

“I’ve known Rachel for almost 20 years,” said Paula Kiely, director of the Milwaukee Public Library. “She is an incredible person, a fabulous librarian and truly a leader who is coming into her own. We are going to miss her tremendously and I know she is going to do a great job for t h e r e s i d e n t s o f Shorewood.”

A c c o r d i n g t o M a r i a n n M a r i s , p r e s i d e n t o f t h e Shorewood Library Board , the l ib ra ry d i r e c t o r s e t s t h e schedule, hires staff, works to create a budget with the board.

“[The director] is really in charge of the day-to-day operation of the library,” Maris said.

Maris said the board formed a committee to conduct a nationwide search.

“Then that committee reviewed all of the applications and narrowed them down

to four people, and those four people were all invited in to do a presentation and meet with the board and staff. The process was very open, it was very thorough and ... the choice of library director was agreeable to all parties,” Maris said.

Collins said she did a lot of research prior to her interview.

“I knew I wanted to put time and energy into the preparation,” Collins said. “Believe it or not, I checked out a library book about interviewing ... I definitely took a close look at the Shorewood website for the village as well as the library to kind of get a feeling of what the library is currently doing and what I could think of for the future.”

Maris said that this knowledge is the reason Collins made the cut.

“What impressed me the most was [Collins] had done her research about

Shorewood,” Maris said. “She knew that 83% of Shorewood residents have library cards. She knew about much of what the library has done in the past and she built on that to talk about what she could bring to the position.”

C o l l i n s w a s born and raised in M i l w a u k e e , a n d attended Rufus King

high school. “After I graduated, I moved to

Seattle, Washington, where I pursued my undergraduate degree,” Collins said. “I originally thought I was going to be a marine mammal biologist ... I thought that was going to be my destiny, but once I was there I got really involved with volunteering, early childhood education and ended up with a

psychology degree.”Collins also holds a master’s degree in

Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Collins said she is very excited to start her position and meet Shorewood residents.

“I’m looking forward to getting to know all the players, all the stakeholders from Shorewood. I think that will let me get my footing so I have a real sense of where we want to go as we move forward,” Collins said.

Not surprisingly, Collins is a huge fan of libraries.

“I love working for the public library and I now I get to see how the public library makes a difference in individual lives and in the community,” Collins said. “I’m fortunate

when an individual comes up to me at the reference desk and tells me his library story. Recently, a gentleman in his mid-40s came to the desk to thank me and the library. He said he had been out of work as an accountant for some months and had been coming to the library as a place to focus on his job search and to use our Wi-Fi. He wanted to stop by to say thank you in person, because he just got a job and he felt he couldn’t have done it without the library. We only hear one or two of these stories a week, but I know there are many more we don’t hear from people and families of all ages. It’s these stories and impacts that keep me motivated and excited to lead a library.”

Shorewood Public Library opens its doors on a winter day. This month, the library welcomes Rachel Collins, their new director.

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Sophomore achievesby Olivia Poole

Custodian joins SHS staffby Layna Wang

Bill Weinfurter, custodian, poses during his nightly rounds. He has developed posi-tive relationships with students and teachers since he joined the staff last fall.

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Bill Weinfurter joined the SHS custodial staff for the 2015-2016 school year. Weinfurter previously served as custodian at Atwater Elementary School for 10 years, and before that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for 23 years.

Weinfurter primarily works in the performing arts building. Joe King, drama teacher and director, sees Weinfurter on a regular basis and they have developed a friendly relationship.

“He cleans my room and the auditorium every day,” King said. “We like to joke about sports and the Packers and the Indianapolis Colts and various college teams. He’s a nice guy.”

Weinfurter is no stranger to the drama students, either.

“He’s really nice to talk to whenever we have rehearsals ... he’s really supportive and he supports that we’re there,” said Makayla

Campbell, sophomore.Clayton Holbrook, freshman, appreciates

Weinfurter’s friendliness and hard work.“He works really hard after school

and puts in a lot of work for us to keep the building clean and I see him every day,” Holbrook said.

Weinfurter grew up in Wauwatosa with his four sisters and three brothers. After going through the Wauwatosa school system, he studied cabinetmaking at MATC.

“I did woodworking in high school and junior high school, so I made a lot of my furniture and my cutting boards and bowls,” Weinfurter said.

During his free time, Weinfurter enjoys baking and watching sports on television.

“I like to watch sports on TV. I do a lot of baking,” Weinfurter said. “[I bake] mainly breads and pies and I’ve been doing that for many years” ... “[My favorites are] date bread and nut bread.”

Competing against over 200 other musicians in the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Metropolitan Symphony, Maya Lawnicki, sophomore, took home an honorable mention in MYSO’s concerto competition on January 9.

“This is my tenth year playing violin, and it has been a constant in my life and a passion that I’ve had since I started playing,” Lawnicki said.

Lawnicki plays in the first violin section of the Metropolitan Symphony, the most recent addition to MYSO.

“I have played in MYSO for seven years, and was moved out of Philharmonia this year. Being sixth chair in Metropolitan right now, there’s a high probability that I will move up to Senior Symphony next year, so I am very excited about that,” Lawnicki said.

Ever since she began playing violin, Lawnicki has worked hard to accomplish her goals and improve as a player. She recognizes now that it is a long process to become a better musician, requiring large amounts of time and determination.

“This year I played the third movement of the Bruch Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, which I have been preparing for about ten months,” Lawnicki said.

Spending ten months on perfecting a single piece takes not only passion from the student, but a great teacher.

“I started private lessons with my current teacher, Sigrid Gullickson, at the [Wisconsin Conservatory of Music]

originally, but now she is separate from them. I absolutely love her,” Lawnicki said.

This is Lawnicki’s fourth year compet ing in MYSO’s concer to competition.

“My first year in string orchestra I didn’t place, then the next year I won the competition and got to perform as a soloist for the Symphonic Spectacular concert, and then I got runner up last year in Philharmonia,” Lawnicki said.

The competition works the same way every year. There is an individual competition for each of the MYSO levels, String Orchestra, Sinfonia, Philharmonia, Metropolitan and Senior Symphony, where typically the majority of the students from each ensemble compete.

The students then perform in front of a panel of judges: one from the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, one from the Skylight Opera and another from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

“You receive results the night of the competition, there’s a runner up, who for Metropolitan this year was a cellist, and then seven honorable mentions, which I was one of,” Lawnicki said.

Lawnicki plans to continue studying with Gullickson and playing in MYSO for the rest of high school.

“Now I’m working on the first movement of the Mozart Concerto No. 3 in G Major, and I will for sure compete in the concerto competition again next year, hopefully as a part of Senior Symphony,” Lawnicki said.

“Now I get to see how the public library makes a difference.”

-Rachel Collins,library director

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Crossing guard brightens students’ daysBy Madeline Wilson

Betty Robinson is going on her third year as a crossing guard by Shorewood High School on the corner of Capitol

Drive and Morris Boulevard.Initially, Robinson decided to take on

the job after a friend became a crossing guard at Lake Bluff.

“I am retired. So I’ve had nothing else

to do, and my girlfriend became a crossing guard at Lake Bluff,” Robinson said.

According to Robinson, this job has helped her find a purpose after her only child moved out.

“I only have one child and they left home. When they leave the nest it felt like I’ve got nobody to do anything for. But the kids, they make me feel good. They make me feel like I am doing something,” Robinson said.

People frequently ask her about her ability to stand outside during the cold Wisconsin winters. According to Robinson, it is the community that motivates her.

“If I didn’t have such great people to go back and forth with on this corner, I probably wouldn’t have stayed this long,” Robinson said.

Starting out, Robinson was nervous about how she would interact with people while crossing the street, but she has found that greeting people has helped her become successful.

“When I first started crossing guard, I was a little nervous because I didn’t know what to do or how to speak to people. Should I speak to them in the morning or should I not speak to them? I really had a smooth transition with it. Because I do greet people in the morning, that kind of helps smooth things out for me,” Robinson said.

Robinson says that the students that cross the street with her are cooperative, and

that helps make her job easier.“The students on this corner are

so well-behaved, and that makes me happy,” Robinson said. “That helps with me going back and forth and I don’t have to worry about somebody running out and getting hurt.”

For Robinson, getting used to cold weather was a difficult transition.

“I am not a cold weather person at all. My mother betted on me, on whether I was going to stay or not. Every morning

I get up and say ‘am I going to wear this and wear this?’ It took me up until now to get used to the cold,” Robinson said.

Robinson says that interacting with students and the community as a crossing guard has kept her going.

“I am happy when I go home … This is one job that I really have enjoyed. It stimulates me,” Robinson said.

Community members’ gratitude to Robinson runs deep.

After Robinson lost her dog, Goldie, they helped pay the 500 dollars she needed to get a new dog.

“I had Goldie for nine years. She was my sun patch … and when I lost her it was like I lost a family member,” Robinson said.

Robinson continues to lead students and other pedestrians across the street.

Students cross Capitol Drive while walking home from school. Betty Robinson, crossing guard, helps pedestrians like these cross the street safely.

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Administration gets an additionBy Martha Dix

Jess McCabe started as the new student support secretary at the start of the new semester on January 25 after Molly Loucks, the former secretary, left.

Loucks left for a position in a different school district.

“I know that she is greatly missed but she has moved on to better places for her,” said Molly Norris, counselor.

M c C a b e previously worked as the athletic secretary at Shorewood for one and a half years. Interviews are bring held for her position. McCabe will still cover a few of the roles of the athletic secretary while the transition is in progress.

“It was a hard decision to make, I really liked working in the athletic office with all the athletes and coaches but then I was just ready for a change,” McCabe said.

McCabe originally started working for the Shorewood Swim Club, where she was at the high school most of the time, but she wanted to do more for the school. When the athletic secretary position opened up, it was the perfect opportunity, and she applied for the job.

McCabe is permanently hired. “I think a fresh face has been really

good for the students especially those who knew Jess from athletics, I think it was very comforting because change can be hard,” Norris said.

According to Norris and Grace Reckmeyer, senior, the transition has been fairly smooth, especially considering her first week was the student support offices

busiest week of the year.

“I think there was a little bit of chaos but that was normal for anyone getting into a new job,” Reckmeyer said.

“I was worried about [the time of the transition] and she

really stepped up,” Norris said.The students have been pleased. “She likes to make sure everyone is

taken care of and she is very enthusiastic, so she is a great addition,” Reckmeyer said.

According to McCabe, one of the best parts of her new job is having more interaction with the students every day, although she does miss knowing how the different sports teams are doing.

According to Reckmeyer in the past

two years McCabe has been a great help to her with dance team which McCabe coaches for, tennis and softball.

“She has been a huge factor in helping with my last two years,” Reckmeyer said.

“I think a fresh face has been really good

for students.” -Molly Norris

counselor

Student support office hires replacment secretary

“I was just ready for a change.”

-Jess McCabestudent support secretary

Jess McCabe, new student support services secretary smiles on the job. McCabe made the move from the athletic office at the start of second semester.

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“The students on this corner are so well-behaved, and that makes me happy.”

-Betty Robinson,crossing guard

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American Idiot pushes boundaries, provokes

The cast of American Idiot comes together for the accoustic closer, “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” The song was a heartfelt conclusion to an impressive show.

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Shorewood Drama presented the Wisconsin premiere of Green Day’s American Idiot for three nearly sold out shows on February 4, 5 and 6.

The energy in the lobby of the Gensler Auditorium was different than typical Shorewood Drama production (but then again, have there been any typical drama productions since the arrival of Joe King, drama director). The atmosphere was a combination of excitement from drama parents looking forward to supporting their kids on or backstage, interest from people who were sort of familiar with Green Day but trusted that Shorewood Drama would put on another great show, anticipation from dedicated punk kids preparing to lip sync every lyric and blissful ignorance from people who had no idea what they were walking into.

The musical tells the story of three boys, Johnny (Graham Hartlaub, senior), Tunny (Zach Lipo Zovic, senior) and Will (Will Sandy, senior) and their attempt to leave suburbia for the big city to try to find meaning in a post 9/11 world controlled by the media and paranoia (“idiot America”). Their story is told through the soundtrack of Green Day’s American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown.

I imagine that audience members had very different experiences at the show based on their level of familiarity with Green Day’s music. I walked into the auditorium with those two albums very close to my heart. I spent the week before revisiting them and remembering how I, like so many other people, feel not as alone when Billie Joe Armstrong sings, “There’s nothing wrong with me / This is how I’m

supposed to be.” What I enjoyed most about the show was how the cast reflected the emotion packed in those songs with incredible electricity and realness. The first three numbers — “American Idiot,” “Jesus of Suburbia” and “Holiday” — started the show off energetically. With the help of active choreography and a rocking pit band, the ensemble projected an authentic sense of occasionally awkward, but always passionate teenage angst, a feeling we are all familiar with.

In such a high caliber production, there were some especially impressive numbers.

(This is where I have to restrain myself from listing every song in the show.) Lipo Zovic sang “Are We The Waiting” exceptionally, making it one of the top vocal performances of the night. After such an emotionally touching song, St. Jimmy, played by Max Pink, sophomore, arrived and gave the energy level a shot in the arm. Pink’s energy and charisma seduced the audience into loving Jimmy, until it was too late to see his bad side. “Give Me Novocaine” and “Last Night On Earth” were both beautifully performed and showcased the amazing set and lighting design. In both numbers,

the audience watched multiple story lines unfold on stage. The most impressive number was undoubtedly “Extraordinary Girl,” where Tulsi Shah, sophomore, and Lipo Zovic swung on wires through the air while singing. “Whatsername,” also one of the best vocal performances by Hartlaub and the Usual Suspects, ended the show with a powerful feeling of nostalgia. It could almost be interpreted as a happy ending.

American Idiot is the latest in a series of “progressive” repertoire chosen by the drama department, along with the likes of Spring Awakening and Cabaret. While these amazing productions have given Shorewood Drama, and the Shorewood School District as a whole a reputation of pushing boundaries and challenging students, there are a few aspects of American Idiot that I think walked very close to, and maybe even crossed, “the line.”

As King writes in the director’s note, the show doesn’t necessarily glorify the “adult” content it contains, namely drug abuse, and sex. I cannot stress enough how many important topics American Idiot contains and how well the cast dealt with them, especially drug use and addiction, which have not been featured in a Shorewood Drama production before. But it makes me wonder whether scenes of heroin use and subsequent addiction acted by — and I don’t mean to be patronizing — teenagers somehow unintentionally belittles the real struggle. The cast approached the task of portraying those scenes in an incredibly mature way, but is it too much to ask students who have (hopefully) never had experience with hard drugs to portray the effects? This is less of a criticism and more of an observation. In the end, American Idiot made me think, which is what good art should do.

by Maeve McKaig

Puzzle cornerIssue 6 crossword puzzleby Shimana Bose

ACROSS1. Nation under one government 6. Organic matter used as fuel 13. Photography business 14. East Asian country15. Pimpinella anisum’s common name 16. Leaving, abandoning 17. Mythical bird (plural) 18. Dark red gemstone19. Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal who came from Magog20. Surpassing all others 22. Denali Therapeutics abbrevia-tion 23. Natives 24. Cousin to the lime25. Depressing26. Good-for-nothing person (two

words) 27. Incline to (two words) 28. Type of food made from dried corn29. Village in southern Uruguay 30. _____TV 31. Pay money in advance 32. Series of related things33. Papyrus, for example 34. Famous cocktail (plural) 38. Type of alcohol 39. Gravity and friction are _____40. ____ man 41. Largest river in Egypt 43. Small salmon of Pacific and Great Lakes 44. Wavered 45. Silly 46. Displayed

47. Genus of flowering plants

DOWN1. Rachmaninoff wrote pieces in C ____ minor 2. Type of USB microphone 3. ______ in Wonderland 4. To be in a repeated pattern 5. Suffix for hydrocarbons with double bonds 6. Subatomic particle (plural) 7. Clumsy 8. Ugly giant 9. Witty remark (abbreviated) 10. Arrangement 11. Academic study of China 12. Fashion trend of wearing pants around ankles 14. Solely 16. Generator 18. Embroidery loops (plural)21. Lollygagged, moped 22. Devotions, sometimes found inside book covers 24. Mourn 25. More polite 26. Greek god of the north wind27. More lonesome 28. Archaic here29. Genus of tropical American plants30. Movements that match the rhythm of music (past tense)32. Sculpted 34. Silk fabric with a rippled ap-pearance 35. Someone who has attained the goal of the religious life36. Nobody (two words) 37. Smirk mockingly 39. Norse god of peace, prosper-ity, and marriage 42. Seventh letter of the Greek alphabet 43. Intelligence service of the U.S. government

Issue 5 crossword solution

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Arts & Entertainment RipplesFebruary 17, 2016

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The Bachelor, a student council fundraiser, returns to SHS for its third year on February 26. The show will be held in the SHS Auditorium at 7 p.m. and tickets are $5, which goes toward the charity of the year, the Mark Harris Family Fund.

Elena Cruz, senior, co-created the event and has been organizing it for the past three years.

“The high school needed a new fundraiser to replace Miss Shorewood, which was unfortunately banned from the district, so they came to us to help them create a new production,” Cruz said.

Cruz was selected because she helped to organize Miss Shorewood, a beauty pageant where boys dress as girls, her freshman year.

Aside from the date portion at the end of the event and the time of year it occurs, The Bachelor

The Bachelor raises money for Harris family

The Bachelor participants rehearse for dance number, “Cell Block Tango.” The Bachelor is on February 26 in the auditorium.

Shilei Bell-Lipsey

represents a departure from its older counterpart. It consists of three onstage portions followed by an offstage portion. The show begins with introductions, where the contestants are introduced by the hosts and pose before the audience. A talent portion and finally a question portion follow this.

Talents of past performances have been everything from song covers to groups of seniors singing The Sound of Music with the lyrics changed to be about The Lord of the Rings.

“It’s pretty free-range, the boys just figure it out by themselves with the guidance of the organizers,” Cruz said.

This will be Reed Falkner’s, sophomore, second year performing.

“Last year I was in the “Single Ladies” dance with some other people … the rehearsals leading up the show were really fun, and you get free ice cream [at the end of the show] so it

was worth it,” Falkner said.This year’s show will be

hosted by Cruz, who will be joined onstage by Jacqueline Klisch, junior. Kyle Tsuchiyama, senior, Josue Bayle, junior, and Olivia Poole and Jenna Just, freshmen, are also organizers of the event.

“I’m excited for all the talents. They all just seem really funny and energetic, so I’m sure a lot of the girls will be excited to bid on them,” Klisch said.

“The show is special every year. We have a completely new group of boys and talents that’s very different than previous years,” Cruz said.

Three teachers, Jeff Zimpel, art department chair, Jason Lowery, Spanish teacher, and Patrick Sullivan, social studies teacher, will also be performing. Their act is “Cell Block Tango” from the musical Chicago.

“I think [The Bachelor] is pretty unique … I’m pretty excited,” Lowery said. “I have

by Monica Dix no musical or performance talents to speak of, so I’m just excited to be out there with a bunch of seniors, having fun and raising money for a good cause.”

This will be Cruz’s last year with the show that she created.

“It’s strange. In senior year a lot of things come to an end, but I’m really excited to pass off The Bachelor to [Klisch]. She’s really

organized and really knows what she’s doing, so I’m really excited that she’s going to be the person to take that on next year,” Cruz said.

Cruz encourages everyone to come out to watch the show.

“Even if you’re not as involved in the school, … it’s definitely something fun to see if you’re in for a laugh,” Cruz said.

Graphic and studio art students from SHS and SIS set a record for the number of awards that they received within 2016’s Scholastic Art Awards.

The Scholastic Art Awards competition is one of the longest-running and most prestigious contests for high school artists. Since 1923, Scholastic has recognized students for their talents in numerous categories including architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, fashion and animation.

“The art is judged by people from the art museum, and there are three levels of awards: Gold Keys, the highest honor, Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions,” said Jessica Mohagen, art teacher. “The Gold Keys move on [to] the nationals, where the works of art are judged in New York.”

This year, Shorewood students from all grades managed to win 42 awards. There were 10 Gold Keys, nine Silver Keys, 20 Honorable Mentions, and three Senior Portfolio Awards.

“We had almost 70 students apply, and of those students, 42 winners,” said Jeffrey Zimpel, art department chair. “The 70 students were all enrolled in an art class, and the winners were mostly seniors, but there were also juniors, sophomores and we even had some freshmen.”

“For a school of our size, the number of students who have received awards this year is amazing; we’re definitely well represented.” Mohagen said.

Among the winners were Elena Cruz, Clarence Corbett-Soza, Marie Matthias, James Hillard, Morgan Florsheim, Cole Falkner, Eliana Wasserman, Kayla Wasserman, Celeste Carroll, Hazel Pritchard, Hana Schofield, Nick Nesler, seniors, Lundyn Opuiyo, Patrick Quinan, Chris Zak, Tyler Pelzek, Luis Roche, juniors, Kateri Hade and Jack Tetting, freshman.

All AP art students were highly encouraged to submit their work to the Scholastic Art Awards board, and while other classes were not required to send in their art, many students still did.

“The art teacher, Mrs. Mohagen, really encouraged me to send in my work,” said Kayla Wasserman, senior and winner of three Honorable Mentions.

Both Zimpel and Mohagen also compelled their non-AP students to submit their artwork as well.

“I was doing a quick assignment when

Scholastic honors exceptional artby Shimana Bose

A woman studies Scholastic award-winning photographs by Cole Falkner, senior. SIS and SHS students set a record for the number of awards they received this year.

Elena Cruz

Zimpel saw it,” said Jack Tetting, freshman and winner of a Silver Key. “He suggested that I submit it for the Scholastic Art Awards.”

After talking to potential candidates, both art teachers met and analyzed works that they believe should be recommended to the judging committee.

“Mrs. Mohagen and I sit down and … show each other the candidates. We have three piles: absolutely, probably and questionable,” Zimpel said. “From there, we go through the ‘probably’ and ‘questionable’ piles and decide which to send to the committee.”

While looking through the artwork, both teachers look for certain qualities that make award-worthy material.

“When recommending artwork [we look to see] whether it is quality work, professionally done, you can easily see the effort put into it,” Mohagen said.

“Basically anything that has some depth to it, and that goes above and beyond.”

In previous years, each school had a limit to the number of pieces that could be sent to the judging committee; however, this year, the limit was removed.

“Last year, they made it so that there is no limit to how many artworks a school can send anymore,” Zimpel said, “There is a five dollar fee for submission, but it can be waived if you cannot afford it. Other than the artwork being unique and creative, ... basically, anybody can enter.”

Besides the $5 fee, there are no cons to participating.

“Winning these awards is a great honor: you can get scholarships, you get a free [entrance] to the art museum, people come and want to buy work and it looks great on your resume,” Mohagen said.

For many students, it’s

their first time winning an award. “I participated last year too, but I didn’t

get anything,” Wasserman said, “I was really proud and surprised when I found out I won.”

While both Zimpel and Mohagen encourage artists to participate in the Scholastic Awards next year, so do many student winners.

“The scholastic art awards are a way for students to improve their artwork and become better artists,” Tetting said. “I’m probably submitting works next year as well.”

While receiving an award is a great honor, it’s also highly challenging. The judging process for the Scholastic Art Awards is extremely competitive, with many works rejected. Out of the 3,000 submissions across the state, only 737 received awards. Not all states have have the same deadlines and I think more are submitted nationally

“I definitely think that some people, who I know had great, award-worthy works of art … didn’t get anything,” Florsheim said.

While the judging process is very competitive, in recent years, it has become even more rigorous, considering all aspects of the pieces.

“They now take all accounts of the art into consideration: the history, the design, etc.,” Zimpel said. “They lean toward a different theme each year; last year the theme seemed to be more technical, but this year, it was more about the concept and meaning of the artwork.”

Not only do the students receive awards, but they also have their artwork displayed at the Milwaukee Art Museum where visitors are able to walk around and look at their works of art. The official awards ceremony for the students was on February 6.

“There are many other awards that occur on that day of the showing,” Zimpel said, “There is the teacher’s award, where teachers vote on the best piece. Some companies even sponsor some scholarships, and there are many other things you can be awarded.”

Overall, both students and faculty are both amazed and proud of the number of awards received.

“I am blown away this year by the amount of students who won awards; we really upped our game, and I hope to keep that streak,” Zimpel said.

To view photos of more award-winning artwork by SIS and SHS students, go to shorewoodripples.org.

Op/EdRipples February 17, 2016

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RipplesEDITOR IN CHIEFElena Katrina Cruz

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PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORSBen Samuel Davis

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BUISNESS MANAGER Olivia “Makes the Library Great Again”

Holbrook

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No awards for diversity this year

Ali Radvar Zangemeh

Avery Dedjol

With the recent release of the 2016 Oscar nominations, noticeably absent once again are people of color. For the second year in a row, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts failed to nominate a single person of color in any acting category. That is, out of 20 acting nominees, 100% are white.

After last year ’s identical scene, there was major backlash from the public, leading to a diverse new class of members invited into the Academy who vote on the nominations and winners. The backlash also prompted the Academy president and many famous actors to call for diversification in the film industry’s hiring.

H o w e v e r , t h e y a r e r i g h t b a c k w h e r e t h e y s t a r t e d .

In add i t ion to the absence o f acting nominees, the eight Best Picture nominations star predominantly white casts.

Straight Outta Compton, which follows hip-hop group N.W.A. as they released their first studio album, received substantial industry support. The film has received nominations from the NAACP Image Awards as well as a Screen Actors Guild nomination.

However, the film earned just one Oscar nomination, for Best Original Screenplay. And more than that, the screenwriters were white.

Creed, a widely-praised film following boxer Adonis Johnson as he enlists Rocky Balboa to train him to get a shot at a title, has a black director and lead actor. The film also received one Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor.

T h e s u p p o r t i n g a c t o r i s Sylvester Stallone. Hint: he’s white.

The lack of nominations is far from a one-dimensional issue. Underneath the

fact that there are literally no nominations handed to people of color lies the fact that there is a severe lack of Hollywood opportunities available for people of color.

Viola Davis, TV actress, put it very simply in her Emmy acceptance speech after becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the Best Actress in a TV Drama award.

“You cannot win an Emmy for roles that simply are not there,” Davis said.

It is my opinion that this applies even more strongly to the film industry than in TV, where Davis has seen and

experienced this discrepancy in her career.I believe that the industry can do better.

Not only are actors of color not given lead roles, but also directors, producers and writers are still predominantly white in Hollywood.

The money is there and the talent is there. It is now essential for the big names of film production to consciously look at what and whom they are choosing for their next projects.

I look forward to an immediate improvement from both Hollywood and the Academy as a whole, and even more so hope that “#OscarsSoWhite” is not trending on Twitter a year from now.

The Shorewood Schools Summit, a three-day event dedicated solely to give input for the community’s betterment, will take place on February 25 (5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.), 26 (5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) and 27 (8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.).

The summit hopes to address goals for the future and create detailed plans on how to achieve these goals. The event will focus on the past, present and future of Shorewood School District: where we have been, where we are now and where we can be in 10 to 15 years. After the three-day summit, the superintendent and his administrative team will meet with teachers

Community should be involvedand representatives from all Shorewood schools, working to craft a plan that allows for the realistic implementation of this vision.

With an in-depth planning process, the fact that the district will provide food and childcare and a satisfactory notification procedure, it is clear the board and planning

team made a genuine effort to include all members of the community. Further, by allowing a three-day summit instead of restricting the meeting to a more confined time period, it is all

but assured that the summit will conclude with a wealth of information for the superintendent and his team to work with.

The event shows a dedication to hearing

public input on behalf of the school board, especially after many community members expressed their distaste for board policies they see as limiting public discourse, like the new public comments policy.

Shorewood Schools Summit is a great opportunity for community members to participate in the making of decisions that affect them. Events like this are how real change is made and the first step in translating vision into realistic plans that can be achieved. This is how we move our district forward. We commend the board and planning committee on a thoroughly planned, well-designed, inclusive event and hope to see more events like this in the future. We strongly encourage all community members — especially students — to go, listen and make their voices heard.

“This is how we move our district

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Op/Ed RipplesFebruary 17, 2016

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WIAA rules pose violation to basic rights Cruz

Control

Elena Cruz

I go to a high school basketball game. With me stands a crowd, pledging allegiance to the United States’ flag without option. Then we sit down unanimously, all wearing the same red and gray shirts; there is no individual amongst the masses. A player makes a three-point shot but is prohibited from expressing excitement. A referee blows his whistle and an innocent teammate receives a red card. The crowd cannot express any defiance to the call.

It sounds like a dream, a fictional society of the silenced.

But it is not.This scene describes a

sporting event’s atmosphere that the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) mandates.

In 2008 the WIAA Sportsmanship Committee, first appointed by the Board of Control in 1997, updated its policies regarding the crowd’s expected behavior within the WIAA Sportsmanship Reference G u i d e . H o w e v e r , many of the positioned obligations are not only hazardous to a sporting e v e n t ’ s atmosphere, but also restrictive of one’s freedom of speech.

According to pages 10 and 11 of the guide, “Sportsmanship infraction[s]” include “dressing in attire that is not associated with school spirit,” “not standing at

attention during the National Anthem” and, without any misquotes, “fan participation activities while the game is actually being played (i.e. roller coaster, the wave, etc.).” I do not see how, in any manner whatsoever, these activities could be considered hindrances within a sporting event.

Furthering into the explanations of the chosen “infractions,” a fan’s clothing must show school spirit because otherwise it is “disrespectful to the game/event and the competitors by drawing attention away from the activity.”

A n a t h l e t e , first of all, should be able to p e r f o r m up to their t y p i c a l s t a n d a r d without becoming distracted by a purple shirt amongst a gray-clothed crowd. If that is enough for an athlete to lose their focus on the game, their credibility as a player—who faces countless distractions on the court or field, I would like to add—should be much lowered.

Secondly, and even more importantly, this rule enforces uniformity of the

upcoming generation. O u r educational s y s t e m s h o u l d encourage individual expression;

it takes unique thinkers and inventors to advance a society. By encouraging, and even requiring this sameness, this idea of originality becomes taboo.

The Sportsmanship Reference Guide further oversteps its ability of control, prohibiting one from

sitting during the National Anthem. However, this is not even legal: no one in our nation can be prosecuted for remaining seated while the Star Spangled Banner sounds. The WIAA Sportsmanship Committee cannot, quite simply, have a say in one’s position during the song, nor can they declare it as “inappropriate sportsmanship.”

Additionally, these mandates are in place to identify “individuals who display poor sportsmanship.” However, participating in the wave is not an inappropriate act in any way, contrary to

the guide’s c l a i m s . The wave shows a u n i f i e d s u p p o r t from all fans and all teams;

everyone can participate in the act as it rounds the arena. Fans sit in the stands to cheer for the players, and they should be allowed to do so in a completely appropriate way.

Moreover, the act of an in-game cheer such as the wave or roller coaster does not even target one distinct team. It does not singularize a player or disrupt one school’s players; it affects all people, including one’s favorable team, in the arena equally.

There are certain rulings within the guide that disallow unequal treatments of players, and these however I do agree with. I cannot argue with the prohibition of insulting chants such as the “Over-rated” chant. It can be considered mean when targeted at a player who already made a mistake. Similarly, I agree with the guide’s banning of “attending an event inebriated or under the influence of mood

altering substances” and “throwing of any object by fans or competitors.” Many of the requirements are reasonable.

That said the guide still needs much alteration. Although the “Over-rated” chant may be unkind, there is nothing wrong with saying “U-S-A” or “push it” repeatedly, as the guide implies. If the board requires that all stand during the National Anthem, it is hypocritical to ban a chanting

“Our educational system should en-courage individual

expression.”

“After any athlete makes an achieve-

ment, I support mer-riment.”

of the nation’s name. Additionally, one cannot be punished for yelling the two words “push it.” That, too, seems unlawful.

Other ridiculous rules include a banning of celebratory acts after a player scores—the ban includes that of “pointing to the to crowd; dancing; or any voluntary, unnecessary movement perceived to be drawing attention to one’s self”—and a prevention of “bare-chested fans and body paint at indoor events.” The

hosting school should make the latter ruling; students should follow their required dress code and not an outside party’s. The former,

furthermore, removes any act of celebration possible. Professional football players have signature dances after scoring a touchdown, and this is not done inappropriately; after any athlete makes an achievement, I support merriment.

The WIAA’s Sportsmanship Reference Guide incorporates

many illegitimate claims regarding sportsmanship infractions. It imposes on one’s freedom as a U.S. citizen, inhibits individuality and is hypocritical. If we, as a student body, complied to the WIAA’s rules, sporting events would become, quite basically, boring: there would be signification drop in attendance, school spirit and profits. The current rules need to be adjusted in order to provide an adequate environment for student athletes and fans.

Jack Harju

Levi Miller

Meet the 2016 school board candidatesNate Cade Hilary DeBlois Joanne Lipo Zovic

photos courtesy of Nate Cade for School Board, Hilary DeBlois for School Board and Joanne Lipo Zovic for School Board

Resident of Shorewood: 11 years

Occupation: Attornery

Education: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Law School

Resident of Shorewood: 8 years

Occupation: Program and Otreach Coordinator

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Resident of Shorewood: 27 years

Occupation: Attorney and Consultant

Education: Marquette University Law School

Op/EdRipples February 17, 2016

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Board games easily surpass phone gamesSpore me the

details

Justine Spore

This Christmas, my family and I embarked on the trip home from a vacation, including a layover of about an hour at Miami International Airport. Upon our arrival in Miami, my family and I walked to an information board only to find that because of poor weather in the Midwest, our flight was delayed nearly five hours. After discussing possible options, we realized the only reasonable solution would be to find a comfortable corner in the airport and wait the hours out. The deck of cards flew out of my dad’s backpack as soon as we sat down.

“Rummy?” I asked.“To 500,” he said.Rummy 500 is not a quick game. Players

must create runs of the same suits or three of a kind by drawing cards from an ever-growing pile in the middle. Each hand ends with a player “going out,” or using all of his or her cards. Points are determined by the amount of cards each player lays down, and the first

player to 500 points wins. By the time one of us had finally reached the glorious 500 points, nearly three hours had passed.

I believe that board games and card games are second to none when it comes to group entertainment, especially compared to phone apps or Internet based games.

Some may argue that phone games offer the same kind of group entertainment, with multiplayer games and games in which players take turns, notifying the other player when the previous has played. However, this directly eliminates the element that makes board or card games so unique: the human interaction. Many of our everyday activities rely upon our ability to communicate effectively with other individuals.

Addi t ional ly, humans are very competitive, and what better way to feed this drive than to see the look on your family’s or friends’ faces when you win? Generally, board games also take longer to complete than a phone game. This forces players to

continue to interact, even over the course of days, and sets aside large chunks of time for friends and families to collaborate.

Although phone games may also take days to complete, each turn takes only a few minutes, and excludes human interaction completely. Even efforts of apps to include this interaction with the addition of “messaging” or ways to communicate with your opposing player fall short, as it remains in the medium of technology and prevents physical interaction.

Board games and card games remain the ultimate entertainment method, satisfying our competitive and social nature as humans. Next time you’re looking for this fix, I suggest not the newest app or latest Internet craze, but the old board game in the basement, or that dusty deck of cards you haven’t touched in years.

New librarians make LMC more comfortableHollabrook

Olivia Hol-brook

The SHS Library Media Center (LMC) is at its prime. For the first time in years, students view the LMC as a place they want to go. The addition of new librarians and improved technology has helped the library become a terrific gathering place for students.

For the first three years of my time at SHS, the LMC was never a happy place. As an underclassman with no free periods, I spent very little time in the LMC and only heard of the wrath of the librarians from upperclassmen. It wasn’t until last year when I really got to see the desolate social environment of the library first hand. Last year, a notorious group of seniors were banned from the library for being too noisy. Another handful of kids were thrown out for eating, and yet another student was banished for taking a nap. This year we have not had nearly as many behavioral incidents. While some of this is due to the better behavior of SHS students, I firmly believe the addition of Monica Purifoy and Sarah Stoffregen, librarians, has a lot to do with the LMC’s recent success.

SHS students have reacted very positively to the addition of the new librarians. Monica and Sarah are willing to work with students and are willing to compromise. They are

young and go by their first names, all of which makes them feel more accessible to students than librarians of the past.

Last year, the frequent banning of students from the LMC only encouraged students to act up and continue their unruly behavior. This year, the new librarians have other ways of making sure students are not acting up in the LMC. Rather than confiscating food or throwing students out, students are simply asked to leave the LMC to eat and to return when we are done. For example, I had food confiscated twice last year, but the first time I ate in the LMC this year, the librarians asked me to leave, rather than taking my food or banning me for two weeks. This approach to the food problem has encouraged students like myself to follow the rules of the library and take food, loud conversation and naps outside of the LMC.

T h e t e c h n o l o g y a v a i l a b l e f o r student use has a l s o i m p r o v e d drastically this year. While Chromeboo -

ks were available for students to use last year, this year’s librarians have been encouraging their use. One of the problems with the library in previous years was that students were always fighting over the limited number of desktop computers. Chromebooks allow students with free periods to have access to computers all while leaving the desktops for the use of classes in the library.

One other addition to the library is the new computer designated for quick printing. This computer is always logged in with the

Internet open ready for students to use on the go. Any SHS student will tell you that there is nothing worse than needing to print a paper before class and having to wait five minutes for the computer and the Internet to start up. Small changes to the technology of the library like these have helped make the library a prime study space for SHS students.

So, thank you to the administration and librarians for making the LMC a more inviting place for students to work.

Isaak Mckee

Michael Bukowski

Olivia Loomis

Sports RipplesFebruary 17, 2016

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Senior scores record 1000th career pointby Elena Cruz

Jada Stackhouse, senior, scored her 1,000th career point during the basketball game against Heritage Christian High School on January 12.

“It was really exciting: I actually scored exactly 21 points to get the 1,000th point,” Stackhouse said. “After the game was over, I had exactly 1,000 points; not below and not over.”

Stackhouse felt a combination of many emotions. She scored on a free throw, having missed the first shot prior to making the 1,000th point.

“I just went out and did what I had to do. I was upset that I missed the first free throw, but I think it added more intensity and more suspense,” Stackhouse said. “I was extremely excited [and] … relieved that I got the 1,000th point.”

Only two other women have reached this total in all of Shorewood history.

“Girls basketball started in the state of Wisconsin in 1972,” said Jeff Eimers, varsity girls basketball coach, “and Jada is the third young lady to score 1,000 points in her career.”

The other women are still affiliated with the district.

“Annie [Leo’s, senior,] mom actually scored the 1,000th point, and then our assistant coach, [Amanda Schick, class of 2007,] from two years ago did, too. We all know each other,” Stackhouse said.

These two women joined Stackhouse and her team in a congratulatory celebration. Immediately after scoring, a timeout was called and Stackhouse received that game ball. The commemorations later continued

during the game against Cudahy, occurring the next Friday.

“The team got me a signature ball … and a big blow-up picture frame with a whole bunch of pictures of me playing basketball. It was really sweet and I loved it,” Stackhouse said.

The team supported Stackhouse in her accomplishment, members saying she deserved it.

“Everyone loves Jada … She’s always smiling or laughing or telling funny jokes, making me laugh all the time; she’s a great

one. I’ve just been lucky to play with her all of these years,” said Meghan Curtis, senior. “She’s very talented.”

Stackhouse’s playing ability has shown itself through a consistent position on the varsity team. In all of Eimers’s six years as a coach, Stackhouse is only the second player to have been on varsity since freshman year.

“If the team is pretty good, then you have to be very, very talented to crack the lineup, which was the situation with Jada. We were a pretty good team when Jada came on as a freshman, but she was still good

enough to make the team,” Eimers said. “I’ll make this statement: Jada Stackhouse, if she isn’t the most talented athlete at Shorewood High School, then she would be one of the top three. And I’m talking about male and female. She is extremely, athletically gifted.”

However, Stackhouse is not only an award-winning basketball player.

“There’s volleyball, which she also happens to be very good at. She’s tremendous and she is super passionate about it, which helps, but she also has that natural talent and drive that just sets her apart from everyone else,” Curtis said.

Stackhouse will continue her volleyball career at Cornell University after she leaves SHS. She is also considering playing basketball, but she is factoring in academics with her scheduling.

“I’m actually playing volleyball in college at Cornell University,” Stackhouse said. “It’s going to be stressful going to an Ivy League school and playing a sport — even just playing one — but I don’t know: if I can, I might [play basketball] if the coach sees my potential on the team.”

“I think the thing to know about Jada is that as great of an athlete as she is, she knows the bigger calling is the education … I think that is phenomenal that a young lady her age is so much aware of that: that she’s appreciative that she gets to go to college and do a sport, but at the same time she knows that the rest of her future will be getting that education,” Eimers said.

“She deserves all of the recognition that she has received,” Eimers said. “She is truly something special, and she is truly a coach’s dream.”

Jada Stackhouse, senior, shoots during a home game against South Milwaukee High School. Stackhouse is now the third Shorewood girl to ever score 1,000 points.

Shilei Bell-Lipsey

“We’ve worked really hard and seen a lot of great times this sea-

son.”-Evan Szablewski,

freshman

(Above) Henri Carignan and Michael Perry, seniors, stand on the podium during the Woodland Conference meet at Greenfield High School. (Below) members of the boys swim team cheer on Peter Rath, freshman, as he swims breastroke at conference.

Sophie D’Amato

“The whole team was so excited about win-ning for a fourth year

in a row.”-Charlie Phillips,

junior

Swimmers gain key confidence after meetHeading into the penultimate meet of

their season, the boys swim team is feeling confident after coming off of a fourth-straight Woodland Conference meet victory.

“My favorite part of the meet was the end … The whole team was so excited about winning for a fourth year in a row,” said Charlie Phillips, junior.

Three key relay wins allowed the varsity team to pull away with victory, even though they did not win any individual events. The JV team did not win, but came away from the meet with individual victories.

Notable swims for the JV side were wins by Edison Wolnikowski and Eric Mueller, juniors, in the 500 free and 100 back, respectively.

Evan Szablewski, freshman, won his first conference championship with the team.

“When we all jumped in the pool after we won it was really special because the whole team was together,” Szablewski said.

A c c o r d i n g to Michael Perry, senior, he also had a meaningful moment after his final conference swim.

“My highlight was walking back over to the bench after anchoring the 400 free relay, … getting high fives from an ecstatic

by Maya Schneider team the whole way,” Perry said.As the team looks ahead to sectionals

and state, they say they are looking forward to showing what they can do.

“I’m really looking forward to tapering, … to have the extra energy to go faster than I have all season,” Phillips said.

Perry agrees.“This meet showed

us that we are going to taper well and we just have to trust our training,” Perry said.

The sectional meet on Febrary 13 serves as a qualifying meet for the state competition. The

boys hope to bring a large team to compete in Madison on February 20.

“Based on this year’s times and our training, … we’re looking forward to what we can do at sectionals and mostly state,” said Zach Hammond, senior.

The swimmers also think that the practices leading up to this point in will aid

in their athletic ability.“We’ve worked

really hard and seen a lot of great times this season … along with the taper I believe we can do really well in postseason,” Szablewski said.

Looking back on the year, the team regards it well.

“I really enjoyed the season … I don’t want to see any of the

seniors go: I can’t picture a team without them,” Phillips said.

“This season was great especially with Tom [Miazga, varsity coach,] … he made the season great,” Hammond said.

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Girls basketball fosters family atmosphereThe varsity girls basketball team is prepar-

ing for their conference game, hoping to win.“We have only won conference once be-

fore this two times,” said Megan Eimers, senior.T h e v a r s i t y g i r l s b a s k e t -

ball team won conference twice be-fore, consecutively, in 2014 and 2015.

“The only other conference champi-onship that the girls program had before was 1972. That is the only one,” said Jeff Eimers, girls varsity head coach.

According to Sarah Goldberg, senior, they have had a very good season this year.

“The season has actually been going re-ally well. We are, right now, first in our confer-ence,” Goldberg said.

“We had a very nice season. The girls are currently 12-6 and they are in 1st place for the conference. It would have appeared — the odds are pretty good — that they will win con-ference. Which would be their 3rd in a row [if they win],” Jeff said.

T h i s s e a s o n ’ s p r o g r e s s i s s i m i l a r t o t h a t o f l a s t y e a r ’s .

“What is amazing is that the girls have the exact same record. The season, this year, is almost a carbon copy of last year’s season,” Jeff said. “I mean the team chemistry is very similar, the win is similar, the fact that the girls did not play so well in the beginning of the year and now are peaking. Things look very good that we will win the conference because the girls are just playing so well.”

The team is very close with each other, and many say they are like a family.

“We have a great group of girls ... We are not just a team playing a sport.

We are more like a family and we value each other,” Megan said.

The players that are not graduat-ing will be left to lead the varsity team.

“We have a couple freshmen, one sophomore and one junior who would be in charge of leading the team next year,” Goldberg said. “They are all spec-tacular players who will certainly have a tough road ahead when we all leave, but if there is anyone who can keep this program going, it’s those four girls.”

Jeff says that he will miss this year’s talented group of seniors that will be

graduating soon. “I think that

we have been very fortunate here, with the girls program,” Jeff said. “To have such a good group of talented athletes to begin with, and it is such a good group, where they all get along and all those things have worked together to make them suc-cessful ... I mean, quite honestly, they have just begun,

the senior class, they’re going to go on to great things as individuals.”

The seniors felt very proud that they could be part of a team that broke the record of winning the conference twice in a row.

“It truly has been amazing,” Gold-berg said. “I can’t say enough for how hard the team has worked in the last few years and how much of an impact Jeff has had on the program. We couldn’t have done it without his commitment to the program, but leav-ing here next year knowing we did what no other team has done before is truly something to be proud of.”

by Yasmin Mohd Suhailin

The girls basketball team competes in a home game. Top: varsity, bottom: JV. They are preparing for their confrence game.

Shilei Bell-Lipsey

“We have a great group of girls ... We are not just a team playing a sport. We are more like a fam-

ily.”-Megan Eimers,

senior

Ski team shreds into state championshipsDespite an unusually warm

season, the Shorewood/Nicolet ski team has made the best of their conditions, and have reached their goal of making it again to the state championship ski race at Mount

by Abby Widell Lacrosse on February 13-15. M o u n t L a c r o s s e h a s a

reputa t ion of being a very challenging course. With a much steeper drop and higher elevation, the venue is unlike the hill where the ski team trains.

Once there was snow on the

ground, the ski team began weekly practices at Holy Hill Ski Club where they would practice slalom or giant slalom, depending on the course of their next race.

The team’s season has been satisfactory despite some rough races.

Grant Shields, freshman, skis during a race at Holy Hill. The ski team qualified to race at the state championships on February 13-15 and are expecting to have lots of fun.

Henry Fowler

“The season has been going alright so far. The boys are doing really well with a fourth place ranking and the girls are tied for tenth because of a few rough races to start off the season,” s a i d G r a c e R e c k m e y e r, senior.

T h e s k i team has faced c h a l l e n g i n g weather during many of their races.

“Most of the races have had l o t s o f really awful conditions. We had one race where the high didn’t get above negative seven degrees so the course turned to ice very quickly. We also had a race where it was raining so much that the course was entirely slush. We haven’t really had a race where there’s been good snow, we’re more just lucky to have snow,” Reckmeyer said.

In anticipation of undesirable weather, the team didn’t technically start practices until January.

“ T h e w h o l e m o n t h o f December was mostly just bike rides, dodgeball games and other

“Even if you are not a racer, ski team is a great oppurtunity to go out skiing twice a week and meet new

people.”-Grace Reckmeyer,

senior

forms of cross training,” said Paige Simenz, freshman. “Some people had not skied at all before the first race and it was pretty unnerving

to go into it without skiing beforehand.”

Desp i t e t h e p o o r w e a t h e r , the ski team h a s a l s o been a great opportunity f o r S h o r e w o o d and Nicolet a t h l e t e s t o combine and l e a r n f r o m each other.

“It is so m u c h f u n .

Even if you are not a racer, ski team is a great opportunity to go out skiing twice a week and meet new people,” Reckmeyer said.

According to Simenz, the ski team has unity between Shorewood and Nicolet.

“Although there is natural separation between skiers from the different schools, there is definitely the sense that we are all one team. Everyone is really supportive, and it’s becoming more merged with time,” Simenz said.