SHS Students Plan Trip to Italy

The
Lantern
The Voice of Strongsville High School
October 20,
2011
“We want everyone to have a good
time at the dance and to be safe,”
said Mrs. Turner. “It’s also a good
way for teachers to greet kids before
they enter the dance.”
Homecoming Dance Welcomes the Use of Breathalyzers
By Ahmad Aziz
A week before homecoming, the main topic in
the halls was the use of breathalyzers. Many students were wondering how it would be possible
for every student to get tested within a reasonable
amount of time.
Kids feared that the testing would take away
from their fun at the dance, and result with
them standing in a line most of the night.
About 46% of students believed that the
breathalyzers were a good idea and shared a
common reason why: It kept people safe. The
testing prevents people from coming in intoxicated, and doing drunken and ignorant things
which may lead to violence.
There are many students here at the high
school who are against drinking. Isabella Zona,
freshman, said “Kids shouldn’t drink.”
“Society is behaving worse [than it was before], and schools need to enforce their rules to
fix that problem,” said Sarah Atoulikian, sophomore. Students, who believed that the breathalyzer
use was bad, had another opinion. Almost 25%
of students were against the tests. Breathalyzers
would take up time, waste school money, and
were not fair to those who didn’t drink, but had
to stand in line anyway.
Breathalyzer tests indicated to some students
that the school did not trust them. “I think it’s
pretty sad that a high school has to have a breathalyzer test,” Valerie Lazar, Junior.
Twenty-nine percent of students didn’t care
about the testing and were neither in favor or
against the use of the breathalyzers.
The school has tried to initiate the tests at events
before, but never quite knew how. The concerns
about drinking problems at school events have
grown significantly over the years, so administrators knew that they had to do something.The
school has tried to initiate the tests at events be-
fore, but never quite knew how, until this year.
Since the new assistant principal, Mrs. Turner,
and Mr. Smithberger have been at schools that
have used the tests before; they used their experience to set up the test. They predicted it to
take up to 20 minutes if all went well. “We want
everyone to have a good time at the dance and
to be safe,” said Mrs. Turner. “It’s also a good
way for teachers to greet kids before they enter
the dance.”
The process went pretty quick. It was an estimated 10-minute wait in a line that moved
pretty quickly. This gave students time to talk
to their friends before entering the actual dance
area.
Directors were present to lead students to
an administrator who had kids blow into the
breathalyzer, and send them into the dance if
they puffed negative, or into the guidance office
if they puffed positive. Police were on hand to
deal with the people who had alcohol in their
systems.
The test was very quick, taking less than a second on average. The line ended at about eight
o’clock, but teachers stood by the doors for late
comers. According to administrators, nobody
puffed positive and everything ran smoothly.
Most people had no problem with the test afterward. Many students said it was a long wait,
but simpler than they thought. “It was pretty
simple,” said Mallory Arthur, junior. “I just
stood there and blew into the device.”
“It was very easy and fast,” Lien Vannuyen,
sophomore.
Even still there were a few critics. Larissa Fisher, Junior, said “I spent a lot of the time standing
outside, freezing my butt off.” “[It] was annoying,” Lyssa Gwin, Junior.
At the end of the night, the dance was still fun.
The tests didn’t have any negative effect. They
just helped keep the drunks out so everyone
who came could have some clean, sober, fun.
SHS Students Plan Trip to Italy
By Jen Taggart
Imagine looking up at the Michelangelo’s mural in the center of
the Sistine Chapel, or seeing the Roman forum, where democracy was born, even going to Vatican City. The Italian Club at
Strongsville High School is planning a trip to Italy early next July
open now to any student attending Strongsville High School.
Italian Club advisor Mr. Atilli has been waiting for this opportunity for ten years.
“I was surprised the Board of Education said yes,” he said, “I
didn’t think there’d be room…they go to Hawaii, the Honduras…
I didn’t think there’d be ‘room on the bus.’ There is ‘room on the
bus.’”
He mentioned that the present seemed like the perfect time to
go on the trip, in conjunction with the new Western Studies class
at the high school.
“It seemed like a no-brainer,” he said.
The trip was originally planned to be for the Italian Club, English 9 Honors classes, and Latin club and classes, but is now open
to the whole school with twelve spots left on a first come, first
serve basis. Students interested in attending the trip should contact Mr. Atilli as soon as possible.
“There’s the connection with Romeo and Juliet in Verona, and of
course the Greek and Roman mythology,” said Ninth grade Honors English teacher Mrs. Stronitsch.
Mrs. Rose is another chaperone from the English Department
attending this trip.
Students attending the trip will receive many opportunities to
broaden their horizons as well as learn more about the world
around them. They will be traveling with EF Educational Tours, which is dedicated to helping students take learning outside of the classroom
for 45 years.
“I figured it’d be a once in a lifetime experience,” Marisa Supanich, a junior that is attending the trip to Italy, said. She has even checked
o u t
books and CDs from the library in attempt to learn the Italian
language. “I love to travel, but I have not been to Europe yet.”
Olivia Sagan, another student already signed up for the trip,
added, “I am Italian, so it’s going to be cool to see where my
grandfather came from.. I’ve been on a trip similar to this and
I had so much fun and it just seemed awesome that I could do
this, so why not?”
According to a nationwide survey done
by AdvancED regarding EF Educational tours, 92%
of students surveyed “feel more comfortable
in new and different cultural settings.”
“I hope that students will become more historical
ly, culturally, and literary aware,” Mrs. Stonitsch said,
“Students will get to see another side of the world. Rome is one of
the most beautiful cities in the world, besides the history behind
it and Roman mythology.”
“I want them[the students] to be able to connect today’s ideas
with the past,” Mr. Atilli added, “When they go to the Forum, I
want them to think ‘Here’s the place where ideas like democracy
were first debated, or [they could see] the Roman Senate.”
The ten day(including travel time) trip will stop in Rome,
Venice, and Florence. Some of the sites that students
attending the trip will be able to see are the
Sistene Chapel, Colossuem, Grand Canal, and
Ponte Vecchio, a beautiful medieval bridge in
Florence, Italy. They will also be going to Academia University to see the Statue of David, as well as Vatican City.
“I hope that students will learn more about the culture
and have more respect for it,” Mrs. Rose said.
This trip will be an opportunity for students to
travel abroad and bring many of the topics they have
studied at Strongsville High School to learn about
history, culture, and the world around them.
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Kids in the Hall
Reubens, Salads, Cupcakes… Oh My!!!
Chef O from the Polaris Career Center
By Katarina Liska
Maybe it is a reuben sandwich,
chicken rockefeller, or a pomeroy
salad.
Maybe dessert is all that you crave
that day and enjoy a strawberry-filled
chocolate cupcake or a delightful
éclair.
Just a short drive from SHS you will
find Mis En Place and Mon Delice.
You may wonder where these fine
establishments are located. They are
both located at Polaris Career Center
in Middleburg Heights.
As Strongsville High School students, we have the opportunity to
attend Polaris Career Center in our
junior and senior years. Polaris Career Center offers 29 different programs for students from Strongsville,
Brooklyn, North Olmsted, Berea,
Olmsted Falls, Midpark and Fairview
Park high schools. I visited the Chef
Training and Baking and Pastry Arts
programs.
During my visit, I was able to speak
with both chefs in the Culinary Academy. Chef O, as he is respectfully referred to by the staff and students, is
the instructor for the Chef Training
program.
To obtain his degree in culinary
arts, Chef O attended the Culinary
Institute of America and finished his
studies through the American Culinary Federation. Throughout the
interview, Chef O expressed that he
wanted to teach others the knowledge
he had collected.
He went to Kent State to receive
certification in teaching. After twenty-one years of working “long-hour
work weeks,” Chef O became the
Chef Training teacher at Polaris Career Center. “I just needed a change
in venue, since I have a family,” he
explains. He has been teaching at Polaris for 11 years.
As part of their training, the students enrolled in the Chef Training program learn how to cook and
serve in various aspects of a restaurant. The chef training teaches the
student how to prepare food for Mis
En Place, proper restaurant serving
techniques, plate presentation, banquet and catering planning, soup and
sauce preparation, vegetable and fruit
preparation, garishes and displays,
preparation of breads, doughs, pies,
tarts, cakes, tortes, cookies and candies. They also learn such important
things as customer service, effective merchandising, cost control, the
proper handling of food and sanitation and safety.
While at Polaris, I had the privilege
of speaking with two extraordinary
seniors enrolled in the Chef Training program who gave me some
insight into what the class entailed
and what their plans for the futuree
were. The seniors both plan to receive
their bachelor degrees from culinary
colleges such Culinary Institute of
America or an arts college in Michigan.
Both seniors said their favorite part
of the class is that it is so hands-on
and that they enjoy experiencing both
the front and back of the house. These
terms simply mean that you are either
serving the food to customers or you
are plating the food you prepared.
Students enrolled in these programs
typically have the ability to compete
Chef Hoegler, Baking and Pastry Arts Instructor
menu planning, food and beverage
cost control, sanitation and safety.
Chef Hoegler is in her first year at
Polaris as the Baking and Pastry Arts
program instructor.
Chef Hoegler attended Johnson
and Wales University in Providence,
Rhode Island. She likes teaching the
Baking and Pastry Art program at
Polaris because she saw that students,
“want to learn what she has to teach.”
Chef Hoegler has a Bachelor degree
in Food Service Management and has
previously worked as the Executive
Pastry Chef at Kent State University.
The Baking and Pastry Arts program
teaches students how to make various bakery and pastries to sell at Mon
Delice.
While in the Baking and Pastry Arts
program, the students learn a variety
of skills such as basic mixing methods, basic functions of ingredients,
in FCCLA (Family, Consumer, and
Career Leaders of America) and
ProStart competitions. Competing
in these events give the students the
ability to receive scholarships if they
win or place in the competition.
Some colleges, such as Johnson and
Wales and The Culinary Institute of
America, offer scholarships based on
the place one finishes in the competitions. Some of which can be worth
a full tuition scholarship. There are
competitions for both Culinary Arts
and Baking and Pastry Arts.
I visited the programs because of
my interest in the culinary programs.
Before seeing the programs I was
sure I knew which one I wanted. But
now I can honestly say we at SHS are
privileged to have two wonderful culinary programs to choose to attend.
Only time will tell which program I
attend next year!
and she has taught in three different districts, teaching almost every
grade but this is her first year teaching high school.
Mrs. Harrison is very excited to be
at Strongsville High School and enjoys the atmosphere very much. She
is a special education math teacher
and helps students with getting organized to meet their goals in becoming the best students they can be.
In her free time she is very busy
with her two young sons Braden and
Luke and likes to cheer on her husband as he coaches baseball at Baldwin Wallace College.
Mrs. Harrison loves to read all
kinds of books. She is really into
authors like Nora Roberts and James
Patterson.
Initially, Mrs. Harrison earned her
degree in business and worked at
Key Bank. Then she started volunteering at schools and fell in love
with it. She knew that teaching was
what she really wanted to do. After
that she decided to go back to school
full time and got her degree and masters in teaching at Ursalin College.
Mrs. Harrison has taught many
subjects while teaching, but mainly
reading. She has been deeply influenced by her mother who is also a
teacher and who taught her all about
being the best teacher she can be.
In 10 years Mrs. Harrison sees herself doing the exact same thing she is
doing now. She loves seeing kids in
high school taking school and sports
so seriously, which is very exciting
for her.
Mrs. Harrison would love to help
anyone and everyone with anything
they need. “You have to be willing
to take help in order to receive it,”
she said and is devoted to helping
all of us here be very successful now
and in our years to come, and also
remember our wonderful years here
at Stongsville High School.
Mrs. Harrison Joins Special Ed Staff
By Kayla Kren
We have a new teacher here at
Strongsville High School! Her name
is Mrs. Harrison and she is a new special education teacher.
Mrs. Harrison is very excited to be
a part of our school and can’t wait for
a wonderful and fun-filled year. Mrs.
Harrison grew up in North Olmsted
and she and her family built a new
home in North Ridgeville last summer. This is her sixth year teaching
The Lantern
October 20, 2011
Duane Sheldon Brings
Strongsville Experience to
Baldwin Wallace
By Elija Mwase
Duane Sheldon
is a name that may
not be familiar to
many current and
recent Strongsville
basketball players.
Well, at least not as
well known as some
names such as Tucker Neale and Kyle
Brown.
But as soon as one
looks at the career
profile of Sheldon,
one will figure out
that Mr. Sheldon has
left an impact on the
game of basketball as
good as anyone who
has called Strongsville High School
their alumni, if not
better.
For those who
don’t know, Duane
Sheldon is the head
Men’s
Basketball
coach at Baldwin-Wallace College.
He is one of the first Strongsville
graduates to make an impact on the
NCAA level, and it was quite a journey to get there.
Sheldon was raised in Strongsville
and grew to love the game of basketball in high school. “High school
taught me about what my priorities
were and what they should be,” Sheldon explained, “I realized that I loved
helping others and that I wanted to
continue doing basketball beyond
high school.
Sheldon played at Strongsville High
School from the years 1985 to 1989.
At Strongsville, Sheldon played
alongside Tucker Neale, a
basketball legend in Northeast Ohio, “The teams that
I played on were so closeknit because we always
were trying to make each
other better,” Sheldon believes
that this is the reason that he decided
to get into coach, “I
feel that I benefited
from this because it
increase my desire
to continue helping
others at the game of
basketball.”
After High School,
Sheldon continued his basketball ca-
reer at Baldwin-Wallace and graduated in 1993. Sheldon flourished at
B-W. He would go on to become a
three-time letter-winner and a firstteam Academic Conference pick.
Sheldon’s familiarity with the Baldwin-Wallace program would benefit
him greatly in the future.
Sheldon had been a great player at
B-W, but he realized that his time was
up. He decided to do what he had desired for years: Coach the game of
basketball.
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Kids in the Hall
The Lantern
October 20, 2011
Nadzan pulls double duty Wolanski
on the Rise
By Daniel Kasian
Power, agility, strength, and athleticism are all words used to describe
soccer players. Having such strong
legs provides an advantage on and off
the field. But not just the soccer field.
Jarrod Nadzan, senior here at
Strongsville, is a midfielder and defenseman
for the boys’ varsity soccer team. He also kicks
for the varsity football
team.
Because of his leg
strength and athleticism
from soccer, he is able
to things that an ordinary
punter couldn’t.
“I remember this year
when there was a high
snap over Jarrod’s head,”
said Head Coach Russ
Jacques, “He picked up
the ball, started running
and kicked it with his left
foot.” Jarrod is a rightfooted kicker, so this just
goes to show how much
of an advantage it is to
have a soccer player as a
punter.
“Their strength and timing is a big benefit,” said Jacques.
Since soccer players have to simultaneously run and kick, punting just
comes natural to Jarrod.
Along with Jarrod’s obvious physical advantages in football, he also has
a great sense of how to balance his
time. Just imagine having to balance
your time between football, soccer,
and school, as well as all the after
school activities and clubs he does.
Sounds like complete chaos.
“I miss practices regularly, ask either coach,” said Jarrod Nadzan. “I
generally skip the first half hour of
soccer to kick for football, but there
are days that I just don’t go to foot-
ball.”
“Since he is always kicking and
working out his legs at soccer we
don’t have to worry about him
missing time with us,” said Coach
Jacques, “we understand that soccer
is his primary sport and his time is
limited, so we are just happy for the
time we get with him.”
Jarrod has missed football games before to go
to his soccer games. “The
coaches are understanding
that one sport and school
is hard, but two is very
difficult, and they help me
make it work.”
Having coaches that truly
understand how much you
have on your plate and what
it’s going to take for you to
succeed is a tremendous
benefit. You can have all
the talent in the world, but
if you don’t work hard and
balance your time properly,
you won’t see much success.
What it takes to play two
fall sports is more that just
being athletic, strong, vocal, and hard-working. It
takes more than just the
work of one person. It takes the cooperation of multiple coaches, and
the perfect balance of time.
Social Networking
Biggest Battle of the 21st Century
By Larissa Fisher The competion between Facebook
and Twitter has been going on
since Twitter became popular with
teenagers, but now they are facing a
new competitor.
Recently Google+ has joined into
the social networking battle, and has
been prospering. After being active for 16 days
Google+ already had 10 million
users, while it took Twitter over two
years and Facebook almost two and a
half years to reach that same amount.
As of now, all of them are fighting
to be the best. They all have different strengths and
weaknesses that push them forward
or hold them back. Facebook is the best cite for friendto-friend contact, with the chat
messaging system, and over 900
million groups, apps and games. “It’s
my favorite social networking cite
by far, you can chat with friends,
message, and a bunch of things” said
one student.
But Facebook has also been pushing
away it’s users by constantly updating
and changing things. “A lot of people
are switching to Twitter because all
the updates are really dumb,” said
one Facebook user “The updates are
getting annoying, I might move to
Twitter.”
But this could just be a passing fade
with Facebook that everyone will
adjust to, in time.
“I feel like the Facebook
updates are always terrible at first and
people will complain about them a lot
until a week later when they get used
to it,” stated Jared Bournigal, longtime Facebook, Twitter, and Google+
user. “I’ve seen it happen for the past
four years.” When Facebook first launched the
updates, the complaints about the
changes went through the roof. “I
don’t like them. They keep making
Facebook worse,” said Allison
Sobek, a Facebook and Twitter user.
Hundreds of statuses blew up
everyone’s newsfeed, voicing their
opinions about it, many of them
saying how they were going to get
either a Google+ or a Twitter because
of it. But the other two aren’t perfect
either. Twitter is great for getting
information out and telling people
things, and has a fun and cheerful
theme with an easy, simple layout to
use. “Twitters fun,” Sobek also said. Twitter can have some irritations of
its own though. One of the biggest
complaints about Twitter is the
140 character limit, because many
feel that it’s hard to express their
thoughts in that limited amount of
space.
Also, while many people enjoy
‘tweeting’ about their daily
schedule, many find it
exasperating. “A lot of people
oppose [Twitter] because o f
things like ‘I had a bagel this
morning it was totes delic lol
,#bagelsareawesomeandilove
them,’” said Bournigal. Out of the
three, Google+ is growing the fastest
though.
It is described as “being like the old
Facebook” and the least complicated
out of all of them. “Facebook has the most complicated
layout to say the least,” stated
Bournigal “I’d say that Twitter’s is
much simpler than any of the others
but in the end I like Google+’s more.” In addition to the simple layout,
Google+ also is better at organizing
your friends. “Being able to create
groups of people so that I can keep
my personal life, school life, and
work life all separated is A-OK in my
book,” said Bournigal.
The only negative thing about
Google+ that people complain about
is the lack of popularity, even though
it is growing steadily and quickly,
many people don’t know about it. “Recently I’m noticing that people
are too lazy or disinterested to switch
to something new like Google+,”
Said Bournigal, “Not enough people
have one. If more people
had it I wouldn’t have
a reason to sign on
Facebook anymore.”
By Sean Alexander
What do Kevin Garnett, Kobe
Bryant, Tracy McGrady and Bryan
Wolanski have in common? It’s not
looks and it is definitely not size.
What these guys share is that they
all hit the professional stage straight
out of high school. It leads one to ask
the question, what motivates and inspires a person to make the necessary
stretch to be the best at what they so
obviously enjoy?
Bryan realized that soccer
was best for him when he joined his
first pee-wee soccer team at the age
of four. Soccer was a family sport
for Bryan and he followed in the
footsteps of his siblings. Bryan has
always been inspired by his dad, who
was also a soccer player.
His father instilled in him
the passion for the game
while his mother kept him
grounded and helped him
remain humble. It was
his mother who instilled
in him to remember “not
to forget were you come
from and how you were
raised”. However, Bryan
remembers how he had to
“beg” his mother to allow
him to play soccer. Little
did his mom know that by
the age of 17 Bryan would
become a professional
soccer player. His dedication and work ethic afforded him an opportunity
that a majority of people
would not get to experience in their lifetime. Bryan
was able to press on his goal because
in his head he could hear his father
say “Does it hurt? Can you keep going because you are the only one who
can push yourself through it.”
Bryan earned various distinctions and accolades for soccer
including Conference Honorable
mention twice and All State Honorable mention. Bryan has traveled to
Denmark, Italy and Costa Rica to
play in soccer tournaments. While
in Denmark he earned “Man of the
Match” in the final of the Slaw Cup.
In Costa Rica he was titled “Man of
the Match” also in the final game.
“Man of the Match” is equivalent to
“Most Valuable Player”.
Soccer is Bryan’s main interest at
this time, and morjity of his free time
is focused on preparing himself for
this next step in life. He said “not
only do I need prepare physically but
I need to be focus mentally because
now I am going to be on my own and
that’s a big responsibility”.
Bryan is a senior now and
has been scouted since he was a
freshman in high school. He will be
going to Denmark to play for AGF on
a trail bases at the end of July, 2011.
He will earn a rookie salary and has
the potential for long term contract.
His goal is to play for the world-famous Spanish club F.C. Barcelona.
Until then, Bryan will continue to
strive to be the best at what he does,
with the goal of one day mastering
the game. He would also like to earn
a few million dollars for his work and
retire. Bryan knows that he is blessed
with a gift that most people do not
have and that it is all up to him to
make the best of it.
Entertainment
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Buffalo Chicken
Cheese Balls
Tailgating for The Cleveland Browns
By Jenn Lash
Being one of the worst teams in
the NFL consecutively since their
last playoff appearance in 2002 and
with an overall record of 59-117
since 1999, people would say, why
come support such a bad team? Most
Cleveland fans would say, “We’re
used to it.”
Cleveland Browns stadium is first
in a list of the Top 10 National Football League stadiums for tailgating,
according to a poll done by cheapflights.com.
Before every Cleveland Browns
football game there is tailgating that
goes on. Its not just one huge event,
it’s a bunch of different groups celebrating before the games.
Most tailgating events have the
same type of games going on, from
corn hole to people playing catch
to adults playing beer pong. At the
Browns stadium, this is no different,
“We play games such as corn hole
and catch with a football,” said Scott Cramer, an ardent tailgater
for the Cleveland
Browns. Scott has
tailgated for every
home game since
1999 with the
same
group
of fans. They
started going to
games together
in the 1980s.
A typical Sunday Browns home
game would start at 9am at the latest for tailgaters. They begin by setting up canopy tents and tables and
chairs. If it’s cold, which it usually is
in
Cleveland, they set up propane
heaters to try and keep warm. Lots
of laughter and socializing generally
goes on.
Beverages vary from group to group,
but it’s mostly all the same for adults,
their favorite choice of beer. As well
as beverages, foods vary from group
to group. Scott’s favorite tailgating
food would be deep fried turkey and
clams. “We used to have a guy that
brought a different homemade soup
every week,” stated Scott.
With major rivalries, you would
think there would be disputes or
fights between opposing groups, but
this is uncommon. Scott said he has
never seen a dispute between anyone, “We usually make fun of people
walking by that wear an opposing
jersey.”
“We are a tame group, no fights or
anything too bad,” stated Scott.
When it gets closer to game time,
tailgaters wrap up the food to bring in
the game for halftime and head up to
the game by 12:30.
If you’ve never tailgated before
head
to
downtown
Clevel a n d
d u r ing the
next
Cleveland Browns home
game and you will definitely be in for an experience.
Cleveland Browns Schedule:
Oct. 16
Oct. 23
Oct. 30
Nov. 6
Nov. 13
Nov. 20
Nov. 27
Dec. 4
Dec. 8
Dec. 18
@Oakland Raiders
Seattle Seahawks
@ San Francisco 49ers
@ Houston Texans
St. Louis Rams
Jacksonville Jaguars
@ Cincinnati Bengals
Baltimore Ravens
@ Pittsburgh Steelers
@ Arizona Cardinals
Dec. 24 @ Baltimore Ravens
Jan. 1
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Lantern
October 20, 2011
Prep Time:
20 min
Cook Time:
10 min
Level:
Easy
Serves:
15 to 20 balls
Jackie Holder, student at SHS. with Brutus the Buckeye before an
Ohio State game
The Ohio State University Tailgating
By Alyssa McDannel
“O-H-I-O O-H-I-O O-H-I-O!” Everyone knows this famous chant,
especially those who are fans of the
Ohio State Buckeyes.
Being part of the Big Ten for football, The Ohio State University is
known nationally. Fans all over the
country get pumped up to watch their
Buckeyes play, usually by tailgating.
Jackie Holder, a junior here at
Strongsville High School, comes
from a family of the biggest buckeye fans in the city. Since her older
brother attends The Ohio State University, and she has family down in
Columbus, Jackie has been lucky
enough to tailgate for buckeye games
many times.
“A typical day tailgating is adults
playing beer pong, everyone playing
corn hold, dancing, and some loud
music,” said Jackie, “also there is
always drinking, grilling, and mentally preparing for the game.” Down
at OSU she mostly enjoys eating the
grilled cheese, along with all the other food, such as hamburgers and hot
dogs.
Also, at any good tailgate party,
there will obviously be talk about
who is going to win the game, and
sometimes that can begin disputes
between fans from opposing teams.
Jackie said “I have never gotten into
an argument like that before because
I think that that kind of behavior is
immature.” This may be true, but
typically it is just for fun and games
when it all comes down to it.
Ohio State University Schedule:
Oct. 15 @ Illinois Fighting Illini
Oct. 29 Wisconsin Badgers
Nov. 5 Indiana Hoosiers
Nov. 12 @ Purdue Boilermakers
Nov. 19 Penn State Nitanny Lions
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Ingredients
• 1 store-bought rotisserie chicken
• 1/4 cup hot sauce (recommended:
Frank’s Red Hot)
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 3/4 cups sharp Cheddar
• 1/4 cup freshly sliced scallions
• 1 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 cups panko bread crumbs
• Vegetable oil, for frying
Blue Cheese Dip:
• 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup packed blue cheese,
broken up
• 1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 lemon, juiced
• 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
Directions
Have oil heated to 350 degrees F.
Pick the meat from the chicken and
discard the skin. Place the chicken in
a large bowl and add the hot sauce,
pepper, cheese, and scallions, and
toss to combine. Roll the chicken
into 2-ounce balls, about the size of
a golf ball.
Place the flour, eggs, and bread
crumbs in 3 separate bowls. Roll
each ball in the flour, then the egg
and then the bread crumbs. Set aside.
When the oil is hot fry the chicken
balls in batches. Cook for about
2 minutes per batch. Remove the
chicken to paper towel lined plate to
drain the excess oil.
To make the sauce, combine all ingredients in a large bowl and adjust
the seasoning if necessary. Serve the
chicken alongside the dipping sauce.
The Lantern
October 2011
FASHION
5
The Lantern
October 20, 2011
Student Style
By Megan Largent
SARAH METER
Q. How would you describe your
style?
A. My style really varies depending
on how I feel. One day I could go
boho with lots of different colors and
bracelets and the next day you could
see me wearing a pink ruffled dress or
a graphic tee and a cardigan. I have a
variety of styles!
Once a Copier,
a Copier
By Sarah Tuckowski
From a “hole in the wall” cluttered
with clothes in Los Angeles, to a fashion franchise that caught the world by
surprise, Forever 21 has become the
center of every girl’s wardrobe, and
the center of many lawsuits.
Alicia Turret, a Public Relations employee at the corporate offices of Forever 21, accredits Forever 21’s model
of “fast fashion” and “fresh and exciting, new merchandise” for their
tremendous success; however, this
model of creating fashion in a short
time period, has created many problems for Forever 21 in the courtroom.
When a garment is new to Forever
21, chances are, that garment isn’t
new to the fashion industry. Feral
Childe, a fashion company that uses
organic materials to create their garments, noticed a garment at Forever
21 that looked too familiar.
Alice Wu and Moriah Carlson, the
designers from Feral Childe that created the signature “Teepee” print,
decided to take legal action against
Forever 21 after a shirt appeared on
the hangers of Forever 21 with their
“Teepee” design.
Feral Childe recently released in
Ecosalon, an eco-friendly fashion
magazine, a statement showing their
anger towards the fashion “pirates”
stating, “Without any consideration
or respect for the origin of the artwork, Forever 21′s mass reproduction of our textile design without our
permission is extremely unethical,
and in direct violation of the law. It’s
frustrating that this enormous company, with over a billion dollars a year
in revenues, would dare to poach the
artistic creations of a small company
such as ours.”
According to EcoSalon, Feral
Childe’s lawsuit against Forever 21
caused the fashion franchise to point
fingers at Feral Childe. Amy DeFault,
a journalist at EcoSalon who covered
this developing story, mentioned
that Forever 21 denied copying the
famous “Teepee” design, and stated
that perhaps Feral Childe copied another designer.
The accusation made by Forever 21
that Feral Childe quite possibly could
have copied another designer, caused
the eco-friendly company to file a
lawsuit against the fashion franchise.
Feral Childe v. Forever 21 is still
pending in the Federal Court of Los
Angeles.
Justice for Feral Childe, and fifty
other companies that have sued Forever 21 for copying designs, may
be on the horizon. Susan Scafidi, a
Fashion Law professor at Fordham
University, explained why Forever
21 can continue to replicate other designer’s garments, and how their continuous acts of replication may soon
be against federal law.
“The reason that F21 can continue
to replicate clothes is that clothing
designs, unlike fabric prints, are not
protected under U.S. law,” said Susan Scafidi, but she mentioned that
Forever 21 will soon have to turn to
their own company designers for inspiration.
“The Innovative Design Protection
and Piracy Prevention Act, which
is currently pending in Congress,
would, if passed, establish some protection for fashion,” Susan Scafidi
stated, as she mentioned that action
to stop piracy in the fashion industry
is in the works.
With “The Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act,”
Forever 21 may need to seek out
other muses to find inspirations for
their garments. The saying made famous by Heidi Klum on Project Runway, “You’re either in or you’re out,”
could relate to Forever 21’s status after copying designs becomes against
the law. The fashion “pirate” could
soon loose its treasure, and find itself
sinking to the bottom of the fashion
industry like the Titanic.
Q. What is one item that you can’t
live without?
A. I don’t think I can pick just one!
I’d have to say my top three are my
big chunky earrings, my leather
buckled boots, and my blazers.
Q. What are your favorite stores to
shop at?
A. I love everything form Forever
21 to little vintage retail stores. I can
usually find something where ever I
look but for jewelry I’d have to say
Charlotte Russe or this little vintage
store in Lakewood called Flower
Child.
SARAH TUCKOWSKI
Q. How would you describe your
style?
A. I would describe my style as “classic vintage” with a modern twist. Vintage pieces always seem to suit not
only my body type, but my personality as well. A piece of vintage clothing is full of frills and ruffles, which
adds a nice “bubbly” touch.
Q. What is one item that you can’t
live without?
A. One item I can’t live without is a
tweed blazer I own from GAP. Not
only can it spruce up a pair of jeans
and a t-shirt, but the blazer has a Chanel-esque appearance to it, without
the outrageous price tag.
JENN LAWHEAD
Q. How would you describe your
style?
A. I’d describe my style as a modern-50’s look. I love all the frills,
buttons and clean cuts from that time
period, but with modern jewelry and
accessories. It’s really hard to stick to
certain descriptions though; I wear
whatever catches my eye!
Q. What is one item that you can’t
live without?
A. Probably my jade flower necklace, but it’s hard to say just one item.
This necklace goes with everything
because it’s delicate and hits just the
right spot on my neck.
Q. What are your favorite stores to
shop at?
A. My favorite stores to shop at are
Forever21, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Asos (an online fashion
store stationed in Europe.)
Q. What are your favorite stores to
shop at?
A. I love, love, love Forever 21 and
H&M. They’re cute AND cheap,
which fits me so well. Their stock
is always changing, so you’re guaranteed to find something new every
time.
Rachel Zoe
Emma Stone
Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester)
Q. Who or what inspires your
style?
A. There are so many things! It could
be the weather or ideas I get from
magazines, but a lot of my quirkier
outfits are ideas from magazines.
Q. Who or what inspires your
style?
A. One celebrity that always inspires
my style is Alexa Chung. Alexa
Chung is able to wear classic vintage
pieces and add a modern twist, which
is what I aim to do when choosing an
outfit.
Q. Who or what inspires your
style?
A. I don’t exactly have an inspirationmore like goals/feelings. I like that
my style makes me feel more confident. The closest I could say of inspiration, really, is how people perceive
me; first impressions count! I read a
lot of fashion mags and blogs which
contribute to my style, as well as people off the street.
Q. What fashion advice would you
give to other students looking to
improve their style?
A. Be yourself! Your idea of pretty
or comfortable may not be someone
else’s. So never feel like because
everyone else has something, that
you need it too. Step outside the box
and be unique! I love to hear people
say, “Oh my gosh where did you get
that?” or “It’s so you!” I love being
different with my style, and I think
everyone has their own fashion, and
that’s what makes fashion amazing!
Q. What fashion advice would you
give to other students looking to
improve their style?
A. Let your clothes be a form of expression. Treat your body as a blank
canvas, and let your clothes become
a form of art. Even if everyone else
is shying away from bold prints
and colors and are blending into the
crowd, be the person you want to be,
and wear the craziest prints and colors. There are no rules in fashion.
Q. What are your favorite trends
this season?
A. My favorite trend this season
would definitely be the little touches of vintage that are coming back.
The feathers, leather combat boots,
chunky belts, pastel ruffles and
graphic prints are absolutely adorable
and so cheap and easy to incorporate
into your outfits!
Q. What are your favorite trends
this season?
A. My favorite trends this season include; menswear for women and color blocking. I like the idea that women can take a masculine look, and add
a touch of feminism to it. This idea of
transforming masculine into feminie
wear is probably one of my favorite
parts of putting together an outfit.
Q. If you could raid anyone’s closet
who’s would it be and why?
A. Oh My God Rachel Zoe! I love
everything about her style from head
to toe. A lot of people know her from
the show The Rachel Zoe Project. If
not her, Christian Siriano or Lauren
Conrad. All of them have an edge to
their lines that separates them from
the rest, and for me edginess is a plus!
Q. If you could raid anyone’s closet
who’s would it be and why?
A. I would probably raid Emma
Stone’s closet. Emma Stone wears a
lot of vintage pieces, but is able to
make these pieces more modern with
accessories and shoes. It seems as if
every Red Carpet event she attends,
she constantly is exuding effortless
beauty and confidence.
Q. What fashion advice would you
give to other students looking to
improve their style?
A. It doesn’t matter how expensive
your clothes are, or if they’re the style
at school, as long as you can rock it,
it works. Shop for your body type and
you’ll be good!
Q. What are your favorite trends
this season?
A. Leather and pastels are at the top
of my list this season! Pair a ruffled
pastel shirt with beige “skinny”
slacks and leather accessories to be
run-way ready.
Q. If you could raid anyone’s closet
who’s would it be and why?
A. Hands down- Blair Waldorf from
Gossip Girl! She’s always so stylish
and I always find myself thinking
how much I love whatever she has on
while I watch. She too appreciates the
“modern-50s” look that I go for, so it
she’s wearing something I like, I try
to modify it with what I have.
“It’s a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It’s all about
the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end,
classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.”
— Alexander McQueen
6
In The ‘Ville
Calling All Creative Writers!
So You Want to be a Lawyer?
The Lantern
October 20, 2011
By Nick Strunk
By Nick Strunk
Doctors, veterinarians, CEOs, and
musicians. These are some of the
career choices chosen by many of
Strongsville High School’s ambitious
students. For David Allen, Strongsville class of 1979, he knew practicing law was his calling.
Looking back he said, “Honestly,
my parents counseled me to have a
profession, so that if anything would
go wrong, I would always have the
ability to hang out a shingle and
practice on my own”.
Not
much
has
c h a n g e d when it comes to
clubs here at SHS in the last 32
years. Mr. Allen’s fondest memories of his high school years are
“Extra curricular activities, such as
Band, Theater, Stage Crue, and SkiClub.”
Looking at David Allen’s college
resume, not many would guess that
he would become a lawyer. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree
from Baldwin-Wallace in 1983 with
a double major in broadcasting and
political science, with his minor in
music.
In 1987, Allen graduated from University of Akron, School of Law, as
president of his law fraternity, Phi
Alpha Data, served on Law Review
and Moot Court.
Allen currently practices law as a
partner at Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, in their Cleveland office.
Over the 22 year course of his career,
David has practiced many different
types of law. “Presently, and for the
last twelve years, I have been a transactional lawyer, dealing in things
such as large business transactions
such as shopping centers, buying and
selling companies, etc.”
However, the first ten years of his
practice “garden variety litigation,
as anything
t h a t
walked
in the
door I had to handle. I worked with
things such as personal injury, divorce, bankruptcy, criminal defense,
worker’s compensation, and business
planning.”
He chose law for his career because
“I wanted something that would challenge me to grow for the rest of my
life”. He also gets to do great, morally satisfying things such as “obtaining restraining orders for battered
women to being sworn in as a City
Councilperson”.
For students considering a career
in the field of law, an average work
day will be filled with “checking
headlines, morning mail, checking
e-mails, phone calls, reviewing dictation from the previous night, signing
letters, drafting documents, attending board meetings, lunch meetings,
dinner meetings, coffee meetings…”
and much, much more. “In short, the
bulk of what I do is negotiating and
documenting deals, and I’m on call
24-7”.
For all SHS students, Allen says
“Take a class in constitutional
law…every citizen should understand his or her King’s authority and how the government
should work; and this being
a market economy, everyone
should understand how the
economy works”.
“A l s o , p u t d o w n t h e
electronic devices and
have some human interaction.
Force yourself to
take on at least one sport
and one art form that you
perform once a week, and
force yourself to go to at
least one social event per
f o r t n i g h t ”.
For students interested in becoming
as lawyer or in the field of law, “Take
the poly-sci classes, business, history,
and English. No matter what you do,
get the grades up. Law schools and
law firms want top grades in good
classes, volunteer work, recreation,
all to show up on a resume, even at
my age”.
All of Strongsville High School’s
students are good at something.
Whether it is athletics, academics,
music, or technology, everybody can
find something they are interested in
at Strongsville High School. For all
students interested in creative writing, there is a new group where your
voice can be heard.
The Voice is a group run completely by the students, for the students.
While the group is
still in its infancy, they are very
organized
and
optimistic, and
have many plans.
Student officers
plan to publish
all submissions
in
newsletter
format once per
quarter,
and
writings may be
submitted anonymously if the author chooses.
Students familiar with Power
of the Pen from
middle
school
may enjoy with program, however,
unlike in middle school, there is no
audition to be published and there are
no competitions.
Students interested in joining The
Voice or getting their writing published can submit their short stories,
poems, jokes, or any other forms of
writing to strongsvillevoice@gmail.
com approximately one to two weeks
before the end of each quarter. If
anybody is interested in submitting
to the inaugural issue of the Voice,
submissions are due by October 21.
At their meetings, once or twice per
month, students will have the option
of bringing in their literary works and
having their peers edit them.
Junior Jen Taggart said, “I’ve loved
to write since elementary school.
This new club will be way for me to
publish my writing
and give me an
excuse to write
more.”
Mrs. Redd, the
supervisor for the
Voice said, “The
students
actually approached
me and told me
their plans and
asked me be an
advisor so there
won’t really be a
whole lot of involvement on my
part.”
“I was impressed that a
group of students
took it upon themselves to start a club
like this. I couldn’t say no after all
their hard work,” Mrs. Redd added.
President of the Voice, Anubhuti
Kumar, said “I wanted to start the
Voice because I enjoy writing and I
know others do as well. I thought it
would be great if these people could
have their writing read by a wider audience.”
Survey Says.....Survey Says.....Survey Says.....Survey Says.....Survey Says.....Survey Says.....Survey Says.....
Ms. Swanson
English
Mr. Mott
Science
Mr. Lamberty
Social Studies
Mr. Miller
Math
What is your favorite
television show?
Favorite Book?
Favorite part of fall?
Used to be West Wing,
now
Kitchen Nightmares
A Path with Heart by Jack
Kornfield or Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The clothes and the colors
Working with students and
learning more
Southpark or Mythbusters
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell,
Of Mice and Men by John
Steinbeck, or Germs Guns and
Steel by Jared Diamond
Jumping in leaves!
Yahooie!!
Enjoying the randomness
of my students’ thinking
process
Used to be House, now
30 Rock
Spirit of St. Louis by
Charles Lindberg
Leaves turning
The kids always making me
laugh, someitmes cry
NCIS
Hunt for Red October by
Tom Clancy
Buckeyes
Favorite part of
being a teacher?
My Clients
7
Entertainment
DECA
By: James Williamson
Attention, their cookies are hot.
Who? The 2011-2012 DECA students at Strongsville High School.
Not only are their cookies hot, so are
their plans for this upcoming school
year.
DECA is a marketing program offered at the high school for eleventh
and twelfth graders. The eleventh
grade students are introduced to the
studies of marketing in the form of
the classroom, like any other elective.
But, when the students reach the second year of the program, as seniors, it
becomes unlike any other class.
As seniors, the students are expected
to put their classroom lessons in action outside of school. In order to
receive credit for the class they must
log 15 hours of work, a week. This
enables students to not only recognize, but to be apart of the business,
marketing world.
On October 27th the DECA students
were invited to attend the Strongsville Business Expo. This Expo is
put on by the City of Strongsville,
The Chamber of Commerce, and The
Strongsville Rotary.
Local businesses are able to come
and set up tables in hopes to inform
Strongsville citizens of all the businesses Strongsville has to
offer. These businesses
pass out literature,
have representatives available to
talk and answer
questions, and
give out many
free samples
and products.
Many businesses
often advertise new prod-
More Than
ucts or offer coupons through snail
mail or via email.
At the expo attendees may be offered exclusive offers or promotions.
This expo is a great way for up and
coming businesses to get their name
out and for veteran businesses to advertise change or to further their business.
For the DECA students this expo
will help them learn the importance
of volunteering, networking, and
how an event such as this is put together. DECA students have been
involved in helping with setting up
advertisements and learning how to
have a successful booth at an event
such as this. Students learn the benefits businesses have by being apart
of an event such as this.
DECA senior Alyssa McClearnon
explained last year’s expo,
“Well, first I went to various stands
that looked interesting, companies
that usually go unheard of. I had bakery desserts, quesadillas, and pretty
much any sample that looked good.
Other than that I just went around and
talked to people about how their business started and what they do.”
DECA advisor, Jessica Frenchik,
states, “The best part of the business
expo [last year] was all the freebies
we got, including free food and massages. Students learned how to figure
out from each business ‘who are
you’ ‘what do you do’ and
‘why does it matter’.”
This expo will be a
great experience and
will give the students
an in-depth look at
what real business is like
outside the classroom,
and in the real world.
In addition to the business
e x p o ,
D E C A
students
a r e
thoroughly occupied with activities
planned around SHS.
Preparation for DECA district competition that will take place around
March has already begun. Students
hope and prepare to advance past the
district and state competition rounds,
so they may further advance to their
ultimate goal, national competition.
As usual, DECA members will
shortly resume working on their famous DECA cookie sales. The students will offer warm cookies before
first period to sweeten the mornings
for fellow SHS students. In addition to the cookies, they also are
in charge of running the concession stands for home volleyball
games.
Last, but certainly not least,
The students of DECA are
planning something new
this year to make the days
at Strongsville High
School a bit more interesting and enjoyable.
They will be creating
a made up DECA holiday, date in which is
to be announced, and
will be hosting the
inaugural “cookiefor-a-cutie” sale.
This will be much
like the carnation
sale around Valentines Day, but
instead of a flower,
will be a jumbo
sized cookie.
It is safe to say
the
2011-2012
DECA students are
staying busy this
school year. With
the amount of activities they are stirring
up, students should
keep their eyes peeled
to avoid missing out.
Survey Says: DECA Seniors
Twitter
DECA
DECA
or
cookie
of Facebook?
Member
choice
Taylor
Powers
The Lantern
October 20, 2011
Just Cookies
Charlie Sheen
vs
Ashton Kutcher
Future
College
Snickerdoodle
Twitter for sure
Follow Me @taypow
I’ve never watched the
show
Probably OSU
O-H!
Peanut
Butter
Facebook
Charlie Sheen
Miami of Ohio
Chocolate Chip, just the
way they are
Twitter
@sami_kalino
Don’t watch the show, but
Ashton Kutcher is hot.
OSU
I-O!
Annie
Maskow
Peanut Butter
Twitter!!
Follow me
@anniee_em
Charlie Sheen,
for sure
Kent State
Sean
Mcmanus
Gingersnap
Twitter
@mcanus4
Ashton,
he’s cute
Harvard
Double Fudge Brownie
Batter
Facebook,
only for online poker
Sheen all the way...
winning!
Cleveland
State
University
Jeremy
Fine
Sammie
Kalinowski
Vince
Lazar
8
Entertainment
The Lantern
October 20, 2011
Graphic Novel in Our World Today
by Marisa Mindyas
to graphic novels, such as graphic
novel collections in public and
school libraries,
c e r t a i n l y
contributes
to
their
current
popularity.
Visual parodies,
satires, political
cartoons,
and
straightforward
funny drawings
have been around
for centuries, but
it took the rise of
the newspaper
industry in the
late nineteenth
century
to
bring
comics
into
everyday
A m e r i c a n
households.
Librarians, educators, and politicians
can all agree on one thing: reading
is so important to young people’s
success in school and beyond.
Graphic novels offer appealing stories
and engaging visuals that reach out
Graphic novels have become an
essential component of library
collections for both children and
teenagers, and they have enormous
potential for classroom use.
Graphic novels are, simply defined,
book-length comics. Sometimes they
tell a single, continuous tale from
first page to last and sometimes they
are collections of shorter stories or
individual comic strips. Comics are
sequential visual art, usually with
text, that is often told is a series of
rectangular panels. Despite the name,
not all comics are funny. Many comics
and graphic novels emphasize drama,
adventure, character development,
striking visuals, politics, or romance
over laugh-out-loud comedy.
The popularity of graphic novels is
only growing as more people become
familiar with works in this appealing
and diverse format. Readers have
a wide variety to choose from, so
distribution is no longer limited to
fans of superhero stories or slapstick
humor. In addition, greater access
to unwilling readers, visual learners,
and others who may shy away from
traditional, printheavy
books.
Yet
graphic
novels offer the
same benefits of
regular books:
introducing
young people to
new vocabulary,
stories,
and
information
to teach them
about their world
and spark their
imaginations.
“I think graphic
novels are a
fantastic way to
teach
reading
in schools and
I even taught
Maus: My Father Bleeds History, a
tale about a holocaust survivor, last
year to my Honors Global Studies
students,” says Mr. Attilli.
Graphic novels can become a big
part in how we learn today.
“I think
graphic
novels are
a fantastic
way to teach
reading in
schools”
An Amazing Game for Everyone
A new game out on the market that combines dice and playing cards for people of all ages
“For little kids it’s a matching game,
for pre-teens and teenagers it’s a fastpaced game of chance, for young
adults it’s a party game, and for adults
it’s all of the above”
Square Shooters® is the perfect game
for everyone in your family, no matter what age.
“For little kids it’s a matching game,
for pre-teens and teenagers it’s a fast
paced game of chance, for young
adults it’s a party game, and for adults
it’s all of the above,” said Donelan
when asked who can play the game.
Tom said he can’t believe these dice
haven’t been invented before. “The
inventor had a simple idea,” said Donelan, “that cards and dice should be
combined.”
The cool thing about Square Shooters® is you can do so many other
things with the dice alone. Carmelyn
knew you needed to be able to play
basic card games with these dice, like
rummy and poker. And she made it
possible.
By Emmie Donelan
“Dice have been around for 6,000
years, playing cards for 7,000. People
have always played with both, but
they have never been combined,”
said Tom Donelan owner of Heartland Consumer Products, a small
company with a new big game out on
the market.
Square Shooters® is the perfect
game for the whole family to play.
The game includes nine dice with a
full deck of cards printed on them,
100 little red mock poker chips for
scoring and 42 game cards.
The inventor of the dice, Carmelyn
Calvert, figured out a way to place a
full deck of playing cards plus two
jokers onto the dice so it’s possible
to roll every poker hand. There are
nine dice, which gives you 54 sides.
That’s a whole deck of cards plus the
two jokers.
After going to Heartland with her
product, Carmelyn and Tom came up
with a game that features the dice to
please people of all ages.
The game is fast to learn and easy to
remember. The hands on each game
card vary so you’ll never pull the exact same hand twice. There are different variations of every hand- straight
flushes, royal flushes, four of a kinds,
two pairs, flushes, straights, and full
houses.
Kids of all ages love the game
Square Shooters® because it is fast
and easy to learn. Although the package says for kid’s ages eight and up,
young kids love to play if they are
paired with an older partner. “I have
6 younger brothers and sisters and
they all love the game. We have to
pair the younger ones with the older
ones, but they still love the challenge
of matching the dice with the cards,”
said Alexis Kerg, a senior at Olmstead Falls High School.
T he object of the game is simple-
pull a card from the pile and match
whatever poker hand is on that card
with the dice. You get three roles and
then it is the next person’s turn. The
number of chips you can win vary
with the difficulty of the role. For example, an exact match to a two pair
receives four chips, while an exact
match to a royal flush receives 12
chips.
Also if the player chooses at anytime
during their three roles to role for
the type of hand printed on the card
rather than that exact hand, they will
receive half of the amount of chips.
With the weather turning colder and
colder everyday and the holidays
around the corner, everyone wants
to stay indoors and spend time with
their families. However, teenagers
seem to be drawn to anything that
will get them out of the house and
away from their parents. But everyone has those days where you just
don’t want to leave your house, and
On the back of the directions for the
game, there are directions to seven
other games that can be played with
the dice- some involving just the dice
and others involving the dice and a
deck of playing cards.
Also, online there are directions to
many other games that are more for
the older crowd of Square Shooters®
buyers. Some of these games would
be perfect for teenagers.
Square Shooters® is a great game
for people of all ages. And even
though teens usually don’t want to
spend time with their families, Square
Shooters® gives them the options to
have something fun to do that people
of all ages like. Its great for the family, so give it a try and see what you
think.
FRESHMAN
9
THE LANTERN
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Smells Like Teen Spirit; Or Does It?
By Caite Raymond
The month old Strongsville freshmen have begun to adapt to the odd
surroundings of the wise upperclassmen around them. Yet, Spirit Week
was still lacking freshmen participation.
The week before homecoming consisted of mainly seniors and some
juniors dressing up according to the
given themes: Monday-Superhero vs.
Villain; Tuesday-Patriotic; Wednesday-Pirate; Thursday-Construction
Worker; Friday-Class Colors.
Though a lot of freshmen took part
in Friday’s theme, the other days
were missing the courage and excitement from the young ones fresh out
of middle school.
“For many their comfort level with
going outside the norm is still growing,” said Mr. Genther, one of the
sociology teachers here at the high
school.
Yet, one would think after Monday
the freshmen might have realized that
dressing up and having tons of spirit
is the norm.
Compared with years past, however,
this lack of enthusiasm is the norm
for most incoming freshmen, who become more spirited as they get older.
“The transition occurs as students
become more comfortable, they ma-
ture, and their overall awareness advances too,” explained Mr. Genther.
There’s a good possibility that this
will not be the case this time around
though.
“I didn’t participate because I really
thought it was pointless,” said Imad
Salti, a freshman football player here
at the high school.
According to several freshmen this
was also their view on spirit week,
and they don’t believe it will change
anytime soon.
“Getting involved in school func-
tions and activities like spirit week
make for an overall more enjoyable
high school experience,” said Mr.
Genther.
Either way the upperclassmen might
have to step it up and show this to the
Class of 2016.
Seniors
Juniors
MUSTANGS
Sophomores
Freshmen
Survey Says... Survey Says... Survey Says... Survey Says...
Freshman Name
Austin
Koprowski
Cereal Box
Biggest Pet Peeve
Cartoon Character
Tony
the
Tiger
When girls
wear Ugg boots
with shorts
Amanda
Lindawood
Halloween
Costume
Doesn’t dress
up
Legos
Captain Crunch
Back Acne
Ben Holdway
Favorite
Childhood Toy
Sonny the Cuckoo
Bird
Toy Drum Set
Smurf
Fairy
Biting Nails
Stuffed Panda
10
Kids in the Hall
Beastly Becomes
Free thinkers’ club: a
Modern Day Beauty
new way to open your and the Beast
mind
The Latern
October 20, 2011
By Taylor Grahl
In today’s society, people try to push beliefs on you left and right.
With all the confusion of those different religions, some kids have
a hard time figuring out where they fit in. No matter what your
religion is, or even if you don’t have a religion, the NEW Free
Thinkers’ Club can help have a place where you feel like you
belong.
The Free Thinkers’ Club group is a forum for students to discuss their questions, beliefs, and feelings about anything along
the lines of religion and culture and this club is was made possible
by Courtney True-Smith, a senior at SHS, and Mr. Bruening, an
SHS science teacher.
Mr. Bruening felt that the population of Strongsville High
School was not being served properly by having three groups in
the school that were all Christian based and not having a place
where people with all different beliefs could come together and
share their feelings. “I like to stir things up,” Bruening said, with
no intent to put any bad towards those groups, because Christians
are also welcome at the Free Thinkers’ Club.
Courtney is very happy to have this club because when she was
younger, she would get bullied because her religious beliefs were
different than others. Courtney feels that “there needs to be a
place where students can be safe, and have no prejudice feelings
around them,” Mr. Bruening feels the same way because he wants
kids to feel comfortable that they can express themselves and to
not be afraid to have something to say.
The Free Thinkers’ Club will have meetings that don’t necessarily work like other clubs. “Students assume that teachers are
going to do everything, but you can’t learn by just sitting around,”
Mr. Bruening said when it comes to having student involvement
in the club. Everything surrounding the Free Thinkers’ Club will
be revolved around the students. Courtney and Mr. Bruening want
you to come to the meetings with something to say, so “don’t be
shy!”
Along with having group discussion about all the different beliefs, many activities will be done through out the year. They plan
on celebrating the Winter Solstice and are hoping to take a trip to
visit with the Cleveland Free Thinkers’ Society.
The Strongsville High School Free Thinkers’ Club is an opportunity for people to open up their minds and it gives people a chance
to be in a place where the diversity will always be vast. “People
don’t know what to believe in and I’m reaching out to them.”
Bruening said.
Some students may not feel comfortable at first with all the new
ideas that they may be hearing and it may make some feel intimidated, but Courtney True-Smith and Mr. Bruening want you to
take anything, and everything in, because you may never know
when you might need to help someone out who has different beliefs than you do.
“An old student of mine had a very religious family, but he didn’t
believe in anything of what his family did. And when it came to a
time where he needed someone to express himself to, he couldn’t
do that with his own family. In the end, he came to talk to me and
it helped him a lot. His mom even thanked me for helping him
out.” Mr. Bruening took in that experience of his
and put it towards the effort of having the Free Thinker’s Club.
No matter what religion you are, what you believe in, or what
you don’t, you never have to be afraid when you come to the
Free Thinkers’ Club. Courtney and Mr. Bruening are ready to
help students out and have them become accepting of what they
believe and what they feel. Meetings will typically be on Fridays
and anyone is more than welcome to come. Be sure to let your
mind be free and join the Free Thinkers’ club.
By Anubhuti Kumar
Kyle Kingston, a once-handsome 14-year-old boy, lives in
New York City. He’s popular and seems to have it all. Sounds
like a dream, right? Wrong. Kyle is turning into a beast - literally.
Kyle’s father, a rich New York prime-time newscaster, has shut
Kyle up in a five story mansion with a blind tutor, a maid, and
empty promises to visit. He and Kyle have gone to every doctor
looking for a cure, but when nothing was found, Mr. Kingston
wanted nothing more to do with his son, not that he was close to
him before. He did not want his now ugly son ruining his reputation, because coming to him, looks made you in this world.
This was Kyle’s attitude towards life early in the story, as well.
This made him treat unattractive people poorly.
Now you might be wondering how Kyle got this way. Would
you believe me if I told you a goth witch did this to him to
show him how ugly he was on the inside? What if I told you he
only had two years to find his true love and only her kiss could
reverse the curse? Is this story starting to sound familiar? Probably since most have heard the story of Beauty and the Beast
or seen the Disney movie based on that story. As you may have
guessed, a bookish young girl now enters the life of our beastly
hero.
Though there have been many versions of this story made,
Beastly captures the timeless story in a modern world similar
to ours, to show us the relevance of it in our society, though it
relies heavily on magic. It shows the reader how people are so
preoccupied with the latest technology and fashions that they
forget to account for people’s feelings. Too preoccupied trying
to out doing one another, and to gain attention, to think about
the pain they are causing. Yet it shows that true love ignores
all those things. It digs deep into conflicts and problems in the
world today, making the reader think, while still keeping them
thoroughly entertained and distracted from their own lives, just
as you count on a novel to do.
Will the beast get his kiss? Find out when you read this modern
rendition of the classic story by Alex Flinn about a conceited
boy finding out for the first time about loneliness and being an
outcast.
Mr. Bruening
Courtney True-Smith
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Hockaday
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Rowe
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involved in?
If you could be any
animal, what would you
be?
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drink at Starbucks?
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any country, where
would you go?
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11
FILM
The Lantern
October 2011
TOP 3 MUST SEE DOCUMENTARIES
3 documentaries that will blow your mind!
#2
(This movie is rated R, it contains strong language and violence) Restrepo documents what
is considered the most dangerous tour in Afghanistan - the Korengal
Valley. One of the reasons it is considered so
dangerous is because there are shots fired at the
American soldiers on a daily basis. The movie
follows
the Second Platoon, a company of American soldiers, who over the period of
the movie, you will get to know.
The movie spares no details, from
showing
how diligently they do their jobs, to how they
struggle to survive day to day. Add gunfire to
the mix, lots and lots of it, and you have Restrepo. The filmmakers
got right to the point, no fancy camerawork or
effects, just the real world and a series of interviews. Overall, the film gives us a true, hard
account
of the War in Afghanistan.
My rating 8/10 - Gives a new perspective to the War in Afghanistan, straight
to the point. Strong language and violence may be discomforting to some.
(This movie is not rated, however it may
contain some language not suitable for minors) Some believe that politics and humor have no connection whatsoever.
This movie proves that idea is
wrong. The Yes Men Fix the
World is the hard to find, less
talked about sequel to “The Yes
Men.” The reason it’s hard
to find and less talked about?
Because it was supposed to be
banned due to a stunt they pulled
on the Chamber of Commerce.
The movie opens brandishing
a well known symbol on the internet - the symbol for the Creative Commons license, a symbol that says “feel free to share
this .”
For a while, this movie
could only be found on peer2peer (filesharing)
websites. The Chamber of Commerce was trying to have every single copy of the movie
destroyed. The
reason this is relevent? During the
whole movie, the Yes Man, as they
call themselves, pull massive political pranks. The first? Pretending to
be the Chamber
of Commerce and switching their
position on a hot topic - climate
change. The movie is filled will hilarity and hijinx, but it’s not your
typical comedy all of what is seen in the film actually happened. My rating: 9/10 Fun, interesting, humorous. May be
boring for those not into politics
#1
(This movie is not rated, however
it contains strong language and
what some may consider acts of
vandalism) Exit
Through the Gift Shop is not
your typical documentary. It is
one of the only (mostly) true
documentations of the underground world of street art.
The movie begins
in France, and
jumps
right
into the action, with rapid shot-to-shot
transitions
of
artist after artist meticulously
demonstrating
their abilities.
However, the film
quickly shifts focus. Through a series of short interviews, you learn
that Exit Through the Gift Shop
will not only be about street art,
but
about a w o u l d -
be filmmaker whose career
shifts focus. Thierry Guetta,
the would- be filmmaker, had practically been born for
filming. From the
first time he picked
up a camera, he had
carried one with him
ever since. When he discovered the world of
street art, he was eventually led to the notorious Banksy - the
man who was permanently changing the face
of this fascinating new
medium.
After filming
street artists like
Banksy
for
over 8 years, Thierry was ready to put the film together. But, in the words of Banksy, Thierry’s finished project was “garbage.” So Banksy told Thierry to take a break and try to put together a street
art show, and that he would take over the post-production. This is where the controversy over the film
begins. Thierry allegedly throws all his money at
putting together the perfect street art show, and it is
wildly successful.
How is this controversial? Many believe that the
film is actually a “mockumentary”
- a hoax. Why? Because in the real world, it would
be impossible to become an overnight artist. Hoax
or real - it’s up for you to decide.
My rating: 9.5/10 - Mostly interesting, only downside is that it might not be “real”
Sports
12
The Latern
October 20, 2011
Let the Finger Pointing Begin
Browns Open the Season 2-3
By Mitch Zacharyasz
With the Cleveland Browns starting
out with a 2-3 record in the regular
season it is still hard to tell which way
they are headed.
Some would argue that this is par
for the course in Cleveland sports.
As always, fans are becoming restless and do not want to hear
the Browns’ brass excuse of
“we’re building for the future.”
So far the play has been
subpar at best. So who is
to blame? Is it a rookie
coach taking on too much
responsibility as head coach
AND offensive coordinator
duties? Is it second-year
starting qb Colt McCoy? Injuries?
R egard less,
it’s already
starting
out
as
a n ot h e r
“Wait ‘til next year” season.
Week one against the Cincinnati
Bengals turned out to be a rough 1727 point loss. Coming into weeks
two and three, the Browns pushed for
wins against the Indianapolis Colts
and the Miami Dolphins. In week
four they took a sharp turn into a
painful defeat against the Tennessee
Titans with a score of 13-31.
Week six turned out to be
an upset against the Oakland Raiders after their
long bye week.
“I mentioned to the
team that I’m disappointed that we lost,”
said head coach Pat
Shurmur during his
interview after the loss
against Tennessee. “I
think we played
hard and tried
to do all
the right
things,
there
are
just ways that
we can get
better.”
Stopping the inside run is one of
the Browns top priorities after giving
up 332 yards to the
Titans.
Running back Peyton Hillis once again
leads the team in
rushing with 197
yards in his 54 attempted carries, although this only
turns out to be
3.65 yards per
carry and two
Browns Quarterback Colt McCoy
Browns President Mike Holmgren
total touchdowns.
Quarterback Colt McCoy has linked up with Cleveland’s receivers for 941 total yards so
far. Mohamed Massaquoi, Ben Watson, Joshua Cribbs, and Greg Little
lead the team in receiving, all gaining
over 130 yards in the last four weeks.
The Browns overall offense has
gained 343 total rushing yards and
941 total passing yards for 8 touchdowns.
“Things are sneaking up on us at
the wrong times, you know, penalties, dropped balls, and missed assignments,” said Hillis after the upset against the Titans October 2nd.
“There’s no if ’s, ands, or buts’, but
we gotta do this if we wanna win ball
games, we gotta take it upon ourselves if we wanna get things done
and that’s what were gonna do.”
On the defensive side of the ball
linebacker D’Qwell Jackson leads
with 40 tackles and two sacks. Defensive tackle Phil Taylor and linebacker
Scott Fujita trail behind with over 20
total tackles each.
Overall the Browns defense has
brought down opposing quarterbacks for 11 total sacks in the last
four games.
“It’s been nothin but great things
so far, we got a great group of talent in front of me, a great team,
a great coaching staff, but at the
end of the day it’s all about getting victory’s around here” said
Browns Head Coach pat Shurmur
confident linebacker D’Qwell Jackson during his interview September
29th. “I’m more ready for the wins
over the personal accolades,” he said.
In week five of this season the
Browns headed into a bye week in
which they could fix some current
injuries such as Joshua Cribbs’ and
Joe Haden’s sustained knee sprains.
Heading into their next game during week six they played the Oakland
Raiders (3-2-0).
After coming back in the fourth
quarter with a chance to tie things up
the Browns ran out of time to drive
the ball down field. This lead to a 24-
17 defeat for the team. Peyton Hillis
sustained a pulled hamstring in his
second play of the first quarter. He
became sick during the fourth game
week and also sat out. Running back
Montario Hardesty stepped up his
game to play most of the last two
games.
Hardesty has seen a significant
amount of playing time since Hillis’
illness and injuries left him on the
sidelines.
Overall the team has a confident
mentality and a long road ahead of
them. Whether or not this will be a
winning season is still hard to tell.
13
By Kristen Zeszut
Sports
tHE SEASON OF “wHAT iF’S”
MVP and Most Improved
Opening Day looked better to some
than others. Due to the lack of pitchThe Indians
ing from Fausto Carmona, the Indihad two exans were down fourteen runs after
tremely wor.273 BA 25 Homeruns 92 RBIs thy representatives: shortfive innings.
Finally, the Indians had a sudden
17 Stolen Bases
stop Asdrubal Cabrera and
surge in the sixth inning and beclosing pitcher Chris Percoming in to pinch hit.
gan to score runs themselves startez. Manny Acta was also named a bench coach.
What happened next
ing with Jack Hannahan’s one-run
July 7 is a day that many Tribe fans will never
was unexpected and inhomerun. By the end of the game,
forget. Cleveland was playing Toronto and was
credible. Carrerra walked
the Indians had caught up and only lost by a fidown four runs in the bottom of the ninth. Traup to bat and on the first pitch he lays down a
nal score of 15-10.
vis Buck started the inning with a walk and
Day one, and the Cleveland fan base had al- drag bunt. Choo crossed home plate and Car- LaPorta followed with a double. Then Hannaready named the Indians last place in the divi- rera beat out the throw to first base. Indians won han walked the bases loaded. After a pitching
sion. But few people knew that there was some- with a final score of 2-1. This was MLB writer change, Brantley came up to bat but struck out.
thing special about this team. Those few knew Anthony Castrovince’s favorite moment of the Cabrera then singled in Buck.
that the team overcame the odds and made an year because, “It was so unexpected. It was the
The bases were still loaded for Pronk. First
enormous comeback. At that point, they began first pitch Carrera ever saw in the big leagues.”
pitch and Travis, the fans at Progressive Field,
Sizemore returned to the team from the DL on
to think to themselves, “What if?”
and the fans at home all knew the ball was gone
The Indians lost that series to Chicago. But on May 27. The Indians were in first place of the directly off of contact.
Sunday, April 3, the Indians had a sudden spark. Central Division with a 14-12 record in May.
Walk off grand slam
June was a month many people may want
That spark led to an eight-game win streak. The
for Hafner. When Pronk
Indians looked unstoppable, until game two of to forget, only winning ten of twenty-seven was rounding the bases
a three game series against the Los Angeles An- games. The Indians offense had completely Matt Underwood explummeted. The only real contributor to the Ingels on April 12, where the Tribe lost 2-0.
claimed, “If you don’t
dians offense was Asdrubal Cabrera. In June, he
All Star cenhave goosebumps, then
t e r f i e l d e r,
you don’t have a pulse!”
Grady SizeThe All Star Break
more, started
came around and the
the
season
Tribe was a half
in Double-A
game back of the
after having
Detroit Tigers in the
surgery on
Central Division
his left knee
12-10 3.21 ERA 158 Strike Outs
standings.
in the offseaActa,
son. Sizemore
Paul
Hoynes,
Plain
Dealer,
“Lots
the
Inreturned to the team on April 17.
dians, and the Cleveland fans
The Indians ended April with two walk of peoPLE SAID MASTERSON WAS
knew who the true Ace of the
offs in two days against the Detroit Tipitching staff was. Masterson
BETTER
SUITED
AS
A
RELIEVER
THAN
gers. April 29, Carlos Santana hit a onewas 7-6 with a 2.64 ERA, but
out grand slam in the bottom of the ninth A STATER. HE PROVED THEM WRONG.” everyone knew that he deserved
off to win 9-5. The next night, April 30,
a better record.
the Tribe took the game to thirteen inCarmona deteriorated the entire
nings when Orlando Cabrera had a walk off
first half with a record of 4-10 and a 5.78 ERA.
hit .297 with three home runs and eleven runs
single for a final score of 3-2.
Acta knew what he had to do, so he named MasApril was finished with an 18-8 record and in batted in.
terson the Ace and moved Carmona down to the
The Indians even managed to make Justin
first place of the Central Division “I’m embarfifth pitching spot in the rotation.
rassed to say I picked them last!” says MLB Masterson look bad. He went 0-3 in the month
With exception of Carmona, the starting rotareporter Ken Rosenthal. Finally, the rest of the of June with a 2.78 earned run average.
tion was stellar. Ken Rosenthal said that the InJosh Tomlin had run support for each one of
Cleveland Indians fan base began to question,
dians starting pitching were the biggest surprise
his starts, to give him a 3-2 record, but with a
“What if?”
to him about the team. “I knew it showed some
Through May, pitching seemed to be an issue. 5.84 ERA.
promise at the end
The “Bullpen Mafia” was used too early in
Runs were being produced, but the opposing
of ’10, but I didn’t
teams were just scoring more. A few times, they many games. Two guys that Manager Manny think it would be
found themselves down within the last two in- Acta liked to call upon were Joe Smith and as good as it was.”
rookie Vinnie Pestano. Smith and Pestano had
nings of the games.
Pestano and
May 13, they were down in the ninth inning, the lowest ERAs in the bullpen and Pestano had Smith were still
by two runs. Michael Brantley and Asdrubal the most strike outs.
dominating in the
The injury bug bit once again. This time it got
Cabrera hit back to back doubles, making the
bullpen. Vinnie
score 4-3. Shin Soo Choo and Santana both Matt LaPorta and Choo. Pronk came off the DL pitched in 33.1 ingrounded out, and LaPorta went on June 17. A week later, the nings and had 47
Indians were
strike outs. Smith
playing in San
owned the bullpen
Francisco and
in earned run avChoo came
erage, 0.85.
up to bat in
Asdrubal Cathe fourth inbrera was clearly
ning.
During
the Most Value
the at-bat, the
2.32 ERA 62.0 Innings Pitched ball hit Choo on Player. At the half, Cabrera was batting .294
with fourteen homeruns (eleven more than last
his left hand and
84 Strike Outs
season), and fifty-one runs batted in.
broke his
After the All Star game, the Indians played on
aNTHONY CASTROVINCE, left thumb the road for eight games in seven days. They
w h i c h
mlb.COM, “[vINNIE] HAD A TERRIFIC SEASON r e q u i r e d took the first two games of a four game series
from Baltimore, and won a double header veron
AND EARNED A PROMINENT BULLPUEN ROLE. surgery
sus Minnesota.
June 28.
Asdrubal Cabrera SS
Cy Young
Justin Masterson P
Rookie of the
Year
Vinnie Pestano P
HE STRUCK OUT 84 BATTERS IN 62 INNINGS,
WHICH IS PRETTY RIDICULOUS.”
stranding Cabrera at third base. The next batter to the plate, Travis Hafner. He fouled off the
first pitch, but then Pronk belted one over the
centerfield wall. Indians won 5-4.
May 16 was when injuries started to take off.
Sizemore had not even played one month of
baseball, and he wound up on the Disabled List
once again with an injured knee and hip. Two
days later in batting practice, Hafner took one
swing and was in intense pain. Pronk strained
his right oblique, and landed himself on the DL.
Every year, the Indians play the Cincinnati
Reds for a weekend of Interleague play. May
20, the Indians and Reds were tied through
eight innings. Winning run, Choo, was on third
base in the bottom of the eighth. Over the PA,
fans heard that rookie, Ezequiel Carrera, was
July was another losing month, but
it sure was a memorable one. July
2, the Indians were finishing up Interleague play with a series in Cincinnati. Fausto Carmona took the
mound for Cleveland, but because
the game was in a National League
ballpark, Carmona also had to step
up to the plate for an at-bat. Fausto
made contact with the ball, and while
running to first, something went terribly wrong. Out of nowhere, Carmona fell running to first base. This
odd incident landed him on the disabled list until after the All Star Break.
The next day, the American League and National League All Star teams were announced.
July 21, the kid that everyone was waiting
for was finally called up. Jason Kipnis had
been a top minor league player for several
years and it was his time to shine. He started
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October 20, 2011
off slow his first couple games, but Kipnis finally earned his first major league hit on July
25 with a walk off hit in the bottom of the ninth
inning. The Indians were down 2-1 heading into
the ninth versus the Angels.
With Choo, Sizemore, and Trevor Crowe (out
since Spring Training with shoulder surgery)
not playing for the Tribe, they were in need of
an outfielder. So on July 28, they made the trade
for Kosuke Fokudome of the Chicago Cubs and
in return gave them two minor leaguers.
On July 31, the Indians front office also made
two more trades. First, Orlando Cabrera was
traded to San Francisco and received outfielder
Thomas Neal. Talks about trading for Ubaldo
Jimenez of the Rockies lasted throughout the
entire day. The Indians eventually traded first
round draft pick Drew Pomeranz, and two more
top prospects to Colorado and added Jimenez to
the Indians roster.
In the beginning of August, the Indians and Tigers were
in a heated battle
for
first
place of
the Central Division. But
injuries
to Carlos
Carrasco,
Kipnis,
Pronk, and
Brantley
truly hurt
the team.
The Indians fell out
of first place after being swept by the Tigers in a
three game series in Detroit.
Former Indians superstar, Jim Thome, had
the option of going to a new team by August
25. The Indians have had talks about requiring
Thome from the Twins for a week or so. Thome
had just hit his 600th homerun on August 15, so
getting him with his original team would be one
epic last hoorah. The Indians had announced
that Jim Thome was claimed off of waivers late
night on August 25. The Indians had THomecoming the next night in honor of Jim Thome’s
return.
In September, the Indians had fully fell out
of first place. The best night of all for Indians fans in September was the 23rd, another
night to honor Jim Thome. The Thomenator had a pregame ceremony and was then
told that there would be a statue of him by
Heritage Park where his 511ft homerun first
bounced.
During the game, Thome hit his 604th career homerun to put the Indians up over the
Twins. The bullpen soon blew the game and
let Minnesota tie it up. To start the bottom of
the ninth, Santana pinch hit for Lou Marson.
In the first pitch in the at-bat, Santana hit a
bomb to right field off. Indians won 6-5.
“What if,” the one question that ran though
the mind of Indians fans the entire season. So
many magical moments happened throughout
the sixth month run, including walk off grand
slams, game winning drag bunts, and the return
of a legend. The Indians were in first place for
over half of the season with help from top stars
Asdrubal Cabrera and Justin Masterson. Now
that the season is over, the question “what if”
still sticks in the back of fans heads. What if the
Indians make it to the 2012 World Series?
STRONGSVILLE
PRIDE
We are Proud of Strongsville HS alumni Jayne
Ansberry who is now a successful country
singer in Nashville Tenn!....SHS alumni Duane
Sheldon who is now the HEAD basketball
coach at Baldwin Wallace College! SHS
alumni Holly Perzy a wonderfully, amazing
medical doctor right here in Strongsville and
SHS Alumni David Allen who is a very
successful attorney at Taft Settinus Law firm!...
thanks for ALL you do!... Strongsville is SO
proud!
We are SO proud of many of our Strongsville
seniors who have already recieved academic, musical and athletic scholarships to
esteemed colleges! WE are VERY proud of
Strongsville’s tradition and admired
reputation of continuously striving for
excellence!
Bravo Strongsville student
Madison Franklin for your
honor of being the FIRST
recruit to Western Kentucky
University for the class of
2013!
Congratulations to
all of our Strongsville
fall sports teams on your
district tournament wins!
Good Luck at regionals!
~Girls Soccer Sectional
Win over Lakewood 5-0!
Thank you to our awesome
Strongsville custodial staff for keeping
our
SHS= ‘home away from home’
looking and operating
wonderfully!(my friend
visited from a neighboring
school for a sporting event and
she said,’your H.S. is awesome!’)
such PRIDE!
A big thank you to our student council
and administrators, for all of their
work preparing to make our
Homecoming dance so wonderful!
We greatly appreciate it!
We are VERY proud of
Strongsville alumni Edward
Knotek. Edward is the VP
Economist in the research
department of the Federal
Reserve Bank. After graduating from Strongsville, Ed
received a triple major
in math, economics and
spanish, from Denison
University. He then went on
to achieve his Masters and
PHD. in economics from the
University of Michigan!
Ed is noted for his research
on price dynamics, in
particular causes and consequences of price rigidity
and the interplay between
inflation,information and
movements in unemployment over the course of a
business cycle. Strongsville is
SO proud of you Ed!
Congratulations to our Strongsville art
students and teachers! We are proud to
announce and showcase our talented high
school artists, at the” Strongsville High
School Spring Art Show”, April, 20, 2012!
A first class evening of refreshments,
strongsville instrumental orchestral
music and phenominal art work!
We want to greatly thank our
local Strongsville armed forces:
the Army, Navy, Airforce and Marines
members, for participating in the
Strongsville High School Marching
Band “Salute to America” halftime
spectacular tonight! We honor and
salute you!
Bravo to our wonderful Strongsville
Spirit-wear Store for celebrating their 10th
anniversary! Thank you for all of the classy
and cool Strongsville apparell and spirit
wear! WE love it!
Congratulations to Strongsville
Alumni Nicole Knotek M.D. (the
sister of Edward). Nicole received
her PHD in medicine at
NEOUCOM and is now a successful
pediatrician for Akron Childrens
Hospital! Nicole you have made
Strongsville proud!
We are also proud of Strongsville alumni and now
Princeton University
student Eric
Stoyanoff. Eric wanted to
say, “hello” to all here back in
Strongsville and credits his
successes now at Princeton,
to his excellent education and
activities he was involved in
here at, THE BEST school in
the Nation his own Strongsville!
Thank you Eric!
Bravo to our UNDEFEATED 12-0
Strongsville girls golf team! We are so
proud of all of you! Also,
congratulations to member Ali Jakubez
the Northern Ohio Conference MVP!
Congratulations “Strongsville person
of the week”, Brian Cook. Brian a 2011
Strongsville High School graduate,
with his educational excellence, he
graduated from Strongsville
cum laude with a highest
achievement of a 32
on his ACTs! He is now
attending Ohio Wesleyan
College! We are proud of you
Brian!
We are proud of Strongsville
Alumni Amy Kocka who just
recieved her masters degree in public
law administration, SHS alumni Evan
Chrzanowski who recieved his masters
in governmental political science and
Kalynn Duchas for
achieving her masters in fashion
merchandizing fine arts! Great job!
We are proud of Strongsville Alumni
Mark Pimpo! Mark is now the Captain
of the U.S. Navy and Commander of the
Naval supply systems.
While at Strongsville Mark was
a commended student and class
president.
He attended the U.S. Naval Academy as
well as captain of the Navy football team.
Mark has served abroad, in San Diego
Calfornia, Washington D.C., Tampa
Fla, Kingsbury Ga and Newport R.I. as
an admirals aide and special opperations
commander! Strongsville is proud of you
Mark!
~Mark is the second Pimpo brother to attain this honor. Older brother David SHS
graduate also a captain of the USS Ronald
Reagan! Bravo!
We congratulate our own Strongsville senior,
Sarina Wills for her invitation last weekend to
perform the National Anthem at the Cleveland
Indians game! Sarina is a member of the
Cantorum, the top elite choral group here at
SHS, as well as a talented trombone player for
our SHS Marching Band. Bravo Sarina, you
made Strongsville proud!
Our phenominal Strongsville students continue
to amaze the world! Ashley Abraham, a
Strongsville high school honors graduate and current Baldwin Wallace student,
will produce a professional film!
Her documentary physics thesis is slotted
to air on the science network or discovery
channel!
The film will cover, consciousness, personhood
and autonomy, cognitive and neural enhancements
and neorulaw brain imaging! WE are PROUD of
you Ashley!
We are very proud of Strongsville graduate Ryan Bores, for his great honor of
being drafted to the 2011 Major League
Baseball AL champion Texas
Rangers team and Strongsville
graduate Anthony Gallas signed by our
own Cleveland Indians!
Congratulations to our outstanding Strongsville
H.S. Orchestra students for being selected in
the 2011 NE Regional Symphony!
On Violin: Katherine Chen,Rachel Chen, Karen Tan, Mathangi Sridhars and Patrick Monnius.
On Cello:Eric Bruckner and Kate Gonczy
On Bass: John Nelson
Also... Congratulations to Katherine Chen and
Karen Tan, who were chosen as the BEST Violin
students in OHIO! They will perform at the 2012
Ohio All-State Orchestra,OMEA professional
convention to an audience of over 10,000! We are
proud of you!
~the Strongsville Orchestra will also travel to Chicago this spring to perform at Vandercook College
of Music! Bravo!
If you would like to purchase a
Strongsville Mustang Pride tshirt or
sweatshirt please just email our
advisors, Mrs. Harbart or Mr. Boros!