Knowledge Bowl wins state

The Lewis and Clark High School
Issue 8
April 2006
J ournal
April is national
grilled-cheese month!
Knowledge Bowl wins state
With the help of Officer Dan Johnson and advisor, Mary Gilles,
LC’s very own COPS shop recently received a Chase Youth Award
Competing at the Knowledge Bowl Champtionship: From left: Seniors Sarah Godlewski, John Taffin, Kyl Wellman, Elliot Boswell, Martin Box, and Jeff Genung. Front: Coach Dave Jackson
the morning rounds,” said
by Karina Walker
Godlewski. The team finished the
Staff Writer semi-finals with 90 points, well
LC recently made a new
addition to its trophy case:
The
State
Championship
trophy for Knowledge Bowl.
Coaches Dave Jackson and
Theresa Meyer led the team to
victory in the Mar 25 competition.
The varsity Knowledge Bowl
team consisted of six members:
Elliot Boswell, Martin Box,
Jeff Genung, Sarah Godlewski,
John Taffin and captain Kyl
Wellman. All members of this
year’s varsity team were seniors.
After winning first out of 36
teams in the regional Knowledge
Bowl tournament, LC qualified
for state in Camas, WA.
LC’s qualification can be
attributed to a mixture of IQ
and practice. “I think I strained
my brain,” said Genung of
his experience in Knowledge
Bowl. According to Genung,
the team practiced twice weekly
to improve its chances at state.
After months of preparation, the
team competed against 17 other
teams for the coveted state title.
The first several rounds left
LC in a precarious position.
“We didn’t do very well in
behind Olympia’s 127 points.
LC qualified as the second
wildcard team going into
the finals. Forced to face its
greatest competition in the first
round of the finals, LC fought
neck and neck with Olympia.
In the climactic last question of
the round, Olympia rang in early
with an incorrect answer. LC’s
patience paid off when Box knew
the correct answer and secured
LC’s place in the final round.
In the last round, LC
competed against Kamiakin
and Arlington. LC won with
16 points over Kamiakin’s 11
points and Arlington’s seven.
Although this marks the
sixth consecutive year LC has
qualified for state, the team had
never before won the state title.
“I feel proud to bring home
such
a
prestigious
prize
for our school,” said Box.
According to Godlewski, the
outlook for next year’s team is also
good. This year’s JV team won its
league, and a current cast of strong
juniors will help in defending LC’s
well-earned reputation in 2007.
Congratulations to all members
of LC Knowledge Bowl.
Test your Knowledge Bowl skills
with the following questions
courtesy of:
www.greatauk.com/shortanswer.
html
1. Isopropanol, ethanol,
and methanol are
members of what
group of chemical
compounds?
2. Because it moved
the presidential and
vice presidential
inauguration dates
from March 4 to
January 20, what
amendment to the U.S.
Constitution is also
know as the Lame
Duck Amendment?
3. The Babylonian planet
Ishtar was named after
the goddess of love.
What was the Roman
name for this planet?
1. alcohols
2. 20th amendment
3. Venus
May Week will rock it, hard
Annual event
will feature food,
bands, fun
by Jack Siddoway
Staff Writer
LC will house a week of music,
outdoor activities, and quality
food in late May this year, as with
every year, properly named, “May
Week.” For five days, starting on
May 22, LC students will gather
in the courtyard, enjoying the
warm weather and activities.
Five bands, selected by LC’s
leadership class members will
play on the outdoor stage on
LC’s west lawn area each of
the five days. The bands have
yet to be announced, however.
The leadership class has
some basic ideas planned
for
this
year’s
activities:
“There will be Frisbee, of
course,” senior Nils Ringo
said.
“We also might do
something similar to the water
dunking tank we had last year.”
In the past, there have also
been pie eating contests and
cotton candy, but the week
focused primarily
on the
music and the warm weather.
As for food, senior Shayla
Blehm said, “Last year we had
David’s Pizza, Chicken and
More, and a RACE Fiesta- we
will probably have something
similar to that this year.”
The leadership class is also
planning a series of ‘simple’
Spirit Days, unlike the usual
“Cowboy Day” or “Hat Day.”
“It seemed that the more
obscure the days were, less people
participated. This year we plan
on making it simple,” Ringo said.
The spirit days might be
color-based, but planning has
yet to be finished for the week.
May Week is a time to enjoy
warm weather, music, and
friends. These 40 minute lunches
are something to be treasured
as students prepare for finals.
COPS shop wins
Chase Youth Award
Shop with a personalized letter,
by Kjersti Cubberley
their outstanding
Section Editor acknowledging
contributions made to the Spokane
The Lewis and Clark COPS
shop has something to gloat
about; they are a recent recipient
of the 2006 Chase Youth
Citizenship award. This award
came about with the recognition
of COPS Shop devotion and
service to the community.
COPS Shop is headed by Mary
Gilles and includes LC students
with a desire to serve others.
Though students earn credit
for this class, their selfless
actions include cleaning up gang
graffiti on school property and
surrounding areas, and organizing
block watches. COPS Shop
senior intern Brittney Harris said
that, “during each class period,
COPS Shop interns help to patrol
the areas surrounding LC.”
Students watch for new sings of
graffiti defacing LC property.
In honor of their commendable
achievement, state senator Maria
Cantwell congratulated the COPS
community.
Cantwell
said,
“Each hour you volunteer enacts
positive change in our community
and improves the fortunes and
futures of those who are in need.”
Other Chase Youth Award
recipients included LC senior
Shikita Rogers. Rogers received
the award for Teen Diversity.
This award commends the
recipient for their outstanding
service in the community.
A very deserving Rogers
volunteers for Hospice and the
Women’s Restaurant three times
a week for two to three hours.
Although Rogers has spent
much of her time serving the
community, after graduating this
year she plans to attend Spokane
Community College and receive
her AA in Fashion Merchandise.
LC is fortunate to have such
a prominent and admirable
student-run organization and
many wonderful successful
individuals. Way to go Tigers!
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Miscalculated SAT scores
by Garth Ahern
Staff Writer
photo by meaghan driscoll
Juniors Erika Whittaker, Maggie McKee and sophomore Noel
Wamsley sport their initiation outfits the day after tryouts
Welcome ‘06-‘07
Cheerleaders!
Brooke
Mahar,
Katherine
by Culley Grow
Merck
and
Noël
Wamsley.
Staff Writer
The enthusiasm amongst
The new LC Cheerleaders
arrived this spring with a jump
and a kick. Tryouts consisted of
several tasks in which the girls’
cheering skills were put to the
test and were held on March 29.
At the tryouts, they were required
to do a dance routine, the LC fight
song and any specific cheer that
was chosen for them. All of these
were performed with a partner.
By themselves they did a cheer
called “Tigers lets hear it,” in
which they were judged on form,
personality and voice control.
Along with these tasks, the
girls had to do a rally that
included two high kicks, and
cheers such as “Alright Tigers
Number 1,” or “Go Tigers.”
The judges made their decision
the day of the tryouts, and
initiation for the new cheerleaders
began that night and carried over
to the next morning. The new
cheerleaders consist of juniors
Caitlin Dietz, Normarose Gordon,
Sean Leonard, Maggie McKee,
Kayla
Morrison,
Courtney
Simpson and Erika Whittaker,
and sophomores Camille Bryant,
the girls is quite exciting. “I
like watching the sports,” said
sophomore Katherine Merck.
“It’s fun to have spirit and
be involved in your school.”
“It’s going to be a lot of fun,”
said junior Kayla Morrison.
“There’s a lot of team bonding.”
The new cheerleaders will be
bonding with the returning ladies
juniors Erica Ehlo, Kathleen
Flynn and Laine Kellman, but
will be without the leaving
senior cheerleaders Morgan
Yost, Page Hill, Christina
Luby, Page Wamsley, Allison
Moran, Jillian Lamb, Sara
Northey and Amandeep Kaur.
The new squad will not start
official practices until the summer,
but is still doing cheerleading
activities like making locker signs.
Head coach Laurie McNutt and
assistant coach Kelsey Merriman
are very excited. “It seems like
they are fun girls, and it’s going
to be fun,” said Merriman.
“I’m excited to try new things.”
You can check out the new squad
next year at varsity football and
basketball games and of course
our annual Rubber Chicken.
I-90 repair update
of the lots will remain open.
by Karina Walker
Blegen said that preliminary
Staff Writer construction
will
begin
The Washington State
Department of Transportation
plans to repair a section of I90 over the next two summers.
This stretch of highway extends
from the Maple street exit
to the Division street exit.
Since LC student and staff
parking lots are currently
located directly beneath this
viaduct, the project may affect
LC’s
driving
community.
The district is working in
conjunction with the Department
of Transportation (DOT) in an
effort to coordinate parking
within
this
time
period.
According to Robert Blegen of
the Washington DOT, retention
ponds will be built in the
northwest corners of these lots
in order to capture runoff from
overhead construction. Although
these ponds will block some
parking spaces, the remainder
in the first week of May.
LC students should be aware
of the changes to the lots,
but the district and DOT are
working hard to minimize the
disruption to the LC community.
Principal Jon Swett expresses a
commitment to keeping students,
staff and the community informed
as more information becomes
available and as plans are solidified.
The DOT held an informational
open house April 21 regarding
the repair project. Interested
students, parents and community
members are welcome to
attend
another
meeting
scheduled for April 27 at AAA.
The LC website currently
offers a link to a page containing
more information about the
parking situation. Also, families
can consult the April addition
of “Eye on the Tigers” parent
newsletter for more information.
Students lined up earlier this
year to take the SAT: a test
whose scores are in required
for entrance into most colleges.
As their scores for the October
SAT returned, some were
horrorstruck to discover that their
scores were unbelievably lower
than they had expected. These
scores however, turned out to be
wrong, causing trouble for the
College Board and showing the
mismanagement of the test by the
Pearson Company. “It must have
been complete chaos,” said College
Board Consultant Sally Pfeifer.
Pfeifer first learned of the
mistake when she received
and email on March 6 from
the College Board that stated
“We recently discovered that
a technical processing matter
affected a very small percentage
of October SAT test takers. As
a result, approximately 4,000
students did not receive credit
for some correct answers.”
It is a possibility that as the
tests made their way to scoring
facilities owned by Pearson
around the country, a few of the
boxes containing the tests got wet.
When they were corrected later by
a machine, the scores were much
lower than they should have been.
No one knows exactly when
Pearson found out about the
screw-up, but much trouble could
have been avoided if colleges were
informed of the mistake before the
new year. Unfortunately, this did
not occur and Pearson has been
attacked for its supposed secrecy.
News of the incident did not
leak out until early in March.
As a result, many students
sent out their college application
with their wrong test scores to
their preferred colleges. Many
of these applications could have
been turned down because of
these scores. All in all, .8 percent,
or four thousand people who
took the SAT test received false
incorrect scores. To add insult
to injury, when Pearson workers
were re-scoring the tests, some of
the student’s tests were mistakenly
not rescored causing Pearson to go
back again to rescore. Many were
angered by this latest problem.
Pfeifer said, “A machine is only
as good as the people running
it.” In this case, the employees of
Pearson can not be blamed for the
machines error, but their lack of
care resulted in even more time and
money having to be spent on them.
According to the Los Angeles
Times March 23 issue, the
College Board intends to “Crack
down on disclosed grading errors
that plagued SAT exams taken by
high school students in October.”
The new measures also include
scanning each answer sheet twice.
Also, the College Board will
improve its software to make the
tests more resistant to the elements.
Hopefully, Pearson will
successfully
correct
these
mistakes and prevent them from
ever happening again. If this
can be accomplished than LC
students will not have to worry
that their tests are incorrect and
can not be trusted by colleges.
Pringle reigns at Mr. LC
by Elliot Boswell
Staff Writer
It usually proves interesting
to study the dynamics of a
talent show. In most cases, the
participants fall along one of two
lines: those who wish to show off
their talents and those who wish
to make fools of themselves. The
Mr. LC competition on April
14 featured a rich variety from
the best of those two worlds.
The annual Mr. LC is essentially
a beauty competition for senior
boys, although perhaps beauty is
not the right word, with all judging
being done by select faculty
members. The nine erstwhile
2006 competitors were Mike
Janson, Sean Kells, James Newell,
Marty Newell-Large, Kelton
Peterson-Allen, Nate Pringle,
Keith Richardson, Steve Smythe
and Ryan Stintzi, each of whom
showcased a respective talent.
The night kicked off with
a
swimsuit
competition
supplemented with comments
from the judges, who established
early their ability to steal the
show,
particularly
English
teachers Mark Robbins and Eric
Woodard. With deadpan jokes
Staff
Box
Advisor
Jennifer Showalter
Editor-In-Chief
Jessica Reichard
News Editor
Kandy Lindstrom
Sports Editor
Elliot Boswell
and insights such as, “I haven’t
seen anything that ripped since
my grandma drowned in the eggnog,” the judges soon took the
place of the student announcers
as where to look for cheap laughs.
The actual talent show ensued
with mixed results. NewellLarge and Richardson each did
skits that turned out only to be
funny if the audience member
was familiar with the original
text: Monty Python and Saturday
Night
Live,
respectively.
Smythe portrayed a strangely
endearing redneck comedian
and may or may not have
written his own material.
Newell disobeyed the primary
rule of Mr. LC - if it’s not funny, it
better be really bloody good – and
did a three-minute DDR session,
which was not especially funny
nor especially jaw dropping.
Kells’ slaughter of “My
Heart Will Go On” with piano
accompaniment and Stintzi’s
painful rendition of “I’ll Make A
Man Out of You” were made-up
for with Janson’s surprising beatboxing abilities. Arguably the only
real talent featured in the show,
Janson, who is white, wowed
with his one-man version of Fiddy
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Cent’s “In Da Club” and ability to
beat-box through a harmonica.
Peterson-Allen followed with
a shirtless re-enactment of the
Mortal Kombat introductory
screen, which made the judges
and most of the audience
mildly
uncomfortable.
Pringle proceeded to steal the
show, captivating the audience
with his bang-on impersonation
of Will Ferrell’s impersonation
of Chicago Cubs wild ’n wacky
announcer Harry Caray. Hilarious
even if you had not seen the
original skit, he nailed Caray’s
facial expressions and bizarre
style of speech without once
cracking a smile, despite having
his helper, Ryan Lipsker, and most
of the audience hysterical with
laughter. Pringle was the only
consistently funny participant
and, in my opinion, salvaged
the evening from mediocrity.
An “on-the-spot” Q & A session
followed the talents (I know a
few of them pretty well, and
in my experience, they just are
not that spontaneously clever).
After a long wait, the results were
announced: Janson took third,
Peterson-Allen took second, and
Pringle, deservedly, first place.
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Emmily Eisenrich
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Skylar Harrison
Eve Jegou
Danielle Kugler
James Newell
Nathen Olney
David Sheppard
Jack Siddoway
Rachel Thomas
Karina Walker
Robert Weigle
Nathan Weinbender
Ashleigh White
Conor Wigert
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Sadie Hawkins-what happened?
March Sadie
Hawkins dance
canceled due to
disorganization
by Emmily Eisenrich
Staff Writer
Class of 2006 at the arena
that absolutely has to be done. graduation and will now be able
by Will Ferguson
year LC was barely able to take as many as they please.
Staff Writer Last
to fit all of the students on the
Unfortunately unlike in years
As far back as anyone can
remember the LC senior class
has graduated at the Opera
House downtown. However,
this is not the case for the
graduating class of 2006.
“Due to the sheer size of the
class of 2006 we are unable to
have the graduation ceremony at
the Opera House,” said Assistant
Principal Jon Swett. “Instead
we are moving it to the arena.”
“Change scares me when it comes
to graduation,” said administrator
Melonie Nord. “I have been
here through 24 graduations
and everything is always done
the same way…until now.”
While switching venues
for graduation is a very scary
thought to some, it is something
stands at the Opera House.
“We wouldn’t have been able
to fit all the graduating seniors
on the stands last year if they
had all shown up,” said Nord.
The larger high schools in the
GSL, LC, Ferris, and Shadle will
be having their graduation at the
Arena while Rogers and NC will
be staying at the Opera House.
The arena, while more
expensive, will give LC the leg
room it needs to be able to host
all of its graduating seniors
with ease along with their
parents, friends, relatives, and
whoever else the seniors and
their families decide to bring.
At the Opera House, due
to limited seating, students
could only invite six guests to
past the senior class will not have
the chance to rehearse graduation
at the arena like they were
able to do at the Opera House.
“We will have to have a pretty
good idea of how it is going
to run before we go in there,”
said Close. “While we cannot
rehearse at the arena we will
prepare enough beforehand to
where the students will know
where to go and what to do.”
The change from the Opera
House to the arena is for the
immediate future permanent,
seeing as the junior and sophomore
classes are both larger than the
current senior class. Hopefully
the move to the arena will provide
a more comfortable environment
for our seniors to graduate in.
RACE holds toiletry drive
feminine hygiene
by Annie Eugster
products, sewing
Staff Writer kits,
shavers,
Students have seen paper
Rousauer’s bags in every classroom
asking for women’s toiletries for
the entire last week of March.
These were part of the Racial
and Cultural Equality’s (RACE),
spring drive
benefiting the
Woman’s Hearth, a local charity.
The members of RACE had
high expectations for the total
amount of supplies that the
students could bring in, but they
were sadly disappointed that
they only gathered seven bags
of items for the woman’s shelter.
The member’s of RACE
collected the bags on Mar 31
at lunch, but the staff advisor
to RACE, Susan Gerard said,
“That one reason there were
so few supplies was that
several teachers had their
doors locked during lunch.”
After the holiday though,
they were pleased to find
that they doubled the total
amount
of
toiletries
to
sixteen full Rousauers bags.
The toiletries that were collected
will go to the Woman’s Hearth,
a local shelter for homeless
and battered women. Woman’s
Hearth accepted such supplies as
tooth paste and brushes, lotion,
shampoos and conditioners,
soap, deodorant, combs, hair ties,
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toilet paper, and
cotton
balls,
the
normal
items
found
in the average
bathroom.
RACE chose the
Woman’s Hearth
because March
is
Woman’s
History Month.
Gerard
said,
“We usually try
to do something
for
woman
in
March.”
To try to get
more people to
donate supplies,
RACE offered
doughnuts
to
the class that
brought in the
most supplies.
Don Worthy’s
science
class Kandy donates some toiletries to the Hearth
won.
Worthy
said,
“That’s
what I heard, it is kind of sad said Gerard, “that more people
actually, considering that our who want to donate to help
class brought in so little supplies.” our community, to help good
RACE does not have anymore local causes” will join. RACE
drives this spring, but will soon “would love any interested
start planning for next year’s students to join,” she said.
drives. They are hoping more
To join RACE all you must do is
people will join RACE next come to the meetings held every
year. “RACE is anticipating,” Wednesday in room 107 at lunch.
“Sadie Hawkins dance in my
khaki pants, there’s nothing’
better,” sings Reliant K in their
familiar and catchy song. While
the song explores the nerveracking and exciting components
of a Sadie’s Dance, the LC
students will not likely experience
the phenomena any time this year.
This March, the sophomore
class tried to coordinate and
introduce the traditional Sadie’s in
which girls ask guys to the dance,
however, due to disorganization
the proposed dance was canceled.
The dance originally was to
function as a fundraiser for the
sophomore class, but was canceled
after “the particulars surrounding
chaperones, security, and music
were not finalized in time,” said
activities director Dan Close.
School dances must be “cleared”
a minimum of two weeks in
advance in order to take place,
“and that was not the case with the
Sadie Hawkins dance,” said Close.
The dance has not yet been
rescheduled,
and
probably
will not take place this school
year due to extensive spring
sports,
band
engagements
and the busy senior rap-ups.
There are very few prospective
“days for the dance to be held
on,” said Close, “just because
after spring break, activities
and events really pick up and
everything
becomes
busy.”
Logically, there is little time
for administrators and students
to focus on a possible Sadie’s,
when Senior Prom is on the
brink. Most seniors are already
preparing for the May event, and
have little extra energy to consider
and plan for another big dance.
However, a downside to the
cancellation is that the Sadie
Hawkins dance would have
functioned like a test to see
how well students adhere to
the new dance regulations.
In fact, next year’s homecoming
dance
is
currently
under
“negotiations,” said Close. The
“concern is that dance expectations
will not be followed. There needs
to be assurances that some of the
things that happened this year will
not happen again,” said Close.
The Sadie’s dance would
have been a good indication
of how students react to the
strictly enforced dance codes.
Now, in order to earn next fall’s
homecoming dance, the ASB and
incoming senior class will have
to work hard and come up with
a plan to enforce and guarantee
the school’s dance regulations.
Not having the Sadie Hawkins
may disappoint some brave
LC girls, but sophomore Kayla
Horton expressed no particular
sadness and said, “I would
not have gone because none
of my friends are going, and I
did not have anyone to ask.”
Similarly junior Ashley Giffing
said, “I probably would not have
gone just because there is no one
I wanted to ask. I think having a
dance would have been good, but I
do not think we need another date
dance. It should just be a mixer.”
“I did not even know that there was
a dance,” said junior Ben Gibbons,
“and I would not have gone even
if I had because I cannot dance.”
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April 2006
New Tiger teacher
Dawn Bushyeager
by David Sheppard
Staff Writer
Dawn Bushyeager is a new teacher
at LC. She is Spokane-born and
bred and graduated from U-High.
Having grown up in Spokane and
attending Eastern Washington
University, Bushyeager knows
the Inland Northwest very well.
Since recently moved back
home to Spokane from Las Vegas,
NV, where she taught at Durango
High School, Bushyeager loves
the experience of teaching at
LC. In some ways, LC and
the school that she taught at in
Las Vegas are similar for her.
In others they are very different.
“There are over 30 high schools
in the district that I taught,”
Bushyeager said. “There are over
200 elementary schools. Needless
to say, it was very crowded. In
some ways, that is how it is similar
to LC. However, my classes were
much larger in Las Vegas. My
record class was 45 students.”
Bushyeager teaches first
year Spanish at LC but is also
interested in teaching social
studies. “I would really like to
teach Spanish and Social Studies,”
Bushyeager said. “I taught both
in Las Vegas. I taught regular
and AP US History. I miss it.”
Bushyeager is the proud
mother of a one year old son
named Michael. In Bushyeager’s
spare time, she and Michael
like to go for walks. When the
weather is not as nice, they stay
inside and play with Michael’s
toys and listen to Michael’s
favorite music, “The Wiggles.”
Another one of Bushyeager’s
main hobbies is decorating
her new house. Taking care
of Michael and decorating
her new house are two of her
PHOTO BY JAMES NEWELL
PHOTO BY SPENCER TOWER
New teacher Dawn Bushyeager
favorite activities these days.
Bushyeager has been speaking
Spanish for fifteen years ever since
she began taking it in high school.
She continued taking it through
college and has not let up with
the language since. Her favorite
Spanish word is “!Fántastico!,”
which I imagine that you
could guess means fantastic.
One of the biggest influences
on Bushyeager’s life came from
her fifth grade teacher, Mrs.
Rauer. “She cares so much about
every student,” Bushyeager
said. “She made everyone feel
like her favorite. I learned a
lot, not just as a student but
how to be a good person.”
When Bushyeager was a senior
in high school she worked at a
program called “Experiencing
Education” in Mrs. Rauer’s
classroom.
“I worked at
Ponderosa Elementary for two
hours everyday,” Bushyeager said.
“She let me help students, conduct
tests, and do some grading.
Through college I stayed in touch
with her. She was someone I
could ask for advice from during
my many education classes. I am
still in contact with her today.”
WASL reactions
by Mac Smith and Kate
no one would ever see it again.
This year Lewis and Clark is
Hellenthal
trying out a new scheduling
Section Editor/Student arrangement for the WASL. The
In on-the-spot interviews on
Tuesday April 11, Lewis and
Clark students gave their opinions
on taking the WASL and the new
time arrangement for taking it.
Many students see the WASL as
something that takes up valuable
learning time. Freshman Vaughn
Kapiko said, “I think that it was a
waste of time because it was easy,
it took me about fifteen minutes,
and I had to sit the rest of the class.”
Senior Sara Dupper also found
it a waste of time when she took it
because she said, “for most kids,
they aren’t morning people. To
have to come here early in the
morning and take a test is hard.”
When asked about the difficulty
of the test, most thought the
WASL was fairly easy. Junior
Stephanie Beasley said that she
and her friends thought of the
WASL as just another test, not
too difficult. On the other hand,
Kayla Cramer, also a junior,
said that she found the test be a
little more difficult than most.
Senior KayCee Raudy thought
that the test was dumb. She said
that she and her friends did not
even take the WASL; they just left
it blank because they knew that
for their class, it did not count and
For their annual Easter Project, The First Presbyterian Youth Group visited Tijuana, Mexico over
spring break to build houses. Volunteers from LC, from left to right, included Michael Kugler, Forrest Gilles, Hailey Jones, Becky Roubos, Paige Hill, Claire Browning, and Lindsey Ridgway.
students will spend one week
in March taking the reading
and writing portions of the test.
In April, another week will
be spent on the science and
math sections. Students at LC
tended to have mixed feelings
about
this
new
strategy.
Beasley said “Personally it’s
bothersome because you don’t
take it all at once, but it’s also
comforting because you don’t
have to take it all at once.”
Similarly, sophomore Taylor
Yost said “I like it because then
I don’t get sick of it and it means
that I have less homework.”
But Cramer’s opinion differed
from Beasley and Yost. She said
that she didn’t feel that it would
help to split up the WASL into
two sections because it is harder
for students to prepare because
you lose the WASL state of mind.
While opinions on the new
scheduling arrangement and
the difficulty level tend to differ
between students, what the
students interviewed did share
was their opinion of the WASL
itself. All of them thought that
the WASL was a waste of time
and did not enjoy taking it.
In short, be kind to our
sophomores, you were one too.
Youth Group goes to Tijuana
by Danielle Kugler
they would have prayer and “alone up and return to their vans and
Staff Writer time to reflect on our thoughts head back to the orphanage
Many students from LC went
down to Tijuana as part of a
church group project to build
homes for the people that didn’t
have homes over spring break.
The group left on the first day of
spring break to fly down to Mexico,
and they returned a week later.
“When we got there I saw that they
had a real sense of community,”
said
sophomore
Ashley
Woodruff. “I wish that we could
carry that with us when we left.”
The kids were grouped in
what were called “building
groups” and they stayed with
there groups throughout the day
as they worked on the homes.
Every morning, the groups would
wake up, eat breakfast, and then
and to write in our journals”.
Then they were off. They would
load all of their tools up in their vans
and head over to the sites in which
they were building the homes.
“We would get together with
our building groups and play
really loud music to get pumped
up for the day,” said Woodruff.
The students were also given a
journal in which they answered
questions and wrote about what
they did throughout the day.
“We would build until about
2:00 and then we would go and
eat lunch with the families that we
were building for,” said Woodruff.
Then they would return to the
site and start building again.
And after they were finished
for the day, they would clean
in which they were staying.
“When I first arrived on Tijuana,
I was astonished by the way that
the people live.” They were so
happy about it,” said Woodfruff.
The workers worked in the homes
all day and then they returned to
the orphanage at the end of the day.
“When we were finished I
felt like I did something great
for someone and it will really
change their life,” said Woodruff.
“After this whole experience,
I realized how materialistic we
are,” said sophomore Claire
Browning. “I also saw how
happy people can be even when
they don’t have a lot of money.”
“Along with many of the
other kids, this experience
gave me a new perspective
Movie filmed at student’s house
by Jessica Reichard
Editor-In-Chief
Spokane’s majestic beauty
has finally been recognized; a
movie, “Home of the Brave,” is
being filmed in our midst which
is actually set in our picturesque
city, specifically Lincoln Heights,
a ‘suburb’ of Spokane. Mac
Smith, a junior at LC and fellow
editor of this fine publication,
experienced the excitement of
filmmaking first hand (almost),
when his house was chosen
as the home for the fictional
family of Samuel L. Jackson.
This family, whose name is
yet to be released, includes other
moderately well-known actors,
like son Sam Jones, whom you
might recognize from Smallville,
and mother Victoria Rowell from
the Young and the Restless. Also
featured is famed rap superstar
50 cent as well as Christina
Ricci and Chad Michael Murray.
Smith’s family was informed
of the film’s interest in his house
by a note left near at his house
asking the owners to contact
them if they wished to participate
in the film. Given about a month
notice, the Smiths prepared to
move out quite quickly. They
lived at the Davenport for a
little over three weeks during
the filming, an experience which
wore thin by the end; Smith
reported sincerely missing homecooked meals after eating only
restaurant prepared food for about
21 days. As they say, absence
makes the heart grow fonder.
In order to transform the house
and personalize it for the film,
the crew painted several walls,
put in all new furniture, and
inserted many family photos of
the new, fictional residents. As
soon as filming wrapped, all
new items were removed, but the
Smiths chose to keep a few of
the walls in their changed state.
Shortly after moving into the
hotel, Smith had an unexpected
early morning encounter with
the big man himself, Samuel L.
Jackson. After groggily waiting
for the elevator to arrive at his
floor in the hotel, the doors
opened to reveal none other
than Mr. Jackson. Smith was
surprised, needless to say, but was
able to have a short but fulfilling
conversation with Jackson, an
event very few Spokanites can
boast (though many wish too).
“He’s very tall, and looks
at you right in the eye, but he
doesn’t stand up very straight”
said Smith of the mega-star.
I took up running, walking my
dogs, bike riding, and driving
down dead end culs de sac, all
in vain, to find these evidently
very stealthy actors.
Fellow
Senior Megan Scales and I
even made quite artistic shirts
depicting our appreciation of
rap artist 50 cent (‘fiddy’ to his
adoring fans), hoping to catch
the eye of someone, anyone,
with some sort of pull on set.
We were not the only two
attempting to get our 15 minutes
(or perhaps seconds) of fame.
A surprising increase in foot
traffic in my neighborhood
increased, only attributable to the
desire to see one of the famous
friends filming on the block.
Fortunately, if the trend continues,
Spokanites looking for their time
with the stars should have plenty
of opportunities. With so many
movies being filmed locally
thanks to the successful local
company North by Northwest,
this journalist foresees much
future filming in our scenic area.
Don’t fret, Tigers, for the
stars will return; how can
they deny the Lilac City. “
End Game” is also set to debut soon,
going straight to DVD on May 2.
The Lewis and Clark High School Journal
Features
issue 8
pAGE 5
April 2006
Amazing outdoor activities!
by James Newell
Staff Writer
You feel it: the increasing
temperatures, the warm breeze
and the undeniable anticipation
to get outside and enjoy the day.
Spring is upon us, and
with spring comes many
new
activities
such
as
biking, running, and hiking.
Believe it or not we have a
plethora of outdoor recreational
activities at our fingertips.
If you are having a little
trouble figuring out exactly
what you want to tackle try
a few of my suggestions:
• The Bluff: located on
High drive that runs down to
Latah Creek: It consists of just
around 300 acres and is a great
place to catch some fresh air.
With over 30 scenic trails to
choose from, you get a sense of
being in the great outdoors while
still being close to urban life.
• Mini-Haha: a wooded
area nestled parallel to the
upper Spokane River is mostly
notorious for its gargantuan rock
climbing walls, but it also has
some amazing mountain biking
trails. If you dare venture too far
into the woods you may also have
the chance to spot some wildlife.
• The Dishman Hills
natural area: a beautiful trail
system that often goes unnoticed.
Located on the east side of
Tower Mountain this 500 acre
offers many scenic hiking trials
and an abundance of natural
vegetation. Mountain biking and
camping is however prohibited.
• Riverside state park:
infamous for the Bowl and
PHOTO BY SPENCER TOWER
Tebani Nagele will spend a year at LC before returning to Germany.
Tebani Nagele!
by Jessica Reichard
German schools from a young age.
According to Nagele, her peers
Editor-in-Chief
PHOTO BY JAMES NEWELL
One of the many lovely trails at Riverside State Park outside
of Spokane, illuminated in the sunlight.
How picturesque!
Pitcher, this amazing trail
system is located on the west
side of town. Many trails
follow the Spokane River and
a few stray away to get some
views of outer airway heights.
A highlight of this park is
the suspension bridge that is
made solely for foot traffic.
• The Frisbee Golf
course: a neighbor to River
side state park, this 18 hole
Frisbee golf course is sure to
hold your attention for many
hours. Located just a mile
past the state park turn off.
• Mount Kit Carson:
this trail starts at Bear Creek
Lodge on the base of Mount
Spokane and winds for a mere
three miles, and then climbs for
about one and a half. The top of
Mt. Kit Carson holds spectacular
views of the city of Spokane.
WARNING:
Trail
is
open on a seasonal basis.
• The Little Spokane
River:offers amazing canoeing,
kayaking and fly fishing. The
launch is located just above
St. Georges. As the weather
keeps warming up the little
Spokane River holds some
lazy and extreme tubing.
• Liberty Lake Trail
Head: this is definitely my
favorite. The trails start at the
Liberty Lake county park and
make their way into the deep
woods. This trail system is
awesome for hiking, biking
and running. There are many
different routes to choose from.
The longest (my favorite)
follows a brook uphill until
to your astonishment you
find yourself at a public cabin
made by an eagle scout.
Tie-dying is scientific and fun!
by Ashleigh White
Staff Writer
Colleen James, first year
science teacher, implemented
a tie-dying lesson that she
learned in high school for
the tenth grade curriculum.
She wanted to continue the
tradition at LC. All of the
integrated science 10 classes
tie dyed over a three day
period. Jan. 18-20 and over
400 students were involved.
The chemical dyes that
would bond to various sites
in the cotton fabric were part
of what they were using.
“The main concept we focused
on was how concentration
affects the rate of chemical
reactions,”
said
James.
The tie-dye activity got the
students interested in a real
application of some of the
science they were learning
in their science classes. The
teachers wanted to link the
material they were learning
in class to the real world.
“People have real occupations
in the textile industry, peaking
the interest of the students at LC
with a fun and relevant activity
while working in reaction rate
and concentration to the mix
seems like a good thing to
me” said Scott Rademacher, a
tenth grade science teacher that
was involved with the activity.
Sophomore George Denison
said, “I learned how to make
PHOTO BY SPENCER TOWER
Colleen James and Laine Hammacher are excited about tie dye!
and why wouldnt she be? It is educational and fun: fantastic!
tie-dye shirts” and another
Sophomore Jason Sykes said “I
didn’t learn anything and I was
having fun because I wasn’t
learning.” Sophomore Melissa
Main said “Yes, I had fun
because we did not do science.”
James chose orange and
black for the t-shirt that she
made because she is new to
LC this year and also because
it is a popular combination
of colors among the LC staff.
Next year the tradition will
carry on. “I’m already looking
forward to next years tie dye
event because we had so much
fun this year” said James.
Many people expect foreign
exchange students to be shy,
slightly strange and speak broken
English. Tebani Nagele, one of the
many amazing exchange students
here at LC this year, proves this
stereotype wrong. In fact, she
pretty much rips it to pieces.
Nagele was a dream to interview.
She got my jokes (unless, of course,
they were entirely not funny),
gave me lengthy responses to my
mundane questions, and to top it
all off, had an amazing attitude
about her time spent in the U.S.
From Nuremberg, Germany,
Nagele has been in the U.S.
since August 25, or around seven
and a half months. Though
she has gotten homesick, her
time here has been eye opening
and beneficial to her overall
understanding
of American
customs and the general populace.
“People here [in the U.S.]
are very open and interested in
people from foreign countries,”
said Nagele of her time thus far.
She has lived with two families,
and currently resides with the
family of LC senior Kate Girton.
To get involved and meet peers
at LC, Nagele joined both cross
country and track teams, where she
has met many wonderful young
women.
Because Americans
have been so friendly, Nagele has
had no problem making friends;
she can also thank her impeccable
English, a language requirement in
in Germany are “too lazy” to start
and maintain clubs, organizations
and sports for those interested in
recreational and social activities.
“There is so much different stuff
going on at LC,” said Nagele,
just one of the many attractive
aspects of our community.
Nagele also mentioned how
incredibly friendly students
have been here at LC. She
has had no problem making
friends, whether its neighbors,
classmates, or running buddies.
When she heads back to
Germany this summer, Nagele
plans to finish high school, which
will continue for two more years
after her return to Germany.
After graduation, it is off to
University like so many American
students, but for Nagele, her
final steps in education could
last up until 28 years of age.
All schooling is much different
in Germany, and to get the
advanced degree that Nagele
desires. Many other schools are
available that are not as lengthy,
like vocational schools which
train for a specific job, like
nursing or computer sciences.
She hopes to study something
where she can “work somewhere
internationally.”
Like other
exchange students who visit LC,
she has a very global mind, aware
of cultural respect and interested
in advancing her knowledge.
LC is proud to boast such eager,
involved students like Nagele.
issue 8
The Lewis and Clark High School Journal
Features
pAGE 6
April 2006
Encounters with Marmots!
Bethany
Miller
amazes
by Annica Eagle
Journalism Student
Although not as unique as
Booker T. Jones, the classical
organist Bethany Miller rocked
Lewis and Clark High School’s
auditorium fifth period March
22nd. Miller came to play our
school’s famous organ for a short
concert in between her classes at
Whitman College in Walla Walla.
Bethany Miller grew up in
Kyoto, Japan, learning to play the
piano at age seven. Five years
ago, her pastor approached her
to play the organ in church, and
she has been playing ever since.
According to a Bethany
Miller biography, she has
received four gold medals and
won the Yvonne Goodwater
award for organ performance
at Musicfest Northwest. Last
summer, she received a full
scholarship to attend the Mount
Royal College International
Organ Academy in Canada.
One of the attractions of
the organ was the “fluidy
sounds.” Miller’s goal for the
performance was to break the
stereotype of organ pieces:
the organ can play songs other
than the Phantom of the Opera.
Miller’s first piece was a
gentle, muted song, written by
by Meaghan Driscoll
Photo Editor
PHOT BY HANNA CALBICK
Bethany Miller plays the organ
the Dutch composer Sweelinck.
This
particular
Sweelinck
piece allowed Miller to “dance
around” on the organ keys.
Miller’s second, third and fourth
pieces were composed by J.S.
Bach: “Three choral preludes,”
“A trio” and a chorale. Although
these songs rolled along with sweet
melodies, the differences between
them were minute and miniscule,
and they cost Miller her audience.
With variety comes vivacity, and
the audience did not respond well
to the church hymns thrice over.
The last piece performed was
a contemporary organ piece
written by Naji Hakim, an avid
organ composer as well as a civil
engineer. This song did not follow
the musical logic of the other four
pieces, and the audience perked
up at the discordant sounds.
Miller came well prepared; she
did not read a single piece of sheet
music. However, her treatment
of the audience as third graders
(when “three instruments play
together it is a trio”), as well as the
dismal selection of organ pieces, I
think her performance would have
been better suited for a church.
Sexual Harassment 2
by Sarah Battista
and act on every feeling we have.
I know many of you do practice
Staff Writer
As an introduction to parts 2 and 3
of this series on Sexual Harassment
at LC, I want you to know more
about why I chose to write. I am
a 17 year old junior girl who grew
up in a great home with amazing
parents and yet I struggled with
self-image since the seventh grade.
I became dependent on makeup
to make me a “hot” thing for guys
to stare at. I had to hear from
them that I was “hot” in order
to feel valuable, but instead I
felt worse. I have been touched
and grabbed at school in ways
that are totally unacceptable. I
have been told perverted things
about me, my body, and whoever
was speaking to me at the time.
I became a liar, a manipulator, a
pervert. I have sat in class and played
along with nasty conversations
and acted like I did not care. But
now, I have been set free from
that and with that freedom came a
need to let people hear the truth.
That is why I am writing these
articles. I do not want to rag on
guys or girls, but I do want them to
hear the truth and make a change.
Part 2:
Guys:
First, I want you to know that
even though I am a girl, I am not
on some crazy, hormonal rampage
to bash the male gender. In fact, I
talked to a few high school guys
that I respect for their treatment
of girls so that I could have a
direct feedback to form a fair and
balanced outlook on this issue.
Truth #1:
As high school students, we
hear all the time about how our
hormones are raging and blah,
blah, blah. However, that is not
an excuse to abandon all control
self-control and I want you to know,
on behalf of the young ladies at LC,
thank you. You will never be able to
understand how huge that is for us.
Truth #2:
High school is the final step
before we all get launched out
into the real world. The way you
act towards and around the girls
here, is shaping them into the
women they will be out there.
You are shaping your future wives.
More importantly, you are shaping
the society that your daughters
will live in. Look at yourself, your
actions and your conversations.
Truth #3:
A man is not defined by age,
but rather by his actions. A man
is someone who has self-control.
He realizes that perversion is
immaturity and he knows that it
severely affects young women.
A man respects himself enough
to respect others. He understands
that women are humans – not
sex objects to be exploited.
I am not calling all of you
immature perverts. I would like
to make that very clear. However,
I want you to understand
how your actions affect girls.
As a girl who has experienced
a lot at LC, I want to tell you
how I felt. I felt worthless, like
no one really cared. I felt used,
like the only thing guys wanted
was my body. I felt like I was an
object; something to be stared
at, touched, grabbed and then
tossed aside like a piece of trash.
You are the men of our
generation and leaders to the
next. It is time for you to step up.
to be confident, intelligent,
young women because that
is what we are. We are young
women – not sex objects.
“There’s a marmot in the
dumpster!” shouted junior Mac
Smith as he ran, struggling for
breath, into his 6th period newspaper
class last week. Although more
than half the class wanted to
go investigate, it was decided
by teacher Jennifer Showalter
that only a small expedition,
consisting of one photographer
(myself) and one scout (Mac)
would be sent out. Upon arrival
at the dumpster the first creature
we encountered was the janitor.
To our chagrin, he informed
us that the marmot had retreated
to underneath the dumpster.
30 minutes later, all of our
prodding, tempting and sweettalking had yielded few results;
the marmot stubbornly remained
under the dumpster. Defeated
and deflated, we traversed our
way back to the class, holding
only the sadness in our hearts
and an empty marmot cage. Our
dreams of making Muhammad
the Marmot an active member of
our newspaper class were dashed,
but we did manage to capture
a picture of our good friend.
It turns out that although
Spokane may be called the Lilac
City, visitors and residents are far
more likely to spot one of the cities
many furry marmots rather than a
fragrant lilac tree. Here are some
other stories of close encounters
with the Spokane marmot.
Comic writer David Sedaris
recounted his first encounter
with a Spokanite marmot last
spring when he spoke at the Get
Lit festival. “I was walking by
the river and I heard these highpitched squeals.” At first Sedaris
thought they were children, but
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE INTERNET
A beautiful marmot poses for the camera; how photogenic.
upon further examination he saw
an ugly vermin that startled him
when it poked its head out of a hole.
“If I hadn’t been with
someone,
I
would
have
screamed,”
said
Sedaris.
Sedaris concluded that he wished
he had never seen the marmot
because its boring appearance
had disappointed him. Before
the encounter, for all he knew,
he would have believed someone
if they had showed him a dingo
and told him it was marmot.
Native Californian Helen
Ganahl recounted her families’
first experience with the Spokane
marmot. “We heard a squealing
in the backyard and went to
investigate,” said Ganahl. “We
saw a baby marmot under the
fence that had probably been
abandoned by its mother. My mom
tried giving it food and trapping it
in a cage so she could set it free,
but the dog kept trying to eat it.”
I can still vividly recall my own
first encounter with the marmot.
One hot day in a summer of my
adolescent years I was nearing
the end of an all day hike with
my father. As I looked into the
distance I spotted a long 4-legged
creature bathing in the sun.
I ran ahead to see what it was,
halted mid-tracks, and sprinted
back to my dad screaming “There’s
a cougar!!” He started laughing.
Appalled, I realized I had made
the common mistake of confusing
the marmot with the cougar.
On a different note, here are
some quotes about marmots
and their cousins, chinchillas,
that
I
have
compiled.
“When I think of marmots, I
think of Colin Ames” (editors
note- sources friend used
Marmot as a nickname for her
8th grade crush, Colin Ames)
Anonymous
When asked her first thought
when she heard the word chinchilla,
senior Helen Ganahl replied,
“Chin
what?”
unfortunatly,
no other comment was made.
Knowledge Bowl Chronicles
9:27 PM: After stopping in
by Elliot Boswell
at the ever-sumptuous Taco
Section Editor Bell, we shack up for the night
An Insider’s Blowby-Blow Account
of the State
Knowledge Bowl
Competition
The Sensei: Dave Jackson
The Squad: Kyl Wellman, Elliot
Boswell, Martin Box, Jeff Genung,
Sarah Godlewski and John Taffin
2:44 Post-Meridian Time:
The team departs LC with
nothing but their handkerchiefs
and pockets full of dreams.
2:51
PM:
Elliot
starts
playing
“Kirby’s
Dreamland”
on
GameBoy.
3:23 PM: Elliot beats
“Kirby’s
Dreamland.”
3:50-3:53 PM: Martin and Kyl
let the wind blow their lustrous
locks by sticking their respective
heads out of the window. Kyl
shuts his hair in the window.
4:12-5:30 PM: The team
engages in an intense battle
of wits by playing the book
version of “Jeopardy:” it
proved to be excellent prep
for the actual competition.
7:06 PM: Kyl falls asleep on my
shoulder while listening to Lamb
of God on his iPod. We are all still
wondering how this is possible.
at Red Lion on the River. We
did not have soap; but rather, a
“cleansing bar,” which proved
to be much more cleansing than
soap ever could have been.
10:15 PM: We go to bed.
2:22 AM: Jeff wakes me
with his snoring (read: makeout attempt.) I try to ignore it,
and eventually fall back into
a restless, dream-filled sleep.
6:07 AM: The alarm
wakes us and the big day has
finally arrived. This is it. No
compromising. Go big or go home.
8:23AM: We arrive at Camas High
School after a surprising number
of wrong turns and breakfast at
the local Burgerville. After all,
if we are to win our quest as the
smartest kids in state, we should
be able to read an effing map.
9:10 AM: After the perfunctory
introductions, we begin on the
one and only written round
of the state tournament. Fifty
questions and we get to work
with each other as a group; we
end up garnering forty of them.
10:57 AM: Two oral rounds
have gone by and we’re not in
great shape in terms of points. We
hope to step it up in the remaining
two preliminary rounds if we
want to make the top nine and
advance to the semi-finals.
12:39 PM: As we go to lunch,
we check the scoreboard. We
have enough points to make it
through but some teams have yet
to finish their rounds and report
their scores so we wait anxiously.
John has turned a definite shade
of gray as the last team comes up
to report their score. We make it
through by the skin of our teeth,
scoring eighth out of eighteen and
receiving the second wild card spot.
1:32 PM: Since we are the
second wild card, we are matched
up in a round with the fourth seed
Lake Stevens and the number
one seed, Olympia, who finished
second last year and acquired
117 points in the preliminary
rounds to the runner up’s 96.
We are mildly intimidated.
1:56 PM: In a round of fifty
questions, we are on question
fifty and tied with Olympia for
first place. The question is, “What
island that is south of Europe,
west of Asia and north of Africa
spr–” Olympia rings in. After the
fifteen seconds of deliberation,
they answer, “Cyprus.” We
wait with bated breaths. It is
incorrect. It is now between
Lake Stevens and us. The reader
repeats the question and Martin
rings in and confers with Kyl,
who answers, “Crete.” Correct!
2:11 PM: The championship
round is against 2005 state
champion Kamiakan and _____.
We are barely up after twentyfive questions and since I have
known an unusual amount of
answers, I substitute in for Sarah.
My luck continues and I answer
more than my expected quota, a
heckuva time to pull through in
the clutch. We win by five and
secure LC’s first ever Knowledge
Bowl
State
Championship.
The Lewis and Clark High School Journal
Sports
issue 8
pAGE 7
April 2006
Shock first in league
by Skylar Harrison
and David Sheppard
Staff Writers
PHOTO BY CONOR WIGERT
Hurdler Colten Yeigh competes vs. North Kitsap and University
Track excels in
league competition
by Conor Wigert
javelin. “It’s just hard work,” said
“It is the fruits of my labor.”
Staff Writer Nanny.
The lady tigers, coached
Boys team in first
place with a (40) GSL record;
Girls hold second place at (3-1)
Boys and girls track has all
but dominated the GSL this
spring. The boys are currently in
first place with a league record
4-0, while the girls hold second
with a league record of 3-1.
The boy’s team, coached by
Andre Wicks, has defeated
WV, CV, Cheney, and G-Prep.
Leading the way has been junior
Deroice Solomon running the
100 meter dash; sophomore
Austin Cogar for the high jump;
and seniors Bobby Batch and
Ryan Zentz in the distance events.
Also, junior and captain Tyler
Nanny broke the school record for
by Pat Pfeifer, have defeated
WV, Cheney, and G-Prep, but
narrowly lost to CV. They are led
by sophomore Brittney Kennedy
in the 100 meter dash and long
jump, freshman Emma Cain in the
800 and senior Morgan Yost and
sophomore Elli Siler in distance.
“I’m really looking forward to
the rest of the season,” said Wicks.
“I am hoping and expecting us
to do well in the post season.”
The girls also look forward to
a prosperous post season. “There
are pretty talented athletes this
year,” said M. Yost’s little sister
Taylor Yost. “There is a good
chance for a lot of our competitors
to compete in regionals, maybe
even state. We especially
have some good sprinters.”
As the season continues,
the both Tiger teams hope
to win the GSL and contend
at
the
state
competition.
Good luck track athletes!
The Spokane community has
a new means of entertainment.
It’s not at the high school or even
the collegiate level. Spokane
has a new professional athletic
team. The team is called the
Spokane Shock, and they are an
Arena Football League 2A team.
The 22 team league has
become quite popular among
the nation. However, there is
one city in particular leading
the league in attendance.
That city is Spokane, WA.
The Shock have opened the
season at a blistering pace, starting
3-0. They opened the season
with three nail biting victories.
They opened with a 41-40 tightly
contested win versus Stockton.
Next, the Shock traveled down to
Bakersfield, CA to face the Blitz,
and it proved to be close once
again but the Shock prevailed 4945. And on Saturday April 15, the
Shock scored a touchdown in the
final minute of play to capture a 4441 victory at the Spokane Arena.
All the talk about the Shock
is not overhyped to the slightest
bit. This year is the teams
first year, and the Shock are
now the only undefeated team
left in the AFL. With former
collegiate players from all over
the country these guys can play!
The experience of the game is
even more significant than the
team’s success. The celebrations,
player’s interaction with fans,
cheerleading, and the rules make
this a truly fan oriented sport.
The regulations have variations
in many ways. For example, the
field is 50 yards in the AFL and
100 yards in the NFL. Also,
the field goal posts are much
Softball starts season slow
by Sarah Battista
but
we’re
Staff Writer i m p r o v i n g
LC softball had a rough start
this season with a record of (1-8).
However, with a recent varsity win,
the girls are excited and hope to
reclaim this season and finish well.
Junior Stephanie Olmstead said,
“The season started pretty bad,
and learning
how to play
better
as
a
team.”
Olmstead
a l s o
explained
that part of
the problem
this
year
was having
numerous
new players
PHOTO BY ASHLEIGH WHITE
and trying
to determine
Junior Stefoni C. Olmstead takes a swing in
w h i c h
practice. The team is sitting on a (1-8) record.
position
best suites
to lose and now we’re lazier. The
each
player. win helps a little bit though.”
With about two and a half weeks
Despite all of their setbacks this
left in the season and nine more season, the LC softball teams have
games to go, Head Coach Dan a few outstanding players. “I would
Fry is optimistic about how the expect Taylor Bemis to make an
girls will play. “We had a rough all-city team with the way she
time in the beginning, but after has played this season,” said Fry.
winning a game against Prep, the
Bemis has hit .400 even this
girls are more pumped up and will year but said, “If we don’t start
definitely play better,” Fry said. working harder in practices,
The varsity captains this year we’ll just continue to lose.”
are senior Nicole Moravec and
The softball teams have the
junior Christine Amicarella. “We potential to win the rest of their
have been trying to keep the team games, but say they could really
pumped but it’s hard because a lot use some Tiger support. So let’s
of the girls don’t get along or take get out there LC and support
practice seriously,” said Moravec. the softball teams and have a
“We have just started expecting strong ending for the season.
PHOTO BY SPENCER TOWER
New Spokane Shock posters adorn the school’s pop machines
narrower, and due to no punting
when fourth down comes around
the teams are forced to kick a
field goal or go for it. Other
regulations included, being able
to stop your opponent against the
wall, eight guys playing on the
field, guys playing offense and
defense, and no illegal formations.
The NFL is all about winning
but the new less popular AFL
is all about the fun, and if the
sport continues it will nott be
less popular for long. Fans seem
to be craving the arena football
fad. I witnessed a player walk
over to a fan and take a swig
of soda and then get back in
the huddle. This just shows
how fan oriented this game is.
Part of the problem with the
NFL is the fans aren’t in contact
with the players since the league
has taken away celebrations and
other things. Celebrations and
having a good time is exactly
why the population has bonded
with the sport. Spokane, WA has
waited for an intriguingly long
time to have a professional team
and with one this entertaining
the city is anything but let down.
Slow-pitch made
official GSL sport
by Nathan Weinbender
Staff Writer
GSL activities coordinators
announced on Feb. 22 that
girls’ slow
pitch
softball
would
be
remitted
into
the gamut of GSL sports.
With both Central Valley and
University high schools adopting
slow pitch into their fall sport
line-ups, seven GSL schools
will have softball on their sports
rosters, and, according to GSL
guidelines, a sport may become
an official GSL sport if more than
half of all GSL schools play it.
Coaches Tara Groves and
Kelsey Anderson are looking
forward to the upcoming season.
The expansion of softball into
a GSL sport means that the LC
team will have a wider range of
competition. “Having more teams
to play will be a great opportunity
for
us,”
Anderson
said.
First turnouts for slow pitch
teams will occur on the first day of
school next fall. The season, along
with all GSL playoffs, will draw
to a close on Nov. 1. “Turnout
will most likely increase,” said
Groves, “because the girls feel
that there is more at stake.”
GRAPHIC COURTESY OF THE INTERNET
Any schools that have slow
pitch teams will be unable to
partake in any playoffs of the
Washington
Interscholastic
Activities Association (WIAA),
as the WIAA does not sponsor
GSL softball as a sport.
As of now, both Mead and
Mt. Spokane have engaged in
introductory discussions to make
their sport recognized by the
GSL, with University High’s
athletic director Ken VanSickle
as the official GSL coordinator.
Groves believes that the
progression of slow pitch is
definitely an improvement. “It
is only a matter of time before
schools catch on that the more
opportunities athletes have, the
better off they are,” she said.
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The Lewis and Clark High School Journal
Sports
pAGE 8
April 2006
Bowman on full ride to GU
by David Sheppard
Anderson and
Staff Writer Anne Bailey
LC senior Heather Bowman
has reached star status at LC.
The senior forward has already
gotten a full ride scholarship
and committed to Gonzaga
University. After leading the
Lady Tigers to the Washington
State
4A
Championship,
Bowman is enjoying her
last few months as a Tiger.
Over spring break, Bowman
traveled to the Chiles Center
in Portland, OR, for the Les
Schwab Northwest Shootout.
The Chiles Center is where
the
University
Portland
Pilots play their home games.
Unfortunately for Bowman,
she sprained her ankle in the
morning practice and she was
unable to play in the actual game.
Unfortunately for the Washington
State All-Stars, the team from
Oregon
won
convincingly.
Bowman was named 4A
Tournament MVP at the Tacoma
Dome while averaging 18.7
points and 11 rebounds per game.
“The whole process was really
exciting,” said Bowman. “We
took everything one game at a
time. The end result was great.”
After everything was all said
and done, Bowman ended the
season averaging 17.5 points.
But what is next on the horizon
raises the competition even more.
Next year, she will be on the
scene as a Gonzaga Bulldog.
With senior forwards Ashley
BY MEAGHAN DRISCOLL
graduating, it
is likely that
Bowman will
see plenty of
minutes. The
2006-07 Lady
Bulldogs have
hopes of placing
highly in the
WCC standings
and ultimately
earning a bid
to the 2007
Wo m e n ’s
N C A A
To u r n a m e n t .
Gonzaga was
not the only
school in the
running
for
Bowman. Notre
Dame, Oregon
and Washington
all were quite
interested
in
her as well.
When Bowman
finally
made
her
decisive
choice, she was Lewis and Clark foward Heather Bowman will
happy with it. play for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team
“When I finally
chose GU, it was a relief. A lot of Hot 50 for the class of 2006,
components went into the decision. Bowman is ranked 38th nationally.
One of the two major ones was
For LC basketball fans in the
the combination of coaches past Bowman has been rock
and the teammates. I enjoyed solid, leading the Tigers to their
getting to know them. The other first 4A Girl’s Basketball State
one was staying close to home.” Championship ever. And Gonzaga
According to hoopgurlz.com has a very bright future with
and Full Court Press National Heather Bowman on the scene.
NCAA March Madness far
exceeds fan expectations
by Skylar Harrison
Gonzaga made a great
Staff Writer come back win against
March this year for NCAA
college basketball contained extra
madness. All number one seeds
were excluded from the final
four making it the first time this
happened in 26 years. Instead the
four were the 11 seeded George
Mason University, four seeded
Louisiana
State
University,
three seeded University of
Florida, and two seeded UCLA.
The Florida Gators truly
showed superiority throughout
the tournament only being
involved in one single digit
win. The champion Gators are
loaded for next year coming in
as the early favorite with the
entire starting lineup returning.
George Mason was arguably
the greatest Cinderella story ever
in the tournament. The Patriots
who barely got the at large bid
showed to be worth every bit of
the selection they received. They
knocked off the number one seed
in a thrilling overtime game that
had the nation out of their seats.
LSU could be very dangerous
as well next year, and they
remain proud this year as well.
Returning the best front court in
the nation with Glen Davis and
Tyrus Thomas decide to stay.
UCLA is also a top five team
next year. With thrilling wins
over local Gonzaga Bulldogs, a
defensive chess match against
Memphis, and dominating LSU
to make it to the Title game.
Locally it was a decent year for
the Bulldogs, Huskies, and even
the surprising Montana Grizzlies.
PHOTO COURTESY OF INTERNET
Xavier being carried
by the sensation Adam
Morrison who canned
34 points. Against
Indiana it was a the best
bulldog team effort of
the year with Morrison
only scoring 14 points
against Indiana, but
the story came with a
15 point 10 rebound
contribution by Sean
Mallon. The Zags
seemed to have their
second elite eight
appearance in the bag
being up by double
digits the entire game
against the Bruins of
UCLA, but a roaring
comeback for the
bruins put the bulldogs
out of the tournament.
The Washington
Huskies made another UCLA’s Jordan Farmar goes in for a laygreat run this year up in a 73-57 loss to the Florida Gators
as they did the last
year with All-American guard Eastern Eagle’s Rodney Stuckey
Brandon Roy playing to the being a sophomore next year
occasion every game the Huskies the Eagles and Grizzlies will
like the Zags made it to the Sweet be competing fiercely for the
16, and then fell to the one seeded one and only tournament bid
Huskies of Connecticut. The out of the Big Sky conference.
All in all this year’s NCAA
officiating was questionable down
the stretch of the UW game, and tournament was breathtaking
the Huskies fell in controversial with more upsets than usual the
fashion in an overtime loss. TV ratings were lower but the
Montana Grizzlies expected excitement was greater. Out of 63
to show for a game and then tournament games the lower seed
go shocked Nevada in the first prevailed in 20 of them, including
round. The Grizz played half of the National Championship
a game against Boston College game. Next year has high
and ended up getting blown expectations to live up to the hype
out in the second half. With the of this year’s shocking turnout.
PHOTO BY MEAGHAN DRISCOLL
Senior Brandon Arnold fields a ground ball in a recent practice
B-ball wants playoffs
by Skylar Harrison
a top six team. The playoff format
Staff Writer is that the top six teams make it.
The varsity baseball team
is off to a decent start this
year. The baseball team has a
record of 5-5 with four straight
wins after falling 1-4 to start.
The team has obliterated their
opponents the last four games
outscoring them by a 28-9 margin
and giving every team in the path
of the baseball team’s way a Tiger
tromping. Our baseball is more
successful than most people realize.
Sitting in sixth place right now
there are two huge games against
our dreaded rival Ferris on April
20 at Ferris and a game April 21 at
Hart field. With about half of the
season left, the Tiger’s are rolling
and could do some major damage
if they continue playing this well.
LC fell to the Mead panthers 3-1
after the four game winning streak.
Varsity Coach Dexter Davis
said, “This year we have a large
group of players who have played
a lot of baseball.” The team’s
goal this year is to make the
postseason and be a contender
once they reach the playoffs.
Coach Davis does not have an
official record in mind, but the
players and he feels that they are
Teams one and two have a bye,
and teams four and five play as do
three and six. The winners move
on the winner of four versus five
plays the one and the winner of
three versus six plays the two.
No surprise, the Saxons are
the biggest rival, and they are a
“Better team,” said Davis. Some
of the leadership on the team
comes from four senior pitchers
Erik Barge, Ben Seebeck, Shane
Hughes, and Branden Arnold,
all of whom are two year varsity
players The team is known for
their pitching and fielding, but
can hit the ball too,” said Davis.
“Most people prefer basketball
and football because baseball
is hard to understand,” he said.
Davis has coached for 16
years; eight of which were with
Jim Travis, and the other eight
on his own. The best season LC
has had in recent memory was in
2003 where they made it to the
district championship and lost.
The Tigers sit in seventh place
overall. To make a postseason
berth they will need to move up
a spot. Show some Tiger pride
for the next ten games and go out
and see the varsity baseball team.
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Sports
issue 8
pAGE 9
April 2006
Despite bad weather Tiger
tennis team succeeds
by Jessica Reichard
the sweeter and
Editor in Chief failure not quite
as
Success seems to come
naturally to the LC tennis team.
Yet with “the best players in the
league,” according to assistant
Coach Eric Woodard, who,
along with head varsity coach
Tobin Phelps, places suprisingly
little emphasis on winning.
Unlike many coaches, Woodard
and Phelps encourage players to
play well, not to win the GSL.
Senior Nils Ringo agrees, and
feels his victories are thanks
to confidence, not pressure.
With a 5-2 league record,
this mantra is certainly paying
off.
With losses to both
Clarkston and Mt. Spokane,
the team has some slack to pick
up in order to win the GSL.
“We do poorly because we
have difficulty competing,”
said Woodard of the team’s
3-4 loss to the Wildcats.
Senior Varsity player Kyl
Wellman also believes some
team struggles are thanks to
this spring’s inclimate weather.
Despite this disappointing loss,
the team still has a chance to win
the GSL. According to Ringo,
Ferris must beat Mt. Spokane,
Clarkston must lose at least once,
and LC must beat Ferris in order
to a place in the top 3 GSL teams.
Fortunately for the morale of
all Tiger players, winning is not
emphasized, making success all
stinging.
Team unity
is
a
huge
factor in team
achievement as
well. “We’re
not
like
‘Remember
the
Titans’
or
anything,
but we all get
along,”
said
Ringo. “I think
we all have a
great sense of
humor.
We
have a fun
time together.”
Adding to the
fun are coaches
Woodard and
Phelps,
who
are “the best
ones we could
have,”
said
Ringo.
With
PHOTO COURTESY OF YEARBOOK
team huddles
and great warm- Junior Jeff Burkhert returns the ball to opposition.
up activities,
the players are fully conditioned big competition. Ringo predicts
and
confident
each
time we will see Junior Ben Gullickson
they walk onto the court. for singles, and most likely
Wellman agrees, saying the Sophomore Chris Martin, Junior
coaches focus “more on the Nick Johnson and himself and
mental aspect,” during practice. Senior Graham Norton for doubles.
Look forward to districts on
Go out and support our
May 10, with state following, Tiger tennis athletes, with
where LC hopes to have a strong home matches either Tuesday
set of players to send off to the and Thursday at Hart Field .
PHOTO BY YEVGENIY NOSOV
Junior Peter Dunau gets ready to steal the ball from Rogers.
Boys soccer has
winning season
the high hopes of returning as the
by Culley Grow
dominating soccer team of the GSL.
Staff Writer
Sophomore Galen Gorski feels
The boy’s soccer team is trying to
recapture the success of the 20022003 season, as many hopes lie in
this spring sports season. While the
last couple of seasons have proven
that any successful team can lose
that triumphant status, glimpses of
future success can be seen again.
Now almost through the season,
the boy’s soccer team holds a 64 record. The four losses, played
against Mead, Shadle, Ferris and
U-Hi, all were lost by one goal,
two of which were on shootouts.
To date, they have outscored their
opponents 26-11, with four shutouts.
Although it will be a difficult
fight to reach playoff success,
the conclusion of the season is
sure to be an exciting one; as are
somewhat unsatisfied about their
success, saying, with a hint of
sarcasm, “It’s great. We’ve had
victories against tough opponents
such as Rogers and West Valley.”
Senior Dan Fuller displayed a
more positive view of the team.
“The team is gelling well together,”
he said. “This year we certainly
could have a deep run into the
playoffs and make some noise.”
So as the season comes to a close,
one can always count on our boy’s
soccer team to be out on the field
battling against any opponent,
with the fiery passion for victory
that lies within LC Boy’s Soccer.
With three remaining games,
everything is coming down
to the very end of the season.
Go out and play in May!
May 1-6
May 7- 13
May 14-20
May 4
Fire Department Citizen
CPR Classes. Thursday, 7:00 PM - 10:00
PM at Fire Station 4,
1515 W. 1st Ave. For
more info, call 625-7000
May 7
Bloomsday Run- Open
to all runners, walkers,
strollers,
and
wheelchairs.
12 km
race beginning at 9:00
AM. $30 late entry fee.’
May 16
The Black Eyed Peas
with openers The Pussy
Cat Dolls, at the Spokane
Arena. $35 at 7:30 PM.
May 5
The Visible Men with
Department of Energy.
At the Boulevard, 333
W. Spokane Falls Blvd.
Piano Pop Group. Free!
May 6
PROM! at the Champions Room in Arena.
For LC senior class and
their invited guests.
$20 per couple, $12 for
singles. 8:00- 12:00 PM
May 19
Fifth Annual Ride the
West Horse and Ranch
May 10
Expo at Spokane CounGame night at Cen- ty Fair Ground. Free.
ter Stage. Free. Play
games like Scrabble
or bring your own.
May 17
Country musician Billy
Currington at the Big
Easy. $25 at 8:00 PM.
May 8th
Global Issues and ChalMay 19
lenges of HIV/AIDS.
At Uniterian Univer- The Music Man at Sposalist Church of Spo- kane Civic Theater.
kane. 7 PM. Free. From $12-22. 8:00 PM
May 21-27
May 28-31
May 21
May
30
All ages dance.1-4 p.m.
The Country Jammers Open mike night at Rock
will perform, open mic Coffee, 921 W. First Ave,
from 2-3 p.m. Admission from 7-11 PM. FREE!
by donation. At tri-community grange in Valley.
May
31
Author Crissy Trask
May 24
introduces her new
Steven Seagal and Thun- book “It’s easy Being
derbox at 7:30 p.m. With Green: A handbook
special guest JJ Gilm- for Earth Friendly livour. $21 at the Big Easy. ing” at Aunties Bookstore. 7:30 PM, free!
May 27
“Oz” exibit at GU Library to honor 150th
anniversary of Frank L.
Baum’s classic, “The
Wondeful Wizard of
Oz.” Absolutely Free!
All of May
It’s finally time for the
Riverfront Park pavillion to be open for
the summer! Varying
rates, from 11-8 daily.
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The Lewis and Clark High School Journal
Opinions
pAGE 10
April 2006
“At War...” with
the Flaming Lips
PHOTO COURTESY OF INTERNET
by Robby Weigle
Staff Writer
Chef (pictured above) with his infamously foul-mouthed cronies before his unexpected departure
The problem with Scientology
by Mitch Goist
people on their beliefs; heck, African-Americans a couple of
Staff Writer there’s a new cult, aptly titled years ago, Hayes said, “I told them
On March 14th Isaac Hayes, voice
of the character Chef, announced
his departure from South Park.
Hayes’ motive for leaving was
his deep faith in the new religious
flavor of the month: scientology.
Scientology, for those of you
that have been living in a cave
for some years, is a religion
popularized
by
celebrities
(including Tom Cruise and
John Travolta). This borderline
schizophrenic cult believes that
an intergalactic alien overlord
named Xenu captured “body
thetans” (humans) from the planet
Teegeeack (Earth), froze them and
planted them in volcanoes, before
blowing them up with hydrogen
bombs and brainwashing them
with an enormous 3-D movie.
Currently, Xenu is imprisoned
in a mountain by a force
field with an eternal battery.
Far be it from me to judge
pastafarians, who believe that the
universe was created by a “flying
spaghetti monster.” No joke.
According to Isaac Hayes, the
real reason behind his departure
was “intolerance and bigotry
towards religious beliefs of
others,” not his faith in scientology.
Hayes must have been
sleeping while South Park’s
two infamously potty-mouthed
creators, Trey Parker and Matt
Stone, lambasted Catholicism
and mocked the church’s deeply
held beliefs. Hayes must have
gone out for coffee while Parker
and Stone gleefully portrayed
negative Jewish stereotype after
stereotype.
Hayes
probably
was sick during the episode
where Stone and Parker mocked
and insulted Muslim beliefs.
Also, I am sure that Xenu’s
cronies had brainwashed him,
when, in response to allegations
of South Park’s bigotry towards
not to take this stuff seriously. Just
enjoy it. You got to laugh at it.”
Or maybe, Hayes just provided
the American public with the
textbook definition of a double
standard. This savage hypocrisy
is testament to the intellectual
strangle-hold that the cult of
scientology has over its members.
In response to Hayes’ departure,
Stone and Parker issued the
following press release, an
obvious shot at the flawed
ideologies
of
scientology:
“Scientology, you may have won
THIS battle, but the million-year
war for Earth has just begun!
Temporarily anozinizing our
episode will NOT stop us from
keeping Thetans forever trapped
in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses
and drat! You have obstructed us
for now, but your feeble bid to save
humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!”- Trey Parker and Matt Stone,
servants of the dark lord Xenu
Rapist Kevin Coe pending release
done approximately one week
It has been 25 years since Coe
his one rape conviction and
possibly thirty more alleged
rapes. Many of the women he
raped (allegedly) still reside in
Spokane. One of these women
is KHQ’s Shelly Monaghan, a
prominent figure in Spokane
media. Who do you believe an
anchorwoman whose job demands
integrity, or a convicted rapist?
Hmmm….that’s a tough one!
victims to be afraid again. Haven’t
they gone through enough?
Yet, Coe claims his innocence.
From the Washington State
Penitentiary he wrote a lengthy
article for twenty fifth issue of
“Justice: Denied.” In the article
Coe proceeds to defend his
innocence while promoting the
theory that he was framed while
actually trying to find the “real”
rapist. Apparently the police
were “out to get” an adult white
male with no criminal record.
He has showed no remorse,
in 25 five years, he has not been
able to apologize for the pain he
allegedly caused over 30 women.
Unfortunately, he was only
convicted of one rape, due to the
use of hypnotherapy to help victims
remember what Coe looked like.
Hypnotherapy or not, Coe is a
man who mercilessly hurt women
and shattered a community. His
need to sexually assault women
has not been cured and he should
not be allowed to return to a
community that he devastated.
by Rachel Thomas
before the Sept. 8 release date. terrorized the women of Spokane.
Coe has yet to admit guilt for His release would cause his
Staff Writer
From 1979 to 1981 Spokane
women lived in fear, especially
those on the South Hill. The
cause of this fear was none other
than Kevin Coe, now 59, also
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After a four-year wait, it has
finally arrived: The Flaming Lips’
new album, “At War With The
Mystics.” Although none of the
new material is terribly different
from anything they have done
before, it is still a rock-solid album.
The Flaming Lips made a
conscious effort to get back to
their guitar-driven rock roots,
and they accomplished this to
some degree. The electronic
soundscapes of their more recent
work is certainly still blatantly
present though; picture a blend of
the lush textures from “Yoshimi
Battles The Pink Robots” and the
guitar-driven pop/rock from such
earlier albums as “Transmissions
From The Satellite Heart.”
Instead of stripping their sound
down to bare bones like many
bands do to ‘get back to their roots,’
The Flaming Lips opted to simply
incorporate more distorted guitar
riffs and rock elements, while
still retaining all the electronic
noise and spacey textures. There
is a lot going in their music,
despite the fact they are a trio.
Instead of taking the concept
album route like they did with
“Yoshimi,” The Flaming Lips’
songwriting is quite eclectic on “At
War With The Mystics.” Covering
such subjects as politics, suicide
bombers, the pop music industry
and seeming insignificance in
the cosmic scope of things, chief
songwriter Wayne Coyne took
a chance and tried quite a few
different ideas. Mortality is also
a common theme in the lyrics,
as it has been in the majority
PHOTO COURTESY OF INTERNET
The Flaming Lips’ new release
“At War with the Mystics”
of The Flaming Lips’ albums.
After the excellence of their
previous two albums (1998’s
“The Soft Bulletin” is popularly
regarded as a timeless classic, and
2002’s experimental “Yoshimi
Battles The Pink Robots” helped
redefine what could be done in
the rock genre), “At War With
The Mystics” might seem merely
decent in comparison. Yes, the
music is everything it should
be- catchy, moving, poignant,
innovative, beautiful, everything
we have come to expect from
The Flaming Lips- but it doesn’t
sound like anything we have not
already heard from them before.
This could be regarded as a
positive thing; The Flaming Lips
are obviously on top of their
game, doing what they do bestcreating breathtaking music. Next
time, it would be nice to see them
experimenting and pushing the
envelope once again. Doing this
has brought them the most success
in the past. But the next record is
a long way off; until then I will
be whole-heartedly enjoying
“At War With The Mystics.”
AP Testing Blues
extensive repetition of commas
by Emmily Eisenrich
and letters, be sure to use nouns,
Staff Writer prepositions, and verbs couldn’t
As the time of AP testing
draws near, I have come to the
conclusion that 40 minutes per
essay in a series of three, is a
ridiculous and absurd expectation.
Students enrolled in honors or AP
classes have been preparing for the
May exams since the very first day
of class; in fact since the very first
day of freshmen year. Actually,
I have been prepping for the test
since the womb, or so it seems.
After being drilled in test-taking
tips, organizational patterns and
effective writing, you think I
would feel equipped for such a
task as convincing a series of
judges that YES, I am capable
of writing a coherent essay.
But no. I instead will suffer
sleepless nights, accompanied
with brief, restless nightmares
in which I am taking the test
and forget how to read, and thus
cannot understand the prompt.
Rather, I attempt to guess at what
the evil-genius writers might have
concocted to fool the test-takers
(formerly known as humans).
So I make up my own
prompt, based on practice
writes completed in class, and
decide it reads as follows:
“Read the passage very, very,
very, very, very carefully. Then
develop a thesis that argues
the author’s purpose through
hurt either. Give examples from
outside experiences. (hint: you
may use personal experiences.)
Also, analyze the use of words
and why the letter “Z” is shaped as
such. Then, discuss the author’s
deep emotional crisis that inspired
him/her to write said passage.
Finally, be sure to organize a
written response that answers
all parts of the prompt in a welldeveloped, flowing, smooth, and
in-depth essay. Do Not Forget:
you only have 40 minutes.”
I wake up in a damp sweat,
accompanied with a heart
attack, thankful that this hellish
nightmare was over, only to
show up at school and have my
English teacher brutally inform
me that I would have to show up
at school at 6:50 in the morning
to sit on the cold, hard wrestling
room floor to take a “practice”
AP test.
Talk about hell.
At the same time, I understand
that I will possibly receive
college credit for enduring this
significant suffering if by some
miracle I actually pass the test.
I also understand that scorers
need sufficient examples of my
ability in essay form, but why
only 40 minutes? I mean on
the WASL the writing portion
takes upwards of two hours per
essay. And for goodness sakes,
why three seperate essays?
issue 8
Opinions
pAGE 11
April 2006
Sasquatch sightings abound Why cons suck...
by Garth Ahern
Staff Writer
by Robby Weigle
Staff Writer
Only one festival in the entire
world has The Flaming Lips, Nine
Inch Nails, The Shins, Queens of
The Stoneage and Beck all billed
together: Sasquatch Festival 2006.
Held annually at the Gorge
Amphitheater, the Sasquatch
Festival has always packed
numerous talented musical acts
into a three day extravaganza, and
this year is no exception. Along
with the bands already mentioned,
other featured groups this year are:
The Decemberists, Ben Harper,
Sufjan Stevens, Matisyahu,
Arctic Monkeys, Iron and Wine,
The Tragically Hip, Rocky
Votaloto and many other great
musicians from around the world.
Sasquatch is held from May
26-28 (Labor Day weekend). The
festivities start on Friday evening,
and continue unabated all day on
Saturday and Sunday. This party
is too big to fit on one just one
stage; bands will be playing on
the main stage Wookie and Yeti
stages throughout the festival.
The biggest buzz this year is
surrounding The Flaming Lips,
who recently released an epic
new record. This is their first tour
since the album “At War With
The Mystics” was released, and
will be a great opportunity to hear
their new material in a live setting.
PHOTO COURTESY OF INTERNET
Beck, although not the actual Sasquatch, will be appearing at
this year’s indie extravaganza, The Sasquatch Festival this May.
Matisyahu is also a highly
anticipated performer, one of the
biggest new artists of the past
few years. He is a very talented
and unique reggae singer, and a
Hasidic Jew- a follower of the
strictest regulations of the religion.
A relatively new band on the
scene, The Arctic Monkeys hail
from Britain. Their recently
released album received rave
reviews from the English press
and is just starting to make an
impact on this side of the Atlantic.
Tickets run $55 for a single
day, while a three day pass costs
165 dollars. Camping in the
adjacent campground for one
night is 40 dollars per vehicle; any
ticket purchase includes parking.
It might seem expensive, but it is
a small price to pay for a whole
day’s worth of entertainment.
Tickets can be purchased
online through ticketmaster.com.
Sasquatch promises to be
an extraordinary experience
this year, thanks to the festival
organizers who continue to
outdo themselves year after year.
How to avoid a sexual predator
behavior sexual predators exhibit. do, I’ll email you, or ask you in
by Rachel Thomas
While the majority of students are
Staff Writer safe online there are those few who person, what a novel concept.
Sexual Predators are gross, and
As the internet becomes more
efficient, the anonymity it provides
increases. Thanks to the internet
you too can sit in your parent’s
basement eating cheetos while
you pretend to be someone else.
And as the number of websites
such as “myspace” or “xanga”
increases so do parent concerns.
While most parents are concerned
that their children are in danger,
some have taken this to the
extreme. Parents have even
begun to get myspace, under
the alias of a young girl or boy
their child’s age; disregarding
the fact that this is the same
consistently endanger themselves
on the net. Some of these errors
in judgment include, the posting
of personal information, talking
to random people, and meeting
those people offline. Here are
a few tips to keep you safe on
the magical World Wide Web.
For Pete’s sake, if you have a
myspace, do not put your screen
name on it! The same goes for
your phone number. If I do not
already have either one of the
pieces of information, chances
are that unless I am a creepy
forty-seven-year-old man who
dwells in his mom’s basement,
I do not want them. And, if I
thanks to the internet they now have
access to millions of new victims.
That hot guy/girl that’s wants to
meet you? Chances are, he/she
is actually sixty, fat, and lacks
proper hygiene. Sexual Predators
are an issue both on and off line.
The above-mentioned hot guy/girl
is NOT REAL. Even if they are,
why are they resorting to meeting
people on-line? Bottom line: Meet
people in person, not on myspace.
Please, fellow students, stop
posting
your
information
online! Stay safe so that parents
and news organizations will
stop hounding the website we
all know and love, myspace.
“Cons” are being treated like
gigantic break periods.
And
why not? I’d rather not spend
my time being jailed in the gym
sitting on an uncomfortable
bleacher for two hours listening
to screaming, stinking freshman
who do not use deodorant.
This last “con” however, kept
many students in school because
of the type of celebration and
nature of the “con,” but in general
“cons” are a waste of time. They
try to make us cheer endlessly for
two freaking hours even if the skits
are the worst we have yet seen.
The rubber chicken “con”
was where the most students
deserted. They are the lucky
ones, as all but the most school
spirited were totally disgusted
and bored by the stupid skits,
dumb cheering, and hype.
I went to the Rocket, the other
Rocket across town, and then to
the AMC. When I got back to LC
after almost two hours, I found
the con still going on. I have
gone to a “con” only once, and
I came out thinking, “I want the
last two hours of my life back.”
Some may argue that “cons”
show school spirit and illuminate
the amazing and cool school
sports that we have here at LC.
However, there is really no need
for school spirit right now, as
most of our boy’s sports teams
are getting massacred by every
other team anyway. Even if we
were winning, there is such a
thing as too much school spirit
and “cons” are proof of this fact.
Many others are of the same
opinion and hordes of students
can be found blatantly flaunting
the “con” rules and leaving
school. Why don’t teachers do
something about this? Because
they are doing the same thing
themselves. We at LC must
ask ourselves, “What could I be
doing with my life right now?” If
that answer is, “Anything else,”
then we must seriously consider
the necessity and use of some
of these “mandatory” “cons.”
College quandries
by Kjersti Cubberly
admission this year. Students who
Section Editor come to face this harsh reality
The process of applying to
colleges is arduous at best.
Students must narrow down
their choices to include schools
they find most suiting, within the
realm of affordability, a task in
and of itself. There are schools
meant for those who wish to relive their high school life through
parties and close friends. There
are schools for those who desire
to continue their education
without the extreme expense of
an Ivy League college. And there
are those schools that the brainiest
and most ambitious students long
to attend. Yet for some ironic
reason, fate seems to work against
those who seek its help most.
Making top grades, taking
various challenging classes,
receiving high test scores and
finding a way to be involved in
extracurricular activities in your
spare time appears to be the
answer to college acceptance. Or
so it seems. No doubt, combating
your way into what The Princeton
Review states is a “dream
school” has become increasingly
more difficult throughout the
past few decades. The common
perception today is that it is
harder to earn an undergrad
spot in college than it was when
your parents where applying.
Why? The number of
students applying for college
has significantly increased and
“because application numbers
are up, the admission rate will
be down,” said Nancy Meislahn,
dean of admission and financial
aid at Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Conn (www.
usatoday.com). Many colleges
reported a boom in applications,
and as a result, expect to
admit a lower number of high
school seniors than last year.
Unfairly, many promising and
more than qualified students have
been and will continue to be denied
of rejection will begin to ask
themselves, “Why didn’t I get
in? What did I do wrong?” Many
will soon realize that they did not
do anything wrong, that they are
well qualified for a spot in the
school at which they applied but
that they must live with rejection.
Molly Davis, a senior at
Deerfield High School in
suburban Chicago says that when
she received her rejection letter
from Vassar College in NY she
“was completely destroyed and in
tears for hours. I had my sights set
on it, and felt I had no direction”
( w w w. u s a t o d a y. c o m ) .
Graduating from high school
and moving on with life is not an
option people should be denied. If
someone has confidence enough
to believe in themselves and apply
to an academically challenging
college, then they clearly feel they
meet the criteria and standards
set by the school. It takes
commitment and determination
to consistently perform well
throughout high school and
then have your hard work go
unrecognized and pushed aside.
Sadly, students who can work
their way into college based on
family reputation and associations
leave less room for those who
have worked extremely hard
for a position. Anymore there
seems to be no apparent reason
why one student is granted
admissions while another equally
qualified student is not. Despite
this hard truth, students will
continue to apply to universities
and colleges for years to come
and undoubtedly will continue
to be rejected. What to do? The
answer seems simple: Give up.
What is the point of trying?
Actually this is not how I feel at
all. On the contrary I believe that
regardless of the undergrad school
you attend, if you work hard the
opportunities available to you after
college will be, nearly, limitless.
The Lewis and Clark High School Journal
Opinions
issue 8
pAGE 12
April 2006
Why Kittens Suck...
by Jack Siddoway
Staff Writer
Ever since the
domestication of the
lion, the tiger, and
other cat-like animals,
our
society
has
been plagued by an
unnoticed foe—cats,
or better yet, kittens.
These feline tragedies
cause
thousands
of
problems for
our society each
day, many of which
resultfrom
the
dreaded “Cat Scratch
Fever,”
which
inspired a Ted Nugent
song and causes
approximately two
PHOTO BY JACK SIDDOWAY/INTERNET
million deaths a year.
Recent studies
by the Wyoming
Institute of Science This kitten has just been punched after attacking 3 small children and atand
Technology tempting to assasinate three foreign prime ministers. She will not recover.
have shown that
the Black Plague of the past fact, a commentary on the zaniness that there is some connection.
“We are glad to finally find
may not have been caused of barbequing with Queen Latifah.
New reports have also a scapegoat for all of life’s
by plague-carrying rats, but,
that
kittens
are problems,” Wilson said. “We
instead, by plague carrying cats. shown
“The Egyptian society of the major sources of pollution. are still looking for a way to
It is, and always has been that pin kittens to genocide, but the
past was stupid in worshipping
the feline species—they should kittens destroy our Ozone, causing connections are still unclear.”
So the final question is, what
have worshipped a more noble higher rates of skin cancer.
Thus, it is kittens that cause is to be done about these furry
animal that wasn’t a metaphorical
“disease bag,” for example, skin cancer, not automobiles or felines that make our planet
the gazelle, the wolf, or the landfills. This new evidence hell? Many have proposed to
environmentalists, drive the kittens into the ocean,
chinchilla,” Dr. Wilson of the astonished
immediately
stopped much like St. Patrick drove
Wyoming Institute of Science who
and Technology (WISC) said. defending the rainforests and the snakes out of Ireland.
“Once in the water, it is likely
WISC also performed in depth rallied behind the anti-kitten cause.
Though concrete proof has that the kittens will get wet and
studies, and determined that the
film, “The Cookout” was a vastly not yet linked pollution to won’t like it one bit, since kittens
misunderstood movie—it is, in kittens, scientists are “darn sure” hate the water,” Wilson said.
A review of LC Journal Policies
Letter to
the Editor
To whom it may concern;
I am very offended by an
article in our school newspaper
called, “Dancing with Culley.”
As a Native American student
I already hear racial slurs from
my peers. The last thing that I
appreciate is a ridiculous picture
of some fool standing by a couple
of wolves while being overlooked
by an Indian chief. To me, nothing
about that is entertaining. Plus the
write up is a lame summary to
the familiar film, “Dances with
Wolves.” The name of the article
and picture are not necessary.
There are other things
in the paper that are also looked
down on by LC students. The
write up about sexual harassment
was approached in the wrong way.
A story about how some boys just
grabbed her butt and how that
has happened before. How male
teachers joke about sex. These
things do not randomly happen.
The boy metaphor was a lie and
it’s illegal to talk about sex if
you’re not a health teacher and
you’re encouraging it in class.
Rap= Satan crying.
We have parents and don’t need
advice from some kid who
would rather listen to Clay Aiken
than a rap song. We shouldn’t
have to read or see these
things in a school newspaper.
-Jade
Peone,
with
support from Walt Cubbley
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Paprika’s out, Just Jerry’s is in with stellar breakfasts and dinners
Just Jerry’s rocks
breakfast! WOO!
by Will Ferguson and
coffee is actual coffee, not brown
water with color added to it.
Rachel Thomas
a little more expensive
Staff Writer thanWhile
your regular breakfast
While all of Spokane’s fine
diners will sorely miss Paprika
(myself among them), there
should be some consolation in
the fact that its replacement, Just
Jerry’s, is definitely on par with
its predecessor. The restaurant
is located at 1228 S Grand
Boulevard, next to 31 flavors.
Open for breakfast and dinner,
Just Jerry’s is the creation of
former Cannon Street Grill
owners and incorporates the same
fresh ingredients, exquisite food
and pleasant atmosphere that
many regulars to Cannon Street
Grill (again myself among them)
thought exclusive to our small
Brown’s Addition slice of heaven.
The quality of the food alone
sets Just Jerry’s above other
breakfast restaurants in Spokane.
This place definitely is not your
average Denny’s or IHOP. The
ingredients are fresh and of the
highest quality: the eggs are not
fried in grease, the bacon did not
come out of the freezer, and the
diner, the quality of the meal
you will be stuffing your
face with far outweighs the
slight difference in price.
Along with the great quality of
the food at Just Jerry’s they also
have a very broad menu which
includes your usual breakfast
specials such as pancakes, and
bacon and eggs. The menu is
also complimented by such
items as juevos rancheros and
other unique breakfast delicacies.
The amazing and wide variety
of food is complimented by the
great atmosphere of the small
diner. Customers will be greeted
by the owners who often like to
strike up a conversation with
their patrons creating an intimate
and
friendly
environment.
While having a slightly more
formal atmosphere than Denny’s,
Just Jerry’s is a relaxing and
casual place to enjoy breakfast
and I would highly recommend
it to anyone who is looking for a
good meal at a reasonable price.