THE PRICE IS RIGHT VADER THE VILLIN
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THE PRICE IS RIGHT VADER THE VILLIN
the rebel WORD Winter 2010 page 1 “Bringing the good Word to you!” THE PRICE IS RIGHT by Brad Cole l and d Mark Mallory Every student who encounters Mr. Price learns quickly he is not your average instructor. He can put a smile on your face no matter your mood. Inside the classroom or on the tennis court his presence inspires everyone to do and be their absolute best. He is a bright light with a tremendous sense of humor and has words of wisdom for every aspect of life. As students and athletes we have looked forward to every moment spent with Mr. Price. Mr. Price grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, a town 6 miles northeast of Boston. He attended Belmont Hill, a small private high school, and was a star tennis player. Price went on to college at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by graduate school at Tufts University. Before coming to teach at South Burlington High School, Mr. Price taught overseas in Greece and Holland. He has taught at the high school for over 25 years. Mr. Price is very passionate about his Public Issues World Affairs (PIWA) class at the high school. He is a very modern, intellectual, and aware man. These are all factors contributing to why he loves teaching this class and why he is so loved for doing it. PIWA is a class required for graduation and is taken most often during a student’s senior year. Typically there are around 50 students who are team taught this course in the multi-purpose room. It is incredible how Mr. Price can hold the attention of the entire class. He is truly gifted in this way. Another program that Price cherishes at the high school is Close Up. Close Up is a student trip to Washington D.C. that teaches students about government policies. A group led by Mr. Price goes to D.C. along with many other students from schools around the country, jointly participating in discussions, classes, presentations, and sight seeing. The trip goes very well with Price’s modern, aware, and intellectual personality. Mr. Price is a legendary tennis coach at South Burlington High School. In his twelve years at the helm of the boys’ squad, he has won seven state championship titles to go along with two state runner-up finishes. He also has a career win percentage of 85% and (Continued on the Rear End) VADER THE VILLIN by Hannah Kay K Kolter Maximillion Hodgson mill is n not the average Rebel. Better know in SB hallways as Max, hall he is i known on stage as Vader d the h Villin. For the past two years, Max has been rapping. His inspiration? “Life.” Max keeps rapping at a constant pace, making, “probably a song a day.” Instead of sitting at home with a thesaurus, Max writes new songs in his head throughout the day. He explains, “I’ll usually write it while I’m walking around or on the bus or something like that. I just drill it in my brain. When I get home I’ll write it down, I’ll find a beat… but I formulate everything up here first,” he adds, tapping his head. When it comes to his songs, he confesses, “I’m definitely my own worst critic.” However, his view count on Youtube continues to climb along with his popularity. His recognition in the rapping world has become more widespread from contests, blogs, and websites, including General Made. Local DJ David Biral has helped to spread the word about Vader, but so far, “it’s a slow road,” Max reflects. “But I’m doing live shows photo by Sarah Kjelleren now that’s for sure. Burlington’s a small area so it’s pretty easy to get noticed around here.” His first stage microphone was a gift from his brother. Already, Max has had shows locally by request at The Stomping Ground in Essex and Vermont Commons School. Most recently, Max was asked to perform at Club Metronome in Burlington. Although he has a fan base in Vermont, he predicts his audience to be mostly people he doesn’t know. “I’m not really sure. I don’t even know,” he admits. “People e-mail me all the time like, ‘yo, what up’ and I’ll be like, ‘I don’t even know you, but thank you.’” Cartoon page 7 (Continued on the Rear End) photo by Sarah Kjelleren WHAT’S INSIDE . . . Faceoff - Invasion of Our Privacy? page 2 Although he has goals in music, fame is not his final frontier. “I want to keep going, I want to become better known and what not and just work with some great people. Basically, I just want to make sick music, but I don’t really want to be famous, so that’s the weird part.” In the music industry, Max looks up to rapper Wax, who has gained popularity from websites such as Youtube. Only seventeen, Max is currently planning his life outside the walls of SB. Although college is a possibility, “I don’t really know where I’m going,” he says. “I’m going to try and join something like Americorps or Peacecorps and do that for a while. Just go on tons of adventures and help people. And surf…If I had to Students in Focus page 6&7 Point - Counterpoint Winter 2010 The Rebel Word by Joe Gluck The Rebel WORD “Bringing the good Word to you.” The Rebel WORD is written, edited and designed by students from South Burlington High School. SOUTH BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL F Facebook, created in crea 2004 as 200 social a so networking net site available only to college students, has mutated t d t h t t d into the new social networking site for the youth of America. As access was opened to the many, the quality of Page 2 the site went down dramatically. Where once was academic discussion and collaboration, now there is foolishness of the highest order. When idiots, morons, and fools put pictures of themselves committing illegal acts and posting threatening statements, do the authorities have the authority to punish them? More specifically, does the administration of our school have the right to look for illegal activity and then punish those responsible, even if the school is not involved in any way? For an answer to this, look no further than to the following articles. Our crack team of opinionated gentlemen has the answers you seek. Prepare to be informed, persuaded, and spellbound by their masterwork arguments. For this is PointCounterpoint: facebook edition! pact you. It is far better to receive help before drinking once turns into being an alcoholic, or losing a full ride scholarship. There have been several incidents where some type of representation (sweat shirt, pants, or hat) of South Burlington High School displayed. Since the schools reputation was threatened, the administration felt the need to look further into these cases. While some may feel the administration is invading students privacy, this action does have several advantages. Knowing that a student is making decisions that jeopardize their well being could be the difference of life and death, or stopping these decisions before they lose a scholarship or face criminal charges. Since few people seem to be affected by what we learn about the negative affects of drugs and alcohol in classes like health, there must be further action. Coming from a parent’s perspective, one might not know what to do or maybe they are just in shock that they let this happen. The administration or counselor could encourage rehab, therapy, and help the student recognize that the decisions they make now will affect them forever. friended was just a person from the school using a fake name? You can’t, and now the school can look at what you write and post. Certainly, if a student is at school drinking, wearing a South Burlington jersey, or is on a school sports team the school can take action, but the school still punishes student’s who don’t meet this criteria. They shouldn’t be able to do this, and here’s why. First off, it’s an invasion of students’ privacy. Almost no student would knowingly friend school faculty, like Schultze, and when faculty trick their way onto students’ facebook friends they are invading the student’s right to privacy. It’s like the school equivalent to wiretapping, and if that is illegal, why should the school be allowed to monitor facebook? Second, I know how easy it is to get hacked, and when you get hacked it’s pretty common for the hacker to get you into trouble, they can do things like make threats against other people using your profile. Third I just took a digital photography class, and I learned that it is pretty simple to paste somebody into a different photo, or their head onto someone else’s body, and that photo can be posted on facebook, and then the school will punish you for something you didn’t even know about. Is this fair? I think not, but that is what could happen. Finally, all of the policy on drugs and alcohol specifically states that the use of alcohol or drugs must be on school grounds or at a school sanctioned event, so a student can’t be punished by the school unless they are at school, or on a school trip. Leave that for the police to do. 550 Dorset St. South Burlington, VT 05403 http://sbhs.sf.sbschools.net/ Patrick Burke, Principal Veronica White, Editor Philip Galiga, Art Director CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Michael Abate Rachael Blair Brad Cole Alex Corrada Alie Cunavelis Amy Dunki-Jacobs Joseph Gluck Hannah Kay Sarah Kjelleren Mark Mallory Brock McGinn Lauren Mihan Jessica Peden Elena Valance Austin Ventrone Gigi Veve Kelsey Watkin LAYOUT AND DESIGN Michael Abate Rachael Blair Brock McGinn Lauren Mihan Kelsey Watkin CARTOON BY: Jackie Stevenson The WORD welcomes your opinion. Opinions may be expressed in letters to the editor addressed to: Veronica White English Department ([email protected]) All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the individual writer and neither of the WORD staff nor of the administration of South Burlington High School. The Rebel Word is also online. http://sbhs.sf.sbschools.net/ by Ale Alex Corrada Nearly every teenager has a teen MySpace, FaceMyS book, or Twitter boo account. We acc are accountable ffor what h we post or say on our profile. Is it our school administration’s business to look on your account to see if you were at a party with alcohol this past weekend? I feel that in some cases it is the schools responsibility to make sure you are not breaking any of the schools rules or making life choices that could negatively im- by Austin Ve Vetrone I’m not saying that the school tha shouldn’t punsho ish students for drinking, but according to school policy, they can only do so under very specific circumstances, and photos on facebook don’t meet any of them. However, the school has taken action against students based on facebook photos. I’m assuming a lot of you are saying that you haven’t friended any school faculty. Well, even though facebook’s privacy policy prevents people who aren’t your friends from seeing your page it isn’t that hard for people in the school administration to become your friends. How would you be able to tell if the person you Opinion Winter 2010 Page 3 The Rebel Word GLOBAL WARMING: A Response to “Act Locally, Effect Globally” by Amy DunkiJac Jacobs The DepartT ment of Energy men estimates that esti about 3% of the abo CO2 in the atmosphere was put there by man. Even if we eliminated, not just minimized, our CO2 in the atmosphere, would it make a difference? As of late, a heated debate seems to be reverberating throughout the entire world. However, the majority of the debate seems to be revolving around why it is happening. Though this is a very valid point, we must focus on the more important issue at hand: what are we going to do about it. Many countries and businesses have drawn up plans to reduce carbon emissions, but instead of changing out habits and rewarding, it is using a punitive system which doesn’t necessarily help the environment as much as we should. Think about this for a moment, is being so drastically reactionary really the right way to go about this? If all we are doing is redistributing the wealth to other countries through these ‘carbon credits’ and other treaties, then we are just making matters worse instead of better. Short term, it seems as if we are making a big difference, but in reality we should be investing in technologies that allow the entire world to continue to decrease their carbon footprint, while still advanc- ing in green technologies that save energy. Bjorn Lomberg, author of the Skeptical Environmentalist and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, has much to say on the topic of economics. He said, for example, say we take away $50 billion dollars of foreign aid per year and put it towards climate research. When calculated, that’s 4.3 million children that will not be saved. Also, when calculated, that money that went towards climate change would postpone global warming by six hours at the end of the century. Either way, it doesn’t help the problem. It just means that fewer people die, we have a few more hours, it all falls under the same principle as ‘give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.’ Right now, we are just giving people fish left and right because teaching people to fish will just take too long and the results we want won’t happen quick enough. If we jump into solving this problem and expect to come up with a solution immediately, we are doing it wrong. We need to be asking different questions than the ones we are asking now, and we need to be considering our economic welfare as well. To get answers to these questions, we need to look towards economic scientists; the majority of whom are pointing out issues with our (Continued on the Rear End) “AVATAR”: JAMES CAMERON MAKES IT WORTH THE WAIT by Joe Gluck With a budget greater bud than anything tha before it, and befo an all star cast Sigourney of S Weaver, Sam Worthingt Worthington, that girl Weaver who played Uhura in Star Trek, Avatar is a sight to behold. A great deal of the 500 million dollars invested by the studio, (and the 3 hours invested by the viewer) is spent Weta Workshop’s (Lord of the Rings, King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia) perfect motion-capture CGI effects. Never once do the effects compromise, or look anything less than photorealistic. The beautiful, natural flora and fauna of Pandora as otherworldly as the powered armor and helicopters look familiar. Now to the plot. In the year 2154, Earth has become like Blade Runner. There is no green left, just megalopoli as far as the eye can see. A paralyzed marine has been given an offer: take the place of his recently-murdered twin brother in a research/mining operation on the moon Pandora. His brother was going to pilot an “Avatar,” a cloned body of one of the native humanoids, to negotiate human access to the Unobtanium under the natives’ hometree. Needless to say, the task falls to him. As is to be expected, he wanders off into the forest, and is about to be skewered by Neytiri, the daughter of the Na’vi chief, when she hesitates. And from there, special effects take over. There is nothing more that needs to be said about the plot. It’s an action movie, a romance, a spectacle. See it immediately. “HOLMES”: ROBERT DOWNEY JR. & JUDE LAW REMAKE A CLASSIC by Elena Va Valance The new and upc upcoming flick lots of people are talking about talk the 2009 is th movie “Sherlock mov Holmes” H l ” which hi h was first a classic mystery book series. This flick is about a detective named Holmes and his partner Watson. hey must outsmart and catch a man whose evil plan threatens the future of England. The movies stars three of Hollywood’s greatest and successful actors; Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., and Rachel McAdams. Girls absolutely adore Jude and Robert while boys long for Rachel. This is surely a movie for both boys and girls to watch, it’s packed with romance, action, and a little bit of comedy as well. “I didn’t read any of the books, but it still looks fascinating! I don’t think you need to read the books to get what the movie is about; it just looks like a lot of fun! I just want to see Robert, he is real handsome” an excited fan said. Some movies that are made after the book can be real box office busts, what do you think about Sherlock Holmes? Do you think WHO’S HUNGRY? b dJ i P d by Gi Gigii V Veve and Jessica Peden Whether you know it or not, poverty lives in Vermont. According to an article written by Molly Walsh from the Burlington Free Press, low income children who eat breakfast at school daily hit 15,000 this year, jumping 15.5 p percent from last year, as well as m making the largest increase in the n nation. While you may not realize iit, the state is silently suffering. When you think of hungry p people in Vermont, most assume iit is prevalent in Burlington. It iis true that Burlington is one of tthe more severely hungry cities in the state but it is not the only city with food “insecure homes.” Food insecurity means homes that have food, but not nearly enough to feed their entire families, as well as not knowing where their next meal will even come from. What people do not know is that the entire state suffers with food insecurity in homes. The increase in free student breakfasts and lunches was caused by the recession and 2008 legislation. The recession made it more difficult for families to feed children without assistance and the law expanded eligibility for free breakfast in schools. The district serves estimated 1,5001,700 lunches a day. At South Burlington High School, if a student were to purchase a full breakfast and lunch, the total cost would be five dollars. This total does no account for water bottles bought during the day to quench students’ thirst and keep it will be a hit or a miss? Let me know what you think about it. hydrated. In addition, parents who have two or three children attending school end up having to pay fifty to seventy five dollars each week to keep their children nutritiously fed, not including extra money for snacks and water. This is challenging for many Vermont families because of the recession and loss of jobs in the area. It is important for Vermont citizens to be aware of food insecure homes in the state as well as work to fix this problem before it further escalates. School News Winter 2010 The Rebel Word STUDENT FORUM by Lauren Mihan Mih D Do you have concerns or con comments com about our abo school? If you sch do, the Student Forum is the do place for you. The Student Forum is a Student Council run event designed to bring the interests of you, the students, directly to your elected council. After hearing from participants, the council compiles a master list and votes on the issues with the highest priority. From there, the Administration Committee within the council proposes changes to the administration (Mr. Burke specifically) for approval. The origin of the Forum lies with the Executive Committee of last year’s council. President Megan Porter, Vice President Sam Phelps, and Secretary/Treasurer Kristen Igmaszewski along with faculty advisors John Painter and Greg Lewis, composed the basis of the Forum, in hope of simulating a town meeting. They oversaw two forums last year, which resulted in the addition of the Snapple vending machine, more chicken patty and pasta bar lunch days, and repairs to both the girls and boys restrooms. This year’s Student Forum took place on Thursday, December 17 for freshman and sophomores and on Friday, December 18 for juniors and seniors. Compared to last years, the forum saw many alterations in the way it was run, creating a more efficient system to encourage student participation. The council considered the first forum of the year a success. They have a plethora of ideas to deliberate about some of which include modifications to the lunch menu, the elimination of FACE time passes, and amendments to the Homecoming activities. The Student Council would like to thank the freshman and sophomore representatives along with all the juniors and seniors who attended on a voluntary basis. All of the information received will be voted on during the next council meeting on January 11, 2010. If anyone has any questions they may contact the 2009-2010 Executive Committee of Peter Nelson, Philip Charash, and Zach Rachlin or faculty advisor John Painter. The time for the next Student Forum is to be determined, although it is anticipated to occur during March or April. Listen up for an announcement around that time! GUESS WHAT? Conclusion to Stairways, Hallways and Doorways, Oh My! In the small room they had discovered, laid an in ground swimming pool. It was half the size of an Olympic sized pool and was covered in a thin blue plastic tarp. They walked up to the tarp, peeled it back, and revealed the bone dry empty pool. Walking around it the students noticed an old photo on the wall. Wiping the dust off the glass, they saw some familiar faces of what appeared to be an old South Burlington swim team. Beaming with excitement they ran back to class and reported it to teacher, that, yes, the pool does exist. Page 4 LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTIVISM! by Hannah Kay and Lauren Mihan What is it? Lights, Camera, Activism! is one class that has been offered at our school for the past four years. By taking just one class, you receive 0.5 Technology credit and 0.5 English credit. Available to Juniors and Seniors, this class meets during the regular school day and also after school. The night class, once every three weeks, is from 6 to 9, where they make up the tech component of the class. The students in LCA choose a subject that they feel is important to the community. Chosen by brainstorms, role plays, and class discussions, the students of this year’s class chose their topic: South Burlington High School. Under the guidance of English teacher Joyce Sheehey and Technology teacher Geoff Bennett, the students’ task is to compose a documentary film. Who should take this class? Anyone can take it, but the teachers expect you to be hard working, independent, and have the initiative to get your work done in an unstructured atmosphere. Instead of sitting in a class with a teacher lecturing, you go out and do the work to learn; they learn from experience. The key to this class is communication. Students who wish to convey a message to an audience in the community can do so by taking this class. Joyce comments, “It’s all about having something to say because you can communicate to those people you might not talk to.” Even though the students have to be independent, more importantly, they have to be codependent on each other. Working as a team will determine the quality of their final product. The Movie-Making Process The goal of the film is to make an impact. But before researching the topic, the students most likely have their own opinions already. “You have to be willing to give up the presumptions you came with,” states Joyce Sheehey. “Tell the truth that you found out.” In- stead of trying to prove something is true, the students gather the information and then choose their focus. Therefore, although the LCA class has chosen their topic, their final vision is still unknown. As Joyce says, “They’re still working on it.” With a final compilation of their footage and research, the students have to choose their message. To create their final result, they have to organize all their footage. Joyce adds that she wishes she could meet with her students every day. “There’s just so much work.” That way the information would stay fresh in their mind. “It’s more complicated than writing a book,” Joyce says about the documentary. “They have to work with each other to create an organized structure to convey this story they have to tell.” From mixing the sound to adding music to editing the film, they have to pay a lot of attention to detail. Submerged in filming, they have already collected some great footage. They recently went to Montpelier High School, where they visited their greenhouse. This greenhouse is solely responsible for providing all the vegetables served in school lunches. They plan on including this in their movie as an example for what SBHS can do to improve its quality of lunches. What are their goals? The LCA class hopes to make some sort of impact on the community. A more immediate goal would be expand the number of viewers at their movie premier in April. In the interview with Joyce, she mentioned the typical audience is the parents of the students involved. However, instead of just leaving affected by the works of their own children, they, “Leave affected by kids they had never met before, and what they learned from the film.” Joyce’s Favorite Memory So Far… Geoff and Joyce, accompanied by their LCA class, ventured down to the waterfront for a documentary film festival. This was a bonding trip for the group, where they became the critics of the films they watched. They were able to reflect upon what they would have done differently, and the positive and negative aspects of each film. In addition, Joyce went home with $75 worth of Cabot cheese from a silent auction. They all enjoyed the cheese as a class with crackers as Joyce wore an apron included with the cheese auction. Sports Winter 2010 by Mike Abate Mik The are These my Top Ten sports Stories spo SBHS in the of S past decade pas 2000 – 2009. 200 In this list are great: at athletes, teams, programs, and games. In this list I did not want to include any coaches even though many of them have had accolades that are worthy of the top ten. I wanted this to be about the students and the SB programs and the great things they have accomplished. Here’s the Top Ten in descending order. #10 Fields and Dreams Since 2005, a committee called ‘Fields and Dreams” has been updating SBHS’s athletic arenas. The biggest project has been the artificial turf field. Constructed in 2004, it was the main focus of the project. More recently stands and lights have been put in around the field. Currently they are on track to build a Concession Stand for the new facilities by Fall 2010. #9 1000 points Scoring 1,000 points in basketball is quite an accomplishment. In this decade two players have accomplished this feat Kelsey Beynonn (2004-2008) and Chris Magistrale (1998-2002). Chris finished his 1,000 points in this decade. Kelsey is extremely special because she was the first girl in Rebel history to have 1,000 career points. She was a great player for the Rebel girl’s basketball team, playing guard, forward, and center. At 6’2” she was an all around great athlete. She is currently a scholarship athlete that plays for Marist College, a DI program. #8 Hockey OT In 2006 the boy’s hockey team won their only quarterfinal playoff game of this decade. However it was won in very dramatic fashion. With the Rebel’s down 3 goals entering the third period they charged a comeback to make the game go into overtime. In the OT Ryan Norton scored to win the game and propel the Rebel’s to the semifinals. This game was the best comeback in this decade by the Rebels without question. Page 5 The Rebel Word TEN IN 10 # 7 Becca Shaw She was one of the greatest athletes to come through South Burlington High School. She was an all-state goalie in 3 sports including field hockey, ice hockey, and lacrosse. In her senior season she was the goalie for 3 DI State Championships. That’s incredible. She now attends Middlebury College where she plays both ice hockey and field hockey. The best goalie I’ve ever seen in any girls Vermont sport period. into the DI playoffs as a number 3 seed. The team made it all the way to the State Championship where they faced the #1 ranked CVU Redhawks. The game was tied 1 – 1 and went into overtime. Then a 2nd overtime and then a third OT and finally a 4th overtime. In the 4th OT CVU the CVU Redhawks scored with 30 seconds left on the clock. The Rebels lost a heartbeaker in the DI title game 2 -1. This is the game of the decade hands down. #6 Boy’s Baseball with the Help of Casey Harmon The year was 2007 the boy’s baseball team was back. The team had its best season ever going undefeated 20 – 0. Superstar pitcher Casey Harmon who is now a collegiate pitcher at Clemson University led the team. The Rebels had an unbelievable season and so did he. However what makes this story better is a man by the name of Jack Leggett. Jack Leggett went to SBHS and won the DI State title, he is now the current head baseball coach at Clemson University. He was on the SBHS baseball team the last time the Rebels won the title until Casey Harmon won it. He recruited Casey to play at Clemson. Now that’s a story. # 3 Boy’s Lacrosse Title Last year the boy’s lacrosse team did something it hasn’t done since 1991. Win a Division I State Title. After a previous year there were many who doubted the Rebel’s lacrosse program. But in 2009 the team had a goal and went into the state title game playing # 1 Essex. And you know that they won 9 - 8 over the heavily favored Hornets. This is why they cracked the top three. #5 The Rise of Rebel Football In 2000 it was the Rebel football team’s first season as a DII program. In 1999 the team had just won the DIII Championship and were moved into Division II. 8 years later, and after 2 DII State Championships the Rebels are now in Division I. In their first year in DI they went to the State Championship by defeating #1 ranked Middlebury in the semifinals. This was due in part to a great performance by Taylor DeVarney who had 2 spectacular runs both resulting in touchdowns sealing the game for SB. This ended with SB fans storming the Middlebury field. Then came the State Title game, SB vs. Hartford. With the score tied 7 -7 at the end of regulation the game went into overtime. The Hartford Hurricanes scored from 1 yard out on a controversial play to win the State crown. That’s a lot of stuff to have happened in 10 years so hats off to you Rebel football. #4 4 0T’s This may go down as one of the greatest sporting events in SB history. The Boy’s soccer team in 2006 had a great year making it #2 Boy’s Tennis Dynasty Since 2000 the boy’s Tennis team has been on a mission. In the last decade the Boy’s team had been in 9 Division I State Title matches. They have won 7 of the 9 times they played for the Title, that’s pretty damn good. If this isn’t a dynasty then I don’t know what is. Especially since last season the Rebels were ranked 7th out of 8 going into the playoffs. The Rebel’s pulled the upset and went on to win the State Title. Again, how does that not surprise me. #1 Cpl. Mark A. Evnin ‘00 On April 3, 2003 Cpl. Mark Evnin, of the USMC, a member of South Burlington Class of 2000, was killed in action while serving his country in Iraq. Cpl. Mark Evnin was remembered April 14, 2003 11 day’s after being killed in Iraq. A ’00 graduate of SB he enrolled in the USMC after graduating high school in 3 ½ years. Foregoing his senior spring to train for the Marines. He was sent to Iraq in the war and was one of the first Vermonter’s killed by the war. He is now remembered by the new press box that is named in his honor. Mark was a lacrosse and football player, therefore every homecoming game one football player who represents his spirit is allowed to wear his number #72. He was a great person and will never be forgotten, this is why he is number #1. Cpl. Mark Evnin United States Marine Corps USMC Third Battalion, First Division SBHS Class of 2000 That’s it my top ten and I’d say SB has some accolades to be pretty proud of wouldn’t you? So that’s my take, what’s yours? Do you agree with me, or disagree with me? Should the top ten be reordered, am I missing something, is something ranked too high? Let me know what would your Top Ten be. Email them to me and the editor at [email protected] WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: TAKE 2 Cheerleading The Rebels look forward to another season under the helm of coach Lynn Kynoch. The squad has many returning members including Juniors Shania Driscoll, Nicole Dombi, and Susan Ong. They also have returning sophomores Jamie Norseth and Jessica Capellan-Rodriguez to help the squad. The team had a good turnout this year and hosts one of their largest squads in past years. They look forward to a successful season. Their first event is at SBHS on February 13th at 6pm. Then the state title event is one week later at Vergennes HS at 4pm. Students in Focus Winter 2010 Page 6 The Rebel Word TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: 230met by Sarah Kjelleren Kje This article T is a another edition of edit our focus on student run stud businesses bus or student entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs Carey Wood is a junior here at SB. If you have a business you would like highlighted in the Word, send an email to the editor at [email protected]. Here is Carey’s story: What is your business? Carey- I own my own skateboard and skim board company. I make my own skim boards and my own short boards, and they’re kind of like old school cruisers. I also have skate wax. It’s called 230MET; the significance is, I live on 230 Matoksit Road in Cape Cod and that’s where it all started. That’s where our shop is where we build all our boards. It’s my favorite place in the world. I live there all summer with my grandparents and my cousin. When did you begin doing this? Carey- I started doing this two summers ago and I just started because my cousin and I just didn’t want to pay for anything anymore so we decided to make our own and it sparked interest with people we did our hobby with, so we started selling it. I own it with my cousin who is 16. He lives in Massachusetts but goes to a boarding school in New York. I think the coolest part about it is that I don’t have to buy anything, also before I had my company I was sponsored by a skim board company and it was tough getting what I wanted and asking them for stuff, because they were on the other side of the country and so now I can just make everything the way I want to. Do make the skateboards and skim boards yourself? Carey- I make the skim and skateboards myself but they aren’t actual skateboards, they are like the old school lord of dog town skateboards with kick turning they don’t have a lip in the front they are flat, and the wax is organic which is good for the environment. We build it all with my uncle who is a carpenter. He showed us the ropes and now we do it all ourselves. So it’s pretty fun. How did you become sponsored by them? Carey-It all started when we want to bring this flat land skim board scene to cape cod so we emailed these guys and they saw a video of us and we kept talking and they sent us a board, and that’s how it sparked. It’s kind of hard to judge our success now just because it’s such a young business. All the money we make we put directly back into the company. I don’t see funds for myself; I don’t really pay myself. It’s really cool to walk into a shop and see my product on the shelf. It’s just a rewarding feeling. Where have your products been sold and where are they sold? Carey- It sold on Martha’s Vineyard in Cape Cod and one store in New York and it’s going to be sold this summer in a store in St. Johnsbury as well as in Fitted in Burlington. It’s not sold over the winter just because we don’t produce it during the winter. How much time have you put into the company? Carey- I spent a good amount of time on it, but it’s a lot time spent behind the scenes making the board and testing it out, and seeing if we actually like it, then tweaking it, but with the wax we photo by Sarah Kjelleren photo by Sarah Kjelleren just kept changing our ingredients and changing how we made it until it was something that worked for us. We weren’t about to sell something that didn’t work for us. How many people do you sell to? Carey- It’s hard to say. Well I know that the first year we sold it the stores asked for more the next year so I think were selling it, but it’s hard to say if people are using it for skateboarding or skim boarding. It’s cool, we created our own rail jam at a beach and somebody came up to us and said they had seen our wax in the store and purchased it before, so that was rewarding to see that someone had heard of us before and we didn’t have to explain ourselves to them. Are you thinking of continuing this business in college? Carey- I want to go to college for business and marketing which would indirectly help this, but also just because I don’t want this to be something I have to do. If I could make this my career it would be really cool, so I want to go to school for business and marketing. Can you share a memory or experience that the creation of this business has brought to you? Carey- I went to Camp of Champions for skiing. It’s a park camp over the summer in British Columbia, and I brought some of my wax. We were hiking a rail and I pulled the wax out of my pocket and just threw it on the rail and they thought I was pretty cool. But I think the coolest thing really was, my mom went to Martha’s Vineyard into a skate shop and asked for the wax and they gave it to her, and she asked about it and they didn’t know it was my mom. They were saying all good things and then she was like. “That’s my son.” They were really psyched about that. THE REBEL RANDOMS Random facts about SBHS By Mike Abate and Lauren Mihan Number of Fish in Tank 11 Number of lockers open in school on random day 174 Number of lockers in school 1,018 Percentage of lockers open 17% Number of cookies made at lunch everyday 240 Size of senior Carpet 20’4” x 20’ 4” or 413ft2 Number of parking spaces in senior lot 134 Number of spaces in faculty lot 232 Total number of parking spaces 366 Number of phone calls Ms. Stevenson gets every day Avg. 75 Highest number of phone calls ever 130 Average number of Mints Peg in Guidance goes through everyday 50 Number of Books in library over 55,000 Number of faculty that went to SB 9 Number of workers in DNS 6 Students in Focus Winter 2010 The Rebel Word Page 7 SPIN DOCTOR: DAVID BIRAL by Sarah Kjelleren Kje SK- So tell me about yourabo self, when self did you start working with wor turntables turn and DJing? because I used to be into strictly mainstream rap there. But the moment I moved up here everything changed. Though these days I listen to almost anything no matter the genre. SK- Are you strictly into DJing, or do you do other things relating to music as well? DB- Well I’m really into music. Music has been something I’ve DB- Well I still play the piano on the side. I’m mostly into DJing right now, but I’m getting into production. My biggest project right now actually though is a mixtape I’m working on for this rapper named Gerald Walker. So I’m hoping that will take me places and open up a lot of new doors for me. always been around from an early age. I started playing piano when I was in first grade and just about two and a half years ago I started DJing. SK- That’s awesome! How are you going to put it together? As a person that doesn’t that doesn’t know much about DJing, can you tell me more about it? SK-What got you started DJing? DB- Well he’s sent me a couple songs that have either been released as singles or haven’t been released to the public at all and it’s my responsibility to make a mix tape, or in other words an album of songs together. And right now everything’s mainly private to DB- When I first moved to Vermont I got really into underground hip hop and just started doing research about it. I really just turned into a hip hop head. Listening to everything and downloading everything i could get my hands on. And when I came across The Lab DJing and Music Production School downtown on Church Street I signed up and started taking classes. SK-Where did you live before and when did you move? DB- I used to live in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. I was born in Providence and I lived there till I finished 7th grade. It was funny the public on what I’ve been doing, but i guarantee the final version will be dope. SK- That’s great! Where do you see yourself five years from now? DB- Oh boy, I’d love to see myself much bigger than I am now that’s for sure. I’m hoping I can meet many new people and impress as many people as possible. Right now I’m just building my first steps and getting involved with this blog called *General-Made (http://general-made.blogspot. com) who’s run by one of my good friends Frendy Lemorin and of course working with Gerald Walker on this mix tape. I’m trying to get my face and my name out there as much as possible right now. But when I’m in college I’m hoping to move to a different state that can give me a lot more notice, even though Vermont has been pretty good to me for sure. The blog is run by my good friend Frendy Lemorin and his friend Kwame Martin. Right now the blog is up to 64,000 views and growing everyday and I’ve been asked to be the first official intern for the site. So it’s a big thing for me to be a part of a blog that’s becoming more and more popular everyday. But many of the things on the site include things like interviews, exclusive videos, and just some posts to keep the people interested and reading something new. I recommend everyone check it out. We update daily. The Rear End Winter 2010 Page 8 The Rebel Word THE MAN ON THE STREET ASKS: Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob? Just in case you are not in the know (like me), the vampire series Twilight is all the rage. Building on the popularity of the books and films, we asked Rebels to choose sides: Team Edward (Vampire) or Team Jacob (Werewolf). Here is how it all shook out: Portia Backus, 12: Edward because he is protective, immortal, and good looking. Curtis Britt, 9: Team Jacob because I like dogs. Daniella Simpatico, 10: Team Jacob because wolves are so much cooler. Mr. Backman: Edward because I don’t like wolves. Ben Jenkins, 12: Team Cedrick... Oh wait, sorry wrong movie. Alyssa Jeffer, 10: Team Jacob because he’s hot. Baliey Holt-Gosselin, 9: Team Jacob because he is way better looking. Connor Robare, 10: I have not seen the movie but team Jacob. Kim Schroeder, 12: Eww! Neither! The Price is Right (Continued from page 1) has led three different teams to perfect seasons. Price’s personality on the court is what makes him such a successful coach. There hasn’t been a player who hasn’t loved to play for him. He makes playing so much fun with his humor and relaxed demeanor. Noah Johnson, a current member of the team, had a few words to say about Price’s coaching. “The last two seasons we’ve won the state championship as the 6th and 7th seeds. We’ve had solid teams, but what separated us was being able to play so well in the playoffs. The key to our success was how Price got us to play so relaxed.” The team currently has won three straight state championships and will be in high contention for a fourth this year. Price makes as big an impact on his players as any coach ever could. If you ever get out to see a match at South Burlington High School, you’ll almost be guaranteed to find a former player back to watch. Every year, the SBHS tennis team has been successful under Price, and more importantly, the team always comes together and has a great time. Mr. Price has taught the team one thing most, how to win. Mr. Price is a terrific teacher who has a lot to share with people. He truly cares about all of his students. He is a very knowledgeable and intelligent man and South Burlington High School would not be the same without him. Vader the Villin Aaron Shapiro, 9: Team Edward because he is fierce. Emma Dulaney, 9: Team Jacob...He is so hot! Alex Corrada, 11: Team Jacob because he’s a wolf. Global warming (Continued from page 3) very expensive, ineffective current approach of attempting drastic, short-term carbon cuts. Lomberg comments that “we’re spending a lot of money for something that environmentally will end up doing virtually no good.” Our current proposals require lowering our CO2 emissions to what they were one hundred years ago in 1910. That would essentially require replacing our entire fuel industry, and at this point with the current technology we have, we simply don’t have enough alternative energy no matter how much it costs. The Director of Energy and Global Warming Technology at the Competitive Enterprise Institute said that for the people who believe in it, “global warming is a religion.” If you are truly Liberal in the classical sense of the word, you should question everything, as many more people are starting to do. Global Warming alarmists are claiming that the consensus is that the science is settled, and everyone is in agreement that Global Warming is a man-made problem. However, these ‘experts’ seem to be forgetting the 31,000 scientists with their B.S., M.S., or Ph.D.’s in related subjects that signed a petition urg- ing the United States government to reject any agreements that proposed limiting greenhouse gases. In 2005, 60% of Americans polled said that global warming was a man-made crisis that needed immediate reparation. Today, merely three years later, that percentage has dropped to 50%. Maybe the rest of that percentage should seriously consider the facts, and which experts they are getting their ideas from - because if we jump into this too fast, we will actually be creating more trouble for future generations rather than solving their problems. (Continued from page 1) order it, it’d go surfing then rapping.” Although Max can surf, snowboard, and is a skilled artist, he raps because, “It’s basically the only way I know how to express myself. All different sorts of kids have different ways to express themselves, and this is the only way I really know how to. If I’m talking about myself, or something that happened to someone I know or telling a story-just everything; life. I just say it all I guess.” Max has lots of videos at youtube.com/vaderthevillin, and is creating his own website. Meanwhile, Max is working on his new mix-tape “Awake”, which will feature several different artists, and will be given out for free.
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