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How to Grow Record-Breaking Fruit Page 6

Tanning: Relaxation or Risk? Page 5

Your Favorite Artists Page 10

Saving a Saving a Struggling Struggling School SystemSchool System

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In This IssueWhat it Takes

Deciding whether to vote shouldn’t be a question

Contact

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From Inside the Bed

Get educated about the risks of indoor tanning

Staff

Growing Pumpkins

A look at the biggest of these festive fruits

Listen IN

A collection of upcoming albums and shows

Canvass for Change

Community volunteers support the referendum

Surfi ng the Web

Previewing October’s online exclusives

Showcasing Art

Students’ black and white photography on display5

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As one of the marching band’s drum majors, senior Abby Zinman has seen

the eff ects of budget cuts on the program she loves and leads. If the refer-

endum doesn’t pass, Zinman feels band will almost certainly be eliminated.

Students and community members are working to make sure that doesn’t

happen. For more on Zinman and what others in the school have to say

about the referendum, visit our website. Photo by Lindsay McKnight Photo by Lindsay McKnight

A Note About the Cover

No Acceptable ExcuseThe only students in this school who can vote

are the ones next year’s school budget situation

won’t aff ect. Why it’s not okay not to register.

Staff Editorial

It’s not like it’s rocket science.Voting is a very major and direct way

by which ordinary citizens are able to maintain and further our nation’s democracy. It’s empowering.

And it’s not even that diffi cult. The whole of the process takes a few hours at most.

It would have taken less time this year for seniors who took advantage of the voter registration forms off ered to them during classes and in the com-mons at lunch.

Yet some students still chose not to register.

Others – even though early voting provides a month-long window in which ballots can be cast – will never get around to voting.

If it were any other election, Fused would chalk this up to individual prefer-ence and bristle at but ignore the fact that these students obviously take the nation’s democracy for granted.

We might accept the lame excuse that this year isn’t a presidential election, though if there are any elections not worth voting in, they are the presiden-tial ones.

But this year the referendum is on the ballot.

This year, outgoing seniors have the chance to help preserve for underclass-man the North they know.

And if these students who are legally old enough to vote but choose not to register cite in their defense complaints they may have against this high school, we assure them that if the referendum doesn’t pass, next year will be much, much worse.

Next year, if students have no extra-curricular activities, if teachers are fi red en masse and classrooms are full to the brim, Fused places the blame on the shoulders of each and every senior who had the chance to vote but just didn’t care.

What Voters Can Expect

This image of the last

page of the Nov.2 ballot

was taken from the front

of a canvassing envelope

(See Siyang Liu’s story on

the referendum canvass-

ing eff ort, p.16,) where it

had been placed so that

volunteers could show

potential voters exactly

what they’ll see when

they go to vote Nov. 2.

The question that will

determine MCCSC’s fate

in the coming years is

the last thing on the bal-

lot. Note the designated

section, question and

answer.

The fi rst public ques-

tion shows up on ballots

statewide. It refers to

property tax caps that

may be written into the

state’s constitution if vot-

ers so desire. If these tax

limits are set, the state

will doubtless fi nd itself

in more fi nancial turmoil

as budgets will be cut

and the programs they

fi nance eliminated.

Details Voters Should KnowWhere: Curry Building (214 W. 7th St) if voting early; assigned precinct location if voting on election day

When: 8:30 a.m to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. all other days except Sunday for early voting, which began Oct. 11; 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 2

What to Bring: State-issued ID (like a driver’s license)

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Go online to...Check out exclusive web content, some of which is previewed below.

Experience the Ice

Senior Austin May skates to victory with the Blades Hockey team

during its opening match earlier this month. View a full-color

photo gallery of the game online at bhsnfused.com. Also online,

read about May and his decade-long hockey career.

Learn Your P’s and Q’s

View “The Teacher Feature”

Is this table set correctly? The Ettiquette Club knows table setting, texting and much more. Go online to meet the group’s president, junior Kalyn Hawkins, and fi nd out why her new club aims to bring etiquette back in style.

The monthly profi le focuses on a new teacher every issue. This time

around, English and Film Literature teacher Maggie Clark is the star.

Read the online exclusive to learn Clark’s favorite director, her dog’s

name, how she got locked in a park in Italy and much more.

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See Seven Ways to Preserve and Protect

From recycling old cell phones to shop-

ping at Plato’s Closet, there are a

multitude of things people can

do to protect and preserve the

environment. See

the story online for

specifi c tips, like

where in Bloom-

ington you can

fi nd a cloth bag

tree and what

exactly you

should do with

your used

electronics.

Photo by Sarah PetryPhoto by Landon Stancik

Photo by Sarah Petry

Illustration by

Jessi Rannochio

It tanning feels relaxing, it may not be for the reason many think. Recent studies highlight the dangers.

A Safe Tan?

Senior Jessica Peaslee puts her health at risk, arguably, twice a week.

“I look like a ghost if I don’t use tanning beds,” Peaslee said. “Aft erwards I feel all warm; it’s very relaxing.”

Tanning may feel soothing, but recent studies show that it might cause serious health problems. It can also be addictive.

In April 2006, the Journal of the Ameri-can Academy of Dermatology published a study that proved people may actually go through withdrawal symptoms when their exposure of UV rays is cut back signifi -cantly.

Tanning releases endorphins, which may be why some people feel that using tan-ning beds helps reduce their stress level.

“I like being dark. I hate being white, and tanning relaxes me,” senior Jessie Glasscock said.

Glasscock works, as well as tans, at SunKiss Tanning on the west side of town.

“Usually, I only go twice a week, but in the winter I go at least three times a week,” Glasscock said.

Story and Photo Illustration by Sophie HarrisDeisgn by Jessi Rannochio

Scott Stephenson was at a pool party

in 2002. He was walking around in swim

trunks and no shirt, enjoying the sum-

mer weather.

Suddenly a man walked up to him

and poked him on the back. “You really

ought to get that checked out,” the man

said. “My son had one of those, and it

turned out to be cancer.”

Stephenson, who was unaware of the

mole on his back, went to the doctor.

No Bed NecessaryOne teacher shares his ba le with skin cancer

Health and Peer Mediation teacher Vicki Waltz also used to tan multiple times a week. However, recently she decided to cut back.

“It’s not relaxing to me,” Waltz said.For Waltz, the knowledge of the risks is

disheartening. “When I go, I think about what’s com-

ing,” Waltz said.

Tanning beds have recently been declared to be carcino-genic by the World Health Organization.

A new study from the Skin Can-cer Founda-tion shows that people who have used tanning beds are 74 percent more likely to develop melanoma

than those who have never have. “A tan, whether you get it on the beach,

in a bed, or through incidental exposure, is bad news, any way you acquire it,” said the Skin Cancer Association on its website.

Exposure to tanning bed UV rays may cause a condition called photokeratitis, which can lead to blindness.

UV lights are also believed to hinder the functioning of an immune system. This can cause certain vac-cines to be ineff ective and injuries to take longer to heal.

This is especially

dangerous because if skin cancer were to develop, it would be very diffi cult to fi ght

it with a weakened immune system The eff ectiveness of certain medications,

such as birth control, lowers with the use of tanning beds.

Tanning frequently can add up. A visit to any Bloomington tanning salon can range from $3 to $10.

As of July 1, there is also a 10 percent tanning tax in eff ect. The tax is part of the Patient Protection and Aff ordable Care Act and is meant to discourage people from going to tanning salons.

It costs $5 for fi ft een minutes in an Ulti-mate tanning bed at A Total Tan. If a person went tanning three times a week for one year, the total cost would be $720 a year. Going tanning four times a week for a year would make the cost $960.

That’s equivalent to a little more than seven iPod nanos.

Despite the cost and potential dangers of tanning, some students continue to visit tanning beds.

“I do think about the bad eff ects. I worry about getting skin cancer,” Peaslee said, “But I don’t think I go enough to get it.”

The mole turned out to be more than seri-

ous – it was stage two melanoma. Stages

three and four can be lethal.

“Luckily, it was removed in time,” Stephenson

said.

This wasn’t Stephenson’s fi rst experience with

a form of skin cancer. At age 33, he had a basal

cell carcinoma on his nose.

Basal cell carcinomas are the most common

type of skin cancer. They are rarely lethal, but

they can cause disfi guration of the aff ected area.

Six years later, he had another basal cell

on his face. Both were removed very early

on, so he suff ered no long-term damage.

“I had two basal cells, maybe three. I don’t

even remember,” Stephenson said. “I started

catching them early.”

Stephenson has never been in a tanning bed.

He doesn’t sunbathe, and he has never exposed

himself to the sun for cosmetic reasons. He got

most of his exposure from mountain climbing,

hiking, and being outside in the natural sunlight.

“Maintaining a tan for fashion or to

achieve a “healthy” look is to me as silly

as smoking cigarettes to look cool,” said

Stephenson, “and you will pay for that

fashion statement later with wrinkles

and other forms of skin damage.”

The UV rays in tanning beds are about three

times stronger than natural sunlight, the cause

of Stephenson’s cancers.

“I was a very lucky man,” said Stephenson.

“If (that man) hadn’t seen my cancerous mole,

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Giant Pumpkins

Photo Courtesy of Lizzie Ray

Why one student and her family grew a12-ft fruit. Why one student and her family grew a12-ft fruit.

This year the Pumpkin Harvest Festival in Noblesville bore some of the world’s largest fruits.

One of these giants belonged to the family of junior Lizzie Ray.

She and her father David Ray had to use a trailer to haul their prize fruit, a 956 pound pumpkin, to the annual festival to enter it into the competition.

There was a lot involved in getting their pumpkin to grow so large. It begins with the type of seeds. To create the seed for a single giant pumpkin, cross-pollination of other giant pumpkins is necessary.

The Rays acquired their fi rst giant pump-kin seeds from their neighbor Kevin Dudley three years ago.

“He’s the one that got us started. Since he grows giant pumpkins he gives away fi ft y seeds every year to potential grow-ers,” Lizze said. “Out of all the people he has given seeds to, we’ve been growing the longest.”

Dudley also taught the Rays a few pumpkin growing techniques.The whole Ray family helps grow the pumpkin, tending to it, making sure it stays in the shade and making sure it doesn’t overheat.

Lizzie’s mother Mary Ray and her siblings, sophomore Megan Ray and Tri- North 8th-grader David Ray Jr., all spent a considerable amount of time in their garden this season growing this giant pumpkin.

“We started growing it in April and stopped the fi rst Saturday in September,” Lizzie said.

When it’s time for the festival, the Rays clip the pumpkin’s stem and place it in a jug of water to keep it from drying out and losing water, which would drastically reduce the pumpkin’s weight.

The fi rst pumpkin the Rays entered in the festival’s giant pumpkin contest weighed 640 pounds. This year, they managed to grow a pumpkin over 300 pounds heavier.

“The pumpkin ended up measuring 12 feet in diameter and weighed 956 pounds,” Lizzie said.

This year their pumpkin won fi ft h place and a $100 prize. The fi rst prize winner of the competition had a pumpkin weighing ap-proximately 1,080 pounds and won $1000.

The Rays have a few pounds to go, but Lizzie was optimistic.

“We’re defi nitely going to keep growing,” Lizzie Ray said, “hopefully next year’s will be even bigger.”

Story and Design by Karima BoukaryStory and Design by Karima Boukary

Why one student and her family grew a12-ft fruit.

Go online to see a selection of full color photos of the Rays and their pumpkin.

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Behind the Behind the ReferendumVolunteers canvass

neighborhoods to assess

and obtain voter support.

Two hallways and a fl ight of stairs aft er entering the MCCSC’s administration building, you’ll fi nd a room with boxes of yellow packets stacked on long tables and adults all wearing shirts with the same slogan: “Votes Yes on #2.”

For the past few weekends, the basement of the administration building has been turned into the com-munity outreach headquarters for the referendum.

Jenny Olmes-Stevens, an organizer and leader of this outreach eff ort, has been putting in long hours.

She, along with her co-workers, don’t get paid. They’re all volunteers who put in their own time to help support the referendum.

Olmes-Stevens knows the local school system well. Her daughter graduated from MCCSC a few years back. She also has a freshman son at North and a 9 year old. She wants them to have the same opportunities her daughter had.

March 14, 2008

Indiana House approves tax cuts

for homeowners and switches school

revenue to sales taxes

Feb. 20, 2010 Coupled with the economic downturn and the school

revenue switch, the MCCSC cuts 5.8 million dollars from

its budget

June 22, 2010

MCCSC approves referendum

proposal to increase the annual property

tax by a maximum rate of 14.02 cents per

100 dollars in

assessed property value

Aug. 3, 2010Aft er budget cuts, the MCCSC fundraised 90 percent of its

750,000 dollar goal to keep ECA personnel for the 2010-2011

school year

Nov. 2, 2010The referendum will appear

on the general election ballot

North senior Will Liao and South seniors Mary Ardery and Dillon Baugh canvass in Highland Park neighborhood. Here they look over what houses they

still need to visit on their packets.

Why we Need a Referendum

Story and Photos by Siyang Liu Design by Jessi Rannochio

A brief history of the district’s recent fi nancial situation.

“The idea that he wouldn’t be able to do swim-ming, the band program, or participate in school government or any of the fi ne things a lot of kids connect to in high school is, I think, pretty sad,” Olmes-Stevens said.

That possibility, as many supporters of the referendum believe, could be avoided through the passage of the referendum.

One way to get support for such a proposal is neighborhood canvassing, or going to potential voters’ homes to determine if they’re familiar with the referenndum.

If not, Olmes-Stevens said canvassers distribute pro-referendum brochures and information to will-ing recipients.

“The goal is to con-nect with the people in the community to make sure they’re aware,” she said.

Canvassing is a fair-ly common practice. The time frame that Olmes-Steves and other volunteers have been working under at the headquarters is not, however.

“A political cam-paign usually lasts 18 months and we’ve been doing this for about one,” Olmes-Stevens said. The election that will decide the fate of the referendum takes place Nov. 2.

“We’ve been working and moving 200 mph,” Olmes-Stevens said.

The fi rst thing volunteers have to do is produce canvassing packets. These thick yellow envelopes include information like the names of all the regis-tered voters in a neighborhood, as well as their ages and how recently they last voted.

Olmes-Stevens characterized the canvasser’s job as going out there “to collect information.”

All fi rst-time canvassing volunteers go through a 10 minute training session with one of the organiz-ers. In one such session Regina Moore, a volunteer who is also the city clerk, summed up to four volunteers what they should do when they’re at someone’s door.

“If they say yes, thank them. If they’re unsure, leave them additional information from your pack-ets. If they say no, thank them for their time and move on,” Moore said.

Potential “yes” voters get contacted again prior to

election day. “We’ll call them, go to their home again, whatever

it takes to get them out to vote,” Moore said. Moore emphasized that the goal of canvassing is

not to try to sway people to reverse their opinions because their minds are probably already made up.

Each volunteer group gets a canvassing packet that matches a specifi c neighborhood. A canvassing packet has four columns, each labeled “yes, unsure, no or not home”

Canvassers fi ll out which status applies to each of the homes they’ve visited. Volunteers then return the packets so the organizers can update their information.

Bloomington is divided into canvassing neigbor-hoods based on elementary school district.

Olmes-Stevens is in charge of organizing canvassing for neighborhoods in districts of the el-ementary schools that feed into North: Arlington, Grandview, Fair-view, University, Binford and Rog-ers Elementary.

“We typically ask high school volunteers what

elementary school they went to since they tend to be most comfortable going into that neighbor-hood,” Olmes-Stevens said.

Volunteers come in a wide range of ages. They range from elementary kids accompanied by their parents to adults to retired teachers.

Olmes-Stevens noted that high school students tended to be more prompt in returning their can-vassing packets once they are fi nished doing their round. She appreciates what they’ve added to the outreach eff ort.

“They’re young and energetic,” Olmes-Stevens said. “It makes us want to do what we do even more when we see how enthusiastic they are.”

For her, that’s enough to justify her eff orts. “We’ve made extreme sacrifi ces,” she said in refer-

ence to the all the organizers and volunteers in the room. “Our children have been asked to go without dinner, to go with babysitters, and we haven’t been able to help them with homework.”

Still, Olmes-Stevens doesn’t doubt her mission. “It’s totally worth it.”

Jenny Olmes-Stevens is a volunteer organizer at canvassing head-

quarters. In this photo Olmes-Stevens updates packet information.

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Taking Voting SeriouslyNorth graduate Andrew

Miles-Francyzk considers

the “greater good” when

deciding how he’ll vote

on the referendum.

Andrew Miles-Franczyk is a North graduate and freshman at Indiana University. He’s excited to be voting in elections for the fi rst time although, most friends his age aren’t voting in the mid-term elections.

Miles-Francyzk fi gures that they would be more likely to vote during the presidential election. He disagrees with this tendency.

“Voting in the mid-terms is just as important as voting in the presidential election,” Miles-Francyzk said. “This is when you elect many diff erent people who are going to represent your com-munity.”

The referendum is one of the ballot items he will pay attention to and vote on. He plans on voting in favor of it.

Miles-Francyzk’s thought process as a voter comes down to answering the question, “What would best contribute to the society as a whole?”

In his opinion, supporting the refer-endum would be the right step to that end. He recognizes that the referendum requires property taxes to be raised, which some people, especially those without children in the public school system, object to. However, as a voter he feels that it’s important to look at the bigger picture.

“Today’s children will be future lead-ers of the country, and they need to be strong individuals with good education,” Miles-Francyzk said. “Education is im-portant and we should do everything in our power to ensure there is a funding to keep education at top quality.”

“With Music Destroyed, We’ll Only Create Noise”

Compilation, Photos and Design by Whitney Taylor

A culture is somewhat defi ned by its music. But what happens when music is destroyed? There is simply nothing left

but noise. This is an issue-by-issue account of music, showing you what’s coming up, what’s coming out and what’s

going on in the school. This is mainstream and beyond. This is the music section of Fused.

[Upcoming Shows]

[Upcoming Albums]

Rap/Hip-Hop

Country

Pop/Powerpop

JazzRock Indie

R&B/SoulMetal/Hardcore

• Nov. 2 “Cardiology” Good Charlotte

• Nov. 16 “Working On A Dream” Bruce Springsteen

• Nov. 22 “Danger Day: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” My Chemical Romance

• Nov. 2 “Once Around” Autumn Defense

• Nov. 9 “Tapes” The Big Pink

• Nov. 16 “2205” Sick of Sarah

• Oct. 27 “Probe” Zero Degree

• Nov. 2 “Punk Goes Pop Vol. 3” Various Artists

• Nov. 9 “Now 36: That’s What I Call Music” Various Artists

• Nov. 14 “Nothing Like This” Rascal Flatts

• Nov.16 “Burns & Poe” Burns & Poe

• Nov. 22 “Outlaw Reunion” Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

• Nov. 9 “Accents” Scott Feiner

• Nov. 9 “Hour Of Separation” Joseph Tawadros

• Nov. 16 “Dreamsville” Maria Winther

• Nov. 2 “Soulsville” Huey Lewis & The News

• Nov. 2 “Rock Dust Light Star” Jamiroquai

• Nov. 9 “Sleeping Beauty” Abby Dobson

• Nov. 2 “Escape the Fate” Escape the Fate • Nov. 9

“Contagion” Oceano

• Nov. 9 “Bloody Pit of Horror” Gwar

• Nov. 9 “Disambiguation” Underoath

• Oct. 29 “Audio Kush” Big J

• Nov. 2 “Love Me Back” Jazmine Sullivan

• Nov. 16 “Dark Twisted Fantasy” Kanye West

Oct. 27

Foster’s Branch

Cheeseburger in Paradise

Oct 28 When This DiesThe Emerson Theater

Oct 29

Hope for the Dying

The Gear

Click On This: watch Anti-

Swag Fiend Party’s music video for

their song, “Anti-Swag,” online

Page headline a lyric from“Stabbing Art to Death” by Showbread

Oct 29 John Mellencamp

Indiana University, Wilkie Auditorium

Oct. 29 The WeepiesRadio Radio

Oct 30 Liza Minnelli

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Oct 30 Insane Clown PosseVerizon Wireless Music Center

Oct. 30 Locus Amoenus (local band) Rhino’s Youth Center

Nov 1 3OH!3 & Hellogoodbye

The Murat Theatre at Old National Centre

Nov 4 Sufjan Stevens

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Nov 11 The Downtown Fiction

The Emerson Theater

Nov. 14 CJ BoydRachael’s Cafe

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Anti-Swag Fiend Party Without musical artists, the world as we know

it wouldn’t be the same. Students share

which artists inspire them.

[Band Feature] [Inspiration Station]

I’m really into Flo–Rida right now. I’m stuck on his song, “Club Can’t Handle Me”

I have been listening to Julieta Venegas a lot recently. I’m really interested in Spanish and she inspires me to want to learn more.

Freshman Cole Blessinger

Sophomore Lydia Elmer

I am probably most infl enced by Jimi Hendrix. He’s really creative.

I love Jason Mraz and Norah Jones. In a world of auto-tuned pop music, like Ke$ha, they’re so original and it’s refreshing.

Junior Onyi Afoaku

Senior Grace Park

Members of the band sit down to talk with Fused about

their names, their inspiration and their music.

How did you come up with your name?Fricktion: The anti-swag part represents our

opposition to the idea of “swag” in hip-hop,

which to me seems to be based largely on

money and posessions. The party part comes

from our goal to have danceable hip-hop beats

while having more to say than your average party

rap song. Also, we like to try and make our live

shows feel like a big party. As far as the fi end

part, it was largely infl uenced by The Misfi ts,

but I also see it in reference to the fact that a

lot of ideals come from outside many people’s

common sets of social norms and morals.

Neither of you use your real name as your stage name. How did you end up with the names you have now? C.DeL: It’s an abbreviation for Color DeLarge.

Color is a dual metaphor for diversity, both

regarding me and the world around us. I called

my self Color DeLarge in a song in my other

group, an allusion to Alex DeLarge from ‘A

Clockwork Orange” and it just stuck.

Fricktion : My girlfriend from high school actually

came up with the name DJ Fricktion based on

my last name, Friik. I’ve been mainly going by

Fricktion lately because I’m not really a DJ in the

performance sense and I have friends who are

now so I just felt like a phony.

What lyrics have impacted your life?Fricktion: “Who cares if I’m in the hospital

tomorrow or end in sorrow here today. When

it’s all just gonna end up all the same anyway?”

from “All Falls Away” by Gonna Get Got. This

particular set of lines seems to me to have a

true bearing on life. I’ve always felt that I am

the slightest bit of an existentialist, because I

feel like regardless of what you do or don’t do

with your life, everything pretty much ends up

the same. The idea conveyed in these lyrics is

simultaneously so uplift ing and depressing. I

fi nd it incredible.

C.DeL: “I’m here, but not at all.”

from “Arrive” by HORSE the Band.

This seemingly too simple line has almost

become a motto of sorts for me, one which

expresses a feeling I’ve felt and relieves me

from the full weight of an emotional burden. I

can remind myself of this when I need to push

myself forward, especially when I’m

making music. Someone else went

through this, I can too.

What is your favorite song to preform live? C.DeL: “Grem.” I love this one

because of its energy. I managed to

sample the fi rst Gremlins movie in the

beat and am really happy with how it

came out. It makes me want move all

over and the crowd always chimes in

on the chorus, which is a lot of fun for

everyone.

Fricktion: “It Tastes So Good (But

Now I Know).” This track is about a

topic that I feel very strongly about.

The whole idea of the song is that you

can choose to be actively informed in

your decisions or sit back and enjoy

blissful ignorance and how your choice

can aff ect those around you. Both C.

DeL and I are pouring our all into the

lyrics and this track and I think that

really comes across live.

Art STUDENT

PHOTOGRAPHYSHOWCASE

1. This photo of a rose was taken by sophomore Rachel Belcher at the Bloomington Farmer’s Market. “To me this picture shows that even simple things we see everyday can be beautiful, abstract pieces of art,” Belcher said. 2. This portrait of Julia Telthorst was taken by her sister, senior Laura Telthorst in Puerto Rico. “This photo shows my youngest sister’s beauty and how she is maturing as she gets older,” Telthorst said.3. Sophomore Kasey Edie’s little sister peers into a window across the street from their house. “This picture means a lot to me and my sister. It shows her personality be-cause she is a very curious little girl. One day i will show it to her husband,” Edie said.

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Compiled by Jessi Rannochio