2news wingspan • march 30, 2012

In Flight

• The spring concert band will perform at the Music Performance Assessment Festival in Brevard March 27-29. At the Feb. 10-11 au-ditions, nine students made the All-District Band, including freshman William Hinchliffe, sopho-mores Samuel Walker, J.P. Retamal, Marianne Hoppe and Natalie Ciaramitaro, junior Jacqueline Black and senior Kathryn Gorgas.

• Foreign language students attended the Western Carolina University Foreign Language Competition on March 13. Senior Brandi Gannon placed third in Spanish extemporaneous speaking. The Spanish Native Speaker quiz bowl team placed second and the French class placed third in music and skit.

• The Henderson County Robotics Team competed in the Palmetto Regional Competition on March 22-24. The team was awared the FRC Creativity Award for their robot. The team made it to the fi rst round of the semi-fi nals. The team will also at-tend the Raleigh Regional Competition April 5-7.

• The members of the Health Occupations of America chapter recently sponsored a fundraiser for Mittens for Life for dialysis patients. They have col-lected a total of $317.

• PRIDE and Jr. Civitan Club sponsored on March 22. Sixty-eight pints of blood were collected, which surpassed the club’s goal of 65 pints. The drive have 29 fi rst time donors.

• The Mock Trial Team fi n-ished their competition at the Asheville Courthouse on Feb. 4. The team included juniors Erin Wiley (attor-ney for prosecution and attorney for defense), Hailey Johns (bailiff for prosecution and witness on defense), Madison Tweed (witness for de-fense), Austin Downing (witness for prosecution and attorney for defense), Diane Gromelski (attor-ney for prosecution and attorney for defense), and sophomores Hunter Denney (witness for prosecution) and Anna Yarbrough (witness for prosecution) and Lauren Stepp (bailiff for prosecu-tion and witness for de-fense).

‘Grease’ Is the WordIn the spring musical Grease performed by the � ne arts department last week, director Kelly Cooper’s husband, Lane Cooper, (above) sings “Beauty School Dropout” to senior Kara Miller. Miller played Frenchy in the story about a � ctional high school in the 1950s. As ensemble members dance, junior Candice Holden (above) sings a solo, “Sandra Dee Reprise.” Seniors Jack Ho� and and Brad Baker perform along-side freshmen Evin Miller and Joel Fennimore (le� ) as the Greasers.

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• Google, which is the largest index site in the world, has indexed only .004% of the total Internet

• 294 billion emails are sent per day

• Twitter has 105 million registered users

• Internet users view more than 2 bil-lion videos each day on YouTube

• Facebook has 1.2 billion us-ers worldwide (82% of Internet users over 15)

• 600 tweets are posted on Twitter per second

• 20 hours of video uploaded to You-Tube every minute = if Hollywood released 86,000 movies every week

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‘Piracy’ (cont. from Page 1)

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Ingles (cont. from Page 1)

-ing of copyrighted or pirated content, a federal offense that could lead to up to fi ve years in prison. “This is presented as something to keep everyone safe, and for people to col-lect their royalties, not pirate software and things like that, but where is it going to end?” West science teacher Larry Ashcraft said. “Consider Wikipedia, a big informa-tion source, and what if they had a picture on there that was taken by a photographer who is wanting to claim rights to it and they borrowed it or used it accidentally. It would just open the door to all kinds of problems.” SOPA would give the federal govern-ment the power to shut down any website that has or is linked to copyrighted mate-rial. This means even websites unknow-ingly linked to copyrighted material could be shut down. While some argue that SOPA would result in Internet censorship, others be-lieve that freedom of speech does not serve as protection for the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted material. “Freedom of speech is not the same as lawlessness on the Internet,” Paul Almeida, the president of the Department for Professional Employees said in a statement he wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives regarding SOPA. “There is no inconsistency between protecting an open Internet and safeguarding intel-lectual property. Protecting intellectual property is not the same as censorship; the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks.” PIPA was introduced in the U.S.

Senate by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy on May 12, 2011. The bill is a rewrite of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) after it was killed in 2010. Leahy was also the senator that fi rst proposed COICA. While both SOPA and PIPA have the same intention to limit Internet piracy, PIPA serves as more of a voice for enter-tainers, musicians and authors who feel that their work is being stolen from them through the convenience of the cyber world. Some argue that copyright laws that were written before the development of the Internet aren’t adequate to regulate the World Wide Web. “My heart goes out to somebody whose efforts, in a movie or a song, are be-ing stolen from them, and then at the same time trying to legislate people to be ethical and do the right thing, that’s barely going to happen,” Ashcraft said. “The brute force tactics of technology are going to make it to where you can’t do the wrong thing.” PIPA would add more restrictive guidelines. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo could be affected if SOPA and PIPA became law. Wikipedia, which is a major resource for both students and teachers, could also risk being shut down. “If Wikipedia were to shut down, then that would change a lot of things,” Ashcraft said. “When I teach a class, I’m at Wikipedia all the time. There are diagrams for earth science. I can pull up fi ve or six things very quickly there, and it would take me a whole lot longer to draw them on the board or use an overhead.”

comfort and brand loyalty.” The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has required that several changes be made to U.S. Highway 280 in the Mills Rive area to accommodate increased traffi c. A major sewer line will need to be ex-tended to reach the Ingles. The projected cost will be approximately $550,000, ac-cording to Laughter. “The NCDOT required some turn-lane improvements and restrictions on where consumers can turn in and out of the park-ing lots to minimize the impacts on traffi c,” Laughter said. “All of the money required to match the grant funds were donated by private property owners and no funds were spent out of Mills River’s budget.” Much of the construction is being fund-ed by a $301,000 job creation grant from the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center. “The grant is funded by taxpayer dol-lars at the state level,” Laughter said. “The grant funds are issued for projects that will help create economic development in an area and new, not relocated, jobs must be generated by the project. The grant also re-quired matching funds, which were donat-ed by private property owners, that will also benefi t from the sewer line improvements. State offi cials project that the store will create approximately 31 jobs, with many being jobs that high school students can fi ll like baggers, cashiers and video clerks. Employees of Ingles must be at least 16 years old. Felisha Bradley, manager of the Ingles in Fletcher, said she employs 25 teenagers, a majority of her staff. “Working at Ingles teaches students re-sponsibility and helps to build character,” Bradley said. “It’s also a preview of life. They can have a small, manageable job to pre-pare for the more serious job that they will have in the future.”

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