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NORTH POINTEFRIDAY, OCT. 9, 2015

S I N C E 1 9 6 8 GROSSE POINTE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL

By Anu Subramaniam & Mora DownsEDITOR-IN-CHIEF & EDITOR

Cookies. Pep assembly. Graduation. WILLOW. The Union. North.

These words have become synonymous with activities di-rector Pat Gast over the past 21 years.

Gast started working at North during the 1994-1995 school year after spending several years as a “professional volunteer.” She applied for the job while her son was a senior and was met with some dismay when he found out she’d be at school so much.

Since then, Gast has become involved a wide range of activi-ties, including Spirit Committee, Step Team, WILLOW, special education programs, the Union and Student Association. After over two decades of involvement, Gast has reached a decision to retire. This will be her last year.

“I’ve done millages for the school system. I’ve saved some schools from being closed. I’ve done archives for Orchestra Hall. I worked for the Junior League. I was Designer Chairman, and I ran a tearoom and made a lot of money and did all that stuff,” Gast said. “Then I started working here, and I fell in love with you guys.”

To honor her years here, Student Association president Ni-coletta Valenzano, secretary Stephanie Godoshian and adviser Jonathan Byrne decided to have a group of students close to Gast sing a song from her favorite movie, Pitch Perfect.

“I think it’s really cool that we’re doing it for her. I’m kind of sad because she won’t be at my senior pep assembly, but I’m happy we can help make her last one special,” junior Chloe Ribco said.

Alumni, including Class of 2015 alumnus Michael Marchiori, are also returning for Gast’s last assembly.

“I think this just means that we have to make it the best one yet,” Marchiori said via email. “Mrs. Gast has given so much to GPN over the years, and now it’s our turn to show that her generosity hasn’t gone unnoticed.”

With Gast at the helm, the pep assembly has undergone an evolution. Originally, it was after lunch and extremely rowdy. Gast said students were not behaving properly, and even the football team was acting up. Now, the pep assembly is in the morning and is more engaging. Behavior at the assembly is part of a class’s spirit points, so students have not had as many be-havioral problems.

Gast also recalls the rebirth of the pep band. When Gast first started out, the pep band could fit in the back of a pick-up truck. However, through conductor David Cleveland’s efforts, the pep band has expanded to over 75 members and is a big hit at the pep assembly each year.

“Last year, that moment when the drum line all of a sudden, they started to play, we turned the lights out, and all of a sudden, everybody (recorded them) with their cell phones. It was like wow, that was such a moment for me. It’s like this is what it is, bringing everyone together. Because that’s what the pep assem-bly is. That’s the school spirit. That’s the spirit I have in my heart. I drive a green car, red too, but I drive a green car. I love North. I have a lot invested here.”

Gast does still feel students are taking advantage of privileges like the pep assembly and toga day.

She feels that the students leaving after the pep assembly or during toga day don’t take into account the work that goes into spirit week and are jeopardizing the future of these traditions. Her hope is for students to remain in school so that the traditions can continue.

“Last year, I noticed there was an awful lot of seniors here on toga day, which made me very proud. But they still took advantage of it,” Gast said. “You work so hard to do the pep as-sembly. You have no idea what goes into putting on a pep as-sembly. I mean, look how hard the dance team is working, the cheer team, the football team. I’ve got two practices with them at night next week, just to make it all happen. And then we prac-tice at seven in the morning to make sure that all the games (run smoothly).”

Gast’s work toward the pep assemblies has been widely not-ed by students and teachers. Good friend and health teacher Ann Starinsky has seen the pep assemblies improve annually and attributes the improvements to Gast’s attention to detail and hard work.

“I’ve never known someone that puts so much heart and soul into everything she does,” Starinsky said via email. “Never afraid to take on a challenge, and always has the best interest and well being of the students here at North as her focus.”

Gast believes it is really important for her to be at work every day to help the school.

“What happens if a student needs me, and I’m not there? That bothers me. If I’m not there, and a student needs me,” Gast said. “My job here is to make sure that all your wants and needs are met. You know, if you have a question, if I don’t have the answer, I’ll try to find the answer. If you’re looking to do something, I’ll try to find a place for you. That’s kind of what my job is. I’m now not just the mom here. I’m the grandma.”

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ON CAMPUSPAGE 4

LEFT: Television Production classes are now using

drones to film intros for the announcements.

Mrs. Gast has given so much to GPN over the years, and now it’s

our turn to show that her gen-erosity hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Michael MarchioriCLASS OF 2015 ALUMNUS

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DARCY GRAHAM

“We are young but, as morbid as it sounds, that doesn’t always matter.”

COURTESY OF GABE KORKMAZ

Beloved activities director finishes final homecoming

IDEAS - PAGE 8

VOLUME 48 | ISSUE 2Calendar | 2

News | 3On Campus | 4

Life | 5 Ideas | 7

Reviews | 8Sports | 10

Popping the Bubble | 12

Left: Senior Rachel Backer has created a campaign in for 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called “Grosse Pointe for Bernie.”

LIFE - PAGE 5

“Why isn’t stress treated the same in schools as

physical illness?”

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RACHEL BACKER

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF PAT GAST

2 – Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 – North Pointe NEWSHOMECOMING

PARADEFriday, Oct. 9 at 5:30 p.m. at Monteith

HOMECOMING GAME

Friday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m.

HOMECOMING DANCE

Saturday, Oct. 10 from 7 to 10 p.m. in the gym

PICTURE RETAKES

Tuesday, Oct. 13 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Union

PSATWednesday, Oct. 14 at 8 a.m. at North

FALL CHIOR CONCERT

Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in PAC

CONFERENCESWednesday, Oct. 21 and Thursday Oct. 22 from 5 p.m. to 8p.m. in the gym.

By Ritika Sanikommu & Radiance CooperEDITOR & ASSISTANT EDITOR

It all starts with an idea, and science teacher Gary Abud is no stranger to new and innovative ones. On Oct. 8, Abud was chosen to express his vision for new advances in education at TEDxDetroit.

Ted Talks has an open proposal timeline. That means a pro-posal can be submitted by anyone in the area. The talk is then reviewed by a panel that chooses the speakers.

“I understand that about 250 other people submitted a talk from around the area,” Abud said. “I was notified in early Sep-tember that my talk was accepted, and I was invited to give it at the event.”

Abud’s topic for the talk was about the relationship between techno music and teaching. Since the popularity of techno music has reached its pinnacle, it has embodied a world-wide culture that relates to youth.

“If DJs can bring a stadium full of tens of thousands of people together for this music, (and) this culture can appeal to young people, then I bet there are some lessons to be learned for educa-tion,” Abud said. “So this talk is going to speak on what can teach-ers learn from DJs and how can we bring things to education as lessons learned from electronic dance music.”

Senior Jeffrey Redd was invited to the talks although he was not familiar with them.

“I’m going there with an open mind. I do expect to get some new motivation. I feel like it’s also going to be like ... they’re going to teach us all some stuff. I feel like that I expect to get a real good lesson out of this,” Redd said.

Nicholas Provenzano, a Grosse Pointe South High School Eng-lish teacher, has held TEDx events at South the past two years.

“TEDxGrossePointeSouthHS (TEDxGPSHS) is one of the very few student-only TEDx events in the country. We have 15 stu-dent speakers that share their thoughts on a variety of topics,” Provenzano said via email. “We live stream the event and have thousands of viewers from all over the world. My job is to set this all up and make sure all of the videos are recorded and uploaded to the official TEDx YouTube channel.”

Abud’s involvement in the event was through his own interest and began with GPNspire talks two years ago at North. Ted Talks was what inspired him to submit a proposal to speak at the event.

His inspiration stemmed from his passion for education as well and love for music.

“I’ve been a musician all my life, but I’ve also been really in-terested in techno music since it kind of became really popu-lar in the 90s, and it’s something that was a part of my culture growing up. It was the music that I loved,” Abud said. “And now I wanted to find a way to bring those two things together be-cause as I’ve been enjoying the music over the years, I’ve no-ticed that the work of DJs is very similar to the work of teach-ers, and so finding those two parallels has helped reveal for me some things that I think could be lessons for education from the electronic dance music world.”

The difference between the two events will be the scope. “TEDxDetroit is a much larger event designed to be all day

with many different aspects,” Provenzano said. “Our event is much smaller and focuses only on the students speaking. I prefer to keep the event smaller so the attention can be on the students and their thoughts.”

The message Abud hopes the audience will take away from his talk is that they will take some actionable steps back to their communities and their work as educators.

“When it really comes down to whether you work in a class-room as a teacher or you don’t, everyone has some role in their lives where they are teaching and where they are educating,” Abud said. “If we can bring back some of these messages about what educators can learn in the work that DJs are doing to reach young people, I think we can all be better off for it.”

Contributing: Josie Bennett

Students travel to Detroit TED Talks

New Christian group formed by North students

Truth Seekers is a new community group that was created by sophomore Peter Ci-aravino. The club is Christian-based, and Ciaravino hopes it can help contribute to North’s culture by making it a more wel-coming place. It is open to all and is not just North-based.

“I wanted to create the club because I think … kids are so busy and everything and they don’t really take too much time out of their day to challenge themselves and thinking about God and religion,” Ciara-vino said. “I think, just getting people (to) challenge ... the way they’re living. I really wanted to do that.”

Junior Lolly Duus decided to join the Truth Seekers after hearing about the club by word of mouth.

“I think it’s amazing that God’s word can be spread through North and even if people don’t want to hear it, that’s okay too, they

don’t have to,” Duus said. “We’re not forc-ing anyone to come to the club or to believe what we’re saying, but just that people can be influenced by what we’re saying I think is really cool.”

The last Christian club at North ended in 2012 and was directed towards athletes.

“I do know there used to be an organi-zation called the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ... but I don’t remember there being one, just one for everybody,” assistant prin-cipal Tom Beach said. “I think it’s an oppor-tunity for people to get together and have a good common shared interest.”

Anyone is allowed to join, even non-Chris-tians. Ciaravino hopes anyone who wants to learn more about Christianity will join.

“It’s not just like I’m looking for athletes or anything. It’s more like anyone who wants to know more about God, wants to know more about Jesus,” Ciaravino said. “It’s not secluded to any group of people, and that’s one of the purposes, not to cut anyone off because they’re another religion or because they’re in the band and not an athlete. I wanted it to be for everybody.”

By Michal Ruprecht

POPPING THE BUBBLE - PAGE 12

Recycling of old buildings

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Administration cracks down on post-pep rally absences

One of the most anticipated weeks of the year, spirit week, culminates with the pep rally at the end.

Like most seniors, Ingrid Carabulea is ex-cited to be able to participate.

“When we were freshmen, we sat across from the seniors, and now it’s exciting to be there,” Carabulea said. “We’re the big dogs of the house, finally.”

It has been tradition in the past, however, for students to leave school after the activities.

Throughout the spirit and fun, administra-tors wants students to understand that school is a priority. So, as a new initiative, attendance will be taken in every sixth hour, and classes missing a large number of students will lose spirit points that go towards the spirit jug.

Opinions differ on the new rule regarding sixth hour attendance.

“I’m all about the pep assembly, but we also have to keep in mind that teaching and learning is our primary focus, and so as hard as it is to be focused on that day, skipping makes it even worse,” social studies teacher Terri Steimer said. “It is also a form of unifi-cation because it tells each class, ‘Look, make sure that you are in your sixth hour class, sixth and seventh. You’ve got to go to class, or you are going to get points deducted.’”

Senior Henry Burghardt feels differently than administration and does not feel obli-gated to attend sixth and seventh hour after the pep assembly.

“The teachers don’t teach as much, and ev-eryone’s still hyped up from the pep rally, and no one is really focused,” Burghardt said.

Carabuela sees the purpose in the new policy, but only to a certain extent.

“I have some of my most difficult classes in the afternoon and I wouldn’t want to miss those,” Carabuela said. “I see where the ad-ministration is coming from because a lot of seniors do skip. I do think it’s fair. I think a lot of seniors will disagree, and I understand that, but I understand that they want us to go to class.”

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FAR ABOVE: Science teacher Gary Abud shared his views on education at TEDxDetroit on Thursday, Oct. 8.ABOVE: TedxDetroit was held at Fox Theater in downtown Detroit.

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4 – North Pointe – Friday, Oct. 9, 2015

FACES IN THE CROWDAlyssa Mclarty

Most teens have jobs as fry cooks, cashiers or life-guards. But when she’s not cheering for the JV squad, sophomore Alyssa McLar-ty is setting up chairs and tables for weddings.

McLarty works on weekends for Royalty Linens, which is a companyowned by her mother’s godmother.

There is one aspect of the job that makes McLarty stand out. She’s by far the young-est employee at her workplace.

“They’re in their 40s and 30s, and then there is me,” McLarty said.

Despite the differences in age between McLarty and her coworkers, she still en-joys her job and finds it rewarding.

“My favorite part is seeing after, when (the room) is all set up and seeing how pret-ty all the weddings are.”

Grant SachsAfter one year at Cedar

Ridge Academy, a board-ing school in Utah, fresh-man Grant Sachs has re-turned to Michigan.

At Cedar Ridge, Sachs was kept on a rigid sched-ule, everything was on a very strict time limit. In order to keep the schedule rigid, Cedar Ridge was strict with punishments. According to Sachs, Cedar Ridge handled punishment by giving out points due to the severity of what was done wrong.

According to Sachs, punishments for having too many points would vary any-where from shoveling dirt to scrubbing the dishes for hours straight.

“Cleaning was pretty common, you’d scrub pot and pans for hours on end,” Sachs said. “I did at least 200,000 shovel fulls while I was there. I was one of the more punished students there, we’ll just say that.”

Sachs believes the school had a pro-found effect on him.

“In the end, it changed me as a person.”

Tiffany KreutzansFor four days, senior

Tiffany Kreutzans stayed in downtown Detroit, tearing down trees and celebrating Christ for the Evangelical Luther-an Church in America (ELCA) youth gathering from Wednesday, July 15 to Sunday, July 19.

“Over 30,000 Lutherans across the United States came to Detroit and helped fix (it) up,” Kreutzans said.

On the first day, Kreutzans participated in Proclaimed Story day, which consisted of a meeting with her synod, a grouping of the clergies of local Lutheran churches, in order to get ready for what was to come.

The following days, the entire gather-ing split up and participated in commu-nity service projects to help clean up De-troit.

“My service project was to clear out a vacant lot, which was a lot of trees and de-bris,” Kreutzans said.

By Trevor Mieczkowski

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By Billy Moin EDITOR

All her life, she was a Hoosier. But over the summer, long-term substitute teacher Caitlin Roden-house stepped into her new role as a Michigander.

Originally from southern In-diana, Rodenhouse earned her teaching degree at DePauw Uni-versity and spent seven years teaching at Center Grove High School in central Indiana. She will be teaching Honors Precalculus, Algebra I and Algebra II CP for math teacher Devin Cox until the end of first quarter.

Rodenhouse needed a job after moving to Michigan this summer with her new husband.

“My husband’s job was here, so I moved to Michigan. He is in his residency at a hospital here,” Rodenhouse said. “Since his po-sition that he got was here, and it lasts for at least five years, he had to be here for five years.”

According to Rodenhouse, the two states are similar and have nice people. She also enjoys be-ing able to go to many of the same

stores and restaurants that she went to in Indiana.

Although the states have more in common than not, Rodenhouse has noticed one big difference.

“I like the weather. It’s not near as humid, so it still gets warm and sunny, but it’s not too miser-able,” Rodenhouse said. “I like all the green spaces that it has, like around lakes and forests and things like that.”

Even though she’s taken a lik-ing to Michigan, Rodenhouse still misses parts of Indiana.

“All my family’s there, so I miss my family a lot. I miss all of the excitement for (Indianapolis) Colts games and (Indiana) Pacer games,” Rodenhouse said. “That’s just where I grew up, so that’s where I know how to get around.”

Rodenhouse is unsure as to whether or not her family will move back to Indiana after her husband finishes his residency.

“It depends on where he could get a job after that, and if I’ve got a job and those sort of things,” Rodenhouse said. “We’ll see.”

Long-term math substitute Caitlin Rodenhouse FIVE MINUTES WITH

Why did you become a math teacher? What do you like or dislike about it? I decided to become a math teacher because I knew I wanted to be a teacher, and math was always my favorite subject. I just noticed a lot of my classmates, they always said they hated math because it wasn’t fun, and so I would try to make my class a little bit more fun so that maybe people wouldn’t think math was so mis-erable all the time.

What’s the last book you read? Did you like it? Why? I read the Divergent series. I thought it was pretty cool, just to have a strong female character, and now that the movies out it’s really cool to see how they are portrayed in the movies.

ABOVE: An overhead shot of the whole school. “We’ve been experimenting with the different things to use it with and different projects. We debuted it last year at the end of our senior outro video,” Stackpoole said. “It’s really used to get those aerial shots, shots that we couldn’t do before.”

ABOVE: The crowd surrounds North’s football field during the North-South game. The drone captured the image from 200 feet in the air. “We filmed videos of the school, and we filmed a lot of football games which got us some really cool shots, and we’ve used it for some intros for the announcements,” senior Andrew Tomasi said.

ABOVE RIGHT: Senior Gabe Korkmaz flies the drone regularly at school events and has become an expert. His first flight was at the end of May earlier this year. “Basically, it’s just a remote control hooked up to an iPad where you get to see what’s coming from the view of the drone in real time,” Korkmaz said.

RIGHT: New turf before the new foot-ball field was finished and the lines were painted through the Norsemen head. “This year, the shot (of) the Norsemen on the football field, we were able to fly the drone over it when they were still constructing the rest of the football field,” TV Production teacher Brian Stackpoole said. “So, we got some pictures before they were able put the lines on the field, and we got a really good-looking picture of the Norseman.”

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ABOVE: Rodenhouse with her husband Paul and their labro-doodle Jibber.

What was it like going to DePauw?I loved going to DePauw. It was a very small school, and, for college, so my classes were small, my classes had maybe 15-20 students, so you got to know your professors really well. You got to know a lot of the students too, kind of like a high school, you got to know different classmates and stuff very easily and there were a lot of activities to get involved in. DePauw is having a visit here this week I think.

Favorite TV show? Probably Big Bang Theory or The Voice. I like those reality shows, some of them.

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LIFE North Pointe – Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 – 5

Standing for SandersSenior Rachel Backer brings national

Democratic campaign efforts to Grosse Pointe

By Gowri YerramalliBUSSINESS MANAGER

McCarroll makes every moment count

Even the busiest of students couldn’t sur-vive on three hours of sleep a night. But for social studies teacher Sean McCarroll, three hours is the norm. Along with being a teacher and class adviser, McCarroll is involved in a multitude of activities that keep him on his toes all week.

“I usually get home most nights around 10 or 10:30, and then I go home, and I have to do work,” McCarroll said. “I try to be in bed by midnight if I can. Sometimes it’s a little bit later than that. A good night of sleep is about five hours. A normal night’s about like three and a half.”

If McCarroll isn’t trying to catch up on sleep, he’s spending his time promoting new ideas for the school’s Innovation Lab. He is currently

working on a proposal that he will present to the school board on Oct. 23.

“I’ve been doing research. I’ve got stacks of books everywhere because we’re trying to launch three new classes,” he said. “We’re ba-sically trying to launch a department around Digital eminar.”

McCarroll also owns, runs and renovates four apartments in addition to having remod-eled his own house. As a teacher, he finds it hard to find free time but manages to do so during the weekends.

“I don’t really have time to go to the gym or anything like that, so it’s either that or I’m hanging out with people on like a Friday or Saturday night, cause usually by Friday, all teachers are exhausted,” McCarroll said.

By Emma Brock & Sarah Wietecha ASSISTANT EDITORS

Dante Alighieri once stated, “The se-cret of getting things done is to act.” Se-nior Rachel Backer is recently learning the meaning of this phrase with the up-coming presidential elections. Backer is an avid supporter of Democratic candi-date, Bernie Sanders.

“He is the most authentic candidate there is. He is not taking money from billionaire donors, nor is he coordinat-ing with any super PACs (Political Ac-tion Committees). He is building a true grassroots people’s campaign,” Backer said. “He shows that he cares about the well-being of the ordinary citizens of this country — college students, union laborers and minorities — and he has the track record to prove it.”

The unique nature of Sanders’ cam-paign and views motivated Backer to form an interest in his actions. Backer agrees with Sanders’ views on “pretty much every major issue,” from cam-paign finance reform to racial justice and economic inequality.

To show her support, Backer started a volunteer organization for Sanders with her boyfriend, North alumnus Colton Dale, called “Grosse Pointe for Bernie.” They held their first meeting on Sept. 12.

“Since Bernie’s official campaign isn’t in Michigan yet, because Michigan isn’t an early primary state, all efforts in the state are completely volunteer-created and led,” Backer said. “We wanted to get a volunteer group started in the Grosse Pointe area to canvas and campaign for Bernie, so that’s what we did.”

Since its creation in early September, the group walked in a Labor Day Parade with another volunteer organization called “Southeast Michigan Berners” to assist in the campaign efforts.

“We plan on volunteering and do-ing more campaigning with our newly formed group,” Backer said.

She considers Sanders her inspiration,

due to his perseverance and progressive ideals in fighting for political issues.

“He is a role model to me in that, even at his old age, he still has a very progres-sive mind, and continues to fight for change on the most important issues that are facing the nation,” Backer said.

Dale feels that her main contribution to the organization has been conveying news to her fellow high-schoolers .

“She’s been very helpful in getting the word out, specifically around Grosse Pointe North, and also coordinating with the group ‘Grosse Pointe Students for Bernie,’ which was started by a stu-dent at South,” Dale said. “She’s been very helpful in organizing the high school crowd.”

Although she doesn’t plan on pur-suing a career in politics beyond high school, Backer’s participation in the or-ganization has broadened her percep-tion of American diplomacy.

“I think she’s come to know the feel of a political activist and what it’s like or-ganizing people and planning events,” Dale said. “I also think it’s helped her become more knowledgeable about American politics as a whole. Follow-ing Bernie and Bernie’s campaign — it’s given her an opportunity to get to know some of the issues that are at stake in this campaign and in the 2016 elections. It’s been an experience for her on a few different levels.”

As for Backer and the group, they will continue to keep rallying for Sanders as long as he is in the running for president.

“If he wins the Democratic nomina-tion next summer, the work certainly won’t stop. We have to keep campaign-ing to help make sure he wins the gen-eral election in November,” Backer said. “If he goes on to win the general elec-tion, we’ll celebrate for sure.”

TOP: Social studies teacher Sean McCar-roll moves between room B201 and in-novation lab, depending on the class he’s teaching.

ABOVE: On the sight of Class of 2018’s float construction, McCarroll helps with the hands-on work.

RIGHT: McCarroll teaches his fifth hour World History class.

FAR RIGHT: McCarroll teaches Digital Seminar class in the Innovation Lab.

Top: Senior Rachel Backer and boyfriend Colton Dale walk downtown at a Bernie Sanders Labor Day parade.Middle: Backer and the rest of the “Grosse Pointe for Bernie” group walks in the pa-rade in downtown Detroit. Bottom: The first group meeting was held on Sept. 12.

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LIFENorth Pointe – Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 – 6

What most attracts senior Mark Clink-scales to the Mosaic Youth Theater of De-troit is his passion to grow as a person and acquire real-life skills, which are qualities this program works to inspir and teach.

Mosaic is an internationally-acclaimed youth group that lives by the mission state-ment to “engage, transform, and inspire” through the theatrical and musical arts. Founded in 1992 by Rick Sperling, Mosaic has been motivating young performers to break out of their shells.

Clinkscales is new to the program, hav-ing only joined in June of last year.

“It’s a great place for everyone who has a passion for performing arts,” he said. “Mo-saic is a very comfortable place where ev-erybody can interact with each other and show off their talents all together.”

Mosaic’s director, DeLashea Strawder, has been with the program for 13 years. She began her career as a performer herself in the program, and her love for music has compelled her to continue her commitment to the program.

“As a young person, Mosaic helped me to find my voice. I wholeheartedly believe in the innate ability music has to engage, transform and inspire. I came back to give back,” Strawder said via email. “I want Mo-saic to continue to be a place where people are challenged with success, discover new things about themselves and nurture their natural gifts.”

Dedication, hard work, commitment and organization are no strangers to Mosaic. In fact, Mosaic builds its standards around those key principles. Clinkscales feels that Mosaic isn’t just about the music, but it’s also a self-journey.

“You need to be able to work and actu-ally do things on your own so you’re pre-pared every time you have a rehearsal,” Clinkscales said, “because if you start to slack or get behind on an assignment that they give you, or if you don’t know your music, it’s going to cause conflict, and it’s not going to go well.”

Clinkscales was introduced to Mosaic by a fellow Norseman, senior Kynadi Echols. Echols has been with the Mosaic family for more than half of her life. She was first ex-posed to the program at age 6 while attend-ing an event downtown and immediately decided she wanted to be a part of the group.

“It kind of shaped me to be the type of person I am today,” Echols said. “I know I wouldn’t be as confident with singing (or) this confident in my leadership skills if it weren’t for this program.”

Echols’ director has seen this growth in both herself and Clinkscales. Strwder

worked with Echols for more time than Clinkscales but has gotten to know both through their shared passions for art.

“Through her artistry, she has touched and inspired so many. The most beautiful thing though in that whole experience is the way that she has ... allowed these ex-periences to impact her,” Strawder said. “I have only known Mark now for about four weeks. He is such a creative individual, and his approach to music is so genuine. He has a tremendous work ethic, and he seems to take nothing for granted.”

Mosaic is a traveling choir that has had the opportunity to tour with celebrities,like Josh Groban. Echols was fortunate enough to be on the tour group that performed with Groban.

Mosaic didn’t directly rehearse with Gro-ban, but they practiced with the orchestra and Groban’s musical director and then performed with Groban on stage. Although the pressure to get it right without much re-hearsal seemed overwhelming, Echols felt it was a real-life business situation the team had overcome. One of Mosaic’s main goals is to teach independence, and Echols feels the experience provided the perfect stage to prove the group’s maturity.

“After the show, he (Groban) just came up to us and was like, ‘I can’t believe we did that without a rehearsal.’ It made us feel good, like ‘woah, we can do this,’” Echols said. “We are performing with big people, and they don’t have to baby us.”

Thinking and acting like an adult is one of the strongest ideas Mosaic teaches. It’s not just about singing, but also about devel-opment as a person. Clinkscales hopes the lessons Mosaic aims to instill will help him in the future.

“I hope to get a better voice than I have now, and I hope to be a better person (and) a more organized person,” Clinkscales said. “And I hope it teaches me new things that I can use in the real world.”

Their last performance with Groban was at Benedum Center in Pittsburg, and they will rejoin him Oct. 9 in Detroit at The Fox Theater and Oct. 10 in Cleveland. Echols wasn’t the only one eager to work with Groban. Her direc-tor thought it was a great opportunity for all the performers.

“The team of professional artists are awe-some people, and there’s nothing like being on stage and doing what you love,” Strawder said. “It’s certainly a bonus when it’s for thousands of people.”

To learn more about Mosaic and their nation-al success, visit www.northpointenow.org

TOP: Senior Kynadi Echols (back row, third to the right) poses with Mosaic Choir. Echols has travled the world with Mosaic.“The sum-mer before junior year, we went to Latvia to travel for the World Choir Games,” Echols said. “It’s literally the Olympics for signing. People from all over the world came, and we represented not only the United States, but Detroit. We brought back two gold medals and two silver medals. There are different categories you can compete in. We compet-ed in the gospel section, pop, mixed youth vocal, your typical choral pieces, and spiritu-al. We got a silver in choral and spiritual and a gold in pop and gospel.”

ABOVE: Senior Mark Clinkscales poses in his Mosaic shirt. “I like the songs we pick ... they are very different,” Clinkscales said. “I never hear any of them. Every time they give us a new one, I end up liking it once I start to learn it.”

ABOVE RIGHT: Mosaic Youth Theater per-forming on stage.

RIGHT: Mosaic performs with Josh Groban.“The tour was great, we learned two songs,” Clinkscales said. “One was called ‘You’ll Never Aalk Alone’ and the other was called ‘Anthem.’ They were very unique songs. I’d never heard anything like it. We got to go on tour with him by request.”

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North Pointe – Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 – 7IDEASMoviesBACK IN TIME

Back to the Future fans take notice: This new documentary explores the theory of time travel and resonating themes from the trilogy movie series. It hits theaters Oct. 21, exactly 30 years after Marty McFly took his first time hop. (NR)

TVFARGO

The acclaimed T.V. crime series based on the 1996 film returns to FX Monday, Oct. 12 for its second season. Follow the all-new cast and characters as they chase a new crime in a brand new era. (TV-MA)

Pentatonix’s self-titled new album features a

full a capella set and the previously released song “Can’t Sleep Love.” The album will drop Oct. 16 and will be available on

Amazon for $13.98.

BooksTHE ROSE SOCIETY

Adelina had a perfect world — a prince, family and an

abundance of friends — until they all betrayed her. The Rose

Society is the second book in the Young Elites series by

Marie Lu and comes to stores on Oct. 13.

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By KatelynCarneyEDITOR

Fantasy and sports have been entan-gled since their invention. Kids go up to the plate, as their favorite player is about to hit the walk-off homer, to catch the winning touchdown, or pull up and make the game-winning basket as the clock ex-pires. Adults organize office pools or en-gage in fantasy leagues where they get to play General Manager, choose real play-ers and use their statistics to win mock games.

All of it is part of the dream of becom-ing a part of the game. All of it is harm-less. Or is it?

Fantasy sports have taken a deadly turn. Online sites like FanDuel and Draft-Kings have configured our passions into a multi-billion dollar business. Yes, that’s

billion with a “b.” The craze is spreading like a wildfire in the dry California sum-mer. These sites pour gasoline on that fire, engulfing viewers with continuous ads designed to beat us into submission. iSpot.TV, a website that tracks national tv ads, reported the two sites spent over $28 million on over 7,000 ads in the first week of the football season alone.

Their business model is nothing short of genius. Anyone who has played in a fantasy league knows the season can be feast or famine, depending how you do on the draft. If your number one pick is side-lined with a season ending injury or your early pick just doesn’t pan out, chances are you’ll be slugging through a dismal fantasy season.

FanDuel and DraftKings say, “bad draft, no worry.” This is daily fantasy. You’re not tied to that team for the whole season, just one day. In fact, not only can you pick a new team next week, you can pick another one today, or two, or three, or a thousand.

Sounds like fun, right?Let’s throw a couple dollars out and

win that million dollar prize. What’s the harm?

The harm is that fantasy sites, while trying to lure all, are more interested in the big fish players than the casual ones. Because a 2006 law called the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act — which prevented credit card issuers and banks from associating with online poker and sports betting sites determined that

fantasy sites were games of skill and not chance, they were deemed legal, as long as they set their prizes in advance. So if you have to pay a one million dollar prize in a twenty-dollar-pool whether there’s 60,00 entries or 30,000 entries, sites are definitely pushing for individuals who play multiple entries. They entice and plead, offering incentives such as free play, doubling your deposits and slogans that guarantee that $75 million will be paid out this week.

Does anyone see a problem here?These sites will build their fortunes

on the banks of the pool and the com-petitiveness of their customers: addicted gamblers and sports “fantasists” who just can’t quit until this month’s mortgage is lost. How many college funds will be cleaned out for purposes other than high-er education? And if you think people will come to their senses and this is just a phase, consider the longstanding popu-larity of the lottery.

An even bigger problem is that large businesses and media corporations are partnering and investing in these firms. FanDuel, founded in 2009 and boasting 41 million users in the U.S., has major investments from media mongols like Comcast and NBC while DraftKings has investment stakes from FoxSports, ESPN and Major League Baseball.

The effect that fantasy sports sites have had on the viewership levels of ALL televised games (driving up profits from advertising) might explain why most

major sports organizations condone the gambling. However Major League Base-ball once banned the most prolific hitter in the history of its sport for betting on his own team to win. And still remain ab-stinent in preventing Pete Rose from tak-ing his rightful place in the Hall of Fame.

Oh, the tangled web we weave. As it turns out baseball is not alone, DraftK-ings has partnership agreements with five NFL teams, eight NBA teams, 25 in-dividual MLB teams, seven NHL teams, Madison Square Garden and the Staples Center.

FanDuel rings in with the NBA having an equity stake in their company, part-nership agreements with 16 NFL teams and 14 NBA teams. Business is boom-ing. With accelerated revenues each year, FanDuel reported revenues of $500 mil-lion in 2014 with net proceeds of $50 mil-lion and anticipates revenue to double.

Think you’re going to grab some of that gold? Unless you’re in the 1.3% of players that finished in the black in 2014, you’ll be going home with empty pockets.

It’s not just adults whose wallets are in jeopardy. I’ve walked the halls, I know that nearly every teenage boy in this school either is currently, or has been a part of a fantasy draft.

Maybe it is truly harmless, and my stats are misleading. But what isn’t harm-less are these sites picking the pockets of the naive and risking the credibility of America’s beloved pastimes through their manipulation.

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8 – Friday, Oct 9, 2015 – North Pointe REVIEWS

GAME

TIMBERMAN

Timberman is an interesting title made by indie studio Digital Melody that of-fers surprisingly addictive fun in a ver y simple concept.

This game does not have a specific genre. The best way to

describe it would be an arcade-style game. The player controls a lumber-jack cutting down a never- ending tree, so the premise is simple. Howev-er, skill comes into play in the form of dodging to either the left or the right side in order to avoid the descending branches protruding from the tree.

Simplicity is the game’s great-est strength. Its closest comparison would be Flappy Bird, but this game is more about being skilled than get-ting lucky.

Its basic nature also lends to the addictive aspect that the game holds. It takes advantage of the “just one more try” mentality, which serves to increase the longevity of the tit le.

The game has 35 unlockable lum-berjacks ranging any where from Santa Claus to ninja. Although the characters do not serve any purpose from a gameplay standpoint, they are very enticing goals to reach. The feel-ing of unlocking that next new skin is very rewarding and will no doubt keep people playing.

Some may be put off by the low-resolution, retro aesthetic. Although the pixelation may be a deterrent to some, the game simply would not have the same amount of charm without it.

Timberman is free on mobile de-vices and only $1 on PC, so even if that’s too steep a price to pay, one can always give it a try on a phone to see if it’s worth the small price tag.

Timberman is a very sav v y pur-chase for anyone looking for a simple and addictive game to pass a couple of hours.

Timberman; Digital Melody Games, Inc.; Updated Sep-tember 18; Apple; Free.

By Giuseppe Parison

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MOVIE

THE INTERN

Movies about internships are usually one and the same—an ambitious col-lege student meets a high-powered working environ-ment where they rediscover them-selves and their passions. However, The Intern doesn’t follow the pattern.

Robert De Niro plays Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who is well into his re-tirement. Despite his relaxed schedule, Whit-taker doesn’t like the extra time that it has brought him. He is done with traveling and taking yoga classes, he wants to continue to do something with his life.

Whittaker applied for a senior internship at an online clothing site that was founded by Jules Ostin. Instead of employing seniors in college, the slot is meant for those in their golden years. Jules Ostin, played by Anne Ha-thaway, is a career-driven woman with a pas-sion for her company.

The movie analyzes the dynamics that Whittaker brings to a high-powered office environment. It is a great contrast in the the-aters, as its take on a very common experience brings a new perspective to the millennials breaking into the world of corporate intern-ships.

De Niro adds depth to the plot with his unique personality. He conveys the contra-diction present in such a stressful environ-ment where he is out of his element. De Niro’s acting fulfills the role of Ben perfectly and gets the point across.

Hathaway is the ideal actress for the work-aholic boss that runs her own company be-cause she showed the same qualities in The Devil Wears Prada. It is not absurd for her new-est movie to possess the same tone.

The movie was designed for an older audi-ence because of the witty banter and older ref-erences. De Niro definitely gets the attention of the older folks. At points, the movie doesn’t make any sense yet the laughter in the audi-ence is still there. It is easy to get lost and mis-led but still remain interested.

A new twist on the senior intern is only so suspenseful. After something big happens, the expectation is that the movie is almost over. However, The Intern feels never-ending. Its length doesn’t override the great concept behind the movie and its star-studded cast.

The Intern, 2015; Nancy Meyers; PG-13; 121 Minutes

By Allison Lackner

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ALBUM

EVERY OPEN EYE

Standing amongst the biggest names in the alternative mu-sic scene, Scottish synthpop band CHVRCHES has reemerged with its glittering sec-ond album Every Open Eye.

Instead of fall-ing into a sopho-more slump, Every

Open Eye is just as entrancing as the band’s debut album The Bones of What You Believe. Lead singer Lauren Mayberry’s piercing yet ethereal vocals juxtapose resonating bass and the band’s signature video game-esque synth and pulsing beats.

From shrill mechanical harmonies to mesmerizing subdued noise, the album doles out every pitch known to the human ear. In-fectious dance rhythm graces each track, no matter what the message of the song is.

“Keep You On My Side” and many others on the album combine an upbeat tempo with minor breaks to create a jittery atmosphere for the listener.

“Clearest Blue” is the perfect example of the enticing build that CHVRCHES has mastered in its songs. The song starts slow and later explodes into an epic, synth-heavy finish.

Track six, “High Enough to Carry You Over,” is the only track not sung by May-berry. Keyboardist Martin Doherty takes over lead vocals and provides an unex-pected switch-up from Mayberry’s falsetto. The track captures the sound of what would be played during an 80s high school dance scene in a John Hughes movie revamp (see The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles).

Various methods of new age sound like overlapping and layered vocals and reverb are sprinkled all over the album. After hearing the first three tracks, listeners will know why CHVRCHES is renowned for its modern new wave sound.

To put it simply: It’s like 80s music of the future.

With Every Open Eye, it is apparent that CHVRCHES is standing head-and-shoulders above a majority of its fellow alternative art-ists. The seamless production of the album outclasses its rivals and is leading the way into the growing genre of tech-savvy hipsters.

Chvrches; Every Open Eye; Universal; 2015.

By Abbey Cadieux

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TV SHOW

GRANDFATHERED

Uncle Jesse is back. Only this time, he’s twenty years older.

John Stamos plays a flirtatious restaura-teur named Jimmy Martino in Fox’s new comedy, Grandfa-thered. Martino is a successful business man with a night-spot in the city. His

life is soon interrupted, only five minutes into the pilot, by the shocking news that he is the father of 20-something Gerald, played by Josh Peck. Gerald brings a bundle of joy with him, making Martino the grandfather of baby Edie, Gerald’s daughter.

The beginning was rushed. Jimmy ini-tially struts to the song “Uptown Funk,” where he serenades his customers and talks about how “he would give up anything to have a family.” Gerald the arrives, and ran-domly walks into the restaurant and auto-matically assumes that Jimmy Martino is his father.

Ironic right? A fifty-year-old bachelor jokes about wanting a family and two min-utes later he meets his long lost son? And of course, the son easily finds his father he hasn’t seen for the past twenty years in a restaurant he just so happens to manage.

The plot was a bit too predictable, and is one that is often repeated throughout tele-vision. Stamos is an actor and producer who appears in classics like Full House and television favorites like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It was disappointing to see an actor and filmmaker like Stamos fall into the norm of other shows.

Despite the rushed plot, Grandfathered proved to be exceedingly witty and had strong characters throughout.

Gerald’s mother Sara is played by Paget Brewster. She is Jimmy’s old flame, and her lively, feisty personality is what made her the character that stood out the most in the first episode. She added spark and flavor, giving Grandfather a slight edge.

Was the first episode funny? Yes. Is it worth watching the rest of the season? No. The pilot overall was mediocre. With the show’s anticipated beginning and imita-tive plot, it didn’t meet the expectations Sta-mos’s previous works set. It simply lacked originality.

Grandfathered; 2015; TV-14; Fox.

By Anna Post

Scream Queens (2015)

Created by Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy

45 minutesTV-14FOX

By Jennifer KuschCO-MANAGING-EDITOR

Living in a sorority that is being stalked by a se-rial killer may be difficult, but watching all of Fox’s Scream Queens is no easy task either.

The first horror-comedy show to hit the silver screen, prime-time is witnessing the love child of Psycho and Clueless, but it possesses none of the appeal of either one. While it may just be three epi-sodes in, this show has exhausted every pretense and cliché joke in its arsenal.

Touting names like Emma Roberts, Nick Jonas, Ariana Grande, Abigail Breslin, Niecy Nash and KeKe Palmer, Scream Queens fits into an instant niche left by the decline of Glee’s reign. The show was created by the minds behind American Horror Story and Glee, serving an unlikely combination of gore and Gucci. It caters to a generation raised on harsh humor and stereotypes of blonde bimbos in movies like Mean Girls, but lacks the punch of its predecessors.

The show was met by widespread anticipation, but lacks any of the execution necessary for a pri-

metime winner in this year’s competitive market. While it seems to cater to the millennial crowd,

the show offers a scathing critique of modern culture embraced by the “me” generation with a side of overstated satire.

While their outfits may be killer, the stylish sisters of Scream Queen’s Kap-

pa Kappa Tau indulge in homicide

and sleuthing as the show’s whodunnit format has the campus of the fictional Wallace Univer-sity running for their lives. Manicures chip and pleated skirts stain with blood as a serial killer targets the sorority.

The lines between hunter and hunted blur as the sisters explore their sinister sides in comedic scenes with no shortage of oozing blood and sar-castic humor. While the tone lacks the subtlety of works like Heathers, it is noticeable and relat-able to a generation of kids who have grown up in the era of the overdone.

However, the show indulges itself in a cheap humor in an attempt to reach its younger au-dience, and it often feels ridiculous. Its stars are saddled with cheap dialogue and insult-ing stereotypes that seem cliche and insensi-tive. The murder scenes seek to top the last, but are never actually believable or funny. While I’ve never considered myself a fan of Ariana Grande, seeing her character get stabbed in the head was not a necessary addition to the season premiere.

It’s 2015, and Scream Queens indulges in humor best left off primetime. Mammy jokes and casual misogyny have no redeeming val-ue to the plot and undermine any message that the show is attempting to convey.

While the concept of Scream Queens is interesting, its execution lacks the depth and taste necessary to carry a satire.

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IDEAS

Competitive edge in college apps cut by lack of recogniztion

It’s that time of year. Seniors are filling out Common Applications and sending them off, their hopes set on a spot at their dream school. They painstakingly take time to answer each question with the utmost caution.

List your current courses.Have any of your relatives worked at a

university?Then they reach the class rank bar and have to

select N/A. Then the activities tab, where they’re unable to

mention a letter in anything other than sports or performing arts.

These disadvantages give students a less com-petitive edge.

While we’ve always associated them with athletics or performing arts, varsity letters can also be awarded to students who have excelled in other arenas such as robotics, student publica-tions and science or technology. Other schools nationwide (and even here in Michigan) recognize such endeavors. With so many of our students achieving excellence in academic fields, why aren’t our varsity jackets crowded?

Varsity letters could be beneficial. And so could a class ranking system.

For a school to not use a class ranking system isn’t common practice. If it were, it wouldn’t be a question on almost every aca-demic form. Without a ranking, how can our seniors expect to be on a level playing field with other applicants when so many college applica-tions ask for it?

Schools that have diminished or altogether eliminated class ranking systems have done so hoping students will focus on individual academic achievements rather than where they fall in the pecking order.

Also, with the increase in students taking advanced placement or international baccalaure-ate courses, school officials may be worried that emphasizing class rank might push students to overload themselves, since these courses can bump a GPA above 4.0.

An unorthodox class ranking system or not hav-ing one implemented at all can pose problems for col-lege admission officers, too. Consider the traffic jam that occurs at the very top because so many students have high GPAs. It can make it hard for schools to distinguish one from another.

Or what about another scenario in which every student is ranked in the top 50 percent? Or a student is ranked in the number-one spot at one school, but another student at another school in the same spot has a higher GPA?

Instituting a class ranking system for students offers an additional way to judge a student’s academ-ics when the grading standards vary in their degree of rigor. Without a class ranking system in place for some schools, many college admissions officers are left to rely more on standardized test scores.

When students are unable to give their class ranks, they appear less competitive and could be at a disadvantage, especially when applying to universities which admit students based on class ranking, such as Texas A&M, Tufts University or Swarthmore College.

Class rank is not trivial by any means and isn’t always a valid measure of academic achievement given that there is an unevenness in rigor and grad-ing scales across schools.

The last class valedictorian North recognized was in 2001. After that, the ranking system and class valedictorian were done away with and replaced by the academic hall of fame, which is where the top students in a class have gone since then.

The academic hall of fame is an excellent reward for the most premier academic students to be recog-nized for their achievements as opposed to award-ing one class valedictorian. And while the student body is very appreciative for having the academic hall of fame to show off their accolades, not know-ing their own class rank could hinder their college application process.

To show everybody else what we do here, we should display our students and their successes— athletic, performing and academic — in the best light possible.

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YOUR TURN: What are you most looking for ward

to for homecoming week?

“The spirit week because everyone is generally happy. I like the football game because I can bring my South friends and we can hang out.”

“I’m looking forward to the football game. I’m looking forward to danc-ing … I like fast music that I can break dance to. ”

“I’m looking forward to the pep assembly be-cause it only happens once a year, and this year we’re going to be ju-niors, so we’ll be on the good side of the stands.”

“I’m most looking for-ward to our school spirit, celebrating this celebra-tion with our grade and also our entire school together supporting our school pride for Norse-men Nation.”

“I really enjoy spirit week, but most of all I really enjoy seeing all the floats and how the kids did making them.”

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Sympathize with the stresersSarah WietechaASSISTANT EDITOR

“Why weren’t you in class yesterday?”

“I had a doctor’s appoint-ment.” “I had a family emer-gency.” “I was on vacation.”

If there were a ranking for the most commonly used ex-cuses, these would top the list.

Absences are a usual routine to many teens with busy sched-ules, and the number taken tends to increase as homecom-ing rolls around and students adjust to their new workload with the new school year.

Many students have been diagnosed with “chronic ab-sence” at some point in their high school careers. These are the students who don’t bother to show up to class regularly, and when they do show up, are not engaged in the lesson.

So how does this vicious cycle begin?

Many would be quick to judge and say that the student is just lazy. One of the dilemmas in the American education sys-tem is the ingrained idea that if a learner is not giving 110% all the time, he is deemed unqual-ified to do a job, and is written off by fellow peers or teachers. Sometimes one needs a “men-tal break day” to maintain san-ity amongst the hustle and bus-tle of everyday life. This endless cycle takes a toll on a teenager’s mental stability.

I’ve always had a question pertaining to this cycle that has never quite been answered in the 12 years of my educa-tion: why isn’t stress treated the same in schools as physical ill-ness?

If a student stayed home from school because they had the flu, almost everyone would be sympathetic and under-stand their absence. Now turn the tables. Say a student with little sleep and stress overload stayed home from school be-cause he or she can’t find the strength get out of bed. Would those around them be as sym-pathetic and understandable as they were to the student with the flu? Not likely.

Well, why not? Personally, I don’t have enough stress to have to take a day off school. I and others without this weight on their shoulders can’t fully comprehend how it feels. But we will try. Picture yourself slowly starting to lose enjoy-ment in everything you do because of your workload. Ba-sically having an existential cri-sis every day, and having your mind slowly unravel as you drift into an empty conscious-ness due to lack of sleep and stress overload.

Keep that thought in your head and go back to the origi-nal statement: is an absence for stress understandable?

I empathize with kids who are out of school for anxiety or stress related reasons. Unfortu-nately, I’ve often found myself looking at others and saying, “Well, they aren’t REALLY sick. It’s just an excuse to get out of a test.” Is this right of me? Do I really know why they skipped that test?

Sometimes I question if my own moral compass is skewed. I often wonder if I have become blind and ignorant to how oth-ers feel. We are all guilty of ac-cusing another student for skipping out of laziness. We categorize them. They are the ones who show up only when they feel like it. This the norm. However, as fellow peers, we must try to understand them, not judge them.

10– North Pointe – Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 SPORTS

By Anu Subramaniam & Tommy TeftisEDITOR-IN-CHIEF & INTERN

Eight years ago, English teacher Diane Mont-gomer y decided she was going to face turning 50 by running 50 marathons in 50 states. Montgomer y (known familiarly as Monty) wil l reach this feat this weekend at a marathon in Hartford, Connecticut.

Monty has been coaching the boys cross coun-tr y team for nine years and runs with other North teachers, including science teacher Elizabeth Mi-chaels and social studies teacher Dan Gil leran. Gil leran was there when Monty made her best t ime and qualif ied for the Boston Marathon. Qualif y ing for the Boston Marathon was a l ifetime goal sepa-rate from Monty’s 50- states goal, but one she con-siders the pinnacle of her running career.

“I felt l ike f inally achieving qualif y ing and run-ning Boston was a big goal for me at the t ime. Even though I was working on my 50 states, that was kind of a l i fetime goal,” Montgomer y said.

W hile achieving her goal, Monty joined Marathon

Maniacs and the 50 States Marathon Club. Both are organizations that communicate over social media or at races. Through these organizations, Monty is being awarded for her 50 states achievement.

“We share t ips and recommendations about marathons, and you can even f ind a rideshare or a roommate for a marathon trip. The beauty is that we form friendships based solely on our love of run-ning marathons,” Monty said. “I have met some amazing people from cancer sur vivors to active and retired militar y to a man who has ran over 1500 marathons.”

Throughout her mission, Monty has had a lot of support from her sister, Sarah Montgomer y, and boyfriend, Steve Guilian. Her sister ran cross coun-tr y at University of Michigan and inspired Monty to get into the sport. She ran her first marathon 11 years prior to Monty and often travels with her to races.

Guilian frequently travels to races with Monty, too. He’s part of Detroit band Rosetta Pebble and wrote a song about Monty’s marathoning called “One Foot First.”

“I have given the CD as gifts to marathoners and others facing dif f icult challenges. It’s a ver y inspi-rational song. Part of the refrain is ‘yes, you can,’ which is a variation of one of my mantras, ‘I can, and I wil l,’” Monty said.

Another inspiration for Monty was her mother, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. Her mother’s inability to be active made Monty appreciate the ability and has helped inspire her during the last few miles of her marathons.

“I think of her during ever y marathon, especial ly in those last painful miles when I am struggling to get to the f inish l ine. I often look for signs she is with me, l ike seeing a cardinal or hearing a bag-piper — things that she loved,” Monty said. “Even though she has been gone for over 16 years, I st i l l miss her terribly, especial ly when celebrating big accomplishments or marking milestones in my life. I guess you never lose the sense of wanting that ap-proval and pride that a parent provides.”

Monty’s feat has a lso inspired others. Gil leran feels that the persistence she shows by running

50 in 50 under 50English teacher Diane Montgomery has challenged herself to run 50 marathon races, one in each state, before she her fiftieth birthday. Her final race to complete the challenge is tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 10

MONTY’S TOP 5 MARATHONS OF ALL TIME

Boston Marathon“I always had the goal of qualifying for and

running in the Boston Marathon. I qualified at Detroit Marathon in 2008 when I trained and ran with Mr. (Dan) Gilleran. I would not have qualified for Boston without him. Boston was so thrilling that my face hurt when I finished the race just from smiling so much. Of course, this was three years before the bombing inci-dent when the event was still an unsullied cel-ebration of sport.”

#1

#2Big Sur Marathon

“Big Sur runs along the coast of California from Big Sur National Park to Carmel. I ran it in 2011 when a mudslide took out part of Coastal Highway 1, so it was an out and back from Car-mel. However, I stayed with a friend and fellow CC teammate from high school, and I got to catch up with a former student from my days of teaching in Georgia. He was running his first marathon, and the out and back design allowed me to cheer him on along the way. This is one of the most beautiful marathons in the country. I am running it again next spring so I can enjoy the full course this time.”

#3 Hatfield McCoy Marathon“Hatfield McCoy Marathon in Williamson, West

Virginia. This one is a tough course with almost con-tinuous rolling hills along the border of Kentucky and West Virginia, but it’s also an area frought with histori-cal significance. The descendants of the famous feud-ing families still populate the area. Between the locals sharing stories and the historical markers along the way, I had a really fun time despite the fact that the June heat and hills made it one of my slower finishes. There were also over 150 Marathon Maniacs there, so I made a lot of new friends along the way.”

Sogonapmit Challenge Marathon

“Sogonapmit Challenge in American Fork, Utah started as a half-marathon run down the Timpanogos mountain in Utah. Howev-er, they designed a marathon challenge that started at the finish of the half and ran up the mountain to the start of the half and then back down again. Oh, and the race started at 3:20a.m I have never been so scared of being eaten by a bear as I was that night. I loved the challenge of it, especially because this race was my third marathon in three weeks. I was annoyed with all the half-marathoners plowing by me on the way back down the mountain but anytime one of them noticed I was wearing a marathon race bib, I got a lot of respect and support. Bragging rights big time. And the medals were super cool. The next day, we hiked the mountain in order to tour the famous caves there — a National Park.”

#4

“Good ‘ole” Detroit Marathon

“I have run Detroit seven times over the years. It was the sight of my fastest mara-thon (3:42 in 1997) and my Boston Quali-fier (3:50 in 2008). However, my favorite memory is the 2014 race. I did not need to run it again for my 50 states, of course, but when my sister Sarah said she wanted to run the full (she had retired from full mara-thons back in 2008 and has been running half-marathons ever since then) to com-memorate the 30 anniversary of her first marathon (Detroit 1984), I agreed to join her. We had a lot of fun taking pictures and enjoying the sights and people. It was great to run every step of it together. Plus, the weather was gorgeous. It’s really awesome to be on the Ambassador Bridge when the sun comes up over the Ren Cen.”

#5

INJURIES ENDUREDThroughout her marathoning career, Montgomery has suffered many injuries. “Despite my doctor’s and physical therapist’s advice, I have never allowed an injury to stop me from participating in and completing a marathon,” Montgomery said.

Plantar fasciitisRunners who suffer from this condition

are faced with intense foot pain due to in-flammation of a thick band of tissue that connects the heel bone to the toes.

Achilles tendonitisThis injury is due to the overuse of one’s

Achiles tendons which connect the calf muscle to the heel bone.

IT band syndromeIT Band Syndrome is a painful condition

in which connective tissue rubs against the thigh bone.

Strained piriformis musclePiriformis syndrome is an uncommon

neuromuscular disorder that is caused when the muscle compresses the nerve.

Pinched sciatic nerve This injury refers to the pressure on the

nerve exiting the spine, thus causing pain.

Strained hamstringDuring a hamstring strain, one or more

muscles gets overloaded, causing pain.

Chronic patellar malaciaThis injury is a general term used to de-

scribe the damage to the cartilige under one’s kneecap.

Metatarsal stress fracture A metatarsal stress fracture is a break or incomplete break in the foot involving one or more of the larger foot bones and is caused by intense exercise (like mara-thons).

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so many marathons and tr ying to achieve her goal a lso ref lects in her teaching and coaching.

“She’s not running the 5Ks as fast as the boys do obviously, but there’s the determination, there’s the grit, that the boys can certainly see in her and use to motivate them when they’re feeling down,” Gil le-ran said. “I’m sure the boys think that if she can do it, I can do this. I can run a 7-, 8-, 9-minute mile.”

Boys cross countr y runner, freshman Ryan Race, feels that Monty’s determination and persistence means he can run his 3.1-mile race his hardest. He also feels that her working towards her goal helped him run the 500-mile goal that Monty set for the boys.

For Monty, running marathons doesn’t just in-clude running. She has been able to travel a l l over the countr y as well as meet new people.

“I have seen some remarkable places. (I) took a helicopter tour in Hawaii, hiked a glacier in A las-ka, heard sea l ions cr ying along the Pacif ic coast — they sound a lot l ike dogs— got to v isit so many National Parks and monuments,” Montgomer y said. “I’ve learned a lot about histor y and local cultures within the U.S. I have also been collecting a l ist of possible places I’d l ike to retire to.”

Monty loves f inish l ines. For her, crossing the f inish l ine is the best feeling in the world. She has made it through multiple marathons with injuries, a l l for the enjoyment she gets from running.

“It’s given me something to focus on, outside my work l ife and coaching. Not that I don’t love those things, but it’s been something just for me ... it’s entirely self ish for me because when I’m running a marathon, that’s a l l I ever think about is getting from point A to point B. I don’t think about any-thing else. And I just get total ly immersed in the enjoyment of doing that activ ity,” Monty said. “I’ve met some great people, and it’s just, I think people look at it as something super human, but I feel l ike it’s something, that if you just have perseverance and dedication to it, a lot of people could do what I’ve done.”

ran feels t hat t he persistence she shows by run-ning so many marat hons and tr y ing to achieve her goa l a lso ref lects in her teaching and coaching.

“She’s not running t he 5Ks as fast as t he boys do obv iously, but t here’s t he determination, t here’s t he gr it, t hat t he boys can certainly see in her and use to motivate t hem when t hey’re feel ing dow n,” Gi l leran said. “I’m sure t he boys t hink t hat i f she

can do it, I can do t his. I can run a 7-, 8-, 9-minute mile.”

Boys cross countr y runner, Ryan Race, feels t hat Mont y’s determination and persistence means he can run his 3.1-mile race his hardest. He a lso feels t hat her work ing towards her goa l helped him run t he 500-mile goa l t hat Mont y set for t he boys.

For Mont y, running marat hons isn’t just about f inishing somet hing. She loves f inish l ines. She’s run t hrough injur y and tota l led 11 marat hons last school year.

“It’s g iven me somet hing to focus on, outside my work l i fe and coaching. Not t hat I don’t love t hose t hings, but it ’s been somet hing just for me ... it ’s ent irely self ish for me because when I’m running a marat hon, t hat’s a l l I ever t hink about is gett ing f rom point A to point B. I don’t t hink about any-t hing else. A nd I just get tota l ly immersed in t he enjoy ment of doing t hat act iv it y,” Mont y said. “I’ve met some great people, and it ’s just, I t hink people look at it as somet hing super human, but I feel l ike it ’s somet hing, t hat i f you just have perseverance and dedicat ion to it, a lot of people could do what I’ve done.”

Montgomery poses with long-term boyfriend and full-time supporter Steve Gulian after finishing one of her marathons.

Gulian: Remarkable! I feel like the word amaz-ing is overused these days, or I’d use it. Scratch that. AMAZING! I think it ’s amazing. (FYI- If you misspell it ’s there, she’ll never let either one of us live it down.) The grit and determination she’s shown in achieving her goal is truly remarkable.

NP: What growth have you seen since she started to now?

Gulian: Her perseverance has been a constant. She never quits, never gives up, never phones it in. And I’m only not talking about marathons; she’s like that with her coaching and teaching too. I’ve seen her on a plane, hours after a race, grading stacks of papers, working on lesson plans, scouring the internet for a “Friday Funny.” I’ve seen growth too. She’s definitely become more travel savvy during this quest. You don’t race in all f ifty states without learning a thing or two about the travel industry. If you need to book a last minute f light to Driggs, ID, rent a car in Fargo, ND, or f ind a music festival in Cordova, AK - she’s your girl.

DIANE MONTGOMERY

Q & A with Montgomery’ssupport: Steve Gulian

By Anu SubramaniamEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

NP: How do you feel waiting at a finish line for her?

Gulian: Anxious. Did I miss her? Is she still out on the course? Do I have my camera ready? Is she OK? Since I’m all over those courses with my guitar, trying to encouraging runners where they need it most (usually secluded spots, barren of spectators and aid stations), navigating my way to the finish at just the right time can be tricky. I’d like to say I have it down to a science after so many, but the truth is I’ve been very lucky. Plus Diane seems to have a sixth sense about sensing where I’ll be.

NP:What do you think about her achieving her goal soon?

DIANE MONTEGOMERY

DIANE MONTEGOMERY

DIANE MONTEGOMERY

Montgomery’s times ranged from 3:50:18 to 12:05:16 for her 50-mile run. Light states took her between three and four hours to complete, dark states between four and

five hours.

DIANE MONTEGOMERY

POPPING THE BUBBLE

By Tommy TeftisINTERN

It’s kind of peculiar that a restaurant in the middle of Detroit’s Cass Corridor can be a center of gastronomy and drink excellence. Selden Standard was transformed from an abandoned dry cleaners on 2nd Av-enue into a classic french bistro. Selden Standard is located in on a lone corner in midtown Detroit, a now very happening part of Detroit fre-quented by hipsters and those who can make a reservation at this posh hideaway.

Andy Hollyday is the executive chef at Selden Standard, and was a key component in turning this graffiti ridden dry cleaners into one of the most prominent dining hotspots in all of metro Detroit. He has been in the food business for 20 years has won the Hour Magazine’s best chef of 2012 award while he was working at Michael Symon’s Roast. He has worked at several restaurants around the world including places in Dearborn, Farmington, California, and Chambery, France. When Andy opens the dinner shift he requests that his staff has “always warm smiles.”

Andy partnered with Evan Hansen who was interested in homebrew-ing and Japanese cooking. Hansen is co-owner of the lounge and was drawn to food and drink when he was at University of Michigan’s Mar-keting school. Manager Jesse Nigl is also has a vital role of keeping the floor pleasurable and keeping the guests jubilant. She has a sixth sense restaurant feel after being the manager since the restaurant opened.

Selden Standard is a relatively new restaurant that opened on Nov. 9, 2014. “Our anniversary is coming, so we’re preparing for the party re-cently,” Nigl said.

The restoration process has been a real project for Andy and Evan, trying to make a hip restaurant out of an abandon dry-cleaner in the smack dab center detroit. Hollyday and Hansen had purchase the build-ing from the previous owners who had completely stripped the building and had only an abridged roof on it at the time. The excavating process was little to nil for the partners, yet they still had to create a contempo-rary restaurant where a dry cleaner still somewhat stood erect.

“When they came into the project, it was essentially just a matter of rewiring, replumbing and bringing all of the equipment, but it was defi-nitely worth it,” Nigl said.

By Lauren SextonASSISTANT-EDITOR

There are many unique places in Detroit that are commonly overlooked. Right down the street from MGM Grand, Campus Martius and other Detroit relics is a immensely authentic Italian restaurant, Ottava Via.

The menu contains favorites such as antipasti, salumeria, antipasti tasting, salads, pizza, Italian flatbread, paninis and pasta. They also serve spe-cialties for the holidays.

Ottava Via is opened Sunday thru Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Their most popular times are the weekends from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The res-taurant is located at 1400 Michigan Avenue, right down the street from the old Tigers Stadium and MGM Grand Casino.

One of the many nuances of Ottava Via is its renovation history. Before it became one of De-

troit’s highly acclaimed restaurants, it was Dime Savings Bank.

According to www.TripAdvisor.com, Ottava Via is one of the best restaurants of old Detroit. It brings back real Italian food to the city. It’s con-sidered a great place to go before or after a Tigers ball game or just hitting Downtown.

The ambiance at Ottava Via is sophisticated. It’s known to have some of the best customer service on Michigan Avenue and isn’t geared to-wards kids younger than 13. Although the food is ranked among the best Downtown, the price may drive some eager customers away.

Ottava Via’s overall score is 4.5 stars out of 5 on TripAdvisor. The food isn’t the only thing consid-ered when ranked, but its value, service and at-mosphere are also judged. When in the mood for fine Italian cuisine, consider stopping by one of Detroit’s authentic gems.

By Jennifer KuschCO-MANAGING-EDITOR

Gold Cash Gold is serving up high-end cuisine in a revital-ized corner of Detroit. Nestled between Mercury Burger Bar and Slow’s Barbeque, the new restaurant has settled into a young, vibrant downtown.

Serving an array of food, from fried chicken to octopus, the joint offers a wide assortment of dishes. While its prices are steeper than your run-of-the-mill restaurant, Gold Cash Gold has a unique atmosphere that makes it worth the cost.

It’s building once housed a pawn shop, which is now re-membered in the restaurant’s unique name. Created by Corktown’s Cooley family, the restaurant boasts a unique offering of seasonal, farm-to-table dishes.

Chef Josh Stockton labels the food as “farmstead fine,” em-phasizing the traditional roots of Gold Cash Gold. All dishes are prepared from scratch, and they are the centerpieces of the restaurant. The space feels sparse but not barren, and the industrial-chic interior will allow you to appreciate the hearty meal instead of a distracting atmosphere.

Selling more than your average restaurant, Gold Cash Gold has an “Oysters for Equality” night every Thursday, with the aim of promoting awareness of the wage gap. Offering oys-ters at a 23 percent discount for women, the night can save many people money while demonstrating the real-world implications of a trend that few institutions address.

Critically acclaimed by the Detroit Free Press as one of the best new restaurants in the city, Gold Cash Gold will provide a fun, tasty night in the city.

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