After a year of budget cuts, lay-offs, position adjustments, retirements and changes in general, students enter a brand new school year facing even more changes. As a result of some of the changes, the roster of teachers has undergone a sort of shuffle. The academic departments primarily affected by this switch-up are the Television Production and English departments.

“Mr. (Brian) Town is currently on leave,” Wegenke said. “I cannot comment on the details. It’s a personnel issue.”

The Vision television program and TV media classes are currently di-rected and taught by Patrick Hepfer.

“I have been brought in for the duration of his leave” Hepfer said. “I was asked to do this a week before school started. I was almost pushed into it.”

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9/11 has everlasting effects

It’s been 10 years. Ten years since the day Ameri-cans tuned in to see two mas-sive towers fall to the ground in a matter of a few hours. It seemed something like this could never happen. Yet over the past several years all Americans are suffering the repercussions, even the many who were too young to remember the day it actually happened.

Since 9/11, airlines are feel-ing the biggest heat. Before that day, it was possible to walk into an airline and get on a plane without even hav-ing your bag screened. How-ever that all changed 39 days after the attack when George W. Bush signed the Aviation Security Act which required all bags to be checked for any type of harmful items.

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AMC Cinema in the Meridian Mall closed it doors after serving the East Lansing area for 25 years on Sept. 5. After AMC was unable to reach an agreeable lease term, another company has plans to revamp the theater. Atlanta’s American Theatre Corp. has planed to open a Cinema Grill as a theater and diner combination. For now, NCG Cinemas in Eastwood and the Sun Theatre in Williamston are the closest alternatives.

Haslett’s Capital Area District Library moved a week early on Sept. 1. It is now located in the old Meridian High School building. The new building is over triple the size of the old one which allows for more space of the 500 average visitors per day that the library comforts. While the library’s new location is only a few blocks away from the original, ithe $300,000 project is for larger space.

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Airplane passengers pay a $2.50 “September 11th Security Fee” for every plane they board.

The average wait time at a security checkpoint is 8 minutes and 50 seconds.

30 percent of Americans say post- 9/11 security procedures are “more hassle than they’re worth”.

20 percent of Americans know someone that has been hurt or killed in the 9/11 attacks.

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Transpor tation Security Administration ( TSA): an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the safety and security of the traveling public in the United States.

Not only were bags being searched, but bodies as well. Junior Katie Panter experienced this when traveling to Lon-don over this past summer. After putting her shoes and other mandatory items in the boxes, Panter proceeded to walk through the met-al detector. However, the zipper on her jacket triggered the alarm. Two security officials walked over and began to search.

“They systematically searched my entire body,” Panter said. “It was pretty embarrassing.”

Panter understands why security has come to this and she is glad for the extra precautions.

“I think the concept of higher security is a good thing,” she said. “Sometimes you just have to pay the embarrassing price.”

Senior Tosh Blosser finds it random, but needed.“It’s kinda weird having a random person pat you down,”

Blosser said. Another effect that seems to take place is racial stereotyp-

ing. Since finding out that people from the terroist group of Al-Qaeda planned the attacks, many people believe followers of the Muslim faith have been targeted for further inspection. Blosser notices this first hand.

“At the border going into Canada, a man was pulled over in front of me who was of MIddle Eastern descent,” Blosser said. “They searched his car just because he looked that way.”

Even though many of the current high school students may are too young, some can still remember the day that changed everything.

“I remember seeing my dad cry for the first time,” Panter said.

Others were affected in a different way.“The dad of a good friend of mine was a firefighter in 9/11,”

Blosser said. “Even though it wasn’t my dad it still touched me.”

As much as people may complain about the extra 20 min-utes needed to go through security and boarding, Panter is willing to pay the price.

“This protects us from more things like 9/11 happening again,” Panter said. “Airplanes are dangerous things, we don’t want to suffer losses like that again.”

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Hepfer has begun to initiate some changes in the way the program oper-ates, and the quality of the content produced.

“You can expect a strong overall quality and a wider variety of sports. You might see sports on the Vision you haven’t seen before” he said. “We will be giving a diverse overview of our school, informative entertaining announce-ments and we will be taking a more journalistic approach”.

In addition to directing the Vision program and teaching TV media and computer technology, Hepfer also works behind the scenes of all auditori-um events including plays, musicals, concerts, and other theatrically-related events.

“I run the Performance Arts Center,” Hepfer said. “I’m in charge of every production that goes through.”

Veteran students in the program also believe that things will be signifi-cantly different under the new instructor.

“He makes us be our best and pushes us to do our best,” junior Mitchell Kreps said.

Hepfer also directs the Students in Entertainment Technology program. The SET program is a hands-on training program for high school juniors and seniors in Ingham County. Students learn skills with lighting, sound, visual, and design in live settings under Hepfer’s instruction.

In the English department, there have been a few major changes for more subtle reasons than the television production department. Both British Lit-erature teacher Carol Sanford and AP English teacher Dee Schnarr retired last year after long teaching careers. Sanford taught at Haslett for 39 years, and Schnarr for 21 years.

Sanford’s position as the British Literature teacher has been filled by Craig Kueffner. Kueffner taught seventh grade language arts for nine years at the middle school, and has taught English at the high school for the past five years. He also advised the Dixit yearbook program for three years.

“I feel like my professional writing background, graduate degree in edu-cational leadership and five previous years part-time at the high school help me transition into this new position,” Kueffner said.

British literature is the last English class students take before they enroll in AP English. In order to prepare students for an advanced placement class, Kueffner pushes his own college preparatory agenda.

“Keeping the pace of instruction swift, promoting higher-order thinking, and providing activities, materials, and a course that are at the college-prep level,” Kueffner said of his approach.

Schnarr’s position as the AP English teacher has been filled by Arthur Chiaravalli. Previously, Chiaravalli worked in the math department, teach-ing introductory math classes including Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II.

“Although I have enjoyed my past four or five years teaching Math, I have always looked forward to making a return to my first love (English),” Chi-aravalli said.

The large number of AP English students this year are divided into two separate classrooms. The first hour class consists of 40 students and is held in the Viking Room for optimum space. The sixth hour class consists of 30 stu-dents and meets in Chiaravalli’s room. In addition to AP English, Chiaravalli is teaching the English 9 course to the incoming freshman.

AP English is a college level class and can only be taught by a teacher with certain qualifications.

“I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Michigan,” Chiaravalli said. “After that, I earned my State of Michigan teacher’s certificate with a major in language arts and a minor in mathemat-ics. This summer, I completed the AP Summer Institute in Muncie, Ind. qualifying me to teach AP English under the auspices of the College Board. I also have a black belt in Karate.”

Classes, sports, and life go on at Haslett High School despite the shuffle of staff. Although under the constant pressure of budget cuts, this school year may bring many more changes.

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11-1 3rd singles tennis

Favorite pre- game meal: Subway What gets you pumped up for matches: “Coach Henry Brunnschweiler really gets me fired up for matches.”

Favorite professional athlete: Aaron Rodgers

Favorite team to play: DeWitt

Boys SoccerRecord: 4-5-2

Captains: Josh Saw-yer, Zach Morlock, Josh Kleinow, Tanay Salpaker

By the numbers: 1.6 goals given up per game

Girls VolleyballRecord: 5-0

Captains: Jess Tyrer, Colette Reed

By the numbers: 4underclassmen on the team

Boys TennisRecord: 7-1

Captains: Zach Be-pler, Adam Schoon-maker, Wes Holton

By the numbers: 24 the most players on any teams roster in the area

Girls GolfRecord: 8-0

Captains: Chelsea Root, Erin Lawrence, Daisy Yonkus

By the numbers: 5 games the teams won in a row

FootballRecord: 1-3

Captains: Eric Ver-ing, Adam Foren, Sam Wegenke

By the numbers: 2 games decided by 3 points or less

Cross CountryRecord: 2-1 at invitesGirls record: 0-4

Girls captains: Ellen Corder, Tara MahonBoys: Alex Van Camp, Ryan Beyea

By the numbers: 7Number of runners who ran under 18 minutes at the Haslett Invite.

Girls SwimmingRecord: 4-1Captains: Kate Steinfield, Victo-ria Bishop, Ash-ley Fongers

By the numbers: 4 number of years they have won leagues in a row

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Junior Charlie Rumsey swings at a ball during practice.

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Ten years later - September 11

Many of us, we were still in elementary school when 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger jets within two hours on September 11, 2001.

I was in Mrs. Muth’s second grade class at Mt. Hope El-ementary school when the first attack took place. I remember we were doing our daily Span-ish lesson when one of the jani-tors walked in and whispered something to Mrs. Muth whose face turned pale white. The jan-itor soon exited the classroom and locked the door behind him.

As a scrawny second grader I didn’t think this was too odd. We were in downtown Lan-sing, lock downs and a feeling of slight terror was normal. Roughly about 15 minutes later we heard the door being un-locked and the vice principal swung it open and practically

ran to our teacher who had just recovered from her mo-mentary paleness. I overheard her say that there was a second attack and that many parents were coming in to pick up their children early. She then left the room and re-locked the door behind her.

Still clueless, I went on work-ing on my vocabulary words and arguing with my friend Aaron about who was the faster runner.

As the next couple hours passed our classroom popula-tion dwindled and then the jani-tor came back to our classroom and unlocked the door and hurried away. As I look back now, I realize that the school thought that locking everyone in classrooms wasn’t such a good idea especially since no one knew what was going on. If evacuation was necessary, it wouldn’t be possible and ev-eryone would basically die be-cause we were locked in 30X32 boxes.

My day went on pretty normally, at least in my opin-ion. By about 5 PM when my mother picked me up from the after school program, I had re-ally forgotten all the odd events that took place throughout the school day.

When we arrived at our

house, my mother immediately turned on our television and sat me down in front of the set. Images of burning, crumbling building flashed before my eyes, red and white headlines kept running across the screen. Being, what, seven years old, I was in awe of the colors of the headlines flying by stay-ing completely oblivious to the words my mother was telling me. She was trying to explain to me that “bad men” had stolen planes and flew them into some important buildings because they wanted to scare people. I didn’t care at all. I just kept on watching the col-ors fly by and thinking about unicorns, crayons, slides, or whatever I used to think about when I was 7.

Now, it’s the 10 year anniver-sary of the attacks. I’m 17 and a senior in high school. I now know what really happened 10 years ago and the importance of it. I guess I didn’t really care when I was younger because I didn’t have any connection with the attacks. I had never been to New York and I had no family living in the city when it happened. It’s not that someone my age couldn’t un-derstand what was going on, I just had no connection so I didn’t really care.

“To be honest I don’t remem-ber where I was. I was only five.” Quinn McCabe,

Sophomore

“Well I think I was in second grade. So my mother didn’t really tell me anything. She just said something bad hap-pened so I just believed that and went on being a second grader.” Jordy Rich,

Senior

Where were you and what were you thinking when the September 11 attacks happened?

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Also, 10 years later we’ve seen the repercussions of the attacks. Increased security at airports, the war against terror, other acts of terrorism around the world, and more intoler-ance towards Islam. The thing is that the terrorists who blow up buildings and crash planes may say they’re Muslim, but they’re not. There is nowhere in the Quran where it says that God wants people to blow up buildings and kill people. The people who use this as an ex-cuse or explanation for acts of terrorism are not following the religion of Islam. Too many Americans don’t know this and it’s just sad. Intolerance to-wards these innocent and very nice people just because a few people who look like them did something bad is wrong.

Despite the repercussions, some good has come from the attacks. The devastation was something all Americans could relate to so it unified us as a nation. Every year on the an-niversary of the attacks, people set aside their petty arguments and differences and remember those who lost their lives. It’s a reminder that we’re all human and we’re all equal despite so-cial class, race, gender, or intel-ligence level. Just the fact that we can stop what we’re doing

and join together is a wonder-ful thing.

However, the bad repercus-sions still out weigh the good. I think that we need to work harder at changing that fact. One thing that social stud-ies teachers are doing to try to change things are teaching about world religions. Hopeful-ly, this will help the intolerance level go down. Once kids know more about Islam and other re-ligions in gerneral, things will change for the better.

However, teachers can’t do it alone. The education needs to spread out of the school and into their everyday life. Kids learn from parents, older siblings, and even friends. We have to set a good example. We have a chance to change the way the world is.

In 10 years I’ll be 27. I will hopefully be graduated from college and working steadily. It seems like a long time from now but I’m sure it’s going to fly by like these past 10 have. I can’t really say what will have been accomplished by then but hopefully things will be better. Maybe the war in Iraq will be over. Maybe we’ll have a new World Trade tower. Who knows.

All I know now is that Sep-tember 11, 2001 has affected

“In second grade, I had the flu and stayed home that morn-ing. My mom was watching television with me when it came on and I just remember watching my mom cry. It ‘s the first memory I have of her crying.” Michelle Daniels,

Senior

“I was in kindergarten and we didn’t go out to recess that day but my teacher prom-ised we’d go out tomorrow. When I got home my mom didn’t turn on the news in the evening. She later told me what had happened. I wasn’t old enough to understand the significance of the trag-edy, but it was the first time I realized that that bad guys weren’t just in cartoons.”

Erin Gamber, Junior