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March 27, 2014 Volume LVI Issue VILeo Junior/Senior High School

National Honors Society welcomes new members

Leo Jr. / Sr. High School’s National Honors Society had its induction ceremony for new members at 6:30 p.m. on March 20. Around 80 new members joined the club. Among the new members is sophomore Dylan Barrow. One of the reasons Barrow is looking forward to joining NHS is to have something stand out on his college applications. He also hopes to have an impact in the community through NHS. Aside from just joining the club, sophomore Sarah Field is also hoping to be an officer her junior or senior year. “I enjoy helping people and I’m excited to just engage in new activities with different people,” said Field. Every year, a guest speaker gives a speech at the National Honors Society induction ceremony. This year the speaker was former teacher Steve Gabet. National Honors Society leader Rachel Morgan hopes

to continue and strengthen current programs. She is looking forward to new members gaining leadership and service skills and building character. Sophomore Morgan Sanderson is looking forward to meeting new people and experiencing new opportunities to help her plan her future through NHS. “I want to get all my hours and have a good time with friends,” said Sanderson. “I hope to experience new things.” Many new members have already planned how they’re going to get their service hours. Field plans to get involved with the usual National Honors Society volunteer activities such as recycling and study tables. Churches generally provide volunteer opportunities. Both Field and Barrow are going to get involved in church events. Sanderson hopes to complete hours through an internship. When it comes to hours, Morgan has opportunities for new inductees. “We are still looking at and planning a future event,” said Morgan. “Special Olympics is coming and we always provide volunteers.”

By Miller Kern

Editor-in-chief

In this issue:

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Senior Maddie Hursch displays ceiling tileJournalism students travel to the Big Apple Students compete in Class Tourney

English Teacher Ryan Clark awarded Teacher of the Year

By Emily Hemmelgarn

Editor-in-chief

English teacher Ryan Clark was recently named Leo Jr./Sr. High School’s Teacher of the Year.

Clark began teaching overseas for a few years before teaching for two years in Columbus, Ind., and eventually coming to Leo. This will be his sixth year in the building. English and journalism teacher Cheryl Ashton nominated Clark for teacher of the year. “Clark is an amazing teacher and person,” said Ashton. “He dedicates his time to his job and his students. He sets high expectations for himself and models excellence for all teachers.” English teacher Kelly Mahoney also nominated Clark for the award, saying he brings a range of wit, intelligence, and humanity to his experience and job. “Sometimes students like the ‘easy’ teachers and resent the challenging ones,” said Mahoney, “but Clark manages to balance his teaching so that students feel challenged and rewarded. He does a phenomenal job of walking students though his high expectations to make

them accessible; students don’t feel something’s being done to them; it’s being done with them.” Clark explained that being selected as Teacher of the Year in a school full of good teachers is an honor. “It’s much easier to be a strong teacher when you have other strong teachers surrounding you in your department, and when you have good kids and involved parents,” said Clark. Clark will receive his award at a banquet to honor all Teacher of the Year winners from each EACS school next month.

Along with being an eleventh grade English teacher for the AP and academic classes, Clark is also involved in Special Olympics, writer of the EACS curriculum for juniors, and is head of the English department at Leo.

Every year Leo teachers are asked to select a colleague to nominate as Teacher of the Year. Nominees are expected to be dedicated, actively involved in the teaching profession, involved in their community and willing to participate in the corporation and the State Teacher of the Year competitions. They must also have a minimum of six years teaching experience, three of which in East Allen County Schools. A selection committee of union representatives, who are teachers in the building, and the principal select the winner from the list of nominees. An EACS overall winner is then selected from the pool of building winners. That decision will be made in April.

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By McKenna Kelley

Opinion page editor

School resource officer enters the halls of Leo

Officer Brandi Leininger PHOTO BY MCKENNA KELLEY

East Allen County Schools has recently been grant-ed $50,000 for school resource officers and other school safety measures. With that money Leo Jr. / Sr. High School was one of the seven schools for which Officer Brandi Leini-nger is a school resource officer. Officer Leininger has been coming to the school for a little over a month, but her offi-cial start date was March 3, 2014. Her primary duty is to keep the students and staff safe. During the day, Leininger walks the halls and checks for any safety issues. “If any criminal activ-ity occurs, it is my responsi-bility to address that,” Leini-nger said. “I also have police department related things that I have to take care of.” There was nothing spe-cific that happened that caused the school to have officer Le-ininger brought here. Princi-pal, Neal Brown III, said that safety is a year-round priority. “Every school in the

country is worried about safe-ty,” Brown said. “This is just a pro-active action we’re taking.” Leininger’s main job is to make a positive connection and promote a safe environment for both the students and staff. Of-ficer Leininger will be going into different classrooms, talking with

students about school safety and law enforcement issues. For ex-ample, health class would be a class that she would speak in. She will also be a member of the Leo School Crisis team, which meets a couple times a year. They meet and discuss procedures to follow if and when a crisis were to happen.

Assistant Principal Den-ny Kern and Brown both said they don’t believe that having officer Leininger in the building has changed the way students act during school. Brown said that she wasn’t brought here to Leo High School because of the stu-dents’ behavior. She was brought

here simply for safety measures. Officer Leininger does not have a certain schedule of when she comes to Leo. Her schedule is random and varies each week. She comes to LHS a couple of times per week unless there is something that requires more attention. In that case, she said that she is available to admin-istration all week long if needed. She breaks up her time primarily between three high schools in-cluding Leo Jr. / Sr. High School, Woodlan Jr. / Sr. High School, and Heritage Jr. / Sr. High School. Leo Jr. / Sr. High School plans to have officer Leininger next year as well. Next year she will be here in the building, along with a K-9 officer. Her office is located in the attendance office. Officer Leininger said that she enjoys coming to the schools and interacting with the students. Her primary goal here is to build relationships with the students and staff. She also added that she wants to assure everyone’s safety at the school. “I look forward to build-ing positive relationships with the students at my schools, but I will not shy away from making an ar-rest if one is needed,” Leininger said. “After all, it is part of my job.”

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Safety of schools has become a major priority for all school districts. According to Ken Folks, Superintendent of Schools, East Allen County Schools has committed themselves to provide the safest possible environment for their students and staff. East Allen wants to assure all parents and guardians that their kids are kept safe at all times while at school. All East Allen County schools still follow the same emergency distress codes that were issued for the 2013-2014 school year. There are a total of five codes that the schools follow: supervised movement, no movement, shelter in place, lockdown, and evacuation. Recently EACS has been reviewing its lockdown procedures. In the traditional lockdown, students and staff are instructed to lock their classroom doors, turn off lights, hide in a far corner of the classroom, and remain calm and quiet while the intruder is present. On Feb. 18, Folks recommended that the EACS Board approve a new lockdown procedure that experts around the country believe will increase the safety of students and staff during an active shooter incident. The new lockdown procedure is called ALICE. ALICE is a five step action plan. First

step is Alert, informing people that a crisis situation exists. The second step is lockdown: lock all doors and hide according to established procedures. The third step, inform, is about giving brief, specific, periodic updates about the crisis situation. The fourth step is counter, which is when in an encounter with a perpetrator distract, delay, or defend if necessary. The fifth and final step is evacuate. This step simply means to get out of all “harm’s way.” According to Folks, instead of the relying on a typical static lockdown procedure, the ALICE concept encourages people to make decisions based on the specific crisis at hand. The ALICE protocol has been supported by many teachers, students, and parents. Leo Jr. /Sr. High School’s principal Neal Brown III is in support with the change as well. “I don’t know too much about the ALICE protocol because staff members have yet to be trained, but this upgrade seems like it will be beneficial to the schools,” Brown said. “Students and staff members’ safety is a top priority.” ALICE was approved by the EACS Board at the board meeting on March 3. Staff members of all EACS schools will be required to take classes provided by the ALICE Training Institute to assure they are well educated on what to do when emergency situations occur. The ALICE method will help provide students and staff with a variety of options to help enhance their safety when in a crisis of an armed intruder.

Alyssa GrossA&E Page Editor

NEWS

Fort Wayne restaurants shut downFood joints are being forced to close down after multiple health safety violations

The Fort Wayne-Al-len County Department of Health has the obligation to shut down restaurants with rodents or other pests. Ac-cording to WANE-TV, the de-partment has shut down 13 restaurants this year alone. The total number of restaurants closed throughout the entire year of 2013 was 23. This year has just begun, and Fort Wayne has already had over half of last year’s restaurant closings.These restaurants include the Mandarin, Red Rok Saloon, Apollo Coventry Cinemas, Naked TChopstix, Lakeside Café, Pizza by Vito’s, the Rib Room, Asakusa Japanese Res-taurant, Dicky’s Wild Hare,

China Garden, Teppanyaki Grill & Buffet, and both lo-cations of Atz’s Ice Cream. Eight of these 13 restaurants were closed due to cockroaches, three

Kenzie JoefredaOpinion Page Editor

were due to rodents, and two were due to pests. It only takes discov-ering one cockroach in a fa-cility for the Department of Health to shut it down,

according to WANE-TV.Many of these restaurants have re-opened after being shut down for only a few days.Asakusa was closed as of Feb. 24, but re-opened the next day.

The restaurant The Mandarin, which is located in Fort Wayne, was shut down twin in two months.PHOTO BY MACKENZIE JOEFREDA

Teppanyaki Grill & Buffet is another restaurant that has re-opened. The facility was closed on Mar. 4, but later re-opened that next day, Mar. 5.Dicky’s Wild Hare was also approved by the Depart-ment of Health to re-open. The Mandarin has been shut down twice this year. It was first shut down on Jan. 29. The restaurant later re-opened, but then was closed again. According to Indiana’s News Center, when health in-spectors went into the Man-darin on Feb. 25, because of complaints of cockroaches climbing up the wall, they re-ported finding a live cockroach in the kitchen, a dying cock-roach under the dishwasher, and a minimum of 10 dead cockroaches in the facility The Mandarin was approved to be re-opened again on Feb. 26.The Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health expects people to notify them of any food related complaints so they can get the problem tak-en care of as soon as possible.

Students begin to use the new iPad app Evernote during school

A new application students are using on their iPads is Evernote. Evernote is a free application that allows students and teachers to stay organized and on top of their work. Users can spot this app in the app store when they type in Evernote and see an elephant with a green background. With this app users can take

By Lexi KingFeature Editor

notes, record voice reminders, and view presentations. If a user is looking for a specific section in their notes, they can search a keyword and those keywords will become highlighted. One key feature of this application is that a user can connect Evernote to other apps and different products they may use. Also, users can organize their notes by notebooks and tags. Students and teachers can share notes with friends and colleagues via Facebook and Twitter.

Freshman Alexis Seibel uses the app Evernote

The Parent Advisory Committee, or PAC for short, is a new committee, made by Principal Neal Brown with a goal of gathering input from parents of Leo Jr./ Sr. High School. The purpose of the PAC is to not only relinquish power to the parents, but to gather their input on policies and procedures. Brown would like to brainstorm with the parents how to implement the procedures and policies, as well, as he does with the Student Advisory Committee (SAC).

There are two other advisory committees already implemented at Leo Jr./Sr. High School. These include the SAC and the Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC). All three of these programs share a sole purpose: gaining input from everyone on how to better the school and the learning environment in general. The Parent Advisory Committee will consist of parents, comprehensive of grades seven through 12. Thirty parents- some couples and some individuals- have been invited to take part in this opportunity to have their voices heard by not only the administration of Leo Jr./Sr. High School, but by the school board and perhaps even the state. “I believe that this will act as a vehicle to receive parent input,” Brown said. The first official meeting of the PAC will be held on Tues, March 18, at 6:30 p.m..

By Lindsey SharpNews Page Editor

Parent Advisory Commitee to be implemented in late March

Saftey of schools gets reevaluated

PHOTO BY LEXI KING

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Senior Maddie Hursch continues the tradition of senior ceiling tiles

By Alyse JenkinsSports page editor

PHOTO BY ALYSE JENKINSSenior Maddie Hursch holds her completed senior ceiling tile.

Coney Island celebrates 100 year anniversaryFort Wayne’s famous hot dog stand has been opened since 1914 and continues to keep a steady flow of loyal customers

“Divergent” attracts large crowd of fansBy Allie Dearing

Special page editor

By Kelsey CarrollSpecial page editor

A neon sign in Fort Wayne’s histroical Coney Island. on Main Street

Fort Wayne’s fa-mous Coney Island cel-ebrates 100 years of service. Coney Island opened in 1914, and Russ Choka’s fa-ther-in-law, Vasil Eshcoff, be-came a co-owner in 1916. When Eshcoff’s health was failing in the late 1950s, Choka stepped in as owner. The restaurant is now co-owned by Choka’s daugh-ter Kathy Choka and long-time worker Jimmy Todoran. The customers have an option of nine different food items to choose from, which includes a Coney Island hot dog, a cheese dog, chili soup, oven baked beans, hamburg-er, cheeseburger, pie or chips, but the most ordered item is a Coney dog. A Coney dog con-sists of their unique chili sauce, mustard and onions. They are known for their chili soup be-ing more soup-like than what is typically thought of as chili. The restaurant is most known for having coke in glass bottles, which continues the theme of an old-school feel. Other drink options include regular and diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, grape pop, red pop, root beer, regu-lar and diet 7Up, coffee or tea. Coney Island is an

iconic restaurant central to the downtown area of Fort Wayne. For the past 99 years Coney Island has only accept-ed cash. They announced in February that for the first time in history that they would be now accepting credit and debit cards. The news has caused many people to talk about it. For some it is great, but oth-ers are disappointed because

they are so attached to the old-school feel of the restaurant. “It was a real slow part of the year – compli-cated because of the weath-er,” said co-owner Choka “It was like a spark was gener-ated by this. People were real cheerful and enthusiastic.” The waiters and wait-resses of Coney Island are not allowed to write down the

customers’ orders. They are required to “memorize” the order and then relay it back to the person making the food by shouting across the coun-ter. Each member of Coney Island team does a number of jobs, including chopping and preparing food, cook-ing food, or serving food. From being able to walk in through the kitchen

to sitting at the bar and drink-ing Coke from glass bottles, Coney Island’s old-school feel has never wavered. Coney Island is lo-cated on 131 W Main St, Fort Wayne, IN and is open seven days a week. Their hours are 7:00 am to 9:30 pm Monday-Thursday, 7:00 am to 10:30 pm Friday-Saturday, and 9:00 am to 8:30 pm on Sundays.

Senior Maddie Hursh made a senior tile while in her independent study for teacher Mike Bearman. Hursh’s senior tile is her favorite art project so far. The project has taken her quite some time because she had to gather all the pictures and she free handedly drew the quote on the ceiling tile. The quote says, “At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough… and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.” “My pictures on the tile show good news and headlines about the great accomplishments of our world,” said Hursh. Her favorite type of art to do is piecing together collages with Bearman’s old “National Geographic” books from time periods anywhere in the 1900s. Art has always

interested Hursh; she loves creating pieces of art or just anything that involves art. With her interest in art she is also interested in music and literature. “There is just

something about making something new and beautiful out of something so old and historic,” said Hursh. Hursh still has five art projects to do while in her independent study.

One of the highly anticipated movies coming out this spring is the movie “Divergent.” The action-adventure film has gained a lot of buzz from people who have read the “Divergent” trilogy by Veronica Roth and seen the movie “The Hun-ger Games” based on the trilogy by Suzanne Collins. “Divergent” is set in futuristic Chicago, Ill. All the people were separated into what they called “fac-tions” to group them based on their human features and virtues. Beatrice Prior, being played by Shailene Woodley, is one of the many 16-year-olds who have to decide what faction they want to spend the rest of their lives. There are five dif-ferent factions and they each symbolize a specific charac-teristic. Abnegation is known for their selflessness and always putting others first. Candor is known for their honesty and never wanting to lie. Amity is known for their kindness and willingness to help others. Erudite is known for their knowledge and ea-gerness to learn. Last but not least are the Dauntless, known for their courage and bravery. Before Beatrice, who later renames herself as Tris, goes to the choosing ceremo-ny to decide on her faction, she goes to take her aptitude test to tell her what faction she would fit best in. During the aptitude test, Tris is inject-ed with a serum that puts her

under a hallucination. While in a hallucination, the test proc-tor can set the tests to whatever they want, just to see their reac-tion. Instead of having one fac-tion that dominates over others based on her reactions, she gets three factions. This only means one thing; she is Divergent. Between the book and the movie, most fans think that the book is better. Veronica Roth is able to elaborate more on cer-tain aspects that they couldn’t take as long to talk about in the movie. Because of this, the movie feels very rushed and fast paced because there is so much detail put into the book. All in all, the book is better than the movie just be-cause it is able to go into more detail and doesn’t have to go as quickly through scenes. Even though the book is bet-ter, Neil Burger does a great job directing an amazing film.

“Divergent”’s theatrical release poster.

PROVIDED BY ALYSE JENKINS

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Spring break 2014 has finally arrived. Many people stay home for spring break, whether they don’t have the money to go anywhere, or they just don’t want to go anywhere. Freshman Allie Feldman is staying at home for break, but she’s not dreading it. Feldman likes spring break because she likes to have a break from school and to sit at home and relax. She also likes spending time with her friends and going to the Glenbrook mall to shop with them. She really likes shopping so the mall is her home away from home. Feldman’s other favorite part of spring break is sleeping in. Feldman’s best spring break memory would have to be the time she spent with her friends. “It was warm outside, the sun was shining, so we dyed shorts, and tie-dyed shirts,” she said.This Indiana weather has put a damper on Feldman’s sunny days; she wishes that she could be someplace warm over spring break.“Florida would be great right now,” she said. “Tanning on the beach, under the hot sun would be awesome,” Even though she isn’t going anywhere, Feldman will still be able to find things to do in Indiana.

Freshman Rachel Neidich is also staying home for break. She likes to spend time with her friends during break but really wishes she could spend a week in the Caribbean. Neidich likes to sleep, eat, and spend time with family and friends during break. “Last spring break my friends and I tried to bleach shorts, but they turned out orange instead,” Neidich said. “So we ended up tie-dying them. My friend’s bathroom smelled so bad and it was so messy. We laughed for hours.” There are many activities to do during spring break in Fort Wayne. According to the Visit Fort Wayne website, opening night for the TinCaps is April 3. Fort Wayne TinCaps are playing the Great Lake Loons at 7:05 p.m. According to Visit Fort Wayne website, the end of March is bringing an abundance of arts to Fort Wayne. There are many musicals and plays going on for all ages. Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is one, and “Willy Wonka” is another. According to tripadvisor.com there are also many restaurants to go to for a night out on the town, whether it is Asian, seafood, or a juicy steak, Fort Wayne has it all. There’s also the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo for animal lovers or the Allen County Public Library for the bookworms.

By Morgan YinglingSports page editor

Students share their plans for staying home during spring break

Get to know junior Dustin Lukemire

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Leo student opens up his heart and home to a friend in needBy Mackenzie Joefreda

Opinion page editor

PHOTO PROVIDED BY TREG HABERKORNSeniors Treg Haberkorn and Casey Neves pose for a selfie

For years, people have been performing random acts of kindness for others. A ran-dom act of kindness can be defined as a selfless act done by a person in order to cheer up someone. Senior Treg Haberkorn and his family have shown an act of kindness to graduate Casey Neves. Haberkorn and Neves first became friends when Haberkorn gave him a ride to the library one day. “We talked for a while and realized we had so much in com-mon,” Neves said. “I guess you could say I started to like him then.” The two didn’t see each other that often, but oc-casionally they would see each other at volleyball, foot-ball, and basketball games. When Thanksgiving came that year, they both went to Haberkorn’s girlfriend’s house to have dinner with her and her family. Neves and Haberkorn continued to talk more after that. “I had a deep respect for him and enjoyed spend-ing time with him,” said Neves. One afternoon in No-vember, due to personal reasons, Neves was thrown out of his home and told never to return. He called Haberkorn and told him what had happened, and Haberkorn’s family decided to take him in. Neves continued his second senior year while taking classes on Compass Odyssey. He then completed the minimum re-quirements for graduating and regained employment at his pre-vious job at the Olde Town Diner. The Haberkorns have

taken the time to put Neves in a position where he can improve himself. “They help me study for my learner’s per-mit and drive me to work,” said Neves. “Also, they help me save the money I earn from my job so I can even-tually live on my own.” Neves’ life has changed since he’s lived with the Haberkorns. He has made new friends and excellent grades. “I have met people who have shaped me into a better man,” Neves said. Neves has also started working full time. He has learned how to bet-ter manage his money.

“I feel like everything I do here is appreciated,” said Neves. “I no longer have lone-ly feelings of resentment and paranoia. Every day when I come home from work I feel relaxed and safe. No one is screaming at me, and I feel like I’m in a safe environment.” Neves and Haber-korn’s friendship has re-mained strong over this period of time. Neves said he will be deeply saddened to see Haber-korn leave for college this fall. “As for my attitude towards life, I am content,” said Neves. “I now have structure and balance. Before this chapter in my life, my at-titude determined I was hope-less, but I have a plan now.”

PHOTO BY: EMILY HEMMELGARN

Is there anything you wish would come back in fashion?

Parachute pants. They never should’ve gone out.

When playing tic-tac-toe, do you usually pic X or O?

The X because everyone knows it’s better.

If you could invite any celebrity to prom, who would you ask?

Emma Roberts because she’s a total babe.

Do you have any irrational fears?

Black widows. *shivers*

What does the most recent text in your phone say?

My mom texted me “leftovers are for dinner.”

Do you have a celebrity lookalike?

I’ve been told I look like Brian from the Breakfast Club.

How do you feel about Flappy Bird?

It ruined my life.

What is the 10th picture in your phone a photo of?

A cat in duck pajamas. Don’t ask.

What would your DJ name be?DJ Mom Jeans.

When is the best time to wear a striped sweater?

All the time.

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Central Park

The Subway

Times Square Broadway

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New York City 2014Journalism students take a trip to the Big Apple

Broadway

Central Park

6th Avenue

Columbia University Conference

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1st- Seniors 2nd- Freshmen 3rd- Sophomores4th- Juniors

Class Tourney Class Tourney

Cornhole

Dodgeball

EatingContest

Volleyball

Seniors kiss the competition away

Boys Basketball

Photos by: Alix Faulkner, Chandler Fields and Jordan Eldridge

Lip Sync

Page 8March 27, 2014 OPINION

School, extracur-ricular activities and jobs take part in the daily lives of the majority of students. Being a student can be difficult for many different rea-sons. They have to worry about being a good student, doing well in whatever extracurricu-lar activity they are a member of, and about being a good employee who can make their own money. Not every student has a job, but many have jobs. Going to school is al-ready a lot to handle for some students. They go to school all

day, and then come home and usually they have homework to do, and if not, they may have practice for sports, rehearsal for drama or band practice. On top of that, some students may work right when they get off school. If they have school all day, come home and go straight to work, then have homework to do; that's a lot for a student to handle. There are several different ac-tivities students take part in outside of school and school takes up majority of the day. It's very difficult to accomplish all the tasks that students are expected to ac-complish. They have many obstacles thrown at them dur-ing the years of high school. There will always be stress involved whether it has to do

with school, home life, work, sports, drama, band, or any other extracurricular activities. There are many expec-tations of students. They are expected to be great students that do all their homework, pass all quizzes and tests and get a passing grade overall in the class. They are expected to perform well at work and do whatever is to be done. They are expected to do great in sports, drama, band and oth-er activities. They also have a life of their own outside of all of that. They have a home life that may be extremely stressful for some. It's hard to cope with all the activities and do each of those activities right or well. There comes a point where students get tired of all the expectations. This is why

some may not perform well at school. Maybe they have per-sonal or family issues at home. Maybe they are exhausted from going to school, doing an after-school activity, working, and doing homework all in one day. Many students don't get much sleep because they have to stay up so late and fin-ish their homework or study for a quiz or test the next day. Say Bob wakes up at 6:30 a.m. to get ready for school and school starts at 7:45 a.m. He goes to school and has seven different classes to focus on throughout the day and perform well in each of those classes. School gets out at 2:55p .m. After school he goes straight to basketball practice and that ends at 5:30 p.m. Then he goes home and gets ready to

go to work from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Bob doesn't get home from work until 10:00 p.m. He gets home and has to study for a test and finish his math home-work. It's already 10 o'clock at night and he hasn't even started his homework yet. He may not finish his homework and studying until midnight or even later. Then he will only get about six hours of sleep or less and then he has to wake up the next day and repeat his day again. This may be the daily life of several students. It can be absolutely stressful and exhausting to be a student. Every student has a different school day and daily sched-ule, but either way, many don't realize how much pressure students have to fulfill all the expectations they are given.

By Alix Faulkner

Editor-in-chief

By McKenna KelleyOpinion page editor

Student life tiring when juggling several different activities

Pressure from consumers force fast food places to change

With the obesity rate continuing to climb and be-come a prevalent health prob-lem, many Americans are starting to become more con-scious about what they eat. Consumers are not only watching what they eat themselves, but they are be-ginning to pay more atten-tion to what popular fast food chains are putting in foods. Food blogger Vani Hari with her blog “Food Babe” has been exposing ingredi-ents that are hiding in food.

On her food blog Hari has been reporting and peti-tioning large food companies to change their products. Her latest post to get national atten-tion was her exposure of Sub-way bread containing a chemi-cal also found in yoga mats and shoe rubber. According to Food Babe within 24 hours there were 50,000 signatures on Hari’s on-line petition and within a few days there were over 480 stories worldwide about the petition. Consumers’ grow-ing knowledge about what is healthy and about the types of products being put in food are major causes of pressure from consumers. With the In-ternet food blog like “Food Babe” bloggers are able to

share their discoveries with more consumers and faster. They have also been able to start numerous online peti-tions and get readers to con-tact the companies via social media to pressure for change. Subway is not the only big company that Hari and her readers have gotten to change their recipes. Companies like Chick-Fil-A, Kraft, Whole Foods, McDonalds, General Mills and Chipotle have all made changes to their products due to pressure from “Food Babe” and consumers. Recent-ly the site has brought atten-tion to Chick-Fil-A using dyes, corn syrup and TBHQ in many of their products and this year they will be removing all those

ingredients. They have also an-nounced that they will begin the five year process of making their chicken antibiotic free. Not only are people calling for a change in what restaurants are putting in their food, but they are beginning to cut back on fast food altogether. According to CNN, in 2010 adults were getting an average of 11.3% of their daily calories from fast food, which was down slightly from 12.8% in 2006. Although the change is slight, it is a good sign that Americans are slowly starting go away from fast food to healthy options. With Americans becoming more conscious of their health many fast food restaurants

have added “healthier” op-tions to their menu. Taco Bell added their new cantina items, McDonalds added new egg white breakfast sandwiches, and numer-ous companies have add-ed healthier side options like apples and yogurt. With the combi-nation of Americans start-ing to pay closer attention to their health and being more aware of what is being put in their food, fast food chains are under more pres-sure to change their menus. Although the changes are slow, it is a move in the right direction to lowering obe-sity and health problems that are rising in America.

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Prisoners have some Constitutional rights, such as protection from unequal treatment based on their age, gender, race, religion, or national origin. Most importantly they are protected from sexual harassment and sex crimes. A prison in Alabama, Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, has had many problems with their staff. Recently there have been inmates who were raped, harassed, and abused. One inmate, Monica Washington, was raped by a guard. He got her pregnant and she gave birth to a baby girl. Another inmate said she was groped and kissed while she was cleaning a trailer used for church services. She felt like after she complained about it, she was regarded with suspicion. “It’s a constant walk of fear,” she said regarding the conditions at Tutwiler. This prison and many others have had many instances like these. Female prisoners have said that sometimes the only way to get toiletries was to allow the guards to, “do as they please.” Other times inmates overheard guards

By Morgan YinglingSports page editor

OPINION

By Allie DearingSpecial page editor

Many teenage girls are looking towards models for in-spiration as to what their bodies should look like. When almost all models nowadays are air-brushed or “touched up” with computers, these expectations or standards are unrealistic. According to cdc.gov, the average height for women is 5 feet 3 inches and the aver-age weight is 166 pounds. In the real world, anyone would think those numbers are com-pletely normal. Yet in the mod-el world, stores and fashion lines wouldn’t dare to put their clothes in a “plus size” wom-an. They’re looking for that “perfect” 5 foot 11 inches, 120 pound woman. Trying to fit into that look shouldn’t be some-thing teens are pushing for. American Eagle and Aerie have come up with a new campaign called “Aerie Real.” The campaign is de-signed to show real models, without photo shop or air brushing. According to www.fastcocreate.com, Dana Seguin, Aerie’s senior director of mar-keting, said, “We wanted to offer our customers something different, a real experience.” Even though Aerie may be receiving negative comments from other com-petitors about choosing to not Photoshop their models, many teenagers are going to benefit from it. While try-ing on clothes, they won’t be

Aerie store launches new “real” campaign for girls

Prisoners need rights justified

Sophomore Laura Franco shops in Aerie store.

The company shows teens that not all women are “perfect”

PHOTO BY ALLIE DEARING

talking about the women’s bodies while they used the bathroom or showered. Tutwiler Prison is part of a series of troubled prisons across the country. The federal government says that Tutwiler’s conditions are so bad that it’s most likely unconstitutional. State Senator of Alabama, Cam Ward, said about the situation to the “New York Times,” “Yes we need to rectify the crimes that happened at Tutwiler, but going forward it’s a bigger problem than just Tutwiler. We’re dealing with a box of dynamite.” Prisons all around the country have had issues like the ones at Tutwiler. Just getting rid of the staff won’t solve anything. Inmates need to feel safe while in jail. They shouldn’t have to be scared to take a shower or use the bathroom. Yes, the inmates did something to be in jail, and yes they should be punished for it, but jail, work, and being watched 24/7 should be punishment enough. Now they are being mistreated by the people who are paid to watch them and keep them in line. It’s appalling to see what happens to people who are serving their time so they can see their family. A clinical psychologist at Tutwiler told “New York Times,” “I’ve worked in prisons for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this.” He also said that the conditions at Tutwiler appalled him. Inmates have the right to be free from sexual harassment and sex crimes according to the Constitutional rights they have in prison.

looking at the model who is a size 0 with perfect skin. In-stead, they will be looking at a model who looks just like them and has flaws of her own. Understandably, de-signers and sellers want their products to look the best that they can, but when they’re putting every single piece of clothing on an unrealistic looking girl, it’s hard for a girl to imagine what they would look like with it on as well.As a teenager, especially a girl, it is so hard to fit into what so-ciety thinks is perfect. Some girls are afraid to go shopping

at the mall because they don’t think they will fit into clothes. Some girls will try on ten dif-ferent outfits in the morning because they think they look fat, and end up just wear-ing an oversized sweatshirt. The Aerie Real campaign is such a great idea. It shows girls that even models can have imperfections. It shows that they are proud to show off the real them and aren’t afraid to hide it. Girls all around the country are going to be gain-ing confidence by seeing this campaign, and they can final-ly see that they are beautiful.

Page 10March 27, 2014 OPINIONWinter weather creates chaos for students Cancellations make focusing on schoolwork difficult for everyone

By Alyssa Gross

A & E editor

Chivalry thought to be dead in modern society

By McKenna Kelley

Opinion editor

PHOTO BY KENZIE JOEFREDA

Snow covers every inch of snow in Sophomore Kenzie Joefreda’s yard, resulting in a cancelation.

This semester has been quite the whirlwind. With cancella-tion after cancellation and delay after delay, it’s been ridiculous. This winter has taken a toll on many students and their nor-mal routine of going to school. The first semester ended right before Christmas break, mean-ing that the second semester would start when students returned from break. Unfor-tunately, we had a huge snow storm and this stretched our break to three weeks long. This long break may have been fun while it lasted, but once it final-ly ended and we had to come back to school, it wasn’t easy to stay focused. To go from an environment of being with friends and family, not having homework, not being in school for three whole weeks, to com-ing to school and having to re-member where we left off three weeks ago, is not fun at all. The cancellations and delays con-tinued all throughout January

and February as well. We’ve had a total of 13 cancellations this year and many delays. It’s very difficult for students to stay up to date with what they’re learning in class with the cancellations and delays. The cancellations are little breaks from students’ brains that make it rather difficult to

keep their minds rolling and 100% focused on school work and learning. The delays short-en the days, which are better than cancellations, but there are still some disadvantages. Some teachers may feel rushed to get through a lesson on two hour delay days, which isn’t fun for students when they

have to quickly learn a lesson and move on so quickly. This isn’t the teacher’s fault, most of the time at least. The teach-ers have to get through their standards of finishing certain lessons. It’s no one’s fault re-ally. It’s a challenge for both students and teachers. There have been many weeks

we have gone to school once or twice, maybe three times and then the weekend comes. For the longest time, it seemed like students forgot what a full week of school was like. The shortened weeks and days have made it hard to get anything done in class. When we have two hour delays, classes are only 30 minutes long. Students can’t get much accomplished in that limited amount of time.The issue of having barely any grades comes in play too. For example, some students may only have four or five assign-ments in the grade book for this semester. If one grade is bad, it affects their grade much more than if they had 15 or 20 grades. With having midterms coming up, it can be rather stressful for students to keep their grades up and keep up with the lessons. It can be dif-ficult already to keep up with all seven classes, but when the weather causes so many cancellations and delays, it re-ally takes a toll on students’ normal learning schedule, grades, and focus in class.

Chivalry is a word that many of us know of but don’t exactly abide to. Being chivalrous shows very important qualities that help separate the rude from the polite. Qualities ex-emplified by chivalry include courage, honor, maturity, and loyalty for others.According to Wikipedia, chivalry began as a code observed by Knights that deter-mined their behavior both in and out of battle. The code of chivalry was founded upon the ideas of courage, honor, and loyalty. Hundreds of years later chiv-alry still exists but is very rare to find. Chivalry is typically depict-ed as ways to act around women. It should not be thought of in such a strict way. Chivalry should basically be the fundamental rule of how to treat all people with respect, loyalty, and dignity for both men and women. In many ways chivalry has died throughout the years. Now this, of course, does not mean that all chiv-alry is gone; it just means that the number of chivalrous acts is at a low. Back about 50 years chivalry was com-mon. If a person wasn’t chivalrous, he or she was depicted as a rude human being, according to past generations. So why has chivalry died so much in the past years? Many could say it’s because views on individu-als have changed. Most women used to be depicted as weak people who

needed help and guidance from a man, and men were willing to be the guard or their “knight in shining armor.” Now in today’s society wom-en no longer want to be known as the weaker sex; they want to be known as independent and strong as any man. Since many women are becoming so defiant to being looked at as weak, men have simply stopped acting like gentle-men. Men and women have simply forgotten the simple acts of chivalry or politeness that humans once possessed. Society has become too fixat-ed on individuality and the “all about me” that it’s beginning to forget about others. Men or even women hardly ever open the door for others or even simply say thank you when someone does something kind. Dates between men and women have gone from guys walking up to the girl’s front door, talk-ing to her parents before leaving, and opening the car door for her to tex-ting the girl “Hey, I’m here come out.” while he simply stays idle in his car. The society today needs to understand that one can be seen as strong and independent while still ac-cepting simple acts of chivalry or per-forming them. More doors need to be opened for one another, more pleases, thank yous, and you’re welcomes need to be said, more chairs need to pulled out for women, and simply more chiv-alrous acts need to be performed. It is a sad truth that the definition of chivalry seems to no longer hold that much meaning to anyone. As a whole, the modern society no longer recog-nizes chivalry’s concepts as worthwhile.

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Page 13March 27, 2014 SPORTSLeo Hockey sweeps the competitonLions become First team in Fort Wayne history to win trifecta

Seniors Nick Janiszewski and Austin Bollinger are taking up the puck against Carroll.

8 things unknown about.....Boys Track and Girls Track

Wrestlers share secrets to success on the matBy Lindsey Sharp

News page editor

1. All of our seniors are

going to Trine.

2. We all wish we had

hair like Logan Leiter.

3. We do cart-wheels as

an active warm-up.

4. mutiple runners have

been to the junior olym-

pics.

5. coach waybright al-

ways sounds sarcastic.

By Kelsey Carroll Special page editor

PHOTO BY KELSEY CARROLL

1. The distance girls like to play tag on their easy days.

2. We do cartwheels as part of our ac-tive warm-up.

3. we eat like el-ephants after practices/meets.

PHOTO BY LEXI KING

PHOTO BY LEXI KING

Junior Chris Horn stretches senior Patrick Richardville.

Seniors Leah Harding, Marinna Davidson, Abbi Grismore and freshmen Michaela Sauer, Claire Greer and Melinda Newhard do their warmups before practice.

The wrestling team of Leo Jr./Sr. High School has had one of the most successful seasons of its existence - break-ing records, winning titles, and finishing out the season with a jaw-dropping record. "We prepared for ev-ery competition by working hard every day, but it helps to have a great coaching staff. They deserve a lot of credit," junior Eddie Loraine said. "We practiced a lot, even when school was cancelled due to weather," coach Josh Dommer said. "We were always learning more, and they were always teaching us differ-ent styles, or moves to use in certain situations," soph-omore Mason Kern said. This year's wres-tling team's winning streak was kicked off by finish-ing first in both the Allen County Athletic Conference's (ACAC) tournament, and in the ACAC round robin. "We had six indi-vidual ACAC champions," senior Aaron Eicher said. Shortly after, the wrestling team won the sectional title, making his-tory for Leo Jr./Sr. High School's wrestling program. "For the first time in program history we earned a sectional title," Loraine said. Winning the sec-tional title was just the begin-ning for Leo's high school

wrestling team this season. "Individually, 11 of our wrestlers quali-fied to compete at the re-gional level," Dommer said. Seven wres-tlers from Leo Jr./Sr. High School made it the semi-state competition, which was held at the Fort Wayne War Memorial Coliseum. "We had seven guys from our team make it to the semi-state competition: Chase Hissong, Eddie Loraine, Is-sac Eicher, Bryce Hager, Ryan Fawcett, David Hepler, and Aaron Eicher," Kern said. One wrestler from Leo qualified to compete at the state level, Eddie Lo-raine. Indiana's Individual State competition was held at Banker's Life Fieldhouse, in downtown Indianapolis, Ind. The wrestling team also placed fourth at the IHSW-CA (Indiana High School Wres-tling Coaches Association) Team State meet this year. The IHSWCA Team State meet was held at Westfield High School. Leo Jr./Sr. High School's wrestling team is in the class titled 2A. There are three classes in total in all of Indiana. The team fin-ished out the season with a grand total of 19 wins and four losses, Duel Record. "As a team, we've accomplished a lot," se-nior David Hepler said. "We had the best superfans," Loraine said. "Junior Carlie Martin, and freshmen Kelli Loraine and Emily Coolman made it out to every one of our meets."

The Leo Lions hockey team finished their season by winning the 4a state cham-pionship game against Car-mel Gold in a three on three overtime, with a score of two to one. The team ended with a record of 28 wins, nine losses, and four ties, accord-ing to junior Adam Freeby. According to the sta-tistics, the 2013-2014 season was much better than the pre-vious season. In the 2012-2013 season, they were second in the city, second in the league, and lost in the last round of the state tournament pool. During this season, the team won the city championship, was best in the Fort Wayne League, and won the state champion-ship title. In order for the Lions to win the city championship, they had to beat the Carroll Chargers to be the first seed, so they could have a first-round bye. They achieved this and moved on to defeat the Bishop Dwenger Saints in the semi-finals. They played the Char-gers again in the city champi-onship game and won, with a final score of seven to five. "No team has ever won the trifecta of city, best in league, and state be-fore, but we just did," said head coach Dan Schiebel. The Lions also had three of the top five scor-

ing leaders, including senior Nick Janiszewski, who led the league in scoring and as-sisting. Nick Janiszewski scored 23 goals and had 26 assists for a total of 49 points. Sophomore Matt Janiszewski also led the league in goal-tending with one 188 saves. They began the sea-son on Sept. 28, 2013, and

defeated the Homestead Spartans in a shootout, with a score of two to one. The team played league games on Wednesdays and non-league games on the weekends. The Lions also practiced twice a week, on Mondays and Thurs-days. At practice, the players worked on skating and drills. "After a long prac-

tice, our coaches make us skate suicides once in a while," said sophomore Blake Kem. "That's definitely the hardest part of practice." The Lions had a few minor setbacks during the sea-son including injuries, a mix between new players and se-niors, and working together as a team. Freshman Conner

Bonecutter and senior Chase Byerly both agree that one of the few challenges the team faced during the season was working together as a team. "We had to learn how to work together in order to play to the best of our abil-ity," said Byerly. "It was a struggle at the beginning, but now we all get along great."

Page 14March 27, 2014 SPECIAL

MUSIC FESTIVALS 2014MUSIC FESTIVALS 2014

WAKARUSA GOVERNOR’S BALL

AUSTIN CITY LIMITSELECTRIC ZOO NYC SASQUATCH!BUMBERSHOOT

Other big names include....

ELECTRICFOREST

Rothbury, MIJune 26-29

String Cheese Incident, STS9, Zedd, Ms Lauryn

Hill, Matt and Kim, EOTO & more

COACHELLA Indio, CAApril 11-13, April 18-20Outkast, Muse, Arcade Fire, The Knife, Queens of the Stone Age, Beck, Skrillex, Calvin Harris

& more

LOLLAPALOOZA

Chicago, ILAugust 1-3

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Manchester, TNJune 12-15

Elton John, Lionel Richie, Jack White, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, The Avett Broth-ers, Pheonix, Skrillex, Frank Ocean, The Flaming Lips, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Kaskade, Damion Al-barn, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wiz Khalifa, Zedd, Grou-plove, Amos Lee, CHVRCHES, Cage the Elephant,

Broken Bells, Ben Howard, City and Colour, Dr. Dog, Capital Cities, Washed Out, Vance Joy, Real Estate, Ice Cube, Cake, Fitz and the Tantrums, Little Dragon,

Haerts, The Naked and Famous, and more

BONNAROO

Various US

locations

VANSWARPED

TOUR June 15 - August 4Yellowcard, Anberlin, Less Than

Jake, The Devil Wears Prada, Saves the Day & more

Various US

locations

THIS SUMMER