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EDITORIAL STAFFForrest Lewis - Editor-In-ChiefElaine Cunha - Editor-In-Chief

Gabe Schneider - Graphic Designer Anna Nordquist - News Editor

Gillen Martin - Junior News EditorPiper Bazard - Junior News Editor

Sage Fanucchi-Funes - Feature EdiorLauren McCoy - Sports EditorCalvin Ryan - Opinion Editor

Dakota Goodman - A&E EditorDay Robins - Online Editor

Ben McCreath - Media EditorSam Freed - Media Editor

Hawken Ritter - Business ManagerGrace Lovell - Art Director

Molly Salamunovich - Managing EditorShea Lignitz - Copy Editor

Editors’ Box � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 6Blanket A � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 7End of the Dark Room � � � � � � � � 8Valedictorian/Salutatorian � � � � � 9Exit Campbell/Enter Sahlberg � � 10Macdonald Retires � � � � � � � � � � 116 Sporty Seniors Sign � � � � � � � � 12Relay for Life � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 13Senior Map � � � � � � � � � � � � � 14-15Jewelry Boxes � � � � � � � � � � � � � 16AP Statistics Survey Results � � � � 17FLOW � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 18

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Danielle Lehman

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Steve SheetsKaitlin TuckerPatrick PaytonSam WinterJamie Maher

Dayna NaishJulia Sloan

Jonathan DedekanAidan Carroll

Astaria HollandTami Conrad

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ADVISOR/MOTHER

Graduation: June 13, 5:30 pm @ HSU Redwood Bowl

Safe and Sober: June 13, 9 pm - 3 am @ ACC

Sports Physicals: August 8 @ MHS

1st Day of School: August 26

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

The Pepperbox staff hopes you have a fantastic summer! Stay classy Arcata High. See you next year.

BEHIND THE COVEROriginally published June 6, 1969

This issue’s cover features Anna Nordquist (left) and Day Robins (right), recipients of the 2013 Blanket A awards� Nordquist and Robins were given custom designed medals and an embroidered fleece blanket. Article on page 7�

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Quotable�A “Wordle” is a graphic representation where words that are used more frequently in a text ap-pear larger and words that are used less frequently appear smaller. Below is a Wordle of the text from all eight issues of this year’s Pepperboxes.

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Pepperbox used the word “students,” the most com-mon word in all its text

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“Navarre”

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“Taylor”

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perbox used “Arcata”


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Lauren McCoy/PEPPERBOX

Photo courtesy of Taylor Carey

Junior and Senior AP English classes pose for a group picture outside the Angus Bowmer theater on the AP English Ashland trip.

Photo courtesy of Mickenzie Grubb

Photo courtesy of Darcy Robins

Photo courtesy of Will Bagnall

Junior Lauren McCoy stands in front of the track after competing at the state track championships in Fresno.

Senior prom king and queen, Calvin Ryan and Taylor Carey, are all smiles at the Gats-by-themed event.

Covered in paint, Principal Dave Navarre throws a handful of colored powder during the annual Holi celebration.

“Soulja Senior” Syd-ney Boyett runs from oncoming “Jaywalking Juniors” at this year’s Powder Puff game.

EDITORS’ BOX

Journalism was added to our schedules by mistake; a fortuitous mistake. Neither one of us intended on taking Journalism--we were juniors whose planned schedules of AP and honors courses conflict-ed--but the engaging world of the Pepperbox quickly pulled us in.

In 2010, due to budget cuts, the Journalism class at Arcata High School was eliminated, nearly ending a decades-old newspaper program. Fortunately, Danielle Lehman stepped up and agreed to be the volunteer advisor of the Pepperbox, running the entire journalism program as a club. Her inspiring ef-forts rallied interest back into print media, and the next spring the administration reinstated Journalism as a class.

That is when we joined the Pepperbox. Our editorial staff was left with no journalism experience, no money, and only two quasi-functioning computers. 1,500 hours, 34 articles, and 15 issues later, it’s hard to imagine what our lives what have been like these last two years without it.

Inside Room 104 at Arcata High School, everyday is an adventure. Our reporters, editors, graphic de-signers, and sales managers collaborate through lunches, weekends, and late nights to create each issue of the Arcata High School Pepperbox. We may be biased, but Pepperboxers are damn cool people and making the Pepperbox is damn fun.

The combined group effort that produces the Pepperbox extends beyond the students in the classroom. Our phenomenal advisor Danielle Lehman is the most inspiring and life-changing teacher we’ve ever had. Appealing to youth is no easy task, yet Lehman has mastered it with ease. She cultivates our ideas and guides the Pepperbox to publishable quality, all the while respecting students’ power to produce a paper of their own creation. Quite simply, Lehman is brilliant. (Special thank you to Chris Lehman for letting us borrow his wife for oh-so-many eight-hour weekend layout sessions.)

Additionally, our amazing Principal Dave Navarre has supported, promoted, and fed the Pepperbox staff with remarkable enthusiasm. We would also like to thank Western Web for printing the Pepperbox at cost, all the local businesses who advertise with us, our parental photographers-at-large (Darcy Robins and Paul Swenson), and every one of our subscribers who help fund the paper. Finally, we wish to thank our readers, who inspire us to keep on producing. It truly could not exist without you.

As we prepare to depart for college in the fall, we are incredibly proud to announce that the journalism program at Arcata High has a very bright future. Next fall’s class registration came back with 39 sign-ups for the Pepperbox. In an era where NBC’s Brian Williams notes, “The obituary column…is full of the death notices of American daily newspapers,” the Pepperbox, in its 85th consecutive year of print, has persevered.

Forrest LewisEditor-in-Chief

Elaine CunhaEditor-in-Chief &

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NewsJuNe 13, 2013 PePPerboxAHS

Robins, Nordquist win “Blanket A”Piper Bazard

Junior News Editor

Committed. Involved. Dedicated. Hard-work-ing. These are all words that describe seniors

Day Robins and Anna Nordquist, this year’s Blanket A winners. The Blanket A award is given to the top two students of the class of 2013 who are deemed the most influen-tial and active students of the class.

These awards are decided by a panel composed of Dean of Stu-dents Tahnia Campbell, Leadership advisor Wendy Zamboni, senior class advisors Athina Lazaridis and Norma Watson, and two anony-mous students. Eighteen seniors were selected to be nominated for the Blanket A awards, to represent the top 10 percent of the class of 2013. They were asked to submit an academic resume and personal statement, and were evaluated on their contributions to Arcata High over their four years of high school.

Of these eighteen, those who were deemed to be the top nine were awarded with the Tiger A ti-tle, while the remaining nine were named Circle A members. Of the Tiger A winners, four students who were considered particularly dedi-cated and involved with their con-tributions to the school were inter-viewed by the panel in the hopes of winning the Blanket A award. After conducting interviews, the panel de-cided to give the Blanket A awards to Day Robins and Anna Nordquist.

Robins is a very well-rounded student, involved in leadership, sports, and the arts. Serving as ASB president this year and junior class

secretary last year, she has been very involved in student govern-ment. Robins has participated in three sports teams during her time at Arcata High, including four years of varsity soccer, three years of var-sity track (running the 4x400m re-lay and participating in long jump), and three years of basketball. Her leadership skills carry over to sports in the position of varsity soccer team captain. A passionate musi-cian, Robins has been practicing violin for eight years, which has landed her the prestigious standing of co-concert master of the ArMack orchestra. With an interest in envi-ronmental issues, Robins has also been involved with Green Club and co-founded the High School Pledge Alliance, in which students sign a pledge for social and environmen-tal responsibility after graduation. In addition, Robins has volunteered many hours through the National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society clubs, and worked as a re-porter and editor for the Pepperbox.

Nordquist is also a very dedicated student who has enriched this cam-pus with her academic performance and leadership skills. Nordquist is the salutatorian for the class of 2013 (see page 9), with her strong dedication to her AP and honors classes earning her the second high-est GPA. She works with students to pass on her academic talents in the peer tutoring program. She was elected as senior class secretary, as well as National Honor Soci-ety president. A passionate soccer player, Nordquist played one year of junior varsity soccer as team cap-tain and three years of varsity soc-cer. With the same amount of devo-

tion she brings to her academics, Nordquist has been involved with French Honor Society as club sec-retary, participated in Green Club, and worked on the Pepperbox as a reporter and news editor.

Both of the winners were hon-ored to be recognized and receive the awards. Robins thinks her award will help her in college, in many different ways. “I’m glad I have a blanket because I’m going to Vermont next year, and there are five months of winter,” Robins stated. Nordquist holds a very simi-lar view, “I really like the blanket. I slept with it last night; it’s really soft.”

Lauren McCoy/PEPPERBOXThe Circle A, Tiger A, and Blanket A winners pose for a group picture during Senior Awards Night.

Circle A: Shea Lignitz, Rowan McCelland-Bishop, MeganViña, Ashlynn Cox, Sydney Johnson, Latrell Wilson, Will Taylor, Claire Appelmans, Colleen EpperlyTiger A: Elaine Cunha, Kaitlan Tatro, Cameron Wallace, DustinWallis, Hawken Ritter, Molly Salamunovich, Forrest LewisBlanket A: Day Robins, Anna Nordquist

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Emerging from the Dark Ages

Forrest LewisEditor-in-Chief

An Associated Press ar-ticle published in 2011 revealed startling sta-tistics on the fate of

film photography: a decade ago, Americans purchased one billion rolls of film and 19.7 million film cameras every year. Now, only 20 million rolls and under 100,000 film cameras are sold annually.

America, and Arcata High, have entered the digital age. When pho-tography teacher Johanna Mauro returns next fall for her fifth year at AHS, her class will be struc-tured without a darkroom for the first time in over half a century.

The darkroom has grown to be-come an iconic aspect of the arts at AHS. No one seems to know exactly when the darkroom walls were first implanted onto Arcata High School property, but Anne Bown-Crawford, who has been teaching art and photography in the district for 30 years, claims the darkroom was already decades old when she entered the scene.

The decision to remove the darkroom has been in the works for quite some time. Eight years ago, McKinleyville High School eliminated theirs, leaving AHS with the only high school dark-room in Humboldt County. But soon, it became evident that the film photography days were num-bered at AHS. “I kind of saw the writing on the wall a few years ago when every time I went onto

the website to buy supplies, things were disappearing and prices were going up,” Mauro said. “I literally would go on the website to order something, and it would just not even be available.”

As irreplaceable equipment began to deteriorate, Mauro was confronted with a difficult choice. “Things were starting to break and we were either going to have to in-vest money in the darkroom or the move over to digital media,” she stated.

So, after much thought, the teach-ers and faculty of AHS decided the time had come to put an end to the era of film photography. Their dif-ficult decision was influenced by more than just financial incentive: it was practical. “There’s been a huge push in the state of California and nationally for CTE (Career Tech-nical Education) courses,” Mauro said. “Digital photography fits re-ally well into that.”

“People don’t use darkrooms in careers anymore,” Bown-Crawford added.

Students will be able to acquire skills in digital photography that will assist in later careers. “The skills are needed…it’s a digital age,” Principal Dave Navarre said. “It was nice that AHS was able to bridge the gap.”

While the darkroom is being ex-cavated (a process that has already began and will carry on throughout the summer), the entire art wing is getting a facelift. The all-new Mac lab replacing the darkroom will ac-tually be situated in Room 507, cur-rently occupied by art teacher Don-ovan Clark. Clark will in turn move his class to Room 506 to remain an art classroom. An interior door will then be built between Room 507

and 508, for AAI media art students that will be working on projects in both rooms simultaneously.

As the contractors busy them-selves remodeling the art wing, Mauro will spend her summer re-modeling her course. Currently, film photography makes up half of the curriculum of Mauro’s class, and the sudden absence of the darkroom will force her to restructure. “It’s really important to me that it stays a photography class. The computer is going to be the tool in which we discover and explore photography,” Mauro said.

Nonetheless, Mauro has been do-ing an excellent job preparing for a smooth transition. “My number one priority is to make the program strong and the students still feel like it’s a valuable class, so I’ll do what it takes to continue the success of the program. I’ve been collecting excit-ing digital photogra-phy projects. We’re going to start a unit on flipbooks, animated gifs, stop motion, and cinematography.”

The student body, however, will feel the largest impact. As Mauro explained, “There’s something magical about the darkroom,” and fu-ture students will not get the opportunity to cherish in the magic.

Many AHS students were heartbroken by the decision. “It’s sad, the darkroom was the best part of photo. It’s losing a big part of photography,” sopho-

more Rowan Baker said. “Anyone can do digital,” sopho-

more Zoe Ziegler added. “The class will still be really cool, it just won’t be as special.”

Students lucky enough to have taken photography class in previous years felt fortunate for the experi-ence. “I guess it doesn’t effect me that much because I’m a senior, but I’m really sad that no one else gets to use it. It’s really upsetting,” se-nior Sydney Boyett said.

Although difficult to accept, the times they are a changin’. “I still prefer records over CDs and MP3s,” Navarre commented.

“I feel like for the students who have taken photography the last few years, it’s going to be something that will come up later in their life, saying, ‘I was actually in a dark-room,”’ Mauro said.

Decades-old dark-room replaced with digital media lab

Johanna Mauro carries an enlarger to its new home in the boiler room.

Forrest Lewis/PEPPERBOX

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Valedictorian and Salutatorian Gillen Martin

Junior News Editor

Meet the Achievers...Valedictorian: Kiran Suryadevara

“Flowers grow most beautifully where rain falls the hardest,” is an inspirational quote that keeps Kiran Suryadevara going. Incidentally, she got the quote from an ACT exam, which we all know she prob-ably aced. Although Suryadevara is the class of 2013’s valedictorian, she is a lot more than just a scholar. She did win Most Intellectual for her Senior Award, but she has done much more than just achieve aca-demic excellence in her high school career.

Kiran is one of Arcata High’s most involved students: she is trea-surer for the senior class, vice presi-dent of the Spanish Honor Society, an involved Green Club and Nation-al Honor Society member,a cross country and track and field athlete, and a violin player in the ArMack Orchestra. Among her amazing ac-ademic achievements, she has won first place in the Redwood Writing Competition her junior year for an essay on The Adventures of Huck-leberry Finn and she has received a National Merit Scholarship.

Kiran looks up to her father and her friends as role models: “My motivation was in a large part due to my family, they always sup-ported me and my education. I also owe a part to my peers, they are all so driven, and it’s hard not to be driven around them.” Kiran’s success is also derived from a strat-egy of making, achieving, and re-setting personal goals, “achieving what you set out to do feels good,”

Suryadevara stated. Kiran is known around campus

for being the sweet scholar. Always willing to share her knowledge and help her peers, she has tutored in peer tutoring with more patience than most of our faculty. Breez-ing through a schedule chock full of APs, meetings, and events with a positive and modest attitude, our campus will miss Kiran next year.

This fall, Kiran will be attending Northwestern University in Chica-go and she hopes to major in Public Health with minors in Global Health and Spanish. She has already been accepted into a pre-med program in which she is basically already guaranteed admittance into medical school. Although she originally ap-plied as a Biology major, she wants to broaden her horizons. Teen court has helped her become interested in Public Health and has helped her realize her passion for educat-ing her peers. She hopes to travel the world and educate about health. Kiran leaves high school with only one slight regret: not participating in Senior Ditch Day.

Salutatorian: Anna Nordquist“I’ve always liked to do well

in school. It’s definitely about the grades, but it’s also about the education and knowledge, prepar-

ing yourself for life,” Salutatorian Anna Nordquist stated. As the sec-ond most academically achieving student, Nordquist has taken three honors, 12 Advanced Placement, and one college class in her time at Arcata High to achieve the sec-ond highest GPA in the senior class. “I’ve loved all the classes I’ve tak-en,” Nordquist said.

Surprisingly, Anna also finds the time to be involved in many ex-tracurriculars as well; in fact, her senior award is Most Devoted to Extracurricular Activities. She is National Honors Society president, French Honor Society secretary, Senior Class secretary, and a varsity soccer and track and field athlete.

Next year, Anna will attend Uni-versity of California, Los Angeles on a prestigious Regents Scholar-ship. “I’m excited, I think it will be a good fit for me,” Nordquist said. Anna hopes to double major in microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics and neurosci-ence with a double minor in public health and either Africana studies

Gillen Martin/PEPPERBOXFuture doctors Anna and Kiran practice their surgical expertise on an unlucky baby swine.

or French. She wants to be a doc-tor and spend time abroad in Africa working as a doctor and educating about public health and the impor-tance of clean drinking water.

This summer, Anna will be work-ing at a soccer camp and spending quality time with family and friends before she leaves for college. She may even do an EMT training. Anna leaves high school with no regrets.

Salutatorian Anna Nordquist and Valedictorian Kiran Suryade-vara are actually best friends who have been challenging each other academically all throughout high school, so it is only appropriate that they are graduating as the top two students. But although they may have competing GPAs, they don’t seem to be competing with each other. “Every year we study for AP testing together,” Nordquist shared.

These two amazing scholars fin-ish high school with their GPAs separated by 12 thousandths of a percent.

These two amazing scholars finish high

school with their GPAs separated by

12 thousandthsof a percent.


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Exit CampbellElaine Cunha

Editor-in-Chief Astaria Holland

Reporter

Enter Sahlberg

Mr. Sahlberg is making a full circle: coming back

as Dean of Students at Ar-cata High for the 2013-2014 school year, a position he held previously in 2008. Currently, he is teaching history at Six Rivers, but he is looking forward to mov-ing up in the ranks once again to reclaim his previ-ous job.

“I’m excited to work with Mr. Monge and Mr. Na-varre and contribute to the team,” Sahlberg said as he looks forward to the school year ahead. Attendance and discipline will be Mr. Sahlberg’s main responsibilities and concerns.

“Attendance is key to success be-cause if you're not in the classroom its hard to be success-ful,” he ex-plained.

“ M r s . Campbell has done a great job,” Sahlberg c o m m e n t e d about the for-mer dean. M r. S a h l b e r g has many plans for how to be Arcata’s ideal dean. He plans to be “out and

about” roaming campus as well as mobile and accessi-ble while supporting teach-ers, students, and the staff.

Arcata High Principal Dave Navarre is excited about Mr. Sahlberg’s new position: “I think it’s going to be great. Mr. Sahlberg is going to bring a new kind of energy to the school. He has a great reputation with students, he loves kids, sporting events, and extracurriculars. We’re go-ing to miss Mrs. Cambell, but Mr. Sahlberg will bring a wonderful energy to this campus as Dean of Students next year.”

A new year and a new dean are coming to

Arcata High, so be sure to welcome Mr. Sahlberg to the Ar-cata High School

administration this coming

s c h o o l year.

T-Cam, coach, or simply, Mrs. Campbell. However you call her, Dean of Students and physi-cal education teacher Tahnia

Campbell is a presence on the Arcata High campus. However, Campbell will be vol-untarily dropping one of her many names this coming year: Dean of Students. Af-ter three years in the position, Campbell is stepping down.

An Arcata High graduate, she had been teaching physical education 15 or 16 years when she decided to go back to school and get an administrative credential.

“I was looking for a change when I ap-plied three years ago,” she said.

Now, she’s looking for another change-time for her family.

“I’m leaving now because of my kids. Right now, I’m not able to watch my son’s football games and spend enough time watching him and my daughter grow up,” Campbell said. “You only get one shot at parenting, so I’m trying to enjoy it while my kids are young.”

But Campbell will be missed. In her third year as Dean of Students, she is respected by the students and lauded by the staff.

“She’s awesome,” senior Greta Hus-chle said. “She u n d e r s t a n d s where you’re coming from and that be-ing a high school stu-dent, you mess up s o m e -times.”

Sopho-

more Matthew Mayer added, “She’s nice and really understands the students.”

This connection with the students is what many attribute to her three-year reign of success in the position.

“Even when she’s doing the disciplin-ary stuff she has to do, she treats students with respect, and I think the students, in return, respect her,” Assistant Principal Jim Monge said.

Campbell believes the biggest chal-lenge of the job is the chaotic schedule: “You feel somewhat scattered,” she stat-ed. “Things that normally would take two hours in peace and quiet can take up to two weeks at work to see them through... I’ve enjoyed that, though, to tell you the truth. Everyday is different and interesting.”

Despite the chaos, she has maintained a sense of consistency in the position, a trait that is appreciated by students and staff alike. “She is actually really fair with her

punishments,” Huschle said.“Campbell always keeps a good

perspective,” Principal Dave Na-varre commented. “She’s solid and consistent... I’m really going to miss her energy and pleasant dis-position.”

While Campbell will be missed, she is determined that the past three years will not be the en-

tirety of her administrative career.

“I do plan to get back into administration be-cause I do enjoy the work, it’s just not the best timing for my family right now,” she said.

Until then, Camp-bell will still be on campus as a P.E. teacher.

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Errol FunkReporter

World’s most interesting man retires

He was part of the Brit-ish Merchant Marines. He trained to be a radio operator. He sailed the

South Pacific. He attended college in England double majoring in Eng-lish and History. He left and sailed on the Sea Shepherd. He worked forestry on the East Coast. He came to the West Coast and picked Daf-fodils at Sun Valley Bulb Farm in the rain. He got his credential to be a teacher’s assistant and worked at Bloomfield school, teaching “ankle biters.” Mr. Macdonald just might be the most interesting man on this campus, maybe even the world.

Macdonald began work for Ar-cata High in 1995; in the past eigh-teen years he has taught a variety of classes across all four grade levels.

In addition to teaching at Arcata, he was the head coach for McKin-leyville’s boys’ soccer team for ten years; they captured league titles three out of the final four years he coached there. Macdonald started thinking of retirement earlier this year saying: “It’s been in the back of my mind for a while. I wouldn’t say I am burned out, but I am a little crispy around the edges.” His plans for the future are not entirely set in stone yet, “I plan on staying in the area, I would like to take some classes and possibly do some writ-ing of my own. I might also do some volunteer work but for the meantime, I just want to enjoy the summer. There will be things I miss and things I don’t, but I can say no two days were the same and I’m going to miss the interactions with students along with some of my colleagues.”

One thing that’s for sure is his

presence on this campus will be missed. “I’m going to miss his voice and hearing his poems. He is a very gifted writer. He’s been the anchor of this corridor for some time,” fellow English teacher Sue Buscher said. “We are really going

to miss Mr. Macdonald, he’s an ab-solute professional, the kids really like him and you can always expect to hear a thoughtful response. It will be a loss for Arcata High,” Principal Dave Navarre said.

Macdonald had one final request before this article was complete! “I want to set things straight before I leave. There have been all sorts of

Gillen Martin/PEPPERBOXMacdonald watches student presentations in his beloved chair.

I am a little crispy around the edges.

- Iain Macdonald

colorful stories and rumors about how I lost my eye, and I think it’s time for me to tell the story. It hap-pened during my time in the British Merchant Marines. While we were sailing through the South Pacific, we stopped in at this little island town for a drink. I found what seemed to be the local watering hole; it was an aged, dilapidated saloon. Looking around and seeing its guests made me everything but comfortable, many of them looked like they had just returned from commandeering a vessel and then washing up on the island. It had been no more than five minutes when this large tattooed woman came up to me in an aggres-sive manner and... (Sorry for the in-convenience, due to an insufficient amount of space we were unable to continue the story, sincerely, your Pepperbox’s Editors-in-Chief).

NewsMay 17, 2013PePPerboxAHS

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Photo courtesy of Darcy Robins

Photo courtesy of Will TaylorPhoto courtesy of Chuck Gleave

Photo courtesy of Darcy RobinsPhoto courtesy of Sheila Rocker

Katerina Rocker Heppe, soccer playerUC MercedMerced, California

Megan Viña, soccer playerCSU BakersfieldBakersfield, California

Taylor Gleave, basketball playerCSU StanislausTurlock, California

Photo courtesy of Chuck GleaveWill Taylor, basketball playerHumboldt State UniversityArcata, California

Day Robins, long jumperMiddlebury CollegeMiddlebury, Vermont

Ashlynn Cox, basketball playerHumboldt State UniversityArcata, California

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AHS clubs race toward a cure

Arcata High Teams rocked Relay for Life! Relay for Life is a na-tional event where com-

munity members organize teams, which are sponsored to walk or run laps, and the money is donated to cancer research, treatment, and pre-vention. Teams stay the night on a football field and keep someone walking or running on the track for the entire 24 hours. Youth Relay has the same idea, but is made up of el-ementary, middle, and high school students. Relay for Life is a sacred event to cancer patients, survivors and caregivers.

Youth Relay for Life was on May 18th at Eureka High’s Albee Stadi-um. There were 13 teams from vari-

ous local schools, including three from Arcata High. This year’s Youth Relay was an especially exciting year for Arcata High, because our three teams took first, second, and third place. First place was claimed by one of National Honor Society’s teams, Pretty in Pink, who raised a total of $2,180. The second place team, The Tie-Dye T-cells, was also organized by National Honor Soci-ety, raising $1,350. Finally, Interact Club’s team the Tenacious Tigers came in third with $1,200. In total, the event raised $9,500 dollars for the American Cancer Society.

All the Arcata kids enjoyed being at Relay for Life. “It’s so much fun being there and feeling like you’re really working against cancer. The games also get really fun and row-dy!” Tye-dye T-Cells Team Captain Anna Nordquist said. Sophomore Morgan Brown agreed. “Relay is so

special to so many people, includ-ing me, I am honored to be a part of this event,” Brown said.

Although Arcata High’s teams were the best three teams, the com-petition is not the main focus of this relay. “Relay for Life is such an amazing experience. I love hearing

all the inspirational stories and see-ing how the youth of Humboldt can come together to celebrate, remem-ber, and fight back!” sophomore Melissa Perrett said. “The reason we do relay is to fund raise money and fight for ‘a world with more birthdays and less cancer.’”

Pretty in Pink, Arcata High’s first place winning team, poses for a group shot before raising $2,180 during Relay for Life.

Photo courtesy of Morgan Brown

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Life Skills makes works of art

Popsicle sticks have been a fun and crafty object utilized by teachers and parents alike for years. One use is even making jewelry boxes. That is what Life Skills aide Els discovered when she

searched online for a potential use of her own excess pop-sicle sticks. Els realized that her storage closet was nearly overflowing with the oblong pieces of wood, and saw the opportunity for a great art project for her Life Skills class. “We do lots of art... we do art at least twice a week,” Els stated. This consistent integration of art into the class-room allowed the students to complete the jewelry boxes with ease and confidence, “since they’ve already done so much art they really knew what to do,” Els said. After the basic construction of the boxes, the students had the op-portunity to express their personal style through decora-tions with paint, beads, buttons, and ribbons. The chance to show their uniqueness certainly went over well with the students. One student stated: “I really love my box.”

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Lauren McCoySports Editor

Pictured here are some of the creative pieces the Life Skills class produced this spring.

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2013 Tiger Tallies:Statistics at Arcata High

As part of the final projects in Arcata High’s AP Statistics class, students had to come up with a question they wanted to answer about the students at Arcata High. An alphabetical list of all the students was used to generate a random sample. The selected students were given a survey in their first period classes. The results were analyzed using statistical tests. Here are those results.

Are high school students more likely to advocate a later school start time than middle school students?In a stratified random sample comparing Arcata High School students and 8th grade students from Sunny Brae Middle School, there proves to be no significant difference in opinions: 73% of middle school students said they would prefer a later start versus 27% who did not. Similarly, 68% of high school students claimed that they would prefer a later start to 32% who claimed that they would not.

Are females more likely to go to college after high school than males?From a survey of 90 high school seniors, 80% of females are planning on attending college next fall compared to 71% of males. There is not significant evidence to disprove the null hypothesis that there is no correlation between gender and probability to at-tend college. Therefore, we can conclude that gender does not affect college attendance.

Are high school students able to cor-rectly identify the differences between Korean, Japanese, and Chinese writing?From a simple random sample of Arcata High School Senior’s, over 50% of the sample population claimed that they could tell the difference between the three aforementioned languages. However, only 20% were actually able to tell the difference between Korean, Japanese, and Chinese writing.

Is there a correlation between GPA’s and student employment?A simple random sample was conducted concerning the influence of student employment on GPA. The null hypothesis states that there is no correlation between student employment and GPA. The alternative hypothesis is: there is a correlation between student employment and GPA. After running a test of significance and examining data, the results suggests that the null hypothesis is in-valid and thus a correlation cannot be verified. Having a job could affect GPA slightly, but does not significantly affect a student’s GPA.

What are AHS student opinions on the difficulty of dance?On a scale from 1-5 (1 being the lowest), 6% of AHS students ranked dance a 1, 6% ranked it a 2, 33% ranked it a 3, 34% ranked it a 4, and 21% ranked it a 5. Generally, more people be-lieve dance to be difficult, suggesting that dance is not perceived to be an easy extracurricular activity.

How do AHS seniors’ planned majors compare to the rest of the nation?The top three Arcata High major choices of graduating seniors were Healthcare, Psychology, and Art and were not significantly different from the top three major choices of the nation.


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AAI goes with the FLOWDakota Goodman

A&E Editor

Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” seems to be influ-encing many events at Ar-cata High School this year.

AAI had another wonderful run-way event featuring two design lines inspired by the Roaring Twen-ties. Flapper culture was not the only style on the runway this year, the medieval era, the 1800’s, the fifties and the flowery sixties were also featured in lines of their own.

There was also a mix of sum-mertime daydreams, fairy tales, animals, different cultures, and the idea of contrast. “They were talk-ing about twiggy and what not and I’m like, yeah those were my high school days,” AAI director Anne Bown-Crawford said as she intro-duced the sixties-inspired line of clothing.

FLOW started eight years ago first featuring AAI students’ work in the Old Creamery Building. Since then, the event has evolved into an annual full-fledged community event. This year is proof of the ex-pansion; 17 AAI students were fea-tured, an increase from 11 in 2012. “I think a lot of kids joined AAI last year because they wanted to do FLOW,” senior Rowan McClel-land-Bishop said. To participate in the runway event, the students h to attend a year-long workshop. “We have two master pattern drafters which are the instructors who help the students all year,” McClelland-Bishop explained. After the main instruction period in first semester, students commence sewing and de-signing in the second semester.

Once the models were on stage the hectic atmosphere disappeared and art was displayed. “It’s a lot of work and very exhilarating toward the end. When you are in the middle of it, you wonder if it is worth it. Right now, I feel like it is worth it seeing everything come together and being with such great people,” sophomore Carson McHaney said.

This year there was a surplus of first year AAI students who par-ticipated in designing clothing. McHaney and sophomore Mad-eleine Appelmans worked together to produce an amazing line. “Mad-eleine and I decided we wanted to work together because we are good friends and both have an interest in fashion. At first, we wanted to do something with electronics, but then she saw these bird masks that someone had made and she was re-ally inspired. She said we could do a line inspired by birds or animals so we kind of built off of that,” McHaney explained. Sophomore Saya Andi brilliantly executed a display of fifties fashion with her line “silhouettes.”

Linden Grey-Reneburg, a senior and first year AAI student, created “paradox.” This line of designs is wearable and very fashionable. She was able to contrast the feminine lacy side of women’s clothing with fantastic hair and makeup. The dark-ened eyes and messy hair gave the perfect runway touch to the models. “It was my first year designing and my first year sewing anything pretty much, so getting started was pretty difficult for me. By the time I got on the second dress it became a lot eas-ier and I started to get really into it. By the end, I was really proud with what I had,” Grey-Reneburg said.

Several seniors’ lines were high-lighted in the show. “Anna Peters and Aurie Stetzel designed for the third year in a row. They open and close the show,” Madeleine La-Banca stated. These two talented, young women captured the idea of fashion as art. Peters went with the theme of the Roaring Twenties and Stezel displayed her passion for costume design. “I’m excited. I’m happy that I chose costume design this year for my senior project be-cause that’s what I plan to go into

after high school,” Stezel said. Support for AAI comes from

local businesses like Wildberries and the AAI parent foundation. Hopefully, the community sustains their support for the AAI runway event so students can keep display-ing their work and gaining last-ing skills. “Being a part of FLOW teaches you a lot of organizational skills and leadership skills,” Mc-Clelland-Bishop said. Those skills are important life tools, especially for the seniors leaving for college.

Photos courtesy of Madeleine LaBancaModels show off outfits designed by AAI students.

Not-NewsJuNe 13, 2013PePPerfauxAHS

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Delaney Rice and Kyrin Cossolotto show off their supreme selfie skills, Rice using the classic “deuces” pose and Cossolotto displaying her expertise in selfie improv with an extremely rare and unique pose never before seen by mankind.

Senior guys snapchat freshmen girls

Team Snapchat released a statement that stated: “Ten seconds is the per-fect amount of time to get

to know someone on a personal and meaningful level. Ten seconds is all you need to create a beneficial relationship between two people.” Their statement rings true as statis-tics show that the majority of snap-chat users are involved with the app purely for the opportunity to find people that share common traits and enjoyable personalities. Earlier this year, the Snapchat app swept across the campus of Arcata High School like a virus. Now, the student popu-lation at Arcata High School can be found utilizing this phone applica-tion on a daily basis. Snapchat is an extremely versatile app that fosters artistic growth with the use of the drawing tool and allows students to practice using short, declarative sentences while maintaining sim-plicity and appealing to a broad spectrum of young adults.

A survey among seniors at Arca-ta High showed that twelfth grade males snapchat younger women on campus more than any other demo-graphic.

“I just find their outlook on life mentally stimulating,” an anony-mous male stated in a response to why he spent most of his cellu-lar battery life on conversing with ninth grade girls.

“I’m just, like, so happy that someone, like, actually likes me for my personality, you know?” a freshman girl whined with a mouth full of metal grins, as she pinned back her drastically combed over,

singed straightened hair and proceeded to snap a few more duck face and deuces selfies.

It is easy to see why boys prefer the company of freshmen girls over the older population of women that grace the campus of Arcata High. Freshmen girls are very self-aware. Thirteen and fourteen year olds have a very developed, mature sense of them-selves, they cannot be swayed by the influenc-es of others, and they also have a lot to offer to a sincere relationship or friendship.

Molly SalamunovichPaper Stainer

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JuNe 13, 2013 PePPerfauxAHSNot-News

Geena DamianPencil Pusher

It is well known that students in AAI are a creative and ex-pressive bunch. For years now, these students have displayed

their artwork throughout the county. Yet, their artwork is hardly the most common way for these students to express themselves. At Arcata High School, it seems that these teens have been almost as well-known for their self-expression through their fashion as they are for their artwork.

On any given day, you will be able to walk by the art room and be blinded by the reflection of rhine-stones. “I’ve always found a very personal connection to my Miss Me

jeans,” senior Anna Peters said. “I can’t imagine a better way to ex-press myself. Being an artist is all about being original and these pants just allow me to be me. It was a beautiful moment when I saw them, they caught my eye across the room, and I knew right then that I wanted my butt to be shining like that too,” Peters adoringly stated.

It’s hard for us average students of Arcata High to imagine coming up with outfits so inspiring as theirs; junior Vivian Harp tells us about her secret clothing idols, “I spend most nights looking up outfits on Cosmo, and Seventeen Magazine, I mean like everything in there is just perfect for everyone and totally af-fordable.”

And while some students dress to impress everyday, others find them-

selves in the timeless outfit of yoga pants, North Face jackets and Uggs.

Sophomore Carson McHaney de-scribes his dream woman, “Hair up, tight fuzzy jacket, skin tight yoga pants or leggings (possibly slightly see through) and some boots. I can’t imagine anything more perfect. When a girl looks like she just woke up… I can hardly contain myself.”

“I’m so glad these students fi-nally figured out how to compose themselves, honestly it was embar-rassing when other teachers came into my class room and saw these students in colored pants, dresses, scarves and miscellaneous band t-shirts,” stated advisor Anne Bown-Crawford. “As my fashion idol Kim Kardashian always said, ‘dress the same as everyone else, it’s the big-gest statement of all.’”

AAI kids dress according to fashion trends

Speak OutSeniors about what they will miss most

Sitting in the parking lot, and all the hours it gave me to

reflect on my day when trying to get out of it.

- Ashlynn Cox

THRIVE. It’s always nice to have a preview of what I

haven’t learned yet.

- Anna Nordquist

SSR. I read so many books that I otherwise wouldn’t have ever

looked at.

- Kaleigh Means

Definitely taking notes in Laz’s class.

- Brandan Thompson

The senior lawn - I spent so much time out there it became like my sec-

ond home.- Most seniors

The lightning fast Wi-Fi. I’m not sure I’ll find such an accessible system any-

where else. - Ben McCreath

Forrest Lewis/PEPPERFAUXSenior AAI student Anna Peters models her personal style.


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Carol conducts car honk symphonyGrace Lovell

Pavement-Prowler

Grace Lovell/PEPPERFAUXOrchestra conductor Carol Jacobson mounts senior Molly Salamunovich’s truck to conduct the AHS carhonk symphony.

It’s a typical sunny lunch pe-riod at Arcata High School: the freshmen are spread out on the senior lawn, the sopho-

mores are begging their upperclass-men friends for rides to lunch, the juniors and seniors drive away and suddenly half of the parking lot is empty. But a few dedicated and sol-itary souls remain in their cars, oil-ing their exhaust pipes and tuning their car horns. All at once, silence falls across the parking lot, as a small, well-known figure scrambles onto the back of a tin can on wheels, otherwise known as Molly Salamu-novich’s truck, raises her baton and screams “Toyotas! Stop goofing around, practice on your own time, not on mine! Hondas, that note was not in tune! What do you guys think this is, jazz band?! Get on tempo, or get out.”

There’s a new up-and-coming musical group at AHS, and they’re quickly attracting attention: Carol Jacobson, maestra of the Armack Orchestra, has taken on conducting the student-founded Arcata High Car Honk Symphony. “I think this is a really great opportunity for musically-inclined students,” AHS Principal Dave Navarre said. “The administration really wants to sup-port this new endeavor, so in ad-dition to zero period, we created period 4.5, for students who are

so dedicated that they are willing to give up time out of their lunch pe-riod.” Senior Anna Nordquist said, “I don’t play any orchestral instru-ments, so orches-tra wasn’t really an option for me, but when I heard I could add an ex-tra ‘A’ on my tran-script and all I had to do was honk my horn, I immediate-ly signed up!” Nor-dquist continued, “It’s harder than it looks! I’m really learning a lot.”

You might be wondering, how did Arcata High students get the idea to create the car honk sympho-ny? “I’ve been honking car horns for quite some time now,” boasted senior Miles Bacchus. “But I didn’t realize it was actually music. Then Carol came to me in a dream, in the form of an angel, and said, ‘Miles, car honking is your destiny.’ Now I’m the concert master. Who would’ve guessed?” Junior Spencer Frankel added, “Playing the cello in orchestra is alright, but there’s something about the sound of a car horn that’s just really magical. I probably practice in my driveway about three hours a night, just to

get that perfectly beeping sound.” Freshman Nora Lovell added, “I don’t have a car, so I can’t join the symphony yet, but it’s my dream to one day be good enough to join. Car honking is the coolest.”

The extremely talented concert-master of the Armack Orchestra, sophomore Carson McHaney, of-fered a different perspective. “It’s not even real music! I don’t get what the big deal is,” McHaney stated. His brother Westin con-fided, “Carson is just mad because they wouldn’t let him join. That kid couldn’t honk a horn properly to save his life.”

Where will the car honk sym-

Carol Jacobson, maestra of the Armack Orchestra, has taken on con-ducting the student-founded Car Honk Symphony.

phony go from here? “I’m busy transcribing a lot of pieces into honk,” Jacobson said. “Soon you’ll be hearing some Mozart, Vivaldi... you know, the classics, as well as some more modern compositions... the soundtrack to the movie ‘Cars’, for one. Automobiles are a very ver-satile instrument, they can do it all.” On the success of the symphony thus far, she added, “I’m so proud of the kids! They are picking it up so well. Some of them are even getting extra lessons from their mechanics. We’re hoping in a few years, we’ll be good enough to play Carnegie Hall along with the orchestra. I’m just trying to figure out how to fit the instruments on the stage...”

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Freshman shows up to party, earns respectSam Winter

Scribe

One of the most common fears of any freshman is being hazed, picked on, or made fun of by up-

perclassmen. Seniors seem larger than life, and their opinions, fash-ion sense, and slang is often taken up by freshman seeking their ap-proval and acceptance. This is a rare occurence. However, every year a select few freshmen earn the respect, esteem, and admiration of upperclassmen in a single night through one simple action—going to a party.

“I love when freshmen show up uninvited to parties. It makes me really respect them,” senior Ryan

Ennes explained, showing the near-ly unanimous feeling among Arcata High School upperclassmen party-goers. The fact that they can find out the location of the party and col-laborate together to find out whose mom is willing to carpool (as they are all years away from their licens-es) really shows a sense of maturity. And even if they soon lose all con-trol, upperclassmen still appreciate them because at least they are try-ing their best. It’s all about the ef-fort. And on top of the maturity, the seemingly unjustified sense of con-fidence combined with a complete indifference to any disapproval that may occur is the deciding factor that earns a sudden, everlasting respect.

But there are many more factors than just simply showing up to a party. Respect is earned through a

simple five-step program:1. Be driven by a parent (or Andy Beronilla).2. Approach upperclassmen and at-tempt to engage them in conversa-tion.3. Use an assortment of yelling, screaming and crying to bring as much attention to yourself as pos-sible.4. Break or damage property to im-press the upperclassmen. (If all else fails, they’ll be astounded by your vandalism skills, especially the hosts of the party).5. Underdress for the weather (se-niors love irony, and what’s more ironic than dressing as if you’re attending a rave in the sweltering summer when you are actually at a sparse party in the freezing winter?)

Every AHS partygoer will un-

Freshman Collin Townsend is thoroughly tuckered out after a se-nior’s birthday party bash.

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doubtedly recall one specific un-identified freshman from last year. This freshman earned the unani-mous respect of juniors and seniors by showing up to parties, success-fully becoming the center of all at-tention through a multitude of vary-ing activities. This freshman "was seen," commented senior Will Tay-lor. Freshmen would do well to fol-low that example and become the next underclassmen to be renowned among the AHS student body. The ultimate goal would be to possibly create an everlasting legacy of their own, rivaling that of the famous freshmen that have come before them.

By following these steps, under-classmen will earn the respect and admiration that they so clearly de-sire—in just one single night.


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Lauren McCoyBull Shooter

December 22, 2012 I have taken refuge in room 104. After last night’s events, I have

found the need to recount just what happened. First there was the tsunami warn-ing, due to the 9.7 level earthquake in Japan. The town of Arcata erupt-ed in sirens and flashing lights, as an electric shortage occurred at precisely the same time, plummet-ing everyone into darkness and confusion. Town officials directed all inhabitants in the area to pro-ceed to the Arcata High campus, a location out of the tsunami zone and protected against other pos-sible dangers, and is a Red Cross approved site for emergencies. By about midnight, almost the entire student body had arrived, along with their families and many other community members. Unluckily for those who hadn’t made it onto the campus by then, an unexpected 15.4 earthquake hit, with an epicen-ter at the corner of 15th and L street. This caused a ripple effect that left Arcata High separated from all sur-rounding areas by crevices driving deep into the ground. Just three minutes later, the tsunami hit, wip-ing out the low-lying areas, and any other people that had not made it onto campus. We were alone.

Day 3: It’s been three days since December 21, and I have already lost track of what date it is. All I know is that it is day 3.

Day 5: Cafeteria food is actually pretty good.

Day 6: Since lunch attendance in cafeteria is normally low, food sup-plies are very limited.

Day 13: Due to a food shortage, Navarre created harpoons out of the window openers, and went out to hunt sharks. He returned with doughnuts for the journalism class, hoping to inspire us to keep up on the latest happenings. He encour-aged us to “keep up the great work, because the Pepperbox is such an important part of our community.” I’m not sure if he realizes that Ar-cata High IS our community. He seems to still be in denial.

Day 14: The continuous attempts of Ben McCreath, Sam Huschle-Freed, Canyon Robins, and Owen Reiss to make contact with the out-side world are futile. If only they had access to 21st century tech-nology, since all new devices went down immediately after the city wide circuit short.

Day 20: We have resorted to burn-ing all the books in the library for warmth. Good thing the Measure Q renovations had not yet begun, and the books had not yet been removed. Mrs. Berube attempted to block the library off from the freezing mob, by shooting broken pencils at them all, but her attempts were pointless.

Day 40: HROP classes have been revived, as many realize the impor-tance of real life training from those classes. Woodshop has moved up considerably on the ranking of most valued classes, as the boats recently constructed in that class came in handy for expeditioning off of our island campus. Upon further explo-ration of the Arcata area and Hum-

boldt Bay, some people were res-cued and brought back to the high school. Of the surviving buildings, Target, Walmart, and Costco mi-raculously went undamaged. They have become the main source of food since this discovery.

Day 90: Many of the less motivated members of our ‘campus’ found in-spiration in some unknown force and suddenly decided to venture out for the day. We noted billows of smoke from the surrounding hills, and a small fire caught. Those who had left returned with extreme hun-ger, though they had taken much of our snack reserves with them for the day.

Finally, there has been contact with the outside world. The intense work of our technological geniuses formed an interesting contraption, Ben McCreath managed to make a call to a San Francisco area code

and posed the question of “How many are there left of you?” the an-swer was a question: “What are you talking about?” Ben took this ques-tion as wondering what happened to Humboldt County in regards to the end of the world, and told the random person who happened to pick up the payphone, the dreary history of our past few months. The shocked response was: “Are you crazy? The world didn’t end! There was a mighty big earthquake that snapped that new bridge heading north on the 101, but no one ever really wants to go to Humboldt any-ways, so we just left it and figured ya’ll would be alright.”

Looking back through my well kept records of the past months, I’ve re-alized a few things: Much of what is seen as necessity is frivolous, we could get by on much less. Also, I hate everyone. And Frito pie is ab-solutely delicious.

Arcata High survives the end

Gabe Schneider/PEPPERFAUXArcata High in its isolated glory. The lone remainder of civilization as we know it.

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AHS introduces new sport: twerkingJamie Maher

Wordster

Twerk: The vigorous shak-ing of your gluteus maxi-mus. Come next spring, Arcata High will be the

first school in the Humboldt-Del

AHS protester realizes schools aren’t actually prisonsAstaria Holland

Ink Slinger

Dear students of Arcata High,

I am so sorry for ha-rassing Arcata High

School and calling it a prison. I am writing to you from real prison in San Quentin, where I have been for the past six months. Prison is much, much worse, and no one looks good in all orange. Fortunately, at Arcata

High you are allowed to pair orange with black. In high school you are allowed to go off campus for lunch, and trust me, Esteban’s is much bet-ter than the prison cafeteria.

I miss my hat and khaki outfit.Take advantage of being able to wear whatever you want because freedom of expression is a valu-able commodity. Just don't overdo it. Learn from my mistakes and stay out of prison.

I realize now that the cliques I feared in high school were much

kinder and non-judgemental com-pared to the prison gangs. Here in prison you can get beat up for look-ing at the wrong person. That never happened to me in high school.

Also, in prison there aren’t any cool clubs to be part of, and there is no Associated Prison Body, or voice for the prisoners.

I have had a lot of time on my hands to think about my actions and when I get out of here I think I will take up holding a “Prison is a school” sign outside of this place.

Norte area to have a twerk team.Arcata High’s varsity twerk team

will be coached by our very own James Washington. Washington has been twerking since his high school days. “I’m extremely excited to be coaching both boys and girls varsity twerk team here at Arcata,” Wash-ington stated.

Twerk season will begin in the spring, resulting in Washington’s retirement from track and field head coach. “I am stepping down from track and twerkin’ toward a cham-pionship this season,” Washington explained.

Because of the lack of twerk teams in the Humboldt-Del Norte area, the team will need to travel south to compete. “Our team will be traveling most weekends down to the Bay Area to compete with high ranked high school twerk teams,” Washington said.

Twerk competitions are not en-tirely dif-f e r e n t from typi-cal sport-ing events. Each team is required to be dressed in uniform, except for the captain of each team. The captain will wear a tank printed with the words “Twerk Team Captain.”

One twerker will perform at a time while each team surrounds the twerker in a circle. Pushing and

moshing1 will not be permitted and will result in points lost from the team. Songs will be provided by the home team and can be any sort of twerkable music.

It is well known that Arcata High has some talented twerkers amongst us. “Oh, I’ll definitely be trying out,” stated twerk legend Demon-tinah Feeser.

“I’ll be twerk team captain, no doubt,” said senior twerk fanatic Megan Viña.

But a captain will be chosen by Washington on the first day of try-outs. “It will be very clear who our

captain will be, I’ll be able to point out our number one twerker the first day, guaranteed,” Washington stated.

So if you are in-terested in joining

the squad and think you have what it takes, twerk your way down to the gym and sign up.

1Dancing to music in a violent manner involving jumping and deliberately colliding with others.

I’ve learned so much from this stay in prison; I did not take advantage of the education offered to me. I do not want any of you to have to end up in prison in order to gain some knowledge. Instead, stay in school and learn the easy way. Your school has been plagued unrightfully by my sign for long enough. I’m ready to move on to bigger and better things.

Your school is not a prison, you get to go home at night. Stay in school, and stay out of prison.

I am stepping down from track and twerkin’ toward a championship this season

--James Washington

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Sage FanucchiNews Hen

Teachers spend THRIVE bonuses &

Calvin RyanKnight of the Pen

As THRIVE bonuses be-gin to trickle down, the administration begins planning how to spend

their money. Like toddlers who have just learned how to walk, these teachers will finally have the finan-cial freedom to make their dreams come true.

Assistant Principal Jim Monge recently purchased a summer home in Willow Creek with his bonus. During Senior Ditch Day many stu-dents spotted him at the river while he visited his new home. “I don’t know why people were so scared of me, I was just hoping to get a day in the sun too,” Monge responded. He even invited students to his new summer cottage to take a dip in his pool.

Some teachers are becoming entrepreneurs with their bonuses. Anne Bown-Crawford, AAI direc-tor and art teacher, has decided to market her blood as a beauty prod-uct. “I’ve always received compli-ments on how youthful I look, so

ball. The room will be decked head to toe in blue and silver, complete with a 74-inch LED television set for game day. “Booyah!” Johnson responded when we asked if he was excited for his new room.

When asked what he planned on investing in with his THRIVE bo-nus, P.E. teacher Troy Ghisetti de-clared, “A lifetime of Little Deb-bies, baby!” As of now, his Little Debbie schedule consists of ap-proximately three to four brown-ies per day, although that number will rise after the THRIVE bonus materializes. “I’m rooting to be the next ‘diabeetus’ spokesper-son. That’s the dream,” he con-cluded in a wistful tone.

Retiring English teacher Iain Macdonald will be starting a bag-pipe quartet with his bonus. “It

is flippin’ belter1. Me an’ the lads have been futtering2 around widdeh me bagpipes since the fall of ‘97,” he excitedly shouted into our ears. Their quartet, the Jaked Jobby Jab-bers, are scheduled to perform at the 2013 Arcata High School Com-mencement Ceremony. Macdonald hinted that he has wrote a special tune for the class, “My quartit colt me a sooky3 but ay’m ‘cited to play me song.”

With her THRIVE bonus, Eng-lish teacher Athina Lazaridis has planned on joining a small WMMA fighting ring. “I just grew up fight-ing, whether that be with my big brother or the girls at my old high-school. It’s a part of who I am, and I’m finally embracing that side of myself,” Lazaridis shrugged. She plans on participating in a rigorous training course during the summer months. Don’t be shocked if you find her pulling a semi-truck up California Avenue.

I decided to donate my own blood toward ‘Fountain of Youth’ body lotion,” Anne Bown-Crawford ex-plained. AP Environmental Science teacher Earl Peters is also taking the entrepreneurial route and is creating a mini “ecocity” in Cranky Corner, Louisiana. He has decided to im-plement aquaculture using shrimp herds from the local bayou to cre-ate a sustainable food cycle. When the shrimp die, they will feed the crocodiles, which in turn will feed the town locale.

Dave Filippini was caught sneak-ing into New World Ballet while under the guise of a stealthy bur-ka. When confronted, he claimed, “Growing up on a farm in Ferndale sort of narrowed my opportunities in some sense. With this THRIVE bonus, I guess I’m just trying to find out who I really am. Anything else?” We then watched as he glid-ed across the floor, landing a triple pirouette, and finishing with a fou-ette turn en pointe. “Now you’ve got a current event for Monday,” he smirked.

Doug Johnson is using his cash to upgrade the friendly confines of Room 209. He has been discussing plans with an architect to create a haven for the “Fighting Irish,” he stated referring to Notre Dame foot-

“Me an’ the lads have been futter-ing around widdeh me bagpipes

since the fall of ‘97,” [Macdonald] excitedly shouted into our ears.

Troy Ghisetti’s audition for the Little Debbie Girl back in 1987.

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[Filippini] landed a triple pirouette, and

finished with a fouette turn en pointe.

1. to be excellent, great, fantastic2. to mess around with3. big softie

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Cross country steroid scandalGillen Martin

Slang-Whanger

Shock, dismay, and shame taint the air of Arcata High lately since it was proven that our

state champion girls cross country team was using performance en-hancing drugs during their season. Every athlete knows the pressure to do better, and apparently the cross girls just couldn’t handle it this year. They gave in.

Coach James Washington admit-ted that he had suspicions about their incredible progress throughout the season, but he didn’t want to believe them. “I should’ve known

when I heard grunts coming from the weight room after practice and found Elise Ford benching over 200 pounds,” Washington stated.

We all just wanted to be proud of our resident champions, but we should’ve seen the signs. Freshmen Chloe Pigg and Lizzy Fernandes must have put on at least 10 pounds of pure muscle during the short months of the fall sports season. Sophomore Zoe Ziegler’s build went from petite to interestingly burly in a few short weeks, while junior Vera Heidmann went cold in cutoffs all fall because her bi-ceps simply would no longer fit into feminine shirts, and senior Alyssa

Koski was seen violently bumping students in the halls on multiple oc-casions.

These side effects came to a cli-max one day in JoAnn Moore’s English 2 Honors class when soph-omore Sara Davis stormed in, fum-ing mad about something. Appar-ently, someone had taken the last plain bagel in the student store at break and she was still mad an hour later. “It was really scary,” class-mate Morgan Brown stated. “She charged into the room and shoved all the books off my desk and across the room.”

This recent discovery shocked and appalled both the North Coast Section and the California State representatives who gave the team their second place title (which has now been revoked). But even they were suspicious, an anonymous state rep stated: “It occurred to me that the Arcata team might be using a little something extra when all the girls came in a full two minutes be-fore any of the other competition, barely winded. Jose Lopez com-

ing out of nowhere to take his title combined with his unusually ideal physique also sparked my attention. Unfortunately, most schools feel as if steroid testing among cross coun-try teams is not necessary, due to lack of interest in the sport and mo-tivation in the athletes.”

After extensive testing, it was de-termined that the only Arcata cross competitors using the enhancers were the girls, leaving Lopez clean. When asked if he was offered any-thing during the 2012 season, he refused to comment. But he did add that he would never use per-formance enhancing drugs because, “The sport is much too pure, and the headband and arm sleeves do it for me anyways.”

Hoping that next year’s cross country girls will attempt the sea-son clean, we asked Ford what their motivation to take the enhancers was. “We just wanted people to start taking the sport seriously. I’m just so done using a magnifying glass to find my name in the paper when I win H-DN.”

Ben McCreath/PEPPERFAUXFreshman Chloe Pigg strives to finish a big race: note the anger on her face and the increased size of her thighs and biceps.

Ben McCreath/PEPPERFAUXFrom left to right: junior Vera Heidmann, and sophomores Sara Davis and Zoe Ziegler flaunt their impressive thighs from this fall.

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