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Volume 94, Issue 10June 1, 2016

1701 E. Capitol Drive, Shorewood, WI 53211The Student Newspaper of Shorewood High SchoolShorewood

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Senior GoodbyesSenior editors reflect upon their fond Ripples memories

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College Spread Student plans after graduation take them across the globe

From May 13 to May 15, the mock trial team competed at nationals for the third time in 22 years.

Mock trial started in Shorewood in 1984, the first year the team made it to nationals. The team went again in 2007, as well as this year, taking 25th place out of the 46 states participating.

We split it two and two: we only lost by one point in the third round, out of 280 points total. The judge changed the score sheet; we had been up by two and then the judge changed it so we lost by one, said Debra Schwinn, coach and social studies teacher.

Schwinn began coaching mock trial as a parent volunteer when her son was in high school. When she got a job at Shorewood in 2009 they happened to need a coach, and as a licensed attorney, Schwinn fit the bill perfectly.

I had a natural interest in it. Its the perfect combination of law and teaching, Schwinn said.

The national competition took place in Boise, Idaho, and the case was a dispute between a cattle rancher and a sheep herder, which is actually a common case that

This summer, the Lake Effect Surf Shop plans to join Shorewoods group of diverse businesses on Capitol Drive.

Jake Bresette, owner, has always wondered about the lack of surfing shops in the Milwaukee area, despite an increasing interest in the sport.

When I came around the Milwaukee area to surf, one thing that I noticed was while the number of surfers were increasing, there was never really a surfing shop in Milwaukee, Bresette said. I thought it would be a good idea to bring one to the community.

Bresette chose Shorewood for both its proximity to the lake and the community.

I decided on Shorewood because its so close to Atwater beach, and Shorewood has always been a nice area, Bresette said. Its a historically good neighborhood.

While working for an insurance company, Bresette has continued his passion for surfing.

Mock trial takes on nations bestby Olivia Poole

Local surfing shop plans openingby Shimana Bose

He has been an avid surfer and athlete for over 10 years.

When I was younger, I would skateboard and snowboard a lot, Bresette said. After high school, I moved out to Colorado and on the weekends, my friends and I would take trips to California. Thats where I discovered surfing and learned how to surf.

Despite his roots in coastal

surfing, Bresette finds the culture of the Great Lakes surfing to be more enjoyable.

The surf culture here, on the lakes is a lot different than on the coasts; its amazing here, Bresette said. On the coasts, you usually get negative vibes, lots of people who are pretty territorial and intimidating, and its really hard to get inside the community

But on the lakes Ive never gotten that feeling. Here, everybody is always welcoming, helping each other set up their boards, get into their wetsuits, theyre almost like a family.

Other members of the Great Lakes surfing culture agree.

I would compare the culture here in the Great Lakes to what surfing was like in the golden age on the coasts, said Eric Gietzen, English department chair and avid surfer. Theres a close knit feeling thats a very Shorewood vibe, and is something that I know that Jake has and his business will exude its a perfect fit for the community.

Others also agree that Bresette and the Lake Effect Surf Shop will bring a sense of community, as well as a new awareness for freshwater surfing.

Jake Bressette is my cousin, and hes really cool, said Monica Dix, senior. Im really excited for Jake to move to Shorewood

presents itself in Idaho.Every October the

Wisconsin state bar puts out a case of stipulations, the complaint and six different witness statements [plaintiff and defense side]. We split the kids up and have to know both sides of the case and at the competition they will say, Shorewood plaintiff will face Whitefish Bay defense, and then we go with half our team. Same thing with nationals but a new

case, said Balen Essak, senior. Teammates agree that, up

until the last round of the state competition, they had no idea they would make it to nationals.

We knew wed be a good team, but we did not in any way expect to go to nationals. We even had made a lawyer group chat in October called Boise 2016, and all laughed at it, Essak said.

Though the team had no expectations going into nationals,

they were very impressed with how they competed.

We love state and we worked really hard to go to state, but nationals was a whole different animal. We were one of very few public schools. There were mostly private schools; in the case of some, homeschool consortiums, Schwinn said.

The team didnt know what the national competition was going to be like, as no one on the team had been before, and it changes every year.

It was a good 25th; we are really happy with how it went. We didnt know what to expect Schwinn had never been and Nathan [Bayer, volunteer attorney coach,] was with the 2007 team but he said it was very different. We didnt know if wed be totally blown out or do really well, Essak said.

As for the individual trials at nationals, Shorewood also impressed themselves. The team went against Mississippi, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Missouri, beating Mississippi in the first round, and then losing to New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania was a good

Will Sandy and Sarah Goldberg, seniors, deliberate their actions during a trial. The mock trial team traveled to Idaho for nationals.

courtesy Sarah Goldberg

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The storefront destined for the Lake Effect Surf Shop remains emp-ty before its coming opening. Bresette aims to educate the commu-nity about Great Lakes surf culture, and sell surf products.

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NewsRipples June 1, 2016page two

The 2016-2017 school year will include some changes to previously offered classes.

The current Integrated Math I will change to algebra I for incoming freshmen.

We decided to go with this particular curriculum. It is more traditional [and what] a lot of others schools in this area do. said Elysha Rice, math teacher.

The Integrated Math program will be phased out over the coming years.

The kids who are taking Integrated Math now would take that [until] they leave. Its phasing out because we dont want to take kids that are already in Integrated Math and shove them into Geometry, Rice said.

Algebra I will be taught by Rice and Cheri Sobel, math teacher.

A similar change is taking place in the science department, where Integrated Science will change to Physical Science.

There is a new generation of science standards that we are moving toward We need a physical science class [for new science standards], said Julie Cabaniss, science teacher.

Physical science is a course for ninth graders.

It is a freshmen course that is focusing on chemistry and physics. It will be hands on, Cabaniss said.

Cabaniss and new science teacher, Jessica Votava, will be teaching the new course.

I will be teaching one section and then ... Ms. Votava would be teaching two sections, Cabaniss said.

There are also some new classes that

The Shorewood School District will be switching over from their current student information system (SIS), PowerSchool, to Infinite Campus starting with the 2016-2017 school year.

The three most common and used SIS in Wisconsin are PowerSchool, Skyward and Infinite Campus.

Infinite Campus is a student information system its teachers grade books, it tracks student demographics, health logs, discipline and behavior stuff. Lunch accounts can eventually be run through Infinite Campus, basically anything that we do that involves student information, thats what it entails, said Joe Patek, assistant principal.

S h o r e w o o d h a s b e e n u s i n g PowerSchool since 2006, and with the use of Infinite Campus the district will be able to shrink the number of systems it currently uses.

In 2012 the state of Wisconsin wanted all of its schools to use the same SIS. Multiple student information systems were reviewed and scored based on their ability to meet the needs of Wisconsin school districts. Infinite Campus won with a score of 29/31 in terms of use and ease.

When you access the Infinite Campus portal, its not just accessing your grades. Its accessing your whole student profile, so you can access a ton of different stuff, Patek said. If youre a parent you can see lunch balance, attendance, you can see all of this in one spot.

Infinite Campus will also allow the district to look into the settings for how much access a student has.

If [Infinite Campus] going to be

New school year brings curriculum changesby Yasmin Mohd-Suhilian

PowerSchool replacedby Cela Migan better for us and the schools going to

have more say, I think itll be better, said Melissa Mora, freshman.

PowerSchool was sold by its company a year and a half ago and then sold again. It is now owned by an investment group. According to Patek, the school district wants something more stable.

Every year it seems like there are settings in PowerSchool that we lose control over or that just dont work very well, or that have lost functionality, Patek said. Every time that happens it gets more concerning for people that

have to use it. Its a student information c e n t e r , t h a t s something every school needs and it needs to be working and working well.

One element of PowerSchool that is a particular stressor is its feature that tells you when your grade

increases or decreases, said Aaron Wilder, freshman.

My sister went to Rufus King, so she talks about Infinite Campus, but it wasnt as much as a stressor for her, Wilder said.

Infinite Campus is used by all Milwaukee Public Schools, the School District of Waukesha, the Madison Metropolitan School District and the Racine Unified School District, among many others. The program currently serves 7.5 million students in 45 different states across the nation.

I want to assure everyone, from everything Ive seen, its a very good program. There will be an adjustment period, but I think in about a year from now were going to be thinking, Gosh, this was hopefully a healthy and good change for the better, Patek said. Eric Matthews, science teacher, and Jack Schill, junior, speak about the upcoming

AP environmental science class. Many new classes are being offered next year.

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will be offered next year, including AP environmental science, visual journalism, AP music theory and Project Lead the Way (PLTW): Introduction to Engineering and Design.

AP environmental science is a class for juniors and seniors, centering on environmental systems.

It focuses on the core concepts of environmental science as a topic, said Eric Mathews, science teacher. It is like [a] field investigation with labs that are designed to get students to investigate key ideas to see how [the] environment works.

Mathews plans to teach AP enviornmental science next year.

Another new class, AP music theory, is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors.

It is one of the Advanced Placement offerings to college courses and it basically follows freshmen year in music theory for music majors, said Karen Frink, orchestra teacher. [While it] can be very hard for sophomores and juniors it will probably help them understand the music and play a lot better.

According to Frink, students do not have to take a music class at SHS in order to sign up for the class.

Its [best] to be band, orchestra, choir kids, but there are couple kids that are actually taking the class but are not in other music classes, Frink said. The prerequisite is that you have to be able to read music you have to understand several components of music theory.

Celeste Guse, sophomore, is taking AP music theory next year.

Im very excited [I want] more knowledge about music theory because it is something that Im not that great at right now, Guse said. Hopefully it will prepare me for the classes that I will be picking for college.

Frink will be teaching the class next year.

Visual journalism is a one semester double period class that will be taught by Jeff Zimpel, art and graphic design teacher, and Mike Halloran, English teacher, next year.

The class will be revolving around journalism and the visuals of stories.

It is going to be a combination of the art department paired with the English department through the lens of journalism, said Zimpel. We will be continually creating design-based projects based around journalism.

Students will be working with the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) for the visual elements of the course.

They have actually sent over some representatives to help build the class... [and] provide us help with teaching the subject matter, Zimpel said.

Visual journalism is being offered for

juniors, seniors and underclassmen that have experiences with Ripples.

It is one semester but [two periods] so you can really dig in. This will provide people a longer opportunity to dig into ideas in one semester than usual, Zimpel said. [Its] going to be juniors and seniors because we want people to have at least two years of English and at least one semester of graphic design. With few exceptions usually those exceptions would revolve around experience with Ripples.

Introduction to engineering and design is all about building and creating 3D models.

It is a basic introductory level of engineering course where the students will learn about the engineering design process, said Derek Larson, math teacher.

Larson wants students to be aware of the upcoming engineering class.

I hope that the students are aware that the class is being offered next year and hope students are aware that the engineering classes are going to start being offered, Larson said.

In addition to the new changes, forensics, which has been offered for the past 10 years to seniors and taught by Cindy Zauner, science teacher, will not be offered

next year. I am the only

one who was teaching it. It took me a couple of years to make this course, Zauner said.

It is no longer offered because of the new AP environmental science class.

We try to limit how many different classes you have in the science department. We limited it to three. The

problem is as soon as you get more offerings somebodys got to teach them, Zauner said.

Forensics taught students how to distinguish and examine evidence.

Miranda Jacobi, senior, who took the class this year, was disappointed it will not be offered next year.

Honestly, I am sad to see the class go, Jacobi said. It taught me a lot and it was really fun and interesting and everyone in years to come are missing out.

Zauner said she will miss teaching the class.

I will miss teaching it, that is for sure, and students have been really a lot of fun and it was a fun class to teach, Zauner said. I think they got a lot of hands on experience and at least exposure to some of the things that are going in the real world.

Despite the loss of forensics, the new additions ensure that there will be many options for next years students to choose from.

There is a lot [more] of variety than other schools, Guse said. We have a bunch of different literature classes. I think its awesome that they are starting to put more classes that students would be interested in.

Michael Halloran and Jeff Zimpel, teachers, collaborate on the visual journalism class. The class plans to combine design and journalistic skills.

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I think its awesome that they are starting to put more classes that students would

be intrested in.-Celeste Guse,

sophmore

From everything Ive seen, its a very

good program.-Joe Patek,

assistant principal

News RipplesJune 1, 2016page three

The SHS drama department raised funds and honored veterans during the spring mu-sical, South Pacific. South Pacific, which tells the story of a group of soldiers on an island in the south pacific during WWII, ran from May 19 to 21, the latter also being Armed Forces Day.

A couple months ago I noticed that our spring musical, South Pacific, closed on Saturday May 21, and I also noticed that happened to be Armed Forces Day, said Joe King, drama director. I started brain-storming about how we could do something for veterans because the themes of South Pacific are very relevant to WWII, [and] I thought it would be natural connection for us to do something.

The drama department is known for their intense, yet enlightening themes and subject matter, along with the ability to bring a discussion of the topics throughout the community.

Whatever the theme of the musical, we try to tie into a social aspect of soci-ety, King said. When we did I Never Saw Another Butterfly, we did a Holocaust remembrance we brought in Holocaust survivors and talked about it in discussion groups.

South Pacific was no exception. I think its great to tie the theme of the

musicals that we are doing to our own community, King said. This was just an-other natural and easy way to do that.

To raise money, the drama department worked on both a national and local level in collaboration with organizations devoted to supporting and honoring veterans. The na-tional organization, Honor Flight, works to get aging veterans on a flight to Washington DC to experience their monuments and me-

The Mac and Cheese Cook-off took place May 13 from 6:00-7:30. The student-council-run event sent all their proceeds to the Mark Harris Family Fund, the schools charity for the year.

We were looking for ways to get more kids, different kind of kids involved so we really tried to do a variety of events, sports events, dances, cooking events trying to reach all students, said Olivia Holbrook, senior.

The Mac and Cheese Cook-off started three years ago and has continued every year since. According to Holbrook, Mac and cheese was chosen as the dish because it was something simple, yet unique for a cook-off.

Everyone loves mac and cheese, and everyone can make mac and cheese so it sounded like a pretty good idea, said Izzie Tasse, junior.

This year the Mac and Cheese Cook-off was held later in the year due logistical reasons surrounding the student-council-held movie night.

It cost $10 to enter a dish and $5 to the mac and cheese and vote for your favorite. This year, 13 dishes were entered.

The cook-off raised about $350.It was a good amount, right around

where we wanted to be, Tasse said.According to Tasse, the completion of

the event attracted a lot of participants. There are prizes from different

merchants around Shorewood, Tasse said.This year first place was a $25 gift card

Latest production fundraises for veterans by Shimana Bose

Mac ncheese unitesby Martha Dix

morials. All the veterans expenses are paid, but

its 500 dollars per veteran to fly there. They go see the memorial, they are escorted around all day, and then they fly back, and a group of people greet them at the airport with flags and signs and banners, King said. Because a lot of the veterans were not necessarily greeted fondly were raising money for that.

In addition, the production is also rais-ing money and supplies for a local organiza-tion, Milwaukee Veterans Stand Down.

Milwaukee Veterans Stand Down is an organization that helps homeless veterans in

the Milwaukee area, King said. Once a month, the organization tries to get home-less veterans off the streets for a day, where they can get showers, dental appointments, suits and be given personal care items, like toothbrushes and razors and shaving cream. Were also trying to get people to bring these personal care items.

The department has been advertising both on Facebook and the SHS school web-site, urging people to bring donations and any care items.

The reaction from the community was overwhelmingly positive.

People have been responding very

positively to it, King said. The goal was to raise 500 dollars to send

a veteran to Washington DC, but the produc-tion managed to raise 1,546.00 dollars.

Both students and veterans found the effort very admirable.

I think its great that theyre doing so much, and that they raised that much mon-ey to help these people whove served this country, said Akshaya Kannan, junior.

Being a veteran, this connection is re-ally important to me, said Maylan Thomas, technical director.

Its pretty awesome that we can do this on Armed Forces Day everything aligned so we could do something to honor veter-ans, Thomas said. It makes me happy, Ive done a lot of veteran advocacy throughout my career [and] I think its awesome.

Not only did the production manage to raise 1,546.00 dollars, but also honored all and any veterans in the audience at the pre-show on Saturday.

We asked to take a pause and ask any-one in the audience who is a veteran to stand and be recognized, King said.

The pre-show at the 2:00 pm perfor-mance was short, but conveyed a message of respect towards veterans throughout the community.

There were people walking down the aisle holding the flag, and everyone sang the national anthem, Kannan said. I thought it was nice; it was a way to salute everyone who served our country.

We are trying lots of different ways to show our respect and honor for the veterans who fought for freedoms so that we in Shorewood have the benefit of being able to produce plays and musicals that sometimes push the envelope, King said. We only have these freedoms because people fought and died for them.

Graham Hartlaub and Alec Sill, seniors, and Cal Curran, freshman, sing during South Pacific. The drama department raised $1,546.00 for veterans.

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to Metro Market, and second place was a $20 gift card to City Market.

Jacqueline Klisch and Sarah Clausen, juniors, won the cook-off. They made a dish with macaroni-style pasta, a creamy sauce and cheese.

We thought the cheesier the better, Klisch said.

Klisch had helped out with the event in previous years but this was her first year cooking.

My favorite part of the event was watching people smile and be really happy about eating our mac and cheese and other peoples mac and cheese, Klisch said. Everyone was just really excited to be eating.

Holbrook said the atmosphere of the Mac and Cheese Cook-off made it a popular event.

My favorite part was just trying all the

mac and cheeses and being surprised by some of the kids who could actually cook, Holbrook said. I didnt know a group of freshman boys would be so passionate about their macaroni.

A few community members made dishes this year.

It is really great to go outside the boundaries of the school because it attracted other people to come in and taste, Tasse said.

Klisch plans to participate in the event in the future.

I think it was a really fun experience, and I even had some leftover mac and cheese to take home, Klisch said.

My favorite part of the event was watch-ing people smile and be really happy about eating our mac and

cheese.-Jacqueline Klisch,

junior

Clayton Holbrook, freshman, serves Annalise Lena, freshman, his mac and cheese at the cook-off. The cook-off raised $350.

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Surf shop joins community continued from page one

and start the business, I think hell really become part of the community, and being at the High School I feel like I can share it with my classmates and help them get interested as well.

Members of the surfing community and around Shorewood believe that the new business will raise awareness of the surfing culture around the lake along with the environment, and ways to keep it and ways to keep it clean and safe.

I think [surfing] is cool because its a way to keep focusing on our environment, and find ways to appreciate the lake, Dix says. I think this is one of those ways we can do that by getting out there and keeping it clean and safe.

Gietzen agrees.

[Surfing] has really given us a great relationship with the lake, a relationship that unique for anyone who tries it, Gietzen said. The Lake Effect Surf Shop is just another manifestation of that relationship.

Despite being his first business, Bresette hopes his passion for surfing will inspire the community and raise awareness.

This will be my first business venture Ive ever done, and Im really looking forward to it, Bresette said. I think with a surf shop in business, the interest in lake surfing will increase.

Bresette invites anyone with a curiosity on freshwater surfing on Lake Michigan to stop by.

Anytime people want more information about the shop, they can walk right in, and ask away, Bresette said.

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Facade grant for Colectivo sparks debateby Kaite Eder

The Shorewood village board gave a facade grant of $103,000 to the owners of Colectivo in order to renovate the former Verizon building into a new burger and ice cream restaurant.

It will bring people together, said Tammy Bockhorst, village trustee. It is centrally located, and it fits so many needs and wants of the people in our village, so I was excited that they brought this proposal and for the project.

Colectivo is planning on making an $800,000 investment in the new building. The money will go into a complete remodel of the building including install ing glass garage doors and a wrap-around patio.

The project is a really expensive project, and so we were way over budget, said Paul Miller, Colectivo co-owner. The v i l l a g e m a d e u s a w a r e t h a t [the grant] was available ... The grant helps us finish the project with the original vision of what we wanted to do.

The village facade grant program gives funds up to $25,000 dollars, but exceptions have been made in the past. In order for an exception to be made, a proposal must be made and presented to and voted on by both the Community Development Authority Board and the village board.

$100,000 is just too much. Its out of line, said Davida Amenta, village trustee. I would have suppored $25,000 but certainly not $100,000 ... I am very conservative when it comes to handing money to a private entity, and I need to ask myself, what is the public

Atwater implements new recycling programby Abby Widell

benefit? What is the public good that were doing here? In this particular case, this is a great project; I think it will be fun ... but is it going to create great revitalization in that area of downtown Shorewood? I dont think so.

Milwaukee county has a cap on facade grants of $5,000, and Whitefish Bay has a cap of $7,500.

These are not supposed to be large amounts of money; its in their definition. Its facade improvement, said Calli Spheeris, resident. The objection is not the building itself. Its a cute little building ... I think their building fits in very nicely, but its the way its being financed which is the problem.

According to Bockhorst, this restaurant fits well in the 2025 vision of the village.

I voted that i t fits the requirement, Bockhorst said. As a board member, this a business thats coming and the investments that the organization is making in the existing Verizon building are beneficial ... This grant will basically pay for itself in tax revenue. But the bigger issue is

that this has a public benefit. That is hard to argue. What is being proposed as a burger and ice cream and also a pocket park, is something that the community needs and the community wants.

The facade grants are used for front facing work that improves the public view of a storefront.

In most places theyre used to improve the look of a building, only the part facing the public, Amenta said. In Shorewood we use them a little more liberally. We would use them for landscaping, for example, or signs or awnings ... They are not need-based. If you own or rent a building, you will probably

get it.According to Spheeris, the grant proposal

did not fit the correct criteria for the facade fund.

Its not that we shouldnt have development. Its the unrestricted nature of it, Spheeris said. They were asking for the wrong type of grant ... Thats basically my objection to this. Its not that they shouldnt get money, but that it should be done in the correct way, not the easy way of stretching the rules.

Colectivo will be leasing the Verizon location, which is predicted to raise the value of location from about $400,000 to $721,600.

The grants were available, said Paul Miller, Colectivo co-owner. There are probably people who disagree with the villages plan, but I dont disagree with it. I think that the course of Oakland Avenue is

4144 Oakland remains empty, awaiting redevolopment by Colectivo. The village gave a grant of $103,000 to Colectivo to redo the facade of the former Verizon building.

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really positive, and I think our project is an example of that.

Amenta and Donna Whittle, resident, both agreed that the policy of the village board is the problem.

To me the whole policy doesnt make sense, Amenta said. We need a new direction when it comes to economic development.

Its difficult to see there being concern linked to the name of Colectivo because I recognize that they have done so much for our village, and I appreciate what they do bring to village, Whittle said.

I think we need to be very sensitive to that. That they are not the first people to get this kind of money, and they are not the issue. It is the policy that is the issue, and they just played by the rules that everyone else played by.

Its not that we shouldnt have devel-opment. Its the unre-stricted nature of it.

-Calli Spheeris, resident

Dumpsters wait to be filled at Awater School. Atwaters new recycling program has allowed them to reduce the waste they produce by significant amounts.

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Atwater Elementary Schools new and improved recycling program, implemented in February, focuses on reducing waste and teaching students about environmental responsibility. After observing the enormous quantity of waste produced in the cafeteria, Lora Caton, Atwater parent and recycling enthusiast, decided it was time for a change.

Were throwing away so many plastic spoons, forks, and bags everyday so I thought, since recycling is becoming

a major part of our culture these days, theres no reason why Atwater cant be doing it, Caton said.

Caton and Kayla Russick, Atwater principal, began looking for effective ways to cut waste production, including switching back to metal utensils and actually teaching students how to recycle.

Caton received a grant from the Atwater PTO to buy metal silverware for the lunchroom, and she took the magnetic garbage can lids out of storage, which

retrieves carelessly discarded utensils. Additionally, the school participates in Trash Free Tuesdays every week.

We recycle everyday of the week, but Tuesdays we try especially hard not to produce any trash, Caton said.

On these days, students are encouraged to minimize food waste, and bring reusable containers if they consume lunches from home.

Through the schools character education system, there are five main qualities, or PERKS, Perseverance, Empathy, Responsibility, Kindness, and Self Discipline, that students are expected to follow.

Recycling goes along with responsibility because its our responsibility to take care of the lunch room, and our Earth, said Russick.

While there is not yet a system for quantifying the amount of change happening in the lunchroom, the improvements are vast enough to be seen in plain sight.

The amount of trash being thrown away is quite noticeably decreasing. We have even been able to go down to one garbage can during lunch and there are 534 students who use it, Russick said.

This success is due in huge part to the students, who have displayed high levels of cooperation while adapting to a new system, and for some, this involved forming

brand new recycling habits. Recycling may seem like an easy task, but it takes practice and repetition, and students who dont have experience with recycling need to build awareness.

The kids seem to like it. We have noticed that the kindergarten and first graders are way better at it than the older students but they are all very cooperative. Nevertheless, students are becoming more conscious of recycling, Russick said.

In previous years, Atwater has offered metal utensils, but they were frequently thrown away and managing the loss of so many forks and spoons became an expensive issue. Eventually, Atwater made the switch to less eco friendly, but more economically friendly plastic

silverware. I

remember when Atwater had real silverware. So much of it got thrown away and it became sort of a problem, but it seems like a few lost spoons are a small price to pay for taking care of

the planet, said Lucy Merkel, freshman and Atwater graduate.

The recycling program has also shed light on other areas for improvement regarding the school lunch program, and will be the basis for change in future years.

Nevertheless, stu-dents are becoming more concious of

recycling.-Kayla Russick,

principal

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Sunday, May 29 marks Shorewoods 17th annual Memorial Day program at Atwater Park. The event typically consists of various student performances, from readings to music by students from the districts band, orchestra and choir programs. Each year there is also a keynote speaker, either a retired military officer or veteran. The 2016 speaker was Saul Newton, who served a tour of duty in Afghanistan and is the founder and executive director of the Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce.

Jan Zehren, SIS teacher, first got involved with the celebration in 2007, and currently coordinates this event each year along with the Shorewood Mens Club and the American Legion Post. Zehren also coordinates the Veterans Day assemblies at the elementary and intermediate schools each year, and formerly worked on the 4th of July celebration and National Night Out for more than a decade.

We work together as a good cohesive team to organize this event for the community, Zehren said. Having grown up in a military family, Ive always had a love of country. My passion is thanking those men and women who have served our country. I try to instill that same passion with the kids that I work with.

Zehrens father served for 23 years during WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

The first year of the Memorial Day celebration was the year that the Shorewood

A group of SHS students were invited and attended the event hosted by a program known as The Commons in order to witness the preliminary presentations of startups created by teams of college students and to decide whether a similar program could exist at the high school level.

The Commons is an entrepreneurial skills accelerator program, preparing students for the 21st century innovation economy as said by Joe Poeschl, one of the co-founders of The Commons.

We teach students to think like an entrepreneur and that includes a lot of different types of skills. Its not only the scientific part of it The more difficult part is the art, science and attitude of entrepreneurship The art part is something you have to practice a lot to get good at, and those are skills like being able to communicate, collaborate, think critically and be creative, Poeschl said.

A lot of our workshops dive into how to do those things and the experience itself helps students learn how to create effective teams and communicate properly Attitude is ways of thinking, so persistence, resilience, being opportunistic and taking risks, Poeschl said.

The Commons is a nine-week long program done in collaboration with 23 different colleges and universities in the Milwaukee area. The program starts with a kickoff weekend followed by workshops

The Commons promotes entrepreneurshipby Cela Migan

Centennial Committee installed the permanent veterans memorial dedication plaque at Atwater Park as a celebration of the villages 100th birthday.

Its so important that our kids understand our rich military history and why we have the freedoms that we have today, Zehren said. Getting my students

involved makes me feel really proud when I go to an event and I see upwards of forty kids involved in an event for the community.

Michael Braun, past commander of the North Shore American Legion Post, also helped to organize the first Memorial Day event in the year 2000.

According to Braun, there were originally Memorial Day celebrations after WWI, but they fell apart due to a lack of interest.

Through Jan, weve gotten more of the kids in Shorewood and the community involved, Braun said.

Joe Hughes, second Vice President of Special Events, has been involved with the Shorewood Mens Club for 40 years and the Memorial Day event for eight years.

Its important to play a role in honoring a village that has served and given so much for the country. You cant

ever pay them back, but its certainly a way of honoring their efforts for the country, Hughes said.

One of the things I enjoy seeing every year is the high school band, which comes and provides wonderful entertainment, Hughes said. It really locks in the whole community aspect; we are all neighbors.

every Tuesday night and ends in a Demo Day in which the student teams present their startups.

Shorewood was one of the six high schools in the area to be invited to the test-run of The Commons presentations, in which they then gave critiques that contributed to the teams final presentations the following week on April 19.

The student teams really delivered - it was great. [The students] saw some great presentations, but really they were just okay; they were great on Demo Day. They were

Program honors veteransby Ananya Murali

Its important to play a role in honoring a

village that has served and given so much.

-Joe Hughes, vice president

Its so important that our kids understand our rich military his-

tory. -Jan Zehren,SIS teacher

Mock trial competes at nationalscontinued from page one

Nick Castonguay, band director, rehearses with students. SHS band members will be playing at the Memorial Day program on May 29.

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Students from six high schools participate in an event hosted by The Commons to determine whether a similar program could be implemented at SHS.

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team, and the New Jersey trial was really close, we lost by one point because the judge changed their decision, and New Jersey got 13th overall so we were really one point out of 13th, which is pretty cool, Essak said.

In the third round when they lost to New Jersey, the one point that decided the trial was one of around 280 points total.

These guys were great and could go toe to toe with anybody. We were the scrappy little public school that could, Schwinn said.

Being prepared for nationals was a challenge of its own, as the team had four months less to prepare a case twice as long as the state case.

That being said, the students still could only think of one true negative to the trials and the process, the judging.

The only negative is that judging and final results are really subjective, with no hard and fast rules, said Claire Howland, senior. You can get a wonderful score from one judge, and the other judge can hate you, which is hard to prepare for, Howland said.

Still, the students involved take a positive outlook, continuing to work their best.

We do compete and want to win, but also we understand judging, said Molly Eder, senior.

None of us won competition-wide awards but we totally won it on the dance floor. We kicked butt, Essak said.

10 times better, all of your feedback really helped They did a lot of changes and they made them really good, Poeschl said.

Lindsay Campbell, Joe Friedman, Maureen Patterson, Dayton Simenz, Luis Roche and Edison Wolniakowski, juniors, Avery Dedjoe, Shilei Bell Lipsey, Veronica Madell and Lilli Musto, sophomores, and Jack Hietpas and Cela Migan, freshmen, attended.

I thought it would be an interesting opportunity and I thought the idea of integrating a business mentality into school

could prove ... interesting, Madell said.The trip was chaperoned by Evan

Schmidt, French and economics teacher.The goal of the outing was to determine

whether or not our students were interested in this type of program and it was to show the students that this organization exists, Schmidt said.

The Commons is 18 months old and already exploring various methods of expansion, whether its program expansion with weekend-long hackathons or entire summer workshops, or geographic expansion in bringing The Commons to other cities or states, as well as market expansion as with working with corporate partners or bringing the program down to the high school level.

What I want to know right now is are the students interested in doing it, and then going through that experience and what would be the best way to deliver that experience to the students, said Tim Kenney, principal.

The Commons program high school edition would most likely start as a club and expand based on student interest.

Im very excited for the opportunities that this relationship will give to students and that its another example of what were trying to do here at Shorewood, to reach out to students with different interests This is a kind of program that is geared to help build entrepreneurial skills and to show different ways that this exists in the real world, Schmidt said.

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Senior and freshman reflect on high schoolby Celeste Carroll

With the end of the school, year comes the graduation of half the SHS student population from either their first year of high school or the school all together while many freshman will exit the high school for the summer with three more years ahead of them, seniors will leave for the very last time, with their futures on the horizon.

Greta Maierle, freshman, and Ryan Beckwith, senior, two students who have experienced either one year o r four years of high school, respectively, are two of these students; both are leaving for summer with thoughts of the future and reflections of their time at the high school this year on their minds. Maierle has three years of high school left to further experience, while Beckwith is nearing completion of his high school career.

Going into high school as a new freshman last fall, Maierle said that she first expected a classic stereotype within American high schools the freshman vs. senior divide. However, Maierle said that after a year of high school, and participating in various sports and clubs, she learned that this was not the case.

It was weird being in a bigger school after the middle school had only two grades. But it was better than expected, Maierle said. I thought high school would be much more segregated by grade almost but I found that theres a lot of sophomores, and even seniors in some of my classes, and its ok to talk to other people [in other grades.] I thought it would be the stereotypical Oh, a freshman!

Beckwith, on the other hand, laughed as he said that his freshman year was so long ago in his mind that he hardly remembers it but he can describe how he has grown as a person since he started school as a freshman, the grade Maierle is soon to complete.

I think since freshman year I was kind of just a stay to the sides of everything, [kind of person,] I just kind of cared what people thought of me, Beckwith said. As high school went on, I just began to stop caring about that, and I dont really care [about that] anymore. I mean, mostly just freshman year I worried about that. It was such a big change going through the middle school to

The SHS band council is making some changes for the upcoming school year.

The council plans to change from a system comprised of a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and the first chair member of every section, to a more inclusive simple seven person committee.

A little known but hard working group, band council, is advised by Nick Castonguay, band director.

Despite this, it is predominantly student run.

It is mostly student led, said Bess Werner, junior.

The group makes decisions about pep band themes for football and basketball games as well as more professional mat-ters about concerts.

Its the governing body of the band, Castonguay said.

We make decisions about our con-certs, what music we play and at which events we should play, said David Desh-pande, sophomore.

The council also plans gigs for the bands at local events such as SEED, the opening of Metro Market and more.

One of band councils biggest events this year was the first ever Rocktoberfest.

The concert was completely student run and was deemed a success.

[The council] decided the entire pro-gram. What songs we were going to fea-

ture, they did skits in it, it was an entirely student run concert. Its our showcase, Castonguay said.

Rocktoberfest fundraised directly for the bands and raised over $2,500 for the program.

Justine Spore, senior and current band council president, headed the change from a structured council to a more cohesive one.

She wants to make it more inclusive and less formal, Castonguay said.

The decision to change the council from a power structured council to a more equal group spurred from the hope of getting more band members involved not only in the council, but in the decision making process.

I think this will make the younger band folks included in the decision mak-ing. The more students are engaged, the more theyre going to like band and want to join band. I think the more leadership they have the more engaged theyll be, Castonguay said.

A lot of people dont go [to band council] because they dont have a lot of responsibility in it, Werner said.

The hope is that with a more equal set-up, students will be inclined to attend meetings and help make crucial decisions for the band.

It will allow for more open discus-sion and will include more people, said Gretchen Froelich, sophomore. Ryan Beckwith, senior, reflects on his time in high school. While he will be graduat-

ing this year, freshmen, like Greta Mairle, have three years ahead of them.

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high school. Beckwith credits much of this change

to his joining of the mountain biking team at Shorewood, which started up as a group last school year.

Last year, one of the biggest things [for me] was being a part of the mountain biking team, Beckwith said. It was the first year I did it and the first year [the club was started up,] and that was probably one of the biggest

things in high school for me, one of my [biggest] achievements Its made me rethink mountain biking its really a part of me now, its something I really like to do.

Though Maierle has only experienced one year of high school while Beckwith four, Maierle says she has

learned much about the benefits of getting involved here at the school.

I think [the best thing you can do to get involved] is that you should join clubs that interest you, not what your friends are all doing, because you might find new friends that definitely have the same interests, Maierle said. But also, I thought that I was going to join every single club because thats what I was told as an incoming freshman, but Ive realized you also have to think about time management, because if you stretch yourself too thin youll be very stressed out, and not be successful in anything youre doing.

Both Maierle and Beckwith said that their advice for incoming freshman relates back to the idea of being yourself.

This is kind of clich, but I think its true you just have to be yourself, because high school is kind of a fresh start, Maierle said. You can take [this fresh start] anywhere you want, and if youre not happy with who you are hanging out with or how your life is going in middle school, that doesnt determine your [time in] high school at all.

Beckwith said he believes that if someone is interested in something as a teenager at SHS, they should take action.

I actually was never a part of any clubs [here], so I never really did anything like that, but I think some advice would be if something sounds interesting to you, just do it you only have four years here, youre never going to be able to do it again in high school, so just do it, Beckwith said.

While Maierle still has three more years

of high school to go, she says she will miss the excitement that freshman year brought. After joining the cross country and track teams, as well as joining the costumes crew for the high schools production of American Idiot, she says she has become even more of a happier person.

Im actually a little sad to leave [freshman year] behind, Maierle said. You get kind of emotionally attached without realizing it everything is new freshman year, and so you dont really have expectations and I think going into next year, having that mindset, that you already know what to expect, it kind of wont seem as exciting.

Beckwiths future is different from Maierles: after graduating in June, he plans to move to California, where he will attend community college. He says he will miss Shorewood this year, he said he enjoyed graphic design as a class with Mr. Zimpel as well as becoming even more involved with

the mountain bike team, and he said that as his senior year progressed, he started to think about college more and how senior year was going to impact his future, what he was going to do after senior year and where the rest of his life is headed. With a three-year age gap, both students will leave the school on June 9 having completed a crucial year of their high school career.

You grow and change each year, Maierle said. I think itll be weird, because [I] wont be the youngest [anymore] there will be younger kids, and you just kind of keep moving up, and people leave, and you just have to deal with it.

I do think Shorewood [high school] is an accepting place people dont judge each other as much as I thought they might when I came here. Its more of a united school, Beckwith said. I think I will miss Shorewood as a community. Its been a cool place to be, but Im excited for the future, and everything it has for me.

I think I will miss Shorewood as a com-

munity.-Ryan Beckwith,

senior

Justine Spore and Nick Nesler, seniors, rehearse. They are leaders of the band council this year, which has recently made a number of structural changes.

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Band restructures by Olivia Holbrook

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Meet next years StuCo excecutive board

Jacqueline Klisch, junior, was elected secretary of Student Council Executive board for the 2016-17 school year. Klisch served as president of the class of 2017 during this past year, and is looking forward to applying her student council experience to the Exec. Board.

I ran for Exec. Board because being in student council for the past three years has been a lot of fun, Klisch said. I really wanted to move to a position with more responsibilities.

Klisch helped plan and execute events over this school year.

I helped out with all the events [this year], but this upcoming year I will be running the Bachelor I am looking forward to a lot, Klisch said.

Klisch hopes to see the rest of student council being enthusiastic about the upcoming years events.

I hope to see members of student council as, or even more, excited about the events we will do, Klisch said.

Izzie Tasse, junior, ran unopposed and was elected as president of Student Council Executive Board. Tasse served as vice president this year and is prepared to take on her new leadership role.

I spent a lot of time this past year learning from our current president, Tasse said.

Tasse would like to get more people involved in student council next year.

I really want to expand student councils borders to reach more people and different groups of people, Tasse said.

Additionally, she plans on continuing the tradition of picking a charity of the year, and raising funds for it through various fundraisers.

I am ready to take on this amazing job, and Im super excited to do so, Tasse said.

Jacqueline Klisch, Secretary

Abby Schill, sophomore, ran unopposed and was elected vice president of Student Council Executive board for the 2016-17 school year. Schill was president of the class of 2018 and is looking forward to a larger leadership role in the upcoming school year.

I ran for Exec. Board because I wanted to have a larger role I wanted to be more on the leadership side of it, Schill said.

Schill hopes to expand communications between student council and the student body for the future.

I want there to be a stronger communication system between [student council] and the student body so we can plan events that appeal to a larger community, Schill said.

Schill looks forward to collaboration as a whole for next year to guide student council in a positive direction.

Im looking forward to hearing new ideas from all of the new additions to [student council], Schill said.

Catherine Puppe, junior, was elected treasurer of Student Council Executive board for the 2016-17 school year. Puppe aims to take her two years of student council experience to the board, including serving as representative for the class of 2017, and increase her leadership role.

I ran for treasurer because I thought it would be fun to be a leader for the club and and Exec. Board member, Puppe said.

Puppe hopes that student council will continue events in the upcoming year.

Looking forward to next year Im excited to plan and have fun events at Shorewood, Puppe said.

Overall, Puppe is enthusiastic about her upcoming position.

Im excited to be a leader on Exec. Board, Puppe said.

Catherine Puppe, Treasurer

Josue Bayle, junior, was elected publicity coordinator of Student Council Executive board. After serving as class representative this year, Bayle will take his energetic personality into a leadership position and try to improve the school year for all.

Running for Exec. Board gives me a better platform to serve the student body, Bayle said. My strong personality makes me a great publicity coordinator.

Bayle is looking for more cohesion between the student body and student council in the upcoming year.

I hope for better involvement between student council and the students I believe next year, [student council] will serve as a voice for the students, Bayle said.

by Maya Schneider

Josue Bayle,PR CoordinatorAbby Schill,Vice President

Izzie Tasse,President

Shorewood alumni are honored by districtby Elena Cruz

There was just something in the water, said both David and Jerry Zucker, filmmakers from the classes of 66 and 68, when discussing Shorewood High School. Dressed in dark suits and flanking either side of Jerry Harrison, musician and class of 67, these men answered student questions for two hours in the Gensler Auditorium. They used this expression three times when talking of Shorewoods talent pool during their upbringings.

The alumni spent Thursday, May 20 at the high school in order to receive their 2016 Shorewood Tradition of Excellence Awards. The Zuckers and Harrison, alongside Jim Abrahams, class of 62, who was absent from the ceremonies, were honored for their achievements following graduation.

The Tradition of Excellence Awards are basically a way of honoring distinguished alumni who have made accomplishments in a variety of different areas including science, the arts, public service, said Ted Knight, advancement director and coordinator of the events.

However, no other group of honorees thus far graduated within the same parameters. That is, these are the only alumni who graduated within the same time period, worked in artistic fields and achieved international success. This is where the Zuckers comments that there was just something in the water came into play.

As Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success, wrote, People dont rise from nothing It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesnt, these mens roots hint that their

Jerry Zucker, class of 68 answerd questions from students. On May 20, four alumni, including Zucker, recieved the districts prestigous Tradition of Excellence awards.

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success could have sprouted in Shorewood. Before Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a band member of The Talking Heads, and before the Zucker brothers and Abrahams joined together to write and direct the comedic box office hit Airplane!, they attended school together at Shorewood in the sixties.

There was a transition of a whole philosophy of the fifties, like when you think of the movie Grease, when we started high school; thats what people, what the older kids, looked like, Harrison said. By the time you graduated, it had started the movement the philosophies of the hippies, and love, and stuff like this. I really feel that with the people of our three classes and this is definitely true there was a creativity that came from having gone from one order to another order.

All three honorees agreed that the era

of adolescence impacted their future, along with the region in which they spent their childhood.

I think that there was a sort of advantage youd get because you were Midwestern. You would actually do your readings, your work You knew you were not going to sneak around that, David

Zucker said.The graduates also cite the localized

form of comedy as an attribution of their success.

There was a Milwaukee self-deprecating sense of humor that was great, and I think that, going to LA and getting into the movie business, served us well actually, Jerry Zucker said.

To zoom in even further, the honorees and long-term friend Fred Bliffert, class of 66, guessed that their financial situation was influential.

It could have been a socio-economic thing, Bliffert said. Shorewood, being in the middle between the upper class and the lower class in those days, I think it kind of helped.

David Zucker, Harrison and Bliffert were also involved with the music scene at Shorewood, and this could have been the final ingredient toward their successes. Not because of the exposure to the arts, but because of the exposure to passion and community.

We didnt none of these guys started playing to get famous. We did it because it was fun, Bliffert said. I mean theres so much love involved When you play together, its like a communication.

I think [being in a band led me to the film industry] because I liked the attention. On the stage, we would get applause and its the same with our jokes now. The gratification is almost narcissistic, but I liked being noticed, David Zucker said.

This something in the water led to an explosion of creative alumni, maybe even offering an unknown motive behind the writing of Take me to the River. However, according to Harrison, the given opportunities would not have amounted in anything without hard work.

Success is not the goal; the art itself is the goal. Theres an awful lot of those kinds of people thinking that when theyre writing songs, and theyll reach very little success. I mean you understand sometimes when you look back on why something is successful, sometimes you capture the zeitgeist of the moment and you can just say, yeah I can see why theyve made it. But when youre in the middle of it all, youre just thinking, Im going to try as hard as I can, Harrison said.

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As the 2015-2016 school year comes to a

close, its time for the senior class to look toward the

future. Whether remaining in the state, going to college 4,000 miles away or

heading into the work force, our

seniors are destined for an adventure. Good

luck to all!

CLASS OF 2016s POST-GRADUATION PLANS

West

Midwest Northeast

SouthWorldly

Wisconsin

University of Cincin-nati- College Conser-vatory of Music Zach Lipo Zovic

IllinoisBenedictine University Joe Lock

OhioDenison University Eli Ben Bordow Zach Hammond Eva JornKenyon College Molly Eder

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Clarence Corbett Abby JustusUniversity of Chicago Alex Knitter

IowaThe University of Iowa Grace Kleaveland-Kupczak

MichiganMichigan Institute of Technology Jun Wang

MinnesotaCrown College Alaina Beau

Macalester College Claire Howland Will SandyUniversity of Minne-sota-Twin Cities Natalie Dess Aaron Kessler Quinn McCafferty Max Rawling Peter Sottile Russell Sottile

Miami University Bubba KneiselOberlin University Monica Dix Kelly WhittleXavier University Jonathan Bussen Grace OBrien Austin Poole

Columbia College Marie MatthiasDePaul University Katherine Johnson Eliana WassermanLoyola University of Chicago Ella Xistris

MissouriUniversity of Missou-ri-Columbia Elena CruzWashington University Michael Perry

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.-Michael Dell

ArizonaNorthern Arizona University Carter WarrenUniversity of Ari-zona Katelyn Krieg

CaliforniaCalifornia State University Sarah Hamrick

Mesa Community College Ryan Beckwith

ColoradoUniversity of Colora-do Boulder Ari SchermerUniversity of Denver Shelby Hammond Grace Reckmeyer

IdahoBringham Young University Matt Kelly

UtahUtah State University Tommy Hayes

WashingonSeattle University Willem Van den Kieboom

MarylandUnited States Naval Academy Marlee Lane

MassachusettsWellesley College Olivia Holbrook

New JerseyPrinceton University Maria Stahl

New YorkBarnard College Olivia LoomisCornell University Jada StackhouseHamilton College Hyein KimRensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ananya Murali

Rhode IslandBrown University Morgan FlorsheimRhode Island School of Design Tristan Blum

VirginiaWashington and Lee Unversity Balen EssakWashington DCGeorge Washington University Cole FalknerAlabama

Alabama State Uni-versity Makayla Inman Shelly King

FloridaNova Southeastern University Squeaky Washington

University of Miami Calvin Chappell

GeorgiaSavannah College of Art and Design Ben MillerUniversity of Georgia Kyle Tsuchiyama

ConnecticutWesleyan University Henry Fowler

MaineBates College Sydney Widell

MississippiJackson State Uni-versity Kaia Dunlap

TennesseeTennessee State University Ayanna Candie

TexasSaint Edwards Uni-versity Megan EimersTexas Christian Uni-versity Sarah Goldberg

Cardinal Stritch Uni-versity Tala Abu Zahra Sami PalmisanoCarroll University Zach LambertCarthage College DeAnthony MannsConcordia University Nathan RaskinMarquette University Marra Garran Gabby Oliveras Bonapar-te Alireza Radvar ZangenMATC Ashley Allen Jack Andritsch

Kourtni Armstead Tyrone Cobb Savannah Daniels Lauren Frigerio Francis Harper Richard Lafford Lilyana Markoff Marissa Mesich Elijah Miller Marilyn Parlow Isiah Rosenblatt Jacob Skinner Michael Temple Jordan Terry Daniel Tesfaye Aneiya Thompson Kendra Waite Alexis Waldron Gerrien Wilson

Jake Wickstrom Chris Williams-HudsonMIAD Nick NeslerUniversity of Wis-consin- Green Bay Hayley LudwigUniversity of Wisconsin- Madison Celeste Carroll Meghan Curtis Genevieve Vahl Jake Woyak Dominic Ziebert Tasha Cherono

Ben Davis Corinne Ebel Gabe Freding Mario Fregoso Andre Letourneau Alison Reinhoffer Jake Rock Justine Spore Claire Stowe Alice Svetic Kayla Wasserman Gus WettsteinUniversity of Milwaukee- Wisconsin Eli Dorsey Simon Bjornstad Mario Rojas Victoria Vitucci Alex Luger

Ana Padro Paola Tejero Tommy Chamberlain Angelo DeCicco Zac Efron Bradley Fremder Graham Hartlaub Molly Hayes Aaliyah Ingram Zalen Isaacson-Copps Miranda Jacobi Jordan Javor Cal Rosenblatt Hana Schofield Alana Smith Ryan Sperry Anastasya Titko Robert TreacyUniversity of Wiscon-sin- Parkside Ava Miller Annie Leo

University of Wiscon-sin- Platteville Chris Sibila Jon Georgeson Joe KosidowskiUniversity of Wiscon-sin- Washington County Miles Perkins Jeremy WalkerUniversity of Wiscon-sin- Waukesha Haley Kwiatkowski Ethan MaricleUniversity of Wiscon-sin- Whitewater Alexis Shields Kelby Spann DeAngelo Stewert Selome Fenta Tony Quian

University of Texas at Dallas Sasha Velikanov

Bryant and Stratton College Jacey Alvarez

Super Senior Sam Lenz Katherine MauerEducation Pro-

gramsAmericorps Hannah ThomasMilwaukee County Police Aide Program Jeremy WalkerRobert of Stokewood Blacksmithing Intern-ship JD HillardUrban Training Center Frankie Cortez

Gap Year Hannah Abroe Addie Marenda

Traveling AbroadGermany Quinn FosterWOOFing in Patagonia Marylou White

Working Nekisha Armstrong Henri Carignan Amber LaGrone Sam Lenz DeJuan Young Katherine Mauer

Undecided Shayne Carrington Dominic Carter Mariah Custalow Kayla Gipson Kate LaFollette Chris Perine Larry Turner

Unknown Donal Maloney Daniel Tesfaye

Kav Johnson Julia Klatte

Data collected by Elena Cruz and Monica Dix.

Spread and graphics by Elena Cruz.

Sarah Lawrence College Hazel PritchardSkidmore College Alec SillPennsylvania

Bucknell University Ella Curran

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Seniors reflect on their careers in RipplesElena Cruz

Editor in Chief

10. Exploring the tunnels underneath the school! There are secret pathways in places I never expected, and it was awesome to wander through the depths of SHS.

9. Discussing our survival plans/spirit animals/hatred of social interactions during layout. I have successfully learned that Mr. Halloran is a large bird at heart, Eli absolutely loves social activity and I would be the first to die in a zombie apocalypse.

8. When Celeste, Monica and I danced to early 2000-era pop hits AKA bobbed our heads and slowly bent our rock on-signaling fists back and fourth.

7. My first above-the-fold article. It was about the weirdly controversial Alterra-to-Colectivo name change, and I can remember coming home to my always-supportive (!) parents, being super excited to share my ac-

complishment.6. Simon Earle. That boy gets an entire

number dedicated to him. When he actually attended layout, this senior would spend his time prancing about in his dance pants, ask-ing Anjana to be his girlfriend or misbehaving until Monica/Ananya/I locked him out of the library. He was a funny and ever-so-slightly alarming guy to my sophomore eyes.

5. Talking to a writer and her family as they told me I actually made a difference in the girls life. It was one of the sincerest, nicest things I have ever heard, and I am still so honored. Thank you again :).

4. Interview-ing oh so many incredible alumni for feature articles. Their accomplish-ments are awe-inspiring these

people include a large-scale journalist, local musician (cough Fred Bliffert, featured in my article this issue, whos personal achieve-ments didnt fit in the article but are crazy), Talking Heads band member and Hollywood film directors. But, as incredible as their ac-complishments are, their kind nature brings them to the top of the list. All of these men did their best to help out a student writer, and all were positive human beings in their actions.

3. Ripples making a splash.2 . 5 . A l l o f

the Ians mac and cheese pizza we ordered.

2 . 2 5 . T h a t time when Katie and I attempted to pay for dinner and took ten minutes trying and fail-ing to organize our money.

2.125. Abusing

my executive power as Editor in Chief to give myself way more than ten top moments.

2. (For real). Getting to know all of the editors. High school is definitely not always easy or fun, and getting mushy here the nice people I worked with throughout the years created a safe atmosphere where I could return. I looked forward to layout so I could surround myself with intelligent, hilarious, kind human beings, all of whom had their own personalities (see #6) and motivations. No matter how strange we got, everyone remained accepting, and I could really be myself.

1. This year was all about lasts, but my all-time favorite memory occurred at the end of my first layout as Editor in Chief. I was the final one to leave, and as I turned off my hectic rap music, pushed in my chair and looked at the silent Ripples room, I felt both pride for completing Issue I and anticipation for the future. I can clearly remember think-ing that it was going to be a good year, and Id say it definitely was.Ben Davis

Monica DixManaging Editor of Staff

10. Drawing penguins in every single empty photo box as a copy editor and delaying layout so we could finish perfecting them, just in time for the pages to be recycled and never seen again.

9. Locking Simon Earle out of the library that we were exiled to during summer layout and having him serenade Elena and I to let him back inside, which quickly escalated and became terrifying as he ran around the school, going back and forth between the sets of the doors on both sides of the library.

8. Different parts of my body being featured in Ripples when we needed filler

photos, most memorably a photo of me bending over for a dress code opinion, which became alarmingly large on the page once printed.

7. Perfecting my abilities to fling Hallorans keys down the length of the entire third floor hallway at high speeds with the hall squad at all hours.

6 . My very first Ripples article when I a lmos t didnt interview anyone because I was too scared to talk to anyone in person, even though I just had to interview my swim team teammates.

5. Going to school board meetings as the only student there and contributing my perspective to the group as well as witnessing key decisions like the modification of the start time and changes in key administrators.

4. Writing an opinion about gym class for athletes and affecting actual change in the

health department program policies for junior year gym class. Moreover, receiving feedback from people on both sides of the conflict and realizing the long-term impact of my opinion on teachers and students

made me more aware of the effects of my opinion and the importance of writing informed and writing to inform.

3. Going to Hallorans room at least once a week for life advice in my senior year and having really fascinating discussions about everything and nothing in particular.

2. Interviewing candidates for two years of school board elections and meeting people who inspired me to be active in and to question local politics.

1. Writing an article that was entirely ghost stories from all of the schools in the district and traveling through the tunnels with Mr. Kenney, all in pursuit of content for our Spooky Shorewood spread. This resulted in my current belief that at least one of the schools is legitimately haunted.

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10. Sometimes-questionable music choices during layout week, but mostly good music that makes the time even more enjoyable.

9. Most of the time when Mr. Carey visited us he brought us food. Again, whats not to love?

8. My favorite photo I ever took for Ripples is a photo of the Plensa when there was a big scandal with the sculpture.

7. Whenever we didnt have a good photo for an article, we had to take a quick filler photo, most of the time of hands typing. It was always interesting trying to

get a creative shot.6. Once upon a time not long ago,

Celeste drew a picture of my face on the whiteboard and continued to experiment with the new snapchat face swap function using the drawing and my own face. It was the best day ever.

5. Whenever placing photos right after the page is finished, there would be joke titles, which were most of the time so bad that they were funny.

4. The first photo I turned in, a bublr bikes photo, was well received by the staff at Ripples back in my sophomore year, which was a good feeling.

3. I always remember at the end of each year the college maps coming out, which was one of the best times at the end of the year. Seeing where everyone is going to college who I know is very interesting.

2. Eating out awesome food and even getting a free slice of Ians mac and cheese pizza, whats not to love?

1. This is by far my favorite photo in Ripples:

10. I learned to navigate the interwebs with fierce, and perhaps alarming, speed and accuracy as I tragically became accustomed to scouring Facebook pages and blog posts for last minute emergency photos. If you are an involved student, I have probably frequented your Facebook page more than a few times to steal or, ahem, borrow, some pics...

9. The forms of post-layout recreation. Namely, developing my skateboarding and key-throwing skills on the silky floor of the third floor admin building.

8. Sharing in many rousing choruses of The Weight with the class of 2019. This class holds a tender place in my heart. Their passion was manifested in many forms: a thrown chair, a Culvers receipt that was ten thousand items long, strangely elaborate Secret Santa gifts. Throughout the last school year, I was humbled and inspired by the characters from the class of 2019.

7. Being a part of the Ripples tradition. Its an honor to participate in a group that has earned a voice and, dare I say, an influence, in its community. Ripples alumni are some pretty radical people! Just take a look in the server; ones eyes can be significantly enlightened after exposure to the elusive poem entitled Ignorant Armies and other ancient gems.

6. Conversations with Halloran. Its a privilege to know this man, if youve not shared many words with him, you are missing out!

5. Writing absurdly pretentious captions and disgusting puns, following which I would be ritualistically reprimanded by a frustrated Monica.

4. The sunsets witnessed at late night layouts. They wielded the rare power to tear the editors from our computers as we gathered in awe around the bloody and blushing colors that the sunsets presented to us. They felt like a gift.

3. The dance parties, man, the dance parties. Be it Kelly Clarkson or Sylvan Esso we always jive dang hard in the Ripples Room.

2. Learning to engage in politics. The more time I spent with Ripples, the more I learned to appreciate the power of political voices and perspectives. My understanding of politics and politicians grew thanks to my coeditors.

1. Ripples consistently gifted me with compelling dialogue and important friendship that shaped not only my experience at Shorewoood, but entire worldview.

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10. Kat, Lizzie and Emma danced to Kelly Clarkson; Eli hummed Yiddish folksongs.

9. We scoured every boys bathroom in the school to find Jack Tettings artwork, which was no longer on display and then we sprinted through the dark halls for thrills.

8. Dylan threw a chair in a fit of rage, and fearlessly enforced discipline.

7. We watched countless sunsets through the west staircase window; we did our copy editing in the golden hour.

6. We stayed long after layout was over, bowling with car keys and pondering the mysteries of the universe. Mr. Halloran could have married for a horse and ten

acres.5. We made enemies of every group

that attempted to use the library after 7:00pm during layout; we racked up extensive tabs at City Market, consumed record amounts of pizza, pillaged the teachers lounge and bought food from highly questionable sources.

4. The secrets of the tunnels were

revealed, Shorewoods icons were interviewed, the drama buildings rodent problem was uncovered and Eli Frank, local pest, emerged from the toilet. Looks like hell, said a witness familiar with the issue.

3. We felt the rush of seeing our work start conversations and inspire change; we challenged injustice, celebrated achievement, opposed Matt Sweetwood and

shoveled snow. 2. We said goodbye to our favorite

senior editors, only vaguely understanding that someday we would have to leave, too.

1. We transformed into engaged and aware citizens, learned how to think critically and with open minds, discovered the power of the press and made the dearest friends.

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Im so incredibly proud and honored that I got to create a sustainable website for Ripples so that our devoted readers can catch up on Shorewood news anytime and anywhere

Arts & Entertainment June 1, 2016Ripplespage twelve

Shorewood Drama presented the WWII musical, South Pacific, on May 19, 20 and 21.

Walking into the lobby, the crowd was a combination of excited drama parents, community members, students and families with young children, all ready to see a family friendly classic. As I looked for my seat, I saw many children under 10 running up and down the aisles; something I obviously didnt see in more controversial productions.

Devoid of any prior knowledge to what I was about to see, I was unsure of what to expect. I pictured it to be a classic family friendly, light-hearted and carefree production about a group of fun soldiers looking for romance. However, within the first few numbers, I was pleasantly surprised by the romantic, yet serious, themes of the story.

With the fantastic orchestra pit, costumes, French dialogue and performances by the ensemble and main cast, I felt that I had been transported to a different time and place.

The musical tells the tale of nurse Nellie Forbush, played by Ella Curran, senior, as she falls for a French plantation owner, Emile de Becque, played by Zach Lipo Zovic, senior, on an island in the south pacific during WWII. With energetic ensemble numbers, like There is Nothin Like a Dame and Im Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, as well as slow and emotional performances like Some Enchanted Evening and Younger Than Springtime, the show brings a classic

South Pacific surprises with in-depth storyby Shimana Bose production to the community.

The show began with the touching Dites-Moi sung by Ngana, played by Sofia Hansen-Cardona, seventh grade, and Jerome, played by Matthew Aldana, third grade. Their playful number set the stage for Currans humorous and lively performance of A Cockeyed Optimist. The mood changed again with Lipo Zovics performance of Some Enchanted Evening, setting the scene with romantic yet peaceful tones.

In the second scene, Bloody Mary shifts the mood once again from a slow romance to playful and lively with the ensembles choreography and singing. The show changes again and again, and ends on a romantic note with Finale Ultimo; a happily ever after.

Throughout the show there was plenty of light-hearted humor, merriment (especially from the sailors) and colorful swimsuits. However, as a classic, South Pacific still remains rooted in a different time, with

themes of racism and war preventing a completely candy-colored experience. Throughout the play we see the bigotry toward race towards the pacific islanders, as well as the actualities of war. This brings a balance to the romantic aspects of the show.

As director Joe King writes in the directors notes, Classical musicals are classics for a reason They are beautiful and charming and were groundbreaking in their own time.

While South Pacific is unlike the more progressive plays the drama department is known for, such as American Idiot, Cabaret or Spring Awakening, it still maintains a level of controversy, and is open to criticism, which is necessary, classic or not.

The performance of Youve Got to be Carefully Taught by Lt. Joe Cable, played by Ryan Groeschel, sophomore, highlights themes of racism, and even analyzes the roots of racism and bigotry. After such merry numbers, the last thing I expected was such a deep and thought-provoking performance, one whose ideas can be applicable even today.

The play also touched on the casualties of war, and the effect it has on those left behind.

In addition, to raise awareness, the performance also utilized the themes and setting during WWII to benefit the community by raising funds for veterans.

I was pleasantly surprised by South Pacific, as I was expecting a jovial army romance. By the end, however, I felt South Pacific was an ebullient and cheerful, yet thought-provoking, performance which brought many unexpected messages to the stage.

Ella Curran and Zach Lipo Zovic, seniors, sing a romantic duet in South Pacific. While the musical was romantic and upbeat, it also tackled serious themes.

Olivia Poole

After controversial performances, drama opts for family classic

Puzzle section: Issue 10 crossword and solutionsby Shimana Bose

ACROSS1. Disrespect 5. Dove sounds9. Enemy 12. Inactive 13. Leave out 14. Past participle of light 15. ____ on Me 16. Canadian music group 17. Middle-earth race 18. Physical worker 20. Unreliable person 22. Purge 23. All ____ sudden (two words) 24. Actor, writer and director, ____ Hawke 27. Roped 31. Busy as a _____

32. American indie band33. Mobster, Patrick ____34. Famous romantic novelist, ______ Cartland 37. See you in a ____39. Private doctoral university in Rochester, New York 40. Last letter 41. Spanish goodbye 44. Sells 48. ___ Weasley 49. Secret hideout 51. Stare 52. Latin for and other things (abbr.)53. Brand of whiteboard markers 54. One of the Great Lakes 55. Agency founded after 9/11

56. Views 57. Bag

DOWN1. Type of pickle 2. Light bulb over the head 3. Thick piece of stone 4. Spanish Mrs. 5. Encrypted 6. Character from HBO series, The Wire, ____ Devone Little 7. Petroleum 8. Wizard weapons (plural) 9. Pest for dogs and cats 10. Pig sound 11. Suffix denoting small size 19. Main character of Blue Exorcist, ____ Okumura 21. ____ Vegas 23. Needed to move a rowboat 24. Recede 25. British drink 26. Female version of him 27. Grassy field 28. Demon29. Anguilliformes 30. Baseball player, ____ Gordon 32. Mona Lisa 35. Brother (abbreviated) 36. Found in a supermarket or theater 37. Get married 38. Shrubs (plural) 40. Six are in a million 41. Commune in France 42. Polka ___43. Largest pre-Columbian empire 44. Romans made this out of lead 45. Tomb Raider, ____ Croft 46. Iliad is this type of poem 47. Look for 50. Strong deodorant

Issue 9 solution

Issue 10 solution

Arts & EntertainmentJune 1, 2016 Ripplespage thirteen

Jeff Tweedy, the contemporary folk-rock icon, performed at his annual benefit for education at The Vic Theater in Chicago on May 14.

For years, Tweedy has led the much beloved and critically acclaimed band, Wilco, writing a majority of their songs and creating an eclectic discography with roots ranging from country to noise rock. Every year in early May, Tweedy holds a special concert in Chicago whose profits go to scholarships for Chicago students.

The entire night seemed to be all about the fans, from the fact that the tickets cost slightly more than usual (a tactic to both raise more money and separate the casual Wilco fans from the diehards), to Tweedys choice to allow the set list to be chosen by the first 30 people in line at the door.

Tweedy plays fan-focused show at The Vic

Jeff Tweedy strums an acoustic guitar at a benefit concert at The Vic Theater in Chi-cago on May 14. The show brought all the best of a Tweedy performance.

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by Max Janairo

This spontaneity in song selection gave the show variety, featuring both classic Wilco songs such as Misunderstood and Im Always In Love, as well as several covers ranging from Bob Dylans soaring epic of destiny, Simple Twist of Fate to

the late David Bowies incomparable take on outer space, Space Oddity.

Though Tweedy managed to pul l a beautiful and nuanced s h o w o u t o f t h e suggestions, he was qu i te voca l o f h i s disappointment in the fans choices, joking, [The fans] want to hear

a lot of 12-minute songs in a row that are very sad which probably wont be any good But I think I pulled a decent show out of a pile of crap.

This playful banter continued throughout the show, cementing Tweedys place as one of

the quickest witted and genuine performers in music.

During lulls in the show when switching to new songs, Tweedy would often answer questions that were submitted by audience members, often with uproarious stories and honest monologues. These brief vignettes endeared Tweedy to the crowd, creating a friendly and laid back atmosphere, prompting Tweedy to say, You guys are cooler than I thought youd be. I mean, a Saturday night crowd with an open bar can be a little crazy, especially for a guy with an acoustic guitar.

But the fact that Tweedy was armed only with his light acoustic strumming and his raspy, emotive voice did not detract at all from the mood of the show. His subtly beautiful interpretation of each song left the crowd in a constant state of awe, something difficult for other performers.

The audience was a respectful group, apart from a few drunken outbursts (which Tweedy responded to with loving sarcasm), but they still maintained enthusiasm.

Generally, a sense of admiration and love emanated from the room to the stage as the night progressed, culminating in an all

out explosion of warmth when Tweedy was joined onstage by his two sons, Spencer and Sammy. The former joined his father on the drums in 2014 to form the band Tweedy, and released the acclaimed album Sukierae. The two toured extensively, which formed an onstage bond that could easily be seen as soon as Spencer walked out during the benefit.

The real surprise of the night was hearing the angelic voice of Sammy Tweedy, who sang a cover of Big Stars song of adolescent longing Thirteen. A collective gasp came over the crowd as soon as the first few haunting notes came from Sammys mouth, prompting cell phones to be drawn from pockets like swords from their sheaths in desperate attempts to capture the voice of the next generation of the Tweedy family.

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