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CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 48, Issue 3February 21, 2014

EDITOR IN CHIEF: EMILY LUNDQUIST

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ASSISTANT EDITOR: TAYLOR ANFINSON

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On Feb. 5, seven se-nior Capital athletes committed and signed to colleges in the gym lobby at Capital High School. These students includ-ed Hayden Ritter, who committed to Colorado State University Pueblo for golf, Hunter Young; Fort Lewis for basket-ball, Landon Peterson; Montana State Univer-sity for baseball, Heath-er Tracy; Montana State University for softball, Alex Thompson; South-

Seven seniors sign to college sportsEmily LundquistEDITOR IN CHIEF

ern Utah for football, Sam Ball; College of Idaho for football and Marcell King; Central Washington for foot-ball. The athletes were surrounded with their coaches and parents, as well as local news sta-tions. King has been play-ing football since the second grade and said it has taken “hard work and the right support.” King said he would most like to thank “God, my coaches, fam-ily, friends and good genes.” King said he’s excited

to go to college with people he knows from Seattle, Washington and “continue playing foot-ball.” Tracy said she has been playing softball since she was five years old. “It has taken a lot of hard work, sacrifice and self motivation,” Tracy said. Tracy said she had to sacrifice a lot of time practicing that most kids normally use to so-cialize. Along with her softball coaches, Tracy said “I definitely have to thank my parents for pushing

me to my potential and willing to help me with anything to achieve my dream.” Tracy said she’s ex-cited to be on her own and “for a new level of competition.” Ritter has been playing golf for seven years and said it has taken “a lot of hard work and prac-tice to get to this point.” He would like to thank his parents for support-ing him and “sending me to tournaments.” Ritter said he’s most excited to move to Col-orado and to play in col-lege tournaments.

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Photo by Dayne Prettyman

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Seniors Sam Ball, Marcell King, Alex Thompson, Hunter Young, Hayden Ritter, Heather Tracy and Landon Peterson show their commitment by signing to college athletics in the Capital High School gym foyer on Feb. 5.

Top Right: Senior Heather Tracy congratulated by principal John Ruzicka during the college signing on Feb. 5.Above: Senior Hayden Ritter takes his turn thanking family members and coaches during the signing.Left: Senior Landon Peterson, who signed to Montana State for baseball, poses with Capital baseball head coach Jerry Hollow.

Marketing gears students for the future, DECA impacts school and community with projects

Andrew SargentOPINION ARTICLE

such as Make-a-Wish, the Toy Drive, Art in the Park, and are now mak-ing blankets for children with cancer and are get-ting ready for national competition. “Students that are looking for a career in business should take marketing,” teacher Sandy Wold said. Students can earn up to nine college credits and their economics credit if they take marketing for it’s four semesters.

PHOTO BY KRISTIE HOANG

Sophomores Alysia Santa Cruz, Meg Osterhout, Sarah Miller, and Whitney Pelly count change for their fundraiser, Ties for Tots on January 31.

SPECIAL EDITION

NATIONAL CAREER

TECHNICAL EDUCATION MONTH

Girls’ VBB goes to State!Boys’ VBB continues undefeated season

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News Friday, February 21, 2014

Editor: Taylor Anfinson

PAGE EDITORSFRONT

Emily LundquistNEWS

Taylor AnfinsonARTS

Victoria HolmFASHION

Victoria HolmSPORTS

Selma KovacOPINION

Andrew SargentSTAFF WRITERS

Fatuma Mnongerwa,Charles Walker

Editor In ChiefEmily Lundquist

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Flight’s duty is to inform and entertain students and faculty in an accurate and timely fashion. It reflects the ideas of the student body and also creates new perspectives. The paper is oriented toward events and all information that affects the student body. Flight is published monthly by Capital High school, 8055 Goddard Road Boise, Idaho 83704. Phone: 658-2346. Circulation 1650. Adobe InDesign is used to design the graphics and typeset. Printing is done by Idaho Press Tribune, Nampa, ID. The opinions and views in this publication are not necessarily the views of the administration, or the entire Flight staff, or the entire student body. All signed commentar-ies that appear in Flight are strictly the opinion of that individual and do not nec-essarily reflect the general opinion of the Flight staff. Anyone wishing to sub-mit a letter to the editor is encouraged to do so. Place letters in Ms. Francis’ mail-box in the office, or room 202. Letters may also be sent to the editor of Flight via e-mail. All letters must be signed and verified in per-son in order to be printed. The Flight staff reserves the right to edit all submissions.

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The “heart” of Health Occupations

Sophomore Malori Basye, instructor Melodee Sather and sophomore Gunnar Kuehl dissect a heart for Health Occupations on Feb. 5.


Taylor AnfinsonASSISTANT EDITOR

Health Occupations is a class in which students learn about the health field and discover if it’s what they truly want to pursue in college and beyond. Instructor Melodee Sather said, “Each unit we do some kind of lab. Dissect pig heart, lungs, brains etc. During the muscular unit we did a spaghetti lab.” Sather said the class just finished with dis-secting a pig lung. Senior Paul Grigg likes the class because, “it incorporates learning about the areas of the medical field and the curriculum.” Sophomore Malori Basye said, “It’s hands on and it gets you going

in the right path for healthcare.” Basye said her favor-ite parts of the class are the guest speakers and the dissections. Sophomore Gunnar Kuehl said if a person has any sort of interest in the medical field he would highly recom-mend this class. His favorite part of the class is the history of medi-cine and the lectures. “[It’s a] very enlight-ening class on the human body and health-care,” Kuehl said. Grigg said if some-one is going into the health field it gives a broad spectrum of what they’re looking at and it helps them make a deci-sion of whether or not they truly want to be in the healthcare field.

YearbookStudents work to publish a 208 page book every year

Video ProductionDaily news show, and videos for big name companies

Taylor AnfinsonASSISTANT EDITOR

Talon works on pub-lishing the 208 page yearbook for all the stu-dent and staff to receive in May. They have five dead-lines throughout the year with about 32 pag-es due each time. There are three teams that each has a team edi-tor, computer manager, writer, photographer and team assistant.

Senior Ethan Page, Talon’s editor in chief, said the class is very fun. Advisor Vicki Francis said that, “It’s an oppor-tunity to be apart of something larger than yourself.” “It’s also a lot of hard work and very reward-ing. You get to interact and cover all the differ-ent activities and people involved at school,” said Page.

Charles WalkerSTAFF WRITER

Video broadcasting focuses on film mak-ing, editing videos, and bringing the news to the students every day through the video announcements. Video broadcast-ing does the daily announcements and produces videos for organizations such as Nike, Boise City and Boise School District. Each film they do has a different workload,

says senior Kavan Hess, “Depending on the work needed, a video can take anywhere from 10 min-utes to two weeks.” On Jan. 29, a class of 3 and 4 graders came in to the video class where Hess taught them how to use an iPad to film trailers for a book they have read. “We taught the kids how to use the camera as well as appli-cations such as iMovie to make their book trail-ers.”

Child Development Students prepare preschoolers for kindergarten, teaching academics, arts and taking fieldtrips

Senior Coral Kobelski hands a diploma to a Little Eagle during graduation on Jan. 17. “It was so said knowing that they’re gradu-ating and knowing I’m graduating [this year] made it even more emotional,” Kobelski said. During the preschool the Little Eagles played games, did academic activities and took field trips. Each activity was approved by the students.


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Little Eagles sit in the auditorium waiting for the graduation to take place, on Jan. 17.

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Student stands up for his beliefs in “Add the Words” rally

Victoria HolmARTS/FASHION EDITOR

At the Add The Words rally on Jan. 1l in front of the Capitol building, senior Zach Bramwell had the chance to stand up for his beliefs and speak in front of just under a thousand people during the rally. Bramwell spoke to influence important pol-iticians and citizens to add the words “sexual orientation” and “gen-der identity” to the Ida-ho Bill of Rights. “I spoke for the youth’s perspective for Add The Words, and stated the fact that they’ll push youth away from Idaho if they don’t accept who they are,” Bramwell said. “I was one of the speakers from volun-teering and through per-

sonally knowing Misty Tolman also from being involved in the com-munity. I was really nervous and scared at first and ecstatic when I saw that many people coming out to support a good cause,” Bramwell said. “Eventually Add The Words will happen with the rallies we do. Hope-fully this year, but prob-ably won’t with every-thing going on [but it will] eventually happen. With us just trying to get ahold of our representa-tive and showing him we really care about this,” Bramwell said. “If you want to know more just talk to me about it. It’s time for Idaho to ‘Add the Words’ and stand on the right side of history,” Bramwell said.

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On Jan. 11 senior Zach Bramwell stands up for his beliefes and speaks in front of a thousand people at the “Add the Words” rally. “It was very exciting, but it was a nerve wracking experience since their was near 1,000 people there. It was an amazing opportunity to be listened to by so many people,” Bramwell said.

NewspaperUsing G5 iMacs, class publishes monthly for 1600

Business LawGiving students hands-on experience with legal issues

Charles WalkerSTAFF WRITER

PHOTO PROVIDED BY PAT RICH

PHOTO BY VICKI FRANCIS

Seniors Victoria Holm, Devin Ramey, juniors Selma Kovac, Nicolette Grant and senior Emily Lundquist put inserts in the Dec. issue of the Flight newspaper on Dec. 19.

Sophomore Clea Wurster and senior Jamie Maas holds their third place plaque from the Mus-tang Mashup held at Eagle on Jan.22.

The Capital Flight Newspaper publishes 7 monthly issues and has a circulation of 1600, along with a website. According to 31-year teaching veteran and advisor Vicki Francis, the process that the class uses very comput-er oriented with indus-try standard technology. “Using G5 iMacs with programs like Adobe Indesign and Photoshop the students format each page of the paper,” Francis said.

The class focuses very heavily on writing and is a wonderful class for those who like to do it. Senior Editor in Chief Emily Lundquist said, “I joined because I enjoy writing and wanted to be a part of a unique class that offered diversity.” The students oversee most of the operation, assuming positions such as editing, organiza-tion, and planning who writes which pages, and determining what sto-ries should be covered in each issue.

Andrew SargentOPINION EDITOR

Business Law, taught by Dr. Debbie Brumley, is a class that covers laws applying to both business and personal use. It is a one-semes-ter, no prerequisite course for sophomores through seniors. The class introduce the students to topics such as civil/criminal law, probate, ethics, employment law, per-sonal/real property law as well as legal careers available to those inter-

ested in law. Students get hands-on experience by par-ticipating in a mock trail and see firsthand that legal issues are not black and white and must be explored in detail. “Business Law helps students for life-not just those interested in pursuing a career as an attorney or judge; it helps all people in everyday life,” Brumley said.

Debate teams win first and third at Eagle and prepare for Berkley and statePress ReleaseDEBATE TEAM

The 2013-14 debate season is well under way. The fifth competi-tion, the Eagle debate tournament (called the Mustang Mashup) was held January 24-25, 2014. Many of Capital’s top teams competed at the “Mashup” tournament. Kevin Miklos and Zach Lien prevailed over teams from all over the state, winning 1st place in the varsity public forum division, with the topic regarding the Sahel region of Africa. This was Kevin and Zach’s second 1st place victory this year, having

dominated at the Cen-tennial tournament in December, as well. Debating the topic of economic engage-ment with Latin Ameri-can countries, were both varsity and novice teams. In novice divi-sion, Jonah Baker and Katie Shurtleff made it to out rounds, with Katie capturing the top speaker award. In varsity division, Capital has a policy team who has made a name for themselves in the region as well. Soph-omore Clea Wurster and senior Jamie Maas have had a string of success-ful tournaments, includ-

ing numerous speaker awards. At the Eagle tournament, they took 3rd place, continuing to impress our policy judge pool. Ms. Rich continues to expect great things out of the team during the remainder of the season. Remaining tournaments include “The Cal” (Berkeley), NFL Dis-tricts and District and State Debate. Seniors Mackenzie Moss, Zach Bramwell and Emma Singer are sure to con-tinue their remarkable debate careers, as are juniors April Miklos, Janice Witherspoon, Noah Seward and Erik

Rolfsen. Additionally, Capital has a number of excellent novice debat-ers who are rounding out the team. “I’m enjoying work-ing with the team and seeing their talents bring them success” remarked Ms. Rich, noting that she will be sad to see this talented group of seniors leave. “While we will have some excellent talent returning after this sea-son, it will be a rebuild-ing year without these seniors, so I am looking forward to a good-sized group of new debaters to initiate in the fall” commented Rich.

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Top Left: Photo taken at Lucky Peak of Denise Hoang by Kayla Pollard.Right: Reece’s cat, Lacey, stares dramatically out the window by Reece Sweeney.Bottom Left: Unique studio shot of Madison Kling in December shot by Michelle Fretwell.

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tic pictures the students take,” Francis said.“We have been tak-ing pictures of athletes to make a background for the Video Produc-tion announcements with sports interviews and senior pictures and getting ready for Skills USA Regional Photo Competition,” Fretwell said who hopes to minor in photography after graduation and be a freelance photographer. “Teamwork, Photo-shop and leadership skills are some more things I have learned throughout the year. We lead a lot of stuff like we’re the man-agers. So we have learned really good communication skills that we can use in our future,” said Fretwell.

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FashionFriday, February 21, 2014

Editor: Victoria Holm PAGE 5

Fatuma MnongerwaStaff Writer

Top left and Middle left: Junior Fatuma Mnongerwa wears a pink silk sparkly hijab.Bottom left: Fatuma Mnongerwa wears a very colorful hijab.Top and bottom right: Senior Sonte Sheikh wears a hijab to respect her religion and shows love to her religion.

Students show expression through body artEmily LundquistEditor-In-Chief

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Top left: Senior Amanda Hogaboom presents “Perfectly Imperfect” on her upper back. Photo by Anthony Olvera.Top Right: Senior Paige Armstrong shows birds in flight on her left shoulder. Photo provided by Paige Armstrong.Bottom Left: Senior Ashley Brinton displays “fearless” on her left wrist. Photo provided by Ashley Brinton. Bottom Right: Senior Victoria Holm sports a tattoo of a red dove on her hip bone. Photo pro-vided by Victoria Holm

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Romantic Red

Valentines Violet

Soft Pink Seduction

Poetic Pink

Angelic Aqua

Mysterious Mint

Kiss Me Khaki

Art is often a way to express people’s emo-tions, experiences and interests. Tattoos are seen as a form of art, and are becoming more and more popular among Capital students. To get a tattoo, you either need to be 18 years old or have a par-ent’s consent because of the life-long com-

mitment of having the permanent body art. Senior Michelle Fretwell has two tat-toos currently. Both applied within the last six months. Fretwell said she has always wanted tattoos because, “to me, they’re not only rad-looking, but they are about self expres-sion and wearing your beliefs on your skin.”

One tattoo is on her back, and is an eye looking up with a rainbow iris. “To me, that means that I’ll always look up through diver-sity,” Fretwell said. Her second tattoo is on her collarbone of four birds flying. “They mean sim-ple beauty is inspir-ing,” Fretwell said. Senior Dakota Han-

Valentine’s Day is typically known around the world as the opportunity to celebrate and cher-ish love. Red, pink or white roses and romantic cards are usually the gifts exchanged. On Valen-tine’s Day everyone likes to get dolled up, whether you’re going out for some coffee or a romantic dinner date you can always include these colors to spice up your wardrobe this holiday season.

selma kovacSports editor

Some girls at Capi-tal are wearing these unique and beautiful headdresses. What are they called and why do some girls wear it? It’s called a hijab (hee-job’) and normally woman or girls wear the hijab because of religious or cultural beliefs. Wearing a hijab is very important for Muslim women. Young girls have the choice to wear the hijab and its only mandatory when girls get married. But young girls like to start early just to get com-fortable later when they get married so it doesn’t feel weird. Sophomore Amina Akibova said, “I love wearing hijabs and I choose to wear it. My religion asks me to wear a hijab. It shows modesty and respect to myself. I also wear this to show who I am and to show that I am proud of my religion and myself.

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In my country [Russia] you would rarely see woman wearing hijabs.” The women who wear hijabs are Muslims and in the Qur’an it asks for women to be very respectful to themselves by covering themselves. Sophomore Bone’ Ramadhan said, “I wear this because it is part of my religion and women have to be respectful to their selves and wearing a hijab fits in the category”. Senior Sonte Sheikh said, “ This is part of my cultural beliefs and reli-gion. Wearing a hijab shows true character. I love wearing them, they are so pretty and I wear it because I love my religion and respect it.” Girls can purchase them at Bibisarah on Overland and online. Cost is normally $5-10 and the material can be cotton, wool, silk, and nylon. There are many different colors and different types. Some hijabs are sewn so they can be pulled over the head easily or wrapped around as a scarf.

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cock has multiple tattoos on his back, his fore-arm and 2 half sleeves. He applied his first tattoo in July 2012, and most recently on Jan. 24, 2014, which resem-bles a dreamcatcher. His Batman tattoo

means the most to him because it represents his childhood and it has special importance. “He was in a simi-lar situation … and he just clicked to me in that,” Hancock said. His tattoo artist,

Christopher Aminga, drew the images for him and that made him realize he want-ed them permanently. “The look he gives them is amazing, [he] gave it a cartoon stand-out look,” Hancock said.



The Colors of February

Sports Friday, February 21, 2014

Editor: Selma Kovac

Taylor Anfinson NEWS EDITOR

Andrew Sargent STAFF WRITER

Victoria HolmARTS/FASHION EDITOR

PHOTO BY KAVAN HESS

PHOTO BY SABriNA wiNTEr

Junior Trevor Theil “crossfaces” his opponent to put him in a cradel at the Nyssa Tournament on Dec. 6.

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Fatuma mnogerwa STAFF WRITER

Wrestlers win both duals, headed to state

Girls JV Basketball shoots for a place at state

Girls have their eyes on state prize

Sophomore Macy Altorfer tries to intersect a pass at the Capi-tal against Mountain Home High on Nov. 19.

Club finishes season in third place at Dotty Clark


Athlete of theMonth

Sport:

Wrestling

Years playing:

12

Loves the sport because:

It’s a challeng-ing sport and my

brother played so I took after him

Favorite opponent:

Boise

Difficulty level:

8

One word to describe sport:

Hard

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

19

Senior Blake Collins

The ski and snowboard team competed in six Saturday races and three Wednesday races this season. Seniors Kavan Hess, Preston Thomas and Eddie Teets is in Free-style Ski, junior Braden Swain are in men’s Expert Ski; junior Cal-vin Burton is Men’s Intermediate Ski; senior Chase Macaw, Chase Pearl, and junior Jacob Stewart are in Men’s Expert Snowboard. Senior Kavan Hess said, “It takes a lot of

practice and balance to do my position which is free styling. Our coach is Mr. Wilmot and he is the best there and there is no one like him, he is just great.” Hess said, “I am real-ly looking forward to the Jackson Hole meet because it’s a trip where we just have fun and don’t have to race.” The team is looking forward to the Dotty Clark Championships on Feb. 14. Senior Makenna Berry is in Expert Women’s Snowboard, sophomore Josie Shea is in Novice Women’s Snowboard,

senior CeCe Harris in Women’s Expert Ski and senior Samantha

Gardner is in Women’s Intermediate Ski. The teams have fin-

ished in third or fourth place in every Saturday race this season and are

With wrestling end-ing in the next couple of weeks, Capital had their Senior Night on Feb. 5. They wrestled against Eagle and Weiser with Capital winning both duels. “We beat Eagle bad but Weiser worse. Senior night was good,” senior Jacob Fields said. Capitals team goes to state Feb. 28 and March 1, where about ten wrestlers will com-pete. “I’m very excited for state….This season has been going very well, and I have won some matches that I am proud of. The team is continuously getting better,” senior Blake Collins said.

The girls JV basket-ball team has finished the season placing fifth in the division with a record of 13-7. The team members each learned something from their experience with the season. “It taught me to be a better team player and being a better basket-ball player in general,” sophomore Macy Altor-fer said. “My most memora-ble moment was beat-ing Rocky, Eagle, and Borah all in a row,” junior Chloe Krishnek said. “We did pretty well, at the beginning it was

rough but towards the end we pulled together and played how we should have,” Krishnek said. “Boise’s my favor-ite opponent because they have a great JV team and the games are always close,” junior Nicole Hamblin said. The team tried hard to succeed and in the end it made them closer together. “We put in great effort and it was fun most the season. We got an opportunity to know each other,” Altorfer said. “My team is all very close and we get along so well. They feel like

sisters to me and I’m so grateful for them,” Krishnek said. “Looking forward to see all my amazing teammates working hard,” junior Ariana Soliz said. Their coach, Harry Angelos, is currently retired but spends his time coaching the JV basketball team. “The involvement with the youth, they keep you young and alive,” Angelos said. The team has won against Kuna, Moun-tain Home, Eagle, Val-livue, Rocky Mountain, Borah, Meridian, Tim-berline, and Centennial High School.

As of Feb. 12 the girls Varsity basketball team is heading to State to compete for the title. Head coach Blas Telle-ria said that “It’s always a goal, certainly happy to be there [state].” The girls won two out of three of their district games. They beat Valli-vue High in, 55-46 and against Centennial High in Districts, 54-34; but lost against Boise High in Districts, 25-27. “I’m really excited to play on the floor again at the Idaho Center,” senior Kylie Centers said. Junior Nicole White said that the best thing

about the season was, “Working out our little kinks, getting better and closer as a team.” “[I’m going to miss] going to practice, see-ing my teammates everyday,” Centers said. As of right now the girls are 14-9 with their latest win on Feb. 12 against Centennial High school, 54-34. White said, “[I like that] you have to come together [as a team] with all of your skills.” “How we’ve came together as a team and how well we played to go to state [was the best],” Centers said. “They’ve really been coming around these last couple of weeks,”

Telleria said. The girls State compe-tition starts on Feb. 20

really hoping to finish third at Dotty Clark.

Senior Aaron Olsen skiing at the Bogus Basin Race on Feb. 5.

“I’m also looking for-ward for rugby to start and being that much closer to graduation, the season’s pretty good, too fast though,” Fields said. The team is awaiting the districts tourna-ment as State is coming up Feb. 21. Wrestlers have to win at least three matches to get and make it to State. Junior Dylan Hawkes said, “ For state I’m looking forward to the kids who beat me so I can show how much I improved, I think I can make it to state.” Sophomore Owen Midkiff said, “I am looking forward to all the competition and hoops I have to pass to get to state, and I’ll make it.”

Senior Khadija Neumeyer, junior Emilie Eckhart and senior Kylie Centers set up for a block versus Eagle High School on Jan. 10 Capital won 55-52. “We’ve come together as a team this year and set our sights and efforts high to play well and go to state”, said Centers.

in which the girls will play against Mountain View High School.

Seniors Delaney Sauer and Kylie Centers help as junior Nicole White rebounds the ball against Eagle High School on Dec. 10.


SportsFriday, February 21, 2014

Editor: Selma Kovac

photo by vicki francis

Capitals JV boys huddle together at the home game against Rocky Mountain on Feb. 1.

Junior Madilyn Sturges practices wrapping for sprained ankes in Sports Medicine. “I was taping Hannah’s [Prigge] foot,” Sturges said.

Jv boys’ basketball awaits Districts

varisty boys’ basketball continue undefeated season with “effort and focus”

Students heal in Sports Medicinecharles WalkerSTAFF WRITER

fatuma Mnongerwa STAFF WRITER

Emily Lundquist

Athlete of theMonth

Sport:

Basketball

Loves the sport because:

The toughness it makes you have

and the challenge it presents

Favorite opponent:

Borah High

Difficulty level:

8

One word to describe sport:

Exciting

Hours dedicated to sport each week:

14 hours

Brannic Bailey

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Rowdies and foxes hold up cardboard cutouts of the senior players’ faces on their senior night against Eagle High on Feb. 13.

Junior Elvis Rudan lays up for a basket at the Rocky Mountain game on Feb. 1.

Seniors Blake Dittman, Nick Dow, DeVion Jackson, Hunter Young and Reece Ruzicka pose for a picture after celebrating their senior night on Feb 13.

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The boys’ varsity bas-ketball team is currently in the number one seed in the state with an undefeated record of 20-0 as of Feb. 13. Feb. 13 was the boys’ senior night, where they celebrated all their seniors and played Eagle High, (beating/losing) them, 69-47. Head coach Paul Rush said the games against Boise High and Borah High have been key games for the team this season. “There is a big rivalry with those teams,” Rush said. Rush said the prac-tices are what they should look forward to improve. “I love practice time with our guys and I look forward to each day,” Rush said. Rush doesn’t want

Sports Medicine, taught by eight-year teaching veteran Aaron Epperson, focuses on fixing wounds, human anatomy, and on-scene injury treatment for ath-letes. He said the students focus on multiple parts of the body. “Sports Med 1 stu-dents are just finishing the senses (hearing, taste, smell, sight) and will soon begin learn-ing about blood. Sports Med 2/3 are learning about modalities (hot/cold, electricity) and will start preparing for

their TSA next week,” Epperson said. Students involved in this class are required to go to any Capital sport-ing event and in the event of an injury, act as a paramedic. “First year students are required to spend 40 hours total at sporting events doing various tasks from delivering water to the athletes to patching up cuts as they happen,” sophomore Mason Hart said. Sports medicine is a multi-year class. Stu-dents get involved with any and all athletic activities. It encom-passes all the athletes (though indirectly) and the coaches/trainers.

the team’s undefeated record to go to the boys’ heads. “We can’t control being undefeated but we can control the attitude, effort and focus that we are bringing to the table today. Hopefully they learn that the goal isn’t to go undefeated

but to become the best versions of ourselves,” Rush said. Senior forward Reece Ruzicka said the team has “worked extremely hard everyday, whether it’s a practice or a game. We get more out of practice than any other team in the state.”



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To improve before State, Ruzicka said “…[we] can’t let up, and we need to limit our mental lapses when we play too.” Junior point guard Derrick White has been one of the team’s point leaders all season. White said they have

been so successful by “making the most out of practice every day.” Although, White said in order to improve before the tournament, they need to improve their rebounding. Overall, White said the team improved most on “defensive concepts and team chemistry.”

The boys JV basketball team has a 15–3 record, as of Feb. 14 and was working towards to the District tournament.Junior Bowen Grange said, “The best thing about basketball was to get better everyday and make me and my team better.” Even though Grange was injured during the game, his favorite opponent was Mountain View High because he and his team did really well. Grange said, “My

Team has had a winning season so far of 15-3, now looking to go far in tournament favorite thing in bas-ketball was the bonding with the team because you have to have team chemistry in order to be a competitive team.” Junior Colbin Larson said, “I loved this sea-son… [It] was a huge job from last year. I love the team. We have only had three losses which is really good. We all bond together which makes us good.” Sophomore Cameron Daron said, “This sea-son was really fun. The best game we played was Boise High at their court and we played over time and still won.” He also said the whole

team is really close and all hang out with each other in and outside of school. “Our coaches are very nice and cool plus they tell us the right thing to do and sometime they aren’t really hard on us,” Daron said. Junior Elijah Lewis said, “The best thing this season was get-ting close to my team-mates. I learned how to love the person next to you and not put anyone down. Our team is pret-ty good and we all get a long which is a great thing.”

Junior Marina Gale said taking this class is a great way to move towards finding a job in the athletic or medical fields. “It’s a fun class to be involved in, and it helps me learn about topics I need to know to become a trainer,” Gale said. The students don’t often have labs, but they do have very interesting ones when they do. “We do have lab days when we can. Usually we dissect pig hearts, which is coming in a few weeks. The students in Sports Med 2/3 will have a hot/cold thera-py lab this week with their modality chapter,” Epperson said.

Opinion Thursday, February 21, 2014

PAGE 8 Editor: Andrew Sargent

Should wolves be hunted?

Fatuma MnongerwaSTAFF WRITER

Do we need 7 periods a day?CARTOON BY ARIELLE SARGENT

It’s official. Boise high schools will have seven periods next year. Since more core classes were being required and stu-dents were not able to take as many electives, the Boise Schools Dis-trict is now making

more room for elective classes. This is somewhat beneficial because now students can all take the electives they want and core classes don’t have to get in the way. The biggest change is that school is going to be longer. Students will get out at 3:10 instead of 2:56 but classes will be 5 minutes shorter. Classes will be 52 min-utes long rather than 59 minutes and zero hour will still exist. Because of this change students don’t have to take on line classes or summer school to be

able to take more elec-tives. Students can save the extra time doing their homework. But some of the stu-dents that have work after school will have to change their schedule. Homework will start to increase and a lot of stu-dents will start to stress. I personally don’t like the 7 period classes. I am completely fine with the amount of home-work that I’m have now but if I add one extra class I’ll just stress. Whether it’s elec-tives or core classes, the homework will still increase. Rather than

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“ Students can now take any electives that they would like, but the bad thing is that I hardly have time to prepare and now my instructions will be cut and my contact with students will be cut. I don’t agree with it but electives are important and I don’t won’t them to be cut.”

“ The 7 period class is good because now students will be able to take the classes they want to and nothing will get in the way. Also, students won’t have to get all stressed out because they now don’t have to take night school, summer school, and online school.”

“ I like the idea of the 7 periods because now students can take any elective they’d like and the core classes won’t get in the way. All the elective classes were running out of students but now elective classes will be filled and core classes without any problems.”

“I don’t like the 7 period because stu-dents will just get more homework and most of them will have to quit working because of homework and it will take their time away. But at the same time students will get to take the electives that they want.”

The hunting of the gray wolf has been a topic of controversy and conservation in the United States. I person-ally believe that wolves should not be excluded from the scope of a hunter’s rifle. Wolves are predators, they hunt and kill, we should be able to kill them if need be. In 1974 the gray wolf was put on the endan-gered species list in the lower 48 states and in Mexico. This protected the gray wolves for 39 years until late 2013 when the gray wolves lost protection, mean-ing that wolves are open to hunting with little to no penalty; this has sparked of contro-versy among conserva-tionists and ranchers. Gray wolves kill livestock, and are ulti-mately a pest to ranch-

Wolves are fair game and shouldn’t be excluded.Taylor AnfinsonASSISTANT EDITOR

Hunting nowadays is used for glory and money; instead of it’s original use for food and pelts. Recently, the contro-versial wolf hunt took place in Idaho. Even though no wolves were shot, over 250 contes-tants participated will-ing to kill wolves to get money/trophies. I don’t agree. I be-lieve hunting should only be necessary if we need food, warmth, or to protect ourselves; especially since they recently came off the endangered species list. In 1974 the gray wolf was considered an en-dangered species be-cause of hunters kill-ing too many of them. Just last year the gray wolves were removed from the endangered species list and are free for the hunt. But does that mean we should

kill them just because the law says we can? Wolves are considered a pest for farmers and ranchers because they keep taking their live-stock. However, un-like other pests, wolves only reproduce every few years and killing hundreds of them in a year will make the gray wolves an endangered species again. I don’t consider wolves to be a pest. To me a pest is something that is a problem and something that can’t be tamed. Well, the wolves are a problem but they can be trained to follow our com-mands to not hunt our food, thus making them not a problem. Even though wolves aren’t that easy to train, like a dog, it is possible. Dogs can be just as dan-gerous as a wolf. Dogs can kill a human as eas-ily as a human and dogs do that, tamed or not, yet we don’t consider them wild like wolves. If we learn to tame more and more wolves we can train them to not kill our livestock and might even help us hunt, for appropriate reasons. Wolves should not be hunted down like prey. Unless we’re going to eat them, skin them, or we’re defending ourselves, I have a problem with it.

Andrew SargentOPINION EDITOR

Hunting a species that isn’t endangered any-more doesn’t give us the right

ers and they have to be controlled. Though the wolves keep the local elk population in check, the main reason why wolves are hunted is be-cause they pose a threat to livestock. According to the Idaho Fish and Game the number of sheep killed by wolves is much higher than last year’s number with 337 sheep killed in 2012 compared to 147 killed in 2011 and the number of cattle killed slightly increased from 90 in 2011 to 92 in 2012. (http://www.thewild-lifenews.com) If we didn’t kill wolves, a lot of people would be in serious trouble; they wouldn’t be able to stop them from killing and eating their livestock Wolves may be a keystone species in the environments where they live but that does not make them exempt from being hunted. Wolves must be taken care of in a way that people and wolves can coexist. The needs of the peo-ple that the wolves af-fect also must be con-sidered. We need to be able to keep the wolves population at a number where they can be of help to the ecosystem, but not a threat to live-stock or humans.

shortening periods and giving us 7 periods a day why can’t we just cut one or two core classes and we’ll be able to get more elec-tives. Not all of us need the electives that are being offered. Some of us are taking the electives we want and we all don’t need electives. Sure I don’t have to go to sum-mer school, take an on-line class, or go to night school but I would have just as much homework and have to be in school way longer than usual.

trying to propose his own bill that states that people in the LGBT community could be fired or be denied work based on their sex-ual orientation. Single mothers are also in-cluded and discrimi-nated against in this bill. I strongly disagree with this bill; in fact it incredibly infuriates me. I am a strong pro-ponent of everyone being treated equal – whether that is in the workplace, or even just on the street with their partner or at home. People deserve to be treated the same and should be judged on their character, rather than their sexual orien-tation.

Many may disagree with this because of their religious prefer-ence. As a free individ-ual, you have the right to believe in whatever religion and God you want without being pun-ished or discriminated against. But why does something you believe in have to infringe the rights of other equal hu-man beings who deserve to get married, work, have kids, etc. just as much as anyone else. I don’t believe in dis-crimination in any form, especially against some-thing a human being can’t control. So I’m all for the LGBT commu-nity gaining equal rights in Idaho to feel safe and happy in the workplace.

Emily LundquistEDITOR IN CHIEF

Just under a thousand people gathered to pro-test and stand together to persuade the Idaho State Affairs chairman to have a public hearing to propose adding the words “sexual identity” and “sexual orienta-tion” to the Idaho Bill of Rights and amend the Idaho Human Rights Act to end discrimina-tion in the workplace. For seven years the bill has been denied each time, but accord-ing to addthewords.org, as many as “81% of Idahoans believe that no one should be fired from their job because they are gay, straight, or transgender.” In contrast, Idahoan and Republican law-maker Lynn Luker is

Living in a Republi-can-dominated state, like Idaho, it makes it harder for the LGBT community to be equal. There have been many efforts to end discrim-ination. Most recently, the annual ‘Add the Words’ rally took place on Jan. 11, where one of our own Capital stu-dents, Zach Bramwell, spoke.

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