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Richard Brotherson of Mt. Pleasant is one of the three new school board mem-bers, winning the election against Roy Ellefsen, former NS teacher. Brotherson says he was prompted to run be-cause he believes that he has certain qualities that can help the students succeed.

!e qualities Brother-son speaks of are his "nan-cial background--including a master’s degree in account-ing--,his familiarity with the schools, and his determina-tion to ensure his three kids have a quality education.

With his skills in account-ing, he believes that he will be able to "nd be#er ways to spend assets within the dis-trict, something he is very concerned about.

“I’m hoping we can "nd e$ciencies that will reduce costs which will help save district money,” said Broth-erson.

!ough Brotherson ad-mits that he hasn’t had enough time to evaluate what spending needs to be reduced, the problem of how to pay for education is never far from his mind. He rates it as the foremost problem fac-ing our schools, especially with the new cuts proposed by Governor Huntsman.

“Fortunately, education received the smallest reduc-tion, but we’re all going to have to get by with less fund-ing as the economy is in a downturn,” said Brotherson.

On a slightly di%erent %%note, Brotherson supports the idea of Merit Pay, where

Brotherson, hop-ing to improve school spending

Seniors boys compete for the title of most-preferred man

BY ETHAN ALDRIDGE

On the evening of November 22, during the cast party celebrating the "nal performance of this year’s mu-sical, a small group of the cast mem-bers went sneaking up to the area above the auditorium, known as the catwalk. “We had no idea that they were up there,” said Tanya Roundy, North Sanpete’s drama teacher.

!ough many of the students in North Sanpete have gone up there without permission, something new happened on this occasion.

One of the students in the group fell through the ceiling while walk-kking on a part of the catwalk away from the set path. Due to fast re&ex-es, the girl was caught before falling completely through the ceiling.

!e students’ reason for being up on the catwalk is unknown, though Roundy has her own theories.

“It was probably just a bunch of seniors trying to see a part of the school they hadn’t seen before,” said Roundy.

!e majority of the group hadcome down from the cat-walk when the incident happened, but they allare sharing the "ne for the damage to the ceiling.

Some of those students feel that it is unfair that they are being pun-ished for just being on the cat-walk.

“We weren’t the "rst students to be up there without permission,”said one of the students involved.

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Making cookies, jammin’ to N*SYNC and killing ba-bies are just some of the ac-tivities the Preferred Men carried out last week.

!e candidates for the most preferred men were Ryan Aagard, Taylor Ricks, Jared Bailey, Spencer Hen-derson, Reggie Clawson and Cody Irons. !ese seniors, who were elected by the fe-male population of North Sanpete, seemed a li#le shocked that they had been voted in.

“Yeah, I was way sur-prised!” said Henderson. “I didn’t really consider myself to be the popular kind or the other type [of guy] that usu-ally gets voted.”

!ese boys had a series of activities to accomplish to help determine who would be crowned at the dance.

Each of the boys had theirlegs, eyes and lips photo-

graphed. Each day, one of these pictures was set out during lunch and students had to guess which body parts belonged to which guy. !ey voted for the one they liked best by pu#ing money in the speci"c jar.

“It was weird having peo-ple vote on our many awk-kkward body parts,” Henderson said.

On Tuesday, the boys strapped on their aprons and sold the cookies they had made the previous day. !ey all considered it to be a big success.

“My cookies were the best, even though they were in the back and no one could see them,” said Bailey.

“It was easy cooking. Mrs. Brooks helped with it. We sold all our cookies,” Claw-son said.

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Santa in a competition with Manti

amount of money raised by Manti for Sub for Santa. With an additional week,

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Score of the recent Lady-hawks basketball victory

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!e holiday season is a time to give, a time to share, and for a group in Fairview, the season is a time to hon-or those who have been big contributors to the commu-nity all year.

!e North Bend Enter-tainers are a group from Fairview. !ese people pro-vide community theater and entertainment. Most of the events are fund raisers, which are currently going to the restoration of the Fairview dance hall.

Some of the events they participate in are For the Love of Chocolate, Fairview Follies and the Christmas Shining Star Award.

!e Christmas Shining Star Award is an award given to a male and female member of the community based on nominations from the com-munity. A commi#ee then selects the recipients based on service to the community, and the good things the per-

Fundraising for Fairview cityson has done throughout theyear.

“I feel it is successful,” said Cli% Wheeler, a member of %the North Bend Entertain-ers. Wheeler also says it is nice to recognize the good things people have done.

!is year the program will be a combined concert. !ere will be the Sanpete Commu-nity Singers, C-Minor, two Fairview Elementary school grades and more.

A poem by Hazel Ander-son was wri#en especially for this event. Two Fairview Elementary students will be selected by their principal to read the poem while the awards are presented.

!is program also receives support from North Sanpete High.

“We really like the stu-dents at the high school,” said Wheeler, “[!ey o%er] %%good support.”

!e awards will be pre-sented at the Fairview Dance Hall on December 19, at 7:00 p.m.

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BY ANAAA RA AMIRR REZ

N.S High is helping the ones in need again by do-ing a community food drive. !e student body o$cers and class o$cers have done posters for the elementary schools and gone to the el-ementary schools and haveposted them around the schools. !e class who gets the most items will receive a donut party.

!e same goes here for N.S High whichever 1a class gets the most items they will receive a donut party as well. All the items are due by De-cember 19.

When most people think celebrate Christmas they have a table full of food, let’stry to make this for everyone and not most people. Let’s show our community thatthe Hawks are helpful and caring.

!e student body o$cer Valerie De Mill is thankful to all the people who are con-tributing to help out in this year’s food drive.

“Everyone is being awe-some and helping out somuch and I want to give thanks to all the people who are donating for this years food drive,” sid De Mill

So come on Hawks let’s help out the people in our community who are less for-tunate than we. Just by do-nating a couple of cans, youcan make a big di%erence in %%this food drive.

Food drive, class competitonteachers are paid according to the success of

their students. He supports this program be-cause it is, to him, how most other job mar-kets work. However, he sees the problems of how to introduce the system while still ensur-ing that the students have a well rounded ed-ucation if the only focus is good test grades, and how to pay for this program.

Money issues aside, Brotherson doesn’t have any changes planned for the district, wanting to “get a feel for things are work-kking now, and try to make improvements over time.” However, if any changes were to be made later, they would likely be made to increase the amount of technology in our schools.

“I would like to see a greater emphasis on

the use of technology in both classroom edu-cation and in the operations of the district,” said Brotherson. Brotherson emphasizes technology because, in his opinion, it “gives us the ability to do more with less,” and allow students to “…understand the uses…of tech-nology so they can be successful and com-pete in the job market.”

!ough he may consider technology very important, the thing that students need to learn the most is Language Arts.

“If you can’t write or speak intelligently, no one will take you seriously,” said Brother-son. As an a'erthought, Brotherson also ad-mits that he wishes he would’ve paid more a#ention to his language arts classes in high school.

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Auditorium, continued from page 1the tech crew were on the catwalk during the incident. !ough they have permis-sion to be up there, some of the other students feel that they should be punished as well.

“!ey were the ones that led us o% of the path,” said %one of the students.

Because of this incident, and to prevent a similar one in the future, the school is taking some measures to monitor which students go on the catwalk. “We are at-

taching some doors to the en-trances with latches on them. Only the tech crew will be given the key, and only when I give it to them,” said Roun-dy.

!e roof of the auditori-um has been "xed now, and life continues as usual in the drama department. “Acci-dents happen, and that’s life,” said one of the students. “!e only di%erence is that a closer %%eye is being kept on studentsthat go up to the catwalk.”

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Pref, continued from page 1of the babies ‘died’, most of them did an excellent job, even though they hated it.

“It was terrible, don’t re-mind me!” said Henderson. “It woke up twelve times in the night, and I only got three hours of sleep. !ere was one part where I had no idea what was going on.”

“It’s a waste of time,” said Bailey. “!e time I spent with it, it was annoying and I wanted to strangle it.”

“!e babies sucked. If it was a real baby, I would’ve cared,” said Aagard.

Clawson, who received 100% in taking care of his baby, said all it took was a lit-tle tender love and care, but he still hated it.

On !ursday, the assem-bly took place. First, the Stu-dent Body O$cers put on a skit of Ultimate-Ping-Pong. !en, the boys came out

modeling their swimwear. Irons and Ricks ended up ripping their shirts o% by the %end of their posing.

Next, an agility course was set up, and the boys we’re timed as they went throughit.

Lastly, the boys came out in their eveningwear, escort-ed by the girls in FCCLA. !ere, le#ers wri#en by their mothers were read.

!e members of FCCLA, who are sponsoring the Pref-fference Dance, have spent a lot of time with the boys. Percin-da Anderson, the club’s pres-ident, learned a lot from this experience.

“!ey’re just entertain-ing to watch,” said Ander-son. “!ey’re such a laugh. It doesn’t ma#er what’s go-ing on or what mood you’re in, they’ll always make you laugh.”

BY HUNTERERICKSON

!e Mount Pleasant City Recreation Center got a much needed spruc-ing up last summer whenDean Kleven and other artists painted a Veterans’ mural on the south side of the building.

Kleven and Jason Quinn, both of Mount Pleasant, presented the idea of a new mural to the city council who agreed.

!e mural represents the veterans of Sanpete County who fought in vari-ous wars, as the previous me-morial su%ered from years of %%deterioration. City council-man Mont Bona suggested that they paint it on the Rec-reation Center.

Other artists who worked with Kleven and Quinn to paint the mural were Brian Spencer of Mount Pleasant, and Sco# Gwynn and Kar-en Sorenson from Snow Col-lege.

Including design and pho-to work beforehand, along with the actual painting, the mural took about two months to complete, and was completed on July 3rd.

“We posed and took pic-tures of ourselves at two o’clock p.m., in order to get the same shadowing for each soldier.” said Kleven.

!e seven soldiers that were painted represent in-dividual wars that the peo-ple of Sanpete County have fought in: !e Black Hawk War, the Spanish American War, World War One, World War Two, the Korean War, Vietnam War, and the mod-ern day soldier.

!e technique the art-ists used is a style of paint-ing called “trompe l’oeil”, which means ‘fool the eye’,

in French. !is style, which dates back to the Baroque pe-riod, is what gives the paint-ing a three dimensional stat-ue-like appearance.

In order for the painting to last a long time and endure the harsh weather, the artists ordered and used automo-bile paint. !e paint was ap-plied with air brushes.

“A'er the old memori-al was taken down, we knew that Mount Pleasant needed a new monument, but no-body knew how to represent the veterans , and we thought that we could contribute,” said Kleven.

!e group worried that some might think the mu-ral would not be a su$cient tribute.

“We thought some people would take it as an excuse for a memorial, but we have only received positive comments since,” said Quinn.Kleven also said that he is stopped everyday and is complimented on the mural, which was exactly what the city wanted.

Since the painting of the mural, other improvements have also been made on the building including extensive landscaping, painting the building inside and out, and

adding new front doors.!ey feel they have made

a signi"cant contribution to the city and to the veterans.

!e artists have no current plans to do any other mu-rals or paintings throughout Mount Pleasant, but hope to have a chance to in the fu-ture.

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Our View: As a group of varied individuals, we here at the NS Times believe in tolerance, unity, and respect.

Without these key things, our society would not be able to function.In high school, the ties that bind o'en tend to be barbed, and what brings us together also tear us apart.

Stereotypes play a major role in this separation. Instead of being people, we are subdivided into catego-ries that are dependent on clothing, social status, religion, etc.

In literature, characters are o'en referred to as &at or round. Round characters are ones who change depending on events in the plot and experience complex emotions that make them inde"nably unique, whereas &at characters are static and stereotypical.

All living individuals are round and dynamic, and that quality of being multifaceted is what makes us interesting. Rarely will you "nd somebody who "ts perfectly into a subcategory of society. Life isn’t so-cietal Tetris, and we are not composed of carbon-based tetrads.

Nearly all important people are de"nably “weird”. !e characteristics needed to form human magnif-fficence include individuality, nonconformity, and having enough will power to question normalcy. In order for a person to do something monumental, he/she must question society and do something that hasn’t been done before, or somehow alter our perception of something signi"cant.

In our tight-knit community, homogeneity seems to reign supreme, and anyone who challenges that tangible comfort is socially exiled or ridiculed.

One positive aspect of our small school is that everyone is aware of everyone else. Imagine what we could do if we would put aside our di%erences, and instead focus on our many similarities.%%

Imagine a school of complete individuals who were not expected to be one thing, but instead were able to transcend expectation and instead focus on creating an atmosphere of complete respect and perpetual excellency. !e idea is, admi#edly, idealistic and Romantic, but it is possible to a#ain something at least compa-

rable; all it takes is a li#le e%ort and a shi%% ' in perception.

!e public forum Your comments, questions and letters are appreciated!

As a concerned student, I feel like we don’t have enoughchoices of elective classes. I think that our shool should o%er more athletic classes.%%

All our school o%ers is %%PE and weights. I think we should o%er classes that will %%help our sports programs. If we o%ered something like %%a soccer class, or volleyball, or football, then we would excel. Our students would have more fun while they get the exercize they need. Our sports programs would ex-cel because students would learn more about the sports they love.

-Haley Ence

Wouldn’t we all enjoy a longer weekend? !e gov-ernor has suggested a four-day work week, which would mean that we would only have school four times a week instead of "ve. I think this is an excellent idea. WIth this extra day, we would be able to relax and enjoy ourselves so much more. I’m sure the teachers wouldn’t mind hav-ing an extra day on the week-end, either. !e schools would be able to save so much more money if the bus-ses didn’t have to drive stu-dents everywhere "ve times a week! !is is something that would be very bene"cial in so many ways.

-Larel Blackham

I think we should have more date dances that are boys’ choice. Yes, I know guys hardly ever ask, and the a#endance is low for boy’s choice dances, but that is why you have more!

It’s usually the guy that is supposed to ask te girl on a date. Outside of high schoo,l that’s how it usually is. Our high school needs to help the young men to learn to ask girls, and to become com-fortable with it.

We need to have more dances, and more boys’ choic-es. Homecoming should also be a date dance. We need to have more fun and get into good activities.

-Karen Crosland

It’s hard to keep up with classes that give too much homework. Chances are that most students have more than one class that gives out homework almost everyday. And now with 8 classes, with at least 3 classes giving daily homework, it’s hard to keep up with it. Students also have a'er school activities. We come to school to be taught, that’s why we give seven hours of our day to learn. So the teachers should teach us what we need at school, not at home.

-Tucker Morin

I truly beleve that more peo-ple sould write in their opin-ion to the NS Times. !is is a way of not only satisfying the sta%, but it is also way to%%tell the administrators how you feel. It is a way to pub-lish what you feel, and exhib-it your desire for change in the school. Please? !ank you.

-Jeremy Zabriskie

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BY KY ATIEKK CARPENTER

Singer, killer chili maker and a dirt digger are just a few of the characteristics you’ll "nd in NSH’s new teacher Auralee Brooks.

Although this is Brooks’s "rst year as an o$cial teacher,she’s been a teacher’s aid for four years at Juab Jr. High. She applied at North Sanpete High and Juab High School but an opening appeared at North Sanpete "rst.

“I really wanted to teach junior high, so I was a li#le bit ner-vous; but when I got here I found that the students were so nice. I might like teaching high school more!” said Brooks.She teaches adult roles, Teen living and foods I. Next semes-ter she will also be teaching interior design.

“I really want to help grow the program here soon,” said Brooks.

Brooks has the typical hobbies that come with being a home-economics teacher. Even though it’s hard to "nd the time for it, she loves to decorate and scrapbook. She also loves gardening, whether it’s with &owers or vegetables.

“I really love to be working in the yard, just digging in thedirt!” said Brooks.

Cooking is a specialty of Brooks, and she cooks at home o'en. Her favorite things to bake are desserts.

“My specialty is apple pie, but I also have a killer, award-winning chili,” Brooks said. “Soup is my all-time favorite though. You can add or replace anything to it to change what it becomes.”

Traveling is also another passion of Brooks. She’s been allover the United States except for the Deep South and north-east parts. Her favorite cities are New York and Sea#le.

“New York is de"nitely one of my favorite places. It’s so alive. If I had a di%erent life, I could be a New Yorker,” said %%Brooks.

Brooks was raised in Lehi and went to high school there. She said she lived out in the country on a farm three miles from town.

!ere she participated in choir and the school’s musicals.“One year, we did Kiss Me Kate. I got a callback and the di-

rector was the kind to type-cast. So since I was the nice girl, I didn’t get to play Kate. Instead I played characters like Tituba from the Crucible,” said Brooks.

She was also a heavily-involved member of the Zod Squad, a group very similar to NSH’s Esteem Team.

“I even won a trip to Disneyland for supporting drug and alcohol prevention,” said Brooks.

A'er high school, Brooks graduated from BYU with a Bachelor’s degree in Family and Consumer Science.

Now Brooks currently resides in Nephi with her husband and three children.

“Being a full-time teacher is a li#le life changing. It’s bee-

hard juggling that and my family,” said Brooks.!is year, Brooks has taken charge of the FCCLA. Percin-

da Anderson, a senior and the president of FCCLA, loves the change Brooks has brought to the organization.

“Mrs. Brooks is cool and gives us a lot of ideas,” said An-derson. “She even took us to Rodger’s and had shakes a'er we painted windows for homecoming.”

Anderson isn’t the only student who enjoys being around

Mrs. Brooks. Dakota Roach, a sophomore from Mt. Pleasant, is currently in her Foods I class.

“[!e class is] pre#y chill. If anybody has the opportunity to take foods class, I recommend it. Mrs. Brooks makes pre#y bomb food,” said Roach.Brooks’ arrival this year has in&uenced a lot of students.

“I just really enjoy having her as our new leader and teach-er. I think we can expect a lot from her,” said Anderson.

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BY CY HAD MCKAYKK

When the school doors reopen in late August, stu-dents look forward to seeing old friends, teachers and fac-ulty member. !is year, how-ever, there was a new student among us.

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Carly Chapman is a ju-nior; this is her "rst year at-tending school in North San-pete, though she has lived in Spring City for most of her life. And although she hasbeen living in Spring City for the last 15 years, the rea-son most have never seen her

before is because, for most of Chapman’s educational years, she went to school in Manti.

!en last year she moved from Spring City to Alpena, Michigan.

“We just moved out there,” says Chapman. “!e winters

were really bad. You couldn’t see the ground from Novem-ber ‘til June.”

While living in Michigan Chapman went to an arts camp called Interlochen. At Interlochen she played her violin for up to eight hours a day. She recalls how much she learned while a#ending the camp.

“It was a really big camp with a lot of really artistic people. I love playing the vio-lin, it’s the real beauty in life,” said Chapman.

She has been playing the violin o% and on since the %fourth grade. In this year’s production of Seussical the Musical, Chapman played the violin, which was a lot harder than she expected.

“I had to play all of the string parts on one violin, which is a lot harder than it might sound.” says Chap-man.

Many felt that the Chap-man’s violin playing made this year’s musical very spe-

cial.“It was so beautiful. I fell

in love with her playing; I was so impressed.” says Tan-ya Roundy, the director of the musical.

And this was the "rst year in a while that the musical or-chestra had a real violin in it,and Chapman was honored that she could play.

Others think that the vio-lin made the musical.

“!e violin is the LSD of the orchestra, it’s small and e%ective,” said Cody Sanders, %%senior from Mt. Pleasant.

Playing the violin is not the only thing Chapmanlikes to do. She enjoys read-ing, acting and watching movies. Chapman is also an active member of the Esteem Team.

Chapman feels that books are a good way to escape from everyday life. Her favorites include classics, like Arsenicand the Old Lace and fan-tasy novels such as Lord of the Rings. Chapman explains

even though she enjoys read-ing, she loves to watch mov-ies.

“My family watches cra-zy movies like Willow and Monty Python,” said Chap-man.

And being crazy and non-comforming is how she de-scribes herself.

“I wouldn’t put myself into a stereotype. I’m just di%er%% -ent,” said Chapman. “I mean I listen to the same music as other people, I wear clothesthat others have worn, I just don’t like to conform to oth-ers. Everyone here at North Sanpete is all the same”

Even though Chapman believes that North Sanpete students are all alike, she says that she does like going to school here.

And being here in NorthSanpete, Chapman says that she enjoys having good friends, great teachers and being in a good school with students that have good mor-als and standards.

BY JY ESSE RICHMOND

Senior year has pain in it. !e somewhat “dark side” of the year has already been ex-posed, as seen in the last installment. Howev-er, where there is darkness, there is also light.

Seniors seem to enjoy their last year in high school. !ere are various reasons: they have fewer classes, they seem to have power over the student body, etc. For whatever the reason, it seems that the plusses of the "nal year outweigh the minuses, even enough that these leaders of tomorrow may miss their last year once it’s gone.

!e things that the seniors will long for vary from student to student. For Landon Carter, it’s the laid back feeling of senior year(for Nichole Gordon, her friends. Cody

Irons will miss his friends too, but he delves deeper.

Irons says that he feels like he can still play more football, but he regrets that he can’t play with his high-school buddies. Some of his best memories come from this year of foot-ball, where Irons scored his "rst touchdown, and the Hawks prevented Emery from scor-ing on the "rst yard line. Gordon shares her nostalgia for sports.

Gordon states that some of her favorite times were going to state so'ball games, es-pecially the bus rides. During these trips, she and other teammates would tell “random, funny stories” to each other.

Irons also claims to have memories from sports, but those “can’t be shared with the general public.”

Aside from memories, many seniors have their own reasons for enjoying senior year.

Jill Coombs said she likes being a senior because they are the oldest, and she knows that life will move on a'er high school. Hil-lary Workman and Weston Butler like it for the sense of pride that comes from all the hard work they’ve done, though Butler adds that he also enjoys his power over the under-classmen. Additionally, Irons enjoys every-thing he does with his friends.

“I pre#y much do whatever I want to,” said Irons. He says that his parents are rath-er lenient, so that he and his friends can go do “crazy stu%.” Mostly, though, he enjoys %%staying out late and hanging out with Reggie Clawson.

!e students aren’t the only ones who are

enjoying their last year; teachers like it too.“It’s good to get to know them in their last

year,” said Brad Bentley. Bentley, the senior class advisor, says that the seniors di%er from %%other classes due to their maturity, and to the fact that many of them have “discovered who they are.” Additionally, Bentley says that see-ing students whom he has worked with grad-uate is an endless source of pride for him.

So, this is the light. Senior year seems tobe fun and "lled with experiences that willbe remembered for ages. However, whatever stands in the light also has a shadow. !ere will be stress, there will be work. !ere will also be fun and excitement. With this in mind, the lower classes can prepare themselves for their "nal year. Meanwhile, the seniors will look back, possibly even with a smile.

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BY CY ALEB CHRISTENSEN ANDCHANA THOMPSON

!e Ladyhawks have started the season with a 3-2 lead because they work together to play in unity.

“It has been one of our be#er starts, “ said senior Jessica Lindow from Spring City, “!ere are still alot of areas we could still improve on though.”

An area the girls struggle with istheir free throws. !ey can make them in practice, but they o'en struggle in practice.

According to Kathrine Kendall senior of Mt. Pleasant, the team re-lies on the positive a#itude of lead-er Nichole Gordon, senior from Mount Pleasant.

“She’s very positive and vocal,” said Kendall.

Kendall also commented on si-lent leader Jessica Lindow who contrubutes to the team through her playing.

Strong leaders always help the team to excel, but being good friends help them to be more com-fortable and play well together.

!e girls have beat Juab, Uintah and Park City and look forward toplaying Spanish Fork on !ursday,

and Union December 23. !e girls played Manti yester-

day, but results were not availabe atpress time.

According to Coach Hadley Gordon is the leading scorer, Eri-ka Draper, junior of Mount Pleas-ant and Kendall rebound well, and Kara Anderson junior from Fairview leads in steals.

According to Hadley the team is

starting to play be#er, they’re get-ting things going, o%ense is running %%smoother and they are ge#ing more in shape.

!e Ladyhawks have been im-proving and its visible in their stats. !ey played recently in a tourna-ment which wasn’t as successful as hoped.

BY VY ALERIEVV DE MILL

ln(x/y)=lnx-lny. When some people see this jumble of le#ers and symbols it lookslike the writing of a di%erent language. %%

For others math is another language, but for Jessica Lindow it is a lingo that she under-stands very well.

As the Math Sterling Scholar, Lindow has been improving her math skills by taking some challenging math classes, including col-lege algebra and calculus. Her math teachers have noted Lindow’s excellence in the sub-ject.

“!ere are only 14 [students] in that class, and she’s ge#ing an A,” said David Harris, Lin-dow’s calculus teacher. “She picks up things really fast, and that’s what you call the cream of the crop in mathematics.”

Not only has Lindow enhanced her ownknowledge, but she is willing to share her math expertise with others.

On Monday a'ernoons when most stu-dents are in a rush to leave school, Lindow and some other students head into Harris’ classroom. !ey devote their time to help students who struggle with their math.

Lindow also tutors the "rst grade and kin-dergarten students at Mt. Pleasant Elementa-ry. Over the summer Lindow was the math teacher for Spring City Elementary’s sum-mer school program.

“She is amazing,” said Shawn Ledingham, Lindow’s former college algebra teacher. “She’s intelligent, helpful and friendly.”

Along with her math classes, Lindow has excelled in all of her other classes. She has maintained a 4.0 GPA all through high school, and is ranked number one in her graduating class. Because of her good grades, she was in-ducted as a member of the National Honor Society, where she is currently serving as the secretary.

However, Lindow’s intelligence isn’t the only thing that Lindow has had success in. Her athletic abilities have helped her make the girls’ basketball and soccer teams for her four high-school years. She is also the cur-

rent state champion in shot-put and discus throwing on the track and "eld team.

Although she is involved in three di%erent %%sports, Lindow says that basketball is proba-bly her favorite.

“It’s a blast!” said Lindow. “You have to ou#hink the other player. It’s a mental sport.”

She has shown her dedication to basket-ball by going to summer camps and playing with the team twice a week throughout the summer. Her coaches have noticed how hard she practices as well.

“She’s very dedicated. She does a lot of shooting on her own,” said head coach Cher-yl Hadley. “She’s our strongest player. I’ve never realized how strong she was until I had to go up against her under the basket. She pushed me out-of-bounds quick.”

Not only is Lindow just a physical asset to

the team, but teammates say she is a great ex-ample.

“She’s amazing, not only on the court, but she’s amazing o% the court as well,” said %fellow basketball teammate Kathrine Kend-all, senior. “She’s loved by everyone on the team.”

Kendall is also a thrower on the track and "eld team with Lindow.

“She’s pre#y much my coach in track,” said Kendall. “I look up to her.”

Lindow is a team player and says she loves the “team aspect” of basketball.

“I like working with other people for a common goal,” said Lindow. “[By playing basketball] we get to know each other very well.”

Because of her good grades and athleti-cism, Lindow was awarded Academic All-State for girls’ soccer.

“In class Jessica is always conscientious and gets things done,” said Hadley “I have found that if athletes work hard to get good grades, it carries over. !ey are more likely to work hard in practices and games.”

When talking about her grades, Lindow said, “I’ve always been expected to [get goodgrades] by my parents.

Although she has had much success in both sports and school, Lindow remains very modest of her accomplishments. Anyone who knows her would say the same thing.

“Jessica sets her goals high and works very hard to reach them,” said Lindow’s mother,Bobe#e Lindow.

As for her future academic plan, Lindow says she plans on going to college, probably at Snow, but doesn’t know what she wants to major in.

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Drill team performs well despite minor mistakesBY CY HANA THOMPSON

!e boys’ basketball team has struggledthrough the beginning of the season. !eir one win came against the North Sevier Wolves, 45-40. With room to improve, the Hawks work hard to strengthen their patience and control the pace of the game.

“We’ll do alright this season if we slow down,” said Carl Peckham, sophomore from Ft. Green.

Peckham was not the only team member that commented on the speed the Hawks play. Ac-cording to Lane Allen, senior of Mt. Pleasant,the team hurries too much, they don’t take the time to see what the other team’s set up is, and they hurry down the court and let the defense control instead of being patient and controlling their own game.

“I would like to see the boys more in control and not to panic,” said Head Coach Bull Kiesle.

!e team believes they can improve on their weaknesses, and even with problems, the Hawks manage to even out the bad with the good. !e Hawks have some key players whose height is their contribution to the team. According to Peckham, one of the team’s strengths is senior Jared Bailey.

“He’s a good shooter, a baller, and impossible to block,” said Peckham.

But Jared is just one of the many athletes who have proven that basketball is not a one mansport. !e team works in unison to pull togeth-er their many personalities and step up to the challenge.

!e team mo#o, “We, not me,” shows just how dedicated the coaches are in focusing on the need to work tegether as a team.

“I think we should do pre#y well this season,

BY VY ALERIEVV DE MILL

Before the judges called team number seven to the &oor, Jorie Davis, one of the team captains of the North Sanpete Spiriteers,stood with tensed muscles andbu#er&ies dancing in her stom-ach. Her teammates were expe-riencing the same feeling.

When the team "rst stepped onto the &oor at Delta’s Great Basin Competition with their matching blue, black and silver a#ire, they didn’t look as ner-vous as they felt, according tomany team members. !ey were ready to perform their military routine for the "rst time, even though it was in front of a panel of judges, not just at a basketball game.

“We were all con"dent about dance, but we weren’t sure about military,” said Davis. !e team had just learned military less than a month ago and didn’t have much time to perfect it.

!is competition was the "rst one of the season, so the team didn’t know what to expect fromthe judges.

“!e "rst competition is al-ways a learning experience,” said Ashley Cheney, the assistant ad-visor.

!ere were few errors in each routine, but it was enough

to make a di%erence in their %%scores.

!e team had anticipated get-ting higher marks, especially in dance, but ended up taking "'h in both dance and military be-cause of certain penalties.

What hurt them the most was the safety penalty they got in their dance routine. Apparent-ly they shouldn’t have had some li's in the dance while wearing gloves.

“I wasn’t given a rulebook so I didn’t know about some of the rules,” said Alisa Cheney, Head Drill Team Advisor. “We would’ve beat Emery if we didn’t have those penalties.” !e Em-ery Sparde#es are the Spiriteers biggest rival in Region Eight.

Not only was it the "rst com-petition for many of the new team members, but it was the "rst competition for Cheney as an advisor.

Even though they didn’t re-ceive the marks they were aim-ing for, Cheney said, “!e sea-son is actually going really well.”

!ough it can be hard to change advisors, the team mem-bers have welcomed something new.

“We’ve learned a lot of new things,” said Cheyene Nebeker, the team’s co-captain. Others, like Nebeker, agree that Cheney

has brought a good change to the drill team.“[Alisa] is good, she gets us mo-tivated,” said Davis.

However, along with the new changes came a lot of hard work. !is sport is very physically de-manding and goes almost year-round. !is team has been pull-ing early morning practices sincethe middle of summer and some-times been doing some double-day practices. Even with their busy schedule they have some-how managed to squeeze in an extra technique practice every !ursday.

!ey have to practice so long

and hard just to keep up with the competition.

“It’s been stressful, but fun,” said junior, Ti%any Taylor.%%

Even though their scores weren’t what they had hoped for, the team isn’t going to get down on themselves. !ey are just go-ing to make changes to each rou-tine.

As last year’s region cham-pions, the Spiriteers hope thatthey may be able to step it up in the competitions to come.

“At the next competition we’ll do a lot be#er bec ause we’re more prepared,” said Am-ber Mecham, sophomore.

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Let’s talk holidays with North Sanpete

Author: Lisa McMannPages: 210Genre: Teen Fiction, !riller/SuspenseRating: 3 stars out of 5 BY DY ANIELLE HARDYDD

Janie’s life is not like most other teenagers’: she’s cursed with the ability to enter oth-er people’s dreams, and she can’t control it.

Ever since she "rst found out at age eight, Janie has had her hands full trying to deal with being sucked into random dreams. Along with that, she also has to worry about her mother, who is an alcoholic and rarely around. Life is hard and lately it’s only been ge#ing worse.

!e story-line itself was fairly interesting. Based on that alone, I probably would have picked up this book eventually. But the good qualities pre#y much end there, proving that writing a successful book is based on more than just having a unique idea, you also have to keep the readers’ a#ention.

!e book skipped around a lot, changing from one per-son’s point of view to another, sometimes without the readereven realizing it. !e organization was poor at best, and it al-most seemed as if the author was trying to write it in a journal format, listing the date and time, even though some “entries” were closely located and very short.

While reading the book, it was hard to stay focused on the story development simply because of the lack of &uency between sentences and the over-all choppiness. Incomplete sentences and thoughts, errors and one-sentence paragraphs li#ered every page of the book. !e writing style, besides be-ing &awed, was also a bit dry, and the characters did not have much depth to them.

Perhaps all of these problems can be blamed on that fact that McMann is a new author, and Wake was her debut novel. !e sequel (Fade) comes out later next year, and maybe by then her writing will have improved.

Potential readers, be warned: Wake, while wri#en for teens, has more than a few mature elements in it. Profanity, drugs, alcohol and crude remarks about sex o'en appear in the book. If this is o%ensive to you, the best idea might be to %%either not read the book entirely or skip a few parts of it.

!ough the book itself was a quick read, the plot was slow to build. Toward the very end of the book, around the last 30 pages or so, the plot started to become more intriguing(but as soon as it did, the book was over.

Much like a dream, Wake &ies by quickly but as soon as it’sover, it fades away leaving you with nothing.

Students’ art and music highlight Illusion Academy concert

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walls, including a mixture of purses made from old shirts, unique drawings and other interesting displays.

But the art was not the only interesting thing to look at. Bre#e Richmond, a mem-ber of !e Collective, chose to decorate the room with very unique light "xtures. !e lighting ranged from a vin-tage lamp to Christmas tree lights.

“!e music was good, butthe atmosphere the lights provided was amazing,” said Ma# Snijman, band member of !e Cape Town.

Snijman was not the only one to believe that the atmo-sphere was good; many au-dience members enjoyed it also.“!e atmosphere the lights gave was amazing,” said Coombs. “I loved how di%er%% -

ent it all was.” Coombs hopes to be able to enjoy another evening like this one againsoon.

“!e music and the art de"nitely helped each other,” said Richmond. “It was really fun to have both.” Richmond plans to do another activity like this one some time next semester, and hoped to have as good a turnout as this one proved to be.

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BY HY ANNAH ALDRIDGE

College Students orga-nize and produce an art show for artists of all shapes and forms.

!e Illusion Academy was full of people on the 5th of December; a group of col-lege students called !e Col-lective organized a concertand art show.

“It was a nice taste of cul-ture,” said Jill Coombs, se-nior. “It was completely dif-ffferent from anything we’ve ever done before.” Coombs, like many who a#ended, en-joyed a nice blend of art and music.

!ose who a#ended were entertained "rst by soloist, Sayde Price, followed by two bands, !e Cape Town and !e Desert Noises. All of them brought a unique alternative sound to the stage.

Besides the music, col-lege students’ art li#ered the

French Movie NightOn !ursday, Decem-

ber 18, the French Club will be sponsoring a Christmas movie night. Come to Dr. Wright’s classroom for an evening of culture, food and fun. In the spirit of Christ-mas, please bring a white el-ephant gi' for exchange.!e activities begin at 6:00 and the movie will play at 6:30. It’s $2.00 for anyone and free for French Club members who have paid their dues.

Mallory PortSenior, WalesFavorite Christmas tradition: We always do family activities, like go-ing to concertsFavorite Christmas movie: A Christ-ttmas StoryFavorite Christmas song: !e Christmas ShoesFavorite present given to you: A trampoline Favorite present that you gavesomeone: a book of inspirational le#ers

Sara Fowels Freshman, Mount PleasantFavorite Christmas tradition: Opening two presents on Christ-mas EveFavorite Christmas movie: Nation-al Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Favorite Christmas Song: Joy to the WorldFavorite present given to you: ScooterFavorite present that you gave someone: race car track that I gave to my brother

Tina Mitchell TeacherFavorite Christmas tradition: Eat-ing breakfast with family in paja-masFavorite Christmas movie: Home AloneFavorite Christmas song: O Holy NightFavorite present given to you: A stu%ed puppy dog when I was 6 %%years oldFavorite present you gave to some-one: I gave my dad a camsha' lamp that I made him.

Tucker MorinJunior, FairviewFavorite Christmas tradition: Snow-boarding with familyFavorite Christmas movie: ElfFavorite Christmas song: Silent NightFavorite present given to you: SnowboardFavorite present that you gave some-one: a Rubik’s Cube, my brother was way excited when he got it

Shane MickelSenior, Spring CityFavorite Christmas tradition: Shooting and blowing things upFavorite Christmas movie: Nation-al Lampoon’s Christmas VacationFavorite Christmas song: Jingle BellsFavorite present given to you: Four WheelerFavorite present that you gave someone: don’t remember

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The Cognitive QuestHow well do you know NS High? Answer all of the ques-tions correctly and e-mail us your answers. !e quiz is open to students and members of the community. We’ll select a student to recieve a bag of candy! Just e-mail your answers, name and phone number to news@nsanpete.org

Freshman Level:Who is the girls’ head basketball coach?

Sophomore Level: Who is this year’s Social Science Sterling Scholar?

Junior Level: How many

teachers at-tended North Sanpete asstudents?

Senior Level:How many

parts does Tom Hanks play in !e Polar Ex-press?

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