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Upcoming events:Today: Region Forensics @ Richfield--7:00 a.m.Jr. Prom Practice in the Main Gym--10:20-11:40 a.m.Thursday: Boys Soccer @ CarbonJr. Prom Practice in the Main Gym--8:15-9:45 a.m.Friday: NS Idol Assembly in the AuditoriumJr. Prom Practice in the Main Gym--8:15-10:00 a.m.Junior Prom @ 8:00 p.m.(Doors open at 7 p.m.)Saturday: Junior Prom @ 8:00 p.m. (Doors open at 7 p.m.)

By the Numbers:

Percent of NS freshmen who have a full (eight-period)

schedule

Percent of NS seniors who have a full schedule

Estimated damage cost of the water main that broke and

flooded the woodshop

The year in which the Acad-ddemy Awards, or Oscars, were

founded

Number of years in between NS Region Championships

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Well Said: At school the worst that will happen is a teacher gets mad at you, but in the real world you get fired.

--Leah Woodard, on why it is important to learn punctual-ity while still in high school. The school’s new tardy policy aims to teach students the importance of being on time before it hurts them later on.

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BY CY HRISTIAN CARR

Recently at NS, a pipe fit-ting broke in the shop area causing major flooding. Theaccident occurred around lunchtime in the early part of February.

The pipe broke as a result of two possible factors: faulty fitting on the pipe, and cold temperatures.

The pipe was an elbow joint that was part of the fire suppression system. As a result of the break, when the pressure of the water dropped, the fire alarm went off.ffff

“At first we thought some-one pulled the fire alarm,” said Principal Jim Bowles, “But then we discovered the water.”

Immediately adminis-tration stopped classes and set to cleaning up the mess. Teachers with students were asked to keep their students in their classes until told oth-erwise. Other teachers with-out students, TAs, custodi-

ans, and the superintendant helped to clean up the water. According to Bowles, they had a lot of support from var-ious community memberswho loaned fans to dry the shop room.

“I think they did an awe-some job,” said Bowles. “It’s good to work with people that will jump in a help likethat.”

District maintenance was called to fix the pipe fitting. The total costs from the ac-cident were reported to be around $2,800, mostly from ruined wood shop projects in the room.

The last time such an ac-cident occurred was over ten years ago. According to Bowles the system is old so there is no way of knowing when something like this will happen.

“Something is going to go wrong with a system like that,” said Bowles, “You can’t anticipate anything; you just have to fix it as it comes.”

BY TYLERTT GR LAD

The FFA Sweethearts week, which took place over the week of the seventh, held many opportunities and ac-tivities for the students to participate in.

A few of the highlights were the themed days and the Sweetheart competition.

Each weekday was given a specific title which the stu-dents were encouraged to dress up for. The students who dressed up the best were given prizes at the assembly on Friday.

These days included: Shorts and Boots Mon-day, Camo Tuesday, Cow-boy/Hat Wednesday, Career Thursday, and Official/Spir-it/Club Friday.

The week also held activi-ties that helped the students in life. On Wednesday stu-dents were given the oppor-tunity to go through an ob-stacle course with “drunk goggles” on. These gogglesgave the user a sense of what it feels like to be drunk.

“It was experience on what you don’t want to do,” said Keaton Bouck, sopho-more.

The Sweetheart competi-tion was held to choose thequeen for the Sweethearts

dance. The contestants were Kassie Nielson, Aman-da Young, Amber Mecham, Marleen Lewis, and Rylie Eliason.

The girls competed in many areas including sad-dling a horse, catching a

greased pig, four-wheeler skills, and an interview.

Eliason won the competi-tion with Nielson and Young as runner-ups.

“It was a lot of fun,” said Eliason, “I got to know a lot of the people who were in-

volved.”The dance took place on

Saturday the twelfth and students were told to wear matching shirts with their date. Overall the dance did not have a great outcome.

“Eh, it was small,” said

Casey Lamb, a sophomore. Most students agreed that it was a bit on the little side.

Despite the fact that thedance could have given more students appreciated the va-riety that the week brought to the halls of NS.

Photo by Jy esse RichmondRandy Shelley, Joann Turpin, and O’Dee Hansen work to clean up the mess made by the broken pipe fitting.

Broken water main causes shop flood

Photo by Cy hristian CarrThe Poetry Out Loud Competition was held on February 17th in the auditorium. Con-testants were required to memorize two poems and recite them while on stage. Alys-sa Hall won the competition, with Kimberly Larsen taking Runner-Up.

Poetry Out Loud competition winners

Photo by Ey llie NixStudents dancing during the Sweethearts dance. The dance was the final activity of many that took place that week.

Sweethearts week brings variety to NS

Class choices found to be limited

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V o i c e o f t h e M i g h t y H a w k s

BY JY ESSE RICHMOND, TIFFANY CY HRISTENS-EN, KAYTIEKK NIELSON, AND ELLIE NIX

Starting with the 2007-08 school year, NS moved from a traditional seven-period schedule to the A-B block known to the stu-dents today. The change was prompted by a rise in the graduation requirements mandat-ed by the state. The idea was that without the block, students wouldn’t be able to take the required credits and the electives they want-ed as well.

So why is it that one out of every five NS students doesn’t have a full, eight period schedule?

Here’s the breakdown: 99.3 percent of all the freshmen (151 students) have a full schedule. This means they have eight classes, none of which are a T.A, Work Release, or In-ternship periods. Sophomores are similarly

enrolled; while more students have less than eight classes and T.A. periods, 94.1 percent still have full schedules.

Once the upperclassmen come around, though, it’s a different story: the percent of fffffully-enrolled students in the junior class drops to 63.5, and those with fewer than eight class periods, while previously below five percent with the underclassmen, jumps to 19.4. Essentially, one-fifth of all juniors have at least one unfilled period.

The senior class essentially flips these num-bers: a bit less than a quarter of the school’s oldest students have full schedules, while nearly two-thirds of them have holes in their schedule.

Another way to put it: while half of the lowerclassmen are taking their full eight

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BY KY IMBERLY LARSENLL

This year there have been many changes at NS, one of which was the addition of a tardy policy. This new policy give students four free tardies in each class per semester, but if they go over this amount they have to make each tardy up by at-tending a Tardy Recovery Class (TRC). These classes are held three times a week and cost three dollars each time.

Nan Ault, the vice principal at NS said that one of the goals that came with instituting this policy was to create a system that would put the responsibility and account-ability on the students and to pre-pare them for life after high school.

“As a staff, we want the kids to fffflearn that there are consequences for being late,” said Leah Woodard, a Social studies teacher at NS.

“At school the worst that will happen is a teacher gets mad at you, but in the real world you get fired.”

Because this is the first year withthe policy, the school is still in a tri-al period and trying to work out any kinks. One problem that the school staff is trying to solve has to do with ffthe amount of credit in classes de-pending on tardies.

The idea was, at first, to not give credit to students if they didn’tmake up their excessive tardies, but this plan was changed when the school realized that the state of Utah doesn’t allow schools to link credit directly with attendance.

For right now, NS teachers areputting U (Unsatisfactory) on the citizenship of the student in the classes that they have over four tar-dies.

This mark can do more than just look bad on your transcript. It can also prevent students from partici-pating in sports or club activities. Grades and attendance are going to count for eligibility on a weekly ba-sis now instead of on a quarterly ba-sis. For those who have a sporting

event or a club competition, their grades are checked each Monday tosee if they are eligible to play (no F’s or excessive tardies).

If students haven’t made up any tardies that they need to, they can’t participate in their activities un-til they have attended TRC andchanged the U back to an S (satis-factory) or H (honorable).

This not only helps students strive to get to class on time but might also reduce the amount of students who wait until the end of the semester to make up their tar-dies. This was a problem that wasfaced at the end of the first semester this year.

Many students waited until thelast minute to make up their tar-dies, as was shown by the size of the class at the end of the semestercompared to previous weeks. Stu-dents are given only one week after the end of the semester to make upany tardies. If they don’t, their citi-zenship will stay as a U.

Brad Bentley, a Biology teacher at NS, felt that this aspect of the tar-dy policy also had some problems with it.

“I think it should be tougher and that there should be more conse-quences than just using eligibility, because if there is a student that isn’t worried about eligibility, why should they care if they are tardy,” said Bentley. Students aren’t forced to attend TRC and if they don’t have a reason to make up their tardies, he believes they probably won’t.

Even with the problems that the tardy policy brings, some teachers have noticed a change for the bet-ter.

“It has almost eliminated tardies in my class,” said Kaylene Johnson, an English teacher at NS. Johnson said that she liked that the students had to have some accountability.

This policy not only puts respon-sibility on students but on teachers as well. Ault said that the teachers have been asked to stand in the halls

during passing periods to encour-age students to get to class. They also have the roll of marking stu-dents late and being diligent with this. If they don’t, the policy won’t work.

“That’s its weak link,” said Ault. “The staff has to be preff tty strong in enforcing it.”

Students had differing opinions ffffon the policy.

“I like it because it teaches them responsibility,” said Caitlin Cox, a freshman at NS, talking about those who have a hard time getting to class on time.

“I personally dislike it because I hate to have to pay money for being tardy,” said Ana Ramirez, a senior at NS.

It may be too early to tell if the policy will work completely, but for now the school plans on keeping it.

Tardy policy seeks to teach punctuality to NS students

These charts show the trends in how many students have full class periods. As the years progress, the number of students taking a TA or Internship period increases, as well as the number of students taking fewer than seven class periods.

These results are comprehensive: all 635 students at-tending school were tabulated.

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classes, only half of the upper classmen are.

Vice Principal Nan Ault said that this gap is due to the fact that many juniors can be close to graduating by the end of the year. Those who only need a couple of credits may not fill up their sched-ules if they aren’t happy with the available classes.

“They’re just here to fulfill whatever credits they need to graduate,” said Ault. While Ault said that the school would like to add classes for these students, they also need to focus on the students on the other side of the spec-trum.

These are the students who, as Ault said, have a hard time “being here.” For what-ever reason, these students don’t have the credits, and the school has to offer them ffffthe opportunity to finish.

Additionally, more spe-cific classes have smaller at-tendance rates, which make them less cost-effective than ffffmore broad subjects. Though the school wants more ad-vanced classes, Ault said that adding them creates issues with funding.

“We certainly understand the limits of our class offerffff -ings,” said Ault.

Ault said that classes are limited because the school

hasn’t been able to add to the staff for a while. Howevff -er, she said that she thinks we have a good size of staff, and ffffthey do what they can with what they have.

Also, Ault said that North Sanpete isn’t necessarily alone when it comes to deal-ing with limited classes.

“All high schools are in the same boat,” said Ault. Specifically, Ault said that Utah schools in general tend to have lots of kids and little funding.

The school would love to add more classes, Ault said, but the staff size and ffthe economy don’t allow it. In particular, Ault said she would like to see the schooloffer Physics, Astronomy, AP ffffHistory and a Shakespeare class, among others.

When looking at what classes to offer, Counselor ffffO’Dee Hansen said the stu-dents have a good say in the matter.

“Basically, our school schedule is determined by the students’ requests,” said Hansen. Hansen said that if various conditions are met, such as student demand andavailability of a teacher and a time slot to teach it in, the staff will try and get the class, ffthough Principal Jim Bowles makes the final decision on

the matter.Bowles said that the deci-

sions regarding what classes are to be offered next year are ffffmade by himself and a com-mittee. Usually during the summer, the departments of the school come together ina meeting and suggest what classes they would like to see implemented. Amidst this, Bowles said hemust keep the fundamental goals of the school in mind.

“I have to stick up for the needs of the school,” said Bowles.

Last year in one such meeting, an Astronomy class was suggested and approved by Bowles. However, Bowles said the class was turneddown by the School Board, who felt that adding this class would put extra strain on sci-ence teacher Dax Higgins (who would teach the class) by making his other classes grow in size.

For next year, Bowles said he and the staff are trying to ffget an Astronomy, Applied Science, and Physics class for the school. Physics, he said, is important because of how the class’s absence hurts the students of NS.

“We’re shortchanging our kids,” said Bowles. Addition-ally, the Applied Science class would provide an easi-

er option for those students who struggle with science and have already taken Earth Systems.

Rather than waiting until summer to hold the approv-al meeting, Bowles said that they plan to have the sched-ule for next year finished byy April, giving teachers more time to prepare.

While Bowles said that the school’s class offerings ffffare affected by funding, he ffffalso noted that teacher certi-fication plays a role. Without proper certification, a teach-er cannot teach a class that they want to teach. Some teachers, such as Higgins, Brad Bentley or Leah Woo-dard, are doubly certified, al-lowing them to teach a vari-ety of classes.

While Bowles said that having teachers double-cer-tified is nice, the adminis-tration does not necessar-ily push them to pursue this goal.

This is the first article of a two-part series on the school’s classes. In the next issue, we’ll look at how the lack of class choices affa ects other electives in ffffthe school, classes that students take just to fill their schedules. Stay tuned.

Class Choices, continued from page 1

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Throughout the four yearsof high school, you come across a wide range of emo-tions. There’s stress, excite-ment, boredom, fatigue, may-be a bit of love (your mileage may vary). Some emotions are rare, perhaps only hap-pening once or twice dur-ing your high school career. They’re kind of hard to de-scribe.

For instance, it’s hard to describe the feeling you have when Mr. Bentley announces that, after a 27-year drought, the hawks are now the cham-pions in the region. The jour-ney to this moment was long and more than occasional-ly frustrating. Many a fan’s night has ended with nothing more than a sore throat and crushing disappointment.

But winning is something exhilarating. Everybody in the audience, student, par-ent, player, becomes part of something bigger. There’s an overarching sense of unity, of success. While your only contribution may have been screaming when the oppos-ing team was making foul shots, you are still filled with a rush of euphoria.

The feeling, the emotionof that moment, my friends, is something you take with you long after you graduate.

Another emotion comes to mind. I’ll use band in my example, having the most ex-perience with this particular feeling there, though I’m sure that those involved in choir and drama can relate.

Here’s the setup: it’s the day of your performance. Countless hours, both in class and out, have been spent in preparation. If you’re like me, then you get the per-formance jitters a few hours

in before the concert/pro-duction begins, making you all jittery and irritable until you leave the house. The an-ticipation of these things can be murderous.

Anyway, here you are, all dressed up with somewhere to go, and you walk out on-stage. You pause, taking a second to see who showed up tonight. It’s more than a bit disheartening when you realize that the auditorium isn’t even half full, and that all those in attendance are ei-ther your parents or the rel-atives of someone else per-forming. No one from the high school itself has come to see you perform.

Let’s compare the two emotions now. On one hand, you have the sweet, sweet taste of unity and success. On the other, you have an unful-filled sense of anticipation and (even if you are perform-ing with a group) solitude. We’d all much rather have more of the former than the latter, yet that usually doesn’t happen.

Some people will write me off right now. ff

“Oh, the whiny band kid is just annoyed that no one shows up to his concerts, boo hoo.”

The problem with this statement is that it doesn’t just apply to band, choir, or drama. It applies to soccer. It applies to tennis. It applies to baseball and softball. It even applies to girl’s basketball. Our student body, it seems, is very selective about what events it chooses to attend. These events are usually lim-ited to football, basketball and volleyball. The school musical might get more peo-ple than usual, but any other

drama production seems to go completely unnoticed.

So why don’t we care? It’s obvious that we don’t, or we wouldn’t have this prob-lem. Is it because these or-ganizations aren’t successful enough to garner our atten-dance? I think not. The band and choir have both gone to state competition twice dur-ing my years here. Also, even when the girl’s basketball team is doing great and the boys aren’t, you’ll be hard pressed to find a girl’s game that has more people in at-tendance than a boy’s.

Now, to those of you who make the effort, who go toffffevery game and cheer us on, I apologize. You are certainly not the target of my remarks. I’m addressing the other 95% of our students who think that your efforts can suffff ffice for the whole school.

We are lazy, ladies and gentlemen. Lazy, lazy, lazy. I include myself in this dis-tinction; I rarely attend events outside of my sphere, but I like to think I try to. That’s not enough, though. All my good intentions don’t amount to anything without actually giving my support.

This ties into the perceived problem of our school’s spirit as well; in fact, it is the prob-lem. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people com-plain about how our school spirit sucks. People have come up with many different ffffthings to blame: the SBO’s, the success of our teams, the administration, etc. None of the above is the root of theproblem.

When it boils down to it, school spirit is the pride that one takes in their school. Nothing or no one can just drop

spirit in our laps and tell us to have fun. It doesn’t mat-ter if we’re rich or poor, big or small, or any of the other things people attribute it to.

It doesn’t matter that we’re a less than 700 strong school in ol’ Sanpete County. You’ll find this problem anywhere, from Hawaii to Houston. If we aren’t proud of whom we are, then we have no right to complain about why our school spirit sucks.

So here’s my challenge to you, students of North San-pete. If you want our school to be united and excited, if you want everyone to have pride in NS high, if youwant people to show up to your games, then show up tosomeone else’s first. Frank-kkly, I’m not picky. We have the spring sports coming up; that means you can choose from boys’ tennis and soccer, girls’ golf, softball, baseball, and track and field.

If athletics aren’t your thing, go to a concert. I know for a fact that both the band and the choir have one more concert this year, and the drama department also prob-ably has something cooking.Or, you could be really ad-venturous and support one of the clubs that are really in the shadows. There’s FBLA, Multicultural Club, English Club, or any other organiza-tion.

I guess, in the end, what I’m trying to say is that our school does not suck, North Sanpete. Let’s give every-body the attention they de-serve.

-Jesse

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The NS Chess Club has been doing more activities than ever before. In previous years, the club was unable to get much done.

“We weren’t so active,” said Mr. Higgins, teacher and advisor of the Chess Club at NS. “We only got together af-ffter school to play and would go to state competition.”

This year, they were re-cently contacted by the En-richment in Art Coordina-tor of Fairview Elementary, Susan Fullmer, to go teach chess to elementary students on Mondays after school.

“I went online and saw all these positive benefits for brain development,” said Fullmer. “Chess helps them with problem solving, math, etcetera.”

With about nine kids showing up each Monday af-ffter school, from ages seven to twelve, Fullmer wants to continue this program.

“If the high school stu-dents can, and the elemen-tary students want to, we will continue playing chess,” Fullmer said.

Besides having a positive

impact on the brain, it also gets the kids interested.

“Teaching them young-er will get then interest-ed so when older, they will be good,” said Joseph John-son, junior from Moroni and President of the Chess Club.

Also, the Chess Club wants to get involved with other schools in the area.

“We want to have a NS

Tournament where Man-ti, Juab and other school around our region will come and compete,” said Johnson.

Playing chess with differffff -ent people also has its advan-tages.

“It’s friendly, yet you learn from them and their strate-gies,” said Colton Shelley, ju-nior from Mt. Pleasant.

Even though Chess is one

of the most popular board games of the world, few peo-ple get involved with the club here. However, the club has grown at NS over the last couple of years, and there is hope that it will continue on growing.

“We want it bigger and better,” said Higgins. “I hope there will be more people, more involvement next year.”

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BY HY UNTER ERICKSON

When one looks in the teacher’s parking lot, they can see many differffff -ent shapes and sizes of cars. Each of the teachers at N.S. has their own reason to drive the car that they do.

Nan Ault, the vice principal of N.S.,drives a Hyundai Santa Fe.

“It’s a snow beast,” said Ault.David Harris, a math teacher at N.S.,

drives his GMC Envoy for similar rea-sons.

“I got it for the four-wheel drive,” said Harris. “I’ve got a long driveway.”

Some of the other teachers at the high school, including Dax Higgins, Ty-ler Bailey, and Ben Cox drive the cars they do in part because of the gas mile-age.

Bailey also has other uses for his Chevy Cavalier.

“Sometimes I use it to haul softballequipment,” said Bailey.

Cox and Higgins both drive black Honda Civics that are one year apart, which corresponds with the age differffff -ence between the two teachers.

Although Brad Bentley, a science teacher, does not drive the most valu-able car he owns to school, he likes his 1980 GMC Pickup for several reasons.

“It’s better than walking,” said Bent-ley. “It’s big, it’s got character, and it’s

recognizable.”Ed Staker and Scott Butler both own

cars that were made in 1986 (a Toyota pickup and a Chevy van). These teach-ers drive their cars because of their de-pendability.

Along with Bentley, a lot of other teachers don’t drive the most valuable cars that they own to school for several reasons.

“[The more valuable car] is my wife’s, and she’s more valuable,” said Higgins.Staker has another reason for driving the less valuable car.

“I save it for other things to keep the miles down,” said Staker.

When it comes to cars at the high school, teachers drive a variety of cars for a variety of reasons.

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Chess club grows, tutors elementary students, plans to host tournament

Photo by My aria ReyesThe Chess Club playing against each other in the library after school. Recently, the club has tried to be more active, and has started an outreach program.

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Here at NS, the library doesn’t just have one librari-an, but three. Shirley Hilton Stacey Peterson, and Cindy Glad all contribute to the li-brary and all do their best to make it the most efficient and comfortable environ-ment that it can be.

Cindy GladCindy Glad graduated

from Jordan high school. She is very passionate about her job. She hadn’t worked before coming to the li-brary.

“I was a stay-at-home mom before I became a li-brarian here at NS,” said Glad. She has 6 children, three of which are attending North Sanpete High.

“It makes it easy that I can be close and have a sim-ilar schedule to my kids,” said Glad. She is currently attending Snow College.

Stacey PetersonStacey Peterson went to

high school in Las Vegas. She also attended Snow Col-lege and SUU. This is where she earned her library and teaching degrees.

“I actually didn’t apply

for a library position at NS, I was asked to come,” said Peterson. She is passionateabout reading, and wants to share this passion with stu-dents and also give them the opportunity to love reading. She is also an In-struction Coach and a Lit-eracy Coach.

Shirley HiltonShirley Hilton graduat-

ed from South High in Salt Lake. After graduating she went to the University of Utah and majored in music.

“I was a stay-at-home mom before coming to NS. There was a job open-ing, and I have always loved reading, so I took it,” said Hilton. When she had chil-dren at home, being a librar-ian was very convenient.

“I would have the same days off as my kids, so it ffmade it easy,” said Hilton.

Peterson said that the goal of the librarians is to make the library a place that students can learn to use.

“We all hope that the li-brary is somewhere where students can feel comfort-able to come and use the re-sources that the library of-fffers,” said Peterson.

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BY AY LYSSA HA ALL

In 2004, the mighty Hawk foot-ball team took to the field with a vi-sion of a region title. After a tough battle with Delta, they were able to make this vision a reality. As they vacated the hallowed ground of the NS football stadium that night, they left as region champions.

The NS football program has not earned a region championship since that day six years ago. In fact in the past three seasons the team hasn’t won more than three games in any season.

With the current streak of losing seasons, NS leaders believe that the football program has finally found the key to their revival in NS rival territory: Steve Coburn.

With the conclusion of Snow College’s football season, head coach Steve Coburn was informed by the Snow College president, Scott Wyatt, that he was being re-leased from the program as head coach.

Many in the community were shocked as they looked to Coburn’s record’s as head coach at three met-ropolitan high school’s all located in Salt Lake county, and the 11 years he spent coaching at Snow, five as head coach.

Throughout his period as head coach at Snow College he kept a winning record of 53-7 and made the team widely known on a na-tion-wide level. According to Co-burn, their winning record wasn’t even the most impressive aspect of his program at Snow.

“The record of 53-7 was impres-sive, but what was more impres-sive was the type of players we got into the program and the way we did things,” said Coburn. “I’m very

proud of what we did there.”After releasing the previously

employed football coach at NS this year, speculations are high as to why NS will now be hiring a coach whowas also just released from anotherinstitution. The question many are asking now is why did Coburn getreleased in the first place when he has a track record such as his.

Coburn was given only one rea-son for his release, this being that Wyatt was looking to ‘take the pro-gram in a new direction’.

After what seemed to be an ex-tensive process for many, a back-kkground check was done on Coburn and his release from Snow, and he was hired on as head football coach and physical education teacher forthe 2011-12 school year at NS.

According to NS Athletic Direc-tor Sharon Christensen, Coburn’s release from Snow College was largely due to ‘a conflict with the president’.

President Wyatt could not be reached for comment.

Christensen is thrilled about the addition of Coburn as a physical education teacher, and she is excit-ed for the boys involved in the foot-ball program.

“He’s an excellent coach. We feel fortunate to have him,” Christensen said.

Coburn’s experience in the game of football began when he was a freshman at Bonneville HighSchool in Idaho where he played defensive line for his team for four years. He then went on to play col-lege ball at Ricks College and Mon-tana Tech. He returned to his alma mater of Bonneville High to be the defensive line coach after graduat-ing from BYU.

Over the next 15 years Coburn,

coached at Morgan, Cottonwood, and Ogden High as head football coach. He then was hired on at Snow where he worked as assistant coach for six years and head coach for five.

When Coburn was hired on atMorgan the team had not had much success for a few years. His first year there he led his team to second in region. His second year as head coach they took region with a re-cord of 8-0 in region play.

Coburn credits the turn aroundto his tactics of recruiting more players and putting them in the correct positions, as well as mold-ing the young men he worked with into future ‘coaches, businessmen,teachers,’ etc. These are also the ways Coburn plans on building back the NS football program.

While employed at Ogden High School Coburn did a remarkable job at turning around what Ogden Athletic Director Phil Russell called a football program ‘that had never been very good’ by getting his boys to the state semi-finals.

During his time at Ogden Co-burn used similar tactics for success and recruited a student who was a basketball player and had never be-fore played football. He turned him into a quarterback.

After four years in Coburn’s program, the young athlete, Blake Moore had become an all star foot-ball athlete, being named first team all-state. Moore beat out more than 10,000 student athletes that year tobe named the winner of the nation-al Heisman trophy.

“He won a lot of honors and credited every one of them toSteve,” said Russell.

In a letter written by Moore for readers at Ogden it was made very

clear the impact Coburn had on Moore’s life.

“I can honestly say that Steve Coburn has made an outstanding difference in my life,” said Moore.ffffHaving coached with Coburn and having seen first hand his program, Russell was grateful for the oppor-tunity of having him at Ogden.

“The thing I appreciated about Steve was he was a role model. Not only does he know his x’s and o’s

but he’s a great role model for thekids,” said Russell. “He laid down the law and loved the kids into be-ing successful.”

The love Coburn has for his play-ers makes him desire to mold them into not only successful players, but successful people.

“My sport is a leadership train ing program,” said Coburn. “[My job is to] be a teacher of young men

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Photo provided by steve coburnCoach Steve Coburn directs his team from the sidelines as Head Coach at Snow College. Coburn worked at Snow as head coach for 5 years, earning a winning record of 53-7.

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Photo by dustin allredDallen Bird jumps to gain possession of the ball for the Hawks in the opening of Thursday’s state game held at the University of Utah against Judge Memorial.

Boys basketball wrap up region title, lose out at state

BY DY USTIN ALLRED

Disappointment is the one word that sums up the way the NS boy’s basket-ball team felt after they finished their sec-ond round state tournament game. It was played against Judge Memorial High School last Thursday at the University of Utah’s Huntsman Center.

“After the Judge game, we were very, very disappointed,” said senior Parker Chris-tensen. “We wanted to come to state and prove to everyone that we belonged there, and against Judge, we didn’t do that.”

The team took an early exit from the up-per bracket of the tournament as they fell to Judge Memorial, 35-53.

Judge was defensively dominantthroughout the game, holding Dallen Bird to only 12 points and only allowing NS to score a total of 12 points during the first half. Judge also held the Hawks to only 31.4 percent shooting.

“I don’t know what it was but we never got a flow going,” said Christensen. “The intensity picked up especially in the second quarter and we didn’t match it until it was too late.”

“We didn’t play like we normally do,” said junior Kyle Seely. “Shots that we nor-mally take just weren’t going in.”

The difference in experience was a probffff -lem for the team. Judge is experienced with state tournaments and the Huntsman Cen-ter is just a few blocks away from their high school.

This year was the first time that any play-er on the NS team had gone to the state tournament, and for most of the players, the Huntsman Center is the biggest court that they had ever played on.

“I think that the big gym and our nerves were a big part of our loss,” said senior Dal-len Bird. “Also, not ever going to the tour-nament and knowing what it’s like contrib-uted to the loss.”

“It hurt us being the first time that we had been up to state,” said Christensen. “Most of the other teams had been up there before and it shows. We came out shell-shocked in our first game and just shot hor-rible.”

The Hawks were put at another disad-vantage because of the sickness of junior Rhett Bird. He was not at 100 percent for last week’s games as he had a sinus infec-tion, bronchitis, and the flu.

After the loss to Judge, NS fell to the lower bracket where they took on Cedar High School last Friday night. The Hawks

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BY MAMM NAA DYDD PECKHAM

Due to the success of theLady Hawks previous sea-son much is expected this year. The Lady Hawks took second in the state last year in a game against Bear River High school. Now this year, with the loss of six seniors, the Lady Hawks will experi-ence some changes.

“A lot of changes are hap-pening this year. We lost a lot of experience, but we also have a lot of experiencereturning,” said head coach Tyler Bailey. “With this year compared to last year, we could do the exact same. We have a good chance at state again.”

“This year will be my best yet! Maybe our pitching will struggle a little, but ev-erything else will be just as good,” said senior Shantel Ison.

Last year the Lady Hawks lost six seniors, and the ma-jority of them have been on varsity as a freshmen. Ac-cording to Bailey, there will be some spots to fill this year.

“All spots are open this year. We will most likely pull younger kids up to play varsity this year. Our phi-losophy is the best will play whether it is a freshmen or senior,” said Bailey.

“Losing last year’s se-niors will be hard,” said Ison. “ Shelby (Earl) and Alisha (Peckham) will be hard to lose. The younger girls may be able to step up and help. A lot will be pulled up to

play varsity.”“Everybody who is famil-

iar with softball here knows that losing Shelby (Earl) is a big loss both in defense and offense. We’ve lost six seffff -niors, but we also have six seniors returning. A major change however is that we have new positions to fillthat have been occupied for the last 4 years,” said Alyssa Hall, senior.

The Lady Hawks’ biggest competition last year for state play was Bear River.

“I think we have a shotat state. Our main competi-tion will be Bear River. They didn’t lose much except their starting pitcher Josie Sum-mers,” said Ison.

“We still have big hitters like we did last year,” said Hall. “Our offense is stillffffone of our strong points. We have girls who are very capa-

ble of replacing the seniors we lost.”

According to Hall, Manti will be our biggest competi-tion in region-play.

“Manti is really going to step it up because they know that we are their big-gest competition this yearand they are sick of losing to us. Our goal is just going to be to play our game.”

The Lady Hawks feel that this year will be a great year for them.

“We all get along good. We don’t have drama and we don’t tear each other down,” said Ison.

“Much of the varsity team has been playing together for many years. We know each other’s strengths and weak-kknesses and can help strength-en their strong points and help their weak points to be better,” said Hall.

Softball team expected to succeed

BY AY LYSSA HA ALL

When the lady hawks took the court Feb. 19, in Morgan’s gymnasium anxiety was high. As their only shot at furthering into the lat-ter rounds of the state tournament the team knew how important this game was for wrap-ping up their season in the way that they all hoped for.

“We were hoping we’d play to the best of our ability. I don’t think we accomplished that,” said sophomore varsity player Keisha Jorgensen.

Things didn’t quite go as planned for theyoung team.

“We couldn’t get anything started and they

ate us alive,” said senior Brooke Bailey.The team suffered a rough loss against the ffff

Trojans, 21-72. This was not an ideal way to wrap up the season for anyone closely asso-ciated with the team. And although the girls ended their season with a record of 5-20, head coach Tyler Schlappi felt there was more to this season than numbers.

“Our wins-loss record doesn’t tell the sto-ry of our season,” said Schlappi.

Schlappi felt that their record didn’t do justice in showing the improvement the teammade throughout the season. Being put up against a tough region helped the team gain great understanding of the game.

“The girls gave me everything I asked, but as a first year coach I might not have asked enough,” said Schlappi.

Bailey however keeps faith in his coaching ability.

“He’s a first year coach, he’s gonna learn a lot,” said Bailey. “There can be improvement made, and as the coach gets more experi-enced the team will get better.”

This leaves hope for the players and future teams of the years to come.

“[The program] will improve. He’s a really good coach we’ve just got to give it time,” said Jorgensen.

For Bailey however, this is her final year and season playing basketball for NS, and al-though the outcome of the season could’ve been more successful, she’s looked at it in a positive perspective.

“We surprised the teams we went up against. They expected us just to roll over and die,” said Bailey. “We could’ve been a more well-rounded team, but I think overall we did pretty good. We fought hard.”

Girls basketball struggles to write the end to the ‘story of their season’

Photo by alyssa hallJenifer Nuttall looks to make a quick pass in their game against the Emery Spartans.

BYBB MAMM NAA DY PECKHAMAA

With the 2010-11 Hawks wrestling sea-son coming to a close, the Hawks team has big expectations for next year due to the success of this year’s season.

“Our season went good this year. We got better and we are just going to keep the mo-mentum going and keep getting better,” said Coach Tanner Cowan.

The team had high expectations this year for the state tournament they recently at-tended.

“With all the time and effort I have put ffffinto wrestling, I had higher expectations,” said senior Taylor Walker.

Bradee Sunderland and Walker, both se-niors on the team, wished they would have done better but they still had a fun year.

“I still had a good year though. We had a lot of fun so it was worth it,” said Walker. “We have a lot of fun and good memories.”

Coach Tanner feels that the team did well at the state competition.

“They both wanted to win. All of them do,” said Tanner. “They had some mistakes that need to be worked on but overall they both did great.”

According to Tanner, the team did have success.

In the state competition Walker placed fourth in the 145 weight division., with junior Aaron Lee placing fifth in the 171 weight division. Sunderland and junior Nyle Adamson placed sixth in their divi-sions of 160 and 215.

“They did good and worked hard up at state. With four that placed out of the seven that went, I think we did good,” said Tanner. “The team met my expectations. We had some surprises with new kids because they did well for being new. We are just going tokeep going and build for next year.”

Wrestlers compete at state

fought hard against the Cedar Redmen, but lost in a close contest, 65-69.

“We never feel good after a loss, but we know we played well during the Cedar game,” said Christensen. “If a few things would have changed we could have easily won it, but Ce-dar was a good team. They were every bit as big and athletic as us and they ended up mak-kking a few more plays down the stretch than we did.”

One of the things that could have changed to give the Hawks the win was the injury that Dallen Bird sustained late in the fourth quar-ter. Bird broke his nose and was forced to leave the game.

“When Dallen broke his nose, there was

about two minutes left in the game and we were only down by five,” said Christensen.

“Instead of being able to work the ball in-side and win the possession, we had nobody to go to offensively,” said Christensen. “We fffflost our star player when we needed him, but we still battled through it and tried to make a run at coming back.”

State was hard on the NS boy’s basket-ball team, as they didn’t finish as well as they would have liked to. Nevertheless, no one can take away from this team the accomplish-ments that they made throughout the season,which ended with the first region title since 1984.

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photo provided by michelle walkerThe wrestlers pose for a picture after competing in the state tournament.

to help them to be a better person. I think the game of football can do that.”

Having come from programs of more populous Utah high schools and even having a very successful collegiate background Coburn isn’t disappointed with his new title as North Sanpete head coach.

“I’ll be doing the same things I did at Snow so it will basically be the same for me. I don’t feel like I’m stepping backwards,” Coburn

said.There are two main reasons Co-

burn feels grateful to be at NS. First he has always started with a program where he’s needed to build it back, which brings a challenge he enjoys and support and excitement of the community. Secondly he is grateful to be able to stay in the community and area and spend more time with his family.

Coburn is fully aware of the chal-lenge he faces in turning around the

football program at NS. He looks forward to this challenge.

“It’s the way I get to be involved in competition. Because I can’tplay anymore, this is my competi-tion,” Coburn said.

Russell hopes that the commu-nity and school will allow Coburnto do his work, as he doesn’t expect the program to turn around com-pletely until his program has beenin affect for a couple of years with ffffhis varsity players.

“He needs time, and he needs support to be successful,” said Rus-sell.

NS alumni such as Colby Claw-son, Brett Madsen, Tyson Church and Tyson Olsen continue to show the fruits of the labors of coaches past. Having coached players fromNS on a collegiate level, Coburn feels that although NS has had a rough losing streak lately, there is potential in the program.

“There’s some rich tradition here,

it just hasn’t been in a few years,”said Coburn.

He aims to bring those traditions back.

Coburn isn’t worried about the chance that he might not be able to turn the program around.

“If I was afraid of it I wouldn’t have taken the job,” said Coburn. “I’ve tackled that challenge before. I’ve never backed down from thatchallenge before. I look forward to the challenge.”

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BY KY AYLEEKK HOLGREEN

Throughout the year the Madri-gal choir, which is a small group of advanced choir students, has been practicing during flex, after school and on the weekends for the annu-al Madrigal festival which was held at North Sanpete on February the sixteenth. Schools showed up from Emery, Delta, and Richfield for the competition.

For this competition, the stu-dents had to prepare three songs to sing in front of judges. Because of the small group, the Madrigal stu-dents had to practice hard on dic-tion and even breathing to reducemistakes for the competition. Each school sang three pieces, and were then judged before the next school could perform.

The next day the students re-ceived their scores which were a 1 and a 1 minus. The review from thejudges said that the students had poor diction and song choice. In mu-sic the groups are judged on a scale from one to five one being the best and five the worst. A Madrigal choir group must receive two straight ones to go to state.

Overall the students were disap-pointed with their results.

“I think that we should have goneto state, it felt like the judges judged us on what we didn’t do instead of what we did do,” said Tanner Sorens-en, sophomore. Many students believed that badscore was because of the familiarity

with the judges “I think we deserved ones. We

sang really well,” said Nathan Beck, a junior at NS.

“I think that because the judg-es knew us they were harder on us. Even the other schools thought we deserved better.”

“Nothing was wrong. We had very few rehearsals, and only one re-hearsal where everyone was able to come. We didn’t have class time to pull things together. but the audi-ence and other choir teachers were very complimentary. It was a great performance,” said Carisa Hilton, choir teacher and director.

Although the students did not qualify for state, Hilton was positive about the experience.

“Superior scores are the best scores you can get. One minus is a

score to be proud of. The judges gave us great feedback, and it will help us prepare for the large group. The bot-tom line is the kids worked hard, and they walked away knowing it was a great performance,” said Hilton.

The following week on Febru-ary twenty-third the whole concert choir and band performed. The per-formance had very positive feedback from the audience and even drew some tears.

“I love performing. I love the con-nection you make with the music and the way it makes you feel,” said Katrina Jordan, senior.

The choir is now getting ready to perform in region where they will have another chance to go to state as a whole group.

BY KY AYTIEKK NIELSON

“Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny …”

These lines were recited by a Gnome, which is Romeo and Juliet’s prologue, and is quickly pulled off the stage because this tale ffis nothing like the known story that is often told about the two famous lovers.

Although this story is different, there ffffare signigicant similarities between the sto-ries. Juliet is a Gnome that belongs to a lady named Capulet, she loves red, hence pretty much everything she owns is red, including Juliet and her family’s hats and clothing.

But Gnomeo has a totally opposite life-style. His owner has the name of Montague,

he loves blue, and so Gnomeo and his family are blue.

The reds and the blues hate each other, and they segregate themselves from each oth-er because of their differences. ffff They do have one thing in common though. They love gar-dens. This is actually how Gnomeo and Juliet meet.

Juliet, sick and tired of staying on her ped-estal, which her father literally put her on, sneaks out across the street to bring a beauti-ful flower back to their garden. She does this to prove herself to her father that she can help out and isn’t as delicate as she really looks.

Gnomeo on the other hand, is taking re-venge on the rest because Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin had cheated in a rivalry lawnmower race against him. But when Gnomeo can’t

complete this mission because he almost gets caught, the two Gnomes meet by chance, and as you might guess they fall in love. They’resimply smitten with each other.

But a Red and a Blue just can’t be. Their love is doomed. It’s tragic but true. And that’s the best kind of romance, according to Juliet’s porcelain frog, who plays as her nurse.

Gnomeo has his own sidekick, Bennie(Benvolio), who fights crime and helps Gno-meo with the intense lawnmower races.

You don’t have to worry about this movie’s ending because it has a different twist to it. ffffIt will leave kids and parents laughing. It has just the right amount of humor. All in all this is a good movie for the family.

BY TIFFANY CY HRISTENSEN

February has been a busy month at North Sanpete, the band and choir included. Waking up day after day, leaving home before the sun comes up, kids and teacher head to the high school band room for

Jazz Band. They are usually getting ready for a concert or some kind of competition, on Feb 16 they quali-fied for state at region.

“N.S. is small to have a compe-tition, but just big enough for this one,” said director Mr. Kidder. Re-gion took half of the day for Jazz

Band. The bands would play thenhead to the band room for sightreading. Each band had its own style, some even went was far as playing bass guitar with a pick.

It seemed totally different comffff -pared to our band, but they still played the best. When all the bands

had played their pieces and had done some sight reading only two schools qualified for state: North Sanpete and Richfield. Both schools got 1’s on playing and sight read-ing. Almost everyone thought that the judges were fair not just to our school but every school.

“We all worked hard met our expectations played great and gotrewarded the best. All the oth-er schools did alright and were re-warded for what they did too,” said Joseph Johnson.

The following week a joint band and choir concert performance was in the auditorium. Starting out the concert was the N.S Jazz Band, with “Birdland,” “Lady Bird,” “For Lenaand Lennie,” and “Northwoods Sunrise.” Since they weren’t on the program it came as a surprise to some.

When the last song came to an end the audience seemed to be in a trance, it had began with the first solo. After a quick change of instru-ments, for a few, the concert band came out onto the stage. A quick tune took place, plus a few minor adjustments and Kidder walked out to conduct.

They played three songs, “Re-turn of the Dawn Treader,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Bat-

tle Hymn of the Republic.” On the last song, the choir came out to sing with the band. This caused a bit of a stirring delay, as some students had to leave band and join choir.

“Playing with the choir was really weird at first. It all sounded strangebut at the concert it sounded good from where I was sitting,” said Lau-ra Honey.

By the time the end of Battle Hymn came some band members seemed a little tired.

“I’m proud of them they played aggressively and sounded great.Each student played very well plusmost of them had a lot of fun doing it,” said Kidder.

After every band student was offthe stage and a few stragglers came wandering into join the choir to fin-ish the concert. They only had two songs left to sing “Requiem” and “Going Up to Glory,” both which were songs of inspiration to many.

The former was a song of loss and mourning, wrote for the people that were killed in Hurricane Ka-trina. The latter a song slaves would sing as a code to other slaves.

“The songs were so touching and full of feeling that they made sever-al people cry,” said Nathan Beck.

BY ELLIE NIX

The Oscars were founded in 1927 by 36 of the most influen-tial men and women in motion picture history. These are the most prominent film awards in the United States. These awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences. These awards were suggest-ed to have only 12 categories in 1928. The first official awardswere presented on May 16, 1929. They have been held ev-ery year since then. This year in the running for best Motion Picture award are some of the following; Black Swan, The Fighter, and In-ception. Those are only a few though. There are many more movies that are in the running.

Although many actors may deserve this award, Javier Bar-dem, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenff -berg, Colin Firth, and James FraactacttianJerRuRu Thes trenettKidLawlie

Michelle Williams. Support-ing roles are Amay Adams, Hel-ena Bonham Carter, Melissa Leo, Hailee Steinfeld, and Jacki Weaver. During a survey done at NS, students were asked who knew what the Oscar Awards were, and who didn’t. 53 replied that they didn’t know what the os-cars are, and 131 replied that they did. 138 did not plan on watching it at all, while 30 said that they are planning on watch-ing it this year. In first place for best actoraccording to a survey done at NS, Johnny Depp was voted most wanted to win, with Tay-lor Lautner coming in a close second. Best actress was San-dra Bullock, with Angelina Jo-lie coming in second. None of the above were nominated for an Oscar.

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Band and Jazz Band hold performances at NS

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Photo by Hy unter EricksonThe NS Madrigal choir prepares for their competition in the choir room. Although the judges said they sang well, they did not qualify for state.

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