By Katie Best and Maggie DevereuxOpinion Editor and Executive Sports Editor

Sophomore Emily Rigopoulos originally created a Formspring account because she was curious about what questions people would ask to get to know her better.

But Rigopoulos’ experience was different than she had expected. Rigopoulos found the longer she had her Formspring, the less friend-ly and more sexual the comments became. The comments ranged from “You’re so ugly” to sexually explicit threats from strangers.

“[Formspring] was a letdown be-cause [anonymous users] just list your personal flaws,” Rigopoulos said. “It’s like, ‘I already know my own flaws; why do you have to re-mind me?’”

Formspring is a website where people can ask users questions anonymously. According to The Chicago Tribune, over 50 percent of Formspring’s users in the U.S. are between the ages of 13 and 34,

creating a younger demographic for cyberbullying. The Chicago Tri-bune said Formspring claims its purpose is to bring people closer together through asking questions.

Harassment over the Internet, through websites like Formspring and Facebook, has become a wide-spread problem for teenagers. Ac-cording to The National Crime Prevention Council, 43 percent of teens have been cyberbullied in the past year, and 20 percent have been the bullies themselves.

According to school psycholo-gist Dr. Jay Kyp-Johnson, cyberbul-lying creates problems for teens because “[they are] being slammed publicly on the Internet where ev-eryone can see it.” In person, Kyp-Johnson said, the bully is generally not so bold.

Kyp-Johnson said Facebook, though without the anonymity that sites like Formspring have, can still foster bully-like behavior because it gives teenagers the same courage they lack face to face. When con-fronted in person, he said the stu-

dent would react differently than they would online “behind the con-cealment of a computer screen.”

“[People keep it anonymous be-cause] it is this whole curiosity mindset,” Rigopoulos said. “We still want to know what people think of us or what they have to say.”

Formspring especially gives this “shield,” and while it does give the option not to allow anonymous comments and questions, accord-ing to Formspring, more than 25 percent of comments are asked anonymously.

“I feel like [anonymity] makes other people feel better about them-selves — that nothing is going to happen to them if they are [mean],” junior Natalia Andrzejkowicz said. “You won’t know who it is, and it’s sad that it does [make them feel bet-ter], but it does.”

According to cyberbullying.us, while girls are 26 percent more likely to be cyberbullied, boys are subject to it as well. Sophomore Patrick Pfohl is no different.

While Pfohl keeps his Form-spring because he thinks it is “entertaining to see stupid com-ments,” some of those comments are rude in nature. Pfohl said he

By Jane BerryNews Editor

The Symphony Orchestra had a performance during eighth period on Monday, Feb. 28 that was fit for a king. Well, actually, it was just right for the Lord Mayor of the city of Westminster, England.

The orchestra played Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and the outgoing Lord Mayor, Councillor Dun-can Sandys, officially invited them to perform at the London New Year’s Day Parade and Festival for 2012-13.

The performance was especially significant because London Parade Festival Founder and Di-rector Robert Bone attended with the Lord May-or, who is the great-grandson of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

After playing for the Lord Mayor, the orches-tra received an official invitation to play at the London New Year’s festival. Orchestra director Patrick O’Connor, Principal Kurt Laakso, band di-rector Chris Barnum and concert mistress senior Sharon Lee all received gifts.

The orchestra did much to prepare for the vis-it, including many rehearsals during fifth and sev-enth periods before the performance and a trip to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On the trip, the orchestra worked with a clinician to “get a new perspective on the piece,” according to senior violinist Greta Pietraszek.

The main difference for this trip in comparison to the music department’s trip to London in 2008-09 is that only the string orchestra will be going rather than the whole music program. Instead of nearly 450 students going, there will now only be about 70.

Freshman violinist Becky Kriedler is most en-thusiastic about experiencing everything she saw in her sister Jessica’s pictures from when Jessica went with the marching band in the 2008-09 trip.

“I am just so excited because, like lots of high schoolers, I haven’t traveled out of the country be-fore,” Kriedler said.

Music for royalty

!FIT FOR A KING:  The Symphony Orchestra performs for the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Duncan Sandys. He came to Prospect on Feb. 28 to invite the group to play in London for the New Year’s Day Parade and Festival in 2012­13. (Photo courtesy of Alex Meza)

Orchestra invited to London New Year’s Festival in 2012-13

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being openly gay, his hair and even his personality.

“I actually get comments saying I have a stupid haircut,” Pfohl said. “I mean, I find it kind of funny because [they are] saying it over Formspring.”

Though commenting on a haircut over Formspring may not be taken se-riously, according to Andrzejkowicz, sometimes questions can ruin a day just because of the pointlessness. When Andrzejkowicz logs on to find degrad-ing questions, it doesn’t upset her as much as it annoys her.

“I’ll be happy, and then I’ll go on Formspring and be like, ‘Wow, you’re all stupid,’” Andrzejkowicz said.

To prevent cyberbullying, F o r m s p r i n g does have rules members must follow and tools available to help users to stop bullying. Form-spring encourages users to report in-stances of bullying, and any members caught misusing the site can have their accounts disabled.

“We depend on our community to be smart and safe,” Sarahjane Sacchetti, a media representative for Formspring, said in an e-mail interview with The Prospector. “The online world operates by the same rules as the offline world; respect, kindness and decency are each person’s responsibility.”

Unfortunately, non-users can ask questions, and Formspring can only en-courage users not to answer inappropri-ate questions. Members can also update their settings to allow only questions from members who show their names.

Some people do use the anonymity to

give compliments or defend the user being attacked. For Andrze-jkowicz, it’s these types of com-ments that make using Formspring a little more rewarding.

“It makes me happy to know some people are normal and not creepy,” An-drzejkowicz said. “I’m not the only one that thinks [cyberbullying] is a little ri-diculous sometimes.”

Virtual bullying isn’t confined to Formspring alone, however. Senior Mary Clare Rosemeyer has felt its ef-fects on Facebook, too.

When deciding which dress to wear to prom last year, Rosemeyer posted a picture of a dress she was consider-ing on Prospect’s Prom Dress Regis-

try group on F a c e b o o k . While Rose-meyer had d e c i d e d a g a i n s t p u r c h a s -ing the dress, a few girls — then se-niors — thought

she was still considering it when their friend had already registered the same dress on the site.

The girl’s friends were upset over the coincidence and decided to take matters into their own hands by post-ing “mean” and “ridiculous” comments on Rosemeyer’s picture, even after she had posted she was not going to buy the dress.

“I cannot picture those girls coming up to me in school and making a big deal out of it because there really was not an issue,” Rosemeyer said. “The thing with social networking is you can make an issue out of nothing if you re-ally want.”

While most cyberbullying issues stay on the web, they can sometimes bleed

into school settings. Dean Dr. Patricia Tedaldi-Monti and

Student Resource Officer Scott Filipek have encountered more cyberbulling is-sues in the past five years than ever be-fore, some of the most recent concern-ing sexting and Facebook (see Sext me).

“[Students] need to understand there is a difference between being mean and cyberbullying,” Tedaldi-Monti said when referring to the cases that were not considered cyberbullying. “We are allowed to become involved [in cyber-bullying problems], but the first thing is we need to know about it. Sometimes, people think we are mind readers, and [they think], ‘They should have known.’ Well, how were we supposed to know?”

Tedaldi-Monti stresses how even though students think they are safe at home from bullying, they are at more risk with social networking sites and their cell phones.

“Even if your doors are locked and your alarm is set, [cyberbullying] still comes into your house,” Tedaldi-Monti said. “It all comes down to who is on your social networking site.”

Filipek said sometimes comments posted on the Internet are a misunder-standing between two people. Usually, Filipek said, before any consequential action is taken, they take the people involved and discuss the current situa-tion.

“We see if there is actually a prob-lem,” Filipek said. “Sometimes if you write something on Facebook or get a

text message, things can be mis-interpreted. Someone can think they are being sarcastic or funny, and some-body can take that the wrong way. ... Nine times out of 10, it isn’t really bul-lying.”

When the issue is brought up to Fili-pek, he must decide whether or not the actions can be considered criminal. If the situation is deemed non-criminal, the issue goes to the deans. However, if Filipek believes there may be criminal intent behind the issue, he can take le-gal action.

In addition to seeking legal action, Kyp-Johnson said there are ways to cope with cyberbullies and prevent in-cidents from occurring to begin with. One of those ways is to take yourself out of the situation completely. Filipek agrees.

“You can always shut the computer off,” Filipek said. “I know it is one of the hardest things to do, but you can always not take what is being said se-riously. If you remove your cell phone, your Facebook or your Formspring from the equation, you really don’t have a problem.”

Kyp-Johnson said teenagers can also be more mature with handling this problem by ignoring hurtful comments.

“There is too much opportunity for kids to be taken advantage of,” Kyp-Johnson said. “[Kids who cyberbully] don’t have the sense of, ‘This is going to haunt me.’”

BULLIES: School, students address online harassment

!JAZZIN’ AROUND: Junior Riley Mangan plays saxophone with Prospect Jazz, which concluded a successful festival season at the 2011 Jazz in the Meadows Festival on Feb. 26. For more, see Prospectornow.com. (Photo by Ian Magnuson)

“Even if your doors are locked and

your alarm is set, [cyberbullying]

still comes into your house.”

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Spacapan placed at the state speech tournament. The team took 10th.

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By Maddie ConwayExecutive News Editor

Senior Kelly McBride wasn’t herself from Feb. 17-20. Instead, she took on the role of another individual: Robert Latta, a 50-year-old Republican of the U.S. House of Representatives.

McBride wasn’t acting in a theatrical production — she, along with 18 other students and social science teachers Erik Hodges and Tim Beishir, traveled to Boston for Harvard University’s Harvard Model Congress (HMC), an annual event where students simulate the American governmental process.

At the conference, students took on the role of a representative or senator and carried on mock sessions of Congress to draft, debate and pass bills.

Hodges said he and social science teacher Jim Adair attract juniors to the program by talking to AP United States History classes, though others hear of the program through word of mouth.

They usually choose about 20 students to attend. Though there is an application, the spots generally fill on a first-come, first-serve basis, with both juniors and seniors allowed to attend.

At the conference, students are assigned specific committees, or groups of representatives, which focus on writing legislation for topics like Foreign Affairs or National Security.

According to Hodges, students at HMC gain greater insight into how the government is run while being able to tour Boston. Hodges said the experience can be “eye-opening” for

the 1,600 students from across the country at the conference.

Junior Dan Troutman, who received special recognition for his “Achievement of Excellence” as U.S. Representative Daniel Webster, agreed that the trip was a “cool simulation of government” and the parliamentary procedure. Troutman was a member of the Committee on Intelligence, which dealt with bills on topics including the use of criminal information and Internet terrorism.

Although McBride said she didn’t follow politics closely before HMC, she still appreciated the experience and said students should consider attending it in the future.

While McBride did have success at HMC — she co-authored a bill about preventing sex-trafficking that passed through Congress — she said there were other aspects of the trip she also enjoyed, especially seeing Boston and Harvard.

Hodges said just being at Harvard is

one of the best aspects of HMC. Guest speakers are also a highlight; this year, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s ex-press secretary spoke at the end of the conference. Students also got to sit in on a class at the university.

“It’s a cool experience anytime for a high school student to sit in on a college class,” Hodges said, “but let alone Harvard, the premier institution in the United States and probably one of the premier in the world. Just to get that feeling, that atmosphere, that collegiate feel, and then to be at Harvard [is great].”

Hodges encourages students to get involved in HMC. Watching students he wouldn’t have immediately assumed to love politics “really get into it” is satisfying for him as a teacher.

“[When you see] the kids get up there and talk about a bill they’ve drafted or a piece of legislation they’re passing,” Hodges said, “you think, ‘Wow, they’ve really gotten something out of this experience.’”

!CITY ON A HILL: Students on the Harvard Model Congress trip pose in front of the gates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The 19 students simulated the governmental process at the conference the weekend of Feb. 17­20. In addition to taking on the role of a member of Congress, students also toured Boston and sat in on a class at Harvard. (Photo courtesy of Erik Hodges)

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An ‘eye-opening’ experience

Students learn more about government, see Boston at Harvard Model Congress

f r o m b e i n g

able to share these

experiences — seeing [marine life]

in person and in living color. It’s a unique way to learn.”

By canceling the trip, students are losing a unique opportunity.

Many students use this trip as a deciding factor on entering into a marine biology ca-reer, but with it cancelled, they won’t have this hands-on experience before going to col-lege.

With colleges becoming more and more competi-

tive, having this expe-rience could

make the dif ference between ac-c e p t a n c e into a first-

choice school versus a backup.

College dreams aside, the Florida Keys trip was also a chance for some students to experience travel for the first time.

Money is tight with a ton of families, like mine, and vacationing isn’t always an option when having to buy plane tickets and hotel rooms for everyone.

My summers are usually spent here in Mount Prospect and on the occasional col-lege road trip to Missouri, and as much as I love Southern accents and Southern boys, the Florida Keys trip was an affordable way to travel and experience snorkeling and ma-rine life that the Midwest just doesn’t offer.

“I think just seeing their faces as they explore the marine environment [while] snorkeling and swimming makes it worth it,” Froats said. “Hearing from students that are continuing to study marine sciences, [it shows the trip] has an impact on them.”

Dory from “Finding Nemo” said it best,:“When life gets you down, do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim.”

I guess Nemo will swim alone this year.

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Field trip dreams sink

Over the past three weeks, Illinois — or, at least, a fortunate few of its bud-get motels — has become a sort of Ellis Island, taking in the tired, poor, huddled masses of out-of-state Demo-cratic legislators yearning to breathe free.

The Democrats from Wisconsin were the first to arrive on Feb. 17 and were joined in the state by their Indiana brethren five days later. They have been here ever since, in defiance of anti-union bills proposed in both states by Republican majorities.

Had the Democrats stayed, the bills were set to pass. However, by leaving, they have left their legisla-tures unable to meet quo-rum — a minimum level of senators (in Wisconsin’s case) or representatives (in Indiana’s case) needed for the government to vote and conduct business.

As the first state to act, Wisconsin has become the

most prominent battle-ground over the future of organized labor. It has at-tracted national attention and protests large enough to temporar-ily shut down some Wis-consin school districts for a lack of teach-ers. And its bill has sparked simi-lar legislation across the country, in Ten-nessee, Ohio and Indiana.

We, the Prospector, be-lieve the Democrats have this one right. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republi-can, has pushed his bill as a remedy to the state’s budget deficit, projected at $3.6 bil-lion over the next two years.

That has to be addressed, but it can be done without eliminating unions entirely.

The Wisconsin bill has two main objectives. The first — and most divisive

— goal is to strip public employee unions of almost all collective bargaining rights (except base wages),

which means that most public workers (except for policemen and firefight-ers) would no longer be able to negotiate with the state on, for example, their health care ben-efits and pen-

sion plans. Rather, each employee

would have to negotiate indi-vidually. Since unions exist mainly to allow for collec-tive bargaining, its demise would also signal theirs.

For high schoolers, the value of unions may be dif-ficult to gauge. But they are directly responsible for transforming American so-ciety over the past century, and any teenager with a job can appreciate the gains they helped earn, from im-

proved working conditions to the minimum wage.

The second goal is nec-essary, but unrelated to the first. It cuts state workers’ pay by six to eight percent by increasing their contri-butions to their own health care and pension plans, and both the Democrats and unions have accepted it.

It’s true that Wisconsin is in bad financial shape — a 2009 Pew Center on the States report ranked its bud-get situation as 10th worst in the nation (Illinois was No. 9) — but by accepting Walk-er’s cuts to their benefits, the unions have shown that they are ready to compromise.

We — along with 57 per-cent of Wisconsinites, ac-cording to a poll by Public Policy Polling — believe that Wisconsin, along with other states considering similar measures, should work to negotiate with the unions rather than trying to kill them.

Snorkeling in La Parguera, swimming in luminescent water and hiking through El Yunque Rainforest in San Juan, Puerto Rico: This was how I was going to spend the first five days of summer, along with fellow ocean-ography and zoology students on a Smithso-

nian-sponsored excursion. Then hopes of these ad-

ventures crumbled when the trip was cancelled due to lack of participants and high expenses. Even worse, any possibility of having the usual Florida Keys trip was nixed as well. Now my summer will consist of the usual, lazing around at pools and Starbucks.

According to Princi-pal Kurt Laakso, the trip

was cancelled by Assistant Superintendent Deb Parenti, who raised concerns about the nature of the trip to Prospect’s insurance company. The insurance company is wary of approving trips that involve water activities because of the risk of a student drowning.

However, the school has no history of such incidents.

According to Tom Froats, oceanography and zoology teacher, the snorkeling trip is run by a water safety-trained staff at the Florida Keys. There is about a one to five ratio of staff to students, and the students always wear their life vests in the water, so the likelihood of a student drowning is extremely small.

“It’s a good busi-ness decision [to can-cel it], but education is a different realm,” Froats said. “A lot of my passion comes

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How it’s my fault when we don’t have a size

No, I’m not hiding a black size 8 in my lair in the corner of the stockroom. Yes, I am sure that we don’t have any more. Can I check again? Sure, let me per-form an exact repeat of what I just did. And don’t look at me like I just told you your dog died. If I had that size, I would sell it because of the profit it brings me and the annoying conversation it saves me.

The painfully ordinary music

I never knew Michael Bublé had more than two songs. Now I hear all four of his masterpieces ev-ery day at work — on repeat. The store had to select the songs so carefully — no violence against women, no racy beats that would perhaps induce dancing and nothing suggestive at all — that there’s no wonder they could only find enough to fill a day.

The strict break/call-off/late rule

The tiger mom-like policy on calling off only allows for six days a year, including days people requested off that they just don’t feel like granting them. They only give people a lunch because it’s il-legal to deny them one, and they don’t want to lose money when someone is scheduled for seven and a half hours plus a half hour lunch. We’re not getting paid to eat!

Overeager yet clueless managers

It’s a shame when I don’t obtain credit card applications, e-mail captures, catalog referrals, survey comments and now magazine sign-ups all in one day — while maintaining $1000 in sales per hour. But in case I didn’t notice that I wasn’t accomplish-ing that, my manager is equipped with a scary stack of papers to remind me every day. But if retail were a game show, guess who would have the price right? Me.

Coupons

They come from all different media — the paper, the computer and even cell phones. Some don’t work together, and some have expiration dates. It’s also not my fault if it doesn’t work. The whole “the computer just isn’t letting me” excuse doesn’t fly with customers either. A customer could be my best friend until I tell them they can’t use four coupons in the same transaction. Then they turn on me like Bobby Jenks did to the White Sox — bitter that I didn’t fol-low through with my apparent “commitment” to save them money. What traitors.

Cleaning in general

I kill around eight trees a day. There’s so much paper in the shoe boxes that I could build a home in old Hooverville with just one trashcan’s worth. Not to mention the lumpy boxes that won’t close, the wobbling heels that fall down and the pesky shoelaces make me itch with annoyance. If shoes had lives, I would hang every one of them with their own stringy limbs.

Money, I hate you.If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be subjecting my-

self to child labor four to five times a week at my job at a department store. I wouldn’t shudder every time I see shoe boxes stacked on one another. I would actu-

ally like spending time with other humans. Let’s face it — everybody hates their part-time job in high school. These are some aspects of my job as a shoe saleswoman that really grind my gears, and I hope they’re universal enough so every high school employee can relate.

The phrase “Excuse me”

“Excuse me” was created as a form of politeness. The speaker would use this phrase to address someone who they were afraid of bothering or interrupting. Now, the phrase just hides behind its origins like a pig wearing blood red lipstick. When a customer says, “excuse me,” they don’t really care that they’re bothering people or interrupting another conversation. They snort their little hearts out until they get your attention, losing any traces of human courtesy with each “oink.” But since they said “excuse me,” all hard feelings should be dropped.

#7

 Children

Even with a child wailing in my ear, the parents almost always insist I continue to stuff the kid’s foot into a shoe that’s huge or way too small be-cause of the lack of half sizes in toddler shoes. The store has convinced me to buy into one thing: absti-nence.

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#9 The grim looks on the employees’ face and the customers’ indifference to them

It’s obvious that no one wants to be scouring the floor, searching for a fuchsia pump with a heel that’s high enough to fake a nice stature but low enough to prevent injury. When a customer comes in asking for a black shoe, in the words of my coworker, all we want to say is, “OK, um, please take your eyes out and have a look.” No matter how much strain is apparent on the employee’s face after 20 minutes of searching, the customers won’t care. They love that pain be-cause they know they have you under their control (as their slave), and they won’t hesitate to demand a coupon either — I’ll get to that later — at the end of all your toil.

#8 Witnessing/ cleaning all the gross things people do

Cooks know they are going to have to deal with a mess. Janitors know their job won’t be pretty. Selling shoes, I thought the only mess I’d have to clean would be scraps of paper or, at the worst, used footies. Little did I know the wet mess was soon to come. Scrunched up in a soggy tissue on the tables. In the form of a dripping frappucino cup. Toddler-chewed moist Chee-tos on the counter. Fresh baby vomit splattered all over the floor. Come on, this isn’t an outhouse or an Outback Steakhouse. It’s not a garbage dump either. It may not be the most elegant store around, but it de-serves enough respect that people don’t secrete their mystery fluids onto the carpet.

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As some students jet across the U.S. to tropical getaways or snowy ski slopes, the majority of teenagers will be left at home with the somewhat dreary Chicago weather forecast during that third week in March. However, for those who love the comforts of home, here’s a list of the top 8 places to go over spring break @!A5/*!'(!#3/0!B$5!=3(*!*$!:3C0!3(B!<3/*D:'(5*0!E')9*!arrangements.

8. Atlantis7. Narnia6. Hogwarts5. Pride Rock4. Bikini Bottom3. Gotham2. ChewandSwallow1. Wonderland

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Not - no food in classrooms:

All I can say is that when you skip breakfast, this is a killer. (Jane Berry)

Hot - Words with Friends: It’s Scrabble, only portable (and unfortunately with-out the awesome name of

“Scrabble”). But the best part is making up words you didn’t even know existed.

TAJO spells Jato (32 points, FTW!) (Katie Best)

Not - Pumping gas: There is nothing I love more than having to get out of my toasty car on a below 20 winter day to put 50 dollars worth of gas in the car. I have to stand there looking like a N3WB, freezing while holding the gas nozzle. Then, when I try and take the nozzle out, it sprays all over me because I forget to turn it off. I can’t win. (Katie Best)

Hot - Hot Yoga: Yoga is relaxing to begin with, but being in a room that is hotter than a sauna while performing the “Downward Dog” is even better. Plus, having a muscular, tattoo-covered yoga instructor doesn’t hurt either. (Katie Best) Illustration courtesy of John Tenniel

Photos by Ian Magnuson

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By Zak BuczinskySta! Writer

“Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! Double Cheeseburger! It’s the best!” A sweaty-looking chef hollered at fright-ened customers as they descended the creaking wooden steps of Chicago’s Original Billy Goat Tavern.

“Double cheeseburger! Come on — it’s great!” The chef was insistent, so the burger-lovers ordered the double, and within seconds, the cheeseburger was ready to be de-voured.

One of the cus-tomers had the courage to ask the chef for fries and got a curt, “No Fries! Only Chips!”

For some stu-dents, spending the day in Chicago is the height of free-dom; for others, it’s just a casual way to hang out with friends.

Either way, a trip to Chicago is an event many stu-

dents look forward to. However, the prospect of going to

the city is so fun that many new tim-ers rarely plan out their day. So, before ending up lost on the South Side, it’s best to have a few destinations in mind.

It’s possible to pull the cliché girl move and spend the day shopping or pull an old “Ferris Bueller” (see The “Ferris Bueller” trip).

But Chicago is an enormous city and there’s so much more to do than just visiting all the tourist traps, like the Willis (Sears) Tower.

To have a genuine Chicago experi-ence, people should go to those places they don’t normally hear about, like the exciting and quirky Original Billy Goat Tavern.

Much of a trip to Chicago is decided by how and when one goes there.

Chicago tourists can drive, but then they have to wor-ry about parking and the insanity that is driving in a city.

Instead, they should take the train; this gets them to Chicago faster and, with gas prices what they are, prob-ably cheaper.

Arriving early in Chicago is al-ways fun, and when taking the Metra, it’s a short walk from Ogilvie Station to

the breakfast restaurant Lou Mitchell’s.

Lou Mitchell’s was opened by “Uncle Lou,” a Greek man who was well-known for his hospitality, which he expressed by giving his cus-tomers Milk Duds.

“Uncle Lou” started this tradition because he wanted to give his customers some-thing sweet while they wait-ed for his food and was a life long friend with the owner of the Milk Dud Company.

After breakfast at Mitchell’s, it’s a short cab ride to the Graceland Cem-etery.

Graceland Cemetery is one of the most famous and well known grave-yards; it’s filled with famous names like Allan Pinkerton, the world’s first private detec-tive, and Mar-shall Field, the founder of Marshall Field’s depart-ment store.

Graceland is also home to numerous ghost stories, mostly based around the Iroquois The-ater Fire, in which a little over 600 people died due to the inability to es-cape through the small and few exits.

From Grace-land Cemetery, some sporty people might want to head over to Wrigleyville to catch a game or, if there aren’t any games happen-ing, eat at the Cubby Bear, one of the most famous sports restaurants in Chi-cago.

One of the biggest problems teenag-ers have with going to Chicago is that

it’s so easy to spend $100 in just one day, so the Chicago Cultural Center is a free alternative when people are running low on pocket money.

The Cultural Center is full of inter-esting shows and exhibits, like an art gallery done entirely by the mentally

ill, an improvisation show run only by teenagers and even a gallery made out of broken ladders and smashed glass.

Visiting the Art Insti-tute and the Field Mu-seum are both very stan-dard destinations in a trip to Chicago, but instead, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is a completely new way to experience art.

At the Art Institute, people might stare blank-ly at Picasso pictures, but at the MCA, visitors can lay in an enormous mold-

ed clam and, if they listen closely, might hear the ocean.

Or if that isn’t interesting, what about hanging out with friends in a

mini-house made out of foam and ply-

wood? Or even staring down an

eye-shaped staircase into a pool of or-ange and black fish?

As the day in the city draws to a close and wallets slowly get a bit thinner, a good choice for a dinner that’s cheap, but still good is the original Southern cuisine restaurant The Wishbone.

The walls of the Wishbone are heav-ily covered in original Chicago folk art ranging from sculptures to watercolor art to paint pastel.

The last train back to the suburbs is at around midnight on most nights, so unless it sounds appealing to spend the night at Ogilvie Station, make sure to catch the earliest train back home.

Going to Chicago can be a wonder-ful affair, but after seeing the Bean and going to the Shed Aquarium, the list of new adventures seems to dwindle.

But, anyone can unmask the secrets of the city armed with time and a little adventure.

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The schedule for the Mount Prospect train station to Olgilvie Station on Saturdays 6:52 a.m. and the next train leaves at 7:37 a.m. and continues to leave every hour on the hour until 10:37 p.m. Leaving from Olgivie station the trains begin at 8:30 a.m. and leaves every hour on the hour until 12:30 a.m.

Student fare: $2.00 (Must be purchased at the station.)

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Guide to discovering, experiencing all Chicago has to offer

The sporty trip is an ideal trip for your everyday sports fan, any kind of athlete or just someone wanting to discover new parts of the Windy City. The trip is a rather easy journey starting at U.S. +0<<5<3%!20<&F!G01*!/*$7!=$5<&!be making your way to Soldier 20<&F!"/!*90!&3B!='(&/!&$=(.!B$5!may want to make your way to a particularly red and blue part of the city. This delightful town is Wrigleyville, where you can enjoy a Cubs game. End your day on a tasty note and enjoy a great meal at the famed restaurant “The Cubby Bear.”

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Start by tricking your parents with an elaborate plan to fake sick. Get a few of your friends called out of school as well and you’re good to go. Begin the trip by climbing to the top of the Willis (Sears) tower and staring down at the city below. Then, travel to Wrigleyville for a Cub’s game. When hunger strikes, enjoy dinner at a fancy french restaurant, such as the Berghoff Cafe (stolen %0/0%83*'$(/!$7*'$(3<FH!I'(3<<B.!*3C0!3!65'#C!*$5%!3%$5(&!*90!Art Institute, perhaps even become entranced in Georges Seurat’s painting “Sunday in the Park in Grande Jatte.” Then hop in your stolen Ferrari and try to beat your parents home.

THE ‘GIRLS’ DAY OUT’ TRIP Start off your day with an energizing cup of coffee from one of the dozens Starbucks downtown. You can then head over to Michigan Avenue for some window shopping, and if you’re lucky enough, you might be able to take home a few of those marvelous masterpieces. After an exhausting morning of shopping, sit down for a relaxing lunch and chow down on some Chinese cuisine at P.F. Chang’s. Once you’ve become too full to eat for a few weeks, head over to The

Bean and take some pictures with your friends. For a nice, relaxing end to the day of bonding with your friends, head to the closest beach and soak up some sun. When you

get a little toasty, take a dip in Lake Michigan to cool off.

! MY KIND OF TOWN: A sculpture in the Musuem of Contemporary Art (left), Marshall Field’s grave at Graceland Cemetery (center) and the sign outside of the Billy Goat Tavern (right). These sites are all a part of an unconventional adventure in Chicago. (Photos courtesy of the Musuem of Contemporary Art and Zak Buczinsky)

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Divorce Rate

35percent of Prospect

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By Sharon LeeAssociate Editor-in-Chief

Substitute teacher Brock Col-lins and his girlfriend of seven years, Lauren Ciesemier, decid-ed to take the next step in their relationship and move in togeth-er about four months ago.

“It didn’t feel hard,” Collins said. “It was such an easy tran-sition.”

Although Collins takes his relationship with his girlfriend seriously, he said he is not ready to commit for life just yet.

“I think that marriage is

something that comes after you’ve established yourself as an adult,” Collins said. “I want to be stable enough to have a [steady] lifestyle when I’m mar-ried. I’m not rushing into it.”

School psychologist Dr. Jay Kyp-Johnson believes it is im-portant for people to take it slow when it comes to marriage, espe-cially with the high divorce rate. According to the Center for Dis-ease Control and Prevention, 50 percent of first marriages end in divorce.

“The divorce rate says our society has become a very, very rough place for two people to stay together,” Kyp-Johnson said. “Two people have to be pretty committed in staying together to wade through the stress that goes on in current society.”

Diane Grouwinkel, grand-mother of sophomore Korey Grouwinkel, was 20 when she got married in 1957.

Despite marrying at a young age, Grouwinkel said she felt like she was mentally and financially stable enough to marry during college. She was on a two-year teaching certificate at a junior college in Iowa, which gave her the opportunity to teach at a lo-cal school right after she gradu-ated while her husband finished college at the University of Iowa on a football scholarship.

Although Grouwinkel was able to readjust her life to live with lower means when she got married, she said it is harder for people today to do the same without a college degree and a job.

“I think people used to see marriage as [a simple thing],” Kyp-Johnson said. “Now, I don’t know if it ever settles down. Our lives have become pretty complex.”

“I think that there’s just a lot of stress,” Collins said. “Being strapped for money and having to work all the time [will add] a lot of pressure to a marriage when you have money problems. If you don’t know someone re-ally well and aren’t honest with them at all times, those stresses will start to dissolve a mar-riage.”

Because work consumes so much time in today’s society, Kyp-Johnson said it is harder for people to get married and settle down, especially when both are working.

“[Societal pressures] force people to have to dedicate them-selves to their jobs, and I think they get split between [work] and family,” Kyp-Johnson said. “People have to be really com-mitted to wanting to make their relationship work. [Relation-ships] just don’t work out by

themselves magically.”That is part of the rea-

son why Collins is push-ing back his plans for marriage.

“[My girlfriend and I] grew up with each other,” Collins said. “We were teenage kids when we started dating, and now we’re real adults. I think I’m ready in terms of the fact that I know I want to get married, but I’m just not ready to have that ceremony.

“We live together now, and I don’t see our lifestyle changing very much at all,” Collins said. “[The wedding] is just a public display of our love. It’s just a way to cel-ebrate it. It’d be great but not right now.”

Until Collins and his girl-friend are ready to have kids, they are not planning on get-ting married any time soon.

Kyp-Johnson emphasized it is important for people to spend time making long-term plans and understanding each other’s goals for the future.

“I think people just hope for the best, and that’s just not the way to do it,” Kyp-Johnson said. “There are always things that happen, and people change.”

If people don’t take the time to talk through future aspira-tions and understand each other, it is going to be harder to work those things out after they’re married, according to Kyp-John-son.

“I don’t think people under-stand what a big deal it is to really commit themselves to someone for their whole lives,” Kyp-Johnson said. “You want to take time to get to know each other well.”

Waiting to tie the knotSociety’s pressure to wed shows effects on view on marriage

!PERFECT COUPLE: Substitute teacher Brock Collins and girlfriend Lauren Ciesemier take a picture together at Lauren’s cousin’s wedding. Collins and Ciesemier have been together for seven years, but are waiting to get married until they feel their lives are more stable. (Photo courtesy of Brock Collins)

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Trouble at the altar

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By Kiley WalshSta! Writer

All throughout freshman Gina Burck’s life, she has been the only girl in her fam-ily of three broth-ers. When it comes to

things like hanging out, going out to eat and just having a talk, she wishes she had a sister to do that with.

It became worse when Gina was 9 years old and her parents got di-vorced. So when she would go see her dad, John Burck, she wouldn’t be with any girls — even a mom.

“I would sometimes be in my room and cry [from the divorce],” Gina said, “I just didn’t like [it], and I was stressed out.”

Gina and her twin brother, Kevin, said it was especially hard because they felt like it was their fault.

According to kidshealth.org, many kids feel this way, and “they think that if only they had behaved better, gotten better grades or helped more around the house, the divorce wouldn’t have happened.”

And for years, the twins have been wary about wanting to go to visit their dad. They knew the first couple

times would be awkward since they would have to drive to see their dad instead of seeing him at home.

But recently, there’s been a change in their perspectives because on March 19, he is getting married to Christine Rossdeutcher, junior Mela-nie Rossdeutcher’s mom.

Melanie’s sister, Emily, Prospect alum, thinks it’s “bitter sweet” hav-ing her mom get remarried.

“It’s still weird for me to think of my mom being married to anyone other than my dad,” Emily said.

Unfortunatly, the Rossdeutcher’s father passed away in 2007 due to cancer.

“However, I know my mom is in good hands,” Emily said. “John makes my mom very happy and vice versa. I couldn’t be happier for them.”

Gina, too is “more than excited” to have Christine as a stepmother.

Now when Gina goes to see her dad, it won’t be just a boys’ night out; she and her brothers will be accom-panied by another mom, two older sisters and an older brother.

“I’m used to being only with Gina,” Kevin said. “[But Christine] is awesome and makes really good food. My dad makes good food, too, but Christine has more variety.”

Like every other high school stu-dent, Gina enjoys hanging out with her friends but said she, “will feel awkward” when inviting them over to the Rossdeutcher’s house because it is a house that wasn’t always hers.

“I’m going to feel like I’m a guest in the house, so I wouldn’t want my friends over when I don’t feel like the house is my home,” Gina said.

But she believes with time, every-thing will be fine.

Even though Gina might feel un-

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Tuesdays and every other weekend, freshmen Gina and Kevin Burck have gone to visit their dad since they were 9 years old. Now that he is getting married to Christine Rossdeutcher, junior Melanie Rossdeutcher’s mother, Gina “might feel uncomfortable at 2%/*!=90(!/93%'()!3!9$:0F>! Gina and Melanie have talked J%'0EB!3J$5*!/93%'()!J5*!/3'&!*93*!Kevin and their brother, junior Andre Burck, have not. The plan so far in sharing rooms is they are redoing the Rossdeutcher’s basement, and there are going to be rooms for Gina, Kevin and Andre when they stay over.

Students cope with divorce through friends, family group

By Emmy Lindfors and Jenny JohnsonExecutive In-Depth Editor and In-Depth Editor

*Names have been changed for confidentiality

Junior Tiana McCreery* was in sev-enth grade when her parents told her they were getting a divorce.

“[I took the news] terribly,” McCreery said. “I basically bawled and went in my room for the rest of the night.”

Even though McCreery’s parents got a divorce when she was 12, she “wasn’t very open about it” with her fellow peers until she was in eighth grade, as she had only told her best friend about it initially.

McCreery’s parents believed in order to help her to cope with the divorce, she should go see a therapist. When McCreery “didn’t really talk” to the therapist during each session, her parents took her out.

Five years later, McCreery feels the di-vorce “was all for the better.” Fortunately for McCreery, her parents are friends, and they are able to celebrate holidays with each other “without any bad feelings.” Last year, they had Christmas at her mother’s house; for McCreery’s birthday, they went to her fa-ther’s and then to Chili’s.

“[My parents] talk to each other every day,” McCreery said. “We’re still like a fam-ily except my parents just live in different houses.”

McCreery mainly lives with her mother in Mount Prospect, but every other weekend she goes to see her father. Since he lives in Ar-lington Heights, she doesn’t feel too separated

from him during the week.Senior Charlotte Reynolds* doesn’t have the

same fortunate situation with her parents. Her par-ents got divorced when she was only 2 years old, so growing up with her parents in two separate houses “was all [she] knew.”

Reynolds lives with her father now. While her mother does have visitation rights every other weekend, Reynolds is usually unable to go due to an extensive amount of homework. The visitation rights are set by court order, but Reynolds is able to decide when to go.

Even though her parents divorced 15 years ago, she still feels that “talking about [the separation] helps.” So Reynolds was introduced to Prospect’s Family Group, which is run by counselor Dustin Seemann, who is a child of divorce.

“I have a curriculum [for the group],” Seemann said. “But nine times out of 10, it becomes student-run. When they talk to one another, it helps to get feelings out in the open.”

Family Group is a semester-long group that fo-cuses on divorce but is open for anyone. Students are excused out of a class each week to come and meet with other students of all grades. The group allows students to “express feelings and share feel-ings of fear, hurt and anger.”

The group also focuses on self-esteem and per-formance in school, sports and any other activities. The group is completely confidential, and there is no limit to the number of stu-dents who can join.

Reynolds felt the group was beneficial, but “talking about it over and over again only helps

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Trouble at the altar With the United States divorce rate at 50 percent according to DivorceStatistics.com, In-Depth takes a closer look on divorce and other problems regarding marriage.

By Allie FlemingFeatures Editor

Sophomore Adriane Falagario walked through her front door Satur-day, Oct. 2 to find dozens of candles leading her into her family room, which was filled with more candles spelling out “HC?” Senior Danny Panicko was standing next to them holding flowers.

“I was definitely in shock because I didn’t know he could get creative and come up with a good idea,” Falagario said. “But it was super sweet; I loved it.”

Many fads have changed throughout the years, and the way people are asked to dances is one of them.

Unlike Panicko, psychology teacher Jay Heilman asked his date to Home-coming after math class in 1993 with no grand gesture — only a simple ques-tion: “Want to go to Homecoming?”

Along with Heilman, social science teacher Jim Adair and gym teacher Mike Kamedula both asked their dates verbally. Only recently did asking some-one to a dance become an event in itself.

For instance, social science teacher Dan Puglisi graduated from Fremd High School in 2005. When he went to high school, asking people to a dance shifted from verbally asking to asking in elaborate ways.

Puglisi has used both methods. When asking just a friend, he confirmed they would be going together verbally. How-ever, when asking his girlfriend to his junior prom, he got more creative.

During his time in high school, “Finding Nemo” was a popular movie, and his prom theme was Under the Sea. He and his girlfriend were in her base-

ment watching the Disney movie when her mom called her upstairs for a min-ute.

Puglisi then put a homemade sign into her huge fish tank that said, “Will you go to prom with me?” and hid. As she walked down the stairs, she saw the sign as Puglisi came out of his hiding spot with flowers.

Puglisi explained that a verbal ques-tion would have been boring for him, and his girlfriend expected more. Also, what added to his creativity was that he knew his girlfriend well enough to know what she would like.

“I think asking in creative ways is just natural with the society we live in where the bigger you do things, the bet-ter,” said Puglisi.

Since Puglisi has been in high school, ideas have only gotten bigger and better. Junior Caitlin Falco asked her boyfriend, senior Jimmy Muzzillo, to Turnabout by getting Muzzillo’s lit-tle sister to help decorate his bedroom with streamers and a poster saying “If you’ll be my Tarzan, I’ll be your Jane” because of the jungle theme.

“I’ve never asked anyone to turn-about, so I wanted to have fun with it this year,” Falco said.

Another change in dances is who the students go with. When Adair attended dances at Morton High School in 1975, it was strictly date-only.

Now, many students go in groups of

friends rather than couples. Senior Kurt Donner has only gone to a dance with a date his sophomore Homecom-ing; he went solo for the rest with his group of friends out to dinner to a va-riety of different restaurants. For his senior Homecoming, he went to Gino’s East with a group that included both couples and singles.

“If I go single, I can dance with who-ever I want,” Donner said.

Although dances are different than they used to be, some traditions never change.

Kamedula took his dates through-out high school to pictures at a friend’s house, followed by dinner at a nice res-taurant with a group of friends. Adair explained his date and friends would go to a great steakhouse in their small town with the best tasting cinnamon rolls.

Similar to both teachers, senior Sara Logar was picked

up by her date, Patrick Moran, at 6:30 p.m. for Homecoming this year. From there, they went to pictures at a friends, along with dinner at Bogie’s.

Unlike Kamedula and Adair’s date, Logar was asked to her senior year Homecoming with a decorated front yard. Coming home from their Harp-er class, senior Sam Wilson convinced Logar she was going to be asked to the dance at the Homecoming game that Friday.

However, while pulling up to her townhouse complex, her mouth soon dropped, realizing Wilson lied to her the whole car ride.

“I looked up and saw decorations covering my lawn and house,” said Log-ar. “There were balloons, streamers and signs everywhere.”

By Khrystyna HalatymaSta! Writer

Senior Alicia Babich spends her mornings sipping coffee, sitting at big art tables and sifting through works of art from different time periods. Start-ing with 21st century art and working their way backwards to Mesopotamia, she and her classmates cover almost 5,100 years of art history.

“It’s more like honestly hanging out with my friends in the morning,” Babi-ch said.

This year, AP Art History (APAH) is a new art class taught by Barbara Shaf-fer during first period. It’s only offered to seniors because Shaffer believes it’s helpful for the students to have been through other history and AP classes before taking APAH.

The only challenge of the class is to get enough students to sign up for it. Last year, Babich, Blackshere and a group of their friends talked to their counselors and ran around encourag-ing other people to take the class, barely getting enough to people to sign up.

Currently, the class has been can-celled for next year due to lack of en-rollment, but if at least 20 people sign up for APAH, it could come back again as an elective next year.

“I hope they have [APAH] as an op-tion even though it won’t be offered next year, “ Babich said.

Shaffer said she likes to start the

class with modern art because it may include art students have already seen. Any action or adventure movie that in-cludes a scene in a contemporary office setting most likely has a famous paint-ing in it.

Not only do APAH students study fa-mous paintings and their artists — like Michelangelo, Van Gogh and Dubuffet — but they focus on photography and architecture as well.

“Nobody’s uncomfortable to speak up [or] afraid to show that they like this stuff,” Babich said. “Some people get intimidated when they sit in class [and] don’t ask questions, but people in this class get excited about what we’re learning.”

Not many students know about the

existence of APAH, which is the reason why there are only 14 students current-ly enrolled in the class. But according to current APAH student and senior Quinn Blackshere, this makes the class just that much better.

“We grew really close,” Blackshere said. “Whenever we have a question about things, we can go to each other and we all talk on Facebook; we have our own [Facebook] group.”

Blackshere initially had doubts about some of the topics going into the class since she didn’t understand the more modern artists like Mark Rothko.

She now knows the purpose of the pieces was to push the idea of “What is art?”

“There were certain pieces like a

square. That’s not art,” Blackshere said. “But now that I really under-stand it and understood what they were thinking and what they were trying to do with it, [I have] much more apprecia-tion for it than I did before.”

Usually, while studying a painting or other art forms, Shaffer puts the piece up on a projector, and everyone sits around with the lights off and dis-cusses it.

“It’s so nice because you look at the pictures in the book, but sometimes we see it on the screen, and it looks differ-ent,” Babich said, “and of course you see it in person, and it looks different. It’s nice; it’s more like watching a mov-ie every day.”

The students did get to see some of the art they learned about when Shaf-fer took the class to the Art Institute of Chicago. After learning about the art in the class, the students knew much more than before going into the museum.

“It was nice being able to walk in and feel like you knew what was going on,” Babich said.

Babich also said she liked when the class walked into a room and more than one person recognized a piece before reading the plaque

Some students may be intimidated by the sound of APAH because they think it requires artistic ability or tal-ent. However, students just need an ap-preciation for art and its history.

“I think it would be a good bridge for someone who’s always wanted to go into art or wants to do something with art,” Blackshere said. “You don’t have to draw or anything, but if you like art or want to know more about art, I think it’s a good class to take.”

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“I ordered chicken parmesa.n from Fellini’s and threw up right before I went in.”- senior Nick Kleinschmidt

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AP Art History a hidden masterpiece

!ART APPRECIATION: AP Art History seniors Blair Heidkamp and Danny Cubberly pose in front of a painting by Francis Bacon at the Art Institute of Chicago.  Senior Alicia Babich said that the students had a greater appreciation for the art in the museum after learning about the paintings in class.  (Photo courtesy of Quinn Blackshere)

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11ENTERTAINMENTFriday, March 11, 2011

By Kevin MallinEntertainment Editor

From the mind of Woody Allen — Os-car winning screenwriter, actor, direc-tor, playwright, comedian and author — “Annie Hall” is a movie about the ups and downs and often hilarious absurdi-ties of love and relationships.

Allen plays neurotic and laughably insecure Alvy Singer, a comedian living in New York. Namesake of the movie, Annie Hall, is played by Diane Keaton and is Allen’s love interest in the film.

Aside from the now cliché romantic comedy set-up, “Annie Hall” isn’t the run-of-the-mill happily-ever-after star-ring Dashing Lad A and Sexy Actress B. The relationship in “Annie Hall” is so realistic that it almost borders on cynical.

This gives the characters some ac-tual depth, which allows the viewer to connect emotionally as well as fostering an interest in what will happen next.

But the best thing about “Annie Hall” is the trait that current romantic com-edies should look into, is actual comedy. The script is genuinely funny while maintaining an emotional interest.

Allen experiments with a longer-than-usual shot length, adding realism to the scenes and overall a more organic feel.

Atypical flashbacks of both charac-ters’ histories are constantly amusing. Deviating from just recounting past

events, the characters narrate their

own pasts, often interacting with the audience as well. The result is price-less and unique. You won’t find another film where I’ve heard a grade school girl say “I’m into leather.”

It’s tough to balance between hilari-ous and heartfelt, but Allen pulls them off masterfully, taking jabs at psycho-therapy, Jewish mothers and Califor-nians. Self-deprecation is another ma-jor theme in Allen’s work, and it pays off.

The ability to mock how seri-ously people take relationships while taking the relationship in the film seriously is some-thing the viewer ends up do-ing alongside Allen’s charac-ter.

Without spoiling any-thing, I’ll say that the movie is brought to a definite close. Ev-erything is wrapped up neatly, and Allen delivers a monologue about the painful yet necessary na-ture of relationships.

This movie just goes to show that something doesn’t have to be sad and gray throughout in order to be meaningful.

“Annie Hall” takes the audi-ence through the sweet and the sorrow of being an adult in the real world and does it with the honest, absurd comedy that real-ity often seems to offer.

‘Annie Hall’ stands test of time with more heart than recent romantic-comedies

!I  HEART!NEW YORK: Diane Keaton and Woody Allen play Annie Hall and Alvy Singer in the 1978 Oscar winner for Best Picture “Annie Hall.”

By Tallyn OwensEntertainment Editor

Pei Wei Asian Diner, located at Randhurst Village, looks nothing short of a slightly more modern version of any Chinese or Thai joint — complete with egg rolls and more bottles of soy sauce than you can count.

What makes up for Pei Wei’s stan-dard menu is the pleasantly surprising selection of soda.

Giggle if you choose, but this soda machine induces an undeniable sense of childlike wonder that.

Complete with a touch screen, this machine dispenses more than 15 brands of assorted Coca-Cola products, with more than half the sodas featured in at least five flavors. It sounds silly now, but you have to see it to understand.

Mount Prospect’s Pei Wei is the third to open in the Chicagoland area, with restaurants in Evanston and Willow-brook. It’s operated by the same compa-

ny that runs P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, an older and more formal version of its newer counterpart.

Immediately upon entering, Pei Wei offers a more interesting ambiance than most other take-out joints teenag-ers might be accustomed to.

The lights are low, there is entirely respectable music playing and the res-taurant seems busy but not hectic.

It has the average line and regis-ters, much like Chipotle and Noodles & Company, but they feature LCD screens displaying the menu, which is more un-common.

People are still seated and served by Pei Wei’s attentive waitstaff, even though they don’t take your order like at a traditional sit-down restaurant. This menu boasts food from five dif-ferent Asian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand.

Unlike Panera Bread or Noodles, Pei Wei has a bar area for businessmen dining alone who want to think about their day over a bowl of lo mein like

Don Draper would over whiskey and a porterhouse steak during an episode of “Mad Men.”

Behind the bar’s long curtain of dec-orative pots and pans lies the kitchen, which looks just as busy as the rest of the restaurant, bustling with 15-plus chefs.

As far as the food is concerned, per-haps I was expecting too much, but for a restaurant with food from five differ-ent countries, it felt as though the menu was on the short side when it came to the variety of their entrees.

Over half these dishes are branded with the symbol that indicates a spicy dish, and if you’re a picky eater such as myself or otherwise don’t enjoy spicy food, you’re left with a fairly weak se-lection to choose from.

Despite the lack of variety of entrees, Pei Wei offers chicken salads filled with ingredients such as Thai wontons, snap peas, scallions and rice sticks as well as appetizers, two of which I highly rec-ommend.

The crab wonton, an American-Chi-nese dumpling, wraps crab meat, cream cheese, bell pepper and scallions togeth-er in a crunchy, egg roll-like shell that tastes great without being too much for an appetizer.

Essentially, the crab wonton is a pot sticker with a punch and is definitely worth the money (or mooching off one of your friends).

Meanwhile, the vegetable spring rolls are a vegetarian alternative that incorporate many different ingredients in a small roll, including glass noodles — a thin, thread-like noodle — ginger, black mushrooms and scallions.

Pei Wei is a pleasant, comfortable dining experience. It’s not anything new, nor is it anything particularly spectacular, but it has food that is out of the palette of most Prospect students. It is certainly better than most other restaurants with the same, manageable price range.

Overall, Pei Wei is good, not great.

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WOODY ALLEN’S ACCOLADES BY THE NUMBERS

21: The number of Academy Award nominations Allen has received in his lifetime. He is currently tied with Martin Scorsese, Steven Speilberg and

Clarence Brown for the 5th most nominations for Best Director with six.

14: The number of nominations Allen has received in the Best Original Screenplay category, making him the only writer to receive that many

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four in the Best Supporting Actress category, one for Best Supporting Actress , one for Best Actress, which was won by Diane Keaton for her

depiction of the title character in “Annie Hall.”

3: The number of Academy Awards Allen has won. He won two of his Oscars for “Annie Hall” in the Best Picture and Best Original

Screenplay categories in 1978 as well as the third in 1987 in the Best Original Screenplay category for “Hannah and Her Sisters.”

If spending two hours in a bookstore on Friday night means that I am a nerd, then so be it. Rather than going out with friends to the movies, school dances or football games, I would sit in a big com-fy chair in the mystery section at Bor-ders.

When the national chain announced it would close 200 of 642 stores a few

weeks ago, I didn’t expect the branch at Randhurst Vil-lage would be one of them. It is such a staple in the com-munity, and losing it means the people who also used to spend time there are now forced to go somewhere else like, dare I say it, Barnes & Noble.

Every time I was there, people would mill about the store, and the coffee shop was abuzz with the myriad customers and the lively atmosphere; it doesn’t make sense why Borders decided to close the location in Mount Prospect.

Irvana Wilks, mayor of Mount Pros-pect, also believes this is a loss for our

community. In an article in the Daily Herald, she said, “Many times I would stop in on a Saturday afternoon. The parking lot was always full. It was a real gathering spot for our community.”

While Barnes & Noble isn’t terrible, I prefer Borders simply because of the size of the bookstore (and the great smell of coffee!) and its organization of finding just the book I need in the clear-ly marked sections.

The decision to close the stores was based on one frequent occurrence in today’s retail stores. According to The Daily Herald, when it comes to bank-ruptcy, the stores that were profitable will stay open, and the ones that weren’t will close. All stores scheduled to close will do so when all merchandise has been sold. The stores that were chosen to close reported losing $2 million a day.

The company that began in Ann Ar-bor, Mich. 15 years ago appeared to be the future of bookselling. At its peak in 2003, Borders operated approximately 1,300 stores, and now it’s half that. The last year the company reported a profit in yearly sales was 2006.

The future of bookselling is unclear. As many companies and markets are changing their ways from old-fashioned paperback books to electronic readers, closing bookstores means shutting out a part of the culture that existed before technology came along.

Borders was like a neighborhood store where everyone gathered. Besides libraries and other bookstores, the clos-

ing of Borders is unfortunately a sign that America will see more of in the next few years.

I can never resist the smell and feel of holding an actual book; there is no comparison of staring at an electronic screen. Books have been around for cen-turies and hold interpretations within their own pages. My love for books has me worried that without them, we can no longer share the latest read with our friends. We can no longer write in the pages, and we can no longer pass them down for generations to come.

While I am sad to see Borders go, I understand that the literary world must keep along the modern times. The fu-ture of the Internet and electronics is in our hands and will continue to progress through the evolution of technology.

However, we should all go back to

old-fashioned ways and understand the importance of holding a book — a way that people have survived with for hun-dreds of years.

eReaders take away from the age-old cliché of sitting down and curling up with a good book, but that’s what I want the most.

The actual sensation of holding a book is comforting. I realize there is still a Barnes & Noble just down the street, but it doesn’t matter where peo-ple buy their books. All bookstores will eventually face the technology takeover someday — I’m sure of it.

Taking away bookstores is like tak-ing away the chance to meet friends and talk about the latest bestsellers or the chance to browse through hundreds of shelves to find books that enrich our imagination.

!BORDERS BLUES: The national chain Borders announced it would be closing about a quarter of its stores due to financial issues. The inundation of electronic readers are causing bookstores to disappear across the country. (Cartoon by Riley Simpson)

12 ENTERTAINMENTFriday, March 11, 2011

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Randhurst Village had been trans-formed into a “Harry Potter” event when the seventh book, “Harry Pot-ter and the Deathly Hallows,” was re-leased. Retail stores hosted and spon-sored scavenger hunts and costume contests. The Borders just outside the mall had games and activities for fans, and the coffee shop served “Har-ry Potter”-themed drinks.

Head librarian Christie Sylvester attended the release parties for the fourth, sixth and seventh “Harry Pot-ter” books at Borders. The store has hosted release parties for a while, and according to junior Kelsey Henqui-net, they got busier every year.

“People were finding the one place to come and celebrate the book,” Hen-quinet said. “[They were] attracted to it because they put people into the world of book.”

She believes Borders did a great

job with hosting the release parties because everyone dressed up in cos-tumes and felt comfortable with be-ing crazy in anticipation of the new book.

“It is the only Borders of our com-munity,” Henquinet said.

Sylvester clearly remembers that as the night got closer to midnight, everyone in the mall walked over to Borders to wait to get their copy of the book. As soon as it was released, “there was a collective roar in store.”

This was a good event for Borders and the community to come together, according to Sylvester.

“It was a very positive event and was special [because it was about] sharing an interest with hundreds of other people,” Sylvester said. “[There] is this collective energy, and everyone is celebrating together.”

A PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE

!PACKED TO THE PUNCH: Hundreds of people wait at Borders for the release of the new book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” on July 21, 2007. (Photo courtesy of Christie Sylvester)

Deanna ShilkusManaging Editor

There are 27 of them now. Among their number are pirates, super he-roes, wizards and even chipmunks. Their predecessors have risen to great heights in box office grosses, critical acclaim and audience adora-tion.

These sequels embody the decline of originality in Hollywood and will be honored with millions of dollars at the box office for it.

So far, 2011 has seen an increase in gas prices, snowfall and hate for the Green Bay Packers.

According to Box Office Mojo, we’ll also see an unhealthy increase in movie sequels hitting theaters, up to 27 from last year’s 19.

Wait, what?27 sequels? Let me put this in per-

spective: That’s as many sequels as dresses Katherine Heigl wore in that one terrible wedding movie.

I should clarify something first. When I continue to talk smack about the flood of sequels that not even Noah and his big boat can stop, I am only aiming to insult the “Cranked-out-every-other-year-only-to-make-a-quick-buck” sequels.

I’m looking at the “Twilight” — yes, they’re based off books, but that fourth movie should not be in two parts — “Transformers” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks” movies in the business.

Some sequels do prove to be nec-essary and actually relevant. “Indi-ana Jones and the Last Crusade,” the “Harry Potter” films and, of course, “Toy Story’s” final two entries can be counted as actual movies because they continue worthwhile stories.

Oh, and I can’t forget “The Dark Knight” and still be a self-respecting teenager.

However, with the increase of se-quels — including the good ones — plaguing our multiplexes comes the eventual demise of quality and cre-ativity in the movies.

2003 was the worst year for mov-ies in my lifetime. 2003 also had the previous record number of sequels at 24. The bloated “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” the two unnecessary “Matrix” follow-ups and the stu-pid “Terminator 3: Rise of the Ma-chines” are just a few examples of the celebrated catastrophes of 2003.

Even 2003’s Best Picture was a se-quel.

Granted, it was the third and best “Lord of the Rings.” But “Return of the King” might as well have been the only movie running at the Os-cars. Its fellow nominees included the overrated “Mystic River” and the boring “Lost in Translation.” That’s how pitiful 2003’s offering of movies was.

This also my fear for 2011.I can already see the next Acad-

emy Awards in 12 months: James Franco — why wouldn’t they invite him back to host the show? — will announce “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” July 1, as the Best Pic-ture of 2011.

As Jim Morrison of the Doors would say, “This is the end, my only friend, the end.”

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ENTERTAINMENTFriday, March 11, 2011

By Riley SimpsonAssociate Editor-in-Chief

Senior Mike Krumtinger wasn’t ex-pecting to audition for Prospect’s Mixed Company last year. His show choir friends kept asking him to do it, but Krumtinger kept turn-ing them down.

On audition day, Krumtinger wandered into the cafeteria to check out the auditions while then-juniors Lauren Matthews and Katie Nellessen put Krumtinger’s name on the list.

“I had no choice. Ba-sically I was dragged — literally dragged,” Krumtinger said. “I just went up [to the stage], goofing around and not thinking anything of [the audition].”

But Krumtinger, then a junior, ended up making the group.

“[I] didn’t know what I was getting myself into,” he said.

Senior Mike Senft took a more volun-tary road to Mixed Company. His older brother Eric was in show choir back in 2007, and ‘10 grad Jimmy Cushing urged Senft to audition.

Senft asked Mixed Company direc-tor Jen Troiano if he could try out, even though it was three weeks past the actu-al auditions. She let him due to the fact that Mixed Company was short on male singers.

Krumtinger and Senft aren’t the only senior guys in their first year of Mixed Company. Nick Haddad, Brandon Moore, Nick Kleinschmidt and Pat Moran also

joined this year.After a rehearsal-free summer and

a first semester of Tuesday practices, Mixed Company’s season is starting to heat up. They’ve had three weekends straight of competitions.

On Feb. 19, the group failed to make the final round at the Fort Atkinson competition in Wisconsin since they lost six performers to a Speech Team compe-tition.

The group competed in Indianapolis at the Ben Davis competition on Feb. 26 (see Competition timeline). Last week-end, Mixed Company earned third at the Chicagoland Showcase at John Hersey

High School, plac-ing behind Wheaton Warrenville South and Buffalo Grove.

Their next competi-tion, the Cedar Rapids Jefferson Invitational, is this weekend.

“Mixed Company is performing at an ex-tremely high level this year compared to [my previous two years]” Troiano said. “Every year it gets better.”

Being a Mixed Com-pany rookie, Krum-tinger was a bit inex-perienced at the start of the year. He said his previous singing expe-rience was only con-fined to his bathroom.

“At the beginning, I was told I was a good singer, but I didn’t really think any-thing of my voice,” Krumtinger said. “I didn’t know anything about notes or how to read music, but now that I’m in choir, I think my voice has gotten a lot better.”

Krumtinger can now read music “for the most part,” he said.

Senft, Haddad and Moore have all had previous experience in music. Haddad and Moore have been in marching band for their entire high school career while Senft has been in choir all his four years.

“But [choir class] is nothing com-pared intensity of Mixed Company,”

Senft said.However, Mixed Company is not all

singing.Senior Sam Callahan, who is in her

first year on Mixed Company as well, remembers the first time the group was learning the dance to their show’s open-er, “In the City” by Hansen. She said that the first year seniors were kind of dis-couraged.

“We just had to talk them into being confident with themselves,” Callahan said. “I never knew [they] could dance. But [they’re] really good dancers.”

At the beginning of the year, Calla-han could see the terrified look on the first year seniors’ faces when the group started our warm-ups. Now, she’s sure they’ve gotten the hang of performing.

“[Senior Noreen Jeglum] is dance partners with [Kleinschmidt] and asked me, ‘Why is he so good?’” Callahan said. “I guess he’s really good.”

Dancing for Senft, who is also on boys’ gymnastics, was a bit more of a challenge. He recently broke his arm while practicing on the high bar.

“It doesn’t [really] affect my perfor-mance,” Senft said. “I just have to watch out for hitting people with [my cast].”

Right after the Fort Atkinson compe-tition, Krumtinger knew he was sold on Mixed Company.

Mixed Company welcomes newsenior performers

42 STRONG!

According to senior Sam Callahan, Prospect’s Mixed Company doesn’t have a creative name, unlike other schools the group has seen at competitions. At the Ben Davis competition in Indianapolis on Feb. 26, a school from Cedar Rapids had the name “Happiness Incorporated.” A few years ago at the Great River competition in Iowa, Park View High School from Wisconsin named their show choir “Pizzazz.” While the group is currently nameless, Callahan referred to the group as “42 Strong!”

COMPETITION TIMELINE

On Saturday, Feb. 26, Mixed Company traveled to Indianapolis to compete at the Ben Davis competition. According to senior Mike Krumtinger, here’s what their “rough day” — literally, since they were up for over 24 hours — looked like.

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4:30 a.m. - Return to Mount Prospect on Sunday.

To some, an early morning arrival would be a second option to staying the night in Indianapolis. However, Mixed Company fees are already pretty high, according to senior Sam Callahan. With the added costs of competitions and this year’s trip to Disney World (see Destination: Disney World) make getting hotel rooms at the last minute out of reach. !!!!!,0/'&0/.!*90!2(3<!%$5(&!$;!performances is worth getting home at 5 a.m.

DESTINATION: DISNEY WORLD

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!DANCING WITH THE SENIORS: Prospect Mixed Company seniors Dan Hug and Pat Moran (front) dance at the Chicagoland Showcase at John Hersey High School on March 5. Moran, along with seniors Mike Krumtinger, Nick Kleinschmidt, Nick Haddad, Mike Senft and Brandon Moore are in their first year in show choir. (Graphic by Ian Magnuson and Heather Dove)

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14 SPORTSFriday, March 11, 2011

By Alyssa ZedikerSta! Writer

The boys’ track and field team is like a Little League baseball team — every dad wants to be a coach and contribute to the team.

But when it comes to boys’ track and field, having many coaches is ideal.

A normal track team has about four to five coaches, according to head coach Michael Kamedula, but with 18 events, he finds having 11 coaches is better be-cause it allows them to work individu-ally with their athletes.

While Kamedula has the title of head coach, he only works with the sprinters and jumpers and conducts a discussion with all the players at the beginning of every practice. At the discussions, Ka-medula highlights quality performanc-es or passes out information.

“[Kamedula] wants what is best for us, so he [pushes] us in the right direc-tion,” senior Nick Batcha said.

Five of the 11 coaches are volunteers who are there because they like work-ing with the boys in the program. Some come every day while others only come on the day their event is practiced.

“[Having volunteers] is awesome,” Kamedula said. “It’s guys [who] do not care about the money — they just want to put time in with the kids.”

Assistant coach Michael Stokes, who is in charge of the distance runners, believes coaches are there to make sure athletes stay healthy, injury-free and do not overrun themselves.

Stokes puts in younger kids at invi-tationals in order to give them a chance to prove themselves and build up their experience and talent.

He prefers not to have anyone run two races over 800 meters in order to keep them fresh for each race.

Another way both Stokes and Ka-medula prevent injuries and make their athletes stronger is through the weight room. The team as a whole lifts three times a week for an hour and a half each time.

According to senior Kellan Stro-bel, the team uses bands to strengthen shins, preventing shin splints.

The players do not overexert them-selves at early-season meets because the only time their scores have an ef-

fect on the season is during the last five weeks.

Stokes refers to this period as the “money month” because the MSL East championship, conference and state meets all happen during this month.

“[We] get [the boys] strong, get them fast, don’t get them hurt and [get them] ready for the conference, sectionals and [the] state meet,” Stokes said. “Who re-ally cares next year who won the York Invite last year?”

Boys’ track and fieldbenefits fromindividual attention

!LEAPS AND BOUNDS: Coach Brent Pearlman guides senior Robert Olsen during an indoor track practice. Pearlman, a hurdles coach, is one of 11 coaches for the boys’ track and field team. (Photo by Ian Magnuson)

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By Nick StanojevicExecutive Sports Editor

Campus security Bill Karcher finally came up with a solution to one of his biggest concerns while sitting and eating lunch.

As the coach of the cricket team, he was trying to get more players to join his club. He figured out a possible solution: For everyone who joins cricket, the time they spend playing cricket would count as double against their detention time.

“The dean came in, and I said ‘Hey — let me run this by you,’” Karcher said. “It’s hard to get these kids to get rid of these detentions, so I just had that idea. Get them [to] come out, get rid of their deten-tions, help me out, help the team out and the school.”

After five of the cricket team’s players left last year for gradua-tion, Karcher continued to strug-gle to find replacement players, needing 11 just to play.

Karcher was desperate to find a solution for himself and his seven players.

Dean Mark Taylor approved of Karcher’s idea and decided to be-gin marketing the idea through the morning announcements.

“It is to help the kids serve their detentions,” Taylor said. “And they might find out they really like

cricket, and they’ll keep coming even though they don’t have any detentions left to serve. We’re not going to do this every single time with everything, but [Karcher] suggested it, and I said ‘Yeah, let’s try it.’”

Senior Natalie Norris is one of the five who joined in order to cut her detention time. After hearing about it on the morning announce-ments, Norris and her friends found out they would need to play cricket to do so.

“I didn’t really know what it was,” Norris said, “I was kind of surprised, but it did sound kind of cool, so we gave it a shot.”

But after playing with the team, Nor-ris had fun and managed to get rid of all 13 hours of her de-tention time.

“It was fun ... it was just something new that none of us had ever done before,” Norris said.

One of Karcher’s biggest fears is to have so few kids participat-ing in cricket that the club needs to shut down.

“That is why I had to go to this other idea — we had like seven players. I had to try something,” Karcher said.

Although the program seems unique, Prospect does offer other similar events.

One of them is a post-winter cleanup where students help pick up trash such as food wrappers and

cigarette butts piled up from win-ter. The students have their service time count against their detention time.

“There are several seniors who are kind of in a crunch now; they need to take advantage of those opportunities to [serve their de-tentions],” Taylor said. “In order to pick up your cap and gown, you need to have all of your detentions served. ...We don’t want to hold kids back for that, but [they] need to be held accountable.”

According to Taylor, some par-ticipants have even come in and asked if they could have their friends join them in play-ing cricket.

“We are try-ing to intro-duce [cricket] to people — some have never even played base-ball,” Karcher

said. “It makes it a lot harder when you are going against seasoned vet-erans ... it’s tough.

They have this game ingrained in them and are excited and know what it’s all about. But we are do-ing the best we can, and we are hav-ing a good time, and that’s all that really counts.”

CRICKET VERSUS BASEBALLCricket

- Has 11 players- Each team does all of its batting at once.- There is no strike zone.- There is no such thing as a foul ball.- To hit a “home run,” a player must hit the ball outside of the set boundary. - If the ball crosses the boundary $(!*90!EB.!'*!'/!=$%*9!/'1!%5(/F!K;!'*!passes after bouncing it is only four runs.

Baseball

- Has nine players - Two teams alternate between pitching and batting for nine innings. - For a home run, the batting team needs to hit the ball over the fence. - A batter who successfully hits the ball must run. - If the ball goes over the fence !!!!!$(!*90!EB!'*!'/!3!9$:0!%5(!J5*!!!! only a ground rule double if it goes over on a bounce.

INTERESTED IN JOINING CRICKET?

Cricket is always looking for more members. Anyone interested in joining should get in touch with campus security Bill Karcher.

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Based on the former TV show Superstars, Prime Time Knights are debuting their new challenge by the same name featuring kayak racing, a book bag toss, #$:J3*!/*'#C!2)9*.!J'C0!%3#0!3(&!obstacle course.

March Madness is beginning and so are brackets. For the Prospector’s sports experts brackets and predictions, go to Prospectornow.com. And bring your own bracket!

15SPORTSFriday, March 11, 2011

Cricket finds way to recruit new players, shorten detention time

Detention demolition

   Knight@ With a great atmosphere, excitement and a com-

petitive nature, the NCAA tournament is a great representation of how exciting sports can be.

It is also well-formatted, with the single-elimina-tion system and easy-to-gamble-on games by joining pools or picking over-unders. These elements make the tournament one of the best American sporting events.

But in spite of all of its positives, one thing miss-ing “turribly” from March Madness is a quality lo-cal team.

Loyola University is the only Illinois school ever to win a NCAA basketball championship back in 1963. One championship is not enough, considering Chicago is one of the strongest producers of basket-ball talent.

Recent high school standouts include Dwayne Wade, Andre Iguodala, Evan Turner and Derrick Rose. They were all highly touted basketball players from Chicago but left Illinois to play college ball.

In college football, the best players of late have come from Alabama, Florida and Texas. Logically, these colleges have been some of the best in recent memory. We should be saying the same thing about Chicago colleges.

DePaul and Loyola were strong programs from the early 1960s until the early 1980s. It is time to take all of the current talent in Chicago and resurrect these programs.

The University of Illinois has a pretty strong team and has done a great job of recruiting Chi-cago’s talent lately by getting Waukegan’s Jereme Richmond and Robinson High School’s Meyers Leonard, who was ranked as the fourth best center in his class and 47th overall. But top players are still escaping.

This year’s top two recruits from Illinois, accord-ing to Scout.com, Anthony Davis and Wayne Blacks-hear, committed to Kentucky and Louisville, respec-tively.

If any Chicago city colleges recruited the way they should, national championships wouldn’t be out of the question. And just think about how great March Madness would be.

When U of I went to the finals in the 2005 tourna-ment, the whole tournament was more enjoyable for all of us. It’s like comparing this year’s NHL play-offs to last year’s playoffs. When there is a competi-tive local team, sports are naturally more enjoyable.

Plus, recruiting these kids shouldn’t be too dif-ficult. I would just ask them: don’t you want to go back to that same old place?

Sweet home Chicago.

The last thing missing

I’m not really qualified to hand out awards for many things, although most columnists think they are, but I would like to commemorate the best coach in the country.

Steve Smith, basketball coach at Oak Hill Acad-emy in Monmouth, Va., has completed his 26th sea-son as coach.

Oak Hill is a private boarding school that takes transfer students who need to get out of their cur-rent environment.

Most of the students come from neighborhoods that would prevent them from succeeding in life.

The school only takes in around 150 students, but Smith and the basketball program have produced 22 NBA players, including Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Rajon Rondo and Brandon Jennings.

None of Smith’s players have anything negative to say about him, and without him and the school, Anthony may not have been able to attend Syra-cuse University. He needed an 18 on his ACT to en-roll at Syracuse, and finally in April of his senior year received a 19.

Sure Smith has been awarded the Naismith High School Coach of the Year as best high school coach, but it is time to give him the credit he deserves.

He is able to take troubled youths and make star basketball players and better men out of them.

He is even able to get star players to practice. I mean, we talking about practice, man.

Where credit is due

Graphic by Ian Magnuson and Heather Dove

SPORTSFriday, March 11, 2011

WHY NOT A POOL? When sitting down with the District 214 Board of Education, Superintendent Dr. David Schuler discussed the possibility of implementing three new pools so that all buildings in the district would have their own pool. The schools in District 214 that currently don’t have pools are Prospect, Hersey and Rolling Meadows. However, the cost of installing one (0=!/='::'()!7$$<!'/!/')('2#3(*<B!9')90%!*93(!'(/*3<<'()!$(0!3%*'2#'3<!*5%;!20<&F!N90!#$/*!$;!3!7$$<!'/!J0*=00(!$7 to $8 million whereas installing 3(!3%*'2#'3<!*5%;!20<&!#$/*/!J0*=00(!$800,000 to $1 million. !!!!!4I%$:!3!2(3(#'3<!70%/70#*'80.!*93*!is really tough to do,” Schuler said.

STAYING SAFE Along with preventing high costs $;!'(/*3<<'()!3%*'2#'3<!*5%;!20<&/!;$%!the District 214, Schuler is looking to prevent student athlete injuries due to the sometimes-threatening #$(&'*'$(/!$;!*90!(3*5%3<!)%3//!20<&/F!! According to Penn State University, a leader in land use management research, the type of turf, called double-stitched turf, that District 214 wants to purchase may be the most expensive, but it is the safest turf that can be bought for athletes to compete on and it lasts the longest due to, “the way the seams are connected and the 7%$&5#*O/!$80%3<<!653<'*BF>!! Another study conducted at Montana State University compared '(A5%'0/!$(!(3*5%3<!)%3//!20<&/!80%/5/!3%*'2#'3<!*5%;!20<&/!3(&!;$5(&!that fewer injuries occurred on the 3%*'2#'3<!*5%;!20<&F

>"/%2"*%$*-,%",.'/$%.2?$%6#=Board looks to share fields, costs with local partners

Cost of maintaining natural grass 70%!20<&T Annual Cost $55,000 Total over 12 years $660,000

Cost of installing synthetic turf 70%!20<&T Initial Cost $900,000 Annual Ongoing Maintenance $27,000 ($2,250 x 12 years) Total $927,000

Photo illustration by Kate Schroeder

Cost of installing synthetic turf per 20<&!='*9!3!73%*(0%T Initial Cost $900,000 Annual Ongoing Maintenance $27,000 ($2,250 x 12 years) Total $927,000 District’s half of the costs

$463,500

Cost of replacing synthetic turf with a partner in 12-14 years: Replacement Cost $450,000 Annual Ongoing Maintenance $27,000 ($2,250 x 12 years) Total $477,000

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NATURAL GRASS FIELD

COSTS FOR NATURAL GRASS VERSUS ARTIFICIAL TURF

ARTIFICIAL TURF FIELD

Currently, the majority of P'/*%'#*!UVW!/*3&'5:!20<&/!3%0!used around 45 days per year. The cost of maintaining a natural grass /*3&'5:!20<&!;$%!*90!(01*!UW!B03%/!is estimated to be approximately $1,320,000, which works out to be a per use cost of $1,222.22. The District 214 Board of Education estimates a minimum of 240 days of usage per year with 3!/B(*90*'#!*5%;!20<&F!K;!*90!&'/*%'#*!shared the cost they would spend $702,000 over 24 years to install and maintain synthetic turf which works out to a per use cost of $122. The district will also earn rental fees that will fund education.

INFORMATION FROM THE SYNTHETIC TURF FEASIBILITY STUDY PRESENTED BY 

SUPERINTENDENT DR. DAVID SCHULER TO THE D214 BOARD OF EDUCATION JAN. 6.

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INFORMATION FROM THE SYNTHETIC 

TURF FEASIBILITY STUDY PRESENTED BY 

SUPERINTENDENT DR. DAVID SCHULER TO 

THE D214 BOARD OF EDUCATION JAN. 6.

By Kate SchroederEditor-in-Chief

Mother Nature had no mercy on Prospect’s natural grass football field when it rained every single Friday night for six weeks straight in fall 2009. The football team ended up playing Rolling Meadows for a division title in nothing but mud.

“Those were not conditions that you should ever play any type of athletic event in,” head football coach Mike Sebestyen said. “[It was] not the fault of anybody. Our maintenance guys did a hell of a job trying to get the fields ready ... it rained six weeks straight. Mother Nature wins.”

Although Sebestyen categorized the six-week streak of rain storms as a “freak occurrence,” it was not the first time there have been concerns about

the field conditions at Prospect and oth-er District 214 buildings.

Field conditions are one of the many reasons why the District 214 Board of Education has been discussing the possibility of installing artificial turf fields at all District 214 buildings.

On Jan. 6, Superintendent Dr. David Schuler presented the Board with a syn-thetic turf feasibility study in hopes of getting some input on whether or not installing synthetic turf fields would benefit the schools. According to Schul-er, the Board seemed enthusiastic and interested about the proposition but won’t proceed to install the fields until they can figure out how to pay for them.

The initial cost of installing an artifi-cial turf field is approximately $800,000 to $1 million per field, which includes installation and drainage costs as well as the turf itself. Without someone to split the costs of each field in the dis-trict, the Board would not be able to come up with the funds.

According to Schuler, numerous school districts have gone to referen-dum to ask parents and community members to put money into buying the school an artificial turf field, but the

Board is not willing to do that.“It’s tough in this economy to ask for

money, and that’s why we need to find a creative other way to do this,” Schuler said.

One of the creative ways is for each building to create a partnership. The partnership might be with an orga-nization like the Arlington Heights Youth Athletic As-sociation, which has indicated it would be willing to partner with District 214.

By creating a partnership, the district would be able to recoup its investments in eight and a half years. The district could also host more games and competitions due to the low mainte-nance of artificial turf fields, raising money on the side.

Schuler hopes that District 214 can rent out its turf fields when students won’t be using them. That way, they could put that money into a separate fund that would help pay for the turf ’s inevitable renovation in 12 to 14 years.

Community members also voiced concerns about how educational funds aren’t supposed to be spent on artificial turf fields. To help fund these potential fields, the Board would only use money from the Capital Projects Fund, which is a fund set up only for the improve-ment of facilities.

Although the initial cost of artifi-cial turf is high, maintaining a natural grass field is also expensive and takes away time from the maintenance staff. The groundsmen will aerate, fertilize and seed the field, which they do seven to eight months out of the year. When summer comes along, they water it ev-ery other day and cut it three times a week.

“We are constantly monitoring that field,” Buildings and Grounds Supervi-sor Oscar Acevedo said.

Acevedo has to limit what can hap-pen on the field in order to allow it to stay in good shape. Most of the time,

that means moving under level games from the field.

According to senior Agnes Stankie-wicz, who is a varsity soccer player, pushing the JV teams off the field for their games creates a “spiral effect” because they then have to play their games on the practice field.

Along with freeing up limited space, an artificial turf field allows the sports to play at optimal conditions. When the

weather is rainy, Sebestyen finds that it is a dif-ferent ball game compared to that of one on natural grass.

“You definitely play at a faster speed,” Sebestyen said. “Go watch film of us in week nine playing Mead-ows and then the next week when we played Carmel [who has an artifi-cial turf field]. Of-fensively, [we are] two different foot-ball teams.”

S t a n k i e w i c z agrees that game pace is overall fast-

er with an artificial turf field.Even though artificial turf would be

easier to manage from a maintenance and athletic viewpoint, Prospect cur-rently has one of the best natural grass fields in the state. According to Schuler, this is why some in the district don’t be-lieve artificial turf is a high priority.

Sebestyen understands that from an athletic perspective, artificial turf is not really necessary in order to have a successful athletic program. But he be-lieves that in the long run, an artificial turf field will impact District 214 posi-tively.

“The initial outlay [for an artificial turf field] is a big deal, but I think if we take it from a macro instead of a micro view, you can see what benefits outweigh the potential pitfalls,” Sebe-styen said. “The long term cost saving element will allow you to turn things around in terms of finances for your children in your school, in your class-room as well as on your athletic field.”

“More and more schools are going to [artificial turf fields],” Schuler said. “We don’t have $7 million to put these fields in, so for us to have so much inter-est in looking at creative ways — now might be a good time for us to explore.”