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Higher NotesSenior Tara Lynn Ramsey recently left to pursue her musical aspirations at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan.

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Dr. Dana DeinesAssociate PrincipalEducation AdministrationUniversity of Northern Iowa

Dr. Tracy JohnsResource TeacherEducational Leadership

University of Northern Iowa

Dr. Rich PowersPrincipal

Educational Administration and SupervisionLoyloa University

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What does it mean to have your doctorate?

“I was able to perser-vere through chal-lenging times and learn what it means to be an educational leader in different environments.”

With the addition of principal Rich Powers to the CFHS staff

this year, the number of a doctorate degrees has grown to three

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What has your doctorate done to improve the way you do your job?

“I think I was ex-posed to great infor-mation in my course work. I met a lot of interesting people who had far more experience in schools, which gave me skills I didn’t have before.”

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“People are a collec-tion of their experi-ences, and it has been another experience that has helped shape the way I think.”

Kellie PetersenStaff Writer

Homecoming is just around the corner at Ce-dar Falls High School, but this year students will be “coming home” at least once every week as they attend their newly established homerooms every Wednesday from 9:41-10:06.

The school day still starts and ends at the same times, and other periods of the day contribute some time in order to make this eighth period possible.

The idea for homerooms came from a recent state push to improve the progress of secondary schools. The four R’s — rigor, relevance, rela-tionships and reflection — are the target areas in this statewide initiative, and Cedar Falls, like many other school districts, chose homerooms as a way to adopt the relationship component of this initiative.

Dr. Rich Powers, the new CFHS principal, said that the relationships and reflection parts of the four R’s are important.

“People typically don’t lose jobs because of what they don’t know. They lose them because of their interactions with other people,” Powers said. He also said that homerooms create the opportu-nity for students to build stronger relationships with teachers and to gain a stronger appreciation for each other.

“I’m excited because it’s a very student-cen-tered solution,” Powers said.

The planning for homerooms began last year during the professional development days.

Diane Flaherty, an English teacher at CFHS, is the chair of the committee for homerooms.

Science teacher Marcy Hand, FCS teacher Linda Schutte, industrial technology teacher Linda Sneed and physical education teacher Ja-mie Smith, as well as 11 other people are the other

members of the committee.When writing the homeroom curriculum, they

looked at the issues in Cedar Falls High School and also consulted Character Counts, a curricular resource for buiding positive social skills in the areas of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Each commit-tee member picked important lessons and pulled them together that way. “They are wonderful people. They’re really making this work,” Fla-herty said.

Since homerooms are a new idea, it is not cer-tain how well they are working at this time.

“I’ve heard some really good comments from faculty and students, but it’s still not a perfect sys-tem. It’s still in its infant stages. I just hope that faculty and students will reserve judgment and give it time,” Flaherty said.

“I think the students, at least in my home room, have been very active in participating,” Flaherty

New homerooms, principal build CF relationshipssaid. Students such as junior Tim Jackson said he enjoys the new program.

“I like homerooms. It’s a change during the week,” Jackson said.

Students like sophomore Cody Zey like the chance that homerooms offer to meet new people.

Although there are many supporters of the program, everyone may not agree with the way homerooms are run.

“I don’t think we need to do it every week. It should be more bi-weekly,” sophomore Ben Mor-ris said.

Junior Tyler Sweet said that the idea behind homerooms is good, but the way they are done confuses people.

It is still not clear whether homerooms are suc-cessful or will need some work, but as Principal Powers put it: “Change is always an opportunity for growth.”

Just Another Day in

Paradise?CFHS Homecoming

2006

From left, stuffing his face with Cool Whip, senior Tyler Parker frantically competes in Homecoming challenges. Meanwhile, senior Mike DiMarco celebrates his victory with teammate Kate Henny after successfully finishing their relay. Smiling after the Homecoming events, the senior girl nominees are pictured above.

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Our View

The Tiger Hi-Line is a weekly publication of the journalism classes of Cedar Falls High School, 1015 Division St., Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613. Each edition is published on Wednesdays during the school year in The Insider and Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier, 501 Commercial St., Waterloo, Iowa 50701.

Columns and letters do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Hi-Line or Cedar Falls Schools. The Hi-Line editorial staff view is presented weekly in the editorial labeled as Our View.

Reader opinions on any topic are welcome and should be sent to the Tiger Hi-Line staff or delivered to room 208. All letters must be signed. Let-ters must be submitted by 3 p.m. on Thursday for publication the following Wednesday. Letters may not exceed 300 words and may be edited to meet space limitations. Include address and phone number for verification.

Editorial StaffEditors-in-Chief-Sheila Moussavi & Kirstin Riggs

News Editor-Kelsey Ihde & Audrey KittrellOpinion Editors-Andrea Huber & Robb Klassen

Sports Editor-Josh BettsFeature Editors-Briana McGeough & Willa SimmetOn-Line Editors-David Jacobson & Olivia Schares

Photo Editors-Katy Schult

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What are you looking for-ward to most about your

senior year at CFHS?

“I’m looking forward to get-ting senioritis and having an

excuse to be lazy.”Emily Lentz

If you could change one thing about CF this year,

what would it be?

“I would make a weighted grading scale so people can’t take easy classes to get 4.0s.”

Bryce Duchman

What’s the best part about being a senior?

“Seniors get a lot more re-spect from teachers and

young punk kids.”Sean Ephraim

Honor HeindlStaff Writer

For those of you that are afraid to admit you’re addicted to the world’s most popular drug, don’t worry. You’re one of 165 million in the United States alone. There are 550 milligrams of caffeine-packed goodness in a grande coffee from Starbucks, while the “fake” instant stuff only provides a tiny 190 milligrams. Coffee addicts who indulge in daily delights such as an iced cara-mel macchiato, one of Starbuck’s most popular sippable sensations, may spend around $1,368 a year on the habit. Is the caffeine kick worth it?

“I even come in on my days off. I have to get my coffee everyday,” Star-bucks employee, Beth said.

Coffee shops are not only a relax-ing atmospheric hangout for anyone, but also the hot spot for study groups, especially all the college kids. Wire-less Internet is provided in most coffee shops as well. Mochas are a favorite at Cup of Joe on Main and Jag’s Java on the corner of Round and University. Younger customers tend to go for the frappuccinos and sweeter fluids, while adults usually go for the plain dark cof-fees or teas.

Cup of Joe employee Amy Baldwin said none of the coffee shops in Cedar Falls really interfere with one another too drastically.

Jag’s Java, Cup of Joe and Starbucks all have their own unique atmospheres and strengths. Starbucks is a huge

corporate chain, so it’s definitely well known. The drive-thru is quite convenient as well, while the local shops are also quite profitable because they are very personable with their customers.

Baldwin noted the connection that Cup of Joe has with its custom-ers.

“We’ve got a very friendly atmosphere because we know our customers and their drinks,” she said.

The lovely décor and top ingredients are Jag’s Java’s key to success. Ten-pound chocolate blocks straight from California make the drinks full of fresh flavor.

“We have a lot of unique blends that we did a lot of research on to find,” Jag’s Java owner Dale said, “We bring in a diver-sified group ranging from Bible studies to motorcycle gangs.”

Coffee is a drug, yes, but one nobody’s willing to give up. As the anonymous quote goes, “I’d stop drinking coffee, but I’m no quitter.” True, it causes one to go through quite drastic measures to get that cup

of steaming aromatic caffeine, but it doesn’t necessarily do any harm. Hon-estly, the coffee drinker may be more dangerous without. So no matter if you pick up your coffee from one of these three spots or just from the corner gas station, you’ll be one of the growing population for whom “a day without coffee is like sleep.”

Over the past couple years, protecting the nearly 3 million Americans with peanut allergies from exposure to the potentially life-threatening snack has become the subject of many health policies. These newly implemented policies, ranging from cafeteria guidelines to snacking options on national airlines, have been the main instrument in the effort to prevent peanut-related accidents in America. Even within Cedar Falls High School, thought has gone in to what sort of policy, if any, should be in place to protect students who would be affected by peanut exposure. Though the school has decided not to implement any concrete policies, it is instead stress-ing student awareness toward the issue. For the sake of effective-ness and practicality, the Hi-Line editors believe that this is the best approach.

Though, ideally, all peanut products would be removed from the school altogether, this policy is virtually unenforceable. For one thing, to effectively implement the removal of peanuts, it would also be necessary to ban any substance that has ever come in contact with them, which would be a difficult task to monitor. Also, it would be difficult to ban peanuts without taking into consideration every other allergy in the school. Once measures have been taken to protect stu-dents from one allergen, there would be pressure to implement poli-cies for every other potentially dangerous food products.

So instead, we think the students should consider it their re-sponsibility to make sure they are not endangering those around them by, for example, leaving a half-eaten peanut butter sandwich at the table. Rather than leave it to the school to prevent allergen-related accidents, students should be aware of what they are eating and whom they are exposing their lunch choices to. If all students are careful, the probability of a peanut-related accident can be dra-matically reduced.

Just the Jelly: help protect students with peanut allergies

Write the Tiger Hi-Line Seniors settle in for last year

Coffee hangouts deliver needed jolts

Robb Klassen PhotoAn espresso is more common for the avid coffee drinker because of its strong and bitter taste.

Athleteof

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Junior Wide Receiver

Tigersin Action

“We surprised ourselves at how well we’re doing

this year.”

—Dave Weldjunior golfer

SPORTS

Football (2-1) beat Dub. Wahlert 44-0Next Up: vs. Waterloo East 9/22 (HC)(Home at 7:45 p.m.)

Men’s Cross Country placed 2nd out of 18 at Rich Engel ClassicNext Up: Mason City Invite 9/21(Away at 4:45 PM)

Women’s Cross Countryplaced 2nd out of 14 at Rich Engel ClassicNext Up: Mason City Invite 9/21(Away at 4:45 PM)

Women’s Swimmingcompeted at IC West last nightNext Up: CR Kennedy Invite 9/23 (Away diving at 9:00 a.m. swimming at 1:00 p.m.)

Volleyball lost to IC High 0/3“played at Waterloo West last nightNext Up: Tiger Invite 9/23(Home at 9:00 a.m.)

Men’s Golfcompeted at MVC Quad at IC High MondayNext Up: Metro Meet at Irv Warren 9/21(Away at 3:45 p.m.)

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Tiger special teams shine in 44-0 victory

Andrew Doyle & Tim HinkelStaff Writers

With a young team this year, the members of the men’s golf team have surprised themselves, as well as many others, with how well they’re doing.

Placing fourth at the Supermeet as well as the Waterloo West Invitational shows that they are in for a strong season. The team beat West at the Waterloo West invitational by one and lost by one to West at the team’s first metro meet.

Led by head coach Jerry Slykhuis and assistant coach Rich Strike, the team has tough goals to attain ahead of them, but they still have high hopes for the season.

“We won our conference last year and plan to do the same this year, ex-cept by a larger margin,” senior varsity

golfer Mike Huisman, said. Cedar Falls is part of the Mis-sissippi Division.

“We surprised ourselves at how well we’re doing this year,” junior Dave Weld said.

The team seems fully aware of Waterloo West’s golf team and that they will be the hard-est challenge this year.

“They’re always close within one or two strokes at games,” sophomore Dustin Deery said.

The young team this year includes one senior, three juniors, two sopho-mores and one freshman, who plays with the team sometimes.

Even with a small team, they meet at Peppers and Waffle Stop for team meals often, and they have good team chemistry.

Young golf team keeps sites set high for post season

Caitlin Glade Photo

How do you see the season going compared to last year?

“We’re going to do good, but it’ll be hard to follow that class.”

What does it mean to have Coach Mitchell back after the scare last year?

“It’s good to keep the CF tradition instead of bringing in someone new from scratch.”

Are there any teams you are look-ing forward to playing this year?

“Waterloo East and Waterloo West because they’re our rivals.”

How do you celebrate after a win?

“The fans come to the parking lot and hang out with the players.”

What CF football players do you look up to?

Brandon Nelson because he has played my position and has helped

me out.”

“We get along well together. We have fun on our bus trips when we go to different places,” Weld said.

With their performance so far this year, the team is in agreement that they can realistically make State this year.

“The top three at Districts go to State. I think we can definitely make it

this year,” Weld said.With the MVC Quadrangular be-

hind them, the team is gearing up for tomorrow’s metro meet at Warren Park.

“We need the most support at Metro meets because we need people to cheer when other teams are putting and swinging,” senior golfer Reid Erickson said with a smile, “so bring your noise-makers.”

On the other hand, coach Strike and the junior varsity reserve squad known as Strike’s Army are struggling.

“Our main goal is to maintain the traveling trophy with West Waterloo. We’ve held it the past two years but now are in trouble,” Strike said. “We have five more weeks to keep the tro-phy and have to win four out of the five meets to keep it; otherwise, it goes to West.”

Josh BettsSports Editor

Many athletes, coaches and fans know this old sports adage. Defense wins championships. If the perfor-mance by the Tiger football team Fri-day night was any indication of what’s to come, they may get the chance to pursue what evaded them last year, a state championship. The Tigers looked strong on both sides of the ball en route to a 44-0 victory over Dubuque Wahlert.

“Our players responded from the loss last week,” Cedar Falls Co-Head Coach Brad Remmert said. “They were very aggressive. The offense did a nice job of moving the football in the first quarter to put points on the board.”

The Tigers began the offensive bar-rage early on. On their first drive of the game, the Tigers Andrew Tindall punched it in from seven yards out, and the Tigers took the 7-0 lead following the extra point.

After a Wahlert punt, the Tigers en-gineered a nice drive, which culminat-ed in a nine-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Mike DiMarco to Mike Schindel with 2:13 to go in the first quarter, and the Tigers led 14-0. That would be the score after one quarter.

“Both quarterbacks played good on Friday,” Remmert said. “They spread the ball around to different receivers. We knew that Jason Goulden was go-ing to take some snaps in the game. It

was a situation where we needed him to get some live snaps. It is always nice to have two capable quarterbacks.”

With 11:17 to go in the half, the Tigers capped off their opening drive of the second quarter with a 36-yard field goal by Jason Goulden, making the score 17-0 Tigers.

The first of three blocked punts of the game, all of which occurred in the second quarter, came with 9:41 to go before halftime, as the Wahlert punter stood inside the five yard line, Soph-more linebacker Jeff Hanson got his hand on the Wahlert punt in the end

zone, and tipped it into the air where it was caught by Corey Albrecht for the touchdown, making the score 23-0. The point after by Goulden was missed, and it remained 23-0.

“The special teams really gave us some momentum,” Remmert said. “Jeff Hanson blocked two punts, and Mark Iehl blocked another. Corey Albrecht and Jeff Hanson scored touchdowns off two of the blocks, and Landon Zaputil was able to return one to the Wahlert 20 yard line. Blocking three punts in one quarter has to be a school record.”

The Tiger offense came through

again on their next drive, as with 7:09 to go in the half, Tindall scored on a 13-yard touchdown run, his second of the night to make it 30-0 Tigers follow-ing the extra point.

On the next Tiger drive, DiMarco hooked up with running back Bryce Duchman on a 19-yard pass to make it 37-0 Tigers following the point after.

The Tigers capped off the half, and the scoring with their third blocked punt of the game, and the second one they returned for a touchdown, as with 16 seconds remaining in the half, the Tigers Mark Iehl blocked the Wahlert punt, and the ball was loose on the turf, where it was picked up by Han-son again for his second punt return touchdown of the game to make it 44-0 Tigers, the eventual final score.

“The defense had another solid performance,” Remmert said. “We will have to continue to improve as we will be facing some good offenses in future games.”

The Tigers now prepare Friday night for the annual homecoming foot-ball game against their metro rivals, the Trojans of Waterloo East. The Trojans are 0-3 on the young season.

“East has definitely improved,” Remmert said. “They have done a nice job of moving the football and putting points on the board. “Their skill play-ers are extremely impressive. We will have to play disciplined football be-cause they have the break away speed to score on any play.”

Allison Bernard Photo

Running onto the field earlier in the season is the varsity football team. After last weekend’s stomping of Dubuque, the Tigers are now 2-1.

Katie LeeStaff Writer

For many high school students, senior year means relaxing their loads and enjoying their last year of tax-paid education. Not so for Tara Lynn Ramsey.

This 17-year old violinist was re-cently accepted into the Interlochen Arts Academy located in Michigan for the 2006-2007 school year.

For Ramsey, senior year will amount to practicing at least four hours a day, attending orchestral rehearsals and juggling physics, English and mu-sic theory classes.

Ramsey began classes on Tuesday after a 10-hour drive to Interlochen. For Ramsey, who had experienced the Interlochen Arts Camp the previous summer, choosing to return to Interlo-chen was not such a hard decision.

“I finally realized that there were two ways I could live: I could just be a high school student and forget about the violin, or I could be a violinist,” Ramsey said. “The mentality I have to adopt to get through and enjoy high school is quite contrary to the mentality I need to play the violin.”

Ramsey spent part of the past sum-mer in Chicago, performing chamber

music with the Midwest Young Art-ists program. It was then that she auditioned for her Interlochen Arts Academy instructor and was awarded a scholarship.

“When the possibility of attending Interlochen Arts Academy popped up this summer, I had to try for it. There I can just be a violinist, and it doesn’t

matter,” Ramsey said.Judging from her

past experiences at In-terlochen, Ramsey said she most looks forward to the intense musical environment of the program.

“I love music, and I love playing the violin! What more is there?” Ramsey asked.

Ramsey performed with UNI’s Symphony Orchestra in Costa Rica during the spring of 2005 and also be-came concertmaster of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra

during the Interlochen Arts Camp of 2005.

Gerald Ramsey, CFHS band director and father of Tara Lynn Ramsey, stated his

support for his daughter’s decision to leave.

“It’s a great opportunity for her,” Gerald said.

“For the last two summers we watched her go to environments where everyone has had a common musical goal.”

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Scott Gall: Resource Teacher

Something unique about me is that I play drums and write lyrics. I have been in bands on and off.

“ ”Kendra Wohlert: Choir Teacher

I don’t shave my legs.

“ ”Tim Kangas: ALPHA Teacher

I try to not be like anyone else.

“ ”Megann Tresemer: English Teacher

My thumbs look like big toes.

“ ”Lisa Klenske: Art Teacher

My pet peeve is cell phone drivers.

“ ”Chris Gruhn: Spanish Teacher

I am returning to CF after being a stay-at-home mom for the last four years.

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Dee McMullen: Resource TeacherQueen Elizabeth I is my heroine. She was diplomatic with her advisers, but she ruled England.

New Teachers Tell AllWhat is unique about you?

Senior accepted to music academy

Submitted Photo Practicing her violin is senior Tara Lynn Ramsey who has reccently began attending the Interlochen Arts Academy to pursue her passion for violin.

Adam ZindaStaff Writer

When senior Jennifer El-lingson decided to enter the Coldstone Creamery Shake It Up Dance Contest over summer vacation, little did she know that she would be in the finals.

Her mom pointed out the contest, which appeared in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.

“I entered this contest as a joke and forgot about it,” Elling-son said.

She placed fourth in the contest with seven finalists at-tending.

The contest took place on Aug. 31 in Madam Tussards Wax Museum in New York. Ellingson won a year of free ice cream for her performance.

The company flew Jennifer and

her mother out to New York on Aug. 29. The trip was paid for by the com-pany.

“I felt really good. Of course you are going to be a little disappointed, but I was so happy for Ariana. She danced really well,” Ellingson said.

Ariana DeBose, who is from North

Carolina was the winner of the contest and took the $15,000 grand prize with free shakes and smoothies for life.

“I’ve never been to New York before, and now Iowa seems so bor-ing,” Ellingson said. Jennifer got to

know the other contestants over the Internet.

“I think the outcome of the contest was fair. We all got a lot of attention so no one was unhappy,” she said. About 200 people in the United States tried out for the competition.

Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas was one of the judges

which included Cold Stone Creamery CEO Tay Karam, Cold Stone Cream-

ery Sr. Tastemaster Tahsan Scott Cold Stone Creamery Crew from California and Mayra from the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Senior performer earns New York trip in Coldstone Creamery dance contest

—Jennifer Ellingson Senior

I think the outcome of the contest was fair. We all got

a lot of attention, so no one was unhappy.

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