vol. 12 dec 1, 2017 details on up and coming asvab

Vol. 12 Dec 1, 2017

SLHS’s 2017-2018 model U.N. team Jayce Kuehnlein

Shark Scene Staff Writer

The school’s model U.N. team will be traveling to the Ithaca RESD to compete against other schools Dec. 6.

The school’s team consists of Ki-ra Dowell, Diamond Neph, Shadow Little, Taylor Marr, Delainee Zacharko, and Keegan Honig. They are coached by Mrs. Cole. Dowell said, “I’m looking forward to get-ting to see and compete with all the people we did last year.”

Model U.N. is a competition where the person who is in the competition represents a country and takes the stance of their repre-sentative country on a topic or real world issue.

In this debate, the competitors from each country all give their stance on the topic of the debate, and debate like U.N. members in real life.

Shadow Little said, “I’m not real-ly sure why I decided to join model U.N, I just like politics I guess.”

Details on up and coming ASVAB

Jake Davis


Attention to anyone looking to join the mili-tary! Saint Louis High School is having a sign up in the main office for any-one planning to take the

ASVAB test Dec. 6.

The ASVAB is not just for people who are joining the military, it can help students get an idea of what they are good at and what field of work would be most proficient in. The test measures developed abilities and helps predict academic and occupation-al success.

To start, it will ask basic questions like marital sta-tus, health issues, educa-tion, and drug use. There

may even be a physical test that a student is asked to complete. It will then test you on general sci-ence, arithmetic reason-ing, word knowledge, mathematical knowledge, electrical information, and mechanical comprehen-sion.

Senior Gabriella Nava said, “I’ve taken the prac-tice ASVAB online and it was actually a lot harder than I thought. I’m going to take it again.”

A SLHS student is

practicing for the up-

coming ASVAB (photo

by Jake Davis).

Members of model U.N. are

attending a meeting for the

big upcoming meet (photo by

Diamond Neph).

If military is a

possibility,

take the test

Shark Scene Sports p. 2

Round two of scrimmages By Michael Munderloh


The Saint Louis boys basketball team was back in action again this past Monday as both teams played in their second set of scrimmages at Morey Courts. Both teams were looking to improve their play from the prior scrimmages while also fine tuning the game scheme before the opening of the season.

The varsity boys opened up ver-sus the Bears of Ashley. Within five minutes of the tip off, starting forward Maverick Giles went down with what appeared to be a sprained ankle; he would not return to the court for the rest of the night.

The Varsity Sharks would contin-ued on with the night with scrim-mages against Bullock Creek and Ashley in alternating pattern. A

loose score was kept in all of the scrimmages and Saint Louis fin-ished with a 2-2 record. Although the record was mediocre, Senior Dylan McCloskey had very little good to say about the team’s offen-sive and defensive play. “The of-fense was about as good as our de-fense. They complimented each other well as in neither one was good.”

The JV squad fared well in their scrimmages as they played both Ashley and Bullock Creek twice in the scrimmages and finished with a 2-2 record; both wins were against Ashley. Sophomore guard Alex Tripp commented on the teams play for the night, and his optimism for the future, by saying, “We played pretty well together com-pared to the last scrimmage, but we are still not quite there yet.”

Both teams will open their regular season play Tuesday Dec. 5 at home versus Breckenridge.

Girls b-ball opens season with Huskies By Cologio Alighire


Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity basketball played at Breckenridge Nov. 28, where varsity triumphed over their opponents 46- 36. Kylie Visger said, “In the beginning of the first quarter we started rough, but then we got back up and began to play well… Throughout the game we played as a team with good attitude, effort and respect.” Keynote player Allison Tiapalus essen-tially carried the team with an astonishing 19 points on the night. This

is not to take away from the several other players

who also were important to winning the game, she was just the highest scor-er for the night. Other principal players were; Brooklyn Filipiak with seven points, Olivia An-derson with six points, and Star Hansen scored five points for the sharks.

Shortly before the var-sity game, the junior var-sity suffered a heart-breaking defeat and fell 23-36 to Breckenridge. Sophomore and junior varsity player Zoey Dick-man felt, “We were lack-ing in communication, but it was a good first

game.” Dickman,“I thought our post players did very well. This wasn't a win, but it was a good opener.”

The absence of strong communication during the competition was cor-roborated by Willow Fuentes who agreed with Dickman’s statement. In regards to what they did right Fuentes felt, “Varsity did well and we should work to mirror them. We have a ways to go, but we're on the right track for a successful sea-son.”

The boys communicate

about their next moves to-

ward the hoop (photo by Amy

Hanley).

The girls were get-

ting ready to warm

up (photo by Maria

Roberson).

Shark Scene Sports p. 3

Bowling rolls into their new season

By Sarah Humphrey


SLHS bowling is offi-cially underway: practices are now occurring, and the Sharks are preparing for future competitions. The men and ladies practice Tuesdays in Mt. Pleasant and Thursdays in Ithaca.

Many of the bowlers are newcomers with little to no experience in a bowl-ing atmosphere. Outside of occasionally going to bowling alleys for fun, some have never officially bowled. However, they will all surely work hard and be successful with their teammates.

When asked how she felt about joining the bowling team and about her hopes for this season, junior Brieanne Kovach said, “My hopes are to get close with the girls on my team and to bowl more than a 100! I am glad I joined the team because I get to hang out with some of my clos-est friends and experience something new. It’s really fun so far and I’m looking forward to what’s ahead!” Brieanne is a newcomer with lots of spirit. She has many friends on the team, which makes for a fun season for her.

Sophomore Jordan Bis-sell commented, “I am

most excited for the new people on the teams and the fact that I will have many more opportunities to bowl this year.” This is Jordan’s second year on the high school bowling team. He greatly enjoys bowling and is extremely excited about having more opportunities to bowl.

Both groups will defi-nitely have great seasons this year, all while having a lot of fun. Although ac-tual competitions don’t start until later in Decem-ber, the teams have a lot to look forward to in the season, especially new members, who get to have tons of new experiences surrounded by those who enjoy the same sport as they do.

Wrestling scrimmage against Lakeview By Ernie Diaz


The Varsity boys wrestling team held a scrimmage against Lakeview Friday Nov. 24. The event started at 12 p.m. and ended roughly around 1:15. The captains of the team all went undefeated pinning all of their opponents. The rest of the team wrestled very hard and all won at least one match. Junior Modestie Hitchcock had some things to say about her performance, “I feel like I wrestled good, but there are defi-

nitely things that I could work on, The team wrestled well also. The returners from last year all wrestled like they should. I think this year could be a special year if we work hard enough.” Fellow teammate Ryan Downs said, “We wrestled good, but we for sure need to work harder in the room to be where we need to be.” The wrestling team has their first dual meet Dec. 6, at Alma high school. They will be wrestling against Alma and either Clare or Montabella.

Jazmin Milks

warms up for her

bowling tourna-

ment last year

(photo by Tracy

Milks).

The 2016-17 shark wres-

tling team poses with the

trophy they won at Swan

Valley invitational.

New coaches, new team, big goals

Shark Scene Entertainment p. 4

By Lillian Windsor


Throughout time there has always been the music or band that stuck out the most of that generation. For the 1950’s, The An-drews Sisters’ Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy was a massive hit. However, throughout these periods of time, a mania was be-ginning to form, “Beatlemania”. The Beat-les started as a small rock band in Liverpool, Eng-land with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best. Building in popularity, best dropped from The Beatles, adding the fourth core Beatle, Ringo Starr.

Their first hit was Love Me Do in 1962, two years later, growing in populari-ty they lead the United States British Invasion,

starting “Beatlemania”. The Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, as “the youngsters from Liv-erpool” opening their per-formance with All my Loving. This made the frenzy continue and grow as millions of households turned their television on to watch the fab four. “I have a very unpopular opinion about them, I think they are too main-stream and too hype for what they are,” stated jun-ior Kacie Allen. They end-ed touring completely in 1966 with their US tour, marking the end of their non-stop tours around the world. This was due to having insufficient ampli-fiers for fans to hear their music because of how big their venues were getting.

As for their discography, their first released album was in Germany under the name of The Beat Broth-

ers. This was before they came to America and was titled My Bonnie, in col-laboration with Tony Sheridan, who they toured in Hamburg before peak-ing popularity. Many of these albums got to the top of the music charts, in-cluding Help!, Rubber Soul, and Magical Mys-

tery Tour. “I really like the song Come Together. It’s a great song in gen-eral, but I love the covers as well!” said senior Gavin Keon. Their final album was titled Let it Be. This album was recorded before second to last al-bum Abbey Road, but wasn’t released till after in 1970 which was then re-leased a month after them breaking up and going separate ways as artists.

Through it all, The Beat-les definitely made them-selves memorable with their twelve studio al-bums, movies, clothes, style and brand. Through-out their fame, Beatlemania never died. They eventually sparked off as separate artists, some more successful than others. Yet, no matter what happens to these four boys, they will be the in-fluence of many bands.

“Honey, where’s my super suit?” By Joseph Castellon


The Incredibles is family friendly movie that first came to screens on No-vember 5, 2004. It has won many awards includ-ing Academy Award for Best Animated Features, Kids Choice Award for favorite movie, Academy Award for best sound edit-ing, and several others.

The film was written and directed by Brad Bird and released by Walt Disney

Pictures. Main characters include: Mr. Incredible, Dash, Elastigirl, Jack-Jack, and Violet. Junior Ryan Downs commented, “When I was a kid this movie was great and prob-ably one of the best to come out in our genera-tion, I've seen it at least 5 times and plan on going to watch Incredibles 2 when it finally comes out.”

The Incredibles is a sto-ry about a family, who had special abilities. They love each other very much and

do what it takes to protect them.

When the government bans the use of superpow-ers, a family is forced to hide said powers and live a normal suburban life. Mr. Incredible then em-barks on a mission to de-feat an out-of-control ro-bot that is trying to wipe out all superheroes. This is where Mr. Incredible is met with trouble he could not keep up with. So, it is up to his family to save him from danger.

A local superhero

awaits his next calling

(photo by Lillian Wind-

sor).

Senior Oliver Koskela

replicates a well loved

Beatles album cover

(photo by Lillian

Windsor).

Beatlemania never dies

Shark Scene Hobbies p. 5

Shoe collecting: a hobby or passion?

Live life with a little sugar & spice

By Brianna Fry

Sharks Scene Staff Writer

Looking for a hobby where one can progress, express and satisfy them-

selves? Try baking. Bak-ing may not seem to be something expressing, but making and baking is a form of art.

It may not be the tradi-tional form but people have made and decorated all kinds of treats in their own way.

At the start, it may be difficult depending on what types of food and techniques are being used. After baking for a while there's room for improve-ment in taste, design and technique.

Another good thing about baking is that it not only satisfies the baker, but the surrounding peo-

ple as well. Great thing about baking is that peo-ple can make money!

Not everyone chooses a hobby for this reason, but it's great when a hobby can turn into profit.

People tend to go for the homemade sweets and treats, rather than the ones sold in stores. People could use baking sales and take it to the next level to open up a bakery.

There’s not very many cons in baking. It's hard to have cons when there are many different areas one can go into. There's mak-ing cupcakes and cookies, to making desserts from other countries. There's

many other types of food and desserts that can be baked. One thing for sure is that you won't get bored easily.

Baking is simply fun. It's fun baking individual-ly, with a friend, or even family. It's a great way to bond and create lasting memories; while eating the delicious food that is made at home.

“My favorite thing to bake is peanut butter pie; it's super fun and deli-cious. Honestly, if I could, I would bake a pie every day,” said Alyiah Mizer.

By Anthony Carrillo


Sneaker collecting is a hobby col-lected by style, materials it’s made of, and certain brands that make the footwear. Basketball, running, and casual styled shoes are some of the most popular types of shoes pur-chased. Some of the hottest shoes from each of the most popular brands are Jordan 11’s and 7’s by Jordan, Air Force Ones and Roshe 2’s by Nike, NMDs and Ultra Boosts by Adidas, and Clutchfit Drive and Charged Escapes by Un-der Armor. “I like the low profile shoes that a lighter like the Jordan 13s, Lebron XIV, and Roshe 1’s. Even with the shoes a bit over priced I think they are worth my money.” said Richard LeDuke. Everyone has their own hobby or special interest, like playing school

sports, reading books, writing, or drawing. There is another interest-ing hobby that many people in to-day's society have grown interest in. These types of people are called

sneaker heads. Sneaker heads are people that have high interest in collecting, trading, and just admir-ing shoes.

The sneaker head subculture real-ly started blooming in the late 1980’s when hip-hop came around in the U.S. The hip-hop artist had a unique type of shoes that everyone desired.

In 1985 when the famous Michael Jordan released his signature shoe, it added to the desire of having these types of shoes. Sneaker heads take shoe collecting to a new level by purchasing $200 pairs of shoes and having at least 20 pairs of them.

Some of the shoes sneaker heads buy don’t get worn a lot so if spending a pretty penny for shoes sounds fun, go ahead and find the nearest shoe stores.

Alex Tripp has a wide variety

of shoes (Anthony Carrillo).

A local student made

a cake for a party

( photo by Brianna

Fry).

Shark Scene Opinions p. 6

Need more options for foreign languages By Terri Heyder

Shark scene staff writer

We are greatly limited on our foreign language classes at SLHS. You can only choose from two; Spanish and Sign lan-guage.

We have many hard of hearing students in our school, many of us take sign language so we are able to communicate with them. But what about the students that want to learn other languages? Such as Korean, French, Indian, and many others? Granted not many of us want to learn another language because our native tongue is hard enough, but having more than one language is fun. There are 6909 living languages in our world.

We live in a state where many different tongues come to, either to visit family or just to take a look. We have foreign ex-change students that tell us about their countries and how they speak. Some of them even teach us how to say certain things in their native language. Many wish to leave to travel the world, this would require either hav-

ing an interpreter or learn-ing a different language yourself.

Where is the help if a school doesn’t have many languages to choose from? “Yes we do need to offer more classes. It’s stupid that we don’t,” says Kira Dowell. Why don’t we have more to offer to the students? “I think we should, but the school budget is low,” said Mr. Caszatt.

We shouldn’t be re-quired foreign language classes for the fact that there isn’t much to choose from. Not everyone wants to do Sign language and not everyone wants to learn Spanish. We should-n’t be forced to learn something we don’t want to. No one wants a bad grade in a class of any

type. If the school budget is that low to the fact we can’t add at least one more class in, why even have foreign language classes? Students that are going to college can take courses there, students that have hearing impaired family members or friends can learn from them. Who knows maybe they even have a friend who took the class and they learn from them. There is the internet which holds all sorts of things, granted you may have to pay for some of it but not all of them are like that. We shouldn’t have nor be required to take a foreign language class at all, because we have a low budget anyway, not every-one wants to do either of the offered classes.

Schools should bring back home economic classes By Shelby Dosson


St. Louis Public Schools before, offered the home ec classes. However, that opportunity has been tak-en away due to budget cuts.

A majority of students liked to take the classes to get an idea on how to take care of themselves and to not get food poisoning. A great number of people want to bring home ec back to school.

Home economics classes are very beneficial to have in high schools. For in-

stance, they can teach in-dividuals how to cook, personal finance, housing, clothing, etc. People need these skills so that they can have a healthy style of living. Unfortunately, stu-dents can not gather the

skills from school any-more because it is no longer available. School should bring home ec back because it can give stu-dents a excellent hands-on activity.

Students from SLHS commented on the matter, Kassie Acker expressed, “I think that by bringing back a home economics class can teach the neces-sary skills to live on your own without your mother and father.” There comes a time when students have to grow up into young adults and learn to do things on his or her own.

Schools should bring home ec back so that peo-ple can get more out of school other than math, science, history, etc.

In addition, Corban Al-len had some opinions in the subject, stating, “I feel that bringing back home ec would be great for our school, because life skills and common sense aren’t so common anymore.” Since schools have with-drawn the class, many people struggle after high school with everyday tasks. Therefore, schools should find a way to bring back home economics.

Senora Cole teaching

her Spanish 3 class

(photo by Taylor Marr).

Dylan Weller enjoys the

microwave provided to

him in the office (photo

by Taylor Marr).

Shark Scene Features p. 7

SLHS Alumni Spotlight: Evan Goodell

By Diamond Neph


Evan Goodell was quite an im-pressive student and athlete at Saint Louis High School. He graduated as a part of the class of 2017. He has since moved on to the College of William and Mary to study and major in Biology. The mark that Evan left on this school is impossi-ble to overstate.

Evan was a model student, and an exemplary athlete. Every student in SLHS while Evan was attending would be certain he was destined for greatness.

All the teachers at SLHS who had him in a class knew he was the hardest worker of them all. Mr Stedman had the following to say, “What's far more important than being smart, is working hard.” Evan would agree completely with

this statement, and he is a near per-fect personification of it.

Not only did Evan out-work all of his classmates, he had the intellect to back it up. This is proven by the fact that he graduated as the vale-dictorian of his class and received a lucrative scholarship to the College of William and Mary. This was also the direct product of his unde-terred passion and drive.

To further the point about his im-pressive work ethic, Junior Austyn Rhines adds, “Evan used to be the slowest. Mr. PuffPaff and Ms. Half-mann used to have to take turns to run behind with him, and now he’s holding records at our school that probably no one is gonna beat for years, or ever.”

He is a living, breathing example of the great benefits of hard work. He is a great representative of the Saint Louis Shark name.

By Hannah Burt


Replacing the old St. Louis Variety store, Sweet Rickedy Redo’s is a new-ly opened store that sells a variety of things such as paints, antiques, remod-eled furniture, candy, jew-elry, lotions, and more!

During the 2016-2017 school year, students would go down at lunch and buy the candy sold at the Variety Store. Carson Daniels said, “It’s amaz-ing! They are super friendly and the store is very well put together. They even kept the candy

counter in business!”

The candy sold at this new business is just like the candy sold at what

used to be the Variety Store but some students did not know that. After the previous owners an-

nounced their retirement, the owner of Sweet Rickedy Redo’s in Alma, Danielle Garringer, decid-ed it was just where she wanted her business to be.

After a couple months of renovation it was ready for it’s opening. The new business is a old school themed place but attracts many young people as well. It’s interior is nicely organized and has a vin-tage feel to it. The store is not open on Sundays or Mondays, but is open Tuesday through Satur-day.

New establishment: Sweet Rickedy Redo’s

Evan Goodell (right) poses with

other SLHS alumni Connor Pil-

more (left). Connor and Evan

both ran at the Cross Country

State Finals meet when Evan

was a freshman and Connor

was a senior (photo by Tara

Goodell).

The newly opened Sweet Rickedy Redo’s is lo-

cated in downtown St. Louis (photo by Sweet

Rickedy Redo’s owner Danielle Garringer).

Shark Scene Letters To The Editor p. 8

By Holli Rivard

Shark Scene Editor

Welcome to the newest page in the Shark Scene Newspaper! We wanted to make a page that got more of the student body involved in the paper, so we created this. Each week students can pick an ar-

ticle from the previous issue, if they choose, and write a letter to the writers.

The letters can be funny, nice, giving suggestions, constructive criticism, or what you choose. You can either write to individual writ-ers of the papers if you want to have your letter directed at them or

put, “Dear Shark Scene,” if you want them directed for the paper as a whole. We hope you enjoy this new page of the paper and are look-ing forward to reading your re-sponses. You can submit your letter by emailing: [email protected] OR writing a hard copy and getting it to Mr. Kuhn.

By Holli Rivard

Shark Scene Editor Dear Faith Best,

I really enjoyed reading your article on intervention. I liked that you had some people’s state-ments in it. I also liked that you started it off by saying what in-tervention was and why we have it. I feel that if you had more statements from different people and different grades, more people would relate to this article. By having more people, you could have different opinions on it. Overall, I think that you did real-ly well on this article.

- Rylee Zimmerman

Dear Rylee Zimmerman,

We try to get quotes from students for every article. Some writers get more than others and the quality of the quotes really depends on who is making the statement. We also are trying to get our writers into asking more detailed questions to a variety of people, like you said, to make sure that more students are able to relate to the article written. Thank you for your feedback, we will take it into consideration for the next issues to come.

- Holli Rivard

Dear Lillian Windsor,

I enjoyed your article because I love to watch SpongeBob when I

nothing to do. It could have been better if you mentioned some more characters like Mr. Krabs, Sandy, or Plankton. These char-acters play an important role too. Besides that, I think you did a very nice job.

- Skyler Rodriguez

Hi Skylar,

Thank for the feedback, it is really appreciated. I agree, detail is im-portant in articles so the readers are more informed. Thanks for the constructive criticism and keep it coming!

Sincerely,

-Holli Rivard

Dear Faith Best,

Something I enjoyed about the article was about how people had their own opinions about inter-vention. Something that could have made it better was if you could wait to say your opinions. For example, let people say their opinions first, and then say what you have to say. My suggestion for the future is try to get more people to say their opinions ra-ther than just two people.

-Jennifer Flores

Dear Jennifer,

Thank you for the constructive criti-cism! Here at the Shark Scene, we all like receiving criticism to make

our articles better. I do think that waiting to give our opinions would be better than saying it first and then putting in the other person's opinion, it would probably make it flow better. Thanks for the feed-back.

- Holli Rivard

Dear Shelby Dosson,

I really enjoyed you news article on opening day. For instance, I’m a firm supporter of opening day. Also, I agree with most of your information, and as a hunter I am really happy we don’t have school on opening day because as you covered, the attendance rate would be very slim. I didn’t think we would ever get opening day off, but we did. Finally, I know a lot of hunters that enjoy not hav-ing to be at school and can be in the woods. This article was well written and I would keep writing about interesting things like you covered.

-Alex Wonsey

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the detailed response, Shelby really appreciated this posi-tive feedback. I think it is agreeable that most students want opening day off, either to get a day off school or to wake up early and spend a couple hours in the woods. Without this day off, a lot of kids would still not attend.

Shark Scene now has new page

Talk smack? Don’t come back...

Shark Scene Style p. 9

Crew necks: better than hoodies? By Carly Daniels


With the upcoming cold winter months, it is important to stay warm. Many people are starting to stray away from hoodie sweatshirts and starting to wear crewnecks.

These sweatshirts have become increasingly popular recently and are perfect for the colder season. They are great at keeping warm without the hassle of having a bulky hood on the back. This makes working out and running in crewnecks during the winter more comforable because they keep you warm, without the extra hood on the back that can get in the way.

Many times the school offers Shark gear that is available for or-

der for sporting events. Ever since they have added crewnecks on the order form, they have become in-creasingly popular throughout the school.

According to Junior Desarae Campbell, “I like them way better than hoodies because I can wear the crewnecks with my hair down and I don’t think they are as ‘lazy look-ing’ as hoodies”. They are cheaper than typical sweatshirts and are even more comfortable. Whether it be the lack of bulkiness that a sweatshirt offers or the comfort a crewneck brings, their popularity continues to increase. The only disadvantage about these crew necks are having no pocket like a regular sweatshirt would.

Wristbands showing up more and more

Bling Bling on

your wrist

By Brandon Emlinger


From watches to hair ties, rubber bands to met-al, almost anything can be used as a wristband.

Wristbands are an awe-some way to have some-thing on the wrist without hearing an annoying beep from watches, or looking stupid.

Wristbands can show support, sponsor events, or even show pride for

communities. From col-leges to sporting events, concerts to communities, wristbands can show sup-port and spread good cheer to lots of things. Big companies such as “Autism Speaks” have started with wristbands and are now a multimil-lion dollar empire that speaks up against making fun of kids with autism. They can also show re-membrance of people who have past away. Wristbands can be stylish, but can also make a dif-ference in the world.

Office attendant Mrs. Bissell said, “I know these wristbands are from way back but some peo-ple need to get with the

program and wear them again. I like them, but not a lot of people wear them.” Amy Gould said, “I like wristbands, but sometimes I make my own from old gloves.” Wristbands can be made from lots of different ma-terials, including old

gloves, or just about any-thing. People can even add accessories to certain wristbands to reflect themselves. All kinds of charms, mascot danglers, even small family heir-looms. Wristbands are definitely a way to show off some style.

Senior Chloe Pestrue poses

with her new basketball

crew neck (photo by

Leo Franco-Lopez wears a “FlyHighHan”

wristband (photo by Brandon Emlinger).

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