The Rampage 2270 Highway 133 Carbondale , Co 81623 May, 2014 Volume 7 Issue 8

Seniors2014!

AP Art Finals-James Long

As the year is coming to a close, many art-loving seniors in the Advanced Placedment (AP) Art class are taking advantage of one of Roaring Fork’s strongest programs. To earn college credit, AP Art students must create 24 pieces that include several varieties and forms of art. 12 pieces need to be in one concentration, meaning they are all related to one theme; the other 12 need to demon-state breadth. All students must work with a variety of mediums. Several AP Art students are seniors, in-

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Important Dates:

Awards Night at 7:00pmMonday, May 19th

Baccalaureate at 7:00pmTuesday, May, 27th

Graduation at 12:15pmSaturday, May 31st

Art show! Opening night is May 20th but the art show will also be on display the 19th and the

21st.

cluding Abriah Wofford, Izzi Mata, Mealani Gray, Riley Marshall and Sasha Williams.

Sasha Williams has been taking art classes all four years, culminating in AP Art. “The class is very intense, and every piece needs to be really good, or else you need to make an entire new one.” She thinks AP Art is harder than other AP classes because of the amount of time it

requires.Izzi Mata believes that AP Art is

much like Art 4, but students are not assigned projects and have more freedom to make artistic choices. “You need to know your strengths and what mediums you’re good with.” This is what makes AP Art

different than normal art classes. Come see their work at the Art Show on May 20.

Cameron: Be a Frat Boy Turned Stay-at-Home HusbandBrandon: Be a Billionaire (by stealing someone else’s patent)Tanner: Go Pro in At Least Three SportsDaniela: Be the Favorite High School Basketball CoachStephanie: Be an MMA Fighter named “The Clipboard”Zach: Own a Comedy/Blues Club Sponsored by Dr. PepperChloe: Become a Famous Ferret BreederYari: Be the First Woman PresidentCindy: Own an Ostrich FarmAlexa: Be a Boss Without Being the BossElide: Be a U.N. AmbassadorKimberly: Become a School Bus Driver with a PhDMitch: Be a WeathermanDiana: Star in a Shampoo CommercialMariah: Move to a Warmer ClimateNatalie: Be a Talk Show HostOscar: Sing Corridos in a BandBrianda: Give Someone a Heart AttackJacky: Own an Exclusive RanchAlex Fisher: most likely to be a GQ model Charles: Be the Next (Longer-Living) Steve JobsRosa: Have Her Own Workout ChannelWill: Marry at Twenty in a Science LabRoman: Win Big on a Horse Race then have his day ruined by spilling his drinkKerwin: Commute to his Bodybuilding Competitions on a MopedXochitl: Win the Nobel Peace PrizeTicah: Live in a Pimped Out TreehouseErika: Be an AssassinKevin: Be a Trumpet Mouthpiece-SpecialistCynthia: Win Hell’s Kitchen and talk back to GordonMario: Write a Dirty Joke BookMiriam: Own a Chain of Banks (and donate millions of profit to charity)Gracie: Design Her Own Clothing LineWendy: Become a Slam PoetWalker: Be a Trophy HusbandDari: Found a PreschoolIsabel: Be in a Cover Girl CommercialAlex Z: Be an Adult Mutant Ninja TurtleJack: Be a Soccer Dad (complete with minivan)Sasha: Be a Russian DictatorToni: Be a National Rodeo QueenMaddie: Be a Sportscaster for Women’s SportsZuky: Be a MobwifeEduardo: Be a Soccer CoachMealani: Design Her Own ChopsticksAlyza: Work at the CapitolEdgar Vasquez: Start a New “Hipster” TrendSebastian: Open Up a “Coffee” ShopNate: Become a LibrarianIzzy: Be the Director of a Musical Missionary GroupKiya: Become a VeterinarianPaul: Have a Hot (and Smart) WifeKyle: Look Exactly the Same in 10 YearsAbriah: Join the Peace CorpsTaila: Become a Yoga Instructor/BaristaIsrael: Ban BaconAdalberto: Move to Tibet and Take a Vow of SilenceRiley: Be a Life Coach

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Juniors 2RampageMay 2014

The sibling game -Kayla Derby

For some juniors, the phrase “RFHS is a family” means just a little bit more. Many of them have siblings that actually go to Roaring Fork. The majority of these student have just one sibling that attends school with them, but there are exceptions, like the three Palomera brothers and the Featherstones (Steele Featherstone will have younger brothers in every grade next year). We asked three juniors questions about their siblings and then asked their sibling to answer the same questions about themselves. Some of the answers matched up perfectly, while others were completely different. Here are some of the funniest responses we received.

-Roy Benge

April 19th was a dancing and bowling filled night for Roaring Fork High School students: prom. With a bumping DJ and a Great Gatsby theme, students got their boogie on. Hosted at the RVR barn, prom goers filed in from about 9-10 from the tra-

Party at Gatsby’s

-Jacky Jacquez

Anika Klemmer is a student participating in the Rotary Club exchange student program. This year she has come from Germa-ny to experience her junior year at Roaring Fork. Klemmer explains that people here are re-ally “friendly and all about sports and education.” Kl-emmer was struggling to make friends in the first few months, but now she has found many. Klemmer said she longs

for her horses and it is real-ly hard to stay away from them. She would love to “live all over the world.” She wants to travel, to learn and to help others. After she graduates she wants to go to Africa and “help in small towns with education for kids”. “Colorado is so beau-tiful,” said Klemmer. Coming from a flat and cramped place to Colorado has been a real change. With five months remain-ing in her visit to America, Klemmer is making the

Klemmer makes herself at home

Maite and Karen NieblasWhat is the thing you do that annoys Karen the most?M: When I yell at her and act like her mom.K: When she acts like she’s twenty years older than me.

What would be the first thing Karen would do if she was elected president?M: Something to do with immigration.K: I would help every immigrant.

What is Karen most scared of?M:I don’t know! Karen isn’t scared of much. I guess she’s a little afraid of spiders.K: Losing my mom or dad.

Ruby and Joey LangWhat is the thing you do that annoys Joey the most?R: Constantly poke him. He gets so frustrated.J: Overreacts.

If Joey had one wish, what would it be?R: To be able to do a new ski trick on the first try.J: To have a million wishes.

What would be the first thing Joey would do if he was elected president?R: He would cancel school.J: Give everyone something so they all like me.

Emily and Beck FisherIf Beck had one wish, what would he wish for?E: To never have to work a day in his life.B: To have super smarts, be really smart.

Would Beck go to space if he was given the opportunity?E: Probably not.B: Heck yeah.

What would be the first thing Beck would do if he was elected president?E: He would probably cut down school hours.B: I would send a lot of negative emails to North Korea.

best of the time she has left. Teachers that know Klemmer recognize how she seeks out new adven-tures and embraces Ameri-can high school. “There is so much space everywhere and so many options for sports” said Klemmer. Coming from another country, Klemmer has fit in well and has sur-rounded herself with many friends at RFHS. She is a good addition to the school and brings new ideas to the people she meets in Car-bondale.

ditional pre-prom dinner and picture ses-sion. After midnight, students made their way over to El Jebowl to conclude the night with a few games of bowling. After bowling concluded around 2am, students parted their separate ways to go home. You can be sure the next day was slept away.

-Lucy Stevens

RFHS students Grace Brown, Max Slack, and Erin Doherty have been invited to the McBride Lewa Internship for two weeks taking place in Northeastern Kenya. This internship was founded by John and Laurie McBride in 2012, who, inspired by their chil-dren, claimed going to Africa was a life-changing event. The leaders of the group are Aaron and Molly Gar-land, who live for the outdoors. To give students a chance to experience Kenya, they will be traveling with

-Grace Brown

Next year, RFHS students will have a beautiful courtyard where they can hang out and eat their lunch thanks to sopho-more Fiona Laird. She applied to be a part of the Dream Proj-ect through the 5Points Film Festival and was one of fi ve in the valley to win a $1,500 grant. “Like a lot of kids, I stay at school for lunch and it’s uncomfortable; it wouldn’t be an issue if there was a nice place to sit when it’s nice outside,”

Laird said. With the grant money, she is going to build a small outside hangout area with nice tables to eat lunch or do homework. Students like Fiona, who are hard-working, self-less, and motivated, are the people that make RFHS beautiful inside and out.

Sophomores 3RampageMay 2014

-Fiona Laird It’s no secret that keep-ing up with classes and getting homework done in high school requires lots of time and energy. Finish-ing the endless to-do lists that many students have is diffi cult for anyone, but it’s even more diffi -cult for people who have another commitment after they walk out the doors of school for the day: a job. Many students at Roar-ing Fork work full or part time jobs throughout the school year. According to a survey of Roaring Fork students of mixed grades and ages, 24% of students work year round - 58% of respondents work to get personal money (which may include helping to support their household, or getting personal spending money), and 41% work to pay for college. Work can pose some challenges for students, both academic and otherwise. Roaring Fork senior Izzi Mata explains that, “Academically, there will be nights that you’ll have a lot of homework or you need to stay after school to work on a project, and you can’t because you have to work.” Junior Edgar Vega con-tinued that, “[the hardest part of working during

Jobs add challenges for students

Roaring Fork students head out to Africa

-Caitlin O’Gorman

Matt Miller, RFHS Design/Build teacher, encourages his students to im-pact their community by breaking out of the “norm” of woodshop class. This year’s Advanced Design/Build class has been focused on designing and con-structing chicken coops, one of which will fi nd a home in the RFHS garden, and two of which will be auctioned off to community members.

At the beginning of the year, all of the students in the class made mini chicken coops out of cardboard. Each student’s design was different. They grouped the similar designs together, then chose the top three designs. The top three were se-lected for construction.

The chicken coop designs of Joselinne Medrano and Terran Hurst-Farnham, both sophomores, were each selected. Joselinne Medrano is the only girl in the Design/Build class.

According to Medrano, her favorite part is painting because “it is relaxing and fun.”

“I like this class because of the cre-ativity, because you can mess around with new ideas,” Hurst-Farnham ex-plained.

The other sophomores in the class in-

Laird wins $1,500 grant

Building a better community

Photo by Lucy StevensThe Design/Build class has been working hard to fi nish the chicken coops before they are sold to the community. The class is focused on getting out of the “norm” of a woodshop class.

the school year is] accom-plishing homework.” Working after school not only affects students’ academic lives, but what they’re able to do outside of school. For some stu-dents, working while at-tending school is a reality that is diffi cult to balance. Junior Laura Needham stated, “It’s hard balanc-ing sports and working...I defi nitely feel like most

of the time there’s just not enough hours in the day to fi nish everything I need to.”

Survey results showed that half of the students that work year round work more than 20 hours a week.

When one works 20 hours a week or more, it’s diffi cult to do much more than eat, sleep, go to school, and go to work.

clude Robbie Thompson, Ricardo Huer-ta and Conrado Dolores, who are helping to fi nish their own coop designs. For the rest of the year, the class is focusing on fi nishing the coops and getting the coops ready to go out into the community.

The chicken coops will be displayed on the street on First Friday in June. See costudio.org for more details.

weeks taking place in

who, inspired by their chil-dren, claimed going to Africa was

eight students from the Roaring Fork Valley to enjoy the fl ora and fauna there without any itinerary. The group will be camping on the

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy with guards to ensure the

safety of the students through-out their stay. They will also be traveling to a nearby school to speak with the children who have recently learned English.

This opportunity would not be possible without donations

from people like Sue Anschutz- Rodgers who help make it accessible for the students to pay only $2,000 for food, camping, and a plane ticket and a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

4RampageMay 2014

Rampage Staff

Editor in ChiefRosa Maun

Managing EditorWilliam Masters

PhotographerCameron Doherty

Editorial StaffRoy Benge

Kristen JoinerFinn Featherstone

Lesley Platero

JournalistsGrace Brown

Daisy ContrerasAnakaren HernandezJacqueline Jacquez

Jake KelleyJames Long

Caitlin O’GormanJake Rusby

Lucy StevensTavia Teitler

Jonny Aranda

Freshmen

- Tavia Tietler

Many freshmen at Roaring Fork High have been in classes together since they were five years old, and changes are being made to keep them together a little longer.

In the past, students have been encour-aged to take classes that are at their level, whether that means skipping a grade in math or taking a lower level of english. However, RFHS is now taking a different approach.

Instead of moving each student indi-vidually, schedules have been changed to keep the Freshmen Class together and form what many refer to as the Fresh-men Cohort. That means that this year all freshmen are taking English One, U.S. History and Biology, and next year changes will be made in math to ensure a large majority of ninth graders are taking all four of the same core classes.

“We want all freshmen to have the same experience, whether it’s good or bad,” ex-plained principal Drew Adams. This idea of a common experience is one of the main factors behind this change. Another hope is that these coordinated schedules

Cohort Conversation-Jake Rusby

This year, RFHS fresh-man Aldo Pinela blew ev-erybody’s minds when he played varsity for three sports. Pinela has earned a letter in football and bas-ketball and is currently playing varsity baseball, making him busy all year long. Most students can barely stand to last through the pressure of one sport; to play three, one season after another, is truly an enduring feat.

“I’ve been playing some of these sports for so long that I’ve just gotten used to it,” said Pinela. “I manage my time well and normally do my work when I can right after school.”

Pinela said that ever since the sixth grade, he has been playing basket-ball and football. Although this year was the first year he has ever played base-ball, he still caught on quickly and hopes to im-prove and have fun.

Pinela’s favorite sport to watch and play is bas-ketball, since he has been playing it the longest. It brings him “a lot of happi-ness.” To prepare himself for each sport, Pinela uses a distinct soundtrack to get him “pumped up.”

Success comes to Pinela on and off the field. “Aldo is a very respectful ‘A’ stu-dent in class and knows how to focus,” states Pinela’s English teacher Morgan Williams. He ex-plained that Pinela is a qui-et, focused, and reserved student who does what needs to be done in the classroom environment and in his outside work. “He brings the focus,” said Williams, “and every once and a while, you can catch a smile on his face.”

Dear Editor, The Roaring Fork HS Boosters club would like to thank all the

supporters for their generous donations which in turn benefitted the many clubs and opportunities offered at RFHS. As the school year winds down, the Roaring Fork Rams continue to challenge them-selves in their spring sports, academic studies and artistic endeav-ors.

The RFHS Ram Booster Club is a non-profit parent and commu-nity organization whose members volunteer their time for various fundraising activities to create additional funding sources for aca-demic, artistic and athletic advancement at RFHS.

Thanks to donor support from: Alpine Bank, Ace Hardware, Amore Realty, The Pour House, DHM Design, R&A Enterprises Inc., Ackerman Log & Timber, Bonfire Coffee, Crystal Valley Den-tal, Crystal Springs Builders, White House Pizza, CIS Carbondale Insurance Service, Inc., Red Rock Diner, Roaring Fork Cabinets, Cowen Center, Your Parts Haus dba Napa Auto Parts, Edward Jones, Excavation Services, Giannetti Ranch, The Sopris Sun, Holy Cross Energy, TJ Concrete, H-P Geotech, Village Smithy, Peppi-no’s Pizza, Andrew and Charlene Horn, MG Landscaping, Chris and Terry Chacos, Mountain Pest Control, Inc., M.R. Maintenance & Repair, McDonald’s, B&H General Contractors, Cici Kinney,

Nieslanik Horses, Crystal Glass Studio, Roaring Forge, LLC, Frank Taverna Real Estate, Shelton Drilling Corp., Frosty, Carly and Shiloh Merriott, Sopris Furniture Repair, Grand Junction Pipe/Carbondale Branch, Sunburst Car Care, George and Jenny Tempest, Toni Cerise of Roaring Fork Realty and M3 Marketing, LLC. This school year the Boosters Club distributed close to $20,000 to various sports teams and non-sports extracurriculars such as the arts within Roaring Fork High School with funds distributed to a new silversmithing project and the choir for new robes. We have expanded the technological opportunities with a new Chromebooks lab and video cameras offered to students. We were able to offer three scholarships to graduating seniors in addi-tion to supporting Project Graduation and the LINKS mentor program.

We invite you to come to Roaring Fork High School and see how your donations have enriched the lives of our student body.

Thank you generous sponsors, concession customers and parent vol-unteers for your support!

Sincerely,

Roaring Fork High School Booster ClubCo-Presidents, Laura and Tim NieslanikVice-President, Fiona O’Donnell PaxTreasurer, Jane GrossSecretary, Cathy DerbyProgram Manager, Terri Ritchie

Pinela: All Dat!

will allow teachers and students to en-gage in interdisciplinary learning oppor-tunities that can only take place when all students share the same classes.

In previous years, students advanced in language arts have been allowed to skip English One and take Sophomore English their ninth grade year. A cou-ple of days before the beginning of the school year this rule was changed. While very frustrating for some students who had been preparing all summer to take English Two, the change seems to have had its benefits.

Adam Carballeira, RFHS English One teacher believes that not grade advanc-ing students has increased the quality of of his classes and improved conversa-tion participation. Keeping ninth grad-ers together gives advanced students a chance to take a leadership role among their peers. English One and U.S. His-tory classes are also currently collabo-rating on a civil rights project, an effort that would have been difficult without all ninth graders in the same classes.

These new changes and our school’s reaction to them are all part of a long-standing discussion on how to fix educa-tion and give students the most effective and meaningful experience possible.

Letter to the Editor