Walnut Hills High SchoolVolume CX, Issue 1 Friday, September 11, 2015

Ibrahim Munir, ‘19 Matthew Youkilis, ‘19

On July 13, 2013, Alicia Garza was sitting in a bar with some of her friends. She stared at the TV in shocked horror as she saw the headline that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the murder case of Trayvon Martin. Martin, an unarmed black teenager, had been killed on February 26, 2012, during Zimmerman’s neighbor-hood watch duty. She first checked social media, where she was astonished to see that many people were not con-demning Zimmerman, but blam-ing African Americans for the con-dition they were in. Through her rage and anguish, she wrote a note on Facebook, encouraging people to realize that black lives matter. And so began The Black Lives Matter Movement, a campaign which has symbolized the fight against police brutality and racial discrimination since the Trayvon Martin shooting. It has grown over the last two years, sparking national outcry and demanding media attention. After Garza’s post, a hashtag was created by Patrisse Cullors, a friend of Garza’s. Embodying all of people’s animosity, grief, love and hope into just a three-word hashtag, it became an Internet phenomenon, being used all over the world. A little over one year later on August 9, 2014, a Ferguson, Mis-souri police officer Darren Wilson was responding to a call in the early afternoon when he confront-ed an unarmed African American teenager, Michael Brown. He had been caught on video stealing ciga-rettes from a convenience store ear-lier that day. Although disagreeing on the de-tails, witnesses concur that Brown

ran away from the police car but turned around and was fatally shot. After months of deliberation, the St. Louis County Grand Jury de-cided not to indict Darren Wilson in Brown’s death. This new shooting ignited the Black Lives Matter Movement even fur-ther, with many protest-filled days and nights lead-ing up to the Grand Jury’s announcement. After the announcement, Ferguson erupted in major riots with gunfire, vandalism, and car burnings, which incited the police to use tear gas and make many arrests. Over the course of the following year, Fer-guson remained in a frag-ile state as the Black Lives Matter Movement intensified across the nation. Eric Garner was strangled by a New York Police Department cop; Freddie Gray died in the back of a police van in Baltimore; Sandra Bland committed suicide just three days after being humiliated and ar-rested by a police officer in Texas. Each was followed by major pro-tests all over the country, raising even more awareness of the issue. Then on June 17 there was a shooting in which nine people were murdered at a historic African American church in South Caro-lina, leading many African Ameri-cans to believe that they are not safe anywhere, including SENIOR Torin Davis who argued, “At this point, black people aren’t safe any-where...because we’re getting shot up in our churches now, our place of worship.” This shows why the Black Lives Matter Movement has developed with such urgency and has been a critical issue for many people everywhere. On July 19th, 2015, Sam Du-bose was shot by University of

Cincinnati police officer Ray Tens-ing. Tensing stopped him on the grounds of a missing front license plate. He shot him after, claiming that Dubose’s vehicle had dragged him and that he “feared for his life.” Two days later, a peaceful ral-ly took place on the U.C. campus,

where protesters wanted to know why Dubose had been wrongly shot and wanted the body camera footage. A week later, activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, friends and family held a demon-stration and marched on U.C.’s campus. This incident in Cincin-nati caused many protests in Over-

the-Rhine, including involvement from students at Walnut. Although the Black Lives Mat-ter Movement is fairly recent, Cin-cinnati experienced riots ver 10 years. In 2001, Timothy Thomas, an unarmed 19-year-old African American, was shot while being

put under arrest for non-violent misdemeanors. Protesters were angered by his death and rioted. These riots were the largest ur-ban disturbance in the United States since the 1992 Los Ange-les riots. They consisted of burn-ing and looting, followed by an economic boycott, and eventu-ally a federal intervention. Today, riots have been han-dled differently in Cincinnati; they are not as violent and are

now peaceful protests which voice the opinion of multiple citizens. The Cincinnati Police Department is now regularly held up as a model for how to improve police-commu-nity relationships. After the Black Lives Matter Movement reached Cincinnati, multiple students of Walnut Hills became involved with the Black

Black lives matter: hashtagging history

Lives Matter movement. SENIOR Torin Davis believes in self-defense for African Americans and has pro-tested in Atlanta and New Orleans. He believes that African Americans “should arm themselves” because the police “are profiling the black man.” He also believes that the move-ment will play a significant role in the 2016 election, but that none of the candidates have fully ap-proached the topic, and wants “a real black activist.” The Sam Dubose incident also affected him personally because Dubose was a cousin of Davis, which has led him to believe in self-defence. Assistant Principal Jerron Gray, however, has a different attitude towards the Black Lives Matter Movement. He believes that the movement is “necessary to bring awareness to issues around the country related to African Ameri-cans being stopped by the police.” His opinion, however, is that “all lives matter” and that “if [a] life is lost, it matters, no matter the skin color.”

“All lives matter...If a life is lost, it

matters, no matter the skin color.”- Jerron Gray

PHOTO COURTESY OF http://www.anticapitalistes.net/spip.php?article5020Protesters rallying behind a #Blacklivesmatter banner. There were many protests in the name of Black Lives Matter, some of them leading to violence and crime.

PHOTO COURTESY OF Jamele BouieMemorial to Michael Brown. Brown was a victim of police brutality and was shot and killed on August 9th, 2014.

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Alexandra Berding, Editor-in-Chief

Dear readers, My name is Alexandra Berding. This year I have been given the privilege of being the Editor-in-Chief of The Chatterbox. I am delighted to welcome you to the first issue of the 110th vol-ume of our paper. This marks 110 volumes of reporting accurate, relevant and stimulating news to the Walnut Hills High School community. This year The Chatterbox staff is committed to continuing this legacy of excellence by rising to the highest. There will be many additions to The Chatterbox that will come to life during the 2015-2016 school year. Given Walnut’s progressive nature, it is my goal to update The Chatterbox to the demand of our technologically minded society. This will be done by publishing all of our articles online at either <www.whhscbox.com> or on the school website <www.walnut-hillseagles.com>. The Chatterbox staff will also be using our social media accounts heavily. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. We also want you to be involved! We want students to be using the hashtag #risetothehighest, the English translation to our school motto, Sursum Ad Summum. You can use this hashtag in any of your posts this year, in either the captions or comments. It is important to The Chatterbox to publish the photos you use this hashtag on, in order to try and put all students in the paper. This way we can show off our active community! Another way you can get involved is by joining The Chat-terbox club which meets Thursdays during all three lunches. We are currently accepting letters to the editor and open letters to the WHHS community that could be published here in the paper. You can also submit questions, articles, comments, concerns, opinions, pictures and more to our email, cboxwalnut@gmail.com. We will continue to make videos for the TVs and in the cafete-rias for students to see during study hall. They will also be avail-able on our website (listed above). These videos will be published bi-weekly and will contain broadcasts, announcements, student photos, student art and more. I write this letter with an enthusiastic state of mind. I am ex-cited about the passionate staff that is on The Chatterbox who I am going to be working with this year. It is their leadership, writing, design, photography and tech skills that will take The Chatterbox to an entirely new level.

Let’s be legendary.

Alexandra Berding

A letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Hali Lanier, ‘17

7512 miles. Not many high school students have the opportu-nity to travel this far for the things they believe in. This past summer, two Walnut Hills students did just that. SENIORS Lily Beane and Mad-die Eaton traveled to Gulu, a city located in the northern part of Uganda. They did this through an orga-nization called Unified for Uganda, otherwise known as U4U. Unified for Uganda is a non-profit organi-zation whose mission is to “finan-cially and emotionally support the education of destitute children in northern Uganda through the em-powerment of American youth.” Here at Walnut, U4U provides $300, a value equivalent to 60,000 Ugandan shillings, to sponsor this student. Okello is the student sponsored by Walnut and he at-tends Pope John Paul II College.

Okello also goes by a second name, Nicholas. Ugandans have two first names, their Christian name and their tribe name. Nicholas is a part of the Acholi tribe, so in his case, Okello is his Acholi name and Nicholas is his Christian name. He lives in Gulu, in the northern part of Uganda. This area is more poverty stricken than the rest of the country’s regions. The people who inhabit this area live in huts that are within compounds. Dance and song are a major part of the culture there, as well as religion. Beane explained that praying before each meal is a normal routine, not much differ-ent from the common routine for religious families in the United States. “In Uganda, education is such a privilege, and every student wants to be there,” said Eaton, “The schooling system is similar to ours, and positive reinforcement is a

Unified for Uganda sponsors overseas travel

huge part of the teaching style. Teachers teach through sing-ing and dancing. If a student were to get something right, they were given the chance to lead the class in a chant.” Both Beane and Eaton shad-owed classes while on their trip. Eaton sat in on a math class and a social studies class. She said that the social studies class was especial-ly interesting because she had not known about Ugandan history. Eaton recalled a day when the topic in class was circumcision, and how it marked manhood. “The teacher [asked] the stu-dents “who in here is a man?” and I watched as the majority of the students raised their hands.” This stood out to Eaton because of the amount of young students who were so familiar with the concept of circumcision, whereas here in the United States it is not some-thing that is openly talked about. Traveling to Uganda was a mem-orable experience for Beane and Eaton. It was an achievement not just for them, but for Walnut as well. Walnut Hills was built upon the cornerstone of spreading hard work and perseverance. These girls represented these aspects of their school around the world.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF LILY BEANE SENIORS Lily Beane and Maddie Eaton are pictured above with Adokarch Nancy (left)and Bodo Paustino (right). Paustino and Nancy are students the girls shadowed at Pope John Paul II College, allowing them to learn more about Ugandan culture.

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The Walnut Hills Varsity football team has a 1-1 record. SENIORS Jeremiyah Hairston and Jairus Copeland are both leaders on the team. “I love and respect my lead-ership position on the team and wouldn’t trade this team for any

team in the world. I love my guys and we’ve worked so hard to get to this point and we won’t let the school down,” said Hairston. Additionally, “the team looks good, defen-sively we are really solid I feel both sides of the ball we all trust each other and believe in our abilities as a team,” said Copeland.

SENIORS Amy Gutmann-Fuentes, Skye Bruggeman, and Lily Roudebush are captains of the Walnut Hills Varsity women’s cross country team. “Well, we graduated a lot of varsity runners last year, but we have a lot of solid returning members, and also some new members that are really going to make a big dif-ference on the team. So it should be a good year,” said Gutmann-Fuentes.

The Walnut Hills Varsity boy’s cross country team is led by SE-NIORS Elijah Catalan, Luke Dull, and Luke Warren. "Well this is definitely our year. We have a chance to not only make it to Regionals but also break the school record for the 5k. The team we have this year is actually

on track to be the best cross country team Walnut has ever had," said Catalan. All three captains have high hopes for the team.

The Walnut Hills Varsity tennis team, unlike most sports, does not have ap-pointed captains. SENIORS Megan Burke and Lydia Guo however, help lead the team. "Well starting last year we've been in a harder flight. But overall were one of the better teams in the conference. There are a couple of

schools ahead of us like sycamore and Indian hill which are both really good schools. But overall we're up there," said Burke. In addition, "I expect that we'll win the ECC Conference and remain #1 in the conference and improve as a team," said Guo.

The Walnut Hills Varsity women’s soccer team is looking forward to a promising season. SENIORS Loren Richardson and Maddie Hordinski are the captains of the team. “We look very good so far. We are currently un-defeated 4-0. This year we have a lot more speed and skill up top which has landed us a lot of goals, but we

also have a very solid defense and midfield which have held down the opponents,” said Richardson. With that, “I’d really like to break our shutout streak from last year (we went for 660 minutes-8 games without being scored on) and break our district record from when I was a sophomore (hopefully make it to regionals and state)” added Hordinski.

SENIORS Bjorn Burrell, Jess Carr, and Sam Warren are captains of the Walnut Hills Varsity boy’s soccer team. “I have high expectations for the season! As a senior and captain I hope to have a winning year and to have a successful playoff run,” said Burrell. Furthermore, “we have a good schedule with good progres-sion. We play Mason and X later in

the season so that will give us timers develop as a team,” said Warren. Lastly, changing topics from the sports side to the school side “year by year it gets easier and easier to perform this juggling act. The only advice I can give you is to try to stay as organized as possible and to stay as calm and collected as possible,” added Carr.

September/October Sporting Events6 7 8 9 10

Girls Golf @ Clermont Northeast-ern- 4:00Girls TennisWyoming- 4:00Volleyball@ Milford- 7:00

11FootballPurcell Marian- 7:00(USA)

12Boys/Girls XCMason Invitational@ Mason- 9:00amBoys Soccer@ Glen Este- 7:00Girls SoccerSycamore- 7:00

13 14 Girls Golf Anderson- 4:00

15Girls Soccer@ Withrow- 7:00Girls Tennis@ Milford- 4:00VolleyballTurpin- 7:00

16 Girls Golf Clermont Northeastern- 4:00 Girls TennisECC Tournament- 8:00am

17 Boys Golf@ Anderson- 4:00Boys SoccerWithrow- 7:30Girls TennisGCTCA- 3:30Volleyball@ Glen Este- 7:00

18Football@ Anderson- 7:00

19Boys/Girls XCMilford Invitational@ Milford- 9:00amBoys Soccer@ Princeton- 7:00Girls SoccerLakota West- 7:00Girls SoccerPrinceton Invitational- TBA

20 21Boys GolfRoss- 4:00Girls Golf Princeton- 4:00

22Girls SoccerKings- 7:30Girls TennisGlen Este- 4:00VolleyballWithrow- 7:00

23Girls TennisSeton- 4:00

24 Boys Golf@ Glen Este- 4:00Girls Golf ECC League Tournament- 8:00am Boys Soccer@ Kings 7:00Boys Soccer@ Kings 7:00

25Football@ Withrow- 7:00Girls TennisSummit- 4:00

26Boys/Girls XCCenterville Stampede- 3:00Boys SoccerSycamore- 7:00

27 28 Boys Golf@ Madeira- 3:30Girls Golf @ Edgewood- 4:30Girls Tennis@ Sycamore- 4:00

29Girls SoccerLoveland- 7:30Volleyball@ Loveland- 7:00

30 Boys GolfSt. Xavier- 4:30Girls TennisSectionals- TBA

1Boys GolfECC League Champion-sip- 7:30amBoys Soccer@ Loveland- 7:00Girls TennisSectionals- TBA

2Football@ Kings- 7:00Girls TennisSectionals- TBA

3Boys/Girls XCSt. Xavier Invitational @St. Xavier- 9:15amBoys SoccerLakota East- 7:00Girls SoccerMercy- 1:00VolleyballThurgood- 12:00

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4 5 Girls Golf Girls Sectionals- 8:00am

6Girls Soccer@ Turpin- 7:00VolleyballMilford- 7:00

7Boys GolfSectional Tournament- 8:00am

8 Boys SoccerTurpin- 7:30Volleyball@ Turpin- 7:00

9 FootballGlen Este- 7:00(PINK OUT)Girls TennisOHSAA District Tourna-ment- TBA

10 Boys Soccer@ St. Xavier- 7:00 Girls SoccerAlter- 7:00

Leading the teams to victoryMen’s Cross Country Women’s Cross Coun-

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Men’s Soccer Women’s TennisWomen’s Soccer

Kelli Stewart, ‘16Krijn Schwartz, ‘16

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Disclaimer: SENIOR Luke Warren is a member of The Chat-terbox.

something to take very seriously. To deny this to anyone is to deny that their love is just and right. On top of being accepted legally and social-ly, marriage brings many important benefits that most people overlook. For example, jobs now have to include the partner or spouse of their homosexual employee in their retire-ment and healthcare payments. The Social Se-curity Administration and the Department of Veteran Affairs also had to expand to include homosexuals in receiving basic remunerations such as compensation for loss of a loved one due to war and Supplemental Security In-come for those eligible to receive it. After 70 years of fighting, homosexual couples have now obtained all of these rights. While there is still a battle of conflicting opin-ions over gay marriage, we are at least one step closer to making the United States a more eq-uitable country.

Hannah Bundschuh, ‘18

The wedding bells are ringing for homosex-ual couples in the United States of America. The controversy over marriage equality came to a head on June 26, 2015 when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges, a 5-4 vote, making the United States the 20th country to legalize gay marriage. Many gay and lesbian couples rushed to the chapel to tie the knot immedi-ately after the decision was made public.Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, which marked the start of the Gay Rights Move-ment, many have been raising support for marriage equality nationwide. However, many still don’t understand why this is such an important issue in daily life. For one thing, marriage is the union of two people who love one another, and being denied the legal recognition of this unity is

Viewpoints Style and Culture

WHAT HAPPENED THIS SUMMER ?4

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Makayla Gentry, ‘16Alexis Thomas, ‘17

Named for N.W.A’s 1988 debut studio album, Straight Outta Compton, has not only been a hit at the box office, but has also been called the “No. 1 music biopic of all time” by The Los Angeles Times. The film was released on August 14, 2015 and has since earned nearly $170 million in box offices worldwide. Straight Outta Comp-ton stars Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr., and Aldis Hodge as the rappers Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren. In addi-tion, O’Shea Jackson Jr. plays his father, Ice Cube. Illustrating the group’s rise to fame, the bi-opic gave insight to the era of rap and hip-hop music that evolved with the group and still influences music today. As E.B. Wright, the daughter of the late Eazy-E, said on a Twitter post, “You don’t have to like rap music to be educated on such a powerful movement and era. The movie is reality.” Besides the music, the film also highlights issues such as the tension between the police officers and African-Americans, which is still relevant today, with the Black Lives Matter movement and more attention being given to the subject of police brutality in the U.S. As the film’s star Corey Hawkins said, “The only thing that’s changed, we all say, is the time and the technology. That’s it.” Students at Walnut have seen the movie and each person has their own opinion as to how the movie was portrayed and how it re-lates to today. Zoe Spellen,’17 said, “I thought it was great and enlightening. The movie really pulled me in. It allowed me to understand what com-pletely happened..I personally think it made some really good connections with the whole

business and their passion and the involve-ment of the police.” Spellen said her favorite part was was, “how well they played the char-acters and how they incorporated so much music into it while hitting everything else.. I just felt like I was in their life.” SENIOR Dya-mond Gentry went with a group of friends to see the movie, while there she stated that she saw some of Walnut’s faculty in the theater. The memebrs of N.W.A had a few reac-tions as well. Following the film’s release, an apology from Dr. Dre was released in the New York Times to the women he has abused in the past, as shown in the movie, saying, “I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply re-gret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives...Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. I’ve been married for 19 years and every day I’m working to be a better man for my family, seeking guidance along the way. I’m doing everything I can so I never resem-ble that man again.” Another member of the group, MC Ren, took to twitter to express his feelings toward the movie, saying that, “True fans know my role in the group as far a[s] lyr-ics are concerned, don’t let the movie fool you about my contribution to the group.” Wright also expressed her feelings about the movie saying, “All in all… I’m still happy. Go see Straight Outta Compton…” She also revealed plans for a documentary about her late father titled A Ruthless Scandal: No More Lies.

Straight Outta Compton

Elise Fritts, ‘16

It’s the early hours of the morning. I haven’t slept yet--I cannot sleep yet. I have to know if Piper can get over herself or if Alex is going to get shanked; I have to see if Cindy converts to Judaism or if Red can get her kitchen back. The lyrics to “You’ve Got Time” are constantly running through my mind. Yes, I’ve got time. I’ve got time for one more episode. One more, just one more. But maybe after that one, I’ll have time for one more. Most people who have a Netflix account (or have their friend’s password) have experi-enced the terrible euphoria of binge watch-ing. Whether you’ve watched a handful of episodes, a whole season, or every season of the show, we’ve all done it. But why do we do it? What exactly drives us to disregard a hu-man sleeping pattern just to get to that season finale?

In a survey of 87 eighth grade students, 61 of them had access to Netflix or some sort of substitute (e.g. Amazon Prime). Out of these 61 students, 51 of them admitted to binge watching, nearly 84 percent. There were a wide range of shows being binge watched, but the most popular were Psych, Once Upon a Time, Pretty Little Liars, Friends, Parks and Recreation and The Walking Dead. Although a large majority of the students had binge watched before, the amount watched in one sitting varied anywhere from two hours to ten. It’s something that a lot of us do, but for a plethora of reasons. Maybe you’re putting off doing that English paper, or maybe that last episode had a terrible cliffhanger and now you have to know what happens next. There’s a whole lot a reasons we could be binge watch-ing. It could just be that you’ve got nothing better to do.

A season can last a day

Many students spent the summer sitting in front of their computers, watching Netflix.AVERY SAMUELS/CHATTERBOX

Keegan Sullicvan, ‘18

Disney / Pixar’s Inside Out, released this summer, is a creative take on the human mind. We start by meeting the character Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler. We learn she is an emotion, inside the head of a 11 year-old girl named Riley, voiced by Kaitlyn Dias. Inside Out also stars Phyllis Smith as the emotion Sadness, Bill Hader (Fear), Lewis Black (Anger) and Mindy Kaling (Disgust). The emotions start in Riley’s Headquarters, until Sadness and Joy make a huge mistake that takes them out of Headquarters and into the deepest parts of Riley’s mind. They go on an adventure to get back to Headquarters while Riley’s life starts to takes a turn for the worst with just Anger, Disgust and Fear running the show. During this journey, Joy discovers why everyone needs to have sad moments. Joy’s connection to Sadness is seen from the beginning. Joy’s hair is blue along with her eyes and aura, like Sadness’ color. It’s ob-vious how Riley is still discovering who she is because her emotions all look different while we see the emotions of adults all look

like the adult themselves. We watch Riley grow up as parts of her childhood are taken to the “dump,”an area of Riley’s mind where forgotten things go, making way for Riley’s improved mind and a puberty button. Many have discussed why this movie is so appealing to teenagers and adults while kids are far less interested. I believe it’s because so many teens and adults can relate to the idea of struggling to grow up and find yourself, while children have yet to experience that. We all had tough experiences growing up and Inside Out is an interesting new spin on the traditional coming of age story. A view from the child is boring, the adult is overused but I think the perspective of emotions is very in-ventive on Disney’s part. However, I also be-lieve that as kids get older, the film can help them understand that sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things, and this is a part of growing up. All in all, this is a great movie and highly recommended by yours truly. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and be aesthetically pleased by great colors and graphics.

Turning Inside Out upside down #Love Wins

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2006), President Emperor Caesar, Buddy the Cat, Buddy the Elf, Jack Sparrow, James “Titus the Great” Law and Princess Oawla-wolwaol. How is it that even a fifteen year-old from Iowa can run for president? Well, the truth is that an FEC Form 2 (the form required to declare candidacy) neither asks for a date of birth nor is checked against public record im-mediately. This allows for practically anyone to declare candidacy and run for president regardless of constitutional law. With his growing popularity, Olson began to take his candidacy at least a little seriously. He even created a website of his own outlin-ing his political policies on the real issues of this election including illegal immigration and the federal budget. When asked by Roll-ing Stones how far he was willing to take this, he answered, “as far as America wants to take it.”

Viewpoints Style and Culture

WHAT HAPPENED THIS SUMMER ?Hannah Bundschuh, ‘18

Since 2007, the Rock on the Range music festival has continued to blow the patrons of Columbus, OH away with its great vibes and even greater music. What started off with a small ragtag group of around ten alternative rock bands has quickly grown into a three day event with over thirty phenomenal musical groups ranging from hardcore rock to heavy metal. Last May marked the eighth birth-day of the popular event and, despite damp weather, the patrons had no trouble getting into the mood, with crowd surfing and mosh-ing occurring early on. The concert opened up with a few small bands on the adjoining stages, and really hit it big when We Are Harlot came on a little after noon on the main stage. The headliners this year included Slipknot, who brought on a mass of pyrotechnics, as well as Judas Priest, and it ended with a big bang as Linkin Park took the stage on the last day. The groups put on a good show, but with such a huge music festival, there came a few complications. The merchandise and food were a little more expensive, but for some bands, after purchasing a CD, you were able

Deez Nuts for prezRaving about Rock on the Range

Cincinnati shines like a star

Katie Chase, ‘16

731 million All-Star Game votes, 9.28 million eyes watching, and 130,904 fans were jam packed inside Great American Ballpark from July 10-14, 2015. Cincinnati celebrated being the location of All-Star week with fun filled baseball festivities starting with the All-Star Game FanFest, to Todd Frazier’s impres-sive win at the Home Run Derby, all the way to the All-Star Game. Over the course of the week Cincinnati hosted six events; the All-Star FanFest, concert (ft. Demi Lovato), the futures game, following with the celebrities and legends softball game, the Home Run Derby, and the All-Star Game. Cincinnati had previously hosted the game four other times. The first time was in July of 1938 at Crosley Field with an attendance of only 27, 067 ft. At the 2015 game, there was a jumping increase in attendance, sky rocket-ing to 43,656 people. Great American Ball-park made a copious amount of changes to the stadium for the event. There was a new HD scoreboard put up in the outfield, free

wifi, and many new restaurants. The 2015 All-Star festivities kicked off with the FanFest at Duke Energy Center. In-side FanFest you could find fun facts about All-Star history, the week’s schedule, appear-ances from All-Star legends, and a chances to win free tickets to the All-Star game. Over 123,000 people visited the FanFest; the 5th largest in the events 25-year history. MLB offered a free concert at Paul Brown Stadium with Demi Lovato headlining and Rixton, a British boy rock band, opening for her. Lovato filled in last minute for Ariana Grande, the original headliner. Controversy surrounded this after earlier that week videos were released of Grande licking donuts in a donut shop, and saying she “hated America” after getting her wisdom teeth removed. Lo-vato sang some of her most famous songs like “Heart Attack”, “Neon Lights”, and “War-rior”. She also sang one of her new songs like “Cool for the Summer”, which currently ranks at 17 on the Billboard Top 100. The concert followed with a fireworks show to end the night. The next day, at GABP, they took on an

exciting double header. The day started with the futures game. This is a game for players in the minor league to show what talent they had. After this game was the Celebrities and Legends softball game. The roster had a wide variety of celebrities ranging from Mackl-emore, to Josh Hutcherson, to Snoop Dogg, and even Urban Meyer. The game was highly comical with Snoop Dogg hopping the fence to catch a fly ball and Jordin Sparks slipping and sliding from base to base. The home run derby was a memorable night for the books of Cincinnati Reds fans. Our own Todd Frazier was lucky enough to get to participate in the derby. With a packed house, he put on a show for his city and be-came the 2015 champion. It started with eight participants, who, in total, hit 159 home runs equating to 12.7 miles or 67,087 feet. When it came down to two players it was Todd Fra-zier and Joc Pederson of the LA Dodgers. Pederson batted first hitting a whopping 14 home runs in just 4 minutes. Frazier was faced with a challenge but was able to overcome it by hitting 14 home runs in his first four min-utes and then went on to hit the one more he

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needed, in the last 30 seconds of extra time, to become to hometown hero and beat Ped-erson. The next day was the day most baseball fanatics were anticipating: the 2015 All-Star Game. The United States polled a massive 731 million All-Star votes to elect who they thought were the greatest baseball players of 2015. Cincinnati’s Todd Frazier and Aroldis Chapman were two players on the National League team. Some other players on the American League’s team consisted of Albert Pujols of the Angels, Chris Sale of the White Sox, and Dellin Betances of the Yankees. The American League finished with a 6-3 victory over the National League. Cincinnati immensly entertained its citi-zens throughout the week. The next time Cin-cinnati will host the All-Star Game will not be for a long time. By that time, who knows what fun things Cincinnati will be able to provide for all ages, baseball fans or not.

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The year is 2015, New Horizons finally reached Pluto, America now has marriage equality and a candidate by the name of Deez Nuts is running for president. You heard right, Deez Nuts is running for president. Polling at 9% voter approval in North Caro-lina, 8% in Minnesota and 7% in Iowa, Deez Nuts is gaining steam. Now, it’s time to meet the boy behind it all. Brady Olson is a fifteen year-old boy from Iowa who officially registered as a candidate for the 2016 presidential election under the name Deez Nuts on July 26th, 2015. He was inspired to do this by two very unrelated things: his frustration with the two party sys-tem and Limberbutt McCubbins. Limberbutt McCubbins is a cat from Ken-tucky that was registered to run for president by its owner’s classmate. Ridiculous as it is, McCubbins and Deez Nuts don’t stand alone in the department of crazy candidates. Also running in the 2016 presidential race is Syd-ney’s Voluptuous Buttocks, Kenny Rodeo, Ole’ Savior (who has run in 4 elections since

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to get it signed by the respective group. The lines for signing were long but definitely worth the wait. As with any music festival, there were some less appealing aspects too. For instance, there was a lot of smoking, both tobacco and mari-juana, which made the air smell raunchy and disgusting. There was also a lot of trash piling in the waste bins and on the area in front of the main stage. The other attendees weren’t the friendliest, either; they had little respect for those around them. The traffic was a bit of a nightmare, and it caused me to miss the performance of one of my favorite bands, which was a little bit of a setback. However, we picked ourselves back up and were enjoy-ing the event once more soon after. Overall, if I had the opportunity to return, I would not hesitate to take it. I definitely recommend this event to anyone who likes the taste of rock, although I advise you to get there as early as possible to avoid any issues.

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#Love Wins Great Amerian Ball Park was lit up throughout All-Star Week. Every game, thousands of fans from all over the county piled into the park’s seats to watch their favorite teams play.

Veronica Victa, ‘16 Paint and tattoo ink: two of SENIOR Giselle Coleman’s loves. This summer, Coleman painted murals, modeled Cin-cyInk’s temporary tattoos and got an ap-prenticeship at a tattoo parlor. Think of a mural. In almost every cor-ner of Cincinnati, it seems there is one—just a few minutes away from Walnut on Duck Creek Road, a colorful mural adorns an otherwise ordinary street. 100 of these murals are from ArtWorks, a local nonprofit that hires Cincinnati youth to take part in numerous art related projects all over the area. This summer was Coleman’s second year painting for ArtWorks, an experience which she adores: “It helped me realize I’m doing this for a purpose. Like, there’s a purpose for art in life...And ArtWorks is an opportunity to do art—and you’re get-ting paid for it! It’s awesome...It’s beautify-ing the city and I love Cincinnati.” Of all the murals in Cincinnati, Coleman picked the Clifton Heights Harry Potter mural as one of her favorites: “[it is] making Clifton look like Hogwarts but way cooler.” This summer, Coleman participated in two Public Art projects. One was painting murals on the interior of the new Oakley Kroger. The other was the Boys Hope Girls Hope lenticular mural, a mural designed to depict a different picture depending on the angle it is viewed at—in Coleman’s words, “when you drive down one way of

the street you’ll see one side of the mural and when you drive down the other direc-tion you’ll see a different mural.” Coleman also is the model on the cover of the CincyInk temporary tattoo pack. Each of the tattoos depicts something clas-sically Cincinnati, from Music Hall and Union Station to Skyline. The tattoos are part of ArtWorks celebration of the city, in which people were invited to “ink their love” for Cincinnati in ways varying from 200 people tattooing parts of a poem written collaboratively by locals, writing poems, making postcards and even skate-boarding on ink themed sculptural ramps. While it was other ArtWorks appren-tices who designed the tattoos, Coleman is hardly a stranger to tattoo design—she is also an apprentice at Tattoo Temple, a Northside tattoo parlor. There, she de-signs tattoos for customers and friends. It’s a fantastic job to her because of her love for art: “As much as I enjoy doing art and putting my heart and soul into it, I think it’s important for everyone to know how much passion goes into art and the best way to see that is tattoos cause you get to have your art on somebody else’s body. You know how amazing that is? It’s never going to go away! It’s amazing. I love tattoos. You have no idea. They’re the best.” As for what she would design for herself, Coleman has been prepared—although she might not have any tattoos, she already has a design drawn: a beautiful multicol-ored flower.

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SENIOR Giselle Coleman models CincyInk’s Cincinnati Temporary Tattoos. A pack can be bought from the Contemporary Arts Center and the Cincinnati Art Museum for $15.

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High school is an experience for everyone but when a student is in a band too, it is an adventure within itself. The Ophelias, an all girl band with members drawn from high schools across Cincinnati including Walnut Hills, released a nine song album this sum-mer. SENIOR Micaela Adams is the drum-mer for the band. She was invited a year ago by Spencer Peppet, Ursuline, ‘15. Peppet is the guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band. The other band members are alum Andrea Gutmann-Fuentes,‘15, playing the violin and Grace Weir, Princeton, ‘15 , play-ing bass guitar. The band name comes from Peppet’s love of Shakespeare, specifically, her favorite play Hamlet. The album was recorded and mixed by alum Julian Vanasse, ‘15 and was released on August 15. The title of the album, “Crea-ture Native,” was taken from a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet when Hamlet’s love interest and the band’s namesake, Ophelia drowns. The nine songs on the album are “Creature Native,” “Gabriel,” “Low,” “Godless (Eva’s Hair),” “Ten Thousand,” “Teeth,” “Naomi,” “These Days,” “All Hands on the Saw,” and “Adam’s Apple.” Each of these song titles can also be traced back towards lines throughout Hamlet. The album is available for $ 7 on the web-site Bandcamp, an online music platform for artists to showcase and sell their music.

The album has been listened to a total of 1,907 times, enough to earn the title of “best sellers” and be on the discover page on Bandcamp. “She [Peppet] writes from a personal place, a lot of her songs are pretty dark, but they often aren’t about a specific thing, she writes about images in her head,” says Adams. This gives an alternative vibe to the band, self described on Instagram as an “all girl Cincinnati art rock band.” Art rock is a sub-genre of rock and roll music that originated with the hippy cul-ture. It incorporates other musical genres into it and creates a sound that is better for listening than it is dancing. The songs created by The Ophelias are slow paced and calming, good for unwinding after a long day. Over the summer, “The Ophelias” per-formed at Essex Studio in Clifton, Weirs’ graduation party, Northside’s Fourth of July Festival, and Hoffner Lodge for their album release party. The band has gone their separate ways, with all of the members other than Micae-la graduated and now in college. However, they all still continue to make music and they hope to come together to perform in the future. Adams, who along with play-ing the drums for The Ophelias has been playing for another student band, The Wonderful Sadists, will now possibly be joining a folk band that a friend and fel-low musician, SENIOR Grace Willet, St. Ursula, is forming this year.

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Maham Usmani, ‘19

The amount of students at Wal-nut Hills this year has significantly increased over the years. Last year, there was a total of 2,664 students. However, this year, there is a sum of 2,798 students attending Wal-nut Hills. About 221 of these students are out of district. The question about how all these out of district students commute to school, is certainly a common one. Although many of these stu-dents are a part of carpool groups, a few of the students have started using a bus service. These students decided to utilize a private bus ser-vice when they had one too many for all of them to fit in a single car; six kids made up the carpool group the previous year, with one seat reserved for the parent driver, but a new member joined this year. In order to solve the issue of how these children get to school, the solution of starting a bus service arose. Anidya Soni, ‘19, who rides this bus to Walnut Hills, stated some of her opinions on the bus, “[I] like it because I have freedom…[I get to] open a window and sit wherever I want.” “[In the carpool] I need permis-sion…[and I] don’t get as much privacy as I do on the bus.” Soni

said. Since students from other schools share a similar problem as well, the bus also includes stu-dents from Moeller, Ursuline, and Mount Notre Dame. “[At] 6:25 in the morning, all of us meet up at the Meijer parking lot in West Chester. Once everyone is there the bus leaves and drops us off at Walnut first. After school we have seven minutes to come out-side and [step onto] the bus. Next we pick up [the kids from] Mount

Notre Dame, then the Moeller boys, and then [the] Ursuline girls. At the end of the day our parents pick us all up from Meijer,” Soni explained. The growth in the number of the students attending Walnut Hills has required out of district students to think of more creative ways to reach their school, “[but it’s] all worth it… Walnut is a great place both academically and socially and I’m happy going to school here,” Soni said.

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Emma Farrell, ‘18

Walnut Hills is a big school. It grows every year in knowledge, faculty, and especially students. In the past few years Walnut Hills has had an increase of student enroll-ment, even more so since Walnut has allowed open enrollment. This program began in the 2013-14 school year. This year there are 2,798 students enrolled compared to last year when there were 2,664 students enrolled. These additional students to the school have added over 100 people to Walnut’s grow-ing population. Walnut has had to hire more faculty this year, and has even had to ask some teachers to come back. There are numerous teachers who have to share classes with one an-other. They also have to get down

the halls with their carts full of their supplies, which can be almost impossible. Lockers have become a bigger issue this year. The school installed new lockers in the halls of the first floor of the Modern Foreign Lan-guage wing. Lockers are very im-portant here; most students know that, even if they do not use them. The way this issue is handled is to pair up, but students have a lot of books to carry. Joshua Stewart, ‘21, who shares a locker with his friend, thinks that “the seniors should because they’ve been here the longest and they have more friends. They should be able to share.” However, Faith Stewart, ‘18, who shares a locker with her friend as well, believes that no one should have to share a locker. The additional lockers

recently installed should remedy this situation. Students are ask to check with the office if they want an individual locker. Most people come in seventh grade or ninth grade. This year there are 552 seventh graders com-pared to 381 SENIORS; a huge difference in the number of stu-dents in each class. The amount of students has improved the school’s diversity, but it may also bring issues in the near future. The hallways seem too crowded and it may be dif-ficult during fire drill or tornado drill. There are many students in each class and it may become over-whelming for both students and teachers, new and old.

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