Auburn Riverside Student VoiceOCT 23, 2012 • VOLUME 18 • ISSUE #2

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Freeborn, Born To Ride See Page 8

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InFlightstaff reportersMackenzie Brown Lisa GrayAlexa GrimDylan Johnston

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InFlight Oct 23, 2012Opinion2

Sitting in my art class I hear there is a 35 dollar lab fee. My first thought is that this is ridiculous—35 dollars going to some-thing, and I get what out of it?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not stingy with my money, but I also don’t like to just throw it down the drain. After a little more investigating, I found that lab fees are higher, but students are getting their money’s worth.

“Thirty-five dollars is very reason-able,” art teacher Wendy Woldenberg said. “We tried to cut the cost as much as possible.”

I’m in Jewelry One with Wolden-berg and the lab fee is 35 dollars, but by paying that amount you get ster-ling silver, nickel silver, copper, brass, beads, and many more materials to make your jewelry. If you walked into a store and asked for everything you got in this class, the cost would be way over 35 dollars.

In Electronics with teacher Frank

Medina, the lab fee is 40 dollars; by pay-ing your lab fee you get to make a practice saudring kit, power supply kit, am/fm ra-dio, digital multimeter and a 3D Christmas tree.

“To keep the price down, I always try to buy the supplies in bulk” Medina said.

All of the projects that are done in

class the students get to keep and go home with.

In teacher Jim Wickens’ woodworking and design class, the lab fee depends on how many projects students do and what materials they use. The average for a stu-dent is 20 dollars, but for some it is pricier because of the materials that they use.

“Students are getting a good value for what they spend,” Wickens said. “One of the projects the students has to make is a jewelry box. It may cost 10 dollars to make it in the class, but 30 to 40 dol-lars to buy it in a store.”

Depending on what art class students take (Drawing 1, 2 or Advanced, Studio Art, Graphic Design, etc.) it de-pends on how much the lab fee is. But for Drawing 2 the lab fee is 20 dollars and you get a drawing packet (which includes pencils, blending sticks, blending stick clean-er, color pencils, eraser, and

Lisa GraySTAFF REPORTER

“Trick or treat!” the little kids shout as the door opens. Remember when Hallow-een was all about scary stories, candy and fun costumes? It was about as innocent as it could get. Then somewhere between being a kid and becoming an adult, it changed.

Now someone’s friend is having a party and it’s time to go costume shopping! If it’s a guy’s costume, no problem. If it’s a girl’s costume, that’s a different story. If you want something that will cover your chest, legs and butt at the same time, there’s no luck there.

Nowadays, even the most basic cos-tumes have turned slutty. Some of the most ridiculous things have been altered to be made inappropriate. The other day, I actu-ally saw a slutty version of a Bert and Ernie costume. Sesame Street belongs on PBS, not MTV.

Places that sell costumes assume that the only people who dress up are young, innocent kids and trashy adults. There are teens out there who are trying to keep their Halloween clean, yet it seems almost im-possible to do so.

The only way to go around dressed ap-propriately is to hunt down one of the few costumes that keep it classy or make your own costume.

If a family costume party is coming up, I suggest the authentic nun costume

or things might get really awk-ward.

Halloween went from the best sugar high of your childhood to a polyester-clad party where kids hook up. So, is it possible to keep it classy on Halloween?

For a fun spin on the holi-day, I suggest making your own costume with friends! Throw to-gether some clothes right out of your closest and buy props from a thrift or halloween store. If you want to spend little to no money, skip the costume and invite all of your friends over for a scary mov-ie marathon.

It’ll be monster bash!

Alexa GrimSTAFF REPORTER

Scandalous costumes replace scary

Lab fee prices overhypedsharpie), black and white drawing pencils, more expensive drawing paper, pastels, chalk pastels, pro color pencils, pro port-folio carrier.

“If you went to a store and got the same supplies it would be hundreds of dol-lars,” Kathy Lobdell said.

In Gina Sandland’s Viscom class, the lab fee is 15 dollars and for that price students get screen printing ink and films, DVD, DVD case, DVD cover, digital photography print-ing, button parts, glass etching, and vinyl for stickers.

“I see students with their shirts, but-tons and stickers all the time in the hall-ways,” Sandland said.

We use the supplies we pay for every-day in our classes, so it’s fair to say that we should pay for everything that we’re using, even if that means the cost of lab fees has to go up.

PHOTO BY JAYMES FLEURY

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3Auburn Riverside High School Opinion

“Don’t feed the trolls!”I think trolling can be a good thing de-

pending on how far you take it. I think of trolling like a joke, where everyone laughs at the end, or they end up being mad—hence the term “UMAD?”

I personally like to troll. Now that doesn’t mean I troll people to death, or troll on dead people’s Face-book pages. I mainly troll while playing video games; for ex-ample, on League of Legends I use a character that is good at tanking, and I end up build-ing them to be tanky anyways.

The definition of a troll is someone who goes onto forums, chat rooms, blogs, or in real life, with the intent of causing an emo-tional response with an off-topic message.

Think of trolling as flaming, or punk-ing someone. A troll is just a professional jerk sitting behind a computer. Trolls (not the ones under the bridge) are trolls as in trollface.jpeg or UMAD?

As Halloween creeps up this October, many students consider the idea of dress-ing up for the occasion. Creative costumes, funny accessories, and serious dress up may be the best way to celebrate Halloween, but the school enforces some rules that may put a damper on your holiday fun.

While you plan out the costume you intend to wear to school, you have to con-sider some of the rules that apply. This year, like most others, Riverside will be al-lowing costumes, but only those that follow dress code. This means that you can wear anything you would wear on regular day of school, but it’ll be timely and more reason-able. Hats and masks are also not allowed.

It’s a great that students have earned the privilege to dress up on Halloween, and although the rules that apply restrict your options for costume choice, you can still have fun being creative and showing some Halloween spirit.

When deciding on costumes, it’s diffi-cult to find something that fits all of your qualifications, but hey, Riverside’s setting rules on what you can wear to school, but you can wear anything you want outside of school (maybe not everything, let’s be rea-sonable).

Throwing together a little costume ap-propriate for school shows that you have the spirit and really brings out your inner

Mackenzie BrownSTAFF REPORTER

Most of us have trolled before, whether intention-

ally or unintentionally. But there does come a point in time when you have to stop trolling and be seri-ous. For example, trolling in the middle of a job in-

terview probably won’t get you the job.

Most people don’t like trolls at all; in fact they hate

them. Take for example Natasha MacBryde: she died by being hit by a pas-

senger train. Then 25 year old Sean Duffey went on the memorial page made by her brother and proceeded to “troll,” and post offensive messages on her page. Now does this sound like trolling to you? No, it’s not trolling. It actually disgusts me that some-one would consider this trolling.

In my opinion, someone who is good at trolling would know how far too take it— not that I’m saying I’m good at trolling or anything.

kid. Coming to school in your comfy clothes is nothing compared to the feeling of remi-niscing in your inner childhood.

Overall (and I know it’s not Thanks-giving), we students should be thankful that we’re getting the opportunity from Riverside to dress up this Halloween. We shouldn’t ruin our fortune by coming to school and making poor choices with raun-chy costumes.

Dress up this holiday and encourage your peers to do the same so we can use the opportunity given to us by Riverside to have some fun as Halloween nears.

Clean Halloween

Just trolling aroundDylan JohnstonSTAFF REPORTER

Trolling: The once super-fun excuse to creatively prank your friends with no con-sequences. Now, it’s completely morphed from its original meaning and that’s why I completely disapprove of the silly fad.

I remember a long time ago when troll-ing meant coming up with elaborate and unique ways to piss other people off. Nowadays, trolling can be de-fined as simply trip-ping someone in the hallway. Creative minds have gone blank and now, just about anything that someone could get upset about can immediately be classified as trolling.

People think that when they troll someone over the inter-net, victims are raging be-

hind their computer. No. Most of the time, those getting trolled don’t realize they’re getting trolled because nothing is really even happening. People have gotten bland with their techniques and now trolling is nothing more than an overused word and a stupid hobby for people who just can’t let go.

Those who troll were the pranksters of the real world and the world online. When trolling was in its prime, it was pretty crafty. Slowly though, the meaning of the word “troll” turned into a synonym of “jerk.” If someone is mean, what are they? A troll? Well, I wouldn’t think of them as a troll in

a million years, yet that’s the word that I’m always hearing. People take the

word troll way too far sometimes, to the point where they’re

hated by a majority of the population.

If the meaning of troll still fit its original definition, I wouldn’t disap-prove. However, no one seems to know

how to truly troll anymore, whether

it’s taking it too far, or simply under doing it.

The fad came, it went, and now it should be done.

PRO CON

Mackenzie BrownSTAFF REPORTER

Sophmore Jennifer Giovanetti dresses as Flo.

PHOTO BY MACKENZIE BROWN

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InFlight Oct 23, 2012News4

Almost, Maine, this year’s fall play, starts November 8 in the ART. Actors will tell a story about love and loss.

Junior actress Rizelle Rosales explained why students should attend the play. “It will appeal to the high school age because everyone can relate,” she said. “There is something in it for everyone.”

Drama teacher Karla Seman, the direc-tor of the play, agrees. “Students will be drawn into the story because it will remind them of their own relationships.”

The play is organized into nine differ-ent vignettes, or short plays, that explain stories of heartbreak and falling in love. Each vignette includes different characters that fall in and out of love.

Rosales plays a character named Gi-nette who can’t find the right time to tell her male friend she loves him. The eight other vignettes also center on love, heart-break, and loss.

Many students and staff around the school are anxious to watch Almost, Maine.

“I watched last year’s play [Once on This Island] and I cannot wait to see this one!” sophomore Alivia Hammond said,

Principal Dave Halford is also ecstatic

Almost, Maine almost, hereJude Hanno

GUEST REPORTER

For the past three to four years, some science teachers, including Corin Malone and Mark Davis, have been using a new system of grading called standards-based grading. This grading system makes teach-ers follow separate learning standards, gives students more time to turn in make-up work and eliminates extra credit.

“Students will be graded on the stan-dards, not tissue boxes,” principal Dave Halford said.

According to vice-principal Frank Ramirez, standards-based grading, (instead of doing work on paper and turning it in for a grade) makes students have to actu-ally show the teachers that they have been learning. For example, if a teacher hands out an assessment (test, project, etc) they get to see exactly how far the students have come, at the exact moment in time.

Halford adds that standards-based grading also consists of separate, specific standards. The teachers of different depart-ments have come together and narrow down the learning targets. So no matter what way teachers decide to teach their class, stu-dents all learn the same standards.

Even though standards-based grading may seem new, it’s really not. “Several teachers have been using this grading sys-tem for about three years,” Ramirez said.

Standards-based grading also gives stu-dents the ability to see how well they are doing. Ramirez stated that in past years,

Alex VasquezGUEST REPORTER

to see Almost, Maine. “Even though I’m not a big theater person, I look forward to them each year.”

Sophomore Brianna Herron is also fired up about the play. “I’m excited because Al-most, Maine has a different tone to it and is going to be a bigger production than Anne Frank.”

After Almost, Maine, be sure to catch the play scheduled for the spring, Oliver.

New standards-based grading on its wayhardly any connection between the student grade and the state assessment grade has been made. This means that students were not showing what they had learned. But since the school district has started using this system, there has been more of a con-nection between that.

“I’m excited to try this system,” teacher Meri Benedict said. “It ensures that the students are showing what they have learned.”

PHOTO BY MACKENZIE BROWN

Standards-based grading gets rid of any extra credit opportunities given by teach-ers, and focuses on what students need to know.

The annual Auburn High vs. Auburn Riv-erside football game will take place on Oc-tober 26 at 7:00 p.m. at Auburn Memorial Stadium, and for the second year in a row, Riverside will be the home team.

Last year, Riverside claimed the Fugate Trophy for the first time in their history, beating the Trojans in a close game, 30-23, squeaking out the win after trailing at half-time, 9-3.

Head coach Bob Morgan believes that although this isn’t much different from any other ordinary game, “you can definitely feel a different type of atmosphere.”

Football players have some strong emo-tions going through their minds about the game this Friday. “I feel raged, because I hate Auburn,” senior team captain Salvador Greer said.

Junior star player Drew Wallen recently suffered a injury during the away game at Tahoma. He might be sidelined from the big

rivalry game, and if he is not able to play, he will not be too happy.

“I don’t like to think about that possi-bly because it would be devastating,” Wal-len said.

The Auburn High Trojans haven’t al-ways been Riverside’s only rival. According to Lindsey Thompson, a former student and new assistant at the Raven’s Nest, “Auburn vs. Auburn Riverside isn’t anything com-pared to Riverside vs. Sumner back in the day.”

Once, Riverside’s students burned a capital ‘A’ into Sumner’s football field with chemicals.

Dedicated fan senior Ben Blanchard raved about how good they think the team is. “I think Auburn High is going to have to step their game up,” he said.

His twin brother senior Mitch Blanchard had a similar opinion. “Riverside is going to straight up own Auburn High, no doubt.”

Friday is also Senior Night, and intro-ductions of senior players and their parents will happen just prior to the game.

AR, AHS square off in annual gridiron gameBeau Bracken

GUEST REPORTER

5Auburn Riverside High School News

Jonny MyrickGUEST REPORTER

Student teachers receive warm welcomeBrett Vlahovich and Brooke Mayer are

here to do their student teaching this se-mester under the tutelage of various teach-ers, including Andrew Monsen of the Social Studies department and Kelly Jensen in the Family and Consumer Sci-ence department.

Vlahovich and Mayer are currently a part of what is basically on the job train-ing to become a teacher.

“Student teaching is the final experience you get after college,” Vla-hovich said, “to make sure you know what you’re do-ing, have a strong content knowledge, and whether you should be a teacher.”

Since both Vlahovich and Mayer are new to teach-ing they are still learning the ropes, but they have a strong idea of what kinds of teachers they want to be.

“I think lecture can be good sometimes, just to get the basic facts,” Mayer said. “But we do a lot of hands-on simulations. I feel

Mayer uses.Principal Dave Halford enjoys having

the student teachers here. “You’re always training someone else, training them for the future,” Halford said.

Both Vlahovich and Mayer expressed great en-thusiasm and joy

Brett Vlahovich

On October 16, Riverside, along with other buildings was vandalized.

Over a hundred windows were shatered. A reward was offered to anybody with infor-mation regarding the vandals.

The story made King 5 News, and on the same day went up on the InFlight News website.

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like the first-hand experience is what helps the students learn.”

Students also had some things to say about their student teachers. “I would love to see her as a full time teacher here,” junior Alley Quigley said regarding Mayer. “She’s amazing.” Quigley also said that Mayer does well with explaining things and that she enjoys the outdoor activities that

about their experiences so far. “I’m really lucky to be here,” Vlahovich said.

Mayer also showed excitement. “It’s been fun getting to know everyone here,” he said. “The students have been great and very welcoming.”

Brooke Mayer

The new “OLA” (Organic Language Ac-quisition) strategy is being implemented this year by the foreign language teach-ers to improve learning in foreign language classes.

The foreign language department de-cided that the strategy had good teaching values. “We wanted students to feel what it would be like to be a foreign exchange student,” foreign language teacher Kaisa Swenddal-White said.

The new strategy is meant to bring greater involvement and a tremendous amount of repetition to classrooms accord-ing to Assistant Principal Nola Wilson.

The strategy won’t vastly change classes or their curriculum. Teachers are “still using the same scope and sequence,” Swenddal-White said.

All years of foreign classes, excluding Japanese, “are implementing OLA to some degree,” Wilson said.

Students seem to both enjoy and dis-

like the new strategy. “It’s hard, you don’t usually know what they’re saying, but once you do, it’s easy,” sophomore Thomas Mati-atos said. Matiatos is a first year Spanish student.

Improvements can even be seen by the students themselves. “I like speaking only in French, because I feel like I’ll be more fluent,” senior Heather Aguirre said.

Some believe that the new strategy OLA creates disadvantages for some students. “I hate it and it’s hard for hands-on learners,” senior Cody Child, a second year Spanish, student said. “Totally auditory based.”

Students are supposed to feel more involved or focused in class due to OLA, though some students feel that this is not needed. “It feels forced and it makes us more frustrated than anything,” Child ex-plained.

OLA did not come out of the blue. Swenddal-White attended a workshop at Lincoln High School where she viewed the results of OLA and wanted to bring the strat-egy to the greater Seattle area. Riverside hosted the training, according to Wilson.

Foreign language department beginsnew OLA strategy

Ariya PhaophongsavathGUEST REPORTER

InFlight Oct 23, 2012News6

The annual fall blood drive is occur-ring November 14-16 from 7 a.m to 4 p.m. outside of the auxiliary gym in the marked buses. For years, the school’s sports medi-cine program has partnered with the Cas-cade Regional Blood Services (CRBS) to host local blood drives every spring a n d fall.

Over the past few years, River-side has averaged “250 donors a ses-sion, compared to Auburn High’s 600,” according to Chris Tucker, head of the sports medicine pro-gram.

Sports medicine has a wide variety of roles in helping out CRBS during the blood drives. For example, they are responsible for registration, escorting, and getting students out of class. However, the CRBS has not been Riverside’s only blood drive organization. “The school’s worked with other groups in the past, dating all the way back to 1998, which was when the school first started running blood drives,” Principal Dave Halford said.

Phill ip CoutureGUEST REPORTER

Bloodthirsty Ravens

For a limited time only, Wild Waves and The Enchanted Village put on a terrify-ing spectacle. The park is themed like an enormous haunted house. Park opens at dusk.

Fright Fest!

Haunted WoodsMaris Farms hosts the an-nual walk through the woods where fiends use their chain-saws and other instuments to horrify you. Marris Farms also hosts a pumpkin patch, pumpkin sling, and corn maze.

Participants run a five kilometer obstacle course through mud, hills, and wires while avoiding the clutches of zombie hordes. Run to Burnt Ridge MX Park, 50 minutes south of Olympia.

Run For Your Life!

Things to Do for Halloween

Julie Hasted, the new English teach-er, was hired on September 24. Hasted teaches ninth and tenth grade language arts. She has been teaching for seventeen years and just transferred here after living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Hasted has been settling right in despite coming in late. “With seventeen years of teaching, I’ve had worse,” Hasted laughed.

She has been working hard to catch

Sports medicine is always looking for ways to draw in a larger crowd. “Our best chance at increasing the numbers of donors would be through advertisements, posters, and more donor stations to speed the pro-cess.It’s important to donate because one person has the ability to save three people’s lives,” Tucker said.

Sports medicine is run by president se-nior Victoria Tran, and vice president senior

Jax Robinson. There are many benefits

towards donating blood be-sides the fact that blood is going to people in need. “We offer free snacks and drinks for anyone who donates, and as well we can pull you out of class,” Tran said. The only requirements nec-

essary to donating is students have to be 16, they cannot have

travelled into a third world country for the past six months, and parental permission is needed for students under 18.

up to others on those weeks missed. Lan-guage Arts teachers think she has some-thing new to offer. “She brings a lot of ex-perience and passion,” department head Geri Rohlff said. “She’s a team player.”

Principal Dave Halford agrees. “She brings a new set of eyes to our school.”

Students have already seen Hasted’s fun side. “She is funny, sarcastic, and does a lot of activities,” freshman Amanda Bunger said.

So far she says she is enjoying her ex-perience here. “I love Riverside,” Hasted said. “It’s very friendly and happy.”

Her favorite subject in high school was math because it was clear, but she also enjoyed psychology.

Hasted also played volleyball her freshman and sophomore year, cross country her junior and senior year, and ran track all four years.

Hasted went to college at Clarmont McKenna for one year and then went to study for one year of psychology. After going to Clarmont, Hasted attended San-ta Fe College and received her bachelor’s and English teaching certificate.

She also enjoys running, writing po-etry, playing with her two dogs, reading and watching science fiction movies.

Sierra RaderGUEST REPORTER

Hasted is new L.A. teacher

PHOTO BY JAYMES FLEURY

Language arts teacher Julie Hasted

7Auburn Riverside High School Feature

Christopher Tucker’s Sports Medicine class has just begun its (and probably the school’s) most interesting set

of tests. Students in Tucker’s second year Sports Medicine class create scenarios where the first years test their new life- saving skills. Scenarios can be anything from a rave of drugged out partiers to a an elevator crash.

The volunteers are decked out in fake blood, impaled by prop knives, gushing wounds, and head trauma.This whole ordeal happens over a surprising few minutes, then everyone is looking ready for the

The victims are in character. The scene is set. The lights go out—and they’re live. The area explodes into screams of bloody murder and cries for help.

The first year students rush into the mock “cave” and attempt to rescue the helpless victims. In the cave it is dark, loud, and hectic. Tucker’s students perform CPR, treat wounds, pick up backboards (photo 6), and use other countless skills. While the first years are scrambling and saving lives, the second years observe quietly to grade the other students on the use of their skills. A few stick around as doctors, however. Their job is to assist in any way they can, but only if they are asked to (photo 5).

With any luck, only a few victims will meet a bitter end as seen in photo 7.

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—Chris Tucker, sports med teacher

It’s the one thing that shows who really has the skills.

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Students saving lives:Sports Medicine students apply knowledge to realistic disaster scenarios

morgue. Photos 1-3 are just a few examples of scenario preperation. The props are in containers—well, tackle boxes of death—and are applied by the second years and Tucker himself.

Each volunteer is then placed in position, as seen in photo 4, where the rescuers will hopefully find them. The victims are also told about what situations would “kill” them. But more on that later.

The victims are primarily from Tucker’s preventative medicine and anatomy classes. Students recieve extra credit and must miss their sixth period class.

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STORY BY JAYMES FLEURY / PHOTOS BY MACKENZIE BROWN

InFlight Oct 23, 2012Feature8

Everyone has a story, and senior Sierra Freeborn is no exception.

Freeborn was born with scoliosis and a degenerative disk disease. During the sum-mer of 5th grade, Freeborn bent over and her right shoulder blade was higher than her left.

“My parents were concerned and I went to a doctor who took an x-ray and said that I had scoliosis,” Freeborn said, “but come back in a year and we’ll see what it looks like.”

Her parents didn’t agree with the doctor and wanted another opinion. Freeborn and her parents went to another doctor and he said to get a back brace right away. Free-born had to wear a back brace sixth through eighth grade. At that time her curve was at 25 degrees. Freeborn has not had any surger-ies yet, but her doctor says she will probably need one in the future.

“I don’t think anyone said anything about my back brace to my face, but of course my best friends didn’t care,” Free-born said. “Some people looked at me strangely and would ask questions that I had no problem answering.”

Freeborn wore her back brace under her clothes, but people could still tell it was there. Freeborn was only allowed to

Lisa GraySTAFF REPORTER

take her back brace off for an hour a day. Freeborn had her entire family supporting her. Her mom took her to every appointment in Seattle.

Freeborn has a six pound dog, travels a lot, and loves camping and being outside as much as possible. She has indoor skydived, and likes to play basketball and volleyball.

Freeborn has two horses. Coco is 18 years old with a liver chestnut color with a white star. Freeborn has had him for seven years. Her other horse is Fancy. Fancy is 21 years old with a chesnut color and a white strip and two hind socks. Freeborn rides both Fancy and Coco but she only does shows with Fancy. Freeborn also has a four-year-old Shih Tzu poodle named Princeton.

“He’s a Shitpoo,” Freeborn giggles. “He is at my side 24/7. I really want to put him in my backpack and take him to school.”

Freeborn’s dad Matthew owns a manu-facturing company called Omnifab; her mom, Connie, works as a bookkeeper at Omnifab. Freeborn has three younger siblings: her sister Mikayla in 9th grade, her sister Au-tumn in 6th grade, and her brother Logan in 4th grade.

After high school Freeborn wants to go to Bellevue College, then tranfer to Califor-nia and become a radiologist.

Freeborn never let her scoliosis stop her and she has a long life full of wonderful adventures ahead of her.

PHOTOS COURTESY TAMMY MURRAY

1. Fancy, Sierra Freeborn and Coco2. Freeborn poses in front of her barn 3. Freeborn and her Shih Tzu poodle Princeton 4. Freeborn feeds Coco some hay.5. Coco and Freeborn6. Fancy and Freeborn

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Auburn Riverside High School Arts & Entertainment 9

To anyone out there who’s tired of bad movies made substantially worse by cheesy dance numbers and poor pop renditions of your favorite classic songs...there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Two weeks ago, Pitch Perfect hit theaters, and it has completely restored my faith in musicals. Other than a few special effects problems, I thought the character development, hu-morous storyline, and even some of the songs really contributed to making one seri-ously fantastic movie.

Going in to seeing Pitch Perfect, I had some serious doubts about it, since the rep-utation for musical movies has been slowly ruined over the generation. It started off a little rocky, but quickly progressed to the point where almost everyone in the audi-ence was in love.

When a girl named Beca (Anna Kend-rick) joins the on-campus, all-girl acapella group, the Bellas, she struggles to help her group beat their rivals, the Treblemakers, while pleasing her father and keeping her friendship with a Treblemakers member from turning into a forbidden relationship..

Now, don’t link musicals to serious screenplay and all around drama, because Pitch Perfect really packs a punch when it comes to comedy. Most of the humor can

be credited to Rebel Wilson (What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Bridesmaids), who plays Fat Amy, a spunky and hilarious addition to the Bellas, although Beca and Lilly, (Hana Mae Lee), had some pretty funny parts throughout the movie.

Despite Pitch Perfect having a similar plot to many other mu-sical comedies, I can assure you, it was much different. This movie took what some shows put into four seasons, and ended up with the same results. The only differ-ence is, this movie still surprises you. You watch twenty episodes of a show and by the finale you prac-tically know what will happen. By the end of this movie, you’re ex-pecting almost anything.

I suppose there is no such thing as a flawless movie, so if I had to pick something that rubbed me the wrong way with this movie, it would be the special effects. Now mind you, comedies don’t usually use a lot of special effects. All I’m talking about here is some noticeable green screens and very fake looking projectile vomiting. But hey, now, bad special effects should never stop you from going to see a movie. Unless it’s

a super action sci-fi film and you’re going just to see the cool effects, then I would go ahead and skip out.

iPhone 5

89%

Even with the new screen and HD camera, the majority agree that the new charger and adapter that you need to buy yourself is one of the biggest downfalls.

InFlight & Journalism votes on culture

Cherry de Pon

63%

Frozen yogurt with your own choice of toppings, various smoothies and bubble tea. What’s not to like?!

Slenderman

65% Even with Slendy’s creepy stalk-ing and frightening popularity rise, the only thing that’s got us shaking is his overkill of references.

Stratos

93%Mr. Real-Life-Superman, Felix Baumgartner, was the first person to base jump from our stratosphere, proving to us that anything impossible is possible.

Mackenzie BrownSTAFF REPORTER

86%Dropbox

Dropbox is a website that allows someone to upload and download anything they want from their account from any computer. Question: what’s a flash drive again?

Paranormal Activity 4

80%Anyone can agree that after three of the same movie, with different people, Paranormal Activity 4’s expectations are very low.

Get slapped: Pitch Perfect hits high notes

It was these little additions to the mov-ie that made Pitch Perfect a must-see com-edy. I seriously recommend seeing it.

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InFlight Oct 23, 2012Arts & Entertainment10

Recently, many stu-dents throughout the school brought their talents to showcase at Riverside’s fall talent show. The acts were not only amazing, but many students brought some unique talents to the stage.

With so many stu-dents at our school, it was great to see all the different performances, especially from those students you could never imagine getting up on a stage to perform.

All kinds of talents were shown by students: junior Andrew Sachs got up and jammed out on the guitar while junior Julius Olivario turned the stage into a dance floor. Voices echoed through the ART while eighteen different students sang. Some preformed amazing covers of their favorite songs while others brought not only their singing talent into view, but their writing talents as well.

But I wasn’t the only one impressed with the amount of talent here at Riverside. “You can’t ever tell students’ talents just by looking at them in the hallway,” sophomore Tori Pleake said, “but after the talent show,

I’ve gotten a better idea of what potential talent we have here at our school.”

The show was very impressive, and seeing some of the many hidden talents at Riverside is something all students should experience at one time or another through their high school years.

Check out the spring talent show as the school year comes to a close to see some of the great acts the students here have to perform and to support and encourage the different talents.

Some of the unexpected acts just might surprise you.

Mackenzie BrownSTAFF REPORTER

It’s an apple–or is it?Supplies:• 6 onions• craft sticks• 1-14 oz pack of wrapped caramels• 2 tablespoons milk • Nuts or sprinkles if de-sired.

Instructions:1. Push the craft stick into the top of each on-ion.

2. Butter a baking sheet.

3. Put caramels and milk in a bowl and microwave for 2 minutes. Cool for a small amount of time.

4. Quickly roll each onion in the caramel until coat-ed. Put them on a sheet to set. Top with nuts or sprinkles if desired.

5. Give them to friends and let them think you’ve given them cara-mel apples.

Give a wannabe thug a futuristic blunderbuss (a gun with small range but big wallop), give the real thugs a time machine, and throw in a plot-curve-ball. What do you get? Looper.

Joe (Joseph Gordon-levitt) is one of many “loopers” trying to get by in a new drug-addled world, making big paydays with silver slabs attached to his victims sent from the future. Even though this is technically a time travel story, the main point isn’t to confuse the viewer into frustration with time paradoxes and becoming one’s own grandpa. In fact, put emphasis on “technically.” Instead, the film focuses on the story of Joe and how his actions and decisions affect his future self. Director and Writer Rian Johnson takes us on a trip through the exponential destruction of a future life.

Joe, like most loopers, encounters a situation called “closing your loop.” The future mobsters send a looper’s older self into the past to be killed. The looper is given a golden payday and thirty years left to live. If a looper fails to close the loop,

well, he’s got some explaining to do. Both targets need to be whacked, hopefully stop-ping any substantial change in the future.

When old Joe (Bruce Willis) appears

on the business end of young Joe’s blunder-buss, the action begins. Old Joe is on the run and so is the young Joe. Not just from each other, but from the mobsters in the

Jaymes FleuryEDITOR IN CHIEF

present. This chase doesn’t give the au-dience any break to question the logic of time traveling mobsters, but it does pose the question: would you close your loop?

A tip relevant to anyone study-ing character development: watch this film. Character development is never defined as easily as when a charac-ter talks to his future self. During the scenes at the Diner with the Joes’ “dis-cussion,” the scars of experience on old Joe are compared with the suave and arrogant, inexperienced face of young Joe.

As far as the plot twist goes, let’s just say there are some “gifted” ones amongst the crumbling society of 2044 onward. This twist is barely even hint-ed towards in any preview, and I feel that I have spoiled enough as it is. But it separates this time travel noir film from the rest, and that is all we could ask for.

Looper is a thrilling story of love and loss, with sci-fi action holstered on its side ready to draw. This movie is recom-mended to all movie fans; it has something for everyone.

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Students showcase talents in impressive, unique show

Looper whacks expectations

Auburn Riverside High School Sports 11

Hallelujah! We can all sleep soundly knowing that the NFL referees have re-turned. The first few weeks of the season were thrown into complete flux with their absence. The games were dizzied by ri-diculous calls, nonplussed announcers, and very irritated players. Many argue that the outcome of multiple games was entirely thrown off by inaccurate calls. But never fear, the old refs are here.

The referees were absent due to a strike over wages and pension. Yes, the ref-erees who had an average salary of $149,000 (mind you the football season is normally 16 games) are now going to receive $173,000 in the 2013 season. Did your jaw drop? Good, I’m not alone. Who wouldn’t want to make 5,406 dollars and 25 cents an hour? But don’t worry, because now the integrity of the National Football League has been saved. Nothing screams integrity more than complaints about an “unfair” pay and then responding to those those claims with in-deed, more money.

Now let us not raise our hopes too close

NFL referees back after controversy, with cashto the sun, for we are surely to burn. Refer-ees will always make iffy calls and, let’s face it, bonehead mistakes. But that’s football!

Many give the credit of the refs return to an infamous Monday night game. Rewind to the Green Bay and Seattle matchup, at the last few minutes of the game a call is made and the game is flipped on it’s head.

Whether the simultaneous cath call was fair or not, it did shine some kind of light onto the follies of the replacement refer-ees. Go back and watch that play, not the players but the refs. Two referees call the ball as an interception, while the back judge triumphantly throws his arms in the air for a touchdown. Naturally, all the blame goes to refs.

So the NFL caved, gave into the unions, and rehired the referees, and “saved the integrity of the game.”

A referee in the NFL is required to have ten years of officiating experience and at least five of those in college football.

It’s ironic, isn’t it, that everyone thinks that shelling out money shows integrity? But then again, maybe the refs will live up to all the hype—and their paychecks.

Jaymes FleuryEDITOR IN CHIEF

The replacement referees eventually awarded the last second catch to Seahawk Golden Tate, a contro-versial call that prompted an agreement that saw the return of the regular NFL referees.

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InFlight Oct 23, 2012Sports12

The varsity volleyball team has been completely smashing their competition this season thanks to key players senior Brenna Bruil, junior Lexi White, and sophomores Precious Atafua and Carson Heilborn.

As of October 17, their record was 6-0, having not lost to a single competitor. Due to the distribution date of this InFlight issue, we do not know the results of the game last Thursday against Tahoma.

The team’s next home game will be tonight against Kentwood at 7:15 p.m. They also play next Saturday for the league tour-nament. With their records, the team’s goal is to make it to the state tournament.

Dylan JohnstonSTAFF REPORTER

PHOTOS BY DYLAN JOHNSTON

ABOVE: Senior Drea Burton readys a serve during practice.

AT LEFT: The team practices their skills daily in the gym.

Volleyball at the topOn their way to State, AR water polo

is on the rise. With their current stats at 16 wins to 4 losses as of press time, they are shaping up to be one of the best Riv-erside sports teams. Swimming into fifth in the district, they are taking other teams by storm. Though they seem to lack the rec-ognition, these guys really do work.

Coach Mike Van Eaton is really proud of the team. “The high-light of coaching would have to be watching the younger guys im-prove and seeing my juniors step it up,” he said.

The guys all re-ally get along with their coach and seem to have a great bond. During Van Eaton’s interview some of the guys were hanging out in his room joking and laughing with each other.

Van Eaton has only one team goal in mind. “We really want to win State,” he said. “We’re already on our way.”

Polo splashes toward StateAlexa Grim

STAFF REPORTER

So if students are looking to watch a game where the team has a really good chance of winning, Van Eaton would have you cheer on the boys at the Auburn Pool next game.

You can always ask senior Captain Thomas Henline when the next game is.