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[the way we see it] Mill Stream staff editorial

Dianne Oslandeditor-in-chief

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In a world where there is no naughtiness, teenagers would don costumes and traipse down moon-lit streets on Oct. 31 solely to chaperone little witches and ghouls. They’d hold flashlights, warn of treacherous sidewalks, and maybe even reach a few doorbells, but it’s not a perfect world. Most high school-ers are more likely to smash a few jack-o’-lanterns or egg a house than help anyone. And that is why trick-or-treating will stop at 7:30 in Noblesville this year.

The holiday tradition of passing out candy doesn’t cater to kids old enough to earn their own money and buy their own candy. Nor does it cater to girls who can pull off a raunchy nurse or French maid costume. It was never intended to. Originally a religious holiday, Halloween took root in Pagan Celtic tribes. Hardly a hotspot for frivolous customs.

There’s no harm in taking advantage of the opportunity to dress up, though. Everyone has to channel his inner vampire or pirate at some point. It’s good, clean fun. But the Mill Stream staff believes that high school-age students are simply too old, too rowdy, and too irresponsible to justify begging neighbors for candy.

The situation is comparable to an Easter egg hunt. The plain truth is that a gawky, towering 18-year-old would stick out in a mob of lolling, chubby toddlers. It would be downright uncouth for him to be there. The poor kids would be robbed.

There comes a time when beloved childhood activities aren’t age-appropriate anymore, and now’s that time. It’s not the end of the world, though. Candy needs to be passed out, parties need attendees, and bonfires need to be tended. Someone has to carry on the traditions. Halloween can still be fun, but let’s leave trick-or-treating to the little ones.

Costumes veer toward indecencyTrying to find my 5-year-old sister a Hallow-

een costume was... an ordeal, to say the least. She wanted to be a pumpkin. Fairly innocent, right? That’s what most people would think. After running across costumes of or-ange miniskirts and sleeveless, low-cut tops, my opinion definitely changed. Doesn’t the fact that it’s near impossible to find an appropriate costume for a little kid say something about how per-verted Halloween has become?

Everyone has noticed the fact that costumes are rapidly descending into inappropriate territory; it’s blatantly obvious. Honestly, it’s everywhere. A teenage girl knocks on a door and near-ly gives the old woman who answers a heart attack—probably because her appearance is reminiscent of a lady of the night. A group of middleschoolers in tight

tanktops and miniskirts, dressed as the latest pop stars, attract stares from passerby. The in-stant you open up Wet Seal’s website, you see

a Halloween promotion for costumes. Clicking on it, you expect to find cute and at least somewhat reasonable cos-tumes. Instead you see a multi-tude of scantily clad girls, with the slogan “Epic Rager—We’re gonna look HOT! We’ll be the (eye)candy” underneath.

The amount of sexuality is absolutely shocking, not to mention ridiculous. The only people benefitting from inap-propriate costumes are the men, who receive the opportu-nity to ogle all of the women

wearing practically nonexistant clothing show-

ing definitely more than necessary. Ladies, isn’t it kind of degrading to have random strangers star-ing while you are so inappropriately dressed?

And where are you men in this flurry of glit-ter, skirts far too short for school dress code, and lace-up corset tops? You’re here, just not as abun-dant or obvious—wearing little while masquer-ading as a Roman god, or a white (unbuttoned) button down and boxers as Tom Cruise in Risky Business.

When Halloween is used as an excuse for women to appear in public looking like seduc-tresses, it’s really gone too far. What has hap-pened to the spirit of Halloween costumes? The sheet-ghosts, the innocent ball-gowned princess-es, the terrifying masks and fake blood spatter-ing your costume--those seem to be a thing of the past now, apparently “too childish” to be worn by anyone but gradeschoolers, and all too often, not even then.

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“I no longer feel lonely. Now I feel violated.”-Chemistry

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A day in the life of:Deaon Smith

Domestic violence is a relevant concern that happens everyday around the world in the homes of teenagers. Prevail is sponsoring a sup-port group for teenage girls whose lives have been affected by violence. To prevail is to become effective and to prove to be superior in strength. The group’s purpose is to provide support and information that will help the lives of those who intend to prevail.

It is hard to argue what homes violence is playing an active role in. Anyone can put on a facade with a fictitious act, but the truth lies be-hind the smile.

Noblesville isn’t immune to the violence. It goes on in homes and even in adolescent relation-ships. Though many people have not witnessed it, some are no strangers to the destructive af-fairs. “I haven’t seen it in action, but someone that I know was abused by her ex-boyfriend earlier

this year,” junior Courtney Schuyler said. According to Schuyler, the duress was going

on for about three to four months right under her family’s nose without anyone knowing.

People that fall victim to domestic violence lose interest in things that they once considered essential. “She stopped caring about things that used to be important to her, like her car and her cat,” Courtney said. The victims of violence aren’t just the people in the relationship; they are every one whose lives are affected.

Domestic violence doesn’t always hide away in the shadows until people are alone in their homes; it happens out in public places just the same as any other thing does. For junior Andrea Adolph, it was at a very public Rascal Flatts con-cert that she witnessed violence.

“This couple was arguing in their car and they got out of it; then he knocked her on the ground and straddled her. He starting punching her in the face and security guards ran over and broke it up,” Adolph said. “It was really scary to watch.

Now whenever I see couples arguing, I picture what happened at the concert,” Adolph said.

The support group at Prevail is not limited to only people who are direct victims of violence. The group is for anybody whose life has been al-tered or flawed by domestic violence.

According to noblesvilleschools.org, the goal of the group is to end violence, and the discus-sions will focus on issues such as anger, relation-ships, self-awareness, gender, power, and vio-lence.

The support group held at the Prevail office in downtown Noblesville intends to help teen girls acquire moxie.

Domestic violence doesn’t cease to exist or resolve itself if the general public is ignorant to it. Part of what Prevail wants to do is if someone knows domestic violence is going on and doesn’t do any thing to stop it, it could have negative life-altering effects on their lives and others’ lives. Speak out against all forms of violence and try to find your voice.

Prevail empowers womenKatie Souderssouders.katie@gmail.com

Paige Owensowens.paige@gmail.com

They can often be seen at the table in front of the au-ditorium, listening to the radio or reading a magazine. As seniors pass to leave with honor code privileges, they show them their ID cards and often get a quiet remark of appre-ciation. They’re the ladies who check student passes and IDs, and their names are Karon Pharis and Peggy McDole.

Pharis and McDole share the job of checking IDs for seniors and making sure no one illegally enters or prema-turely leaves the school.

McDole explained that she also goes to the main office to check visitor passes and show visitors where to go. She also checks the restrooms if there’s reason to believe that someone is breaking any school rules, such as smoking or vandalizing property.

“I like my job very much,” Pharis said. Pharis, who started out working as an aide on a bus for handicapped children, was offered the job of checking IDs and passes and has been here ever since. “I like to talk to the kids. I’ve become close to some of them. It helps keep me young,” she said. McDole agreed.

“I enjoy the kids,” she said. “Certain kids will stop and talk to me.”

Junior Natalie Finchum is one of those friendly stu-dents.

“They’re really nice,” Finchum said.Pharis and McDole emphasize that students, though

they cannot use Gate 18, may go out the doors at the very end of the athletic hall, near the pool, and that students are only allowed to enter through the main entrance.

At the age of three not only was fresh-man Deaon Smith talking, he was also singing. In-spired by his dad and Michael Jack-son, Smith sings in choir at school and

is working on his own CD.

“I knew when I started singing that this is what I want-ed to do,” Smith said. Smith has gone his whole life without a single voice lesson. His father has helped him develop his voice and continues to do so.

Every day Smith works on writing songs for his CD with the help of his dad. He hopes that one day he will have the CD finished and out for the public to own.

Smith balances his singing with playing football. When the choir has after school practices during the season, he skips foot-ball so he can sing in the concerts. Smith said that his singing comes before football and he intends to keep it that way.

Some of his past roles include Willy Wonka in the middle school play, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and a munchkin in The Wiz at the American Cabaret Theatre.

Smith has two major goals. By the end of his junior year, he plans to move out to Cali-fornia to sign with a record producer and become a professional singer as his future career.

If moving to California falls through, his next big goal is to have his CD finished. Smith wants his future to be all about sing-ing.

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Trick-or-treat

In a home filled with volatile relationships, young Max is lonely. So he escapes. He es-capes where the Wild Things are, a land where he has the power to rule, which to him is an unfamiliar power. But, as Max soon learns, the Wild Things are just as unpredictable as the real world.

The new film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s ten-sentence book Where the Wild Things Are succeeds in expanding on the plot, while not taking away from the story’s simplistic and meaningful story.

As it is originally a children’s book, it would have been very easy for director Spike Jonze to create a cutesy, animated ovie. However, he took a risk and made a live-action film. It works. The Wild Things, both in costume and dialogue, feel like real people. We can view the Wild Things through Max’s non-judgmental eyes.

The film is beautiful in its scenery and soundtrack. The numerous sunsets, oceans, and mountains Max and his new friends explore are like dessert for the eyes. The unique bal-lads and silly songs filling the background seem to fit Max’s colorful imagination.

The one part that slightly shocked me was the adult nature of the film. The content wasn’t inappropriate, but the deeper essages were nothing that I would have grasped as an elementary age kid. I suppose if you took a young child to see the movie, they would be able to relate to Max and his fantasies. Nevertheless, the themes of Max’s troubled home life and his difficulty with relationships and power on the island of the Wild Things, are heavy.

On the other hand, the execution of the story, along with the music and filmography, make Where the Wild Things Are one that could be more legitimately considered among the best of the year. It embraces the mind of a child but makes it intriguing for someone older.

The film has an overall dark mood, and some of the Wild Things are very cruel to Max. It certainly doesn’t fit the typical “family film” mold, and that may prove to be both a bless-ing and a curse.

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Rule #1: See Zombieland

Think zombie movies are overrated? Outdated? Well, in the words of KFC, unthink and then think again.

Zombieland, written by Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, is a fast-paced, action-comedy that exploits the cliches of zombie survival in a surreptitiously funny way. The movie de-liberately takes the premise of the zombie-spoof subculture and interprets it onto the big screen. Any Shaun of the Dead fan will appreciate the Zombieland’s humor; any Edward-hating, hardcore critic of Twilight will rejoice in its satiric quips.

The movie’s story follows Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a geeky college student who “al-ready treats the rest of the world like zombies” and rarely leaves his apartment. When Mad Cow Disease rapidly infects the world’s population, Columbus already has his list of sur-vival techniques and tips written down on a notepad of paper (Rule Number One: Cardio, Rule Number Three: Beware of bathrooms, Rule Number 17: Don’t be a hero). Columbus teams up with the archetypal posse of one testosterone-pumped manly man (Woody Har-relson), one innocent but clever little girl (Abigail Breslin), and one totally-out-of-his-league love interest (Emma Stone). Together they travel through zombie-infested America, hoping to find the rumored zombie-free zone: Pacific Playland. Along the way, over-the-top kills and morbidly snarky humor incite gore-fueled laughs.

Zombieland by no means replicates any satiric horror film; it’s definitely not Scary Mov-ie 16 or something. Yes, it’s more funny than scary, and more stupid than serious, but sur-prise! It’s actually well-written. Besides, when one character’s ultimate goal is to find a the last Twinkie on Earth, while the main character strongly models the awkward, scrawny kid we all can’t help but love, stupidity isn’t the issue – it’s the point.

If you want to kick back this Friday and see a good flick, go see Zombieland. Otherwise, you’ll probably collapse on the living room couch, snuggle up with a pint of Ben and Jerry’s, and suffer through something like Hangman’s Curse (not recommended).

Just how far will somebody go to live the seemingly perfect life? Perfect life could mean a great body, a pack of attractive friends, and the thrill of defying death. Welcome to the world of surrogates, where anybody can lead this alluring lifestyle from the comfort of home. Simply tune out your sorry excuse for a life, and become somebody new and exciting. Somebody fake.

Directed by Johnathan Mostow and based off a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, Surrogate introduces this idea of a realistic-looking human robot, operated by a person, living life for the human operator. Originally created to allow the disabled to participate in everyday activities, the public catches on to this idea of living life in a fabulous body without having to leave the confines of home.

A surrogate is created to look better than the average human being, with glossy skin, shiny hair, and a physically fit body. Even if the human ‘operator’ is a greasy, fat man, he can become a sophis-ticated, chic man in the surrogate world.

In the opening scene of this sci-fi thriller, a young man with the trademark shiny smooth skin of a surrogate is out on the town, where he meets another surrogate, a blonde woman. The two hit it off and move into the alleyway to get to know each other. But as soon as they get busy, a hooded figure appears a few feet away and destroys the cuddling couple.

Surrogates were created to be broken without any harm to the human operator controlling it. But in this case, the operators of both surrogates were found dead. The operator of the blonde was a nobody but the human behind the young man was the son of Dr.

Lionel Canter, inventor of the surrogates.FBI agent Greer (Bruce Willis) investigates, with his part-

ner Peters (Radha Mitchell), this weapon that can kill both surrogates and their operators. Through a series of events, in-cluding a run-in with the Dreads, a group of citizens against the use of surrogates, Greer finds himself having to solve the case in his real body. With the prime suspect dead, everyone suddenly has something to hide.

The plot thickens, with the sad back-story be-hind Greer and his estranged wife and the mys-terious dealings of the Prophet, leader of the Dreads. The storyline winds through one action-packed scene after another, often hard to follow.

Similar to I, Robot and Minority Report, the movie’s core sci-fi element, living life through another medium, of-fers up an alarming situation humans could find them-selves in with the increased dependence on technology.

Surrogate offers a unique perspective and a packed plot. Maybe it’s not award winning, but it can serve as enter-tainment on a dull Friday night.

Molly Crumpcrump.molly@gmail.com

Surrogate is just another so-so sci-fi

Wild Things is where it’s at

Sarah Boyumboyum.sarah@gmail.com

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Students and teachers tell terrifying tales

“One dark and stormy night” is how most scary stories start. As Halloween quickly approaches, it’s time to get into the holiday spirit and timeome to bust out the candy, scary stories, and spooky costumes. Spine-chilling events happen to people every day, but as the end of October nears, they seem to become more common. Students and faculty share their spooky stories with the Mill Stream:

Junior Derek Smith-“My family’s house is considered haunted. In the house they

have this bookshelf above their stair-case. Every time my fam-ily leaves home, they lock the doors, but when they come back there is always one book neatly placed on each stair. It was re-ally creepy. They have a security system and everything. They ended up moving a year later.”

Juniors Sam Smith and Riley Harden-Sam’s Side of the Story-“Riley and I had just gotten home from a basketball game. We

went to Riley’s house and nobody was home. We were just re-laxing and hanging out. His dog came downstairs so we let him out to pee. Riley and I were in the kitchen and we heard noise upstairs, at first we thought it was the dog but then remembered he was outside. We let the dog back in, grabbed knives out of the kitchen and headed upstairs. We heard noises coming from his parents’ room I think, so we started yelling stuff and someone yelled back. We were freaked out so Riley and I ran down the street to a neighbors house because my parents were not home either. Our neighbor was home alone as well, so we just hid out in her house. We started calling my parents and Riley’s parents nonstop. When my step-mom got home we all went over to my

house and watched Riley’s house through my window. We saw lights turning on and off throughout his house and his parents still weren’t home. I’ve never been so scared before. “

Riley’s Side of the Story“Sam and I came back from a basketball game, my dad

dropped us off at my house by ourselves. We went downstairs and let the dog out then heard some footsteps and noise coming from upstairs. We instantly thought dog, but then we knew it wasn’t him, so we grabbed knives out of the drawer and went upstairs to my room. We started yelling things down the hall-way and heard someone mumble and say something back. Sam and I jumped down the stairs and ran out the garage door. Sam’s parents weren’t home, so we ran to the neighbor’s house; but her parents weren’t home either. After we waited there in the dark for a while, Sam’s step-mom came home so we all went to his house. When we looked back at my house we saw lights turning on and off. Sam and I slept with out pocket knives that night.”

English Teacher Mr. Kenley-“There was this ‘urban legend’ type thing when I was young-

er of this person called the Monkey Lady. She lived on the edge of a cemetery and the rumor was that she dug up graves and ate the bodies. I believed it when I was a kid.”

Spanish Teacher Ms. Solyst-“I lived in this apartment by myself once, and someone kept

leaving notes on my car. Creepy notes that said things like “that was a nice blue shirt you were wearing the other day.” The notes were written on torn grocery bags. I didn’t know anyone in my apartment complex so I would walk into my apartment like “Who’s watching me!” It was really spooky. He ended up leav-ing me his number, and when I never called the notes stopped. I never figured out who it was, but I still think it’s really creepy.”

Trick-or-treating, costumes, and spider web decorations are seen ev-ery year for the Halloween holiday; however, others venture into darker and more animated activities.

These spirited students go be-yond the door- to -door asking for candy, but get creative in celebrating the holiday.

Junior Ben May’s goal has been to scare and terrify trick-or-treaters as they walk up to the steps of his house. As he sits in a chair, dressed as a stuffed scarecrow, he waits until eager children pass him and reach for the doorbell, where he then jumps up and screams.

“It was really fun scaring the kids, but after the years of doing it, we have noticed that kids stop coming up to our house because they know that the scary man lives there,” May said. Even though it was all in good fun, May and the original scarecrow, his dad, hung up their costume last year in order to get children to come back. However, they may do it again, May said.

Junior Kristal Matt also takes up scaring trick- or- treaters, as she dresses in a scary costume while try-

ing to blend in with her decked out house complete with fog machines and creepy music.

“I usually wear a mask so the kids won’t be able to see my face and then stand as still as possible so they think that I am just another decora-tion,” Matt said. According to Matt, her mom also dresses up in a witch costume and performs the famous witch cackle.

Sophomore Steve Miles and his family have more than just a scary character in their yard; they also have seasonal games in their garage.

“We decorate our house with fake arms and legs in the yard, and then we have games like bobbing for ap-ples and a bean bag toss where kids have the chance to win king size candy bars,” Miles said.

The Miles family may have activi-ties with prizes, but Dad also wears a pumpkin head mask and a costume, acting as though he is stuffed in or-der to scare the kids.

Beginning about eight years ago, history teachers Debbie and Joe Mar-cum have created elaborate Hallow-een scenes in their front yard.

Throughout Joe Marcum’s child-hood, he adored Halloween. His small town always held a celebration and really sparked his love for the

season, so when he became older, he continued celebrating the holiday by decorating his house into elaborate themes.

Marcum began with simple deco-rations that then transformed into a technologically advanced system of flying objects and a projection screen.

“It is more than just a display, there is action and moving parts,” Debbie Marcum said.

Over the years, themes have in-cluded the Fantastic 4, Pirates of the Caribbean, and last year, Hard Rock Noblesville, where Marcum made a stage with rocker skeletons of the past. This year, Ghost Busters is the theme and includes flying ghosts and a projection screen with the Mr. Stay-Puft the marshmallow man.

“It is really fun and the neighbor-hood always looks forward to seeing our theme. My husband has become sort of famous for his decorations and has influenced the whole neigh-borhood into making more elaborate scenes in their yards,” Debbie Mar-cum said.

Halloween has inspired many to make it fun and exciting for all, tak-ing the spooky and dark theme and turning it into ornate yard scenes and daunting costumes.

Gabby Guyguy.gabby@gmail.com

Excessive halloweeners take it to the next level

Frankenstein’s monster and a witch light up a local yard. Many of these halloween decorative figures are set up to celebrate the holiday.

Photo by P. Davis

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“We run a lot.” With that, junior Ryan Ferguson summed up the cross country teams’ reason for suc-

cess this fall. Cross country demands months of rigorous daily training and lots of miles. The mental aspect, though, proves just as demanding. “We run one race at a time,” senior Cody Marowski said.

Marowski is a four year varsity runner, and with his senior leadership and experience, he stresses the importance of focusing on the race at hand during state qualifying races, but keeping the state meet as an ultimate goal.

In cross country, seven runners compete in the varsity race. The top five count towards the team score. A runner’s place determines how many points they contribute to the team’s score, and the low score wins a meet. Sophomore Helen Willman, a consistent top-two runner for the girls this season, has often felt the pressure of the state races and how with one sub-par race, the entire team’s season could be over. “If I don’t run my best, it could all be over for everybody.”

With a different racing mindset, Willman’s teammate, senior Jalynne Foley, chooses not to dwell on the race at hand until minutes before the gun goes off.

“I don’t get nervous until I’m on the line and I realize ‘Oh, I have a race today’,” Foley said. She added that thinking anymore than this could cause her to psych herself out.

The team aspect of cross country is much more important than an individual’s success or failure. Even in racing, where an outsider might think that an runner is on their own, the runners rely on each other by staying together and pulling each other through the struggles of racing.

“We need to stay together as a pack,” sophomore Sam Roudebush said. Roudebush, a top-five runner for the boys, emphasized the importance of training together during week-day workouts in order to prepare for running in a pack on race day, especially during tour-nament season. “We need to work as a team, not think individually,” Foley said. She adds that if she has a bad race, she knows that her teammates will be there to back her up.

But when sickness and injury kicks in, and three of the top five runners are either not racing or racing sick, “That’s the scariest thing,” Ferguson said. Senior James Willman and Marowski both sat out the Hoosier Crossroads Conference meet, the last regular season meet before tournament season, and Ferguson ran with the flu. The rest of the team had to step up and make up for their teammates’ absence and still managed to pull off a second place finish.

The girls’ team needs to continue to stay focused, despite recent success. With an HCC win and an upset sectional victory over number-one ranked Carmel, the girls have had a lot to celebrate, but freshman Kendra Foley recognized, “We can’t get over-confident,” as

the tournament season begins and the races become more important.They have consistently ranked in the top-ten in the state rankings and currently sit eighth

[boys] and fourth [girls] as of Oct. 12, according to www.hoosierauthority.com. Rankings aside, both teams are running for a win at state. “We have as good a chance as anyone does,” Marowski said. Kendra Foley is also optimistic. “I do [think we can win state]!”

Mill Stream: Did you ever think winning state as an individual was a possibility this season when you started?

Meghan Potee: Winning state has been a goal since my freshman year. This was my last year to do it so I knew what I had to do. I went into the state tournament knowing that I was going to win.

MS: When did you first realize how well you were playing or that you were lead-ing?

MP: After the first round was the first time I realized I was leading. I was tied for the lead with two other girls. During the second day, I had no idea how I was doing compared to everyone else so I just fought as hard as I could.

MS: What did you do during your rounds to keep your nerves and the pres-sure down?

MP: I really didn’t let myself get ner-vous. I was too busy focusing on my round and staying in the moment.

MS: What were you more surprised about – the team’s third place finish or your state title victory?

MP: I think everyone made a bigger deal out of my victory, but I don’t think many people realized what our whole team did. We were ranked 11th going into state, so getting a podium finish was never in our minds.

MS: What was the toughest moment or biggest struggle you had during the state tournament?

MP: I think the toughest moment of the tournament was knowing that I was lead-ing after the first day. I didn’t want to lose my lead, but I had no control over what the other girls shot.

MS: How did you get through/what did you think about to help keep you on track?

MP: When I play tournaments, I always try to have fun. Having fun is the most im-portant part of a sport.

MS: What single person has helped you the most to reach placing first at state? How did they help you?

MP: My coach was a huge help this sea-son. He wasn’t able to make it to state so I was sort of playing “for him.” He has been such an unbelievable help to my career, and I wanted him to be proud of his player. My parents have also been a huge help. They are my biggest fans and I wouldn’t be any-where without them.

MS: What were your thoughts the rest of the day and the next morning after your first round at state when you realized you were in contention to win?

MP: After my first round, there were all sorts of thoughts running through my mind. I ignored everything that was hap-pening around me and stayed in the mo-ment and finished what I had come there to do.

XC teams running down a dreamSarah Boyum and Nathan Brownboyum.sarah@gmail.com, brown.nathan@gmail.com

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Chatting with the championSenior Meghan Potee talks about her journey to becoming the girls state golf champion

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Senior team captain Ben Williams looks to weave himself away from a defender during the Millers’ game against Westfield. Williams has been a four year member on the varsity squad. The Millers began their quest for a state title Oct. 8 against the Sheridan Blackhawks and contin-ued their dominance to regionals, where they won the championship game versus Brebeuf Oct. 17.

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A 6-1 record. A number four state ranking. The men’s soccer team was forced to forfeit it all at the start of their 2009 season.

An ineligible player was found to be playing on the varsity soccer team. Junior Austin Campos, who trans-ferred to Noblesville over the summer, was granted permission from the school’s athletic department to try out for the team, and he made it onto the varsity roster. Little did Austin, or any of the coaches know, he did not have all of the correct paperwork turned in and was not eligible to play.

It was later found out, after grades and paperwork were checked for the third time by the school, that he was not allowed to play. The team turned itself in to the IHSAA and received a very severe penalty. They were forced to forfeit all seven games that Campos played in, six of which were wins. This wiped out the early season wins for a hopeful team.

“I didn’t know that he still had to fill out the transfer form. I was under the impression that it was already done,” Campos said.

The entire team and coaching staff were shocked.

“All of us were under the impres-sion that he was cleared to play and ready to go, but one night I got a call

from the athletic director, and he in-formed me about the violation,” coach Nick Swaim said.

“The process in place allowed him to slip through the cracks. The day after we found out that this had hap-pened, we met as a department and changed the ways that we process stu-dent athletes,” athletic director Robb Vessely said. The athletic department

now requires students to record in two plac-

es that they have transferred before they are even al-lowed to try out for a team.

“He [the ath-letic director]

didn’t think that I was eligible to

play because at my old school we had less classes, so

it looked like I had failed three classes, but I hadn’t. It wasn’t any one person’s fault. It was just a miscommunication between the two schools. I couldn’t have avoided it,” Campos said.

The team captains also had their own take on the situation.

“That’s paperwork [a transfer form] that needs to be turned in before a white card is given out. The athletic director should have taken care of it. The team’s image could seriously be ruined if we didn’t perform well after that, but we just have to put it behind us and play,” junior captain Joe Henne said.

“At first I was upset because it’s my senior year. That kind of stuff should just be taken care of. The incident makes us look like a joke. It’s embar-rassing, we went from being ranked fourth in state to being unranked. It just gives us more motivation though,” senior captain Ben Williams said.

“I know that it doesn’t condone what happened, but this kind of inci-dent happens a lot. It keeps an athletic director up at night,” Vessely said.

Despite such an event taking place, one that could ruin some teams’ sea-sons, the team has performed well since, and their record shows it. Since the forfeit, the boys’ record stands at only two losses.

“The players have responded great. They have a chip on their shoulder, and they are dying to go out and prove everyone wrong. They are all very fo-cused on making it to state. We have a huge game coming up, but they are ready for it,” Swaim said.

This weekend at North Central High School, the team plays number-four ranked Zionsville at 10 a.m. Also in their semistate bracket are number-five ranked Avon and New Palestine.

The winner of each game will play in a semistate championship game lat-er that day at 6 p.m. The winner of the championship game will advance to the state bracket, which will take place at Kuntz Stadium in downtown India-napolis on Oct. 31. Games are at 10 a.m. and the state championship game is at 6 p.m.

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