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Dancing in the Rain: Dance Team does the ice bucket
challenge for a bonding experience. They nominated West-
moore Dance Team from Oklahoma and a contestant from
So You Think You Can Dance. photo by Taylor Hinman
Splash: DECA was nominated by senior Austin Staebell. “I was
anxious before the bucket of ice-water pours down on me because I
know what is coming but I never know when it will hit me, ” junior
Monica Powers said. photo by Kristen Edelman
Cheer Up : Varsity Cheer was
nominated by DECA. “There has
been a massive amount of money
collected for ALS in such a short
period of time,” junior Madalyn Hyland said. photo by Kristen Edel-
man
Orchestra: Orchestra teacher
Debbie Martinez does the chal-
lenge while the orchestra plays
for background music. “We were
incorporating the activity that we
do in class with a teacher as a role
model,” senior Luke Houser said.
photo contributed by Casey Lundgren
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Pranita Devaraju, 10Alaena Schmitz, 10Emily Lerdahl, 11 Emily Gilson, 11Amy Iltzsch, 12Isabel Chavez, 10Alex Istrati-Brown, 12Joe Runge, 10
Buckets and buckets of awareness
09 Student Life
Students did their part to show their support and raise donations for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association by partici-
pating in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
TennICE: Varsity Tennis was nominated by senior Matt Horn-beck and they nominated nearly all of the tennis teams. “I felt
nervous before the ice got dumped, but we warmed up in a
teammates Range Rover afterwards,” junior Raymond Thai said.
photo by Madison Weaver
Chills On Guard: Color guard raised nearly $300 for this aware-
ness as a whole. Parents of color guard and band walked up and
down the bleachers with buckets to collect as much money as
possible in a certain amount of time at the MN football stands.
photo by Kaitlyn Forsythe
Drumroll Please: Seniors Maddie Vavricek and Michaela Van Riesen, and junior Sarah Annis get a bucket of ice-water
poured on them. “The ALS ice-bucket challenge was a great
opportunity for people to raise awareness and get the word out
quickly,” Van Riesen said. photo by Kaitlyn Forsythe
ALS is not just a disease; it is a challenge to
overcome and it drastically changes lives. It’s
not the most well known disease, so it wasn’t
getting as much support as it deserves.
Senior football player, Aric Nielsen, agrees
that they need all the support they can get. His
father recently passed from ALS, and he knows
all the rough patches you have to overcome.
“My team was fully supportive of the idea to
do the ice bucket challenge. We really are all for
one and one for all, and that’s really important
when you’re part of a team,” Nielsen said.
As for the challenge itself, it has been disputed
about whether or not it really helps the organiza-
tion. If people just did it to post on social media
and not donate, does it really benefit from the
challenge at all?
“Social media was a good way to spread
knowledge about ALS. I like that participants
were expected to donate whether they did it or
not. You had to do it with the right intentions,”
Nielsen said.
Most students at MN felt the same way. The
donations should take precedence over uploading
a video for a social site.
“People have just been doing the Ice Bucket
Challenge for fame more than to support people
who actually have ALS. If you’re doing it for
likes and not donating, that’s not enough,”
junior Quinn McFadden said.
The point of the challenge was to feel the
paralysis, the paralysis that ALS patients feel ev-
eryday, just for a few seconds as the cold water
gushes around you.
“You do the ice bucket challenge to feel how
they feel, and then donate money to help their
cause. Don’t do it just to post on social media;
the whole idea is to raise money,” junior Lily
Hock said.
The effort has raised over $115 million already,
and the ALSA can expect the donations to keep
pouring in!