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Page 2: Vocal to Compete Page 3: BB District Pics Page 4: Prom Dresses Page 5: Senior Profile Page 6: Library Changes Page 7: BB Senior Night Page 8: Peyote Ceremony Page 9: FB Post on Bullying Page 10: T.I.M.E Page 11: Dual State Pics Page 12: Dual State Pics cont. Page 13: Senior Profile Page 14: Movie Review Coming Next Issue: Senior Profile Stinger Fashion Pancake Pictures February 23, 2016 “I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire? KHS Senior Dips Skulls and Other Items By: Stinger Staff KHS senior Mason Reherman will someday be wearing an OHP uniform, patrolling the roads and highways of our great state. However, while finishing up his final year of high school, Mason has taken something he saw in a YouTube video to the next level as a budding business venture. Hydrographic dipping describes the process of coating items with thin sheets of colored plastic using water and special chemicals. Hydro Film sheets are printed by various manufacturers and can be ordered from internet sites. The sheets range in price from $8 to $94, depending on the size and pattern. Mason's interest in the process started with what he called "Redneck" Hydrodipping," in a video on YouTube. He wanted to try it to see if it worked. Several dipped skulls later, a friend of Mason's father saw his work and asked if he could dip some skulls and car parts for him. To date, Mason has dipped skulls from cows, coyotes, deer and goats. No human skulls yet. He's getting read to dip a longhorn skull and can do just about any animal, as long as his dipping tank is big enough. Big items are fine, but his bread and butter business comes from dipping smaller items. Case in point, he displayed pictures of a Yeti cooler cup dipped in real-flame and a cell phone case in green camo. Car parts to be dipped include dashes and interior parts, exterior emblems and trim pieces. He's also started taking orders for dipped fire- arms, including shotguns, rifles and handguns. Mason charges based on size of item, and how detailed the item is He works out of his Grandfathers "dip" shack located outside the city limits. Students interested in having something dipped (cell phone cases for example), contact Mason in Mr. Kaya's class during 7th period. He's also on Facebook.

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Transcript of Kingfisher High School Stinger 02/23/2016

Page 1: Kingfisher High School Stinger 02/23/2016

Page 2: Vocal to Compete

Page 3: BB District Pics

Page 4: Prom Dresses

Page 5: Senior Profile

Page 6: Library Changes

Page 7: BB Senior Night

Page 8: Peyote Ceremony

Page 9: FB Post on Bullying

Page 10: T.I.M.E

Page 11: Dual State Pics

Page 12: Dual State Pics cont.

Page 13: Senior Profile

Page 14: Movie Review

Coming Next Issue:

Senior Profile

Stinger Fashion

Pancake Pictures

February 23, 2016

“I may not agree with what

you say, but I shall defend to

the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire?

KHS Senior Dips Skulls and Other Items By: Stinger Staff

KHS senior Mason Reherman will someday be wearing an OHP uniform, patrolling the roads

and highways of our great state. However, while finishing up his final year of high school, Mason

has taken something he saw in a YouTube video to the next level as a budding business venture.

Hydrographic dipping describes the process of coating items with thin sheets of colored plastic

using water and special chemicals. Hydro Film sheets are printed by various manufacturers and can

be ordered from internet sites. The sheets range in price from $8 to $94, depending on the size and

pattern. Mason's interest in the process started with what he called "Redneck" Hydrodipping," in a

video on YouTube. He wanted to try it to see if it worked. Several dipped skulls later, a friend of

Mason's father saw his work and asked if he could dip some skulls and car parts for him.

To date, Mason has dipped skulls from

cows, coyotes, deer and goats. No human

skulls yet. He's getting read to dip a longhorn

skull and can do just about any animal, as

long as his dipping tank is big enough.

Big items are fine, but his bread and

butter business comes from dipping smaller

items. Case in point, he displayed pictures of

a Yeti cooler cup dipped in real-flame and a

cell phone case in green camo.

Car parts to be dipped include

dashes and interior parts, exterior

emblems and trim pieces. He's also

started taking orders for dipped fire-

arms, including shotguns, rifles and

handguns.

Mason charges based on size of

item, and how detailed the item is

He works out of his Grandfathers

"dip" shack located outside the city

limits.

Students interested in having

something dipped (cell phone cases

for example), contact Mason in Mr.

Kaya's class during 7th period. He's

also on Facebook.

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February 23, 2016

Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Soto

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Daniel Tautkus Chief Photographer Sean Borelli

Asst. Chief Photographer Sam Walter

Compositing Editor Kaden Baartman Managing Editor Laryn Schemmer

Advisor Mr. Kurt Kaya Advisor Emeritus Dr. A.J. Johnson

High School Principal Mr. Todd Overstreet

Superintendent of Schools Mr. Jason Sternberger

Senior Reporters Janelle Hawk, Teresa Rangel, Clairanda Porter,

Blanca Barcenas, Logan Hightower, Reporters: Lisa Baxter, Alma Padilla, Martin Padilla,

Robert Haynes, Alma Atondo, Michael Sutton,

Andrea Jimenez, Nicholas Bradford Photography Staff Cricket Kaya, Regan Henderson, Joey Little, Alex

Wilczek, Jared Hughes

Photography Interns Roberto Tafoya, Colton Koska

Email Address: [email protected]

Policy Statement It is the policy of the Kingfisher School District to provide equal opportunities

without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, qualified handicap, or veteran

status in its educational programs and activities. This includes, but is not limited to,

admissions, educational services, financial aid, and employment.

Inquiries concerning application of this policy may be referred to Jason Sternberger,

Coordinator of Title IX and Section 504 responsibilities, Kingfisher Public Schools, P. O.

Box 29, 11th and Chisholm, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 73750. Telephone 405-375-4194.

Kingfisher Public Schools provide educational opportunities to disabled students

age 0-21. These services are provided in accordance with public law 94-142, which

requires an approved appropriate education for disabled children ages 0-21. Any person

having knowledge of a disabled child and not identified or served, please contact Jason

Sternberger, Superintendent of Schools, 11th and Chisholm, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 73750

or telephone 405-375-4194.

The opinions expressed in THE STINGER are those of the author and do not

necessarily reflect those of THE STINGER staff, its sponsor, the administration or

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Vocal Districts + Solo/Ensemble By: Lisa Baxter/ls

This year, districts are in Alva on Tuesday February 23, 2016 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. We leave for Alva at

8:00 a.m. from the KHS band room. We have to wear our execution uniforms (the black witch trial dresses). At 11:36 we have warm ups.

Then, by 11:48 we perform in front of the judges. At 12:00 we sight sing. Then, 30 minutes later we have lunch; I’m not sure where

though. At 1:00 we head to Enid to bowl, and by 6:00 p.m. we arrive at KHS. Vocal students will need lunch money, $10 for bowling, and

a change of clothes including socks.

The Districts Solo/Ensemble Contest is on Saturday February 27th, 2016 at Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa the students

need to be at the middle school by 6:30 a.m. and we leave at 7:00 am. From 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. we will be preforming our solos and

ensembles. We will recieve our scores by 12:00 p.m. We will head to Enid for lunch. We will be there by 1:00 p.m. By 2 p.m. we will be at

SkateTown. We plan to head to Kingfisher at 4:00 and by 5 p.m. we will have hopefully arrived at KMS. Vocal students who are not ineli-

gible need to bring a change of clothes and socks for skating, bring money for lunch, and $6 for skating. If you need help with skate money,

please let Mrs. Magnus know.

Stinger Fashion: Prom Dresses

By: Alma Atondo/ls

This week’s Stinger Fashion features Mrs. Leffingwells’s

prom dresses. Mrs. Leffingwell’s prom dresses are prom dresses

that girls have donated or gave away for a good cause. These

prom dresses are located in Mrs. Leffingwell’s office. These

dresses are beautiful, honestly. You can borrow them for prom in

case, you do not have a prom dress yet, for this school year’s

prom. See pictures of the dresses on Page 4 of this issue.

1. The first prom dress is a black dress with a strap on only one

side. It has gold and silver jewels on the chest area and on the left

side of the ribs. It’s pretty long, in case, you want a long dress,

and its a bit close to the body, or tight fitting.

2. The second prom dress is a black strapless dress. It has glitter

looking stuff on it. It has the glitter from the chest all the way to

around your waist. It’s not as long in length. It looks pretty,

though.

3. The third prom dress is a gold one strap dress. it has jewels on

the strap. It kind of has a gold/yellow/tan color.

4. Last but not least, there’s a purple/blue dress. This dress has a

spaghetti strap on one side. It has jewels going down on the left

side. The jewels are different shapes and sizes. They’re pretty

shiny, if you ask me.

If you plan on going to prom this April 9 and still do not have

your prom dress, come by Mrs. leffingwell’s office and check

them out and see if you like them. Remember Prom is right

around the corner so hurry and go check them out.

The dresses look amazing and you can wear them for free.

Check out the pics on Page 4 or go see Mrs. Leffingwell.

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Senior Profile: Alma Padilla

By: Andrea Jimenez/ss

Let me introduce you to one of this year’s graduating seniors, Al-

ma Padilla. Alma Noemi Padilla is the daughter of Rigoberto and Adela

Padilla. She has two brothers, Kris and Jr. (13), and three sisters, Christina

(29), Jessica (27), and Michelle (24). Gallerita, as she is also known as, was

born in the state of Oklahoma on May 15, 1998.

Her parents are originally from the beautiful state of Jalisco in

Mexico. This is also where she considers her second home to be at. As a

matter of fact, she sees herself living in Mexico in a near future, especially

after a recent visit with her family to celebrate La Virgen de la Candelaria in

Acatic for two weeks last month (see story in last weeks issue).

Outside of school, Alma loves watching the Lion King or listening

to music. A song she loves to listen to is EL Rengo del Gallo Jiro. She loves

listening and dancing along to banda, cumbias, zapateado, tamborazo, and

many more. Gallerita is definitely the life of the party and the type of girl

you would love to have around. Alma drives her cool silver Ford truck to

Braum’s, where she is currently employed. Before getting to work, she

chills out to La Zeta on the radio.

At work, Alma can certainly make some mean sundaes and is a

pleasure to work with. When it comes to relaxation she prefers to play a

little game of Mario Cart on her Wii or watch La Querida del Centauro on

Telemundo. Her hobbies include going to horse races and rodeos. Making

Alma happy is really easy. Simply take her shopping to Charlotte Russe or

Rue 21 and make her some chiles rellenos for dinner.

Alma has participated in the wonderful sport of futbol, or soccer,

through out high school. She loves Mrs. Hobza’s FACS class and considers

her to be one of her favorite teachers. Mr. Kaya has also made her list of

favorites, describing him as a funny and outgoing teacher. He will definitely

be missed after graduation. Blanca, Briana, and Andrea will also be missed.

They are three of her best friends here at KHS.

“Gallerita” isn’t really sure what she will be up to after high

school but will for sure be making history somehow. Her advice to under-

classmen is “Don’t get in my way,” and some words to her fellow senior

classmates are “We made it!”

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Library changes in KHS By: Lisa Baxter/ls

Ms. Johnson has decided to better the organiza-

tion of the library. When I talked to her on February 17th,

2016 she said that she hopes it will be done by spring.

There is a good chance everything in the li-

brary will change. There will be signs to tell us where

the books are and what genre they are.

They will also be color coded. Johnson has her

library aides organize the books in a way that it is easy

to find a book of a specific genre. (e.x. Thriller, Mystery,

etc.)

This unique organization tactic will hopefully

enable students to better find and read books of their

choice. This will also allow pupils to expand their usual

genre choices.

Not only is Ms. Johnson reorganizing the li-

brary, but she is also doing a little bit of Spring Clean-

ing. As she goes through the books with the help of her

library aides, they gather the books that they chose to

retire. After all of the books that are being retired are

gathered, they will be donated.

Now you will also be able to read books simi-

lar to the ones you love. Next time you’re in the library

here at KHS, it will, hopefully, be much easier to find

the book you’ve been dying to read.

Parental Lock: Good

or Bad?

Opinion By: Michael Sutton/ls

Recently, fellow Stinger Reporter Rob-

bie Haynes wanted to do an article over Chuck

Tingle and was stopped due to parental lock.

There are many things, like YouTube,

that have their educational possibilities, but there

are also many terrible things on the internet and

are blocked for a reason.

At the beginning of the year, they went

over how they could see who went to what web-

site, so we needed to make sure not to let anyone

use your login. However, with this in effect why

even have the parental block to begin with?

If you can see where people go, then you

can see if they go somewhere they are not sup-

posed to. If the Principal was to take them off,

then places, like YouTube, and other sites would

be so much easier to access.

With these sites and other ones able to

be used for school work, it would make it a lot

easier to find sources for essays and other assign-

ments.

There is not downside to lifting the lock

on computers, we are/should be old enough to

know what’s right or wrong, and if not, we can

see who was on what and punish them according-

ly.

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school year.

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Heart Breaks

Opinion by: Alma Atondo/ls

People get their hearts broken every day.

The wrong love hurts. Humans do not understand

that getting their heart broken slowly kills you inside.

You do not realize that people are hurt or suffering.

Sometimes, the people that smile the most,

are the ones that are hurt the most. They are the ones

that need your help. You never really know what is

going on in someone’s life. Artists make a lot of

heart broken songs just because of how many people

suffer from a broken heart.

Heart breaks do not only come once in a

while. You can get a heart broken when you have

high hopes and dreams about something one minute,

and in just a flash, you are let down. All that you had

wished for comes crashing down, so you have noth-

ing else to look forward to in the morning.

The one person who made your life worth

living for is gone and leaves you with nothing but

memories.

There are no signs of caring, or sympathy

and you just a memory of their face. You can do

nothing but watch them walk away, and no matter

how much you ask for them to return, they continue

walking.

They no longer belong to you, and you are

left answering your own questions about what went

wrong. Now that they are gone, you realized that you

are right back where you started.

Your heart is broken.

Peyote Ceremony

By: Janelle Hawk/ls

Last weekend, we had a meeting for my grandma Joyce. Friday evening

we went down to Concho. My grandma was cooking to feed us before we went in.

She didn’t go in with us because she had to stay up all night cooking to feed us in

the morning.

We went in late on Friday. When I had entered, everybody was sitting

around the teepee. I sat by my mom, because this was my first time going in. Before

we started, we had to talk about what was going on. They then gave my grandma

Joyce some peyote to take.

My grandpa is one of the main chiefs in our tribe, so he had to do every-

thing. He explained to us why it was so important to pray. He said some things in

life aren’t always going to go the right way, so you have to pray that things get bet-

ter. He then finally told us that we had to sing 21 songs all night. We started to pray

then passed the medicine around. We had fire in the middle, so when we took the

medicine it would make us see the way to the good things in life. We stayed up all

night praying and singing.

When morning came we went outside and

sang until the morning star had risen up. After that, we

went back in and then got to come out of the teepee.

My mom had to carry water, and then my mom, some

family members, and I carried in food. Once we got

done eating, we went in our community building to

eat.

That night was something I have never ex-

perienced before, and I hope I can do it again some-

time. My Native-American culture is full of wonder-

ful and fascinating traditions and I look forward to

growing up and learning more about it all.

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Oklahoma Stu-

dent’s Facebook

Post Goes Viral By: Stinger Staff

The following was posted on a

Chickasha, Oklahoma high school students

Facebook page. It has gone viral, bringing

attention to the issue of bullying in high

schools. The Editors of The Stinger are dedi-

cating two pages of this issue to publishing

the post in its entirety.

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I haven’t posted about this because

I didn’t want to be “one of those people”

posting about personal problems on social

media. But I can’t not talk about this any-

more. I want to help bring awareness to the

situation and help people to realize the affect

their words have on others.

Since my freshman year of high

school I have had a group of girls who have

tormented me. They would stand on chairs in

restaurants to take pictures of me during

lunch, flip me off, call me very rude names,

and cuss at me in the hallway, and they even

came to my house one night and vandalized

my car.

There was a rumor going around

that year that I killed myself. And then peo-

ple were posting on social media “good I

hope she did”. The group of girls got sus-

pended that year and when asked why they

were tormenting me their response was “I

don’t even know her, I just don’t like her”. I

didn’t feel safe anywhere. I was scared of

what would happen next.

This year the drama started again.

When my dad was in the hospital for a pul-

monary embolism that 9/10 people die from,

they tweeted and texted me saying I was

being a “Victim” about my dad. They made

me feel like I didn’t have a right to be scared

or sad about anything going on.

They post on social media about

my voice, my laugh, when I wear makeup,

when I don’t wear makeup, about my lips,

my hair, anything and everything you can

imagine. And with group dynamics- when a

couple people start hating, it turns into wild-

fire and becomes a huge group of people all

hating on one person.

As the group of girls walk past me

at school they give me death stares and laugh

at me and continue to call me rude names

and cuss at me. They have started Twitter

conversations with 10+ people tweeting

about how much they hate me and all the

things that are wrong with me. It doesn’t just

last for an hour or a day- it’s lasts for multi-

ple days.

There is even a group text called

“The Baylee Haters” where all they do is

pick me apart and hate on me. I can’t even sit

in the student section at school sporting

events because these bullies and their friends

yell rude things at me. I am afraid to be alone

at my own school.

Some of the girls have texted me

saying I deserve all the bullying BECAUSE I

wasn’t a support to my Pom team Septem-

ber-November. Well, I had 6 major knee

surgeries at once and physically couldn’t

walk, then when I could walk I had physical

therapy 3 days a week for two or more hours

a day in Norman.

And the other two days of the

school week I had to go home and watch my

dad since he was 24 hour care while my

mom went to pick up my sister from school.

(All of this was approved and okay with my

pom coach). The girls moms have even told

my mom that I deserve the hate because their

daughter has physical therapy too but she

still shows up to pom.

Well, she has a sprained ankle and

can go to PT in Chickasha for 15 minutes.

But I have to see a specialist in the city.

When I got into wrestling home-

coming they started saying “how did she get

in homecoming” “still pissed Baylee is in

homecoming but I can’t be in it with my

boyfriend” and the tweets would get 30 plus

favorites. They would also tell people not to

vote for me.

And worst of all… When my dad

was in the hospice house, they texted me

saying they hope my dad dies. My mom and

I couldn’t even be on our phones to tell loved

ones where we were or give updates because

our phones were being blow up with hate and

heartless comments.

Then my dad passed away 3 days

later… Two days after he passed was wres-

tling homecoming, I didn’t want to go be-

cause dad had just passed but he would’ve

been very upset with me if I hadn’t gone.. So

I went.

I didn’t want sympathy, I didn’t

want anyone to feel sorry for me. All I want-

ed was some respect, peace, and quiet. But of

course that didn’t happen. They then started

telling people they hoped I don’t win because

of “sympathy votes”.

Today- Just a couple of hours ago, I

posted the details for my dads funeral on

Twitter because I have friends and family

who wanted the information. Within 3

minutes of me posting the info- one of the

girls subtweeted me and said “nobody cares”.

Nobody cares? Nobody cares that a

human being died? That a husband, uncle,

friend, and DAD, died? Truly, my heart

breaks for the girls and boys who have put

me through so much these past three years. I

have been very good at sucking it up and

pushing forward even with all the hate.

But to say that no one cares that A

DAD died is just sickening to me. They have

to be so miserable with their life that they

feel the need to hate on someone so much.

The saddest part is that they think it is cool to

bully.

f you don’t have anything nice to

say, don’t say anything at all. And for those

of you who favorite and retweet negative

posts about someone- you too are a bully.

You NEVER know someone’s breaking

point. So why even push the limit?

Parents, I beg you- please teach

your children to be sensitive to others. If they

don’t like someone then they don’t have to

be around them but DON’T harass them and

make their life miserable. Hold your children

accountable.

People bully because they know

they can get away with it without any conse-

quence. So hold your kids accountable and

teach them to treat others the way they want

to be treated. For instance, if your child

doesn’t want someone to say they hope their

parent dies and that they’re happy once he

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does. Then teach your children not to say it to others.

Peers, if you see anyone being bullied- don’t fall into the immaturity of the bully. Stand up for the bullied. If enough people start

defending the bullied then it won’t be as fun for the bully to bully.

Bullies keep going because their friends think “it’s funny” and it makes the bully feel cool because all of the attention is on them.

I can tell you personally it is very lonely being bullied because people don’t want to stand up for you because they’re afraid of the person

who is bullying or that then they will start getting bullied as well.

I do not want sympathy for anything that has happened in my life because I truly believe that everything happens for a reason.

Maybe I have gone through all of this so that I could share my story with you today and bring awareness to adults and teens about the affect

of bullies. The school system and society makes the bullied feel so alone and wrong for even being bullied. When in reality it is not the

fault of the bullied. The one who is wrong is the bully. No matter what “reason” you have for bullying someone- it is INVALID. And DO

NOT EVER tell someone they deserve to be bullied.

Because they don’t. No one does. Have compassion for others and remember- if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say

anything at all.

Please share this to raise awareness Thank you & God bless.

Baylee Ogle

My Family Tree By: Teresa Rangel/ss

Have you ever gone into the deepest

depths of your train of thoughts and ques-

tioned your existence? Where did I come

from? How did I come to be? I initially took

this challenge on my freshmen year by asking

my mother’s maternal cousin if we had any

Native American roots, just out of curiosity

for the school, but I never took the incentive.

Who really cares?

I was the heavy procrastinator my

freshman year. All I cared about at the time

was the inner magical world I had created in

the abyss of my mind with rainbows and sparkly glitter everywhere along with

my best friend Clairanda. Well, last year during December, I decided to actually

look at those emails I had gotten of my second cousin and I regret nothing, be-

cause that is when I submerged myself in learning more about the majestic leg-

end I am.

It all started around Christmas bread when books wouldn’t fill in for

the crevices of my ever absorbing brain. I grabbed my Toshiba, my chamomile

tea, crossed my legs, and put the computer on my lap. I went to my treasure map

and started navigating my way through the ancient water of the gene pool. (I

tried using ancestry.com and the trial wasn’t worth it! My family records aren’t

from North America continental soil they’re mostly European.) I went to Gene-

alogia de Mexico online and found a list of free records! That was really awe-

some!

My cousin told me to search the name of our oldest recorded ancestor

on my mothers side and all of them obviously conquistadors, royalty, viceroys

of Mexico with connections to King Ferdinand the Catholic (He was the one

who sent the expedition to the Americas funding Cristobal Colon.), and the Ican

Princess Quispe Sisa!

But let’s start to work our way up here! We can’t start from the top and

make our way to the bottom. So, this article is just a teaser of what I am. I will

be posting articles here and there periodically whenever I can.

T.I.M.E. Opinion By: Clairanda Porter/ls

Time slips by like a snake in liquid dirt. You

try to hold on, but your efforts are wasted like a party

girl. You tell yourself that you will enjoy the time you

have, but it goes by so fast that it is hard to tell that you

had it in the first place.

Every moment you have could be tainted by a

flutter here or there; it is never certain that moments will

become memories.

Time is what makes our life structured. With-

out time we would not have the flow that we call life.

We have a love hate relationship with time for the sim-

ple reason that it goes by too fast or too slow.

When we wish we could freeze time, to stay in

a moment, time goes by in fast motion. When we wish

we could time travel to the future, everything goes by in

the slowest motion possible.

As there are few things certain in our short

existence, death and time passing are those few. Time

may pass, but the feeling of time is never set in stone.

Time could be an acronym for, Trust-In-Manifested-

Emotions. As said before, without time our world would

be completely different.

Without emotions our world would be flip

upside down; no war, no love, no motivation to live. Our

very life is built upon time passing and the emotions that

we scrape up as we drag our fleshly bodies through it.

If you get anything from this article then take

from it that emotions are needed, and okay.

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Senior Profile:

Briana Marquez By: Alma Padilla/ls

On February 6, 1998 in the little O’l town

of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, our soon to be graduating

senior, Briana Marquez, was born.

Briana is the child of Antonio and Glafira

Marquez. She is the 3rd of 4 unique children: Su-

sana 26, Armando 24, and Yesenia 14. Briana or as

they call her, “Bri” is involved in wrestling as a

manager and also plays soccer for KHS.

Bri’s favorite subject is English.

Mrs.Hobza is known for being her favorite teacher

because of her kindness and great personality.

Briana plans on going to college to major

for Special Education. In the future she see’s herself

in college and maybe with a fiance. Her favorite

movie is, The Longest Ride because of the hunk that

stars in it.

Briana’s favorite type of music is Country

and Mexican. Reading and spending time with fami-

ly and friends are some of her hobbies. When it

comes to holidays, Christmas is her favorite and her

favorite place to shop is Rue 21, hint hint. Her fa-

vorite animal is a dog.

Bri drives a nice blue dodge 2010 charger .

Her best friends are Blanca B. Andrea J. and Alma

P.

She is really exited for graduation her ad-

vice to underclassmen is, “Dont wait untill the last

minute to do something.” The thing she will most

miss about KHS is definitely not the food, but her

friends and all the memories that were made here.

Her last words to her fellow seniors class-

mates are “We made it”.

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February 23, 2016

Crushes

vs Obsessions Opinion by: Lisa Baxter/ls

There IS a difference between having a crush

and an obsession. A crush is when you like

someone, and an obsession is when you stalk

the person you are obsessed with and know

everything about them. See, they are not the

same, so here are some things I’m going to be

talking to you people about:

CRUSH

1. You smile/blush when you see them.

2. You blush if they talk to you.

3. You’re nervous around them.

OBSESSION

1. Thinking you like the person you are ob-

sessing over.

2. Stalking them.

3. Finding out where the person lives.

4. Knowing the persons number when it was-

n’t given to you from them.

5. Spending all your time thinking about

them.

6. You spy on the persons friends list.

7. You’ve read all the persons social media

posts.

8. Always dreaming on having a baby with

the person.

9. You think you see them everywhere.

10. You put your name with their last name.

11. You feel extreme hatred for the people

they are with.

12. You create imaginary conversations.

13. You think they are better than everyone

else.

14. You keep pictures of them.

15. You’re always reminded of them.

16. You dress extremely nice for them all the

time.

17. You can never focus.

18. You ignore nice guys/girls.

The Death of Ben Stiller’s Career By: Martin Padilla/kk

First off, I had no idea that Ben Stiller was capable of delivering such trash in a mov-

ie. I mean, I read a lot of reviews for this telling me how bad it was, but I had no idea it was

going to be this bad. I could tell you that this is a big steaming pile of dog poo, but that

would be offensive to dog poo.

From the minute it started I knew it was going to be bad, Justin Bieber was in it for

pete’s sake. I don’t know what was funnier about it, the characters or the plot line. It dragged

on and on and it honestly did not feel at all like I was watching Zoolander. The first Zoolan-

der is hilarious! It’s a good comedy and yes, it’s a little stupid, but it was enjoyable, funny,

and it was original! I feel like Ben Stiller wanted to make a sequel so badly he decided to do

everything on it.

He literally directed, wrote the screenplay, and starred in it.

The only thing I liked about this movie was that Mugatu’s character came back, even

then it was still terrible movie. It was like he was the only actor in the film that could have

made it go by faster and he doesn’t even appear until about a half hour before it ends. I know

sequels are usually never better than the original but this one really proves it. I would rather

slam my tongue in a car door than watch this horrid movie ever again. I expected so much

out of this movie after seeing the first one, but the jokes were dry, the characters were dull,

the plot was almost exactly the same as the first. To top it off Penelope Cruz is in it.

Did I mention Benedict Cumberbatch is in this? Yes, that’s right, this award winning

actor is in what is possibly the worst movie of 2016 so far. And his character is so weird,

freaky even. He looks like the kind of woman that introduces herself with “I’m a vegan”.

Overall this movie is complete garbage. I would say that you should wait for the

dollar rental at Redbox but one dollar is a little outrageous for a movie as stupid and

pointless as this, which is why I give it a D. Although it was terrible, unfortunately I have

seen worse. Don’t waste your money on this.

Flashback -The Best

Game of 2010

Opinion by: Nick Bradford/ss

The best game of 2010, in my op-

tions, is Rockstar’s Red Dead Repetition.

Almost everyone has played this game or at

least heard of it. The game takes place back

in the 20th century when it was lawless and

there were outlaws everywhere.

A follow up to the game Red Dead

Revolver, the game is about former outlaw

John Marston as he tries to save his family

by chasing his former friends and gang by

hunting them and killing them across the

American frontier to find them.

To help you find them you will

meet so new friends like the marshals, some

farmers and the leader of the Mexican Rev.

Then you have some old friends like the

U.S. army and two agents that are keeping

your family until you do what they ask of

you.

The game is an open world envi-

ronment for players to explore. There is a lot

you can do in the game. You can hunt and

sell skins to people, rob people, and kill

people. You can play blackjack, poker, have

a drink, and explore the frontier like you

want to.

The game allows you to go down

your own path. In the eyes of the law you

can be a hero or be an outlaw again by kill-

ing people. Sometimes you kill someone

and the law will put a bounty on you for a

lot of money.

If this happens you can see a lot of

bounty hunters after you. You can tame

horses and get the deed for them so you can

buy and own them.

The game is a lot of fun. It has a

great story behind the game and you will

have a lot of fun playing the game. I wish

they would make another one or put it on

Xbox One or PS4 because the game has

great graphics on it but it might need a little

bit more.

I would really like to see what it

would look like on Xbox One or PS4, but

other then that it was a good game. The end-

ing of the game is bad and if I wrote the

game ending I would have made it better.