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Senior Finals: Blocked ScheduleMay 15: Zero HourMay 18: 3rd, 7th May 19: 4th, 6th May 20: 1st, 5th May 21: 2ndStandard ScheduleMay 15: Zero HourMay 19: 4th, 6th May 20: 3rd, 4th, 5th May 21: 2nd

Final Exam Schedule Underclassmen:May 22: Zero HourMay 22: 5th (altered schedule)May 26: 1st, 2ndMay 27: 3rd, 4stMay 28: 6th, 7th

Senior Graduation Practice: May 22, 8:30 a.m., Back Gym

Senior Baccalaureate Ceremony: May 23, 11 a.m., Windsor Crossing Community Church

Graduation: May 24, 2 p.m. St. Louis University, Chaifetz Arena

Celebration: May 24, 10:30 p.m., Doubletree Hotel

No School: May 25

Last Day of School: May 28

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Karing for Krewson, a barbecue and car

wash on April 25 raised $4,300 for a senior in-

jured over Spring Break.

Many spring sports are winding up their

seasons, but baseball is still in full swing.

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Giving back to the community is integral for clubs like Key Club and National Honor Society.

And now, with the help of seven juniors, students have the opportu-nity to serve those in need in a dif-ferent way.

Recently, Lafayette was selected to establish one of the first Habitat for Humanity high school clubs in the region.

Student and staff volunteers have completed two build sessions with the St. Louis chapter of Habi-tat for Humanity downtown on April 25 and May 9.

Youth Leadership St. LouisAs a part of the year-long in-

ternship with Youth Leadership St. Louis (YLSL), a program that teaches high school students issues that surround a large metropolitan area, participants must organize a project within their school or com-munity.

The project they chose was to

bring a Habitat chapter to LHS.Juniors Cory Clayman, Jes-

sica Dantin, Nowrin Haque, Jontya McKinney, Julia Morris, Gretchen Spanel and Tyrone Stainback are part of YLSL .

“They meet leaders and brain-storm with them on how they ad-dress issues that affect the region: transportation, poverty, rebuilding the city, diversity and overcoming prejudice and stereotypes,” Assis-tant Principal and YLSL sponsor Matt Dieckhaus said.

“Our group wanted to do some-thing big and new. Mr. Dieckhaus suggested a Habitat for Humanity club and we all jumped on the idea because it’s the perfect way to get Lafayette kids involved in the com-munity,” Haque said.

Though the first build dates didn’t occur until April, the group has been busy planning since the beginning of the school year.

Morris said they met weekly to plan advertising, correspond with the Habitat coordinator and get ap-propriate permission to ensure the club would be up and running by the end of the year.

The BuildsBoth builds took place at the same project site, a soon-to-be subdivi-sion in JeffVanderLou that may have up to 80 Habitat homes.

Junior Chase Langan went on the first build date.

He said the day’s project includ-ed laying down decking for three porches and some foundation and flooring jobs.

“I knew it would be a lot of work and it was. But at the same time it went by fast because we were en-joying ourselves. It felt good to help out,” Langan said.

The build experience was differ-ent than expected for some of those who went, though.

Junior Varun Mehrotra said some of Habitat for Humanity’s rules restricted what student vol-unteers could actually do.

“Since we are not 18 years old we were unable to use any of the power tools. It is an insurance issue with Habitat so it was difficult for us to help in certain areas,” Meh-rotra said.

Habitat also requires volunteers to be 16 years of age and restricts

group sizes to 15 student volunteers and four adult chaperones.

The Club’s FutureDieckhaus said summer build dates are currently being discussed, but cannot be guaranteed as everyone has different schedules.

However, once the next school year has started and calendars have been finalized, Dieckhaus said the group will contact Habitat for Hu-manity with several dates when students can volunteer to be a part of a build.

Students will be able to sign up for these dates during lunch in the Commons, as the previous build dates have been done.

“In the first lunch period, within five minutes we had our volun-teers. They flocked up to the stage,” Dieckhaus said.

Morris said to be in the club, stu-dents must attend as many builds as they can, as they represent LHS.

Information concerning builds or Habitat in general can be found at www.habitat.org.

Erik Dauster, News Editor

After being named Lafayette Teacher of the Year in April, sci-ence teacher AnnMarie Gilman was named Rockwood’s High School Teacher of the Year and District Teacher of the Year on May 3.

She said, “I was really excited. It didn’t feel like a competition. I was really happy for everyone there.”

After being selected as High School Teacher of the Year from the four high schools, a committee then selected her to represent the Rock-wood School District as its Teacher of the Year.

She will now move on to the Mis-souri Teacher of the Year competi-

tion. Finalists will be announced in August.

Gilman was overwhelmed by the honor.

She said, “I think it (the award) is because of the personal connec-tions I have made with students over the years. I really do care about them. I try to inspire them and reflect back what they have given me.”

Gilman said she cares more about her students as individuals than grades.

Senior Julie Wrocklage said, “Mrs. Gilman has helped us in a huge way as one of our sponsors for Campus Christian Fellowship.”

“It doesn’t matter what she’s

dealing with in her own life, she al-ways puts her students first. I can just tell that she genuinely cares about each and every one of her students,” she said.

Wrocklage also said Gilman makes Human Anatomy very un-derstandable for her students.

Principal John Shaughnessy said, “It is a well deserved honor.”

He added, “She truly represents the best of the best.”

Shaughnessy said, “Her genu-ine care for her students is evident. She is a great representation of not only the school, but the district as well.”

Gilman said, “The whole experi-ence has really humbled me.”

Gilman earns Rockwood Teacher of the Year honorsKara Campbell, Staff Reporter

Highest HonorSuperintendant Craig Larson and Board of Education President Rao Kaza awards Gilman at the Rose Awards on May 3.

Photo courtesy of AnnMarie Gilman

Hammering HardGetting ready to build the front porch of the house juniors Chase Langan, Varun Mehrotra, Scott Bowerman and Anthony Meldrum listen intently to building manager Bill McHugh for directions.

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On a Friday after school, I have real-ized I am able to go home, sleep for a couple hours, wake up, and then in-stantly know where my friends are, so then I could just drive to meet up with them at Steak n’ Shake, or the mall, or the theatre.

All I have to do is text them, or Facebook them – or check their co-ordinates via the GPS in their cars.

I mean, you virtually cannot get away from anyone.

It’s almost as if we have tagged ourselves to some social radar that it is impossible to fly over or below.

Look around, people are always on Facebook. People are always texting. People are always on the phone. People are always using some form of communication to be in touch with their friends...

Now let’s wind the clocks back around 35 years ago. What would you find?

Most likely, you’d find a mess of kids hanging out around a pool hall, or a burger place, or a baseball field, probably just hanging out – enjoy-ing their life and their friends.

Who are these kids? Our par-ents. What do our parents all have in common? They spent their youth sans-iPhones and MySpace.

They spent their afternoons driving around with each other, just making the best memories they possibly could with what they had.

And that is what a decade like the ‘70’s has over ours.

Music, lifestyle, discipline – the

times have changed; drastically.The sounds of Zeppelin and the

Stones are quickly fading, replaced by the technologically altered voic-es of Rihanna and Chris Brown.

I was shocked when people in my class were unable to answer,‘who is Mick Jagger?’

And what do I attribute this ‘rev-olution’ to?

Technology and over-parenting.Kids our age let technology

dominate their life, and I am 100 percent one of those kids.

iTunes, texting and Halo are three things I do most at my house.

Imagine traveling through time, right into That ‘70’s Show, and ask-ing Eric Foreman to do any of those things.

“Why is that ‘i’ there? You mean like a text book? Like, an angel’s halo?”

Those are just a few of many re-sponses you’d get from people who are completely unfamiliar with how the youth of America get around today.

Now, the technology aspect of our lifestyle is completely our fault.

We let it dominate us.However, over-parenting is not

our doing.For all the parents out there,

this is just a disclaimer. You are not a bad parent, and I am not accusing you of domestic blasphemy.

Now, with that said, I feel there are way too many of my friends who make decisions strictly because

their parents might get ‘upset,’ or they will get ‘in trouble.’

Hey, parents, the life you had when you were teenagers was awesome, wasn’t it?

Let us have some fun. Take a step back from your 17 year old’s life, and trust that they will make the right decision.

And if they don’t, they learn from it. It was at least a decision they made on their own.

When our parents were teen-agers, there was a huge amount of disconnect from the personalities and the attitudes of their parents, than us to ours.

And that can be attributed to the depression and World War II, which were realities that our grand-parents lived through.

They saw America on its knees, and acquired an attitude neces-sary at a young age to survive. My grandpa was working on his own at age 15.

Just imagine. That would be three years ago for me. I barely work now.

My parents and my aunts and uncles always tell me about the life they had when they were teenagers, and how different it was from now.

From the stories I have heard, not just from my parents, but my friends’ parents also, our grandpar-ents were unaware of a lot of things that happened in our parent’s life.

However the times have changed, it is still on us to maxi-

mize the enjoyment we have now.This is still high school, and

it will always be some of the best memories that we have – but those aren’t the nights that I spent at home Facebook chatting, or tex-ting.

The weekends in high school that I look back and say that I en-joyed the most, feature my friends and I driving around, stumbling around a pumpkin patch, going to Red Robin, or meeting up at the football game.

It was when we sat around someone’s basement making jokes and memories.

It was never when we were too worried about what we are going to make of our weekend, and it sure never was when I was texting or ‘Facebooking’ someone.

To all the underclassmen, make the most of the time with your friends, because it is fleeting.

Lafayette is filled with students striving to make a difference. There is even a banner in the upstairs hallway that proclaims, “Through these halls walk the finest students in the nation.”

The various service-oriented groups, like National Honor Soci-ety and Key Club, boast members in the triple digits.

Diversity Alliance, which has goals related to making a difference for students, also calls to a large group of students ready to act for the benefit of others.

In every hallway, students have posted Amnesty International fly-ers advertising their causes.

Recently, students established a club to work on service projects in conjunction with the St. Louis chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

With so many different organi-zations available, it’s no surprise

students take advantage of the op-portunities and help to make a dif-ference.

But what about these “fine stu-dents” when they’re sleeping until noon, eating cereal for every meal but breakfast and throwing away the school year’s hard-earned knowledge?

How are they maintaining their servitude during the dog-days of summer?

There certainly are Lafayette students who don’t let their sum-mers go to waste. Many have part-

time jobs, extensive travel plans and, of course, AP summer work.

But most people involved in community service groups at school spend substantially less time in the summer focused on volunteering.

Some students keep up their philanthropic attitudes by joining community service groups that are not school-sponsored, and others go on some type of mission trip during the summer.

But most students, in the past, at least, let their service responsi-bilities slip away like school duties.

So, fellow Fine Lafayette Stu-dents, we at the Image challenge you to take full advantage of this summer by helping better your community.

Don’t let the hard work and ser-vice you provided slip away just be-cause of the season.

There are plenty of ways to get

involved in public service activities that are not school related.

Sure, you might not get points or hours for the work you do over the summer. You will, however, get the same sense of accomplishment by knowing you can make an impact.

Most students would agree wak-ing up early to go to a service proj-ect or giving up a Saturday to vol-unteer is no fun. But the experience is well worth the sacrificed time.

Let’s face it; most of us in the summer have time to sacrifice.

Enjoy your summer, Lafayette. Enjoy lounging, making some money and going on trips.

But while you’re forgetting liter-ary elements and scientific formu-las, don’t forget the charitable spirit we work so hard to promote.

Continue to be the “Finest Stu-dents in the Nation” even when you aren’t walking through these halls.

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stars & gripes

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gripes to:

•The beginning of the end of the school year. Seniors have only one week left, and the rest of the student body has two, as we can all feel summer bearing down upon us.

•The Class of 2009. Your charm, good looks and wit will be missed, but the parking spaces you take up will not.

•AP Examinations con-clude today. One down, one to go for students cramming last minute facts into their heads. Next up? Finals.

•Rockwood Board of Education for approving an introductory Chinese Language and Culture course for the Fall 2009 Semester. Looks like Rockwood joins the fight to become a global district.

•Lafayette’s very own AnnMarie Gilman for win-ning Rockwood’s District Teacher of the Year award. It’s been a tough year for Mrs. Gilman, and we think she has earned this distinction.

•Honor Cords are free this year. At least a new senior perk has been established this year to replace all of the lost ones, listed below in the gripes section.

•Prom tickets sold for $140 per couple. We were just hoping perhaps the meal would live up to the price tag; alas, we were let down.

•The re-working of the EOC exam schedule that somehow managed to make seniors come to school on time. If senioritis wasn’t already bad enough, even more grumblings could be heard from the senior hallway.

•The bus provided for the senior field trip to Busch Stadium broke down. What happened to senior perks this year?

•Somalian pirates off the coast of Africa. Remember when Barack Obama pledged to end piracy? Too bad it has been around for centu-ries and doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere soon.

•”Power of Purple” day on Apr. 17 in support of the Relay for Life event. Too bad the administra-tion was wearing purple on the same day Diver-sity Alliance promoted wearing red for a Day of Silence, which intends to promote rights for homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals.

•Swine flu. Thanks for scaring the bacon out of all of us. Literally.

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“I will be able to get out closer to my

parking spot.”

“When the construc-tion is done it will be

a positive thing for me and the school.

Right now it is a hassle. ”

“It is going to give students a new li-

brary and is going to make more room for other classes, which

is a good thing.”

ZachEbert

JakeWilliamson

AllyBraisier

JuliaJudlin

“Not at all because it won’t be done in three

weeks so it won’t affect me.”

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Jared Anderson

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Editor

.Rockwood’s report card: A long-awaited vengeanceOver the past 13 years, I have re-ceived approximately 35 report cards and progress reports in the mail from three different schools within the Rockwood School Dis-trict.

While these slips of paper have been marked with what I’d like to think are pretty good grades, they have also been obnoxiously punc-tual and annoying.

Turnabout is fair play. So after 13 years of receiving report cards from the district, I’d like to dish out one of my own using the same A to F scale Rockwood has used for me.

Keep one thing in mind, as it’s often skewed within Rockwood: C is average, not bad.

Academics: B+What is a school without aca-

demics, subjects to learn from? Within the classroom, at every level, Rockwood has succeeded in personally allowing me to academi-cally learn.

Every subject, from math to practical arts has been extensively covered. Even if I haven’t always exerted my best effort, I’ve had every opportunity to academically excel.

Atmosphere/Culture: C+ In my early days of education at Chesterfield Elementary, learning both inside the class and out was cultivated carefully.

We took field trips, we had re-cess, and we took the time to de-velop our EQ as well as our IQ.

But as I ventured through mid-dle school, learning outside the classroom virtually evaporated.

Other than learning how to dance before my 8th grade dance, I learned nothing from Rockwood Valley in terms of EQ. It was just a

middle school. Once I reached this campus, I

was refreshed with some new ex-periences outside the classroom, but my desires for cultural diversity were not met.

I never met anyone very inter-esting and different from myself, and that’s a byproduct of a lack of personal effort.

Regardless, diversity wasn’t re-ally fostered too much here.

Athletics: A-If you want to get involved in

athletics within this district, you are certainly more than able to.

Rockwood sponsors youth vol-leyball and basketball teams from fourth up through eighth grade, and Lafayette offers 23 varsity sports at the high school level, not to men-tion numerous junior varsity and freshman levels of competition.

Not every sport cuts players, and we aren’t bad at sports, either. Lafayette teams maintain consis-tent success, and athletes must keep up in the classroom and in the community as well in order to par-ticipate in athletics.

Activities: BOutside of the sports world, ac-

tivities within the district are high enough in number to get involved inside the school and within the community as well, especially once you reach high school.

We’ve all heard the speech about getting involved, and some students have really listened.

Unfortunately, it seems as though it’s the same small group of students who are involved in all the leadership positions in all the clubs.

Participation isn’t very wide-spread.

Teachers/Staff: BI’ve been pretty satisfied

with the quality of my teachers within this district.

I’ve been able to learn from the majority of instructors I’ve been in class with, though I’ve also slept through my fair share of lectures.

It’s clear that teachers who aren’t capable or have burned out, for the most part, have been disposed of.

But at the same time, teach-ers who have felt underpaid have left the district to make more money in another district. We’ve lost some high quality teachers be-cause they’re underpaid.

Curriculum: A 22 AP classes are offered at

LHS. This high number speaks to the high quality of our staff and our motivated student body, as well as our innovative capability to stretch our academic influence across a wide area of school. It’s not often that such a high number of advanced courses are offered at a public high school.

Various other honors courses can be taken, along with a wide va-riety of both core and art classes.

Students here have the oppor-tunity to learn from the best public curriculum in the area, and for this, curriculum earns the only outright A on my report card.

Students: C+I’ve been preaching opportunity

this whole column, but it still comes as no surprise to me that some stu-dents wasted their time in Rock-wood, especially in high school.

Sure there are distractions, and sure, these distractions have af-fected me too, but as a student body

we’re still pretty average as far as taking advantage of opportunities goes.

Every so often when I walk through the halls, I see students and I have no choice but to wonder about their future potential.

Preparedness for future: BWhen all is said and done, the

main purpose of the public educa-tion system in this country is to pre-pare its students for their futures.

Rockwood has succeeded in this goal for me. I feel like I am more than capable now to attend college and become that all familiar pro-ductive member of society.

But more important than being productive, Rockwood has helped me realize that happiness isn’t just getting that six figure salary job or that sleek sports car and house in Suburbia. I’ve realized that happi-ness is doing what you like and do-ing it the right way.

Overall: BAnd so, using the non-weighted

grade point scale, Rockwood School District earns a solid B average. It’s been a long 13 years here, but it’s time for me to move on. For those of you who read my column, I thank you humbly. Over and Out.

Students voice concerns over tanning, new lawDear Editor,I enjoy reading this paper and

am usually extremely pleased with what I see in it.

However, as I looked through the last edition of the Image I was ap-palled to see many advertisements for tanning salons in the paper.

The district sends representa-tives from SPOT and other pro-grams to teach us about the dangers of overexposure to tanning.

In fact, the program advises against tanning at all and advocates tanning lotions and other alternate ways to get tan.

If the district supports these programs enough to send them to our classes, then Rockwood must

support the program’s messages. If this is true, they why does the

Image support these businesses by letting them advertise in our pa-per?

Sincerely, Hannah Boxerman

Dear Editor, There is an international law be-

ing discussed at this very moment that’s going to outrage everybody who values the Constitution as we know it if passed. This agreement is called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement or better known as ACTA. This law will allow un-warranted searches of computers,

cell phones, and even iPods. For what you ask? To prevent

piracy. Yes, bootlegging is a problem,

but is it really such a threat that it needs to involve random searches of ipods and personal computers?

The Obama administration won’t even allow us to understand more about ACTA, other than if you’re entering or leaving any country under this treaty, border officials can confiscate and search every single file on your computer or ipod.

Obama says not letting the de-tails out is a matter of national se-curity.

This is the very justification

President Bush had for the Patriot Act. ACTA doesn’t even go after Brazil, Russia or China, the 3 big-gest music bootlegging countries in the world.

Why is it, that when Bush did something, the whole media jumps all over him and everybody calls him a fascist, but if Obama does basically the same thing for an even more foolish reason, not to mention more widespread since it’s a treaty, nobody talks about it?

Maybe we need to think about that.

Sincerely, Garett Rosswick

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With the success of recently opened busi-nesses the Wildwood Town Center will fur-ther its attempts to urbanize Wildwood by adding a new theater.

The theatre property will be owned by B&B Theaters, a family owned and operated chain that started in 1924.

B&B is the 29th largest theater company in the US and has locations in Kansas, Mis-souri and Oklahoma.

“This theater is being designed to be com-pletely digital. All 10 screens will have digital projection and sound. Many of the theaters will be 3-D capable and all will be wired so that they can not only be used for movies, but for meetings, conferences and other live events,” Dennis McIntire, St. Louis B&B rep-resentative, said.

This also means the theater will be able to host events such as Xbox tournaments.

“Gamers love the idea of competing on the 50 foot screen,” McIntire said.

The theater’s opening date is sometime between the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010. It will be located on the southwest corner of Fountain Place and Main Street in the Wildwood Town Center.

Joining B&B Theaters will be Table 3, a restaurant to be located on the Northeast corner of Fountain Place and Main Street.

“The city is very excited about the pros-pects of its growing downtown entertainment district,” Joe Vujnich, Wildwood Town Cen-ter Planning Director, said.

He added, “With a theater, the Town Center will have an attraction that will bring people to it at night, which will add vitality and improve conditions for complementary businesses already located there.”

Wildwood home to new theater

Caleb Cavarretta, Staff Reporter

Phase One:Construction back on trackThe first of three phases of construction is due to be finished near the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year, which means there is more to come.

“The goal is to have 10 classrooms done by August, and the Library/Media Center done by first quarter,” Principal John Shaughnessy said.

In regards to the weather delays, Shaughnessy says that the construction is back on track.

“Now that they have the roof on the new con-struction and they have poured the concrete on the first and second floor, weather is not going to be an issue,” he said.

“The only issue that is going to come into play is if the deliveries do not come on time,” Shaugh-nessy continued.

A new development was also recently created concerning the walkway from the main building to the new addition.

“Part of the new construction is connecting the new building to the existing building where there was already an outside wall with outside windows that try to preserve the natural light,” Shaughnessy said.

“That will create a nice courtyard where we will be able to plant some trees and have a walk-way,” he said.

Not only will the structure of the building change, but the walkway leading to the new ad-dition will be switching to brick.

“We would have a fundraiser for our school offering those bricks to families who would like to purchase a brick and engrave their child’s name and class on it,” Shaughnessy said.

Unfortunately, the new walkway was not

originally paid for in the $74.5 million bond. “The difference is going to be made up within

the existing budget. I just have to move it around from different allocations,” Shaughnessy said.

But phase one, which includes the construc-tion and the new atrium area, are only the begin-ning portions of this project.

The second phases job will renovate the old library and turn it into classrooms.

The third phase, on the other hand, will re-move the trailers, build new varsity locker rooms, a new elevator and a new recreation center.

The second and third phases of construction are likely to take much more time, but they are not supposed to affect class.

“You’re probably looking at a good nine months [for phase two to be done],” Shaugh-nessy said.

He continued, “You’re looking at three years before it is all said and done.”

However, Assistant Superintendent Dennis Griffith said the third phase of construction is projected to be finished by fall of 2010.

Shaughnessy also acknowledged teachers lo-cated in trailers.

“At this point, what I am telling the teachers is that if you are in a trailer right now expect that is where you will be at the beginning of the year,” Shaughnessy said.

Language arts teacher Tracy Gladden is look-ing forward to having better access to technol-ogy inside the building compared to her trailer, even if Shaughnessy is not promising anything.

“We just don’t have access to the technology used inside the school,” Gladden said.

Gladden said, “We just make do and get by, and do with what we have.”

National Merit The following 18 stu-dents from the Class of 2010 were named Na-tional Merit Commended Students: Teresa Avila, Joshua Bring, Collin Bueckendorf, Michael Catanzaro, Cory Clay-man, Alexander Creely, Timothy Flavin, Nowrin Haque, Christine Hibler, Richard Holekamp, Mar-tin Kamper, Jessica Krull, Kelly Lacey, Gretchen Spanel, Matthew Terneus, Rachel Thorley, Brian Turlington and Marta Wells.

Semifinalists are an-nounced in September.

In addition, Seniors Laura Dick, Laura Hamrick, Cindy Solomon and Wendy You were named as National Merit Finalists and received $2,500 National Merit scholarships.

Class ElectionsOfficers for the 2009-2010 Senior Class will be Gasper Gasperlin, president; Mary Buttram, vice president; Jimmy Cole, secretary; and Graham Lauff, treasurer. Junior Class officers will be Maddie Johnson, president; Kelsey Hab-erberger, vice president; Nicole Belinsky, secre-tary; and Kristin Skubic, treasurer. The officers for the Sophomore Class will be Jean-Luc Panchot, president; Maddie Van House, vice president; Kelsey Clayman, secre-tary; and Dominic Bisesi, treasurer.

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Senior Ty Krewson, who suffered broken vertebrae after a Spring Break accident, has been located back in St. Louis and removed from “critical status.”

“He is back in St. Louis at St. John’s [hospital],” Principal John Shaughnessy said. “He is not in critical status, but is still in ICU.”

Krewson has been on the minds of many this spring, and there has been no hiding the care and affec-tion the student body has given the Krewson family.

The Karing for Krewson fund-raiser, held April 25, showed that.

FACS Department Chair Lori Sanders said, “$4,300 plus $1,200 from softball was raised.”

According to sponsors, the Kar-ing for Krewson car wash was noth-ing short of a success.

“We were busy the whole time. [We] washed maybe 40-50 cars,

and grilled maybe 500 hotdogs and hamburgers. Some people were donating $100 for a car wash, and some were paying $20 for two hot dogs,” Sanders said.

“Someone even donated $250 for a car wash,” she said.

The Community Service class has continued its outreach for the family by selling fundraising T-shirts at lunch.

“We have money coming in for the T-shirts, Key Club just donated a $200 check and families are still donating,” Sanders said.

Alongside the money raised by Karing for Krewson, Lanc-ers Landing raised $281 for Ty’s cause through their Big Give, which Shaughnessy and the Lancer Parent Organization (LPO) have matched.

“We had 36 unique nominations [for charities]. There were many good charities on the ballot, and it was very clear the students rallied around Ty,” Susan Buttram, a gen-

eral manager of Lancers Landing, said.

“It’s an effort to get the kids in-volved in something outside them-selves,” Buttram added.

All of the money being donated goes directly to the family, who is “very appreciative of thoughts and efforts,” Shaughnessy said. “They are pretty low-key, and we want to be respectful of priva-cy,” Shaughnessy said.

The family has, however, been providing the school with updates on his status to keep everyone in-formed.

“I have been in contact about once a week with the parents,” Shaughnessy said.

“It’s going to be a long recovery, but we still plan on him graduating. He has been breathing on his own, which will increase the physical therapy.”

With out-of-school opportunities offered through colleges like Wash-ington University, Webster Uni-versity, University of Missouri-Co-lumbia and the Center of Creative Arts (COCA), it’s hard not to find somewhere to get involved over the summer.

Gifted Counselor Caroline Podgornik said, “[Colleges] are not necessarily looking for a certain kind of community service, they are looking for more of a thread that is consistent and matches up with the interests of the student.”

And that is quite a bit of what Partners in Education (PIE)-spon-sored Project Interface works on.

Project Interface allows students to learn about careers in fields such as accounting, computer technol-ogy, journalism, law, marketing, medicine, pharmaceuticals and public relations.

“Students are partnered with a business professional in their area

of interest. Students then complete a custom-designed project devel-oped with the business partner,” Linda Souder, Project Interface Fa-cilitator, said.

“Successful students receive ½ of a practical arts credit after docu-menting a minimum of 75 hours on their projects,” Souder continued.

Project Interface offers a session for students during the summer be-fore or during their senior year.

PIE also offers a one day career shadowing opportunity for students where they are again partnered with a business partner in order to observe their field of curiosity.

There are also many college-run opportunities that are open to LHS students, all posted outside of guid-ance counselor Emily Lee’s office.

“There is a pharmacy internship through Walgreens. You actually get to go to the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy for one week and then be in a Walgreens pharmacy one week. You get paid over a thousand dollars for doing that,” Lee said.

She also mentioned the Stu-dents and Teachers as Research Scientists (STARS) program which is a six week program where sopho-mores and juniors can participate in science research projects.

Senior Kyle Beiser is currently enrolled in Washington Univer-sity’s Mini Medical School.

“We have learned everything from Alzheimer’s disease to aller-gies and the science behind it all,” Beiser said. “Medical schools like to see determination and ambition. Doing things like this will help. It [the Mini Med Program] provides experience, leadership maybe, but really it’s just reinforced my deci-sion to be a doctor and to follow what I want to do because it is all really interesting.”

Even if career shadowing and college camps are not appealing, getting involved in the community is also a draw on a college resume.

Podgornik said, “I define lead-ership as people who actually take charge and take care of what needs

to be done, so I see leadership and community service as kind of inter-twined because you do take a stake in the community and you know something needs to be done and you take advantage of that oppor-tunity.”

Senior Cindy Solomon did just that. She said, “I found a few things I was passionate about and did a lot with them. For example, I love reading, so I volunteered heavily at the library.”

Solomon continued, “I was in-terested in engineering, so I became more involved in Robotics this year, and even though I certainly wasn’t an integral member of the team, I learned a lot from it.”

Senior Laura Dick also offered some advice on college resumes.

She said, “Get involved. The re-sume is really about what you do. Pick some clubs and activities, get really involved with a few of them, and keep track of what you do. It [the resume] is just a way of show-ing what you’ve done.”

Summer opportunities abundant for studentsMax Thoman, Staff Reporter

Alex Davis, Editor-in-Chief

The Krewson KrewThe cars keep coming, as senior Rachel Simon washes a car for the Karing for Krewson car wash on April 25. Over $5,500 has been raised for the Krewson family through all fundraising efforts.

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Swine FluH1N1, more com-monly known as swine flu, is an influenza first detected in April, 2009. In response to the outbreak, Rockwood has made the follow-ing additions to the student health policy: Students with flu-like symptoms must stay home for seven school days, or 24 hours after their symptoms have disap-peared, whichever comes later. If the student feels better before the end of seven days, he or she will need written confimation from a doctor that states he or she is negative for the flu before return-ing to school. More information concerning H1N1 and how to stay healthy can be found at the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion (CDC) web site, www.cdc.gov.

ChryslerDaimler Chrysler has announced its plans to lease its pickup as-sembly plant, located in Fenton.

This will have a significant on the Rockwood School Dis-trict, as Chrysler is the district’s top taxpayer and accounts for 3.35 percent of all tax revenue.

According to bank-ruptcy documents, the plant can be leased as early as Septem-ber, when it could cease its operations completely.

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The history of gaming goes as far back as over sized gaming consoles when gamers were gathering quarters from under their couches to play in dark, air conditioned arcades.

Fast forward to the E3 gaming conven-tion in 2002 where the developers at Mi-crosoft Xbox announce the release of Xbox ‘Live’, an online gaming community.

Now with the release of the Xbox 360 in 2006, Xbox ‘Live’ has grown and pro-gressed into a community that connects gamers from 26 countries all over the world to duel it out in an endless number of games available for the Xbox 360.

“It (Xbox Live) allows you to interact with other players and tests your skill against other skilled players and also adds a very large element of gameplay and re-play ability to games, making the 60 dol-lars you pay more worth it,” sophomore and avid Live player Joe Longo said.

Putting in 15-20 hours a week playing online Longo admits, “What can I say? I’m addicted.”

Last October, Longo took part in a Ma-jor League Gaming (MLG) tournament in Dallas, Texas.

“My team and I went for Halo 3. All three other players I met on Xbox Live. One of them was a local that lives about

30 minutes away from here, and we rode the plane together down to Dallas where we met the other two teammates that we both had played with and practiced with for a few weeks,” Longo said.

“One lived in Georgia and the other lived in Michigan I believe,” he said.

Meeting people online can lead to long lasting relationships either by forming “clans” (or teams) or just en-joying playing online with one another, Longo said.

“I’ve tried clans before and find that most people in clans are bad. I’ve been invited to very prominent clans and de-clined,” Longo said.

“I talk to about seven or eight people daily on live,” freshman Alex Verde said.

“I have one guy that I’ve known for four years that I like a lot,” Longo said.

‘Live’ allows each member to create their own friends list that alerts them when friends are online and what games they are playing

For sports games such as NCAA, Mad-den or other sports related titles, there is the option of competing throughout an entire season with friends online.

“About eight of us made it through five seasons of competing against each other for the conference championship and re-cruits,” junior Nathan Perry said.

Perry played with several students

from Lafayette including senior Jordan Levy and juniors Kyle Blocker, Brad Mo-derhack, Kurt Taphorn, Brandon Graft and Tyler Werre.

“There is a lot of trash talking and heckling between each other especially about the recruits we sign,” Perry added, “Champion of the league was me.”

Sophomore Ryan Siebert plays about 10 hours a week on the 2006 game of the year Gears of War. He said, “When I am sitting at my house with nothing to do there is nothing better than sitting with some candy and playing some Xbox Live with my friends.”

Siebert used to be part of the clan “Dboys” that consisted of several friends on ‘Live’.

“Being a host and getting chain sawed or two-pieced by some newb that has only been playing the game for a week frus-trates me so much I punch my T.V. and yell,” Siebert said.

Longo’s main frustrations include, “getting cheated or when people think they’re better than you.”

Another common frustration on ‘Live’ is the latency caused by poor internet con-nections between users.

With the constant release of new games available to play on ‘Live,’ gamers are able to constantly access new experiences.

“There’s really no telling what’s to come with constant advancements in the video game world, but I expect great things,” Longo said.

•Members across 26 countries • $49.99 per year •Customizable avatars •Downloadable content•Xbox Live Arcade •Stream movies with Netflix •World-wide rankings

Caution: Gamer in ActionIn the middle of a Gears of War match, sophomore Ryan Seibert races for the sniper rifle. Even though Gears of War was released and named game of the year in 2006, it is still widely played.


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Students utilize online community as alternate social networking device

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Many seniors prepare for an end to their high school career looking forward to col-lege. However, some students have unique plans after high school.

According to the Lafayette’s College Career Center, 95 percent of last year’s graduating seniors attended a two or four year college. This number is based upon the number of final transcript release forms sent to colleges.

College Counselor Chris Ramsay be-lieves the number will be almost identical for this year’s class.

Ramsay said, “The other five percent of graduating seniors consist mostly of those who have plans to work full time.”

“We also do have a few students who have plans to participate in an abroad program and will take a year after high school to travel internationally,” he said.

This is the case for senior Liza Levko, who will travel to Israel in September.

Levko said, “I will learn to speak He-brew conversationally for half the year. Then I will live on a Kibbutz, which is a small farming community, for the rest of the year. “

“I wanted to take a year off from school and decompress,” she said.

Levko is currently undecided about what she will study in school. She wants to go into fashion-business, but is also in-terested in history.

She said, “Traveling will help me in the long run because I will be learning another language. Also I will be more cul-turally aware. I will leave my West County

bubble and find something bigger out there.”

Levko is excited to get in touch with her Judaism and connect to Is-rael, which is a big part of her life. She is ready to take a year off for herself.

“I’m really excited to meet great people and have great experiences. I’m not too scared about leaving home; there is just an ocean in be-tween me and my family instead of land. It’ll be the same as if I was leaving for college,” she said.

While Levko is planning to travel, an-other senior has chosen to postpone col-lege for a different passion: sports.

Senior Andy Simpson will play Junior hockey, most likely for the St. Louis Ban-dits.

The team will pay for Simpson’s hous-ing and will give him money for food each week. Simpson intends to play for this travel team for a couple of years.

“Most kids start playing college hockey when they are 21 years old. I have to de-velop my skills more. Most students do not make a college hockey team when they come in as true freshmen,” Simpson said.

Simpson views his decision as an op-portunity to grow, both as a hockey player and an individual.

Simpson will learn how to live on his own, in addition to playing for a competi-tive hockey team.

Simpson said, “I think I will be an en-gineer, but I’m just taking my time. My parents support my decision as long as

I go to college eventually. Depending on how things turn out, I could play hockey as a career.”

At the moment, Simpson has no idea where he will go to college. He just fin-ished his season with the Triple A Junior Blues.

“Overall, education is my priority, but I’d like to have hockey in my life as well. I don’t think I will regret going to college later considering that I won’t be going to school with my friends anyway,” Simpson said.

Unlike Levko and Simpson, senior Cory Shaw has no intention of attending college. Shaw plans to work full-time, and will try to find an internship or full-time job this summer.

Shaw said, “I don’t think I belong in school; I shouldn’t be in a classroom. Bookwork, essays and due dates aren’t re-ally my thing.”

“I should be doing something hands on. I like seeing how to do something and then doing it instead of being told how to do it,” Shaw said.

Shaw currently works at Oberweis, but wants to find a job that he can turn into a

future career. He has considered going to Wildwood

Community College and getting a two-year degree, but has not taken any action yet.

Shaw said, “I keep getting questions about where I’m going to school. I’ve got nothing; I haven’t even taken the ACT yet. I just know that I want to do something sports oriented and that I’m good with people.”

Although the current economy is in a crisis, and jobs are hard to find, Shaw is not worried about being hired.

Shaw said, “If the interviewer talks to me, he will know that I am a good guy and won’t slack off.”

His parents support his decision, but would also support him if he went to col-lege.

“Right now my parents are game for anything, whether I get a job or go to school. They don’t want to waste the money for school though if I won’t put the effort in,” Shaw said.

The college counselors can help stu-dents such as Levko, Shaw and Simpson. Ramsay’s expertise is in college counsel-ing, but understands that every student has their own individual plan.

He said, “There are many factors as to why a student may have to wait to begin their college career. I encourage all stu-dents to simply continue their education and this can be done in a variety of ways.

“I believe that college is not for every-one, but some form of education or train-ing past a high school diploma is essential in our current economy,” Ramsay said.

Seniors choose college alternativesKendall Brewer, Staff Reporter

I don’t think I belong in school; I shouldn’t be in a classroom. Book-work, essays and due dates aren’t

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Breaking away from the norm

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Every student dreads reading a long, bor-ing book they just can’t seem to get into, even when they know they will have a quiz over it on Monday.

Nonetheless, students are required to read, and teachers are required to cover specific books in the curriculum.

So how does the district determine what books out of the entire literary can-on are important to read?

Rockwood Language Arts Coordina-tor Kathy Ryan said, “Books selected for the curriculum are chosen by a commit-tee of 16 teachers- four from each high school. Books are selected to match a course emphasis or theme and to give students a broad exposure to classic and contemporary works.”

“Some classic works are significant be-cause reading them is the mark of an edu-cated person. One can hear references to Poe and Shakespeare on the Simpsons for example. Besides, literature is one of the ways we make sense of our lives and the challenges we face. Reading widely en-ables students to develop broader percep-tions and connections,” Ryan said.

There’s no doubt that every student has different likes and dislikes of books from their peers.

From there comes the question as to whether or not students learn better with the freedom to choose what they want to read.

Junior Sara Holmes said students would benefit from the ability to choose to a certain extent.

“As long as it [the book] is a good enough length and has some literary val-ue,” she said.

On the other hand, senior Devan Du-pre feels students choosing on their own would be a terrible idea.

He said, “Those that fall behind and don’t like to read would be screwed be-cause there would not be discussion on their individual book.”

Sophomore Yasmeen Ashkar agrees with Holmes.

She said, “We have different interests and some books in class may not catch our attention.”

Even teachers can have difficulty teach-

ing certain books. Language Arts teacher, Melissa Noel

said, “the students aren’t self-motivated to read the book (Heart of Darkness); they find it agonizing and laborious to wade through. While I find it to be a re-markable piece of art and literature, they find it tedious.”

Student interaction with literature is key to helping students understand a cer-tain piece.

Language Arts teacher Meghan Salmi said required literature is filled with rich and quality writing that teaches great les-sons.

These books, “induce insightful dis-cussions and elevate students’ thinking. Not to say that choice reading doesn’t do these things, but the teacher witnesses it more when classes read as a whole,” Salmi said.

But every teacher is different, just like their students.

Language Arts teacher Melissa Schu-macher said that she likes giving students the ability to choose, “because they can-not blame me if they do not like the book. Truthfully, most students will compre-hend more and read more if they like what they are reading.”

Ryan compares teacher selections to vegetables.

“You know that [books and vegetables] are good for you but you like a little vari-ety too … To answer your question about under which conditions students do bet-ter- I would give the edge to students hav-ing some choice in what they read. But students facing the open question on the AP exam are probably pretty happy their teacher made them eat vegetables before having dessert,” she said.

Teachers hope students learn from whatever literary piece they are required to read.

Even if they may not particularly enjoy the book, teachers still want students to still get the meaning behind the book.

Language Arts Department Chair Col-leen Fields said, “The importance of what Language Arts teachers do, whether it is with required texts or texts of choice, is to lead students to deeper meaning and understanding of the human story that is literature.”

Brooke Thibodaux, Features Editor

My favorite was Catcher in the Rye because I loved the story line and the character went through a lot of things people here have to deal with. So it was relatable.

Romeo and Juliet was the best because it had a lot of action and it wasn’t like I thought it was going to be.

Heart of Darkness was the worst because it is so dense. I can’t believe that the book is our level.

The worst was Jane Eyre because who wants to hear about a 19th century girl’s relationship problems?

To Kill a Mockingbird was the worst because it was so long and way too drawn out. I didn’t like how Tom was killed because he was my favorite character.

Carli Bisesi, 12

Rachel Thorley, 11

Ryan Jones, 9

Shawn Brands, 12

Thomas Swoboda, 10

The Image asked students: What is your favorite or least favorite book you have read during your time at Lafayette?

WOULDYOUR GRADE GOLiterary content affects student performance

Junior Tate Herrmann will be travel-ing from Wisconsin to New Jersey and everywhere in between with 250 young band members.

Herrmann has been selected to be part of Phantom Regiment, a regiment that travels across the country perform-ing in marching band competitions.

“There are ages from 16 to 21, it’s a marching band, except there are a lot of instruments missing. It’s just brass, percussion and color guard. We’ll tour around this summer and compete with other drum corps. We are going every-where,” Tate Herrmann said.

Herrmann has been interested in music since she started playing trumpet in the middle school band.

“Tate first showed an interest in mu-sic in 6th grade when the option was open as an elective. She joined the marching band her freshman year,” Tate’s moth-er, Rebecca Herrmann, said.

She learned about Phantom Regi-ment while in the Lafayette Regiment.Herrmann’s former section leader Amanda Ehrhardt, class of 2007, marched with Phantom Regiment last summer.

“Her Facebook status was ‘PR World Champions’ and I was like ‘I want to see what that is’,” Tate Herrmann said.

After finding out about this selective regiment, Herrmann did a little research before she considered auditioning.

“I had no idea what Phantom Regi-ment of Drum Corp International was.

We discussed it and decided that we didn’t have anything to lose by audi-tioning. We knew that kids came from all over the world to audition and she is very young to make the regiment,” Re-becca Herrmann said.

Once Herrmann auditioned, she had to continue on to Phantom Regiment’s monthly camps in Beloit, WI.

“We started practicing in November and one weekend a month and we have a weekend long camp. We all learn how to march and how to play the music, that’s when the cuts are made. So the first camp there was 400 people and by the second camp there were only 300 people there. Every camp was a new au-dition,” Tate Herrmann said.

With all the pressure from the audi-tions behind her, Tate now has the sum-mer touring to look forward to.

“I will be gone for 81 days. So I’ll come back on August 8, have a week of summer then start school again,” Tate Herrmann said.

Not only will Tate be gone for the majority of the summer, she must leave school before finals to participate in the entire tour.

“I’m leaving May 19, I had to ask [Rockwood’s School] Board permis-sion,” Tate Herrmann said.

She continued, “I had to have my mom and my band director write a let-ter to ask if I could get out early, but we haven’t figured out how I’m going to take my finals. I might I have to take my finals after school one day before I leave.”

Rebecca Herrmann added, “Right before spring break we wrote a letter to [Principal] John Shaughnessy explain-ing what she was doing, why and when she was leaving. We explained she was not coming back until August and at-tached the letter from Phantom Regi-ment. It took about two weeks before she heard whether or not she was ap-proved. Mr. Shaughnessy looks at them on a case by case basis.”

While ending school early is not of-ten approved, Tate’s circumstance has proved to be unique.

Shaughnessy said, “Tate will just have to schedule her finals for a differ-ent time. I never let anyone out of the school year early but this a different situation.”

Rebecca Herrmann continued, “She is working with each teacher to get all her assignments in and complete. This has entailed coming in early on certain days and staying late too.”

While on the road, Tate will be with musicians from all over the world.

“There are some people from Japan that speak zero English. There also are people from Mexico,” Tate Herrmann said.

As for her future, Tate plans to con-tinue marching band into college and would like to teach music to others.

“When I first started high school and was in marching band I thought trum-pet was so dumb but now its turn in my life. I’m going into music education [for college]. I just love it [music],” Tate Herrmann said.

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Around the Country in 81 DaysChelsea Coleman, Staff Reporter

Trumpeting Talent This past year, junior Tate Herrmann was selected for the world competitive Phantom Regiment. Her-rmann will be one of the youngest musicians in the regiment, where ages range from 16 to 21.

Photo courtesy of Tate Herrmann

Trumpeter’s successful audition leads to acceptance into elite Phantom Regiment

Just imagine walking into a class on the first day of the school year, and Princi-pal John Shaughnessy is your teacher. That will be the situation for many new students taking Freshman Seminar next year.

Next year Shaughnessy said he will be teaching the 6th Hour class.

The other administrators will step in when Shaughnessy is unavailable.

“The part about the other administra-tors being involved evolved when I was looking at my calendar and scheduling things,” Shaughnessy said.

Shaughnessy said he misses the class-room experience and feels disconnected to the school.

Assistant Principal Renee Trotier said she had done some guest speaking in Freshman Seminar before but is excited to be back in the classroom.

She thinks it will give students the chance to know their resources in the building, and meet the principals.

Sarah Vessell, who took Freshman Seminar this year said she would not take it if a principal was teaching, “I’d feel pressured. They are high up there and they expect a lot from you... I’d feel un-comfortable,” she said.

“I think [the students] will like it when they get to know us,” Trotier said.

“It was study hall pretty much. I would take it again, because you don’t do any-thing,” freshman Thomas Heney said.

Despite criticism the class is only a

study hall; Trotier said next year will be focused on meeting individual kid’s needs.

“One thing the kids said they want more of is they want more of the upper-classmen to come in and talk about dif-ferent clubs and activities that are going on at the school. Because they hear an-nouncements and don’t know what it is.

They will hear something about Re-naissance and they don’t know what that is or they see a sign for Key Club and want to know what it means,” Trotier said.

She added, the challenge with that is that the school doesn’t want to take kids out of class to guest speak in Freshman Seminar.

Despite the obstacle, Trotier said stu-dents in study hall and Senior Option will be taken full advantage of so they can be guest speakers to explain things in more detail.

The class itself is a new addition to the school; it started last year to help fresh-men get familiar with Lafayette.

“We actually did work. We had to learn a lot about job interviews and we learned about relationships, study skills, home-work, and if you are an aesthetic learner,” said freshman Hannah Chobanian, who took Freshman Seminar first semester.

Trotier said things will definitely be altered next year, “Freshman Seminar is like a recipe, the first time you make something you follow the recipe then the second time you make it you say ‘I think it needs more of this, or less of this’ so you change it and make it your own.”

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Salute To SlamaMath teacher Cindy Slama demonstrates a problem for an Algebra III class. She will be retiring after 32 years in education. “You always want to retire at the top of your game and right now this is it as far as the faculty, the teachers and the students,” Slama said.

Photo by Daniel Clutter

“Being with the kids,” math teacher Cindy Slama, said is one of the best things about teaching. Slama, who has announced her plans to retire at the end of the year, has taught 32 years, 19 of which were at Lafayette.

“I could have retired any time in the last three years,” Slama said, “You always want to retire at the top of your game and right now this is it as far as the faculty, the teachers and the students.”

Next year, will be all about her. Some things she wants to do include, “read a book, clean a closet, and take a walk, go-ing shopping when I have the itch and adding spontaneity,” she said.

Slama’s dream of teaching started when she was in grade school. “I always had some other plan going on when the

teacher was teaching,” Slama said. Her creative way of thinking paid off.

In 1998 Slama was named Lafayette Teacher of the Year.

Sophomore Maddie Roll said Slama is a nice teacher who cares a lot about her students.

Slama teaches Honors Algebra II and Algebra III. However, she not only teach-es students.

Fellow math teacher Jim Carel said, “Whenever I had a problem, whatever it was, she was the one I ran to.”

Her goal was accomplished and Slama said her favorite thing about teaching is, “the concept of when a kid comes back and gives you their success story. When someone comes back in college and takes Calculus and says it was a walk in the park. That makes you feel like you made a contribution,” she said.

Retiring teacher finishes on top

Shaughnessy reconnects:Administrators to teach class

As the regular season ends, the girls soc-cer team prepares to go far in Districts.

“All the younger kids need to step up and be ready to play and we need to come together as a team due to all the injuries,” senior Katherine Weider said.

This season has a record of 12-2-2 with losses to Parkway South and to defending State Champion Incarnate Word.

But among these wins Lafayette took first place in the Kickapoo Tournament.

Even though they are winning most of their games, the first half of the year brought challenges.

Between the injuries and the weather, they haven’t got a real chance to play as a whole.

“It makes it really hard to tell what any team can do and who can play this game. It is more of the wind that is a huge factor in most games,” Coach Tim Walters said

During the regular season the team lost seniors Emily Brcic and Korie Klosterman, who are both out due to knee injuries.

“We lost 20 percent of our starting line-up. Korie controlled everything in the air and capitalized on head balls,” Walters said.

This allowed the underclassmen to step up and fill in those spots.

“The veterans and the younger kids have meshed together well, and it hap-pened quickly,” Walters said.

Not only did the younger kids step up, but the seniors did as well.

“Kelsey Calvert and Nina Walters have stepped up because Nina runs everything and Calvert is like a brick wall in the de-fense,” sophomore Lindsay Carr said.

As a freshman, Kelsey Clayman has filled in for Korie in the middle of the field, along with sophomore Abbey Angevine.

“Clayman has done really well, and Abbey has come through scoring big goals and playing a lot,” junior Christine Hibler said.

Clayman and Angevine have become key players in the starting line-up since Klosterman’s injury.

“It has been nerve wracking yet ex-citing to be playing. I have to play with seniors who have been playing together since freshmen year. It has been fun and a good experience so far,” Clayman said.

Tying for Conference Champions and being seeded second for Districts behind Rockwood Summit, the team hopes to go far.

But in order to do so the team also re-alizes that they have a few things to work on.

“We have to do more with our scoring chances,” Coach Walters said, “It could be a lot better. We need to capitalize on the easy goals.”

Districts kicks off on May 18 against the winner of Eureka and Washington game at Summit.

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Lacrosse beats Nerinx, earns fifth seed for StateThe girls lacrosse team has seen nothing but success as its season begins to wind down.

The girls have only had three losses to John Burroughs, MICDS and St. Josephs, and have won every other game with room to spare.

They are also undefeated in the pub-lic schools, which has been a goal for the team since the beginning of the season putting them at a 10-3 record.

“We’re starting to come together as a team,” junior Kelsey Witbrodt said.

The team witnessed this when it beat Nerinx, who was second at State last year.

They played two solid halves of la-crosse, pulling out a 11-9 win, upsetting Nerinx who has only lost to John Bur-roughs and MICDS.

“It is one more game towards State,” Head Coach Dee Wilkinson said of the game against Nerinx.

“It [desire to win against Nerinx] came from a close game with St. Joes that we lost. After that the girls started to push each other and focus on playing as a team,” senior Kendall Brewer said.

The girls did have an upsetting loss to St. Josephs. At half time, Lafayette was winning 8-4, but let the win go, and al-lowed the other team to score 8. The final score ended up being was 11-12.

“I think the biggest growth I’ve ob-served is that we are playing as a team. I see the girls communicating with each other on the field and trusting each oth-er,” Brewer said.

The team definitely has many strong players to boost communication and trust.

Junior Hillary Lawless leads the of-fensive end of the team with 37 goals and 74 shots. Witbrodt is close behind with 32 goals and 61 shots, and senior Jackie Henke has 23 goals and 39 shots.

On the defensive end of the field, four seniors take charge: Tessa Aslin, Melanie Hinzpeter, Caroline Johnson and Anna Rueschhoff.

But out of the Nerinx game, the team realized that they still have a lot of hard teamwork ahead of them.

“We have to work on possession on a stall and defensive positioning,” Wilkin-son said.

On May 11, the girls found out that they have the fifth seed for the State tour-nament.

For the team, this means that they will play tonight at 5:30 p.m. at Ursuline against the winner of the Parkway South and Whitfield game.

The team has already beaten Parkway South, but haven’t played Whitfield.

But they are hoping for a successful win tonight to put them one step closer to the Championship game.

Nina Walters, Co-Sports Editor

Fast Break DefenseAt the Nerinx game, junior Hillary Lawless comes up from behind to take the check on Nerinx’s Dory Finney. The team beat Nerinx 11-9, upsetting the private school, and proving the girls are up in the ranks with the powerhouse private schools.

photo by Lindsay Weber

Soccer gets second seed despite senior injuriesMelanie Hinzpeter, Co-Sports Editor

Fight For PossessionAt the Parkway South game, junior Christine Hibler fights with South’s Kristy Martinez for possession of the ball. The girls lost this game 0-1 in penalty kicks, but still allowing them to maintain their winning 12-2-2 record. Districts start May 18.

photo courtesy of John Calvert

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Starting the season, girls track faced con-cerns about being inexperienced with ap-proximately 40 underclassmen.

They opened in Columbia at the Miz-zou Relays, which was cancelled due to snow the second day of competition.

Early on, the lack of experience proved to be irrelevant as the Lancers won the Suburban West Jamboree, Jackson In-vitational and placed second in the Lady Lancer Invitational.

“Our early success showed we are ca-pable of more than just doing our best,” sophomore Danica Wessel said

The coaches relied on seniors to build a team-first attitude they hope will stay with the underclassmen as they become leaders.

“We have lots of young athletes who are learning,” Coach Marty Margalski said, “The seniors have done a great job of knowing what is expected and doing the

right thing.”“We have a pretty balanced team,” As-

sistant Coach Rick Voss said.After winning three of the first four

meets, the team did not perform as well in mid-season meets.

The Lancers placed fourth and fifth in the Victoria Reeves and Dale Collier Invi-tationals, but turned things around and won the Suburban West Conference.

“To continue to succeed, we need to keep up attendance and staying consis-tent with our warm-ups and cool-downs,” sophomore Shelby Teague said.

The next step for the Lancers is the District meet at Parkway West today with Sectionals on May 23 at stake and the State championship meet on May 29-30.

“We are really optimistic. The team unity is really good,” senior Jessica Stein-metz said.

“We have to be mentally focused be-cause we are going to be facing the tough-est competition all year,” Voss added.

With several key runners injured, the boys track team heads into the postseason rely-ing on some unexpected members.

“We need to get people well,” Coach Randy Seagrist said.

Seagrist specifically referred to senior sprinter Ian Moore who is currently suf-fering from a hip injury.

Moore’s 200-meter and 400-meter times, as well as his triple jump distance, are all in the top 30 of all runners in St. Louis this season.

“It’s given the younger guys an oppor-tunity to show what they can do,” Moore said.

Two underclassmen who have per-formed well in the wake of injuries are sophomore Kurtis Harshman and fresh-man Sam Baker. At the Conference Meet, Harshman won a 200-meter race and Baker won his 800-meter race.

Freshman Chris Orange also had a top 30 time in a 300 hurdles race.

Senior Steven Stallis also won both an 800-meter and a 1600-meter race.

The team will compete for a trip to Sectionals at the District meet tomorrow. If the team qualifies, the Sectional meet takes place on May 23 and State will start on May 29.

Boys, girls track enter postseasonInjured boys track team shows signs of improvement at Conference

With struggles mid-season, girls track works to prove themselves in meets

Gian Wessel, Staff Reporter



Starting BlockAt an after school practice, seniors Ian Moore and Jordan Levy, and junior Clay Novak wait to begin a sprint. Coach Randy Seagrist said his team is fairly balanced this season. “We have good distance runners and sprinters,” he said.

Double TeamSenior defenseman Steven Grott looks to pass. Head Coach Jamie Waeckerle said Grott and junior Taylor Foye have contribut-ed this season considerably for the Lancers on defense.


photo by Melanie Hinzpeter

After two years of rebuilding, the water polo team finally saw results this season. The team’s 19 wins this year is more than the past two seasons’ combined total.

“We are stronger physically this year,” Coach Jamie Waeckerle said, “We have learned from mistakes and the seniors grew into leadership roles.”

“We have mostly juniors and seniors and we haven’t had that before,” junior Taylor Foye said.

Waeckerle believed the team reached a turning point in the Suburban West Con-ference Tournament in an overtime semi-final victory over Lindbergh.

The Lancers would go on to defeat Kirkwood in the finals of that tournament and also placed second in the Lafayette Invitational.

“People didn’t think we could win that game. We earned a lot of respect there,” Waeckerle said.

The upperclassmen that Waeckerle have waited on to contribute have done just that. Seniors Chris Powell and Spen-cer Wells lead the team in goals with 72 and 62 respectively.

On the defensive end, Waeckerle said senior Steven Grott and junior Taylor Foye have performed well this year.

“Playing year-round really helped,” Foye said.

“Jackson Powell has also had an out-standing season. His goals against av-erage is the best in Lafayette history,” Waeckerle added.

As far as Districts go, the Lancers lost out to Marquette 4-9 eliminating them from the State Tournament. But they had a successful season, ending at 19-9.

Water polo ends season at Districts, loses to Marquette

High HopesSophomore Darcy Moore jumps a hurdle in her sprinting event. Coach Marty Margalski was very impressed with his predominantly underclass team this season.

photo courtesy of Prestige

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Baseball maintains fast-paced scheduleWith a senior-loaded baseball team, the Lancers are first in the Conference and are maintaining a 17-2 record.

Also they are the second ranked team in the state according to stl.com.

Even though Lafayette holds a high conference rank, they have a tough sched-ule ahead.

“We play over eight top teams in our area,” Head Coach Steve Miller said, in-cluding the first place team in the confer-ence, Oakville.

“Playing these tougher teams gives us a better edge, makes us stay on top of are game,” senior Luke Voit said.

“Whatever happens, happens. [We] just go out there and play hard,” senior Nate Goro said.

The team hopes to take this attitude with them as Districts come around.

“Our season is going well. We are just

keeping loose and having fun,” Goro said.“We have some games ahead, but we

must take it one game at a time and go from there,” Miller said.

And with that advice they look for more and more players to keep stepping up.

Goro is playing well this season leading the Suburban West with 15 stolen bases in just 19 games.

“I love how I am playing right now, but there is always room for improvement,” Goro said.

Another player who has stepped up is Voit. He has the fourth highest on base percentage of .682 in the Suburban West.

The Lancers defense has been solid, al-lowing a league low of 3.5 runs a game.

Their pitching has stepped up with three pitchers who are all posting 2-0 re-cords or better: seniors Ted Knobloch and Kyle Lindner and junior J.T. Miller.

“If we get past Districts, we have a le-gitimate chance at State,” Voit said.

Andrew Martin, Staff Reporter

Golf sends two individual players to StateWith high hopes coming into the District and State rounds, the boys team looks to carry its 10-1 momentum into the playoff rounds of golf.

Head Coach Gaylen Laster is proud of what they have done this season but said there is always room for improvement.

“Hopefully, we are mentally ready to play well in the next couple of tourna-ments and finish strong,” Laster said.

It has been difficult for the team to get out and practice due to the wet weather.

“I cannot remember a season with so

much cold weather and strong winds. Not a good combination for good golf scores,” Laster said.

With that factor they look for key se-niors to take control and play well. Senior Ryan Orr has been playing consistently and shooting low scores.

The team stumbled down the stretch finishing in fifth place out of 11 teams in Districts, with two players shooting a solid 79, senior Ryan Orr and sophomore Conner Katsev.

As a result of their performances, Kat-sev and Orr will get the chance to play for an individual state title.

“I am really proud of what I accom-plished. My hard work finally paid off,” Orr said.

With State coming up on May 19 at the Rivercut Golf Course in Springfield, MO, Orr and Katsev are just trying to stay re-laxed and keep it business as usual.

Orr said he plans to, “Pretty much do what I always done. Chipping and putting, hit the range and play some rounds.”

Assistant Coach Brian Reed added, “They are practicing hard almost every day – focusing on fine-tuning their games.”

“They played a practice round on Sun-day, May 10, at the actual golf course

where State is being played so they should have a good grasp of the layout and rigor of the course, which will really aid them in their course management during their actual rounds during the State Tourna-ment,” he added.

With final exams right around the cor-ner the golf team is not required to go to Springfield.

“I know they will be cheering them in spirit,” Reed said.

These two players have waited their whole season to come to this moment and everyone hopes what Reed says, “step up to the plate and be successful at State.”

Andrew Martin, Staff Reporter

Field PlayAt a varsity home game, senior Nate Goro gets ready to catch a ground ball. Goro leads the team with five home runs and has been a key player for the Lancers this season.


With the season closing up, the boys ten-nis team has high expectations of making it to State.

“Our team has worked great together so far this season,” junior Adam King said.

The team is currently 11-3 overall and 7-0 in the Suburban West Conference.

“We’d like to be undefeated, but we lost to Parkway Central, which is a really good team, so this is where I thought we would be,” Head Coach Mark McAllister said.

Senior Scott Thompson agrees with McAllister.

“They [Parkway Central] are supposed to be the best team, so this is where I think

we should be,” Thompson said. Even though the team isn’t undefeated,

it is keeping a solid record.“The team is doing better than ever,

and we aren’t done yet. We beat Kirk-wood, who we haven’t beaten in at least five years,” King said.

King also said the team has a solid var-sity lineup that is helping it win.

“It takes a heck of a team to beat us,” King said.

With a chance at State almost in reach, Thompson said he is excited.

“We all have the common desire to win and hopefully go to State,” Thompson said.

Some of the players leading the team are junior Adam King, and sophomores

Mick Lyons and Jake Goodman. King is undefeated with three singles.Goodman has over 20 wins throughout

the season and Lyons is playing the num-ber one spot.

“He’s [Lyons] played the toughest any-one has,” McAllister said.

Just because the season is coming to an end don’t expect the players to call it quits.

“[I] expect a pretty deep run from our players,” McAllister said.

“We should come really far with the singles and doubles,” McAllister said.

“Our team has worked great together. Whenever a match gets close the whole team comes together to cheer the player on,” King said.

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Tennis ends regular season with chance for StateMia Schenone, Staff Reporter

Volleyball perserveres despite mediocre 13-12 recordWith the volleyball regular season almost over, the team is sill pushing ahead.

“This year, we’ve seen some movement forward. But we’re constantly improving,” Coach Doug Ell said.

The team currently has a record of 13-12 with the last game May 12 against Oakville.

With seniors Drew McMahon, Cam Slauter and Jake Welchans, whom Ell calls “strong leaders and key pieces,” the team is playing tough even through the losses.

“We’re playing close and competitive, and where you’re seeing teams that start-ed ahead of us, we’re playing catch up and getting ahead,” Ell said.

Senior Jake Welchans said the team is doing well and is constantly improving.

“For us to be successful we’re going to need every player to have a selfless atti-tude,” Welchans said.

This season has been different than most because many of the players have never had the chance to play at the varsity level.

“Now that they’re getting accustomed to the speed of the varsity level, we are showing that we can compete with the highest level with the best team, but it’s always going to be a work in progress,” Ell said.

“We know what we are capable of, it’s just a matter reaching that level mentally and physically,” Welchans said.

Ell said the team is where he wants them to be, but it’s still not quite there.

“You’re never where you want to be until you’re on top,” Ell said.

“I wanted the team to start to gel and I

think we are finally finding a rotation that we can finally do that,” Ell said.

The team has two consecutive State finalist appearances, and the boys feel pressure to make it again, but they’re ac-customed to the pressure.

“It’s natural because when you play for a program like Lafayette every team is looking to beat you,” Welchans said.

Ell is confident that the team will make a State appearance.

“Since we’ve incorporated the new playoff system we have yet to miss one. We are right there on the cusp, we just need to finish the job,” Ell said.

However individually, the team is still going strong.

Freshman Luke Kreienkamp is ranked second in the league for block averages and junior Jeff Drissell is third in the league for serves received.

Mia Schenone, Staff Reporter

Eye on the BallJust before his match, sophomore Mick Lyons practices his skills. Lyons is currently playing the number one spot for varsity.

photo by Andrew Martin

Going for the KillReady for a spike, sophomore Rob Berry goes to slam the ball. The sophomore has seen consistent playing time on varsity.


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Action/Adventure:• Angels and Demons: The sequel to The Da-Vinci Code has to overcome a boycott from the Vatican to be successful. (5/15)• Terminator Salvation: Christian Bale hopes to help the franchise relive its glory days with his role as John Connor. (5/21)• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Does a plot really matter when you have giant ro-bots causing destruction in this mega bud-geted sequel? (6/24)• Public Enemies: Johnny Depp plays infa-mous gangster John Dillinger in this depres-sion era gangster flick. (7/1)• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The 6th film in the series is finally being re-leased after being postponed from last No-vember. (7/15)

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Every summer, movies grow in popularity and size. Even with hard economic times, audiences are still going to movies. In fact, the overall Box Office is up 15 percent from this time last year, according to Cin-emablend.com. Here is a list, divided into genres, of some of the major films coming to theaters this summer.

Comedy:•Land of the Lost: Will Ferrell stars in this remake of the 70’s Saturday morning TV show about a scientist who travels back in time. (6/5)•The Hangover: The director of Old School brings this movie about a bachelor party gone horribly wrong in Las Vegas. (6/5)•Year One: Jack Black and Michael Cera spoof bible stories in the Monty Python esque comedy. (6/19)•Brüno: Sacha Baron Cohen is in Borat mode yet again in this mockumentary featuring his gay, Austrian, fashion designer character coming to America. (7/10)•Funny People: Seth Rogen and Adam San-dler play comedians in Judd Apatow’s third film following The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. (7/31)

Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince (23%)

Transformers: Revenge of the

Fallen (19%)

Angels and Demons (7%)

The Hangover (6%)

Bruno (5%)

Terminator Salvation (4%)

Star Trek (3%)

Other (19%)

X Men Origins: Wolverine (14%)

Most anticipated movie of summer

For the Family:•Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smith-sonian: Ben Stiller returns in this sequel. Amy Adams joins as Amelia Earhart. (5/22)•Up: Pixar hopes for its 10th consecutive hit in this movie about a boy scout and an elderly man on the adventure of their lives. (5/29)•Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: This se-quel asks us to ignore everything we’ve ever learned about science and just have a good time. (7/1)

Chick Flicks:•The Proposal: Sandra Bullock (in her first romantic comedy in seven years) and Ryan Reynolds hope for chemistry in this movie about a fake marriage to avoid deportation. (6/19)•My Sister’s Keeper: Bring the Kleenex to this tear jerker about a young girl with leu-kemia in this movie that’s based on the Jodi Picoult novel. (6/26)•The Ugly Truth: Katherine Heigl and Ge-rard Butler star in this battle of the sexes comedy that takes place on the set of a morning show. (7/24)•Julie & Julia: Meryl Streep plays famed chef Julia Child and Amy Adams plays a woman attempting to cook through Child’s entire cookbook. (8/7)•The Time Traveler’s Wife: This sci-fi ro-mance stars Eric Bana and Rachel McAd-ams and is based off a highly acclaimed novel by Audrey Niffenegger. (8/14)

Indies: •Away We Go: John Krasinski from The Of-fice leads this comedy about a couple travel-ing across America to find a place to settle down with their baby on the way. (6/5)•(500) Day of Summer: Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in this ro-mantic comedy spanning a couples’ relation-ship from the beginning to the end. (7/17)•Taking Woodstock: The birth of the mu-sical festival is shown through the eyes of the young man, played by comic Demitri Martin, who inadvertently starts the whole thing. (8/14)

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Funny People (16%) Up (12%)

Bruno (8%)

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur (8%)

Inglorious Bastards (6%)

Night at the Museum 2(6%)

Year One (6%)

Other (9%)

Funniest movie of summer

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (28%)

Star Trek (18%)

Up (5%)

Year One (5%)

Land of the Lost (4%)

Bruno (4%)

Other (23%)

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MOVIE: Star Trek: Not just for Trekkies, this movie has something for everyone.

EVENT: Pointfest: 29 bands for $29. Held at Verizon Ampitheater and hosted by 105.7 The Point. The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Shiny Toy Guns and many more are sure to rock the stage.

ALBUM: 1990’s: Kicks: very upbeat & danceable, for those who like the band Head Automatica.

BOOK: How I Paid for Col-lege by Mark Acito: The hilari-ous story of a senior in high school desperate to attend Juliard for musical theater.

RESTAURANT: 54th Street Grill: delicious food & a huge menu. Located in the Valley.

May 22In theaters:Terminator: Salva-tion; Dance Flick; Night at the Mu-seum: Battle of the Smithsonian

June 2

DVD Releases:Defiance; Revo-lutionary Road

CD Releases: DMB: Big Whiskey & the Groogrux King; Elvis Costello: Se-cret...; 311: Uplifter; Jeff Buckley: Grace Around the World; Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall

May 19

DVD Releases:Valkryie; Paul Blart: Mall Cop; Man Hunt; Fan-boys

CD Releases: Mat Kear-ney: City of Black & White; Eminem: Relapse; Abnor-mally Attracted to Sin; Busta Rhymes: Back on my B.S.; Lenny Kravitz: Let Love Rule

May 15In theaters:Angels & Demons; Management

CD Release: Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown

May 26DVD Releases:New In Town

CD Releases: Mandy Moore: Amanda Leigh; Marylin Manson: The High End of Low

*Dates below are subject to change

May 29In theaters:Up; Drag Me to Hell

June 5In theaters:Land of the Lost; The Hang-over; My Life in Ruins

SCHWAGSTOCK “It’s good music all around,” Jake Nelson, a Lafayette graduate, said of Schwagstock, a week-end music festival intended to carry the vibe of Woodstock.

Concertgoers often camp in tents, buy hand-made goods, and listen to overlapping music acts from noon to midnight, headed up the The Schwag, a Grateful Dead Tribute that has played over 1,500 shows.

Nelson has thoroughly enjoyed his Schwag-stock experiences, which include getting a van stuck in mud, watching a man put a jacket on his foot and seeing Janis Joplin’s original band with all of the members but Joplin herself.

Nelson recalled the ups and downs of the communal showers, “You could be showering next to some cute chick, or next to some hairy old dude,” Nelson said.

VANS WARPED TOURAll summer long, Vans Warped Tour will be

making its rounds in the United States and Asia. The tour is designated to make its way to Saint Louis’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Au-gust.

“Its just a good time really, everybody there is

energetic,” junior Paige Kaprelian said.Kaprelian, who has been twice, believes that

she is attracted to the concert because of the va-riety of music, the charitable side of the concert, and the fact that she doesn’t have to go far to at-tend.

“Bands step it up because they’re trying to at-tract more people,” Kaprelian said. “One band brought water guns and shot their audience at the end of the show,” Kaprelian said.

Vans Warped Tour is peaceful “because ev-erybody is there for the same purpose- to enjoy music,” Kaprelian said.

BONNAROOBonnaroo, literally meaning “best around,” is

a four day music festival in Nashville, TN featur-ing a diverse array of live music, artwork, and activities planned by sponsors.

“It was just really nice wandering around in a swimsuit and a giant T-shirt,” Jessica Smith, Lafayette graduate, said “All of these huge, fa-mous bands just happened to be playing.”

Smith attended the festival as a VIP, with tickets costing upwards of $1300.

In 2008, Rolling Stone named Bonnaroo “Best Festival.”

“It was like sitting at home in your backyard and listening to music. You sit and walk around and eat and drink gallons of water. It’s the best concept ever,” Smith said.

ROTHBURYRothbury, a four-day jam-band music festival

in Rothbury MI at the Double JJ Ranch boasts art, entertainment and sustainability promotion in addition to a wide range of music.

“All of the folk and reggae was in the morn-ing, rock was kind of in the afternoon, and all the rave techno music was at night until four or five am,” senior Tony Wayhart said.

Wayhart loved Rothbury’s unique Sherwood forest, a labyrinth of paths leading to music, lit with different lighting effects. “It just changed color to color to color randomly, but it would light up the entire forest,” Wayhart said. Besides this, Wayhart was able to watch many of his fa-vorite bands perform, once in the front row.

“My brothers friends who’ve been to all dif-ferent concerts and festivals said that Rothbury is the best and the cleanest,” he said.

Although driving to Rothbury is an eight hour journey, Wayhart finds it worthwhile. “I already got it planned out, got my ticket already, got it

like four or five weeks ago,” Wayhart said.

LOLLAPALOOZA“What sets Lalapalooza apart from other con-

certs is that it’s in the heart of Chicago,” junior Grant Hinkle said.

“You get the Chicago skyline, which is just one in a million. And past that, you get all the music, so it makes for a pretty good weekend,” he said.

Lollapalooza hosts eight stages with multiple headliners, three days of live music for the rela-tively inexpensive price of $190.

“You get all types of music. It’s a good time to explore new music, but at the same time see the bands that you paid to see,” Hinkle said.

Last year, though all three days sold out, and over 80,000 people attended, there was little disorder at the festival.

“The crowd usually stays under control. Last year at Rage Against the Machine, there was some rowdiness, but that kind of goes hand and hand with Rage Against the Machine,” Hinkle said.

Hinkle plans to attend the festival as many times as he can.

“Going last year was the best time of my life,” he said.

In 1969, America’s youth flooded a 600 acre farm, jiving to Grateful Dead, The Who, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. This summer, Woodstock celebrates its 40th anniversary. How will you commemorate this historic festival?

Information compiled by David Adams, Staff Reporter

Rachel Brown, Staff Reporter

Schwagstock 40May 22-May 24Salem, MOPerformances include The Schwag, Bill Kreutzmann (drummer of Grate-ful Dead), Nailhouse and Badfish (Sublime Tribute)Bonaroo June 11-14 Manchester, TN

Performances include Bruce Spring-steen, Phish, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrn, Wilco, Snoop Dog CMA Music FestivalJune 11-14Nashville, TNPerformances include Reba McIn-tyre, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift

Cornerstone June 29 - July 4Bushnell, ILPerformances include over 300 Bands such as Underoath, Reliant K, Anberlin and Shiny Toy GunsRothburyTickets between July 2-July 5Rothbury, MIPerformances include The Dead, Bob

Dylan and his Band, String Cheese Incident, Coldwar Kids, Flogging Molly Schwagstock 41July 31-Aug 1Salem, MOPerformances include The Schwag, Zoso (Led Zeppelin Tribute), and Think Floyd (Pink Floyd Tribute)

Vans Warped TourAll Summer Long (Aug 3 for Saint Louis) Performances include Bad Religion, Chiodos, Flogging Molly, Saosin, Scary Kids, Scaring Kids, Senses Fail, Thrice, UnderoathLollapaloozaAug 7-9 Chicago, IL

Performances include Tool, The Kill-ers, Jane’s Addiction, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Snoop Dog, Schwagstock 42September 18-19Salem, MOPerformances include The Schwag, Eoto (With Jason and Travis of String Cheese Incident), Panjea, Jah Roots

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