Grand Junction High School | 1400 N. Fifth St., Grand Junction, Colo. 81501 | Volume 91 • Issue 1 | August 2008

Here they come!The class of 2012 comes to GJHS

Learn how to survive in high school

Know the myths passed down for years

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INDEX

Open to Interpretation 9 Bekah Gallegos • Dylan Proietti

Scene 9 Kayden Horwitz • Kirstin Maska

Now 9 Jenna Hansen • Stephani Soto

InSight 9 Nic Murdock • Lesley Wharton

In Motion 9 Emily Dohm • Brionne Griffi n

Connection 9 Jessa Dearth • Chelsea Tomasi

Spotlight 9 Dejan Jestrovich

Photography and Graphics Editors 9 Shreya Pokharel • Nick Powell

Advertising Manager 9 Jenny Jessup

Advertising 9 Jessica Gillis • Samantha Weinberg

Webmaster 9 Tom Nelson Zachary Bryner (assistant)

Graphic Artists 9 Garrett Brown • Greg Coleman Kyle Rogers

Reporters 9 Jillian Arja • McKenzie Binder Moriah Black • Sarah Bolton Kaitlin Cain • Cody Holman Zack Kelley • Katie Langford Eric List • McKenna Moe Grayson O’Roark • Emilie Pearson Kurt Peterson • Margeaux Prinster Baylee Ragar

Photographers 9 Kristin Balbier • Alyssa Behrens Cody Blankenship • Hannah Cook Noelle DuPuey • Richard Gonzales Amy Nelms • Natalie Pipe

Video 9 Kevin Reed • Austin Ross

Adviser 9 Rick Jussel

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Cover photo by Kayden Horwitz

The Orange & Black is... INFORMEDwarped tourthe lunch menuolympics overview

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As the world watches the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Chinese citizens are bearing not only victo-ries but problems during preparation for the Games. Constructing Olympic facilities forced many families out of their homes and resulted in many closures of schools, leaving thousands without access to proper education. The Chinese government also diverted nearly 80 billion gallons of water from drought-stricken crops in the countryside to create a fl ourishing façade to display to the world.

The Low Down: The Olympics

The lunch menuBocaza has expensive food, but is the closest restaurant to the school and has a large and excel-lent selection of Mexican style cuisine.

Chopstix Express is the longest walk from school, but its Asian cuisine is tasty and the lower prices make this eatery a great op-tion for your lunch.

A typical pizza restaurant that is inexpensive if you order with a group of friends, but make sure you order early or you might just be late to your fi fth hour class.

If you are looking for ice cream, then this is the place for you. Burgers, low prices, and a close proximity also make Dairy Queen a good choice.

Tasty baked goods and low prices make Homestyle a lunch hotspot. It is close to the school, and you can load up on carbs, but choose the right ones.

Taco Bell is your ordinary fast food place that has inexpensive Mexican food, but usually has long lines and it is the second-longest walk from the high school.

The six best places to eat within walking distance from the school

Moriah Black

Warped Tour attracts teens’ attention

Tasty, but expensive

Long walk, good food

Great for groups

Cold and refreshing

Close and sweet

Far, but cheap

Some people consider music to be a journey, but others would call it a tour—a Warped Tour. Th e show began at 11 a.m. at Invesco Field in Denver, so many fans camped out the night before so they could be fi rst in line to get into the shows,

but other people drove hours to reach the concert. Among these fans was GHJS junior David Hale and three of his friends who went to support their favorite bands. “I’m into screamo, but it’s way more fun to be at a concert where you can dance and sing along to the music,” Hale said. Out of the 80 bands that performed some of Hale’s favorites included 3OH!3, Devil Wears Prada, and As I Lay Dying. Cobra Starship, however, was the show he enjoyed the most.

Th e day at Warped Tour exhausted much of Hale’s hard-earned summer cash. He spent a total of $450, almost half of which was spent buying t-shirts and CDs. Many lesser-known bands gave away free merchandise in order to promote their band. “All in all, the experience was really awesome and positive, even though it was so hot and there were no chairs to sit on,” Hale said.

“I’m into screamo, but it’s way more fun to be at a concert where you can dance and sing along to the music.”

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Sources: enn.com, china.hrw.org

BACK TO SCHOOL

Grand Junction High School LoreLegends and myths passed down through generations

As legend has it, the old gym was built on an underground lake.

Stories are told of stu-dents holding parties under the gym at the lake back in the 1960s.

When the school was being built, an electri-cian was fi xing wires in the auditorium. He fell off the rafters and accidentally hanged himself in the wires.

During the Cold War, tunnels were con-structed between

GJHS and the mortu-ary across the street to protect students from nuclear threats.

Right before midnight, on the last Saturday of every October,

loud whining noises come from the com-

mons and disappear as quickly as they come.

While everyone was having fun at prom, the prom queen told her

boyfriend she was preg-nant. When he didn’t

believe her, she hanged herself in the library.

The upstairs hallway is said to be haunted by a teacher’s son who was kidnapped from

Room 216 and thrown off the roof to his

death.

LORE

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GJHS Legends according to ... Bryce Moglia-MacEvoy

“A man kidnapped a kid from the hall by Barnett’s room and took him up to the top of the school and killed him.”

“In the theater room the bars that held the lights smashed a girl and now if you mess with them, you hear the girls voice say, ‘You shouldn’t be doing that.’”

“The rafters in the theater room, fell and crushed people, and if you are in there by yourself you see ghosts’ shadows on the wall.”

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HOW TOQ&A w/ Assistant Principal Jason Eidinger: Tiger Time

Katie Langford

O&B: How do you think Tiger Time will aff ect incoming freshmen?Jason Eidinger: I think the biggest eff ect it’s going to have is that it will be a support for them academically … A lot of freshmen have a hard time with the transition into a big high school … and so it’s our hope that the Tiger Time, if they start to struggle academically, would be an impetus and a support to help them to maintain their grades. It’s especially important in light of the fact that we have a new performance-based policy, which says that to stay on the conventional pathway you have to maintain a C average, and that’s a minimal expectation for us.

O&B: Do all the freshmen have to attend, or just freshmen with GPAs lower than 2.0?JE: It’s for freshmen who come up on a D & F report with D’s and F’s, in any class, and its all year long. So if you’re a freshman taking any class in our building and the report spits your name out that you have a D or an F, from Fridays’ teacher generated report we’ll pull that report on Monday morning and if that report shows that you have a D or an F, in any class, then for that week, you will be in Tiger Time.

O&B: Do you think Tiger Time will be motivational for freshmen to get their lunches back?JE: I think for a lot of them it really will be. When I was a freshman in high school, and if I had 35 minutes versus 55 minutes, I think I’d want to have (the latter), so hopefully they make that connection that if they are maintaining their grades at an acceptable level, which is a C average in this case … on their most current academic report, then they’ll be able to enjoy a longer extended lunch. But if not then they’re just going to get the normal 35-minute lunch period. And it’s nice because it’s also a reward. We have a tendency to look at things in a punitive nature a lot of times; I like to look at it as a positive for those freshmen who are maintaining their grades and don’t have any D’s or F’s, so for them its really a reward that they get an extra twenty minutes on their lunch.

What do freshmen need to know to survive at GJHS?

“Always treat other people with respect, regardless of their actions. Always make school fun. If you are not having fun, then it is your fault.”

“Get to know your teachers be-cause then they’ll help you, and enjoy every minute of it because it goes by fast.”

Lexi Wilson, senior

“Make sure there’s toilet paper in the stall before you use it. And if you’re stuck without some, don’t be afraid to speak up. Also, walk with confi dence and a smile in the hallways.”

Rachel Romero, junior

Steve Brown, teacher

“Failure is not an option”

Good News Bad NewsThe lunch period has been lengthened to 55 minutes!

The new tardy policy promises locked doors and lunch deten-tions.

Cell phones are now al-lowed in the hallways during passing period.

All freshmen have closed-campus lunch for the fi rst two weeks of school.

“Go by the FISH Philosophy:1. Have fun 2. Be there. 3. Choose your attitude. 4. Make their day.”

Lynne Quintana, secretary

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ew football coach Robbie Owens has been working hard to prepare his team for the upcoming season after an abrupt change in football management. Th e football team was left

skeptical of whether Grand Junction High School’s football program would continue to be successful after head coach Shaun Marsh left, along with all three of the assistant coaches Dan Bunnell, Kyle Rush and Darrell Simonton. Owens has been coaching since 1995. He fi rst took a coaching position at Mesa State College as an assistant head coach and defensive coordinator after playing as a wide receiver. Last year, Owens’ main concern was the short amount of time he had to work with the football team, implementing his coaching technique with heavy defense and getting to know the players. However, summer camp has given the players the opportunity to get to know Owens and his strategy and be able to practice in full equipment. “I like [Owens] because he’s easy to talk to and helpful and he really knows what he’s talking about. I think the new system is going to work once everyone fi gures out what they’re doing,” junior Tyler Stanford said. Owens is excited about the opportunities the upcoming season will bring to compete against rival schools such as Fruita Monument and Montrose, along with 5A schools on the Eastern Slope. “I still feel we have a long way to go,” Owens said, “but I’m very optimistic.”

Grand Junction High School’s

new science teacher not only had to get through science in college,

but he actually liked it. Garhart got a master’s degree in ento-mology, the study of insects, before he moved to Maine,

where he taught eighth grade for two years. Now, the Colorado native returns to Grand Junction to teach earth science and zoology. Garhart plans to incorporate his experience as an entomologist and taxonomist into his classes as well as continuing to use his knowledge to help the butterfl y and moth species of the area. He emphasizes that system-atics, the science of classifi cation, and

taxonomy, a technique of classifi ca-tion, are important to the conserva-tion of species because “you have to know what’s out there to conserve it,” he said. At the moment, besides preparing to take on high school students, Garhart is naming a species of butterfl y recently discovered in Parachute.

Grand Junction High School’s new science teacher not only had to get through science in college,

but he actually liked it. Garhart

Cross Country

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Coach Susie Steel

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Steel continued to run cross country and track in college for University of Wisconsin and placed seventh at nationals in the 1500 her sophomore year. “Running keeps me healthy. I can eat as much as I want and it helps me have a positive state of mind,” Steel said of her favorite aspects of the sport, which she hopes will rub off on her team. “I’m looking forward to having fun with the girls team and hopefully inspiring someone, anyone, to run hard and fast,” Steel said. “But mostly I want everyone to have fun because the running experience should be fun although it is hard work.”

Stephani Soto

New Staff

STAFF CHANGES

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Freshman Yuvonne Moss, and sophomores Anna McGinnis and Maggie Johnston warm up during cross-country practice.

he cross-country girl’s team fi nally has the coach they have been waiting for: one of their gender and one with vast running experience.

“Susie has been a runner for a longtime so she’s obviously going to have some insight, and it will also be nice for the girls to have a lady coach,” head coach Clay Keithley said. Grand Junction High School’s new girls cross country coach, Susie Steel, has no previous coaching experience but is ready to put her 32

years of running and love of the sport to work. Steel’s running career took off during high school as she began competing in the 800 and 1500 meter races. “At that time everyone thought the mile was too far for a girl to run,” Steel said. However, she proved them wrong, winning the Wisconsin state cross country championship the fi rst two years a women’s championship was ever held.

Meet more new staff

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aking in Wausau, Wis. She placed first in Junior Women’s Canoe and Mixed Junior Tandem Canoe and second in Junior Women’s Kayak.

Dillon Stewart, junior, nails chicken wire to the frame of a house project for the FPC mission trip.

The mission team from the First Presbyterian Church poses for a group photo in front of one of their two completed houses in Tijuana, Mexico.

The FPC mission team cleans up dinner at their campsite after a day of work.

Kari Allerton, faculty, smiles big for the camera with two El Salvador-an children during her month-long trip to help construct schools in developing countries. She painted the mural that can be seen behind. Laura Adams, senior, competed in the Junior Olympics for slalom kay-

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