By Andrew Revord and Kyle BrownAssociate Editor-in-Chief and Entertainment Editor

For some, Chicago’s abnormally warm winter this year may have come as a relief.

For junior Hannah Wendling, who has year-round seasonal allergies to “[just about] any plant” in addition to fruit aller-gies, the weather did not come as a relief. She said her seasonal allergies are the worst in the fall, but “this is definitely the worst year” for her allergies in general.

According to the National Oce-anic and Atmospheric Association

(NOAA), nearly every day from De-cember through February this win-ter was above the historical aver-age, as opposed to last winter when

the opposite was true. The mild winter could cause allergy

sufferers to experience symptoms earlier than usual. Science teacher John Kenney said a mild winter makes it easier for aller-

gens, like mold, to persist through the win-ter and therefore have a stronger presence earlier in the year.

“The ultimate translation is it comes ear-lier, and it comes to a greater degree,” Ken-ney said.

According to school nurse Cheryl No-vak, symptoms of seasonal allergies can include coughing, a runny nose, sneezing and in some cases dry, puffy or watery eyes. However, seasonal allergies are rarely life-threatening and usually don’t require seri-ous medical attention, unlike, for example, some food allergies like severe nut allergies.

This means students are largely responsi-ble for controlling their allergies outside of school; Novak does not have many students coming in with seasonal allergy problems. Rather, she said most people go directly to a doctor, who recommends treatments, usu-ally medications. It is then up to the patient to take the medication and follow any advice the doctor gives.

Still, Novak has been keeping an eye on the weather and local pollen counts to know when exactly spring-related seasonal aller-

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By Danielle Keeton-OlsenNews Editor

Since her grandfather lost his battle against cancer, junior Lisa Borawski felt a pull to fight back where her grand-father could not. She joined Relay for Life, which raises money for the Ameri-can Cancer Society, with her grandfa-ther in mind and has since participated for the past five years. Now, she will have worked on the Relay for Life com-mittee for three years.

“I’m actually making a difference in other people’s lives,” Borawski said.

Borawski is not alone in changing the lives of cancer patients and victims. This year, Prospect continues the tra-dition of Relay for Life, hoping to get more participation out of students.

Relay for Life is one of Service Club’s largest fund-raisers. In addition to the American Cancer Society, Service Club teams up with members of the commu-nity to pull off this huge event.

Relay for Life will occur May 18-19 in the George Gattas Memorial Stadium, according to the Relay for Life website.

Basically, Relay for Life is a team event, where students can create a team and raise money that will go toward ser-vices and a cure for cancer patients. Af-ter fund-raising for weeks, the goal is to

have at least one team member walking the track at all times. There are other activities for participants, such as mov-ies, student performances and contests.

While many students only partici-pate in their own teams, some prefer to help the Relay for Life committee. At committee meetings, which take place in the community room, students and community members join smaller groups to tackle different jobs of the ex-travaganza that is Relay for Life.

Such groups include Entertainment and Activities, which asks commu-nity and school members to perform and plans things for kids and adults to do during the night, Sponsorship and Fund-raising, which asks local busi-nesses to donate money or participate in Relay for Life, and Survivorship, which plans the dinner and gift bags for the survivors.

Students can pick which team they would like to be a part of, and they are assigned tasks to complete.

For example, although this is her first year on the committee for Relay for Life, sophomore Shannon Koch’s task is to send letters to local stores, and even celebrities such as the Harlem Globe-trotters, for donations that the commit-tee can use for a raffle.

Students even participate extensive-ly at meetings. The meetings are run by

Service Club Coordinator David Jacob-son and staff partner Andy Fry from the American Cancer Society, but the meetings are completely open to ideas and suggestions that students and com-munity members have.

For example, students brought up how cold everyone was at the Relay for Life event last year, especially late at night.

Through the suggestions of students and community members, the commit-tee decided to move Relay for Life from the track outside into the field house at 11:30 p.m. to keep warm, while still en-

joying the beautiful May weather. Although Fry is the connection to

the American Cancer Society, his goal is to keep the committee very involved.

“This committee-based environment allows me to do a little more coaching, helping other folks be creative while I manage it, as opposed to running every-thing,” Fry said. “This allows for a lot more autonomy for those folks who are relaying, and it makes it more personal for them.”

In addition to allowing more com-

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pRAISING HOPE: Flags fly in the wind at Prospect’s 2011 Relay for Life. Prospect will host the event, which raises money for cancer research and partners with the American Cancer Society, again on May 18-19. (Photo courtesy of Dave Jacobson)

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-gies will hit. When the pollen counts are higher, she knows allergies are go-ing to be worse. She said although she is predicting symptoms to come early, she has not yet received complaints from any students.

When students do visit the nurse’s office complaining of seasonal aller-gies, Novak has them call home to have their parents or guardians bring their medications to school, as students are not allowed to bring medications with them to school, except for Epipens and inhalers with a doctor’s permission.

According to Novak, trees are the biggest cause of seasonal allergies this time of year. Trees usually pollinate in the early spring, but they can pollinate as early as January if the winter has been mild, as has been the case in Chi-cago this year, according to the Allergy Relief Center’s website.

Kenney said allergies are, in essence, the body’s overreaction to a non-patho-genic agent that triggers a response from the immune system.

It sets off the body’s defenses like in-creased secretions inside the upper re-spiratory system, leading to restricted airways. This especially affects athletes who spend a large share of their time outdoors.

“If the cross-sectional area of the tube goes down, then resistance to air flow goes down,” Kenney said. “So yeah, it can impair [breathing].”

Freshman tennis player Steve Kol-lias is allergic to grass. Usually, his allergies hit around April, but he sus-pects they’ve already started this year.

“Some days they’re worse than oth-ers,” Kollias said. “I can definitely tell [when they’re worse].”

According to Brooke Quentrill, a registered nurse for United Healthcare, wind can carry pollen easily, so people’s allergies are aggravated more on windy days.

Still, not everyone who has spring-time allergies and is involved in a spring sport has noticed a difference this year.

Sophomore Blake Hallman, who does track and field, has pollen allergies in the spring that hit around March, but he has not seen his allergies get worse or start earlier.

Instead of visiting Prospect’s nurses office, Novak said many students with seasonal allergies take medications out-side of school to ease symptoms even if they don’t bring those medications into school.

These treatments include anti-hista-mine drugs like Allegra (fexofenadine), Claritin (loratadine) and Zyrtec (cetiri-zine), which don’t cure the allergies but target the secretions caused by them.

Other medicines, such as Sudafed and nasal sprays such as Nasonex, are decongestants, which simply clear mu-cus in the nose and sinuses that might have built up as a result of allergies, ac-cording to Quentrill.

Wendling has had to take Zyrtec for her allergies, but because they’ve been worse this year, her doctor prescribed Nasonex as well.

During the spring, Kollias has to take Nasonex and Claritin, and Hallman has to take Zyrtec.

Those suffering from seasonal aller-

gies should learn when their particu-lar allergies are worst, Quentrill said. Watching the weather and local pollen counts can give a good idea of when particular allergies will be bad.

However, not all seasonal allergies are plant-related or at their worst out-doors. Dust and mold can also become problematic when it is warmer and there is more wind and moisture.

To avoid dust and mold problems, Quentrill recommends keeping indoor humidity at 50 percent (a dehumidi-fier can help), making sure there are no

cracks in the house’s walls and dusting and vacuuming floors and furniture regularly.

Frequently, it is any number of fac-tors worsening allergic reactions in-stead of just one, according to Quen-trill.

Allergies can be intensified when people have other conditions, like a cold going on at the same time.

“It’s pretty rare for people to be sensi-tive to just the ragweed, just the grass,” Quentrill said. “Allergies are caused by a whole group of conditions.”

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pFEELING THE HEAT: The winter of 2010-2011 was one of the coldest on record for Chicago. This winter, in contrast, was one of the warmest. Warmer winters can make plants pollinate earlier, which can aggravate seasonal allergies. (Graph by Emmy Lindfors; information courtesy of noaa.gov)

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RELAY: Students, residents unite

By Nabi DresslerNews Editor

Two summers ago, senior Maura Benson visited the J. Kyle Braid (JKB) Leadership Ranch in Colorado with other JKB leaders.

There, the JKB leaders met a few Glenbrook South (GBS) students who told them about Gym Jam, an annual multi-sport competition GBS used to raise money for the school.

Benson attended Gym Jam with oth-er JKB leaders to see how the event was run and what sports were played.

This event sparked the idea of Big Knight, Prospect’s own one-night, three-sport competition.

Students can participate in Big Knight on March 16, a first-time compe-tition run by JKB leaders and sponsors, consisting of tournaments of dodge ball, badminton and basketball, as op-posed to separate competitions on dif-ferent dates for each of the three sports.

In the past, a dodge ball-only tour-nament has taken place, but it will not return this school year because of Big Knight.

According to JKB sponsor Frank Mirandola, the idea of the competition was adopted and modified to fit Pros-pect.

The same three sports in Big Knight take place during Gym Jam, but tickets

are being sold prior to the event instead of selling tickets at the door like GBS.

Sign-ups in the commons during lunch hours began March 6 and will end March 14. Students have to create and sign up with their own teams.

There are six people needed for a dodge ball team, two people needed for a badminton team and four people need-ed for a basketball team in the 3-on-3 competition that requires one alternate on each team.

A staff team will also participate in Big Knight, but its players are unde-cided.

There is a $5 fee for each person par-ticipating. Once students pay the one-time fee, they can compete in as many tournaments as they wish. Each sport

has one bracket tournament; the num-ber of games a team plays depends on its number of wins. Brackets will be posted on March 15.

Rather than using the event as a fund-raiser for the school like Gym Jam does, half of the money raised through Big Knight will go to the JKB Leader-ship Ranch, which is dedicated to teach-ing leadership skills to teens.

According to Benson, although Pros-pect cancelled sending students to the ranch this year, it had such an effect on her that she wanted to keep supporting it.

The other half of the money raised through Big Knight will be donated to Omni Youth Services, a youth organi-zation that fights substance abuse and

runs a drug prevention program at Prospect. JKB chose to donate to Omni Youth Services because the focus of Big Knight is to provide students with a fun, clean Friday night.

According to Mirandola, aside from these charitable organizations, the money raised through Big Knight will also cover the cost of prizes for students whose teams win a tournament.

Prizes up for grabs include T-shirts for the winning team in each sport and gift cards from places like Dairy Queen and Olympus Gyros.

Sports aside, there will be a prize for the team with the most creative and in-teresting uniforms.

Competing in Big Knight isn’t the only way students can get involved with the event. Students can attend the event in the field house and gyms for free just to watch and cheer on their peers; how-ever, some games in tournaments will overlap.

Mirandola believes Big Knight is a way to bring fun to students and get people in different sports investing themselves in the school. The compe-tition also allows students to be with their friends and “let loose a little bit.”

Benson agrees; Big Knight gives stu-dents a “great way to spend time with [their] classmates” and is an opportu-nity for students to simply have fun, she said.

-mittee participation, Fry, Jacobson and Ser-vice Club hope to recruit more student participants because Relay for Life is foremost a fund-raiser.

Some of their current ideas include implement-ing a fund-raising mini-mum for students who want to stay overnight and more closely enforc-ing who leaves the event after curfew.

“It’s not just supposed to be some big slumber party,” Jacobson said.

They also have ideas to gain a larger student pop-ulation, even from other schools.

The committee will post information around Mount Prospect and Arlington Heights to at-tract citizens outside of Prospect, and Borawski even went to Lincoln Middle School to ask their principal to post an advertisement in their par-

ent newsletter. But the most important goal of the Relay for

Life committee is to assure that everyone who participates enjoys themselves while keeping

the cancer awareness alive. The committee is in the

stages of planning Team Rally meetings, to excite teams about fund-raising, as well as re-energizing the closing Fight Back cer-emony, so participants are excited about all of the work they’ve accomplished, as well as aware about the struggles of cancer until next year’s Relay for Life.

Although planning an event of this size may seem chaotic at times to the com-mittee, through their meet-ings and work, on “the night of the event, everything seems to flow and follow the schedule,” according to Ja-

cobson. “There will always be a hiccup here and

there,” Fry said. “But it’s no fun if it’s complete-ly perfect.”

Big Knight for sports competition

p CRAFTY CHARITY WORK: (From left) Current senior Cassie Bach and sophomores Morgan Clow and Colleen Richards string beads on bracelets. Each bead represents one lap they have walked for Relay for Life. These bracelets were one of many fund-raisers during Relay for Life that contributed to last year’s total net income of $100,876. (Photo courtesy of David Jacobson)

Since Relay for Life was first hosted at Prospect in 2007, the net income of funds raised from this walk against cancer has increased dramatically.

2007-$48,2912008-$38,7252009-$55,9982010-$74,5592011-$100,876

Information courtesy of staff partner Andy Fry of the American Cancer Society

Effective fund-raisingSocial science teacher Mike Sebestyen and his wife welcomed twin girls on Jan. 21. Read about the family’s happiness on prospectornow.com.

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By Emmy LindforsManaging Editor

When senior Caroline Cooper walked into school in late October, she was sporting a brightly-colored outfit con-sisting of red pants and a green shirt, as well as rainbow-colored feathers and a plastic snake.

Cooper was dressed up as Quet-zacoatl, the Aztec feather serpent god, for her Spanish 4 class’ celebration of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.

Dia de los Muer-tos is one of the many holidays cele-brated in the World Language classes. Most recently, the World Language department experi-enced the celebra-tion of Mardi Gras through French classes.

According to French teacher Scott Russell, he looks forward to celebrating it because students have an idea of what Mardi Gras is and can re-ally have fun with it.

“Each year is fun, and each year is a little different,” Russell said.

Among all levels of French, students create a craft. In lower levels, students will create masks, while in the higher levels, they will make king crowns, jester hats or small parade floats out of shoe boxes, an activity in which junior Jordan Pollock participated when she was in French 3. Pollock used the Mardi Gras colors and added masks, crowns and sparkles. When creating her parade float, Pollock made sure to incorporate

the holiday’s colors of purple, gold and green, as well as adding sparkles, masks and crowns, which are symbols relevant to the holiday.

According to Russell, the class party is a mixture of Mardi Gras celebra-tions, as traditionally Catholic coun-tries have different ways of celebrating it. The idea of throwing beads and call-ing it Mardi Gras originated in New Or-leans, but the actual holiday originated in France and is known as Carnival.

Overall, Russell believes it is not only a small history lesson for his students, but a way to have a fun, easy class day.

“While some might see it as a waste of time,” Russell said, “we are helping students create social-emotional re-lationships [during the celebrations] where we can step back, spend time un-der no pressure and have fun.”

Similarly, Italian classes celebrate Mardi Gras, but know it as a dif-ferent name, Car-nevale.

In preparation for the holiday, stu-dents make min-iature gondolas, masks and small parade floats. Ital-ian teachers Lyn Scolaro and An-tonino Bondi en-joy giving students inspiration by bringing in actual

masks and showing pictures from the events.

During class celebrations, students are encouraged to bring in food from recipes they have found.

“Italians base everything on food, so you need to have it,” Scolaro said.

However, in Spanish classes, they do not focus as much on food. Instead, they really embrace the social atmosphere.

Spanish 4 classes celebrate Dia de los Muertos with a process similar to speed dating. Each student represents one deceased, prominent person in Span-ish culture, and half of them sit in an outer circle while the other half sit in

an inner circle. The inner circle rotates every three to five minutes. During this time, students have to exchange the business cards they made and tell an in-teresting fact about themselves.

“I really liked it,” Cooper said. “Be-fore, [our options led us to] make Day of the Dead bread, and after a while, how many times can you make it? But this was something fun and different.”

Cooper’s Spanish teacher, Leigh Sapp, enjoys the celebration year after year.

“[Cooper] was so invested in the ex-perience,” Sapp said. “It’s always nice to see the kids get excited and into it.”

While the speed dating process is unique to Spanish 4, all Spanish classes celebrate Dia de los Muertos. Accord-ing to Sapp, the main focus for the lower levels of Spanish is creating a definitive line between the holiday and Hallow-een.

“They have a harder time realizing it’s not Halloween,” Sapp said, who also teaches Spanish 2. “Yes, they happen around the same time, but they have a different meaning, which isn’t to say that Halloween is bad and this is good.

“We decorate our houses for Hallow-een, but ofrendas [tributes to a deceased family member] are treated as part of the family. They have more meaning, and it’s more of a celebration.”

Spanish 1 and 2 classes will create the ofrendas after a famous deceased person, who doesn’t necessarily need to be from Latin decent, according to

Sapp. Classes will take shoe boxes and place articles the people enjoyed in their lives, like a CD for music.

Not only does Sapp enjoy seeing her students’ creativity, but she also likes seeing them “draw parallels” between their culture and the language’s cul-ture.

“Seeing them make the connections and know they are learning is great,” Sapp said. “The activity allows us to have fun while working.”

Graphic by Emmy Lindfors

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Celebrate like...

“Before, [our options led us to] make Day of the Dead

bread, and after a while, how many times can you make it? But this was something fun

and different.”-senior Caroline Cooper

-Krewe: a group of party planners in New Orleans who are named after a mythical creature or person. The identities of the Krewes are secrets.-King’s Cake: A cake decorated with purple, gold and green, Mardi Gras’ colors. Inside is a small, plastic baby, and whoever finds it is crowned king for the day, like in French teacher Scott Russell’s classes.-Doubloon: an aluminum coin that has the insignia of the parade krewe on one side and the theme of the parade on the other.-Throw: a party favor tossed from parade floats to people who yell, “Throw me something, Mister!” The throwing of beads and doubloons originated in New Orleans.

Know your Mardi Gras

Senior Caroline Cooper dressed up as Quetzacoatl, the Aztec feather serpent god, for her Spanish 4 class’ celebration of Dia de los Muertos. Not only had Cooper dressed herself in feathers and taped a plastic snake on her, but she and junior Emilie Adamovic embraced their roles to the fullest. Since Adamovic was Moctezuma, an Aztec emperor, she chose to worship Cooper. The two enjoyed making the connections and believed it “made the experience more fun,” according to Cooper.

Best (dead) friends forever

World Language classes learn from holidays

pSPEED DATE WITH THE DEAD: Senior Caroline Cooper, left, and junior Emilie Adamovic, right, visit with each other while celebrating of Dia de los Muertos in their Spanish 4 class. Dia de los Muertos is one of the holidays World Language classes celebrate. (Photo courtesy of Caroline Cooper)

Prospect experienced a tragedy last year when a student committed suicide. After the event, students were left in shock, unsure of how to react or cope with the tragedy.

In an effort to teach stu-dents about suicide and de-pression as well as how to recognize potential risks, the freshmen, along with their Leading INcoming Knights (LINK) leaders, took part in a new program.

During their gym peri-ods, students engaged in a suicide prevention pro-gram called “S.O.S.,” which stands for “Signs of Sui-cide.”

This program was pre-sented by Elyssa’s Mission, a non-profit organization spreading information about teen suicide.

Elyssa Meyers attended New Trier, and during her sophomore year after a long battle with depression, she

committed suicide. Ely-

ssa’s parents started the or-ganization to fight teen sui-cide and inform students across Illinois about what they had experienced.

According to Elyssa’s Mission’s website, suicide is the third leading cause of death among 10-24-year-olds, with near-ly 4,400 sui-cides per year.

With such a large number of teens affect-ed by suicide and Prospect having a more personal expe-rience with it, suicide preven-tion has been a long-await-ed program.

We, The Prospector, be-lieve implementing a pro-gram like “S.O.S.” is a great step forward for our school and should be presented to all grades, not just the freshmen.

Teaching students the warning signs of when their friends may be suf-fering from depression is

key because not all stu-dents may realize that

most of the symptoms are subtle.

Some of the symptoms mentioned in the video were more noticeable, such as increased alcohol use and making threats; however, the more subtle symptoms, like increases

or decreases in amount of sleep and loss of inter-est in hobbies, were the focus.

Keeping the risks in mind, the program taught the students a new acronym for the steps to ad-dress signs of

suicide, “ACT.” This stands for Acknowl-

edge, Care and Tell. Also, speaking about

suicide to the freshmen is a way of breaking the stig-ma about it, which is very important. Students may not have known it was OK to talk about suicide and depression in a school set-ting, but this program of-fers them a way to be open about what they do and do not know.

Without a program like this, students wouldn’t be able to recognize the warn-ing signs or know whom to contact in a situation like those seen in the videos.

The most vital part of the program was teaching students it is alright to seek help from a teacher or par-ent when they believe their friend could be at risk, and realizing their friends won’t be mad at them for seeking help is what students need-ed to hear.

Students learned that if one of their friends is tell-ing them how they are feel-ing, they are reaching out. To be a responsible friend, students should tell a par-ent or teacher about their friend, with or without per-mission.

In Elyssa’s situation, her friends never told her parents or teachers. In the end, telling a secret is better than losing a friend.

At the end of the video, one of Elyssa’s closest friends says: “I would rath-er have her be mad at me than [have her] be gone.”

Stopping student suicide

The second I hear the final bell ring, my day begins. Whether it’s Speech re-hearsal, softball practice, newspaper in-terviews or just plain homework, from AP World History to Honors Algebra, I always have something to do.

Even on nights when my homework load is light, I still have trouble getting to bed before 11 p.m. because I tend to drag out my work. Sometimes, going, going, going keeps me awake and alert, and I love it, like those days when I go to a soft-

ball workout, then race upstairs to work on the school news-paper.

Other times, however, I get over-whelmed by my seemingly endless responsibilities. It’s at those times when I have to step back and ask, “Meghan, what are you doing to yourself ?”

So far, I have let go of playing basketball, acting in musicals, singing in choir and pretty much every-thing students do as little kids before they start to focus on certain areas.

But as students get older, it’s all about simplifying, according to clinical psy-chologist Elizabeth Bolash, who special-izes in adolescent health psychology.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, simplifying typically means letting activi-ties go.

Bolash recom-mends making a list of the most impor-tant values. If the ac-tivities cluttering the schedule don’t agree with the priorities on the list, it’s time to make some chang-es.

Entering high school, I was a Jane-of-all-trades, if you will. From sports to theater to academics, I had it all cov-

ered. However, once I realized what was required of me at Prospect, I had some major overhaul to do in my life.

Now my major focus is on academics, but I still try to stay athletic through trav-

el softball, and I try to maintain a performance outlet by partici-pating in Speech Team.

Senior Nick Cartwright also knows the feel-ing, as he had to give up football, wrestling, track and tennis to pursue his love

of performing by joining Speech Team and Mixed Company.

He’s met a whole new group of friends since then and found something to contin-ue with in college. And while the switch didn’t necessarily free up any time in

Cartwright’s schedule, he said the work now is less stressful, both physically and emotionally.

Even when he comes home late after rehearsal, he comes home happy and burnt out — not just burnt out.

However, even with all that I’ve let go, my parents and I still have conversations about me being overworked. Now I think the problem is putting too much effort into everything I do.

If you want to be involved with several clubs and activities, don’t plan on being president or captain of each one. If you want to do that, pare it down even more so you have time to accomplish all of your tasks to the best of your ability.

Now the choice is up to you. You could be a participant in several different orga-nizations, or you could be truly dedicated to one specific purpose.

But it all comes down to one question: What do you want to be doing when that final bell rings?

Meghan DoyleExecutive News Editor

Priorities needed at Prospect

At other times, I get over-whelmed by my seemingly

endless responsibilities. I have to step back and ask, “Meghan,

what are you doing to your-self?”

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1,851,000 statuses are updated,

2,716,000 messages are sent and

1,587,000 wall posts are written.

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Facebook reveals more than a name

As of 2011, there are 500 million active Facebook users — approximately one in every 13 people on Earth. Half of them are logged in on any given day.

By Kiley WalshOpinion Editor

Whenever taking a picture with friends, the most obnoxious thing to hear is, “Let me see it! Ew, delete — I look gross!”

It’s an automatic reaction for teen-agers, especially when thinking this “gross” picture could be going up on their Facebook. I try to convince myself over and over that my friends on Face-book already know what I look like and that I don’t need to look perfect in every single picture, but it is easi-er said than done.

Something I’ve come to realize about Facebook is that a lot of information and judgement on people you meet is based off their page. Espe-cially before meeting someone for the first time, everything you would need to know about a person is just a click away.

And while the free information has a few up sides, it also has its fair share of negatives.

It can save someone from feeling like an idiot when people identify who their siblings are or when are their birthdays in their Facebook profiles.

But more easily, Facebook can make someone look like a straight-from-Cha-troullette creeper with full knowledge of who your friends are, your phone num-ber, e-mail address, favorite quotations, relationship status, workplace and cur-rent city.

By just looking through someone’s page, you can find out more in a minute than you might have known through

your whole friendship, and not once would you have needed to talk to that person.

Sometimes you don’t even get the op-portunity to tell people what your favor-ite movie is because they could have al-ready checked for themselves.

With all the easily accessible informa-tion, teenagers tend to feel responsible for updating their Facebook profiles, but they shouldn’t have to be constantly monitoring their profiles to watch for pictures or posts that could lead people

to the wrong im-pression of them.

And the star-tling part is in-stead of having to learn things about people throughout a friendship, ev-erything they like or dislike is clearly

printed in words right in front of you face.

Scary, huh? As soon as people hear something

about a person they don’t know, myself included, they search for him/her on Facebook.

Sometimes it’s frightening to know the way students display their profiles could not only attract creepers, but also change the way other students think about them. Students could have a good impression of a new girl at school, but then they could notice that she constant-ly updates her Facebook with pictures and statuses, which may change their perception of her.

If the students are annoyed when peo-ple update Facebook all the time, they may just assume this girl is annoying.

But on the other end being the person

searched and judged based on pictures and wallposts is discomforting.

Students should not have to worry as much as they do now about how their Facebook profiles are presented. It’s a website, not a human.

But with the constant updates and photos, students have let their Face-books become their personalities, which is what makes an embarrassing picture such a big deal to have online.

It is beneficial to be conscious of what people put on the Internet, since it stays there forever, but the level of care and input some students have with Facebook pictures and obsessing over the perfec-tion of their hair or facial expressions has crossed the line.

Facebook has evolved from a fun site with a few pictures and a way to recon-nect with old pals into its own person with a face, friends and all your inter-ests clearly written for anyone to see.

It’s a website, not a human. Ultimately, students are the ones pro-

jecting their interests and activities to everyone, but they need to be aware that every one of their friends has access to this information.

And in all seriousness, students re-ally need to stop living up to the light-heartedly looked at, but still creepy as ever, Facebook stalker stereotype.

Because the next time someone can name my No. 1 favorite quotation faster than I can remember it, my Facebook will be deleted.

And maybe next time I’ll just tweet it...

48 percentof 18-34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up.

of people talk more online than they do in

57 percent

real

A record-breaking

750 million photos

were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend.

There are

206.2 million internet users in the U.S. That means

71.2% of the U.S. web audience is on Facebook

life.

Heather Dove

Information courtesy of the Huffington Post

7FEATURESFriday, March 9, 2012

Tales of a chess mate

Social science, world language teachers share special bondBy Angela LarsenFeatures Editor

Social science teacher Jay Heilman tore up the dance floor at his fellow so-cial science teacher and friend Frank Mirandola’s wedding about seven years ago.

“I go to his wedding, my tie ends up around my head and I have a good time,” Heilman said. “I like to dance; I can’t help it.”

It may seem strange to see a cowork-er “tearing up the dance floor,” or even to be invited to a summer barbecue, but this close group of coworkers in the Social Science and World Language De-partment don’t feel their relationship is

weird at all. In fact, they feel the exact opposite, due to the fact that they have a history together.

“I wouldn’t want it any other way,” Mirandola said. “It makes it a place where you want to be, you want to share, you want to go ahead and help one another out.”

Unlike Mirandola and fellow teach-er John Camardella, who knew each other while attending Illinois Wes-leyan University, many teachers didn’t know each other prior to Prospect. For example, social science and world lan-guage teachers Daria Schaffeld, Leigh Sapp, Jay Heilman and Julie Stoker all went to University of Indiana, but did

not meet until they started work at the school.

Illinois Wesleyan is also the school where social science teacher Qiana Drye and division head Gary Judson attended; however, they did not know each other or Mirandola and Camardel-la.

“There’s fun rivalries between all of the schools,” Mirandola said. “Talking about how this person’s school is better than [another] school — it’s a fun point where we can go ahead and tease one another.”

The majority of the staff in the de-partment has been there for about eight years. Even more recent additions, like Tim Beishir and Brad Rathe, have

been here for about five years.

“We’re all relatively the

same age, so our families are often go-ing through

similar experi-ences,” Heilman said. “I think that helps us be close, because we can share sto-ries, confide in each other and have similar life-styles.”

Judson feels that everyone’s

at different stages in their lives, so it makes sense that the younger ones tend to hang out more.

“It’s probably better that I’m not at those functions,” Judson said.

Despite not being at all weddings or barbecues, Judson still feels close to the entire division, even after 15 years of being a division head.

“In a way, at times it feels like I’m the father figure,” Judson said.

Although there is no argument the department is close, nobody feels as if they have a best friend. Heilman explained that he feels closer to some people during different parts of the year. For example, he feels closer with Schaffled during the spring and fall be-cause of AP psychology. On the other hand, he feels closer to Camardella and Rathe during the winter because of the basketball season.

“It’s the opposite of weird,” Heilman said. “It’s appreciated. It’s wanted. It’s natural.”

By Jane BerryExecutive Features Editor

Junior Robert Moskwa was ahead 6-0 at the start of the last round of the state meet on Feb. 11. He was nervous — not just because of state, though.

“When I am playing a really tough guy, I’m always afraid I am going to really blow it,” Robert said. “My emotions were jumping all over the place.”

This is not a game with half-naked, painted men running down a track, and you will never see one of these players arguing with a referee; Robert is a chess player.

After winning the state tournament, Moskwa is head-ing off to compete at nationals in Seattle, Wash., this August.

Robert’s love of chess didn’t

start with a school club or be-cause his friends were doing it; his mother, Beata, taught him how to play while they lived in Poland.

“When I lived in Poland, I remember thinking that chess was such a stupid game,” Rob-ert said. “My whole motivation for play-ing it was to beat my mom.”

R o b e r t said Beata used to beat him in ev-e r y t h i n g : chess, ping-pong, vol-l e y b a l l , even swim-ming. It was not surprise to him that his mom beat him in swim-ming, however, since she was an Olympic swimmer.

A c c o r d i n g to Robert, his mother is very supportive. She drives him to all of his tourna-

ments and pays en-t r a n c e fees, but

more than that, she is always up for a

round. She believes it is really Robert’s initiative that got him to where he is, though.

“I’m no match for him now,”

Beata said.Although he came to the

U.S. in sixth grade, Robert didn’t join his middle school’s club until seventh grade.

“I kept playing until I start-ed to beat my mom, but then I

wanted to beat my coach, and now I just want to keep winning,” Robert said.

Robert tries to practice about an

hour each day, w h e t h e r w i t h f r i e n d s ,

family or, more often

than not, his com-puter (see “Want to

practice?”). According to Robert, keeping up

with what is happening

when new strategies are posted online is crucial.

“I always need to be looking ahead, onto further positions,” Robert said.

He also frequently enters independent tournaments as “something not too serious, more to make a quick buck.” Robert said it can be incred-ibly draining to sit and think for such long periods of time.

He once had a match that lasted seven hours, and he was only allowed to have water at the table. Robert believes chess competitors here are much colder than in Poland.

“Sometimes it’s a little awk-ward when we play matches,” Robert said. “No one talks to each other.”

Chess is not always so in-tense. According to Robert, players and teams will fre-

quently dress up. He has seen neon orange costumes, a Pi-kachu outfit and many crazy hats. One kid even stripped down to a tank top and shorts during a match.

Robert doesn’t dress up or try to distract his opponents. He believes the person who notices an opponent’s weak move first wins the game, and he doesn’t need a costume for that.

Although many players take the game very seriously, Robert describes it as more of a pas-time for him. He loves to play, but also needs to keep up with

school work, soccer, tennis and hanging out with friends.

“He is so hard-working,” Beata said. “Sometimes it seems too difficult to keep up, but he does it.”

In the future, Robert is look-ing to study medicine, prefer-ably in Poland. He is even con-sidering a specialty in cardiac surgery because “saving some-one’s life would be something to really strive for.”

“I’m just hoping for the best, that he can keep going as long as it makes him happy,” Beata said. “Whatever makes him happy will make me happy.”

All the departments in the school have a holiday party for the entire staff in the building. For example, the math and science department hosts a Halloween party, and social science and world language teachers host a March Madness party.

Party Time!

Junior Robert Moskwa uses Chess.com to practice after

school. He said Internet Chess Club is also a good resource, but because

players have to pay to use it, he doesn’t like it as much. All sites match a player up with others at

the same level as them, so according to Moskwa, one

day he could be playing a 10-year-old in

Pakistan and an old man in China

the next.

Want to practice?

According to the Guinness World Records, this was the duration of the longest chess marathon ever played. The match took place in Ostfildern, Germany, in 2010 between Daniel Häußler and Philipp Bergner.

40 hours, 20 min

pALL IN THE FAMILY : Several Prospect staff members pose for a photo at social science teacher John Camardella’s wedding. Several members of the Social Science and World Language Department have a close relationship. (Photo courtesy of John Camardella)

pTAKING THE KING: Robert Moskwa won the state chess tournament on Saturday, Feb. 11. Moskwa’s mother first played chess with him when he was a child living in Poland. (Photo by Ian Magnuson)

Junior wins state for chess

10 FEATURES Friday, March 9, 2012

By Anna BoratynFeatures Editor

Students don’t often think of their teachers as test takers, but that’s ex-actly what psychology teachers Daria Schaffeld and Jay Heilman had to do to teach AP classes.

In order to count for college credit, AP classes have to reach a certain stan-dard of quality, so both Schaffeld and Heilman had to be accredited by the College Board. Accreditation is a pro-cess that involves the College Board’s review of Schaffeld and Heilman’s cur-riculum, lessons and calendar.

According to Schaffeld, colleges are now more accepting towards AP pro-grams. For exam-ple, there are now very few colleges that don’t accept AP Psychology credits.

AP Biology teacher John Ken-ney said college acceptance of biol-ogy credits varies widely but is more sparse in eastern and Ivy League colleges.

Even when an AP course is accepted by a college, AP courses and college courses often differ in the way they’re taught.

Guidance counselor Diane Bourn said when colleges don’t accept an AP credit as a substitute for their classes, they usually do so because of their phi-

losophy of giving credit only for cours-es they teach.

According to Bourn, though an AP class might prepare a stu-dent for the rig-ors of a college-level class, it may not teach students everything that a college expects they will learn from taking the class there.

Like an introduc-tory college course, AP Psychology is a survey course, touch-ing on 12 units in the field of psychology.

AP Psychology’s curriculum goes from neuroscience to person-ality theory to memory to therapy.

“We really run the gambit, and we touch

s e v e r a l different t o p i c s , ” Schaffeld said.

Kenney said the College Board is re-ducing AP Biology’s curriculum to em-phasize inquiry more than memorization of facts, better reflecting

college curriculums.According to Bourn, students are

expected to be more independent in college. Taking AP classes doesn’t just help earn credits; it promotes indepen-dence.

Senior Maddie Loeffler, who plans to major in psychology, expects psychol-ogy class in college to be far less guided.

Bourne recalls the conversations of alumni talking about their college ex-periences when they visited Prospect to advise students on their college choices.

“They were always saying, ‘I’m glad I took AP classes,’ or ‘I wish I took more,’” Bourn said. “It was really their AP classes that prepared them for col-lege.”

Even if an AP credit isn’t accepted by a college, Kenney sees value in tak-ing AP Biology because introductory biology college classes repeat much of AP Biology’s curriculum.

Schaffeld sees advantages of taking AP Psychology in high school rather than introductory psychology in col-lege. In high school, classes meet ev-

ery day in classrooms of about 30 people, as op-posed to every other day in large lecture halls.

“Big lecture halls, several hundred people, a professor on a stage, talking and you taking notes like a bandit —every now and then it might be a demo or a video clip, but I think the difference is that I run a very interac-tive class,” Shaffeld said.

Loeffler partici-pated in a demo where she was giv-en five food items, like pretzels and cane sugar, and then was given a tea to drink. Then she was given the five food items again. The foods that had been sweet tasted like sand; the tea in-hibited the ability to taste sweetness.

“It was really bizarre and surreal be-cause I’ve never experienced anything like that before,” Loeffler said.

Loeffler was reminded of the demo during discussions on taste and smell and on the test when there were ques-tions about it.

Schaffeld prefers her variety of teaching.

“[There are] a lot of demonstra-tions, avenues for discussion, a lot of experiments and doing as opposed to me saying. I really believe in that kind of learning,” Schaffeld said. “I think that’s the difference.”

Advanced classes introduce students to college academics

“The difference is that I run a very interactive

class.”-AP Psychology teacher Daria Schaffeld

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The higher a student scores on their end-of-the-year standardized AP exam, the more likely they are to earn credit from a college.

Scores:5= very highly qualified4= qualified3= may qualify2= probably not qualified1=not qualified

Getting credit for AP

PSYCHADELIC : At left, AP Psychology teacher Daria Schaffeld instructs senior Emily Aron during an experiment where the students drank tea that inhibited their ability to taste sweet. Below, Schaffeld helps junior Claire Schober during small group discussions. Schaffeld makes a point to run an interactive class. (Photos by Jane Berry)

By Khrystyna HalatymaFeatures Editor

“If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?”

This is the question social science teacher Erik Hodges decided to ask one woman in Ecuador while he was doing missionary work.

He expected answers such as money, a car or even food, but the answer he got caught him by surprise.

“I wish we had sewers,” the woman said.

“I was not prepared for her to say sewers,” Hodges said. “I don’t think I would have ever guessed she would have said sewers, but it made sense. It would have improved everyone’s lives.”

She explained that during the rain-ing seasons, it floods and life just stops.

There are parasites that swim through water, and when anyone walks through the flooded area, which is un-avoidable, they get terrible rashes.

However, if they had sewers, their lives would be unaffected and people could get in and get out and go to work.

“In her mind, she had her family, her

kids were healthy and life was good,” Hodges said. “That’s what was so tell-ing, you can live anywhere as long as you have things that are important to you.”

Senior Ellie Taves and Hodges use their spring break as a chance to give back to the world.

Taves is going to El Paso, Texas as part of a missionary retreat with her church, St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Yet missionary work does not only stay within the boundaries of the Unit-ed States.

Hodges has gone to Ecuador and Guatemala, as well as volunteering in the states.

In past years, Taves and her youth group have managed to build entire houses, but since there is a smaller number of people volunteering this year, they will be fixing up an existing house.

Through this, Taves has learned practical skills such as how to insulate house, use a nail gun and painting a building.

One year, as part of her mis-sionary work, Taves helped put in a floor for a family’s house, opposed to the dirt floor they would have had instead.

Taves said see-ing the family’s grateful faces af-ter they saw their new floor was worth the work.

The mother even started crying be-cause she was so happy they had a bet-ter house.

“Seeing that we made someone hap-py, and we had changed their life moved me,” Taves said. “It made me happier that I decided to do a mission trip in-stead of sleeping in every day and

watching TV.”Hodges is on the same page, he

doesn’t want to waste away his spring break.

“Most people in college, or even high school, think of spring break as Mexico and indulging,” Hodges said. “I thought it was cool to go and volunteer

to give some-thing back [in-stead].”

While in Ecuador, Hodg-es surveyed mothers who were waiting in line with their children for medical at-tention or vac-cines.

He asked simple questions such as, “How many children do you have? Do you purify your water? Are you literate? How do you expose of your waste?”

There were no services offered to the communities, and with the results of the surveys, it was easier to see what was most needed in each community.

Then, educators would be sent in to explain how important it is to vaccinate

your children or, in some cases, the or-ganization would send in free vaccines.

Volunteer work doesn’t only have to be at an international level, contribu-tions can be made at a smaller scale.

On a trip four years ago, Taves and her group gathered up the kids from the local neighborhood to lead bible classes and played games with them while the adults were working on housing.

“We really liked it because it gave us a chance to give back to people,” Taves said. “[And] see how poverty really is compared to how it is here.”

Taves not only enjoys the work she does, but looks forward to and learns from it every year.

“It really just spun my perspective on the world,” Taves said. “It’s helped me appreciate what I have and not to take much for granted.”

Hodges feels the same way about his volunteer work abroad.

“It changed my life... It helped me realize that experiences and what you value is what will make you happy, not what you have,” Hodges said. “We have so many comforts in the United States that we don’t even realize, we take [it] as standard. It gives you a perspective on what we have [here] and what people have around the world.”

11FEATURESFriday, March 9, 2012

“Most people in college, or even high school, think of spring break as Mexico and indulging. I thought it

was cool to go and volunteer to give something back [instead] .”

-social science teacher Erik Hodges

While volunteering in Ecuador, social science teacher Erik Hodges was staying with a local family. One night, Hodges woke up and saw a huge cockroach on the floor Instead of dealing with the problem in the middle of the night, he swept it into a drawer. The next morning, Hodges attempted to face the bug again. When he opened the drawer, the bug scurried

for freedom behind the dresser. Hodges went to the grandmother of the house to ask for a pesticide to kill the insect. In response, the elderly grandma walked into the room, moved the dresser and killed the cockroach with her bare hands. All she had to say afterwards was, “Dinner will be ready soon.”

A cockroach experience

This issue, The Prospector interviews junior Jesse Cima’s girlfriend, junior Courtney Smith, and his friend, junior Kevin Wrobell, to see who knows Jesse better.

Who is his role model?

Halo Wars

WINNER

Who Knows You Better?

The SubjectWhat does he want to be after college?

If he could go anywhere for spring break, where would

he go?

What does he do in his free time?

If he could be any animal, what would he be?

Junior Jesse Cima

history teachermath teacher

Italy

Walter Payton

monkey

Halo Wars

older brother

Halo Wars

dog

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math teacher

older brother

Italy Hawaii

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Junior Courtney Smith

The Friend

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Student, teacher spend vacations volunteering, giving back to the world

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pHELP FOR TEXAS: Senior Ellie Taves and her church group in Texas doing missionary work during spring break. Taves volunteers every spring break. (Photo courtesy of Ellie Taves)

pVOLUNTEERING: Social science teacher Erik Hodges goes abroad for volunteer work. Hodges prefers this to the ‘average’ spring break. (Photo courtesy of Erik Hodges)

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Make-up match-up12ENTERTAINMENTFriday, March 9, 2012

By Maddy MoloneyIn-Depth Editor

Whether your face resembles a Domino’s Meatlover’s pizza because your research paper is stressing you out or you have raccoon eyes because you decided to wait until the last night to cram for your AP World History test, make-up has become every girl’s BFF in a time of need. Make-up isn’t just a quick fix to hide a small imperfection; it’s more fun than chasing a kid with peanut allergies with a peanut butter sandwich.

From a female perspective, the best part of any school dance is getting ready with your friends beforehand. But in order to do that, you need products that will remain as pretty as you do all night long.

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13ENTERTAINMENTFriday, March 9, 2012

Man behind the camera

By Tallyn OwensExecutive Entertainment Editor

At the beginning of last year, Ron Godby, father of sophomore Mary God-by, was faced with the decision of which committee join as a part of the Prospect Choral Boosters.

Of the several different committees, including transportation, fundrais-ing and costumes, Godby felt that he “couldn’t contribute better than I do with photography,” Godby said.

So Godby volunteered to take photos at concerts, show choir competitions and theater performances.

Godby began his career as a sports photographer and also took photographs during his tour of duty as a US Marine.

He believes his experience with sports photography, including his per-sonal “claim to fame” of shooting the first night game at Wrigley Field in 1989, aids him in photographing show choir.

This is because the same equipment he used to cover sports is helpful when capturing the fast nature of a perfor-mance on one of his two Nikon cameras, either a D2X or D2H, along with one of six different lenses.

For Godby, one reason he puts so much time and effort into photograph-ing the performances of the show choirs is because he admires the effort they put into the programs.

“I know a lot of the kids, and they’re the hardest working kids I’ve ever seen,” Godby said.

In order to reciprocate the work ethic the students have, Godby also has his own elaborate process of taking the pho-

tographs and getting them out to the stu-dents.

During each competition, Godby situ-ates himself in the camera booth of whichever venue the show choirs are performing in.

His battle strategy is simple: to take as many pictures as possible at very fast speeds.

This way, he can ensure he achieves his “absolute determination” to get at least one good picture of every single performer, combo and crew member.

The Sunday after each competition, Godby spends several hours sorting through the photos and deciding which ones are the best of each student and then editing them to make sure the qual-ity of the photo is good, even if the light-ing on the stage wasn’t.

The creation of his Facebook page, “Ron Godby Photos,” came about when students continually asked him to post them on Facebook.

Godby also wanted to create a Face-book page because he wanted to share the pictures with the parents in the choir department, and many of them are on Facebook as well.

“These types of pictures are meant to be shared,” Godby said.

According to daughter Mary, a mem-ber of Company, she was initially hesi-tant of her dad’s increased presence at competitions and rehearsals.

However, after she realized how great the pictures turned out and how much everyone in the choirs enjoyed them, she quickly adjusted.

She also noted the enjoyment compe-titions provide have improved their re-lationship.

“We get along better at competitions than we do at home,” Mary said.

The sense of gratitude each of the performers feels toward Godby’s efforts is felt across the program.

Junior and Company soloist Ivy Fish-man feels more motivated by Godby’s presence in her performances.

“It makes want to be better knowing that he’s taking pictures and that there will be proof of whether or not I was do-ing well in that moment,” Fishman said.

Similar to Godby’s daughter, Fishman also had to adjust after Godby became a consistent presence in the show choirs.

“In the beginning, it was a distrac-tion,” Fishman said. “The camera click-ing and the flash are something I had to get used to, but you learn to expect it and love it.”

Godby recognizes he can be a bit dis-tracting to the kids, so he makes it a point to keep himself in check while he’s taking photographs.

All of the time and effort Godby puts into his photography is all on a volun-teer basis.

“The recognition and appreciation I get from the students is better than mon-ey,” he said.

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It’s a mad, mad world

“Mad Men,” the four-time Emmy winner for Best Drama, will have been off the air for 525 days when the fifth season premieres on AMC come March 25.

As it returns after this insuffer-ably long break, the cast and crew are trying something new: Instead of running a one-hour season premiere, the Season 5 opener will run for two hours in an obvious attempt to make up for lost time.

However, it’s too early to tell if the extra hour will fill the void left in my heart while “Mad Men” was away.

When the series premiered in the summer of 2007, “Mad Men” covered all of the bases Hollywood would come to love: cigarettes, social com-mentary and Christina Hendricks’ rear end.

“Mad Men” focuses on the world of the men involved in the Madison Avenue advertising empire of New York City in the ‘60s. Given the chang-ing times, the show does a masterful job of using hot-button topics of the day, such as the election and eventual death of JFK, the rise of television and the perpetual disintegration of the idealized vision of Americana.

Approximately 52 years after the show’s pilot takes place, I still watch various episodes of “Mad Men” and see so many overarching connections to the modern world.

I can’t help but be continually fas-cinated by the lens through which Matthew Weiner (pronounced “whiner,” you fifth grade boys), the show’s creator and general master-

mind, manages to view contempo-rary American values.

In fact, I am so enthralled by it that I chose to write my essay for the Common Application on an episode from the fourth season entitled “The Suitcase.” It earned Emmy nominations for Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Elisabeth Moss as my hero, Peggy Olson, as well as a writing nomination for Weiner.

“The Suitcase” takes place on Peggy’s birthday and includes Don unknowingly holding her captive in the office while working on ideas for, you guessed it, a Samsonite suitcase.

It entails Peggy’s worst day of work ever, which concludes only after she and Don have found a profound and mutual respect for each other.

That brings me to my next point: It’s the only basic cable show to ever win the Emmy for Outstanding Dra-ma four times in row.

However, that doesn’t exactly mean much when you aren’t giving any awards to the other parts of the show that make it great.

Hamm has been nominated for in the Best Actor category for each sea-son of the show.

The show’s supporting cast, in-cluding January Jones, John Slat-tery and Christina Hendricks, have also been nominated a combined to-tal of eight times without a single win.

Weiner has been nominated al-most twice as many times in the writing category with only three wins out of 10 total drama writ-ing nominations. In fact, in 2009, Weiner was nominated for four of the five slots in the drama writing category.

I understand they can’t win every single award, but af-

ter four years of being named Best Drama, you’d think the other parts would start to add up.

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14 SPORTS Friday, March 9, 2012

Progress, potential for younger team

By Matt BajkowskiSports Editor

After finishing last year’s season with a record of 1-6 and finishing the season “poorly,” according to head coach Randy Smith, boys’ gymnastics is looking to become a known name in the MSL East once again with a fresh new team.

Nine seniors graduated from the team, leaving the team predominantly made up of juniors with 12 currently on the team.

According to junior gymnast Matt Horn, most of these juniors have been on gymnastics since their freshman year and have been building experience since joining.

On top of the experience many of the juniors have, Smith said he has been looking for other ways to improve the team this season.

To turn the team around, Smith is fo-cusing on more off-season training and working harder during the season.

Senior Matt Muniz, the only senior on varsity, said the team trained at a different gym in the off-season this year to come back to gymnastics less rusty.

“We worked on new tricks and what we worked on last year,” Muniz said. “We wanted to get everything back again.”

Even with a majority of the team and the varsity level mostly made of juniors, Smith sees “potential” for the overall season.

“If they get their heads on straight

as soon as possible, they could be East Division champions,” Smith said.

Smith said the usual number of freshmen and sophomores came out for gymnastics this year, which is helping fill the hole made from losing nine gym-nasts created.

There is even a large number of first-time sophomores who came out for the

team, according to Smith, and while he wishes they wouldn’t have missed the “key” freshman year, he is happy the sophomores decided to join.

Horn and Smith both said this year’s team is comparable to girls’ gymnas-tics, who also only had one senior on varsity. Smith hopes to qualify as many gymnasts as possible for state this year,

even if the team doesn’t do well in post-season competitions.

Smith also believes with only one se-nior this year, the team should be very strong next year.

“[Juniors] are the future of the team,” Smith said. “If we don’t win the East this year, we definitely will next year.”

Smith, along with the other coaches, wants to change how boys’ gymnastics is viewed in the school and the confer-ence.

“[Gymnastics] used to be a really strong, solid program here at Pros-pect,” Smith said. “We always used to be feared, but that reputation has faded over the years.”

“We want to be feared again,” he said. “We know what it takes to be good.”

Juniors take over varsity gymnastics

pTHE RINGER: Junior Tim Pappas does an L on rings. Pappas’ favorite event is floor. “It feels like you can fly,” he said. (Photo by Ian Magnuson)

This year, the boys’ gymnastics team is predominantly made up of juniors, with 12 on the team. Just like the girls’ varsity team, the boys’ team only has one senior member on varsity, Matt Muniz. Last year, nine seniors graduated from the team, and the other grade levels have been left to carry the team. “I try to set an example for [underclassmen] to follow,” Muniz said, “whether that’s by working out in the gym more or giving them rides and making sure they are here on time.”

Solo senior

Catching the madness

The month of March is often consid-ered one of the best of the school year for high school students. The tempera-tures finally start to get warm, and spring break caps off the month.

For basketball fans, though, the excite-ment of the NCAA basketball tourna-ment, “March Madness,” adds even more gratification.

For those who don’t watch the tourna-ment, it is impossible to describe what makes it so appealing, but I would say it is the gambling in bracket contests and the gaining of bragging rights com-bined with the upsets, buzzer beaters and the genuine emotion of the games only available at the amateur level that make “March Madness” so engaging.

For Prospect students, the first round of the 64-team tournament, and what some consider the best part of the tour-nament, usually begins on the Thursday before spring break, but this year the tournament is starting a week earlier, meaning students, like myself, will have one less-than-productive week.

The first three days after “Selection Sunday” consist of studying which teams are most likely to be upset early and all the other hard work that goes into best forecasting this year’s bracket. The rest of the week is spent watching as many games as possible as CBS struggles to choose which game they should air when multiple teams are down to the wire at the same time.

Seeing all the late-game drama is harder for the games that are played dur-ing the day, but when it comes to “March Madness,” school serves as a pretty useful resource. The week after “Selection Sun-day,” some kids find their printing quotas down to double digits because of all the brackets they have printed out.

As a result, “Bracketology,” the study of predicting the outcome of the field in the tournament, is usually the only sci-ence being learned.

This is also the week most students no-tice the TVs in the commons and lunch-room when the games are turned on, which is probably good when afternoon attendance is taken into consideration.

The schools Wi-Fi also serves as a good tool to either refresh “Scorecenter” or watch the games live on mobile devices.

Even though not every teacher is very understanding when kids tell them they were five minutes late because the 8-9 game went down to the buzzer, teachers aren’t immune to the madness either.

In fact, most years career/technology education teacher Paul Hennig can be caught looking very distressed as the No. 5 seed he picked to go to the Final Four gets upset in the first round.

According to social science teacher Jay Heilman, the social sciences division also throws a “March Madness” party every year where the teachers can watch the games and eat.

Heilman also allows his students to check scores of the games during the first or last five minutes of class when games are being played.

Obviously, not every teacher or stu-dent catches the “madness,” but everyone benefits from the relaxed feel of the days before spring break when the games are going on.

The combination of spring weather, college basketball and the anticipated en-croachment of spring break make March one of the best months for students.

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15SPORTSFriday, March 9, 2012

YouDon’t Know

JACK

By Aungelina DahmStaff Writer

Archery came and went like the moon walk, MySpace and A.I.M., but don’t expect it to make a retro come-back like peace signs and tie-dye. Girls’ archery was an official IHSA sport for just four short years; then it vanished almost as quickly as it appeared.

Archery is the shortest-lived sport in IHSA history, even beating out field hockey, which survived six years (1975-81). For Prospect, it wasn’t a huge loss to many people when it was no longer available after the ‘79-’80 school year. On the other hand, ‘79 grad Karen Van-Grondelle, who placed second in state archery, was very fond of the sport.

Although it was one of her favorite sports, it wasn’t as popular with the rest of the school. VanGrondelle re-called that it was a very quiet sport, and didn’t get the attention like many of the other sports did.

‘73-’84 Prospect principal Edward Spacapan said back when VanGron-delle was making state records for archery, Prospect was just getting the golf program. Even then, the school had multiple pep assemblies for the golf team and only one for archery.

“When golf was starting for girls, it was iffy,” Spacapan said, “but still, most girls had more of an interest in golf and tennis than in archery.”

According to IHSA assistant execu-

tive director Matt Troha, a few major reasons it was removed, along with the lack of interest, was because of lack of space, the dangers it posed — not as much for the archers, but for bystand-ers — and the high cost of equipment.

“The quality of the equipment was pretty high,” VanGrondelle said. “In order to [compete], you have to buy your own stuff.”

VanGrondelle also remembers the limited space they had to practice with. They practiced over on the south end of the football stadium.

“The people [who] lived in those houses over there probably weren’t too comfortable with it,” Spacapan said jokingly.

Even though it is discontinued in Illinois high schools, South Middle School still has an archery unit in their PE classes. Most students look forward to it because all they really had to do was stand up and shoot an arrow at the picture of one of their teachers on the target.

“From a teacher’s perspective, I try to teach and find units that can reach every student,” South PE teacher Phil O’Grady said. “It’s not great in terms of cardio, [and] it doesn’t get your heart rate up, but what it offers is a va-riety or a twist on a normal PE unit.”

Archery isn’t the only sport that has variety. According to Troha, the IHSA discontinuing its state competi-

tion doesn’t have an effect on individ-ual schools continuing the sport. Ac-tually, any school could reinstate it at any time, except there wouldn’t be any competition with other schools. Then it could be classified as either a sport or just an activity.

On the IHSA website, high schools can contact LeAnna Mutchler of the IHSA board if they want to be recog-nized as a school that would want to add a recommendation for a sport to be added on to the Emerging Sports List. No school has recommended ar-chery to be on the list.

Troha said when a spot on the Emerging Sports List reaches close to 10 percent of their members offering a sport or activity, the board considers adding it.

Even though it seems easy for ar-chery to get recognized by the IHSA again, it would be a lot of work, and VanGrondelle doesn’t think it’s very realistic.

Associate Principal Greg Minter doesn’t see archery coming back to Prospect anytime soon. He mentioned there wouldn’t be a safe place to put the practices, so they would have to be off-campus on an archery range that is somewhat close to the school, and a staff member would be need to spon-sor it.

“I just don’t see it happening,” Minter said.

Archery lost to more popular girls’ sports

By Jack MathewsExecutive Sports Editor

In every meet the boys’ track team competed in last year, they could count on then-senior Nick Batcha to win up to four events. Even though every year teams go through the loss of key ath-letes to graduation, sometimes there will be athletes whose talent will not be replaced the next year.

The Knights won’t have another Batcha this year, or any of the seniors of lasts year’s team that led them to their first conference championship in 41 years, but their expectations are just as high.

Head coach Mike Kamedula admits it will be tougher this year but gains confidence from the approach his team takes in practice.

“We are still pretty talented, but I think the No. 1 thing this year is that their attitude is awesome,” Kamedula said. “They work hard, train hard and really believe they can win.”

According to Kamedula, a big key to success for a track team is sprinting depth, and he is excited about his core group of sprinters returning from last year’s state-qualifying season, which includes seniors Nick Meersman, Chris Meersman and Vito Anzalone.

“Going down state [last year] and seeing our potential motivates us to work hard every day, break our per-sonal records and place even higher at state,” Nick said. “The seniors want to go out with a bang, and anything else is underachieving.”

Assistant coach Mike Stokes feels the distance runners will also find success this season because of their strong cross-country season in the fall, where the Knights finished sixth in state. Stokes said finishing second at sectionals really boosted the confi-dence of his runners and expects that confidence to continue into the track season and lead to success.

Despite both the distance runners and sprinters in a position to make another run at winning conference, the team is looking to improve in the field events, especially the jumping events. According to Stokes, the team is shorthanded in jumpers and is still looking to find which athletes will compete best in a few events, like the triple jump.

No matter who is competing, though, the team’s main focus is gain-ing experience every day and making sure every kid reaches his potential.

“In track, you can’t control other teams,” Kamedula said. “We have to

do what we do and try and get as good as we can for state.”

Boys’ track retains focus

pTHE CHAMP: ‘79 grad Karen VanGrondelle, who placed second in state for archery, practices her shooting. The archery team was the shortest-lived sport at Prospect; it only lasted four years. (Photo courtesy of Crest)

pTARGET PRACTICE: An archery coach teaches an athlete the skills of the sport. (Photo courtesy of Crest)

According to head track coach Mike Kamedula, the number of underclassmen participating in track this year is the lowest since 2002 and could hurt the team in the field events now and in the future if they do not have enough to fill the lineup. There are 18 events in a track meet, and a single athlete can compete in a maximum of four events.

“I’m worried about participation here and not just in track,” Kamedula said. “It bodes negatively for the future.”

Kamedula said track is a sport that relies heavily on how many kids participate.

“You could get by with having seven sprinters if they were all amazing, but that isn’t likely, especially around this area,” Kamedula said. “So when you have a lower number of kids coming out for track, it limits the potential of finding that diamond in the rough.”

Down but not out

SPORTSFriday, March, 9, 2012

pSTRIKEOUT PITCHER: Senior Jack Landwehr pitches at the super sectional game, where they defeated Glenbrook North 8-2 and advanced onto the state series. The baseball team is working to rebuild and live up to expectations. (Photo By Tess Bauer)

By Alyssa ZedikerExecutive Sports Editor

The 2011 varsity baseball team faced Mt. Carmel for third place in the state on June 11. Early in the game ‘11 grad Matt Molini scored the team’s only two runs off RBI from senior Jack Landwehr and ‘11 grad Brian Bauer.

Following the third inning the Knights’ defense, with Landwehr on the mound, shut down any further scoring from Mt. Carmel, leading them to a 2-1 victory and the third place state title.

After an unforgettable season following a 27-9 re-cord and a third place finish in state, the boys’ base-ball team lost 11 seniors, six of whom were starters. While the team still has 11 returning members, only seniors Brad Gerdes, Shane Joyce and Landwehr re-

ceived major playing time last season. “Nothing will be able to top last season, but we have

a lot of new guys this year who have to step up,” Land-wehr said.

“Even out of the gate, they are playing with a chip on their shoulder,” head coach Ross Giusti said. “I think [other teams] think that just because we lost a lot of seniors that we are not going to be any good.”

The team wants to disprove any non-believers; however, its intent is not to replace the lost seniors but rather to build off the talent it has and maintain a consistent level of success.

“You can’t really look at it as trying to compare this season to last,” Giusti said.

Senior Nico Witanen agrees and feels the team has to utilize its new talent and build on it. Witanen is one of many players taking over for the departed seniors, and he is taking the place of Molini at second base. Witanen feels he is finally getting his opportunity to play.

“Anywhere we have a new player [in a position], we expect that guy to step up and play that role,” Joyce said.

After losing power hitters ‘11 grads Peter Bo-nahoom and Luke Bergman, who each hit six home runs last season, the team is looking to rework their offensive playing style, since Landwehr is the only re-turning player who hit more than one home run dur-ing the previous season.

Giusti said in order for the team to get ahead this season, the team is going to have to do the little things and play small ball.

The team’s offense is going to have to play more strategic. The Knights are better at contact hitting and will be using more sacrifice bunts to move play-ers into scoring position.

“We’re smaller than last year, so I think we are go-ing to have to use a lot of speed rather than power,” said Witanen, who is happy with the team’s strategy since speed is his strength.

The new strategy is still a work in progress, since the players have only had the chance to briefly try out

the new offense over the summer. “Every year is its own monster,” Giusti said. “You

don’t know what type of team you are really going to have until you role up your sleeves and find out.”

The team’s offensive play will be affected in an-other way as well this season. Use of the BBCOR, a new simulated wooden bat, is now required, and it has caused a decline of home runs across Illinois (see “Changing bats”).

On the other hand, with the decline of home runs across the board, Giusti feels the team’s defense will be good this season because the new bats are going to allow the defense the opportunity to make the plays.

However, the only way the defense is going to have such opportunities is if the pitchers consistently put the ball over the plate. Giusti feels walks and hit bat-ters are really going to hurt.

Expanding its pitching staff is the team’s one area of concern, as they are looking for additional players to play alongside Landwehr.

“Jack obviously has proven to be very consistent pitcher in the area, but we need a couple more pitch-ers to complement our pitching staff,” Giusti said.

As the season begins, the team will head to Flor-ida over spring break, where they hope to win a few games, practice with the new bats and offense and bond as a team. The players have set their sights on winning the East Division, and then they want to con-tinue on to win the conference championship.

“Having a year like we did builds confidence with-in the program,” Giusti said. “[The players] can see that it’s possible, and they want to uphold that type of reputation of being a state-caliber team.”

Baseball looks for success after third place finish

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Looking back: 2011 stats

Batting Average1. Jack Landwehr .4532. Brian Bauer .4303. Luke Bergman .4097. Shane Joyce .325

Runs Batted In1. Landwehr 432. Pete Bonahoom 293. Bauer 28

Runs1. Bergman 432. Matt Molini 413. Bonahoom 30

Looking ahead: returning players

Eric Krohm Sr.Jack Landwehr Sr.Jake Logiudice Sr.Jason Spataro Sr.Nico Witanen Sr.

A.J. Compton Jr.Thomas Donner Sr.Patrick Drucker Sr.Drew Fernandez Sr.Brad Gerdes Sr.Shane Joyce Sr.

Changing batsThe National Federation of State High

School Associations (NFHS) implemented a new certification code for the bats that was effective as of Jan. 1. This means that all -3 bats, aluminum, composite and 2-piece (aluminum/composite), will have to meet the BBCOR certification standards and have a BBCOR logo.

The old bats approved by BESR will no longer be legal under the NFHS’s new rules.

The NFHS hopes to maintain wood bat-like performance in non-wood bats.

Wins1. Jack Landwehr 13-22. Ben Menich 7-13. Kurt Donner 4-0

Earned Runs Average1. Landwehr 2.502. Donner 2.553. Menich 3.24

Innings Pitched1. Landwehr 78.12. Menich 67.03. Dazzo 24.0

*returning varsity members

SWINGING HARDuSenior Brad Gerdes swings for the fences at a game last season. Gerdes hit one homer last season and will be one of three returning senior starters this season. The team is looking for all the returning members to step up and contribute to what they hope will be another successful season. (Photo courtesy of Mike Donner)

pSCOOPS: ‘11 grad Matt Molini makes a play from second. While Molini won’t be playing this season, senior Nico Witanen is excited to get an opportunity to play. (Photo by Tess Bauer)

Following the dream