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Things look a little different on the fourth floor this fall. The College Counseling department recently welcomed Elizabeth Pabst (‘01) to its staff.

Pabst first got involved in col-lege admissions as a student tour guide at Boston College.

“I loved sharing my excite-ment about my college experi-ence with prospective students and their parents,” Pabst said.

Pabst pursued her interest by working in admissions at Har-vard University and Boston Uni-versity. “Both positions were im-mensely helpful in learning about the college application process, the world of admissions, and the incredibly diverse populations of students applying to college,” Pabst said.

Pabst will be working with students in the class of 2013. In order to enable more individual work with students, the juniors were divided evenly among the three college counselors.

“Even though I’m not as-signed to seniors this year, I hope they know that my door is always open! I’ve already had lots of se-niors ask me for help with their

essays [and] practice with inter-viewing.” Pabst said.

As an alum, Pabst is well aware of the challenges students face when transitioning from high school to college. “The most difficult thing about the process is different for every student,” Pabst said.

With every application comes a lot of introspection. Pabst ex-plains: “Some students feel like their grades and test scores don’t do them justice as an applicant. Some students fall in love with one specific college, and then they have a difficult time getting excited about any other institu-tion.” Pabst hopes to lower the stress level involved with college searches.

Her memories of SPA are good ones. “My advisor for all of high school was [middle school

physical education teacher] Carol King, and we’re still good friends. Some of my closest friends in the

world are the friends I made here at SPA,” Pabst said. Hopefully she’ll make even more in her sec-ond run.

Pabst returns in brand-new positionLiz Rossman

A&E Editorr

Former student, now College Counseling faculty, talks about her past, present and future plans

““I loved sharing my excitement about my college experience with prospec-tive students and their parents.

Elizabeth Pabst

Photo Credit: Liz RossmanElizabeth Pabst, new College Counseler, at work in her office. “I hope that we can work to lower the [college process] stress level a bit – this

should be a fun and rewarding experience.”

Spanish exchange students arrived from Colegio Malvar, a school in Madrid, on Friday, Sept. 16. They spent much of their time in school before leav-ing on Sept. 30. Sixteen St. Paul Academy Spanish 41 students, mostly juniors, hosted them. The exchange happens every other year. This was the second time St. Paul Academy and Summit School has participated in an ex-change with Colegio Malvar.

The exchange students attend-ed a Twins game, shopped at the Mall of America, visited pump-kin patches and apple orchards, and toured Minneapolis and Still-water. “We’re trying to give them the whole experience,” Spanish Teacher Pamela Starkey said.

Natalia Giomez de Diego, a Spanish exchange student in 11th grade, said “My first impression of Minnesota was that all the peo-ple were nice.” Even though she thought Minnesota was cold, she still enjoyed her visit to Minne-apolis, particularly liking the fact that it was “clean, and people give you free hugs.”

Maria Guzman, another ex-change student, also enjoyed her visit here. “I like... the school and the people from Minnesota,” she said. One of the differences she noticed between Minnesota and Madrid was the houses. “The houses here are very big and pretty. They have big gardens and parks,” Guzman said.

Exchange student Patricia

Carmona Mateos also saw small differences between Minnesota and Spain. “Here people don’t wear shoes in the house. The breakfast is very different [here] than at my house [in Spain],” Ma-teos said.

The students attended the Homecoming dance the day af-ter they arrived. On the follow-ing Wednesday, they went on a scavenger hunt with SPA students in Minneapolis. Juniors Melanie Luikart and Ruth Sheldon and ex-change students Alba Garcia and Rocio Garcia won candy bars.

During the school day, the ex-change students shadowed their host students and spent a day tak-ing classes of their choice. Two half days were spent incorporat-ing them into the Spanish classes. Mateos said SPA is “more relax-ing. There is more free time and less supervision than in Malvar.”

Junior Karl Hommeyer host-ed Carlos Arnell, one of the exchange students, because “I wanted to expand my cultural knowledge to areas outside of the ones we’re confined in and to help me learn a new language.”

He hoped to form a friendship with Arnell during the exchange. They enjoyed watching sports on TV together, and Hommeyer believes his Spanish improved greatly from the experience.

Some of the exchange stu-dents enjoyed their visit so much, they wanted to stay. “I don’t want to come back to Spain,” Guzman said, a sentiment not uncommon to the exchange students.

In March, SPA students will go to Spain for the second half of the exchange.

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Colegio Malvar students gain insight into American culture

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Students of Colegio Malvar went to an apple orchard for a taste of American culture on their stay here. “We’re trying to give them the whole experience,” US Spanish teacher Pam Starkey said.

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Breaking the Speed Limit: Einstein’s Rela-tivity Theory questioned

Scientists at CERN made headlines recently with their claims of particles traveling fast-er than the speed of light – some-thing renowned physicist Albert Einstein deemed impossible in his theories on relativity in 1905.

In recent experiments, re-searchers found that particles called neutrinos usually travel at the speed of light, despite having mass. Their measurements show that the neutrinos traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light on their journey from CERN’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to the LNGS Labora-tory in Gran Sasso, Italy.

This is the first time that Ein-stein’s theory of relativity has had reliable evidence presented against it. However, St. Paul Academy and Summit School US Physics teacher Steve Heilig said that this doesn’t mean that Einstein will be abandoned com-pletely.

Heilig compared Einstein’s theories to those of physicist Isaac Newton, many of whose theories on motion were over-turned by Einstein’s. “When you have a precise enough experi-ment, you realize ‘Oh my good-ness, Einstein was right and New-ton wasn’t!’ That doesn’t mean that when I let go of an object it doesn’t fall. It just gives me sort of a new way of looking at it.”

While these developments may change the way scientists look at the universe, the fact that Einstein’s theory falls short at this point doesn’t mean physi-cists have to start all over. These faster-than-light neutrinos could open the door for a newer, more detailed theory that physicists have yet to uncover.

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Students can now join a new stu-dent group: Model United Na-tions. At its Thursday meetings, students will get the chance to simulate international diplomacy. Students will step into the shoes of a country’s representative at the U.N.

The group, founded by seniors Rebecca Xu and Rachel Yost-Dubrow, is part of a grassroots movement started at the time of the League of Nations, now a na-tional program endorsed by the UN. Yost-Dubrow hopes that the club will give students a chance to improve their political knowl-edge and public speaking ability, and plans to attend a Model UN conference in spring.

Whitaker dons the helmet NewsbriefNew student group imitates United Nations

Two Americans, one a Minneso-tan, were released Sept. 21, 2011 from prison in Iran. Their release followed two years of diplomatic clashes between the United States and Iran resulting from charges of espionage leveled against the hikers. The hikers, Shane Bauer of Onamia, Minnesota, and Josh Fattal of Oregon, were charged with crossing into Iran as spies from the U.S. The pair arrived in Oman after a $1 million bail deal.

Bauer and Fattal’s legal trou-bles originated from a hiking trip in Iraq’s relatively peaceful Kurdish region near the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009, accompanied by Sarah Shourd of Los Angeles, who was arrested with the pair but released a year ago. The hiking trip was a break from reporting on elections in Iraqi Kurdistan. The hikers claimed that if they did ac-cidentally wander into Iran, it was an innocent mistake.

Iranian authorities never pub-licly provided evidence to sup-port their accusations.

In the latest chapter of the debacle, Iran’s judiciary denied Iranian president Mahmoud Ah-madinejad’s right to release the prisoners. Eventually, though, the judiciary approved their re-lease. According to a report from The New York Times, “Mr. Ah-madinejad’s conservative critics were willing to allow the release Wednesday because they wanted Iran to project a magnanimous image as it takes to the world stage and because they had ac-complished their goal: delivering a message to the president that he is not fully in charge.”

Overall, Iran’s detention of the Americans aggravated relations with the US.

“Iran’s attempt to gain from this exercise ultimately proved futile,” said Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in an article from The New York Times. He added that the two-year episode “further tarnished their interna-tional image.”

Despite this, American opin-ion towards Iran has improved marginally following the release of the hikers.

Prisoners in Iranian hiking trial released

Amity Institute teacher arrivesMarion Mathier will work along-side MS/US Language faculty as an Amity teacher for the first se-mester. She will be assisting in French and German classes. Ma-thier arrived in the U.S. in mid-September from Berne, Switzer-land. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education and is work-ing toward advanced degrees in French and English Linguistics at the University of Berne in Swit-zerland. Mathier is staying with sixth grader Noah Laurey’s fam-ily.

“Someone who wants to be a writer should write. What’s in your head doesn’t count for any-thing in the world of writing. If you haven’t written it, it doesn’t exist,” Upper School English Teacher Andy Hueller said. He can speak from experience.

Hueller published his sec-ond book in two years, Skipping Stones at the Center of the Earth, on Aug. 8, 2011.

Following up his first pub-lished book, Dizzy Fantastic and her Flying Bicycle, a novel writ-ten for elementary aged read-ers, Hueller focuses on a middle school audience while writing Skipping Stones.

The book tells the tale of Cal-vin Comet Cobble, who lives in the earth at Hidden Shores Or-phanage. The orphanage is lo-cated on a spot where sunlight is able to stream into their un-derground world. The rest of the town is covered in darkness.

In the book, Calvin meets Mr. E, who can skip a stone all the way across the lake that sur-rounds the town to the rock walls that surround the subterranean island, and the two set off on a journey to discover Cal’s past, as well as his future.

Although it was published af-ter Dizzy Fantastic and her Fly-ing Bicycle, Skipping Stones at the Center of the Earth is the first book Hueller wrote. It took sev-eral years.

Dizzy Fantastic, on the oth-er hand, took approximately a

month to get onto the page. The book was originally written as a gift for Hueller’s wife, depicting her at as young girl, but he de-cided to publish it.

Recently, Hueller finished his Master of Arts in Teaching. For his capstone project, Hueller wrote a third book titled, How to Get Rich Writing C Papers and How to Write A Papers if You Want to Do That Too.

Currently, How to Get Rich is on a publisher’s desk and Hueller hopes it will be accepted for pub-lication soon. A mixture between a textbook and a novella, the book is narrated by a high school boy who indulges the reader in how to get rich by selling essays.

Hueller’s unique writing pro-cess makes the most of his limited time to work on his own writing. To get his ideas out, Hueller often

times writes down stories in note-books before transcribing them onto the computer. Additionally, he tends to work on multiple proj-ects at once.

Hueller says he has been working on eight or nine other projects, all at different stages in the writing process.

“If something isn’t working for me and I’m not ready to write, I just move on and write whatever I am ready to write. That way ev-ery morning I am productive in-stead of just staring and hoping, but I go back to those stories if something comes to me,” Hueller said.

To write his books, Hueller has to balance his time between creative writing, teaching, and obtaining his MAT at Hamline University. During the school year, he does not have time to write out whole books. However, during winter, spring, and sum-mer break, Hueller often writes for 6-12 hours per day.

To the aspiring author, Hueller said, “The largest obstacle in the way of would-be writers is that they don’t actually sit down and do the work. So my biggest ad-vice? Write whatever piece you have momentum with.”

Throughout high school and college, Hueller dedicated 30 minutes in the morning to writ-ing.

“And of course you need to remain an active reader,” Hueller added.

Ever since Hueller was a child, he was enraptured with reading. He read tons of books, came up with original stories, and even pitched movie ideas to Disney.

Hueller’s second book skips into bookstoresAllison Wang

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Students take PSAT prep testOn October 12, 2011, all sopho-mores and juniors will take the PSAT/ NQSMT, a practice exam for the SATs. Although PSAT/NQSMT scores do not appear on transcripts or college appli-cations, junior-year scores may qualify a student for the National Merit Scholar competition, grant-ing students with qualifying scores funding and scholarships for college. According to the Col-lege Counseling Department’s web page, PSAT prep will “help students prepare and gain practice for college admissions testing.” SPA offers two online practice sources, Method Test Prep and Students’ Edge, that include test-taking tips and full length prac-tice tests. In order to access these sources, students must be able to log in to their Family Connection account.

In partnership with Revolution Prep, SPA offers students, primar-ily juniors, a “formal test-prep class tailored to the SPA sched-ule” for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams, according to the College Counseling Department.

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Senior Drew Whitaker re-placed Conor Dowdle (‘11) as the Spartan mascot this year and hopes to bring more spirit and pep to the student population.

“I have always been loud,” Whitaker said, “and I’ve always liked cheering at sports games.”

It was a natural fit. The search process began last

May when tryouts were held for all students interested in becom-ing the school’s mascot. The can-didates auditioned in front of all of the Student Activities Committee members and the final decisions were made by the SAC president and advisors. Prospective Spar-tans auditioned with their own cheer or the Spartan Beat.

“All the candidates were ex-cellent,” SAC advisor Pam Star-key said. She said Whitaker was chosen because “he’s got a loud voice, he’s got a lot of school spir-it, and he goes to all the games.”

As this year’s Spartan, Whita-ker began homecoming week by leading bleacher-shaking cheers. As the Spartan, he hopes to attend all sports games and encourage more students to attend them as

well. T h e

Spartan’s p u r p o s e is to lead cheering and rep-resent the team and school’s spirit to the crowds, basically “to gen-erate enthusiasm and to make a connection,” Starkey said. “It’s that visual connection.”

To bring more spirit to the fan experience, Whitaker plans to at-tend every game. “I really want to cheer for my friends,” he said. He also hopes to leave a legacy when he graduates, “[I want to be] remembered in following years.”

Whitaker believes he will be able to attend more games than Dowdle could. “Conor was on the soccer team, so he wasn’t able to go to both boys’ and girls’ soccer. I only play a spring sport, so I can go to more games,” Whitaker said.

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Spartan mascot Drew Whitaker raises his helmet in salute at

Homecoming. “I’ve always liked cheering at sports games”

Whitaker said.

New Spartan mascot loud, proud, involved

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“What’s wrong with us grinding?”

“It’s just dancing, right? Everyone does it.”

“Why should anyone tell us how to dance?”

After a dance, when teachers complain about the dancing and Dean of Students Judy Cummins ex-plains her reasons for break-ing couples up on the floor, students often defend their choice to grind.

However, there is some-thing very wrong with this picture. Is it justified for students who don’t want to grind to feel isolated?

Students end up never returning to another dance when during their first they were either pushed to the outside of the dance floor or were almost forcibly grind-ed with if they stayed in the middle.

Fear should never be an emotion experienced at a school-sponsored dance, and neither should exclu-sion.

Changing the way teens dance is impossible, and as it is The Rubicon does not view grinding as inherently bad. However, the dynamic at school dances should

not be such that grinding is the only acceptable way to dance. While some students feel comfortable dancing in an extremely sexual and intimate way—often with people they don’t even know—for many, it’s un-comfortable.

Girls have a hard time rejecting a boy if they don’t want to dance with him, es-pecially if he is an upper-classman.

And that’s not to say that it isn’t hard for male stu-dents as well. They have on their shoulders the expecta-

tion that they should grind with girls, including those they don’t know well, and unless they have some awe-some non-grinding moves, they must either grind (and risk rejection and awkward-ness) or stay on the fringes of the dance floor.

Besides, grinding has come to be a “normal” thing, and those who don’t want to challenge this norm might be scoffed at.

A pro-grinding dynamic is one of the reasons many students choose to do some-thing other than go to a

school dance. Although The Rubicon believes that stu-dents have the right to grind if they so choose, there should be more options and security for those who truly feel uncomfortable with the environment school dances currently maintain.

Dances should have more to offer than just music and dancing: maybe a bonfire outside, or a game room, or just more places for stu-dents to hang out and have fun. This way, perhaps ev-eryone can feel comfortable and included at dances.

In his address to the United

Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21, President Barack Obama opposed the admission of Pales-tine to the United Nations, saying that “peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations.” This in spite of the fact that the first chapter of the United Nations’ charter states that its purpose includes “to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of in-ternational disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace.”

The United States is putting the wishes of Israel before hopes for peace. While Obama and Is-raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say that peace must be negotiated before statehood can be recognized, Netanyahu has shown no active interest in ne-gotiation. Besides, membership in the United Nations is meant to promote peace, not the other way around.

US House of Representatives

member Michele Bachmann recently said that a vaccine de-signed to prevent the human pap-illomavirus (HPV) is dangerous and causes mental retardation. Bachmann made this statement after hearing a mother complain that her daughter became mental-ly ill due to this vaccine, and con-tinued to say, “this is the very real concern, and people have to draw their own conclusions.” What Bachmann failed to take note of is the fact that extensive research on the HPV vaccine has conclud-ed that it does not cause autism or any other mental disabilities. The research that supposedly showed a connection between the two was proven to be false.

The fact is that Bachmann, who is not a medical profession-al, should not make narrowly in-formed statements like this; they only hurt her campaign.

Paying mind to the grindDebating the morality and tolerability of sexualized dancing

Bach-monster Strikes Again

Palestine Snubbed

In 1991, Troy Davis of

Butts County, Virginia was con-victed and sentenced to death for the killing of Police Officer Mark MacPhail. On Sept. 21, Davis was put to death by lethal injection. But when the judge supervising the case banned forensic evidence that could have either convicted or exonerated the defendant and seven of nine witnesses recanted or withdrew their testimonies (and one of the two who didn’t was a suspect), there seemed to be more reason to continue inves-tigation than to execute Davis. In fact, there appears to still be an alarming amount of uncertainty.

The investigation should have continued until conclusive evidence in support of or against Davis was presented. Police can hold a suspect for 48 hours with-out conclusive evidence. They cannot hold said suspect for 20 years and put him to death.

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Thirteen months. Thirteen more months of rants, riots, and raging Republicans. The time until the next election seems end-less, yet presidential hopefuls an-ticipating the 2012 election have already faced constant coverage of their every statement. Min-nesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has misquoted Abra-ham Lincoln. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has seen half of his staff quit. Texas Governor Rick Perry has called the Federal Reserve Chairman treasonous. They’ve only been at it since April.

The Republican Candidate debates are an arena where can-didates can showcase their views and passionate, albeit predictable, speeches. The Director of Youth Outreach for St. Paul Academy and Summit School’s Student Political Union, junior Hagop Toghra-madjian said he sides mainly with Republi-cans, and believes the debates are a real test of character.

According to Togh-ramadjian, “candidates can say anything they want in a speech or a paper, but when they’re actually speaking and arguing with each other, that’s when you see how much they know and how much they’re qualified.”

In their speeches, candidates steered away from attacking Pres-ident Obama and turned to the critical phase of attacking each other. In a recent Tea Party debate hosted by CNN, former Pennsyl-vania Senator Rick Santorum and Bachmann attacked Perry over an executive order of his that man-dated all 11 and 12-year-old girls receive a vaccine against HPV, a

sexually transmitted disease. “To have innocent 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive or-der is just flat out wrong,” Bach-mann said.

Perry defended his actions by saying that he was only trying to save lives: “At the end of the day,” Perry said, “It was about stopping cancer.”

Bachmann continued attack-ing Perry and said in a CNN interview that a mother whose daughter had been given the vac-cine and became autistic as a result approached Bachmann de-crying the vaccine. This despite the fact that scientists agree that there is no link between autism and the HPV vaccine.

As if tracking an astronomi-cal chart, Bachmann’s star started to fade just as Perry was brought into the spotlight. Toghramadjian puts his support behind Perry. “Perry is governor of one of the biggest states [Texas] and he did

a good job so I’d have to say he’s the most qualified,” Toghramad-jian said.

Bachmann was not featured as prominently as she has been in past debates, with many of her passionate rants attacking Perry instead of defending herself.

Toghramadjian sees the follies of Bachmann’s ways but he be-lieves that she redeemed herself in the debates: “She has a chance to lay her points out in a more intelligent way, especially when it’s contrasted with the other can-didates.” While many candidates

go off topic, he said, “she’s very on-issue and she sounds smart.”

Out of the unending stream of news coverage, analysis and heated remarks came another piece of head-scratching gold. Rick Perry believes Ben Bernan-ke, Chairman of the Federal Re-serve, should be tried for treason because of his careless spending and loaning: “If you are allowing the Federal Reserve to be used for political purposes that it would be almost treasonous,” Perry said.

At a debate on Sept. 22, Mas-sachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Perry went after each other, attacking immigration policies and health care. Perry once again went after Romney’s Massachu-setts health care plan that looks suspiciously similar to Republi-can-proclaimed “ObamaCare.”

With New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s statement last week that he would not run for President, Republicans are left examining the remaining candi-

dates for a strong contender in the national election.

For Togh-ramadjian, the ideal candidate would be one who is fiscally moderate while being socially c o n s e r v a t i v e . For a candidate

to be fiscally conservative but not socially conservative, “strikes me as almost selfish or greedy,” he said.

And so we leave the debates waiting in rapture for Bach-mann’s next ridiculously inac-curate slip-up, Perry’s next heav-ily-criticized piece of rhetoric, Romney’s next failure to relate to Republican voters. We wait for the human drama to seep through the cracks of the campaign. We wait to be entertained. Don’t worry world, we’ve got 13 long, long months.

Republican egos stricken with elephantiasisConflict among Conservatives hinders productive banter during debates

Ellie Fuelling

Feature Editorr

““ Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

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Willard Mitt Romney

Experience: 70th Governor of Massachusetts; 2003-2007

Education: B.A. Brigham Young University-1971, JD/MBA Har-vard Law School & Harvard Busi-ness School-1975

“I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama. “-Mitt Romney

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore. Used with per-mission via Creative Commons from Flickr

James Richard “Rick” Perry

Experience: 47th Governor of Texas; 2000-2011

Education: B.A. Texas A&M University-1972

“I don’t want to look like Con-necticut, no offense, I don’t want to look like Oklahoma, I don’t want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that’s not to dis anybody else. “-Rick Perry

Michelle Marie Bachmann

Experience: Representative from Minnesota’s 6th Congres-sional District; 2007-Present

Education: BA Winona State University-1978, J.D. Oral Rob-erts University-1986, LL.M. Wil-liam Mary School of Law-1988

“I am a fighter. I am not just there to go along and get along.”-Michele Bachmann

Fiery conflict between individuals seeking the Republican presidential nomination has been seen in the Republican debates since day one.Illustration Credit: Nick Scott. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore. Used with permission via Creative Commons from Flickr

Race to the Presidential ElectionRepublican hopefuls continue to jockey for the spotlight before they win the GOP nomination.

Republican Debates*June 13

Republican Debates*September 5September 7September 12

Republican Debates*August 11

2011

2012

Democratic National ConventionSeptember 3-7Charlotte, NC

Florida Primary January 31

Iowa Caucuses February 6

New Hampshire Primary February 14

Republican National ConventionAugust 27-31Tampa, FL

National ElectionNovember 4

Illustration Credit: Ria Guest

* these Republican Debates are featured in the Op/Ed piece on this page.

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Eleven players. A full starting lineup graduated in 2010. Eleven players can make or break a soccer team, but it hasn’t stopped the 2011 Varsity Soccer team from moving into post-season play.

Senior defender and team captain Ryan Hobert said “We had such a good team last year, and so I was a bit skeptical on how our team would perform without those 11 seniors.”

Junior Cameron Causey held some doubts about this year’s team. “We were pretty worried about who was going to fill [the seniors’] spots, especially in the starting 11.”

But as the team began to practice more, both players soon realized that they were playing on an elite squad.

Junior goalkeeper Ben Braman attributes this year’s success to “a solid core group of players that are willing to work hard.”

Hobert is quick to give credit where it is due, praising younger soccer players for their energy,

dedication and talent. “A bunch of JV [players] really stepped up. We lost all four starting defenders, but now we have a solid defense with Francesco DiCaprio, Ben Kachian, James Hargens and [senior] Nico [Olson-Studler].”

That being said, a team does not simply cruise through a near-unde-feated season. Victories are hard-fought and not always pretty.

“[Our] ability to pick up the pace and intensity really makes us think we can go to state again,” Braman said.

Ibad JafriOp/Ed Editorr

Soccer heads into playoffsBoys Varsity Soccer wins conference despite loss of 11 players

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Junior goalkeeper Ben Braman makes a save on a breakaway from St. Croix Lutheran on September 1, 2011. The Spartans went on to win the game 8-0.

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School spirit triumphs over scoreboard

Energy. Excitement. And white. Lots and lots of white.

On October 6, the centennial St. Paul Academy and Summit School and Blake School game turned out a large crowd of stu-dents, teachers and alumni, look-ing to support their football team in an important historical rivalry. This rivalry started when SPA won its school colors of blue and gold from Blake.

“Notice we have vastly more fans than [Blake]…we have the whole school,” junior Hagop Toghramadjian said.

Senior Ceallach Gibbons agreed with Toghramadjian. “It’s a really great school environment.

It’s great to see so many kids sup-porting the team. There’s a lot of energy”

The 1st Quarter of the game started with the Spartans on de-fense. Blake ended up scoring a touchdown and the extra point pretty early on, making it 7-0. Throughout the quarter, Spartan mascot Drew Whitaker led the student section in a variety of cheers.

“It’s kind of sad that we’re losing, but it’s fun,” freshman Eli Zelle said about being at the game.

Continuing their drive from the end of the 1st quarter, Blake scored a touchdown 4 seconds into the 2nd quarter, giving themselves a 14-0 lead. The 2nd Quarter continued with two more touchdowns for Blake making it

28-0 going into halftime. “I’m feeling pretty sad, but I

will still give lots of support to the Spartans. We still have a lot of game left. I think we can get a couple touchdowns,” freshman Dozie Nwaneri said after the Spartan’s first half.

Halftime came and went, and the Spartan Varsity Football team came out of the locker room hun-gry. They tried turning around the next half, but there will still no touchdowns for the Spartans. With 8:26 left in the 3rd quarter, Blake scored another touchdown. The followed it up with a second touchdown bringing the score to 42-0.

That’s not to say that SPA didn’t have any success in the quarter; juniors David Ristau and Karl Hommeyer showed impres-

sive athleticism when they rushed for 12 and 18 yards, respectively.

The 4th quarter, arguably the best quarter of the game for the Spartans, started with Blake scor-ing another touchdown making the score 49-0. But neither the Blake fans nor the Blake foot-ball team could have predicted what was coming next. With 14.5 seconds left on the clock, Ristau scored a touchdown for SPA, making the score 48-6. The Spar-tans then went for a two point conversion with 9.9 seconds left on the clock, making the final score of the game 49-8.

In sports, often the scoreboard does not fairly represent the ef-forts of both teams. The Spartan Varsity Football team played a tough game, despite all the chal-lenges of a young team with mul-

tiple injures faced earlier in the season.

Perhaps it can be said that it’s not whether you win or lose but how you support your team. If so, the student section had much to be proud of. Over 300 students turned out to cheer for the foot-ball team in such a big game. It was a very meaningful way of building the school spirit that SPA often talks about.

“Obviously it’s not a good feeling to lose, but I want to thank all the kids who came out to sup-port us because this is the most fun game I’ve ever played,” said Hommeyer.

The Spartans next game is at home against Minnehaha Academy this Fri-day, Oct. 14, at 3:30 PM.

Aditi KulkarniSports Editorr

Photo Credit: Aditi Kulkarni

Spartan Varsity Football plays in the centennial game rivalry against the Blake Bears on Thursday, Oct 6 at Blake. Early in the 3rd quarter the Spartans [wearing navy and white throw-back uniforms] set up for a line drive. Despite the loss, over 300 student fans showed support and enthusiasm for their team. “It’s kind of sad that we’re losing, but it’s fun,” freshman Eli Zelle said about being at the game. The Spartans scored only one touchdown, at the end of the 4th quarter to end the game 49-8.

Even with 49-8 loss, the 100 Anniversary will live in Spartan history

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With ten goals and 21 assists, it is no surprise that junior center forward Camille Horne is Athlete of the Month for October. Aside

from playing on the Girls Varsity Soccer team, she plays for the U17 Burnsville Fire Premier. Horne is best known for her strong communication skill on the field. She lives by the motto, as sung by Justin Beiber, “Never say never.”

“[I love] the fact that our team is like a family,” Horne said. When asked what advice she would give to someone consider-ing joining a sport, she said, “just go for it. There is no harm in try-ing something new.”

Camille Horne never says never

Andy MonserudNews Editorr

The football quarterback frac-tured his fibula in the first game of the season. The backup quar-terback fractured his clavicle in the second game of the season.

Injury is an inherent part of contact sports, and it would be difficult to find better proof of this than in athletics.

Junior volleyball player Laura Goetz injured her wrist: “I fell in practice repeatedly... with my hand kind of pushed back. I real-ized it wasn’t moving very well anymore,” she said.

Goetz is unsure what hap-pened to her wrist. She will get an MRI soon to find out what is wrong.

The affect it has had on her not only prevents her from playing

volleyball. “I have to use it [my wrist] for writing and typing and it’s really painful to have to write all day and it’s just really tender,” Goetz said.

What can be done to prevent injury? “No matter what you’re doing in athletics, injuries are go-ing to happen,” Assistant Director of Athletics Mike Brown said.

Exercise and training can help reduce the chances of getting an injury, but it can still easily hap-pen. “There are chances you’re taking and there’s not much we can do,” Brown said.

What can be done, however, is treatment, and athletes have excellent resources, including the help of Athletic Trainer Ashley Stiles. Stiles works with recov-ering athletes, recommending physicians and helping students regain strength through rehabili-tation programs intended to im-prove athletes’ performance be-

fore they return to play. “Rehab plays a huge role,”

Stiles said. “Hopefully [athletes] will be better and stronger than they were prior to the injury.”

What effects will this year’s injuries have on athletics? It’s hard to say, but chances are that there won’t be any all-encom-passing difference.

Junior Josh Gray, however, notes that safety is a concern for teammates: “It’s tough when people on your team get hurt. You have to be careful when they come back.”

Ensuring that they come back at the right time is all part of the road to recovery. As Brown said, injuries happen every year, and although safety is the primary concern, teams still manage to do fairly well despite teammates’ ab-sences, and most injured athletes are likely to return by the winter sports seasons.

Fractures, sprains, concussions, and the list goes on...

Andrew Bradley12

Peter Morley12

Isabel LaVercombe12

Emily Nasseff11

Christian Koch10

Thomas Moyers12

Concussion

Mara Walli11

Jenna O’Brien12

Chinaza Nwaneri11

Alev Baysoy10

Jonah Wang11

Amanda Hotvedt11

Nina Perkkio11

Zoe Matticks11

Alexis Irish9

Ben Kachian11

Josh Gray11

Ryan Hobert12

Fractured Fibula

Fractured Clavicle

Stress Fracture in Foot

Fractured Wrist Sprained Ankle

Sprained AnklePatellar Subluxation

Strained Tendon

Quadricep Strain

Strained Leg Contusion

Concussion Sprained Ankleand Concussion

Quadricep Strain

Fractured Finger

Pulled Quadricep

Hip Flexor

Illustration Credit: Aditi Kulkarni

Data reported in the infographic compiled from Kids’ Heath.org.

Dear Students,

The members of Spartan Boosters would like to officially welcome you to the 2011-2012 school year. Last year was a big learning experience for the whole club. This year we hope to carry for-ward new ideas that will improve the school spirit

in our community. Our main goal is to get as many fans as possible to ALL different kinds of sporting events. Starting in November, every month we will be sponsoring a couple sporting events published in The Rubicon as sanctioned Spartan Booster events; we hope to direct the attention of the entire student body to these events.

It is our hope that we can get the student body to not only attend the already advertised games, like but also matches and meets that don’t get as much coverage. At these games, we will support our Spartan teams in a manner that reflects on our entire school in a positive way.

Students that attend sporting events at St. Paul Academy and Sum-mit School become part of a community that has fun together while supporting other students. Just ask anyone who attended one of the Homecoming events or the “Jam the Gym” volleyball game.

To go along with our support our of school spirit in the community, we would like to highlight the efforts of athletes who dedicate their time and energy to their respective sport. Two athletes of the month, one male and one female, will be selected based on their performance and leadership on the field.

It is our hope that we can build a foundation of school spirit re-garding sports at SPA. With your support, our school can make this happen.

A Note from Spartan Boosters

Spencer Egly

Cameron Causey

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th Spartan Boosters and The Rubicon recognizetwo players each month for athletic talent,fantastic statsand teamleadership

Mike Destache keeps on runningWhen thinking of Freshman

Mike Destache, two words close-ly follow: Cross Country. There is a reason for this; his personal record for the 5k is 16:33 and he was All Conference last year.

“The thing I love about my team is that we are nothing alike but we still work well together,” Destache said.

Destache advises students who are just beginning to run. “It gets easier after you do it for awhile,”

he said. “It’s all about mental toughness and making it through the first couple of months.”

Horne profile information compiled by Saif Ahmed; Destache profile compiled by Lucy Li.

Cover Story8 9October 2011. Vol XXXIX. Issue I. St. Paul Academy and Summit School

“An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away”

This saying dates back to 19th Century Wales. It addresses the beneficial health effects of apples. According to the Stanford Cancer Center, apples are a rich source of antioxidants and can reduce the risk of colon cancer, prostate can-cer, and lung cancer. The fruit’s fiber content helps with heart dis-ease, weight loss, and cholesterol. With all these health benefits, it’s unlikely that an apple-lover will make frequent visits to the doctor’s office.

The Forbidden Fruit

In the Book of Genesis, schol-ars interpreted that the fruits that grew on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil were apples.God told Adam and Even that they could eat any fruit in the Garden of Eden except apples from the Tree of Knowledge. A serpent tricked Adam and Eve to eat the fruit. When God discovered this deed, he banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.

An Apple on a Teacher’s Desk

This tradition was rampant in the 1880s and 1890s. According to Barry Popik, etymologist and ex-

pert on apple origins, students would bring lunches from home and give apples to their teachers to get on their good side back then.

The Big Apple

New York City’s nickname, “The Big Apple” traces its origins to Great Depression era. During the 1930s and 1940s, apple vendors and Harlem night clubs flooded the streets of New York City. A dance, known as the “Big Apple” was also popular during this time pe-riod. Jazz musicians first popular-ized and circulated the term “Big Apple”. According to the Society for New York City History Edu-cation Committee, “If a jazzman circa 1940 told you he had a gig in

the ‘Big Apple,’ you knew he had an engagement to play in the most coveted venue of all, Manhattan, where the audience was the big-gest, hippest, and most apprecia-tive in the country.”

How do you like them apples?

This phrase is used to express be-musement or vexation. It means “how about that?” The idiom origi-nated in World War I with the “tof-fee apple.” “[Toffee apples were] a kind of trench mortar bomb some-times used to destroy tanks. The phrase would be said gloatingly after an ‘apple’ took out an enemy” Popik said.

A is For Apple

Fuji8.5%

9.4%Granny Smith

11.6%Golden Delicious

9.4%Gala

23.9%Red Delicious29.2%

Other Varieties

McIntosh4.4% Top Five Apple-

Producing Nations

USA Apple Production By Variety

Origin of common apple sayings

Apple nutrition provides numerous health benefits

BYOB: bring your own basket for apple picking

taste: sweet with a slight tart balance

slow to oxidize

(turn brown)

cross between Sharon and Connell Red

late season

bloomer

Experience local apple events

This year, take some time to pick your own apples at a local orchard. Known for their proximity to the Twin Cities, these feature abundent ap-ple picking, a nice environment, and small idiosyncracies that make them stand out from the rest.

Aamodt’s Apple Farm6428 Manning Ave.Stillwater, Minn. Hours: Aug. – Dec. 31, Daily, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Located in Stillwater, the Aamodt’s family have provided u-pick or-chards for the public for over over three generations. Aamodt’s Apple Farm features hot balloon rides, miniature hay rides, and more! Along with the abundant apple picking opportunities, Aamodt’s also has “huge barns full of any apple product you can think of,” St. Paul Academy and Summit School junior Joelle Destache said. Destache recommends to buy the honeycomb and their apple crisp mix, two favorites of hers.

Afton Apple Orchard

Other Orchards:Whistling Well: For a more small-scale orchard, visit Whistling Well.“It’s a nicer experiance - small and friendly” junior Liat Kaplan said. Kaplan found it a nice contrast to larger, more tourist-oriented orchards. Located in Hastings, the orchard is open 9 a.m. - dark and features its own petting zoo.

Emma’s Apple Orchard: Emma’s is an award-winning orchard located in Belle Plaine and features its own annual scarecrow festival. Named “Favorite Apple Orchard in Minnesota” by Minnesota Parent Maga-zine and voted “Best Apple Orchard” by the readers of the City Pages, Emma’s is open daily from 10 AM - 6 PM daily til October 31.

Rebecca XuEditor-in-Chiefr

Aamodt’s Apple FarmPhoto Courtesy: Aamodt’s Apple Farm

Ever heard of the saying—an ap-ple a day keeps the doctor away? Well, this saying has a base. Ap-ples are highly nutritious fruits. According to the Cornell Uni-

versity Nutrition Journal, apples are a great source of antioxidants and phytochemcials. Antioxidants are molecules that can inhibit the oxidation of other molecules. Al-though oxidation is essential for certain biological processes, it can also cause damage. Many fruits have antioxidants such as glutathi-one, vitamin C, vitamin E, querce-tin, epicatechin, procyanidin B2, and various peroxidases. Phyto-

chemicals assist the benefits of antioxidants. They are chemical compounds that naturally occur in plants. These compounds can pro-duce therapeutic effects. Apple’s nutritional benefits don’t

end here. The fruit can both in-crease health and alleviate illness-es. According to the Stanford Can-cer Center, apples can reduce the risk of colon, prostrate, and lung cancer, and can alleviate heart dis-ease, and weight loss. Because ap-ples contain a high content of fiber, apples can also control cholesterol by preventing reabsorptionSo there you have it. If you eat

apples regularly, it’s unlikely a doc-tor’s visit will appear in the near future.

Minnesota’s finest apple creations

Rebecca XuEditor-in-Chiefr

Midtown Global Market Cheese and Apple Fest Carlos Creek Winery Fourth Annual Applefest

Source: Virginia State Apple Board

Research confirms it! The antioxidant phytonu-trients found in apples help fight the damaging effects of LDL (bad) cho-lesterol.

Heart

Just one apple provides as much dietary fiber as a serving of bran cereal. (That’s about one-fifth of the recommended daily intake of fiber.)

Digestion

Apples are the perfect, portable snack: great tast-ing, energy-boosting, and free of fat.

Diet An apple a day strength-ens lung function and can lower the incidence of lung cancer, as well.

Lungs

Apples contain the essen-tial trace element, boron, which has been shown to strengthen bones - a good defense agianst osteopo-rosis.

Bones

The infographic on the right dis-plays information on the distribu-tion of apple breeding by variety within the United States in 2008. The inner circle displays the top five nations in terms of apple production as of 2008. Informa-tion was obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Take a moment to reflect on the lasting impact of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple. He died of pan-creatic cancer on October 5.

Since 1908, the University of Minnesota has been a pioneer in the United States apple breeding program. The U of MN specializes in breeding cold hardy apples that are able to survive the harsh winters of Minnesota. Through their efforts, apples such as Snowsweet, Frost-bite, Zestar, Sweetango, and Honeycrisp have been created in their horticulture program. Information for infographic on left was ob-tained from apples.umn.edu.

Only one apple variety out of 10,000 will be good enough to be re-leased to the public, and the process takes 20 to 30 years, according to the Star Tribune.

According to the University of Illinois, it takes the energy

from 50 leaves to grow one apple.

ripens early in the season

cross between State Fair

and MN1691

taste: sweet and tart

extremely cold hard

Photo Courtesy: Afton Apple Orchard

14421 S. 90th St.Hastings, Minn.Hours: Daily, 10 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Known as one of Minnesota’s most popular orchards, Afton is a tourist hot spot for all apple lovers. According to SPA senior Rachel Yost-Du-brow, Afton is the “classic family-oriented apple orchard.” The 190-acre orchard feature 13 varieties of apples, a six-mile, 15-acre corn maze, and its apple festival on October 15-16.

The Cheese and Apple Festival at Midtown Global Market, located on Lake Street and 10th Ave in Minneapolis, will take place on October 22 from 1 PM to 4 PM. Celebrating local cheese and apple produce, the festival will include apple/cheese samplings, cooking demonstrations at Kitchen in the Market, and featured apple or cheese products from Mid-town businesses. For the amateur baker, a cheesecake/apple pie baking competition will be open to the public. Local celebrities will judge the items in three categories: Best Cheesecake, Best Apple Pie, and Most Creative. Recipies of all recipies will be available to the public after the event is over. To submit your entry, submit a Baking Entry Form on the Midtwon Global Market by October 14.

Celebrate the fall apple harvest by attending Carlos Creek Winery’s Ap-plefest in Alexandria on October 15 from noon to 10 PM. With 15 acres dedicated to apples, Carlos Creek Winery features Cortland, Fireside, Haralson, McIntosh, Regent, and Honeycrisp apples. Along with usual food and apple-eating that accompanies any apple festival, the applefest features the Catapault Contest where teams battle against each other to see who can build the best pumpkin-throwing machine. Entering a cata-pualt costs $100 and a grand prize of $500 is awarded to the winning team. Additionally, the event includes barn dances, bonfires, and wagon rides. Visitors can also observe master pumpkin carving demos at Carlos Creek’s front porch or work on their own pumpkin carvings.

Allison WangCover Story Editorr

taste: tangy, packs a sweet

punch

has been with the

U of M since 1920

unusually small size

cross between Honeycrisp and Zestar

first ap-peared in markets in 2009

“It was even crispier than the Honeycrisp” - senior Rachel Yost-Dubrow

taste: juicy,

sweet, and

crunchy

“It was sweet with a little kick to it and a tartness” - junior Laura Goetz

named Minnesota’s state fruit in

2006

named one of the top 25 innovations in the 2006 Better World Report

cross between Keepsake and un-known

Illustration Credit: Allison Wang

Illustration Credit: Allison Wang

Information Compiled By: Allison Wang

St. Paul Academy and Summit School

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Of all the fair food vendors, none is more popular than Sweet Martha and her famous cook-ies, and junior Sid Dicke had plenty of opportunity to munch on the delicious chocolate chip studded confections while he worked at the large, yellow structure on Dan Patch Avenue where the cookies are sold by the bucket along with milk.

Dicke’s duties didn’t include eating the cookies—he made and sold them, occasionally step-ping out to filter the enormous crowds around the stand to less crowded windows—but he got his fair share of cookies himself.

“I still have trash bags full of cookies at my house, be-

cause I closed every night,” Dicke said, and he got to take home leftover cookies.

Working at Sweet Martha’s was not a particularly easy gig for Dicke to get. Sweet Mar-tha’s requires a recommenda-tion from another employee. “Their idea is that everyone knows each other,” Dicke said of Sweet Martha’s policy.

It was worth it for Dicke, de-spite the occasional burned hand and odd questions from fair-goers, mostly concerning direc-tions or free cookies. Dicke says he liked serving cookies and see-ing friends from SPA at the fair, particularly junior Dominic Din-gess, a Sweet Martha’s regular.

Bags full of cookies are a sweet reminder of Sid Dicke’s time spent working at Sweet Martha’s

Sisters scoop gelato, make friends

Daniel Porter creates connections and delicious pizza

Gelato, a close cousin of modern ice cream, serves as an excellent relief from the fair’s often relentless heat. Seniors Emily and Heather Upin know this first-hand after working at the Pizza Palace last summer, scooping the frozen Italian treat.

Emily and Heather have been working at the fair for the past three years. Though she came home tired every night from long hours standing and serv-ing, “it was fun because…I was seeing people I know all day at the fair,” she said. Business was good, too—always a plus.

“It’s really fun,” Heath-er said. “It is really hard work, but it’s fast-moving.”

Upin particularly enjoyed

people-watching, which she said vastly improves the sta-tionary nature of working in a booth. Upin worked eight hour shifts serving customers and oc-casionally filling in for cashiers.

The frantic pace of fair work suited Upin. “I love the times when we’re so busy. I go from one customer to another, to another... I don’t even have time to think.” She enjoys scooping gelato, she said, “because you actually get to talk with the customers.”

Though her shift didn’t over-lap with senior Daniel Por-ter’s, she did have friends on the staff from working there in previous years, and hopes to work there again next year. Emily and Heather Upin worked alongside Margaret Merrill at the Pizza Palace serving gelato as a summer

job. “It’s really hard work, but it’s fast moving,” Upin said.

Thousands of people look at cows, visit radio stations and eat brown, oily food on a stick. These are the images that come to mind when one thinks of the Minnesota State Fair. Not everyone at the fair, though, is there for their own entertainment. The fair also pro-vides a booming market for small businesses throughout Minnesota.

The short-term employments these businesses offer are particu-larly attractive to teenagers, and many students from Saint Paul Academy and Summit School have taken advantage of this.

Senior Daniel Porter spent the

two weeks of the State Fair work-ing at Pizza Palace on Carnes Avenue, a job he heard about from friends who had worked at the State Fair previously.

Though the work was tedious and hours were long, “it was worth it in the end because the staff was really close knit,” Porter said. Plus it earned him some extra money.

The work was hard-est from about six to eight in the evening, the typical dinner hour. Apart from those hours, Por-ter says, business was fairly slow.

Whether he returns to work there next year, he says, is depen-dent upon a number of factors, including his college situation. Undoubtedly, though, his love of pizza will continue no matter what.

Andy MonserudNews Editorr

“Ye Old Mill” is the fair’s oldest ride.

Before the fair grounds were used for the fair, it was the Ramsey County Poor Farm. Used with permission from the Minnesota State Fair web site.

MN State Fair Facts:The first Minneso-ta State Fair was held in 1859.

Fried candy bars contain the most calories of all the fair foods.

The princess sculptures are made of 90 pound blocks of butter.

The fair’s mascots are two gophers.Used with permission from the Minnesota State Fair web site.

Junior Sid Dicke shows off his love of cookies with the Sweet Martha’s shirt he got while work-ing at the shop this summer.

Daniel Porter served pizza at Pizza Palace. “It was worth it in the end because the staff was re-ally close-knit. “ Porter said.

MN State Fair Facts:There wasn’t a fair in 1946 be-cause of the Po-lio epidemic.

Theodore Roos-evelt gave his “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” speech at the fair in 1901.

The band Alabama has performed at the Grandstand 18 times in 13 years.

500,000 corn dogs are consumed by visitors each year.

One day in 2010, 234,384 people went to the fair.

Dan Patch Avenue is named for a racehorse.

Photo Credit: Andy Monserud

Submitted Photo: Emily Upin

Photo credit: Andy Monserud

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Two college sports. US Na-tional team member. Drafted by two professional sports teams. St. Paul Academy and Summit School gradu-ate. Who else could be bet-ter qualified for the position of Athletic Director at SPA?

With the departure of long-running Athletic Direc-tor Dave Montgomery, SPA-hired alumnus Peter Sawkins.

Sawkins attended Yale where he played hockey and soccer. He played as a de-fense-man in hockey and as a defensive sweeper in soc-

cer. Sawkins pursued a two year career with the profes-sional hockey team, the Los Angeles Kings. He played with the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Interna-tional Hockey League (IHL).

“Being drafted by two professional sports teams was a great honor, know-ing that all of my hard work paid off,” Sawkins said.

In Sawkins’ professional life, his greatest achievement was playing with the United States National team The U.S. National team played in the Calgary Cup, a pre-Olympic tournament. The US National team played against the Ca-nadian National Team, the Russian Republic team, and the Czech National Team. “We beat the Canadian team and lost in the consolation round, but it was a great ex-perience,” Sawkins said.

The search begins A search committee head-

ed by Upper School Principal Chris Hughes set out to find a new Athletic Director after

the departure of Montgomery. “The position was advertised nationally and we received over 160 applications,” Head of School Bryn Roberts said. “The committee vetted down the applications and we were looking for candidates who seemed to be good fits for SPA culturally and practically.”

“We wanted someone who understood SPA; the culture, the mission, and the relation-ship between athletics and the mission,” Roberts said. He believes Sawkins was the per-fect fit for all of these qualities. Sawkins took the job because, “It seemed like a great op-portunity to come back to the place I respect tremendously for what it had given me both academically and athletically,” Sawkins said. He also said that SPA “has a strong reputation working with kids in help-ing them achieve the best,” Athletics and Academics:

Coexisting With a former professional

hockey player as the new ath-letic director, SPA athletics are going to look much different.

One of his main goals at SPA is to integrate athletics and academics so that they can coexist. “Through this, kids can reach their great-est potential and work at their highest ability,” Sawkins said. The most important thing to Sawkins though, is that having athletics and academics coex-ist helps fulfill the mission of the school and enrich the lives of the students beyond SPA.

“Having athletics and academics together teaches students some important les-sons such as teamwork and hard work,” Sawkins said. “Back in the day most people played sports, but now kids have a more diverse range of interests. Though culturally, things have changed a little bit, but there is still opportu-nity to get out there and play.”

Athletes should be looking forward to an athletic envi-ronment where they are chal-lenged to push their limits. “I want to create an environment where SPA students want to play sports for SPA because they are challenged to do their best, and they enjoy be-ing around their teammates,” said Sawkins. Not only have that, but Sawkins hopes that students will gain valuable life longed lessons such as work ethic and the importance of life-long physical fitness.

Sawkin’s first major con-tribution as Athletic Direc-tor was hiring a new girl’s hockey coach, Carrie Holldorf.

Sawkins, the most quali-fied of the candidates, brings a love of sports and a commit-ment to students that will ben-efit SPA in the years to come.

Hockey hero Peter Sawkins comes homeNew Athletic Director shares how he ended up at the school where he learned to love hockey

Saif AhmedStaff Writerr

Peter Sawkins (left) plays in a pre-Olympic showcase tournament known as the Calgary Cup in 1987 as a member of the US National Team. He played against the Soviet Union National Team.

““Having athletics and aca-demics together teaches important lessons such as teamwork and hard work.

Athletic Director Peter Sawkins

Sawkins plays defense for the Yale ice hockey team. “Being drafted by two professional sports teams was a great honor,” Sawkins said.

Bio Box

1981: Sawkins Graduates from SPA

1985: Sawkins plays with the Yale hockey

team

1987: Sawkins com-petes in the Calgary

Cup

2011: Sawkins accepts position as Athletic

Director

Student Athletes help choose Ath-letic Director

“Student interview-

ers and I toured the candidates for athletic director over the sum-mer. We told them about the athletic pro-gram at SPA and what SPA is really all about. We wanted an Athlet-ic Director who both really understood our school, our athletic program and our ath-letes. I thought Mr. Sawkins understood the school, being an alum, and he had a lot of experience with other athletic pro-grams. I think the ad-ministration made a really good decision. “

Fencing captain Marie Siliciano

Submitted photo: Peter Sawkins

Submitted photo: Peter Sawkins

The Screencast is a video record-ing tool used by teachers or tu-tors to show their students how to do a task. This program records computer screens, often referred to as video screen capture. These recordings or captures usually contain audio narration.

So far, the Screencasts have been used in Chemistry, record-ing notes and diagrams on One-Note. The recordings on Scre-encasts include review of what was covered in the day’s lesson, pointers on specific pieces of in-formation needed to complete the homework, and a brief touch on the next concept.

One of the significant advan-tages of the Screencast is that it enables teachers to give lectures without having the students in class, allowing them more time in class for labs and for discussion. Another one of the bonuses of us-ing the Screencast as a teaching

method is that it allows students to learn the material at whatever pace they feel comfortable with. Instead of having to interrupt class time with questions, students can go back and re-watch whatever they didn’t catch the first time. This way, the extra time in class can be used to learn new ideas. If a student still has questions after watching the Screencast, they are encouraged to go and meet with the teacher outside of class.

Another advantage of having the Screencast is that when com-pleting their homework, students have the ability to review any posted Screencast necessary. If a student has a question on a spe-cific problem, they can access the Screencast and figure out every-thing from there, instead of hav-ing to wait for class the next day.

Despite the large number of advantages, there are some dis-advantages. For example, the use of the Screencast will greatly re-duce the amount of one-on-one interaction between students and teachers. Instead of approach-ing the teacher directly with any questions or concerns they may

have, students’ questions can be answered by the Screencast.

Many students believe that the Screencasts have been help-ful in their studies. “The Scre-encasts are beneficial because they compliment the reading and they give examples on homework problems,” Junior James Hargens said.

Junior Ian Rolf agrees that Screencasts are beneficial. “[Scre-encasts] are like personal trainers, they work with you to help you achieve your best,” Rolf said.

Chemistry teachers also agree that Screencasts are beneficial. “[Screencasts] are an effective way to show students important concepts of the unit,” Upper School Chemistry teacher Beth Seibel-Hunt said.

Overall, the positives out-weigh the negatives, and Scre-encasts could be a great idea for more teachers to adopt, especially in math. However, as of yet, regu-lar and Honor Chemistry are the only classes currently using the Screencast program. The Screen-cast is a class lecture condensed into approximately 5 minutes.

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A screenshot from the Upper School Science Department’s screencast on how ionic compounds form. Chemistry students have responded well to screencasts, with junior Ian Rolf calling them “personal trainers”.

2. Plan and consider. a. What is the overall message?b. How long will this be?c. Will the video be brief and broad or long and detailed?

3. Make an outline. If you try to wing it while recording, the video will be a failure, which may require you to re-record it several times before getting it just the way you want it.

Screenshot used with permission from: Screencast-o-Matic

Saif AhmedStaff Writerr

4. Pick good software. Recommended screen-cast software includes Jing, Snagit, Morae, and Camtasia. Most of these have free versions that give you the opportunity to upgrade to the pro version for a fee. Don’t forget your webcam. Once you have all of that, you can start.

5. Edit your video. A good editing program is Cam-Studio, a free web-based program. If you are truly dedicated, you can buy some other editing programs such as Camtasia. When edit-ing, make sure that the transitions appear as seamless as possible. The choppier the video is, the less likely someone is willing to pay attention through it.

6. Upload. As soon as you have finished the editing pro-cess, you may upload it to wherever you want, such as on a blog you may have, a friend’s blog, or you can keep it for yourself to use.

US Chemistry teachers Beth Seibel-Hunt (left) and Carmen Vanegas (right) made this screencast. “If a student is unable to comprehend the subject matter, they can revisit the screencast,” Seibel-Hunt said.

Photo Credit: Lucy Li

How to record your own Screencast

1. Choose a topic. Having a pointless Screencast serves no purpose. There are a plethora of possibilities. You could talk in notes for yourself to help study for a test, how to play a sport, or how to learn an instrument.

Pros + Cons -Assists students with their home-work

Helps explain important concepts in the lesson

Allows students to learn the mate-rial at their own pace

Walks through examples of home-work problems

Invaluable when studying for tests

Allows students to go over lessons as many times as they want

Not everything can be covered in a five minute video

Students can become caught up in the videos when studying for tests, instead of reviewing all of the material

Reduces amount of one-on-one time with teacher

Requires Internet connection to use

Computer needs an updated Java program to play the video

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It’s a Saturday night and your mom decides it’s family movie night.

“Pick a movie,” she says. No, you don’t drive to the

nearest Blockbuster to see the se-lection. Just open your computer instead and choose a movie from the Netflix Watch Instantly list, available right at your fingertips.

Sophomore Danielle Socha said. “Netflix is easier with tim-ing. I’m usually somewhere else when a TV show that I want to watch is on...I don’t have a regu-lar show, but whenever I have time for TV, there isn’t anything very good that is on usually.”

The decline of video stores, bookstores, print newspapers, mail and television has become an inevitable result of easier ac-cess to personal technology.

While many can see the con-venience of instant gratification, damage has been done through-out the media industry. In the golden age of film and book ven-dors, Blockbuster and Borders were two very successful compa-nies. Today, they’re going out of business.

In 1994, Blockbuster was val-ued at $8.4 billion. Today, it is valued less than $700 million. Netflix began because founder Reed Hastings racked up $40 in late fees after renting a single DVD from Blockbuster in 1998

for neglecting to return it on time. Blockbuster’s entire business model gradually fell out of style in part due to this system of late fees.

“Netflix does everything that Blockbuster does but it’s a lot more convenient,” junior Sam Wood said. Netflix’s business model differs from Blockbuster’s in that Netflix sends compact, svelte DVDs in the mail in the its now familiar red envelope. Netflix expanded into two separate entities:, Qwik-ster, which manages the DVD section, and Netflix, which man-ages online streaming.

Because of this split, individu-als now have the option of choos-ing which medium suits them best. Senior Maulika Kohli uses only the instant service because “the price went up for DVDs so we stopped that...it was too ex-pensive.”

Netflix is only one entity changing the way viewers get movies and TV. Businesses spe-cializing in Video-on-Demand make TV and movies are instant-ly available.

Book stores have also been displaced with the arrival of eB-ooks. With eReaders like Ama-zon Kindle, people find it easier to have all of their books in one device rather than filling up book-

shelves at home. The makers of the Kindle

have done a good job replicat-ing the feel of a book by adjust-ing the brightness of the screen and allowing virtual pages to be “flipped.”

Books aren’t the only place reading behavior has changed. Fewer and fewer people sub-scribe to newspapers.

Upper School Math Teacher Bill Boulger uses online news services to get information now, but he remembers when the news was different. “Everybody in the United States was watching the same thing on television. We had a common understanding because there were very few news outlets. There were 3 major networks, and they were essentially giving the same news,” Boulger said.

The U.S. Postal servide is also going through a major overhau because rarely do people send mail, preferring email or texts.

Boulger sees this electronic communication as a disadvantage to the new technologies. “The American people can’t talk to one another. They have no com-mon background to bring to any kind of a discussion. That’s an over generalization, but I think the sources of information are so fragmented that we have no guar-antee that we understand each other.”

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Aditi KulkarniSports Editorr

Step aside for the new instant generation

BLOCKBUSTER

Ejected and reject-ed technologies

Fast forward to an instant generation

NETFLIX

BORDERS AmazonKindle

Netflix provides mailed DVD and BluRay services, and on-demand streaming media to the United States, Canada, and Latin America. According to Seeking Alpha, a website for actionable stock market opinion and analy-sis, Netflix has over 20 million subscribers today. The company started as a DVD rental service in 1997. In Sept. 2011, Netf-lix stated its intentions to divide into two separate structures. Its DVD home media rental service is Qwikster and the online stream website is Netflix.

The Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader that allows custom-ers to browse, buy, download, and read e-+. Kindle users can read newspapers, magazines, and other electronic media. It’s fast, easy, and efficient. According to Sarah Perez, technology re-porter for The New York Times, Kindle’s software is compatible with Microsoft Windows, iOS, BlackBerry, Mac OS X, Android, webOS, and Windows Phone 7. At the end of 2010, Amazon an-nounced that its e-book sales had surpassed its paperback books for the first time since its incep-tion in 1994.

The Blockbuster boom has ended. The name traces back to a time when successful plays could drive other forms of enter-tainments out of business. The entertainment businesses on the block were “busted” and went bankrupt. Now, Blockbuster can no longer live up to the grandeur of its name. During the peak of its prosperity, Blockbuster’s sales were valued at $8.4 billion. To-day, the company barely produc-es $700 million in sales.

Borders reached its borders this year. The company faced liquidation and all Borders book-stores closed in the fall of 2011. Before its shutdown, Borders suffered million of dollars of debt. Tom and Louis Border cre-ated the book store in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1971. The online e-books and music retailing didn’t start until July of 2010, several month after Barnes and Nobles’ online products. After 40 years of competition with its relative, the Amazon Kindle, and its par-ent, Amazon.com, Borders lost the fight for survival.

Sophomores Cristina Zarama (left) and Nick Thorsgaard (center) and senior Justine Soukup (right) tune in to instant technologies on their laptops and smart phones. “Netflix does everything that Blockbuster does but it’s a lot more convenient,” junior Sam Wood said.

All Photos Credit: Rebecca Xu

46% of student Netflix users subscribe to the mailed DVD service.

36% of students have discontinued memberships at video stores.

55% of students own or have owned an e-Reader

Statistical data compiled from a sur-vey of 9-12 grade students conducted by The Rubicon. 190 of the 365 students polled responded.

Mongols come to life on a wide, grassy terrain and conquer Europe before the eyes of history students on the projector screen in World History I. Later, several different film and theatre inter-pretations of Macbeth appear in Journey’s in Literature, and then, in Earth Science, volcanoes erupt on screen.

In many schools including St. Paul Academy and Summit School, integrating films and vid-eos into classes have become the newest teaching technique. “If we can bring in some images and some sounds and music, those things can really help students, especially since some are visual or auditory learners,” said Dr. Nan Dreher, Upper School His-

tory teacher.In the United States, 30% of

people are auditory learners, and 65% of people are visual learn-ers, according to the Social Sci-ence Research Network. Dreher believes students benefit from watching videos because films make history. With films alive and breathing in today’s society, they create a link between the past and present and cross all educational borders.

Dreher previews 5-10 minute clips from various sources such as Youtube, BBC Network, and Ken Burns documentaries when teaching her classes, allowing students to use more of their five senses while learning.

Basil Ernst, junior at SPA, found videos in history classes beneficial. “Personally I’m ac-tually a really good an auditory

and visual learner, so for me, yes they actually really helped,” said Ernst. In his Utopian and Dystopian Literature class, Ernst and his classmates watch films including Scenes from the Sub-urbs, a short film collaboration between Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire reflecting the societal role of a teenager in a restrictive subur-ban community.

“Multiple scenes and multiple productions of a single scene tend to validate a student’s own read-ing experience,” Upper School English teacher Randall Findlay said. Findlay uses specific clips from various movie adaptations of Shakespeare, such as Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. In partici-pation with the Teacher Research Action Project in San Francisco, Findlay compared students view-ing a single scene from a Shake-

speare film to students viewing multiple scenes. “I feel that any film work in class should serve the overall curriculum,” Findlay said. Findlay believes that films don’t have less value than books, but could in fact be equal or more powerful and used for more than entertainment. In fact, he even plans to include a class called “A Seminar for Visual Narrative” for the 2012-2013 school year, where students will be asked to read a novel and then watch film inter-pretations of it.

A downside to showing videos in classes that they take time. At SPA, class periods are 45 minutes long, and teachers need more time in order to have a “multi-layered film presentation and conversation,” according to Find-lay. With longer movies, students tend to stop learning and start

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Nikpay’s artwork features por-trait photography of immigrant youth. The collection, Faces of America, explores the evolving concept of American identity and the clash between their culture and their acculturation to Amer-ica. “These portraits provide a window through which we might examine the changing face of this country at a crucial crossroad in our history,” she wrote. Nikpay

draws her inspiration from the in-tersection of western modernism and the strong tradition of Iranian poetry. This allows her to trans-form historical and social issues into art. Throughout her pieces, she utilizes visual language to portray her isolated, nomadic protagonist characters as beings crossing the boundaries of the real and imagined, according to her official website. “The concepts [at the Drake Gallery] are also abstract and complex. But this collection is very simple, almost like an ac-

cesible type of photography. Bold and simple,” said William Brow-er, junior at SPA, while looking through Nikpay’s exhibit, Faces of New America

Educators integrate videos into school curriculums to assist students in remembering information

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Teachers educate through film for visual learners

Film is a really powerful, narrative form and if there are drawbacks it’s because we haven’t trained students to watch film with the same critical eye that we have trained them to read books.

US English Teacher, Randall Findlay

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Students in Nan Dreher’s U.S. History class watch Too Late To Apologize: Declaration during their study of the American Revolution. The video is posted on Youtube by user soomopublishing.

Use your smart phone to: Check out the Arcade Fire & Spike Jonze collabora-tion Scenes from the Sub-urbs, as screened in Utopi-an and Distopian Literature

WHERE TO SEE HER WORK: St. Paul Academy’s Drake Gallery September 29–October 21

WHERE HER ART HAS BEEN: Walker Art Center, Tehran Museum of Con-temporary Art, Minnesota Historical Society

Lucy LiSci/Tech Editorr

thinking of the video as break time. “I think it’s important to make sure students what they’re watching for or stop and pause, talk, and make sure to leave dis-cussion time after to complement what you’re reading about,” Dre-her said.

“Film is a really powerful, nar-rative form and if there are draw-backs it’s because we haven’t trained students to watch film with the same critical eye that we have trained them to read books,” Findlay said.

Still, some students find videos in class beneficial. For sophomore Grace Owens-Kurtz, watching films in her German class can really help her learn. “I think [films are] really helpful in language classes because you can listen to the language and it helps me speak [it] when I listen to it,” she said.

Photo Credit: Alicia Little

‘10s

‘90s

1. Bang, Pop- Free EnergyIf you see me bobbing my head as I walk to school, I’m probably listening to this song!

2. Call Your Girlfriend- RobynRobyn considers a break-up from the perspective of the new girl-friend and creates a perfect dance song in the process.

3. Tight Rope- Brother AliBrother Ali is one of the best storytellers in music right now.

4. Jam for Jerry- Holy Ghost!Alex Frankel writes an appro-priately upbeat tribute to Jerry Fuchs, a Brooklyn-based drum-ming prodigy who died tragically in 2009.

5. Fatima- K’NaanHere’s another beautiful tribute, this one to K’Naan’s childhood friend who disappeared when he was twelve.

6. Holland, 1945- Neutral Milk HotelAlthough they only put out three albums, Neutral Milk Hotel rocked the independent music scene with the release of “In the Aeroplane over the Sea.”

7. If You’re Feeling Sinister- Belle and SebastianJust pick a Belle and Sebastian album and start listening! You won’t regret it.

8. Common People- PulpPulp pokes fun at a naïve college student who wants to “live like common people.”

9. The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) – Missy ElliotElliot’s music was groundbreak-ing, especially for female rap-pers. Bonus: she wears a trash bag in the music video.

10. Doo Wop (That Thing)- Lauryn Hill It was impossible to avoid this song in 1998.

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Nostalgia re-popularizes the iconic rock style

Like every generation, teenag-ers of the 1990s grow into adults, they develop a sense of nostalgia for the music of their era. A time when pop hits with anti-establish-ment messages fed the flames of the movement known as grunge.An era when the puffy jackets and hair of ‘80s rock deflated for an angry, down-to-earth energy. This year, it’s official: the music industry today is seeing grunge’s return.

Nevermind: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be the trip down nostalgia lane grunge fans have been waiting for, including Madison studio sessions, live tracks, and a John Peel session, sprawled together over two discs.

Phil Doherty, a sales associ-ate at Electric Fetus said, “I’d characterize grunge as a cross be-tween punk and metal and classic rock. In Nirvana, you can hear a John Lennon influence, in chord progression, the song writing, and the way he [Kurt Cobain] sings sometimes, which is why I became a fan.”

It’s true. Nirvana’s song “Smells like Teen Spirit” incor-porates classic rock songs by the bands The Kingsmen and Boston according to a Rolling Stone in-terview with Cobain.

The irony of the grunge re-vival is much the same as that of grunge as a mainstream phenom-enon. Its culture was laced with a no-sellout ethos.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, espe-cially, criticized grunge’s popu-larity, often distancing himself with challenging late recordings.

Doherty commented on this as well. “Because I work at a re-cord store, you can sort of tell in like most movements. The press likes to come up with a name to easily categorize music and I think grunge was just as much a victim as that as any other genre.”

Liz RossmanA&E Editorr

Above, right: Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam, is known for his throaty vocaliza-tion. Pearl Jam’s album Ten is one of the most acclaimed grunge records of all time.

Kim Gordon is the bassist and vocalist of Sonic Youth, a legendary lo-fi band most famous for the 1988 classic Daydream Nation. The band released two albums in 2011: Simon Werner a Disparu, a movie soundtrack for the french film, and a sampler of their tracks called Hits are for Squares, according to amazon.com. The band is currently touring and are set to perform in New York on Jan. 12 according to their website.

Sophomore Michael Wilkens and junior Andy Monserud don nostalgic grunge wear: flannel shirts, comfort-able jeans and tennis shoes- using, in the words of US English teacher Eric Severson, “incredible effort to look effortless.”

All Illustrations credit: Alicia Little

Photo credit: Noah Shavit-Lonstein

US English teacher Eric Sever-son dressed in a look he had in the 90s, which he described as “a cross between grunge and hippie throwback”. He’s pictured here in Normandy, France.

Submitted Photo: Eric Severson

1. Opt out of the mainstream.Granted, this might also make you a little hipster, but...

2. Buy a lot of plaid (shirts, that is).Actually, wear whatever is comfortable and cheap.

3. Ignore hygiene.Haircut? Who needs it? Shaving? Stubble is sexy. Soap? So main-stream.

4. Be really good, but don’t care about being admired.Play free chords on your guitar; keep drumming intense but simple. Bang your head.

How to be

US English teacher shares favorites from then and now

Below, left: Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, emulated the grunge lifestyle with his shaggy locks and headline-making lifestyle. Nirvana’s album Nevermind was certified 10x Platinum in 1999.

The Pixies, one of the founding alternative grunge bands known for their work in the late ‘80s, announced the start of their Doolittle

Lost Cities Tour, named for their second album. The tour will reach cities the band has never played before, primarily smaller cities and college towns. From New Jersey to California, the tour will stop with the band Surfer Blood opening.

Here comes your band

P e a r l J a m ’ s P J 2 0 t o u r

visited North America in September. Though the only way to see it now is to visit Latin America, fans can see the upcoming film Pearl Jam Twenty. Backed by defining-grunge bands such as The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, and Mudhoney, this film chronicle will remind fans of Pearl Jam’s melancholic sets discussing cruelty and dis-illusionment. The film was directed by Almost Famous direcor Cameron Crowe, who premiered it at this year’s To-ronto International Film Fes-tiva. Featuring songs from their best known album, Ten, a soundtrack to the film was released in September.

Another trip down dreary lane

T h i s fall’s s p e -

cial edition re-release of Nir-vana’s Nevermind. The new album includes 27 bonus tracks and 12 previously un-released tracks, primarily live. The band’s disgruntled sound and D.I.Y. three-cord energy found rapport with both MTV viewers and the rock music underground. It eventually pushed the Seattle sound into a true phenomenon. Critics have hailed it as one of rock’s greatest albums. Lead single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is still easy to find on the ra-dio today. The original album turned twenty on Sept. 24.

Why grunge? Why now?

Emily Meisler rocks the ‘90s and ‘10s

Playlist

5. Listen to grunge bands. Download Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Green River.

Compiled by Andy Monserud

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US Principal Chris Hughes announced that Thursday would be a homework-free night and that fan busses would take up-per school students to the game. Spartan Boosters declared a white out and sold 100th Anniversary t-shirts. The shirts sold quickly, and the school ordered more. In an assembly after the game, Hughes said that in his 20 years of working in schools, the Spartan-Bear game was one of the best events he has ever attended. He was happy to boast that he “had to discipline Blake student [fan] behavior more than SPA student behavior.”

Spartans spent most of the game on defense and fought hard for their only touchdown, by junior David Ristau, coming just seconds from the end of 4th quarter. Junior Danny O’Shea wanted “to thank everyone who came out to support [our] team.”