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Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School February 21, 2013

The “Inside” Scoop...Feature Continued............2News.............................3, 4Opinion.........................5, 6Sports............................7, 8

FeaturesFCCLA, Valentine’s Day

Fundraisers

NewsFFA Week, Motivational Assembly,

Jazz Concert, Dodgeball Tournament

OpinionEditorials, Pennies

SportsBowling, Basketball,

Wrestling, Cheerleading

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CHIEFSTUDENT

Gold for Clarke FCCLAThe Clarke High School FCCLA

chapter had the honor of hosting district Students Taking Action with Recogni-tion (STAR) events Monday, January 28 at LifePoint Assembly of God. FC-CLA members can compete by com-pleting projects in various categories ranging from community service and life event planning to leadership and job interviews. Competitors had a ten-minute speech over their project and a

Several members of the Clarke chapter served as room consultants, while two members competed in STAR Events. Alexxa Blair, who competed for

Event Planning category. She planned -

nancial challenges involved with travel-ling to Japan. She chose her topic be-

interesting. “The culture has always in-terested me. The scenery is very pretty and it’s pretty safe in cities. I’ve always loved it,” she said. When asked if she was nervous she replied: “I wasn’t re-ally nervous until I was right outside the judging room… I was worried I hadn’t practiced or prepared enough though.”

District vice president, Cassidy Bi-erbrodt competed in the Leadership cat-egory for the second time. She mentored three people on religion and their rela-tionships with Jesus. She was still ner-vous to compete even though it was her second time. “I was still nervous. I wasn’t expecting to get gold,” she remarked.

Niether Blair nor Bierbrodt ex-pected to get gold. “It was very sur-

event; so I expected a bronze, maybe silver. It was a nice shock,” said Blair.

Both Blair and Bierbrodt will take

By Danelly Barajas

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1. Sophomore Alexxa Blair and Junior Cassidy Bierbrodt practice their speeches before the competition.

2. Alexxa Blair poses with her gold medal.

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FCCLA Week FCCLA Week was from Monday, February 4th to the 8th. Each day had a different theme. On Monday, FCCLA and Art Club held the “Souper Bowl” after school. People could come and purchase a meal made up of a soup, des-sert, and a drink as well as handmade ceramics made by Art Club. Tuesday was Random Acts of Kindness day and Wednesday was Creed Sunday Day. For Creed Sunday Day, mem-bers had to recite the creed. For each line of the creed recited correctly, they got a part of an ice cream sundae. On Thursday, the chapter members wore purple and collected money for March of Dimes and on Friday they wore red

their projects to the state level during State Leadership Conference, which will take place in Des Moines during March.

“It was very surprising. It’s

so I expected a bronze, maybe

1.Cassidy Bierbrodt recites the FCCLA creed while Tracy Morgan listens for any mistakes.2.Cassidy Bierbrodt, Matt Beminio, and Tracy Morgan pre-pare their ice cream sundaes.

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FEATURE2 STUDENT

Sweet Sales= Cash for Clubs

Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School February 21, 2013

The   high   school   had   their   annual   Valentines  

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entines  goodies.  The  National  Honor  Society  sold  Crush  

th   through   the  

13th

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earned  by  the  NHS  is  matched  by  Dollars  For  Scholars.  

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By Tyra Riddle

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ers  February  14th

Tacy   is  easily  contacted  by  her  email  at  customconfec-­‐

Cassidy Bierbrodt, Christopher Hanson, and Jacob

Bair of NHS sell crush pops.

Cheerleaders, Jordan Deutsch, Samantha Stickles,

Morgan Bailey, and Tori Byers hand out Valenines

cookies.

NHS memers Nicole Clark and Christopher Hanson

Advertise for crush pop sales.

Allyssa May, Kennedy Crees, Jordan Deutsch, and

Samantha Stickles have fun passing out treats on

Valentines Day.

“It’s [crush pops] really acces-

sible for for high schoolers.”

-Christopher Hanson

Photos by Jesse Monroe

Contact Tacy Riddle of Custom Confections at customcon-

fectios@rocketmail.com or call at 641-414-3761

NEWS3 STUDENT

Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School February 21, 2013

FFA members plan a full week of activitiesby Brenna Paul

Monday, February 18th

Popping kettle corn for the teachers in meetingsAg/FFA Supporters Breakfast – 5:30am-8am in the Ag. RoomHypnotist – In the auditorium 6:30pm (open to the public) $5 for adults and $3 for all students (free to current active FFA members)

Tuesday, February 19th

Hot cocoa sales – 7:15am to 8am in the cafeteria“Grow Green” dress up day (wear all green)Kick off Assembly – in gym

Wednesday, February 20th

Hot cocoa sales – 7:15am to 8am in the cafeteria“Cowgirl/cowboy Prom Day” (wear dress up clothes) Hand out resource packets to 8th grade teachers and interact with 8th graders during advisory time to get them excited about Ag. Classes and FFA

Thursday, February 21st

Those FFA members involved in contest walk the halls and be recognized (this day is contest day for FFA members – leave right after walking the halls or 3pm)Hoy cocoa sales

“Grow shirts)

Friday, February 22nd

Hot cocoa sale – 7:15am to 8am in the cafeteria

bottles, paper accessories, etc)Serve lunch at the elementary and mingle with all the students during their lunch times (members will wear FFA t-shirts to serve)

Speaker stresses preparation for the future: Rob Bell says good communication is key

Motivational speaker Rob Bell began his ca-

reer working in a grocery store. He told his au-

dience of Clarke and Murray students to con-

quer their fears and strive for their dreams. Freshmen Zach Harmsen, Gable Reece, Hunter Simpson, Max Hobbs, Gunnar Sergeant-Elben,

and Dusty Willke participate in the activities conducted by the speaker.

One-question students are asked since elementary days: What do you want to be when you grow up? The reason why this is asked so much is because of its importance, after all a career is something most people may be doing for the rest of their life.

Tuesday, January 22, Rob Bell, the sec-ond motivational speaker of this school year

spoke about careers, positivity, and the im-portance of good communication.

Bell said to choose a career based on something enjoyable, and to try really hard while studying, “You have to be fantastic otherwise you’ll be average.” He said one important skill to know for almost every job is communicating well with others. Bell said

he had problems with socializing, because as a child he was very shy. His advice was to talk to people and build relations, and not be shy.

Many students enjoyed the motiva-tional speech, Celeste Lopez said, “It was nice how he wasn’t just reading through the slides but actually making us all participate in the activities.”

One of the activities illustrated the im-portance of using the right conjunction for instance, just saying “yes, and” instead of “yes, but” makes the conversation more positive. Mr. Bell, although very entertain-ing, also gave important information about how to be better prepared for later years. “I think assemblies are something good for us students because they are fun and allow us to think about the future,” Kelsie Grimm commented.

Ms. Antisdel said there will be more assemblies scheduled that will be purpose-ful and useful to students such as the FFA assembly that will take place on Tuesday, February 19.

Photos by: Trevor Kirkpatrick

By: Nayely Hurtado

Junior Jose Contreras writes how he grows leader-

ship for a link in the FFA chain.

NEWS4 STUDENT

Two seniors sign NLI

Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School Febuary 21, 2013

January 23rd the student council hosted a dodge ball tournament fundraiser to help a few high school teachers and their families with their prolonged health problems. The tournament was organized by Kacey Kl-emsrued, a student council member, with the help of other student council members who help referee the day of the tournament.

Eight teams made up of high school and middle school students and teachers com-peted for the prize bag of candy. Basketball Coach James Larson, and Juniors Colin Morris, Dylan Diveney, Jared Jamison, Matt Blanchard, Brin Evins, and Skylar Lane formed the winning team. The student coun-cil collected 300 dollars for the donation.

Student council hosts

dodge ball tournamentBy: Sarah Pate

The saxophone and trombone section in Jazz 1

Jazz Police by Gordon Goodwin, Ocean View by Ralf Gingery, Doxy by Sonny Rollins,St. Louis Blues by W.C Handy which featured Kylar McCann on trumpet, and Fool on the Hill by Mark Taylor featuring Tyra Riddle on Flugel Horn. The Jazz 1 played Hey Pachuco by James Alexander Achor, Spain by Victor Lo-pez, Us by Thad Jones with solos by Jacob Redman on the saprano sax, Samantha by Sammy Nestico featuring Mitch Lampe on saxophone, and Things Ain’t What They Used To Be by Mercer Ellington

by Tyra Riddle

1.Clarke Coach Renee

Henry (left) and par-

ent Jeff and Linda

Pate (right) watch as

Sarah Pate signs her

Nation Letter of Intent

to throw for the UNI

Track team.

2.Ashley Gibbs (left)

signs her National

Letter of Intent to play

softball at SWCC,

along with two of her

soon to be teammates

next year.

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Photo by: Michael

Egbert

Photo by: Ann March

The winning team: Coach Larson, Matt

Blanchard, Jared Jamison, Colin Morris,

Skylar Lane, Dylan Diveney, and Brin Evins.

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2.1.  Middle  School  players,  Faith  Law-­

rence  and  Hannah  Moore  prepare  for  

their  match.

2.  Freshman  Gunner  Sergeant-­Elben  

and  sophomore  Dustan  VanLoon  

choose  their  next  target  in  the  dodge  

ball  tournment.

Photos by: Nick Norris

OPINION5 STUDENT

Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School February 21, 2013

The Student Chief StaffProducing  a  quality  publication  to  inform,  

educate,  entertain  and  involve  our  readers  is  the  primary  goal  of  The  Student  Chief  staff.The  Student  Chief  is  a  student  newspaper  

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without  consent  of  advisor  and  author.  Editorials  solely  express  the  opinion  of  the  

the  opinion  of  the  advisor,  faculty  or  school  administrators.We   encourage   our   readers   to   use   The  

Student  Chief  as  an  outlet  for  expression  of  

opinion.  All  signed  Letters  to  the  Editor,  fewer  than   300  words   in   length,  will   be   accepted  for   consideration.   We  reserve  the  right  to  edit  all  pieces  submitted  to  meet  common   journalistic  ethics  and  criteria.

Feature page writers: Danelly Barajas, Tyra RiddleNews page writers: Brenna Paul, Sarah PateOpinion page writers: Nick Norris, Jordan Early, Hannah BaysingerSports writers: Rebecca Tracy, Trevor Kirkpatrick, Tyra Riddle, Nick NorrisAdvisor: Mrs. Jan Rychnovsky Principal: Mrs. Kim Antisdel

The Student Chief Policy

How are you using your iPad?

Students have handled the iPads and people are beginning to understand them

last couple weeks have consisted of some Internet outages, and Application glitch-

I have used Inspiration Maps to plot out the cause and effect and it has worked

not save my progress and since I had to keep the app open all the time to change

important for keeping track of homework and deadlines, and my personal choice

sounds like a good idea, basically Facebook for school, there are still some glitches

it stops working they are stuck dead in the water and lose precious time, such as

Some of the ways teachers and students have found to use the iPads are very -

Sophomores Damon Helgevold and Terence Havlik focus on their music project for English II.

Junior Aleesha Cummings reads a poem by Emily Dickinson on her iPad.

Junior Austin Van Werden uses a calculator in his Calculus class.

Freshman Jeremy Johnson and Senior Tyler Lewis take notes from their Spanish books.

By Nick Norris

By Nick Norris and Brenna Paul

Sophomores Adam Smith, Weston Brokaw, Brett Moffett, Ana Karen Avalos, Kaelyn Fugate, and Dania Echeveste use their iPads to work on a Concept map about Mitosis and Meiosis in Mr. Norlin’s 4th hour Biology class.

Pep assemblies have always been around in high school to recognize and support activities. Students pack the high school gym while the cheerleaders cheer on our team. These assemblies help the team focus on pumping up for the game. Whether it is football, basketball, or wrestling, we should always be cheering and giving them support by providing school spirit. Our school needs to improve its school spirit; we need to be proud of our school and let people know who we are. Pep assemblies create excitement,

they look out into the student section to see only a few people cheering , this makes the athlete and team feel disappointed.

In the past years the cheerleaders have organized and created pep assemblies. They have games and activities for all audience members. One year the cheerleaders chose four students involved in sports to compete in a competition. The activity was a race who can eat the gummy worms faster. Without using their hands, they had to pick up the worms with their mouths off strips of toilet paper. The audience cheered and the participants laughed as they participate in a friendly competition. This is the kind of fun our school has been missing out on. There use to be assemblies all the time, for sports and FFA. I think we need more pep assemblies.

In researching this topic I found several reasons why we are not having pep assemblies. Some students, teachers and even our principal believe we do not need any assemblies. The students and the teachers complain about taking up their class time. Many students, however, do not know what they are like and many sports competitors have not had their own pep assembly.

The lack of pep assemblies for so many years is negatively affecting our school spirit. It is time for somebody to step up and organize more pep assemblies.

OPINION6 STUDENT

Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School Feburary 21, 2013

What is a great Valentines gift?

A penny for your #tweets

“Teddy bear with roses.” - Freshman Leticia Martin Marcos

by Brenna Paul

TOP TEN VALENTINE GIFTS Top 10 for Her Top 10 for Him 10. Jewelry 10. Dance lessons 9. Lingerie 9. Skin care products 8. Weekend getaway 8. Dedicate a book to him 7. Body care basket 7. Romantic getaway 6. Purse 6. New sleepware 5. Clothes 5. Hanging with the guys

3. Flowers 3. Car care 2. Chocolate 2. Fun photo shoot 1. Picture and frame 1. Taxidermy

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stuffed animal that’s cute.” - Sophomore Bronwyn Miller

“Chocolate is the best gift.” - Senior Darian Shortteddy bear, with lots of love.”

- Junior Lenin Lopez

I hate gym shorts with no pockets. #MaleFreshmanI don’t care who wins the Super Bowl. #FemaleJuniorI don’t like P.E. #FemaleFreshmanI don’t want to graduate, I’ll miss my friends. #Female-SeniorI should have joined wrestling last year. #MaleSenior

I don’t see a point in the portfolios. #MaleSophomoreCheckers on the iPads is all we can play? Lame #Female-FreshmanCan I be sixteen yet? I want my license. #MaleFreshamn

I seriously hate the cold. #FemaleSeniorI hate Mondays. #FemaleJuniorWhy can’t there be football year round? #MaleJuniorWhy doesn’t my phone have auto correct? My phone really needs auto correct. #MaleFreshmanComplaining doesn’t do you any good. #FemaleSenior

We need your school spirit!By Brenna Paul

www.askmen.com dacula.patch.com

SPORTS7 STUDENT

Another striking seasonIt has been quite a season for the bowling team. The regular season record for the girls was 12-4 and the boys record was 14-2. Nothing was stopping the Clarke bowling team this year. Everybody has high hopes to make it to state for the second year in a row. Top male bowler Jacob Redman stated “One of my biggest goals for this season is to make it to state Another goal is to make not only myself but my whole team better at bowling, and I really aimed to work on our teamwork and make all the new additions to the team feel welcome.”

showed everyone what she was made of. Becoming the top female bowler in the middle of the season Clark says “It feels really good to be the top bowler especially as a freshman and I am very proud that all my hard work has paid off.” Head Coach Dale Helgevold was pleased, “I am more than happy with my team this year. They have really pulled through and brought everything they had. I already knew that with the group we had coming in we would make this year successful but the team have totally surpassed my expectations with the record we have now. Although we lost our top two female bowlers we were quick to bounce back

By Hannah Baysinger

Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School February 21, 2013

The basketball and wrestling cheerleaders held their annual PeeWee Cheer Camp this past January. For one week 60 elementary girls memorized cheers and a dance. Three practices were implemented to ensure the girls would

perform their best. The seperate grade levels were instructed different

cheers, one wrestling and one basketball. Everyone learned the dance, the songs were a mix from old peewee dances the high school cheerleaders had done during their peewee

the camp; “I’m a cheerleader from bow to toe.” The PeeWee cheerleaders showcased the routines they’d practiced so hard

on at a varsity basketball game February 1st.

PeeWee Cheer Camp

PeeWee cheerleaders play a cheer game called “Rock The Boat” in the auditorium lobby while waiting to perform.

By Tyra Riddle

5th seeded Adam Smith releases the ball at a practice for regionals.

and stay on our game.” Seventeen bowlers will compete at Regionals on February 14th in Leon; Courtney Clark, Bailey Browne, Sierra Penick, Elysha Eddy, Keleah Selsor, Jacob Redman, Damon Helgevold, Nathan Compton, Skylar Johnson, Adam Smith, Matthew Beminio and J.V. alternates Alexxa Blair, Emma Sells, Geo Smith and Martin Zarago.

2nd seeded Bailey Browne prepares to release her ball at practice.

Two advance to Districts

Sophomore Roberto Ventura places 2nd at sectionals tournament to advance in the 285lbs weight class.

Junior Jacob Bair places 1st at sectional tournament to advance in the 170lbs weight class.

By Chasen Selsor The wrestling team advanced two under classmen to the district wrestling tournament. Districts occurred on Febru-ary 9th at the Knoxville High School. Sophomore Roberto Ventura and Junior Jacob Bair both wrestled outstanding matches at the sectional wrestling tournament to advance to districts. Bair did not place but wrestled his hardest to try and make it. Ventura placed third in his weight class. Neither athlete advanced to the state wrestling tournament because they did not place in the top two.

SPORTS8 STUDENT

Girls advance to Reginals

Osceola, Iowa 50213 Clarke Community High School February 21, 2013

Season windes down for boys basketball

Boys basketball has hit a rough patch in the year recently. The players are still very optimistic about future games. There is never a time were the team enters a game with the mindset that they will lose. This season the team has a lack of seniors, so the juniors have had to step up. Most of the season it has been the juniors starting the game. Coach Larson said, “It’s not who starts the game it’s how you play while you’re in it.” The goals of the team this season were to win more games than last year. An-other goal was to go to state. Sophomore Carlos Tamayo told me “We have already won more games then we did last year, but we still have to work hard on making it to state.” Every game that they play they get better at

has looked good this year.” Said junior Jared Jamison. The main scorers on the team have been Dylan Diveney and Colin Morris. Dive-ney has 182 pts. and Moris has 137. The rest of the team has a total of 268 points. Diveney is 13th in the conference in points. (As of Jan. 31.) The varsity bench is a very high scoring and great defensively. Brin Evens said “the team is really good on defense because we hustle down the court and get ready before

every play.” The team has played better than last season. They have more wins and everyone is contributing. Every team in boys basketball has at least one win. The freshman, junior varsity, and varsity have won games this year.

By: Trevor Kirkpatrick

(up) Dylan Diviney looks for the open man

to pass to.

(Left)Senior Mitch Lampe looks to take

the ball inside for the score.

This season has been one of the most ex-citing seasons the Lady Indians have had in a long time. The ladies are stepping up and taking charge by working as a team, so the seniors last year is a good one. Junior Carley Robins stated, “Working harder and listening to each other is something the team needs to improve on. The team has a ritual they do be-fore every game. They all stand around in a group and talk about what they want to hap-pen and what they need to improve on.” The team hopes to keep their South Central Con-ference title in the years to come.

Last season the girls were confer-ence champions and this season they are co-conference champions with Eddyville-Blakesburg High School. There are a few girls on the team that stand out in the group, and three of the Lady Indians are in the top ten of the South Central Conference for to-

tal points for the season seniors Kylar Mc-Cann (308), Sarah Pate (218), and Kacey Klemesrud (214). McCann’s average points

40.9%, her three-point percentage is 36.9%, and her free throw percentage is 74.3%. Se-

-age is 51%, her three-point percentage is 38%, and her free throw is 65%. Klemesrud’s

percentage is 40.8%, her three-point percent-age is 39.6%, and her free throw percentage is 67%.

The Lady Indians play Bondurant-Farrar High School in a regional game on February 13th, and if they win that game they will ad-vance to the regional championship on Febru-ary 16th. If they win the regional champion-ship they will advance to state, which takes place the week of February 25 through March 3rd.

(left) Junior Drew Wishon Jumps up for

the rebound.

2. Senior Kylar McCann is tips off the ball

in the beginning of the game.

1. Libby Bemis goes for a lay up durning

the beginning of the game.

By: Rebecca Tracy

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(left) Senior Mitch Lampe dribbles the

ball looking for an open shot.