ENTORTheMManhattan High School Volume 101 Issue 10 Nov. 12, 2013 page 3 page 6 page 4

Science Olympiad competes in first meet of the season

Anatomy students gain hands-on experience

Tracy LeGraphic Designer

Last Friday, Manhattan High’s Science Olympiad team drove to Shawnee Mis-sion South for their first com-petition of the year. The 11 members that went were up against 21 other teams and results will be delivered later this week.

“I would like to see us do well, but ultimately, it’s for the kids to really enjoy them-selves, learn a bunch, and be excited about the whole process,” Science Olympiad sponsor Dick Nelson said. “Our goal for this was to have the younger members have a chance to see what it’s all about, have a chance to com-pete and hopefully motivate

them in terms of getting even more excited about science olympiad.”

Sophomore Morgan Mar-tin competed in the Rocks and Minerals, Experimen-tal Design and Entomology events.

“I was kind of nervous but it was fine because it’s only a practice meet and all the oth-er teams are kind of in the

same boat,” Martin said. Though this was only a

practice competition, mem-bers agree that it was very helpful.

“Without these you just have the PowerPoints and stuff and you aren’t really sure what you need to know for competition. [The prac-tice competition] gave you an idea about what compe-

tition was going to be like, what questions were going to be like,” junior Danny Ara-mouni said.

This is Martin’s first year on the team so she appreci-ated the practice.

“I like the idea of going in there and being able to pre-pare before we actually have to do the real one,” Martin said.

Unless they decide to go on more practice competi-tions, the team’s next compe-tition is the regional competi-tion in Salina in February.

“I’m really looking for-ward to regionals,” Martin said. “I think our team is re-ally good.”

Alan Brown Multimedia Editor

It’s dissecting season. Since last month, the

Accelerated Anatomy and Physiology classes have been dissecting cats as a part of their muscle unit. The Marine Science class also took part in a dissection while studying sharks.

“It is really interesting because you get to see what is inside and how

things work,” sophomore Krista Burton said.

Led by teachers Craig Ackerman and Pat Lamb, the anatomy students have seen and memorized over eighty cat muscles. A cat’s muscle anatomy is very similar to a human’s, which makes it ideal to study for students pre-paring for a career in the medical field.

Senior Liz Lo finds the class to be very useful in preparing for her future.

“I want to go into nurs-

ing school and knowing the body is helpful,” Lo said.

Unlike previous years, the cats were delivered to the school with their skin still attached. A large group of students volun-teered to skin the cats by hand during their Friday off from school. True to the popular idiom, stu-dents discovered there is certainly more than one way to skin a cat.

“It was fun,” Lo said. “I thought it was weird how

the skin just peeled right off.”

At first, being in con-tact with dead animals was a very awkward situ-ation for many students, especially for those who were dissecting for the first time. Burton present-ed a colorful description of the scene.

“It smelled like death and formaldehyde,” Bur-ton said. “I felt like a serial killer.”

Sophomore Maddie Taylor also felt a bit un-

comfortable with the dead cats at first, but she has come to enjoy the pro-cess.

“I like getting my fin-gers under their skin,” Taylor said. “It was gross at first, but now I am used to it.”

The anatomy class has a pin test over the cat mus-cles scheduled this week. The test will consist of sev-eral timed stations where students will need to be able to name particular muscles on the body of the

cats and be able to spell them correctly in order to receive full points. The test setup is very similar to the bone pin test that the students took in early October. With study time available after school and throughout the weekend, there are several students that feel confident about the upcoming test.

“Life in this class is much easier if you study,” senior Amanda Buckwal-ter said.

Sophomores Andrea Lu and Amanda Mack work on skinning their cat during Accelerated Anatomy and Physiology class. The classes have been dissecting cats for the past month. Alan Brown, Photographer

GSA starts up againTracy LeGraphic Designer

After not having a chap-ter for two years, students at Manhattan High have decided to reorganize Gay Straight Alliance. The club is being sponsored by MHS art teacher Sara Remple.

“Right now we’re just set-ting the club up again so we really haven’t had time to do anything yet,” Remple said.

Junior Rebekah Carter joined GSA her freshman

year."I was really glad [the club

is active again]," Carter said. "It's the only club I'm really in and I love it so much."

Carter is the vice presi-dent of the club, junior Mary Romig is president, senior Akira Porter is secretary and senior Caleb Deines is trea-surer.

So far GSA has held a cou-ple of meetings where mem-bers have been filling out paperwork, picking officers and planning out what they

want to do this year. They are thinking about holding multiple fundraisers and having speakers come in to talk to them.

"I feel like the school defi-nitely needs a GSA club," Porter said.

Remple agreed.“Because it helps people

feel like they're accepted," she said. “It’s a safe place for different people to meet and talk with each other and just be able to relate to people without feeling different.”

Foreign language clubs availableAdelle SloanGuest Writer

Students join clubs be-cause they want to get in-volved. If they want to learn about the culture of another country, there are three clubs available to join -- the German, French and Span-ish Clubs.

German Club celebrates

the German culture. Each year, they celebrate Okto-ber Fest with a Bratwurst Fest fundraiser. Three of the German Club officers are se-niors -- vice president Chasi-ty Smith, secretary Joe Haug and treasurer Taylor Smith.

“Right now, we’re helping with parking at one of the K-State games, and we’ll be going to Eisenhower, Lucky

and Anthony to recruit for next year,” German Club president junior Reshan Fadul said.

Anybody can join the Spanish Club even if they don’t speak the language or attend the class. Span-ish Club is one of the largest clubs at Manhattan High,

See Foreign Language page 3

Business class opens online storeKennedy FeliceCopy Editor

Guided by their knowl-edge of business principles and understanding of mar-keting, the Applied Business Development Class at Man-hattan High has taken on the challenge of creating an online store. After establish-ing a plan business teacher Paige McCarthy, alongside her students, sought venues to turn their idea into some-thing tangible.

“Mr. [Mike] Marsh was the one who got me going with this, because I had ap-proached him saying that this class was thinking that they wanted to start an online store or some sort of school store,” McCarthy said. “And he said a good place to be-gin might be this GTM site because he had been ap-proached by a retailer here in Manhattan about ordering their products online.”

Students involved are being tasked with creating a business that is both func-tional and profitable.

“We work on it basically

everyday, just the everyday operations. We practically do everything involved. We set up the store, all the prod-ucts that go along with it, the pricing, the distribution and the marketing of it all,” se-nior Jake Carlson said.

The steps needed to suc-cessfully create this store have required the continued effort and commitment from those involved.

“This process is a lot slower than we had been an-ticipating. We started work-ing on this in August and we thought that we would have something going in just a few weeks, but now we’re finally ready,” McCarthy said.

With each item sold, a small profit is earned which will be returned to Business Professionals of America club.

“We have to take about 10-20 people every year to state in Wichita, where we have to pay for traveling expenses and hotel rooms,” senior Jerry Sextro said. “There is a little bit of expense and that is what we are trying to make up for.”

Though the store is only currently available to teach-ers and other faculty mem-bers, expansion is a likely possibility in the future.

“Right now we are hav-ing a staff store, that is the one we have running right now. And then we are part-nering with wrestling, for a wrestling team spirit store,” Sextro said. “Then we want to establish a store for just regular MHS apparel avail-able to students and the com-munity and find other clubs and organizations interested in working with us as well. “

With the establishment of a school store students involved are now being pre-sented with the opportunity to explore the business field beyond the traditional class-room setting.

“These kids are learning how important planning is and how long it really takes to really get an idea off of the ground. They are able to analyze financial records be-cause on the site we can see how many people have been

See Business page 3

Dissecting Season

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Dheepthi Perumal, Entertainment EditorNick Bandy, Sports Editor

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Kennedy Felice; Danielle Cook, Copy EditorsAlan Brown, Multimedia Editor

Tracy Le, Graphic DesignerAllison Olsen, Photo Editor

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Kristen BatsonRachel BeachGage Benne

Taeolor JonesChris Klug

Retta LazarisMadeline MarshallMadison Newman

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The Mentor is published each Tuesday that school is in session at Manhattan High School, 2100 Poyntz Ave. Manhattan, Kan. Telephone (785) 587-2114. More than 1,500 Mentors are printed each week and distrib-uted free of charge to all faculty members and students. MHS journalists are members of the Scholastic Press Association. The Men-tor is an open forum that accepts contribu-tions from the public. E-mail us at mhsmen-tor@gmail.com.

Questionof the Week:

“Batman because he is bat-man.”- Alex Cardenas, sophomore

What movie character best describes you? Why?

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The editorial is a compilation from a discussion held by the Editorial board.

Manhattan High soccer’s victory at Dodge City last week brought out a new level of school spirit. Twitter blew up. First, timelines were lit-tered with excitement and congratulations, but soon the claws came out. Tweets were sent back and forth be-tween Dodge City and Man-hattan, getting more and more vicious the longer the “fights” went on. Members of each school were tagged in the tweets against each other, making Manhattan’s win on the field look less and less deserved.

The students who en-gaged in bashing Dodge City

and its students on Twitter gave a bad impression of MHS. Those few students shone a bad light on ALL of the students at Manhattan High. It’s good to be excited for your team and share that spirit on Twitter, but there is no need to publicly represent MHS with negative actions towards the opposing team.

Now, when other schools think of MHS, instead of knowing us for our successful athletics, they will remem-ber us for our rude fans. The students who engaged in the immature behavior on Twit-ter may have unintentionally created a rival team. Dodge City High’s view of us isn’t going to be a positive one af-ter the reaction they saw on Twitter.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and Twitter is often an outlet to share opin-ions, but there is no need to tag others in opinionated tweets. When others are tagged in tweets they are brought into the situation and that’s when things get ugly. If administration were to get involved from either school they might consider the attacks cyberbullying.

The soccer team accom-plished an amazing feat. Unfortunately that win has been overlooked because of Manhattan’s rude reaction on Twitter. Whether the tweets were funny or not, they made MHS look bad and they the students of this school an unsportsmanlike reputation.

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E-mail ideas and submissions to Editor-in-Chief Liz Logback at mhsmentor@gmail.com. Staff meetings take place every five-day school week on Tuesdays during fifth hour and editorial discussions are Wednesdays during second lunch. Anyone is invited to come pitch ideas.

Halsey Camera, Cartoonist

DanielleCook

We all have our “Fluffy” and “Spot” waiting for us to come home each day. Hope-fully you know they are not welcome at school. But imagine just for one day if your cat, dog or other small-to-medium domestic animal could go to all your classes with you.

The idea of a pet day at Manhattan High may seem far-fetched, but then again the Chiefs are undefeated this season. Despite aller-gies, school regulations, stu-dent safety and feces dispos-al, a pet day at MHS could prove beneficial.

The companionship of

animals in classes would be a positive experience. The pro-ductivity of students all over the school would be boosted. The pets would keep you motivated and optimistic on your daily work and could not give you answers for a test. Even if you do not own a pet you could still enjoy the presence of other peoples pets. The comfort of an ani-mal is an unexplainable phe-nomenon that has left gener-ations puzzled. Creating this experience at MHS would be incredible.

A pet day would not only keep you motivated but would also provide a unique experience for your pet. Ani-mals could meet other ani-mals and form new relation-ships. The new smells and the friendly environment of MHS could be a way for your pet to get out of his or her everyday life. This is a once in a lifetime experience for them to meet your friends

and their pets.There is one more ben-

efit to a pet day. The entire school gets to come together and bond like any other spirit day. A sense of school pride and a friendly atmosphere comes out of the everyday student. Enemies suddenly become friends. Students with the same breed of cat or dog can form relationships in a friendly way. MHS could turn a spirit days into some-thing more than just dressing in a fun way. The presence of the students’ pets for one day would be one of the greatest spirit days ever.

A pet day at MHS would be a groundbreaking experi-ence. Your pet could meet your teachers and provide companionship throughout the day. An animal’s bond with its owner is unexplain-able but bringing that to school would provide a fresh twist on student life.

Pet Day may prove beneficialMattBandy

Water is everywhere --lit-erally. It’s in the food you eat, the air you breathe, the pools you swim in during the summer. Water is key to liv-ing and growing, yet so many high school students do not receive the adequate amount of water their bodies need to be at full health.

It can be argued by some that a person can obtain the necessary amount of water by the consumption of sugar-sweetened bever-ages (SSBs), like soft drinks. However, SSBs are the big-gest source of added sugar to the diets of young people in America. According to Live-positively.com, a regular 12 oz. can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar. Even though you’re getting some water from the soft drink, your body is now holding 39 more grams of sugar. Sugar is great for a

quick energy boost, but pret-ty soon, that energy burns off, and you’re left feeling even more tired than you were before. Zombies don’t function well in school.

So instead of drinking that can of Coke, why not pour some milk or 100 percent fruit juice? Both are good sources of water, as well as calcium and vitamin C. Plus the sugar in these beverages is minimal and natural so you arn’t left feeling like a zombie.

According to the 2010 National Youth Physical Ac-tivity and Nutrition Study (NYPANS), male students are more likely to drink SSBs than women. So gentleman, go prove those statistics wrong and drink a little more water.

Think about is: Your body is made up of 70 percent wa-ter and our bodies are con-stantly releasing that water. We lose about one to two pints of water just by breath-ing. It just makes sense to replenish your body’s sup-ply daily. An inactive person weighing under 160 pounds needs 10 8-oz. glasses of wa-ter a day. Active people need

13 to 14 8-oz. glasses of water a day.

Water helps energize muscles. According to the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines, you should drink about 17 oz. of water two hours before a workout. Make sure that you drink water regularly through the workout so your body can replace the water you lost during the exercise.

Water helps regulate your body’s fluid balance. Your bodily fluids help systems like digestion, salivation, cir-culation, transportation of nutrients and maintenance of body temperature.

When you’re fully hydrat-ed, your skin and hair look better. Also, your kidneys function better and your muscles are stronger.

How to drink more water: Drink a beverage with every snack and meal. Keep filled, easy-to-grab water bottles stocked and ready to go. Try to substitute water for that second cup of coffee.

Taking in a little more wa-ter everyday will keep you energized, heathy and hy-drated.

Water keeps body healthyRettaLazaris

Teachers. They think they know ev-

erything. So do you, though. You’re always so busy with

homework. So are they.You spend almost all day,

every day, at school. They do, too.

Sometimes, you’re pretty sure they come from a whole different planet. Sometimes, they’re pretty sure you do, as well.

You have a lot more in common with your teachers than you think you do. And if that weirds you out, that’s ok. It’s a weird concept. But when you really think about it, having something in com-mon with your teachers can only have a good outcome; usually common ground leads to mutual and equal respect between individuals.

From an early age, we’re

taught about how to treat people. We’re taught not only how to treat our peers, but even how to treat adults (including our teachers). It seems that, over time, how-ever, high school students become forgetful that, even though some of us are legally adults too, teachers still have the right to be respected by students as authority fig-ures.

Yeah, some of them might drive you absolutely insane with their harsh grading, ex-cessive assignments, or just with their crazy antics, but that doesn’t mean that you should just lash out at them, especially in the middle of a class.

I’m not saying you have to just deal with teachers you think are being unfair. If you have a serious problem with a teacher, don’t go to some-one higher up than them to complain or talk back to them during classtime; go directly to said teacher and confront them calmly about the problem. They’ll respect your courage and maturity in doing so.

That goes into the paral-lel. On the other hand, as

you are expected to respect your teachers, they are also expected to respect you. And I think the key to achiev-ing respect from anyone -- es-pecially adults -- is to respect them first. It’s not a mystery or a secret that respect can lack when people feel they have irreconcilable differ-ences with one another, but it’s also not a mystery or se-cret that having respect for someone doesn’t mean you have to be like them, or even like them. You just have to re-gard their feelings and their dignity as a human being.

So, even if your a teacher of yours drives you abso-lutely mad, just remember to show them the respect they most likely show you. Remember their dignity as a person, just as you’d have them remember yours. Most likely, even though it may not be completely apparent to you at times, your teachers are here to help you achieve your goals and succeed. You share a common goal with them, so show them you ap-preciate their efforts by put-ting forth an effort of your own to respect them.

Respect the golden ruleDanielleCook

“Voldemort because my name is taboo.”

- Israel Wheatley, sophomore

ENTORTheMManhattan High School Volume 101 Issue 10 Nov. 12, 2013 page 3 page 6 page 4

Science Olympiad competes in first meet of the season

Anatomy students gain hands-on experience

Tracy LeGraphic Designer

Last Friday, Manhattan High’s Science Olympiad team drove to Shawnee Mis-sion South for their first com-petition of the year. The 11 members that went were up against 21 other teams and results will be delivered later this week.

“I would like to see us do well, but ultimately, it’s for the kids to really enjoy them-selves, learn a bunch, and be excited about the whole process,” Science Olympiad sponsor Dick Nelson said. “Our goal for this was to have the younger members have a chance to see what it’s all about, have a chance to com-pete and hopefully motivate

them in terms of getting even more excited about science olympiad.”

Sophomore Morgan Mar-tin competed in the Rocks and Minerals, Experimen-tal Design and Entomology events.

“I was kind of nervous but it was fine because it’s only a practice meet and all the oth-er teams are kind of in the

same boat,” Martin said. Though this was only a

practice competition, mem-bers agree that it was very helpful.

“Without these you just have the PowerPoints and stuff and you aren’t really sure what you need to know for competition. [The prac-tice competition] gave you an idea about what compe-

tition was going to be like, what questions were going to be like,” junior Danny Ara-mouni said.

This is Martin’s first year on the team so she appreci-ated the practice.

“I like the idea of going in there and being able to pre-pare before we actually have to do the real one,” Martin said.

Unless they decide to go on more practice competi-tions, the team’s next compe-tition is the regional competi-tion in Salina in February.

“I’m really looking for-ward to regionals,” Martin said. “I think our team is re-ally good.”

Alan Brown Multimedia Editor

It’s dissecting season. Since last month, the

Accelerated Anatomy and Physiology classes have been dissecting cats as a part of their muscle unit. The Marine Science class also took part in a dissection while studying sharks.

“It is really interesting because you get to see what is inside and how

things work,” sophomore Krista Burton said.

Led by teachers Craig Ackerman and Pat Lamb, the anatomy students have seen and memorized over eighty cat muscles. A cat’s muscle anatomy is very similar to a human’s, which makes it ideal to study for students pre-paring for a career in the medical field.

Senior Liz Lo finds the class to be very useful in preparing for her future.

“I want to go into nurs-

ing school and knowing the body is helpful,” Lo said.

Unlike previous years, the cats were delivered to the school with their skin still attached. A large group of students volun-teered to skin the cats by hand during their Friday off from school. True to the popular idiom, stu-dents discovered there is certainly more than one way to skin a cat.

“It was fun,” Lo said. “I thought it was weird how

the skin just peeled right off.”

At first, being in con-tact with dead animals was a very awkward situ-ation for many students, especially for those who were dissecting for the first time. Burton present-ed a colorful description of the scene.

“It smelled like death and formaldehyde,” Bur-ton said. “I felt like a serial killer.”

Sophomore Maddie Taylor also felt a bit un-

comfortable with the dead cats at first, but she has come to enjoy the pro-cess.

“I like getting my fin-gers under their skin,” Taylor said. “It was gross at first, but now I am used to it.”

The anatomy class has a pin test over the cat mus-cles scheduled this week. The test will consist of sev-eral timed stations where students will need to be able to name particular muscles on the body of the

cats and be able to spell them correctly in order to receive full points. The test setup is very similar to the bone pin test that the students took in early October. With study time available after school and throughout the weekend, there are several students that feel confident about the upcoming test.

“Life in this class is much easier if you study,” senior Amanda Buckwal-ter said.

Sophomores Andrea Lu and Amanda Mack work on skinning their cat during Accelerated Anatomy and Physiology class. The classes have been dissecting cats for the past month. Alan Brown, Photographer

GSA starts up againTracy LeGraphic Designer

After not having a chap-ter for two years, students at Manhattan High have decided to reorganize Gay Straight Alliance. The club is being sponsored by MHS art teacher Sara Remple.

“Right now we’re just set-ting the club up again so we really haven’t had time to do anything yet,” Remple said.

Junior Rebekah Carter joined GSA her freshman

year."I was really glad [the club

is active again]," Carter said. "It's the only club I'm really in and I love it so much."

Carter is the vice presi-dent of the club, junior Mary Romig is president, senior Akira Porter is secretary and senior Caleb Deines is trea-surer.

So far GSA has held a cou-ple of meetings where mem-bers have been filling out paperwork, picking officers and planning out what they

want to do this year. They are thinking about holding multiple fundraisers and having speakers come in to talk to them.

"I feel like the school defi-nitely needs a GSA club," Porter said.

Remple agreed.“Because it helps people

feel like they're accepted," she said. “It’s a safe place for different people to meet and talk with each other and just be able to relate to people without feeling different.”

Foreign language clubs availableAdelle SloanGuest Writer

Students join clubs be-cause they want to get in-volved. If they want to learn about the culture of another country, there are three clubs available to join -- the German, French and Span-ish Clubs.

German Club celebrates

the German culture. Each year, they celebrate Okto-ber Fest with a Bratwurst Fest fundraiser. Three of the German Club officers are se-niors -- vice president Chasi-ty Smith, secretary Joe Haug and treasurer Taylor Smith.

“Right now, we’re helping with parking at one of the K-State games, and we’ll be going to Eisenhower, Lucky

and Anthony to recruit for next year,” German Club president junior Reshan Fadul said.

Anybody can join the Spanish Club even if they don’t speak the language or attend the class. Span-ish Club is one of the largest clubs at Manhattan High,

See Foreign Language page 3

Business class opens online storeKennedy FeliceCopy Editor

Guided by their knowl-edge of business principles and understanding of mar-keting, the Applied Business Development Class at Man-hattan High has taken on the challenge of creating an online store. After establish-ing a plan business teacher Paige McCarthy, alongside her students, sought venues to turn their idea into some-thing tangible.

“Mr. [Mike] Marsh was the one who got me going with this, because I had ap-proached him saying that this class was thinking that they wanted to start an online store or some sort of school store,” McCarthy said. “And he said a good place to be-gin might be this GTM site because he had been ap-proached by a retailer here in Manhattan about ordering their products online.”

Students involved are being tasked with creating a business that is both func-tional and profitable.

“We work on it basically

everyday, just the everyday operations. We practically do everything involved. We set up the store, all the prod-ucts that go along with it, the pricing, the distribution and the marketing of it all,” se-nior Jake Carlson said.

The steps needed to suc-cessfully create this store have required the continued effort and commitment from those involved.

“This process is a lot slower than we had been an-ticipating. We started work-ing on this in August and we thought that we would have something going in just a few weeks, but now we’re finally ready,” McCarthy said.

With each item sold, a small profit is earned which will be returned to Business Professionals of America club.

“We have to take about 10-20 people every year to state in Wichita, where we have to pay for traveling expenses and hotel rooms,” senior Jerry Sextro said. “There is a little bit of expense and that is what we are trying to make up for.”

Though the store is only currently available to teach-ers and other faculty mem-bers, expansion is a likely possibility in the future.

“Right now we are hav-ing a staff store, that is the one we have running right now. And then we are part-nering with wrestling, for a wrestling team spirit store,” Sextro said. “Then we want to establish a store for just regular MHS apparel avail-able to students and the com-munity and find other clubs and organizations interested in working with us as well. “

With the establishment of a school store students involved are now being pre-sented with the opportunity to explore the business field beyond the traditional class-room setting.

“These kids are learning how important planning is and how long it really takes to really get an idea off of the ground. They are able to analyze financial records be-cause on the site we can see how many people have been

See Business page 3

Dissecting Season

Entertainment The Mentor www.mhsmentor.com Page 3

‘South Pacific’ sails into MHS

‘Thor’-oughly unimpressiveMovie fails to live up to the hype

Panera delivers taste of Autumn to Manhattan

Maddie RossNews Editor

In honor of the 70th an-niversary of WWII, Man-hattan High School students are opening the fall musical “South Pacific” this week. The musical centers around a plot of love and race, and is set on a United States Navy base in the Pacific Islands during WWII.

This selection of this pro-duction resonates particu-larly in Manhattan due to the many military families.

“Being from a military family certain things pop out to me like the marching, sa-luting, little details,” junior chorus member Katie Dixon said.

Over the past two months

The Marvel films have truly defined the current generation of action films. As Marvel continues to produce films, they try to innovate with varying success. “Thor: The Dark World” sadly end ups on the wrong side of the equation.

It’s hard to recall a sto-ryline for the Marvel movies and the same goes for “Thor: The Dark World.” What you remember is Hulk slamming around Loki and Tony Stark

being a cocky prick. While “Thor” has its funny mo-ments, it also is trying way too hard to be a serious film. This leads to an incredibly in-consistent film where a char-acter can be killed and a joke cracked a second later.

One problem it faces as it attempts to become a serious film is its characters, mainly Jane and Thor, who are in-credibly uninteresting. Every time they tried to provoke tears out of the characters I just ended up chuckling un-der my breath. In fact, the only character who held my interest was Loki. Tom Hid-dleston as Loki turns what could’ve been a generic Mar-vel villain into something memorable, making other films in the Marvel universe seem bland. Loki and Tony Stark might be the only inter-esting characters in the entire Marvel cinematic universe.

“Thor: The Dark World” isn’t all bad, though. There are a lot of diamonds in the rough within the film. This is the most visually impressive superhero movie I have ever seen. Asgard is a lot more exciting to look at than New York or New Mexico. Also the fight scenes are incredibly well choreographed and shot. It’s just fun to watch Thor’s hammer go through multiple realms and then come rac-ing back into Thor’s hand. The incredible fights make the poorly written emotional moments seem even worse though.

“Thor: The Dark World” tries to innovate and leap into a different pedigree of films but fails as it keeps the tropes of the past and is filled with poorly written dialogue. While it has some positives, it is ultimately a mediocre film.

students have perfected both their dance moves and vocals in preparation for the series of shows this week. Once choreography was somewhat mastered and songs were learned the focus switched to blocking or stag-ing.

Up until the last two weeks practices took place two days a week for chorus and three for leads. Last week known as “hell week” to the cast and crew consisted of four dress rehearsals with full hair and makeup, lasting four to five hours.

“It wasn’t as bad as the week before I thought,” Dix-on said. “I enjoyed it.”

Not only have the actors been putting in countless hours towards the show, but

there is also a crew of tech-nicians behind the scenes transforming Rezac into a Pacific Island. The techni-cal crew works on a variety of things including painting, blocking, lighting, costumes, makeup and props. All cast members are encouraged to accumulate at least three hours of tech to contribute to the show and are also re-quired to obtain these hours to attend the cast party.

The musical will debut tonight in Rezac Auditorium and will be followed by three other shows on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. All shows begin at 7 p.m.

“I think it will be great,” Dixon said. “We have made great progress in the last few weeks.”

Kathryn ParishGuest Columnist

Editor’s note: This article was written as a class assignment for 21st Century Journalism.

It’s autumn in America. The air is crisp and cold and you are craving something warm that will wake you up, maybe a pumpkin spice latte. Perhaps you need something sweet and warm for break-fast, maybe a toasted pump-kin pie bagel with honey wal-nut cream cheese.

Panera has recently re-leased the Celebration Four items on their menu. This is basically a seasonal menu they change every few months. It includes various autumn time foods includ-ing an autumn squash soup, seasonal cupcakes, pumpkin muffins, sugar cookies and more.

When I first heard about

the pumpkin squash soup I had no interest, but after try-ing a small sample I knew it would become a favorite.

You can get the soup in a cup, bowl, or if you choose, a bread bowl. The soup carries every flavor you could link with autumn and is topped with pumpkin seeds.

As a dessert I chose the red velvet seasonal cup-cake, which is baked with a brownie base, red velvet cake and a surprise cream cheese filling. The experience I had with the cupcake was similar to that which I had with the pumpkin squash. It was deli-cious and I didn’t want it to run out.

The experience of the ac-tual eating out at Panera was applaudable in and of itself. You walk in and are greet-ed by an associate within the first few moments you walk in the door. A line had formed but the cashiers were

efficient and it took no more than two minutes to get to the register. The cashier was very friendly and offered me a sample when I asked about the autumn squash soup, which really made me feel like I was a priority, which is nice within any business.

The time it took for my pager to go off signifying to me that my food was ready took about three minutes, and then I sat comfortably by the warm fire place they have just started lighting daily dur-ing this cold season. It was a great environment to just re-lax and enjoy every bite.

Panera impressed me with their impressive fast food quality, and for those who enjoy lots of autumn time fla-vor I would suggest the rather expensive but great quality of Panera’s fast food.

Members of the “South Pacific” musical rehearse the first act. The musical opens tonight at 7 p.m. and will also run Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Kelsey Crawford, Photographer

Concerts in Kansas Wide Horizons begin presentationsMadeline MarshallStaff Writer

Eyes wide with anticipa-tion and mouths slightly agape -- it has begun again. Wide Horizons has started presenting animals to exited children.

In Wide Horizons, groups of juniors and seniors choose an animal that they will take care of and create a presen-tation about. They then trav-el to different elementary schools to present to kids from pre-K to sixth grade.

The animals range from chickens to butterflies, and everything in between. With flashy signs and, in many cases, live animals, MHS students use their presenta-tions not only to teach about their animal, but classroom curriculum as well.

“I really enjoy talking with the kids and seeing how ex-cited and interested they are,” senior Bryce Rincon said. “It’s a really fun class, and a great experience for both us and the kids.”

“It’s amazing for the el-ementary kids,” Wide Hori-zons teacher Leslie Campbell said. “They learn better fol-lowing the high school kids than they learn sometimes from their own teachers. They’re excited about it. They ask a lot of questions. I tried very hard this year to look at what the elementary

school standards are, espe-cially the new ones, and the students are adapting those things into their presenta-tion. So the teachers are re-ally happy about them rein-forcing what is being taught in class.”

The students not only learn from their research, but they gain valuable ex-perience when it comes to

responsibility and teaching. “I’m not a big public speaker, so this has really helped me to break out of my comfort zone,” Rincon said.

They also have to be able to adapt their presentation based on the age of the stu-dents and to learn how to handle their questions. Aside from this, they gain responsi-bility about being expected to go out on their own, dis-cuss things with the teachers and meet their needs.

The presentation itself is also a new experience for most students when consid-ering the length of it, and the

depth that it has to go into. “A normal class presen-

tation is, at maximum, five to 10 minutes, and they’re having to present for 20 min-utes,” Campbell said. “To be able to organize it all, put it together, test it out, and get out there is just an amazing experience.”

The students not only learn from their research,

but they gain valuable ex-perience when it comes to responsibility and teach-ing. “I’m not a big public speaker, so his has really helped me to break out of my comfort zone,” Rincon said.

They also have to be able to adapt their presentation based on the age of the students and to learn how to handle their questions. Aside from this, they gain

responsibility about being expected to go out on their own, discuss things with the teachers and meet their needs.

The presentation itself is also a new experience for most students when consid-ering the length of it, and the depth that it has to go into.

“A normal class presen-tation is, at maximum, five to 10 minutes, and they’re having to present for 20 min-utes,” Campbell said. “To be able to organize it all, put it together, test it out, and get out there is just an amazing experience.”

looking at the site, how many have ordered, what’s sell-ing,” McCarthy said. “We are able to print out our financial records which is a great way to each them how to manage their own business, begin their own business, or find out where improvements need to be made. This pro-cess is a lot slower than we had been anticipating. We started working on this in August and we thought that we would have something going in just a few weeks, but now we’re finally ready,” Mc-Carthy said.

With each item sold, a small profit is earned which will be returned to Business Professionals of America club.

“We have to take about 10-20 people every year to state

in Wichita, where we have to pay for traveling expenses and hotel rooms,” senior Jerry Sextro said. “There is a little bit of expense and that is what we are trying to make up for.”

Though the store is only currently available to teach-ers and other faculty mem-bers, expansion is a likely possibility in the future.

“Right now we are hav-ing a staff store, that is the one we have running right now. And then we are part-nering with wrestling, for a wrestling team spirit store,” Sextro said. “Then we want to establish a store for just regular MHS apparel avail-able to students and the com-munity and find other clubs and organizations interested in working with us as well. “

With the establishment of a school store students

involved are now being pre-sented with the opportunity to explore the business field beyond the traditional class-room setting.

“These kids are learning how important planning is and how long it really takes to really get an idea off of the ground. They are able to analyze financial records be-cause on the site we can see how many people have been looking at the site, how many have ordered, what’s sell-ing,” McCarthy said. “We are able to print out our financial records which is a great way to each them how to manage their own business, begin their own business, or find out where improvements need to be made.”

and its main objective is ex-posing students to the Span-ish Culture.

Last week was their third annual candy gram sale fund-raiser. Officers include co-presi-dents seniors Adarsh Singh and Jonathan Turnley, se-niors Austin Clark and Jesse Crawford as co-vicepresi-dents, senior Par McNair as secretary, junior Garrett Francis as one of four junior

representatives, senior Bree Green as a club counsel rep-resentative, seniors Tyler Belin and Patrick Guvele as the senior representatives, and junior Matty Mahan as the treasurer.

“We might sell sopapillas in the spring,” Mahan said. Sopapilla prices are three for a dollar.

Other students like junior James Walters participate in French Club. This exposes students to the French Cul-

ture. “I’m the ambassador this

year,” Walters said. Other officers are president Maddy Fox, treasurer Sammie Ad-ams and vice president Rita Bedros.

“We haven’t done any fundraisers yet. Later this month we’ll be having a bake sale and selling Gobble Grams,” Fox said.

“We’ll also do parking at a K-State game as well,” spon-sor Jenny Levy said.

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Impressive runMichael MelgaresAssistant Sports Editor

Rain poured Saturday afternoon as the Cinderella story came to an end for the Manhattan boys soccer in Junction City.

The Indians’ season was one of ups and downs, filled with injuries and heartbreak, but also hat-tricks and suc-cess, as their season would culminate in a regional cham-pionship and runner-up fin-ish at State. The team met up with Blue Valley Northwest in the championship game, after putting a loss on Olathe East’s undefeated record at Friday night’s semi-finals.

The game started out scoreless for much of the first half, until Blue Valley Northwest scored shortly before halftime. The Indians would enter the locker room down 1-0.

The second half would not be much different, as Blue Valley Northwest scored once more to make the final score 2-0.

While the Indians were outmatched on Saturday, sophomore Brandon Religa sees the season as a success.

“Nobody expected us to get this far,” Religa said. “We were talking just to talk be-fore the season saying ‘Hey, we’re going to go to State,’ and nobody really thought much of it until things started

Senior Kodi Minocha fights to steal the ball from a Blue Valley Northwest player. The Indians beat the one-seed Olathe East in the semifinals but lost in the finals to Blue Valley to take second.

Jared Gebhardt, photographer

Cross Country members compete at Nike Regional meet

Rowing finishes season in Lawrence

Football wins in 5 OT

to actually turn out to be what we wanted, and eventually it got to the point where we were like ‘We can do this.’ So, we acted upon that and did the best we could.”

Looking back at the sea-son, Religa said the team’s victory over Washburn Ru-ral in the Regional champion-ship game was paramount to any other victory.

“We wanted to get as far as we could,” Religa said “In the process we ended up beating Washburn; that was big. And we used up a lot of our intensity at Washburn. The other games felt good, but in my opinion, beating Washburn felt the greatest.”

The Indians’ runner-up finish on Saturday marked not only the best finish in the State tournament for boys’ soccer in school history, but also the first time a boys’ soc-cer team at MHS has ever made it to State.

As the Indians did come up short of the ultimate goal, they did so without the help of sophomore Kirk Lambert. Lambert, a key contributor to the varsity team, scored a hat-trick earlier this season before being sidelined due to a high ankle sprain at the beginning of the post-season. The Indians will look to up-and-coming underclassmen like Lambert next year, as they will lose 11 solid seniors from the varsity team.

Soccer finishes second at State

Chris KlugBlue M Sports Editor

New records for longest game in Manhattan High history and most combined points in a single game were set Friday when the MHS varsity football team topped Maize 60-59 in a five-overtime thriller in the first round of the playoffs. The game shat-tered the previous record of most combined points in a single game of 84, with 119.

The Indians only put up seven points in the first three and a half quarters and were down 24-7 with just 6:25. The Indians began the comeback with a touchdown from Kel-len Myers. Senior tailback Ethan Fabrizius scored short-ly after. Joe Trujillo then tied the game on a 27-yard field goal with 1:48 remaining in the game.

“We just kept playing and we didn’t give up. We execut-ed when we had to,” Myers said.

After trading touchdowns in the first four overtimes, the Indians were looking to win the game in the fifth. Fol-lowing a Maize touchdown and extra point in the fifth overtime, the Indians were down 59-52. Then, Fabrizius scored on a third and three. The Indians faked the extra

point and went for two, put-ting the game on the line. Henry Bieber converted on the 2-point attempt, winning the game for the Indians.

“It was going back and fourth and we just wanted to get out of there with a win,” Myers said.

Although the offense struggled in the first three quarters and half of the fourth quarter, they were able to put up 17 points in the last six minutes of the game, as well as score a touchdown in every overtime that was played.

Fabrizius found the end zone three times, Myers scored twice on the ground and once through the air, and Winston Dimel had a touchdown reception.

Although the five over-times made for a long and tir-ing game, the Indians would have done anything to win.

“We were all pretty tired, but it wouldn’t have mattered if it went to 10 overtimes. We would’ve still played hard and put it all on the line,” My-ers said.

The Indians continue their playoff run this Friday night against the No. 1 seed Derby. The game will be played at 7 p.m. at Bishop Stadium and the theme is camo-out. Nick Bandy

Sports Editor

Although the 23 rowers who form the Manhattan Ju-nior Crew are four months into their rowing season, many people at Manhattan High School don’t even know that rowing is a sport here.

They practice three to four times a week, sharing equipment and transporta-tion to meets with the Kan-sas State Men’s rowing team. The KSU men’s team is not school-sponsered, unlike like the KSU women’s team, which is a NCAA team.

After training all summer their official season began in August. The rowers trained until their first meet, called a regatta, which was in Okla-homa City in October.

“We were still figuring our boats out and we had new novice rowers,” senior cap-tain Welsey Garibay said.

That race was a 5k, but their next regatta on the weekend of Nov. 2 and 3 in Wichita was a 2k. Their men’s team was only 30 sec-

onds slower than the KSU men’s team, and their senior boat was only five seconds off. The races are staggered starts so the boats don’t race head to head but instead compare times.

They have eight and four-person boats, not including the coxswain position. The

team’s coxsawin has a spe-cial job that differs from the rowers.

“They’re job is to sit there and steer and yell, and to coach us down the course. Their job is basically to get everyone hyped up,” Garib-ay said.

Last weekend was their

final meet of the season in Lawrence, competing against teams from Wichita, Topeka and Lawrence.

“The best part of the sea-son was probably bonding with the team,” senior Bryce Rincon said.

The mens’ eight-person boat competes in a 2k race in Wichita. They finished only 30 seconds slower than the KSU mens’ boat.

Bryce Rincon, photographer

Gage BenneStaff Writer

After a perfect season, the Manhattan High School Cross Country team took first at State. What’s next?

Although it is not officially recognized as the “next step” for high schools by the Kan-sas State High Schools Ac-tivity Assocation, members from many top high schools in Kansas, Missouri and oth-er states in Nike’s Heartland region participated in Nike Regionals.

Nike Regionals seven-state Heartland consisted of elite high schools in mid-America. Over 270 runners, the boy included, competed in the fastest heat, the 5k Championship Race. The Varsity team all ran on Sun-day, as Manhattan Cross Country Club.

“We definitely thought we had a chance, especially after our State win,” senior Chris Melgares said.

The boys were seeded third and ended up placing

fourth as a team among 28 of the top high schools in the “Heartland,” 70 points away from the Nike National’s qualifying position of sec-ond. Manhattan knocked off state championship teams from Nebraska, North Da-kota, Wisconsin and South Dakota.

“It was a little bit slower than our average race. If anything the competition should’ve pulled us along. The cold weather, and windy conditions were a factor, but it doesn’t excuse the extreme competition.” Melgares said.

Chris Melgares was 32nd overall for Manhattan, clock-ing 16:06 in the 5k race. He was followed by teammates Jackson Schroeder (46th, 16:15), Jack Keeley (57th, 16:20), Josue Alvarado (84th, 16:35), Michael Mel-gares (87th, 16:36), Isaiah Koppes (98th, 16:44) and Nick Bandy (153rd, 17:11). Manhattan also beat the state runner-up teams from Iowa and Nebraska, as well as the state champion from

Minnesota’s lower division. Jackson Schroeder was the second-highest finishing freshman in the race. But three teams from Minnesota got the better of Manhat-tan at the Nike Regionals. Edina won the meet with 106 points, followed by Wayz-ata at 135 and Stillwater at 204. Manhattan just missed the awards stand with 205 points.

Four members of the girls varsity team also trav-eled to Sioux Fall, as well as sophomores and freshmen who participated in a second race. Senior Alaina Schroed-er led the girls team, placing 29th overall, running 18:37 for 5 kilometers. Megan Ochoa was 115th in 19:54, while Molly Bollman (21:48) and Katherine Culbertson (22:04) placed 229th and 239th, respectively.

Manhattan was not able to field a full team in the girls championship division.

Also Sunday, the Manhat-tan Cross Country Club’s freshman/sophomore team

placed third, led by Peter Gruenbacher’s fifth place fin-ish in 17:13. The team scored 114 points behind scores of 52 and 87 by separate teams fielded by Wayzata.

Also scoring for the frosh/soph crew were Sam Mor-gan (21st, 18:00), Ethan Levin (36th, 18:49), Nolan Blankenau (43rd, 19:06) and Andy Fitch (51st, 19:31). Lane Richards placed 382nd (24:45) was 229th (20:55) in the boys open race, and Am-ber Hayen in the girls open race.

In the Community Open race, 13-year-old Cooper Schroeder was 44th overall and second in his age group with a time of 20:09; and Su-san Melgares was the female master’s champion with a time of 21:40.

“We ran a great race, and did nothing wrong before, or during the race,” Melgares said. “It’s just Nike Regionals has tough, insane competi-tion.”

Athlete of the week

J o n a t h a n Turnley

T u r n l e y nailed a pen-alty kick to give the Indi-ans a 2-0 lead over Olathe East. It was the third game in a row Turnley scored the final goal.

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Rachel Beach Staff Writer

Many students have un-common talents at Manhat-tan High School, but senior Emily Andrews’ “seams” par-ticularly unique. Andrews ihas an interest in fashion design and recently she com-peted in Make it with Wool.

The competition has been held for over 50 years and Andrews has participated for the past five years. Locals compete and the winner rep-resents Kansas at the nation-al competition. This year the national competition will be held in Charlotte, North Car-olina. Andrews competed at nationals last year, but this year she placed as the first alternate.

“It’s so hard to get to na-

Maddie RossNews Editor

Many here don’t consider Manhattan to be a large city, but for foreign exchange stu-dent Oliver Liebe, it is exact-ly that.

“For me it was nice to come to a city much bigger than what I’m used to,” Lie-be said. Liebe is a native of Mukebo, Denmark, a town home to just around 5,000 people.

“We have maybe three

Allison OlsenPhoto Editor

Fourth hour art students focus intently on their work. Meticulous brushstrokes across canvas express each individual artist’s style. The smooth hum of pottery wheels can be heard while the ceramists work on their three dimensional pieces.

AP Studio Art is an ad-vanced placement class that is the most advanced art class and challanges stu-dents to use their knowledge of art and design to create a portfolio that they submit to the College Board at the end of the year. Their portfolio is expected to be developed to focus on their individual talents and interests while demonstrating mastery of drawing principles. Instead of taking a written exam, this class specifically focuses on developing student portfo-lios and judging artwork.

places that you can buy things at, mostly food,” Liebe said. “We don’t really have much to do, and it’s an hour away from the nearest city.”

This exchange is not the first time for Liebe in the United States and it was his other visits that drew him here for his exchange.

“I have been to the Unit-ed States before and loved it,” Liebe said. “ I first came in 2006 with my family we started in Oregon and road-tripped down the west coast

all the way to Utah and Arizo-na. I have also been to Flori-da twice since then.”

H e r e at Man-h a t t a n H i g h S c h o o l Liebe is involved in Amer-i c a n F i e l d Service club, choir, jazz band and the musical.

“My favorite things here

are all the musical things. There are more opprotuni-ties to get involved,” Liebe

said. He also

enjoys the proximity to activities and stores without the one hour c o m m u t e he is used

to. A difference Liebe is not

so keen on howerver, is the

reign parents exert on their children.

“The freedom of young people is a huge difference,” Liebe said. “Here you have to tell your parents who you’re with, where you’re going and when you’re going to be home. At home I just have to let my mother know if I will be home for dinner or not.”

Another difference here is the food. Used to a diet primarily of meat and always home made, Liebe has easily made the adjustment but no-

tices it’s unfamiliarity. “The food is very differ-

ent, you have a lot of fast food, and you eat out a lot,” Liebe said. “So far my favor-ite food is chili.”

Overall Liebe is enjoying his time here in Manhat-tan and his sights are set on having the American experi-ence, especially in the com-ing months.

“I am definitely looking forward to Thanksgiving,” he said.

Munkebo

Denmark

Kristen BatsonStaff Writer

“[In Iraq] explosions hap-pen every day, I mean like two blocks from your house -- that’s why I’m afraid because my dad is still there and my brother,” junior Fawaaz Naeem said. “If you want to succeed you have to take the chance of dying, anyone could just get killed, then ev-erything ends. It’s a dream for everyone -- coming to America.”

Naeem was able to come to America from Babylon, Iraq, with his mother and his 12-year-old brother on a four-year visa because of a scholarship to Kansas State University she received after two years of applying and waiting.

“My mom is very good, she is smart. But in my coun-try everything is corrupt, and how it is with women; she was very oppressed and depressed. In my country if you aren’t smart they don’t want you; if you want to do good things, they don’t want you because they do bad things,” he said.

Naeem feels some places in Iraq are greatly influenced by American ideas and trends. Many people in the country are outraged by this. It’s very new and some show a lot of resentment towards Americans for influencing these ideas.

“Women are starting

to wear short skirts in the capital, Baghdad. They call it civilization in my country but it’s not,” Naeem said. “The people in America are very nice, but sometimes I feel awkward moments. I get very upset because of how some people treat Muslims. It’s because of Bin Laden, that’s the problem. He didn’t represent Muslim, but that’s what happened. He just said he was Muslim. It’d be like if one American went and exploded something in Iraq then we all hated Americans. It’s not right.”

He feels the tension be-tween Americans and Iraqis has all been caused by mis-conceptions and assump-tions that could easily be fixed if they both made the attempt to understand one another.

Naeem is noticing sev-eral differences between his culture and the one he is now living in. In Iraq, classes are chosen for students and they spend seventh through twelfth grade studying the same basic courses. After six years of taking the same 12 classes, they are given a test that determines their fate. The grade they get deter-mines whether they become doctors or go to college at all. They have two chances to re-take it and if a high enough score isn’t achieved they will become the laborers and common workers of society.

In Iraq he was usually

at the top of his class and although he hasn’t been in America a full year yet he’s taking advanced and AP classes still achieving straight A’s. In Iraq the only sport re-ally offered or acknowledged is soccer, so he became curi-ous about football.

“I went to the Bishop Sta-dium to see the football game last week. My mom came with me because she wanted to see what’s football so I said, ‘okay let’s go and see what’s football’. It was really weird. It was just a bunch of people running with a ball and the other people trying to hit them,” Naeem said. “I want to play tennis next se-mester.”

Though his mom is busy with her research and stud-ies she comes home every night to make dinner for him and his brother before re-turning to the lab.

“I don’t think American food exists. For us we don’t consider that food. We have rice and meat all the time, the wife always cooks and the table should be filled for a meal and it’s very elabo-rate. But not everyone in my country has that. Poverty is an issue.”

Though his mother has to go back to Iraq when her visa expires, Naeem plans on staying in the United States and going to medical school to be a doctor.

tionals,” Andrews said, “but the girl that won is incred-ible.”

Competitors are to create one to two outfits made out of wool. Andrews made a full length tailored coat that is double breasted and hand embroidered, a pair of lined blue slacks, a hand knitted sweater with bubble sleeves, and a blue scarf to match the slacks. It took Andrews from January to October to create the oufit. This year Andrews created only one outfit due to a busy schedule.

The senior age group was full of imaginative competi-tors and only one person from each state and age group is eligible to continue to Nationals.

The first thing competi-tors do is model the clothing

they made in front of a panel of judges and present what they made. Next the judges take the clothing from the competitors for construction judging.

On Sunday, Nov. 3, the group of competitors dis-played their work at the Man-hattan Towns Center. The judges announced the win-ner as spectators applauded then Andrews and the other competitors got their feed-back from the judges.

The winner of the Kansas Make it with Wool competi-tion made a four piece outfit consisting of a full length coat with a faux fur collar, a dress suit, and a unique top.

“The quantity and the quality she had was impres-sive,” Andrews said.

The winners not only get

the priviledge of going to nationals, but they also re-ceive a scholarship to Kansas State University. As an the al-ternate, Andrews received a $100 scholarship. Last year, for being the Kansas win-ner and going to Nationals, Andrews was given a $200 scholarship.

The competition challeng-es competitors like Andrews to try new techniques, work on projects for a long period of time, and most of all, cre-ate articles of clothing that are marketable.

“It’s super fun,” Andrews said, “It really fosters cre-ativity and I’m not sure any-one else sews at MHS, but I’d really encourage them to.”

Liebe jumping into MHS activities

There are two differ-ent parts to the portfolios: Breadth and Concentration. In the Breadth portion stu-dents use the first semester to create 12 pieces of art that shows their talents, styles and growth in their artwork. For Concentration, students work during the second se-memster to create 12 more pieces of art that specifically focus on elements or styles that they want to portray in their art. The students have the option of submitting their portfolios in either the 2D, 3D or Drawing and Painting category.

The students’ portfolios can portray elements such as line quality, light and shade, rendering of form, composi-tion or surface manipulation through means such as paint-ing, printmaking or mixed media.

Senior Christine Shiau is currently working on her 3D portfolio, focusing on cer-

maics and already has mul-tiple pieces in her concentra-tion.

“It’s more challenging than normal art classes be-cause we are expected to always be working on two pieces at once,” Shiau said.

The students are expect-ed to work on their pieces in class and also spend around six hours a week working on pieces at home.Senior Emily Andrews is also working on her 3D portfolio.

“I’m working with metal and glass to mainly make jewelry,” Andrews said, “I’m doing a concentration of how jewelry and the body inter-act, especially with joints and hinged pieces. I want to focus on how jewelry can be an extension of the body.”

The artwork that the stu-dents work to create is dis-played at the top of the main stairs and in the library gal-lery.

“It’s fun to have people

come up to you and say that they like your art,” Andrews said.

The art students are pushed to develop their skills and to think like professional artists. Displaying their work is one way to ensure that they do their best because the en-tire school is able to view it.

“The best part about this class is getting to work on art in a relaxing environment,” senior Zoey Botkin said.

The class is focused on getting their work done and making enough pieces to have a strong portfolio by the end of the year.

“The amount of art we get to do is really cool and every-one is really in to it. It’s not just another credit.” senior Tori Matta said.

A lot of the AP art stu-dents aspire to get a degree in art and hopefully turn their talents into a career.

Andrews competes in national wool competition

Making a new home

AP Studio Art works to create portfolios for college applications, scholarships

Five Manhattan High stu-dents earned medals at the the 22nd Annual High School pro-gramming Contest at Kansas State University on Nov. 6.

According to KSU’s Divi-sion of Communications and Marketing, competition was offered in beginning and ad-vanced divisions. Senior Ian Miller competed in the ad-vanced category and placed first, and Reid Erdwien placed third in the advanced cat-egory. Nolan Blankenau, Eric Higgs and Tony Liu competed in the beginning category and medaled in third place.

MHS was one of 28 schools that participated in The Col-lege of Engineering’s comput-

ing and information sciences department sponsored the contest, which drew 240 stu-dents from across the state. Teams of up to four high school students competed to write computer programs that would solve problems present-ed during the contest.

Teams used computer pro-gramming languages to solve six problems presented dur-ing five rounds. Teams earned points based on how quickly and accurately they were able to solve the problem within a set amount of time. Medals for first, second and third places were awarded to the teams with the highest scores.

The Mentor staff would like to con-gratulate Opinions editor Sarah Shi on her first place editorial story in the kspa story of the month competition!

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“It was really good, actu-ally. For my family, it was good for us to have to depend on each other. We had a lot of good friends there, as well,” he said.During times of deploy-ment from Berlin, Chandler was sent from country to country, travelling through-out his career, to places such as southwest Asia and South America, for security intelli-gence work in the Cold War.Despite, of course, some hardships and very difficult experiences, Chandler looks at his time in the army as one positive chapter of his life’s journey, from which he learned more about the world and about people, himself in-cluded, than he ever would’ve thought possible.

“I learned who I was,” Chan-dler said. “And I also learned what people are capable of, myself included.”

in common, and we kind of watched out for each other all the time. It taught me the value of that.”Chandler’s military ex-perience began in 1972, just prior to the end of the Viet-nam War (1975).

“My dad was very mil-itary-oriented. My fam-ily was always that way. My brothers served, and when it came my turn, I just went and did it. If you’re called upon, you go. You don’t question it; you just go. You do your duty,” Chandler said.After much training, Chandler and his company were stationed in Berlin, Germany. He stayed at a Berlin base for three years, during which time, he be-gan a family of his own. For Chandler and his family, life on base was only a chance to grow closer to each other.

Danielle CookCopy Editor

For Manhattan High social studies teacher, veteran Ed Chandler, Veterans Day means a lot more than just celebra-tions and parades. For Chandler, it’s is a day to honor, not only those who have served out country, but also to honor the val-ues of family and intense “camaraderie” that come along with the job of keep-ing the nation safe and helping bring light and peace to any place in the world where these quali-ties may be lacking.“The camaraderie, the friends -- that’s what I think was the important thing at that time,” Chan-dler said. “You know, I made a lot of friends [in the army]. We had a lot

Madison Newman

Staff Writer

English teacher Wendy Lee

Howard put down her .38 re-

volver and picked up her grad-

ing pen.Howard served four and a

half years in the military and

got up to the rank of being a Se-

nior Airman. “I didn’t really want to go to

college and my dad was in the

Air Force. So I thought that this

would be a good way to go and

get something out of it,” How-

ard said.Howard was stationed in

Britain during some of her time

in the military. “I guess I liked the traveling

experience that I got to have,”

she said. “I hated the cold in

Britain, it was always rainy and

kind of miserable. I didn’t like

the stupid supervisors. I actu-

ally yelled back at two of them.

It wasn’t the best idea.”

Howard was trained with an

M-16, M-9, a .38 revolver, was

in charge of the armory and

was also an armed escort.

“I had more weapon training

than some. We used to do this

thing called ‘war games’ where

we would basically do a drill

that would last about 16 hours

or so,” Howard said.

Howard’s mother was a

teacher, which influenced her

into going down the path of

teaching. “I thought that if I had to put

up with immaturity I might as

well at least go somewhere it

was expected [in a high school]

and maybe influence people

along with teaching them that

high school doesn’t last forev-

er.”

Wendy Howard

Ed Chandler

Liz LogbackEditor-in-ChiefSarah ShiOpinions Editor

Veterans Day is more than a parade and soldier apprecia-tion for senior Macy Lanceta. It’s a way to show support for her dad.

“It’s not something we ask for but when people come to you with appreciation like ‘Thank you for your service,’ it’s really nice,” Lanceta said.

She and her family have felt the blessings and hardships that come with having an immediate family member in the military. Lanceta’s dad has been deployed twice and is cur-rently working in Washington D.C.

“We’ve always understood the consequences of what his job requires. We don’t get family dinners and sometimes he misses moments so we tell him over the phone. But when he comes back, it’s like nothing has changed,” she said.

Similarly, senior Kendra Chandler understands the strug-gles of having a dad in the military.

“My dad had a ruptured disk in his back and since I was 10 I had to take care of him. Like help him get out of bed and walk places. We have to deal with the injuries of being in the military,” Chandler said.

Chandler’s family also has to cope with her father’s de-ployment.

“I feel bad that my mom has to take care of the four of us on her own. It’s a lot of work,” Chandler said.

Still, with the changes it has brought to her life, Chandler says she is thankful for the opportunities being in a military family brings.

“I get to travel and see really cool places like Paris and Rome. I lived in Italy and in Belgium. I had real Belgium waf-fles. They’re amazing,” she said. “You get to make really good friends all over the world. If I have a problem here I can be like, ‘Can I come live with you?’”

It’s no secret military families are uprooted a lot, and in se-nior Hannah Nelson’s eyes, moving is just a new adventure. Nelson’s father is in the coast guard and in the past he has worked along the coastline and in the waters, but moved his family to Manhattan a few years ago when he took a position in Pay and Personnel in Topeka.

“We move and transfer a lot. I’ve gotten to live on both sides of the coast. I’ve been on some cool adventures,” Nel-son said. “We were in Virginia and [my dad] went to Alaska without us. He was on some ships in Alaska and he got to film ‘Deadliest Catch.’”

Lanceta can relate to Nelson’s adventures.“You get to meet a new group of people everywhere you

go. See the world. You get a new start,” Lanceta said. “And there’s always support in the [military] community if you live on base.”

The Manhattan High Marching band performs in the Veterans Day parade yesterday, on Veterans Day. Shaley Fischer, photographer

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