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New schedule for next year pg 3

Scarf-maniapg 15

ROAD TO GLORY

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Girls basketball defeats Penn in Semistate, will play

Columbus North for title Saturday. Coverage on pg 23.

Check out the special “What I Know” section on pg 16!Rachael Gregory photo byChris Hansen.

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f sv3Next year the school day starts at a dif-ferent time.

5Find out about the Counter-points season.

8TNL reviews the TV show “Angry Boys.”

10Sam Roach and Caroline Hawes explain what needs to happen the rest of the year.

10Find out about the newest so-cial media app, Pinterest.

12The speech team prepares for their season.

14Water bottle policy different than surrounding schools.

15See the newest trends for spring

22Check out the boys basketball team’s upcoming tournament.

23See a recap of the girls basketball team’s season.

16Special “What I Know” section. With the advice of NC students and teachers.

editorial policyThe purpose of the Northern Lights is to serve the

school audience, including administrators, teachers, faculty and staff, parents, community members and most importantly, the students as an established open forum. Since this is a school newspaper, the content and character of the paper will cater to the student body’s interest and ideas by cov-ering a wide variety of events and issues concerning the students of North Central High School.

The newspaper will serve as a medium for student opin-ions and ideas. The staff strives to achieve objective, ac-curate content to cover and feature a well-balanced variety of different students and their viewpoints.

Because school officials do not engage in prior review, and the content of the Northern Lights is determined by and reflects only the views of the student staff and not school officials or the school itself, its student editorial board and responsible student staff members assume complete legal and financial liability for the content of the publication.

Student journalists may use print and electronic media to report news and information, to communicate with other students and individuals, to ask questions of and consult with experts and to gather material to meet their newsgathering and research needs.

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the various laws and court decisions implementing those principles. The Indiana State Constitution, section 9, also provides all Hoosiers the right to a free press.

The staff of the Northern Lights operates under the six Metropolitan School District of Washington Township’s Dis-trict Values: respect, responsibility, honesty, caring, courage and self-discipline, however, with the coverage of news, one must remember content may not always reflect the same values.

The staff of the Northern Lights strives to report all is-sues in a legal, objective, accurate and ethical manner, ac-cording to the Canons of Professional Journalism developed by the Society for Professional Journalists. The Canons of Professional Journalism include a code of ethics concern-

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Inside this issue

nEditors-in-chiefMatt HansenJonathon McBride

EditorsJackson CrantfordJoe KnightEmma Timpson

Managing EditorOwen Friesen

Photo EditorGrayson Pitts

Copy EditorAnna Bennington

Assistnat Photo EditorMaggie Huffer

Staff MotivationBen Breymier

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Ryan ScanlanEnglish teacher Ryan Scanlan writes about what you can learn by taking the new cre-ative writing class next year. Students will be able to submit their work to various literary magazines and attend the Visiting Writers Series at Butler University, For more, see page 12.

Junior passes away Extra CoverageOn Thursday,

February 23, the student body suffered the loss of junior Chris-topher Cheath-am. The cause of his death is undetermined as of now.

Christopher was a part-time student, spending three hours a day at JEL in automobile crash re-pair courses.

Teachers have memories of Chris’ ability to inspire laughter within his fellow students and the passion he had for his students.

“Chris was really protective of his fam-ily, his sister and grandmother. Just a really caring guy,” teacher Byron Simpson said.

Cheatham will be missed and remem-bered by many of his fellow students as the caring, charming student they all knew.

A new state bill could change how stu-dents are taught evolution. Read about the new law on page four. Scan the QR codes below with smart phone to see two opin-ions on the bill. Reporter Jacob Zeller de-fends the law’s constitutionality while Kari Wocial opposes the law and believes vio-lates constitutional rights.

ConstitutionalScan here to read a column supporting the new law.

UnconstitutionalUse this QR code to read a column that claims the law in uncon-stitutional.

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Stuck in Mexico: New teacher Scott Haber writes on the board in his Spanish class. Haber returned to the United States from

Heard at the school board meeting

SurveyTNL asked 100 students what their thoughts were about the schedule change.

School board votes on new schedule

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3Arrival Dismissal Arrival Dismissal Arrival Dismissal

High School 9:10 4:20 7:25 2:40 7: 25 2:30

Middle School 7:20 2:10 9:10 4:15 9:20 4:10

Elementary School 8:15 3:05 8:15 3:30 8:25 3:20

+/- Minutes to High School Day

-20 Minutes Same-1 minute each passing period

-6-11 minutes

+/- Minutes to Entire Day

-3,620 minutes No Instructional Time Lost -1,086-1,981

High School Day 7 hours, 10 minutes 7 hours, 15 minutes 7 hours, 10 minutes

Do you like the new schedule?

Do you think there is too much change at North Central?

How do you feel about 6 minute passing periods?

Good(63%)

No(20%)

Yes(80%)

Bad(37%)

Yes(24%)

No(76%)

Andrew Jones

On Wednesday, Feb. 22, the Washington Township school board voted on new student and teacher hours for the 2012-2013 school year.

Next year, the student day will begin at 7:25 a.m. and end at 2:40 p.m. The school day will change from 7 hours and 30 minutes to 7 hours and 15 minutes.

All periods will still be 50 minutes but pass-ing periods will be cut to six minutes instead of seven.

The objective of the school hour changes is to increase the elementary school day.

“The sole reason why we examined the stu-dent hours was to add time to our elementary student day which is currently the shortest ele-mentary day in all of Marion county,” Superinten-dent Nikki Woodson said. “But at the same time without compromising the integrity of the current middle school and high school student days and without adding significant costs to the transpor-tation or any other fund.”

Starting later for the high school would re-sult in the loss of 4,000 instructional minutes, or about 3 minutes per class per day, according to the proposed schedules.

The elementary school student hours will in-crease by 50 minutes, starting the day at 8:25 a.m. and dismissing at 3:25 p.m.

One of the first options explored was bus-ing elementary and middle school students at the same times, but financial issues ended discus-sions.

“It would cost the district over $2 million ini-

tially, with many expenses being reoccurring.” Woodson said. “18 buses would be purchased, then we’d have to staff each with a bus driver, keep maintenance of the buses and purchase fuel.”

The other proposal involved teacher hours. Next year, teachers will be required to stay after school three times a week for 40 minutes.

“Teachers will be doing PLC’s which we do on Tuesdays, the MYPT and CFA meeting will also be conducted at this time as well, teachers will be developing class instructions and reviewing student performance,” principal Evans Branigan said.

After school activities will be affected, as teachers will be unable to supervise until after these meetings, possibly leaving hundreds of stu-dents without a place to go until their activities begin.

“So far, three days a week practices won’t be held right after school unless they have a lay coach or a coach that comes from somewhere else and doesn’t teach,” Branigan said.

More discussion is taking place about the high school’s afterschool activities, as sports, clubs and performing arts could be greatly affected.

The school board had been discussing the subject for the past couple of months and mem-bers encouraged faculty, students and parents to input their opinions on the Washington township website.

“I’ve been impressed by the level of discussion not only with the board, but with the number of teachers and parents from North Central,” board vice president Donald Kite, Sr. said. “Specifically

the number of teachers from North Central who have come with concerns, doing it the Washing-ton Township way.”

Both proposals Woodson presented to the board were unanimously approved by the five members.

Earlier this school year the board approved a new calendar for 2012-2013 that includes a week off for fall break and a Thanksgiving.

A final decision regarding high school after-school time will be decided later this month.

Superintendent Nikki Woodson speaks at last Wednesday’s school board meeting. Woodson’s two proposals were approved unanimously by the board. Vincent Holloway photo.

All the Options

These were the three options presented on the Washington Town-ship website. Scan this QR code to read more.

“We took a look at (starting high school last) through our transportation and our routing, but it would cause a significant loss to instructional time at the high school, almost totaling 4,000 lost instructional minutes over the school year.” -Nikki Woodson, Superintendent

“We have long been a township where staff wants to come work here, a great thing that the administration wants to continue and North Central continues to do.” Anthony Dzwonar, President of School Board

“I’ve been impressed by the number of teach-ers from North Central who have come re-respectfully with concerns. They did it the Washington Township way.” -Donald Kite, Vice President of School Board

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Evolution bill passes senate, killed in houseAndrew Jones

On Jan. 31, 2012, the State Senate passed an education bill that would allow alternate theories to evolution to be taught in public schools.

Senate Bill 89 allows the teaching of creationism in science classes, permitting that other origin-of-life theories are also taught. School boards would have the right to teach religious origin theories from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Scientology and Hinduism with evolution.

The passing of the bill has caused an uproar around the state, as both Democrats and Republicans are questioning the constitutionality of the bill. In the vote, 10 of the 37 Republicans in the senate voted against the Republican-sponsored bill.

Opponents find the bill to be unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court decision in Edwards v. Aguillard. The court decided that creationism could not be required to taught in public schools because it promotes a particular religion.

Science teacher LeRoy Castle, a former Catholic school teacher, is against Bill 89 because of the scientific value behind creationism.

“The problem with the science of

creationism is that we base science on fact and experimentation and then something that is reproducible,” Castle said. “Reproduce

something from creationism then we can teach it.”

Faith, Castle believes, is unique to each

individual.“My own personal feelings is that everyone

has their own idea of what faith is,” Castle said. “Science is a faith. It’s hard to touch an atom, but we have faith in it.”

The sponsor of the bill, Senator Dennis Kruse of Auburn, Ind. District 14 introduced the bill to the senate in January. Kruse expects a court challenge of the constitutionality of the bill, but believes the current Supreme Court will overturn the Edwards vs. Aguillard decision. Bill 89 does not require public schools to teach creationism, but instead gives school boards the option to teach multiple origin theories.

However, House Speaker Brian Bosma, Republican-District 88, has shelved the bill. According to the Indy Star, Bosma moved the bill into the rules committee and believes the General Assembly should not mandate what is taught in science classrooms.

“I didn’t disagree with the concept of the bill,” Bosma said. “But I hesitate to micromanage local curricula. Secondarily, I didn’t think it was prudent to buy a lawsuit the state could ill afford at this point.”

Senate Bill 89 would have to be approved by its committee and by the full house by March 5, 2012.

Science teacher Mark “Doc” Miller teaches freshmen about the evolutionary process. Senate Bill 89 passed the State Senate in late January. Bilal Jawed photo.

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Anna Bennington

The show choir season has begun, and the Counterpoints are working to prepare for competition.

“We’re not allowed to talk about the songs just based on other show choirs who are our competition finding out what we’re doing,” senior Sarah Adams said.

Keeping a their set a secret helps make their first performances more exciting.

“It’s usually a big secret until we start competing,” Adams said. “That’s when people find out who’s doing what. People sometimes steal ideas. There’s a lot of controversy with

people copying each other. And it makes it more exciting when you get to reveal your set.”

The Counterpoints first revealed their set during a preview show on Feb. 16, the culmination of over a month of rehearsals.

“We started working when we got right back to school [from winter break],” Adams said. “The first week we started our three day a week rehearsals from 6 to 9 p.m., and we’ve had two Sunday rehearsals to help us out.”

The commitment to Counterpoints is even greater for leaders. Dance captains spend extra time making sure that the choir is well

choreographed. “We make sure the choir knows the

dances, and help them when they need it,” senior dance captain Ellie Krueger said. “We make sure everybody looks the best they can and that everything is uniform.”

The Counterpoints’ work culminated in their first competition of the season at Ben Davis.

“We got second at the last competition, which is pretty good,” senior Graham Mortier said.

Competitions are demanding and time consuming for choir members, who spend the entire day at contests, arriving at school as

early as 6 a.m.“They usually end at 1 or 1:30 a.m.,”

Mortier said. “Finals are usually around 11 a.m. which we were performing in, and then we find out around 12:30 a.m.”

Over the weekend the Counterpoints competed at Mooresville. Their biggest competition to date, the MIC, will be hosted at NC this weekend.

“For MIC, North Central hosts the competition and it raises money for the North Central choirs,” senior Emma Green said.

The MIC competition will help fund their upcoming spring break trip to London.

Grayson Pitts Photo

Competition season kicks off for the

Sarah Carlson

Inquirer, knowledgeable, thinkers, communica-tors, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective are the IB values that will soon be replacing the current Washington Township values. These values are a part of the new MYP and NYP programs to become an IB district.

“We were given the impression that we would be changing those right away, and a week or two later I received a correspondence that we would hold off on that,” principal Evans Bryant Branigan, III said. “Because the core values, if you are a

product of Washington Township, are something you have grown up. And to change them on a whim is not easy. That’s not something that our community will take lightly.”

Although the vocabulary is different, the core of the values remains the same. The purpose is to build a better and stronger citizen.

“None of our values go away,” Branigan said. “It’s an expectation that we apply those values. Not just in school but in our homes and commu-nity. As we continue forward, this will be the com-mon language that our students use.”

The transitions will not be easy. Teachers have to undergo new training to help them incor-

porate the values into the classroom. Students will gradually make the switch, and current se-niors will barely be introduced to them.

“The lower grades have already started using them,” Branigan said. “For older folk it’s going to take a while to get used to them. The seniors will have a little sprinkle here and there, juniors will have a little taste, sophomores will know a little more, and freshman will know the most because they’ll be exposed to it for the longest. So it’s going to take time. Teachers have to take new training so that they know and understand the language.”

District replaces character values with IB concepts

Introducing new values: Signs with the new IB values hang in the H hall stairwell. Andrew Jones photo.

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Anna Bennington

Prom season has begun, with junior girls fret-ting over dresses and boys trying to think up the most creative ways to ask their dates. NC does Prom a little differently than most schools, who typically have both a junior and senior dance, not just juniors. Prom comes with lots of tradi-tions, and most of them aren’t exclusive to NC. At private schools like Brebeuf Jesuit, the elaborate proposals are common place.

“My Prom date last year gave me a mix CD, but the first track was him asking if I wanted to go to Prom with him,” Brebeuf senior Hannah Sullivan said. “Some people leave notes like a scavenger hunt. My friend’s boyfriend talked to the flight at-tendants on her flight and they asked her over the intercom on her airplane.”

Another similarity is Prom is consistently the only dance that many students go to. Attendance at dances is at an all time low, with only around 80 students attending the recent Neon dance.

“I believe that over the past year the student body has become less interested in that type of event,” Student Council vice president Gracie Gramelspacher said. “The low attendance is a result of that. In other words we believe that the Student Council should deliver what the student body wants, events that they want to participate

in, and the dance is just not one of them.”In the past there was high attendance at danc-

es, especially if they were held after school-wide events.

“We have gotten around 500 to 600 before. Specifically when it was after a basketball game one year we got 800 to a dance. What ended up happening is we had to turn people away,” Gramelspacher said.

At other Indianapolis schools, dance atten-dance varies.

“I don’t even know when Prom is, but people have already started freaking out about it,” Brebeuf Jesuit senior Hannah Sullivan said. “No-body really goes to the dances. We just stop in [to other dances]. I went for like ten minutes and left. Prom is like our big thing.”

At Lawrence Central, dance attendance was down until former North Central assistant princi-pal Tom Oestreich took over.

“Oestreich has helped on the spirit. People actually participated in Homecoming week with dressing up on different days. That’s the first time in four years I’ve seen that happen,” Lawrence Central senior Melissa MacNeur said.

Student Council is currently in debate with the administration over what activities would be popular with the student body.

“Regarding dances still being our events, es-

pecially this recent winter ball, the administration saw it as an important event that we held for the student body so we had to continue to follow through with that even though we considered do-ing another event,” Gramelspacher said.

Student interest in dances, with the exception of Prom, has drastically declined. The Student Council hopes to come up with new activities to capture their interest in addition to the traditional dances held every year.

Student interest in dances declines

No compensation for stolen goodsItems taken from basketball, football team not to be replaced.

Sarah Carlson

Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, the North Central foot-ball defeated Lawrence Central 34-17. After the game many players realized that their personal belongings had been taken from the locker room.

“Five guys, six, or seven, I’m not sure what the number exactly was. But during the second half they had a variety of electronic gear taken from their gym bags in the locker room,” athletic direc-tor Chuck Jones said.

Although the game was in August, students were informed a couple of weeks ago that they would not be getting the stolen items replaced. Lawrence Central was unwilling to accept re-sponsibility for the stolen goods and ignored NC’s request for compensation.

“We immediately approached LC administra-tively for those things to be replaced and they have not been willing to do that,” Jones said.

Recently a number of tweets have been post-ed by NC students asking for compensation for their stolen electronics.

Most of these tweets have been directed to-ward LC principal Tom Oestreich, a former NC assistant principal. Both students and administra-tors felt that Oestreich’s connection to NC would help with the repayment of stolen items. Unfortu-nately that was not the case.

“Even though he was with us for only one year I think he was pretty popular and everyone knows him, so it makes sense [to talk to him] because number one he’s the principal of LC, and that’s where the incident happened, and number two why not get a hold of Oestreich and see if he can help out,” Jones said.

Oestreich was unavailable for comment on the situation.

Students attending last year’s Junior Prom. School dance attendance has dropped significantly in past years. TNL Archive Photo.

More TNL this weekend:Girls Basketball State PreviewSpecial Issue

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vStudent AdviceTNL asked students what their most important advice they have learned while in high school?

“Don’t procrastinate.” Chelsea Peterson, 12

“Sit in the front of the class to make yourself look smart.” Jack Geshay, 10

“Abstain to attain.” Isaac Parra-Azocar, 11

“Do your homework on time.” Grace Carlson, 11

“Make sure you keep everything organized and keep track of your time.” Austin Allen, 9

“Don’t shake up in front of a teacher.” James Huffman, 10

“You will get caught if you wear leggings.” Indigo Ensign, 11

For more advice from what NC students and teachers, check out the “What I Know Section” starting on page 16.

Pack the house at Terre HauteWarsaw may have been too far away, but Terre

Haute is not. The drive is shorter, and the game is big-ger. As the girls basketball team prepares to play the Columbus North Bull Dogs this weekend, NC students and families should be making their travel plans. Call off work, arrange a car pool, do whatever it takes to get to the game.

The girls team has had a strong season including major wins against Ben Davis, Fishers and Center Grove that catapulted them to an outstanding run in tournament play. They knocked off the number one seed HSE in the first game of Sectionals. After that, they’ve defeated every-one they’ve played, and now they’re ready for the last game of the season. All of this under first year Coach DeeAnn Ramey.

Just showing up to the game won’t be enough. Show up with a theme, with energy and ready to support your team. There’s normally a strong student section at the

boys games, but now NC needs to do the same for the girls.

The team has had to travel farther away from their home than anyone else in the tournament creating a road atmosphere for each game. Students from all their oppo-nent’s schools have came to support their teams while our sections have been filled with a handful of supporters. Let’s give them an atmosphere similar to the packed boys home game against HSE.

It’s a shame they’ve played their tournament games in Kokomo and Warsaw. It’s hard to travel that far and de-vote seven hours of your day to a basketball game. It’s understandable that not a lot of fans could make it to the Regional and Semistate games, but now, it’s the finals. It’s not too late to come out and support the girls team. Now, it’s NC’s chance to win another blue ring. It’s time to finish the girls’ incredible season.

Staff Editorial

Out-of-class experiences trump class lectures

Learn to be yourself, be secure about itKatie Hannon

High school is a time to hang out with different people, have fun and make memories. Ultimately, high school is a time to find out who you truly are, not who you’re supposed to be.

There are so many stereotypes. I won’t get into the whole mean girls rant because it’s nothing new to high school students. There are so many groups that a person could try to fit in to as long as they meet certain criteria.

We live in a society where people would do pretty much anything to fit into such groups. Some people are willing to risk their reputation merely for the acceptance of another. Here is my advice to you: be yourself.

Sure, I’ve been down the road where I would have done just about anything to fit it. I transferred to a school where I knew few people. During my freshman year, I didn’t fit in but I was myself

with the people I did end up hanging around. My sophomore year, the “popular girls” gave me a warm welcome into their group of friends, which was followed by peer pressure to do things I had never wanted to do. I fit the criteria, but I wasn’t comfortable with myself or with the things that I was doing.

What I did not realize was that the entire time I was trying to be someone I’m not, being myself would have been much easier.

What I did realize was I should not have waste any of my time or energy on people who don’t like me or accept me for who I am.

Joel Osteen, a television preacher, once said “25 percent of the people you meet won´t like you and never will; 25 percent won´t like you but could be persuaded to; 25 percent will like you but could be persuaded not to; and 25 percent will like you and stand by you no matter what.”

Now I am completely accepted by the peo-

ple that I now call my friends and most impor-tantly learned to accept and like myself. It is such a liberating feeling. As for anyone who does not care for me; I don’t care to give them the time of day.

I felt free once I figured this out. I felt as if a weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. I realized that once we shed the facade and let our colors shine through, we no longer have to feel the pressures of society to be someone who we are not.

We find out who those who really love us are and who would stand by our side no matter what. Those who mind don’t matter and those who mat-ter don’t mind.

It’s important that we surround ourselves by people who love us for who we are and accept us no matter our faults or flaws. It will help us to accept ourselves.

Matthew Fox

There is nothing more important than being present in school, or so we have been told. But I believe there are exceptions.

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Chicago to participate in the Model United Na-tions Conference hosted by the University of Chi-cago.

Yes, I missed class time. Yes, I missed tests. Yes, I had a ton of homework to make up. But no, I did not regret my decision at all.

What I learned and experienced while on this trip could never have been taught in the classroom. Going on this trip gave me a glimpse into the world of government, it gave me the op-

portunity to see a city I had never visited and it showed me how little I know about public trans-portation.

It was a great opportunity to actually expe-rience these things and not take notes on them or look at pictures. I don’t know about everyone else, but this was the first “field trip” I have taken in my high school career and after this long hiatus, I have come to realize one thing. I used to think they were just a day out of school but now I know that these trips away from the classroom give kids much needed real world application to what they study in the classroom.

Without this real world application it is my belief that students fail to fully retain the informa-tion taught to them. If they are able to see what

they are learning about they are more likely to remember the material.

I know that frequent field trips are not feasible considering the schedule of our school day, but I encourage every student to take every oppor-tunity they can to get out and experience what they learn about in the classroom.

I know that many teachers attempt to discour-age students from missing class to go on trips and visit places but they seem to be forgetting just how beneficial these trips can be. In the end it is up to the student to determine whether missing instruction time is worth the make up, but I stand firmly in the belief that missed class time can defi-nitely be a good thing.

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This year’s Prom is on the calendar for April 21. Since it’s currently the first of March, naturally everyone in the ju-nior class already has a date, a dress in mind and after party plans. By the end of the February, “Proma” is in full force, not letting up until the night everyone has been waiting for their entire high school careers: Prom.

Sometime over the years, the junior classes set the standard that asking dur-ing the usual acceptable time frame of a couple weeks before the event was just not going to cut it. After all, prom only happens once, and it is the best night of every one’s lives. So why waste all of second semester not thinking about and planning for it every waking second?

This is not me simply calling out this year’s junior class. Last year was just as obsessed, if not worse. I am admitting to being completely obsessive about it myself as a junior. However, what I real-ize now is that it’s just not worth it. I don’t know if it’s because we have dropped the ball on all the other dress up dances most schools participate in during the year, or if its because we’ve all just watched too many Disney Channel mov-ies, but the prom obsession continues to be out of hand. Girls are worried if they don’t have dates by January. Boys that simply ask girls to be their dates with a flower or two isn’t cutting it anymore. Everyone wants it bigger, better and ear-lier with each passing year.

I guess my worry is, when is enough enough? I’m worried by the time this year’s freshmen become juniors, people will be getting asked in September the year before. Unless a class decides to step up (or step down, literally) this pat-tern of ridiculous prom preparation will spiral out of control. Prom is a fun night, but not the only fun night you will ever have. So while being excited for the night is perfectly acceptable, maybe ev-eryone could postpone the worry and stress until at least the end of March.

After going through the “Proma” my-self, my best advice would be the less you hype prom up, the more it will ex-ceed your expectations, and the better time you’ll have.

Prom:getting out of hand

Molly Henry

‘Angry Boys’ comical, crudeKatie Hannon

After hearing fellow senior Garrett Lee shout “NATHAN” in an Aus-tralian accent every single day during my 9th period Spanish class, I knew that it was time I turned on HBO’s new series, “Angry Boys,” to see what all the fuss was about.

“Angry Boys” stars a talented Chris Lilley in an Australian television mockumentary, taking on six roles in one single show.

Lilley also starred in “Summer Heights High” and “We Can Be He-roes.”

Lilley plays both Na-than and Daniel Sims, 17-year-old identical twins who also starred in “We Can Be Heroes.” Ever since their father died, Nathan has been considered the man of the house. Daniel is somewhat lonely, and is constantly harrassed by Nathan and his friends. While at first it may seem like Nathan and Daniel don’t get along, they do actually have quite the companionship. The twins share the same interest in their heroes.

Nathan and Daniel have a “wall of legends,” where they post pictures of their heroes.

Ruth Sims, who is referred to as Gran, is Nathan and Daniel’s grand-mother and one of their legendary heroes. Gran works at the Sydney Garingal Juvenile Justice Centre for teenage boys. Gran thinks of herself as a tough but motherly figure for the boys who are put in the institution. Gran shows a lot of love for the inmates, but expresses her love in differ-ent and sometimes harsh ways.

Gran is famous for “Gran’s gotchas,” where she plays offensive jokes on the boys that she thinks are hilarious. For example, she once told a boy he was able to go home from the institution, and once he was all packed and waiting for his mother to pick him up, she exclaimed, “Gotcha!”

Other than Gran, Nathan and Daniel have three major idols that inspire them to do bet-ter. These legends are rapper S. mouse and fa-mous surfer Blake Oak-field of the Mucca Mad Boys surf gang, who are all played by Lilley and highlighted regularly through out the show.

The highlighted char-acters rotate from show to show, but the char-acters are all related in one way or another.

I recommend Angry Boys to anyone who is a fan of a good laugh and crude humor. While the humor is meant to be playful, the crudeness does sometimes reach a sexist or racial level

and can be quite ag-gressive. It is obvious that the actors are not afraid to approach touchy subjects. There

is an excessive use of foul language, and many times I have found that the actors were trying too hard to get a laugh out of the viewers.

In one phrase, I would describe “Angry Boys” as absurd; It is absurdly funny yet absurdly politically incorrect. All in all, it could be considered as a “One-dimensional” show. “Angry Boys” is purposely based on satiri-cal and crude humor. I have to give it three out of five stars. While it can be immature at times, it always leaves me impatiently waiting for the exciting antics that the characters will get involved with in the next weeks episode. Catch “Angry Boys” Wednesday nights on HBO at 9 p.m.

THE TNL REVIEW

Culture Grid Mountains or Beach? Where are you going for spring break?

Bagels or Doughnuts?

Who are you rooting for during March

Madness?

Tim Tebow or Jeremy

Lin?

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Zach Larner, 10

Duane Thomas, 11

Jasmine Henry, 12

Beach Florida Doughnuts IU Tebow, I like his hair.

Beach Florida BagelsLin, he’s actually good. Tebow is

not.

Mountains No where Bagels

Doughnuts

IU Tebow, he loves Jesus and I value that.

Beach Florida IUTim, because he’s

good looking.

IU

Mentoring the Boys: Prison officer Ruth SIms works with the boys at the Sydney Garingal Juvenile Justice Centre. Ruth SIms, more commonly referred to as Gram, is played by Chris Lilley who plays several other main characters throughout the show. “Angry Boys” is described as absurdly funny but absurdly politically incor-rect. “Angry Boys” airs on HBO Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. Picture from HBO.com.

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Besides the recent highlight shows of “Lin-Sanity” on SportsCenter, the most prominent and most discussed story on ESPN has been the debate about Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning’s career. The answer to these debates is extremely simple. Jim Irsay, the owner of the Colts, should do everything in his power to make sure Manning is leading the Colts in the 2012-13 football season.

If Irsay wants to draft Andrew Luck, so be it, but he should make sure he does not lose Manning. Manning has not only guided the Colts to the playoffs in all but two of his NFL seasons, but also turned a state obsessed with basketball into a football fan’s dream.

Without Manning, the city of Indianapolis would likely not have a professional football team anymore, let alone be able to host the premiere event in the United States, the Super Bowl.

If this is not reason enough, you need only look at the Colts’ most recent NFL season, their first season without Manning since 1997. The team went 2-14 including losing their first 13 games with seemingly very little effort put into their games. I mean, when you turn on the TV and you see your team losing to the New Orleans Saints 31-0 midway through the 2nd quarter, you know something isn’t quite right.

How could the Colts be this bad? Did they switch uniforms with the Detroit Lions before the start of the year? Granted, this could actually be a possibility as Detroit made the playoffs for the first time in an eternity.

But in truth, the only difference between this 2-14 Colts team and the team that set the NFL record for wins (115) in a decade between 2000-09 is the absence of Manning. With Manning, the Colts lost about 14 games every three seasons. Without him, the Colts lost that many in three months.

Although all the scouts are saying Andrew Luck could be the next Manning, the reality is the Colts already have Manning. Why would you ever throw something away if there is only a chance of getting it back? If the Colts let him go, what are the chances of the so-called bad team that signs him suddenly becoming a Super Bowl contender? Likely.

Dear Irsay,Keep Manning

Kyle Bydlon

Props& TNL lists the things that de-serve props and the things that really dropped the ball.

The biggest prop: Pinterest: Students have recently started “pinning” new recipes, ideas and interests onto their

Pinterest boards. Students can fol-low each other’s boards and share new pins.

Honorable mentions: Scramble with Friendsspring breakBlood Drive

The biggest drop:Republican candidates. The latest primaries keep making the candi-dates seem even worse.

Other drops:BeatsLack of school spirit

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We took a photo and made five changes to it. Tweet the changes to @NCHSLive.

Food policy needs revising for next year

Next year’s security will go too far

Caroline Hawes

I was sitting in world history freshman year after I turned in my test then my stomach started to growl.It was that awkward moment when ev-eryone knew it was me. Not only did I have to deal with the uncomfortable feeling of an empty stomach for the rest of the period, but I felt awk-ward because everyone knew I was the one mak-ing noise. Ever since that moment I’ve made sure to bring snacks to school.

I understand the rules NC has established for the school. Trust me, I don’t want to see bugs crawling around in the corner of my class. I also find it disrespectful when I see chips crushed into the carpet. However, I do think that not being able

to eat between breakfast and lunch is harming students’ ability to pay attention in class.

When I’m hungry in the middle class, it is the only thing I’m thinking about. I know that between my breakfast at 6:50 a.m. and eighth period lunch, I need something like a granola bar or a piece of fruit.

My friends always make fun of me saying that I eat all the time but the truth is, I’m someone who needs to eat several small things during the day. I’m a runner and as a result of that I have a fast metabolism. I’m sure other athletes will agree with me: we get hungry often.

Recently a teacher took my snack away from me in the hallway. I get it, I was breaking a rule. I can’t be mad about it, but it got me thinking that

something needs to be done about the no food policy.

I propose a new rule that allows students to grab a quick snack between classes. Especially if you’re about to take a test, food will be benefi-cial in the long run.

I think a designated snack area could work. Or, students could have a special mark on their ID that allows them to have food. Even if the caf-eteria sold little snacks through out the morning it would be an easy fix for people’s hunger prob-lems.

I’m a senior so this rule won’t apply to me for much longer, but I hope for all future students something will be done so they won’t experience what I did in world history freshman year.

Sam Roach

Rumor has it that next year NC students will be required to wear their ID cards visibly, just like teachers. This may sound like a reasonable security requirement, but I don’t think it would add anything positive to our school’s environment. In fact, I think this would be a fairly negative deci-sion. Here’s why.

It makes sense to require our faculty and staff to wear their IDs, because faculty and staff are authority figures, and need to be identified quick-ly in times of crisis. It is easy to tell the difference

between a staff member and a student because of this requirement.

Students are currently required to possess their IDs at all times under possible penalty of suspension. If a teacher or administrator needs to check a student’s identification, they already possess the power to do so by asking the student.

Requiring ID badges to be visible on top of clothing would become a huge hassle to enforce for teachers. The amount of people who would need to be stopped for not wearing their ID vis-ibly would make this difficult, and although many students would eventually adjust to this rule. The

students who don’t, would make life very difficult for teachers, who would have to spend most of their passing period enforcing the requirement.

Imagine calls of “ID,” “Let me see your ID,” and “Where’s your ID”. Every day. All year. If the school implemented this policy, it would either become a large hassle to students and teachers alike, or an ignored rule.

If teachers and administrators are worried about security at NC, they can simply enforce existing rules regarding IDs. There is no need to add in an extra layer of hassle.

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For more information about these restaurants, visit the websites pro-vided.*pricing based on individual entree’s

Pre-Prom Dinner Suggestions

Emma Timpson

From Myspace to Facebook to Twitter, the next account to make is on Pinterest.

Pinterest is an online pinboard which allows you to organize anything you or others find on the web such as clothes, food recipes, dream vacation spots or ideas for your dorm or house.

Pinterest is connected through Face-book so you can see everything your friends are “pinning.” Once you create an account you are able to add pinboards in any category you desire.

Students “pin” pictures of things they

find interesting to their pin poards. A mem-ber can have several pin boards where they pin different topics.

To add things to a board you click the repin button that appears on the picture, your pinboards will appear and you click the one you want to pin to and click add.

According to www.blog.perzennstrom.com, the largest age group for users is 35-44. Also, audience interests are mostly crafts, gifts and special event items, hob-bies and leisure, interior design, fashion designers and collections and blogging resources and services. Pinterests users are 83 percent girls and 17 percent boys.

What is Pinterest? Student opinions:“I like it because it is like you get to show what you like even though you are not in the picture.” Ibby Tiplick, 10

“I think it just gives people a place to show others what they can do. It gives you great ideas and you can express yourself.” Jose Castillo, 12

“I like it a lot, it is a good way to share ideas, but it is distracting too.” Sarah Volk, 9

“I like it because I can get a ton of ideas about a bunch of things like crafts, outfits, pictures and houses. Also because it is really fun to see what other people post. And it is a great waste of time, I can spend hours on it.” Sammy Maeth-ner, 12

Start Pinning: Pinterest is a new social pin board site. Members can pin photos of things they find interesting. Pinterest is excellent for marking photos and sharing ideas.

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New class to teach creative writingGuest Staff Member of the Issue: Ryan Scanlan

Are you tired of writing essays, North Central? Well, too bad. The fact is your college professors are not going to grade you on the quality of your tweets or memes. And don’t bother contacting your legislators to complain; they’re not interested in your creativity either. But do not fret, North Central. Your English department has come to the rescue.

Starting next year, we’ll be offer-ing a creative writing class for seniors. (Sorry, underclassmen if you’re not al-lowed into an R-rated movie, you probably aren’t ready for this class.) Creative writing will only count as an elective, but hey, you don’t have to write a senior paper. And if you don’t like me, you only have to deal with me for one semester.

So what are you going to learn, you

ask? Well, the first nine weeks will be devoted to studying the different forms and techniques of poetry, fiction, and drama (and by drama, I don’t mean the stuff that you need to save for your mama and/or llama).

You’ll read very contemporary works of literature written by authors who haven’t been dead for 100 years, and I assure you there will be NO Shakespeare (I know this is blasphe-my, Mr. Armstrong). After reading and studying these examples, you’ll experi-ment (legally, of course) with the differ-ent styles to create your own original pieces. As for the second nine weeks, we’ll have daily workshops where your classmates will comment on your writing and provide you with helpful feedback that goes beyond “Bro, I liked it.”

If that doesn’t sound like enough fun, you’ll also get to attend the Visit-ing Writers Series at Butler University where you’ll be able to gain some in-sight from professional authors. In ad-dition, we’ll work on submitting your writing to various literary magazines since it’s never too early to start get-ting your stuff out there. I mean, Mary Shelley was 18 when she started writ-ing “Frankenstein;” have YOU written a novel yet? And to help you get some more exposure, we’ll also organize a poetry slam/open-mic event so you can showcase your best writing.

So, if you’ve been craving a cre-ative outlet, this is your chance. Get an application from the guidance office or outside my classroom (J619) and get it turned in ASAP. And make sure you tell your counselor to sign you up!

Creative writer: Ryan Scanlan teaches his first period expository writing . He has taught expository writing and English 12 throughout this school year.

Special thanks to the Washington Township Schools Foundation for providing a grant to help print this edition of The Northern Lights! Don’t forget the Great North Run, Saturday March 10!

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Each issue we ask 24 people one question...

This issue’s question:

Where do you see

yourself in 10 years?

byJacob Zeller

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Owen Friesen

“And that’s why White-out is dangerous,” said se-nior Bill Ristow concluding an impromptu speech cov-ering, as one might guess, the dangers of White-out.

Ristow was given a topic and all of 30 seconds to prepare his speech before speaking for more than three minutes on topics related to White-out, a bliz-zard and a tragic accident involving the spill of liquid White-out on a pair of his favorite white shorts while driving.

Barely waiting for Ristow to exit stage left (his right), senior Mike Blomquist and junior Allyson Stew-art leap to the stage and follow with a performance called a memorized duo.

Theirs is a story of a young crush between Anna played by Stewart and August played by Blomquist. The plot rolls in numerous directions including Anna’s decision to become a nun and August’s move to Can-ada, only to return and take Anna to prom.

Thus begins a Monday practice with the speech team.

Each speech is followed by a critique from team-mates and Joe King.

“Keep dancing even when you’re going to barf,” senior Evan Rogers said.

This may sound like odd advice, but watching Stewart continue her dance routine while she mimes projectile vomiting is extremely comical to her fellow members.

Everyday of the week the speech team holds practices similar to these. With a total of 15 competi-tive events and 50 team members, practice is held in King’s dimly lit classroom, though the dramatic atmo-sphere seems to transcend the typical teaching space.

Each event practices on a separate day, one day a week and Fridays the team comes together in full numbers, usually 44 strong can be found chatting out-side King’s door those afternoons.

Sometimes the team will find itself wide awake at 4:50 a.m. on a Saturday preparing for a day of competition.

“Why am I a part of speech team?” Ristow said, thoughtfully repeating the question to himself. “Getting up so early is always painful, but winning and get-ting to spend time with these kids makes everything worth it.”

Speech team gains steam after season begins

Preparation: Joe King helps students with their lines. The speech team hopes to make it to state for the second year in a row. Owen Friesen photo.

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sActors enjoy performing One Act Plays Erin O’Farrell

Throughout the year, North Central performs many different shows. This month, the One Act Plays were per-formed, with acts including, “The Tell Tale Heart,” “12 Ways To Mess Up a College Interview” and “Small Actors”. Senior Clara Gutwein has been a par-ticipant in One Acts Plays and Rep The-ater since her freshman year. After being an assistant director for last year’s One Act’s, she’s taken on the roll of being a director.

“The One Act [Play] I’m directing was originally ‘13 Ways to Screw Up a Col-lege Interview’, but it is now ‘12 Ways to Screw Up a College Interview,’” Gut-wein said.

The harsh criticism, long auditions and deciding the people who make the One Act Plays come to life have turned into Gutwein’s favorite thing about di-recting.

“It’s my absolute favorite part, you get to judge people really harshly,” Gut-wein said. “You have to give everyone a equal opportunity. They’re some people that try out, and then you want to call them back in ten minutes.”

Junior Kanyun Fultz was one of many to audition and was able to get the part as the sassy director in Small Actors.

“The whole experience has been so fun,” Fultz said. “It’s an act about a girl who lies about a role she got in a school play. It shows her parents guilt tripping her and the consequences follow through the whole play.”

Because of participating in the One Acts Plays the year before, sophomore Amy Lootens decided to try out again because of her positive experience she had last year.

“I decided to do One Act [Plays] be-cause I did them last year and they were really fun,” Lootens said. “Doing One Act [Plays] made me more outgoing and it is always a boost in your self-confidence when you are cast in any production.”

Even though there are three acts, the competition between the acts is not fierce, but friendly.

“I only view it was a competition be-cause you know as a director that it’s completely friendly, “ Gutwein said. “It’s not like [Junior Spectacular] where there is a visible rivalry. Just whenever you have performances, you want to make sure your act was one of the best”

Fultz had nothing but postive feed-back about his experience with One Act Plays.

“It was extremely fun, a great time and really entertaining.” Fultz said.

Vegetarians adapt to school foodNatalie Moore

Eating lunch can be difficult when you are a vegetarian. Many of the options in the cafeteria are meat options, and vegetarians have to adapt.Vegetarians choose not to indulge in these items and select alternative choices or bring their own lunch in order to maintain their style of living.

Some stop eating meat in order to promote animal rights. Junior Aubrey Wells became a veg-etarian when she was five-years-old.

“I was really young and one day for dinner my mom was cooking a chicken,” Wells said. “I don’t know why but I connected it with a live chicken and thought it was bad.”

Others stop eating meat to stay healthy in an environment with lots of pressure to ignore healthy options and choose fast and cheap al-ternatives.

“I decided to become a vegetarian eight months ago because it was a lot healthier,” sophomore Allie Shrader said. “It’s hard because sometimes my friends want to go out and eat hamburgers and I can’t. I’ll probably stop when I’m in college because of all the fast food there and I won’t be able to avoid it.”

Meat provides essential proteins and nutri-

ents. Vegetarians must remain careful that they eat other sources of protein such as nuts or dairy. The cafeteria provides healthy and balanced meals for vegetarian students.

“We always have peanut butter and jelly and the majority of our soups are vegetarian even the broth that it is made with,” service manager An-gie Krause said. “We have side salads and veg-etarian black bean wraps everyday. The larger salads can be made vegetarian and we include a hard boiled egg for protein.”

Shrader, who brings her lunch from home, takes pills to keep her protein levels high.

“There are a lot of supplements out there that you can take,” Shrader said. “They give you the right amount of protein to make up for what you don’t eat.”

The cafeteria recognizes not every student can bring their lunch from home. Each school lunch has vegetarian options everyday.

“If nothing else, we always have a bagel and yogurt option,” Krause said. “That is counted as a full meal and the cream cheese and yogurt count as complete protein. We have meatless Mondays where we have an entree that is usu-ally a pasta dish. On Fridays, we have tuna and egg salad sandwiches. Once a week we try to

include a fish option as well.”Custom lunches can also be arranged ahead

of time with the lunch ladies.“We have two students who came to us at

the beginning of the year and asked for specific meals,” Krause said. “We make them both sepa-rate large salads with no meat and specific in-gredients. If we know they are coming, we can help those who don’t eat meat as much as pos-sible.”

At home, Wells has her parents make her a separate meal full of fruits and vegetables while the rest of her family eats meat products.

“At school there isn’t always a lot for me to eat,” she said. “For dinner I’ll usually have my mom make me a separate meal so I can eat too. I eat a lot of Morning Start, a brand that makes veggie burgers and other foods, and I’m going to try tofu soon. I used to eat bacon but I stopped because I don’t even like that anymore.”

Wells plans to remain a vegetarian for the rest of her life.

“I have been this way for so long that meat isn’t even appealing anymore,” she said. “I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon and I probably won’t eat meat again.”

Looking for ways to celebrate this St.

Patrick’s Day?

These are the top three ways to celebrate on March 17.

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The St. Patrick’s Day parade

Walk along the green Canal

ShamRockin’ the Circle

The 32nd annual parade is on Friday, March 16 at 11:30 a.m. downtown starting at the Veteran’s Memorial Plaza. The parade will feature over 80 units of high school bands, floats, Catholic schools, Irish dancers, local media and ce-lebrities. The parade is free.

Take a walk down the Indianapo-lis Canal as the Canal is dyed the color green. The canal will be-come green starting at 6 a.m. on Friday March 16.

This event features food, music and drinks. ShamRockin’ the Circle will take place downtown on Momu-ment Circle on Saturday, March 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Live band performances will feature Evnan McIntyre, Elevation and Second Fiddle. Food includes bangers and mash, hot dogs, pretzels with cheese and various other foods.

Practicing: Sophomore Austin Kirch (left) and freshmen Matt Conwell (right) practice in the act, Small Actors. The three acts performed were “The Tell tale Heart”, “12 Ways to Mess Up A College Interview” and “Small Actors.” Anna Bennington photo.

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Joanna Canfield

According to the rules, students are not permitted to have water bottles in classes.

Water fountains are set up around the school to allow stu-dents to hydrate, but many students wish to hydrate in class with their own water bottle, however they cannot due to the rule that bans the usage of water bottles in classes. The official rule is that there should be no food or drink outside of the cafeteria.

One of the main reasons for this rule is that some students are irresponsible and would not clean a potential mess that could be createda water spill. The fear is that water on the hard floor could make the floor slippery and hazardous to students.

“Not everyone will clean [their mess] if they spill, ” Principal Evans Branigan said. “Some people will, but the individuals that wouldn’t clean it ruin the chance for others.”

Another reason for this rule is that administrators and teach-ers cannot tell the difference between a clear liquor and water. This difficulty in distinguishing the two liquids would make it eas-ier for students to become intoxicated at school if they choose.

“How do we know that its really going to be water in the bottle? It’s hard to police it,” Branigan said.

Many faculty members understand, respect and implement this rule in class. Social studies teacher Louis Silverman under-stands the necessity and reason for the rule.

“I think a few students ruined it for everyone.” Silverman said. “For every 99 kids you have that one kid who has to have that rule.”

Athletic director Chuck Jones believes hydration is important to students, more specifically athletes, but respects the regula-tion that are implemented at our school.

“It is a big issue with athletics, because of hydration,” Jones said. “The expectation is that our athletes, like any of the other students, follow the school rules. The alternative of not having

a water bottle and or not consuming water in class is to find the nearest drinking fountain and get water there. But, I will say that hydration is an issue for us especially during the fall when we usually have a lot of issues with hydration. We support the school rules, but hydration is definitely an issue for us.”

Some students agree that athletes are not getting the amount of hydration that they need.

“I think students should be allowed to drink water in class,” freshmen Peyton Duwe said. “Athletes and people in gym class-es don’t always have time to drink water in the hallways.”

Although many faculty members agree with the rule, the ma-jority of the student body disagrees. Some students argue that people drink water in class regardless so water bottles should be officially allowed in the classroom. Students also argue that students need to stay hydrated in order to perform well in school.

“Students need their water,” junior Julia Highsmith said. “You need water to keep your brain working and a lot of people don’t like the water fountains because they can be gross.”

Some students do not even know that the rule existed due to the amount of students who break the rule daily.

“We’re not allowed to drink water in class?” junior Addison Smart said. “Well I think that’s sort of dumb. It’s not like kids are drinking soda in class. If you spill water it doesn’t stain the floor like soda.”

Many students believe that the existence of the rule is over-looked and thus not as effective.

“Kids will do it regardless of the rule,” senior Ian Holt said. “There are kids though that aren’t getting as much water and they are getting dehydrated.”

Some students also argue that since many of the surround-ing schools allow water bottle usage, NC students should be allowed the privilege as well. Of the many schools near India-napolis, NC is one of the few schools that does not allow wa-

ter bottles in class. Most schools’ policies allow the decision to be based upon teacher’s discretion.

“Students are allowed to drink water and chew gum at Pike. It’s teacher’s discretion on both,” Pike Assistant Princial Maggie Hernandez said.

Schools that allow students to drink from a water bottle outside of their cafeteria include Lawrence Central, Cathedral, Pike, Lawrence North, Carmel and Zionsville. A majority of pri-vate schools such as Park Tudor and the International school are also allowed to drink water in class.

However there are some schools, like NC, that do not al-low water bottle usage in class such as Bishop Chatard and Arsenal Tech.

“Liquids are not usually allowed at Tech but during the sum-mer they are allowed because it gets extremely hot,” Arsenal Tech dean Temy Hoover said.

Many students believe that with proper monitoring and strict rules about cleaning after water spills, water bottles could be succesfully allowed in class.

“If they are suspicious about water bottles having alcohol they should just shake it up to see if bubbles form or not or they could smell it,” Highsmith said.

Smart also agrees that it would not be that difficult to moni-tor kids who are trying to get intoxicated by appearing to drink water.

“If someone’s drunk you can tell by their behavior,” Smart said. “They would be stumbling around and then their bottle could be checked.”

With the rule being broken by many and the existence of it perplexing the student body, many students view the allowance of water bottles as a possibility in the future if paired with proper regulation.

“If we’re allowed to use cell phones more freely now why can’t we drink water in class?” Smart said.

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NC one of few to ban water in halls, classrooms

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If you want to be a part of a fun and friendly team of employees and are ready to work, send us an email

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If you want to be a part of a fun and friendly team of employees and are ready to work, send us an email to

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Factors limit spring vacation plansEmma Merrell

Spring break is a week that many students spend their second semester dreaming about. There are a variety of places students can go. Many popular destinations have warmer weather, such as Florida, Mexico or islands in the Atlantic. But for many rea-sons, some are not able to travel during this break.

“The main reason I’m not going anywhere is be-cause it’s a recession right now and I want to save money,” freshman Joi Cheatham said. “I chose to stay home, my parents aren’t making me. And honestly, I don’t care that I am not going anywhere. It is just nice to have a break from school.”

Transportation poses the biggest problem. With increasing prices in gas, this spells out trouble for any vacation plans. According to the Lundberg Survey of fuel prices, the national average price for a gallon of gas as of Sunday, February 26 is $3.69. Prices are expected to conintue to rise.

Although students may stay in town due to the high costs of travel, some have other reasons.

“I am staying in town because I want to spend time with my girlfriend,” sophomore Mara Olson said. “She goes to University so we aren’t able to see each other that much other than on the weekends and since we both have the same week for spring break, I will

be able to hang out with her a lot.”Some decide not to dwell on the fact that they’ll

be staying home during the break. “I’ll be hanging with my boyfriend and other friends

who are still in town most likely,” sophomore Carson Meyer said. “I’m also going to try to make it a produc-tive week and do all the stuff I’ve been putting off.”

Students might even have the option of whether they go on vacation with their family.

“My whole family is going to Florida together but I decided not to go with them,” Olson said. “Not only do I want to hang out with my girlfriend during the break, but also I did not want to have to hang out with my family for a whole week with no friends around.”

For those who are staying home, Meyer had rec-ommendations and ideas of what one could do to keep entertained during the week.

“There are so many free events downtown, First Friday is a great example,” Meyer said.

First Friday is a self-guided tour around the India-napolis downtown area that is free and open to the public. Most venues open their doors around 6 p.m. and close around 9 p.m., or later in some locations.

“I think teens have started to ignore the downtown aspect of Indianapolis, there are so many things [In-dianapolis] has to offer,” Meyer said.

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Tied together spring & winter seasonsCarley PrimaveraCaroline Skulski

As glimpses of warmer weather be-gin to peek through the cold, anticipa-tion of the arrival of spring -- and spring fashion -- builds.

“I love wearing skirts and dresses and shorts,” senior Morgan Geeslin said. “Spring weather is so fun because I can break all of it out of my closet again.”

However, the unpredictable nature of Indiana weather can cause frustra-tion for those ready to fully embrace lighter spring clothing.

“The most frustrating thing between winter and spring is when it is warm enough not to wear a jacket, but when you’re outside, you get cold,” junior Zoe Hochman said.

Spring accessories can be some of the easiest ways to make the transi-

tion between warm weather and cold weather, and scarves are a perfect way to tie any outfit together .

“Scarves are easy, comfortable, and stylish,” junior Riley McManus said. “You can wear them with cute flow-ing dresses and long sleeved shirts or sweaters.”

For some, wearing a scarf can be a challenge without the knowledge of creative ways to tie one. Different out-fits require different methods of styling a scarf.

“I don’t know to wrap scarves. I can’t make them look like other people’s,” sophomore Brianna Millen said. “If you don’t wrap the scarf the right way, then the whole outfit looks bad.”

For those with “scarf phobia”, the snapshots to the left show some of the publication staff’s favorite ways to in-corporate a scarf with the spring sea-son’s trends.

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WHAT I KNOW

FEATURING:

Jimmy MillerAlan VickreyBrandon WilliamsonJan WendtDevin WaldonBen KennedyEli HendricksonDarius LathamJohn SherrardAspen HolmesRiley Reist

In this unique section, 11 students and faculty share what they know in first-person accounts. Everyone has a story, enjoy theirs.

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> I describe myself as, an open minded person who tries to see the best in people and tries to stay happy.> I was always the type of guy who just sings in the shower. Growing up I would just walk around my house and sing all the time. I used to have a really high voice, but then it got low. I am starting to be able to hit the high notes again.> Singing in front of people now, hon-estly it kind of makes me nervous to sing in front of people, but I try not to be too shy. > Throughout high school, I’ve learned to just try to use all the opportunities that come to you. There are so many things to do in high school, like I’m in band and I play basketball and I’m just happy I didn’t quit anything and stuck with a lot of things. I think it just makes you a better person in the end. Try different things.> Outside of school I like to hang out with my friends. I really like playing video games, I play Call of Duty games. I’ve been play-ing a lot of Modern Warfare recently. I’m the guy with the headset, who gets online with friends and gets a little group going. Its so fun. > Camping, my grandparents live in Tip-ton, Indiana, so I love the outdoors and I’ve lived in the city all my life but I feel like an outdoors kind of guy, I like being in nature. So I think sophomore year, I’m not sure what year it was but me Hank [Mack] and Philip [Cheng] went hunting in the creek for carp, these huge fish, we got pitchforks, it was fun. > Being outdoors, I just like how it’s natural, the animals, it’s kind of just like the unknown of being in the woods.> I have been playing basket-ball, I guess I should say all my life, because I don’t know, I have seen videos of me as a little kid with just a diaper on and just me on this court throwing the ball around. I had a baseball hat, and I thought the part that was like just the strap, I thought that was for my eyes, so I would put it on and just shoot baskets. It’s a good video I would have to show that to you.> Home videos are so precious.> When I play basketball I just feel free because I just love how its so much running and explosive movements. You use your athleti-cism but you have to use your brain at the same time. It’s just like a fun competition. > Someone who pushes me the most to go after my goals, I don’t know, I would say my parents. I don’t know, I never really had a role model growing up. I have always said just my future self. I try to be what I see myself being in the future. I never really had a good role model. > College, right now it’s between Rose Hulman and Purdue and I applied to both of them and got in for engineering. Those are close and they are like two of the top in the nation. I was really happy and it’s really just coming down to which ever one is cheaper. > My best memory from high school, It was pretty fun watching the team win State sophomore year because I was on junior varsity and I started junior varsity and I got to practice with varsity so I was on the roster and just got to watch them go to Regionals then Semistate then

State. It was a really exciting experience. I hope I can say we win State this year. That would be my best experience ever.> My worst memory from high school, well it is probably my brother dying freshman year, because that is life changing. > In life in general that has taught me, it’s just like nothing is permanent. I think it makes me more great full, like losing someone really close helps me see the value of everything I have because it could be gone the next day. It’s a life changer.> My advice to someone going through something like that would be, you just have to have a strong support sys-tem. You have to, I think on your own just accept-ing it and understanding, I don’t know, understand-ing that that is just the natural cycle of life. It gets better with time. But you can think about it at any time and still feel the same pain.> It changes me as a person, I think just my brother in general has made me the person I am, like when I said I am open minded, that’s the

reason. > It made me and my parents closer, I think it did, that was elementary school and mid-dle school when he was alive, I was just a kid. So I feel like my parents treat me more like a peer now, it is natural when you grow up that parents treat you more like an adult. But yeah his death happened so we moved through it together. > My parents and I hang out, not really, we have dinner together, fishing but I usually bring a friend. There is something about high school, you just want to be independent. > My best friend I would say my best friend like throughout my life is Jacob Lindsay, just be-cause he grew up with me on my street, he’s a senior, he plays trombone. We don’t really talk about anything deep emotionally or our prob-lems but he is just someone I can always have fun with. He always makes me laugh. We play video games, we got really close. He’s my brother from another mother.> Don’t you feel like in high school, no one has just one best friend anymore because you kind of get more independent and hang out with different groups of people? It is a big part of growing up. Not worrying about what other people think.> Hyper or excited, I feel like summer days, when you wake up in the morning and the sun is outside and its super bright and you have a fun day ahead of you. I feel like I get really hyper. You wake up in bed and you are just like yes no school, freedom.> My perfect day I would wake up and my parents would have bacon, eggs, pancakes a huge breakfast buffet for me and I would watch Sports Center while I ate. Then I would be texting all my different friends and they would be like

‘oh yeah, we have something really fun to do’ Then I would just go meet up with friends and do something really fun. I like seeing movies. My perfect day I would see a movie at night. Stay up super late, I like staying up super late it makes me excited, pull an all nighter. I’ll be at Hank [Mack]’s house just playing video games by myself, every-one would be just out on the couch and I am just like, I’m not going to sleep. > My biggest fear is not living up to the potential or disappointing people in my life or not doing what people envision me doing. Like failing at college or not getting a good job. It scares me. > Food I crave the most, definitely Crab Rangoon. I love China buffets like I have a crazy passion for them. I told people when I grow up like if I do engineering and have a successful business I want to open up a Chinese buffet. I just love everything about them, I love the variety and I am always rating them like thinking what I can do to make them better, ever since I was little. Oh and I love crab legs. I am going to make the best Chinese buffet you have ever seen sometime in the future. > After I have accomplished some-thing, one of my goals, I don’t know how to describe it. It is a really good feeling. I was think-ing, wind ensemble and band, whenever we win State, you are up there waiting to hear if you win. And it doesn’t really matter if you win or not be-cause you just performed like you know how you did. But when you hear you won, you did really well and succeeded, that feeling is amazing and you just go crazy with all your friends. > My hero is my brother. Henry. Yeah he is my hero because I think about him a lot.> I told John Mannheimer the other

> AS TOLD TO EMMA TIMPSON > PHOTOGRAPHS BY MAGGIE HUFFER >> AS TOLD TO EMMA TIMPSON > PHOTOGRAPHS

JIMMY MILLERBROTHER, BASKETBALL PLAYER

day I was like ‘I am on a mission to find the truth.’ It is so interesting there are so many differ-ent things, I went on that Young Life trip, and I felt a really good spiritual thing, I consider myself a Christian. But honestly I never really had a strong spiritual relationship with God or anything like that because for the longest time I considered myself an atheist. I actually had a life changing event on the Young Life trip. It was nuts. It was the most beautiful landscape ever and we would have these times where we would go out and sit on the rocks by ourselves and have self reflection time. And we would just sit out there for a half hour. I would have just so many mental blocks just telling me that God doesn’t exist and blah blah blah and I was like just please give me a sign. This deer walks up to me. It was the closest a deer has ever gotten to me and it came out of nowhere and tears just came down my face and it just stared at me. Then it ran away super pow-erfully. It was nuts. I always just think about that whenever I have doubts and I just know. > My best pick up line, I don’t know, I don’t have a good memory of any that I have heard. I would just say “Want to go see a movie sometime?” or “We should go see a movie” be-cause it doesn’t exactly mean you are super into them but it can always lead to something. > When I have to do something but I don’t want to, I just say ‘don’t be soft, just do it.’ I ask myself ‘are you that weak minded that you cant do something?’ I think that is motivation, but I am lazy. I like Stumble Upon and just waste the day. >Next year, I haven’t even thought that much about what it is going to be like. But I am excited for the freedom and what living on my own will be like. Meeting the new people, a new change in life. I just hope it doesn’t make me a different person. It is so scary and different, we have lived under our parents this whole time. I would love to be a kid forever, growing up sucks. We live in a weird society. You have to go to school to be successful and you have to have money to live. It is a crazy world we live in. I stumbled upon something that was like this: This guy was a fish-erman and he lived in a little village and he was poor but happy. He spent time with his family and would catch their food and that is all he did. One day a business guy came and was like ‘Hey you are really good at catching fish you should start selling them so you can make money and then you can expand your business and make more money and then by the end you would be able to retire so you can go fishing everyday and spend time with your family’ so that was cool because at the end that is what he had at the beginning. It is what you already have.>My advice for high school, I think the best thing is to be happy and drama free. I think that is the goal. So I think to do that you shouldn't attach yourself to anything because people go through life and attach to stuff like guys will at-tach themselves to girls or people have to get that grade but you should just learn to be happy with yourself. Accept everything. Try opportunities and try new things because you can meet new people. NC is awesome because there are just so many different people and things. As long as you spend your time doing what you want to do. Do what you want.

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> I have been teaching at North Central for 15 years. Let’s just say that altogether I have been teaching for some 60 percent or so of my life.> My fondest memory of North Central was walking onto the floor at Conseco [Banker’s Life] Field House in March of 2004 and March of 2005 and seeing the tremendous support in the stands for the young ladies that represented the North Central community in the State Basket-ball Championship games. The sense of unity and purpose that was evident those nights are what we take for granted in the daily gathering here in this building. I wish we did not take it so casually , it provides rein-forcement of this great memory for me and how important it is that we all gather for daily re-ally means. > The most ridiculous thing I can remember here is during a presentation in class two students moved from opposite sides of the front of the room at the same time and accidentally “head butted” each other as they attempted to reach for the same thing.> Learn this great les-son as soon as possi-ble: there is so much more to learn every day. We all leave high school thinking we have so much more knowledge than we really do. The sooner we all come to understand that we need positive contributions from each other to help us all live better lives; that education and life in general is a cooperative venture the sooner we begin to live more productive lives. > As it is for most of us in this profession, the greatest compliment we receive is when former students relate the positive impact our presence had in their lives. It is that great lesson that a simple thank you to those who mean the most to you can make the day of another human being.> I initially planned to attend law school but it is amaz-ing how finding a job and making some money and taking on responsi-bilities can change your planning. If I had it to do over again, I would think in terms of being a doctor or an architect. As I become more “wise and experienced” (the only way we refer to aging in our class) I understand and create new structures. > The greatest weakness I have is my lack of discipline. It is probably why I emphasize it so much in teaching and coaching. > The ideal day for me is to get up early, enjoy the morning with a great breakfast and some reading material, have a

brisk walk and then seek to share the afternoon and evening with the people I care most about either by going to a movie, having lunch or dinner together, watching some of out favorite shows and having conversation groups.> Given the choice, I would keep all my memories rather than be able to make new ones. As a history lover and teacher, I would want to

know how I got here, what I did, who was influential, some of the whys and certainly reflect on the contribution of this life. > Social networking could easily prove to be the greatest democratizing agent in history as well as the most dangerous threat to privacy and weapon of oppression in his-tory. > The most significant event in my life was getting married. Simply put, marriage demands more of us as human beings than any other relationship we will form. It is a daily test and opportunity for growth. There are days of great happiness and some of the low-est lows we ever experience. It is a constant challenge to re-main grounded and learn to live a balanced, humble existence. The world is not just about you anymore and you must be will-ing to give first. It has been and continues to be the greatest learning experience of my life.> The favorite thing about coaching wom-en’s basketball was going to the practice floor and teach-ing the game to a group who was excited about learning and getting better every day. There is nothing better for a teacher than to be in an enthused, ex-cited classroom and be able to work with students who want to know how to succeed and are

willing to listen to and experiment with a methodology of success you as a teacher believe will help their lives. > The greatest memory of coaching is March 6, 2004 when upon return to North Central for a pep rally celebrating our first state championship, I was able to present a championship medal to the Lamberg family, the parents of Chris Lamberg. Chris was a student manager for our team from 2002 and on the night before the regional game in 2003 died in an automobile accident. The 2003-04 team dedicated the season to him and in his honor all our team clothing that year included his initials. The first thing we did at that pep rally was to bring them forward and give them Chris’s medal for his contribution to the success of our program. It was a great moment for all of us.

> AS TOLD TO KATIE HANNON > PHOTOGRAPH BY MAGGIE HUFFER >> AS TOLD TO KATIE HANNON > PHOTOGRAPH BY MAGGIE HUFFER >

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TEACHER, COACH

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> I play piano, I just started this year. > I don’t think that money creates happiness. Basically self knowledge creates happiness.> I’d like to stop being so lazy with school and become more moti-vated.> If I could move anywhere I’d love to move to San Fransico be-cause I like the weather in California.> Next year, I am going to Indiana University but I am undecided in what I want to major in as of now.> My opinions on Obama would be that he’s okay but I don’t think any of the presidential candidates are really that exciting, including Obama. > My celebrity crush would be Katy Perry. Now she’s single so who knows.> If a movie was made about my life Johnny Depp would play me and that would be sick.> My best piece of advice would be don't over think things, keep it simple. > My hobbies all involve art. > Fire by the Monon in Broad Ripple, I do food running and bussing for them. > Mostly Indie and art rock, my favorite band would be Modest

Mouse.> I really would love to go anywhere cold. Northern Europe, Am-sterdam and Russia would be awesome.> All the people that I’ve met at NC have influenced my social deveopement by a lot because all the diverse people.> Tall dark and handsome would be my match.com profile. > Party Rock Anthem describes my life pretty well.

> My favorite hobby is running because it allows me to think in a way I normally couldn’t, it clears my head.> In my free time I will exercise, hangout with friends, play sports, sleep, and I love freestyle-rapping with my homies.> When I arrived in the U.S., I couldn’t decide what to do first, play baseball or go socialize. Everything was so happening and I liked it a lot.> After high school my plan is to get an internship in my major of choice and study abroad. I will go to school at Indiana University at Bloom-ington or in Canada.> In Canada the outdoor life is so beautiful. When I am there I hangout with my dad and friends and I will go skiing, hiking, watch hockey games, skate and swim in lakes. The weather is more climatic than here in the U.S.> Sports are a big thing in my life, which I love to do. I have played many sports such as, baseball, hockey, Lacrosse, kickball, and bas-ketball.> In life I want to make myself proud each day I live. I want to be a chem-ical engineer, scientist or a skiing instructor as my future career. All of my life I wish to keep my health, and also keep my family and friends in my life.> If I could live anywhere, I would live in Sea Island, Georgia because I love the south and I could relax there forever.> My friends will joke around more than anything. We all love and will go to parties together. With some of my friends I will play basketball, long-board and exercise for fun. We live the high school life to the fullest!> My biggest fear in life is losing my identity.> It’s a debate to think of what my happiest moments in life are. Either when I first got my license, moving to Indiana, or going to the Canadian Little League World Series when I was 13.> I’d get on Twitter and write the most awesome tweets. I’d also see the idiotic things people post. It’s funny what words will do. Even when you

know they’re bogus, you still see them.> It takes a year to get through 365 days. Except for a leap year, that takes 366.> I still have my identity.> As I’ve grown older, I have learned to never regret things in life. I will make a decision and never look back because you can’t change what’s already happened, unless you create some kind of time machine.> I want to be the first person to walk on the sun.

> For this basketball season I hope to win state, that’s all. Just win state. I have my mind on the state title.> Between basketball and football, I see myself playing foot-ball in the future because of my size and I have better offers for football. I just feel undersized in basketball so I feel more passionate about football.> The weirdest thing I have heard chanted at a basketball game was, when they called Wade Stallings “Gary Coleman.” > I started selling Frooties way back in middle school like 7th grade. I make bank off of them, but i have to stop selling soon.> When D’vauntes Smith-Ri-vera left, he made his own decision based on what was best for him and I think the team is playing good without him this year.> In my free time I just chill with my family and friends. I think of my bas-ketball team as my family.> I get hype by listening to music and dancing. I bump that song “Bought a Chickin” by Gucci and everybody can hear it bumpin’ from out my headphones.> After high school I want to go to college and play football. I also want to major in business.> After school I can be found chilling with my family and being with me, myself and I.> My idol back in the day was Shaq since he was a big dude, but now I don’t really look up to anyone. Julius Peppers would be my idol for football I guess> I got my “big business” tattoo be-cause I’m big business. That’s why.> I’m worried about that state title. I just want to win another one.> To get prepared for a game I like to dance to get into the mood, listen-ing to music and dancing really just gets me hype.> I’ll eat mostly anything as long as it is good. > In the locker room everyday the team is just having fun. We fight, we joke around and just like to have a fun time because we are just like a family.

BEN KENNEDY

ELI HENDRICKSONCREATIVE MIND

> AS TOLD TO ROMAN BAISA > PHOTOGRAPH BY GRAYSON PITTS >

> AS TOLD TO DEMI SCHNORR > PHOTOGRAPH BY GRAYSON PITTS >

PERPETUAL OPTIMIST

BIG BUSSINESS> AS TOLD TO PATRICK KUHN> PHOTOGRAPH BY MAGGIE HUFFER >

DARIUS LATHAM

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> I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and lived there untill I was 15 years old.> I have attended NC since sophmore year and enjoy it more than the schools I attended in Cincinnati.> My favorite thing about high school is being a member of the school’s wrestling team.> I am planning on attending college at IUPUI and majoring in psychology.> This year the wrestling team was a fun team to be a part of. We all worked hard and Will Clinkscales advanced to the state finals.> The most interesting class I have taken at NC was Eng-lish with Megan Crain. We had debates and the class was very different from what I expected. > I plan on voting for Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential elec-tion.> My favorite profesional athlete is Lebron James because he is the greatest.> My greatest inspiration is my mom because she has sacrificed so much to make my life better. > I am most proud of being able to graduate from NC in the class of 2012.> The most challenging part about living with one hand is feeling like I always have to prove myself.> I overcome some of these challenges by lifting weights with my coaches. My coaches always help me work to the best of my ability and they also motivate me to be better.

> It is not difficult to face a wrestling opponent without the same disability because when I’m in the ring it does not stop or affect me. I want to beat him even more. > I wrestle in the 285 pound weight class. My greatest ac-complishment this season was winning my match against Carmel. It was very close but I won and helped my team.> My favorite childhood memory was when my mom bought me an air hockey table. It is a regulation size table like the ones at a movie thearter. I still have it in my basement at home.> The coach who has helped me the most is Coach Mocek because he is a phenominal coach and leader. He helped me all through the summer and really made an effort to improve my wrestling skills.

> My favorite high school memory was when our basketball team went to Semistate and we played at Butler. I was on the cheerleading team so we got to go too. I went to Rushville Consolidated High School. > I have been teaching for 33 years.> In high school I was a cheerleader and nerd.> I grew up in Rushville, Indiana.> As I kid I was very good. I didn’t get into much trouble. I was safe. > The hardest thing I have ever had to overcome was ovarian cancer. It is a scary thing. It could have gone south. I am coming up on the two year mark of when I was first diagnosed. Each month you get past your odds increase. I don’t live worried but when it gets close to those appointments I get anxious. > The first thing I thought about when I learned I had cancer was my kids. I didn’t want them to have to lose their mom, too. > I would tell my 17-year-old self to have more fun. I would tell myself to try a lot of new things especially in college. Take risks, not stupid ones and get outside your comfort zone. Try for a leadership position. I didn’t take advantage of all the opportunities I had and that is one of my biggest regrets. > I would describe my kids as beautiful, balanced, intelligent, caring, purposeful and fun. My kids are twins. Anna and Michael are both studying at Indiana University. Anna is studying to be an elementary teacher

and Michael is studying health administration. > The hardest thing about being a parent is self doubt. So, when I asked myself am I giving them enough? Am I teaching them the right things? I want to set them on the right track. > The hardest thing about teaching is the discipline. I don’t mind grading but I don’t like dealing with kids who come to the school with the wrong attitude. > With the departure of C E Quandt I am looking to see Branigan as a leader. I can already tell he is positive. He has good things to say about teachers.

> I believe half of what I hear and most of what I see.> Everything is a different form of art to someone else, nothing is really the same.> You can’t really say you don’t like anything if you don’t give it a try.> Society is forever changing, it’s always going to change, it’ll never be the same, and we’re going to have to keep adjusting to it.> There’s always a [social] class that has nothing. No one should have nothing.> Every body wants to be rich.> God, and then money.> Your inner conscious, telling you good or bad, that’s God speaking to you.> Enjoy it, I mean, you only live once.> Sometimes you have to go through the conflict to get through the situation.> When it happens it hap-pens, you can just try to avoid it as much as possible. > You can’t change it, it’s what you’re going to do after the fact.> Sometimes even family can be hard to trust, because you don’t know what is going on in that person’s mind.> When it’s all said and done, all you got is family.> If you can’t forgive, God won’t forgive you, but sometimes it’s harder to do than you think.> It’s someone that does extraor-dinary things all the time, not just once.> Maybe I could take art and run with it.> When you’re a kid you can imagine anything, and it’ll hap-pen right in front of you. I feel like I can make that happen on a piece of paper, or on someones skin with a tattoo. > Eventually I got better, but I was never as good as now. If I knew now back then, I would probably be the best artist ever.> Repetition is the father of learn-ing, Wayne said that.

> AS TOLD TO SARAH PANFIL> PHOTOGRAPH BY BILAL JAWED>

> AS TOLD TO CARLEY PRIMAVERA> PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNA BENNINGTON >

> AS TOLD TO KYLE BYDLON> PHOTOGRAPH BY MAGGIE HUFFER >

DEVIN WALDON

JAN WENDT

BRANDON WILLIAMSON

SURVIVOR

WRESTLER

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NA$A Team is a family. We’ve been together for a long time. We started making music about a year ago and we recently dropped our first mixtape called “Tree-1-7.”We got our mixtape out by passing them out at halftime of one of the basketball games. My friend Nick bought all of the copies and we just handed them out to the fans. When we got to the student section we ran out and Angela Britton-Smith told us we weren’t al-lowed to hand out any more CDs.The success of Tree-1-7 surprised me. I really didn’t expect it to do as well as it did. It reached new people and we gained some new fans.The new fans are really supportive. They make me want to make more music not just for me, but for them. I just want all of them to like the music.I plan to keep making music. Not necessarily mixtapes, but we want to drop a couple of singles. Once we’re out there more we will prob-ably make another mixtape. Hopefully by April and can start working on my own.We get our music out by just putting it up on the intranet. Richie Waldon puts it up on sites like Datpiff and Youtube.Our new stuff is kind of just floating around in our heads right now, you know nothing is really solid yet. We are trying to get a demo out that will mostly be club bangers. Our last mixtape was pretty mel-low with a couple hype songs on it but now we’re looking to put out eight or nine pure bangers.My inspiration came from a lot of different rappers. I listen to all types of music and drew my inspiration from everywhere. If I had to pick two rappers that have inspired me the most it would have to be Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa. My favorite song out right now is really anything off of Tyga’s new mixtape but Rack City has really stuck out to me.My favorite Tree-1-7 song is “Apollo Heights. I like this one just because i made the beat and it was my first experience with pro-ducing, and it also helped that a lot of other people liked it.

My style is my own. When i first started off i tried to do a balance of Wayne’s style and Wiz’s style and out of that I began to find my own individual style.I am most similar to not really anybody, but a lot of people say that I act like Big Sean. I don’t know how they know that because I’m pretty sure that none of them have actually met Big Sean.NA$A Team will try to keep it fresh and just have new music out there to listen to. Hopefully we can drop some new songs and get them out there for people to listen to.NA$A team began at school. We have always been at the same school and we have just grown close over the past several years.Our first song was called Word Around Town. I made it last year with my friend Jimmy. We went over to his house after school last year and we would just record. Tony Carter was on it with me but we never dropped it .It was more a song to see if we could actually do it.The members of NA$A team are Jaron Sherard (Money), Richie Wal-don (Richy Rich), Devin Waldon (Waldo), Tony Carter, Da Ron Vinice (Bugs), and Me (Looney).

> For fun I dance. I dance all the time. I started when I was eight and haven’t stopped. I used to be in competitions, which were really fun.> My ‘sassyness’ comes from my mom. She is just like me in the sense that she is outgoing and loud. I am also a lot like my grandpa, who is also fun and exciting.> For the blood drive I will be giving blood. My commercial on the news was so more people can come out and save lives.> I’m different from everyone else because I have ex-perienced a lot more than others. During my sophomore year, my father passed away due to a heart attack.> My life changed when we discovered my sister has terminal brain cancer. It was very sad for my family and myself. She currently is going through radiation, but is still unable to walk. Occasionally she can hold herself up, but the whole situation is really sad. > It has affected my family a lot. It has brought my mom and

I farther apart because of the mass amounts of stress that is put on both of us. It can be really emotional at times also, whether it is good or bad news. > For the cause, I personally have done a lot. The opperations and surgeries have been really expensive, so we have sold bracelets in honor of her. Olivia Snyder has also done a lot to help raise money for everything. > I have learned to cherish every moment. Not just with my sister, but everyone. I wasn’t as close with my father, but I lived every moment with him as well as I could. People can leave your life so quickly. I have also have realized that something is not as big of a deal as you think it is. > I have grown the strongest from seeing my friends and family at their lowest points. Seeing someone that you think is so strong, look weak, is a terrible feeling. I know I have to be strong for them in any situation, which has really made me grow as a person.

> Playing number one singles as a freshman was pretty cool. I didn’t know what to expect so I could play freely and adjust to high school play.> Last season we went to state as a team and came in second. Personally, I lost in the state semi-finals to a Center Grove player by one set.> Next year you always go into the sea-son looking toward state. Last season I only lost like four matches, so next season my goal is to lose less than that and when it comes time to play for state, lose less to win there.> I am pushed by Marc Anderson. That man gets me jacked. He always pushes me to work as hard as I can.> I left school two periods early everyday my freshman year. I just went and trained for four hours. Now I wake up around 4:50 a.m. or 5 two to three days a week and play in the morning.> I’ve been told my style is most like Novak Djokovic. People say my stroke is similar to his and sometimes I try to mimic his style of play.> At five years old my dad put a tennis racket in my hand. He used to play professionally and he taught me. He’s been my biggest support.> Colleges have already started to talk to me. I’ve gotten emails from IU, LSU, Michigan State and TCU mostly. > I placed second at the Midwest and made it to the 32nd round of the Claycourt Tournament.> I love Kentucky basketball because I have two cousins that played there. Ryan Hogan and Kevin Greavy.> Grind is a term I use to keep me moti-vated. I’m always grinding. I’d say the biggest grinders at NC are myself, Nolan Schlonoger and Timmy Evans.

> AS TOLD TO NATHAN MEYER > PHOTOGRAPH BY GRAYSON PITTS >

JOHN SHERARDRAP ARTIST

> AS TOLD TO IZZIE MILLER >

> AS TOLD TO OWEN FRIESEN> PHOTOGRAPH BYMAGGIE HUFFER >

ASPEN HOLMESDANCER, SISTER

RILEY REIST TENNIS PLAYER

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BOYS BASKETBALL

BOYS BASKETBALL

BOYS BASKETBALLFUN FACTS

Pike Nov. 23

Hamilton SoutheasternDec. 17

Holiday Tournament Dec. 30

Holiday Tournament Dec. 30

County Tournement Championship Jan. 1 vs. Ben Davis

Pendleton HeightsFeb. 21

vs. Hamilton Southeastern

vs. KokomoNovember 23 was the Panthers first game of the season. Both the girls and boys varsity teams played against Pike in the Fri-day night match-up. Following the girls 53-47 victory the boys team played the fourth ranked Red Devils led by Georgia State bound senior R.J. Hunter. 11 different players played in the game. Senior Ronnie Johnson led the team in scoring with 22 points.

Saturday, December 17, the Panthers hosted the top ranked Hamilton Southeast-ern Royals. At the time the Panthers were ranked second, creating a match up of the top two teams in the state. In the previous game the Panthers lost to Carmel forfeiting their top rank to Hamilton Southeastern.

The game featured four Big 10 recruits Zak Irvin (Michigan), Gary Harris (Michigan State) Patrick Ingram (Iowa) and Ronnie John-son (Purdue).

Going into the game Gary Harris led the Royals averaging 20 points, 7 rebounds, 5 steals and 4.5 assists.

With a sellout crowd of 3,200 people, the Panthers and the Royals fought for the first half.

The Panthers held a 42-39 lead at half-time. The third quarter the Royals outscored the Panthers 26-19 to give the Royals a 65-58 lead going into the fourth quarter. The Panthers won the game by the score of 81-76.

Ronnie Johnson shot 53 percent from three point range shooting 7-13. Harris had 35 points shooting 50 percent from the field and 12-13 from free throw line.

The Panthers played a Ben Davis team who gave the team one of their four regular season losses.

Ben Davis began the game with the lead and maintained the lead through halftime. The first quarter found the Giants with a 19-13 ad-vantage behind three three-pointers from ju-nior guard Tony Wills. At halftime, Ben Davis ad the lead 34-28.

With 1:50 left to play in the third quarter North Central tied the game at 43-43 behind a three-pointer by Patrick Ingram.

The game was tied 45-45 going into the fourth quarter. The Giants took the lead at 61-59 with 30 seconds left in the game. Sophomore Jeff Harris hit a three-pointer to put the Panthers up 62-61 with 20 seconds remaining in the game. After hitting some free throws the Panthers ended with the 65-61 victory.

Ronnie Johnson led all scorers with 27 points hitting five 3-pointers. Patrick Ingram had 15 points.

Senior night came when the Panthers hosted fourth ranked Pendleton Heights and Butler recruit Kellen Dunham.

Coach Doug Mitchel started all four seniors on the team as the Panthers began the game with a slow start due to Pendleton Heights’ tough defense. The Panthers ended the first quarter only scoring 10 points to Pendleton Heights’ 18 points. The boys cut into the early eight point deficit ending the half at 29-33. Defense continued to be a fac-tor as the third quarter ended at 36-39 in fa-vor of Pendleton Heights. The Panthers went on a late fourth quarter run taking the lead after two fast breaks including an alley-oop from Ronnie

Johnson to Patrick Ingram. Pendleton Heights overcame the Panthers run and went on to win the game 56-61.

Kellen Dunham scored 28 points shooting 67 percent from the field. Dunham also went 10-11 from the free throw line. Ronnie Johnson scored 20 points shooting 32 percent from the field. The Panthers overall shot 42 per-cent compared to Pendleton Heights 55 per-cent. The Panthers outrebounded Pendleton Heights 32-17.

The first round of the tournament, North Cen-tral played an unranked Kokomo team led by Evansville recruit D.J. Balentine. The two teams ex-changed leads throughout the game. The Panthers went on a 10-0 run in the fourth quarter to gain a 64-58 lead at the 5:19 mark. The Panthers won the high scoring game 71-68 after junior Darius Latham hit 4-4 free throws to close the game.

Balentine finished the game with 26 points and Latham finished the game with 14 points and 13 rebounds.

The Panthers went on to play Hamilton South-eastern in the championship after the Royals beat Pendleton Heights 62-57 in the first round of the tournament.

This match up was a rematch from the game earlier the season where the Panthers beat Ham-ilton Southeastern 81-76.

The Panthers had a 26-23 lead after the first quarter but Hamilton Southeastern finished the first half on top with a 43-38 lead. The Royals extended their lead to as much as 71-50 in the third quarter. Ronnie Johnson was limited through-out the game with only five points after the third quarter. The game ended as a 80-89 defeat for the Panthers.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL

GIRLS BASKETBALL

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Sectionalsvs.

Hamilton Southeastern

Sectionals vs. Carmel

Sectional Championshipvs.

Westfield

Regional vs. McCutcheon

After beating the top ranked team in the state, the girls basketball team had to retain their momentum in order to continue their win-ning streak. This being the game determining whether they went to state, the ladies had to give it their all.

“We brought all that we had to the table and came into the game with a mindset to win,” starter Chelsea Coleman said.

The girls never lost the lead finishing a domi-nant game with a 15 point lead and winning 65-50.

The team was lead by three players, Nariah Taylor, Celeste Edwards and Jasmine Falcon. Taylor had 19 points and 10 rebounds. Falcon

had 16 points and Edwards had 18 points, hitting 10 of 13 from the free throw line. North Central finished 21 of 34 from the floor, shooting 62 percent and outrebounded Penn 30-15.

“Knowing that we are going to state is just an amazing feeling” Shelbi Owens said.

The ladies have come a long way since the beginning of the season to now.

“We have matured so much this season, its just great to see it through all of our wins,” said Chelsea Coleman.

With a record of 23-5 the ladies have one more game to determine that they really are the best in the state. on the State final.

Regional Championshipvs.

Fort Wayne Snider

Semistate vs. Penn

In the second round of the Sectional tournament, the girls basketball team beat the Carmel Greyhounds on February 10 with a score of 59-48.

The Greyhounds were ranked 20th in state.

The Panthers were pleased with the vic-tory over Carmel in the second round of the Sectional tournament.

“It was a proud accomplishment to have won against Carmel,” Chelsea Cole-

man said.

Hamilton Southeastern was the top ranked team in the state with an unde-feated record of 20-0, which was until first round of sectionals. Girls basketball started strong with the win against Hamil-ton Southeastern.

“It feels great to beat the number one team in the state, feels like we should be number one now” said Penny Ingram.

With the final score of 42 to 39 the lady panthers came out with a victory. The team stayed at a strong lead through the whole game. The girls were excited about this big win but knew that this was just the beginning and it was not over.

“We have to get focus and go hard in everything we do,” Nariah Taylor. said With one more game ahead of them they had to stay mentally prepared.

The Carmel Sectional championship had the Panthers playing Westfield. Westfield’s record going into the game was 14-8 with wins against Noblesville (9-12) and Zionsville (4-17) in the first two rounds of Sectionals.

The Panthers defeated Westfield by the score of 50-60.

With the last game of Regional Cham-pionship the girls basketball team came in strong and prepared defeating the Fort Wayne Snider girls team of a final score of 47 to 33.

“We knew [Fort Wayne Snider] was a fast pace team, but we also knew we could slow them down,” Nariah Taylor said.

The Fort Wayne Snider’s tea had a very strong and fast player Akilah Sims.

“I knew we were going to have to stop her from going to the bucket” said Nariah Taylor.

The game was fast moving but the girls handled it well.

“We were able to control the tempo of the game, thats what kept us up.”

Nariah Taylor said.

The girls basketball team will face-off against the Bull Dogs of Columbus North this Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in the Hulman Center at Terre Haute.

Columbus North is ranked tenth in the state with a 23-3 record as well as sharing the Con-ference Indiana title with Bloomington South. Their three loses were against Pike, Green-wood and Seymour. The Panthers defeated Pike

during the regular season. Another op-ponent that the team shares

with Columbus

North is Lawrence North. Columbus North beat Lawrence North during the regular season. Law-rence North beat the Panthers this during the regular season.

The coaches together combine for three years of experience with DeeAnn Ramey in her first year as head coach and Pat McKee in his second year at Columbus North. Columbus North is on a 19 game win streak. The 4A State finals will feature two young coaches, coaching two underdog stories.

In each stage of the tournament the Panthers were not considered favorites but continued to

win. Be sure to check nchslive.com for updates on the State final.

State Preview vs. Columbus North

The girls basketball team ousted the Mc-Cutcheon Mavericks in the first round of the IHSAA Regionals. With a final score of 55 to 45 the girls took another big win.

“It was a good win for us, we played hard” Nariah Taylor said.

Although the girls took home another win, they tied up at one point in the game and went into overtime.

The ladies played a strong game and knew that they could not give up regardless of the tied score.

“We had to stay focus on the ultimate goal and that is going to state” Celeste Ed-wards said.

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athletics

aStaffer faces sophomore runner Staffer faces sophomore runner

BEN vs. Jocelyn Miller

Swimmer places 1st at State

Much recognition in NC athletics goes to seniors. They are naturally the leaders, the most confident and the most experienced on the team. However, the girls track and field team have come across a pleasant sur-prise. With impressive athletic abilities, including a 290 lb squat, sopho-more Jocelyn Miller and her abnormal athleticism are hoping to help lead the Panthers to a successful 2012 season.

The sophomore sensation sounded very intriguing and I, Ben Breymier, had to see for myself how good Miller was. Therefore, I challenged her in the 55 meter dash outside on the track. With my proper attire, I felt well equipped but wasn’t so sure what to expect about the end result.

To my surprise the race came down to just a few steps without much of a clear winner. Visit NCHS Live! to decide for yourself.

Miller has been running for eight years and doesn’t show any signs of stopping soon. Her best event is the 200 meter, which she has clocked in at a personal best 00.24.08. Despite her underclassman status she has been vital to the team since her freshman year.

“I went to finals for state last year for the 100 meter and 200 meter, but wasn’t happy with my placing. I received sixth place in both but my hamstring was partially the reason for my performance. I know I could have done better if my hamstring was 100 percent,” Miller said.

While being on the varsity track and field team as a freshman, there are many valuable lessons learned early in an athletic career.

“My freshman year I learned that you need to find who your true friends are and the ones who will help you along the way,” Miller said. “Going to state last year was great but I’m determined to do even better this year,”

But with benefits of being a young starter, comes the pressure of knowing there a target on your back.

“I know I have to work harder than anybody else. The upper classman

are good and experienced and I have to continually grind it out, knowing I’m only a sophomore.

With such dedication to improve her times and help NC have a major impact this season, Miller does not have much of an offseason.

“I’m constantly training. I run year-round with the exception of two months to give myself a recovery time span, but I lift and weight train non-stop throughout the year,” Miller said.

The track and field team is very busy working out and focusing on im-proving from last season. Due to the offseason and preseason workouts, Miller feels the team will be strongly competitive.

“My prediction for this season is that our 4 by 1 is going to state and I personally have my eyes on winning state as an individual,” Miller said.

Carley Primavera

The IHSAA boys swimming and diving sea-son officially came to a close last Saturday. NC performed well and placed 5th overall in the IH-SAA State meet at the IUPUI Natatorium. Carmel edged Bloomington South by less than one and a half points to win their third consecutive state title. The final score amounted to 246.5 to 245.3, the closest finish in 23 years.

“I thought Bloomington South had it,” junior Joe Steinkamp said. “I felt so bad for them. I wanted someone other than Carmel to win.”

The Carmel win left many NC athletes with a bitter taste in their mouth. NC swimming and diving lost one of their key senior swimmers to Carmel this year, Zach Banks.

“The fact that Carmel won by 1.5 points and had a kid that went to our school on their team was really frustrating,” senior Wade Costin said.

NC scored 151.6 and beat 15 other teams. The list of NC athletes that qualified to compete in the State tournament because of their sectional performance includes:

Divers Anthony McHough and Scott Stewart qualified for the Regional meet for their individual diving performances. The top eight from the Re-gional meet advanced to the State meet.

Costin took home the State metal for his per-formance in the 500 yard freestyle event. Costin

ousted his other competitors in the event with a time of 4:33.09200 seconds.

“When I won, I kind of freaked out. I worked for four years to get there. I didn’t go into the meet that day expecting to win,” Costin said.

Other athletes to place in the state meet in-cluded Joe and Ted Steinkamp. Ted Steinkamp placed 6th in the 50 freestyle and Joe Steinkamp placed 9th in 200 freestyle event. Joe Steinkamp

placed 9th in the 200 freestyle relay. NC placed 5th in 200 freestyle relay and 9th in the 100 freestyle relay. NC also placed 3rd in the 400 freestle relay.

NC had a highly successful season. The team placed first at the IHSAA Sectional meet and won the majority of their dual meets and placed 5th overall at the State meet.

Swimmer places 1st at State

Swimming State: The boys swimming and diving team competed downtown in the State competition. Senior Wade Costin won an individual State title. Chris Hansen Photo.

A photo finish: This screen capture shows Breymier and Jocelyn Miller crossing the finish line. Tweet @NCHSLive to say who you think won. Vincent Holloway

Boys Varsity and JV Baseball Home Schedule

Saturday April 7- Varsity/JV vs Terre Haute South at North Central 10 a.m.

Thursday April 12- Varsity/JV vs Center Grove at North Central 5 p.m.

Friday April 20- Varsity/JV vs Carmel at North Central 5 p.m.

Wednesday April 25- Varsity/JV vs Kokomo at North Central 5 p.m.

Thursday April 26- Varsity/JV vs Warren Central at North Central 5 p.m.

Tuesday May 1- Varsity vs New Palestine at North Central.

Wednesday May 2- Varsity vs Lawrence Central Lawrence North at North Central.

Monday May 7- JV vs Lebanon at North Central 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday May 8- Varsity vs Ron-calli at North Central 5 p.m.

Wednesday May 9- Varsity/JV vs Ben Davis at North Central 5 p.m.

Saturday May 12- Varsity vs Cathedral, Franklin Community, Lake Central Indy Classic at North Central 10 a.m.

Monday May 14- Varsity/JV vs Southport at North Central 5 p.m.

Wednesday May 16- Varsity Sectional at North Central 5 p.m.