CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 50, Issue 4Friday, April 3, 2015

EDITOR IN CHIEF: SELMA KOVAC

CHS

ASSISTANT EDITOR: FATUMA MNONGERWA

FLIGHTDrama Club

presents “Chicago”

NEWS PAGE 3 SPORTS PAGE 4

ONLINE EDITOR: BRANDON GARBER

Spring sportsseasonsbegin

Two sisters perform successfully Charlie MatthewsNEWS EDITOR

Two sisters were awarded the top prize at the annual talent show. Junior Abby Orlovich said, “The Talent Show was extremely success-ful”. In fact she was behind stage helping people who were par-ticipating and getting ready to go out on to the stage and perform. A whopping three hundred people at-tended the show with an entry fee of $2. Orlovich said, “The price seemed fair, because it wasn’t too much or too little in this case it worked out perfectly for everyone. Because if there was money issues they were willing to work with you and help.” Capital High’s Student

Council sponsored and helped out with the Talent Show by advertising and help-ing students backstage with any problems they encountered. Orlovich said, “I was back stage helping everyone and preparing everyone to go out on stage.” Finally when performers went out on stage they were “phe-nomenal and extremely impressive! Plus the Talent Show went very well for most of our students.” Sophomore Emma Cole had also competed in the talent show. Cole said, “The perfor-mance went as planned because we rehearsed a lot. My sister (Lexi Cole) and I played a piano and cello duo, we played with little mistakes and we won the “Best Performance” award.”

Junior Maddi Zahm and Junior Marcus Bur-ington also participated they received the “Most Creative” award for singing “Wanted” by Hunter Hayes. They have been rehearsing the talent show for two years. Zahm said, “ it went pretty well. Marcus is typically pretty shy.” According to Orlov-ich, other participants in the show did re-ally well, I was re-ally impressed with the performance by everyone.”Orlovich was surprised at how smoothly everything ran and how fast the show went no major problems occurred. Orlovich said, “Other wise the show might have had to reschedule if problems were pres-ent.”

LEFT: Junior Sawyer Wilcox beatboxes for his talent show performance. TOP RIGHT: Senior Lexi Cole and Sophomore Emma Cole wave to the audience as they get the “Best Performance” award. MIDDLE RIGHT: Seniors Alyssa Reichel and Kassidy Brady perform a song for their talent.BOTTOM RIGHT: CHS club performs a scene from their play “Chicago”.

Dance and Cheer dominate competitions

Piano and Cello duo

Fatuma MnongerwaSPORTS EDITOR

The cheerleaders placed first in show at the Treasure Valley Cheer Invitational on Feb. 7. Senior Hannah Wolt-ers said, “The routines contain a dance, cheer, stunts, and tumbling.” Senior Ivy Faulkner said, “It was a great experience and we were all very excited”. The Cheerleaders competed in two com-petitions this season. Senior Audrey Er-ickson said, “The only challenge in cheerlead-ing is the busy sched-ule of cheering for sometimes four games a week while trying to prepare three competi-tion routines”.

Cheerleader Captains are seniors Audrey Erickson, Hannah Wolters, and Creedence Johnston. Coach and Econom-ics teacher Tara Nie-derer said, “There are a lot of great schools and great programs in the valley. It is fun to see everyone compete and show off their skills.”

On Feb. 28 the Gold-en Girls competed in Districts amongst other school dance groups and qualified for State Championships. The Golden Girls en-tertain the audience at games and the students at assemblies. The Golden Girls perform at games to practice for the Districts and State competitions. The dance team has competed in multiple

competitions this year and will be competing in more. The Captain is se-nior Mariah Hansen, Co-Captain is senior Christina Loper and the Officers are seniors Nivetha Srinivasan, Kelsey Baldner, Jessica Medek, Jenny Lunte. Loper said, “This sea-son of dance has been amazing. I’m blessed for everyday I get to dance and our team has came a long way.” Hansen said, “Our last competition was Dis-tricts. We qualified 4 out 5 routines to take to State. We placed 2nd in Kick which was a huge accomplishment and most importantly we beat Rocky Mountain High School.”

Cheerleaders rock the remainder of their season

Golden Girls are headed to State

Cheerleaders rowdy the crowd during a football game against Borah on October 16th.PHOTO BY BAILEY GARNER

PHOTOS BY HAYDEN JOHNSON

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News Friday, April 3, 2015

Editor: Charlie Matthews

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NEWSCharlie Matthews

NEWSAndrew Sargent

ENTERTAINMENTSelma Kovac

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Community gathers for Club Unified Joseph AlcornOPINION EDITOR

LEFT: Juniors Lillian Boggan and Skylar Hunt practice playing basketball.TOP RIGHT: Juniors Madeleine Zahn and Marcus Burrington posed for a photo during the Club Unified basketball practice.BOTTOM RIGHT: Senior Houlton Price waits his turn to practice his warm up shots.

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Brandon RamirezSPORTS EDITOR

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Debators excel at Nationals

Debate teacher Patrica Rich holds the Leading Chapter award for National Recognition for Excellence in Speech and Debate. that her students were awarded during the Debate National Tourniment in Rexburg, Idaho on March 7. Behind Rich stand posters of her past debating classes.

On March 6, 2015 Club Unified had a game at Mountain View high school against Eagle High, Boise High, Vallivue High, Nampa Lib-erty High, and Canyon Ridge A and B teams. The Capital team started at 8:50 a.m. with some warm up shots on the court before the game. Coach Sharon Boland said “It’s going to go fan-tastic” before the game started. At 9:00 a.m. Capital and Mountain View took to the court play-ing very hard on both sides. Capital won round one with 45-38. In the second round Capital went against Nampa Liberty Charter

to 45-34. For an hour break for lunch Mad-eline Zahm had her Birthday at the game. She said “I love being here at the champi-onship, My birthday always falls on this day every year. it is has become a tradition.” For lunch at Moun-tain View, Club Unified had their own lunch also pizza was brought and the school provided free lunch with sub sandwiches and chips. Coach Kathy Kanatzar said ” We were confi-dent and going to win with team work.” That they did. After a long day of Basketball, Capital won against Canyon Rigde B team 24-19 thus winning the game. Club Unified is a new program with a friendly atmosphere and pro-

motes a great time. The club allows people with and without disabilities to feel welcome and not be judged by others. Club Unified is a great way to make new friends and come together as a new fam-ily. The club meets on the 1st and 3rd of the month on Fridays in room 109. The Club is not a place just to hangout. It gives members an opportunity for activi-ties together, or they can do community service for the day. Club Unified was started by Candace Chase the director of the club, and Madeline Zahm who is the club president. The club does not have a council established yet since it’s new but it has com-mittees. The members of Club

Unified had a choice to choose between Dance committee, End the R word campaign, and Weekly activities so the club has organized

small groups to be in charge of these. Chase said “I hope more schools will start this program and stu-dents will be involved

Last year, Capital “worked very strong in the public forum debate.” Said Debate teacher Patricia Rich. On Feb. 5 the debate team had the chance to go to Stanford to debate, whether or not globalization reduces poverty. They were put into different teams and had many different types of discussions about the topic. Sophomore Con-nor Lynch and Junior Quinci King were the two Capital High students who made it to

the finals. King said, “At the Stanford invite, Connor Lynch and I finished as octafinalists with a 6-1 winning record.” .King said, “My part-ner, April Miklos and I qualified for the state at the Districts competi-tion on Saturday Feb. 28. Senior April Miklos and Sophomore Shade Torres made it to the Nationals and will go to the Tournament of Champions. Rich said, “We have a team that qualified for Nationals and may also get a bid to the Tourna-ment of Champions.”

“The challenges in Debate are doing all of the research and to know everything about the topic.” King said. Students in debate think that the class can help with understand-ing the world better. King said. “We are able to argue and learn about the real world issues and become aware to things that could affect us personally.” Debate doesn’t just help you with understanding the world better, debate can also be a benefit with other subjects in school. King said, “Debate helps you in English by learning philosophies

and ideologies to write about and work to your ideas.” Debaters can need to be prepared for any and all debates. “Going into a tournament, you must be prepared for any-thing your opponents could say.” King said. Debaters will get to State Debate in Rex-burg on March 13-14. They qualified four teams, one in policy and three in public forum.

as well. Mountain View High School has a similar program at their school.

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NewsFriday, April 3, 2015

Editor: Andrew Sargent

Drama, English, and music departments present the Chicago PlayZoe AmbroseYEARBOOK EDITOR

On March 17 – 20 the drama, English and music departments will gather on the stage for a showing of the musical Chicago in the audito-rium. The musical was first performed on June 3, 1975 and has been on Broadway ever since. The music is by John Kander, with lyrics cre-ated by Fred Ebb.Drama teacher Tracy Fuller, who has been teaching drama for sev-enteen years, was the one who chose the play. “I have always loved this musical. It was one of the first musicals I saw. Then the movie came out and it made me love it even more. The music, the time period, the costumes, and the characters are

just so much fun,” Full-er said. The play is about manipulation to get what you want. “It is centered around vaudeville hopeful Roxie Hart and murder-ess, former vaudeville, Velma Kelly. The musi-cal focuses around their wild journey through the court system and their lying path to free-dom,” said junior Kay-anna Gunther. The cast has been practicing since early January. Rehearsals are every day after school until 5:30 pm but will soon extend until 7 pm. Junior Makayla Wilcox plays one of the merry murderesses, Liz, who shot her boyfriend for chewing gum too loud-ly. Wilcox said, “We have had and are going to have some pretty late nights but the cast and

crew and directors are great so it is really fun!” In order to play a part, everyone was required to audition in front of drama instructor Tracy Fuller. Junior Autumn Lay acts as the chorus, an extra and first report-er, decided to audition for the play, “because I have been a part of Cap-ital’s drama program for two years now. So I love to dance, sing and act, which is great for a musical,” Lay said. The actors and actress-es of the play say that it is a very interesting musical. They hope that many students take time out of their busy lives to come see the play with their family and friends. “I am looking forward to opening night. I can-not wait to see the fin-ished product and see how it all comes togeth-er,” Fuller said.

LEFT: Language Arts teacher Carla Zumwalt, seniors Larissa Brumlow and Brett Shaffer, and juniors Autumn Lay and Taylor Closson rehearse the Chicago play at capital on Feb. 4.TOP RIGHT: Drama club and band director Casey Lindofer performs at the Chicago premiere on March 17.BOTTOM RIGHT: Senior Kassidy Brady, band director Casey Lundofer, and senior Alyssa Reichel perform in the auditorium on March 10.

Butler’s class aims to save the world from plastic pollutionAndrew SargentNEWS EDITOR

In Aaron Butler’s Environmental Sci-ence class the students are running campaigns that would help change Capital’s environment and even the world’s environment. The different period classes are running different campaigns. One class is doing a campaign to ban plas-tic utensils at Capital. Another class is start-ing a fundraiser to save rainforests around the world The assignment is known as Environmen-tal Science Action Unit, the students run it and Butler is the supervisor. This is the first year that

Butler’s class is doing something active to help out the environment. The students are try-ing different methods to advertise their cause, such as: posters, videos, a piñata, cartoons, a facebook page, making outfits, starting fund-raisers, and even host-ing special events. On Feb. 27 in the morn-ing the Environmental students rewarded stu-dents who carpooled to school by giving them donuts. The carpool event over-all gave out about five dozen donuts, about 20 cars showed up with three or more students in them. Butler said,” Students take a day to conserve gasoline and to make a small difference in the environment.” On March 17-19 But-

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ler’s class gave pieces of candy to students who brought and used their own metal utensils to school. Capital throws away 150,000 plastic utensils a year and the environ-mental class is trying to preserve fossil fuels by reducing or banning the use of plastic utensils in Capital. Butler said, “The students decided that bringing their own uten-sils would help with reducing plastic waste. It’s even a simple solu-tion that everyone could help with.” “I felt like my stu-dents need to know how to start their own campaigns in order to change their world when they grow up,” Butler said.

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Entertainment Friday, April 3, 2015

Editor: Selma Kovac

Debate at State:

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY PATRICIA RICH

LEFT: Public forum and policy teams who qualified for State pose for a photo in Rexburg, Idahofor the State debate.

RIGHT: Policy team sophomores Carson Lloyd and Daniel Liu pose for a picture with the Public Forum team junior Quinci King and senior April Miklos after both teams broke at the State debate in Rexburg, Idaho.

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Club Unified practices with Capital’s students:

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TOP LEFT: Senior Tucker Anderson and junior Marcus Burington practice shooting the ball.BOTTOM LEFT: Juniors Lillian Boggan and Skylar Hunt pose for a photo. TOP RIGHT: Juniors Madeleine Zahn, Marcus Burington, Skylar Hunt, and Lillian Boggan pose for a photo during the Club Unified and Capital basketBall team practice. BOTTOM RIGHT: Capital’s basketball team and Club Unified pose for a team photo together.

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Sports Friday, April 3, 2015

Editor: Fatuma Mnongerwa

Selma KovacEDITOR IN CHIEF

Athlete of theMonth

Track and Field

Years playing: 3

Loves the sport because:

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Favorite opponent:

Borah

Difficulty level: 9.5

One word to describe sport:

Technique

Hours dedicated to sport each

week: 15

Senior

Mary-Katherine Ekins

PHOTO BY JACK ROGERS

Strong leaders compete with best

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Capital Rugby starts off with winning season

Brandon RamierzSPORTS EDITOR

$IWHU�ÀQLVKLQJ�ODVW�VHD-son, the Varsity baseball team started off the sea-VRQ�ZLWK�WKHLU�ÀUVW�JDPH�on Mar. 12 with a 3-4 loss against Eagle High. Head Coach Jerry Hol-low said, “With strong senior leadership, we are looking forward to the new season.” They just completed a ten-week preseason workout program. “We play in the best baseball conference in the state so we have a great opportunity to compete and continue to improve,” Hollow said.

Junior pitcher Bran-nic Bailey said, “Coach Hollow knows the potential of the team and pushes us to the greatest level he knows we can achieve.” Senior pitcher Gar-ret Pearson said, “I feel like he understands the game very well and really strives to bet-ter every player on the team.” Pearson also said, “I play pitcher and cen-WHUÀHOG� WKLV� \HDU�� ,W�takes mental tough-ness and awareness to stay focused, so that every pitch you throw covers the ground you want it to and overall speed you’re trying to achieve,” Pearson said.

Bailey plays pitcher DQG�LQÀHOG� “It takes many hours of practice and dedication to progress and shape yourself into the player that you’re wanting to be,” Bailey said.On last season, Bailey said, “Winning JV dis-trict championships was the most memorable moment I had in playing baseball for Capital but I’m determined to make this years even better with my team because I believe the friendships that are formed through the spring baseball sea-son will last a lifetime and our aspirations of battling to state cham-pionships will be a big accomplishment.”

Junior Gage Youst gets ready to hit the baseball during the Junior Varsity game on Tuesday,

March 17th.

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TOP LEFT: Sophomore Yanira Saldana goes down with the ball at a game

against Mountain View High School.

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teams at a Fairmont Junior High against Nampa which led to a Massive win 81-7.

BOTTOM LEFT:Junior Lillian Boggan runs to kick the ball to score a point against

Mountain View High.

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Grange, Gracie Jacobsen, and Ashley Toone gaurd her.

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SportsFriday, April 3, 2015

Editor: Brandon Ramirez

Charlie MatthewsSTAFF WRITER

Track athletes make Coach Stith proudAfter a successful

season the track and field athletes competed in their first track meet on Friday March 13 at Dona Larson Park against Borah High School. In the boys 100 meter Dash junior Jackson Bindner placed third with a time of 11:98. Also in the 100 meter Dash senior Tarik Littlejohn placed fifth and sophomore Nathan Forthman placed eighth. Senior Jeff Courtright placed first in the 200 meter Dash. Cross Country State qualifier junior Jacob Davis placed first in the 800 meter Dash.

State Cross Country Champion senior Drew Schultz placed first in the 1600 meter Dash. Head coach Bryan Stith said, “Seniors Drew Shultz and Zach Wiberg are two of the finest long distance runners to ever com-pete for Capital High School.” Stith said, “The two of them serve as excel-lent leaders for what could be the best dis-tance group in school history. They both have their eyes on break-ing the school records in the 1600 and 3200 meter Dash.” Junior Sam Brixey placed first in the 110 hurdles and in the 4X100 Brixey’s team including Littlejohn, Bindner, and sopho-

more Britt Ispen placed first. Stith said, “Sam Brixey is considered one of the finest all around track athletes in the state. He scored 15 points for the team last year at State in the high hurdles, long jump, and triple jump. Sam has big goals and with his strong effort he will find great success.” Cross Country State qualifier Sophomore Kari Taylor placed first in the 800 meter Dash and came in second in the 1600 meter Dash. Cross Country State qualifier junior Olivia

The Lacrosse team has been practicing extremely hard every-day after school from 4:00 to 5:00 at the Riverglen Junior High School Field. So far their practices have been paying off; Junior Kedar Holtan said, “ We have played one and we beat Wood River 8-4.” Holtan also stated that the team “has improved a lot, my dangles have been just astounding late.” On a

team scale, Holtan said, “The team is pretty fun, and has improved a lot over time.” Jake Vaquera said, “ Lacrosse is going great overall, we’re killing.”” Vaquera said “ we are currently 1-0, and the team has been bonding wonderfully.”” Although, when asked how he was doing, he responded with “I’m doing pretty good, but at the same time I still have a few things to improve.” Even with that being said, the lacrosse team has really improved over time which means

they’re going to have a brighter future they are planning on having having better outcomes during the games. That way they can both gain a reputation as a team and gain more expe-rience as individual players. On top of that, indi-vidual players compose the team, meaning that everyone must get along in order to get things done, and that applies to on the field and off. Vaquera and Holtan both agreed with the positive out look of the team and their performance.

Konecni placed first in the 3200 meter Dash. In the field events senior Nicole White, the 2013 State Cham-pion placed first in Shot Put and Discus in the first meet of the season.Stith said, “She is one of the most outstand-ing throwers in school history.” White said, “My most memorable moment in track is when I won State for discus as a sophomore.” Also in the field events Ipsen placed first in High Jump and Long Jump and sophomore Calvin St. Germain

placed first in the Triple Jump. Sophomore Tristen Bowens placed first in the girls 100 and 200 meter Dash and Triple Jump. Last spring the track and field team had a very successful season. There were several track and field athletes that placed in State and Districts. Stith said, “We are excited to continue on last year’s success of what we considered a young team. We return 23 District Qualifiers and 10 State Qualifiers and all who medaled

Fatuma MnongerwaASSISTANT EDITOR

TOP LEFT: Varsity long distance runners senior Zach Wiberg and junior Joe Mullener running for the 1600 meter dash on March 19th at East Junior High. Wiberg placed second and Mullener placed fourth.

TOP RIGHT: Senior Varsity Tereza Tong was sprinting the 200 meter dash and came in fifth place on March 19th at East Junior High.

BOTTOM LEFT: Senior Varsity Mary-Katherine Ekins throws the shot put during the meet on March 19th at East Junior High. Ekins came in third place in discus and fourth place in shot put at the meet.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Fairmont freshmen Osamah Shihab competing in the high jump and coming in tenth place on March 19th at East Junior High.

Athlete of theMonth

Softball

Years playing:

13

Loves the sport because:

drives me to my potential

Favorite opponent:

Boise High

Difficulty level:7

One word to describe sport:

FUN

Hours dedicated to sport each

week:

17

Junior Hannah Spero

PHOTOS BY ZOE AMBROSE

at the State Meet last year.” Every year, a month or two before track and field starts, the coaches plan out work-outs for the track athletes that will help and generally improve them through-out their season. Senior Varsity hurdler Tereza Tong said, “I am looking forward to this season because it’s my last year and I have been working extremely hard for my Varsity spot which I have gotten.”

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Opinion Friday, April 3, 2015

PAGE 8 Editor: Joseph Alcorn

CARTOON BY KIMBAL MURRAY

Trevor GausSOPHOMORE

Christina LoperSENIOR

Nina ClarkJUNIOR

Joseph AlcornOPINION EDITOR

Selma KovacEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Are gas prices better high or low?

Plastic bags pollute the world and are a waste of resources

YouTube is the best application out there

What is the best phone app of this generation?

Dane PenceTEACHER

Low fuel prices alleviate wallets

Aaron ButlerTEACHER

Whenever we buy gro-ceries from the super-market we have a choice to put our goodies in either paper or plastic bags. Most of us would pick the plastic bag, be-cause it is easier to carry and more flexible then paper bags. I can understand why people use plastic bags, my family uses them daily too, but they are

dangerous to the envi-ronment. Every year there are over one trillion paper bags used worldwide and every minute we use about one million plastic bags. Plastic bags also heav-ily pollute our oceans. For every square mile of ocean there is 46,000 pieces of plastic float-ing around. Plastic bags also are very toxic to animals and remain toxic even after it breaks down. Plastic bags are also unnecessary: we put our groceries in plastic bags then the cart and car; we can do the same

thing with paper bags. We barely even carry the plastic bags because we have so many things that carry it for us. Fossil fuels are slowly draining out, we all know this, and we are wasting it on plastic ob-jects such as bags and utensils. Eventually the fos-sil fuels are going to run out, why waste any more of it on plastic bags and plastic forks when we could make more toys for children. We have to stop being stupid. I’m not trying to sound mean but it’s true. Our greed is the only thing that’s de-

stroying this world, our laziness. We want more, we in-vest so much on fossil fuels because it gives us an easier way to be lazy. It is now much easier to get through day-to-day life by sitting through it all. We have to fix this problem. I’m more afraid of destroying the world then running out of fossil fuels. If we’re going to start changing this world then we should start with banning plas-tic bags; it’ll be easy to change the way we carry our groceries.

Going from about $45.00 to $25.00 for a full tank of gas is some-thing not many people can argue against. The majority of individuals tend to feel immediate gratification from any money-saving deal that comes into effect. As a high school student, I was extremely stoked to fill up my car for less than what I usually fill up my vehicle with. Currently the consum-ers are winning in the petroleum oil market by saving nearly $400 million each day on gas as energy plummets. I can’t begin to de-scribe how many Twit-ter posts and Snapchats I saw when gas prices began to drop. I think the majority of people were a little shocked as well as excited to see the prices fall drasti-cally, which is a beyond normal reaction in to-

day’s economy. A vast amount of the public owns a vehicle and we all need fuel to get from point A to point B. The sudden drop in gas prices has caused people all over the nation to speak of the controversy of lower gas prices and the consequences it brings for our economy. Tight budget families, high school students and college students can benefit from this because they’re in the low-income percentile, which means they earn the least and try to make ends meet with what they get. The drop of gas prices alleviates their wallets and doesn’t pinch them as much as high gas prices do. Low gas prices and saving money on gas makes it much easier for families who might be on a budget to hop in their cars and come up for the day. I believe these low gas prices should stay low. High school students don’t earn as much and more often than not work twice as hard as the average American without a diploma. This also alleviates stress for middle and low-income families who will have this money to save or to spend.

Snapchat, it’s like tex-ting but with pictures and video. Also you can draw pictures and add filters or use emotions to make something/someone look funny.

I think the best app is Netflix. It alls for on the go movies and that is awesome. Also when you are laying in bed and cozy to move and go to a t.v. The app allows you to watch on your phone, and not have to go get up. Also they’ve added many more good movies.

I think the best phone app would definitely be Sound Cloud. I can download any song I like at anytime and it’s easy to use. This app is beneficial for my schedule because I can use it in my car and listening to music whenever I want.

The best phone app has to be ESPN or Twitter... These al-low me to get all my updates that I want so I can be with my family and not worry that I am missing the game. I love getting scores and being updated when I can’t watch it live.

The best app for a phone would have to be the YouTube app for smart phones. The app searches better pro-grams than Facebook or Twitter. YouTube has been around for 10 years when the program was launched in 2005. Every application has its flaws, not saying the

YouTube one doesn’t, the app allows anyone in general to look up funny videos, epic rap battles of history, or just to see how something is unique. Here are a few ways that this app is one of the best out there. So most people use YouTube for music, videos, and cheats for a game. When someone has free time and is con-fused about a math or science problem there are people on YouTube that can explain right then and there. The app for YouTube

is not the only one that can provide these won-ders of media , and su-perior technology of-fered to the people of this world. I find it as one of the most reliable apps out there at the fin-gertips of humanity. The other applications we all have now give individual people what they’re looking for to an extent. Some people use Snapchat, Twitter, heck even Facebook apps to chat or look at videos. Sometimes the You-Tube app is the one to go to if you cannot find that certain video that

is taking forever to search for. YouTube just give it a few sec-onds “then it turns into fried gold”, and then life is much simpler for people everywhere and yourself. Anybody can agree to disagree YouTube may not be the best but it is very useful to have when you need it. YouTube has been going on for a decade, which is a long time for the website. The access to YouTube is much more easier than before.

Lower gas prices have been a blessing to ev-eryone’s pocketbook, but looking beyond short term personal benefits and consider-ing long term economic and environmental costs, cheap gas may be more of a “curse” than a “blessing”. How so? Lower prices equals higher demand. Fortune magazine re-ported consumers have recently saved $13 bil-lion on gasoline. What have those savings been spent on? Well, mostly more gasoline! $5 bil-lion of the $13 billion saved was spent back at the pump. So what, right? Well, unfortu-nately, there is this tiny little concern hanging over our collective con-sciousness called cli-mate change. Wait! Don’t change the channel! Wait!!! Click. Bill Nye the Science Guy! Bill! Bill! Bill!...CO2 is a greenhouse gas. CO2 in the atmo-sphere keeps Earth hos-pitable, but too much CO2 can be detrimental.

Combustion of fossil fu-els has raised the atmo-spheric concentration of CO2 to a level 1.5 times higher than seen in the prior 400,000 years. Click. You’re back! What does all that science mean? For starters, more extreme weather events associated with elevated CO2 levels are now occurring reg-ularly. For example, intense droughts dis-rupting food produc-tion, massive storms wreaking havoc along coasts, and receding glaciers reducing water availability. The World Health Organization es-timates climate change claims 150,000 lives an-nually. The World Bank calculates that costs attributed to climate change total nearly 100 billion dollars annually. So much for those sav-ings, right? The International En-ergy Agency reports that “two thirds of known oil reserves must stay underground unburned to prevent catastrophic levels of climate change.” Two thirds?!? Left in the ground?!? Higher gas prices cre-ates interest in electric vehicles and renewable (wind and solar) energy technologies. Reducing CO2 emissions imme-diately gives the best chance for avoiding “catastrophic” climate change and, unfortu-nately, higher gas prices help with that.

Lower gas prices: Blessing or curse?

Andrew SargentNEWS EDITIOR