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What is your favorite thing to do

when you are snowed in?

“What movies and drink hot chocolate.”

Kayla Fette, 12th

“CityVille on Facebook.” Kelsey Benton, 11th

“Watch a Christmas story!”

Collen Roach, 12th

“Waste time on Face-book, snuggle in blankets, and watch movies while

eating yummy food!”Erica Carrillo, 11th

“Lord of the Rings marathon.”Caitlin Boran, 12th

“Eat cupcakes and watch Troy with my sister.”

Ashley Kline, 11th

“I like to start my day by locking the door, going to my pool, cutting a hole in the floor, and spending

hours fishing for Pokemon with my Super Rod.”

Chris Viscomi, 11th

“Debate whether or not to go outside until it is too

late to go outside.”Jessica Yule, 11th

“Watch movies under a lot of warm blankets.”Cassie Lambert, 11th

“Digging out Cody’s car.”Tyler Babcock, 11th

By Gina Van Thomme

The blizzard that hit over the weekend on Dec. 10-11 dropped enough snow to compete with the Halloween blizzard of 1991.

The snow, which measured up to 17 inches in some parts of the metro, came late Friday night and continued into Saturday.

According to KSTP, Faribault received 12 inches of snow; enough to cancel activities planned for the weekend such as a danceline competition, wrestling matches, an ACT test, and the annual Sadie Hawkins dance.

Although the snow helped to complete a wintry feeling atmosphere, it also wrecked havoc around the Twin Cities.

The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis caved in due to the estimated 2.7 million pounds of the snow piled on the roof.

There were numerous traffic accidents that resulted in at least four fatalities due to weather.

However, as bad as the weather was on Saturday, many winter enthusiasts enjoyed outdoor activities as the storm moved out of

the region. Senior Lauren Leppert

enjoyed the snowy weekend outside.

“I went sledding and made a snow angel,” Leppert said.

Senior Staci Tiedeken felt a little differently about getting outside in the midst of the storm.

“It was too cold!” Tiedeken said.

This is the most snow many students have experienced at one time in recent years.

According to the forecast, it seems that this weekend was only the beginning to a very white winter.

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Brrrr Blizzard

Junior Capri Fuller stands on top of the massive snow pile located in the FHS park-ing lot. Photo by Hailey Bliss

The storm of 12/11/10

Winter playlist

Peppermint Winter- Owl City

Hot Tottie-Usher

Over It- Relient K

Black and Yellow-Wiz Khalifa

Better Than Revenge-Taylor Swift

Grow A Pear-Ke$hA

4 Feature News

By Gina Van ThommeThe snow that came on Dec. 11 left a

storm of reactions from Faribault High School students.

In the midst of the storm, many people got to know more snow than they may have ever wanted to see at one time. The mas-sive amount of snow that was recieved around southern Minnesota was enough to cancel all scholastic activites, sporting events, and even the Sadie Hawkins dance planned for that night.

“This was the day I wanted to dress up in my rose-red dress, curl my hair, and lay on that mascara for that extra ‘umph’” said junior Mariah Bokman. “Snow like this is great, but only if it happens to cancel school, not Sadie Hawkins.”

Senior Justin Fairbanks let the snow give him a chance to relax and really experience the power of winter weather.

“I could hear the wind howl-ing outside and big snowflakes tapping against the window,” he said.

Senior Jen Bertram compared her trip outside to “frozen fire.”

Olivia Bartkey, also a senior, was snowed in during the whiteout with one of her best friend’s families.

“It made for some pretty awkward mo-ments, but overall we made the best of be-ing stuck there,” Bartkey said.

Driving in the storm became a different kind of challenge for students. After a long summer of taking dry pavement for grant-ed, the icy roads quickly reminded students that winter was here--and it was here to stay.

Junior Cody Mach compared the empty streets of Faribault to a ghost town.

“Instead of taking a normal 20 minutes from Faribault to Northfield, it took us about 30 minutes to travel just over 13 miles. We traveled at an aver-age speed of 30 miles an hour,” he said.

Alyssa Kluzak, a senior, got stuck in the snow.

“We were turning left, and we took the turn sharp so we wouldn’t hit the car in the other lane and, of course, we got stuck. Somehow one of the tires popped and even-tually the wheels stopped moving when I pushed on the gas. Today, I found out I ru-ined the transmission, and it would need to be replaced before the car can drive again. It is going to cost $2,500 to fix. So much for getting myself a new car,” Kluzak said.

Jason Bongard, a junior, spent most of the weekend inside--and not by his own choice.

“My parents locked me in the basement to make sure I wouldn’t try to leave the house and drive on the dangerous roads,” Bongard said. “I felt like a tiger in a cage pacing back and forth just waiting to be let out.”

Senior Eleanore Miller spent her day snowed in watching TMC movies with her sister as they stayed in their pajamas. Her parents, on the other hand, decided to be more adventurous in the storm and ven-tured out to go see a friend. Miller was sur-prised when they returned 45 minutes later.

“They had gotten stuck on a hill and never made it to their friend’s house,” Miller said.

Junior Mystic Olson’s opinion is one that many of us seem to share during the coldest days of winter.

She said, “I wish it was summer already.”

A flurry of activityAlways snow, never a snow day

What is your favorite holiday song

or movie?“Elf; it’s hilarious.”

Samantha Westad, 12th

“The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation.”

Callie Ronayne, 11th

“‘A Christmas Story’ because Ralphie shoots

his eye out.”Adam Dwyer, 11th

“My favorite Christmas song is ‘Run, Rudolph,

Run’ because it’s a very energetic Christmas song.”Staci Tiedeken, 12th

“‘8 Crazy Nights’; it’s a funny movie, and it’s all

about Christmas.”Connor Wierschem, 10th

“‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,’ because

of the name.”Haley Ersfeld, 9th

“The Santa Claus.”Marci Lessman, 12th

“The original ‘Rudolph.’”Allison Hortop, 12th

“‘Winter Wonderland,’ and my favorite movie is a ‘A

Christmas Carol.’”Alejandra Gonzalez, 10th

“I would have to say the ‘Polar Express’ because

it’s a good movie to sit down with family

and watch.”Alyssa Petersen, 10th

The first snow day of the 2010-2011 school year was Monday when school was let out at 1 p.m.

Along with school activi-ties being canceled, the snow day resulted in the choir concert being re-scheduled to Wednesday.

There are “pros and cons” of these snowy days, said Macy McDonough, who com-mented on the recent bliz-zard.

“Some pros are being able

to relax and playing in the snow,” she said. “The cons are being trapped in your house with your family for 48 hours, being forced to do homework, shoveling 20 inches of snow and not being allowed to go anywhere.”

Hailey Bliss said, “I really like it when it snows. I was glad that we had a blizzard and thought it was really cool to see what Mother Na-ture could do. I think that snow is gorgeous.”

Although Bliss likes the snow, she does not enjoy the temperature when it drops below zero.

“On the other hand, I do not care for when the tem-perature outside is in the negatives. I don’t enjoy go-ing outside and you take a breath and can’t breathe because the air is so cold.”

Khadar Abdullahi said that when he wakes up and sees that it has snowed, “It is like waking in a snow globe.”

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Ice ice babyHailey Bliss scrapes ice from a car. Photo by Capri Fuller

The third snowstorm was Monday forcing school to close at 1 p.m.

6 School News How did you ask your date

to Sadie’s?“Made a huge cookie and brought it to his house.”

Cady Walker, 10th

“I made a shirt that said ‘You’re smooth and good with talkin, oh go with me to Sadie Hawkin’s?’ and I showed him at Valley

Fair.” Marissa Jewison, 11th

“I plainly asked Molly,” Asha Hullet, 12th

“Decorated his locker.” Ragen Watkins, 11th

“I wrote Sadie’s in the snow with Kool-Aid.”

Molly Lemieux, 12th

“Through a poster.” Brooke Bardal, 9th

“Wrote it on plates in rasp-berry sauce and gave it to

the dish boy.” Lauren Langerud, 12tth

“My car got window chalked.”

Ben Wunderlich, 11th

“I asked him through a science slide show saying, ‘Remember how the sol-ute (Erin) and the solvent

(Jordon) make a great solution?’ Sadies?”

Erin Deneen, 9th

“I made a big, bright green sign saying ‘Sadies with

me?’ and then I went to his work and called him

to the front over the intercom.”

Ashley Kline, 11th

By Gina Van Thomme Toys for Tots has been a

major way for the Student Council to help the com-munity.

Toys for Tots had its kick-off in late November as a way to promote the spirit of giving during the holiday season.

The Student Council is looking to raise $10,000 to spend on toys for com-munity members who are struggling financially. In 2009, Student Council brought in approximately $7,600 for Toys for Tots.

Junior representative Ragen Watkins is thrilled to have the opportunity to help with Toys for Tots.

“It helps people plus it gives us a good feeling inside,” Watkins said.

Juniors had the opportunity to pay $10 for a week of open lunch in late December. Traditional activities such as the primetime penny wars, box lunches, and senior ser-

vants also helped boost the fundraiser.

Lots of student involve-ment is crucial in making Toys for Tots a prominent winter-time event.

Student Council President Melissa Henning appreciated what was done in past school years, but she is also looking to raise this year’s goal to make a bigger impact on the community.

“I feel that students have lacked participation, but the Student Council is hoping to increase participation by bringing in new fundraising

activities,” Melissa said. Student Council Adviser Ken Hubert

agrees that what the students are doing is crucial in helping make people’s holidays happier.

“There are a lot of kids in our community who benefit from the activities of Faribault High School,” Hubert said.

By Karen GarzaThe Sadie Hawkins dance

is normally held in Decem-ber, but due to bad weather it is Jan, 15.

Students who purchased tickets can use them for the January dance.

Behind this day to dress p, take pictures, go out to eat, and dance, there’s a lot of hard work and effort put

into The dance by the stu-dent council.

Student council puts up posters, finds chaperones, and hires a DJ. The money raised by buying two tickets for $18 or just one for $10 goes to Toy for Tots.

“Sadies is the biggest fundraiser for Toys for Tots, and Sadies is also the big event that gets us money

to be able to get toys for kids,” said student council member Kelsey Benton.

“It’s a good opportunity to dance and just have a good time with all of your friends,” said Ragen Wat-kins.

Sadie Hawkins is the most popular school dance at FHS, because unlike prom all students can attend.

Students raise money to purchase toys for kids in the community

Sadie Hawkins rescheduled for January

“There are a lot of kids in our

community who benefit from the

activities of Faribault High

School.” Ken Hubert

Student council adviser

Giving back

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NHS organizing

service projects

By Amber HalletThe National Honor

Society tried to host a trench tournament last week, but it was canceled due to lack of teams.

The group is trying to organize activities for their service projects.

Some things mem-bers have been plan-ning this year to raise money are a soccer tournament and writ-ing letters and sending packages to the troops.

In most cases the members of NHS choose community work that is important to them, however some projects like the Veterans’ Day Assembly are chosen by the school.

“We all need at least 40 hours of community service hours before Christmas break,” said NHS member Lauren Langerud.

Language arts teach-er Rachael Hoffman is one of the new advis-ers. ,

Julie Peterson, Span-ish teacher, is the other new adviser this year.

Natasha Wegner is National Honor Society cabinet president.

By Vicky DeLeonThe Faribault School District is searching

for a new superintendent. Superintendent Bob Stepaniak is retiring

June 30 after working in the position for three years. Stepaniak came out of retire-ment to work as superintendent until the dis-trict could find someone to take the position.

The school district had a survery on the school website where people could answer questions concerning the superintendent po-

sition. The poll was closed Dec. 3.“I am not aware of any committee that

involves students,” said Principal Lyle Turtle about whether students can help with the search.

There are some students who wish they had input on this.

Tyler Shultz, a senior at Faribault High School said, “I believe that students should have the ability to express their opinion and have them heard.”

By Amanda NoeurnGerman III students made gingerbread

houses as a class project, which is a tradi-tion that has been going on for “maybe 15 years,” Vicki Swedeen said.

Gingerbread houses, or Lebkuchenhause in German, were inspired by the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretl.”

Sweeden picked German III for ginger-bread houses because “I teach German I, III, IV. German I kids are only starting; German IV kids are too busy! So German III it is.”

She started the tradition because “it’s a German tradition brought to America by German immigrants and a big part of Ger-

man Christmas preparations.”Students baked their gingerbread pieces

outside of class and brought them in on Dec.13 in cardboard boxes.

Assembling and decorating the ginger-bread houses took place in class.

“Watching them fall over when other people have bad frosting,” said Junior Tyler Babcock, while watching students assem-bled their gingerbread houses in class.

Junior Cody Johannsen said that the best thing about the gingerbread houses was “eating them.”

Gingerbread houses are displayed in the art case, library and guidance office.

The Faribault School District will be hiring a new superintendent

German classes continue tradition of making gingerbread houses

Capri Fuller made a gingerbread house named “The Depot.” She construct-ed the project with Abbie Christensen, Melissa Henning and Crystal Lee in German III. Photo by Danielle Christensen

What do you enjoy most

about Family and Consumer

Science classes?

“Eating the food we make!”

Kayla Halvorson, 11th

“Enjoyable experience, plus you get to eat food!”

Chad Hansen, 12th

“I aint even going to lie. I love cooking but most of

all Ilike eating, yum!”Farzana Jones, 9th

“Eating the food my group and I prepared.”Lauren Peterson, 9th

“I LOVE FOOD! When I’m not cutting weight.”

Alex Zabel, 12th

“The food; it’s so fun to make and it teaches you

how to be fit.”Will McCormack, 12th

“Creating foods, it’s like a puzzle in the sense you get to put all the pieces

together to get an awesome final product.”

Joe Pleschourt, 12th

“I learned how to cook American food, and also how to read the label.”

Tusah Ahmed, 11th

“The fact that we get to learn how to prepare

meals not only for ourselfs but for others, too.”

Alissa Herrin,12th

School News 8A fine dining experience

Students invite guests to enjoy a holiday meal in Food for Fun

and Fitness

Joe Pieschourt, Marcus Riggle and Alex Zable invited teacher Dave Wieber to their meal. All photos by Dalton Chmelik

Molly LeMieux sits next to

Chrissy Pienur, the mother of

Allie Pienur.

Dylan HitonAdolfo Sanchez

and Colt Waskosky

prepare to eat their meal.

Allie Pienur prepares a plate of food.

SchoolNews9 What do

you want for Christmas?

“My two front teeth” Chad Hansen, 12th

“A new S19 hockey stick.” Evan Jensen, 9th

“A flashmob.” Zach Dickison, 11th

“New phone.” Sara Bazan, 10th

“More pre-calc homework passes.”

Cole Dickey, 11th

“An iPod touch,” Kayla Verdick, 9th

“A case of pop” Aric Hallet, 10th

“Hooked on Phonics.” Hannah Plaisance, 10th

“Combat boots.”Casey Schmit, 9th

“World peace... and maybe a panda.”

Anthony Gustafson, 12th

“Anything.” Marcelino Gomez, 9th

“Money.” Adam Donkers, 11th

“Beats by Dre.” Nate Emge, 9th

“To be as strong as Ma-son.”

Conner Donkers, 11th

“Vacation ticket to Hawaii.”Vannary Vanna, 10th

By Tana EricksonScience Team has started a new season

and is looking for new recruits; any student can join Science Team. “A love for science is the only require-

ment,” said Jason Boggs, the adviser of Sci-ence Team.

Shelby Babcock, a senior who partici-pated in science team last year, said, “I’m really excited for this year. I encourage all underclassmen to join. It will be a lot of fun.”

To join, students need to complete two forms from a science teacher along with

paying a fee of $40.The Science Team will meet every Tues-

day after school and on Sunday after-noons.

Boggs hopes that the meetings on Sun-day will allow more students to attend the meetings. There are three meets this year all on Saturdays; Jan. 15, Feb. 5 and March 5.

There are many categories students can compete in.

Abby Nielsen, a senior, said, “I plan on competing in Sumo Bots this year with a few of my friends.”

Science Team has started their seasonStudents compete in a variety of categories

School shopping

can be done

onlineBy Kaylee Wegner

If you still have some last minute Christmas shop-ping to do, why not try the online student store?

Along with Freddy’s Locker Room in the stu-dent center, there is also the option to shop online. Items that can be purchased include sweatshirts, hats and other apparel.

“It’s a good job, and you get to work with other students,” said ju-nior Alex Schmitz, who works in the store.

Max Davies and Jarid Schmidt worked in Freddy’s Locker Room on Monday. The student run store is located in the cor-ner of the lunch room and is run by teacher Jared Kegler and business students. Photo by Kaylee Wegner

10 Relationships

By Cody Sunde Some people see interracial couples as

odd or not acceptable.Paul Dubol and Sammy Olsen are dating

and they think their race is nobody’s busi-ness but their own.

Both are raised in America Dubol faimily is Sudanese and Olsen is Caucasian.

Oftentimes interracial couples face cer-tain barriers that a couple of the same race are not exposed to like being frowned upon for their choice to date a person of a dif-ferent race.

Dubol and Olsen could care less about the negative things people have to say.

“I don’t think that people have any right to judge someone’s relationship,” Olsen said.

Dubol firmly agrees with her statement.“Even if people did care, I wouldn’t. We

really just don’t mind” said Dubol.Dubol and Olsen met in science class back

in ninth grade, and have been dating for al-most nine months.

“We sat next to each other during class and Inmj always helped him with his sci-ence,” Olsen said.

Dubol was hooked from the first time he saw her.

“She’s awesome, I love her, and she loves my super huge muscles,” Dubol said.

Since the couple has been dating they have received nothing but positive com-ments from friends and family.

“My friends crack an occasional joke about how she is too good for me, but other then that, nothing really,” Dubol said.

The couples parents couldnt be happier. “My parents think she’s beautiful and

nice,” Dubol said. Olsen’s parents reaction was quite identi-

cal. “My parents saw absolutely nothing wrong

with our relationship,” Olsen said.The couple both agreed that in today’s

day and age the challenges of dating some-one of another race is the same as any oth-er relationship, everybody has their argu-ments and everybody has their differences.

“We both have the same religion and like the same pizza, the only difference I can really think of is that im a pretty big talker and she’s not,” Dubol said.

“They’re aren’t really any challenges to dating him [Dubol],” Olsen said.

Many people at FHS agree that the whole “black and white” thing died long ago.

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with interracial couples, as long as they love and respect each other what color they are should be the last thing on anybody’s mind,’ said ASL teacher Deb Kasper.

Kasper is not alone, in fact FHS sopho-more Vannary Vanna also agrees.

“I dont think that it matters,” said Vanna.“People aren’t always attracted to others

because of their appearance; it is usually judged by their personality,” Vanna said.

It is kind of bizzare to think that less than 45 years ago, acoording to the U.S. census Bureau, less then 1 percent of the popu-lation were interracial couples and what Dubol and Olsen are doing would have been illegal in at least 17 states .

Today, however that 1 percent has shot up to over 4 percent, which is about 1.2 million couples.

We see people like Tiger Woods,the world’s best golfer; Derek Jeter, the cap-tain of the New York Yankees; and even the President of the United States, Barack Obama, all leaders in their field of work and all children of interracial couples.

Despite the statistics and opinions of oth-ers, Dubol and Olsen are happy to be an in-terracial couple.

“I think what were doing is a good thing, not only for us, but to show that the color of a person is the last thing we as people should think about,” Dubol said.

What are your views

on interracial couples?

“I have no problem with them.”Maddie Simon, 9th

I have no problem with it either.”Kelsey Thomas, 9th

“I think it is OK; if they love each other

and adore each other it is not a big deal.”

Amin Mallin,12th

“They are the same, just two people in love.”

Asha Hullett, 12th

“I think it is up to the two people to decide. I

dont mind it.”Johnna Vasquez,11th

“People should marry who they want.”

Barsa Osman,11th

“Go for it.”Luke Sadergaski,12th

“It doesn’t bug me.”Brittany Bice 11th

“I have mixed feelings.”Sam Pineur,12th

“It’s wrong.”Andrew Leider,12th

“Well I am a woman of color and I’m mixed with

many things so to me it’s as regular as any

other couple.”Kayla Tinklenberg,11th

“This isn’t 1950. it is a non-issue; we are in high school not the se-nior center. Is the Echo

trying to get shut down again?”

Cody Johansen,11th

“...the color of a person is the last thing we as people

should think about.”

A look at interracial dating

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Does racism

occur at Faribault

High School?

“Yes In a way racism occurs. It’s hard for me to walk the halls

at times.”Anthony Gustafson,

12th grade

“Psh, do cats chase mice?”

Sam Pineur, 12th grade

“Yeah, but I don’t think it’s ever got-

ten to the point where it’s gotten out of hand. It’s

more undercover, behind your back sort of thing. But then again, this is the Faribault High

School!”Brittani Piepho,

12th grade

“Oh, heck no, because no one would

ever be racist because then

Mr. Turtle would

suspend you for it.”

Garrett Bliss,12th grade

“Yes, it happens to me all the

time.”Juan Vega,10th grade

“Yes and no; people say and do racist things without even

thinking about it.”Capri Fuller,

11th grade

“Maybe there is

some, but I never hear anything.”Luke Gare,10th grade

“I think racism occurs in the high school a lot. It’s not taken as seriously

as it should be.”Katherine Vanharen,

11th grade

“Obviously, there is rac-ism almost everywhere you go. Especially in schools. People have

no respect.”Bailey Hagel,

12th grade

How do you feel about

teen bullying?

“Not sure, don’t really notice it around here.”

Becca Wroe, 12th

“We need better control of cyber and text bullying.”

Deb Kasper, teacher

“I think if they like to bully they should get bullyed to so they know how it is.”

Victor Mendoza, 12th

“I think people who bully do it because the person

is different, and everyone’s different so there is always going

to be bullying.”Cody Berge, 12th

“I think it’s not OK but it’s going to

happen where ever you go.”Jade Brady, 12th

“I see it with the different races

the most.” Lexi Dotterweich,

11th grade

“Don’t really know, I don’t see it much.”

Brandon Petersen, 12th gradee

“Immediately, the laughter broke out.”

By Nicole Shelstad

Throughout my life I have been teased, sometimes so severely I just didn't want to go to school. The teasers ranged from family mem-bers and peers to my teachers. I remember two incidents in particular.

One of my memories comes from 5th grade. I had left to use the re-stroom and when I came back the teacher was reading aloud to the class.

I went and sat down and smiled at the teacher to let her know I was back.

Abruptly she stopped reading and said some-thing along the lines of, "Oh, so that's why it was so quiet:Nicole was gone!"

Immediately, the laughter broke out. Try-ing to go along with it, I started laughing, too. Then I stated cry-ing; it really hurt my feelings. A teacher had made fun of who I was.

I was a peppy little girl and liked to put my input into things I was al-lowed to. From then on that school year I kept quiet, not wanting my teacher to say some-thing like that again.

Other teasing I remem-ber was from 6th grade and continues even now that I'm in 11th grade.

A boy I had liked started calling me very cruel names. He said I was like a fat, preg-nant whale. I wasn't big and I wasn't tiny, I was average but still con-scious about my weight.

He did this continu-ously for months. I'd go home crying be-cause of his words.

He also got his friends to say things like that. I was able to put a slight stop in the name-calling when my mom and a teach-er told the school cop about the harassments.

But it started again once I got into high school. Just last year in gym class a boy started calling me names, saying I sounded like the subs in his car whenever I walk and that if I didn't watch where I was walking, I'd fall and start rolling.

To this day I'm still insecure about my weight, even if I am still just average.

There are many things our schools can do to prevent teasing. One thing they have done

in our school is to cre-ate a Respect Retreat we attend in 9th grade.

At the retreat we work together on fun activities, and learn how important it is to respect one anoth-er and treat others the way we like to be treated.

Another way is for teachers to not ignore it. Countless times I have heard kids get-ting teased and called names and the teachers don't do anything, even though they've clearly heard what's been said.

They could start a club that's designed for re-specting others and put up signs around the school showing ways you can be a better person to others.

There are many ways to prevent bully-ing; one just needs to take the time to do it.

Teasing is a very se-rious topic, and it can lead to very serious is-sues, like suicide.

This topic needs to be taken more seri-ously by our generation.

It could save lives, self-esteem and could make this world a much better place if bul-lying and name-call-ing came to a stop.

Bullying in school

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This essay won 1st place in a contest sponsored by ThreeSixty.

OPINION 13

“That’s saucy!!”

“Why must my fantasy football team suck?”

“I heard the DECA team is unreal this year.”

“Let’s settle this on Nuke town.”

“Hall talk? That’s talk you hear in the hallway?”

“I don’t’ like to shave my pits.”

“And then I found $5.”

“I didn’t know Nicki worked at Harry Browns.”

“Papa Murphy’s is in 25 of the 52 states!”

“Fill em’ full of holes and call the police.

Don’t ask no questions!”

“Going snowmobiling.”

“Are you going to come after me with your corn?”

“DECA rocks! You should probably join.”

“Oh, yeah, I’m going to need a passport, too; I’m

going to Hawaii next year!”

“You burnt my tongue!”

“Then I’ll trow this jalapeño at you!”

“Did you guys know it snowed like 5 inches

last weekend?”

Toys for Tots, put on by the Faribault High School Student Council, has been in full-blast during the month of December.

A lot of rallying has been done by students to get their classmates to participate in this huge fundraiser.

The Echo staff would like to recognize the people working behind the scenes to make this event a success.

This fundraiser is

put on by the student council led by advisers Ken Hubert and Shawn Behrens, along with Senior Class President Marisa Amacher and Student Council President Melissa Henning.

The cabinet for this year’s student council also includes Secretary Colleen Roach, Vice President Matt Purfeerst and Treasurer Gina Van Thomme.

The cabinet is trying to

come up with new ways to improve the fundraiser and make it more fun for students.

Kudos to everyone who has participated in Toys for Tots in any way, from deciding to get a group together and buy Sadie Hawkins’ tickets to tossing a few coins in the milk cartons during primetime.

The old saying really is true: Every penny counts.

Letters to the Echo can be submitted to Room B106, the jour-nalism room.

All letters must be signed. Letters will be edited for length, grammar and spelling.

The Echo welcomes a variety of opinions. The Echo is distrib-uted free to students and faculty.

Views expressed in the Echo are those of writers and do not necessarily represent views of the school’s staff, students or the district.

Student council deserves praise for their service during the holidays

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Staff Editorial

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The staff editorial is written by a member of the Journalism class and is the opininon of the Echo staff.

By Brandon Teske

I’d rather stick needles in my eyes than see Christmas lights and decorations for two months before the ac-tual holiday.

I can’t stand when people start putting up their Christ-mas lights before Thanksgiv-ing.

A lot of people spend a lot of money and time on pointless lights to deco-rate their houses. The only things Christmas lights do is distract or slow down driv-ers.

The average American family spends $225.18 on

their Christmas dinner, ac-cording to Evangelical Al-liance. That money could feed a family for a month.

Not only do all the lights and decorations drive me nuts but so do the songs that

go along with Christmas. All of the songs are the

same! We’ve heard them for years; they are just be-ing sung by different people to different tunes.

I think that all Christmas music radio stations should be shut down by the govern-ment.

People and their Christ-mas obsessions need to chill out.

Christmas lights or deco-rations should not go up un-til December has started. Decorations should not be sold until Thanksgiving is over.

What are your

thoughts on friending

parents on Facebook?

“I love my mommy! I would love to see what kinda stuff she’s up to.”

Tiffany Coronado, 11th

“It sucks.”Sam Scholz, 11th

“It drives me up the wall.” Asha Hullett, 12th

“My parents are not up to date on technology.”

Emily Kline, 12th

“Odd, parents aren’t suppose to know how to

do that stuff.”Robert Walkenhauer, 9th

“That’s flippin weird and they should just talk

at home.”Victor Mendoza, 12th

“It’s awsome! My dad is a straight up homie!”

Katie Dickison, 12th

“That’s weird! Don’t do it!”Nathan Little, 12th

“Worse thing ever; it’s invasion of privacy.”

Parker Beauper, 9th

“My mom makes me be friends with her

and I don’t like it.”Breeanna Spahr, 9th

14 OPINION

By Danielle ChristensenThree tardies in one class

can result in a student’s grade being reduced by one-third.

There are a few teachers in the building who do not use this policy. Others en-force it. Teachers need to be consistent about this.

But teachers should also decide whether this policy is fair and should discuss dropping the practice of lowering grades for being tardy.

Often students who are tardy stagger into class a few seconds up to a minute after the bell rings. Dur-ing those few seconds, the teacher is usually preparing to start class and has not

even begun teaching.Usually, if a student is

arriving to class late on a regular basis, the teacher will talk to the student pri-vately to discover why the student is late to their class so often.

I think it’s ridiculous to reduce our grades just be-cause of being tardy three times to a class. It’s unfair.

Our ability to make it to class on time has absolutely nothing to do with our abil-ity to learn and do well on our assignments and tests.

The punishment for tar-dies should be an hour of detention in Ms. Brown’s room after school.

By changing this policy, students who occasion-ally don’t make it to class on time will not have their grades penalized.

Instead, they will put in the time after school that they missed during class. This punishment matches the crime.

Being tardy to class should not result in lowered grades

Starting Christmas festivities two months early annoys me

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Why are you in the arts?

“It’s very riveting!” Kelsey Thomas, 9th

“Looks good on college applications.”

Erika Keath, 11th

“Band trip!”Cyle Cramer, 12th

“Because I heard it was fun, and it is!”

Sammi Krukowski, 12th

“Only cause Dibble’s a sweet teacher.”

Marisa Amacher, 12th

“My parents make me.” Jessica Meyer, 12th

“Because cello is fun! And Memphis, too.”

Colin Crombie, 11th

“I got kicked off.”Megan Ness, 12th

“To improve my art skills.”Allie Warwick, 11th

“Band.”Marci Lessman, 12th

“It’s an awesome experience” (theatre)

Sarah Wagner, 12 th

“Band all the Way!”Ragen Watkins, 11th

By Kaylee WegnerChoir students have been

doing some holiday carol-ing, and yesterday they performed at a Rotary lun-cheon.

The Concert Choir had been singing carols since October in preparation for their holiday concert, which was Monday.

The freshman and varsity choirs were involved in the concert. The choirs per-formed songs such as “How Far is it to Bethlehem” and “Night of Silence” as well as classics like “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and “Away in a Manger.”

“It’s stressful memorizing so many songs. Time flies by which makes it seem like we have no time to learn every-

thing, but we always do,” said junior Laura Pinske, who has been in choir since 6th grade.

Although rehearsals can be nerve-racking this time of year, there is never a shortage of fun.

When choir members have some down time in their re-hearsals, they use the break to relax and give each other back rubs.

“There are some unique warm-ups we do like back-rubs,” said junior Mat Beck-er, who is in choir.

Another way the choir un-winds is through Cake Day. This is an activity when choir members hang up their robes and don aprons to bake culinary master-pieces.

“It’s a great day to eat cake and have fun,” Becker said.

This wide range of events helps keep choir interesting for the students and takes the strain off holiday prepa-rations.

“I try to vary the activi-ties from day to day so that students don’t get bored with the material,” Zinter said.

Students dig in to cake that choir students made. Bottom: Darien Wenker feeds a spoonful of cake to Thomas Schell. Photos by Eleanore Miller

Choir, cake and

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MOVIESWhat’s showing at the theaters

TRON: LegacyStarring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia WildeRated: PG

The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn TreaderStarring: Ben Barnes, Skander Keynes Rated: PG

The TouristStarring: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany Rated: PG-13

Due DateStarring: Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis Rated: R

Fair GameStarring: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison Rated: PG-13

The Next Three DaysStarring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson Rated: PG-13

SecretariatStarring: Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, James Cromwell Rated: PG

RedStarring: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman Rated: PG-13

Little FockersStarring: Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De NiroRated: PG-13

BurlesqueStarring: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming Rated: PG-13

Morning GloryStarring: Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton Rated: PG-13

Megamind 3DStarring: Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Brad PittRated: PG

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What is your New Year’s resolution?

“Better grades.” Andrew Hedin, 9th

“Work out to be healthier.“

Sarah Ketteing,12th

“Let’s be honest, New Year’s resolutions last

until about the end of Janurary, so why bother

thinking of one.“Marissa Amacher, 12th

“I do not have one.”Adam Donkers,11th

“To make “B” honor roll.“Taylor Salmonsen, 9th

“Attend more FHS sporting events and activities. “

Rachael Hoffman, teacher

“Make a lot of money.”Tristin Sao, 10th

“Own a pet fish.”Devan Anderson, 11th

“Be as awesome as Kaylee Wegner.”

Jessica Yule, 11th

“Get as big as Riley Shultz.”Andrew Benson, 12th

“To tame Riley Shultz.”Jack Healy, 12th

“To learn how to dougie.”Erica Gustafson, 11th

“Drink more root beer.”Ryan Velzke, 12th

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ing Final. Photo by Hailey Bliss below: Senior Cort Vilendrer works

on a Drawing and Painting project. Photo by Brandon Fitcher

By Dani BehrensFor most people, the state experi-

ence is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and that’s why this year Head Coach Ken Hubert focused on something oth-er than Big 9. He wanted his athletes to qualify for state.

The girls swimming and diving team sent eight girls to state, and they were the only fall sport team to compete at the state level.

“At the beginning of the season I wouldn’t have expected to send that many girls to state. I was hoping we would. At sections, there were a couple of surprises, but the girls far exceeded my expectations,” Hubert said.

The state team consisted of Payton

Brasseaur, 12th; Tess Burkhartzmey-er 12th; Ellie Erickson 12th; Rachel Nielsen 12th; Cecilia Hake 9th; Lauren Erickson 12th; Chelsea Borwege 12th; and Colleen Roach 12th.

Roach and Borwege competed in div-ing. Hake, Ellie Erickson, Nielsen and Burkhartzmeyer competed in the 200 medley relay. Brasseaur, Burkhatrz-meyer, Lauren Erickson and Ellie Er-ickson competed in the 4x50 freestyle

relay. Hake also competed in the 100 backstroke.

“I am very happy with how they per-formed. Sometimes people struggle with changes in facilities, but they handled themselves well,” Hubert said.

The state meet is held at the Uni-versity of Minnesota swim pool every year. It’s a chance for swimmers to show how good they are and how hard they worked during the season.

Burkhartzmeyer said the feeling she had when her relays qualified was ex-citement.

“I expected to have both of the relays I’m in qualify for state at sec-tions; that’s what we were shooting for,” she said.

Girls Swimming and Diving Coach Ken Hubert was named Swim Coach Of the Year, and Charlie Fuller was named

Diving Coach of the Year at the section swimming and diving meet

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Splashing into State

Cecilia Hake, Tess Burkhartzmeyer, Chelsea Borwege, Ellie Erickson, Colleen Roach, Rachel Nielsen, Lauren Erickson and Payton Brasseaur were the eight girls who competed at the state level for swimming and diving. Photo submitted by Janet Youngers

“I am very happy with how

they performed.”Coach Ken Hubert

Girls swimming and diving wentto state with eight girls qualifying

20 Sports

By Danny PierceThe boys hockey team broke several

school records last year, including goals and wins, and they also won the Big 9 Confer-ence for the first time.

Although the Falcons had such a great season a year ago, they also lost many se-niors to graduation. Bo Putrah and George Richie were the two top scorer’s last season and All- State honorable mention, so their scoring may be missed.

The Falcons are returning some of their scorers from last year, mainly in forwards Sean Lipinski and Jack Helgeson.

“Our strength is the leadership of the re-turning players and the work ethic of the underclassmen,” said Head Coach Brad Ryan.

This year’s team may have senior leader-ship, but they will also have many under-classmen that have moved up to the high school level. The Falcons have 15 under-

classmen on the varsity/JV roster.“The key to a successful season is the un-

derstanding of the game and the work ethic of the incoming underclassmen,” said Ryan.

The team will have many tough non-conference challenges this year, including Breck, who was last year’s class A state champion.

They will also face Chaska, Chanhassen, New Prague, Orono, Providence Academy, Rochester Lourdes, Grafton/Park River, ND, Warroad, and Osseo, who they will play first in the Warroad Holiday Tournament over Christmas Break.

“We have a lot of tough games this year against some pretty good teams,” Lipinski said.

Although the Falcons will be tested of-ten this year, many people believe that the team has a good chance to be successful.

The Falcons are coached by Ryan, Chris Storey, Mike Swanson and Dan Pumper.

Boys hockey hopes to repeat as Big 9 champs

By Cody SundeThe reigning girls hockey section champi-

ons from last year are off to somewhat of a slow start due to players being injured early in the season, but most girls are now back to playing.

The team is 3-5-1. “We have had some close games,” said

Coach Gretchen Dahl. “We’ve had injuries that have affected us, but we’re trying to power through regardless.”

The injuries are the teams one and five scorers from last year; Megan Bergland and Cady Walker. Last year the duo combined for almost half of the team’s goals.

“Its tough when two key scorers go down with injury,” said Dahl. “But we still have to deal with it without complaint.”

Most players feel as though the team was able to manage without the injured play-

ers. Team members are looking forward to having a full roster.

“We have managed to get by,” said senior defenseman Asha Hullet. “Luckily, though, Megan and Cady are expected to start prac-ticing again as of Dec. 1.”

Senior captain Emily Kline believes that it is still too early in the year to assume anything.

“We just need to make some adjustments with our top scorers out,” said Kline.

The team firmly believes that a trip to state is still a very reasonable goal.

“Last year was tremendous” said Dahl. “I don’t expect it but I hope for it”.

The team still has 15 games left to turn their season around.

“We have plenty of time to make a come-back,” said Hullet, “but we haven’t given up hope yet.”

Injured players back on the girls hockey team

Pump up music

“Counting bodies like sheep to the

rhythm of war drums”A Perfect Circle

“6 ’7” Lil’ Wayne

“Crazy Beautiful Life” Ke$ha

“Stronger” Kanye West

“Yeah 3X” Chris Brown

“Damn, it feels good to be a taylor” Wiz Khlifa

“The Beast”Tech n9ne

“Don’t break my heart” B.o.B

“Lip Gloss”Lil Mama

“Raise your glass”Pink

“Whip my hair”Willow Smith

“3 peat”Lil’ Wayne

“Bottoms up”Trey Songz featuring

Nicki Minaj

“All the above”Maino featuring T-Pain

“We R Who We R”Ke$ha

“All I do is Win”DJ Khaled

Senior Athlete

Michael EmgeMichael Emge led the boys basketball team in aver-age points per game and rebounds last season. He also led the Big 9 in points. Emge has a variety of offers but has yet to decide on a school.

Plans after high school?Go to a D-1 or D-2 school and play basketball

Favorite music?Rap; no favorite song but I like Wiz Khalifa.

Favorite food?Jimmy Johns

If you could be someone for a day who would you be?Bill Gates, to know what it feels like to have all that money

Favorite quote?“Don’t ever give up.”- Jimmy Valvano

What do you like to do other than sports?Hang out with friends

Best and worst sport moments?Best- Getting my first scholarship Worst- Any game we lost

Good luck rituals?I’m very superstitious; I wear the same socks every game.

By Shelby SalmonsenThe girls basketball team, like several other

winter teams, is dealing with injuries.The leading scorer from last year, senior

Marisa Amacher, tore her ACL during warm-ups of the Owatonna game on Dec. 10 at Owatonna. She will be out the rest of the year.

Without Amacher there are only three return-ing varsity players on the girls basketball team this season. Senior Kelsey Cherwinka recently hurt her ankle, so she is also injured. That leaves Maggie Stoeckel and Tess Burkhartzmeyer.

Cherwinka said, “Last year I thought the team was more prepared. We lost a lot of scorers and ball handlers, so this is definitely a rebuilding year.”

The basketball team’s biggest game this year was against Owatonna on Dec. 10 and will be Mayo on Feb 25.

“Owatonna was the top seed last year, and more then likely they can win it again this year. We can compete with any team we are up against

as long as we keep our turnovers down,” said Amacher, who is captain of the team.

The girls basketball team will be in Fergus Falls on Dec. 29-30. At the tournament one game they compete against Hawley.

Coach Brian Cherwinka said, “Hawley is a good team, and after the tourney we should be better than we were before.”

Basketball consists of five players on the court, and to make a team successful everyone needs to contribute. With Amacher being a key player for the basketball team, the team must all contribute to make up for that loss.

Coach Cherwinka said, “I’m looking forward to the work ethic of this team and wanting to get better every game.”

The team’s goal is to finish in the top half in the Big 9, and to win one or two games during playoff games.

“We would also like to improve their defense, and get better every week,” said Coach Cher-winka.

Girls basketball hopes to finish in top half of Big 9

The Faribault girls basketball team huddles with Coach Brian Cherwinka during a game. Photo by Amber Hallet

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22 SportsSenior Athlete

Megan BerglandBergland was the leading scorer last season for the Faribault girls hockey team, and looks to make a huge impact again this year for the Falcons. Bergland recently committed with University of Vermont to play Division I hockey next winter.

Favorite food?Pepperjack cheese-stuffed chicken Favorite movie?“A Walk To Remember”

Favorite music?Taylor Swift and Ke$ha

Plans after high school?Play hockey at UVM

If you could be somone else for a day?Josh Hartnett’s wife

Favorite quote?“Fall down 7, get up 8”

Who is your idol?My brother

Something people don’t know about you?I’ve lived in three different cities

Pre-game ritual?Jimmy Johns, nap, left before right on bottom, right before left on top.

By Brandon Ludwig High expectations and a desire to win

set the tone for this year’s boys basketball team.

“Our main goal is to play great defense. We hope to play a great game every time we step on the court, and hopefully that will fill the stands full of Falcon pride,” said Varsity Head Coach Scott Morrissey.

Senior captains Michael Emge, Jordan Bardal, Chad Hansen and Anthony Gus-tafson will help out with Morrissey’s first year as the varsity head coach.

Morrissey was informed by former Head Coach Steve Lansing that he was be resign-ing his role to spend time with his family.

Morrissey was given little time to put to-gether a practice plan, let alone an entire season plan.

“It’s a dream come true for me. To be

the head coach at this point in my career feels gratifying. I’ve put a lot of time into coaching, and this just made it all worth it,” Morrissey said.

Kyle Murphy, Bardal, Gustafson, Nate Emge, Michael Emge, Ryan Tinaglia and Hansen arereturning this season with var-sity experience.

Senior Matt Stocker is the lone newcom-er to the varsity team.

Stocker said his main reason for joining was, “I wanted to be a part of the team this year.”

Morrissey, along with Gustafson and Stocker, say they hope to finish at the top of both the Big 9 Conference and the Sec-tion 1AAA tournament, sending them to state for the first time since 1998.

“My team goal is to go to state,” Gus-tafson said.

By Rachel AschemanThe Faribault boys swimming and diving

team is training hard, gaining confidence and connecting together as a team ac-cording to swimmer Dakota Vininski.

“I'm hoping this season will turn out bet-ter than the last because I had a lot of fun last season, and it would be great to top it. I’m also hoping to go to state; that’s my goal for this season, and I hope to achieve

it,” said Vininski.Adam Kluge would agree that this sea-

son will hopefully turn out great. “I will go to sections and I might go to

state,” In order to be successful the team will

need to train really hard.“When it gets closer to the middle of

the season practices get extremely hard and tiring," said Vininski.

By Dani Christensen The gymnastics team is coached by two

new coaches this season, Jessica Taghon and Jason Boggs. They started their com-petitive season at Owatonna.

Taghon, the head coach, is coaching high school gymnastics for the first time. Taghon is a former gymnast that competed on Faribault’s gymnastics team when she was in high school.

Boggs, the assistant coach, is also a first-year coach. He wanted to coach because he thought it would be fun and exciting to be involved with gymnastics again. Boggs was also a former gymnast when he was in high school.

Toghon said, “I love the sport. Gym-

nastics is so unique and requires balance, flexibility, strength and endurance.”

Boggs’ favorite part about coaching is “watching the girls put their routines to-gether for each event and seeing them try new moves.”

When coaching, he enjoys seeing a dif-ferent side of the students outside the classroom setting.

By the end of the season, he would like to see the girls perform at a higher level of gymnastics than where they started. He wants to “help the girls get their routines together and find aspects on each event that they can improve on.”

The team has their next meet on Jan. 6 against Mankato East.

High expectations for boys basketball

Gymnastics team has new coaches

Boys swimmers set goals for the season

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OpinionPg. 13 Rachel Ascheman

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SportsPg.19 Karen GarzaPg. 20, 21 Shelby

SalmonsenPg. 22 Kyle Murphy

Pg. 23 Brandon TeskePg. 23 Brandon Ludwig

Advertisments Pg. 24 Tana Erickson Pg.24 Dani Behrens

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