JOURNALThe Southport High School

March 11, 2011 Issue 11, Volume LXXXIX Southport High School 971 East Banta Road Indianapolis, IN 46227 Discover musicians at Southport trying to break into the business.

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Browse pictures from Southport’s spring play, “Tombstone.”

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{newsBRIEFS}Local: Daniels wins GOP straw poll

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels won a straw poll this week-end at the Dorchester Conference in Seaside, Ore. Thirty percent of this annual gathering of Republicans voiced their support for Daniels as a potential 2012 presidential candidate. Attendees praised the governor for his fiscally conservative views and core moral values.

Daniels led the way, followed distantly by former Mas-sachusetts governor Mitt Romney with 23 percent and former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin with 18 percent.

The Indiana governor announced that he’ll focus on pushing his agenda through the Indiana Statehouse in the coming weeks regardless of whether the session prevents him from running for president.

Information from www.cnn.com

In a reversal of an order from two years ago, President Obama has ordered the resumption of military trials for detainees of Guantanamo Bay. Obama set rules for the proceedings to ensure the rights of the prisoners, admit-ting his failure to close the prison, as he promised.

In a press release, Obama confirmed his dedication to close Guantanamo and to prosecute terrorist suspects. However, Obama’s efforts were stalled by Congress block-ing the transfer of prisoners from the prison to the US, undercutting Obama’s efforts for a trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged 9/11 mastermind.

In his executive order that set the new rules, Obama also banned any an all torture or inhumane treatment of prisoners.

Information from www.theindychannel.com Information from www.nytimes.com

As the death toll in Libya climbs to over 2,000, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has initi-ated 24-hour scouting flights over the country. Officials are debating over how best to handle the civil war that has gripped Libya for the past two weeks. According to United Nations sources, a no-fly zone is being considered, as are tougher arms embargoes and military action.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen an-nounced in Belgium that the organization has no inten-tions of interfering in the conflict. However, Rasmussen stressed that nations must “remain vigilant” as a result of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi’s “systemic attacks” on the population. In the midst of the conflict, hundreds of thousands have fled the country to safety.

See how a student copes with the tragedy of losing her brother.

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GRAD program prepares students for

college experience

In This Issue For our foreign language stories see page 2.

Southport’s bullying hotline: (317) 789-4880

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News Briefs by Jonathan Goodwin

Global: Libya surveillance is launchedNational: Guantanamo trials resume

by Jake DowneyNews Editor

“No more lies!”This is what people were chanting outside of the

Indiana State Teachers’ Association (ISTA) building on Feb. 26. On a day where the weather was below freezing, they gathered for one reason.

“We believe public education is under attack,” said Mr. Nate Schnellenberger, the president of the ISTA.

The ISTA represents 50,000 teachers in Indiana, and exists in order to unify them to discuss issues that pertain to education. For over a month now, they have been holding rallies so that they can voice their concerns and opinions over legislation that the group feels will invariably harm public educa-tion. These rallies range from a modest gathering at the ISTA building on Shadeland Avenue, to massive congregations at the statehouse downtown. The cause has many teachers up-in-arms and vocal in order to protect their jobs, ideals and ultimately, their students.

According to Perry Education Association (PEA) president Mr. Terry Rice, teachers are facing an ev-er-intensifying opposition in the state government, which is largely composed of Republicans who he views as anti-public education. Many education groups fear that their ability to debate and bargain over benefits and job conditions may be at risk.

“We’re fighting for public schools’ very exis-tence,” said Rice. “I never thought that I would see the day.”

by Riley WallaceReporter

Seventeen Southport juniors sitting in room 152 raise their hands to show that they want to go to college. To most of these students, college used to seem like a goal that was unattainable. Thanks to the G.R.A.D program, which is run by Mrs. Mary Jungemann and Mrs. Courtney Worley, these 17 students now have the motivation to take their edu-cation further after high school.

G.R.A.D, which stands for Graduate Ready to Achieve Dreams, was introduced to Southport by Principal Ms. Barbara Brouwer. The purpose of the program is to grab students early who have the po-tential to go to college, but just need an extra push.

“These kids sometimes need an extra parent and that’s what I become,” said Jungemann.

To get into G.R.A.D, these students had to have a G.P.A of no less than a 2.0, but no greater than a 3.0, his or her freshman year. Out of 50 candidates interviewed, only 25 spots were available. The 25 students who were selected, (the number has since dropped to 17), will stay in a class together until their senior year to prepare them for college, and help them attain success in high school.

As well as preparing for college, the students in the G.R.A.D class also work as a unit to finish home-work and improve grades. While one kid may be re-ceiving English help from the teacher, three others may be working together to understand Chemistry. Since its inception, all students in the G.R.A.D One class have improved their grades. Almost all of the students have passed the ECA test and every single student wants to go to college after high school.

“I’ve always wanted to go to college,” said junior Juaneesha Byrd. “Mrs. Jungemann and the rest of my classmates have pushed each other and I know for sure now I’m going to college.”

This program has become more to these students than just a way to improve their school work. It has made them feel a sense of belonging. Byrd says that she has learned how to be more patient, while students like junior Tony Manuel have learned how to communicate more effectively. G.R.A.D gave him a safe environment to come out of his shell.

Mrs. Jungemann describes the class as a family, that not only works together to succeed, but help each other with personal issues as well.

“Mrs. Jungemann, she’s to me, that extra push,” said Byrd. “She will not let us give up. She puts hope in each and every one of us. She knows that we have potential to do or be whatever or whoever we want to be.”

Mrs. Jungemann has watched these students become confident young men and woman ready to take on college. Her hope is that the program continues and that she’ll soon be able to interview a brand new batch of freshman who, as Jungeman says are, “good kids who just need a little push.”

by Jonathan GoodwinReporter

After what Principal Ms. Barbara Brou-wer calls a news media storm covered vio-lence at Southport, she believes members of the community were left with a nega-tive view on the school. To combat this, she called on teachers, administrators, students and community members to join a committee that would strive to improve the image of Southport in the eyes of the community. Thus, the Southport Pride Committee was born.

Brouwer composed a list of mem-bers last December and the group be-gan meeting in January. As the meetings progressed, the committee adopted the mission of indentifying the realities of Southport, the community’s perception of Southport and the best way to bring the two together. In their latest meeting on Tuesday, the group created a list of pos-sible routes to fulfilling that mission.

“We want to tackle (the perception) that Southport...is a high school that is in decline,” said Brouwer, “because that was a community perception, and we felt that wasn’t true.”

During Tuesday’s meeting, members of the committee broke up into small

groups, hashed out their personal per-spectives and brainstormed ideas for con-veying what they felt to be the true image of Southport. After holding the smaller discussion, everyone reunited as one body to convey the big ideas of the group.

Social studies teacher Mr. Gene Lezon is a member of the Southport Pride Com-mittee and finds their task achievable, al-beit challenging. After being approached by members of his church and the com-munity about Southport’s problems, Lezon was asked by Brouwer to join the group and provide his outlook on South-

port. In his opinion, the committee is like a think tank and will need students to spread the positivity to Southport.

“I think (the ideas of the committee) can work,” said Lezon, “but the problem of it will be how we can implement them to make sure we accomplish what we want to accomplish...If it is more student-led, it can be more successful.”

Both Brouwer and Lezon are pleased with what the committee has developed. They plan to meet once more in May to evaluate their decisions and determine if positive differences were made.

Committee works towards improving school perception

For more, see “Teacher Rally” on page 2

For this follow-up of a Q&A with Principal Ms. Barbara Brouwer in Issue 7, the group she formed whose purpose is to better inform the public about the positive happenings at Southport is featured.

ISTA president Nate Shnellenberger speaks in front of the crowd of teachers and media outside of the ISTA building on Feb. 26. Photo by Brandon Bushong.

Juniors Kyle Mussgrove and Jerika Sullivan study in Mrs. Mary Jungemann’s sixth period GRAD class on Mar. 3. Both students have been in the class since their freshman year. Photo by Becca Tapp.

Teachers rally against state legislation

Principal Ms. Barbara Brouwer goes over what the Southport Pride Committee needs to evaluate at their meeting last Tuesday. Photo by Brandon Bushong.

March 11, 20112 Foreign Language

by Rosy LiantuThawngtheih ter tu

Kan hnu kum 10 chung ah, Indiana chung I a um mi ELL sianghngakchia pawl 521% in an karh ti a si. Kum 2009 le 2010 chung ah Indiana chung sianginn za te nih ELL sian-ghngakchia an ngei dih deng hna. Indiana chung I tang cheu in tang 12 tiang a kai mi ELL sianghngakchia pawl hi holh phun 231 reng lo an holh ti a si.

A luan cia mi kum le tu kum ah vawlei cung pi sipuazi a tum tuk ruang ah Indiana nih sianginn vialte caah phaisa thumh ding in aa tim. Sianginn nih phaisa a hmuh ding mi a tlawm deuh in pek ding le a dang prokrem pawl ca zong ah a tlawm deuh in phaisa pek ding in aa tim.

Sianginn phaisa hmuh mi chung in 29% thumh a si lai. Hi nih hin ELL sianghngak-chia pawl caah harnak tampi a chuah ter lai. A tu ah hin, ELL sianghnagkchia pakhat caah phaisa $152 bawmh a si, a si nain lahkhah an thumh hnu cun minung pakhat ah $103 lawng bawmh a si cang lai ti a si.

Hi phaisa an thumh ah cun, class a ngan deuh ngeih a si lai ti hi a si. Saya le sayamah pawl zong an tlawm deuh lai I sianginn thilri pawl zong tlawm deuh long cawk khawh a si cang lai ti a si. Ruah lo pi in sianginn pa hnih

zong pakhat ah fawnh a si kho men tiah Kelly Shipman, Special Program Supervisor nu nih a si.

A tu hnu hmai lei kum 6 chung ah siang-hngakchia ca I phaisa kan hman lengmang mi $10 million hrawng kan sung lai tiah Kelly nih a ti.

Indiana federal zung nih sianginn pawl hi phaisa tampi a pek hna lo caah, a phunphun in phaisa hi kawl a si tawn. Hi phaisa kawl tik ah hin a zungzal in hmuh nak laam hi a

um tawn lo caah harnak le buainak tampi a chuak tawn.

ELL sianghngakchia pawl caah phaisa zei zat dah kan hman ti mi hi chim a har ngai tiah Kelly nih a ti. Non English Speaking Program (NESP) ti mi hi phaisa/fund kawl nak prokrem a si. Hi prokrem in phaisa hmuh mi hi ELL prokrem caah hman a si tawn. Cu lawng si lo in, ELL sianghngakchia pawl ca cawn ding mi pawl zong hi hi prokrem nih a chuah tawn.

Cu lak ah phaisa hi a herh bik mi le hna hnawk bik mi a si tawn. Saya/sayamah tam deuh le holh let tu tam deuh kan herh hna, a si nain phaisa tu kan ngei lo tiah Principal nu Barbara Brouwer nih a ti.

Hi phaisa thumh nak a sullam cu, Indiana chung dihlak phaisa a tlawm le tam khah ter ding le a luan cia mi kum 2009 in 2011 tiang caah phaisa a dih mi vialte cham dih khawh ding caah a si.

Hi ruang ah hin, sianghngakchia pawl an hmak a that deuh le ISTEP hmak a san deuh ding hi kan sianginn nih a herh mi a si. Hi hmak pawl a san deuh ah cun hmaisa tam deuh ngah a si lai ti a si. Kum 2002 hrawng ah cun, ELL sianghngakchia pawl hi ISTEP test phit khawh a si lo. A si nain kum 2006 ah, sianghngakchia tam deuh nih ISTEP phit an herh an ti caah ELL sianghngakchia pawl zong hi ISTEP hi an rak phit ter ve hna.

Hi phaisa thumh nak kong hi biaceih hmasa a si lai I cu biaceih tik ah thumh ding a si le si lo hi biachah a si lai. Thumh ding in biachah a si ah cun hmai kum caah sianginn caah si seh, saya/sayamah te pawl caah si seh, siaanghnagkchia pawl caah si seh, a dang prokrem caah si seh, a za te in phaisa thumh ding in timh cia te in khua khan a si cang lai tiah Kelly nih a ti.

by Jessica De La CruzReportera

El 22 de febrero el proyecto de ley propuesto por el senador de Indiana Mike Delph, S.B. 590 fue pasado en el Senado. El proyecto de ley requeriría que policías del estado y locales pregunten a los quienes son parados por cometer una violación de la ley, a probar su ciudada-nía. Esto solo pasaría si el policía tuviera “sospechas razonables”, como el tener un acento cuando uno habla.

Otros puntos en este proyecto de ley son dirigidos a los inmigran-tes ilegales. Una parte en el proyecto de ley es hacer la mayoría de los documentos del gobierno solamente en ingles. También, compañías que contratan a inmigrantes ilegales serian castigados con cerrar sus negocios.

En una encuesta donde 30 estudiantes, la mayoría siendo hispanos, y tres maestros, la mayoría estaba de acuerdo de que el proyecto de ley no debería de ser pasado. Unos estudiantes escribieron que ellos, como otros familiares y amigos, serian afectados. Si el proyecto de ley fuera a pasar también en la casa de representantes, muchas personas tomarían precauciones para protegerse.

“No saldría tanto,” escribió un estudiante. “No tendría un carro y probablemente viajaría en autobús.”

Con este proyecto de ley, S.B. 590 Un problema que es predicho pasar es el perfil racial. Si fuera pasado, un policía podría pedir a cual-quiera, con razón, que probara su ciudadanía. Esto obligaría a la gente a cargar documentos con ellos todo el tiempo.

“Si ese proyecto de ley sigue adelante,” dijo el maestro de español el señor Terry Rice. “Ellos (estudiantes hispanos) serian forzados a cargar

una tarjeta de identificación y eso solamente es perfilando.”Además de reducir viajes de un lugar a otro, otros tal vez tomaran

un enfoque más drástico como mudarse a otro estado. Si la comunidad hispana local empezaría a disminuir unos estudiantes piensan que negocios cerrarían por la pérdida de clientes.

Pero un estudiante escribió, “Si, debería ser pasado porque ayudará la economía del país.”

Según Rice, algunos hispanos quienes vienen a este país a trabajar mandan dinero a su país de origen. Aunque ese dinero no es usado aquí en los Estados Unidos todavía contribuyen a la comunidad cu-ando sus ganancias son reportadas y pagan impuestos.

Este país tiene muchas culturas que juntas forman lo que alguna gente llama el crisol de culturas. Muchos estudiantes sienten que el proyecto de ley propuesto no es justo, y que es dirigido a la comuni-dad hispana. Algunos mencionaron que no era justo que sus familias sólo están aquí para un futuro mejor y no dañan a otros, y de todos modos hay leyes propuestas que tratan de forzarlos fuera del país.

“Es el movimiento conservado,” dijo Rice. “Es proteccionismo, aislacionismo, y eso es muy pobre para ser lo que los Estados Unidos representa.”

Rice no cree que S.B. 590 pasará en la casa de representantes porque hay mucha oposición al proyecto de ley. Una de las razones es que el proyecto asustaría a la clientela y la economía no se levantaría. Muchos estudiantes hispanos esperan que este proyecto de ley y otros iguales que no sigan adelante, pero muchos piensan pelear por sus derechos.

“La comunidad hispana es fuerte y hacemos una diferencia en Indi-ana,” escribió un estudiante.

S.B. 590 propuesta posible a tener un impacto en la comunida hispana

The following stories are in Spanish and Chin. For the English translations of the stories, visit www.shsnewsbureau.com.

Hmaikum ELL prokrem caah phaisa tlawm te lawng ngah a si kho men

Opposition comes in the form of Republican-supported education reform backed by Gov. Mitch Dan-iels and State Superintendent Tony Bennett (For a more detailed look at these plans, see the “Bill Overview” box to the right).

Republican State Sen. of the 36th district Mr. Brent Waltz said that he views unions’ collective bargaining power as one facet of education that has gotten out-of-hand and needs to be rethought and focused on only certain issues.

“Teacher unions negotiate many strange things that frankly have very little impact on the quality of educa-tion in Indiana,” said Waltz.

Indiana’s legislature is dominantly Republican after the 2010 election season, so bills proposed by the party stand a much better chance of passing, according to Rice. Demo-crats opposed to this education reform have taken steps to ensure that proposed bills will not pass eas-ily. Multiple House Democrats have taken refuge in Illinois to force their

counterparts to negotiate. Even with such rivalry, Schnellenberger said that he understands that the issue is one that requires both sides’ coop-eration.

“I don’t think that many of the legislators intended to have legisla-tion that would harm public schools the way it is,” said Schnellenberger. “There are unintended consequences that they don’t fully understand and we need to make them aware of. That is what we’ve been trying to do.”

Rallies are continuing to be held around the state even now. Rice and many other educational figures worry that oncoming educational change will lead to many teachers heading out of the field of employ-ment to look for another career due to unsure financial stability. Rice said that he sees the consequences of these propositions as dire.

“If (the bills) become law without any amendments, they will decimate public education,” said Rice. “It will be over within the blink of an eye.”

{billOVERVIEW}Below are examples of proposed bills that stand to affect education along with a short explanation of what they are and how far they’ve gotten. Information gathered by

Jonathan Goodwin. Information from www.in.gov/legislative

Teacher Rally (from page 1)

Senate Bill 0001: Repeals minimum salary law for teachers that bases salaries on experience and training. -Passed Senate 2/22/11 -Referred to House 2/22/11

Senate Bill 0575: Limits collective bargaining power to wages and benefits for teachers. -Passed Senate 2/22/11 -Referred to House 2/22/11

House Bill 1260: Alters school employees’ health plans to increase savings. -Reported favorably by House Committee on Education 2/08/11

House Bill 1003: Establishes vouchers for religious and private schools. -Reported favorably by House Committee on Education 2/17/11

Senior Raul Tamayo. Foto tomada por Jackie Smith.

{ellPHAISA}Kum 2009 ah sianghngakchia pakhat caah $152 hman a si. Kum 2010 ah $116 ah a tum. Kum 2012 ah cun $103 ah a tum kho men. Hi thawngpang vialte hi Rosy Liantu nih a hlat mi a si i hi pung a suai tu hi Lucas Sweitzer a si.

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by Cecilia SalasReporter

As everyone else around her laughs at a joke, senior Shel-by Turner remains silent. She doesn’t get it. It has nothing to do with her intelligence though. Turner has difficulty hearing.

At 4 years old, Turner found out she was hard of hearing. Since then, her hearing has gotten worse and will continue to deteriorate as she gets older. Though the physical problem still persists, Turner has become better at handling the issues that come with being hard of hearing.

“I think since I’ve worked so hard,” said Turner, “I’ve become a person who wants to do things and I’ll do anything to get it.”

Discovering her hearing problems when she was almost ready for school meant Turner was already academically behind. In order to catch up, Turner’s mother, Jeanne Coonse, made sure Turn-er had what she needed by putting her in the National Head Start Association, getting her a hearing aid and sending her to a school that would benefit her the most: Mary Bryan Elementary. The teachers were able to guide Turner by making her feel welcome, and by singling out her problems, they could fix them.

Though the educational foundation she built at Mary Bryan helped to bring Turner up to speed with her peers, she still has some occasional struggles with academics. Litera-ture and comprehension have always been issues for her. She often has to read something several times for the information to sink in. Understanding jokes and sarcasm sometimes poses an issue as well. Not being able to detect a punch line or the meaning behind a joke can get in her way.

“It makes me feel kind of stupid,” said Turner. “It frustrates me that ev-erything doesn’t come quite as easy for me as everybody else.”

While Coonse was a supportive mother to Turner and tried her hard-est to make sure she got the help she needed, this wasn’t exactly the story with Turner’s father. He was never married to Coonse, and wasn’t as close to Turner. This separation became even more prominent when

Turner’s hearing issues surfaced. He never accepted the fact that Turner is hard of hear-ing and this has driven them further apart.

Though Turner’s relationship with her father became distant, it didn’t have a bearing on some of the other relationships she has developed in her life. She is fully capable of

having friends and hasn’t had trouble dating. Occasionally though, Turner still deals with prejudices that come along with being hard of hearing. According to Turner, some people tend to stay away from her because they know she has hearing difficulties, though most people cannot tell that she has a hearing problem in the first place. If they don’t see her hearing aid, they just treat her like she is another normal person.

“If the person looks at my outside,” said Turner, “then yes,

it’s going to be hard. But if they look at my personality then it’s easier.”

This was especially true when Turner began playing softball, but in this case, her athletic ability was what mattered. While playing in middle school and the beginning of her high school career, Turner used an interpreter so that she could hear what her coach needed her to do. As her position on the field changed from outfield to catcher, so did her ability to play. Her need for an interpreter began to diminish as she became capable of holding her own on the field. She now plays softball for both the school and a travel team. Turner’s coach of the previous three years, Mrs. Melissa Franzosi, told Turner from the beginning that she is equal to everyone else as a player, with the exception of having inter-preters, so she would be treated the same as everybody else.

“She does a good job of ad-vocating for herself and letting people know what she needs,” said

Franzosi, “as long as she can communicate with the coaches.”Throughout her life, Turner has struggled to get to where

she needs to be. As she looks to the future, she continues to work hard and overcome the obstacles ahead of her.

“I guess my worst fear is if I’m going to be what I want to be,” said Turner, “I just hope that I have enough confidence and knowledge to get to that point.”

March 11, 2011 3Student Life

by Ashlyn BridgewaterReporter

“I’ll keep it short,” he said, as his saxophone dangled around his neck. Searching, he flipped through pages lined with undu-lating music notes. He finally decided on a piece and, shortly after, a tune streamed from his instrument. His eyes glided across his music and his hands kept up, carefully creating each note to match what the page said.

The melody wore no signs of the fact his night would later be filled with nothing but silence.

Sophomore Rei Rutkowski has the power to tune in and out of the world. Rutkowski’s deafness was not his family’s choos-ing, but providing him with the ability to hear was.

At only 2 years old, Rutkowski experienced his first surgery and became exposed to the world of sound.

Their smart and attentive baby gave the Rutkowskis no rea-son to suspect he was deaf until he was 14 months old. After discovering her son was deaf, Mrs. Junko Rutkowski was over-whelmed. Though born and raised in Japan, Junko Rutkowski had to teach her baby to sign in her secondary language.

“Of course I did not have a choice,” Junko Rutkowski wrote in an email to The Journal, “and I did not intend to give up or anything, so I did my best and ended up learning a lot about the world that I had never known, thanks for Rei. I feel I have grown with Rei, learning deafness, process of language learn-ing and most importantly, realizing that nothing could have happened without support of friends and professionals.”

Rutkowski was able to communicate because of the signs that his mother had taught him, but there was a point when the Rutkowski family decided that they wanted more for him so they turned to cochlear implants.

Rutkowski’s deafness is caused by nerves in his inner ear not functioning correctly. Cochlear implants are designed to bypass these obsolete nerves, delivering sound information directly to the brain. The implant consists of two pieces: an internal and external piece. The external piece, which sticks to the outside of Rutkowski’s head by a magnet, is what collects the sounds and sends them to the internal piece. After a small incision behind his ear, doctors implanted the internal piece.

After his first surgery, Rutkowski had to undergo therapy to aid his ear in the difficult process of learning to hear. The implant did not automatically give him sound. His body was accustomed to not hearing, and therefore he had to teach his brain and body to process and decipher sounds. His body then

adjusted to only having one ear, which was able to hear well enough to make up for the lack of his other ear.

Eventually, it came time to have a surgery for Rutkowski’s left ear. Calmly, he went into surgery and came out with another implant. The weeks following surgery left him ill and vomiting from the medicine while having to teach his “new ear” to hear.

“You have to drill your brain to basically recognize sounds,” said Rutkowski. “What am I hearing? Is it from the TV? Is it from my mom? From what I was told by the therapist, my ear has been asleep for a really long time, like 13 years. It really doesn’t know what to do. The brain just doesn’t know how to process the left side with the right side.”

Rutkowski’s implant for his left ear is four years old now, but his hearing capabilities for that ear are significantly less evolved than his right ear. He blames his lack of persistence in practicing words and sounds for his left ear’s weakness.

Even though Rutkowski still has flaws in his hearing, co-chlear implants have supplied him with many opportunities that he may not have otherwise had, including music. While young, he began taking private lessons to play the saxophone.

“(Learning to play the saxophone) wasn’t as hard as you think,” said Rutkowski. “It was pretty smooth because I played from an early age. So I got a little bit better than the rest of (the kids in high school playing the saxophone). It seems like they sort of respected me for it.”

Rutkowski has been told he has perfect pitch and that he is able to pick up notes that other people cannot hear. When he was younger, his aspiring professional pianist mother taught him how to play the piano. From time to time, he still plays.

“Music may reach Rei’s brain in a very different way from ours,” wrote Junko Rutkowski, “but once it is there, it is him who loved and appreciated music. For this reason, I believe Rei would enjoy and appreciate music regardless of his hearing.”

Since the external part of his implant is attached to his head by a magnet, Rutkowski cannot hear once it is removed. He has often been struck by silence because of dead batteries, having to stop whatever he was doing to bring his hearing back with a new pair. His mom constantly reminds him that his implants are like computers and that he must take them off if there is a threat of them being harmed.

Before bed, Rutkowski must revert back to being totally deaf by taking off the external portion to avoid crushing them.

Each night he goes to bed in silence, but the next morning, as he attaches his magnets, he will be able to live and listen just like the people around him who can naturally hear.

Deaf student reaps benefits of life-changing implants

Photo by Brandon Bushong.

Coping with hearing difficulties allows student to have normal teenage social life

Senior Shelby Turner collaborates with AP English classmate senior Ashleigh Laymon on Fri. March 4. Photo by Brandon Bushong.

“Sit”

“Car”

“Door” “Walk” “Morning” “Night” “School”

“Sweetheart”

“Shower”

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American Sign Language (ASL) is a common tool for communication used among people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Here are some commonly-used signs demonstrated by junior Justus Wessel, includ-

ing the sign that means “sign” shown above. Photos by Becca Tapp.

“Sign”

From Silence

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”“It frustrates me that everything doesn’t

come quite as easy for me as

everybody else. - Shelby Turner

March 11, 20114 Entertainment

REVIEWSby Corey MillsReporter

Four years since the release of Pokémon “Diamond and Pearl,” the fifth generation of the popular Pokémon series is finally here. The highly anticipated “Pokémon Black” ver-sion and “White” version were released on March 6. Featuring enhanced graphics, a ton of new Pokémon to capture and battle and many updated game mechanics, this genera-tion does not disappoint.

After starting the game, one feels more immersed than ever before. Gamefreak, the long time developers of the series, did a great job of trying to make the new games seem familiar to veterans, but accessible to the new generation that will be playing “Black and White.” Everything starts out the same as previous games in the series. Players choose a gender, make a name and then are greeted by an explana-tion of the world by the professor of the region. I was a little annoyed by the lack of having the ability to skip this introduc-tion, but I appreciate the consis-tency as a longtime player of the series.

Once in the world, the player is met by friends Cheren and Bianca in the character’s room. The player gets to im-mediately choose a starter Pokémon. This is probably the fastest obtaining of a first Pokémon that the series has ever had, and it adds to the feel that this generation is something fresh. Cheren and Bianca decide that they should battle the character inside the bedroom using the other starter Poké-mon that the player doesn’t pick. The room gets trashed, but beating two trainers in the first five minutes of gameplay has never felt so satisfying.

Something surprising about this gen-eration’s games is that there was a solid attempt at creating a more immersive plot. Instead of the typical “leave out on a journey to beat all eight gym leaders and stop the usual antagonist’s plot,” this generation decides to have some added plot devices thrown in. This time, the antagonist is a group called “Team Plasma.” They seem to be based off of a mix between PETA and the Knights Templar. They wish to liberate Pokémon from their trainers, because they feel like Pokémon are being oppressed, and they’ll do anything to accomplish this, even

if it means stealing. Team Plasma is the most enthralling villainous group introduced in the series so far. Players will be seeing a lot of them as the battle between them becomes more in depth.

Players are also harassed by their rivals/friends Bianca and Cheren much more frequently. The plot actually progresses a lot, because of their involvement. All of the characters are still aiming to become the Pokémon champion of the region by col-lecting all eight badges and beating the top four trainers in the region all while collect-ing information to put into their Pokédexes. It feels so much more involved to the point that for the first time in a Pokémon game, I was more interested in finding the next battle against Team Plasma or Bianca and Cheren.

The new region of Unova features 156 brand new Pokémon, which is more than

any other generation. This brings the total up to 649 Pokémon re-leased. Until the player finishes the first part of the game and obtains an upgraded Pokédex, none of the previous Pokémon are able to be found in the region itself. This allows vet-erans to feel refreshed

and newer players to experience something similar to those that played the first gen-eration games. The Pokémon designs are interesting to say the least.

Pokémon “Black and White” are pre-sented beautifully. I marveled at the use of 3D, which is also something that was only tapped upon in the previous genera-tion. It works surprisingly well and allowed enhanced detail on everything. In battles, Pokémon are no longer motionless sprites. Pokémon move around. I was thrilled when I saw my Pokémon’s eyes shut when it was put to sleep during a battle. The camera moves around and the battle scene is much more vibrant. Battles are faster and more fluent than ever. It all makes for an extreme-ly exciting battle scene. Gameplay is still the same basic formula used for over a decade. It’s still used, because it works. Simple, but effective is Pokémon’s style and it’s appreci-ated.

This generation’s games are some of the best yet. Pokémon “Black and White” innovate a series of effective redundan-cies. Newcomers and veterans to the series should definitely pick this up and experience the Pokémon renaissance.

by Brittany HemphillCompass Co-Editor

The “Maximum Ride” manga series, il-lustrated by NaRae Lee (originally written by James Patterson), is a nice change of pace for those who enjoyed the series and are looking to try out a different type of book.

The plot line of the series follows pretty closely to the book. There are a group of five kids, but they have supernatural abilities and wings that set them apart from other kids their age. Instead of going to school and leading normal lives, they always find them-selves in some sort of trouble and adventure against scientists or “Erasers” (other super-natural beings).

The general flow of the plot was alright, but seemed a bit cramped or rushed at some

points. Patterson tends to keep the reader at the edge of their seat and is always packing as much thrilling action into a scene as he can. This can work well when it comes to a regular book, but with a manga, it some-times felt like a little too much at one time.

Although, it was really refreshing to see pictures and drawings of all of the charac-ters. I liked that the most about this book because, in my mind, I had ideas of what Patterson wanted each of them to look like, but with Lee’s drawings, I got a better under-standing of their appearance. The same goes with different scenes in the book—if some-thing was unclear when I read the book, the manga version definitely cleared it up.

I would definitely recommend this manga to anyone who has read and enjoyed Patter-son’s “Maximum Ride” series and can’t seem to get enough.

by Lucas SweitzerGraphics Editor

Since its release on March 4, Gore Verbinski’s new comedy-western has created a small ruckus in the children’s animation world. As soccer moms pile the kids into the family van to see Nickelodeon’s latest film, one reaction comes from parent and critic alike: It’s not bad, it’s just not a kid’s movie.

But it was never meant to be.“Rango” centers on a lizard who finds the

hero within himself while stranded in the town of Dirt. From there, take the bare-bones plot of “Chinatown,” every western cliché you can think of, some good slapstick and a beautiful score by Hans Zimmer, and “Rango” comes into place. The animation was beautiful. The big fault of the movie was the character development. The only char-

acter to grow was the protagonist, everyone else just filled archetypes.

With witty allusions (like a short tribute to “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”), some innuendos and a fair bit of existential self-realization, I couldn’t imagine myself enjoy-ing this movie as a kid. But I love it now.

So what if it doesn’t have a lot of cursing, gory violence or explicit sexual references? So what if the characters are animated ani-mals talking? And so what if it’s rated PG? Just because a kid can watch “Rango” and not get nightmares afterward doesn’t mean that’s who would enjoy it the most.

To say that “Rango” is a great animated movie insults it by placing it in a genre stereotyped for children’s movies. “Rango” is a beautifully visual western, with witty characters and a good moral that can be truly enjoyed by the whole family.

by Ashlyn BridgewaterReporter

Packed with soul, Adele’s new album “21” left me speechless. Unable to argue with the fact that her Grammy Award-winning voice is amazing, I continued on through the album intrigued by what each song had to offer.

At first I wanted to compare her to Amy Winehouse, but the more I listened, the more I realized that she cannot really be compared to other artists. Adele is Adele: simply unique. Every song is raw, as if she had walked into the studio and gotten it perfect with only one try. If what you’re looking for is funky, computer tampered-voices, Adele is not the artist you want.

Describing her own music as “heartbroken soul,” each song is dramatically

written in a poetic manner. This style is clear in lines like “There’s a fire starting in my heart/Reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing me out the dark,” from her song “Rolling in the Deep.”

With minimal instruments to hide behind, as heard in “Rumour Has It,” Adele’s powerful voice paved the way for a jazz feel that was maximized by the use of a piano and tambourine. Not only is her voice astonishingly bold, but I couldn’t help but feel like she is entirely genuine. With an atypical physique (at least for the mainstream music industry), it is clear that she has come this far because of pure talent and not because of a stereotypical look.

By the end of “21,” and after hitting repeat a few times, I fell in love with Adele. What you see is what you get with this artist, and what you get is purely remarkable.

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By Cara HinhReporter

In fourth grade, junior Marisa Ciesielski made a deci-sion that would shape the rest of her life. When offered the chance to play an instrument in her elementary school, she chose the viola. This decision has changed the path of her life ever since.

Ciesielski continued to play in middle school and still plays today in Southport’s Symphony Orchestra, the highest level orchestra in the school. This love of music has lead to a desire to more than just perform. One day Ciesielski aspires to teach music to children.

Ciesielski made the decision to have a career as a music educator when she entered high school. She be-came even more sure about her decision when her older brother, Southport graduate Patrick Ciesielski, decided that he was going to major in music education as well. Patrick is Ciesielski’s biggest inspiration, and is currently a student at Ball State University.

“Music should be a part of everyone’s lives because I think it really shapes people,” said Ciesielski. “If you look at the top ten in every class, they have all played an instrument. Music should be an important part of everyone’s lives.”

Ciesielski believes that without the music programs in the elementary schools that first gave her the opportu-nity to play an instrument, she would not have aspired to become a music educator, which will give her a chance to bring the same joy that music brought to her life, to others.

“I would not have done anything (with music), without the programs here in Southport...” said Ciesielski. “With-out them I wouldn’t be anything, I wouldn’t be me at all.”

Student hopes to complete the circle

Q: What did you do to get the position you have now?A: I practiced for what felt was 345 years.

Specifically, I went to school and got several performance degrees and I studied with the principle violist in the Cleveland orchestra and he helped me prepare for auditions. I took an audition and won the job with the ISO in 1998.

Q: How did it turn into something you love, and a career?A: Fortunately, my private teacher that year told me, ‘Go get your performance degree you’ll graduate, you’ll be 22 and if you can’t find a job then you’re still young, you do something else,’ which is probably the best advice I had gotten. So, I did.

Q: What advice would you give aspiring musicians?A: An aspiring musician should listen to a lot of music, should practice consistently, should not take the summer off in-between

school years. An aspiring musician should really love music, should study music his-tory, as well as music theory, so that they can understand the music that they practice. Because I didn’t study history and music his-tory or music theory, I graduated from high school not knowing which century Mozart lived in. Which is kind of sad, I think, now looking back on it. Not that it was my teach-ers fault, I mean they were doing well just to get me to practice, let alone study anything else, but if there’s somebody who knows early on, that music is what they really want to do, then music history and music theory are very good things to study.

Q: Why should people still go and see live music?A: I think in our culture where everything moves so fast, that human emotion doesn’t have time to really develop in the context of

fast food meals and 18 minute sitcoms and 35 second commercials. But it still takes as much time to fall in love now, as it did 350 years ago. It still takes as much time to grieve as it did 200 years ago. It still takes as much time to express human emotion as it did... That takes some time and it takes slowing down and sitting down to experi-ence that.

Q: What’s your favorite experience you’ve had with the ISO?A: There are so many, it’s hard to pick. I would probably say my first concert with the Indianapolis symphony was Beethoven’s Ninth symphony, and after all those years in school, 11 to be exact, I won the audition here in January of ‘98, but I didn’t start until May because I wanted to finish the degree that I was doing.

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By Cara HinhReporter

Some people take out their stress with exercise, some talk out anger issues with a counselor, but for junior Paul Summers, writing and performing raps is his way of cop-ing with stress and dissolving his anger. Summers has been writing raps since the sixth grade and has turned his writing into a career that is gaining momentum.

It wasn’t until eighth grade when those raps that were just written down turned into polished pieces of music and made Summers realize that he wanted to have music in his life, and possibly as a career.

“Since this year has started, I have been in the (re-cording) studio every weekend except two and to make up for that I am going this Friday afternoon and Satur-day,’’ said Summers.

The name that Summers goes by when performing, writing or recording is ‘Glock 40,’ and he can often be heard shouting the words, “Glock 40 Shawty!’’

But to Summers the name Glock 40 is more than just a stage name.

“People don’t understand, there is no such thing as a Glock 40, but it actually (stands for) a .40 caliber and the thing about a .40 caliber is that it has a bunch of good qualities and bad qualities too, and that is just like myself. It’s not like violence, people are like, ‘Glock 40 he must have a glock on him’ it’s nothing like that.”

Summers is currently working on an EP called, “The Path to Getting Cash.” Along with writing for himself, Summers also has done songs with and has written for other local artists. While Summers’s career as a musician may not flourish, his love for music and drive to make it will last his entire life.

Student finds help through lyrics

Junior Paul Summers

Photo by Jackie Smith.

By Corey MillsReporter

After four years of being active in the music depart-ment, senior Zack Sadlo-Steensen is preparing to go to Ball State University. He has been playing with the concert band for four years with his oboe and jazz band for two years on guitar.

He will be double majoring in psychology and classi-cal guitar. Sadlo-Steensen has been actively involved in many of Southport’s music programs including music theory and marching band where he played keyboard.

Sadlo-Steensen has a unique spot on the marching and pep band. He does not normally have a set part to play for the songs that the band plays. Sadlo-Steensen improvises, which makes him feel special.

“I never really have a part for pep band or marching band,” said Sadlo-Steensen. “I don’t think anyone else does that. I usually have to write my own part.”

Around eighth grade, he started getting into music. Sadlo-Steensen was inspired by his grandpa to become active in music. He says that he will be the first one in his family to be active in a music field. He was greatly influenced by Tosin Abasi, the lead guitarist of instru-mental progressive metal band “Animals as Leaders.”

Sadlo-Steensen has practiced frequently and gotten a lot of experience playing for the school. In college, he hopes to continue being active in music. His practice is what he believes has gotten him to where he is. For other musicians, he says that they should practice fre-quently. He believes that music is interesting, because it is a subject that incorporates all other subjects.

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by Karalie HensleyStaff Artist

Ashley Brown walked into the kitchen as her father requested, unknowingly passing a bullet hole in the refrigerator that seemed to foreshadow the events that would soon occur. She did not see the gun lying atop the refrig-erator. It was an average September afternoon to the naked eye, but something was amiss. She felt it. Her older brother, Harley, exited his bedroom and followed closely behind her.

‘Do you love me?’ their father, David Brown, asked. She said yes, but her brother remained silent. There was a pause. Before she knew what was happening, her father forced her against the refrigerator while he reached for the gun. Harley attempted to intervene, yelled at their father to stop. The first shot was fired. It ricocheted off the wall. The kids both ran while trying to escape the unthinkable. She saw a bullet make contact with her brother’s neck. Her father fired the gun in her direction and missed. She turned to look as another bul-let caught the back of her brother’s head. Ash-ley tried to run again. She was hit. She made her way to a neighbor’s house with a gunshot wound less than a centimeter away from her spine. The bullet took a portion of her liver.

Police rushed to the scene. Soon, their mother, Stacy Brown, received a

call informing her of an emergency. The per-son on the other end of the phone urged her to go to the hospital. No information regarding names, details or events were given. Without knowing what had occurred, she tried to call her son along with her children’s father, her ex-husband.

Upon her arrival, detectives led her through numerous corridors until she reached a room with assorted couches, chairs and recliners arranged in a generic manner. She took a seat as two men entered the room and drew closer. One of the men was the hospital clergyman. He carried a box of tissues. He kneeled down before her. “No,” she said. She shook her head, commanding the man to get off of his knees.

“Ms. Brown, we are sorry to inform you, but your son Harley is dead,” she remembered one of them saying.

She heard her daughter screaming for her down the hall. They asked her if she knew David Brown. She told them yes. They gave her all the information available. She demanded to see her daughter. She was led three doors down to another room. Before she could enter, a doctor stopped Stacy to tell her Ashley was more than likely going to die. She took a breath before she entered the room.

She remembers Ashley crying out, “Mom-my, it’s bad. You have to go find Harley. It was bad. Please go find him.”

She did her best to calm her daughter down, telling her to focus on getting better. She told the doctors not to tell Ashley about her brother’s death.

At 10 p.m., Stacy walked into Ashley’s hos-pital room with a couple of close relatives. She took a seat and held Ashley’s hand. Among the buzzes and beeps of the machines surrounding her 12-year-old child, she said, “Baby girl, your brother didn’t make it.”

The environment changed dramatically. Machines shrieked as Ashley became hysteri-cal. Doctors put her back to sleep.

Ashley remembers that after she watched the candle-lit vigil from her hospital bed, the days that followed were a blur as she tried to piece her life back together without a brother and a father.

A few days later, Stacy stepped into the house for the first time since the incident. After she walked into the kitch-en, her eyes fed on the heartbreaking scene. It was a gruesome picture painted and untouched since the investigation. It is imprinted on her mind. Blood was everywhere. The scent was still heavy in the air.

“I was the one who cleaned up everything,” said Stacy. “I remem-ber backing myself up against the sink and staring at where it all happened. It was worse than you could see in a movie.”

She remembers picking up the rug where her son took his last breath and blood seeping from it. Each droplet crashed in a kamikaze dive to the kitchen floor, joining the other crimson stains that had settled. Her heart broke with each drip. She got on her hands and knees and cleaned for hours, refusing to give up until the kitchen was spotless. Once finished, she was covered in blood.

“There is no word for it in the dictionary,” said Stacy.

Eventually, Stacy returned back to work, knowing Ashley was relying on her. In Stacy’s mind, if she fell apart, her daughter would too.

“If I didn’t fight to make things right, what would that say about me as a parent?” she said.

Stacy eventually was convinced to go to a therapist. During one session, Stacy remem-bered looking around the room, seeing the therapist’s awards and realizing he couldn’t know how she felt. She looked at him and told him she was done, leaving without a second thought.

“Just because you go to college, just be-

cause you have a degree, just because you are sitting there doesn’t mean you know how I feel,” said Stacy.

Ashley also attended therapy but began to harbor the same feelings as her mother. Ashley felt her therapist tried to bait her into talking before she was ready. She stopped going after a few sessions.

It’s been five years. Ashley is now three years older than Harley was when he was mur-dered. A day doesn’t pass in which she does not think of her brother or what happened. To this day, Ashley has not spoken with her fa-ther. She receives letters but does not respond. David Brown has roughly 80 years left on his sentence.

Ashley feels as though she is more mature than people her age because of what hap-pened. She refuses to let high school drama

affect her. Ashley laughs when admitting that five years ago, she was the one starting the drama. She knows that dealing with the loss of her brother has made her stronger. She thinks it will help her go farther in life.

“Certain things hap-pen to certain people,” said Ashley. “One day will change your life forever.”

Ashley also seeks com-fort in drawing and other forms of art. She hopes her ceramics class will help her get her feelings out

with their full integrity. Hanging out with friends is another outlet.

“That day she not only lost her brother and I lost my son, she lost a dad and I lost a friend that I had been with for 16 years,” said Stacy. “We both lost two people in one day.”

In memory of her brother, Ashley received a tattoo of her brother’s initials. She also plans to get a tattoo of a cross that Harley drew. She thinks of it as a way to express her feelings towards her brother and to show he is still important to her. Each year, the Browns put a tribute in the newspaper about Harley.

“Every morning I look at the tattoo, and I think about him,” said Ashley. “I have a memo-rial on my wall.”

The Browns are healing one day at a time, struggling emotionally. The tragedy has rein-forced a relationship between the two. Like any mother and daughter, they fight and argue every so often, but at the end of the day, they know they will be there for each other.

“Regardless of how terrible of a person her father was that day, up to that day, I can’t say anything bad about the man,” said Stacy. “That’s probably the hardest thing to say.”

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Mother, daughter work through tragedy together

“The main fun memory I have is I would randomly wake Harley and Ashley around midnight or 2 a.m. and take them to Steak ‘n Shake in their jammies to eat cheesy fries and a milkshake. It became a ritual. I would walk in the bedroom and whisper, ‘Want to go to Steak ‘N Shake?’ Then (they’d) get up quietly as if they were try-ing to catch Santa Claus. I miss dearly doing that.” -Stacy Brown

In memory of HarleyBrown

Harley Brown was a Southport student in 2005. He was a sopho-more when he died at 15 years old.

While at Southport, Harley par-ticipated in Intermediate Choir. He also enjoyed spending time with his friends and going boat-ing with his family.

Harley’s family and friends were all affected greatly by his death. Harley had a girlfriend, Tiffany, who wrote a letter say-ing goodbye to him after he was deceased.

“I miss you so much more every single day. It’s still very hard to start my days without you. I still love you so much and I honestly believe that I always will. You were my soulmate,” she wrote.

Harley was known for being kind to people of all backgrounds and never judging anyone that came his way. Ms. Jeanne Fitzgerald, Harley’s choir teacher, remembered Harley immediately after his death.

“I think he was just a genuinely nice young man with a pretty big heart for everybody,” Fitzgerald told The Journal in 2005.

A candle-lit service was held the day after his death to remem-ber Harley. He is still missed over five years later by all of his fam-ily, friends and teachers.

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“Me and Harley would go camping (at) Walnut Grove with my godmother Marie in Fairland. We went there almost every week-end. The weekends we weren’t there we were at Raccoon Lake boating. Harley was on a tube, and he lost his pants. That’s my favorite memory. ” -Ashley Brown

Junior Ashley BrownPhoto by Karalie Hensley.

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“That day she not only lost her brother and I lost my son, she lost a dad and I lost a friend that I had been with for 16 years. We both lost two people in one day.

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by Jennifer VirdenReporter

There was a constant thirst for something to drink and a tired feeling that refused to go away. Weight was dropping rapidly, even though she was eating more than normal. These symptoms led to a trip to the hospital where a young girl heard the news that would affect the rest of her life.

When junior Amanda Armstrong was only 8 years old, her babysitter noticed that something wasn’t right. She saw that she was constantly sleeping, and she was asking for something to drink more often than she used to. The baby-sitter could tell that Armstrong was also dehydrated, so she told her mother.

With the information she had just received, Armstrong’s mother, Ms. Brenda Armstrong, knew that she needed to take her daughter to the hospital. It was in the middle of the night, but seeing a doctor was crucial, so she took her right away.

After running some tests, the doctor informed Armstrong and her mother that she had Type One diabetes, or Juvenile Ddabetes, which is usually genetic, although Armstrong is the first in her family to have it. This type of diabetes most commonly occurs in younger children and means that her pancreas no longer makes the natural insulin that is neces-sary for her to live normally. When she heard this news, Armstrong wasn’t sure how to feel.

“I didn’t really have any reactions when I found out be-cause I was so young,” said Armstrong. “It just didn’t really hit me that something was wrong with me. I didn’t realize until about a year after I was diagnosed ... that this was go-

ing to be here for the rest of my life.”After the doctor explained exactly what diabetes is, he

also explained to Armstrong how she could manage it. She would need to have artificial insulin pumped into her body, so she began taking shots to do so. She began by taking two shots when she woke up in the morning, another one every time that she ate and one more before she went to bed. On most days, she got up to at least eight shots a day.

“The hardest part was having to learn how to give Amanda a shot,” said Brenda Armstrong. “That was very emotional for the entire family. No one wants to have to give their child a shot, but her life literally depended on it.”

Because of the shots, diabetes began to affect her life more than she hoped it would. She needed one of her parents to give her the shots, so it was hard for her to hang out with her friends or have sleepovers. But one person that she never lost touch with was her best friend, junior Al-exandrea Radford. She has been there for her since the day she was diagnosed.

“She’s my rock when I’m in a hard place,” said Arm-strong. “My mom often tells her that she has diabetes too since she has been around so long.”

Over time, Armstrong’s life has slowly become more normal. She got an insulin pump that she now wears on her every day. It pumps the insulin that she needs into her body continuously so that she no longer has to worry about get-ting shots, which has let her social life go back to normal.

Although the shots are no longer necessary, she still has to prick her finger to check her blood sugar. She has to check it around four or five times a day, but it doesn’t bother her much anymore. In fact, not much about diabetes bothers her now that she’s older. The tension that it some-

times causes with her family is the only exception.Armstrong sometimes forgets to check her blood sugar

or forgets to get the proper amount of insulin from her pump for the food that she eats, so her parents sometimes get frustrated with her.

“It’s just my parents are constantly reminding me,” said Armstrong, “and it’s this natural teenage thing that you just want to push them away and say, ‘I got it. I can do it.’”

The constant thirst is now gone, and she is no longer sleeping all day or losing weight. Armstrong’s life has gone back to normal and she seems symptom-free, but having Type One diabetes will affect her for the rest of her life.

Disease affects Southport student early in life

Junior Amanda Armstrong tests her blood sugar level on Thurs., March 3. Armstrong has been diabetic since she was 8 years old. Photo by Becca Tapp.

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When I look at my dad, I see the person who loves me more than anyone else does. He has put up with all of the dumb stuff I’ve done, given me rules that have made me grow up to be a better person and made sure that I’ve had everything I’ve needed to have a good life. He’s been nothing but good to me, yet I’ve treated him terribly. What’s even worse is that I’m not the only one like this. Very few teenagers actually cherish the relationships that they have with their parents like they should.

The importance of relationships between parents and their children seems to be completely overlooked by teenagers. If teenagers are lucky enough to have parents that care, they should respect that. Not everyone gets that chance. Recently, I’ve taken another look at my life and realized that my relationship with my dad isn’t the best, and that’s a shame.

Every weekend when I ask to go out, my dad gives me a time that he wants me to be home, and every weekend I complain that it it’s too early. In reality, the time he gives me

is always reasonable, and I have no right to complain. He’s only looking out for me, but I just look past that and assume he’s being unfair. Coming home an hour earlier than the rest of my friends isn’t going to kill me.

Because I’m 18 and an “adult” now, I sometimes have the typical “I’m 18, so I can do whatever I want” mentality. I want to be able to go wherever I want and come home whenever I want, which isn’t fair to my parents. I still live with them, they still pay for my car and gas and they give me money almost every time I ask. They’re still taking care of me, so they still have every right to tell me what to do. As long as I’m living in their house, I need to respect them.

I see similar things happen all the time with my friends’ parents as well. Although it may seem like it, parents don’t give their children rules just to be mean. They’re doing it because they care. Some children don’t have parents that care, so the ones that do shouldn’t take them for granted. It’s sad to see how teenagers, including myself, treat their parents. My dad definitely doesn’t deserve to be treated badly, and I’m sure that no one else’s parents deserve it either.

Not only does this happen with people I know, it also happens all the time in the media. On the MTV reality show Teen Mom, the girls almost always treat their parents terribly, which sets a bad example for its audience. There are constant yelling battles about every little thing, especially with a girl in the newest season, Jenelle Evans, and her mom. Every episode, Jenelle screams at her mom for everything even though she’s only

trying to help her take care of her baby. It makes me want to go through the TV screen and tell her that she’s an idiot.

I think another important thing for teenagers to keep in mind is that every parent was once a teenager themselves. The rules that they give are most likely because of an experience they had when they were younger. They know how terrible the world can be, and they know that they need to do things to make sure their children are safe. The times may be different than when they were young, but the same basic things occur.

My dad always says that he gives me some of his rules because he “knows how teenage boys can be.” I just blow him off usually, but when I think about it, he’s right. He knows

much more about the troubles of being a teenager than I do, so I should listen to him.

I’ll be going off to college soon, so my goal until next fall is to improve the quality of my relationship with my dad while I still have the chance. Next year will be tough for both of us. He tells me that he’s scared to let me go, and I know I’m going to miss him. But with everything he’s taught me, we’re both confident that I’ll be okay.

He has been the best dad possible, and I need to make sure he knows. He’s the most important person in the world to me, and I think other teenagers need to evaluate their lives and see that if they are lucky enough to have parents that care, they should be the most important people to them as well.

It seems that our generation may be the one generation that cares the least about what’s going on in the world. Why have we stopped caring about what’s happening in our global community? For instance, the news of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepping down after a reign of about 30 years. When I first heard this, I expected my classmates to be buzzing about it. I didn’t hear a whisper. Now Libya’s government is in the process of a bloody political change. It seems that everyone I ask about this is aware, but doesn’t seem to care.

This is where our generation, or just teens in general, fall flat. Have we decided that since it’s across an ocean it doesn’t concern us? Wrong. Though these countries in turmoil are across the world, it doesn’t mean that they don’t affect us. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported in 2010 that Libya has approximately 46.4 bil-lion barrels of oil. Turmoil in Africa and the surrounding nations increase the cost of im-porting gas. And if things don’t quiet down soon, neither will the prices at the pump.

The U.S. is a world economic leader. Ac-cording to www.consumerpsychologist.com, if gas prices go up, a domino effect happens. The more you spend on gas to pay for the import price, the less you spend on things you want. When people stop spending, and manufacturers still produce the same amount of products, the companies lose money. When this happens, it causes job losses. We need to be concerned about our

global economy. Perhaps a less selfish reason for us to

care about our global community is because of our First Amendment Rights. The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of the press and freedom of speech. We need to recognize and appreciate the rights we have, because in other countries people still don’t have these today. We, as Americans, are given the opportunity to know what is hap-pening in our global neighborhood because of these rights. In some countries, the gov-ernment controls all news sources and in-formation that is released to the public. It’s our time to cheer on our global neighbors and their inspiring fight for freedom and the rights that we, as Americans, possess.

Many people protesting for their rights are young people, people that are not much older than us high schoolers. They are using modern technology, like Facebook, to fight oppression that has, in Libya, lasted for over

30 years. These people are fight-ing for the freedom and rights that we have, just like we did long ago. They are hoping for things that have become mun-dane for us. We should be in awe of these brave people.

So, young people of Amer-ica, I’m calling you out. We need to stay more informed about events in the world. We can cheer on our global neighbors as they try to fight their oppressive government

to get the very rights we take for granted every day.

Now, this is not the time for me to recite our constitution. Hopefully you don’t need to look it up to know that the reason that document was written was to guarantee freedom, the freedom of the American people. We teens have just decided that we care more about our 30-minute TV show than we do about the rest of the world. Yes, I know that it might be “your job,” “your house” and “your car.” But guess what, it’s not just your world. We might be America, but we are not the only people out there. So please, take five minutes out of the TV, and put it into thinking of our world.

March 11, 20118 Opinion

Teenagers should better relationships with parents

The Indiana House of Representatives recently passed a bill called the English-only Bill, which would require state official documents to be printed only in English. It would only allow documents to be printed in other languages when it is required by the constitution or federal law, such as law enforcement, public health and safety needs, to protect the rights of parties, to teach or to promote tourism.

The bill unfairly targets immigrant U.S. citizens and other legal residents who don’t speak English. Some supporters of the bill might say that it would force Hispanics and other non-English speaking people to learn English. However, this bill will produce far more negative effects than benefits for the non-English speakers and for all the people of Indiana.

For those who don’t speak English well, the bill sends the wrong signal and makes it difficult for them to deal with a multitude of issues, from learning Indiana’s rules of the road to getting a driver’s license to employ-ment issues. Getting a driver’s license is one of the first obstacles newcomers to Indiana must overcome. All naturalized citizens, green-card holders and other legal residents should be able to take tests in their native tongue. It is very shortsighted to deny immi-grants and refugees help that will promote their success.

Supporters may say that in order to be successful in the United States, people must speak English, but it’s not as simple as that. Many immigrants have not had the time or opportunity to learn English, and aren’t regularly exposed to English. In general, it takes about five or six years for most adults to learn English. During this period of time,

they must have transportation and must work to support their families. As these immigrants are trying to learn, trying to be productive and trying to acculturate to the United States, this law will be a huge road-block for them.

As a person who has experienced this sit-uation, I know exactly how hard it is. When I first came to the United States and did not know English, it was very stressful and created many hardships. As a young girl, I had to learn English as fast as I could so my family could depend on me, but it wasn’t that easy. It takes time to be able to under-stand and speak English. If the United States accepts immigrants, then why shouldn’t they be welcomed and accepted? The United States has always been made up of many dif-ferent ethnicities and many different people from all around the world. That’s why it is a great country where everyone wants to live. The English-only Bill is basically saying im-migrants aren’t accepted unless they speak English.

This law also has implications for all the other people of Indiana. Indianapolis has spent huge amounts of money to create a convention business that has drawn visitors from many different countries. State and local officials have traveled the world in an effort to get international businesses to lo-cate here. This law, however, sends a strong message that international workers are not valued in Indiana. Indiana can’t successfully market itself as an international destination for visitors, skilled workers and businesses while at the same time making laws that make it uncomfortable for them here. This will be very harmful to our economy.

We need to remind our legislators that there are many legal immigrants and natu-ralized citizens who don’t speak English. They should reconsider how this bill might affect the lives of our citizens and legal permanent residents who are non-English speaking, as well as native Hoosiers. This law won’t save any money, and may actually increase costs for the government if it has to remove text printed in other languages. English is already the official language of Indiana, so the law serves no real purpose.

English-only bills unfair to those who don’t speak it

by Jennifer VirdenReporter

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by Katie HinhReporter

“I’m more Asian than my sister.”

Students need sufficient knowledge of world news

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moil are across the world, it doesn’t

mean that it doesn’t affect us.

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{brainGAMES}Much research has been done on teenage brains to figure out how they work. Below is a diagram of the brain and what may affect teenage behavior. Graphic by Rachael Dillon. Information from www.time.com.

Prefrontal CortexThe CEO of the brain and last part to mature, which may cause teens’ actions.

AmygdalaThe emotional center of the brain, teens rely on this more heavily than adults, possibly explaining why teens act impulsively.

CerebellumControls activities of higher learning, such as mathematics, music and social skills. During adolescence, this increases the amount of neurons as well as the complexity between them.

by Adrienne WagnerManaging Editor of Content

I had several good friends involved with the production of “Tombstone” who all told me different things before I went to see it. “It’s about prostitutes.” “It’s a really depress-ing play, but I think you will like it.” “It’s really funny and has a lot of nasty jokes.”

So, naturally I decided to attend and figure out just what this “western” was all about. The reality was a bit shocking. It really did contain extremely inappropriate jokes, feature countless prostitutes and have a sad ending. It’s not to say I didn’t particu-larly enjoy the play, I thought the acting was phenomenal for high school theater and costumes and scenes were very well put-together. It’s just that I found myself ques-tioning whether or not this was the correct choice for the audience, and our school.

At Southport we can’t wear shirts that promote alcohol, sex, drugs or the like, yet this play featured inappropriate sexual jokes, risqué outfits, alcohol glorification and mur-der. Is it really acceptable to have the school endorse such a scandalous production?

It isn’t that I didn’t think the jokes were funny, the outfits fitting or any other part of the play relevant. That was the problem. For this particular play, in order to be produced correctly, all of these things were necessary. I just don’t understand how administration could give its permission.

Thinking back to the fall musical, “Cin-derella,” I remember the bright stage, the little girls dressed up as princesses and the fairy-tale ending. “Cinderella” inspired the younger portion of the audience to follow

their dreams.At “Tombstone,” similar to “Cinderella,” I

saw little boys with cowboy boots walking up the aisles, ready for the show to begin. But unlike the musical, the morals of the story were unclear to the younger audience. Are little cowboys supposed to aspire to be drunken, cheating, killers? I would certainly hope not.

I felt similarly about the One Acts a few months ago. One of the productions, a mockery about suicide, featured a man who was going to kill himself. Two agents who knew the suicide business wanted him to choose the best possible way to end his life. The program said it was attempting to put a lighter side on a serious subject.

I feel that the issue lies in the fact that suicide should probably only be taken as a serious topic. If a student had committed suicide before the show, that One Act would have been cancelled. Had a student com-mitted suicide after the show, I feel it would have been a tragedy for all involved.

It’s not that the theater doesn’t do a spec-tacular job executing the parts and plays they are given. It’s just that the subject mat-ter isn’t consistent with the school’s policies. I understand that “Tombstone” and any play with deep subject matter and abstract parts is a big challenge for the actors and crew, I just don’t believe that high school is the correct place for these out-of-the-box ideas to start.

I have so much respect for people able to dedicate so much time to a show that is played for only three days. I feel that theater, as a whole, shines a very positive light on our school. But I also feel that administration

should stay consistent in order to maintain a positive experience for the entire audience.

If the theater is as talented as I think it is, I know for a fact that it can do a phenomenal job with any content given. Because of this, maybe we should stick to more positive productions, or at the very least, warn the audience of the con-tent that might be deemed inappropri-ate for younger crowds.

The program warned of strobe lights, but didn’t bother to mention the language or mature material. Had I been a par-ent and brought my child to the show, I would have been disappointed with the lack of infor-mation provided.

Southport has always tried to be a positive in-fluence to its surrounding community. The adminis-tration’s decisions pertain-ing to all content, from the spring play to how we dress, should continue to accurately represent our reality.

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{theHEADSCRATCHER} What is your favorite childhood television show?

“Rugrats.”- Freshman Zach

Campbell

“Ed, Edd n Eddy.”- Junior Marlissa

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“Big Comfy Couch.”- Sophomore Taylor

Zorman

“Keenan & Kel.”- Senior Brian Green

Look around. How many of your friends, teachers and acquaintances seem to have the newest, the smartest, and the next-best thing? We live in a time and place where luxuries are thought of as a standard. We begin to think that privileges are rights and that we deserve and are entitled to our weekly allowance, new phone and gas money. It’s a never-ending cycle. You want something, you receive something and you move on. When we find little or no excitement in the world around us, we can become disinterested, jealous or greedy. Being genuinely interested in and thankful for what we have can lead to positive feelings, and we have a lot to be thankful for.

Expressing gratitude affects the way you look at life. When you realize all you have to be grateful for, it’s difficult to be

unhappy. When you’re having “a good day,” it’s not always because good things are happening to you. Rather, you are realizing and acknowledging that good things are happening to you. The logic is simple. Accentuating the positive makes you a more positive person. Having a grateful attitude makes you happier.

Although it’s true that our world is changing and it is hard to be successful without certain essential items, such as a phone or internet, our world’s need for gratitude hasn’t changed. The shift in our society’s dependence on technology, advances, and luxuries shouldn’t warrant a lack of manners.

Expressing gratitude is common courtesy. If someone does something nice for you, don’t let it go without thanking them.

‘Thank You’ cards, phone calls, e-mails and even texts do a lot to show someone you appreciate their efforts without taking too much time out of your day. It is true, however, that certain situations warrant more effort in thanking. For example, if your mom makes your lunch in the morning, you should send her a text after school to say you enjoyed it. If an organization gives you a prestigious scholarship, you should send a polite handwritten thank-you letter.

So here’s a challenge: say thank you. Acknowledge the efforts others give to make you happy. When your math teacher helps you understand the quadratic equation, when your grandma knits you scarf, when you have an evening without homework and finally have time to spend time with friends or family, be thankful.

theSOUTHPORTaddress:The Southport Address is an editorial written based on the consensus opinion of seniors Holly Hightower (Editor-in-Chief of The Anchor), Katja Krasnovsky (Bureau Chief of the News Bureau) and Shivani Parikshak (Editor-in-Chief of The Journal).

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March 11, 201110 Photos

Welcome to Tombstone

This past weekend, Southport’s theater department per-formed the Western play “Tombstone” as their annual spring production. The play followed the story of Doc Holliday, the Earp brothers and the rest of the inhabit-ants of Tombstone, Ariz.

(left) Kate Elder (senior Katja Krasnovsky) acts overly dramatic about testifying against her soon-to-be hus-band, Doc Hol-liday. He would have been hanged if he did not marry her. (right) Doc Holliday (senior Evan Wire) and Virgil Earp (senior Dustin Lapkovitch) give assistance to Judge Spicer (senior Wes Keown), who has a tooth-ache. The two planned to take out all of the judge’s teeth so he would stop playing the ac-cordion. Photos by Brandon Bushong.

(above) The Buffalo Gals perform their dance number for the crowd at the Ori-ental Saloon. The group of dancers was led by Pauline (senior Haylie McLinn). (right) Doc Holliday gives Wyatt Earp’s wife, Mattie (senior Natalie Ullrich), a comforting hug. After the hug, Doc went off to bring her husband home. Photos by Brandon Bushong. (below right) Ike Clanton (junior Westin Faulkner) gives his testimony in the courtroom after the shootout that left his brother and friends dead. Clanton tried to convince the judge that God shot the Earp broth-ers. Photo by Jackie Smith. (below left) Seniors Natalie Ullrich, Ryan Myers and Sam Doughty acknowledge the lighting and sound technicians in the booth after the Saturday evening performance. (left) Wyatt Earp (senior Ryan Myers) and Josie (senior Sam Doughty) argue about their relationship. Earp cheated on his wife, Mattie, with Josie. Photos by Brandon Bushong.

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by Joey BanfieldReporter

One hundred and twenty-seven million dollars. That’s enough money to let my future grandchildren live a life without lifting a finger. But to baseball player Carl Crawford, this is just a pay check.

The professional athletics industry is thriving off of greed these days. The more money they make, the happier they are. The average salary of athletes who play in the NBA, NFL or MLB is $3,664,609.33 per year. For playing sports, $3.7 million seems a bit much, don’t you think?

These athletes aren’t even doing huge things for this country. President Barack Obama only makes $400,000 each year, and he runs a country. Some presidents, such as Washington and Kennedy, didn’t even take that salary because it was enough to just be the President. That shows character. So, have the pros and sports industries of today lost the love of the game? They are so caught up in the greed that they forget why they started playing sports in the first place.

Greed is showing everywhere in sports. Right now the NFL is in a bind with its players. The league is trying to cut player salaries 12-15 percent to prevent tough money situations, but the players are highly against this and the commissioner is proposing a lockout for next season. That would mean that there wouldn’t be an NFL season next year.

What will happen if the NFL doesn’t have a season next year? The Super Bowl won’t come here

to Indianapolis. That means that the city will not be getting the millions of dollars that it should. That’s a shame since Indianapolis raised taxes to build the stadium. If the Super Bowl comes, we would earn that money back in revenue. So, if the Super Bowl doesn’t happen, the NFL will be taking money away from Indiana.

Maybe, if the leagues never would have gotten greedy, then the NFL would not be in fear of a lockout. If players were used to $500,000 a year then they wouldn’t be having a debate over a lockout because they wouldn’t be in the financial situation. But that brings me to a new point. The players are greedy, but who is really getting the money behind the scenes? The owners.

The players aren’t the only ones to blame for greed. The owners are wanting to cut their player’s checks substantially and asking for a bigger piece of the money pie. The saying is “millionaires versus billionaires.” And that holds true. The owners have a tough decision to make, according to Bob Kravitz, “Do I take the helicopter today or the private plane?”

A coach and teacher here at Southport, Mr. Mark Stephens, played Arena Football, which is totally different from the NFL. The Arena league works on incentive play. They have a set salary of $650 per game for each player. Beyond that they get paid bonuses on how well they play. One-hundred and sixty dollars per touchdown each game, $100 dollars for a game of 100 yards or more and defensively big plays like fumble causes or interceptions will bring in $160 as well. If sports did incentive things would go a lot smoother

financially and harder work would be seen.But what can they do to prevent greed

in sports? The leagues could give back to communities. They could lower the checks of each player and owner, then use the left over money to give to local charities. The total that the NFL has given back this year is $140 million. That’s less than the Dolphin’s team payroll and Dwight Freeney’s pay check put together. Seems a little more take than give, doesn’t it?

The pro leagues need to give back to the people that support them instead of being greedy and raking the money in. What they could do to lower revenue and not be as greedy is maybe lower pre-season ticket pricing to all-time lows. That way, people who are financially unfortunate or may never be able to watch a pro game will be able to. Kids will be able to see their hero for an affordable price.

In the end, these are businesses and we can’t stop them from charging whatever they want. They need to look at themselves in the mirror and realize that they need to change their ethics. Once that happens, we just might be able to see less greed and an NFL season next year.

in the BANfield of sportsIn pro sports, it’s all about the money

g. basketballb. basketball g. swimming b. swimming wrestlingseniors: seniors: seniors: seniors: seniors:

record: record: record: record: record:“My most memorable moment this year would probably have to be sending senior Bobby Blackwell off on such a storybook ending to his senior night.” -head coach Mr. Wes Peek.

1 5 5 1exchange student Matej Babik

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“(The best moment was) beating Perry (Meridian) by 20 points and making it to the Sectional Championship with a 4-13 record.” -head coach Ms. Leah Enterline.

“It’ll be hard to replace the seniors on this team.” -head coach Mr. Matt Jeffries.

“(The best moment was) when they defeated Decatur Central because it was all the swimmers’ former coach who went to the other team.” -head coach Mr. Matt Jeffries.

“Kyle was one of those guys who were up for most improved. He wrestled really well this season.” -head coach Mr. Todd Weaver.

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by Shelby AdamsReporter

Southport’s annual junior/senior prom will take place Friday, Apr. 8, from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. If you do not attend school Friday, you cannot attend prom. This means you must be at school the whole day.

“Do not schedule a hair appointment during the day,” said prom faculty adviser Ms. Barbara Whitlock. “You must be at school all day.”

The theme for this year’s prom is “An Unforgettable Night.” In past years, prom has taken place at the Children’s Museum and at the Murat. This year, however, it will be held in the Indiana Roof Ballroom, which is located on the top floor of the Indiana Repertory Theatre.

The Ballroom will be almost identical

to an Italian plaza night sky. During the dance a rainstorm will take place. Everyone must be seated and there will be special effects to make it feel real.

“It’s really the most beautiful place in the city, maybe even the state,” said Whitlock.

Upon arriving to prom, there will be dessert set out for anyone to enjoy. At midnight, when the dance is over, there will be late night snacks as well. The price for the food is included in the price for the ticket.

There is not a parking garage attached to this year’s prom venue. However, there will be valet parking available for students to take advantage of.

The cost for the dance will be $35 dollars and tickets will be sold the week before spring break. There will also be an after prom event at Southport. Details for the event will be released soon.

Mark your calendars and save the date for this “Unforgettable Night.”

If you have any questions regarding prom, see Whitlock in room 146 or Mrs. Mary Sims in room 162.

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