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OPINION

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How much is free speech worth? This right is one of the most important outlined in the Constitution. Sometimes, though, free speech doesn’t seem worth the pain it causes, especially when it crosses the line, as it did in the Westboro Baptist Church vs. Snyder case.

In 2006, the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Matthew Snyder, a Marine, who was killed in Iraq. The picket signs the protesters carried read “God hates fags” and “Thank God for dead soldiers.” Currently, Matthew’s father, Albert Snyder, is in an intense legal battle over the picketing. What confuses me is the fact that the Supreme Court and lower appellate courts keep siding with Westboro’s free speech appeal. This confused me because what the Westboro Baptist Church spews at anyone opposing them is hate speech. By them attempting to have it protected under the first amendment is wrong; people have rights, but their rights end at their neighbor’s nose.

Hate speech is defined as any “speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.” If the signs carried by those people aren’t attacks on a sexual orientation then I’m clearly illiterate. It’s wrong for Westboro supporters to carry terrible signs celebrating the deaths of soldiers who have fought for our safety and our freedoms.

This is not just hate speech either, this is psychological terrorism. The Westboro Baptist Church targets military funerals intentionally because they believe that soldiers die because the military allows homosexuals to serve their country. Imagine burying you father or brother or sister or mother and at the funeral are protesters across the street spewing out hate and rejoicing the death of that particular family member. Imagine the grief the families who’ve already been terrorized by these people have gone through.

They praise God’s hate and spitefulness; I don’t understand this. I was taught about God’s love and the plan He has for all of us. Even if you do sin, if you ask for forgiveness sincerely and with a pure heart, you’d be forgiven. God made us in his image and if He is all knowing then why would He put people on Earth that are gay if only to be persecuted? I don’t care if people are straight, gay, or bisexual. If someone loves another person and that person

loves them back, then why should their sexual orientation matter?

You may not agree with the war but that doesn’t change the fact that those brave men and women are fighting for us and for America. They are sacrificing not only families and friends but also their lives. To give up all we have here

in America and to go fight in a war knowing you might be killed is love. That love triumphs all the negative and nasty words ejected from the mouths of the Westboro supporters. According to the Times magazine article “Should the Highest Court Protect the Ugliest Speech?” by Sean Gregory, the Westboro Baptist Church is “not only anti-gay but also anti-Catholic (because priests are pedophiles), anti-Semitic (because Jews killed Jesus) and anti-America (because it’s home to all these heathens).” It’s particularly infuriating that this group claims to hate America and what we stand for when that’s the only thing allowing

them to spew this hate. If they hate America so much then why don’t they go to a country with a strict regime like North Korea? Simply because they wouldn’t have the satisfaction of hurting others with their cruel tactics. They aren’t satisfied with voicing their opinions in conversation or articles sent to newspapers. No, they have to cross the line and scream their hatred into people’s faces.

Here’s an interest-ing little known fact about the leader of

Westboro: 11 of Fred Phelps’ 13 children have law degrees. It seems like Phelps used his children as a facet to spread his more than misguided views.

I will never understand their hate and vulgar protest demonstrations. It’s pathetic that there are people so vicious and insensitive out there. It’s sad not only for the targets of the church members’ hate but also for the bystanders who watch or hear about the barbaric demonstrations the Westboro Church holds. I feel sorry not only for the victims and the bystanders but also for the church members themselves. These people are so filled with hate that they are blinded from love. We will never be able to achieve true happiness if we blind ourselves from the concept of understanding and love.

Hate Speech vs. Free SpeechIt’s been eighty-two years since our hero Buck Rog-

ers from the Amazing Stories series flew in on his flashy new Jetpack. Nerds, geeks and scientists alike have all asked the same question since then. “When do I get one?” There’s a company that now is researching on their own jet pack that may be available by 2012. All we can say is; it’s about freaking time!

Depending on how often you read comic books, watch science movies or have been to a world’s fair in the past 100 years, you may or may not remember what we were promised. It was prophesied that by now people could fly to work, be waited on by robots, be cryogenically frozen, houses on the moon, zoos with dinosaurs, teleportation, holograms and on and on and on. But where are they?

The jet pack, for example, has been the main focus of Bell Aeronautics since the fifties. Now by 2012, if you have an extra 100,000 dollars lying around you can purchase one for yourself. But we all still want a more accesible flying contraption. The flying car perhaps? I just can’t get over the thought of mid air car accidents. Sends chills through my spine.

Men’s never ending quest to blow each other up has not been neglected in the science world. But definitely not the science fiction world. With weapons of mass destruc-tion looming at every corner of the world, it seems like we could use a bit of variety in our fears. Variety is the spice of life... and death. In countless movies we all see laser beams creating a strange mesh of a light show and war. Or sticks of light that can disembody any limb of choice. This said, we could create missiles that could go through space, really not a difficult concept to grasp. Basically a rocket ship that eventually explodes. NASA seems to be good at that already. If the problem ever does arise , soldiers in space will need their own weapons. Like the ray gun perhaps, with a stun setting.The are a few reasons as to why we don’t have flashy, goofy looking ray guns, right now they’re way too big. Our military has started to develop their own. They’re basically giant microwaves attached to a Humvee. What’s preventing scientists from making it any smaller is the heat factor. The weapon would heat up way too quickly and seriously singe the user. But the dreams of becoming a space age gunslinger might not be that far away. Things seem to get smaller and smaller as time goes on, so don’t lose hope.

We’re looking at you, (scientists, rich tycoons and or creative people)this world needs technological advance-ments that are actually helpful! Let’s not get stuck in a dark age yet again. The time is now! Where is my moon house? My blaster? Dinosaur? Teleporter? Where are these beautiful devices that we were supposed to have by now? Let’s get our act together and focus at one thing at a time!

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JAYMES FLEURYStaff ReporterSHAYLA MCGINNESS

Editor-In-Chief

guest reporters Charles Casady Jordan GreenKayla Seamster

Jetpacks for everyone

Proving there are no ceiling monsters in the newsroom.

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Man has asked the same question since he first looked up into the stars. This same question has perplexed us ever since. It has captured our imaginations for thousands of years. The question of the past millen-nium: “Are we alone in the universe?” Well, as science takes bound after bound, this question may be closer to an answer than ever thought possible. There are a billion conspiracies, theories and legends, but here are the hard facts.

In no way am I saying that other forms of intelligent life have visited Earth. It’s pretty hard to believe that some random interstellar race came down to help a bunch of Egyptians create a couple of big rock pyra-mids. Or that your uncle Bob was abducted last week on his way home from the bar. Or that Area 51 is holding UFOs and aliens in its basement.

What is easy to believe are cold, hard numbers that state the evidence. Approxi-mately 60 percent of the stars in our galaxy are similar to our own sun; same size, tem-perature and similar planets. This means

some stars may give heat to other life forms. But that’s just our galaxy; the universe is a totally dif-ferent question. Besides, isn’t the thought that we’re alone pretty self-centered? Somewhat like the theory our planet was at the cen-ter of everything.

Our planet is able to sustain life for one specific reason: we are in what’s called a Goldilocks zone. This is a region in which it is not too hot or too cold. It’s just right. Scien-tists at NASA have found a few planets somewhat like this. But we have no idea whether or not they have intelligent life, or any life at all for that matter. One thing we seem to be stuck on is “intelligent life.” What would happen if we spent a few trillion dollars to send a probe to some Earth-like planet only to find some mold spores and dust particles? Doesn’t seem totally worth it now, does it?

Then again, there are the theories that aliens have visited Earth before. Monuments like the Sphinx, the pyramids and Stone-henge. People ask about how the Egyptians could possibly create gigantic monuments without better technology or how limestone could have possibly gotten to the United

Striving to set Riverside apart from the other Auburn schools, students notice one difference to be considered a flaw.

When scrolling through rivals Auburn Mountainview ‘s and Au-burn High’s websites, a daily menu of their lunch and breakfast items are provided. In fact the menus are planned as far as a month in advance. At the start of each month a new and updated menu is placed on their top toolbar for easy access.

However, when scroll-ing through Riverside’s homepage, nothing is seen for either lunch or break-fast. This brings a disap-pointment. Although our cooks and culinary arts program is amazing, they don’t give us the option to opt out on certain days. Having an idea of what would be offered on any given day could, for some, make it a lot easier.

Maybe a diet, allergies, or a matter of choice sets students back from picking up that pizza. Regardless, had they known a little in advance, they might have packed a lunch that day, or used that off campus pass to sneak home for a quick bite. Having the option to get online and take a peek at

Today’s specials are... Not enough hours in the day

School isn’t easy. This is a known fact. However, when we are being given two books to read and comprehend concurrently, essays, chemistry problems, and foreign lan-guage work, it becomes insane. How much do teachers really expect us to be able to do?

From freshman to sophomore year the work load has gone from manageable to im-possible. It’s no wonder we’re always sleep-ing in class. Sleep deprivation has become the norm for students. Our lack of sleep isn’t because we stayed up until eleven texting; no, it’s because we were doing our homework.

Time manage-ment is not the problem; there’s simply not enough hours in the day to do it all. So, what happens? We pull all-nighters with our Monsters by our sides crank-ing out that essay, reading, math, lan-guage, and science homework that’s due tomorrow. As teenagers our bodies can handle a lot — late nights, crappy food, sports, lack of sleep. However, it’ll eventually break down. Our bodies can’t keep this up

for four years. Our bodies are breaking down and building back up every day, but without sleep it’ll just keep breaking down. I mean yes, we have weekends to build back up but that’s only two days, one of which is dedicated to more homework. How are we expected to retain, understand, and be able to use everything we learn when we can’t even keep our eyes open? I’ve realized that we are often faced with the choice of which homework we can do. Do we pick the AP Chemistry due first period, or the essay due sixth? Then, we re-member the vocab quiz in fourth and home-work in foreign language. Then comes the

choice: what can I get done tonight? Finally, the next question: what can I get done at school? Homework has changed to school work not because we’re lazy, but be-cause we just don’t have the time. Not even considering the fact that many do sports, which take up at least two more hours. It’s a wonder students aren’t having men-tal breakdowns. Basically, either

give us more time or give us less work, be-cause we’d like to survive these four years of high school. Thank you.

what our cooks are offering that day should be expected.

As it is for other schools. The elementary kids get one in their take home folders and count the days down until its pizza Friday or nacho Thursday. Shouldn’t we get that same opportunity? Maybe we outgrew the excitement of a certain food, but we did not outgrow the choice to put what we want

into our bodies. Part of that comes from knowledge.

Aside from all this, when comparing Mountain-view’s and Auburn’s menu next to what we are of-fered, the options don’t match up.

On a given morning our cafeteria is full of packaged Pop tarts and breakfast piz-zas— all of which are found delicious and very popular among Riverside students. However, is this because nothing else is offered? I understand the budgets set in place and the difficulty of preparing food for hundreds of people; what I can’t help

but question is how Mountainview and Auburn don’t lack the same as we do. When overlook-ing their menu things like “sausage, cheese and egg” or “chef’s special” are read. Perhaps it’s nothing more then what we are offered; however, then having a calendar menu makes it a little more difficult to believe.

Stressing the need for more nutritious options seems inaccessible, but stressing the desire of a menu is practical.

Kingdom all the way from the Welch mountains. Sort of as a scapegoat, some say that aliens helped. Almost as hard to believe is that it was all done by magic, but just as accurate.

We have no evidence that aliens could have been here without some serious changes. Plus, why didn’t they stay here? We were probably pretty easily influ-enced a thousand years ago. Seeing technology that could send things through space, we would drop on our knees before them.

Facts point to other life on other planets, or even moons. New discoveries made day by day of new planets, water on moons, Goldilock

planets and the sheer number of stars in the night sky all say the same thing. Somewhere, far far away, there’s a race waiting to be found or trying to find other ones. We haven’t found them yet, but it may be very soon.

Other planets in “Goldilocks zones”

The Habitable Zone or “Goldilocks Zone” is portrayed through a gray area.

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BRIANNE KOPPStaff Reporter

JAYMES FLEURYStaff Reporter

CHERI BROCHStaff Reporter

Students find themselves crashing due to the pil-ing on of homework.

PHOTO BY SHAYLA MCGINNESS

Foreign exchange students from Germany, Vietnam and Portugal attend classes here

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The foreign exchange program at our school has three new members this year, including Phuong Nguyen from Vietnam, Svenja Babian from Germany, and Carolina Santos from Portugal.

For Vietnamese student Phuong Nguyen this has been the first time she has been away from her home for a long period of time. When Nguyen got here she thought that the USA was a very strange place with different types of weather and people.

“Vietnam is a very small, peaceful country,” Nguyen said. In Nguyen’s old school they had 13 different subjects where the

The Drama Department will be per-forming the musical Urinetown in the ART for fellow students and their community throughout several weeks in November. The show opens Thursday and plays Nov. 11-13 at 7:30 pm this first week, another on Friday the 19th at 7:30, and one on the 20th at 2:00 and 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission, but students get in for $5 with their ASB.

A special show will happen on Wednesday 17th, at 3:30 after school. It is free admission with a donation of food or cash to the Auburn Food Bank.

Urinetown is a funny, satirical look at a town with a severe water shortage due to a 20 year drought. This leads to a government ban on private toilets. The musical’s hero takes it upon himself to start an uprising.

Every day after school and even some weekends, the drama kids have been meeting after school to rehearse and prepare. Dedication is the key the students say.

“I’m always practicing,” sophomore Jocelyn Mitchell said, “whether it’s sing-ing, dancing, or going over lines in my head. No matter where I am, I’m always doing something.”

According to Mrs. Karla Seman, act-ing teacher and musical director, a lot of behind the scenes action happens that people don’t even realize goes on.

“A lot goes into putting on a show. A lot of people especially. Not just ac-tors...there are techs, costumes, make-up, props. A lot of unseen things,” Seman said.

Since Urinetown is a musical, it has three different directors: Karla Seman as head director, Jon Stenson as musical director, and Stephanie Cox as choreog-rapher.

For every show performed at the school, Mrs. Seman puts an average of 300-400 hours of work into it. “It’s not easy. It’s a lot of effort, but the final product is always worth it,” she said.

Principal Dave Halford said the arts are a very important program to have. “It helps round people’s experience and it brings in culture,” Halford said. He en-joys the production every time he goes and is looking forward to seeing Urine-town this year.

Seman said “all of the drama kids are anxious for their performance and wish to see you all there!”

CHARLES CASADYGuest Reporter

KAYLA SEAMSTERGuest ReporterFrom the first day of school up to this

point, Auburn Riverside has made some great strides. The goal of becoming a more unified school is getting nearer and nearer, thanks to all of you. Our school motto for this year, Flip the Switch!, is really making a difference. Out of the four years I have been in this school—and I’m sure I can speak for some teachers when I say this—I have never seen our school more spirited and optimistic than any previous years. We are becoming a school where students can feel safe. And we are becoming a school where students

ASB UPDATEcan be themselves. It will take some time, maybe not within this school year, to reach this year’s ASB Executive Board’s goal of creating a school where ALL students can feel accepted. But we are, and will remain, optimistic.

Now that Homecoming is out of the way —which was a huge success I might add—it’s time for this year’s ASB Executive Board to really leave their mark at Riverside. We are still coming up with ideas about what we want to achieve for this year, such as com-munity service and other events. But we are planning more spirit weeks and spirit events throughout the year. Jeff Miles, the head of Spirit Chair, is making an incredible differ-

TONY SANSERIPublic Relations Officer ence in increasing our school’s spirit. More

people are showing up to football games and other major sporting events, and more stu-dents are participating in spirit week, which is exactly what we like to see. This year is really a stepping stone to greater years to come; we can only grow and become a more unified student body from here.

There’s not much else to say at this time, but ASB is working long and hard for the benefit of all. We are collaborating on ideas and still looking out for you. We hope you are pleased with the work we have been doing so far. Expect greater things to come! And remember… FLIP THE SWITCH!

Urinetown musical begins

Thursday

Senior Elisa Rosin plays a lead role in Urinetown.

teachers switched classes instead of the students.

“American people are nice,” Nguyen said. “They have really helped me with the experience.”

German student Svenja Babian has only been here three

weeks. “When the plane landed I didn’t realize I was actually here,” Babian said. “The airport was just like any other airport.”

In Babian’s old school she had 13 classes and a new schedule every day.

“I never thought that I would be able to spend a whole year here,” Babian said.

Carolina Santos is a senior from Portugal. “At my school they don’t have all the groups you have at your school,” Santos said. “It was kind of overwhelming my first day.”

Portugal is different from the United States in many ways. “In Portugal there are a lot smaller than then they are here,” Santos said. “Also I have noticed

that most of the students work. I think that is a good habit to have.”

At Santos’ old school they finished earlier. They had two hours for lunch with 10 minute passing periods. They also had different classes every day, along with taking a foreign language since 1st grade.

“When I got here I was tired and I knew I would miss my friends and family,” Santos said.

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Junior Dylan Vickers has a story to tell. Recognize the name? You may know him for his outspoken personality, or from watching a varsity soccer or tennis game. Sports aren’t the only thing important to Vickers. Friends are a big part of his life.

“The thing that is most important to me are my friends,” said Vickers.

Even though he has a lot of friends, ev-ery one of them is important to him. Having a lot of people behind him helps Vickers get through each day—good or bad. Hanging out

with them every day possible helps to reaffirm his con-fidence and keep Vickers his happy-go-lucky self. It is high school, and friends are important to everybody, but to him they’re especially so. Basically if he could, he’d be with his friends all the time. The days that don’t consist of friends are full of soccer or tennis.

“A day when I don’t play either, pretty much sucks.” To Vickers its important to keep a balance between sports, and friends. Although, friends and sports often outweigh school work.

Athletics are a big thing in Vickers’ life, which revolves around two specific sports: tennis and soccer. Soccer during the fall and tennis during the spring. He plays them both competitively, on varsity. Being on varsity for both sports keeps Vickers from being bored or unchallenged. Playing soccer in the rain is not ex-actly the easiest thing to do. Especially when it’s not

Looking to make a difference at school? Every Tuesday after school the Gay Straight Alliance Club meets in room 802 to discuss the equality that should be shared with homosexuals, bisexu-als, and heterosexuals. Awareness on sexual ori-entation discrimination is the main focus of the GSA Club, as well as being a safe environment for anyone who wants to join. If anyone is interested, co-presidents Alice Roup and Ej De Losangeles can be contacted for information.

GSA CLUB

Attention book lovers! Book Club meets in the library on a specific Friday of every month. The club is intended to attract students who love to read and share thoughts and ideas about their chosen literature. Once a month, Book Club chooses a book that is challenging and fun yet age appropriate to read, then they split until the next month, when they discuss their opinions about the book. President Hunter Logan or club adviser Jennifer Garcia can be reached if anyone is curious, or interested in joining.

BOOK CLUB

White, sparkly, skin…two, sharp, fangs…Twilight fans should already know who, or more accurately, what, this is describing. Call-ing all Team Jacob and Team Edward fans! The Twilight Club is back. Adviser Stacy Bardsley will be putting up posters to announce meet-ings and other vital information. The only requirement to join is to be either a fan of the books or the movies.

TWILIGHT CLUB

Key Club is the perfect place for having fun, and doing community service. Community ser-vice may have a bad reputation among people. Usually, students are so busy with their own lives it’s hard to better those of others. Key Club is determined to wipe that stereotype away. They offer a plethora of community service options, including feeding the homeless and collecting backpacks for local schools. Key Club meets in the library at 3:30 until 4:00 every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. Everyone is encouraged to join!

KEY CLUB

just for fun. Also sometimes, if he can convince them to come along, he’ll play with his friends and let them win. Sometimes. Being as sports oriented as he is, he finds it easy to make friends and gain more experience in things he loves. To Vickers sports and friends are his top priorities.

Next on his list is the possibility of going to West-ern, where he’s considering going into the field of physi-cal therapy. Here at Riverside he’s taking Anatomy and Sports Medicine to further his knowledge in this subject. In such a field there’s endless knowledge to be learned. Vickers is willing to take the time, study, and energy to do so. Physical therapy is always in high demand with personal practices, hospitals, and outpatient clinics. Despite all the work involved, Vickers is willing to go all the way to achieve this goal.

Now, a little—well maybe not so little—pasttime of Vickers is watching the TV show House. Maybe not the most epic of hobbies, but then again, he and a hundred thousand other fans may disagree. Sometimes Vickers may watch with friends or family, but sometimes he’ll just watch it while multitasking and doing his home-work. House is a stress reliever, something to do when he’s in one of those “I should be doing homework but I really won’t” moods. On the other hand, House does have educational purposes with the medical terminol-ogy that he may need later in his career. So, watching House does have its benefits for Vickers.

In a nutshell, Vickers is a friendly, outgoing person who loves his friends, sports, and his morning muffins. Now maybe you’ve learned something new about Vick-ers that you didn’t before.

Kim Coon Dylan Vickers

CHERI BROCHStaff Reporter

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6 11/9/10A&E

I hear the click clack of heels on the wa-ter-slicked sidewalk and see the twinkling incandescent lights strung by the overhang-ing sign that reads “Mama Stortinis” above the walkway. My date opens the door so we can escape the rain; warmth and delicious smells waft from the kitchen. Immediately we are greeted with a welcoming smile. We are a few minutes early for our reserva-tions and it’ll be a minute or two for them to set up the table for eight. We watch the waiters in the distance speedily placing sets of silverware and menus. Our server leads us to our table; a wonderful view of the starry night sky greets us through the body length window...

I peeked at the menu, indecisive; even the drinks are a hard decision. I chose a raspberry iced tea, which was very bitter. Much to my surprise there was no sugar on the table. It costed $3.50 and unfortunately it was a disappointment. The complimen-tary ciabatta bread was yummy though, and our basket shared among four people was gone in what seemed like two minutes. Each couple in my group ordered an appe-tizer so we had four different kinds.

My date and I ordered the crispy cal-amari ($9.95); it was the best calamari I’ve ever eaten. The other couples in our group ordered toasted garlic cheese bread

Saw VII the Final Chapter ($4.25). I love cheese and I can’t tell where it ends and where the bread begins. It is melty, cheesy heaven.

One of my favorite appetizers though is mozzarella and tomato Bruschetta, but this was the first time I had it here. The sourdough slices are topped with a yummy seasoned Italian salsa and drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic glaze. I hate raw tomatoes but this is the only dish I’ll eat that has raw tomatoes in it. It’s fan-tastic! The fourth appetizer was toasted five cheese Raviolis ($6.95/4.95). Similar to mozzarella sticks, these raviolis were scrumptious bite-sized snacks. Crunchy goodness on the outside and hot cheese on the inside.

Now for the grand finale: for dinner I ordered the Chicken Parmesan. It was a huge helping of penne pasta (my preferred noodle) with a savory chicken breast coat-ed with crumbs. Mama Stortini’s chicken’s cripsy outer coating and the moist, tender meat made a perfect combination. The to-mato sauce seasoned with garlic and other delicious herbs engulfed the yummy pasta while drizzling the crunching chicken.

This restaurant is one of the best I’ve ever had the pleasure of visiting. The ser-vice was extremely welcoming and speedy. The ambience was very enjoyable as well. The best part though was of course the fan-tastic food. I definitely recommend eating at this delicious Italian restaurant.

MAMA STORTIN I ’S

Saw VII the Final Chapter was possibly the most amazing film ever! Okay, so maybe not that amazing, but it was the best out of the series. With no films left in this amazing saga the creators decided to go all out. The amount of traps, plot twists, explosions, and super three dimensional gore has left the other six in the dust.

Warning spoiler alert! This last chap-ter began normally, flashback of a previous episode (in this case the first Saw film with Dr. Gordon as the test subject), which leads into the immediate movie. But something is different with our first trap… Oh yeah! It takes place in public. What looks to be a busy block in a happening city turns into a public murder case. My first thought was “Holy crap, there won’t be any punch pulling this time.” My prediction was 100% correct. If you’re a total trap fanatic, gore loving, blood thirsty movie go-er, WATCH THIS MOVIE! There are some throwback traps, new traps, public traps and even a dream trap. It’s freaking amazing!

After the public entrapment, we see someone trying to pose as a past victim from a jigsaw experiment. If you’ve seen the past six films, you probably realize that’s quite a claim. The imposter attempts to get famous

through making a book and DVD, but in the end Jigsaw gets his revenge. Though this did make me extremely happy, I couldn’t help but feel confused. The main story didn’t even revolve around it completely. Because this is the last movie, it should have gone around one main topic rather than across the board. With a big finale, you should say “Wow, that ending was so cool!” not “Wow, that one ended just like the other six.” Needless to say, that is the exact attitude I left with—that, and a tear in my eye. This series has been so great and surprisingly deep for the horror genre, and now it’s over

I sat in my seat and put on my ridiculous 3D glasses and waited for the madness. Surprisingly, the theater was almost empty, allowing me to get the best seat in the house. Having high hopes for the 3D gore, I was sadly disappointed. But I must say, the movie

was so intense, I completely forgot to eat my candy.

The short of it is this: the movie was a great one, but only if you’re a fan of the series and/or gore filled movies. I would absolutely recommend watching the other six before attempting this one. The plot will make no sense otherwise. Saw VII gets an eight out of ten, while only lacking in the ability to focus on the main group of people.

JAYMES FLEURYStaff Reporter SHAYLA MCGINNESS

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UPCOMING COURSES

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Being in high school is hard enough, but being one of the captains for boys cross country, Raven Crew, Homecoming king and having a passion for sports medicine, all combined in one year is a handful. Senior Keefe Hanson has big dreams that are not that far out of his reach.

“I want to make it to Border Clash, the Wash-ington Team and help get our cross country team to Nationals,” Hanson said.

Keefe tries to inspire himself and thinks positive by having the attitude that he can beat any opponent that comes his way, never accept defeat and never go into a race thinking that he will lose it.

Cross country takes Keefe all over Washington, and he is currently talking to his coaches about hopefully getting a schol-arship for it.

“I go to the Sunfair Invitational, the three course challenge in Oregon and the Nike Pre-nationals in Portland,” Hanson said.

Hanson says that this season has been awesome, and that the team is amazing and they are all working very hard. They are

undefeated and hoping to go to Nationals.

Hanson thinks of a number of things while racing.

“Old cartons, winning and sometimes a song are going through my head while I am in a race,” he said.

After high school Han-son wants to go to Cen-tral Washington University,

study emergency medicine and either work as a paramedic or in the ER.

When Keefe isn’t doing school work, at cross country practice or going to and from meets, he likes to hang out with friends, go snowboarding or play the guitar or bass.

Hanson inspired to run

Senior Keefe HansonPHOTO BY LISA GRAY

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Komar hits “the big time”JORDAN GREEN

Guest Reporter

Many athletes aspire to become pro-fessionals, but very few actually make it. Riverside alumni Max Komar is one who made it, and this is his story. His hard work, athleticism, and dedication is what made him a professional.

Komar began playing flag football when he was very young, according to his brother Jay Komar. He then went on to play football at Mount Baker Middle School.

When he got to Riverside, he did not play football until his junior year. He played on varsity as a wide receiver and defensive back. He also played on varsity basketball for three years.

“His dedication and determination is what made him a professional,” varsity football coach Bob Morgan said.

“He made some amazing catches,” said Principal Dave Halford. “The fact that he did not play four years of high school and he’s now a professional amazes me.”

Throughout high school he maintained good grades. “It was one of those things that he always had to work very hard for,” Jay Komar said. “I think that helped him when he got to sports because he had that natural work ethic. He is one of the hardest working kids I know, both in sports and in school.”

After high school he went on to play football at the University of Idaho. “He was not on scholarship because the coach did not like him,” Jay said. The coach knew little about him and did not realize his full potential until his sophomore year, when he then got a scholarship.

He was then an undrafted walk-on for the Arizona Cardinals. He made the team. Now he is playing wide receiver and returning punts for the Cardinals. “He’s just a super competitive person, and he always has been when it comes to sports,” Jay said. “He’s one of those guys who hates losing, wants to be the best that he can, and he’s not really ever afraid to back down from any kind of challenge.” Max Komar, an incredible hard worker and dedicated person, has proven that you can achieve your biggest dreams. He has become a professional football player; he has shown that it is possible.

LISA GRAYStaff Reporter