Volume 54 November 2015 Issue 4

DECA Dishes Out Dreams By Emily Rouse, Staff Writer

Spartan BannEr

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Mars - More Than Just a Candy BarBy Sara Kalupa, Staff Writer

What’s Inside:BEHS Star Sam Santiago-Lloyd-pg 2The Problem with Pro-cessed Meat-pg 2Art Musuem Re-opens-pg 3

Thanksgiving Poll-pg 3Bernie Sanders-pg 4Pit Problems-pg 4

the Halloween Food Drive. The Halloween Food Drive is like trick or treating, except for canned goods. On Wednes-day, October 28th, DECA members piled into cars and hit the nearest subdivisions. Members jumped out of cars, ran up to doors, and placed a Sendik's bag with a note inside on the handle. The note inside explained what DECA was doing, and asked that people filled the bags with canned goods. Two days later, on Oc-

With all the hype of human settlement on Mars, speculation on the conditions of the Martian environment and its disputes to even hold human life have increased ex-ponentially over the last year. Finally, a hard discovery has validated all of the spending on research: the discovery of water on Mars. However, the discov-ery of water may not be as you think. Instead of the tra-ditional idea of a freestanding ocean, the water on Mars can be found in a series of hydro-genated salts. The report pub-lished in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, and headed by the Georgia issue

of Technology, was initially discovered by noticing streaks of discoloration on the sur-face of the red planet. These streaks were identified as salts that were super hydrated with water and shift seasonally, re-flecting the winds present on Mars. The salts themselves are comprised of various per-chlorates, which, from previ-ous explorations, are known to make up most of the soil on Mars. The downhill flow of these salts, known as recurring slope lineae, are associated with the flow of liquid water. So what does this mean for our understanding of the universe? John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate ad-

ministrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Wash-ington states: “Our quest on Mars has been to ‘follow the water,’ in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we’ve long sus-pected. This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water -- albeit briny -- is flowing today on the surface of Mars.” As for the state of life on Mars, the possible discov-ery of water has elevated Mars to a list of nine planets thought to contain water, as well as possible biological life. This list includes several moons of Jupiter, as well as Pluto, which

was recently discovered to have evidence of water based on data from the New Hori-zons probe. More discoveries are thought to be forthcoming on the red planet: the Mars Re-connaissance Orbiter (MRO) is continuing its revolutions around Mars and sending sig-nificant data back to earth. Rich Zurek, MRO project sci-entist at NASA’s Jet Propul-sion Laboratory in California, lauds the probe for its accu-rate calculations that led to this discovery. “The ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings

such as these,” Zurek writes, “ first identifying the puzzling seasonal streaks and now making a big step towards ex-plaining what they are.” Michael Myers, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Ex-ploration Program, states: “It took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mys-tery, and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet.” This statement exemplifies the vastness and mysterious-ness of space. Truly the final frontier, the discovery of wa-ter on Mars has not only made biological life possible but has also brought the question of Man’s place in the universe.

tober 30th, these DECA mem-bers went back to the subdivi-sions to pick the bags up. The Halloween Food Drive was a success, bringing food to those who need it at the New Berlin food pantry. DECA is advised by Joe Seaman, and is led by Dan-ny Smerz (president), Claire Davis (VP of Community Ser-vice), Megan Dehn (VP of Fi-nance), Jacob Dwinell (VP of Business Partnerships), Nina Galang (VP of Competition),

DECA’s debut year at Brookfield East has been busy yet fulfilling. DECA is an organization that focuses on preparing emerging entrepre-neurs for the real world. They do this through four main pillars: finance, marketing, hospitality/tourism, business management, and adminis-tration. However, DECA also has a second purpose: giv-ing back to the community through service. DECA’s first act of community service was

Zander Roeschen (VP of Com-munication), and Emily Rouse (VP of Membership). DECA has further plans to better the community, with intentions on focusing on veterans and even more specifically, play-ing a large role in the Spartan Union here at Brookfield East. DECA plans on being part of the café by helping work the shop, market it to the student body, and help keep finances in balance.

DECA Members in the Halloween Food DriveMatthew Peterman, Mr Seaman, Claire Dwinell, Addison Parr, Danny Smerz, Sarah Smerz , Zander Roe-schen, Megan Dehn, Claire Davis, Jacob Dwinell, Tin Le, Konrad Tem-litz, Vince Zimmerman, Joe Adams and Alek Tyler.Photo Credit: DECA

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SPORTS

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BEHS Star: Sam Santiago-Lloyd Over the past three years, junior Samuel Santiago-Lloyd has made an impression on the Brookfield East com-munity with his immense suc-cess on the Spartan football team. This season, he broke many records: most rushing yards in a game, most touch-downs in a season, and cur-rently most touchdowns in a career. Sam’s success has also earned him Greater Metro Conference Offensive Back and Defensive Back of the year, first team all state run-ning back, and first team all state linebacker. He has been on the team since he was a freshman, but coming back from a col-larbone and ankle injury that hindered his first two years, the dynamic was much differ-ent for him this season. Sam also gave an insight to the emotions he’s experienced the past few years. “I started as the youngest kid on the team, and I had a lot of pressure on me to perform well, which was al-ways pretty nerve wrecking.” But he quickly acclimated to the team environment, for as he added that his favorite part about Spartan football is

“being a part of a winning team with such a great group of guys that are truly all my friends.” When asked about his accomplishments in the past three years, Santiago-LLoyd points out that his keys to suc-cess are “never being satisfied, and always looking for a way to improve myself and my team.” One accomplishment he pointed out as the high-light of the season was his “game winning touchdown in overtime against Brookfield Central that led our team to the third round of playoffs.” Yet, this achievement has not quenched Sam’s thirst for im-provement, as he is already making goals for next season. “Next year, my ma-jor goals for the team are to win Conference, beat Central, make it to the playoffs, and ultimately be better than this season.” Sam’s goals for his future beyond football in high school are uncertain at the moment, and he says that he is “honestly just going with the flow and seeing what schools are interested in [him].” In his free time, Sam enjoys listening to Drake, hanging out with friends, and exploring social media.

He particularly favors Snap-chat and Twitter, and his favorite Snapchat mystory this month was “when Will Schmidt said Jude Shafer looked like a broom. That was pretty funny,” and his favorite tweet is “I like when you smile, but I love when I’m the reason.” When asked if he had any special girls in his life, Sam admitted that “to be hon-est I’ve always kinda loved Aubrey, but my #1 girl will al-ways be my mom.” Finally, he discussed his pregame rituals, which consisted of going over to Will Schmidt’s house and eating hot dogs. While Sam Santiago-LLoyd has proven himself to be an astounding athlete through his numer-ous achievements and awards, he is still a high school boy who enjoys eating hot-dogs and scrolling through Twitter.

The Problem With Processed Meat The world’s reaction to the idea of all processed meat and even red meat being car-cinogenic was astounding. The internet exploded with people questioning their eating hab-its and debating whether they really should give up the ma-jority of meat we eat daily. But where did this shocking news come from? The World Health Organization, also known as WHO, released new informa-tion on what really is the pos-sible root cause of cancer. Evi-dently, there are many causes for cancer, but when beloved foods such as hamburgers, hotdogs, and all other pro-cessed meats are deemed as “cancer causing,” people were dumbfounded. Well, the WHO states that “Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence in humans that the consumption of pro-cessed meat causes colorectal cancer” and that “each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%”. So, in a nutshell, they looked at trends of people with can-cer and noticed that the con-sumption of processed meat was linked with cancer, as well as the fact that increased con-sumption seemingly worsened effects.

But what really is the definition of processed meat? The WHO stated that pro-cessed meat is any “meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation.” What truly is fascinat-ing, though, is that processed meat is found everywhere; even in the school cafeteria. Small things like pepperoni are children suffering a greater risk of cancer? Freshman Grace Den-nis talked about how she felt about consuming processed meat for lunch at school. When asked how she felt about con-tinuing eating processed meat, she replied saying that, “It is kind of scary that we could be eating cancer causing things, but by eating it in moderation, it’s not as bad.” Yet there is a chance that people are being affected each day. Think carefully about what you are actually puttingin your body and make sure to be aware of the many safer al-ternatives out there. Look for packages that have “uncured” or “unprocessed” labels to avoid those carcinogens, and consider what you truly could be sacrificing by consuming processed meat.

Sam Santiago Lloyd running dur-ing one of many Varisity Football

games he has participated in.

WHAT YOU’VEMISSED

The Student Fan Section cheered on the Brookfield East Boys’ Volleyball game at State on November 14th. The students hold up the number one for one more point. Photo Credit: Akaash Tumuluri

Varsity Girls Volleyball star Louise Kiekhofer jumps for the ball at the Germantown game. She will be playing volleyball at UW-Milwau-kee next year. Photo Credit: BEHS Yearbook Staff

The girls swim team celebrates a job well done during their practice. They have had an overall fantastic season with various swimmers breaking records.Photo Credit: BEHS Yearbook Staff

Senior Will Schmidt catches a football at the East-Central Playoff game on Friday October 30th. The team won 31-34 scoring one final touchdown during overtime. This was the first East-Central playoff game in over a decade.Photo Credit: BEHS Yearbook Staff

By Sarah Bachman, Staff Writer

By Nikhita Santebennur, Staff Writer

ARTS & CULTURE

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The long-awaited and highly anticipated reopening of the Milwaukee Art Muse-um is finally here! The grand opening, celebrated by the public on the 24 of Novem-ber, is the culmination of a 14-month, $34 million project to “transform the visitor expe-rience.” Although the museum’s reno-vation took a little longer than one year to complete, the proj-ect was initially planned six years ago under the direction of Dan Keegan, the museum’s director, during the peak of re-cession. At that time, the deci-sion seemed risky and unusu-al given the bleak economic outlook. However, the plan proved to be successful, with the museum’s endowment ris-

ing from $26 million to $65 million in the past eight years. Last Tuesday, on November 17, the unveiling celebration was held for the museum’s special members. Over the weekend, regular members got to ex-perience the newly renovated museum for the first time in a different celebration. Before the ribbon-cut-ting ceremony, Museum Di-rector Dan Keegan delivered a brief speech, describing the new gallery space and method of art display as “dynamic” and “provocative,” as opposed to the “monochromatic” way of displaying works that was used before. Once the ribbon was cut, members were free to roam the galleries housing the permanent collections that were closed to the public for

over a year. In addition to the impressive array of newly acquired works, the museum has also brought back old pieces that haven’t been on display for decades. 2,500 collection works are currently on view-- an increase of 1,000 works from before, with the addition of 25,000 square feet of space. T h e entire collection gallery space has been renovated as well, focusing on easing the naviga-tion process for visitors and enhancing the stories behind the Museum’s works. In response to the popular interest in photog-raphy from numerous visitors over the years, the Museum has also created the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts, which combines

Art Museum completes “6-year, $34 million project”

photography, film-making, and light installations. This includes the return of the ever popular Infinity Chamber. A second changing ex-hibition gallery -- the Bradley Family Gallery -- was added, doubling the space available for holding special exhibi-tions. This means that visitors will now be able to enjoy two special exhibitions, instead of just one. Yet another great ad-dition to the museum is the installation of a spectacular east entrance, which offers visitors another way to enter the museum while joining the building more seamlessly with the lakefront. The 25,000 add-ed square feet was not solely used for gallery space; it also opened public space great for

relaxing and reflecting while gazing at the vast expanse of the lake and enjoying a cup of coffee. Last, but certainly not least, the museum has re-vamped the menus for all the with new food options as well. These improvements, whether big or small, have all helped to turn the Milwaukee Art Museum into a national destination for art and rein-forced it as the pride and land-mark of Milwaukee. While the museum officially opened to the public Tuesday, November 24, visitors are encouraged to experience the renovated mu-seum with family and friends all through the holiday season! Be sure to check it out on your next trip.

Students weigh in: Thanksgiving

“I’m most thankful for homemade tur-key, being with my family and sharing stories with them.” -Tristen Butkiewicz, sophomore

“I guess I’m most thankful for my friends and family and all the yummy foods we get to eat.” -Liz Tripi, junior

“My friends and family and lots of good food.” -David Horneffer, senior

“I’m thankful for safety-- just because of what’s happening in our world right now.” -Ruchi Shah, freshman

By: Emma Barbian, Staff Writer, Michelle Liu, Arts and Culture Editor, photo credit: Anna Sipek, photo editor

By: Michelle Liu, Arts and Culture Editor

Middle: Newly added section focusing on photography and media art in a spacious and modern setting.Bottom: Post-ribbon cutting ceremony

Left: Director Dann Keegan, along with others heavily involved in the renovation cutting the ribbon, officially opening the museum to its special members. photo credit: Michelle Liu

What Are Spartans Most Thankful for?

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we surveyed some students on what they were most

thankful for.

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Excitement fills the auditorium as the audience anticipates the start of the musical. The lights dim, the chatter dies down, and the show begins. At last, the over-ture starts.

This is the beginning of “The South Pacific,” the first musical my 8-year-old self had ever seen, and my sis-ter was the flute player in this production. Little did I know that eight years later I would have the privilege of doing the same in “The Music Man.”

For those who are unfamiliar with what a pit orchestra is, it’s an orchestra, directed by Mr. Loughney, of mostly students who play strings, woodwind, brass, or percussion, and perform un-der the stage (known as the pit) of musicals.

After explaining to those curious what my black binder with all my music is for, I was surprised that some have never even heard of pit orchestra. By watching the talented actors’ amazing per-formances, one can easily take little notice of the pit.

The vital part of the show is the stage perform-ers, but pit orchestra is what holds the show together. Not only does the pit accompany almost all the songs, it sets the mood for each scene and often is used to cue the lines of the actors. It’s hard to imagine a musical with actors perform-ing without the music.

Learning the music for pit orchestra is much dif-ferent than learning the lines and choreography of the ac-tors. Though only the stage performers need to memorize their part, they get much more time to rehearse together while the pit has to rely mostly on individual practice time to master their challenging mu-sic. When the pit practices as an ensemble, it’s to synchro-nize the already-learned parts.

Another challenge of being in pit is that each mem-ber must learn their part of the professional music. This involves quickly adjusting to the constantly-changing key signatures that fit the varying music styles throughout the entire performance.

Even the instrument one plays doesn’t necessarily stay consistent: I am currently learning to play the piccolo in addition to flute.

I love being part of pit since I am a huge band geek (I’m currently writing this while sitting in a band instru-ment cubicle.) Though it’s a lot of hard work, being able to grow as a musician by learn-ing to play the same music as professionals is really fun. I get to share this experience

#pitproblemsBy: Claire Hildebrand, Staff Writer

For people who know me well, the fact that I want Vermont Senator Bernard Sanders to be the 45th Presi-dent of the United States is as much a given as the fact that the sun will rise tomorrow. Whether I’m wearing a t-shirt with Bernie on it, donning one of his campaign stickers on one of my personal belong-ings, or praising him on social media, it’s not hard for people to tell that I’m “feeling the Bern.” But perhaps you may be wondering why--what is it about Bernie that draws me to him? Well, allow me to ex-plain.

Regardless of what you think of Bernie Sanders’ proposals, you have to admit one thing: he keeps it real. If you vote for Bernie Sanders, you know exactly what you’re about to get. Bernie Sand-ers says what he means, and means what he says, and has a strong and consistent voting record to prove his reliability.

While most politicians are primarily beholden to the interests of corporations and other ultra-rich people, as those are their biggest donors, Bernie draws most of his sup-port from regular people. He doesn’t need and doesn’t want big money--he doesn’t even have a Super PAC.

Despite Bernie’s crazy hair and fiery delivery, he is, undoubtedly, the most reason-able candidate in the race right now. And he’s a self-professed socialist to boot.

Well, actually, Bernie Sanders is a democratic social-

ist, but regardless of how he labels himself, we should get beyond that, and look to his policies.

They’re not extreme at all, and have been effective when they’ve been utilized. For instance, Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who wants to reinstate the Glass-Stea-gall Act, which would break up the “too big to fail” banks that caused the 2008 finan-cial crash--similarly to what Republican President Teddy Roosevelt did to many busi-ness trusts in his own time.

Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who can be trusted to significantly raise taxes on the rich--perhaps not as high as the 91% top marginal tax rate imposed by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but maybe around the 70% rate imposed by Republican President Rich-ard Nixon.

This money can be used to finance things like uni-versal health care and tuition-free public universities, which are already being utilized by the rest of the industrialized world. Though these policies may sound extreme, polls con-sistently show that they’re ac-tually quite popular.

Sanders also has a good record on foreign poli-cy. He opposed overthrowing Saddam Hussein, knowing that this action would destabi-lize the Middle East and leave a power vacuum in Iraq to be occupied by someone worse--and he said this in response to the First Gulf War, in 1991.

Unlike some of his opponents, Bernie Sanders is not beholden to the interests of the military-industrial com-plex, and does not have to keep the US in perpetual warfare to make those people richer. This is not to say Bernie Sanders is an isolationist, but rather that he is the only candidate who views war as a means of last resort, rather than the default position.

This view is arguably motivated in part by Bernie’s strong concern for our vet-erans who have to go fight in these quagmires, a concern which has motivated him to help pass comprehensive leg-islation to take care of our veterans--with the help of Re-publicans, no less.

That last point high-lights another important quality about Bernie--he is a uniter, and not a divider. Ber-nie has not run a single attack ad in his entire political career, as he always seeks to reach any possible common ground with others, and not demonize them.

Of course, Bernie is still passionate about his be-liefs, and won’t hesitate to ex-press disagreements with oth-ers, but he will always stick to the issues, and never get per-sonal.

One thing that it’s im-possible to disagree with Ber-nie on is that big money needs to get out of politics, so the people we vote into office have to answer to everybody not just a handful of billionaires.

Bernie is the only can-

didate who has talked signifi-cantly about overturning the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United vs. FEC, which gives corporations virtually endless ability to influence elections by allowing them to make unlimited amounts of campaign donations through Super PACs.

While the President alone can’t undo a Supreme Court ruling, they can still set the tone for allowing a con-stitutional amendment to be passed to reverse it, which Bernie hopes to do.

The next President will also be appointing up to four Supreme Court Justices, to replace those set to retire soon; Sanders would undoubt-edly appoint justices who would overturn that disas-trous ruling, if they could.

Bernie Sanders has a sense of passion and authen-ticity unseen in any politician in recent history. His propos-als are sensible, and he doesn’t have to back down from them, as he is not being bought by anyone. He has strong convic-tions, but at the same time he is willing to work with others.

He wants to create a country where everybody has the chance to succeed, and policies don’t just benefit the extremely privileged at the expense of everyone else. We may never see a candidate like Bernie again, so if he’s going to get in, it’s now or never.

I say we should take advantage of this great op-portunity--let’s make Bernie Sanders our 45th President.

with my fellow music geeks and eventually with the rest of the performers.

It takes all the unique roles of the musical, on and below the stage, to put on the performances. The hard work and talent of the actors, di-rectors, stage crew, and pit orchestra is what makes the shows extraordinary. I’m look-ing forward to all the parts coming together this Decem-ber to bring on another great musical!

Sanders 2016: why I “feel the Bern”By Mark Maier, Editorial Editor

Claire Hildebrand practices pit in preparation for the fall musicalPhoto credit: Elizabeth Goblirsch

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