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IB moving to Countryside?Embarking on its 15th year, the

International Baccalaureate pro-gram has been a part of this school since it opened. However, should Superintendent Julie Janssen’s proposal pass, the IB program at PHUHS will be phased out.

Janssen is proposing that an IB program be established at Country-side High School. In this plan, next year’s IB freshmen would begin at Countryside, next year after would be sophomores, and so forth. This plan, if approved by the school board, would take four years.

According to a St. Petersburg Times article, school officials want to do something about the over-crowding. They want to make enough room at the school for students who are zoned and cut the extra cost of the 39 portables. However, some students and teach-ers disagree.

“They’re going to have overpop-ulation there too,” pre-IB English teacher Scott Bradley said. “I don’t think uprooting a successful aca-demic program should be the first solution.”

PHU was built in 1996 and cho-

sen to be the second IB school in the county. Currently, there are 567 students enrolled in IB, 570 en-rolled in medical and 1,233 enrolled in the university program, totalling around 2370 students. PHU was built for up to 1,600 students.

“The IB program is not the root of the overcrowding problem,” IB chemistry teacher Robert Dull said. “Our student population hasn’t changed in 15 years. The problem is the way in which the county has zoned Palm Harbor and Dunedin.”

According to Florida Differen-tiated Accountability Program’s

2009-2010 school improvement plan, the two magnet programs use a lottery system to choose their students that have applied and have met the entrance criteria. On the other hand, the University pro-gram pulls students from Dunedin, Coachman Fundamental, Carwise, Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor, and Tarpon Middle Schools.

“They are going to need to redraw the zones and adjust the population for the numbers that we have,” said Bradley. “That’s the start.”

Another concern from the IB

faculty is whether or not Country-side would have enough room and facilities, such as science labs, to house an IB program.

“I don’t see that Countryside has the facilities that an IB program would need,” IB Math teacher Da-vid Macfarlane said.

Another issue is the fact that an IB program at Countryside must be authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization, a pro-cess that could take 2.5 years.

Some IB students agree with Macfarlane.

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Students wore shirts with the slogan “Duplicate it. Don’t decimate it.” on October 6 to voice their opinion about the possibility of the IB program moving to Countryside High School.

Tiffany Townsley

Erica Jones

A helpful tool towards acing the SAT and getting accepted to your dream school is the PSAT, a practice SAT, given in October, that gives students an idea of what to expect. For 16 students, the PSAT not only helped prepare them for the real deal, it put them in the running for the very prestigious National Merit Scholarship.

“I think the scholarship is a real-ly good thing. It motivates kids and gives them an opportunity. It feels good to know all my hard work paid off. Being a part of this select few students makes me proud of my ac-complishments,” senior semifinalist

Ariana Lazzaroni said.The National Merit Scholarship

is awarded to the highest PSAT scoring students all across the coun-try. In the Tampa Bay area alone, 116 semifinalists were selected, 16 of them belonging to Palm Harbor University.

All students were able to take the PSAT, which was given October 13 for $13. Although the school didn’t cover the cost of the test, it could be a good investment considering how much money could be saved with a scholarship.

“It’s a great opportunity to ease any financial strains for college. It doesn’t hurt either to have colleges

see you’re involved,” senior semifi-nalist Ambika Anand said.

With competition heating up these days, students are relying on anything to help them stand out for college recognition. Involvement with this prestigious scholarship will definitely grab college’s atten-tion.

This year’s semi-finalists are Ambika Anand, Lauren Bone, Vishesh Choudhry, Kathryn Corn-nell, Neeta Ghanekar, Connor Hal-sell, Amanda Hobson, Erica Jones, Heena Khoja, Heather Landis, Ari-ana Lazzaroni, Stefan Musser, Brett Philips, Sitharthan Sekar, Yun Bo Tian, and Chad Tomoser.

PSATs create new opportunitiesSarah Shellabarger

Library now openAfter being closed for the past

five weeks, the library is now open for students, thanks to a new me-dia specialist and a few new volun-teers. Since Bar-bara Dirscherl and Doreen Chonko left their jobs as librarians to be IB teachers, Kate Kohler took their place. Kohler has been a librarian for six and half years at John Hop-kins Middle School. She found out about this opportunity from volun-teers here at PHUHS. Right now,

Kohler is the only librarian on staff, but she does have help from Mrs. Field who assists her in the many responsibilities she has, such as or-

dering books and software, provid-ing technology help, assisting stu-dents in research, and much more.

“I am look-ing forward to this year, here at

PHUHS. I am excited to meet all the students when they come into the library and help them with the many different aspects of the li-brary,” said Kohler.

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Writing multiple essays, filling out pages of their life’s work and pressing that final submit button with trembling hands- high school seniors are stressing off the wall.

It’s October and it’s that time of year…college applications are due.

Students are trying to edit those last few errors in their essays, to get as close to perfect as they can. Each year they say colleges acceptance

standards get higher and higher.“I’m applying to a few schools,

but my main focus is getting into UF,” senior Kimmy Johnston said. “I’m making sure my essay is flawless because it is such a hard school to get into.”

Some students are still stressing to get their SAT scores up and sending in their application at the early deadline.

“I’m applying to Notre Dame

Prosthetics were first utilized thousands of years ago and since then have evolved to a universal in-vention. Through high technology materials and innovation, prosthet-ics assist millions of people today. Around the world, prosthetic limbs help amputees to walk, run, and even swim.

There has even been one case where a prosthetic extremity was successfully instilled on an animal. The animal is a bottle nose dolphin named Winter. She is also known as

the “Bionic Dolphin” because she is the world’s first bionic sea crea-ture.

Winter was only 2 months old, when she was found struggling to escape the rope of a crab trap buoy. The small dolphin was very serious-ly tangled up and fighting to survive when a fisherman found her in the waters of Mosquito Bay. The fish-erman called an emergency number for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Crucial minutes and painstaking efforts later, a randomly assembled crew managed to eventually free the dolphin from the ropes; however they knew she was in bad shape. No one expected her to survive. She was bloody and weak. The crew brought her to the only aquarium in the state that was willing and able to take her in. The Clearwater Ma-rine Aquarium was Winter’s only chance.

Veterinarians and special-ists worked with Winter, feeding, soothing, and keeping her alive. Her injuries were so extreme that within days, her tail had been lost to cell death. The blood flow to the tail had been cut off by the crab pot line, probably for over 24 hours.

Winter slowly and miraculously began to climb the road to recovery.

She swam, in her own unique way by dog paddling with her pectoral fins which are intended for navigation, not propulsion. She also swam by moving her body side to side as op-posed to up and down like dolphins are designed to do. This evolved method of swimming could’ve po-tentially caused problems for the dolphin, like unnatural spine pres-sures, such as Scoliosis.

The scientists observing Win-ter knew that they had to create a prosthetic tail to help Winter swim. The creation of the tail went very smoothly and allowed Winter to

overcome her obstacles. This story is heartwarming and touching to many. Nobody had known what the magnitude of the miraculous dol-phin would be when she was first welcomed to her home at Clear-water Marine Aquarium. Now, she has been claimed by science, been a virtuous and inspirational model to children, appeared on television, had visitors from around the world, and is even having a movie based on her life.

Winter plays the role of herself in this movie which filming begun for on September 27 in Pinellas County. The movie is to be called Dolphin Tale and is based on the true-life story of Winter, her life, and struggles with near-death. The 3D movie will be brought to life by actors Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr., and Ashley Judd.

While the plot is expected to basically correspond with Winter’s true story, a couple of changes will be made for the big screen. One of the tweaks will be the addition of a human co-star, acting as a young boy who finds the injured dolphin and rallies others to come to her aid.

Locals hope the film will lead to tourism beyond the direct money it provides the economy.

and I have all my application filled out” senior Ryan Davidson said. “My main concern is studying for the SAT so I can get my score higher.”

Most of the application deadlines for Florida schools fall between the months of October and November, so with school on top of filling out applications, the social lives of most seniors become limited in this time period.

College application timeKate Hardwick

Dolphin TaleSloan Patterson

IB moving to Countryside? continued“They don’t have the lab facili-

ties to offer an appropriate number of higher level science classes,” IB junior Stephen Urchick said. “Relo-cation is not practical.”

This school continues to be among the leading programs in the world based upon the number of IB diplomas earned by the seniors. Its

FCAT scores are constantly among the top 1% of Florida and has the highest graduation rate of all high schools in the county of Pinellas.

Having led 700 students to the IB diploma, it has maintained the second highest percentage of di-plomas in North America. Palm Harbor is a 10 out of 10, grade ‘A’

school, according to greatschools.net.

“In general, we are on the top of the IB programs in North America,” Bradley said. “Tampering with what has proven to work could threaten our programs success.”

The school board is set to vote on December 7.

It was only a prospect, an idea that echoed through the district. But now that’s changed. The new absence policy is official and so are the punishments.

Stricter than before, the policy states if students should accumulate five or more absences they will have to take all exams for that semes-ter. On top of this, students must be careful not to be tardy, as three tardies within a grading period and being tardy for half the class also equates to an absence. The same goes for early sign outs, if it is un-excused early release and you have three within the grading period, it automatically is an absence.

“I could miss five days in math class and have to take the exam in every other class,” senior Nick Gobes said. “I should only have to take it in math.”

Others like sophomore Lauren Coe believe that it should depend on the grade.

“If you make an A or B in the class and you know it, you shouldn’t have to take [the exam],” said Coe. However, for the others this policy might be what this school needs.

“Students should take all exams no matter how many days they miss,” said university and IB Biol-ogy teacher Christopher Briggs said. “It shows what the students retain.”

An absence will be counted as excused if it is a school sponsored activity, religious holidays, college/post secondary visitation (three days for seniors and one day for ju-nior per year), if there is a major ill-ness or death in the student’s imme-diate family, court summoning, or a scheduled medical appointment.

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Opinion3October 2010

Within the video game industry a question has in-flamed the hearts of gamers and critics alike: are video games art? The debate was brought to the forefront of gamers’ minds last year when movie critic Roger Ebert de-clared that video games can never be art. His article was met with both fanatically in-sulting responses and more intelligently composed ones. He had clearly struck a chord within the gaming commu-nity.

To this day, the debate rages on with no side clearly right or wrong. It’s believed that the video game industry is too young and has yet to mature to the point of art on Ebert’s side. On the other hand, it is said that games comfortably fit the defini-tion of art and that it is just ignorance to state that they aren’t art.

The New Oxford Ameri-can Dictionary defines art as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a vi-sual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. This definition best sums up the idea of art while still leaving it subjective. When I say video games are art, I don’t just mean visually artistic. More so like the way

Portal was designed to make communication be-tween teacher and student easier. Students can go on Portal and check their grades and get a visual representa-tion of their assignments. Or can they?

A lot of students have had problems with this new sys-tem. The program that was supposed to take over Parent Connect seems to have only made things worse. The new and improved system has brought on new problems.

In my opinion, there was no need to switch to Portal. It is Parent Connect, but in a more confusing and irritating fashion. It seems as if the cre-ators tried too hard. Students

High school students come home after a long, tiring day at school. They have tons of homework and should probably start right away but are so tired that they just want to sleep. But, other things are on their minds, ‘’I wonder if anyone commented on my picture? Did people see my status?’’

Yes…Facebook has taken over teenage minds. It’s a ma-jor distraction to high school students everywhere. They can’t focus if they’re think-ing about everyone else’s lives. For example, a daily after school teenage routine: sits at desk, checks notifica-tions, writes name on paper (making progress there?), maybe even opens the book and can’t help but update their status. Now it’s time to get to work. So you thought-but just as they’re about to write down the problem an IM comes up from some-one clearly more important than homework. Guess that school work will just have to wait.

But think about this: ev-eryone and their cousin have a Facebook. Admit it, you have one too and you can’t help but to check it every ten minutes. Your friends have one. Your

The great debate-Should video games be considered art?

Teachers on Facebook?

as well as teachers are having problems when it comes to using Portal.

For some students, it’s not being able to view their assignments. Others are re-ceiving errors left and right- for me it’s all of the above.

I’m all for change in technology, but I’m also for making sure the technology works before using it. It was very clear that Portal was not finished and ready to use. But this didn’t stop it from being released.

My first impression was “cool”. My second was “what?!” This reaction was due to one of the many pop up error messages. I was told “You don’t have this course”, huh? I went on to receive this

a movie can be considered art by how it is not only aes-thetically pleasing, but how it also conveys and evokes emotions.

One of the most compel-ling arguments on the games are art side of the debate was made by Kellee Santiago, game designer and president of That Game Company. She delivered a speech at a recent Technology, Enter-tainment and Design (TED) conference in which she pointed out some examples of art in the video game in-dustry. She mentions a few well respected candidates for the title of a game that is art, one of which is Braid, a 2-D platforming game in which the player can control time in the way of do-overs and making things new again. The game follows protago-nist Tim as he attempts to rescue a princess from a great evil and possibly reconcile a past mistake. Each world is

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Maybe I’m acting like a spoiled student, but after finding out the punishments that follow the new absence policy, I couldn’t help but feel cheated.

Last year, the absence pol-icy was far from my mind. As a freshman then, I was more worried about the grades, making friends, and surviv-ing the first year of high school. All I knew then was I had ten absences till a pun-ishment should follow, that and I could exempt any exam as long as I achieve an A or B constantly. Of course, I would have to take the exams I exempted next semester, but that seemed fair to me.

And now, things have changed. Everything seems to have gotten stricter. Lan-

yards are now mandatory to have, students exempting only three exams per semes-ter, and students having to take all exams if they should acquire five or more absenc-es. A total flip from last year. So when my teacher told me about the policy, I did feel cheated.

Now, I realize that it isn’t as bad as it sounds. I still don’t agree with the punish-ments, in fact I find it unfair that if one should accumulate enough absences that they would be subjected to having to take all the exams. Hav-ing five absences instead of ten seems fair to me. How-ever, I do feel that the new policy should be looked over and have some of the rules changed, I find that the pol-icy overall is fair.

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parents might have one too. But what about your teach-ers? Yes, it might be shocking but teachers have lives out-side of school and they prob-ably have a Facebook. But how do students feel about the fact that their teachers can possibly see everything that goes on with them and their friends? Would teach-ers add students? Would stu-dents add teachers?

But no teachers and stu-dents would ever actually talk online…or would they?

“Yes, I have a Facebook but I tell my students not to add me. I wouldn’t accept their request anyway,” math teacher Paula Mazarakis said.

There would be nothing for teachers to talk about to students anyway. If you have a questions with homework, that’s what Portal is for. It’s already weird enough know-ing parents and teachers do something that we do too. Talking to them would just make things worse.

All in all, a lot of teach-ers have a Facebook and most students do too. It’s a distraction to everyone but they keep their school lives at school and their home lives at home. Teachers and students should ignore each other online, just as they do offline.

error message many times.I know I’m not the only

one who thinks poorly of Portal. I think that it is com-pletely unorganized.

One of the reasons Por-tal was created was too make communication between stu-dents and teachers easier. It seems to have only made this process harder. How do you email your teacher about a grade you received on an as-signment you can’t see? The old system, Parent Connect, seemed to be a more user-friendly.

If the creators fix the glitches and be more orga-nized, I think Portal has a chance. But for now, the only word that comes to mind is incomplete.

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represented by an emotion which influences the game play of that world. Braid has received much praise for its unique art design, game play mechanics, and story, and it is for these attributes that make Braid as good a candi-date as any to exemplify how games can be art.

As a gamer myself, I would have to agree that it is very stubborn and ignorant (I’m looking at you Ebert!) to boldly claim that games can’t be art. Even though they definitely fit the defini-tion, I can’t really think of video games and art occupy-ing the same studio apart-ment.

As it is with all art, it is purely up to the observer or, in this case, player to decide whether or not what they are experiencing is art. Art is subjective and it is pretty much pointless to argue for or against something being art.

Braid is a strong example of why video games should be

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Homecoming. The event crept up fast, which didn’t stop students from participating in the dress up days. Each day of the week had an assigned theme of what students were allowed to wear to take part in the fun.

Monday was Class Color Day. Each grade had their own color that was to be worn to show pride and root on their grade’s powder puff team. The turnout wasn’t as expected though, as many didn’t participate in rep-resenting their class. There was reportedly a Facebook group that announced that Monday’s theme should be changed to Fashion Disaster Day. For the Homecom-ing week of 2008, Fashion Disaster Day had replaced Class Color Day. There were some students who chose to follow Facebook instead of what the school had chosen. It was a mixture of blue, maroon, white, yel-low, disastrous outfits, and normal everyday clothes throughout the whole school.

From ninja turtles to Big Bird, Tuesday was filled with all sorts of creativity. Students really put effort into coming up with unique ideas for Twin Day. There was a wide range of costume-like outfits, or even just homemade attire. The submissions for the door deco-rating contest were also due. The senior class officers and representatives decided on a first and second place, out of the six doors that were entered into the contest. In first place was English teacher Andrea Weaver, and in second place was English teacher Kathleen Gran-ning.

Black Out Day was on Wednesday. The underclass-men, freshman and sophomores, were to wear white, while the upperclassmen, juniors and seniors, were decked out in black. This fun divide was successful, al-though there were the few that broke the rules.

And of course, there was Decades Day. On Thurs-day, each class had a decade in which they should dress up like they lived then. Freshmen were the 50s, sopho-mores were the 60s, juniors were the 70s, and seniors were the 80s. When it came to dressing up for the 80s most seniors went all out. Walking down the halls hear-ing boom boxes playing Journey and Michael Jackson from every corner, it was hard not to bust a move. Lunch was even more of a sight. Loud music was ev-erywhere as the seniors, and even other classes, joined in a dance group to the unmistakable 1980s music.

“My favorite part of Decade’s Day is dressing up in fluorescent colors,” senior Kimberly Johnston said. “I’ve been looking forward to this day since freshman year.”

School Spirit Say was Friday to show support for our football team, who played Gibbs that night for the Homecoming game. Though not everyone wanted to dress to show their spirit, there was still quite a lot of blue, maroon, and white swarming throughout the campus. Friday night’s game in the rain was an upset. It ended up in the first loss of the season. Gibbs took the win 22 to 17.

The football game loss didn’t stop Saturday night from being a good time. All the anxious students showed up at Inverness Hall in Innisbrook Resort ready to dance and let loose. The theme for this year’s Homecoming dance was Club “U”. There was good music and the selection changed from the past few years. “I thought it was better than previous years. The DJ played up-to-date songs,” senior Bianca Philippe said.

Snacks were served, along with drinks to satisfy the students throughout the night, although the water quickly ran out. The VIP area had a number of seats to hangout and black lights to give it a glow. The Home-coming court was announced around 10 p.m. and the Homecoming Queen, senior Brittany Bennett, and Homecoming King, senior Jared Stippert, shared a dance.

As the time approached 10:30, everyone gathered their belongings and headed out of the dance early in the night. Most homecomings last to about 12 p.m., but it was yet another successful Homecoming week.

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October 20106Entertainment

The Front Runners:Kyle Massey (AKA: Disney Channel Boogie Boy)As seen on: The Disney Channel (Cory in the House and That’s So Raven)Why he’ll win: Have you seen him? He’s adorable! Out of all the stars, Kyle is the most fun to watch. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll get to see him jiggle around while triggering mass applause from the audience. If you ask me, Cory is in the house and I don’t see him leaving anytime soon.His perfect routine: A Cha-Cha to “Magic” by B.O.B. featuring Rivers Cuomo. He definitely has the stage presence for it; I can see him shimmying to “the girls come snappin’ at me!”

Jennifer Grey (AKA: No-body puts Baby in the bot-tom three)As seen on: Dirty Dancing with Patrick SwayzeWhy she’ll win: She defi-nitely has the talent for the competition. Her presence is so elegant and poised. Still,

I can’t help but think that the image that people have of her from Dirty Dancing is giv-ing her an advantage. Also, Derek Hough is her partner, another advantage because, who doesn’t love that guy?Her perfect routine: Person-ally I think a Samba to “Ice, Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice would be hilarious! But her fans are hoping for a reenact-ment of her Dirty Dancing Mambo to “The Time of My Life.”

America’s Favorite Losers:Bristol Palin (Yes, that is her mom.)As Seen on: Countless tab-loids, maybe you’ve heard of her mom-former Vice Presi-dential Nominee Sarah PalinWhy we love her: Did you see her shimmying on week one? It made her momma proud. Given, it looked about as natural as a Jonas Brother at a screamo convention but she tried. Palin is by far the most “normal” person on the show, although, the hob-bies of most normal girls doesn’t include frequenting Us Weekly covers. Person-

ally, I get a joy watching her overcome a crisis every week. Plus, her Alaskan accent makes me giggle.Her Perfect Routine: As much as I want to choose something for my amuse-ment, I really think she will be a beautiful smooth dancer. I think a Viennese Waltz to “Gravity” by John Mayer could be an emotional per-formance for her.

Mike Sorrentino (“The Situ-ation.”)As seen on: The Jersey ShoreWhy we love him: All the girls (and judge Bruno) seem to like when he dances shirt-less. I wouldn’t say they are raving about the whole danc-ing part-they do call him “The Situation” after all. I’d say that he is an essential part of the cast because not only does he make the audience feel smarter, they can dance better than he can too! Isn’t this show the greatest?His Perfect Routine: A Salsa to “Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer. Stop- Hammer Time.

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The cast of the 11th season of Dancing with the Stars await their fate on the September

28th results show.

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Artist: Zak BowlesInspiration: his ‘79 MGBConcept: An aerial view of the 1979 MGB. “My fami-ly has had the car since ’79. It was my mom’s and I got it in 2008,” said Bowles, “I really just wanted to put something that I love in my parking space.”

Artist: Katie DyeInspiration: Dinosaurs and the T.A.R.D.I.S. (Time and Relative Di-mension in Space) space-craft time machine from British TV show, Dr. Who.Concept: Dinosaur astro-nauts in Space. Dye com-bined her love of dino-saurs with elements from Dr. Who to create this parking space. “Dinosaurs are pretty awesome and nerdy,” Dye said.

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Artist: Jenn PoulosInspiration: The Beatles song, “Yellow Subma-rine”Concept: Most obvious by its prominent yellow submarine, this unqiue parking space is a tribute to the Beatles and her friends. “It shows that I’m a bright optimistic person,” Poulos said. “I love the music and the in-novation of the Beatles.”

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Fall into new showsCooler weather isn’t the

only thing that fall is bring-ing. It’s that time of year fall TV season, which provides viewers with new shows and returning shows. With real-ity shows coming back and new drama series and sit-coms, there’s a show for ev-eryone.

Survivor is entering its

21st season in Nicaragua. It’s the old (the Espada tribe) vs. the young (the La Flor tribe) this time around, with 20 contestants total. Survivor: Nicaragua can be seen on CBS on Wednesdays at 8pm.

Hellcats is a new series about Marti Perkins (Aly-son Michalka) trying to keep her scholarship at Lancer College by joining the com-petitive cheerleading squad. Drama follows with Perkins’ humiliating mom’s antics and Coach Vanessa Lodge’s (Shannon Leal) job being in danger if the team doesn’t win competitions. Perkins meets Savannah Monroe (Ashley Tisdale) and the two become friends, despite al-most fighting each other the first time they meet. Any-one interested in cheerlead-

ing, drama, and college life should tune into the CW on Wednesday’s at 9pm.

Looking for a crime drama? Check out Hawaii Five-0, a remake of the 1970’s series based on a Hawaiian police department attempt-ing to eliminate dangers on the islands of Hawaii. Detec-tive Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) return to Oahu

to investigate the murder of his father and ends up stay-ing on the island at the re-quest of Hawaii’s governor. McGarrett puts together a crime unit, called the FIVE-0 with Detective Danny “Dan-no” Williams (Scott Cann), ex-detective Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim), and new-bie Kono (Grace Park).

As for sitcoms, there’s not too many new ones. $#*! My Dad Says, Mike & Molly and Better with You are new for fall. Returning to TV this sea-son are shows Community on NBC and Emmy Award winning comedy Modern Family on ABC.

This fall is expected to be a good season for TV. With reality, drama and sitcoms, there’s something for every-one.

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The cast of Modern Family celebrates their win at the 2010

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The Social Network ex-plains the story about the founding of Facebook.

Aaron Sorkin’s script shows three sides of a court battle over own-ership of an idea that made a large profit.

The flashbacks and foreshadowing seen in the movie were confusing, especially at the beginning. This could make viewers lose interest because they couldn’t under-stand what was going on.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is a Har-vard student with limited social skills and a knack for computer hacking. His ob-session with acceptance into important social clubs has him willing to do almost any-thing.

When Zuckerberg’s girl-friend, Erica (Rooney Mara), breaks up with him, he creates a website that ranks the fe-males at his school and other universities. The formation

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this website, Facemash, was the first step in the path that led to Facebook’s creation.

The inspiration for Face-book was born when the idea

of a Harvard dating site was represented to Zuckerberg by the Winklevoss brothers. Instead of helping them, he expanded their idea by taking the college experience and putting it online.

Money was needed for the concept work. His only friend, Eduardo Saverin (An-drew Garfield), who thought Facebook was a great idea, provided Zuckerberg with the cash needed.

Facebook caught on soon. It grew, got into more college campuses, and eventually lost connections to colleges all together.

After seeing the popularity of Facebook grow, the Winklevoss brothers decide to sue Zuckerberg for stealing their idea which they said was their intellec-tual property.

Tension also developed between Saverin and Zuck-

erberg on the issue of advertisers. Saverin sued Zuckerberg for money that was unlawfully embezzled from his contracts.

To those who actually comprehended the movie, it questioned whether or not the benefits of Facebook are really worth the loss of privacy. The movie makes people realize that Facebook didn’t just magically pop up overnight.

Mark Zuckerberg shows Facemash to Cam-

eron Winklevoss.

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Sports7October 2010

After seven long hours of classes, the Lady Canes dress out and get pumped for two hours of drills that prepare them for fierce teams they will face on the other side of the net.

“This year’s girls are in-credibly enthusiastic and determined,” head volleyball coach and physical education teacher Tara Kuk said. The team doesn’t have the consis-tency that is needed yet, but they are improving together as a team with every game.

“We have a younger team this year and harder competi-tion, but we’re starting to re-ally learn how to play togeth-er,’’ varsity captain Chelsea

King said. Their hard work shows

with the season scores of 6 – 3.

Laps around the gym, skill drills, and core strengthening exercises keep the girls sharp on their volleyball skills and in good physical shape. Along with these exhausting workouts, a scrimmage at the end of practice usually com-pletes their day.

The girls also share a tight sisterly bond with each other.

“I love the competition of the game itself, but along with that I really enjoy the whole team atmosphere,” King said.

The team really gets out

The puck was dropped onto the ice. Hockey sticks collided, fighting for control of the small black piece of vulcanized rubber.

Hockey season had of-ficially begun. The PHUHS Canes hockey team had their first game on Friday, October 1. The game was against Gaither-Sickles and it took place at the Tam-pa Bay Skating Acad-emy. The game, which began at 6:30 p.m., started off in a panic. The tempo was intense and fast-paced as the Canes’ senior, #21, William Ward scored a quick goal only a few seconds into the game. The Canes held up with good defense until 5 minutes were left in the first period and a pen-alty was called against Ward. Gaither-Sickles capitalized on the power play with a goal and came back stronger than ever.

The remainder of the pe-riod was full of breakaways and slams against the glass surrounding the rink. The Canes were forced to play strong defense, but Gaither-

Sickles still managed to score a second goal during a mad scramble with just three min-utes left in the period. Then a third goal sneaking in a min-ute later made the score 3-1 Gaither-Sickles.

The second period flew by, allowing only one goal to be awarded, which was for

Gaither-Sickles. The stands on the Palm

Harbor side of the rink were erupting with noise and sup-port for the team as the third period began and the players skated back onto the ice. The crowd was full of students and parents, all very eager, shouting chants and cheers for the hockey team.

In the third and last period of the game, the Canes’ se-

nior Nick Fisch knocked the puck past the goalie and into the net, placing The Canes back in the game. Amidst the frosty air and the screaming crowd, the scent of a come-back subtly wafted through the air.

However with 2 minutes left in the game and tensions

rising, the score remained 4-2. De-spite several pen-alties and scoring opportunities, the clock was winding down and hope was fading. Striv-ing to hold Gaith-er-Sickles from scoring again, the Canes goalie, sophomore, #39, Joey Whyte made an amazing save.

When the final buzzer sounded, players and fans slowly departed the skating academy and went off to do whatever else their Friday nights called for.

The Canes hockey team had, in a sense, lost the battle, but there will be many more battles in the war.

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Canes hockey season begins with a defeat

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“Playtime is over, practice is about to start,” said IB Bi-ology teacher and head swim Coach Lisa Bitting at the start of practice. The high school swim team starts their daily warm up of two laps, back and forth in 55 seconds at approximately 2:15 PM everyday Monday-Friday.

The team practices hard in the two hours they get each day at the Palm Harbor YMCA in order to succeed at meets on Wednesdays. They have already showed what is yielded from their second home at the Y with a 4-0 start and no plans on looking back.

The dual meets are no match for the team either. They average 100 point win-ning spreads every meet.

The team shows up to practice every day to swim, run, and have a good time. Reward comes with con-stant attendance at practices. The consequence for miss-ing practice results with the swimmer not having a spot on the lanes come competi-tion.

“I enjoy swimming be-cause I like the workout,” junior Billy McElligott said.

The team recently went to the Penn Charter Aquatic club (PCAC) swim meet in Largo which took place on the same day as Homecom-ing. Swimmers who qualified were expected to go, even if that meant giving up their Homecoming ticket.

Some people decided that Homecoming was more im-portant and gave up on their chance to swim. Others knew swimming in PCAC was important to the coach, the team, and themselves and went to the meet. Lots of swimmers, though, were caught in the tides of both temptations. They wanted to make sure they pleased their friends and honored their school pride, along with their coach. They ended up swim-ming in the meet, getting ready and driving straight from Largo to Innisbrook.

Although they arrived with wet hair and no make-up, they still had a good time knowing that they danced after victory.

“I literally ran into the locker room and threw on my dress. I did my hair and make-up on the way so it took me about five minutes to get ready,” senior swim captain Veronica O’Neal said. “It was all worth it in the end because we won even though we were late and showed up to the dance smelling like chlorine.”

The girls won the meet for the 4th year in a row, beating Countryside by almost 200 points. The boys won the meet for the 10th year in a row beating the other Pinel-las County teams by approxi-mately 55 points.

The Canes only have three dual meets, the Eagle Invitational, and districts left in the season.

“I feel like the season goes by faster and faster each year,” junior Tiffany Lodge-Maragh said.

Everyone has been prac-ticing hard to make this sea-son a successful one. If the Canes continue their win-ning streak, they will be un-defeated for their 6th year in a row.

Swim team makes wavesTaylor Watson

Lady Canes show strong focusKim Tabulov

-The hockey team suffers a dramatic loss against Gaither-Sickles.

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The Canes swimming team dominated at the annual spirit meet.

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there and expresses their pas-sion for the game, even when it’s just practicing, but the Lady Canes have more than just a scrimmage on their minds.

“We want to win the State Championship, and during practice that’s what we think about,’’ senior captain Leah McNary said.

“I think we will make it to states this year. We have so much talent on the team and so much drive that I think we can do anything,” junior Sammy Eichelberger said.

If the Lady Canes contin-ue with their winning season, they will be on track to win the Volleyball State Champi-onship this year.

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Senior Carrieshea Showalter spikes the ball; she was temporarily out due to an injury

Senior William Ward skates back on defense.Courtesy of The Aftermath staff

-Canes are still going strong, striving for a sixth consecutive undefeated season.

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PHU students, you are witnessing history being made. Our Hurricane foot-ball team is on the verge of a first time ever playoff ex-perience. This has already been a year of firsts for our canes. It’s been the first time our team has ever been 3-0 to start a season, the first time we’ve been ranked as high as third in the St. Petersburg Times “super seven” weekly rating of the top teams in Pinellas County, and the first time our offense has been rated second for total yard-age.

Some of these firsts can be attributed to our own “HBK” as they have been named by a writer of the St. Petersburg Times. The “H”, junior Hunter Beam, is ranked seventh in receiv-ing yards in Pinellas County with 8 receptions for 201 yards and a touchdown.

The “B”, junior Billy Pav-lock is ranked third in Pinel-las County in rushing with

Canes set records516 yards and 6 touchdowns.

The “K”, junior Kenny Blanch, is ranked fifth in Pinellas County in rushing with 456 yards and 6 touch-downs. His big hit was fea-tured on St. Petersburg’s online site in the well-known video starring him and an unsuspecting Seminole War-hawk.

Adding to the firsts, the team received an inspi-rational speech before the Homecoming game from the first player ever drafted into the NFL from Palm Harbor University High School, Ted Larson. He graduated 5 years ago and is now playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

If things continue the way they are going right now, it could be the first time the team makes the playoffs. After the smooth transition from successful head coach, Pete Just, to the new coach, Mark Haye, the team is con-tinuing a very successful program under coach Haye’s motto- “do work”.

VolleyballGirls volleyball is doing

well this season. The team has been struggling with inju-ries for the past few weeks, of Carrieshea Showalter, Caitlyn Kovach, and Chelsea King.

FootballThe football team started

out the year with an impres-sive 3-0 record, and is per-severing through the sea-son. The team has shown an amazing turn around from the past seasons and hopes to continue the victories.

SwimmingAll of the swim teams

are collectively undefeated. Morning practice and af-ter-school practices don’t leave any room for slacking. Swimmers to watch are Ryan McRae, Jason Williams, and Emily Bloxam.

Cross-CountryThe cross-country team

has shown great effort this season. They have placed first in almost every single meet.

GolfThe boy’s golf team re-

mains undefeated in con-ference play. Golfers to watch are Jasmine Wade, Allyson Henning, Lauren Coe, Dustin Dingus, and Christian Senger.

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sports

Student takes first in triathlonThree months of train-

ing boiled down to an hour and minutes worth of heart pumping athleticism. Com-bined success in three events decided the total outcome of going the distance. For senior triathlete Jenn Pre-vot, the finish line appeared for her first of her age group after 12.2 miles of the Cotee Man Triathlon.

“I knew I wanted to do the triathlon in the beginning of July,” senior Jenn Prevot said. “I started training in the last part of June all the way to August.”

Prevot pushed pass a six lap swim, nine mile bike course, and 3.1 mile jog with her extensive training. For three months she trained four hours a day. Her prepa-ration for the event was just

as extensive as the turn out this year. 107 triathletes from a wide range of ages came from around the state. Of all those athletes, Jenn placed first in her 15-19 year old female division and 43 overall.

“For me, my adrenaline was rushing and it was so bad that I was shaking.” Prevot said. “I didn’t think about it. I was just ‘go go go”

This was the third year that the Chaotic Cotee Man Triathlon was held in New Port Richey. Although changes were made to the course from its previous years to provide more or-ganization, the outlook for first-time triathlon partici-pant Prevot is just the same.

“I’ve always been training but I use the triathlon as a platform for half-marathons.

This year PHUHS’ golf team is off to a great start. They are undefeated with a strong team of ten talent-ed golfers led by captains, Christian Senger and Charlie Camisasca.

“Both of them have con-tributed to the team greatly all four years of their high school careers and they are both outstanding players. This year, our team is very solid and every player is very good and we’re always there

to pick each other up if one of us has a bad day,” said Dustin Dingus.

So far the golf team is un-defeated 7 - 0 in conference play. The recently competed in a 25 team tournament on Monday in Sebring in which the ladies finished second and the team overall finished fifteenth. This was quite hon-orable for our golf team since the field at Sebring was full of state championship-cali-ber teams with many players ranked in the top 50 in the country. So far, no one has

Golf team still on topAngela DiGregorio

Christian Lemus

Katelyn Josephik won an invitational individu-ally yet but hopes are high.

“We are looking forward to making another deep run in the postseason hopefully making the state champion-ship for the second straight year. We all have the tal-ent and desire to win states and we will definitely have a strong team this year and next year, and I will do any-thing it takes to help take our team to the next level,” said Dingus.

They are seasonal, so I do a triathlon before the half-marathons,” Prevot said.

The position of the sun changed, but the place finish-es of the athletes are solidi-

fied in history. The triathlon finished in the same place that it started, a foreshadow-ing concept of the race for the fulfillment of long term goals and their company.

Junior Emily Gomez makes

the putt.

Laura Bemis Hailey Patera Julia Kravitz

Jessica Roper

The football players show their offensive skills at the

first home game against Tarpon Springs.

Jenn Prevot at the Cotee Man Triathlon after taking first

place in the 15-19-year-old female division.

Courtesy of Jenn Prevot

Hailey Patera Jessica Roper

Hailey Patera