March 21, 2013 Princeton Community High School | 1101 N. Main St. | Princeton, IN

Did you know... There are 40 school days until that last day of school. Plus, Spring Break

starts TOMORROW school day, and prom is in 31 days.How did Spring Break become a tradition?

A. Spring break began in prehistoric times, when surviving winter was cause for celebration.B. The Greeks and Romans started it with festivals honoring the gods of wine.C. The 1960 movie Where the Boys Are made spring break popular with stu-dents.D. The State of Florida created spring break to increase tourism. If you know the answer your prize may await you in Ms. Zilai’s room (C135).

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INSIDE: Movie Review: Dark Skies PAGE 3

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Chris Cowan Sports Editor

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PURDUE

The Ultimate Battle:VS INDIANA

Boilermakers is a name that brings glory wherever it is used. That name was given to Purdue University in 1891 by a newspaper in Crawfordsville, Indiana when they called Purdue’s football team the Boiler Makers. The Purdue Ex-ponent, Purdue’s school ran news-paper, gave it a stamp approval, and that is how Purdue became the Boilermakers. Since the 1940s the train, Boilermaker Special, has been Purdue’s mascot.

The Purdue and Indiana rivalry in football has lasted a good 92 years. This is one of the longest rivalries in American history. The Boilers and Hoosiers play for the Old Oaken Bucket every year. Pur-due leads IU 72-36-6 (P-IU-tie) in wins over the years. The ties oc-curred in the earlier years of col-lege football.

The Old Oaken Bucket is a wooden bucket that is played for between Indiana and Purdue. Each game that is played they either at-tach a P or an I to the end of the long chain. Purdue triumphs with 72 victories over IU compared to the little number of 36 I’s put in the bucket.

Purdue seems to have a better

football history than Indiana. Pur-due has been to a total of 17 bowl games in its history with a record of nine wins and eight loses. One of those wins is the 1967 Rose Bowl.

Drew Brees, Quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, took the Boil-ermakers to the Rose Bowl in 2001 against Washington but came up short at a score of 24-34. Purdue got their vengeance in 2003 in the Sun Bowl with a win over Wash-ington 34-24.

Kyle Orton, one the quarterbacks for last year’s Denver Broncos, graduated from Purdue in 2004.

Purdue’s Cradle of Quarterbacks has brought the NFL some-re-cord breaker athletes. Bob Greise, quarterback for the 1972 Miami Dolphins, took the Dolphins to the Super Bowl on an undefeated season. They are the only team to ever to take it that far.

Indiana hasn’t won a national basketball championship in twenty years, and they won’t win any time soon. Purdue gave brought forth on the most influential college athletes ever. John Wooden, a fa-mous basketball star, graduated from high school in 1928 and then

Indiana University’s cream and crimson means something more than just colors. These colors stand for the pride and history that In-diana has held since opening day in 1820. While this university has been around for nearly 193 years, Purdue has only been around since 1869.

Hence the name, Indiana Uni-versity, this school was started as Indiana’s school, not some manure smelling (agricultural field) col-lege located in the middle of no-where, in which, has some of the strangest weather known to the United States.

Indiana and Purdue are known for two very different reasons. Indiana University focuses on dental, business, and marketing while Purdue has engineering, sci-ence, and agriculture at the top of its game. These are both colleges ranked in the top 85 colleges in the United States by www.usanews.com/rankings.

Indiana University is the top ranked sports marketing program in the country, only allowing 60 students in each year. The college’s Kelley School of Business is MBA ranked as the #1 business school

Cai Carney Reporter

or college in America. Academ-ically, Indiana gives it it’s all with these contributive efforts.

Something some people don’t understand is basketball and foot-ball aren’t the only two college sports people care about. These are just the most noted sports among fans of collegiate athleticism. Peo-ple should count the “other” sports both programs run by each uni-versity. Wait, they already do that.

Ever since 2001, Indiana Univer-sity and Purdue have both been competing for the Crimson and Gold Cup to see who is athletically better overall. Originally named the Titan Series; this was later changed to the Crimson and Gold Cup in 2004. The Crimson and Gold Cup is awarded each year to the school who does the best in athletics overall.

What the Crimson and Gold Cup entails, is an overall selected group of athletic events and whoever wins these events, earns a certain amount of points. Whichever col-lege winds up with the most points at the end of the tournament, wins the Crimson and Gold Cup.

Depending on how well each athletic event does all year, the

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•Purdue holds a 72-36 victory ration over IU in football.•Purdue’s Cradle of Quarterbacks has pro-duced NFL stars every-where. •Bob Greise led the 1972 Miami Dolphins to their undefeated season.•Drew Brees took the Boilermakers to the 2001 Rose Bowl.

•Men’s basketball has five national championships.•Men’s soccer has eight national championships•Men’s swimming and diving has won six na-tional championships.•Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is one of the best business colleges in the country.

Nickie Miskell Reporter

2 NEWS Princeton Community High SchoolMarch 21, 2013

Kara WilsonReporter

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Zach Hensley (top right corner) got fourth in CNC Mill. Jacob McCoy (bottom right corner) got fifth in Precision Machining. Dakota Ronstron (bottom left corner) got first place in CNC Turning./COURTESY OF LARRY SISK

PCHS’s Machine Trade dominated at SkillsUSA

Indiana Continued

Student Perspective:When I first began my coverage

of SkillsUSA, never did I guess what a profound effect it would have on me. Never did I imagine I’d find something so deeply rooted in the hearts of its members. Their attitudes and feelings toward Skill-sUSA and the competitions can best be described as the melody of a golden harp as it calms the soul to a state of pure bliss.

When the competition begins, these fine young men and women find themselves lost in the mo-ment. The fiery passion deep within their hearts ignites and the spirit takes over. It is at that mo-ment that their true self is set free and they are able to express their creativity and love for Precision Machining.

The students of Larry Sisk’s Ma-chine trades class competed at the statewide and regional competi-tions held at Vincennes University on Feb. 2 and Feb. 9. As always Princeton proved to be a formi-dable opponent with senior Zack Hensley taking fourth in CNC Mill, junior Jacob McCoy taking fifth in Precision Machining, and Dakota Rostron, senior and pres-ident of Princeton’s SkillsUSA team, taking first place in CNC Turning at both competitions. Overall Princeton finished second in the statewide competition, be-hind EVSC.

When asked how he felt about it, Hensley was shocked that he had qualified for state.

“It was a surprise,” Hensley said.This will be the second time that

Hensley has qualified for state and McCoy shared in the aston-ishment. This year is his first year competing at state, and when asked how he felt he was surprised how far he had come.

“I didn’t think I was going to qualify,” McCoy said.

When Rostron heard her name being announced, she too went into that same euphoric mindset shared be her fellow competitors.

“They called my name and my body took over.” Rostron said, “My mind went into shock.”

With her two consecutive vic-tories at both competitions, pres-ident Rostron became the first woman in the 52 years Princeton has been competing to win first at both statewide and regionals, be-coming Princeton’s Queen of Ma-chine. When asked how it felt to be the first woman to accomplish this, she said gender should not make a difference.

“I don’t think people should em-phasize gender,” Rostron humbly said, “we’re all the same.”

Sisk viewed his student’s accom-plishment as being the culmina-tion of all their hard work and the competition as a chance to let them prove that they have the tal-ent to go far in life.

“I want to give them an oppor-tunity to let them soar,” Sisk said.

Sisk’s students have proved the old axiom that through the right mental assurance, nothing is out-side the realms of possibility. They have overcome the hardships and disadvantages of being a non-vo-cational school and shown that

hard work, perseverance, and determination are the keys to achieving a person’s dreams no matter how impossible or crazy they may seem. When asked if she felt like she could be a role model to anyone looking to pursue their dreams, Rostron said she felt un-deserving of the title role model, for the time being.

“I feel like I could be a role model

one day, but not right now,” Ros-tron said.

While these students stand primed to bring glory to PCHS, they must first overcome the daunting challenge of the state competition held in Indianapolis.

Added to the pressure is having to juggle their schedules because prom is being held on the same day as their competition. Hensley had to unfortunately cancel his plans to attend prom to be able to compete.

“I had to cancel on prom,” Hens-ley said. “I didn’t think I’d be back on time and didn’t want to let any-one down.”

McCoy further added how her-culean the challenge will be.

“It is going to be tough.” McCoy said, “I will have to work harder to compete against the others going to state.”

Although the students face enough pressure that would push any ordinary person to the break-ing point, it is Sisk who feels he has the most stress with his heart set on worrying about his students.

“It’s probably more stressful on me then them,” Sisk said. “While their thinking about the competi-tion, I’m thinking about the kids.”

It is this kinship among Sisk and his students that turns ordinary students into true champions and builds them into the role models they are. When asked what he thought of Sisk after being a stu-dent for four years, Hensley gave an answer that was short and to the point.

“Good man, good teacher, good friend,” Hensley said.

With the fruits of glory at their fingertips and the support of an entire school behind then, the stu-dents of SkillsUSA stand primed to bewilder there competition at state. No matter what events the future should have in store for these talented young men and woman everyone back home will be proud for these prestigious pil-lars of the community. If there is one things that can be said, then Sisk probably said it best.

“They’re a hardworking bunch of students, and that’s what cham-pions are made of,” Sisk said.

began his legacy at Purdue Uni-versity. Wooden went on to coach UCLA in basketball when he got older. He led UCLA to 10 of their 11 National Championships, ac-cording to the NCAA.

Purdue University isn’t just all about their sports. Neil Arm-strong, first man on the moon, went to Purdue University and played baritone in Purdue’s All

American Marching Band.Purdue is known academically

for the knowledge in agriculture. Being ranked number 1 in the country in agriculture is some-thing to brag about.

Indiana has one the worst foot-ball teams in Indiana. Purdue has a bigger history in football and in academics, so obviously Purdue outranks IU by a mile.

sport (men’s or women’s) re-ceives a point. Indiana University offers 24 varsity teams and Purdue just 20 which is why there is only room for 20 events; therefore 20 points total can be obtained pos-sible by one university. The most ever scored by each one of the uni-versities was Indiana University with a score of 12.5 in the 2008-2009 season.

All of the Purdue football aficio-nados out there should know that Indiana University has won this event six times, Purdue has only seen the cup three times, and foot-ball isn’t the only sport on God’s green Earth! There have been two draws (ties) and the most Purdue has beaten Indiana by was just two points, while only doing it just once. Indiana has beaten Purdue by at least four points on three separate occasions.

So Purdue fans can go around and brag about how Purdue has the best quarterback draft class in the NFL in history. Just remem-ber that they have never won the BCS National Championship and have won just 9 bowl games out of 17. Indiana University has been to only 9 bowl games and has just

won 3 due to an apparent lack of interest in football.

While many people probably don’t care about soccer as much, it is worthy to say that Indiana University has won eight national championships in men’s soccer, second most in college division one history (St. Louis has 10). In-diana also won six straight men’s swimming and diving national championships from 1968-1973, giving them the fifth most national championships in history.

Indiana University’s men’s bas-ketball receives applause from many people because they have the third highest amount of national championships; just tying Univer-sity of North Carolina (5), while only trailing Kentucky (8), and UCLA (11). Purdue is also known for its wrestling and Indiana has only won 1 wrestling national title back in 1932, but Purdue has only won Big Ten championships in wrestling, while not even muster-ing a single national title.

Perhaps this rivalry will be one for the ages and continue on past our years of existence. However, there is always one thing that will linger in the back of any Boiler-maker’s head… nothing.

Not only is it a day to dress up and feel like a princess, prom is a night where memories are made. This year’s prom theme is Fire and Ice. Juniors, Michael Kermode and Kali Koch are part of the junior ad-visory council, which is a group of students who help set up for prom.

“We had a couple of meetings and that was one of the themes that stuck out,” Kermode said.

Kermode and Koch both agree that they are fairly excited about how prom is turning out so far.

“It’s looking pretty good,” Ker-mode said. “We’re not completely finished,”

Koch said planning has been very time consuming.

“It’s looking actually really great. We’re working every Sunday,” she said.

Both Kermode and Koch also agree they do not want to give stu-dents any information about what their decoration look like. The decorations are mostly handmade, said Kermode, but there are some purchased decorations. They said that students will just have to come and find out what they look like.

Kayla Hayes, who is a teacher here at PCHS, is in charge of the prom coordination. This is Hayes’ first time ever doing anything like this.

“It’s very challenging, but we have a good group of kids helping us out,” Hayes said.

Hayes said that she can tell us that there will be two different sides to the gymnasium, one side decorated with fire and the other side decorated with ice. She men-tioned that the main colors of the

decorations will be red, orange, white, and light blue. She also said that everything will be held in the gymnasium, including grand march.

In one word, Kermode said the decorations are breathtaking, while Koch described them as spectacular. They did, however, reveal that prom will be held in the gymnasium of the new high school on April 20, 2013.

Unlike the incidents last year with the crowded, hot hallway and students passing out, this years prom will be held in an air condi-tioned gymnasium.

Kermode and Koch agree that being on the prom committee is an enjoyable thing. Kermode said that he would recommend this committee to everybody because then they would get the prom preparation done faster. Koch said she would recommend it to any-one who is creative.

Kermode said his favorite thing about the prom committee is the outcome while Koch said it is see-ing everything turn out better than it was. Koch’s least favorite thing about the committee is that at the end of the night there ends up not being as much work done than she thought that there was. They have many favorite things about the prom committee though.

“You know, just spending time with my lovely classmates and showing emotion. ‘Cause with-out emotion you would look like a bunch of dead people workin’,” Kermode said.

“Seeing all the things looking better and better every time,” Koch said.

Prom: Fire and Ice on 4/20

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3 OPINIONSPrinceton Community High SchoolMarch 21, 2013

The realm of greatness known as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has already been altered twice since its release on 11.11.11. Now, the game shall be added to once more, with a new DLC by the name of Dragonborn.

The add-on features a whole new questline.

Your character begins by trav-eling to Solstheim, an island to the northeast of Skryim, directly above Morrowind. It is a Dunmer (Dark Elf) settlement, and has been since they were forced to leave their home of Morrowind.

After the character travels to this island, a former Dragon Priest called Miraak, one-time ruler of Solstheim, returns. Un-like the ancient Dragon Priests of Skyrim, he is allegedly the first individual to be gifted with blood of a dragon, similar to the Drag-onborn, and has the ability to ab-sorb Dragon souls, also like the Dragonborn.

The main questline also in-cludes traveling to Apocrypha, the realm of Hermaeus Mora, Daedric Prince of forbidden knowledge. Here, your character must find the mysterious Black Books in order to stop Miraak.

Other than that, the add-on in-cludes 30 side-quests, more than 80 previously unknown NPCs (Non-Playable Characters, mean-ing, characters a part of the game that you do not control), more than

On February 22, 2013, Dark Skies, a supernatural thriller, was released in theaters. Since then, has been very well received.

The film focuses on a subur-ban family, set in an unknown city during the summer.

The Barrets, the family in question, start to witness strange events in their normally peaceful house. Coincidently, their youngest son Sammy has started to have strange dreams about the ‘Sandman’, which are starting to connect with the abnormal occurrences in their home.

After calling the police, in-stalling a security system, mak-ing sure their doors are locked at night, and several other pre-cautions, weeks have passed and nothing is different. These odd incidents are starting to add up with no evidence whatsoever.

Lacey, the mother of the fam-ily, searches the internet one afternoon and finds just the in-formation she needs. It seems that their family has been cho-sen. Extra-terrestrials may or may not be entering their house every night, and there is a chance that their son Sammy may be abducted at any given moment.

My opinion of this film is that it was extremely suspenseful. However, the ending becomes

seventy new locations throughout Solstheim, Oblivion, and Apoc-rypha, several new creatures, pre-viously known from Elder Scrolls

III: Bloodmoon, such as Serpen-tine Dragon, Ash Spawns, and Seekers, over thirty new weapons, four new craft-able armor sets, and many more unique and new items available throughout the game.

Now the big question, is it worth buying? It costs 1600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live, so I’d say yes, it probably is, given the amount of new quests, characters, locations, and items involved.

This is rumored to be the last downloadable add-on to Skyrim, as Elder Scrolls Online will be re-leased very soon this year. Another rumor is that a new Elder Scrolls game will be released in four to five years, most likely set in Els-weyr or Black Marsh.

very obvious a few minutes in, which is disappointing.

The interpretation of the aliens in this movie was very nice. They looked entirely real in every scene they were fea-tured in. Their story also made complete sense and seemed very legitimate.

This might have been one of the most terrifying pieces of cinema I have ever sat through. But, I am especially frightened by alien movies than any other type of horror film, so it is a lit-tle biased.

The events in this movie re-ally make it seem like this could happen in any household and makes you reevaluate every-thing in your life thus far. Talk about scaring you to your very soul.

Once you see this movie, you

Abby Wallace Reporter

The Dragonborn DLC flys into Stores

Dragonborn Facts:

-Bethesda has created a new downloadable add-on for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim called Dragonborn.-It is rumored to be the last add-on.-A new Elder Scrolls game is rumored to be released in four to five years, perhaps set in Elsweyr or Black Marsh.

Movie Review:Dark Skies released

Cast List:-Keri Russell as Lacy Barrett

-Josh Hamilton as Daniel Barrett

-Dakota Goyo as Jesse Barrett

-Kadan Rockett as Sam Barrett

-J.K. Simmons as Edwin Pollard

-L.J. Benet as Kevin Ratner

won’t be able to do anything in the dark in the middle of the night for weeks. If you enjoy that type of thrill, I would defi-nitely recommend this movie to you.

If you’re more like me and don’t exactly appreciate a terri-fying and powerful movie, mak-ing you unable to do anything in the dark in the middle of the night, I wouldn’t tell you to go see this any time soon.

My rating out of five stars would probably be four to four point five stars.

Abby Wallace Reporter

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4 OPINIONS Princeton Community High SchoolMARCH 21, 2013

Hello, and welcome to the other side. For years we here at Tiger Tales have been providing the students with information about the events of the school and free paper. In all the time we’ve been making the papers we’ve never had the chance to show students how we run things and what goes into making an issue of Tiger Tales.

The class itself is taught by Sa-mantha Zilai who oversees a very eclectic and laid back group of students.

Most of us agree that the worst part of the class would be the stress of making those deadlines. While it can be hard to work with such tight scheduling, quite frankly I think it’s that good old teenage procrastination that can be the real problem. Reporter and junior, Kara Wilson, summed up that ex-act thought about just how lazy we teenagers can be.

“I’m a lazy mother,” Wilson said.On the other hand, another re-

porter, sophomore Justin Grimm, has a different perspective. He ar-gues that it takes time to make a good story.

“You can’t rush perfection,” Grimm said.

Typically how a story begins is we all come up with one idea for

each section and our editors de-cide what will become a story, with the help of Zilai. Kaylie Willis, Hope Dawson, Emilie Bays, Abby Wallace and Chris Cowan are our editors and they got to be in a posi-tion of such responsibility through hard work and ascension. When-ever an editor graduates, their position is filled by whoever Zilai thinks would be best for the role.

Each section has its own ap-peal. For those who enjoy sports and current events at school, then sports and news are what you might consider writing for. For those who like everything else and a chance to be a satirical smarty pants, like yours truly, then opin-ions are for you. Those looking to take a more in-depth look at any type of story can look into writing for features which allows reporters to provide an informative look at whatever sparks interest.

It is this opportunity to express yourself that drew people like our littlest reporter, Brittany Thorne, who we like to refer to as Milkyway.

“I enjoy expressing myself through words,” Thorne said. “It’s a good way to express myself through writing.”

After we receive our stories we get sent out into the world to gather intelligence. We do this through research, interviews, and sometimes going on location and really getting a feel for what the story is about.

For some, the interview process can be a hard and awkward expe-rience because it involves talking to people we do not normal asso-ciate with. Junior reporter Mar-cus Whitfield knows personally what this feels because he admits to having a certain level of social awkwardness.

“I’m very socially awkward,” Whitfield said.

Although this phase of con-structing the paper can be diffi-cult, it does have its benefits. The chance to go on location and see how a certain group operates can really expand your mind. Junior Alyssa Perry and sophomore Jes-sica Richardson are just two of our reporters who enjoy writing for our news section for just that reason.

With all the stories we write, throughout the years we all have our personal favorites. Grimm had a particular degree of favorit-ism for his story over “Duck Dy-

nasty,” even if it was just because of his infatuation with a character on the show.

“I got to stare at Sadie Robinson,” Grimm exclaimed with excitement.

Cai Carney, another of our many reporters, enjoyed doing his story on Marvel Vs. DC. He took the op-portunity to settle one of his greatest debates.

“I was finally able to settle my own argument,” Carney said.

Without a doubt my favorite story would, by far, be my Skill-sUSA story. How that story came to be is quite interesting and does explain why I’m letting you into our little establishment. It’s be-cause of that story, and a crazy lit-tle friend of mine, that you get the pleasure of reading this article in my deep soothing voice.

Originally the SkillsUSA story was supposed to be a news story, although my real intentions for writing the story was a few very dear friends of mine are really committed to SkillsUSA and Ma-

chine Trades and this story was my way of giving them a little pick me up from the stress of living life at half a mile a day. When I got there, Larry Sisk gave me the info and it seemed like things were going as normal. What I didn’t fully com-prehend was just how much Skills meant to my friends.

From there a certain student just took the opportunity and lit up like a firecracker and began to feed me information about SkillsUSA to make me understand. It was the first time I can remember hearing the word love be used by that per-son. The whole experience really touched my heart.

It was great what I got to do for one of my closest friends and the rest of Sisk’s boys. If any of them are reading this I would just like to say that I hope I did you proud and I loved every minute I was able to spend with everyone during the follow-up.

This is why I now have this se-ries where I try to spotlight the lesser-known programs offered at PCHS. To me this is what it truly means to be a reporter.

When the stories are all in the job is then handed over to our visual editor, Bays, and managing editor Dawson. Bays is the visual editor who mainly deals with the design and layout, while Dawson is more focused on certain aspects

like the front page.Once the paper is

finished we e-mail it to the Princeton Daily Clarion who does the printing for us. The cost is usually $270 for a press run, which are about 1000 copies. Because we don’t ever need that many we order about five hundred, and still pay the same amount.

I would recom-mend the class for those who enjoy writing or are think-ing of journalism as a career. We offer the opportunity for stu-

dents to learn more about what goes on around school. If you’re anything like me you may even get lucky and get the chance to see things through someone else’s eyes and even find an opportunity to use your classwork to bring a smile to someone’s face.

Overall the class is a very different experience. We have a lot of band members because the class is great to take with friends. It offers that op-portunity to experiment with your creativity.

Braydon Wiley and Crystal Tay-lor are just two of our new recruits and they seem to have already taken a liking to it. Wiley has only been a member of our staff for a few weeks now and already his first impressions are just how dif-ferent and what a new and crazy experience it can be.

Since I’ve spent all this time yap-ping like a chihuahua, I’ll leave that to one of my fellow reporters.

“Ms. Zilai is a G-teacher,” Grimm said.

Nickie Miskell Reporter

The news in the paper

For people who’ve just moved to Princeton, they think of it as a small town. There’s nothing to do here, and everyone knows your business. However, to others it has changed a lot and is livelier.

It’s not the place it used to be, a lot of things have either been taken away such as the old K-Mart, Hardees, and Arbys. To everyone both new and old people living in Princeton, there’s still more to come, a change that’s affecting ev-eryone. The Stellar Community Grant is a grant awarded to Price ton for the changes being made.

Mayor Bob Hurst knows the most about the changes being made was very helpful and detailed when giving information about the new Princeton to come. Hurst is quite sure that 3 years from now in fall of 2015 everything will be finished.

“We are now in the phase of planning,” he said.

Some of the contracts have not yet to be signed, which goes along with the reviews which should be finalized in April or May. Along with this, the state still has to ap-prove everything going on as well. “Although there will be a fountain, landscape such as trees have been envisioned for the theatre parking lot, there will still be a lot of room for kids to hang out”, Hurst said.

Other changes being made using the Stealer Community Grant are, the downtown facades from the front part of the building will be remodeled. The street scape will be made more people friendly, with new sidewalks and street lights. There will be a trail in ad-dition to the changes as well. They will make a trail that goes old 41 north south (Toyota Trail); out to the high school. All of these trails will connect to finish the old high school’s unfinished side walk (Ti-ger Trail).

Many people seem to have mixed feelings when it comes to changes being made in Princeton. “It makes me sad because I feel like all small towns are disappearing”, said Bailey Blanton. Blanton said she feels as if the change that stands out the most in Princeton is the new movie theater. All though the old movie theater cost less money, it was still dirty and run down.

Life-long Princeton resident, Jan Ballard said, the most important change is the bike trail and the downtown revitalizations because the first thing tourist and visitors see is the downtown area. Ballard also said that the North Gibson School Campus is something of importance as well Ballard said he thinks these won’t be the last changes Princeton sees. “This will just be the jumpstart, this will make people draw more to Prince-ton and bring more life in,” Ballard said.

New changes in Princeton

Crystal TaylorReporter

What’s being made of the Stellar Grant?

-Downtown facades will be remodeled.

-Street lights and side-walks will be installed.

-A trail that goes old 41 north south out to the high school will be installed.

-All trails will connect to finish the old high school’s unfinished sidewalk.

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5 SPORTSPrinceton Community High SchoolMarch 21, 2013

On February 23-24 many stu-dents traveled all the way to South Bend, Ind., to compete in Indiana’s State Bowling Tournament. This was a two-day competition that will meet every weekend until the middle of May. Different teams show up every weekend to put their scores on the board and at the end the bowlers with the most pins wins.

When students arrive at the tour-nament their scores from previous games are used to place them with in a division. To be placed in a di-vision they take their average score and put them with others that have around the same average. Handi-capped is how many are added to their score at the end. The better their average score the fewer pins they get added at the end.

Going in with the goal of placing first, Gabriela Beal succeeded.

“I hoped to do as well as I possi-bly could,” Beal said.

Beal is in first with a score of 549 in Division 4, handicapped.

“I was very happy with my score” Beal said.

Many students placed with their scores very well such as, freshmen Shawn Gibson placed seventh with a 554, Division 4, handi-capped. Junior Dalton York placed fourteenth with a 532, Division 2, handicapped. Junior Aaron Ja-cobs placed twenty-fourth with a 508, Division 3. Junior Brad Terry

Athletes like Adam Pfile, Aus-tin Clark, and Lucas Cook look to have another fabulous track season. Last year, the track team had several athletes make it to re-gionals, but for the first time in 12 years, nobody made it to state in track.

Bill Niederhaus is the boys track coach this season. He said that he has set high expectations for this season, and that he hopes to send some people to state. He also said that every person on the team will play a part in the team’s success this season.

Niederhaus said that the first track meet this season will be March 21 against Washington. It will be at home. He also said that the team has been conditioning hard the past couple of weeks for this track meet.

Niederhaus said that he is very excited for the beginning of the season.

“I’m always anxious to see how we do,” he said.

Adam Pfile, senior, runs the 400m distance for the track team. He said that he is excited that track season is starting, and that he hopes to go to state this year.

He also said that this year he thinks several people will qual-ify for regionals, and a couple of people will make it to state competition.

Like many of the other track

placed twenty-seventh with a 505, Division 3. Sophomore Jacob Kolb placed forty-ninth with a 455, Division 3. Senior Alex Gibson placed fifty-sixth with a 432, Divi-sion 3. Junior Gabriela Beal placed first with a 549, Division 4. Junior Morgan Whetstone placed second with a 527, Division 5.

To prepare himself Junior Dalton York stretches his arms before he bowls.

“I stretch my arms out so that I don’t get hurt when I’m bowling,” York said.

Junior Morgan Whetstone also is in first in the doubles event. Her teammate was Savanna Morris and they scored an 858, Division 6, handicapped. Junior Aaron Jacobs and his partner Braylan Whithead scored ninth with a score of 697, Division 6, handicapped. Dalton York, junior here at PCHS was on a team of two with freshmen, Shawn

Gibson. Only preparing the week before the tournament they scored a 1285 and are currently resting in first in Division 2, handicapped. In Division 4 handicapped Gabriela Beal and James White scored a 967 and are in ninth place. Brad Terry and Haley York placed eighteenth with a 916 in Division 4, handi-capped. Jacob Kolb and Courtney Gee scored an 842 and placed twenty-fifth in Division 4, hand-icapped. Alex Gibson and Lane Carey placed twelfth with a 1061 in Division 3, handicapped. All of the scores are listed at www.isusb-cya.com.

Freshmen, Shawn Gibson has been bowling since he was two years old.

“My parents got me started when I was two. I’m only still doing it because its fun challenging and something I’m good at,” Gibson said.

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Gibson Lanes’ bowling team all stands together for a group picture while competing at Indiana’s State Bowling Tournament./BETH ANGLE

Running the Races

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athletes, Pfile has been working extremely hard to prepare for the start of the track season.

“Conditioning is tough the first couple of weeks, but it gets easier after that,” he said.

Pfile also said that he really en-joys track. He said that he finds it very exciting, and that it gives him a nice adrenaline rush.

Austin Clark, junior, runs the 4 by 100m and throws discus for the track team. He shared many of the opinions Pfile had about track.

He said that he was pumped for the beginning of the season, and that he enjoys the competition that track brings.

Like Pfile, Clark said that he thinks the team will do very well this year. He also agreed with Pfile that the conditionings can be tough.

Lucas Cook, senior, throws dis-cus for the track. Like Pfile and Clark, Cook said that he really likes to participate in track. He also said he is really pumped for the beginning of the season.

“I’m pretty darn excited,” he said.He also said that he thinks the

track team will do really well this season. Cook said this is because there are some really good athletes on the team.

Cook had a slightly different opinion than Pfile and Clark on the conditionings for the track team.

“They’re not really hard, they’re just challenging for a big-boned fella like myself,” he said.

Students are honored at PCHS’ Winter Sports Award Ceremony

Coach Ryan Haywood gave his recognition speech about the boys basketball season and described how the season went for the team. /BRAYDON WILEY

Taylor Anthis received MVP for Cheer-leading. Korbin Karges received MVP for wrestling. Jackie Young received MVP for girls basketball./BRAYDON WILEY

On March 13, PCHS student body, staff, and some parents met together to honor and reward the winter sports athletes. Girls and boys basketball, cheer, and wres-tling were all the sports that were

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recognized on stage. Each sport the team was re-

warded with an MVP, Academic, and Best All Around award. The coaches of each team picked who won what award. Each of the seniors on the team received a medal.

6 SPORTS Princeton Community High SchoolMarch 21, 2013

Emily Bays Designing EditorIt’s baseball season here at PCHS

and preparation is what it’s all about. The team is starting to prac-tice every day until 5:30p.m. at Gil Hodges Field until the season is over.

Junior Matt Stone has been play-ing baseball since he was five years old. He started when he was young only because his parents made him. Now Stone said he finds it very enjoyable.

To prepare himself before prac-tice he stretches so that he won’t hurt himself during practice.

“To mentally prepare myself I try to focus and stop talking to my

teammates,” Stone said.During practice the team focus-

es on many different exercises. They go to the batting cages at the old high school and practice batting. At the beginning of con-ditioning the team goes to cross fit and works out to build strength.

Their first game is a scrim-mage against North High School on March 23. All their upcoming games are list-ed at schedules.schedulestar.com/Princeton-Communi-ty-High-School-Princeton-IN.

Brad Terry is a junior at PCHS and said he has been playing base-ball for about nine years.

“I started to play because my brother played and I wanted to be just like my brother,” Terry said.

When Terry prepares for a game or practice he often listens to music to make him focus better. Terry also prepares himself by doing workouts so he will be able to play to his best ability.

“It gives you something to do during the summer, it’s really competitive and you never get tired of it,” Terry said.

Terry described that at practices they often do infield exercises. That’s where they do different drills by throwing the ball to different people in the in-field. Someone will throw the ball like it was hit and then they try to get the person out just like they would in a game.

The PCHS girls’ softball team practices Monday- Saturday for two hours. According to Jenifer Kolb, the softball assistant coach, they start with a warm up then work on throwing, fielding, and hitting. She said they usually end with conditioning, mainly suicides.

“We have the potential to be very good this year,” Kolb said.

Kolb also said they should be very competitive. She said she’s not good at predicting the out-come of a season. However, they have a strong group of juniors and seniors who are returning from last year. With their leadership, they should do well.

“Our number one goal is to always beat Gibson Southern,” Kolb said.

She thinks the team will be strong offensively this year. The girls have been hitting very well so far. Kolb said in order to be successful, their defense must improve. Kolb said that their toughest opponent is always Gib-son Southern.

“I’m not sure about our easiest opponent, they vary from year to year,” Kolb said.

Kolb also said that most of their opponents will be strong. They have a very young team overall and lack game experience. She said that hopefully their upper-classmen will step up and help increase their strength as a team. She said she thinks they will do very well.

Rylee Turpin, junior, said during practice, they take infield, do out-field drills, base-run, and hit. She said the team looks OK but they

have a lack of communication due to the freshmen and new players. Turpin said she thinks the team will do good most games but have off games once in a while.

“My personal goals are to have as few errors as possible and to not strike out more than once a game,” Turpin said.

Turpin said she is strongest at bunting and outfield. She also said she needs to work on her infield skills. She said she thinks their toughest opponent will be Gibson Southern or Boonville because they always have a good softball team and program. She said she thinks Wood Memorial will be their easiest opponent because they just can’t seem to get a good team or program in order.

“I think our opponents are good and that every game we play against every opponent will be a good game,” Turpin said.

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Katie Christie smashes a softball into right field during practice as outfielders scramble to catch her ball at the PCHS softball field./BRIAN GEER

Softball looks to future

The first match in the Boy’s Golf season is April 2. Students do not need to tryout; participants are only required to show up at the first practice, which is held on March 11.

The coach for Boy’s Golf is Ben Kahle, a teacher at the middle school.Senior Ira McGill and his junior brother Ben McGill are both playing golf this year. Also partic-ipating on the golf team this year are Dalton York, Cole Leonard, Jacob Kolb, Noah Wells, Justin Grimm, and Andrew Feightner,

Ben McGill said. Ben McGill, was hesitant to

say he was a good golfer, however, he said, “ he has his moments.”

Likewise, Andrew Feightner said he has, “Certain days.”

Andrew Feightner and Ben McGill have both been playing golf for two years, although this is Ben’s second season playing for PCHS and Andrew’s first season playing for PCHS.

Ben McGill reported that he and his older brother, Ira, play and practice golf together. Ben McGill said, who the better golfer is, “Uhh, Ira!”

Andrew Feightner, said that he is excited to play on the golf team

this year. The students said Ben Kahle,

coach, is “an alright guy” and “cool, when we’re doing good.”

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FORE facts about golf

-The first match of the Boy’s Golf season is on April 2.-Ben Kahle is the coach.-Ira McGill and Ben McGill are both playing golf this year.-This is Andrew Feight-ner’s first year to play golf.

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7 FEATURESPrinceton Community High SchoolMarch 21, 2013

From star-slides to nice entries to reaching the diner, Dolphin Olympics is rapidly becoming ev-ery PCHS student’s favorite past time. The internet game is one of strategy and simplicity, and stu-dents are surpassing high scores during down time.

Junior Jackie Sutherland cur-rently holds the school’s high score with 184 million points. She ex-plained her stumble upon the dis-covery of Dolphin Olympics.

“We were trying out games and clicked on Dolphin Olympics. We thought it was hilarious and were instantly addicted,” said Sutherland.

In the game, the player controls a dolphin. The dolphin is able to jump in and out of the water and attempt tricks when out of the wa-ter. After jumping at a fast enough pace, the dolphin attempts to jump into space as high as possible.

Junior Cody Hubbard explains his strategy when getting to the diner, one of the highest locations in outer space.

“I start off going sideways and getting nice entries. Then, I launch up and jump off of star-slides until I get to Pluto. I come down and hit a tail-slide at about a 13 degree an-

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gle. I jump off the tail-slide and hit another star-slide at Pluto. When I jump off the star-slide, I can reach the diner,” Hubbard said.

Junior Kreig McRoberts is an-other high scorer in Dolphin Olympics. He says he plays the game about three hours per week.

With all the hype of Dolphin Olympics, many students have been discussing the making of t-shirts for the game.

Hubbard is leading the creation of the t-shirts. His design concept is one taken directly from the game itself.

“[The t-shirts] are going to have the words, ‘Dolphin Olympics,’ written in stars on the front. They are black with blue water on the bottom and a dolphin entering the water,” Hubbard said.

Hubbard also said that the back of the t-shirt will have the wearer’s last name written in stars along with all of the planets and the diner.

“The shirts aren’t made yet, but if I can get enough people to invest, I can start ordering them,” Hub-bard said.

Some of those interested in the Dolphin Olympics shirts are senior Will Niederhaus, junior Colton Wilder, and even Mrs. Mari White.

Dolphin Olympics soars

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Dystopian genre storms the shelves

Imagine a world where one can-not do whatever they want. Think of a world where people don’t get to decide what they want to be when they grow up because it’s decided for them, a world where humans are scared and harassed into living a certain way.

A dystopia is a society that is considered detrimental. Why would anybody want to read such unhappy books with such depress-ing plotlines? How are dystopian books stealing the hearts and

minds of teenagers everywhere?“There are a number of opinions,

but the main drift seems to be that books set in either chaotic or strictly controlled societies mirror a teenager's life; at school, at home, with their peers and in the wider world,” Author Moira Young ex-plains in an article about the rise of dystopian novels at www.guard-ian.co.uk.

According to goodreads.com, the top selling dystopian novels for 2012 have been nothing but books in a series. The leading series was Divergent, followed by The Hun-ger Games trilogy, along with the Delirium series and the Across the

Universe series. When asked, sophomore Nikolas

Wiley explained that his favorite dystopian novel was Divergent.

“Divergent shows how humans believe in the power of one’s char-acteristics rather than the freedom of their own lives,” Wiley said.

Libraries are now ordering more dystopian novels. There are more novels of this genre being ordered because they are admired and many kids read them, according to Moira Young.

The New York Public Library shows that on their official web-page, more than 50 dystopian nov-els are checked out each day.

Nikolas Wiley looking at multiple books from the dystopian genre. Dystopian books can be found in the school library./MARCUS WHITFIELD

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8 FEATURES Princeton Community High SchoolMarch 21, 2013

Some people believe they see a mirage when walking down the street. Walking Past them could be a set of twins.

What are the most commonly asked questions for twins: “Do we think the same thing,” senior William Burleson said, “Are you Justin or Jacob,” sophomore Jus-tin Spore said, and “Who’s older,” sophomores Graham and Grant Dougan said. Twins see hardships throughout their life.

Kids never understand what it is like to have a twin so they strike out at those who are. One of most

often taunts is “Twinkies.” It is meant to be harmless but

some can find it as a joke about their weight. Walking through the halls if you are a twin one of the most often things you over hear is “I want a twin!”

When asked if they enjoy their twin seniors Breanna and William Burleson have this to say: “Yes,” Breanna said. “It’s a challenge,” William said.

Many cultures around the world view twins as sacred. In Japanese culture they believe when two star-crossed lovers commit duel suicide they are reborn as twins.

One of the many famous tribes is the Yoruba tribe. According to

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Ma-ria Paluszny when a twin is born,

they start the process of carving figures that represent the twins if one or both die.

The first-born is known as Tayewo which means “the first to taste the world” and the sec-ond-born is known as Kehinde or

“the last to come.” It is said that Kehinde sends Tayewo out first to check to see if the world is habit-able for Kehinde.

If it is the right conditions for Kehinde, Tayewo communicates spiritually to Kehinde to tell him/her whether life is good or not. This determines whether the birth is alive or still-born; if conditions are not favorable for both, they return back to where they came from.

Traditionally the Yoruba say that Kehinde is the true elder and is then referred to as Omokehin-degbon, which means “the child that come last becomes the elder.” It is believed Kehinde is the true

elder because he sent Tayewo on an errand.

Twins are a major factor in my-thology usually representing the sides of both good and evil. Per-haps one of the most famous twins in mythology is Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.

Twins are still seen in modern culture. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are one of the most easily recognized twins.

Another set of twins are the YouTube famous Jack and Finn Harries. They are a set of iden-tical British twins with Finn be-ing the first-born or Tayewo, and Jack being the second-born or Omokehindegbon.

Some may not know just how much students are willing to do to have the perfect prom. Multi-ple surveys from usatoday.com showed that on average, families spent $1,078 on prom-related things in 2012.

At most stores, dresses can be found at a variety of prices. Some of the most common prices range from $200 to $600.

Certain stores located near or around Princeton have a system that they use to make sure that no two girls from one school wear the same dress. Illusions Bridal in Vin-cennes is just one example.

Another store, Magic Moments located in Evansville, has a differ-ent type of system along with the one to keep two girls from wearing the same dress.

According to Mallory Rode, se-nior, if girls come back to Magic Moments after prom with a picture of themselves wearing a dress they bought from there, they could get a 20 percent discount.

Rode said that this was a nice feature of the store and is one of the reasons she enjoys shopping there.

Though students may hear about girls spending outrageous amounts on their dress, there are many stu-dents, such as senior Leslie Yarbor, who feel a bit more conservative.

“My limit,” Yarbor said, “would only be $200, so I like to shop at

stores with nice dresses for a lower price.”

Yarbor said that for good quality dresses at lower prices, she shops at Debs in Evansville or at Russell’s Bridal Boutique here in Princeton.

Though many students have different tastes in stores, and the types of dresses they would wear, some girls can relate to having bad experiences with certain stores.

Rode and Yarbor said that they both had gone to 16 Candles, a shop in Evansville, before it had gone out of business and had a less than satisfactory time.

They said that the store had been a mess, and they could get little to no help from the staff.

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