“salem speaks out” on human rights day

JAYSA COONS / News Editor

Snapchat is a mobile app for iPhones and An-

droids that allows you to send photos or vid-eos to friends and fam-ily. On Nov. 18 a new function was added to Snap-chat - sending money through an update called Snapcash.

“I think Snap-cash is dumb because Snapchat was made for sending pictures,” Sydney Ehlers ‘17 said.

Snapcash con-sists of transferring a person’s money from their bank account to another through debit or credit cards and a single direct message.

To send Snapcash they must first have a con-versation. This means money can only be sent to people in recent messages. When you

make the chat you type a dollar sign and then the amount of money you want to send in the chat screen. The send button, which is usually yellow, will then turn into a green dollar sign.

“I don’t think giving an app like Snapchat all your credit card infor-mation is a good idea because people can hack into it,” said Sam

Armintrout ‘17. To protect

people’s personal in-formation Snapchat has partnered up with Square. Square is a company that helps keep confi-dential information safe.

“Even if it’s protected I still wouldn’t feel

comfortable because I won’t trust them and I don’t think anyone would really need to send money to people. There are better and safer ways to do so,” Russell Harder ‘16 said.

Since 1998, South has placed a Secret Santa Tree in the main lobby

for three weeks in Dec. Cov-ered with about 100 tags for students at South to let them know that someone cares, stu-dents and faculty are encour-aged to choose a tag and buy a present for someone who needs it.

Kimberley Miller, the master-mind behind the Secret Santa Tree, said, “I believe this is an excellent way for Saxons to take care of their own Saxon “family.” It’s not just about those in need or in poverty, but also for Saxons who are feel-ing like they are alone, no one cares, family members have suddenly passed, or a number of other reasons. We just want to show that we are caring, committed members of the

Saxon Family and every mem-ber of our family counts.”The suggested amount for the

gift card is $20, but many Secret Santas give $25-50. The tags are always anonymous and stu-dents on the Secret Santa Tree have no idea that they have been nominated.

“Every smile, every “yes I will help,” every single positive gesture has a ripple effect upon those around us, and it creates a culture of happiness, secu-rity and care. That’s a place I want to be and I hope all of our students feel the same,” Miller said.

Principal Lara Tiffin said she will definitely be participating, “I think the goal of the Secret Santa Tree is to give students some cheer during the holiday season.”

South Students Particpate in Secret Santa Tree

SARAH AUDLEY / Feature EditorPhoto by Harley Amick

Dixon andniedermeyerwin crystal

apple awards

On Nov 13 at the historic Elsinore Theater a total of five faculty members

from South attended the annual Crystal Apple event as nomi-nees. Those five nominees from South were John Dixon, Jason Niedermeyer, Jennifer Harris-Clippinger, Rick Lacey, and Rhonda Miller.

“With so many sources of people making the night all about me, I must say it was over-whelming at the same time that it was so humbling. The best part for me was having my own children celebrating with me,” Harris-Clippinger said in regards to attending the event.

There was a total of 12 Crystal Apple recipients that night. South walked away with two Crystal Apples at the event. The winners include John Dixon, the business teacher and DECA advisor, and Jason Niedermeyer, a biology and animal behavior teacher.

“I have Mr. Niedermeyer for biology and he is an awesome teacher. I definitely think he de-served to win the award,” Stacie Johnston ‘16 said.

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CHEYENNE WARD / PhotographerCOLE CADWELL / Reporter

SNAPCHAT INTRODUCES “SNAPCASH”

Human Rights Day is celebrated on December 1 every year to bring

attention to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since this day is internation-ally recognized, many events happen globally to educate individuals on their rights.This year’s slogan is “Human Rights

365,” to express that each day is human rights day. The Universal Declaration of

Human Rights was created in 1948 for a international stan-dard for human rights. In Salem, people commemo-

rated the day by attending the “Salem Speaks Up!” event at the First United Method-ist Church. The theme for this event was homelessness in the

community. Later, there was an open mic where people could speak about human rights is-sues such as ageism, classism and racism. Discussions took place about how changes could be made to help solve human rights issues. The Salem Human Rights Commision participates in this event as well. The com-mission is intended to “make Salem a welcoming and inclu-

sive community,” said Diane Schmitz, who is on the Human Rights and Relations Advisory Commission. “The Commis-sion’s charter mirrors city ordi-nance in that we address issues of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orien-tation, and source of income in employment, housing, public services, and other areas,” Schmitz said.

The Secret Santa tree stands in South’s lob-by again as part of a tradition since 1998.

61st annual SNOBALL

Tyler Blank ‘16 and his date Yesenia Garcia ‘16 pose for a picture during Snoball.

Nicholas Ball ‘17 and his date Amanda Mcghee ‘17 shortly after arriving at Snoball.

Krystal Peters ‘16 and Shantal Hollopeter ‘16 take a break from dancing to pose for a picture during Snoball on the dancefloor.

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Salem speaks up on human rights day

All 12 of the Crystal Apple award recipients.

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Every winter break, many students plan to do home-work the first week of break

to get it out of the way. It never ends up working and many end up doing two weeks worth of homework the last day of break.

“Every winter break I always want to finish my homework the first week but it never goes as planned because I get distracted too easily,” Macedonia Vega ’16

said. These tips will help to get it

done fast the first week, and you won’t have to be concerned about it for the rest of your win-ter break.1. Turn off cell phones and TV

for 30 min. to one hour each day to ensure that you won’t have any distractions

2. Find a quiet place away from distractions or bothers.

3. Make the space into a homework center. Make it comfortable by setting up a cozy place including pillows, blankets and all homework materials.

4. Make snacks such as: • Sliced apples with peanut

butter. • A snack mix of your favorite

treats like nuts or chocolate chips.

Winter break is coming soon and many South students are leaving

town to enjoy sunny beaches or skiing on snowy mountain slopes. Most will stay home in Oregon, where it is a gamble whether there will be snow or not. Oregon’s un-predictable weather keeps many people from going through with plans. Whether it is sunny, rainy, or snowy, here are a few places to visit during winter break.

ZooLights - ZooLights is a never before seen light experience. There are drapes of lights to walk through, lights in the shape of zoo animals and lights along the animal’s habitats throughout the whole Portland Zoo. It opened Nov. 28 and will continue until Jan. 4.

Keizer’s Miracle of Lighting Dis-play - In Keizer, many homeowners decorate their houses with differ-

ent Christmas themes. The route is three and a half miles long and there are no entry fees, but on-lookers are asked to donate cans of food or money to help those in need. The display opened Dec. 6 and continues through the 26th.

Holiday Showcase- The Holiday Showcase is taking place at the Bush Barn Art Center. Many new artists display their creations in-cluding clothes, painting, pottery, and jewelry. Of course, all the art pieces are holiday themed, and available for sale. This event began Nov. 8 and will go until Dec. 24.

Holidays at the Capitol: Dis-play and Performances - This is a series of events taking place inside the Capitol building with festive holiday displays and performances such as choir performances from some Salem-Keizer schools. The event began Dec. 3 and will end Dec. 24.

Fun Activities for the Holiday Season

Put together a DIY animal house for the strays in local neighbor-hoods. Buy a plastic tote and some blankets, if there aren’t any randomly lying around the house, and cut a large hole out of one of the thinner sides of the tote. Flip the tote so that it creates a dome-look, and stuff the blankets in there, along with some cat or dog food if at hand.

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Teens for JeansJan. 5-Feb 23.

Plan ahead and look forward to this future volunteer opportunity; collect up new or gently-used jeans to donate when Winter Break ends, whether it be that old pair of jeans has run its course, or a relative bought a size too small, too big, or not too styl-ish. Be on the look out for posters and bins that advertise the jean drive around South.

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Salem Center and Lancaster Mall are no strangers to Salvation Army kettle bell ringers decked out in holiday gear or dressed as Santa. To actually participate may be easier than one thinks. The Salvation Army welcomes any willing volunteers to help spread the Christmas cheer and help local families in many ways,

some of which are through help-ing to load the Salvation Army truck at Wal-Mart with dona-tions of toys, distributing toys to families, and more. The full list of jobs, dates, requirements, and locations can be found at https://volunteer.usawest.org/OpportunityListPage.aspx

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UO:Marijuana vs Alcohol

Winter Superstitions ANNA SCHERER/ Feature Editor

On Nov 4th of this year, Oregon law-

makers passed Measure 91, a new law that will allow recreational con-sumption of cannabis, also known as marijua-na. Although Measure 91 has passed and will take effect as of July 1, 2015, the University of Oregon has decided to continue banning the drug on campus despite it being legal for stu-dents 21 and over.

“The University re-ceives federal funding. Federal law supersedes state law. The ban that currently exists will continue,” University of Oregon’s Communi-cations Director Julie

Brown said. While there are many

different opinions on the subject of recre-ational marijuana, after further investigation it has been found that most students here at South agree that the ban doesn’t make sense since alcoholic bever-ages continue to be allowed on some parts of campus.

“I see where they are coming from, trying to keep their campus drug free, but if alcohol isn’t completely banned, it’s quite odd. I personally view marijuana as less destructive than alco-hol, so the fact that one is banned and the other isn’t doesn’t make very

much sense, especially with marijuana being legalized,” Aaron Stahr ‘16 said.

The state of Or-egon is now treating marijuana as alcohol is being treated, with it only being legal only for those aged 21 and older, being controlled by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, and be-ing taxed like alcohol. However, with the state treating marijuana the same as alcohol, the ban on marijuana but not alcohol at the University of Oregon is quite ridiculous and should be reversed, due to them being treated the same.

Life Gender roles are present everywhere, but one of the most

common settings in which they appear are high schools.

Based on misconceptions formulated decades ago, women traditionally cook and do the home making. Men traditionally provide for the family and are handy with tools. Some extracur-ricular classes that pertain to these skills are cooking class, woodshop, and metal works.

Although there are some exceptions, tra-ditionally, cook-ing class is made up of female stu-dents, whereas metal works and woodshop predominantly

consist of male students. Students as well as teachers have become too comfort-able with carrying on these roles and being complacent with outdated ideals rather than rising above to choose activities that fit personali-ties and goals.

“In real life men and wom-en have certain roles and they tend to follow those roles,” says Colton Duda ‘16. “Women aren’t made to be in a leadership position,” he adds.

A girl could have a passion for construction, but walking into a class full of males can be intimidating and discour-aging. A boy could aspire to be a chef, or maybe a stay at home dad, but the lack of males in these roles could

turn him away from it. “Since girls aren’t re-

ally accepted in those fields, they’re not going to want to extend and break those boundaries,” Eric McCuiston ‘16 said.

This habit isn’t only ap-parent in extracurriculars, but core classes as well. Too often boys are seen aspiring to be doctors or lawyers, and girls nurses, office work-ers, or stay-at-home moms. Emma Normandy ‘16 thinks “teenage boys especially are threatened by girls pursuing the same career, because they don’t want to be work-ing in a lower position.” While there isn’t anything wrong with wanting to be a nurse or a mother, girls should not have an actively

more difficult time succeed-ing in a male-dominant in-dustry in this day and age.

The point is, high school is the time to experiment and for students to figure out what they want to do, sample who they might want to be and what they want to make of them-selves - regardless of gender. It should happen sooner rather than later, before students are stuck majoring in something in college that they have no passion for. At this time, and especially during high school, exposure to gender roles is inevitable. Giving in to them is not.

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T In general, people are superstitious about many

things, and winter is not excluded from these superstitions - be they silly or not. Some of the most com-mon superstitions are the ones concerning weather. For instance, one old wives’ tale goes “Squir-rels gathering nuts in a hurry will cause snow to gather in flurries.” This tale is most likely not true, as in the winter squirrels have to gather food to survive the win-ter, and there is almost no correlation between this act and snow. They collect nuts no matter what, but it does not always snow. One lady in Arkansas uses persimmons to try and predict the winter weather. She cuts open one persimmon and slices the seed in half. If the seeds are spoon

shaped, lots of snow will be expected to fall. Fork shaped seeds predict a winter with light snow fall. Cold biting winds will come with seeds shaped like knives. This year for the 2014/2015 winter the persimmons held spoon shaped seeds, and many of them. To confirm or deny this myth, everyone will have to wait to see if the monumental snow-storm happens. Many people also have several different rituals to make it snow. To boost tourism in ski towns by guaranteeing snow, many of these towns burn old and broken skis before the season starts. They dedicate this bonfire to the Norse god Ullr, the Guardian Patron Saint of Skiers. “I do not think it is prac-tical, but I think it would be totally awesome,”

said Abby Whitney ‘17.Once again, while this may be fun to watch, there is no true connec-tion between the act and snow. Last year before the snowpocalypse many students at South performed their own snow rituals. Some per-formed the traditional snow dance, and others slept in their pajamas inside out and back-wards with a spoon under their pillow. “I never even knew those existed,” said Mya Stenlund ‘17, “I guess they are just to invoke snow or some-thing.”Another unusual act is the flushing of ice cubes down a toilet. Despite the ensuing snowpo-calypse that happened in 2013, it is probably best not to depend on these methods to make it snow.

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Over past two years, South’s wrestling team has been in the process of rebuilding their

program. This year is no different, and their main goal is improvement.

”My goals for the year are to keep improving. The last two years we’ve improved every year. This year I’d like to see us towards the top of the pack come district tournament time and continue to build the program. We’ve got over 30 kids this year, that’s more than we had last year. The more num-bers we get the better were gonna be in the long haul,“ head coach Eric Zehner said.

Along with new people joining the program, the team has three return-ers who will be key wrestlers in help-ing achieve the goals of coach Zehner.

“Right now I’ve got three return-ing state qualifiers. I have Edwin Mon-tes who was a regional champion, Tanner Stones who was a regional finalist, and Vincent Villareal took 4th at the regional tournament and quali-

fied for state. So I have three return-ing state qualifiers. The goal this year is to get the on the podium at state and have some other kids jump in there and at least qualify for state,” Coach Zehner said.

As the team looks ahead at the season there are some new chal-lenges with the addition of three new schools to the Greater Valley Confer-ence.

“Well there’s some really good teams out there. Sprague is still loaded. They have a lot of returning kids. We have some new teams in our league. Forest Grove has some really tough kids on their team and I see them being near the top of the heat too. And McNary always has a hun-dred and something kids come out for wrestling so they always find the diamond in the rough kids,” Coach Zehner said.

The wrestling teams next home meet is not until February 12th at at 5pm.

Tim Slama 15’ competing in the swim meet on Dec 4 against McKay.

South’s boys’ varsity basketball team started their season strong with a win of 87-70 against South Eugene. Previ-

ous to the second game against Sheldon High School, assistant coach Adrian Lewis of the South boys’ varsity team said, “We want to do well against Sheldon because they knocked us out of the league conference last year.

”South ended up winning 85-61 against Sheldon. The third and final non-league of the pre-season game was against Roseburg High School in which the Saxons prevailed with a win of 77-45. Tyler Allen, head coach of the varsity basketball team, stated “I used to think that my measuring tool for success was in number of wins. After study-ing the work of former University of California, Los Angeles Hall of Fame coach, John Wooden, I have a new look at what success should symbolize.” Coach Allen quoted John Wooden, saying “Peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” “So for this season, my idea of success is 15 young men being able to look each of their teammates and coaches in the eye and feel confident that they gave it their all to be the best teammate they could

be, both on and off the court.” he added.The girls’ varsity team started their season

with a win 55-43 against Jesuit High School. Head coach Nick McWilliams said, “I think

we have the talent and experience to be one of the top teams in the state again this year. Our league will be improved with the addi-tion of three new teams and our non-league

schedule is extremely tough, which should help our power ranking and prepare us for the post-season.” McWilliams also said, “Success for us is improvement as individuals and as a team each day. If we do this, we will reach our goals of win-ning the league title, going to the final 8 of the state tournament and competing for the state champion-ship.”

The second game was a loss against Gonzaga Preparatory School 40-53. The Saxon varsity girls came back after the loss win-

ning their next two games 84-68 against Mead High School and then 51-35 against Roseburg. Nick McWilliams said, “within our league, West Salem and McNary have been our tough-est opponents and at the state level we have several; Oregon City, South Medford, Beaver-ton and Jesuit are amongst the teams we are battling with for the top prize in Oregon.”

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Brendan Cabrera ‘15 shooting a freethrow on Dec. 5, in the win against Sheldon.

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WrestlingTIARA SCOTT / Co-Editor in Chief

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SwimmingAVERY CHITWOOD/ Reporter

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The South varsity swim team has started its season with standout players returning and new talent arriving.

The Saxons have a total of ten meets this season. The swim-ming season took off with a total of 70 swimmers. Eric Richey, head coach of the South swim team says, ”we have only been swimming for two weeks so it is hard to say who stands out this early.” McKay was the first to meet this season’s Saxon swim team and the first to fall against it with a score of 126 - 24 for the South girls and 139 -16 for the South boys. Coach Richey also said, “there are

a few standout players returning this season. On the boys’ side there is Carter Garfield in the 200

Individual Medley and 100 Breast-stroke, Noah Cutting in the 500 Free-style and 100 Back stroke. The girls’ are accompanied by Sarah Jones, who placed 3rd in the 200 Free and 2nd in the 100 Back at last year’s District Championship, and Sarah Smith-Tripp placed 2nd in the 200 Free and 3rd in the 500 Free.” South prevailed against Sprague in their latest swim meet, girls won 69.5-114 and the boys 55-100.5. The next swim meet will happen Tuesday January 6, against West at the Kroc center, followed by a

January 9 meet against West Albany.

“There are a few standout players re-turning this season. On the boys’ side there is Carter Garfield in the 200 Individual Medley and 100 Breaststroke, Noah Cutting in the 500 Freestyle and 100 Back stroke.” said Coach Richey.

“...for this season, my idea of success is 15 young men being able to look each of their teammates and coaches in the eye and feel confi-dent that they gave it their all to be the best teammate they could be,” quoted Coach Allen.

Justin Surritt ‘17 during a match against McNary on Dec. 11.

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