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Chloe MyersReview Editor

ON CAMPUSThe Purple Onion

October 2, 2010

Vol. 24, No. 1 3

Lauren WeirupAssistant Editor

All-staters face formidable October auditionsChloe MyersReview Editor

We hear the phrase practice makes per-fect on a regular basis but what happens when your perfect isn’t good enough? That’s a reality all musicians have to face when they audition for the All-State band, choir, or orchestra.

“I thought about piano,” senior Fletcher Paulsen said, “but I don’t think my piano ability is good enough for the All-State lev-el.” Paulsen auditioned vocally for the past three years and plans on auditioning again in October. He was accepted his freshman

and junior year. “It was hard sophomore year because I

didn’t get in again. I’m really anxious be-cause I feel pressured with people telling me that if I don’t get in, it’s not that big of a deal and that it’s a really hard thing to do.”

The audition process for All-State is tedious and nerve-racking. For the instru-mentalists, etudes and a solo are prepared and scales are memorized.

The vocalists got in with an assigned group, usually one to a part with their songs memorized. “We get our music in August,” Paulsen said, “so we have a lot of time to look over it. The harder thing is the variety of songs and having to change styles.”

In order to prepare for the big day,

Classes at our school are usually divided by grade. One of the few classes that com-bines them all is band.

If concert band is the math and language arts of the class, marching band is the physical education.

With five hour rehearsals some Satur-days, rehearsals every other Monday night, three festivals and a football game every now and again the marching band has plen-ty on their plate.

To add on to this busy schedule, hey also plan on going to the Orange Bowl in Janu-ary to perform at halftime.

Mixing the classes gives kids a chance to meet people from other classes.

“My favorite part of marching band is the experience of getting to know every-one from different grades,” Hailey Franzen said, “but I don’t like the arguments about where people are supposed to go.”

Maggie Grell feels that it’s a bigger re-sponsibility not to be the youngest in the band and have to direct the freshmen.

“I really like this show,” Grell said, “but I’m nervous I’ll go to the wrong spot.”

Many have liked the past and present shows and some imagine what the next year will bring.

“My favorite show was sophomore year when we did a ’60s show,” Courtney Rickard said. “I just like that music and it’s what I usually listen to and it was just a lot of fun.”

The Iowa State Fair is a place of excite-ment and relaxation. There is great food, great fun, and of course great shows.

DeWitt Central FFA has won Supreme Chapter Award at the state fair for the sev-enth year in a row. Even though the chapter is under the watchful eye of a new adviser, they still cranked out the numbers to sweep the board and come home winners.

The whole competition is based on a point system. Each division gives points for participation and placing. They give certain points for the number of people who show and even more points for the people who received a place such as first through 10th.

The supreme chapter is all based on plac-ing. The rules were changed this year so that participation does not matter. By plac-

ing higher than any other chapter DeWitt came home with a total of 830 points. The second-place school went home with only 700 points.

As an FFA member, students not only get to participate in the shows but also have the opportunity to see all the attractions of the fair.

Eric Weirup and Madeline Wright had the chance to serve as FFA Grandstand Ushers. “It was awesome,” Weirup said. Being in his second year working as an usher gave Eric the freedom to let loose and enjoy himself.

“My favorite state fair memory was walking around the fair with my friends in togas,” Weirup said.

The grandstand ushers have to hand out pamphlets at each gate and to usher people to their seats at the grandstand shows.

“I really enjoyed the experience of meet-ing new people, seeing the shows, seeing the fair, and making fun of the drunk peo-ple at the shows,” Wright said.

Playing some tunes. Marching band members take a stroll down 10th St during the homecoming parade while playing songs by Billy Joel such as, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” “Uptown Girl” and “Air Dublinesque.” Photo by Ethan Haley.

Marching musicians are crowd-pleasers

FFA bursts off the top of the charts again

Psyched fans. Madeline Wright and her Iowa Falls High School friend Amy Monroe got third-row tickets to see Boys Like Girls. They caught a used water bot-tle, two drum sticks and a guitar pick. Photo contributed by Madeline Wright.

Toga, toga, toga. Iowa State Fair FFA ushers Andrea Kuffel of Griswold High School, Eric Weirup, and Amy Monroe of Iowa Falls High School broke out their togas and pranced around the state fair. Photo contributed by Eric Weirup.

“I’d like to do a Beatles show,” Alex Daniels said. “I think it’d be cool.”

Out of the band of 100, only a few play varsity football and are under the Friday night lights for two different reasons.

“It’s a different experience,” said Dan-iels, “but you get the same feeling, only for marching band, you give something.”

Regardless of what grade you’re in, marching band can leave a lot of memories with you if you only let it.

“My favorite thing is performing,” Rick-ard said, “but my favorite memory was when we were at contest sophomore year.

“Greubel called for a left face and half the people turned the wrong way.”

Fletcher practices four out of five mornings for an hour, and 45 minutes every Wednes-day. He also sings whenever he can, like in the car.

“My favorite memory is probably fresh-man year. We sang this song called Cantos de Nativos and our director, Dr. Copley, had everyone make animals noises at the beginning of the song. It sounded awe-some. There was one kid who had to make a sound like a frog and he did it by burping but Dr. Copley didn’t let him do it in the performance.”

Through all the stress, practice, and tears, students have to give the appearance of being confident when they walk into the audition.

Practice makes perfect. Mrs. Jeannie Dean, vocal music teacher, coaches Fletcher Paulsen for his All State audi-tions. Photo by Lauren Weirup.

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BACK TO SCHOOLThe Purple Onion

October 2, 2010

Vol. 24, No. 1 5

Tiffany Allers Staff Writer

Hot days in Spanish class

It’s hot. Fans are running, the teacher is talking, you are sweating, and you just can-not wait to get out of Spanish class. You have to deal with this inferno for an hour and a half.

But Mrs. Pamela Burke deals with it for eight hours a day.

Mrs. Burke got to move into Mrs. Bar-bara Deutmeyer’s air conditioned room last May.

In September, however, she was told she had to move back into her old room. The Fire Marshall claimed Mrs. Deutmeyer’s room could not be used due to distance from an exit that was too close to the con-struction.

Thus, she took the basics from the new room and put them back into the old one.

Mrs. Burke’s move is just one part of the chaos of the construction. New additions outside her classroom include two gyms, an auditorium, wrestling room, weight room, band room, vocal room and admin-istrative offices.

The middle school will get several new classrooms and cafeteria.

The south addition includes a metals lab, agriculture lab, and a greenhouse. Students don’t have to rush to school any more to get a good parking spot; construction plans include new parking lots.

Although dealing with dust and noise, Mrs. Burke loves the construction. She looks out her window every morning and says, “It’s amazing how much progress they have made.” She has brought in fans from home and has learned to adapt to the noise. Mrs. Burke is scheduled to teach in her new room next school year.

Another teacher affected by construc-tion is Mrs. Molly Giese, who is pregnant. Her windows had to be bricked over for construction, and her room became insuf-ferably hot, registering in the mid-90s in degrees. The administration bought an air conditioner to accommodate her. She be-lieves the construction is a good thing and has dealt with it by taking more breaks during class and going out to the science garden.

Many other teachers have dealt with noise, dust, and heat. Mr. Keith Townsley, with construction out his window, loves watching the cranes. He says it does not disrupt class, but at times the noise can be a little annoying.

Mr. J. Hans Hinrichsen uses his former career as a carpenter, to inform students on the stages of construction daily. Mr. Hin-richsen tells stories of his life as a carpen-ter. The construction just proves the stories Mr. Hinrichsen has told the students.

As annoying as it may be, many believe that the construction is worth it.

“It is a small price to pay,” Townsley says, “and a great opportunity for future students.”

could’ve been selected with more caution. “The idea behind it is right, but they went the wrong way with the word choice,” he said.

“They could’ve chosen better words that applied more toward supporting breast cancer,” Kalyn McMahon said.

Abby Schneckloth has a different view-point on the bracelets. “They’re ugly and everyone has them,” she said. “They’re for a good cause but they aren’t unique any-more.”

Madeline Wright said she likes the col-ors and styles that differ from most breast cancer bracelets. “They’re for a good cause but they aren’t unique anymore,” Wright said.

Cory Hansen also feels the slogan is getting abused. “People wear them more for the saying rather than the cause, and it’s really stupid,” he said. His motive for wearing the bracelet is purely to support a good cause. “My aunt on my dad’s side had breast cancer so I wear it to show my sup-port,” he said.

The bracelets have caused controversy in schools in California, Colorado, Idaho, Florida and Wisconsin. Some districts al-low students to wear them inside-out, oth-ers ban them.

At CHS, the bracelets are banned in the middle school.

Some students agree with the ban, other students insist it’s a violation of their First

Amendment rights to freedom of expres-sion.

“They shouldn’t be worn anywhere,” Adam Henningsen said. “Just because it’s for breast cancer doesn’t make it right,”

Abby Schneckloth disagreed, saying a ban on the bracelets is a “dumb” idea. “There’s nothing inappropriate about them,” Schneckloth said. “It’s the same as any other body part on a bracelet. Every-one has them.”

Maggie Gehlsen added her disapproval of a ban. “I don’t think schools should be banning them,” she said, “it’s just your way of supporting a cause.”

Kaitlyn O’Leary said all the fuss about a ban is ridiculous. “The point of the brace-lets is to raise awareness,” she said, “not to be perverted.”

While the middle school has banned “I Love Boobies” bracelets, the high school administration has adopted a wait-and-see attitude.

Principal George Pickup said he re-ceived no complaints about the bracelets. “I feel they’re for a good cause, but at the same time I can see where they could be against the school dress code,” he said. He feels a ban at CHS is unnecessary at this time.

“I don’t see us banning them unless they become a distraction to class, then we’ll look into it,” he said. “I will continue to allow them as long as teachers and students don’t bring it to my attention that there is a problem.”

‘Boobies’ bracelets: dress code violation?—Continued from Page 1

High 80s August temps, construction make it difficult to pay attention

Cranes in the sky. Students taking classes on the east side of school get to look out the windows and see the day-to-day improvements on the construction next to their classroom buildings. Here, cranes have set large walls in place. Expected date of completion for this stage of construction is early, at semester. Photo by Kyle Miller.

Teens like teachingstyles that respectand inspire them

“I like it if my students are engaged in what they’re doing,” says Mr. Eddie Mercado, Talented and Gifted education teacher. Mr. Mercado has a unique teaching style students love.

“He keeps everyone’s attention and allows for a lot of discussion,” Harrison Stahl said.

“He really engages the class in the discussion,” Joe Carber said, agreeing with Harrison completely and calling Mr. Mercado’s class “vibrant” and claiming it to be the most fun class he’s taken.

Mrs. Valarie Betz, Family and Consumer Science teacher, also gets high marks from students.

“I love the hands-on work,” Derik Marti said. “She is a lot of fun,” Marti said, “if you’re not causing trouble.”

Along with Mrs. Betz, Mr. Eric Olson, math teacher, is recognized as having great patience with his calculus class.

Logan Miskowiec Staff Writer

It’s teachers like these that give high school students “hope that not all teachers are boring and dumb,” as Stahl puts it.

Not every teaching style, however, can be as exploratory as Mrs. Betz, as flexible as Mr. Mercado, or as patient as Mr. Olson.

A teacher who “assigns things and won’t say if they are due or not, so you don’t know if it is graded or if it will even be turned in,” doesn’t rank very high on Austin Rand’s list of likable teaching styles.

Just like Blake Sandry, many students don’t like it if teachers run their class as if the students are preschoolers, or speak in a soft voice but then suddenly raise it in attempts to show authority.

“Long wordy lectures (in a monotone) with warm rooms? I don’t think it is the best way to learn, but it is very conducive to helping me catch up on sleep,” said Stahl.

Stahl added teaching styles like this aren’t necessarily a bad thing because they keep you “more awake and aware for the classes (you) actually need to pay attention to.”

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HOMECOMINGThe Purple Onion

October 2, 2010

Vol. 24, No. 1 7

Kyle MillerOn Campus Editor

Bree DunkelEditor in Chief

Auburn TempletonStaff Writer

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Homecoming royalty are 4 percent better at Olson’s calculus now

Despite the heat, partiers danced the night away

You walk through the front doors and you feel a heat wave hit your whole body. You can feel the beat of the music running through your veins. You can feel the energy lingering in the air. Most of all, you can see and hear the excitement and fun everyone is having. This is homecoming 2010.

“I liked how we all were dressed up,” Sierra Long said. “I also thought the music really got you going.”

“I’ve always had a thing that dances were stupid,” Jennifer Keitel said. “This year I decided to make it fun. So truly the difference is my attitude toward dances,” she said.

Randy Banowetz of Knight Life DJs was the DJ for this homecoming.

“I didn’t like the quiz thing he did, be-cause it was too long,” Florian Lauterbach said. “He also should not have played so many older songs.

“There should be more of a light show,” he added.

At most dances, you typically have rules that have to be followed. One of the main rules of the dance is you can’t just go out-

side to cool off. Once you go outside, you can’t come back in.

“It is stupid that you cannot just go out-side to cool off,” Samantha Callender said. “We should have it in the cafeteria next year.”

“That rule is a bit overrated,” Ryder Miller said, “but I kind of understand rules that try to keep everyone safe.”

Bust a move. Shawn Paarmann, Alex-andria Necker and Rachel Henning let their inner beast out on the dance floor. Photo by Auburn Templeton.

Seniors treat 9th grade girls to scavenger huntand early breakfast

Getting up at the crack of dawn, seniors woke up the freshmen girls at an insanely early hour and took them out to breakfast.

This year, the seniors picked up the girls between 4:30 and 5 a.m. to get them ready for their adventure. This was the least fa-vorite part for most of the girls.

“The worst part was waking up at 3:40 after a late night because of the powderpuff game,” senior Emily Ketelsen said.

The worst part was “waking up so early and not knowing what time (the seniors) are coming to get us,” freshman Caitlyn Jackson said.

After all the girls were picked up, every-one met at McDonald’s to begin their scav-enger hunt. The scavenger hunt was a list of random things you had to get your pic-tures taken with such as a person walking their dog, in front of Mr. and Mrs. Dean’s house and with a sub sandwich. Each pic-ture was worth a different amount of points and whatever team had the most points at the end won the scavenger hunt.

“We did a Chinese fire drill and a po-liceman looked at us like we were crazy,” senior Makenzie Keeney said.

Jenny Kruger got pulled over by the po-lice when she and her girls were doing the scavenger hunt. “They just asked why I was out so early,” senior Jenny Kruger said.

After the scavenger hunt, the girls trav-eled to Clinton and ate at Village Inn.

Most thought this adventure was fun and a success but there are some things they may have wanted to do differently.

“I would’ve wanted more activites and have a little bit more fun,” Keeney said.

“I wish we could’ve been dressed up,” Jackson said.

“I would’ve liked to dress them up goofy like they did way back when because that would be the funnest part,” Ketelsen said.

Freshmen and seniors can still have a lot of fun . They just have to get creative.

After-dance ritualsattract many teens

Deanna Hansen Staff Writer

You walked outside after the dance and felt the cool breeze hit your body. After running around and dancing it feels nice to be able to cool off and relax.

But do people actually go home and relax? No, of course they don’t. You now have too much energy to just go home. So what do people do? Drink, party, TP, and hang with friends.

“No adults are naïve enough to say no kids are going to drink,” DeWitt Police Officer Greg Waugh said. “They will, but use common sense. Stay home and don’t drive.”

Waugh also said that there should be ac-tivities to do after the homecoming dance. “If there are activities after the homecom-

ing dance there would be less illegal activi-ties.”

Not all kids drink after homecoming, though. Steve Adams had a clean party with great fun.

“I am a great Cajun cook,” Adams said. “Anything you find out in the swamp I’ll cook it.”

Kassie Prier said, “It was freezing, but we still had a great time swimming and hanging by the fire.”

Adams is also known for his jokes. His favorite joke that was told all night was, Why are yellow laffy taffys so funny? Be-cause they are BANANAS!

Mrs. Pam Burke, however, disagreed with the idea that parties should follow the dance. “Freshman and sophomores do not need to be out that late,” Burke said. “The homecoming dance is the closing of home-coming week. We have plenty of things to do during the week.”

The first day of calculus was a dark and dreary day for students. It was the day that they learned they were in a world of confusion and frustration expressed over calculus homework, trying to understand every calculus concept, and for some, their grades.

Mr. Eric Olson, however, gave these unlucky calculus students a light in the dark. If anyone from the calculus class won homecoming king or queen, then the class would receive 4 percent extra credit on their next test. The light in the students’ eyes shone for the first time that day.

It was decided among the class that everyone would vote for Haley Kreiter, but Logan Miskowiec and Harrison Stahl felt everyone should also vote for Chris Tabor.

They convinced enough people both inside and outside of the class to vote for Tabor, and he then was voted onto the homecoming court.

That’s when a few other class members started to realize they could be the first of Mr. Olson’s calculus classes to have both a king and queen.

And so a campaign was born. Miskowiec and Stahl put up posters, while Stahl, Christie Wiese and Courtney Rickard came

up with the idea of “Tabor-shirts.” Enough people bought a Tabor-shirt

to wear the Tuesday before the vote for homecoming king and queen. Everyone who bought a shirt, including band teacher, Mr. Josh Greubel, wore their shirts and didn’t forget to chime “Sabers for Tabor” every now and again in the halls.

The voting came and went, and the suspense was still there. No calculus class before them had both a king and a queen in the class. They were heading into uncharted waters, and didn’t know what would happen for a few more days. It was finally Friday, the day that they would find out who were homecoming king and queen.

Brandon Jasper, Joe Feldpausch and Dillon Connell were tough opponents for Chris, but none were able to stand against his campaign. “Sabers for Tabor” had become a popular saying heard from Chris’ campaigners — so popular, in fact, that Chris became homecoming king.

All the calculus students were ecstatic about such a victory. And later that night, they found out Haley Kreiter was fortunate enough to have the win over tough queen candidates Courtni Poell, Hillary Drury and Alex Hunter.

The following Monday, calculus students made it a point to make sure that Mr. Olson knew that history had been made. For the first time in school history, there was a calculus student for both king and queen.

Party in the slide. Caitlyn Jackson, Allie Andersen, Mollie McCulloh and Becca Grell take a picture in St. Joseph’s play-ground to earn points for the early mon-ring scavenger hunt. Picture by Maken-zie Keeney.

Summing it all up. Hailey Kreiter gives Chris Tabor a hug after she was crowned homecoming queen at the football game. Photo by Ethan Haley.

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The Purple Onion

October 2, 2010

Vol. 24, No. 1 11SPORTS

Kassandra Prier

Assistant Sports Editor

Andrew Risinger

Photography Editor

Saber volleyball girls have hit the courts. Throughout their whole high school career, they never stop playing volleyball. They play in club teams and summer league and then they launch into high school ball.

Volleyball is the No. 1 girls’ sport in Iowa. There are 14,000 girls out for vol-leyball and only 10,000 girls out for bas-ketball.

In the high school, 52 girls have gone out at all different levels for volleyball. Some girls have just the right talent to move up to a higher level.

“Having people move up to your level might take up some positions on your team, but it will make our team better,” Maddy Fuller said. “It will help our team out.”

On the floor are all different types of grade levels playing varsity, but they are all capable of playing all the spots.

Coaches have an easy task of telling them where they want them to play, because they are all able to do that. New coaches Rachel Truelsen and Steve Kuehn are on hand to tell head coach Peggy Kuehn where some-thing is needed.

“She (Kuehn) likes Coach Truelsen because she is a good asset to the team,” Maggie Dolan said, “and she pushes us hard and keeps us focused.”

Coach Truelsen has a positive attitude, and helps out tremendously with every-thing that the players need to work on dur-ing practice and games.

Coach Steve Kuehn is always by Peggy Kuehn’s side helping her out.

“I like having Steve as our coach,” Allie Anderson said. “It’s probably a little harder for him to coach a bunch of moody girls than boys, but I think he does a good job.”

Coming into the high school as a fresh-man changes everything. Everyone is not going to get to play, and others can’t get

mad about it, because it is something good for your team.

For girls coming from the middle school or St. Joe’s it is unlikely that they’ll get playing time if they’re not that athletic un-less they work hard in the gym to get their spot. Having summer leagues and open gyms will help their playing time.

Some players might get mad, but they have to think about the team and not what they want.

In volleyball there might have some bad plays, but “you need to forget about the last play, and focus on the next one,” Anderson said.

Everyone has different goals for her level of play. “I would like my team to be top 3 of the WaMac East,” Rachel Henning said.

Sophomores have had changes in their rotation; two freshmen have come up. Maddy Fuller said, “They are there to help us out on our rotation and fill in the spots that we need them to be in.”

There are many things the team can do to get pumped up for the match. “She stands in a circle and does a few cheers that we can scream at the top of our lungs to make it better and more exciting,” Dolan said.

When Henning is getting ready for a game she listens to music, visualizes her-self playing, goes over her goals, and thinks of nothing but the match that she is about to play. Unlike Henning, Ellen Reynolds gets ready by watching the younger kids and that will help her get pumped up for all the games.

To keep a good team going, players should have good communication, doing cheers on the bench and court, and congrat-ulating after every play and when someone does something fantastic.

During the game everything should be blocked out and focused on volleyball, and players should not worry about what the crowd, boyfriends or family are doing. Placing their team ahead of themselves will make them work harder to finish strong.

Heat can be serious problemin early fall sports practices

Creighton Fox

Sports Editor

The focus on the 2010 football season for head coach Kurt Kreiter and his coach-ing staff didn’t begin in August as with most coaches.

Year ’round they watch film and attend camps or clinics to improve the Saber foot-ball program.

While coaches did their part in prepar-ing for the season, a handful of Central athletes showed they were ready to step up and compete with the best in the 3A Class at any sport.

For the second straight year the track team placed in the top three at state, and making their first trip out to Des Moines was the Saber baseball team, for the first time in school history.

One of the first non-parents to jump on that bandwagon was Mr. Kreiter himself.

“I’m a big fan of Saber athletics and I know the successes those guys had in track and baseball will carry on throughout their life,” Kreiter said.

Unfortunately, success hasn’t been that easy to come by for the Saber football team, considered to be one of the toughest

schedules in 3A.Central has lost three of its first four

games, each of those losses coming from ranked opponents Solon, Fairfield, and Union.

Football captain and two-time letter-man Dillon Connell feels that losing those games has actually helped the team learn more from their mistakes.

“We’ve made bigger strides by losing those games than by winning them,” Con-nell said.

With a 1-3 start, coaches don’t seem to be in a frenzy for solutions. In fact, scram-bling through playbooks and making roster adjustments is the last thing on their mind.

“We believe in what we do as coaches and our approach to the season will not change drastically because of a slow start,” Kreiter said.

This wouldn’t be the first time the Cen-tral football program started off on the wrong foot. The 2007 team began its sea-son 0-2, but with strong leadership and Coach Kreiter’s stick-with-it mentality, they ended 7-2 with a win in the playoffs.

The goals for this team, however, don’t seem to surround wins or losses.

“Our main priority for the rest of the season is to continue bonding and coming together more as a team,” Connell said.

Heat this year was a factor that all ath-letes faced at one point in the beginning of their season. Heat exhaustion can be seri-ous.

Fainting, feeling sick, heat exhaustion and heat stroke are things that can happen to you, as well as wandering off.

“Every football player on Iowa’s foot-ball team has to drink a Gatorade for every pound they lost during a hot day of prac-tice” Coach Jerad Block said.

This is a good idea so that you don’t have players injuring themselves during a practice or game. Drinking water or Gato-rade helps hydrate you as well as keep you from cramping while competing.

Football two-a-days this year were somewhat cool but also had their hot days.

“Two-a-days are always somewhat hard but you just have to fight through them and do it,”Alex Daniels said. He would also drink Gatorade before and after each practice to ensure heat exhaustion didn’t settle in.

Coaches are aware of the heat as well, and do their best to get their athletes to hy-drate to ensure the players safety.

Cross country is another sport that had days with high heat. Runners have to hy-drate and take care of themselves just like football players when it comes to hydrat-ing.

“The runners that hadn’t started con-ditioning and hydrating before the first practice had really wished they had,” Ryan Hamby said.

Some other cross country athletes, de-cided to stop drinking pop and started drinking chocolate milk. Milk has many advantages, one of them being that it helps with recovery, muscle building and hydra-tion.

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The Purple Onion

October 2, 2010

Vol. 24, No. 112 ON CAMPUS

Brittany AllersStaff Writer

Auburn TempletonStaff Writer

Kyle DonahueSports Writer

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State baseball is a big deal. This year the Central Sabers made an amazing achieve-ment.

They made it to state. Dating from the state runner-up finish in 1973, Central has been a football town.

So when this summer’s baseball team lost four of its five regular season games and stumbled into into the postseason at 16-15, the local clamor remained minimal.

Yet two weeks later, Central made its first trip to the state tournament in school history. It seems that Central is a “come from behind team,” having trailed in their three post season wins.

Central usually gives up 6 runs a game and scores about 7. During the regular sea-son, the close contests came to a coin flip. Facing no pressure, self-imposed or other-wise, the Sabers kept advancing. They eked out an 8-7 nail biter against Anamosa that entered play with 29 losses. But then they beat a Davenport Assumption team many expected to contend for a state title.

The Sabers weren’t awed by the hard task at hand. The Sabers simply went about business and defeated Charlisle, at No. 5 the highest-ranked team in the field, to earn a spot in Friday’s afternoon semifinal games. They didn’t mess around, either.

Pitcher Ryan Lechtenberg retired the first eight batters he faced. The Wildcats eventually scored three runs in the sixth inning thanks to the five errors the Sabers had.

It was a Tuesday afternoon last spring in the school lobby. Several members of the dance team were already warming up for practice.

The dance coach walked in and told them the news: the dance team was over. This year, there are no more practices, no more team.

“We were astonished at first, but then we all started crying,” dancer Emily Evans said. “The track team was there and they saw us crying.”

The dancers were devastated. The lack of interest, plus stipend for the team spon-sor being cut, led to the end of the team.

In the Sept. 15 Observer, Ms. Renee Green, assistant principal, explained the

reason for the cut.“The cheer position and dance sponsor

position were combined for the 2009-2010 school year,” Mrs. Green said. The num-ber of girls interested in cheerleading was low, and dance squads were beginning to dwindle.”

Ms. Green agreed that it is sad that the team no longer cheers at the games.

“At first, I was really upset, but now, it’s not so big of a deal,” Emily Evans said.

Ivy Nevenhoven, on the other hand, thinks differently. She said she was very upset “and I still am.”

Most students feel that it would be great for the team to come back next year. For the dance team to come back next year, the interest in dancing and cheerleading would have to go up and money would have to be raised.

Evans stayed positive for next year and said “It’s definitely a possibility.”

In any sport, do you ever just want to stop what you are doing and just hide to get away? For the Central cross-country team, that is never an option.

“This year we have changed coaches,” Lynn Dohrmann said, following the retir-ment of longtime head coach Jim Hetrick. “Coach (Eric) Olson has stepped into the role of head coach.”

“I think Mr. Olson is a great motivator for not just me,” Logan Sanderson said, “but the team as well.”

“I like being head coach a lot,” Coach Olson said. “It is big shoes to fill. Coach Hetrick has helped me a lot to get ready for this season.”

They also got a new assistant coach, Coach Petsche, who said he likes being as-sistant coach. “It gives me the opportunity to work with Coach Olson, and make the best team we can,” he said.

Fellow students always ask runners why they even go out for cross-country.

“I like cross country,” Connor Dalldorf said, “because I like the challenge and how it gets you into shape.”

“Everyone is very supportive,” captain Lindsay Smith said.

“One of the things I like most about cross country is that the workouts are bet-ter and you get to run off school property,” Cory Hansen said.

Last year, the Central boys made it to state and got fifth. “This year, the boys have their own goals set,” Coach Olson said. “They have their ideas on what they want to accomplish. I just give them the workouts.

“Same goes for the girls,” Coach Ol-son said. “They have their own goals set. They have improved drastically from last season.”

“I am looking forward to what we can do,” Coach Olson added. “I am just trying to look at the big picture.”

No matter how good the team is or whatever the reason is to go out for cross-country, all that matters is that runners are having fun and make the best of it.

As Coach Olson says, “You get out of it what you put in.”

Racing to the finish line. Cory Hansen pushes himself to run past his opponent. Photo by Auburn Templeton.

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When a guy or girl asks a special someone to homecoming, you usually just ask the typical question, “Will you go to Homecoming with me?” For Nicole Mooc, Kassie Prier, and Christie Wiese, it was much more then that one typical question.

“Thanks to the wonderful television, I got my idea from a commercial about Sharpies that uses Post-it notes, where the guy asks the girl to marry him,” Fletcher Paulsen said, “so I figured why not homecoming?” During his open block, he cut the Post-it notes and spelled out “Homecoming?” in Wiese’s locker. “I thought it was a clever idea and was so excited,” Wiese said, “ because we were dates last year and we had a lot of fun.”

A.J Smith asked Mooc using a shirt. On the front of this shirt, Smith wrote “Homecoming?” and on the bottom, he wrote, “Wash to see who asked you.” What he did on the back of the shirt was write guys’ names with washable markers and only one of the names was in permanent

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Cute ways girls were asked to homecoming

marker. It was Smith.“What I had to do was put the shirt in

the wash,” Mooc said, “ and the name that stayed was the person who asked.”

“I was completely speechless,” Mooc said, “I just stared at it and smiled.” She didn’t see it coming at all.

Chris Marlowe asked Prier by playing off her middle name. “Christopher gave me a dozen roses, and a volleyball that said, Out of all the roses in the world, I picked you,” Prier said. “I loved it,” Prier said, “because my middle name is Rose, so it worked perfectly.”

“It took me awhile to think of the idea,” Marlowe said, “ but after I thought of it, I knew it was perfect and she loved it, too.”

Homecoming? Christie Wiese opened her locker to find Fletcher Paulsen’s in-vitation. Photo by Auburn Templeton.