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Happening Now •Basketball Open Gym: Boys 6:15 a.m., girls 3:30 p.m. today in gym; boys 6:15 a.m. Tuesday •Band: Concert with eighth graders 7 p.m. tonight in auditorium •Early Start/Early Release: Day 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday at WHS •ASVAB: Testing 1 p.m. Tuesday in E-121 •Teacher In-Service: 1-4 p.m. Tuesday; teacher comp-day Wednesday •Volleyball: End-of-season banquet 7 p.m. Tuesday in commons •No School: Thanksgiving holiday Wednesday-Friday at WHS
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Asian stir-fry •À la carte lines: Pepperoni hot pocket, taco fixings, baked potato fixings, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Chemistry Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-217—all current, former and future chemistry students welcome. •Volleyball: Athletes will gather for their end-of-season banquet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the commons.
Other Reminders •Students: Learn about opportunities to become involved in WHS activities. Visit tinyurl.com/WHSActivities. •Share Your Photos: Of the WHS school year for the HonorFest video with Instagram hashtag #whshonorfest2016. NOW Monday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carson Herbert and Olivia Nieman Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jade Visker Staff: Taylor Anderson, Chase O’Connor, Josh Thomas, Hannah Johnson, Jack Schelhaas, Erika Lehan, Sophie Nieman, Jane Walsh, Marlene Valdovinos Editor-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Wiley Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . Hannah Smith Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
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Student council members learn skills on trip to Arizona Conference helps students become better leaders
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By Chase O’Connor and Patrick Saaleephiw embers of the WHS student council traveled to Phoenix, Arix., Nov. 13-15 to attend a Leadership Experience and Development (LEAD) Conference held at the DoubleTree hotel. At the conference, students learned leadership skills, team building, project planning and fundraising ideas. The LEAD Conference consisted of guest speakers followed by workshops where students expanded their leadership skills and learned new helpful ideas. Senior Robert Speeks enjoyed the event. “It was fun hanging out with my peers and meeting new people,” Speeks said. “I learned a lot from the workshops and from other kids around the country.” Junior Kelsi Kearney also learned much. “I got lots of new ideas about fundraising and project planning from the other schools at the conference,” Kearney said. “I was very moved by the guest speakers.”
Photo by Sandy Hoff LEADERS—Student council members (L-R) juniors Jenna Siganos and Kaitlyn Fischer; sophomore Jada Cunningham; juniors Skylar Moen and Carson Herbert; senior Sam Siganos, sophomore Carson Buell; senior Robert Speeks; junior Kelsi Kearney and seniors Maddie Maloney, Jade Visker and Olivia Nieman enjoy the warmth at the pool in Arizona.
Band presents concert with eighth graders
By Hannah Johnson, Taylor Anderson and Erika Lehan The auditorium will be jumping and jiving tonight as the WHS bands present a concert at 7 p.m. Tonight’s event will be a special one, as future Warriors will join current ones in con-
cert. Whittier and Patrick Henry eighth graders will join their WHS counterparts in tonight’s concert as they get a taste for what high school band can offer. Assistant band director Chris Brandt said he is enthusiastic about tonight’s show. “Tonight we are set to wel-
come in eighth graders and encourage them to continue playing music here at WHS,” Brandt said. “The Jazz 1, Symphonic Band and eighth graders from Whittier and Patrick Henry will be featured. This is the first concert of the year, and the students have been working hard.”
Basketball teams conduct fundraisers before seasons By Jack Schelhaas and Josh Thomas Two basketball fundraisers are currently going on at WHS in preparation for the upcoming seasons. Basketball team T-shirts are currently begin sold. All pre-
ordered shirts should have been delivered by this time. Notify coach Craig Nelson if you didn’t get yours or received the wrong size. “We still have about 100 extra shirts,” Nelson said.
“So if you are still in need of one, we should have one available.” Cotton t-shirts are $6, and the C2 Dri-Fit shirts are $10. Girls basketball team members are also currently selling dis-
count cards for $20 that feature discounts at local businesses including Firehouse Subs, The Attic, The Pourhouse, Juice Stop, Sioux Falls Canaries, and the Sioux Falls Stampede. Buy from any girls team member.
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Monday, Nov. 23, 2015
Classes begin at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at WHS Students will report for class at 7:30 a.m. and be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at WHS as they begin their Thanksgiving holiday early this year. An in-service schedule will be followed Tuesday as teachers have afternoon in-service at WHS. Wednesday is a com-
pensation day for teachers resulting from parent/ teacher conferences last month and Thursday and Friday the regular Thanksgiving holiday. Classes will resume as usual at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, following the first-day of the week schedule.
Tuesday’s special schedule
First Period.........................................7:30-8:15 a.m. Second Period.....................................8:20-9:03 a.m. Third Period...................................... 9:23-10:06 a.m. Fourth/Firth Period........................ 10:11-10:54 a.m. Attend your class opposite your lunch period—no lunch served. Sixth Period......................................10:59-11:42 a.m. Seventh Period........................ 11:47 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Block 1 CTE will leave at 7 a.m., Block 2 at 9:15 a.m. Block 3 is cancelled.
Help put stores ‘in the black’ this Friday My fellow Warriors, I am here to inform you of a very special, important day that will be here in only a matter of a few days. No, I am not talking about spending time with family on Thanksgiving (an important thing, no doubt), but rather the day that shopping fanatics and discount connoisseurs are giving thanks for. Hear me. . . This day is the day that shoppers everywhere spend all Hannah Smith of the other 364 days of the year dreaming about. We spend the rest of the year longing to feel the -20 degree temperatures as we stand in line at local Targets and Best Buys. This day is known as Black Friday—two words that make our bank accounts tremble at the mere mention of and two words that store owners love, as it can in fact be the day that puts them “in the black,” or makes them profitable, for the entire year. Therefore, I’ve come up with some golden rules for this
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much anticipated day, and the first one is to save your money. No, do not save your money by refraining from shopping on Black Friday—that is a preposterous thought. Save your money for Black Friday. Pick up a few extra shifts at work to have a little extra green to complete your Black Friday dream. Second, fear nobody. A store employee telling you that you can’t camp out in front of the doors a week beforehand? How else are you supposed to be first in line? A competing customer racing towards those boots you’ve had your eyes on since October? Run faster. Third, train for this event. In order to shop until you drop from midnight to noon, you must change your sleep schedule at least four days before Black Friday. Also, you must build up your strength. Fill all of the shopping bags you can find in your house and start working those arms. Only the fittest of Black Friday shoppers survive, and you must compete to earn such status. So coupons and store circulars in hand, charge through those store doors with confidence and poise this Friday, knowing that you have worked for that very moment. Senior Hannah Smith is ready to put stores “in the black” this Friday.
Anti-Islam rhetoric sweeps U.S. By Hannah Allam and Javaria Khan McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) WASHINGTON — Muslims and civil rights advocates are growing increasingly alarmed by the tone of the anti-Muslim speech that has emerged since the Paris massacre, saying it is much sharper and less nuanced than in years past, including the tense aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The days, many say, are gone when public figures went out of their way to draw distinctions between ordinary Muslims and the extremist fringe, something President George W. Bush did regularly. Instead, Republican presidential candidates, governors, municipal officials, local authorities, talk-radio hosts and religious figures increasingly are targeting Islam as a whole — a development Muslims say leaves them vulnerable to discrimination and retaliatory assaults. Within hours of the Paris attacks, social media and political speech were full of accusatory references to Muslims, not just radicals, said Jordan Denari, a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, a project to raise public awareness about “Islamophobia” — fear of Muslims. She said the line of demarcation between radicals and ordinary Muslims seems to be getting thinner and thinner. “At least in the Republican field, it seems to be nearly gone,” she said, referring to the Republican presidential candidates. “People, when they’re pressed really hard, will say, ‘Of course I’m not talking about ordinary Muslims.’ But they’re not starting with that.” “We continue to be the scapegoats and the black sheep of America,” said Badi Ali, imam of a mosque in Greensboro, N.C., who has been investigated several times by U.S. authorities dating to even before the Sept. 11 attacks. “It’s the responsibility of the majority to protect the minority, the Muslims, but they are not. Nowadays, we see all these slogans — Black Lives Matter — and the Hispanic minority making progress with the help of the majority, but Muslims, unfortunately, are still targeted.”
