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Happening Now •Faculty/Staff: Meeting 3:20 p.m. in library •Drama: One-act play auditions 3:30 p.m. in auditorium
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chili dog •À la carte lines: Pasta, soft taco, baked potato fixings, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Okiciyapi Club: Students traveling to Whittier Middle School for the Native American Christmas party should check in with adviser Bruce Rekstad today. •Quiz Bowl: Team members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Thursday in A-136. •Chemistry Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in A-217. •SMASH: Book club will meet to discuss “The Raven Boys” fourth period and “The Thin Executioner” fifth period Friday in the library.
Other Reminders •Chorus: Holiday bake sale will be held after school Thursday in the auditorium foyer. •Ugly Christmas Sweater: Day is Tuesday at WHS. All participants should gather for a photo at 7:50 a.m. that morning. •Yearbook: 2016 pre-orders are now being taken at jostens.com/yearbooks/high-school-yearbooks. NOW Wednesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caroline Point and Ty Smith Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . Carly Knutson Staff: Michael Enalls, Aaron Johnson, Makayla Uithoven, Keenan Sorgdrager, Seth Randall, Rheannan Bills, Stephen Cordell, Joe Simko, Mckyla Moon 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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Warriors prevail in boys basketball battle with Riders
Senior Carter Keller steps-up with 18 points in win
By Ty Smith and Michael Enalls arrior boys basketball team members won a hard-fought victory over Roosevelt 68-56 in their Metro Conference opener to improve to 3-0 in the early season Tuesday. Senior Carter Keller led the way for the Warriors with 18 points and five rebounds. Junior Isaac Goeman was 7-of-8 from the field, knocking in 15 points and hauling in three rebounds. Sophomore Logan Uttecht and senior Sam Gezehagne also made big contributions, each with 11 points and four assists. WHS shot 55 percent from the field, while Roosevelt shot only 31 percent. The game was sloppy and scrappy throughout for both teams. The Warriors and the Riders combined for 41 turnovers on the night—
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WHS with 23 and Roosevelt with 18. Assistant coach Mike Hulstein said it was an emotional struggle for both teams, as the Warriors played without senior starter Sam Signaos. “It was good to show the rest of the state that we can still play,” Hulstein said. Uttecht was also glad with the outcome. “We had to figure out how to play together,” he said. “We played well, but we have some things we need to work on.” The Warriors will look to add to the win column next Tuesday at WHS, as they host Yankton as part of a non-conference boys and girls doubleheader. In sub-varsity action Tuesday, the Warriors went 2-2 over the four sub-varsity games. The sophomore team won 51-42 and the freshman
Photo by Tyler Olmstead ADVANCE—Junior Jack Talley takes the ball past junior Alex Fiegen of Roosevelt in Tuesday’s 68-56 Warrior win. A Team won 67-42. The JV and freshman B team lost their games, losing 71-61 and 52-41, respectively.
Varsity bowling teams beat Brandon By Carly Knutson Warrior varsity and junior varsity bowling teams traveled to Eastway Bowl on Monday to face the Brandon Valley Lynx in a rescheduled match from Nov. 20 that was postponed by the first snow fall of the season. In varsity boys action, senior Aaron Johnson claimed the high game of the day with a score of 258. “We didn’t do that well,” Johnson said. “However, we still came away with a win. Now, we have a while to keep practicing before our next match.” Sophomore Jacob Schofield had the high series of three games with a 600. Overall, the varsity boys won 38-12. The varsity girls also claimed a victory, win-
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ning 28-22. Junior Samantha Huber had the high game for the team, scoring 186 pins. Junior Alex Rote had the high series with a 498. Coach Troy Duffy said he was happy with the wins. “I thought the make up match against Brandon Valley went very well,” Duffy said. “We still need to work on getting our spares.” In JV action, the boys dominated 40-10. Freshman Jadyn Schumacher had the high game with 184 and sophomore Caden Van Noort the high series with 482. The JV girls fell to the Lynx 34-16. Sophomore Chaley Linder had the high game with a 110 and high series with a 294. The Warriors now have some time off before their next match Jan. 8, 2016.
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Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015 Anna Odens Senior
Britt Samson Teacher
How do you plan to spend your upcoming winter break?
Assembled a nd photos by Stephen Cordell, Seth Randall and Aa ro n Johnson
“I plan to go down to see my dad, because I hardly get to see him. We plan to sled.”
“I plan to spend my break lifting weights, to prepare for next football season.”
“I plan to sleep a lot over winter break and give my Christmas gifts to my family.”
“I’m going to be with my friends and family while eating a lot of holiday cookies.”
“I will relax and spend time with my family. I’m looking forward to not having to hide the elf on the shelf anymore.”
Looking good not route to test success Throughout my last four years of high school, semester test day has meant one word for me—scrub (the craft of rocking your comfiest sweatpants/sweatshirts in public). After staying up all night cramming for the long hours of testing, I have a hard enough time sticking to my daily morning routines like brushing my Hear me. . . hair, showering, and bringing my backpack to school. There Caroline Point simply is not enough time for dressing up and the people that do are wasting that well needed time for some beauty sleep. The concept, one that many refer to as “dress well, test well” implies that people who dress well on the day of their exam are more likely to do better. No studies have shown this to be true, and the correlation between dressing
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well and testing well does not exist and has not yet been proven. Believing you look awesome in your worn down sweatpants and your sweatshirt—adorned with multiple stains and holes—and having confidence in your appearance is really all you need to have a successful test day. Well, that and a semester of hard work in the class, I suppose. The staff of WHS is following this trend by having a dress-down day and “scrubbing” around in their sweatpants or jeans today. With only having to pay $1 to participate, this is an easy way for the staff to fund-raise for senior graduation caps and gown scholarships for students in need—one of several of these events each year. The staff is showing an admirable future depiction of what to wear as we buckle down for semester tests Jan. 20-21. Wearing your active clothes while your brain is working out is the optimal way to test your best, so join me in going casual those days! Senior Caroline Point believes casual is the way to test well.
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Nuclear pitched as the new green By Evan Halper Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The state that spawned a generation of activists committed to shutting down nuclear reactors and crippling the industry has lately become a hotbed of advocacy and financial support for fighting global warming with, of all things, nuclear power.
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Encouraged by the Obama administration, notable California innovators and financiers are looking to reinvent the industry in the mold of wind and solar power. They are betting on prototype technologies that seek to replace the hulking plants of today with smaller, nimbler units. Environmentally minded nuclear engineers argue that they can be designed so safely that they might be “huggable.” They talk of power plants that consume nuclear waste instead of creating it. Investors, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, have poured about $2 billion into a few dozen small outfits, many of which are concentrated in the West. The entrepreneurs behind them are racing to design nuclear power facilities engineered to seem no more imposing than a neighborhood arts center. “This is the place to be,” said Jacob DeWitte, chief executive of UPower, a startup that recently migrated here from Cambridge, Mass., in its quest to create modular nuclear plants with reactors small enough to fit inside a shipping container and sturdier than “a brick outhouse.” “In other places you would tell people you’ve got a nuclear startup and they look at you like you are kind of nuts,” he said. “But here in Silicon Valley it is like, ‘That’s super cool. Can I help?’”
