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Revisions may unify grading CILT first draft emphasizes content mastery, puts extra credit on backburner BY WAFEEQ RIDHUAN

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In its first-draft grading policy revision, the Roseville Joint Union High School District proposed

a uniform grading standard that emphasizes mastery learning – a grading structure that prioritizes performance-based assignments – and may, in part, prohibit teachers from offering extra credit. A guiding principle of the grading revisions, mastery learning places a focus on tests and assessments – and away from homework, classroom participation and extra credit. Assistant superintendent of cur-

riculum and instruction Jess Borjon believes that prioritizing mastery learning provides a more accurate measure of student performance. Executive director of curriculum and instruction Suzanne Laughrea agrees with this and believes assignments such as homework shouldn’t be a deciding factor in determining grades and measuring student performance. “You might need a little bit of  GRADES | Page 3

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Science teacher and Continous Improvement Leadership Team member Mike Purvines will take part in the effort to unify district grading policies.

Admin bolsters safety

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Cameras, “Run, Hide, Fight” active threat procedure, bullying report system on table BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN AND KAIA WHITNEY news@eyeofthetigernews.com

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oseville High School Theatre Company is currently showing Grease. The show opened last weekend and will continue to run this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Check out a review, features on two student choreographers and the fashion of the production in the Arts and Entertainment section.

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PLTW to roll out third-level courses next year BY JAKE LUKASKO

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The third level courses for the Project Lead the Way Engineering and Biomedical Science programs will arrive next year to RHS. Students on campus can now enroll into Medical Interventions and Digital Electronics, for PLTW Biomed and Engineering, respectively. Science teachers Mike Purvines, Katherine Nurss and Oliver Weiss plan to take the reins for the additional PLTW classes and to help support PLTW’s growing popularity, and therefore enrollment, with students. Purvines and Nurss will teach Biomedical Sciences

and Weiss for Engineering. All three will attend professional development training ran by PLTW this summer. PLTW Biomedical Sciences teacher Erin Granucci looks forward to the addition of Purvines and Nurss to the Biomedical Sciences program. “I am super excited to have [Nurss] come in. She’s a very strong teacher and Mr. Purvines is just perfect for the third class,” Granucci said. “I mean, he’s very hands-on already. He’s a very talented teacher when it comes to student engagement and just having fun with science but he also has a lot with his  THIRD | Page 2

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Senior Colton Ulle works with engineering teacher John Fuller in Principles of Engineering. Fuller will teach Digital Electronics, the third PLTW Engineering course, next year.

Students will soon start to feel the effects of ongoing administrative efforts to improve campus safety. Surveillance cameras may monitor students in public spaces as early as the 2017-18 school year, as a result of a pending district school board discussion. With the launch of an online anonymous bullying report service, admin hopes to eliminate constraints keeping a student from reporting any harmful incident. In addition, admin now encourages staff and students to embrace their instincts during active safety threats as part of the reinforced “Run, Hide, Fight” procedure. Surveillance The school board is considering Roseville High School as the next campus to receive security cameras, after confirming installments at Oakmont High School for next year. According to assistant superintendent of business services Joe Landon, the cameras on campus would record in color and include audio. According to executive director of personnel services Brad Basham, RHS’ physical layout makes for difficult placement of surveillance cameras. With many separate halls and wings, a single camera’s scope wouldn’t cover much space. Principal David Byrd believes that RHS may require more cameras than will be needed at other schools in the district such as Granite Bay or OHS due to its unique structure. “My sense was that maybe we are going to need more cameras than other schools and maybe for that reason they want to get going on that,” Byrd said. Surveillance cameras are expected to be installed at OHS before this fall. In the meantime, RHS administrators will discuss their aspirations and desires for the cameras with the district before any final decisions are made. After instances of vandalism  SAFETY | Page 2

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on campus, administrators hope the cameras’ addition will cut down the amount of grafitti. Basham believes that the main objective of the cameras is to ensure maximum safety and security for students and staff. “We also want to be able to monitor anyone that is coming and going from our campuses, not students or employees or anything like that.” Basham said. The district is searching for a vendor of the cameras at the moment, trying to find what allows the most coverage of campus within a reasonable price. On April 25, the board will vote on funding and possible approval of the security cameras. The district has been searching for the past two years to find the right vendor to provide the cameras that will allow the most coverage and high amount of surveillance that will work best for RHS and it’s perimeter, within a reasonable price. According to Byrd, the final decision won’t be decided or made public until school board and funding approval.

Bullying report system To further ensure student and staff safety, RHS has begun the use of anonymous bully reporting through the Catapult EMS services. A link to the service has been added to the homepage of the RHS website. Students can anonymously communicate details about a bullying incident. Catapult EMS will also help administration evaluate how long an issue has been taking place, as well as if an adult has yet been informed. The Placer County grand jury recommended that every school must have some form of a bullying report system. RHS – along with other district schools – have decided to partner with Catapult EMS to provide an additional way to safely communicate with students, according to Basham. “If we can get someone the help that they need, then it’s well worth it,” Basham said. Once information is submitted, assistant principals will receive the data, where they will then begin investigating the scenario and adapting an appropriate solution. Byrd believes the new addition to Catapult EMS could possibly be a very

successful to help improve campus safety at RHS. “The more of that we can be aware of, I think the more problems we can head off so they don’t turn into something bigger,” Byrd said. Faculty have recently begun learning to use this system. However, administrators are currently evaluating if Catapult will be an effective form of studentto-assistant principal communication. They have high hopes for the system’s possible safety benefits. Assistant principal Jason Wilson wants all students to feel safe in their learning environment and to come forward if they have witnessed bullying. “That’s one of the most difficult things for teenagers to do, is to come forward, and ask for help, or suggest that someone else needs help, for fear of retaliation,” Wilson said. “Bullying and harassment includes retaliation, that’s right in there along side of it, so we do our best to make sure that doesn’t happen.” “Run, Hide, Fight” Roseville High School’s active threat protocol is reinforcing the “Run, Hide, Fight” approach to active-

threat situations. Administration is recommending staff and students follow their instincts rather than the routine and procedures they have previously been taught in school. “This [original] policy tells me to lock my door, turn out my lights and stay there, but there are scenarios where that is not the best thing,” Byrd said. Byrd wants to avoid a situation where a teacher looks to “a long, complicated manual” in an emergency. He wants staff and students to know that they “have permission to use their instincts.” Wilson has experience being in an active shooter situation and found that regardless of the rules, students and staff use their gut reactions rather than follow protocol. “Gut reactions of kids and staff is the right thing, they run and get themselves away from dangerous situations and that’s exactly where we want to be,” Wilson said. Part of the reason for change was to simplify the active threat protocol. “If we simplify it to either: run, hide or fight, we think it will stick in your

brain and your instincts will kick in,” Byrd said. Student resource officer Marc Kelley stresses safety as the most important factor for the change in protocol. “We just want you safe and we don’t want you hurt,” Kelley said. “So it’s better, if somebody chose to run, that you run away and get off campus.” Wilson doesn’t “expect or want” students to become responders to the threat but wants them to do the safe thing and know they have more options than hiding. “Get out of harm’s way and remain out of harm’s way and allow those that have the ability and skills, to resolve the situation,” Wilson said. All administrators agree that fighting should usually be a student’s last resort, stating that “running and hiding is statistically the smartest,” but they don’t want students to allow themselves to become a victim. “Don’t forget there might be time you have to fight,” Byrd said. “You can’t run, you can’t hide, don’t freeze. Fight if that’s your instinct, you are operating under ‘I just need a minute or two before law enforcement gets there.’”

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chemistry and physics background. It works perfectly with the engineering component but also with the Biochem.” PLTW students that have taken the first two courses of a PLTW path will be able to take the third-level course in each track. Both programs will integrate elements of the other to provide for different, specific skill sets. “This is when the Engineering and the Biomed kind of merge,” Granucci said. “So, they will be creating a lot more design processes so there is a prosthetic, kind of a robotic limb that they’ll have to be able to take a cup and bring to their mouth and try to structurally do that by applying it to the human body and levers and muscles and how that works. So, that’s the engineering component.” According to Granucci, both of these third level courses initiate the careerfocused aspects of the programs, where students start to specialize in their own individual paths for the future. “We start to see students who have been introduced to numerous career opportunities and, starting to kind of realize what they might be interested in studying or pursuing,” Granucci said. According to RJUHSD superintendent of curriculum Jess Borjon, the third

level courses continue to focus on the application of skills in real life, as opposed to traditional, text-based classes. “I think there are some elements in it that try to make it a little more relevant in the workplace,” Borjon said. “Bringing in some industry partnerships, potentially at the highest level of implementation would be some internships, that students like that could go out there at that third-level and get some experience out there.” Science teacher Mike Purvines looks forward to the move away from traditional textbooks and into PLTW’s hands-on focus. “I think both Engineering and Biomedical are just fascinating courses,” Purvines said. “I like the hands-on aspect of them, I like the futuristic view of science and doing things, instead of more historical-based I think we sometimes get into. That, I find is exciting.” The focus of Digital Electronics will be applying engineering skills learned in the previous courses to robotics. Engineering teacher John Fuller plans to partner with Parallax, a Rocklin-based company that sells robotics kits with customizable frames built around Arduino microcontrollers designed specifically for educational purposes. “It’s a lot more demanding robotics. It’s not kind of plug and play,” Fuller said. “It’s actual building of the

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Senior Aubrey Czaja works diligently on her skeletal model in Human Body Systems. Medical Interventions will combine aspects of the engineering and biomedical science classes.

circuits, it’s doing the code and it’s a little bit more indepth than the second class.” Fuller expects the class to take a more attractive approach compared to past courses. “I want the class to be mobile, I don’t want students being sedentary and sitting down the whole period, I want them moving around and working,” Fuller said. Junior Aidan Carrigg, who is enrolled in Digital Electronics, will be pursuing a career in the engineering field and considers the experience PLTW provides as being helpful towards achieving his goal and college readiness. “Pretty much every engineering field dabbles in[to] robotics and also coding,

So, it’s going to be really important in the next upcoming years to master that area of expertise. I think it’s really gonna help me prepare for my first entry courses in college,” Carrigg said. Engineering student Sydney Richardson, who will be taking Digital Electronics as well, expects the class to grant more independence to the students. “Up until the third course program, I am assuming, it’s more like you do what Project Lead The Way wants you to do and it seems more like in Digital Electronics you’ll get to do more of what you want to do and design your own things, so that’s what I am more excited for,” Richardson said. According to Granucci,

there will be two classes of Biomedical Interventions next year, split from this year’s larger class in order to meet the enrollment demands. Junior Drishti Summan signed up for the Medical Interventions course inspired by wanting to pursue a career in the medical field. “I am taking the third class because I’m interested in pursuing a medical career and it’s more hands on and a lot different than other classes that are offered here,” said Summan. The only other PLTW course set, PLTW Computer Science, could also come to RHS in the future. The Computer Science track will come to Antelope High School next year to join their existing Engineering and Biomed pathways.

UPCOMINGEVENTS CAASPP TESTING APR Juniors come to school at 7:40 a.m. Freshman, sophomores 4-7 and seniors come at 9:45 a.m. every day except Thursday.

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APR 6-8

NO SCHOOL Professional Development Day

SPRING MUSICAL RHS performs renditions of Grease in Patti Baker Theater at 7:00 pm. Tickets available at the door starting at 6:30p.m.

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ACADEMIC MERIT AWARDS Awards given out to Sophomores and Juniors with weighted GPAs above 3.25.

APR 10-14

NO SCHOOL Spring Break.

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NEWSINBRIEFS AP Comp Sci Prinicples hits course catalog BY ALONZO ALCOCER

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Roseville High School will offer AP Computer Science Principles next year, serving as the stepping stone between Exploring Computer Science and AP Computer Science A. This course is already available at other schools in the district. TigerTech adviser Bradlee Crockett and social studies teacher Kevin Fagan are both currently in training to teach the class. “I’m definitely really looking forward to the opportunity to teach AP Computer Science Principles next school year,” Fagan said. AP Computer Science Principles is designed to allow students to grasp computer science concepts before diving into the more specific coding languages in depth. Granite Bay High School rolled out AP Computer Science Principles this school year. GBHS senior Rami Mostafa said APCSP effectively lays a foundation for later computer science study with the use of programming language. “It would be good to go through the more basic or simpler programming languages like Snap, since Snap is just a block-byblock sort of thing,” Mostafa said. “It gets rid of the syntax and it’s pretty easy to see what each little block

is supposed to do.” The class will focus on things such as learning how the internet works, how web pages are developed, and learning how important data is. “There are a lot of concepts that I think will be helpful for anybody out there who is planning on going to college and taking AP courses, not just potential computer science or engineering majors,” Fagan said.

CAASPP test results to be on transcripts BY ZOE STEPHENS

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For the first time, RJUHSD will report junior CAASPP testing results this year on transcripts. The testing begins tomorrow and ends Friday, April 6. Each high school in the district can decide the time parameter to administer their tests, and this year is also the first year that RHS will attempt to complete the entirety of the CAASPP testing in just one week. Assistant principal Matt Pipitone hopes that the junior class will perform to their best abilities this year. “I really think that juniors ought to just try their best,” Pipitone said. “It’s something that we get measured at as a school, how are students are doing on this, it’s something are teachers are working hard through all the years of going working with these students.”

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practice with it, but often times there’s no reason to do one through 80 problems at night,” Laughrea said. “Because once you’ve done three or four, you’re like ‘I know how to do this.’ But I think we really need to think and re-examine how much homework is given and really if there is a point to it.” The revised grading policy is part of a culminating effort at the district level to address concerns regarding grading consistency, Laughrea said. “We need to be more consistent,” Laughrea said. “We need to have some agreement about what we’re going to grade kids on and how they’re going to be graded, and I think [we need] to be fair to students, so that they know what to do to get an A.” The district’s Continuous Improvement Leadership Team (CILT) – which in the last year has reviewed grading policy through expert’s research and collaboration with other districts, looking for practices applicable to RJUHSD – is using its research to inform RJUHSD grading revisions. Junior Cyrena Le is taking three Advanced Placement (AP) classes this semester and favors classroom grading focusing more on assessments and exams rather than homework. “We are tired and super busy,” Le said. “Homework honestly shouldn’t be as important as your test scores. It shouldn’t be boosting your grade.”

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Junior Cyrena Le takes notes for her Pre-Calculus class. The latest proposed revisions to the disctrict-wide grading policies would focus more on assesments and performance tasks rather than homework assignments.

Focusing on student performance based on mastery of content also played a role in removing extra credit from the most recent revisions. Current grading policy says extra credit should be “directly related to course objectives.” However, it doesn’t specifically state how it should connect to course objectives, allowing teachers broad interpretation. Junior Natalie Bennett, however, appreciates the added incentive and believes that extra credit can promote an increased work ethic. “If it has to do with the class, then it can really help you out because you can learn more while you’re adding an extra credit to your grade,” Bennett said. “So it helps you out. I like it.” However, some teachers reward extra credit to students for non-academic

purposes, such as donating items to a can drive or bringing in school supplies. Borjon disagrees with this practice and cites bathroom passes as an example for a flaw of extra credit. “If you have to go to the bathroom, don’t think that you’re going to lose points because you’re going to the bathroom,” Borjon said. “That shouldn’t have anything to do with how you’re doing in my biology class or how you’re doing in my integrated two class.” Borjon said it is possible they could re-introduce extra credit, but with a framework addressing academic performance. Laughrea believes extra credit will be completely removed and can be replaced by better alternatives. “My guess is extra credit will be gone,” Laughrea said. “And so

what we need to make sure we have in place is that kids have opportunities to retest, to rewrite, to come in for tutoring and to have an alternative way to show that they mastered the content.” Borjon wants input from teachers in order to make any necessary revisions before the revised grading policy is submitted for board approval. Because of this, he shared the latest proposal with all district teachers and asked them for feedback. “We think we’ve cleaned it up,” Borjon said. “We made some additions to it, not many, but it was more addition by subtraction process than anything.” If all goes well, Borjon hopes to have a final draft of a revised grading policy by next year. If approved, it would likely be implemented the following year.

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Los terceros cursos de PLTW serán inculcados para el año entrante POR JAKE LUKASKO

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El tercer curso de Ingeniería y Ciencias Biomédicas del programa Project Lead the Way llegará el próximo año a Roseville High School. Estudiantes en campus se podrán registrar en los cursos de Intervenciones Medicales y Electrónicos Digitales, para los cursos Biomédicas e Ingeniería respectivamente. Los profesores de ciencias; Mike Purvines, Katherine Nurss y Oliver Weiss planean tomar los riñones para los cursos adicionales de PLTW y para poder apoyar el crecimiento de los cursos. Profesores Purvines y Nurss enseñarán para el curso de Ciencias Biomédicas y Profesor Weiss para el curso Ingeniería. Los tres de ellos asistirán los cursos organizados por PLTW este verano, para recibir sus credenciales profesionales. Granucci espera con interés la incorporación de

Purvines y Nurss al programa de Ciencias Biomédicas. “Estoy muy emocionada de tener [Señora Nurss], es una profesora muy fuerte y Mr. Purvines es perfecto para la tercera clase,” dijo Grannuci. “Quiero decir, ya está muy preparado, es un maestro muy talentoso, cuando se trata de la participación de los estudiantes y simplemente se divierten con la ciencia, pero también tiene mucho con sus antecedentes de química y física. Funciona perfectamente con el componente de ingeniería, pero también con el bioquímica.” Los estudiantes de PLTW que han tomado los dos primeros cursos podrán tomar cualquiera de los dos cursos ya que hay superposición entre ellos. De acuerdo a la profesora de Ciencias Biomédicas de PLTW, Erin Granucci, ambos cursos de tercer nivel harán que los estudiantes empiezan a especializarse y formen su propia carrera. “Así que empezamos a ver a los estudiantes, realmente, que han sido presentados a numerosas oportunidades profesionales y

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En esta foto se encuentra la clase de sistemas del cuerpo humano

comenzando a darse cuenta de lo que podrían estar interesados en estudiar o perseguir,” dijo Granucci. De acuerdo a RJUHSD superintendente de plan de estudios Jesse Borjon, estos nuevos cursos se basarán en aplicaciones como el primer y el segundo curso, en contraposición a las tradicionales clases, basadas en texto. El profesor de Ciencias, Mike Purvines, espera que se alejen de los libros de texto tradicionales y se conviertan en el centro de atención de PLTW.

El enfoque del tercer curso de ingeniería Digital Electronics será la aplicación de habilidades de ingeniería, aprendido en los cursos anteriores, la robótica. El profesor de ingeniería John Fuller planea asociarse con Parallax, una compañía basada en Rocklin que vende kits de robótica con marcos personalizables construidos alrededor de los microcontroladores Arduino diseñados específicamente para propósitos educativos. De acuerdo con Fuller, la clase tendrá un enfoque más atractivo en comparación

con los cursos anteriores. Estudiante en su último año Drishti Summan, se inscribió en el curso de Intervenciones Médicas debido a la carrera que desea seguir. “Estoy tomando la tercera clase porque estoy interesada en seguir una carrera médica y es más práctica y mucho más interesante a las otras clases que son ofrecidas aquí,” dijo Summan. PLTW Informática también puede venir a RHS en el futuro. PLTW Informática se estará presentando en Antelope High School.

sity nunca se ha clasificado para los playoffs desde que comenzó el programa, pero el equipo está en camino de hacer historia este año. Con un récord de 7-3 en Capital Valley Conference, los Tigres están en el tercer lugar

y ya han superado el récord del año pasado de 4-10. El jugador de segundo año, Braden Triplett, siente que es el mayor enfoque y seriedad lo que ha permitido a los chicos ser tan exitosos hasta ahora. “Estamos tomándonos el tenis mucho más serio”, dijo Triplett. “Todavía nos estamos divirtiendo, pero estamos dejando las cosas hechas”. El dúo de Triplett y su compañero Clay Bradley siguen invictos hasta ahora en el juego de la liga y ha sido vital para el éxito de los Tigres, ya que el equipo ha ganado más de algunos de sus partidos por sólo un juego.

Bradley siente que la fuerza total de los pares de dobles del equipo ha sido clave para sus victorias hasta ahora, ya que los juegos de dobles ocurren más adelante en los partidos y muchas veces deciden el vencedor final. Aun así, se ha impresionado con las actuaciones individuales también. Debido a su recién descubierto éxito, los Tigres tienen un objetivo a nivel de programa de finalmente llegar a los playoffs. El tenista Oliver Magsakay cree que el deseo de hacer los playoffs es lo que está empujando al equipo a nuevas alturas. Con los resultados de

esta temporada hasta el momento, los Tigres han establecido el listón para el futuro del programa de tenis. Magsakay no quiere sólo una temporada ganadora. “Quiero que otros equipos tengan miedo de Roseville en el futuro”, dijo Oliver. “Esperaría ver a mucha más gente unirse al equipo en el futuro después de presenciar nuestro éxito este año”. Con la confianza de los Tigres al máximo de todos los momentos, se preparan para su próximo partido contra el 4-7 (partido de liga) Bella Vista Broncos mañana en casa. Triplett también ejemplificó el esfuerzo del equipo.

con sus requisitos y créditos necesarios para graduarse temprano, Cedre ha estado tomando varias clases adicionales en Sierra College. Para ella, tomar las clases no era difícil, sino más incómodo estar con compañeros más grandes y desconocidos. No sólo Cedre se ve afectada por tomar clases extra y tener más trabajo, sino también su mejor amiga y compañera de la secundaria, Cassidy Casey, que cree que el aumento de la carga de trabajo de Cedre valdrá la pena. “No he estado viéndola tanto como hubiera queri-

do, pero espero que haga muy bien después de la secundaria,” dijo Casey. “Sé que lo hará, ella trabaja muy duro.” Casey se contenta con el hecho de que finalmente puede ver a su amiga llegar a donde ella siempre quiso estar. “Estoy feliz por ella,” dijo Casey. “Ella ha estado hablando de esto desde el primer año, así que estoy muy contenta de que lo haya hecho.” “Definitivamente voy a extrañar a los maestros y a los amigos y estar más cómodo con la gente a que conozco”, dijo Cedre. “Voy

DEPORTES

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El estudiante en su último año Clay Bradley se prepara para el campeonato con sus compañeros en una práctica de tenis.

Los chicos de tenis empiezan fuerte POR BRANDON DEL ROSARIO

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El equipo de tenis de var-

REPORTAJES Junior de Roseville High se graduará este año POR VICTORIA WILKINSON CLAIRE OERTLY features@eyeofthetigernews.com

Junior de Roseville High School, Korie Cedre, se graduará temprano con la clase de 2017. Cedre tomó esta decisión cuando estaba mirando los requisitos de crédito y se dio cuenta de que casi tenía suficiente para graduarse. “Fue hacia el comienzo del segundo año, fue sólo una opción que apareció y dije ‘¿por qué no?’ ”dijo Cedre. Con el fin de cumplir

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En esta foto se entuentra junior Korie Cedre estudiando.

a perder un montón de actividades de alto nivel con mi clase y mis amigos”. La profesora Kelly Capelle reconoció el esfuerzo y la determinación que Cedre aportó a su clase con el

fin de superar su último año de secundaria. Capelle está segura con el hecho de que Cedre tendrá éxito no importa dónde va y la aprecia tomando los primeros pasos.

Mis primeros pensamientos en un baile de graduación sin DJ fue la mala selección de música que mis pobres oídos tendrían que pasar. Tuve flashbacks a los días de Nickelback y Kidz Bop y preocupado por lo mucho que realmente disfrutar de mi Prom. Como un ávido fanático de la música y he aprendido a disfrutar de la mayoría de los géneros de música, ya sea de rock clásico o R & B. Cuando entré por primera vez en el baile - alrededor de 20 minutos después de las puertas abiertas - entré en la cafetería y vi a los estudiantes bailando y esperaba que esto fuera una buena señal de una lista de reproducción soportable. La mayoría de las canciones estaban fuera de lugar para un baile de secundaria, como la canción country más lenta lanzada en una mezcla de rap y hiphop, que los estudiantes no podían confiar en un ritmo consistente para bailar. Por mucho que disfruté de la “diversa” selección de música, ¿por qué oí una versión KidzBop de Party en EEUU? Los tecnicismos de la ejecución de la lista de reproducción se perdieron, y nos quedamos torpemente en silencio durante medio minuto hasta que (insertaron una canción cursi) terminó. Aunque por desgracia no pude disfrutar del Nickelback que esperaba, al menos me recibieron las maravillosas voces de Kidz Bop. Normalmente me reía y seguía bailando pero cambiaban “Just the Way You Are” de la voz angélica de Bruno Mars a muchos chicos de 12 años sin carreras musicales. Cuando ponen la última canción lenta de la noche “Just the Way You Are,” esperas tener un momento especial con tu pareja. En su lugar, tuve que escuchar las voces agudas arruinar el momento de terminar la noche. No estoy pid0 un final a la lista de estudiantes. La mayor de la noche fue buena y superó mis expectativas, pero se debería clasificar una lista para que todo el mundo puedan disfrutar juntos. Espero que la idea del gobierno estudiantil de que un estudiante elija la playlist se acabe. Mientras se asiente el fiasco de Kidz Bop, tal vez pueda disfrutar un baile lento en senior ball.

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No habrá escuela Día de Desarrollo Profesional

La noche de High School on the Hill Estudiantes en el octavo grado aprenderán acerca de programas y actividades que ofrece RHS.

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No habrá escuela Vacaciones de primavera

Premios Académicos de Mérito Premios son entregados a Sophomores y Juniors en clases de

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Junior to jumpstart life with early graduation by claire oertly and victoria wilkinson

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While her friends are getting excited to start their senior year, Roseville High School junior Korissa Cedre is preparing to go off to college in the fall. Cedre made the decision to graduate early when she was looking at credit requirements and realized that she almost had enough. “It was towards the beginning of sophomore year. It was just an option that sort of appeared and I said ‘Why not?’” Cedre said. In order to meet her requirements and credits needed to graduate early, Cedre has been taking various extra classes at Sierra College. To her, taking the classes weren’t difficult, but the environment was more unfamiliar. “The classes weren’t so difficult just more awkward,” Cedre said. “There were a lot more questions asked. I always get ‘Why are you in here?’ or ‘You’re a junior? Cool.’” Not only is Cedre affected by her taking extra classes and having more work, but also her best friend and fellow junior Cassidy Casey has noticed Cedre’s schedule tightening. “I haven’t been seeing her as much which sucks, but hopefully she’ll do great after high school,” Casey said. “I know she will, she works really

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hard.” Although Cedre is away from her peers for the majority of her classes, she still feels connected to her class of 2018. Although Cedre is graduating with the Class of 2017, she doesn’t consider herself to be apart of the graduating class. “I don’t feel different about it. I still talk to them and everything. I’m not so much out of my class yet, “ Cedre said. “I still consider the junior class my class.” Casey is happy Cedre is finally pursuing her goals. “I’m happy for her,” Casey said. “She’s been talking about this since freshman year so I’m really glad she actually did it.” Cedre’s family is just as supportive of her decision as her friends, they were excited for her as soon as she told them about her plan. “They’re very supportive. As soon as I mentioned it, my dad was on board

and he was like ‘definitely lets do it’ and we started asking questions, getting what we could.” Cedre said. Cedre’s brother, RHS Alumi Rudy Cedre, is proud of his little sister’s accomplishments and wants her to be happy, no matter her academic involvement. “I just hope that she’s happy whatever she ends up doing,” Rudy said. “If she’s happy at the college she chooses to go to, then I’m not worried about her being successful.” Rudy knows that college can be time demanding, but still holds on to the goals both he and his sister have. “Of course I will probably see her even less than I already do,” Rudy said. “It makes me sad, but as long as we’re both doing what we want with our lives, then I’m not too worried about it.” According to Korissa’s friend, junior Sabrina Roa,

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Left, RHS junior Korissa Cedre is graduating this year with the Class of 2017. Above, Cedre and her older brother, RHS alumnus Rudy Cedre, tour Oregon State University, a prospective college for Korissa this fall.

despite the happiness for Korissa’s move her friends will miss her as well. “Honestly I’m gonna miss just Korie in general,” Roa said. “She’s really helpful and kind and I’m really gonna miss being able to talk to her every day.” Along with her junior friends, Korissa will also miss the teachers that provided her with guidance on her road to early graduation and their help which propelled her towards her goal. While graduating early saves the trouble of one more year of high school, Korissa can’t help but miss the potential senior activities she’ll miss out on. “I’ll definitely miss the teachers and the friends

and being more comfortable with people I know,” Korissa said. “I’m gonna be missing out on a lot of senior activities with my class and my friends and everything.” English 12 teacher Kelly Capell recognized the effort and determination Korissa contributed to her class in order to push through her last year of high school. “I would describe her as very mature, she’s diligent and hard working, and she’s also determined,” Capell said. “Any student who can graduate early and take AP classes has to be someone who’s very goaloriented because it’s not easy for a student who’s graduating in four years,

let alone a student who’s graduating in three.” Capell is secure with the fact that Korissa will succeed no matter where she goes and appreciates her taking the early steps to starting her life. “I think she knows very clearly what she wants to do, so for her going on to that next step is awesome and she’s the type of person who’s gonna be successful no matter what she does,” Capell said. Despite missing familiar RHS surroundings, Korissa is steadfast in her belief that her early graduation will be worthwhile in the long run. “It’s not the worst. I think it’ll definetly be worth it,” Korissa said.

Senior to experience Macedonian culture as youth ambassador by tarah johnson

t.johnson@eyeofthetigernews.com

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Sisters junior Zaniya Jones (left) and senior Johniece Jones prepare food in their Angela Ash’s second-period culinary class. The sisters said the ProStart culinary competition will prepare them for future success.

Culinary students sharpen skills through professional competition

by SPENCER SERRATOS AND GARRET SCHAFER

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The Roseville High School culinary program sent 5 students to Pomona California for the ProStart Culinary Competition. The competition took place on Sunday, March 19, and Monday, March 20. The students who competed were seniors Zaniya Jones, Johniece Jones, Kimberly Diaz, Brianna Hithe, and Oliver Phillips. The team had a mere 16 minutes to prepare a three course meal, with 30 schools competing in total. Zaniya Jones, one of the competitors, enjoyed

the competition and the opportunity it arose to meet different people. “It was pretty fun, we got to meet other schools and other competitors who were competing against us so it was pretty fun,” Zaniya said. The teams made their meals to the best of their abilities and as efficiently as possible while the judges walked around observing the teams and asking the students questions. Johniece felt that this experience was exciting and it was nice to be in a new environment. “It felt kinda good. This was my first time actually doing a competition like

this and I’m not like a cook so it was actually a great experience,” Johniece said. From knife skills, cooking methods, researching menus, the team was put to the test. Culinary teacher Angela Ash feels the competition was undoubtedly stressful, yet credits the outcome with potentially guiding her students through their lives. “The Prostart Comp is huge, it’ll help the students in life in general. I don’t know if any of them will pursue culinary per se, but just meeting at that level of professional and being exposed to that level of stress is just really beneficial.” Ash said.

As the school year ebbs to a close, the possibilities of new beginnings in a foreign environment start to reach the horizon for senior Juliette Oliver. Oliver won a foreign exchange scholarship to be a youth ambassador in Macedonia through the Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Student Abroad Program. The program offers 13 different countries for selective students to travel to in order to be a key source of representation for a year, all expenses paid. After a rigorous application process and an applicant pool of over three thousand students nationwide, Oliver was chosen to represent the country of Macedonia and is set to depart this June. To Oliver, receiving this award is a sign that she was deemed worthy enough to be held accountable for an entire country, which is a reward in itself. “It means so much to me because to be awarded with this means that someone has faith in you to represent the United States abroad, and I just could not be more grateful to have been chosen for this position,” Oliver said. Oliver finds comfort in the fact that Macedonia is

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Senior Juliette Oliver won a scholarship through the Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Student Abroad Program that allows her to serve as a youth ambassdor in Macedonia this summer. Below, Oliver also went abroad to Costa Rica last year.

a definite possibility in the near future, despite college plans. “My top college is UCLA that I’ve been accepted to and I actually have to contact admissions and see if they’ll defer me. If I’m not deferred, it kind of brings up an important question if I would like to take a year of my life to live abroad or choose college over that,” Oliver said. “But I’m pretty sure it would be an amazing experience, and I think it’s worth putting college off for a year.” For Oliver, being abroad in a foreign country isn’t a new experience. She feels this excursion to Macedonia will lead to inevitable new opportunities and ultimately the ability to soul-search and find herself in the depths of

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a new environment. “I’m really just gonna be accountable for myself and my fellow peers and I think that’ll help me grow and find myself as a person as well as hopefully learn some things about the world,” Oliver said. “I really think it’ll help instill a sense of independence in me with being on my own.”

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Senior goes extra mile for family BY ZACH JOSE AND WILL WAGNER features@eyeofthetigernews.com

Senior Jessica VanDerHaegen ran in support of her grandmothers, her uncle and her aunt, and did so alongside hundreds of other cancer survivors and fighters. VanDerHaegen ran the “Shamrock’n half marathon on March 12, a benefit for a Triumph Cancer Foundation. Triumph is a non-profit organization based in Sacramento whose proceeds go to help people impacted by cancer. VanDerHaegen’s family has been affected by the disease for most of her life. As she went through high school, VanDerHaegen made it a goal to complete a half marathon before her eighteenth birthday. “My grandma had breast cancer, my other grandma had ovarian cancer, my uncle had throat cancer, and my aunt just got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, so the run was all in honor of them,” VanDerHaegen said. VanDerHaegen’s years of competing in track and soccer fostered a love of running and prepared her for the half marathon. “It was fun, but I think that’s because I’ve been training for it,” VanDerHaegen said. “I’ve been doing sports for so long, so I was definitely ready.” VanDerHaegen not only achieved a lifelong personal goal of hers by completing the run, but she also won first place in her age division with an overall time of 1:55:39. Along with honoring her family’s battle with cancer, VanDerHaegen felt the run tested her boundaries and was a rewarding challenge. Even though she ran solo, her favorite memory

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from the half marathon was all of the other people at the event, whether it be fellow runners or even the supporters cheering them on. “It made it a lot easier to run with all the people around me for the same cause and all for the same goal,” VanDerHaegen said. Jessica’s mom Cami VanDerHaegen is proud of her for not only running the event, but for running the Shamrock’n half marathon specifically because it raises funds for cancer research and represents something the family hold near to their hearts. “I’m proud that she went out and did that in honor of her entire family,” Cami said. “It’s awesome, this means a lot to me, and presumably most of the family, so we are all very happy for her.” Her run even inspired a few of her friends to run alongside her in the future. VanDerHaegen also hopes to help train her mom and sister to join as well. Senior Delaney Grimes, one of VanDerHaegen’s close friends at Roseville High School, was amazed

As Roseville High School English teacher Amy Mowrer closes in on finishing her fifteenth year of teaching on this campus, she reflects on the nostalgic memories of her time in France as a young teenager. With strolling the streets of Paris steadily transitioning to caring for four children at home, Mowrer currently finds solace in her teaching job and the reassurance that RHS will house her until retirement. As yet another school year draws to an end, Mowrer tries to be a beacon of guidance to students and enjoys the presence of her colleagues. Balancing her children comes easier with four particular house rules whose relevance will never cease to end.

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Clockwise from top right, RHS senior Jessica VanDerHaegen poses after she ran the Shamrock ‘n Half Marathon to supports cancer research. VanDerHaegen listens in her AP Literature class. VanDerHaegen competes for the varsity soccer team and credits her readiness for the run with her years of traning in soccer and track.

by VanDerHaegen’s personal growth throughout training, and eventually running the half marathon. “It was amazing to watch Jessica go through this entire journey of the half marathon knowing how hard and vigorously she worked every day,” Grimes said. “It was really cool to see all these different schedules that she went through and know that she faced a lot of challenges with it and she overcame everything. With all the tri-

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als and tribulations that she faced and got over, it was truly amazing to see her do this.” VanDerHaegen’s Grandfather, Mike VanDerHaegen, is proud of his grandaughter’s accomplishments and hopes to see her particpate in her next adventure. “I am proud to call her my granddaughter,” Mike said. “I hope to see her next run and I hope to see her walk the stage at graduation.”

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I grew up in Northern California and went to Southern California for college at UCLA. Then a year after graduation I went to France with my husband. He had a research grant to study medieval history, so I got to spend a year sort of wondering around Paris by myself. It was really lonely. I didn’t know anybody, but it was also neat to be by myself, which was not something I’ve ever had to do before. I went to three museums every week, two movies every week, and I read two books every week, and that’s how I kept myself occupied. I love RHS. I’ve been here for 15 years and I plan to do another 15. I love my colleagues and the students and diversity on campus are great. It’s a great community. I feel really happy with where I’m at in my career. Obviously I always want to grow and improve as a teacher and get better at certain things like helping students improve their writing and finding new ways to reach kids. As far as doing something different besides being a classroom teacher in room 910, that’s not really on my list of ambitions. I have a lot of kids. I have four kids, which is weird to me since I grew up in a family of two and my husband grew up in a family of two.We have these things called the Mowrer Family Rules. Rule number one: don’t marry a loser. Rule number two: don’t smoke anything. Rule number three: don’t get a credit card in college. And rule number four: always buy milk, you’re always gonna need it.”

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Business teacher and former football coach Ron Volk is retiring this school year, after 16 years at RHS. Volk keeps pictures of his most valued students on a wall in his classroom called “The Wall of Fame.” BY EDDY SOTOMAYOR

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As Roseville High School former football coach and teacher Ron Volk circles his classroom and gazes upon his self- made and esteemed “Wall of Fame,” floods of pictures of both past and present students and colleagues evoke a sense of nostalgia. Volk is retiring from RHS after 16 years, and he’ll miss the people that so poignantly shaped his high school teaching career. Volk’s age and desire for a new chapter in his life played key factors in his decision. “I’m old,” Volk said. “I’ve reached age 68 and my body is telling me to take a break and do some

other things, another phase of life.” Volk originally began coaching during his high school years. He attributes the start of his coaching career to struggling through problems while he was in school and personally finding a coach that he could confide in. This inspired him to pay it forward and start teach himself in the hopes to provide the same guidance. “My goal through this was that I could hopefully help just one student and it would be worth the adventure of becoming a teacher, and I think I’ve done that,” Volk said. To Volk, teaching at RHS has not felt like work, but rather something he

enjoys to do and will miss being able to teach. “It’s been an honor and a privilege to teach and coach here,”Volk said. Volk’s love for RHS is reflected in his classroom on his homemade “Wall of Fame,” which includes dozens of photos of previous students, teams and friends. “If you have seen my Wall of Fame, you would know that it is all the students that I have had contact with and had a blast with,” Volk said. Former football player Trevor Marte had Volk as his coach and appreciated his sense of humor as well as his seriousness when needed. “He just made everyone really happy and happy to be around him,” Marte said.“I will always remember how he helped me reach my goals in football and how he made me want to be a better person every day.” RHS varsity boys basketball coach Greg Granucci finds that Volk’s key characteristics are his positive attitude and his willingness to spread positive energy to everyone he meets. “You run by Mr. Volk or say hello to him and he always has something positive to say, never negative,” Granucci said. “ I’ve never seen somebody who has that much love for life, he’s a great guy.”

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Safety updates fortify campus A

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Lack of DJ stiffens classic experience

BRIAN NUEVO

b.nuevo@eyeofthetigernews.com

was already wary of the bad music selection my poor ears would have to go through when I heard talk of a DJless prom. I had flashbacks to the days of Nickelback and Kidz Bop and worried about how much I would genuinely enjoy my Prom. As an avid fan of music I’ve learned to enjoy most genres of music, whether it be classic rock or R&B. At first, when the proposition of no DJ was made on the @2018RhsTigers account as a Twitter poll, I thought it was a joke... only to find out that it wasn’t. The playlist won and student government decided to follow through and keep their promise of a studentplaylist. When I first walked into prom – around 20 minutes after doors opened – I saw students dancing and hoped this was a good sign of a bearable playlist. If my peers liked the music, I should too, right? Unfortunately, I was wrong. Most tracks were typical of any high school dance, but some were so blatantly out of place at a high school dance. Such as the slower country song thrown into a mix of upbeat rap and hip-hop, that students couldn’t rely on a consistent tempo to dance to. I know that even when you have a DJ, the bad songs will still find a way into the dance, but at least a DJ will create some flow instead of jumping from Drake to Luke Bryan. A DJ doesn’t mess up the flow or tempo of the dance, because they continuously play songs of the same genre. As much as I enjoyed the the “diverse” music selection, why did I hear a Kidz Bop rendition of “Party in the USA”? The technicalities of running the playlist were lost, and we would awkwardly stand in silence for half a minute until each awkward,

cheesy song ended. There were times when I would be singing along with friends to a jam and then suddenly get hit with the remix, and it isn’t the “Remix to Ignition” type of remix either. These remixes temporarily ruined the moment for me and my friends. We went from dacing to wonderful songs and enjoying the moment, to wondering how something like Kidz Bop could even make it on the playlist. I know my group wasn’t the only group, because I often saw groups completely stop dancing when these songs came on. They would also leave me standing awkwardly with a friend trying to figure out who on earth decided to put this song in the playlist. So please, stick to the originals. Although I sadly didn’t get to enjoy the Nickelback that I hoped for, at least I was greeted by the wonderful voices of Kidz Bop. Normally I would just laugh and keep dancing but they changed “Just the Way You Are” from Bruno Mars’ soulful voice to the squeals of talentless 12-year-olds. When the last slow dance is “Just the Way You Are,” you hope to have a special moment with your significant other. Instead, the playlist let high-pitched voices ruin the moment to end the night. I’m not asking for an end to the student-playlist. I’m just asking for a little bit more room to improve it. I don’t think the studentplaylist should have made its debut at Prom. This was a risky idea that could have easily tainted some people’s nights. For most of the night it was good and exceeded my expectations, but sort out a list that everyone can enjoy together. The idea was ambitious, the wrinkles just need to be ironed out for everyone to be happy. I hope Student Government refines and curates the playlists more carefully next year. Furthermore, they should consider tempos and keeping them similar. As long as the Kidz Bop fiasco settles, maybe I’ll be able to enjoy my last slow dance at senior ball to “Just the Way You Are.”

dministration’s steps toward a safer campus may birth skepticism from students concerned about losing privacy. In reality, though, admin is working for students, not against them. In considering campus surveillance cameras, introducing an online bullying report system and reinforcing the “run, hide, fight” active threat procedure, the positives far outweigh the negatives. Putting an end to racist incidents and bullying is, and should be, the chief objective on a campus so recently struck with hate crimes. Cameras will, however , record audio, something that seems like overkill. Audio will be beneficial in granting further administrative understanding of conflicts, but for 99 percent of students, going about their days as usual, knowing their conversations are being recorded will be unsettling. The anonymous bullying report service is valuable in that students who abide by the laws of “snitches get stitches” will no longer have anything to deter them from protecting fellow students. Because students may prefer the new system over gathering the confidence to verbally report abuse, this district step will hopefully encourage students to contribute to campus security rather than give into negative peer pressure. However, anyone can falsely accuse their peers of bullying through an anonymous system. RHS runs the risk of reports that may

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harm innocent students. Students may abuse the system, using the service as a channel to further inflate a situation with false information. Administration should use the student reports as an investigative tip and make clear that erroneous reports won’t fly. The “Run, Hide, Fight” procedure differs from the many drills RHS students are accustomed to. As with any potentially dangerous situation, stu-

dents and parents will want to be in the know. Introducing new procedures is important. It is equally crucial to ensure students realize they have these options in the face of danger, and that parents know what their children are encouraged to do in the face of an active threat. Students should realize that the procedure properly iterates the importance of protecting one’s self and others – fighting being the

daunting, yet potentially necessary aspect of safety. Perhaps if steps were taken to integrate self defense and safety maneuvers into the intruder safety drills, students may gain more confidence and composure in active threat situations. Students need to realize that administrators aren’t the intruders, bullies or vandals. The real threats are out there and administration is stressing the need to be prepared.

Outside SAT prep classes not worth cost JAMIE BATEMAN

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aking an SAT prep class offered by Kaplan or your high school is something that is almost universally recommended. Recently, I took my second SAT after completing a Kaplan course that took six hours every weekend to complete. After the class, I was only able to improve my score by 20 points overall, which made me wonder if the classes even help. Obviously doing more review problems and looking at review material is helpful. But unlike any standard Kaplan course, looking up review material doesn’t cost hundreds of dollars. Most of my teachers have said that they offer SAT review workbooks themselves free of charge. But, people will say that with Kaplan you get more than just the questions: you get strategies on how to

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succeed. I’ve completed the course and I can positively say that the only tool I gained from this class is that you should pick one letter and guess it every time you have to guess. Which doesn’t quite equate almost $300 in expenses. The expenses aren’t the only thing that get you with the Kaplan class. With the course that I took, I was mandated to sit at my computer from 10 o’clock to 1 o’clock every Saturday and Sunday from November till January. If you were out doing

something and weren’t home for those hours, there was a review video that you could watch to catch up on the things you missed. If everything done in the three-hour video can be covered in the 20 minute video, why not just make the original class 20 minutes? Even if you throw in 30 minutes, which is being generous, for people to ask questions in the live class, the class would still be almost two hours shorter. Overall, from what I learned and took away from the class, I don’t feel that you need it to do well

on the SAT. Even though I improved my score, the teacher and Kaplan website made it sound as if you were guaranteed to improve your score by at least 50. This class may have been more influential had I not just finished my math course, but if you time your classes and SAT correctly you can easily succeed without this class. As much as the classes are supposed to help you, when it really comes down to it, the test changes every time, and there really is no way to consistently study for a test that is always changing.

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Deep clean campus, reputation BY MIKAYLA STEARNS

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s a freshman, I wrote an article for Eye of the Tiger that explored how parents and community leaders around the district viewed Roseville High School. Coming into high school, and all throughout middle school to be quite honest, I was told horrible stories of what my future days at RHS would consist of. Clearly, I am not the only one. There exists this idea around the district that Roseville is a trashy, “ghetto” school. (Which is a complete abuse of that word and it’s true meaning, but for the sake of the argument let’s ignore all of the ramifications of “ghetto” being used as a derogatory term like that.) Parents reroute their kids away every year from all of their childhood friends and into new schools because of this perception of Roseville High School. While researching for the article, I found several parents concerned that RHS would not give their students the same opportunity to succeed in post-

high school life as the other schools in the district. Roseville is crumbling, they said, and old. From the students, I heard that Roseville was surely full of gang activity. The people there were mean and the drug activity was high. These all came from people who had never attended RHS or had their student do so, and I was not surprised. By merely stepping inside RHS’s campus, you are welcomed by a huge dilapidated building known as the small gym, puddles that mutate into lakes because of uneven pavement, gum everywhere, and odd twists and turns in a maze-like campus. This last one is actually just a direct result of starting from a small school one hundred years ago and building on to the campus in whatever space we could find, not sketching out our blueprints all at once like the new schools to make a more cohesive campus. However, knowing the ins and outs of RHS’s successful programs, graduation rates and sense of community through my work with journalism tells a completely different story. If this is the positive story RJUHSD wants to tell, why just fix up the rose bushes on the outside of the school, you know? There is clearly some money being placed

Do coast BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN

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into Roseville High School for aesthetic purposes. If you want to deep clean RHS’ reputation, you need to deep clean RHS, literally. It seems silly, but the crumbliness of this campus deteriorates public perception of our community and academic success. Around the district, RHS is this longrunning joke held by all the students. “Oh, look at the trashy kids. They come from that trash school.” Thank the lord for Measure D funding. At least we can attempt to chip away at this big monstrosity of a reputation sitting on our shoulders. What we need to keep in mind is not to purely cover all of the worn down stuff with shiny new

paint, so to speak. A new gym will be great and is definitely needed for function, not just aesthetic, but we can’t forget the smaller and less glamorous projects. Pavements, ADA compliance, leaking roofs – it all matters in changing perceptions. Pick up your trash, for God’s sake, if you care about your community. Recently some factors have been morphing our reputation that we can’t fix with Measure D funding. We apparently crossed into an alternate timeline where white supremacy at RHS felt safe enough to make itself known on the walls, the Twittersphere, and in the words of our students. Why is this happening now?

Beats me. But scrubbing off the graffiti and requiring diversity sensitivity lessons is a first step to picking up that trash. If you care about your school – and this goes for administrators – faculty and students, push for a deep clean of this campus. We can’t just focus on the glamour of a new gym while people can literally swim in the lakes here and there are still swastikas on walls (or more importantly, still some unsuspended students who like to yell racial slurs). All of these qualities of Roseville will settle into the forefront of people’s’ minds and they will ignore the good parts of this community.

Keyword-based firewall censors blindly BY JAKE LUKASKO

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oseville High School recently upgraded the school’s web filter in an effort to increase bandwidth. The web filter is so also much stricter than the previous filter, accidentally blocking many appropriate websites such as the New York Times, Vox, CNN, and for a short while, YouTube. The filter largely operates on a keyword system to tell it which sites to block, instead of what pages. Of course, when a new filter like this is implemented into schools, the filter needs to be tailored and fixed as problems regarding what sites get blocked inevitably

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occur. Bandwidth is essentially the speed at which information comes and leaves your computer (basically internet speed). Officials have indicated that certain activities, such as listening to music using Spotify, have been blocked to save bandwidth and improve network speeds. If you’ve used the network since the filter was imple-

mented, you probably haven’t noticed a bump in network speeds and it’s probably still painfully slow for you. However, an increase in bandwidth makes the network more reliable. It also allows more devices to connect to it, solving issues created at peak hours of network usage, such as during lunch when everyone is on their phone and

trying to connect while half the school is still in class working. There is not a super effective way for someone to measure this but the reasoning behind the measures is sound. Classes should absolutely have priority over network usage. The incredibly arbitrary system of blocking that the filer uses is counterproductive for students using the network and the needed fixes have not come yet. Here we are, still waiting a few months time after the filter’s introduction, with no helpful changes. Blocking a website based on a few words the filtering system has deemed “inappropriate” or “lewd” is ridiculous. Students can drive cars to school, take college levels, and get lectured about maturity by self righteous teachers, yet they can’t see an entire site because of a few “bad” words. Quite the double standard.

I am not making an appeal to freeze peach but rather one to good sense. It’s impractical to block websites in this fashion. Where is the human oversight with this filtering? Why weren’t reputable websites like YouTube already on some sort of whitelist? That’s not too much to ask. The current implementation isn’t responsible and is an embarrassment. Students that notice an unnecessary ban (e.g. CNN) can’t easily point this out to administrators or IT. Why do I have to hunt down IT’s email, when I could click a button or notify my teacher? Why don’t we have a solution for reporting websites that were not meant to be blocked? A ticket process needs to be introduced, where a student can inform a faculty member with little effort required.

Early club commitment contributes to growth BY JACK ROSETTI

j.rosetti@eyeofthetigernews.com

ast Friday, I sat down in the Hyatt Regional ballroom, competing against the top minds in California for Academic Decathlon. I had to stop and take it all in: I almost didn’t even join the AcaDeca team. I had seen it as just another way to spend time after school, and perhaps even a waste of time. It was a spur of the moment decision that I thought

I would regret. I don’t regret it one bit; it has been some of the most fun to actively participate in a club with my friends and go out to compete. Which brings me to my point: if you do a club, do it with all of your might. It’s so much more fun that way. The reward and satisfaction of doing a job well far outweighs the satisfaction of caving into whatever temptations one might encounter. I have been a part of some clubs in which I don’t fully participate. I can personally attest that you feel better about a club when you contribute as much, if not more, than you need. Without working and being actively involved, a club is just another way

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to waste time outside of school (or during lunch). Part of this, I think, is just being in a club you love and wanting to see the club grow and have a larger presence on campus. You’ll work and work and when

more and more people join the club, you can see your hard work pay off. Another part of this is simply specializing in certain clubs that pique your interest the most. Find your niche(s) and go from there.

It should go without saying that people tend to work/do more for clubs and organizations that they enjoy. Another example of this comes from MUN. We went to UC Davis for a model United Nations conference last May. Had I put in more time, research and preparation, I would have been more comfortable and excelled. This year we will go again, and I know for a fact that I’m going to grind it out for my prefered results. So if you plan on starting a club, joining a club, or even taking over a club, I would tell you this: try your best. You should begin to recognize how much hard work benefits you.

Each spring semester issue, a senior will reflect on an aspect of their experiences at Roseville High School. Johnny Mulligan writes the fourth installment of Letters from a Senior.

ou guys, we did it. We finished 80 percent of our high school career, we finished college applications, we finished scholarship applications and most of us know where we will be next fall. Next year it’s a new school with new faces. It is a little scary, don’t you think? Knowing you all for these last years has shown me that no matter where any of us go, there is no doubt that we’ll be successful. But what is the point in worrying about that? Right now, let’s cherish these last few weeks (nine weeks, to be exact). Everybody had sky-high expectations for our class, and I truly believe we delivered. The Class of 2017 will forever go down as the best class Roseville High School has seen – at least in my book, and that’s all that really matters. Just remember everything we accomplished. Football and boys basketball and soccer having home playoff games, girls basketball winning two games in playoffs. Oh, and let’s not forget girls soccer going into playoffs as a tenth seed and winning the division. And on top of these sport accomplishments since our class came the number of AP tests taken has steadily increased every year and we broke the record for scholarships. Only a handful more times do we get to hear Josh Carson’s iconic voice reading the announcements and reciting the pledge of allegiance, struggle to find a spot in the senior lot (is it really a struggle if you don’t even bother with it anymore?), buy a heavenly muffin from the vending machine and make up an excuse as to why you’re out of class when the yard duty confronts you. We have done our part! RHS is a better place because of our academics, athletics and the unique culture we helped create. It is time to coast into the finish line. Already late for class? Go get breakfast from Starbucks. (Just make sure to bring some to your teacher.) Debating on whether you should go to the volleyball game or do that one irrelevant homework assignment? Go to the game. Those memories will last a lot longer. Just pass your core classes and have fun. The next thing to finish is this quarter and that is it. So my task for you is to have fun and to make sure you remember the Class of 2017 as the amazing people we are.

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RHS’ Grease is the word heard on campus GABrielle HUTSON

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Roseville Theatre Compay’s Grease was a few steps up in ambition from last year’s musical, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Last year’s musical was fabulous, but didn’t have to deal with the incredibly high expectations that come along with performing a classic such as Grease. I would say RHS Theatre Co. took a leap … and stuck the landing. Do not walk into the Patti Baker Theater expecting to see the film Grease on a stage. RHS Theatre Co’s rendition brings something new and refreshing to the classic musical that, by now, everyone knows the words to. Don’t be disappointed that you aren’t getting to see your peers recite every line exactly from the most done production in America, because this time they are showing you something new. New is always better, right? Okay, maybe not every time (cough cough, Grease 2), but this time it is. I’ve had the pleasure to work very closely with the drama program and have become familiar with them and their process. I also know that they have been

rehearsing since December. Four month’s rehearsal boiled down to one show is a somewhat unequal representation of the work that was put into this production. I viewed the show twice before giving my final professional opinion in an attempt to represent those four months. Some of the musical numbers hit a broadway standard. The T-Birds were fabulous in “Greased Lightning” especially in terms of dancing considering many of them took a jump into choreography for the first time in this show. Nick Bailey absolutely bodied “Those Magic Changes.” Had he been the one casted as Doody in the 1978 film, I doubt John Randal Kleiser would have cut it from the final version. It is no surprise Emily Botnen scored Sandy. Some might just attribute this to type casting but anyone who has viewed any other of Botnen’s shows know what a phenomenal actress she is. Botnen could have turned it out even as Danny Zuko. Her rendition of “It’s Raining on Prom Night,” a song not included in the film version, quite literally brought me to tears. It was even better than Olivia Newton John’s performance of “Hopeless-

Students take lead on Grease choreo

ly Devoted to You,” which we did not see from this local production. Honestly, the inclusion of “It’s Raining on Prom Night” made up for it. Now AJ Welker on the other hand, a.k.a. the risqué Pink Lady Marty, reflects little of the qualities of her character in the school hallways but morphed into Marty as soon as the lights hit her. Though Marty is often played like a side Pink Lady, Welker brought her to the front of the stage and I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. This was helped by including her song, “Freddy, My Love,” a hammy declaration of love to her pen pal boyfriend in the Marines. In fact all the Pink Ladies from top to bottom seemed to really step into the skin of their character. A part of this was definitely due to the wonderful accuracy of the costume design done by Kelly White, the mother of director and drama adviser Ashley White. The silhouettes were clean and perfect for the time period of Grease. But enough about the Pink Ladies, what about the T-Birds? I was satisfied with most of their performances, and the outfits helped to convince me of their style and swagger, but I feel that they have it in

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Grease is all about the song and dance numbers, and RHS’ Theatre Company had them down to a ‘T’ (-bird). The Pink Ladies were show-stopping in each of their individual performances as the iconic characters.

them to do more. I needed more badboy attitude, I wanted more James Dean and less Gregory Peck. They were good, but seemed to be upstaged by their female counterparts. Of course it is the people behind the stage that makes the engine run. Stage manager Dominique Beasom outdid herself again. I was impressed when I saw Noises Off, which she also stage managed, but I was amazed when I saw Grease. The pointed use of colored lighting leveled up the emotions of the scenes and musical numbers.

For example, Annabelle Tiznado’s Rizzo sang underneath a stream of red light in “There are Worse Things,” where as Botnen had halo of white light on her as she belted “Sandra Dee – Revised” immediately after. Just little details like this make you feel like you’re attending a broadway show. Rizzo! Rizzo… Rizzo. The infamous dichotomy between her and Sandy lived up to its potential, but passed on some of the emotional subtlety you see in the original film. The rivalry was done in an obvious fashion in the act-

ing, and “There are Worse Things I Could Do” more so developed the tenacity in Tiznado’s character as opposed to her emotional vulnerability. An unexpected change, but they pulled it off. The song more so involved Botnen’s Sandy rather than the original film where Rizzo directed a lot more emotion towards Kenickie, which I appreciated. And Tiznado can belt! She did that! Catch this show running April 6-8 and grab a ticket soon, because from the feedback I am seeing on Twitter, the theater will fill up quickly.

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With patience and repitition, senior Bridgett Hirsch and junior Brooklyn Pontoni were able to teach the cast how to hand jive, baby.

by VIKTORIA BARR

v.barr@eyeofthetigernews.com

Senior Bridgett Hirsch has been putting in time after school and on weekends with the help of co-choreographer Junior Brooklyn Pontoni to choreograph Grease’s iconic dance numbers and teach the cast. Roseville High School drama teacher Ashley White approached both Hirsch and Pontoni to see if they would interested in the role. Hirsch planned to audition to be a part of the production but found a new opportunity to contribute. “I [couldn’t] wait to audition and [White] was like ‘I was actually going to ask you to choreograph it’ and I was like yes,” Hirsch said. Hirsch’s experience and devotion to dance inspired White to reach out to her for assistance with choreographing the show’s dance numbers. “I just think that her

talent for dance and her passion was what made me want to ask her to choreograph because she does, she truly has a passion for dance,” White said. White also asked Pontoni to help with the choreography due to Pontoni’s prior experience in competitive dance. Repetition was key for choreographers Pontoni and Hirsch to help the cast memeber who do not consider themselves dancers get the numbers down. “It was a lot of repetition.” Hirsch said “With them it was like doing it over and over 20 times.” Pontoni said repetition was specifically helpful when learning “Greased Lightning”. “The boys got ‘Greased Lightning’ down pretty quickly,” Pontoni said. “They love the song so they got it down, repetition was really important it made sure they had everything down.”

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Everyone knows what you are supposed to wear when performing Grease – we all know the Pink Lady satin bomber and the T-Bird leather jacket -- but the costuming, for me, needs to go beyond that. As someone who appreciates theater and the character development of these iconic high schoolers, I was impressed by Roseville High School’s Theatre Company’s take. The Pink Ladies have a very specific formula for their outfits, high heels, a belted pencil skirt with a blouse tucked in. Of course this formula followed but they were able to amp it up with neck scarves and the addition of chalk cigarettes, so I didn’t feel like I was just looking at costumes bought from Spirit Halloween. The ensemble cast on the other hand seemed to be drowned out by the razzle-dazzle of the main stars outfits. The boys of the show have their own designated look too: cuffed blue jeans, a white T-shirt with the sleeves flipped up and a sleek leather jacket on top. The slicked back hair and general swagger of the outfit style helped to convince me that these lovely theater boys were actually rebel T-Birds. Our new girl Sandy doesn’t stick to the Pink Lady formula, of course, with her cute flouncy skirts color coordinated to her cardigan. Oftentimes, I see costuming treated like a tertiary priority in local productions. But attention to detail in the outfits makes or breaks character portrayal. Now, as I watched the show and focused on organizing my review – the set, the costumes, the acting, the dance numbers – the anticipation of seeing Sandy in her iconic leather outfit kept butting its way in there. And it did not disappoint. We see her strut out in skin tight leather pants and blood red heels with hair bigger than her head. This transformation was one of the best parts in the original film, and one of the most memorable parts of RHS’ production. -Gabrielle Hutson

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Life falls short of classic sci-fi status

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Life, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, lacks originality and memorability and is lackluster in execution. Strong special effects and fluid space movements slightly made up for the flat, disappointing plotline.

««««« BY PRESTON WALTER

p.walter@eyeofthetigernews.com

Being a huge fan of science fiction movies and

of space, I had really high hopes for Life, but the movie really failed to be memorable. The movie, after all, stars two of the hottest actors right now: Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds. Plus, with how

good the space movies have been the past few years – with movies like Interstellar and The Martian – I thought Life would be up to par with the rest. I really enjoyed all the actors’ performances but

the real standouts are, of course, Jake Gyllenhaal as doctor David Jordan and Rebecca Ferguson as crew captain Miranda North. Ryan Reynolds is good, but his role isn’t much of a departure from who he is in real life. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the look of the alien in the trailers for the movie, but after seeing the movie and seeing the full transformation of Calvin, I actually really enjoyed what he turned into. It was like a cross between Ripley from Alien and a weird tentacle creature. Director Daniel Espinosa guides this film really well, but I think what lets this film down is the script, written by Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Espinosa really does get great performances from everyone on the crew, just

because they all have a unique dynamic and great chemistry together. A few of the big things I really like about Life is that they do an incredible job with the visuals and camerawork to make you feel like you are really there in space and that they didn’t shoot it in a giant green screen studio. The wire work they did with the actors creates really fluid and realistic space movements. One thing Life does do really well is create the feeling of constant tension throughout the entire movie, while also adding some brutal and violent deaths from some of the crew members. My heart was racing and I actually found myself sweating multiple times. Life is definitely not without its flaws. Like I mentioned earlier, the

dialogue feels way out of place for the movie the director was trying to make, from what I can tell. Life alludes to some of the themes present in The Thing and Alien, but it borrows a little bit too much, failing to really offer a new take to the space-horror genre. In the end, after thinking about Life for a bit, I realized that this movie really suffers from its incoherent script and dumb decisions the characters make in order to just purely move the plot forward. That is not to say that you will not have a good time at the theaters with Life. It’s... entertaining. The film sports a star cast but just fails to provide an innovative and new version. It simply does not stand out from the well-crafted, classic sci-fi movies made before it.

New Power Rangers go, go for nostalgic vibe ««««« BY GABE TOWNSEND

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The Power Rangers were created in the nineties in a television show called The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Twenty four years later, the Power Rangers reboots for the big screen and I can honestly say I loved it. Mighty Morphin’ was a gigantic part of my childhood and it was absolutely amazing to see one of my favorite childhood shows and its characters reimagined. Now, this movie is not perfect and really isn’t the best piece of cinema I will ever watch, but I genuinely enjoyed it. It is a fun film for a Power Rangers superfan like myself, and

the whole thing is really well-paced. It captures the vibes of the original Power Rangers perfectly while not coming off as cheesy as the TV show. The movie follows five teenagers who are given powers to become a team and stop villianess Rita Repulsa, played by Elizabeth Banks. Banks performs pretty well as the main antagonist, but I was distracted by how during the whole movie everyone kept saying how powerful she is, while she really did not seem much more powerful than the Rangers themselves in action. My least favorite of the rangers is definitely Ludi Lin, the black Ranger. He just doesn’t click with me and most of the stuff he said was just really cringey. My favorite Ranger by far

is the red Ranger, played by Dacre Montgomery. He does a phenomenal job as the leader of the Rangers and his chemistry with the rangers’ mentor Zordon, played by Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is palpable. Bill Hader gave his voice to the quirky Alpha 5, who helps train the Rangers alongside Zordon while serving as the mandatory comic relief. The writers give all of the characters an conflict to progress through in the movie, and thankfully they don’t spend too much time developing one character while still making every character feel involved. However, the reboot is not without some plot holes. I feel like I missed depth in some plot points, but they move past them pretty fast. There were

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The cast of the Power Rangers reboot played to the potential of the iconic characters. This film is purely for the fans and doesnt try to be anything other than a fun, gratuitious reboot of the classic shows.

also scenes that felt super unnecessary and don’t add anything to the story or the characters. I liked this

SMELL THE ROSES WITH THALIA BENNETT Each issue, senior Thalia Bennett recommends the little things to check out in the entertainment world and encourages readers to stop and smell the roses.

We come from the Earth, we return to the Earth, and in between, we garden.

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WATCH Disneynature’s new documentary Born in China follows the lives of three animal families – pandas, golden monkeys, and snow leopards in the wilds of their titular country – and debuts on Earth Day, April 22. During opening week, Disneynature will donate a portion

of all ticket proceeds to the World Wildlife Fund to benefit the creatures showcased in the film for a guaranteed minimum of $100,000. The film boasts intense looks at elusive animals, particularly the family of snow leopards, and was filmed over a span of years.

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Today, single-use plastic pollution is more chronic than ever before. Plastic alone can require up to 1,000 years to fully decompose, and according to MRC Polymers, only 27 percent of plastic bottles are recycled in the US. That alone is already alarming, and it doesn’t begin to quantify the loads of other plastic products in landfills. Thankfully, Earth Day is just around the corner on April 22. For many, it’s a time to reflect on their part in the global environment. The way I see it though, so long as we live here, every day should be Earth Day. So make it a point to know what you’re buying, what it demands to produce it, and what it implicates for the environment after you use it. In that spirit, ewg.org and onyalife.com are both excellent resources for making the switch to more sustainable day-to-day products that give back to the earth and curb personal pollution. Another easy way to pitch in is to purchase from local markets. In this area alone, there are at least two regular weekly gatherings for vendors in Granite Bay on Douglas Blvd. and the Roseville City Center on Vernon St., each during Saturday mornings. Acquiring your groceries from the source carves out the costs and CO2 emissions of shipping, as well as bolsters the community’s economy. Not to mention, farmers’ goods simply taste better since they’re not “engineered to withstand travel” and are all free from pesticides and GMOs.

an Oscar and it is not going to go down in history, but I highly recommend it to nostalgic viewers.

3 Dot Pop

RuPaul’s Drag Race S9

This issue, senior Marc Chappelle fills in for Sophie Cook to sound off on a piece of pop culture in three-dot form.

BY MARC CHAPPELLE

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- Alfred Austin

Coordinated through Cotopaxi, the Questival is an annual 24 hour “adventure race” that invites you and your team of 2-6 to compete, have fun, and engage with the world around you outside of the bounds of comfort. As you complete as many challenges as you can through the live smartphone app, between sunrise and sunset, you will find yourself in the city and in nature alike, doing anything from hiking a trail to armwrestling a stranger. Tasks vary from location to location. The nearest events are scheduled for April 14-15 in Sacramento and for September in San Francisco. Check out cotopaxi.com for ticket prices and more information.

movie as a fan of Power Rangers AND someone from an outside perspective. It is not going to win

For the uninitiated, RuPaul’s Drag Race is America’s Next Top Model for drag queens, but with more dancing, singing, acting and shade-throwing… The show’s on primetime VH1 now, but RuPaul’s said it, and I will say it. Drag will never be mainstream, honey... I’m crying, and so are the queens. After a glorious season premiere with no elimination, the competition begins. But Lady Gaga’s gone… And after the first elimination episode, so is an irrelevant queen… But there are 13 others worth talking about now... Cynthia Lee Fontaine makes a comeback. I applaud her bounce back from liver cancer. Miss Congeniality was a great personality on her season, although she’s never been

my favorite performer. I’m ready for her to surprise me… For having done drag for only 10 months, Valentina is surprisingly polished in both performance and looks. She plays up an experience division, so to speak… Kimora Blac looks great. But her attitude in the workroom? I’m tired… Jaymes Mansfield in this second episode? Next… RuPaul’s Glamazons versus B-52 Bombers cheer challenge. Flying gymnasts coach soon-to-be flying drag queens. Recipe for greatness or disaster... The contestants turn out better performances than I expected. Quality opening cheers, group dance and stunting. Tumbling passes not so much... Sweet queens Peppermint and Shea Couleé open up in the workroom about overcoming bulling...

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Boys tennis off to record start BY BRANDON DEL ROSARIO

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The varsity boys tennis team has never qualified for playoffs since the program started, but the team is on track to make history this year. With a 7-3 record in Capital Valley Conference play, the Tigers are currently in third place and have already surpassed last year’s record of 4-10. On paper, the team looks inexperienced with many new players and underclassmen. However, a significant change in the team’s attitude has set them apart this season. Second-year player senior Braden Triplett feels that it is the increased focus and seriousness that has allowed the boys to be so successful thus far. “We’re taking [tennis] a lot more serious,” Triplett said. “We’re still having fun, but we’re getting things done.” “Getting things done,” as Triplett calls it, includes defeating the Oakmont Vikings in a head-to-head match, marking the first

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Doubles pair seniors Clay Bradley, front, and Braden Triplett, back left, await their opponent’s volley at practice last week. The duo is undefeated in league play and has been a major factor in the team’s historical 7-3 start to the league season. time the Tigers have done so in 14 years, and upsetting the Cosumnes Oaks Wolfpack in an away clash – the first place team prior to the match. The duo of Triplett and fellow senior Clay Bradley remains undefeated so far in league play and has been

vital to the Tigers’ success, as the team has won more than a few of its matches by only a single game. Bradley feels that the overall strength of the team’s doubles pairs has been key to their wins so far, as doubles games occur later on in the matches and

oftentimes decide the ultimate victor. Even so, he has been impressed with the performances of the singles as well. Because of their newfound success, the Tigers have a program-wide goal of finally making it to the

playoffs. If the task is completed, the 2017 boys tennis team will be remembered as the first team in the program to make it there. Four-year tennis player Oliver Magsakay believes the desire for playoffs is what is pushing the team to new heights. “We have never made playoffs, but this year we have a solid group of guys,” Magsakay said. “Us wanting to make it is what keeps us going.” With this season’s results so far, the Tigers have now set the bar high for the future of the tennis program. Magsakay doesn’t want just one winning season; he would rather see the culture and popularity of tennis grow in years to come. “I want other teams to be afraid of Roseville in the future,” Magsakay said. “I’d hope to see a lot more people join the team in the future after witnessing our success this year.” With the Tigers’ confidence at an all-time high, they prepare for their next match versus 4-7 (league play) Bella Vista tomorrow at home.

After 7 years, cheer coach to leave RHS BY KEEGAN NESS

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The cheerleading program’s head coach, Bri Eigenman, will leave Roseville High School to coach at Granite Bay at the end of this school year. Eigenman has been the program’s coach for the past seven years and plans to give up the position after finishing this spring’s stunt-cheer season. Many of the cheerleaders, including junior Chloe Storrs, will be heartbroken to see her go after this year. “She has taught us so much and she is the reason why we’ve kept going,” Storrs said. “Now that she’s leaving we don’t know yet what our drive will be next season.” Eigenman’s decision to join the Grizzlies was mo-

MAR 27 - APRIL 2 Varsity volleyball sweeps Whitney Wildcats 3-0 BY BRAD MORIN

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The Performance of the Week for the week of March 27-April 2 was the varsity boys volleyball team’s win over the Whitney Wildcats. Both teams were undefeated in league heading into the clash, and it was the Tigers who came out on top with a 3-0 sweep with setscores of 25-17, 25-21 and 25-16. Doing so improved their league record to 5-0 and their overall record to 12-1. The two teams have been close rivals in recent years, providing each other with tight matchups every time they square off. Last year,

tivated by new challenges at Granite Bay that she believes will be beneficial for everyone involved. “I feel it’s time for a positive new challenge for me,” Eigenman said. “Granite Bay’s athletic department and administration opened my eyes to an exciting new vision and opportunity they have for their cheer program, and I want to help them make it a reality.” Eigenman added that she thinks her departure will provide the Tigers with an opportunity to experience a new coach with fresh ideas and new techniques. Nobody is lined up to replace Eigenman yet, but athletic director Emily Dodds said that the position is open for applicants. In her seven years as coach, Eigenman guided the cheer program to reach

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Bri Eigenman, left, has been the cheer program’s head coach for seven years and will leave RHS to work with Granite Bay High School’s program next year. new heights. The program’s accomplishments under her guidance include two consecutive first-place finishes in JAMZ’ annual Nationals competition held in Las Vegas – one in varsity show-cheer in 2015 and one

in sideline performance cheer last year – the chance to march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade last year, and many other first-place finishes in various competitions over the years.

Eigenman also took on the stunt-cheer team coaching position in its inaugural season at RHS this year, assisting the Roseville Joint Union High School District to become the only school district in California who offers a stunt-cheer team at every school. Cheer coach Gretchen Littlejohn has coached alongside Eigenman for the past four years and is appreciative of all the things she has done for the program. “Roseville is lucky to have had Bri’s consistency and dedication,” Littlejohn said. “I know she will miss the athletes and families at Roseville, but change is exciting and we are all happy for her… She has helped transform this program from a sign of activity to a nationally ranked cheer team.”

Performances of the Week each team handed the other its only league loss the entire season. Junior outside hitter Cooper Baddley recognizes the Wildcats’ level of talent and was happy to be able to win in such a fashion. “Every time we play them, it’s always a close game,” Baddley said. “We play them in tournaments all the time and being able to 3-0 them really feels great.”

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Boys tennis beats Vikings 5-4 in comeback win BY BRANDON DEL ROSARIO b.delrosario@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of March 20-26 was the boys

tennis team’s comeback victory over Oakmont. The boys recovered from a 4-0 deficit to win the matchup 5-4, marking the first time the Tigers have beat the Vikings in 14 years. The team started the match slowly, losing the first four of their six singles games in a row. However, they came back to win four matches in a row – one singles match and three doubles matches – to tie the Vikings 4-4. In the deciding game, senior Oliver Magsakay came out victorious in the third set of his singles match, breaking the tie to give the Tigers the 5-4 victory. According to Magsakay, the Tigers triumphed not because of his victory but because of the boys’ mindset. “I feel like [our success comes from] our drive and how dedicated we all are,”

Magsakay said. “Even though we have a lot of new players, we’re all willing to play and fight to win.”

MAR 13 - 19

Varsity boys swim relays qualify for SJS meet BY BRAD MORIN

b.morin@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of March 13-19 was achieved by the varsity boys swim team’s 200 Free and 400 Free relay teams. After putting up a pair of quick times in the Tigers’ dual-meet against Cosumnes Oaks the previous week, both relays qualified for the Sac-Joaquin Section meet held at the end of this year.

The 200 Free relay team, made up of juniors Nate Dockswell, Josh Keaton, Carson Tharp and Eric Metzler, qualified with a time of 1:36.72. This would be their fastest time to date had they not beat it by one onehundredth of a second two meets later against Antelope. The 400 Free relay team, consisting of Keaton, Tharp, Metzler and fellow junior Brandon Walker, got through with a time of 3:40.91 – a time they have yet to beat. According to Keaton, teams usually qualify for sections at the end-of-season League Finals meet, where they are put through based on their performance then and there. However, since the times set by these relay teams were so quick, they were able to qualify much earlier.

Put the effort in before it’s too late

BY BRANDON DEL ROSARIO

b.delrosario@eyeofthetigernews.com

As my senior year begins to wind down, I have come to the unfortunate realization that time really does fly – and man does it fly quickly. Most people don’t realize that they will never be able to fully value the high school experience until it is all over, and by then it’s too late. This is especially true for the student athletes. As a four-year basketball player who’s high school career has come to an end, I dearly miss playing the sport I love most. I always hear people say that they wouldn’t change a thing if they could redo their high school years, but I would change everything. I regret not putting in the maximum time and effort into the sport I am most passionate about. As a freshman, I made the JV basketball team, but I settled. I was so content with making the team that I didn’t push myself hard enough to excel and strive for new heights. I needed that “Mamba Mentality” (for all of you basketball fans); I shouldn’t have limited myself to anything. Unfortunately, my mindset never changed. My sophomore year on the varsity team was mediocre, and my junior year was only decent. This year was the team’s best season, but I wish I could’ve made a bigger impact. I was satisfied with being an average player and having a good game once-in-awhile. I never took it to the next level. I kept telling myself “There’s always next year,” but I couldn’t say that this year. I continued to wait and wait for my moment until there was no more time left. I sincerely regret how I carried myself as a student athlete. I was never an MVP or a first-team all league player, but I knew that I had the potential to be one. Basically, if you want to improve, you have to earn it. This doesn’t only apply to student athletes. If you are passionate about something, give it as much attention as you can. Whether it’s passing a class, making friends or living a healthier lifestyle, always give it your absolute best effort. Unfortunately for me, I settled. I wanted to be the best but I never made an effort to be great. Sadly, I will never be able to play another game of high school basketball. Regardless of who you are or what your skill level is, through the ups and downs, strive for greatness. Before you know it, it’ll be over in a heartbeat.

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SEEKING REDEMPTION

Combined, the varsity boys volleyball team and its new coach, Marco Salcedo, have finished seven section championships in second place. The senior-heavy team and Salcedo hope their past defeats will drive them to finally clinch the section title this year.

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Seniors Jeffery Oh and Sam Toomey go up for a block against the Whitney Wildcats last week. The Tigers swept the Wildcats 3-0 to remain undefeated in league and to be the sole holder of the top spot in the Capital Valley Conference standings for the time being. BY JAMIE BATEMAN

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Marco Salcedo replaced Cindy Simon as the varsity boys volleyball team’s coach this season, marking the team’s third new coach in three years. Salcedo has years of experience and also knows how many of the boys feel regarding the section title; he has never won one as a coach, but has lost five.

He hopes that the boys’ desire to achieve the goal combined with his own will be enough to finally get one this year. In his opinion, the team already looks like it is in good shape and just needs little adjustments here and there. “The guys are already playing in midseason form,” Salcedo said. “In practice, we really are just working on fine tuning every little detail.”

Basically, I run it like a business – this is my company and they work for me. They have to be responsible for every little tiny thing. Everything is disciplined. Everything is perfect. - Coach Marco Salcedo

In an effort to make sure every aspect of the team’s performance is up to par, Salcedo has implemented a system with a heavy influence on discipline. He says that the drills he has the boys do at practices aren’t too difficult, but they must be done with complete focus or else the drill is restarted and the boys have to run lines. “In the bigger tournaments, or even playoffs, the little disciplinary things are the difference between winning and losing,” Salcedo said. Salcedo also puts an emphasis on finishing games as quickly as possible. He said that, in past years, he coached teams that tended to let off the gas if they were winning by a certain margin. He is opposed to this as he found that this would sometimes let other teams sneak back and win games that his teams had in the bag. This year, he won’t be letting the Tigers do any of that. His mission is to have his starters dominate early on in matches so that he can rotate players around, rest players appropriately and finish off opponents without giving them any chances. “The goal that I've tried to stress to the starters is that their job is to get off the court and get the bench guys in,” Salcedo said. “I've coached teams with more talent than this one, but they oftentimes got lazy and would drag out games. These guys play hard all the time.” Salcedo, having seen the talent that this team possesses, came out of retirement in order to finally capture a section title. Although he may have more chances in the future, he has been sure to not let the seniors forget that this is their last chance. Senior outside hitter Jeffery Oh feels that the constant reminders from Salcedo have helped the boys remain focused and driven on achieving their ultimate goal. “[Salcedo] stresses the fact that this is our last year

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The Tigers gather together after completing their last drill at one of their practices. Because many of them have played together for so many years, their chemistry on the court is higher than ever this season. They plan to use it to their advantage on their quest for the section title.

FILE PHOTO GEORGE HUGHES

The Tigers fall 3-2 to Granite Bay in last year’s Sac-Joaquin Section championship matchup. The loss marked the second consecutive section-championship defeat for the boys, who hope to finally earn one this year alongside their coach, Marco Salcedo, who has lost five section-championship games.

playing,” Oh said. “It really motivates us and makes us push ourselves hard, whether it's practice or match.” The group has had an impressive run over the past two years, with two league championship banners to show for it, but has not yet managed to clinch a SacJoaquin Section title – and that’s the only thing this year’s team has in mind. The Tigers have made it to the section final two years in a row and have lost on both occasions, falling just short of earning an SJS banner twice. Last season the boys posted a 35-6 overall record but lost to the Granite Bay Grizzlies in a devastating 3-2 defeat in the section championship’s fifth set. The year before, they lost in a very similar fashion to the Whitney Wildcats, missing yet another chance at a section title. With this in mind, senior captain and four-year varsity player Neil Reilly knows that this year is the last chance that he and his fellow seniors will have to hang a section banner. “Sophomore year, we knew we had two more tries and last year we said ‘Oh there’s always next year,’” Reilly said. “We want to finish with a win in the section tournament, and this is

our last chance.” The extra motivation and new practice regiment is seemingly paying off, as the team has started off with a 12-1 overall record and a 5-0 league record. Notably, the Tigers have beaten the Jesuit Marauders twice and swept last year’s Capital Valley Conference co-champion, the Whitney Wildcats, 3-0 last week. Oh feels that the importance of the win over Whitney will not only help them in the win column but will also help them going forward in CVC play. “Obviously we want to win the CVC, and Whitney is the team we have to beat to do that,” Oh said. “Now when we play them the next time, we will have the confidence that we will be able to play better than them and beat them in three [sets].” Last year, the Tigers were able to beat the Wildcats in their first meeting but fell to them in their second. To beat them again, Oh feels that the Tigers need to clean up some of the little mistakes that they made in the first match, specifying serving and hitting errors. Oh thinks that the new practice mentality implemented by Salcedo will allow them to combat those mistakes as well as make sure that no other problems

come up in the future. “We are a lot more disciplined as a team and take practice a lot more seriously,” Oh said. “The new practice style has us in a position to be much better than we have been in the last two years.” Another thing that may help the Tigers this year is their experience. The core boys on this year’s team have been playing together on varsity since they were sophomores and some have also played competitively outside of high school together on club teams. Reilly thinks that, because of this, the chemistry of this team is at an all-time high, and that it could be a huge weapon for the Tigers this year. “Chemistry is very important in volleyball,” Reilly said. “All of us know how each other likes the ball set and things like that, and because of that it makes us a lot better” Since the Whitney win, the Tiger went on to defeat the Ponderosa Bruins in three sets last Thursday, continuing their 18 consecutive set streak which dates back to their only loss against Clovis High School at the beginning of March. The next match for the Tigers will be today at home against the 4-2 (league play) Oakmont Vikings.