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MARCH 25, 2015 | ISSUE 10, VOLUME 13

Who we suspend

This article is the second in a two-part series about RHS and RJUHSD’s suspension policies. See eyeofthetigernews.com for the first installment, published March 2 (‘WHY RHS SUSPENDS: Defiance still punished, but focus case-by-case,’ S. Papini).

BY MIKAYLA STEARNS

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RJUHSD LATINO/WHITE GAPS IN CA’S TOP FIVE IN 2012-13

The gap between suspension rates for white and Latino students in the Roseville Joint Union High School District was one of the five highest among California school districts during the 2012-13 school year, according to the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA.

According to the center’s “Keeping California’s Kids in School,” RJUHSD’s suspension rate for Latino students for all offenses stood at 15.8 percent in 2012-13, much higher than the rate for white students, which stood at just 7.86 percent.

Though suspension rates in the district followed a statewide trend of decrease that year, the 2013-14 school year brought a slightly larger total gap between Latino and white suspensions after the Latino rate remained steady while the white rate dropped slightly to 7.72 percent.

“This year’s numbers for [RJUHSD] look pretty much the same, with small decreases across the board, but not so much for Latinos,” CCRR report

co-author Tia Martinez said.

The report called special attention to the subjectivity of suspensions categorized under “willful defiance,” with its authors stating that “it is in the least serious offense category, one that entails a great deal of subjectivity, that we tend to see the largest racial disparities.”

The Latino/white suspension gap for defiance increased to 3.74 percent in 2013-14 from 2.95 percent in 2012-13.

“I think this is not unique to Roseville,” Brad Basham, RJUHSD executive director of personnel services, said. “You’re going to find this [trend]  GAP | Page 3

AP push continues to ramp up 450 new seats, two new classes arriving next year

BY NETZY ORTEGA

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When RHS locks down – and when it doesn’t A look into the school’s policy

Aaron Ramzy

BY HALEY GUARDINO

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25: A BREAKDOWN

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On Wednesday, Feb. 25, at around 12 p.m., police detained 24-year-old suspect of a fatal stabbing, Aaron Ramzy, at the 7-11 convenience store on Washington Boulevard, located only one mile away from Roseville High School.

The route Ramzy took from the location of the crime, his apartment complex on Arena Boulevard in Sacramento, to his last stop in Roseville is not clear, but was close enough to Warren T. Eich Middle School and Oakmont High School to put both of the schools in lockdown from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Law enforcement officers initiated the lockdown for all schools within a 2-mile radius of Sunrise and Cirby after Ramzy was sighted there.

Roseville High School sits approximately three miles away from the Sunrise and Cirby intersection, and therefore was not mandated to go into lockdown after Ramzy was spotted on Wednesday morning.

According to principal David Byrd, the main reason that RHS didn’t go into lockdown the day Aaron Ramzy was taken into custody  LOCKDOWN | Page 2

Top, senior Kylie Catilus waits during a lockdown drill Thursday, March 5. Though nearby Oakmont High School and Eich Middle School locked down during a police search for Natomas stabbing suspect Aaron Ramzy Wednesday, Feb. 25, RHS did not. Roseville PD later apprenhended Ramzy at the 7-Eleven off Washington Blvd.

USH staff commit to whole story

BY EVE HILL

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Above, Jessica Fork leads a discussion in her third-period APUSH class about the US government’s use of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Despite the recent conservative decrying of supposedly revisionist versions of US history, Roseville High School’s US History faculty has affirmed its stance that it’s important RHS students learn about the less-than-pleasant parts of their country’s story.

The Oklahoma state legislature made national waves last month when its House Education Committee voted overwhelmingly to ban state funding for the College Board’s new AP United States History curriculum,

SG nixes Ton O Sun for ‘Rosechella’

Tentatively named music event to take place May 22

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Amid pushback, acceptance of need to teach negatives

As the demand for Advanced Placement courses continue to increase, Roseville High School is looking to accommodate the request. In the upcoming 2015-16 school year, the school expects an increase of 450 seats in its AP BEHIND THE program (which will GROWTH represent a nearly  Comp Sci, Micro 40 percent increase Econ joining from the 1167 it offerings hosted this year) and  Euro expanding will also offer two to three periods new AP classes and continue an alreadystarted application process to become an AP Capstone school.

The addition of AP Computer Science A and AP Microeconomics at RHS accounts for a large portion of next year’s growth.

AP European History is also expected to grow significantly as a result of teacher encouragement in freshman seminar classes.

With the growth of seats comes a growth  AP | Page 3

which OK lawmakers say represents an emergency due to its exclusion of the principles of “American exceptionalism.”

The move is the latest in a back-and-forth battle conservative politicians have waged against the College Board since it released its new APUSH framework last summer. The debate focuses largely on the topic of revisionism – those who oppose the framework claim it “emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects,” as put forth in a Republican National Committee resolution condemning the curriculum.

“It’s conservative states who claim [the changes] to be anti-American, but, really,  USH | Page 2

BY GEORGE HUGHES

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After holding the annual event for more than a decade, Roseville High School’s Student Government decided to forgo the end-of-year Roseville High School tradition of Ton O Sun in effort to create a new music-inspired event that will be more likely to appeal to the interests of students.

There were multiple reasons that Student Government decided to change the event, including feeling like the event was “outdated” and students choosing to go to the lake instead. In addition, some students just attended Ton O Sun to grab food and leave.

“We were spending $3,500 to $4,000 on students just coming to get free food,” Student Government student Brayden Leach said. “So, that was one of the reasons that we changed.”

According to Student Government teacher Lindsey Parker, SG is planning to hold the new event on the last Friday of the school year, May 22.

Parker said that the event, which some  TON O SUN | Page 2

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USH: Presenting incomplete history a disservice, RHS teachers say CONTINUED FROM FRONT

they’re trying to whitewash American history,” RHS APUSH teacher Jessica Fork said.

Fork, who teaches both periods of APUSH, must hit certain College Board standards to prepare her students for the year-end exam, but she has leeway to determine which specific events she picks to demonstrate the course’s key points. Over the course of her class, she touches on several of the topics conservative lawmakers have criticized the College Board for emphasizing too heavily, including slavery, the forced relocation of Native Americans and negative public treatment of immigrants.

“To ignore the struggles America has had is a disservice to those who are in the minority and have struggled to have their messages heard,” Fork said. “You need to know the negatives and the bad things in order to understand how far we’ve come.”

RHS’ CP US History teachers – this term, Ron Grove, Richard Mowrer and Carol Crabtree – feel the same way. Though RHS’ CP

curriculum has not been affected by the College Board’s changes, it is undergoing a similar revision process as the school transitions to Common Core standards.

Though California still sets general learning targets and RHS’ CP teachers still have discretion over which events they cover – much the same way Fork has discretion over her APUSH course – CPUSH’s Common Core focus has meant far more document analysis for CP students. Grove says this forces his students to distinguish between truths and lies and identify the particular biases an author may carry into his or her writing.

“The old teaching was like water skiing, where you glide over as much as you could, and Common Core is like scuba diving,” he said. “I’m not against teaching anything controversial.”

Several “controversial” topics Grove touches on in his class include the effects of the Industrial Revolution, the impact of the 1920s and America’s history of armed conflict.

Fork also uses documents in her class to prepare her students for

‘controversial’ topics targeted

 Manifest Destiny  World War II  Trail of Tears  Slavery Industrial Revolution  the AP exam. She says she tries to pull from a variety of primary and secondary sources – including the Declaration of Independence, which the Republican National Committee claimed the new curriculum failed to adequately represent – “to help illustrate specific times, events, perspectives.”

She and Grove are united with Mowrer in his view that students have a right to learn about all parts of American history.

“I definitely think those things need to be taught, and the reason is if we don’t teach about how people abused power in the past, people could abuse power in the future – and we could be giving them the opportunity to do so,” Mowrer said.

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Unlike Ton O Sun, Student Government’s new event will take place during the school day. Parker said she hopes the schedule will let all students attend.

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On March 10 and 11, students in RHS’ Advanced Guitar class performed their midterm concerts in the JB Gale Theater.

The musicians covered songs from a range of genres, including classic rock, alternative rock and alternative pop. They also performed “The Hanging Tree” from The Hunger Games as an entire class at the end of the first night (above).

LOCKDOWN: Admin waits for cues from local law enforcement CONTINUED FROM FRONT

at gunpoint just one mile from the school was due to the fact that the school was not considered close enough to the danger.

“I think, in law enforcement’s way of thinking, we weren’t close enough to the danger to need to be in a lockdown situation,” Byrd said. “In their world, they’re pin-pointing on a map where is it and then they’re pin-pointing what’s happening and based on what’s happening they usually draw like a one mile radius, and they’re looking for any schools in that area, or any churches, or any people they need to inform in that area. When they drew that circle, we weren’t in it.”

Cortés believes that, in this case, it would be pointless to call for a lockdown, as the police had the situation under control.

“I think when they determined [Aaron Ramzy] was here, they already had him, and at that point there’s no reason to alert the school to go into lockdown,” youth service officer Carlos Cortés said.

Roseville Law Enforcement determines when it is necessary for a school to go into lockdown.

“It hasn’t always been that way,” Byrd said. “It kind of used to be when the principal felt like

we needed to, and now, we’d be working with law enforcement and taking our cues from them.”

Byrd feels that by giving the police department the responsibility to inform schools when there is a threatening situation near campus is more logical, because it takes the pressure off the staff.

“If up the street, somebody just went crazy on somebody, we wouldn’t know that, because we’re just kind of doing our thing, if law enforcement didn’t come over and tell us,” Byrd said.

Byrd also feels that it is smarter to take cues from law enforcement because they are able to see what’s going on on a bigger scale than the RHS staff.

“We take our cues from the police initially, and that’s a smart way to do it, because it takes all the guess work out of it for everybody else,” Byrd said. “We have Officer Cortés, so if something happens out there he’s the first to know, he comes and tells us, ‘We’re going into lockdown, we need to, here’s the situation.’”

Although Officer Cortés would be RHS’ first point of communication with law enforcement during a lockdown, there are times the entire district is mandated to go into lockdown. In a case such as that, the principal and the district would stay in contact throughout

the incident.

“There are scenarios where I’ll get a call from the district and they’ll say, ‘Hey, we just got a call from the police, there’s something crazy going on, they’ve asked us to put you in lockdown,” said Byrd. “Then, it’s me and the district office in direct communication.”

RHS had it’s second lockdown drill of the year Thursday, Feb. 26, just two days after the incident with Ramzy. Since then, some new changes were added to RHS’ lockdown protocol, which Byrd believes makes everything run more smoothly.

“One of the things you want to do when you go into lockdown is account for every student, so something new we implemented this year is we now have it on a Google Docs spreadsheet,” Byrd said.

By taking roll through Google Docs rather than through email, which was the method of communication used in the past, it took much less time to take attendance and account for all students.

“The report from our drill was, ‘Wow, that’s the best we’ve ever done, especially in terms of how quickly everybody got information, and I think we kind of chalked that up to trying this new Google Docs format,” Byrd said.

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students in Student Government are starting to call Rosechella, as a play on words to reference the large southern California music festival, is to be held on campus during the school day. The official name for the event has not been decided yet, but Parker said that the name Rosechella is growing on her.

According to Parker, all students would share a joint hourlong lunch after their third period class, during which they would be able to have fun, listen to music provided by live bands and eat food from food trucks stationed around campus.

Although still in its early stages of planning, Parker’s thoughts as of now involve three stages stationed across campus each with some sort of musical entertainment going on.

She also mentioned the possibility of having some students from RHS teacher Brian Hack’s guitar class perform on one of the stages during the event. As for the other stages, she said that she is trying to get into contact with Roseville alumni who perform in local bands to come and perform at the event.

Rosechella is also planned to be on the same day as the final rally of the year, the outdoor dance and possibly the Powder Puff football game.

Parker said that the Student Government class is still undecided about what date the Powder Puff game will occur on, but said that it is possible that it will be held on May 22.

The day will still finish at the

normal time, 2:30 p.m., but that the school day’s schedule will be slightly altered in order to accommodate the event.

Still, some students would like to see a longer event. Jeffery Oh, a member of the Student Government class, feels like this is not enough time for the event. He feels that because it is the last Friday of the year, students should be able to enjoy their day to the fullest and not have to worry about their classes.

“School still ends at 2:30 p.m. and Rosechella is only an hour long, which still makes classes a decent length, so I feel like Rosechella is not long enough,” Oh said.

Parker thinks that Rosechella will be more appealing and entertaining to RHS students as it will be during the school day and will have more of a mature vibe to it.

“It’s a little bit shorter, it’s on the main part of campus and I think that it hooks into people’s interests a little bit more,” Parker said. “This is something that is maybe a little bit more mature so maybe our students will appreciate that a little bit more.”

Senior Kelechi Ukaegbu, who attended Ton O Sun for the last three years, is excited to see the change in events and plans to attend Rosechella.

“I think changing up Ton O Sun for a more concert-esque event is a really cool idea,” Ukaegbu said. “This will be the thing that people go ‘Hey, that may actually be pretty cool.’ Usually, people grab a bite to eat and leave, but I think giving this event more of a ‘Coachella feel’ will keep people a bit longer.”

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Switch to CVC prompts admission fee for soccer

by RACHEL BARBER

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Roseville High School students, families and soccer fans were shocked when they realized that they would have to pay an entrance fee to get into the varsity soccer games this year at the first game on Mar. 10.

With this year’s switch to the CVC league for all Roseville athletics came various changes – one of the more recently shown changes is the new admission fee for varsity girls soccer. According to Cunha, the change has the possibility of effecting track, boys’ volleyball games and swim meets as well.

Parents and adults of RHS students will be charged $4, while students will pay $3 to get into the games.

Freshman Jared Tavares was upset when he was not able to watch his girlfriend who is on varsity soccer because of the charge.

“If they do, they should at least tell people beforehand because I didn’t know,” Tavares said. “I ended up watching through the fence.”

The varsity team is the only team affected because they use

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To remain consistent with other schools in the Capital Valley Conference, RHS recently began enforcing an entrance fee for varsity girls soccer games. The school wants to use the money to help cover travel expenses for athletes. the football field as their own, whereas freshman and JV do not.

According to Cunha there is sound rationale for the fee, stating that the reason for the charging is twofold.

As a school, RHS already charges for football, basketball and girls volleyball. Although this is the first year that RHS is starting the charge on soccer, most schools in CVC have always had this fee in place. Cosumnes Oaks is also in CVC this

year and started the expectation of the charge for admittance.

One of the primary goals of implementing the new charge is to maintain uniformity.

“The other schools in CVC charge for spring sports, so we wanna try and be consistent with them,” Cunha said. “So if our parents are paying at their place, that their parents are paying when they come to our place.”

Low admission to football and basketball games this year also

has played a role in the decision in favor of the charge. As a result of this, RHS’ gate fund is low.

The gate fund is what funds each sport team’s officials, tournaments, invitational fees, pays security, ambulances and some student activities. Since it decreased, the new entrance fee is a way to up the gate fund. “[The reason the fund is low is] partly because the CVC league this year did not travel the way the SFL did last year,” Cunha said.

The money profited from this fee goes to the RHS’ gate fund, not to the team directly. The gate fund pays for referees for all sports, as well as the tournaments that teams enter. The athletes do not pay anything to play for RHS. Stewart believes that the charge will affect a few things.

“We will be bringing in money and that is new,” Stewart said.

However, he also sees the negative effect the charge will have.

“Friends that used to come to the games for free may not show up anymore,” Stewart said. “Athletes, such as baseball players, would stop and watch our games for a while. If they are being charged, they may not stop and

watch the game which equals less fans for us.”

Some parents and fans are upset about the recent change and have strong feelings against the placement of the charge.

“It’s pointless because it’s going to make us not want to watch the games,” senior John Kidder said.

However, players on the soccer team are not as worried about the new charge, and believes that the admittance fee will not be the deciding factor when it comes to fan attendance.

“I don’t think it will affect attendance because it’s mostly parents that come to watch us play anyways and they’re dedicated to supporting us,” varsity player Jamie Screeton said.

Although she does agree that fan attendance is low, she recognizes that it has kind of always been that way.

“It was already tough getting people to come out and support us and now that they have to pay it is more of a hassle,” Screeton said. “I don’t think necessarily less people will come, but I don’t think we’ll be getting anymore either.”

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in the need for funding. AP classes often require special textbooks and other supplies, as well as teachers trained to teach to the College Board’s specific curriculum.

Though RHS administration plans to stick within the Roseville Joint Union High School District faculty pool when hiring new AP teachers, they still need to be trained to teach an AP course.

Despite the financial need, RHS principal David Byrd sees the necessity for additional funding in a positive way.

“It’s a nice problem to have when you say, because kids want to push themselves and learn

more and challenge themselves, we have to spend more money on them,” Byrd said. “In our world, if 1,450 seats want to be sat in by a student who wants to learn about a topic in an Advanced Placement class, my goal – our goal – is to help those students get in there.”

Funding these classes, while considered possible, may result in partnerships. RJUHSD could be splitting costs for these courses with all high schools. As of now, almost all high schools in the RJUHSD are demonstrating growth in AP class enrollment, so funding will be a shared job.

One of these ways may include sharing materials for the courses.

“There might be some scenarios where we have to share some

of what we have, but I’d typically think there are solutions and answers to these kinds of problems before we go ‘Never mind, we’re not going to offer all these classes,’” Byrd said.

In addition to adding new AP courses and classes, RHS is applying to become an AP Capstone school.

The diploma program offers AP Research and AP Seminar classes, which teach students core academic skills needed to succeed in a variety of classes and offer students the opportunity to deeply research topic of their choosing. These courses are designed to complement additional AP courses.

“We’ve already begun the

process of talking to the College Board about doing that particular course and becoming a capstone school,” Byrd said. “I think with all of the new kids applying and our efforts to talk some kids that historically think ‘I’m not smart enough to do AP,’ we want to be able to say, ‘Look we’ve got some support classes. We’ve got options. We’ve got things that you can do.’”

RHS teachers AnnaMarie Clark and Cari Oberreuter have both spent a week earlier this month observing a campus in Illinois that has the program in place and are expected to bring back new ideas with them.

While the program is expected to help students achieve in class-

es, RHS teacher Ron Volk thinks that the program may be detrimental to electives – as students may choose to take additional AP electives, rather than those traditionally offered at RHS. “I think it hurts my classes, the electives, especially in business,” Volk said. “One of the major benefits in taking electives is to spark interest in kids who don’t know what to do.”

However, RHS teacher Robert Mahlman believes the program will be successful in achieving its goal.

“I think it’s great, it gives students the opportunity to challenge themselves and prepare themselves for college,” Mahlman said. “I am all for it.”

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across the country.”

California Education Code includes willful defiance as a just reason for suspension and defines it under Ed Code 48900 (k) as those activities which show a willful defiance of “the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.”

“Usually what we do is we talk about the differences and size of the gap, between white and black suspensions, between Latino and white, between Indian and white, all of which is much greater when you look at the more subjective offenses,” Martinez said.

Minor offense categories hold the most potential to be influenced by unconscious bias, according to Martinez, who cited that as a possible reason for RJUHSD’s gap.

“There is probably implicit bias that we all hold, that is able to slip into the subjective decision-making for things, like ‘Who disrespected you?’ or ‘Who is not following rules?’ – ‘Who is willfully defiant?,’” Martinez said.

“It is easiest for those [biased] against certain race groups to slip into that than the more concrete ones where you need evidence.”

But Basham said other factors affect the suspension gap more than bias.

“I would not go as far as saying that our staff members are biased,” Basham said. “That’s always been our expectation, is that we’re addressing behavior – it’s not about who the student is.

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We wanted to be consistent. We didn’t want to treat one student differently than the other.”

Basham pointed to socioeconomic status, household environment and previous academic success as more concrete contributing factors to the likelihood of a student being suspended in high school.

He emphasized that the issue is not unique to RJUHSD. “Usually what you see is more boys suspended, and you’re gonna see it tied to socioeconomics,” Basham said. “You’re gonna find that more poor students are gonna be suspended, you’re gonna find that more students of color are being suspended. It’s just a systematic problem that we are aware of and we need to be dealing with.”

But Martinez said it is precisely those students who need the class time the most.

Over the past three years, Latino students at Roseville High School have lagged behind their white classmates in performance on both the English Language Arts and Mathematics sections of

the California High School Exit Exam.

In 2014, the gaps between Latino and white students scoring proficient or above were 22.4 percent and 23.5 percent for ELA and Math, respectively.

“Many times students who are behind in their academic skills, if not given the proper academic supports will ‘act out’ in class,” Martinez said. “Suspending the youth who need the most educational help is not the way to address this problem.”

Basham agrees.

“We have this saying, and most students have probably seen the signs around campus: ‘We can’t teach an empty seat,’” Basham said. “When a kid’s home on suspension, we, in essence, have created an empty seat and made it more difficult for that student to be successful. No, I don’t think that suspension is the best way to address all of these disruptive behaviors.”

A better way, Basham said, is to embrace progressive disciplining, which comprises a stepped

system that includes verbally reprimanding the student, directing him or her to sit outside for the class period, providing counseling sessions with assistant principals and maintaining contact and hosting conferences with parents and/or guardians of students experiencing behavioral issues.

Under that system, school administrators primarily regard suspension for minor offenses as a last resort. Basham said RJUHSD has followed a progressive discipline system for many years.

“Keeping California’s Kids in School” recommends a few strategies for decreasing suspensions rates and narrowing gaps, including Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) programs – which RJUHSD began to incorporate this year – as well as Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Restorative Justice systems. All three encompass the recommendations the report endorses for a healthy school environment.

“They’re all different modes of dealing with conflict, with class-

room management, with school culture,” Martinez said. “But the idea that you create a school climate in which everyone feels like they belong, in which people hold each other accountable for their actions – each of these give teachers and administrators a way to address this without kicking kids out of school.

In addition to possibly pursuing more of those strategies, RJUHSD leaders plan to continue to attempt to integrate social worker-type support systems to assist struggling students and families.

Over the past several years, RJUHSD has hired intervention counselors and EL counselors for each of its school sites, as well as learning support specialists.

“When we identify a family that’s in real crisis, or a student who is in real crisis, we have these social worker and marriage and family therapist interns that are going to the home, working with the family,” Basham said.

“We’re trying to ... intervene early on with those supports and set clear expectations for students.”

Site administrators must agree to participate and be enthusiastic about changing the culture for the gap-narrowing strategies to be effective, Martinez said. If they are, results could be immediate.

“I think that if you guys [RJUHSD] want to do something like this and get your staff trained and your school converted, then, because half of your suspensions are for these pretty soft reasons, you would see change really, really fast,” Martinez said.

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SG changes Prom setup, Cheer honored Junior Prom court to walk in different setting

This year, Roseville High School’s Junior Prom court will walk in a different background.

Because the spring Sports Rally was pushed back a week, the five-minute debut to the whole school is now replaced with a different event. Instead, juniors will be receiving more of an intimate setting. There will be a dedicated juniors-only event to in the Patti Baker Theater to showcase the princes and princesses.

“On that Friday, we’re going to find a time when all the juniors can go to the Patti Baker theatre, we’ll play the slideshow and have the juniors walk the red carpet,” student activities director Lindsey Parker said.

Parents may be invited, and juniors could do all the voting then and there, rather than having students vote at lunch or during third period.

“I think its going to be better for [the juniors],” Parker said.

“It’ll be more elegant and juniors will appreciate being able to vote right there.”

Beth Gaines distinguishes comp cheer squad Roseville High School’s cheer competition squad was honored by assemblywoman Beth Gaines on the State Assembly Floor Thursday Mar. 19 with a Certificate of Recognition and entry into the official Assembly record.

The squad placed first at the national JAMZ Cheer and Dance National School Competition in Las Vegas, Nevada on Feb. 21-22.

The team is made up of 16 girls, ranging from freshmen to seniors, who were all recognized for their work this season.

Coaches Bri Eignman, Gretchen Littlejohn and Chloe Smith, who have worked alongside the girls all year, are excited for the girls and their accomplishments.

“These student athletes put in countless extra hours of practice, on top of managing their academics, as well as cheering on their JV or varsity squad,” Eigenman said. “As coaches, we have unlimited praise and respect for this group of talented young women.”

The cheerleaders themselves were also happy to be recognized by the state.

Four year cheerleader Kendra Klint was also pleased with the award.

“It felt awesome because less than two percent of the population gets to even step foot on that floor of the assembly room, so it was really cool we got to be recognized like that,” Klint said.

SG to bring back Lip Dub, with some changes The annual Lip Dub will make another appearance this year, marking it its fourth year at Roseville High School.

A couple of months ago, Student Government was uncertain if they would continue hosting the event, but planning is now underway.

According to Lip Dub director Landon Bones, the main reason that the Lip Dub was almost cancelled was due to the fact that it has been done three years in a row.

“If we do it every year, it’s another one of those take it for granted things that people don’t really appreciate,” Bones said.

Some new additions to this year’s Lip Dub include new settings, such as in the Galleria mall and Vernon Street.

Student Government has not yet set a date for the Lip Dub. - Compiled by Rachel Barber, Eve Hill and Devin Orr

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NOTICIAS Protocolo de RHS sobre cierres de emergencia POR HALEY GUARDINO

h.guardino@eyeofthetigernews.com

El miércoles, 25 de febrero, alrededor de las 12:00, Aaron Ramzy, un sospechoso de un apuñalamiento mortal que tiene 24 años de edad, fue detenido en la tienda 7-11 en Washington Boulevard, ubicado sólo una milla de distancia de RHS. Los oficiales de policía iniciaron el cierre de emergencia de todas las escuelas en un radio de dos millas de Sunrise y Cirby después de que Ramzy fue visto allí. La escuela secundaria de Roseville está aproximadamente tres millas de distancia.

Según el director David Byrd, la razón principal que RHS no entró en cierre de emergencia el día que Aaron Ramzy fue detenido a

Brecha en suspenciones de blancos y latinos POR MIKAYLA STEARNS m.stearns@eyeofthetigernews.com

La brecha entre las tasas de suspensión para los estudiantes blancos y latinos en el Distrito de Escuelas Secundarias Roseville Joint Union (RJUHSD) era uno de los cinco más altos entre los distritos escolares de California durante el año escolar 2012-13, según el Centro de Recursos de Derechos Civiles de la UCLA. Según el centro “Manteniendo

punta de pistola a sólo una milla de la escuela se debió al hecho de que la escuela no se consideró lo suficientemente cerca del peligro Aunque oficial de policía Cortés sería el primer punto de comunicación con la policía durante un cierre de emergencia, hay veces que todo el distrito tiene el mandato de entrar en un cierre de emergencia. En un caso como esto, el director y el distrito se quedarían en contacto.

RHS tenía su segundo simulacro de cierre de emergencia del año el jueves, 26 de febrero, dos días después del incidente con Ramzy. Desde entonces, se han añadido algunos nuevos cambios al protocolo de cierre de emergencia de RHS, que Byrd cree hace que todo funcione mejor. a los Niños de California en la Escuela,” la tasa de suspensión de RJUHSD para los estudiantes latinos de todos los delitos se situó en el 15,8 por ciento en 2012-13, mucho más alta que la de los estudiantes blancos, que se situó en apenas 7,86 por ciento.

Aunque las tasas de suspensión en el distrito siguieron una tendencia en todo el estado de disminución de ese año, el año escolar 2013-14 trajo una brecha total de un poco más grande entre suspensiones de estudiantes latinos y blancos.

Español Nuevo evento recolocará Ton of Son POR GEORGE HUGHES g.hughes@eyeofthetigernews.com

Después de llevar a cabo el evento anual desde hace más de una década, el consejo estudiantil de la escuela secundaria de Roseville decidió renunciar su tradición del fin del año Ton O Son en un esfuerzo para crear un nuevo evento que será más probable que apelar a los intereses de estudiantes.

Según la maestra del consejo estudiantil Lindsey Parker, la clase está planeando llevar a cabo el nuevo evento el último viernes del año escolar, el 22 de mayo.

Parker dijo que el evento, que algunos estudiantes en el consejo estudiantil están empezando a llamar Rosechella como un juego de palabras para hacer referencia a la gran fiesta de la música del sur de California, se llevará a cabo en el campus durante el día escolar. El nombre oficial del evento no se ha decidido aún, pero Parker dijo que el nombre Rosechella está creciendo en ella.

Según Parker, todos los estudiantes compartirán un almuerzo de una hora juntos después de su tercer período de clases, durante el cual podrán divertirse, escuchar música a cargo de bandas en vivo y comer comida de caminones de alimentos.

Aunque todavía en sus prim-

eras etapas de la planificación, los pensamientos de Parker a partir de ahora involucran tres etapas estacionados en todo el campus, cada uno con algún tipo de entretenimiento musical pasando.

Rosechella también está previsto para estar en el mismo día del show de porristas, el baile al aire libre y, posiblemente, el partido de Powder Puff. Parker dijo que la clase del consejo estudiantil todavía está decidiendo la fecha del partido de Powder Puff, pero dijo que es posible que se llevará a cabo el 22 de mayo.

El día todavía terminará al tiempo normal, a las 2:30 pm, pero el horario del día escolar será alterado ligeramente.

Sin embargo, algunos estudiantes les gustaría ver un evento más largo. Jeffery Oh, un miembro de la clase del consejo estudiantil, se siente como esto no es suficiente tiempo para el evento. Él siente que porque es el último viernes del año, los estudiantes deben ser capaces de disfrutar de su día al máximo y no tener que preocuparse de sus clases.

“La escuela todavía termina a las 2:30 pm y Rosechella es sólo una hora de duración, que todavía hace clases una longitud decente, así que me siento como Rosechella no es tiempo suficiente,” dijo Oh. Parker cree que Rosechella será más atractivo y entretenido para estudiantes de RHS.

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NOTICIAS

REPORTAJES Estudiante viene de Irán para escapar de la persecución POR CATHERINE BARBER c.barber@eyeofthetigernews.com

Más de 12.000 millas de tierra y mar separan la República Islámica de Irán y California. Estudiante de segundo año Roksana Shahriari y su familia tomaron recientemente el largo viaje, ya que huyeron de su país de origen, Irán, con la esperanza de obtener la libertad religiosa, social y educativa en los Estados Unidos.

Shahriari y su familia practican la fe La Bahhá’í, la mayor minoría religiosa no musulmana en Irán. Para toda la existencia de Bahhá’í en Irán, los creyentes han sido perseguidos porque el gobierno no reconoce oficialmente o proteger la religión. Aunque la república no obliga directamente a las personas Bahhá’í a abandonar el país, Shahriari establece que el gobierno alienta seguidores activos para partir.

“Es difícil vivir allí porque soy Bahhá’í y Bahhá’í gente no puede ir a una universidad allí o trabajar para el estado,” dijo Shahriari.

“Sólo hay tantas cosas como estas

que no pueden hacer.”

La madre de Shahriari quería mudarse a Estados Unidos para garantizar un futuro mejor para ella y sus hijos donde las personas no sean procesadas por lo que creen. Con el fin de garantizar un futuro así, Shahriari y su familia se mudaron a Roseville. La madre de Shahriari optó por residir en Roseville por el árbitro pita cercanía a la familia, así como el atractivo general.

Al hacer el movimiento, Shahriari tuvo que decir adiós a muchos de sus amigos cercanos y familiares. Actualmente, el padre de Shahriari permanece en Irán, pero tiene planes de unirse con su madre, su hermano y ella en los Estados Unidos en algún momento en el futuro cercano. Dejando atrás las caras familiares y la vida que conoció no fue fácil, pero la noción de libertad la animó.

La censura en Irán abarca una amplia variedad de puntos de venta. Las fuentes de entretenimiento, noticias y contenido religioso a menudo se filtran por el gobierno

iraní. Con una nueva libertad de expresión en América, Shahriari aspira a un día de crear sus propios diseños de moda. A diferencia de California, la oportunidad de trabajar en la industria de la moda en Irán es muy pequeña.

De vuelta a casa, Shahriari tenía que estar completamente cubierta hasta cumplir con el código de vestimenta estricto para las mujeres. Ahora ella abraza el estilo americano de la ropa.

Shahriari comenzó la escuela en RHS el 16 de marzo. A pesar de venir a los EE.UU. de un país diferente con una visa de turista, el proceso de inscripción siempre es el mismo para todos los estudiantes al tanto que ellos viven dentro de las fronteras de Roseville. Consejero Nancy Muñoz trabajó con Shahriari para llegar a un horario que permita una transición sin tropiezos en el cuarto trimestre.

En el futuro Shahriari espera asistir a una universidad en los Estados Unidos. Hasta entonces, ella planea continuar su educación y expresar su nueva libertad cada día.

Asistiendo la escuela con una hija POR JOSLYN CARRELL j.carrell@eyeofthetigernews.com

Cuando Verónica Castellanos comenzó la secundaria, estaba decidida a graduarse en cuatro años.

Su determinación para graduarse se hizo aún mayor durante su tercer año, el año en que se enteró de que estaba embarazada. Ella quería graduarse para su hija.

Castellanos fue 17 semanas embarazada cuando lo descubrió. Aunque Castellanos estaba llegando más cerca a su fecha de vencimiento en el comienzo de su tercer año, se decidió a continuar la escuela y quería seguir en RHS en lugar de Adelante.

Después de su graduación, Castellanos planea continuar su educación en Heald College, donde participará en un programa de vocación para hacerse asistente médico. Ella también le gustaría trabajar en el departamento de Obstetricia y Ginecología con el fin de ayudar a las madres con sus bebés, como los que lo hicieron por ella.

DEPORTES El equipo varsity de voleibol empieza la temporada con un comienzo fuerte POR NICK SAPP

n.sapp@eyeofthetigernews.com

La temporada de los equipos de voleibol de los muchachos del equipo varsity de la escuela secundaria de Roseville está a pleno rendimiento ahora. El equipo es 4-0 en la liga y 13-3 en general.

Los Tigres participaron en un torneo en la UC Davis el 7 de marzo. RHS fue invicto en el juego de grupo superando a McClatchy, West Campus, Franklin y Pleasant Valley. Eso les valió un pase en la primera ronda de ponerlos en las semifinales donde vencieron a la escuela secundaria de Galileo. En la final se encontraron con la escuela rival, Oakmont, que vencieron a ganar el torneo.

“Estos muchachos son jóvenes y tienen más talento y el impulso para ganar,” dijo el entrenador Jason Cole.

Según Cole la madurez y la experiencia de los equipos se ha reducido debido a la pérdida de dos estudiantes del último año, que recientemente dejó el equipo.

“Todavía tenemos suficiente talento para tener éxito este año y más por venir,” dijo Cole.

Capitán del equipo y estudi-

ante del último año Trevor Pratt es bloqueador central eléctrica y bateador según Cole. “Él es una fuerza positiva detrás de nuestro equipo,” dijo Cole.

Los estudiantes del primer y segundo año están mostrando una gran promesa según Cole. Estudiante de segundo año Neil Riley y estudiante de primer año Jacob Cole son aquellos que muestran promesa.

“Neil es muy ambicioso y un fuerte jugador de utilidad, entrando en un papel que tiene que con el fin de beneficiar a nuestro equipo,” dijo Cole. “Jacob es uno de nuestros jugadores más consistentes sobre todo cuando se trata de transmitir y de servir.”

Este es el primer año de Cole como entrenador del equipo de los chicos del equipo varsity aquí en RHS y también es el primer año de estar en la CVC. El año pasado RHS terminó con un récord de la liga de 5-5. Los tigres son sólo un partido de empate que ganar totales del año pasado.

El próximo partido será contra Tigres de los gatos monteses de Whitney en su casa el 24 de marzo.

Sofból empieza la temporada costando POR CESAR SANCHEZ

c.sanchez@eyeofthetigernews.com

Desde dominando la liga SFL la temporada pasada de sofból, las chicas están costando en la nueva liga con un récord de 1-3 en la división inferior, la liga CVC. “Si nosotros no recogeremos no llegaremos a las post-temporadas que será un chasco,” dijo el jugador del equipo varsity Aly Manzo.

“La liga CVC es muy diferente que la liga SFL” dijo el jugador del equipo varsity Katie Edgar.

El equipo se enfrenta a nuevos oponentes que nunca han jugado antes de lo que es un territorio desconocido y tener que adaptarse a la liga CVC. “Me siento como si no recogerlo, no vamos a hacerlo en playoffs. Tenemos la capacidad, sólo tenemos que jugar como un equipo en lugar de las personas “, dijo el jugador del equipo universitario Aly Manzo.

El equipo tiene un total de ocho más partidos en la liga. Su esperanza es ganar más partidos.

Su próximo partido es el martes contra la escuela secundaria de Whitney.

El equipo varsity de béisbol espera tener una temporada existosa

ROBBIE SHORT EYE OF THE TIGER

Al fin de febrero algunas escuelas en el área entraron en un cierre de emergencia cuando un sospechoso estaba en fuga, pero RHS no era uno de esas escuelas a pesar de que estábamos más cerca.

REPORTAJES

ROBBIE SHORT EYE OF THE TIGER

Roksana Shahriari dejó atrás su vida en Irán y vino a Roseville para que pueda practicar su religión libremente. En Irán el gobierno anima a personas que practican Bahhá’í salir del país.

DEPORTES

POR LOGAN ASH

l.ash@eyeofthetigernews.com

Este año en 2015 el equipo de béisbol de la secundaria de Roseville tiene una meta de conseguir un campeonato en la nueva liga.

“Nuestra meta este año es de traer a casa un campeonato de la CVC,” dijo el primera base Spencer Bracco. “Queremos levantar una bandera.”

Según el entrenador Lance Fischer, la nueva liga no va a ser más fácil que la liga de Sierra Foothills. Todavía cree que su equipo tendrá más éxito en el nuevo año, porque el equipo ha mejorado mucho desde el año pasado.

“Hay buenos equipos en toda la CVC también,” dijo Fischer.

“Creo que vamos a tener más éxito porque son mejores y tenemos más talento y más herramientas.”

Fischer cree que nadie se destaca del resto del equipo, pero todos ellos han mejorado respecto al año pasado.

“Todo el equipo ha mejorado, todo el equipo es mejor y los chicos siguen compitiendo por tiempo de juego,” dijo Fischer.

Estudiante del último año y

ROBBIE SHORT EYE OF THE TIGER

Este año el equipo varsity de béisbol tiene metas grandes. Los jugadores creen que tienen suficiente talento para llegar lejos en la post-temporada, debido a la química que tienen los chicos cuando juegan juntos. jardinero izquierdo John Kidder cree que la química del equipo ha mejorado enormemente desde el año pasado a este año. Kidder también piensa que un factor importante que contribuye a los avances de la química del equipo se han atribuido al hecho de que los últimos años, el equipo jugó solamente para sí mismos, mientras que este año están haciendo un esfuerzo colectivo.

En los primeros partidos de la temporada, los Tigres han tenido sus puntos brillantes con grandes

victorias y han tenido pérdidas cercanas pero según Lara, ellos no han sido capaces de llevar a todos los aspectos del partido juntos a la vez.

A medida que la temporada regular se inicia, todo el equipo tiene grandes esperanzas de llegar lejos en la CVC y la sección.

“Es por eso que lo hacemos esa es nuestra meta para ganar la liga y llegar a los post-temporadas y darnos la oportunidad de ganar el campeonato de la sección,” dijo Fischer.

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Roxana Shahriari leaves Iran for liberation by catherine barber

c.barber@eyeofthetigernews.com

Over 12,000 miles of land and sea separates the Islamic Republic of Iran and California.

Sophomore Roxana Shahriari and her family recently took the long journey as they fled from their home country, Iran, in hopes of gaining religious, social and educational freedom in the United States.

Shahriari and her family practice the Bahhá’í faith, the largest non-Muslim minority religion in Iran. For all of Bahhá’í’s existence in Iran, believers have been persecuted because the government does not officially recognize or protect the religion.

Although the republic doesn’t directly force Bahhá’í people to leave the country, Shahriari said the government encourages active followers to depart.

“It is hard to live there because I am Bahhá’í and Bahhá’í people can’t go to a university there or work for the state,” Shahriari said. “There are just so many things like this that they can’t do.”

Shahriari’s mother wanted to move to America to ensure a brighter future for her and her children where people are not prosecuted for what they believe in. In order to ensure such a future, Shahriari and her family moved to Roseville. Shahriari’s mother chose to reside in Roseville due to its close proximity to their family, as well as the general appeal.

Upon making the move, Shahriari had to say goodbye to many of her close friends and family members. Currently, Shahriari’s father remains in Iran but plans on joining her mother, brother and her in America sometime in the near future.

Leaving behind familiar faces and the life Shahriari once knew was not easy, but the notion of liberty encouraged her.

Censorship in Iran encompasses a wide variety of outlets.

MARIAN ABDELMALEK EYE OF THE TIGER

Left, RHS sophomore Roxana Shahriari works on a painting in her third-period Art 1 class. Shahriari, who identifies as a member of the Bahha’i faith, recently moved to Roseville from Iran to escape religious persecution she and her family experienced in the country. She hopes to enjoy a greater amount of social and educational freedom in the US than she had access to back home.

Sources of entertainment, news and religious content are often filtered by the Iranian government.

The agenda behind such censorship differs with each case, with some restrictions being politically motivated while others arise from social concerns.

“In the city shop you can buy [American movies] but they censor the films so some of the parts are lost,” Shahriari said. “If you watch the original you can see that they are always different. I used to listen to English music, the ones that you like here, but there they are not free. For example in our mall or in a shop they shouldn’t play that [type of] music loud.”

With a newfound freedom of expression in America, Shahriari aspires to one day create her own fashion designs. Unlike in California, opportunities to work in the fashion industry in Iran aren’t great. Back home, Shahriari had

to be completely covered up to comply with the strict dress code for women. Now she embraces the American style of clothing.

“People in Iran are not free,” Shahriari said. “There are special police there that [enforce the dress code] and if you wear a bad covering they will take you out of class. There is freedom here and you can wear whatever you want.”

Shahriari started school at RHS on Mar. 16. Despite coming to the U.S. from a different country on a tourist visa, the enrollment process remains the same for every student as long as they live within Roseville boundaries.

Counselor Nancy Munoz worked with Shahriari to come up with a schedule that would allow for a smooth transition into the fourth quarter. Compared to the school system in Iran, the United States offers a wider variety of classes and electives. This term Shahriari

enjoys expressing herself through art and guitar.

Art teacher Patricia Leong often hosts foreign students in her Art 1 class and believes that students like Shahriari bring a new and exciting element to RHS. “I think it’s fun,” Leong said.

“We both learn from one another and we learn a little about their culture and they learn a little bit about our culture. I usually try to ask them questions to make sure they understand things.”

Shahriari sits at a table in her art class with other students who, like herself, migrated to America from foreign countries. Members of the table include freshman Chloe Fan, who recently migrated from Singapore, and sophomore Julia Tarasova, who came from the Republic of Moldova.

The unique table dynamic allows the students to share stories and relate with one another.

“I find it a great experience

After pregnancy, senior set to graduate Castellanos doing it for her daughter

by JOSLYN CARRELL

j.carrell@eyeofthetigernews.com

When Veronica Castellanos first started high school, she was determined to graduate in four years. Her determination to graduate became even greater during her junior year, the year she found out she was pregnant, as she wanted to graduate for her daughter.

Castellanos was 17 weeks along when she discovered that she was pregnant, and though it was shocking, she looked toward making a better future for her and her unborn child.

“At first I was very nervous, but as it got closer to the time I was to deliver I started to get more and more excited,” Castellanos said. “I started to buy her a lot of clothes and other little things.”

Though Castellanos was reaching closer to her due date at the beginning of her senior year, she decided to continue attending school. While Castellanos had the option to attend Adelante High School, she wanted to continue at RHS, as she felt it was a better fit.

As Castellanos stepped into her fall term of senior year, things were very different for her. She felt that everyone was staring at her, which drove her to cover up but never to stop attending school. Her teachers were very supportive of her, and helped her along the way.

COURTESY ROXANA SHAHRIARI

Spanish teacher Curtis Hobbs was one of the teachers that made a big impact in Castellanos’ time at RHS. “I told her to just focus on the things [that] were really essential that she needed to be successful, and so I didn’t have her do all the busy work, getting her rest making sure that she was taking care of herself and not stressing herself,” Hobbs said. “I also made arrangements that she could take the test early so she was on track to pass.”

After graduation, Castellanos plans on continuing her education at Heald College, where she will participate in a vocational program intended to become a medical assistant. She would also like to work in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department in order to help out mothers having their babies, as those did for her.

“I don’t plan on moving out until I have everything set in stone, that way I can afford a good life for my daughter,” Castellanos said.

Since Castellanos’ and her daughter’s father are not together, they have a schedule in order to make sure they both have equal time with their daughter. Castellanos’ is with her daughter Thursday through Sunday. Though they have split time, they try to also do things as a family.

Having to co-parent is sometimes difficult for Castellanos as it is time away from her daughter,

because people are so different and have different cultures and views,” Tarasova said. “To experience that and to know from another person what it is like – it makes you wonder more and want to travel.”

Tarasova started school at RHS in August 2014. Ever since, she has improved her English and learned more about the United States. Having herself adjusted to American culture, Tarasova believes that Shahriari will develop her own strategy to get used to the American way of life.

“When you move you learn a lot, meet new people and get used to different things,” Shahriari said. “It builds you to be a more interesting person and you learn what you like what you don’t.”

Persian is Shahriari’s native language. However, Shahriari started studying the English language at the age of three and

continued learning in school and with a private tutor. Back home, her peers struggled with the language, always saying that “English is really hard,” but Shahriari always got high grades in the subject. Currently, she refines her English skills with ELD teacher Curt Hobbs.

“On the third day she was already explaining to two of my other new arrivals – we were talking about subject verb agreement, why it is ‘is’ and not ‘are,’” Hobbs said. “To see that click and to see the other students understand that and respond to that tells me they already accepted her, and together they are going to achieve a lot more than just working individually.”

In the future, Shahriari hopes to attend a university in the United States. Until then, she plans to further her education and express her newfound freedom each day.

FASHION COLUMN: FRESHMAN ASPEN GRAMBUSCH

Simple styles, inspired

by San Francisco outfits

by MICHELLE IM

m.im@eyeofthetigernews.com

COURTESY Veronica Castellanos

Since having her daughter near the beginning of this school year, senior Veronica Castellanos has worked hard to make sure she is able to provide for her child. She will walk the stage this May with her C/O 2015 classmates. which she doesn’t want to miss.

“I just want to make sure I get to see everything that happens to her,” Castellanos said. “I don’t want to miss out on anything.”

Along with following her original goal to graduate, Castellanos also works at the Legends Woodcreek Golf Course in order to support her daughter. According to Castellanos, the most difficult part of having such a hectic schedule is the time spent away from her daughter.

“It sucks because I miss her a lot, and she has been starting

to crawl and all this new stuff I don’t want to miss out on,” Castellanos said.

Through her determination to remain in school during her pregnancy, Castellanos has reached her goal. Castellanos will be graduating with the Class of 2015 and is looking forward to her future.

“I feel proud of myself because most people who have a kid drop out,” Castellanos said.

“Even though it is a lot of stress and hard, I still made it for my baby girl.”

How would you describe your fashion?

Well, it’s kind of fancy. I don’t know how to explain it, but I wear a lot of necklaces all the time. And I shop at Gap; it’s kind of a fancy store, so pretty classy.

Do you have any specific pieces you like to wear from there?

During the winter, I like to wear khakis or slacks, and during the summer, I’ll wear khaki shorts and I don’t know how to explain this one…but just regular shorts.

Where did you get your hair done?

My mom’s friend. A few years ago. And I’m gonna dye it again.

Like a silver. Because silver matches with everything.

Do you have any ideas for this weird winter-spring transition?

I don’t know, just get some cool shorts like maybe khakis or I don’t really know what they’re called… Chambray shorts. I think thats what they’re called.

I don’t know why they’re called that. Maybe cozy shorts like they’re cozy and nice to wear but also classy. Around the same kind.

Do you have any favorite pieces for the spring time?

I just got this new top, and it’s called the peplum top. It’s tight right [at the waist] but at the bottom, it flows. I want to wear that

ROBBIE SHORT EYE OF THE TIGER

Grambusch crafts her look with a shirt and skirt from Gap, sliders from Steve Madden and a necklace from Banana Republic. with some skirts, and I can wear that with a necklace. It’ll look good.

How do you dress in the morning?

I do it by night, and then sometimes I would do my own fashion show and try it on to see if I want to wear it the next day. If it doesn’t look good, I’ll look all night long. I never pick them in the morning but the night before, so I know I’m ready.

Where do you get your inspiration?

San Francisco. I [like] the business outfits… and atmosphere…

I like plain clothes.

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Setbacks not enough to keep Erickson down

by MARIAN ABDELMALEK

m.abdelmalek@eyeofthetigernews.com

When Susan Erickson was driving to pick her children up from the babysitter’s house, she had no idea that the ambulance coming the opposite way was driving her seven-month-old daughter to the hospital.

At seven months, senior Natalie Erickson was diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome, a brain trauma that resulted from being vigorously shaken by her babysitter, leaving her completely paralyzed on the left-side. Her experience is now motivating her to help other children who have been through hospitalization.

As Susan Erickson arrived to Sutter Roseville, a group of nurses were attempting to stabilize Natalie, who was crying on her right side but frozen on her left. After going through a CAT scan, Erickson had to endure brain surgery and a nine-day stay at the hospital.

The head trauma she endured makes Erickson’s survival a rarity, as a majority of kids who suffer from shaken baby syndrome don’t survive to possess the level of functioning she currently has.

“I know when it first happened you are praying like crazy and then when they tell you that it’s brain damage you kinda wonder what are we going to be left with,” Susan Erickson said.

“First you’re praying for her to live and then you kinda pray for what kind of quantity of life she will have.”

For the first few weeks, the Erickson family was unsure of how their daughter would be cognitively, as she was blind, paralyzed, and deaf in one ear.

The doctors were also unable to predict how she would perform academically and how well she would learn.

Now, nearly 18 years later, Erickson is only slightly paralyzed and is planning to attend the University of Nevada, Reno in the fall to pursue a career as a childlife specialist. As a child-life specialist, Erickson would work with children and families in hospitals to help them cope with the

Senior succeeds with support of doctors, twin brother

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Despite enduring the severe brain trauma of shaken baby syndrome and several major corrective surgeries as a child, senior Natalie Erickson is now only slightly paralyzed and plans to attend UNR next fall to pursue a career as a child-life specialist. She aims to provide injuried children with the same support she received from her own specialist growing up. She cites her family – especially her twin brother, Adam Erickson (above) – as a major influence in her recovery. challenges of hospitalization, illness, and disability. Just like her child-life specialist has always helped calm her nerves before a surgery, she hopes to do the same for other children.

“Through having so many surgeries I’ve always had a child life specialist with me and they’ve always helped me prepare for surgeries and helped calm me down before surgeries so I want to help people in that way,” Erickson said.

Erickson has been through three major surgeries: brain surgery when she was seven months, and two on her arm in order to lengthen her tendons, and shorten muscles near her thumb. She also receives botox injections in her hand every four months in order to relax her hand

muscles.

Her ability to reduce her paralysis has been driven by her hard work and support system.

According to Erickson, if she ever failed at something her parents would help her by explaining a different way she could do it.

A big part in her recovery when she was younger was her twin brother, senior Adam Erickson, as he was a kind of developmental gauge for both her and their parents.

“Adam would actually pull on her when she would crawl and she would kinda do her funny little crawl on her tummy he would actually kinda grab her,” Susan Erickson said. “When he was standing up he would grab her and want her to stand next to

him.”

Erickson sees her brother as her role model as he always has a positive attitude toward things and is encouraging of her.

“Adam [is my role model] because he is my twin, everything he did growing up I would try to do and my parents would look at his milestones to see what I should be doing,” Erickson said. “He will always be there for me and I will always be there for him.”

For Adam Erickson, he never noticed anything different when growing up; to him, Natalie Erickson was just his sister.

“I think she’s her own role model,” Adam Erickson said.

“She’s a fighter, she always has been. Her personality just transcends anything else, anything

that’s different about her. When you think back about the difficulties and hindrances and stuff that she had you just think ‘wow’ but at the time when you’re seeing it you’re just like ‘Natalie’s just doing Natalie.’”

As her family has always supported her, Erickson has always done the same for them.

Whether supporting her brother and sister at their sporting events, or holding the net while fishing, Erickson always finds a role in everything they do.

“Natalie loves to go watch Adam play baseball. Adam expects her to be there,” Susan Erickson said.

Erickson finally started walking around 16 months, and was wearing a brace in order to help her balance.

“Every milestone she made it was just a time to celebrate that she got that far,” Susan Erickson said.

Her love for horses has also driven her path to recovery, as she began horseback riding as physical therapy when she was about eight years old. Through horseback riding, Erickson’s balance improved, reflexes quickened, and she learned that if she fell, she could get back up again.

Just like she gets bucked off in horseback riding and gets back on, Adam Erickson believes that his sister is not afraid of what happened to her and thinks it’s great that she’s pursuing a career as a child life specialist. He said he’s proud of her.

After Erickson graduates this year, she will be heading to UNR in the fall to pursue her passion.

Having undergone so many surgeries and having a supportive child life specialist has driven her to want to provide the same kind of support for other children one day.

“I think she’s gonna do great [in college] and a lot of that has to do with she really learned a lot about what she can and cannot do academically,” Susan Erickson said. “I think she always knew she was strong in her strong-will to do things physically, because I think anybody telling her she couldn’t do something made her want to do it even more.”

Though she can’t do a lot of the little things like eating a hamburger with two hands, the monkey bars, or putting her hair up in a ponytail, Erickson believes that her head trauma brought a lot of good things into her life, along with the bad.

“She’s always an amazing and brave young girl and she’s gonna still be this amazing and brave young woman, [when] she goes forward,” Susan Erickson said. “She’s not going to ever hesitate to do something because she doesn’t think she’s prepared or able, she will tackle all new things and stuff because that’s just the kind of person she is. We see great things her future. She and Adam will always be amazingly close.”

APES students to bloom rare plant

by LUZ FLORES

l.flores@eyeofthetigernews.com

AP Environmental Science students’ knowledge blossoms with the opportunity to grow a rare plant.

The classes are growing a rare plant called Amorphophallus bulbifer, whose origins may be traced to India.

“It grows fine here in California, as long as you water it regularly,” APES teacher CJ Addington said.

This particular plant is rare due to low demand for it, making it a sort of collector’s item.

APES students were given the opportunity to grow the rare plant due to the fact that Addington received seeds from the plant’s flower in the greenhouse, located in Senior Square.

Prior to receiving seeds from the older rare plant in the greenhouse, Addington was originally able to get a couple of seeds from an online seed company.

The plant can grow to a moderate size, something students need to take account for when maintaining the plant after the school year ends.

“They get to be kind of big so when they go dormant we have to uproot it and put it in a bigger pot,” senior Jeremy Wing said.

Addington’s experience with growing the plant led to the decision that the APES classes would get the opportunity to grow the rare plant, as well learn more about the greenhouse.

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COURTESY JASON BRADLEY

RHS’ Peer Helping program created a book filled with positive notes about counselor Jason Bradley and presented it to him after his son Eli was born Feb. 11. They mean for Bradley to have his son read it one day to learn about his dad.

ROBBIE SHORT EYE OF THE TIGER

Above, APES teacher CJ Addington directs his second-period students to place their newly planted Amorphophallus bulbifer plants in rows in RHS’ greenhouse. Addington said the plant is a kind of collector’s item.

“I wanted them to gain a better understanding of how greenhouses work… and also to gain some experience with planting things,” Addington said.

The automated nature of the greenhouse makes the maintenance of the plants relatively easy.

“We learned how it actually operates and how it simulates the greenhouse gasses,” senior Craig Cayetano said.

Since the plants are mainly maintained in the greenhouse, students take their plants home and the science teachers take care in managing the greenhouse.

The greenhouse shelters various types of plants, ranging from

vegetables and fruit to plants uncommon locally.

Roseville High School is also the only high school to have a greenhouse in Placer County.

“There’s a lot of pride to be the only school in Placer County with a greenhouse,” senior Nicole Trezza said.

Due to the expansion of educational opportunities in the AP Environmental Science classes and the greenhouse, more students may be interested in gaining knowledge about agriculture.

“I’d love to set up an agriculture program, it’s just a matter of finding the time to do it and the students that are interested,” Addington said.

Peer Helping binds book for newest member of Bradley’s family – his son, Eli

by DELPHINE KYUBWA

d.kyubwa@eyeofthetigernews.com

After Roseville High School counselor Jason Bradley welcomed his first child into the world on Feb. 11, Peer Helping came together and gave the little boy a sneak peek of his father.

The Peer Helping class created a book about Bradley intended for his newborn son, Eli, to read one day. The book essentially includes notes and letters that highlight why they consider Bradley to be both a good person and counselor.

“I wanted to honor a counselor who helps so many students and is already a father figure to many,” Peer Helping teacher

Valerie Erb said.

Erb purchased a hardback book, bought lettering for Eli’s name on the cover, and proceeded to ask the Peer Helpers in her class who knew Bradley well to write about him. Junior Zachary Swisher was among the number of students who had positive sentiments to share about Bradley.

“Bradley is a really upbeat guy, he’s really happy-go-lucky and puts his all in everything he does and he really tries to make everybody at Roseville feel like somebody is there for them,” Swisher said.

Bradley’s favorite part of counseling is seeing students overcome different obstacles.

“Anytime I see a student meet

a goal, whether its academic, social, or personal, it’s amazing,” Bradley said.

Bradley was moved by the letters and told Erb it was possibly the best gift he has received at RHS. He was in awe.

“The letters were very, very touching,” Bradley said.

He hopes that his son recognizes the good in him and that just as he has good intentions when it comes to his students, the same applies to his son as well. Bradley told his wife that they need to read the book to Eli everyday. “[Eli] won’t always be happy with me but I hope that he will trust that I am doing what is right for him,” Bradley said.

Opinion

march 25, 2015

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UC schools put money first, CA students last A

fter years of clubs, AP classes, SAT and ACT tests, I’ve been told that my time may have been wasted.

With a need for $218 million and a record number of students applying, UC President Janet Napolitano has made a decision that leaves me absolutely devastated.

UC schools will be limiting the number of incoming California students to the amount last year while adding a possible 5% increase in tuition.

As a senior who will be affected by both of these decisions, as well as a California resident, I find this to be absolutely unacceptable. UC schools reached a record with 103,000 applications students for the fall of 2015, yet they think that placing any sort of limit is reasonable.

The demand is increasing, so the number of spots should be, too. As California residents, we should be the top priority for these public schools.

The number of non-resident students at UCLA and UC Berkeley has already reached 30%, and while the two schools will not continue to raise the number of these students, all other UC campuses can expect to see their levels rise just as high.

I know that having a university with students of diverse

BY NETZY ORTEGA

n.ortega@eyeofthetigernews.com

backgrounds is important, but California has such a variety of students. Adding out-of-state and even international students is important, but it shouldn’t be what’s most important. While it adds to these campuses, it’s not necessary and isn’t why the UC system of schools was made.

I’ve lived in California all my life. Schools like UC Berkeley and UC Davis were always right around the corner for me. I’ve heard all the stories from people living around me that went to these schools and I couldn’t help but dream about going there one day.

I just can’t imagine out-of-state students having the same physical and emotional connection California students do. Knowing that, I also can’t see them staying in California and contributing to our state after they graduate.

While the success of the students after they graduate is important,

schools should take a look at what they do with their degree.

I know an additional $23,000 from out-of-state students in tuition can make a big difference, but money shouldn’t always be first. While the prestige of many UC schools may lead to several nonresident applicants, it shouldn’t threaten the chances of California students.

The job of these UC schools is to educate California residents.

Yet the UC system is just using these students as a way to get what they want.

California students should never be used in such a way. The problems present today came as a result of a lack of financial planning from the schools, not the students. The amount of state funding has gone done every year so they should have been preparing their school for the amount they receive today.

I just find it absolutely ridiculous that they don’t have enough money to enroll the students they want or offer them the classes they need, yet many are building new libraries or gymnasiums. Janet Napolitano’s $570,000 salary and paid housing and car expenses, remains unaffected throughout all of this. Yet during this time of financial crisis these costs aren’t even mentioned.

CATHERINE BARBER EYE OF THE TIGER

Napolitano remains sure that the proposed 5% increase in tuition will lead to changes, yet fails to explain them clearly for California students who are already at a disadvantage. While all admitted students may have to pay more in tuition, 2,000 of the 3,000 spots made by the increase will go to out of state students.

While they pay more to start off, there isn’t part of me that feels bad. They chose to apply

to a public school in a different state knowing there are several universities across the country.

The number of spots available for new students should be more for the California students who are already pushed aside.

Being given a spot on a waitlist is what UC schools think is enough for California residents who don’t get in due to the large acceptance of out of state students.

I’ve been placed on a waitlist by a

UC school which I was qualified to be accepted at. A place on this list isn’t only unacceptable, but also kind of offensive.

UC schools need to look back at why they were formed and what their goals are.

While there may not be another chance for students who applied this year and have already heard from UC schools’ admissions offices, I would hate for this to affect current juniors.

To seniors hearing from colleges Dear Applicant,

CATHERINE BARBER EYE OF THE TIGER

five things you learned you never thought you’d use 1. The Pythagorean Theorem (and other math stuff)

4. The entire Physiology class curriculum

Trust me – we’ve all been there.

Sitting in Algebra, our eyelids drooping, drool running down our cheek, flies buzzing around us. It’s hard to pay attention in math classes, and that might even be an understatement. Whether it be quickly determining how the store-wide discount will affect your total or deciding what size bed will fit in your rectangularshaped room, math does come in handy. Plus, the more basic ability to count back change to a customer at Old Navy is helpful, too.

You have recently made a commitment to going to the gym every day after school, and you’ve cleaned up your diet a bit, too. Still not seeing the results you want? Borrow a Physiology student’s body chart and there will be more than enough helpful information to help guide your workouts and better understand what your body needs to be successful.

2. How to write a persuasive essay If everyone were to be honest, I think the majority of seniors would admit college personal statements are just one huge persuasive essay that you’ll be writing for weeks. Being able to convey your point as a fact rather than an opinion (FACT: I am the best student you could pick to attend your university) is a skill you can sharpen throughout your high school years.

BY HALEY GUARDINO

h.guardino@eyeofthetigernews.com

3. How to read and understand poetry Imagine this: you’ve just entered into a mutual Instagram followship with the most attractive co-worker at your part-time, minimum-wage high school job.

When you met, you got the feeling they were pretty intellectual, but you didn’t realize the intensity until you scrolled through their posts to see that all their captions are Robert Frost and Walt Whitman quotes. You’re probably feeling pretty excited you paid attention to Mrs. Mowrer’s poetry lectures, right? Flip back through your interactive notebook and reread those highlighted stanzas. Nothing more impressive than someone who can allude to nineteenth-century poetry over a Double-Double and strawberry milkshake.

5. Health and Safety lectures I know what you think I am going to say was useful from Health and Safety, but let’s be honest, I learned more about sex from Mean Girls than I did in my mandatory freshman course. One thing I did take away from the Health and Safety course is the information about emotions and fight-or-flight responses. Having the knowledge and understanding why co-workers, customers, or even family members are acting out in anger or despair comes in handy as you venture out into the world on your own.

Congratulations! You have been admitted to your dream college for Fall 2015. Now just kick back and relax knowing your college fantasy will come true. Dream University offers everything you envisioned and more.

You should be proud of your remarkable accomplishments. Your academic rigor and leadership skills outshine all others. The admission process is extremely selective. Out of over 70,000 applicants, you by far stood out. Now you can brag about your admission on all forms of social media to show everyone just how much better you are than them!

You can also breathe a sigh of relief knowing that you won’t have to attend one of those despicable low-class safety schools you tried to convince yourself would be acceptable. Here, everything will be one hundred times better than at any other college you got into. Our school will teach you things that no other school could, things that haven’t even been discovered yet.

Your dream college welcomes you to the Class of 2019. After you graduate you will immediately be handed your choice of a job with a six-figure starting salary. We know you will be attending because, duh, we are your dream school.

Office of Admissions Your Dream University Dear Applicant, We regret to inform you that you have been denied admission into your dream university. Actually, if we regretted it we wouldn’t have rejected you. Your aspiration for the past four years has just been obliterated; don’t feel bad, though.

Turns out that over 70,000 people applied. Your hard work was thrown into the pile with all the other submissions and after glancing at your test scores and GPA we knew you could never possibly succeed here. Don’t think your sentimental personal statements about your greatest triumphs and deepest struggles went unnoticed, they were just overshadowed by John Smith’s amazing account of rescuing orphans from a burning building.

In determining our decision we paid no attention your sensibility, humor or ability to make small talk with anyone you meet. In fact, we didn’t even make an attempt to test for those factors on the application. Who needs fun and personable qualities when you have perfect grades and test scores?

I am sure you are wondering why you endured all of those sleepless nights to study for classes that you only took to impress us. Or why you retook the ACT and SAT several times to only receive a similar score. Or why you abandoned your social life to become a full time volunteer and join all those time-consuming clubs. Well, it is too late to save yourself the pain, time and effort now so all you can do is regret.

Speaking of, you probably are feeling a lot of regret right now. What could you have done differently? Should you have started your own business or charity? Probably so, better yet a business that donates its proceeds to charity. Should you have started test prep in the 8th grade? Yes. Your 13-year-old eighth grade self definitely should have foreseen what it takes to get into our university.

Regardless of what you did and didn’t do, your last glimpse of hope for attending your dream university was demolished during this first line of this letter. You might as well pick up an application to your favorite fast food joint – they might actually accept you.

At least you tried. #sorrynotsorry Office of Admissions Your Dream University Rejection is never easy, especially when you get your hopes up. However, getting denied from your dream college is not the end of the world.

Yes, it is painful, disappointing and quite frankly demeaning, but in a couple of months that notification won’t matter.

Be happy for the ones who got accepted into their dream school, and be proud of your own accomplishments. Even if you only took those AP classes and got involved in extracurriculars for college apps, believe it or not, they probably made you a better student and person.

Getting rejected does not mean you are less intelligent or have less

BY CATHERINE BARBER c.barber@eyeofthetigernews.com potential than anyone else. Everyone is at a different point in life and it is important to know that you don’t have to have everything figured out yet. These decisions are big and exciting, yes, but it’s not the end of the world. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

Enjoy the end of senior year and know that surviving high school without a complete mental breakdown was an achievement in itself.

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march 25, 2015

Admin’s secrecy only breeds misinformation I

n recent events at Roseville High School, it is clear there is some level of communication disconnect, and even secrecy, between RHS administration and students and parents. The events that have made this abundantly clear include the indefinite leave of absence of one of RHS’ U.S. Government teachers/athletic directors, as well as the lockdown Oakmont High School had on Feb. 25, that RHS did not.

With the dismissal of one of our staff members earlier this year, there has more so been an element of secrecy than one of a lack of communication.

Unless, somehow, you, personally, found a way to acquire the information and “inside scoop” that so many students and parents anxiously sought after, information about the ordeal was nonexistent, and if not, extremely scarce.

In the wake of the incident, nearly everyone was curious and nearly no one had information or was able to attain information, which is alarming in the fact that student safety was directly involved. This situation was unique in the fact that students were in this teacher’s class and went to them every sports season for their athletic clearance cards.

It can and has been said that RHS administration has denied the information pertaining to this issue to all of those who supposedly do not have a direct concern with the matter because they feel they are doing so in good faith of protecting us. However, with

BY SOPHIA MOGANNAM & SEIÉNNA PAPINI opinion@eyeofthetigernews.com

issues of this nature – issues in which student safety is directly in question – there is no excuse or room for lack of communication, misinformation or secrecy. Instead, lack of communication and secrecy create more of a problem than relaying correct information does.

With an issue such as this one, parents often feel it is necessary to sit down with their child and discuss the matter at hand. They would want to have some influence regarding how their child is reacting to the current situation, as well as how they would handle such a situation, if they ever found themselves in a compromising position.

With such secrecy, it is not only hard for both student and parents to feel they are trusted by their school with vital information, but also to trust their school to inform

them of matter in which they are affected or potentially endangered.

This kind of secrecy create is an abundance of rumors. When people, especially high school students, catch wind that there is some sort of scandal going on, the human instinct is to fill in the gaps in the story with what we think would make sense.

In the prime of this incident, we heard several different variations of relatively the same story, and even stories completely out of left field. When we, as well as many other RHS students, heard all of these stories, we chose the version that we believed best fit.

Because of the nature of rumors, they reached a majority of the students at RHS, which, in turn, reaches parents at home. And of course, parents don’t know any better than what their child brings home, so they are left with some sort of – probably wrong – variation of what actually happened and are also left wondering why their child’s school did not include the parents in any information pertaining to the issue.

Even more recently, on Feb. 25, both Oakmont High School and Warren T. Eich Middle School initiated a lockdown due to the fact that a man named Aaron Ramzy, who had stabbed his roommate the night before, was last seen in the area of Sunrise Ave. and Cirby Way. Ramzy was found at the 7-Eleven convenience store on Washington Blvd. and Main St., which is within a mile of RHS campus grounds.

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We asked ourselves: Did RHS administration know about the lockdown at OHS and EMS? Were they aware the threat was found only one mile away from RHS? Most importantly, why was there not even a phone call or email home to students and parents to at least let them know that there was a lockdown at our neighboring school in our own district and that the threat was detained?

If we give RHS administration the benefit of the doubt and assume that maybe they were not aware that OHS, which is only a little under three and a half miles

away from RHS, we are still left with the question of why both students and parents are being left out of the loop after the fact.

Again, student safety is directly being jeopardized, yet students and parents are ignorant to the fact because RHS is lacking in the area of making an effort to communicate.

Many of our students live around the area of Downtown Roseville, many of our students walk home from school, and many of our senior students have fourth period off-campus.

When you consider both the obvious risk associated with many of our students being in the same

relative vicinity of a stabbing suspect and the fact that many of our students and those students’ parents were not informed about the fact that there even was a threat in the Downtown Roseville area to begin with, a conclusion can be reached that, of course, our school can improve upon its school-tohome communication.

Any given school should be a place of expected safety, and for the most part, RHS is.

However, a major component of sustaining a certain level of safety is alerting those concerned and involved, should there ever be an instance in which safety is in question.

Student Gov: Please bring MayPac battle to Senior Ball

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CATHERINE BARBER EYE OF THE TIGER

Don’t forget about baseball – every sport needs a locker room

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hat would be the three top sports at every high school?

I think it’s football, basketball and baseball. I think that our baseball team doesn’t get the same treatment as any of the other sports.

In football they have a weight room and a team room, basketball has the locker room and the team room in it, but baseball doesn’t even get a locker room and our team gets in trouble if we change in the parking lot or on the field.

I think this is stupid that we have to go to the bathroom and change with a floor with urine all over or go into the locker room where it’s always packed and about a mile from the field.

Other high schools that my friends go to have locker rooms or club houses for the players to put their stuff and change before the game.

Also, we have heavy bags to carry around so either we have to put our stuff in our cars or have to carry it around all day.

For me what is really lame is I have first off, so I don’t get to park in the parking lot I used before Athletic PE for baseball.

I can’t bring my car and stuff into the parking lot for practice, and we got in trouble for going off

BY MAX MODESTE

m.modeste@eyeofthetigernews.com

campus to retrieve our bags from cars parked so far from the field, so now I have to bring all my stuff down the alley and carry it around all day until practice.

Since we do not currently have a close, convenient place to change before fourth-period Athletic PE or before games and other team activities, several players have attempted using the nearby vacant parking lot to do a quick change into comfortable clothes or uniform.

However, this practice was not appreciated or allowed to continue, so what option are we left with? The locker rooms are way too far away for us to be able to change and get out to the fields by the time we are supposed to, and since players with first period off cannot park in the Senior Lot, there’s no convenient solution currently that I see that could fix this problem.

Does that seem right? The baseball team should have a locker room or clubhouse solely for the baseball team closer to the field.

I think it’s ridiculous how the baseball team doesn’t get any love; our JV field is horrible and our varsity field is a work in progress, and it’s kinda hard to think that the baseball team can’t get any better things when we won the sections four years ago. Don’t you think that a winning team should get a little bonus?

We’ve been consistently working hard to represent our school well, and I think that warrants us a room to store our bags and in which we can change comfortably – and sanitarily.

I also am able to come up with a conclusion on how to get a clubhouse: if we use one of those portables that aren’t being used, it would be perfect for the baseball team; it’s the right size and right next to the field. There’s no extra spending and it’s close and convenient.

Also, building a clubhouse could generate more money for the program with advertising and it is a way to have the players to have their space to build team morale. This separate room for baseball players will encourage success and team unity.

ayweather vs. Pacquiao, also known as a match made in heaven, will be going down May 2 on showtime pay per view – after six long years of waiting: Floyd “Money” Mayweather vs. Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao. They will clash in what boxing experts are calling “the fight of the century.”

Floyd’s fight with boxing star Saul Canelo Alvarez on Sept. 14, 2013 generated a ton of hype, setting the pay-per-view record at an astonishing 2 million, beating Floyd’s 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya that set a pay-per-view record of 1.5 million buybacks.

When the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight was announced, boxing experts expected to double the number of pay-per-view buys from Floyd’s bout with Canelo.

BY CHASE BLATNICK

c.blatnick@eyeofthetigernews.com

With numbers like that, this is not just a fight, this is an event.

So where will you be when greatness is determined? Unfortunately, Roseville High School boxing fans who would love to witness history in the making will be faced with a tough question, Senior Ball or Mayweather vs. Pacquiao?

For the second year in a row, Senior Ball has landed on a Mayweather weekend, and now one

of the biggest days in sports history. May 2, 2015 offers a number of sporting events that you don’t want to miss, like The Kentucky Derby, NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, NFL draft, Yankees vs. Red Sox and, of course, Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. Sports experts said this will be the biggest gambling day in sports history.

I understand that it is impossible to move the dance back, so why not get the fight at the dance so students can have both?

Student Government does such a great job with everything they do for our school and hopefully they can work their magic again here. I would hate to see the fight hurt the amount of ticket buys.

Hopefully we’ll all be able to witness Mayweather take on Pacquiao in a fight for the ages.

We can’t stand by and let sexual harassment become the norm

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lmost every single girl that I know has been sexually harassed, and will probably continue to be sexually harassed throughout their life. These acts of harassment take place anywhere from church to the mall to the classroom, perpetrated by old and young men alike.

Men, of course, are sexually harassed as well, but catcalling and inappropriate glances toward women have become normal and expected in society, while men hold more respect on the streets.

Thank the Lord that people are beginning to address this. California State Senate member Democrat Kevin de Leon proposed a bill that would require high schools to add lessons on sexual harassment and violence to health classes.

And I know what you’re saying to this: “But upset feminist, I already learned about this freshman year.” Yeah, copying down

BY MIKAYLA STEARNS

m.stearns@eyeofthetigernews.com

vocabulary really made a difference in your life. Did that stop that person from snapping your bra strap or repeatedly making sexual advances toward you? Did it make your friend think twice about their decision to shout innuendos at someone? Probably not.

This bill will hopefully help to bring light to a lot of things that, sadly, students tolerate.

Sexual harassment is damaging for a multitude of reasons, but it’s ignored and brushed over in today’s society. Kids need to know exactly and specifically what not

to do, because for the most part, they have been indoctrinated into harmful behaviors. No one blinks twice at the guy who whistles at you in the halls. In fact, they applaud him. It’s a form of institutionalized misogyny. *Sigh* However, people like Kevin de Leon or the creators of many viral videos that call out catcallers are slowly gaining more momentum.

Bringing awareness to this issue and enlightening those guilty of it will (hopefully) stop it for the most part. Any step in the right direction, no matter how small, is worth celebrating.

This curriculum should be implemented in high schools and consistent rules about harassment need to be enforced.

Teaching teens to respect each other early on, like in high schools or junior highs (or younger!), will lessen the amount of assaults and acts of violence that are too common in college.

march 25, 2015

Entertainment

Insurgent can’t match sequel hype

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SPRINGINPREVIEW The following are what Eye of the Tiger believes should help fill leisurely spring break hours.

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BY DELPHINE KYUBWA d.kyubwa@eyeofthetigernews.com

The second film in a young adult series is typically when the franchise expands. Where once there was a medium budget, there is now assurance and pricy world-building. The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire was literally fire, and even the Twilight series improved the second time around.

Walking into The Divergent Series: Insurgent, I anticipated this same trend. At the very least, I can say Insurgent is a betterlooking, more expensive film.

In a few instances, it is even an enthralling one. But a bigger budget has not been able to buy a more satisfactory adaptation to the novel.

The sequel makes no attempt to catch up first time viewers so, for synopsis purposes, the plot revolves around a post-apocalypse, walled Chicago largely populated by five multi-racial factions: Abnegation the selfless, Amity the kind, Candor the honest, Dauntless the brave, and Erudite the intelligent. Because of their Divergent status, their ability to transcend simulations and identify with multiple factions, Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are on the run from Erudite, power-hungry Jeanine (Kate Winslet) and in search of allies. Together, they

face one challenge after another as they unveil the secrets of the past and change the scope of the future of their world.

The Divergent series seems less like a futuristic nightmare and more like a metaphor for high school: “jocks” (dauntless), “nerds” (erudite), “hipsters” (amity), “teacher’s pets” (candor), and “the quiet ones” (abnegation) exist in the social structure of high school on some superficial level. The notion that there are kids that don’t identify with one stereotype makes sense (divergence), but to infer from this some grand vision of a future society is somewhat shallow.

Filmmakers and actors/actresses, however, commit to this world vision with consistent intensity.

Shailene Woodley’s acting is a standout aspect of the film.

She has an ability to act convincingly by fully encompassing her character’s thought process and perspective. It’s engrossing and allows the viewer to gain complete understanding of Tris.

I’m a sucker for films with strong female characters, and Woodley adds an unprecedented paradox of strength and vulnerability to Tris. Physically, Woodley radiates self-reliance and emotionally, she induces tangible empathy from the audience with her onetear cry and full-on sob fest.

On other characters, Peter (Miles Teller) is merely a device

in the film and acts as the much needed comic relief. Though Peter is a “frenemy” and shifts loyalties more times than I could keep up with, Teller’s delivery and sarcasm make his character somewhat likeable and lightens the often serious atmosphere.

The special effects are visually dazzling and especially noteworthy during Tris’ simulations. The simulations are more elaborate in the film and far more fun to watch than read about.

The scenery as a whole is unique from other dystopian tales with its ruins of massive towers and the extraordinary hallucinatory visuals. The costuming also brought the various factions to vivid life. The Amity and Candor factions and its people looked precisely as I would have imagined. The realistic racial diversity was also nice.

The movie is drastically different from the novel. Though film adaptations require the omission of certain aspects of the novel for Hollywood or time purposes, character development scenarios should probably remain intact. Four’s character only plays the overwhelmingly insignificant role of boyfriend, and the complexity of his character development was lost due to an exclusion of all interactions between him and his abusive father, Marcus (Ray Stevenson).

His father was rarely on screen

The Classic Slider (part of the “Build Your Combo” $9.95, above) is one of the many miniature burgers offered here.

This slider in particular is faithful to the taste you expect from a good-old American classic.

The slider was pretty decent, and if you’re on the hunt for a mini treat, Slider Burgers will leave you satisfied for a bit.

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Although Shailene Woodley continues to shine throughout the second entry into the Divergent series, the adapted-for-film storyline of Insurgent leaves a lot of character development to be desired. altogether and that detracted from Four’s entire storyline.

The literary form of Insurgent was also a turning point for Four and Tris’ relationship in terms of trust. Their relationship immensely developed due to the recognition that their frustrations with one another don’t equate caring for one another less. In the film, however, their relationship hardly strayed from the number of instances Four had to rescue Tris, and their elated reunions that would follow suit. Though Woodley and James had some chemistry, the writers’ decision to disregard the growth element of their relationship discredited its authenticity.

This deviation from a youthful romance transforms Insurgent into an action-heavy science fiction story, and as a result the film is effectively more adult-friendly than its predecessor. Action

sequences with choreographed combat were frequently featured, along with unrealistic odds of the couple’s escape.

My perspective of the film is slightly skewed by the fact that I read the series before I watched the films. I imagine the film would have been more fulfilling had I walked into that theater without an idea of what was supposed to transpire.

With that in mind, an abundant number of action scenes, a studly Theo James, and a love story may be enough to consider this film a good one to some.

However, the budget increase didn’t help it reach sequel-film expectations. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t spectacular. There’s no urgent need to see Insurgent.

If anything, it only solidifies Shailene Woodley as a female actress to be reckoned with in the industry.

Focus balances con artistry with romance

BY GEORGE HUGHES

g.hughes@eyeofthetigernews.com

Known for his roles in the Men In Black films, Will Smith has suited up yet again for another memorable film – Focus.

Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, Focus successfully manages to intertwine just the right amount of romance and comedy into a plot full of cons and schemes.

Smith plays a cool, calm and collected Nicky, a veteran in the con business who runs a scheming ring that travels the world in search of their fortunes. Well, their victims’ fortunes.

Also joining Nicky in his con schemes is Jess (Margot Robbie), a beautiful young woman who is especially good at pickpocketing, which happens to be the largest source of the team’s revenue.

The directors had obviously done some extensive research on pickpocketing; either that, or they have some hands-on experience themselves. Basically, they knew what they were doing when filming the scenes in which Nicky and Co. went about their thieving.

It was all very realistically done. Many scenes have caused me to now think twice about carrying valuables in my pockets

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Will Smith plays a veteran con artist, Nicky, who falls into a spontaneous romantic relationship with business partner Jess (Margot Robbie). Their globetrotting, pickpocketing antics should engage and interest moviegoers. so often due to the ease at which items are stolen from people in the film.

The beginning of the movie consists of a few small pickpocketing jobs that give the audience an idea of the kinds of skills that Nicky and Jess have. The plot escalates when Nicky decides to take on a multi-million dollar job at the same time that his relationship with Jess becomes complicated.

The movie spent just the right amount of time introducing the bulk of the plot before moving right into it. Correct me if I am wrong, but I would safely say that the majority of people have never had actual experience with genuine pickpocketing.

There is enough exposure to the world of scheming and cons in the beginning of the film to let the audience know what the rest of the film is going to be about,

but not too much so that they become bored with the remaining content.

Saying that, however, I did find the first half of the movie more entertaining than the second. Not having much knowledge about pickpocketing myself, I enjoyed watching all of the different ways and approaches that Nicky and the team used to steal peoples’ personal items. I know, it sounds bad, but you will enjoy

it as much as I did.

The second half does get slightly confusing at some moments towards the end, I did not really know who was being schemed. I kind of felt like I was the one being played, because I kept having to second-guess myself in order to understand what was really happening.

Smith played his role very well, as expected, and Robbie delivered with a great acting job as well. The romantic component of the story would not have worked as effectively if it were not for the couple’s compatibility and chemistry.

Rodrigo Santoro also made an appearance as one of Nicky’s main targets, Formula One team owner Garriga. Although not a very large role, I still liked how he played his character.

In addition to all of these great cast members is another favorite; actor, writer and producer Adrian Martinez (American Hustle), who played Nicky’s right-hand man, Farhad. Farhad is the funniest character in the film and is really the one who brings home the comedic element.

The strong performances from the cast backed up the interesting but complex storyline really well, producing a movie that is able to satisfy all types of audiences.

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Ever since Lamar leaked this album online (accidentally?), the hip hop, rap and black spheres of the Twitterverse have exploded with praise for what many, myself included, regard as one of the best rap albums in a long time. Political and racial charges come together between infectious beats and verses – this album, simply put, is fire.

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march 25, 2015

Dr. Bob’s Donuts give veganism bad name vanilla, chocolate or a swirl of both.

As a vegan, the variety As a health-conscious vegan, of options I had was almost donuts and frozen yogurt haven’t overwhelming. That being said, been foods I regularly eat. So I don’t think it deserved the when I heard that the “delicious “vegan” title. The store was very and nutritious” Dr. Bob’s Donuts much focused on health rather and DoYos opened up at 336 Linthan taste, and I would hate for coln Street, I knew I had to go. anyone to see this as what vegan I came in on a Saturday mornfood is all about. The store didn’t ing and found that the store was have any posters up promoting a not only very small, but empty. cruelty-free lifestyle and didn’t The store felt like someone’s really focus on sharing the mesliving room with a few couches sage like so many other vegan at the entrance. Although I would places do. usually like that, it felt too small There’s also the fact that I even for two people. I could didn’t really enjoy the food. The never imagine bringing in a texture and flavor of the donuts group any bigger. were absolutely awful. Even Going past the couches was after I added all my sauces and a coffee station with a nice toppings, what I had that day was selection of premade donuts. All more of a rough idea of donut the donuts were not only vegan, than anything else. If you’re but also gluten-free, made with looking into eating healthy, either very little or no sugar at you’re better off eating a regular all, organic, and were steamed. donut once in a while and actuThe ingredients were easy for ally enjoying it. me to find online and were all The food here was more folocally sourced. The donuts could cused on health than being kind be bought as-is or with frozen to animals. Dr. Bob’s is so disapyogurt to make a sundae. Either pointing almost to a point where way, both could be customized I wish it wasn’t vegan so people with a variety of toppings and wouldn’t think this is what I eat. sauces.

While the concept is I chose to get amazing and I love a CinnaBob having options, which is a the food isn’t vanilla docheap and it nut topped definitely with a doesn’t bourbon taste very vanilla good. I glaze, found it Cinnamisleading swirl sauce, in terms of and organic being labeled golden raisins. healthy and The frozen vegan, as I’ve had yogurt was made of ormuch better-tasting CinnaBob ganic coconut milk foods that have (Pack of four, $9.47) available in either been both.

BY NETZY ORTEGA

n.ortega@eyeofthetigernews.com

Chappie lets down in second half

BY DEVIN ORR

d.orr@eyeofthetigernews.com

Chappie takes place in the near future, where crime has gotten so bad that the police are urged to use robotic officers to combat the growing issue. Even with the success of these robots called ‘scouts,’ their inventor, Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) hopes to take the next step in robotics, giving them consciousness.

If you have seen the movie District 9 and RoboCop then you have seen 80 percent of this movie. It shares the same South African setting, a povertystricken country torn by conflict, under the monopoly of a powerful corporation. In some scenes, I honestly thought they just took some sets directly from District 9. Even the cinematography is the same.

Interview-style shots of important characters help make the film feel more realistic, giving attention to all characters, not just the ones that are “good.” The whole body of conflict within the

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story is almost identical to RoboCop. Even one of the robots, nicknamed the MOOSE, looks like the ED 209.

Even with my early critiques, I gave the movie a chance and in the beginning, I enjoyed it. The action scenes were entertaining to watch, seeing these almost indestructible robots go up against common gangsters. The special effects were the most impressive part of this whole film. The robots looked real, having visual moving parts to emphasize they are just machines, not feeling beings. A lot of time went into these effects – I only wish the same amount of effort went into the story.

Acting was hit or miss.

Characters were all introduced nicely, but character development was confusing even though you follow each of them the entire way. Why would these cold, hard killers all of a sudden make a 180 just because of a slightly endearing robot?

One of the worst things about the acting was just the vocal per-

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Although entertaining to begin with and laden with impressive special effects, the incomplete storyline in Chappie ultimately dampens the film’s appeal. formance. Two of the three main gangsters had screeching voices, which made their scenes hard to watch. Unfortunately, they were in the movie almost as much, if not more than Chappie.

Like most movies with bad plots, Chappie was filled with holes and mess-ups. For example, with the whole city on lockdown with robotic officers

MICHELLE’S FOOD JOURNAL

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Each issue, senior Michelle Im will scout out the best local eateries. On the way, she finds the good, bad, and in-between of a particular dining scene.

This issue’s target: Indian.

Dear food journal, Starting our journey into our cultural food experience, we begin at the core – the very foundation – of civilization, the spices. They have been a major part of our world’s diet from the corners of the Mesopotamia to the smallest town in India.

Why is Indian food so good?

Wherever I [may] go (seniors please understand this), it is good. In fact, life is good. If it isn’t, you should go get some Indian food. Taj Oven has been consistently good to me over the years: they’re right in the area, have lunch buffets on Saturday afternoons, and have warm, fresh wonderful naan (baked, leavened flatbread). All the naan you can eat whenever you want it. The atmosphere in the store is also really mellow and chill but… warning, the Taj Mahal is all over the walls. I guess that’s a good thing, but you can never escape it or the delicious smell wafting from the buffet stand. Their mango chicken curry piled on top of herb rice dipped in naan is a celestial combination, not as divine as a star-crossed lovers situation, but just as tragic as when I was forced to choose between Taj Oven and Chaat Paradise for lunch. Both are too satisfying.

Putting aside my loyalty issues, I found myself in an environment quite unlike Taj Oven.

Chaat Paradise was very clean and modern. No sign of the Taj Mahal anywhere (doesn’t mean I

BY MICHELLE IM

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don’t like the monument), but it was a nice, upbeat change. The menu was much more diverse than the typical Indian food buffet (if you don’t go to an Indian food buffet, then you just don’t go), but this, food journal, may just as well be the only exception. All the desserts were an enemy to my wallet, but the mango lassi, in particular, caught my attention. If anyone knows me, then they know anything with sugar catches my attention.

The mango lassi was smooth and creamy and pretty popular by the looks on the other customers’ faces. It did not taste syrupy or creamy at all – the usual downfall of most fruit-based drinks. If you love yourself, you should go try it. If you love sugar, you need to go try it.

Oh, food journal. Sorry, for being so out of it, but I blame the richness of the curry. It really is intoxicating and filling. Too filling. Mehfil Indian Restaurant really spoke to my stomach in this regard. After one-and-ahalf plates at the buffet, I was done. My friend was done at two plates. We had no idea what they put into their food, but the buffet is a scam. I know it is. There is no way to eat all you can at this restaurant. It’s the spices! Maybe it isn’t. I don’t know. I’m a cultural idiot, but I do like the food.

cracking down on crime, how does the inventor of these robots get kidnapped? Right in front of their HQ. This is how the main conflict starts, because of a illogical kidnapping.

If you still plan on watching this, I would advise leaving halfway through before the film drives off of the rails and goes south.

Sports

march 25, 2015

page 11

Hey, RHS: Exempt athletes from PE

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Above, first-year varsity volleyball coach Jason Cole gives instructions before the Tigers’ game against the Antelope Titans Tuesday, March 17. Under Cole, the team is enjoying new success in the CVC. Its overall record currently stands at 13-3.

BY LOGAN ASH

l.ash@eyeofthetigernews.com

Varsity volleyball pushes off strong in league

BY NICK SAPP

n.sapp@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Roseville High School boys varsity volleyball team’s season is in full swing now. The team is 4-0 in league and 13-3 overall.

The Tigers took on a tournament at UC Davis on March 7.

RHS went undefeated in pool play beating McClatchy, West Campus, Franklin, Pleasant Valley, and Franklin High School.

That earned them a bye in the first round putting them in the semifinals where they beat Galileo High School. In the finals they met rival school, Oakmont, who they beat to win the tournament.

“These boys are young for the

At 4-0, just one win from matching 2014 total most part having talent and drive to win,” coach Jason Cole said.

According to Cole the teams maturity and experience is down due to losing two seniors, who recently quit the team.

“We still have enough talent to be successful this year and more to come,” Cole said.

Senior team captain Trevor Pratt is a power house blocker and hitter for the Tigers, according to Cole. He says he has a strong presence on the court, especially for the less experienced players.

“He is a positive force behind our team,” Cole said.

The underclassmen are showing great promise according to Cole. Sophomore Neil Riley and freshman Jacob Cole are those underclassmen showing promise.

“Neil is very ambitious and a strong utility player, stepping into a role he has to in order to benefit our team,” Cole said. “Jacob is one of our most consistent players especially when it comes to passing and serving.”

This is Cole’s first year coaching the team. He previously coached several other schools in the area, as well as several teams in the Northern California Volley-

ball club. He recently lead a team to fifth place in the nation at Junior Nationals in Texas in 2014.

“Coach Cole is the perfect coach,” sophomore varsity player Sam Toomey said. “He’s honest when you make a mistake, but really congratulatory when you make a great play.”

This is also the first year of being in the Capital Valley Conference.

Last year RHS finished with a league record of 5-5. The Tigers are only one game from tying that win total from last year.

Facing Sierra Foothill League

teams the Tigers are 1-2. The two losses against SFL teams were against Nevada Union and Del Oro High School. RHS lost in five sets in both those games.

On the other hand the Tigers took on Rocklin High School, which the Tigers won in three sets.

“It was interesting going into these SFL games knowing what to expect from the other team, like what their strengths and weaknesses were,” Pratt said The Tiger’s next game will be against the Whitney Wildcats at home on Mar. 24.

“We’re hopeful to make playoffs this year, and I think that this is the team to do it,” Pratt said.

Sports Shorts JV soccer starts hot with 3-1-1 record

BY MARINA EFSTATHIU

m.efstathiu@eyeofthetigernews.com

The JV girls soccer season is in full swing.

In league the girls have played against four teams of the CVC. They beat Del Campo 2-0. Then they lost to Cosumnes Oaks 2-0.

They came back from a loss and beat Antelope 3-0. Their game against Bella Vista ended in a tie.

Most recently they beat Whitney at home on Wednesday Mar. 18 with a final score of 2-0.

Not even halfway through the season yet the girls still have a long season ahead.

This year’s JV girls soccer team is compiled of seven freshmen and 12 sophomores. Another JV team this year with a big appearance of the freshmen, but it has proven effective because there standing right now is 3-1-1.

Freshman Carly Nicholson thought fellow freshman Bailey Bowen-Seay helped out a lot in their last game.

“Her aggression towards the ball the entire game made her a huge threat to the other team,” Nicholson said.

Nicholson believes it contributed to their 2-0 win over the Whitney Wildcats.

Sophomore Skylar Ruby felt they did an excellent job distributing the ball against their team which helped them to defeat the Wildcat and is looking forward to what the rest of the season will bring for the Lady Tigers.

Freshman soccer off to troubled start

BY RYAN ANDRADA

r.andrada@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Lady Tigers freshman soccer team began the season with a couple losses.

They have had a lot of injuries that changed the lineups last minute, but with all their players back, the team and coach look forward to continuing this season with their win streak staying alive. The Lady Tigers started off their season against the Ponderosa Bruins.

The team used this as a learning experience. The final result was 6-0 with the Bruins coming out on top.

“Despite the score we had a lot of positives,” coach Joe Canchola said. “Kylee Fukuyama and Ariel Centurino anchored our back line and did a tremendous job under the circumstances, and will be a part of a solid defense throughout the season.”

Despite another loss, the Tigers showed great improvement after their 6-0 loss to the Ponderosa Bruins the previous week.

Although the team got off to a slow start, they have been playing better and were able to capture their first win of the season on Wednesday, Mar. 11.

The Lady Tigers freshman soccer team broke their losing streak with a win against Rio Americano. The teams faced off in a non-conference game with the final score resulting in Roseville winning 4-3.

“We worked well together as a team. We had fun and it really felt good for all the hard work to pay off and get our first win of the season,” Kaitlyn Garcia said.

JV baseball plays to expectations at 7-2

BY MATT BRACKMANN

m.brackmann@eyeofthetigernews.com

With league play beginning on Wednesday, the Roseville High School junior varsity baseball team has started the season off with an overall record of 7-2.

“The team has really exceeded

my vision plan I had prior to the beginning of the season,” said coach Anthony LaDuke.

The team started their preseason off with a 9-7 loss to Woodcreek March 2.

“That loss was kind of devastating in a way,” said sophomore Jackson Knapp. “I think we all really wanted to take that victory especially because it was against Woodcreek.”

With the only two losses so far coming from Woodcreek, the team will not have another chance to play them this season.

“Wish we had another opportunity against those guys” said LaDuke. “ I believe we could come out with a victory if we got another chance with them.”

LaDuke feels good about his team’s prospects in league.

“If we play our game, we will be fine,” said LaDuke.

Frosh baseball now at 2-2-2 record

BY MATT BRACKMANN

m.brackmann@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Roseville High School’s freshman baseball team has had a pretty interesting start thus far to the season. Through their first six games the Tigers are 2-2-2.

The Tigers tied to both Woodcreek and Nevada Union, and their two losses were against Del Oro and Whitney. The Tigers did get their first two wins however against Vista Del Lago and Casa Roble.

With the first seven preseason games in the books as the Tigers look to enter league after their game against the Granite Bay Grizzlies.

“We have started off a little slow but we are starting to pick it up heading into league,” freshman Joe Cirrincione said.

The Tigers are looking forward to the new CVC league and fac-

ing new opponents that they have never seen before. It is not going to get any easier and the Tigers have to continue to play ball.

“I honestly think that we have a good shot at a championship if we play well and continue to do our job,” Cirrincione said.

With league play just around the corner the Tigers are more focused than ever and hope to send a message to the CVC come next week.

JV Lady Tigers rely heavily on Anderson

BY BRAD JAMES b.james@eyeofthetigernews.com

A great starting point for the new JV season for the Lady Tiger softball team was Wednesday Mar. 11. The Tigers rallied underneath new coach Mike Baker and sophomore Megan Anderson and have not looked back since.

Anderson was a standout performer as she allowed only four hits throughout the entire game and helping herself out on the offensive end scoring three runs on three hits with a final score of 12-0.

The following day in their next matchup against Elk Grove high school, Anderson took the bump again for the Lady Tigers.

Although rallying 10 hits to Elk Grove’s three, and Anderson hitting double digit strikeouts for the second day in a row with 10, the Tigers failed to defeat Elk Grove falling 2-1.

After the tough loss, the Tigers went on a tear the next five games not losing a single match. The JV Tigers dominated St. Francis 18-0 with three runs scored off of three singles in the first inning and a 10-run explosion in the second closing out the game in just four innings on Mar. 13.

The Lady Tigers tore down Pleasant Grove, coasting into a

7-2 victory and then ran Antelope High School 18-2 on Mar. 17. In the top of the first inning came a scare as Antelope hit a very early 2-run homerun but Roseville later managed a miraculous 19 hits to coincide with their 18 runs on the board.

The Tigers have gotten to a hot start going on a five-game winning streak with a record of six wins, one loss and one tie.

Track up and down for opening meets

BY CHASE BLATNICK

c.blatnick@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Roseville High School track and field team started its season with some highs and lows.

The Tigers won first place at their last invitational at Granite Bay, but then lost their first league meet at Antelope.

The Tigers have had to deal with a few injuries thus far in the early going. Toj Davis, Arturo Sotomayor and Matt Sangria have all been running hurt, and in some events, have not been able to run at all. Davis did not compete in the 100 and the 200 meters, which is huge in the points had he been able to run it and win it.

Sotomayor, one of the top 800 meter runner in the state, had to sit out his premier event, and Sangria also did not participate in all of the 400 meter, 800 meter, and the 4x4.

Some key runners to watch are both senior TreShon Woods and junior Emma Sessano.

Sessano competes in both the 800 and the 4x4 and posted her best times of the year. She scored a 2:27 in the 800 along with a 4:12 in the 4x4.

Woods has come off very strong to start his season. He ran a 14.83 in the 110m hurdle beating the fastest guy in the section, along with a 39.13 in the 300 hurdle.

On any given day at Roseville High School you can hear whistles blaring and students taking laps around the track during their PE class. Even more often than that, I hear talk about other school districts in California that exempt their athletes from PE if they are in a sport and instead they have the last period for their sport.

We already have a similar implementation at Roseville, but we still have to take PE our freshmen and sophomore year leaving two classes that we wanted to take on the back burner, and limiting the diversification that our schedules could initially have without having to take PE their first two years.

Just across the valley, Davis High School has found a middle ground in this new age of sports and PE by having it mandatory to all freshmen but they can be exempt after that first year.

Similarly, in the Empire League located in the greater Anaheim area, they have six periods during the day and every athlete has the sixth period dedicated to their in-season sport and are able to start practice before school even gets out. By having their practice start before school gets out, they are able to get out of practice an hour earlier leaving more time for their studies and more time for beneficial activities. They were able to bypass PE by giving each student a grade for their sport ensuring they are fully invested in that sport.

At Roseville, we have similar classes with baseball and football Athletic PE but they are still forced to take the first two years of PE restricting their class choices severely. In addition, not all of the players on the team have that class due to other class conflicts and only a small percentage of the sports have that ability to take their specific sport’s class.

By having the ability to be exempt from PE you are given two opportunities to take other electives or Advanced Placement courses (which our administrators are pushing heavily) in replace of those two courses. In addition, I think we would be able to see a huge jump in our sport’s performance by adding a schoolwide athletic PE in the entire year and in the offseason of their specific sport their coach can construct specific workouts that they can have them do five days a week to stay in shape and mold better athletes in return.

These workouts can be adaptable to each sport to focus on a different asset that is needed to perform at higher level. For example, the wrestling team can conduct crossfit workouts to heighten their agility and explosive power while the swim team can focus on their upper body strength groups.

In the regular season, the coaches can start practice earlier than they usually do and get more work in all the while giving the students more time to do their homework and study for their classes.

In order to be able to win championships at this school, we need to make changes, and not minor changes. They need to be drastic to make better athletes and not wear them out with basic PE meant for the incompetent at Roseville.

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Tigers aim high early

Sports

march 25, 2015

‘We want to raise a banner’

BY LOGAN ASH

l.ash@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School’s varsity baseball team is entering into the 2015 season with high hopes and aspirations for a Central Valley Conference championship.

In fact, they don’t plan to accept anything less than that.

“Our goal this year is to bring home a CVC Championship,” first baseman Spencer Bracco said. “We want to raise a banner.”

Bracco is not the only one that feels this way, as the entire baseball team has high aspirations to bring a CVC banner home for Roseville High School.

According to coach Lance Fischer, the new league is not going to be any easier than the Sierra Foothill League. Still, he thinks his team will be more successful in the new year due to the better all-around team than he has this year.

“There’s good teams throughout the CVC as well,” Fischer said. “I think we will be more successful because we are better and we have more talent and more tools.”

According to junior third baseman Jordan Woods, seniors Devin Orr, John Kidder and Adam Erickson will lead the team throughout the year and produce

the most for the team. However Fischer believes that no one stands out from the rest of the team but they have all improved from last year.

“Everybody has improved, everybody is better and guys are still competing for playing time,” Fischer said.

Along those same guidelines, there have been different players getting thrown into different positions along with having three different catchers start different games.

Battling for the catching position are seniors Andrew Grinder and Chad Alves and junior Cory Nuss.

“Nobody has really stepped up to the plate and just outright won the job,” Fischer said.

Senior left fielder John Kidder believes that the team chemistry has improved immensely from last year to this year.

Kidder also thinks a major contributing factor to the team chemistry advancements has been the fact that last year’s team only played for themselves.

This year, he said, he and his teammates are working to make their team effort a more collective one.

“Our chemistry is more indepth than we were last year,” Kidder said. “This year we are more worried about the name on the front than the name on the back.”

In the first few games, the starting rotation for pitchers has stayed the same with senior Adam Erickson and juniors Andreas Lara and Andrew Hansen.

According to Bracco, the Tigers have a deep bullpen to support the starters consisting of seniors Nick Espino, Devin Orr and Shea O’Harra. In addition, they have juniors Ryan Sleadd and Justin Robbins to come in and seal the deal after the starting rotation.

In the first few games of the

season, the Tigers have had their bright spots with great wins and they have had close losses but according to Lara, they have not been able to bring all aspects of the game together all at once to this point.

“One game we will hit and one game we will pitch, but we haven’t been able to bring it all together in one game yet,” Lara said.

As the regular season starts up, the entire team has high hopes to go far in the CVC and section.

“That’s why we do it,” Fischer said. “That’s our goal: to win league and get in the playoffs and give ourselves a chance to win the section championship.”

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Though this is the Tigers’ first year in the CVC, the team has high hopes for the season because of the depth and flexibility of the players on the roster.

Play disappointing for SFL champs

BY CESAR SANCHEZ

c.sanchez@eyeofthetigernews.com

ROBBIE SHORT EYE OF THE TIGER

With just two losses to Bella Vista and Cosumnes Oaks, the varsity girls soccer team now holds a 4-2 league record as they approach the midpoint of their season.

Lady Tigers start off solid at 7-3

BY NICK SAPP

n.sapp@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Roseville High School varsity soccer team is enjoying a strong start to the season. The team has an overall record of 7-3 and a league record of 4-2.

The Lady Tigers currently sit in third place in league behind Cosumnes Oaks and Bella Vista High School. Maxpreps ranks them 27th in the state and 107 in the nation.

The team has lost to both Cosumnes and Bella Vista, who sit in front of them in league standings. The team lost to both by one goal. Against Cosumnes the team lost 1-0, giving up the goal in the second. The Lady Tigers lost 2-1 to Bella Vista, with them scoring their only goal in the second half.

“It was hard losing to these teams, but we are going to work hard and hopefully beat them in the second half of the season,” se-

nior Caroline Cirrincione said.

On the other hand, the team has four league wins. These wins came from beating Del Campo 1-0, Antelope 4-0, Whitney 3-1, and Ponderosa 2-0.

“I am glad we are finding success in the CVC and getting wins,” Cirrincione said.

Last year the Lady Tigers competed in the Sierra Foothill League where they finished with a league record of 3-5-2. The Tigers already have more wins in their season this year competing in the Capital Valley Conference.

This year the team has a total of 10 freshmen and sophomores playing on the team,six of which are starters. The freshman starters are Haley Loughran, Sarah Sessano, and Kendall Sparks. The sophomore starters are Allison Palmer, Tahnee Smith, and Jessica Vanderhaegen.

Loughran is a goalkeeper for the team. She has allowed seven

goals in and has 33 saves in her 10 games played.

Representing the defensive side, Sessano and Sparks are star defenders on the team.

“They are a huge part of our defense,” coach Paul Stewart said.

Palmer and Smith are midfielders for the Tigers. The two both have one goal on the season.

On the offensive side, Vanderhaegen is starting at the forward position alongside senior Carlie Reader, who’s tallied five goals and seven assists. Vanderhaegen has two goals and one assist.

The Lady Tigers have lost Cami Miller, one of their freshman starters. Miller suffered a tear in her ACL which ended her season short.

“I hope we can keep up winning these league games and hopefully make the playoffs at the end of the year,” Cirrincione said.

After winning the Sierra Foothills League championship last season, Roseville High School’s varsity girls softball team is struggling to collect wins early on in the 2015 season.

The girls have started off play in the Capital Valley Conference to a slow start. From dominating the SFL league last year, the girls start league with a 1-3 record in the CVC league.

“If we don’t pick it up we won’t make playoffs, which will be a disappointment,” said varsity player Aly Manzo. “I don’t have any doubt that we can start winning and get a spot in the playoffs.”

The girls varsity softball team has encountered new teams this season, as they have left the SFL league last year to join the CVC league. According to senior Katie Edgar, the new league should present less of a challenge than the SFL. “The CVC league is way different from the SFL league, as in the talent level where we saw more talent in the SFL than the CVC,” varsity player Katie Edgar said.

The girls softball team was faced with new opponents that they have never played before making it unfamiliar territory and having to adapt to the CVC. “At first we tried to watch the teams play that were in our league so that we could learn how they all played,” said junior Kayleena Gonzalez. “Playing unfamiliar teams will be difficult at first, but we will learn and figure out how to beat them.”

This year the girls varsity softball team roster holds five freshman girls this season. Karli Dugger, Lily Amos, Maddie Amos, Samantha Garcia and Rachel Shaberman are the five freshman girls

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Despite the return of experienced players like Naomi Monahan (above) and the addition of new coach Art Banks (below), the varsity Lady Tigers have struggled to match the success they experienced as SFL champions last season. who play on the team.

The team is also adjusting to the introduction of new coach Art Banks, who formerly coached the Woodcreek Lady Timberwolves.

Some players, though, have returned from last season and bring some experience to the team.

Those include ace pitcher Naomi Monahan.

The Lady Tigers recently started league last week for the first time in the CVC. The girls have played a total of four games against Del Campo, Cosumnes Oaks, Bella Vista and Antelope. Their record is 1-3 af-

ter they notched their first league win against the Lady Titans with a score of 14-4.

“I feel like if we do not pick it up, we are not going to make it into playoffs,” Manzo said. “We have the ability; we just need to play like a team instead of individuals.”

The varsity girls softball team have a total of eight games remaining in league. The girls hope to win more games as they continue to battle for a spot in playoffs.

The next game the girls play will be on Tuesday against Whitney High School at RHS.