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4 Focus DESIGNED<br />
High <strong>School</strong>: : Madras High <strong>School</strong>, home<br />
of the White Buffalos<br />
freshman year I got beat up by my ex-boyex-boyfriend’s current girlfriend who was pregnant<br />
at the time. She had jealousy prob-<br />
Birthplace: Santiam, California, and at<br />
age ten moved to Madras, Oregon.<br />
lems because [her boyfriend and I] still<br />
talked and I helped him with his homework.<br />
She was older and on top of that she<br />
was pregnant so I couldn’t fi ght back.<br />
Family: Mom, Dad, and two older sisters.<br />
Grades: Very good grades throughout<br />
high school, graduated with a 3.65 GPA<br />
.<br />
<strong>School</strong> Activities:<br />
Just about everything!<br />
I tried to never<br />
be home. I was<br />
involved in soccer,<br />
softball, tennis, debate<br />
team, and pep<br />
band. Pep band was<br />
a huge deal. They<br />
were more popular<br />
than the football<br />
team. They went to<br />
State and even had<br />
their own charter<br />
bus.<br />
R e l a t i o n s h i p s /<br />
Friendships: I had<br />
lots of friends and<br />
not from one particular<br />
group. My best<br />
friend was exactly<br />
like Morgan Ellis.<br />
Only two offi cial<br />
boyfriends, but lots<br />
of friends that fi lled<br />
in for them at times.<br />
Out of all the students attending <strong>Pleasant</strong><br />
<strong>Hill</strong> High <strong>School</strong>, which do you<br />
think is most like you were in high<br />
school? I was a little like Morgan Ellis,<br />
Shelby Werner, and Lauren Bowman. I<br />
had Morgan Ellis’ personality<br />
I was just involved<br />
in more and didn’t party<br />
much. I was very religious<br />
like Lauren Bowman.<br />
Fashion style in high<br />
school: Exactly the same as<br />
now jeans and t-shirts except<br />
I didn’t wear glasses.<br />
I had longer hair and was<br />
thinner. And actually I still<br />
wear some of my clothes<br />
from high school!<br />
High school memories:<br />
There were lots, but one<br />
sticks out the most. My<br />
Portraits of the past, of the present<br />
<strong>Lizette</strong> <strong>Mouett</strong><br />
Madras High <strong>School</strong> Graduate 1997<br />
Ms. <strong>Mouett</strong>e age 3<br />
How did you land in <strong>Pleasant</strong> <strong>Hill</strong>?<br />
I heard about the job opening from my<br />
mentor teacher at the U of O. I drove out<br />
here two hours before the deadline.<br />
Favorite Spanish Class memories: At<br />
North Eugene one of<br />
my Birkenstocks fell<br />
off and hit a student<br />
in the face. At <strong>Pleasant</strong><br />
<strong>Hill</strong> it was when<br />
Ty Holloway asked<br />
me to prom. I declined<br />
the offer but I<br />
did dance with him!<br />
Do you have any<br />
confessions to the<br />
rest of the faculty:<br />
Yes, I have a lot to<br />
confess. But no one<br />
knows and they won’t<br />
know until I leave!<br />
How was College?<br />
College was awesome.<br />
Except I made<br />
the mistake of getting<br />
married too early. I<br />
liked all my classes<br />
except one that I<br />
hated. It was a class<br />
on the philosophy of<br />
love and sex.<br />
What is your worst quality? I am really<br />
demanding, impatient, and I don’t tolerate<br />
stupid people.<br />
What is a pet peeve you have? When<br />
people say across like it has a T at the end,<br />
(acrost). And when people<br />
eat corn nuts, it makes everything<br />
disgusting.<br />
If you were a super hero<br />
and could have any power<br />
what would it be? I have<br />
actually thought about this<br />
before. I would have the<br />
power to be able to speak<br />
every language fl uently.<br />
If you got the chance to<br />
travel anywhere in the<br />
world where would you<br />
go? I love to travel! I would<br />
go somewhere in Asia<br />
preferably Japan or Hong<br />
Kong. My next planned trip<br />
is going to be to Argentina.<br />
CASSY HARRIS<br />
Reporter<br />
.High <strong>School</strong>: Marist High <strong>School</strong>, Home<br />
of the Spartans<br />
Birthplace: Eugene, Oregon<br />
Family: Three brothers and one sister<br />
Grades: My grades were above average,<br />
usually at a 3.2 GPA<br />
Favorite Class: English, anatomy, and<br />
art classes<br />
Least Favorite Class: Spanish<br />
<strong>School</strong> Activities: I played football, basketball,<br />
one year of golf, baseball, and<br />
drama. I was on the varsity football team<br />
all four years. And three out of those four<br />
years we went to state. I was on the varsity<br />
basketball team two years and my<br />
senior year we went to the state playoffs.<br />
Relationships/friendships: I had a lot of<br />
friends; I could hang out with about everyone.<br />
I especially hung out with a lot<br />
of my teammates. My senior year I had<br />
a girlfriend that was a year younger than<br />
me, a junior. We ended up getting married<br />
and [Katie Lebrun] is my wife now!<br />
Out of all the<br />
students attending<strong>Pleasant</strong><br />
<strong>Hill</strong> High<br />
<strong>School</strong>, which<br />
do you think is<br />
most like you<br />
were in high<br />
school? A mix<br />
between James<br />
Gaughan and<br />
Justin White.<br />
They both love<br />
athletics. I<br />
was goofy like<br />
James and always<br />
happy like<br />
Justin.<br />
Fashion style in<br />
High <strong>School</strong>: It<br />
was pretty simple,<br />
jeans and a<br />
t-shirt. I always<br />
dressed up on<br />
the goofy dress<br />
up days. I had<br />
a lot of school<br />
spirit!<br />
Do you have<br />
any regrets<br />
from High <strong>School</strong>? I wish I would have<br />
read more, and had more than one option<br />
out of high school. I got my college degree<br />
in communications, and I haven’t<br />
used it as much as I intended.<br />
Embarrassing moments in high school:<br />
When I got my fi rst touchdown I was so<br />
excited I ran across the track and all the<br />
way to the concessions stand!<br />
<strong>WC</strong> in college<br />
with friend<br />
Katie LeBrun to<br />
whom he is now<br />
married.<br />
<strong>WC</strong> <strong>Harbert</strong><br />
Coach <strong>WC</strong> o ciates Tug of War at<br />
lunch during Homecoming Week<br />
BY JORDAN FISHER<br />
Proudest Moment: when I was awarded<br />
the Michael Dwyer Award, for school involvement,<br />
this included a thousand dollar<br />
scholarship. I was also given a football<br />
scholarship.<br />
How was college? College was great;<br />
[Pacifi c Lutheran University] was a lot<br />
of fun. It had a small private community<br />
feel, which is from the Lutheran campus,<br />
which I really liked because everyone<br />
knows everyone. They were very strict<br />
about getting good grades and being on<br />
time to classes, I had to be a very good student.<br />
I went to Southern Oregon University<br />
for three years. And played linebacker<br />
on their football team. Then I transferred<br />
to Pacifi c Lutheran for one year, where I<br />
played on both the football and basketball<br />
teams. I was a forward on the basketball<br />
team as well as being a linebacker again<br />
on the football team.<br />
Did you pursue the career you were<br />
planning on? No I wanted to be a fi refi<br />
ghter out of college. But when I started<br />
coaching it really made me want to be<br />
around kids.<br />
Did you coach before you came to <strong>Pleasant</strong><br />
<strong>Hill</strong>? Yes, out of college I coached<br />
basketball at Crow High <strong>School</strong> and back<br />
east at a small college.<br />
You have coached a<br />
lot of basketball but<br />
you were also very involved<br />
with football,<br />
have you ever considered<br />
coaching football?<br />
No, basketball<br />
is a longer season and<br />
it would be way more<br />
time consuming to do<br />
both seasons and I like<br />
to spend time at home.<br />
Highlight of your<br />
coaching career at<br />
<strong>Pleasant</strong> <strong>Hill</strong>: Beating<br />
Sisters at home last<br />
year.<br />
What’s your favorite<br />
part of your job? Being<br />
able to build relationships<br />
with students.<br />
If you were a super<br />
hero and could<br />
have any power what<br />
would it be? It would<br />
be to have endless endurance<br />
so I never get<br />
tired!<br />
If you got the chance to travel anywhere<br />
in the world where would you<br />
go? South America or Italy. I have already<br />
been to Europe and Mexico. A trip<br />
that sticks out in my mind is when I drove<br />
over 3,000 miles to Massachusetts.
DESIGNED BY JORDAN FISHER<br />
Within the realm of<br />
debate, there exists<br />
a set of arguments<br />
deemed fallacies, or<br />
fl aws of logic. They<br />
are many and varied,<br />
from “post hoc<br />
ergo propter hoc”<br />
(believing that because<br />
one event followed<br />
another, the fi rst<br />
event caused the second<br />
event) to the “straw man” a r -<br />
gument (twisting your opponent’s words<br />
and intent in order to prove them false).<br />
One of the most widely used and least<br />
recognized fallacies is “reductio ad Hitlerum,”<br />
which is guilt by association (if the<br />
Nazis did it, it’s monstrous). And these<br />
days, it’s being thrown around like sweat<br />
in a mosh pit.<br />
Ever since the summer town hall meetings<br />
and especially since the rallies across<br />
the country against health care reform in<br />
mid September, the use of “reductio ad<br />
With the recent school<br />
merger <strong>Pleasant</strong> <strong>Hill</strong><br />
students have begun<br />
to notice that some<br />
changes have little<br />
to do with the addition<br />
of new students.<br />
Lunch has<br />
been cruelly and<br />
drastically shortened<br />
by more than 20<br />
percent and everyone is a f -<br />
fected! Upper classmen with off-campus<br />
lunch have discovered that their trips to<br />
Dairy Queen and Subway have been cut<br />
short. No longer are students free to eat<br />
lunch with leisure, instead it has become<br />
a mad scramble to make up tests, see<br />
friends and eat a nutritious lunch.<br />
As of this year, <strong>Pleasant</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> lunch<br />
has become the shortest in the Sky-Em<br />
League, tied only with La Pine. Every<br />
other school in the Sky-Em league has a<br />
35 minute lunch and other local schools<br />
such as South Eugene have a lengthy 45<br />
minute lunch. Our shortened lunch seems<br />
at fi rst glance just another casualty of the<br />
recent school merger, a necessary evil --<br />
but is it really?<br />
After school we see another problem<br />
with the new schedule; Students are waiting<br />
as long as 10 minutes for the buses<br />
to reach the school and “Heaven forbid”<br />
Chewing tobacco, chew, chaw or dip,<br />
stickers and chewing tobacco wads have<br />
been found around school for years.<br />
Many “Grizzly” chewing tobacco stickers<br />
were found in the boy’s restrooms on<br />
the toilet dispensers and wads of used<br />
chewing tobacco were found around the<br />
school in the restrooms, breezeways,<br />
and at one time even in the library.<br />
Jennifer Anderson, our librarian, has<br />
found chew multiple times in the library.<br />
She had to clean up the mess. “If I see it<br />
I clean it. I don’t leave anything for the<br />
janitors to pick up,” said Anderson.<br />
Thus far the amount of chew in school<br />
has dramatically declined since last year.<br />
“There are people who obviously had an<br />
Opinion/News 5<br />
Use of term “Nazi” trivializes debate<br />
Ten Minutes Too Short<br />
KENDRA CHAMBERS<br />
Columnist<br />
Hitlerum” has skyrocketed. Signs proclaiming<br />
“Obama = Hitler” or brandishing<br />
pictures of Obama with Hitler’s comb<br />
over and trademark moustache were all<br />
too common at said events. And because<br />
of it, no one is taking either the protestors<br />
or their issues seriously.<br />
First, I’m very conservative. I am<br />
against socialized medicine. I actually<br />
agreed with a lot of the things Sarah Palin<br />
said this last election, which makes me a<br />
member of the far right, I guess. So keep<br />
in mind that this complaint is coming<br />
from me.<br />
Godwin’s law states “As an online discussion<br />
continues, the probability of a<br />
comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches<br />
one.” I think that this can apply<br />
to political discussions as well. As people<br />
run out of negative things to say, they start<br />
utilizing Nazi comparisons.<br />
Comparisons to Hitler has been practiced<br />
by members of both parties, unfor-<br />
they are mingling!! Having attended the<br />
<strong>School</strong> Board meetings open to the community,<br />
I understand what a severe crisis<br />
this mingling of grades truly is. Students<br />
talking to one another from different<br />
grades can lead to all sorts of dangers like<br />
“friendships!”<br />
In order to return <strong>Pleasant</strong> <strong>Hill</strong>’s lunch<br />
to a more respectable length and to prevent<br />
the dangerous mingling that occurs<br />
after school I propose a solution by adding<br />
10 minutes to the school day.<br />
Adding an additional ten minutes to<br />
lunch would be the perfect solution to<br />
the grave dangers of mingling. With the<br />
school day ending at 3:10 buses would be<br />
able to arrive in time to pick up the students<br />
the moment they are released. Students<br />
would be able to enjoy their lunch<br />
at a leisurely pace, which according to<br />
health professionals contributes to a feeling<br />
of fullness with less food. That’s right,<br />
longer lunches are healthier lunches!<br />
The benefi ts to the student body are<br />
plentiful indeed. Teachers get a longer<br />
time to prep for the afternoon classes and<br />
provide a time to make up tests and fi nish<br />
homework. For students without computer<br />
or internet access at home it gives<br />
them an opportunity to use printers and do<br />
research. Extending lunch is critical to the<br />
maintaining successful functioning of the<br />
student body.<br />
C h e w O n T h i s<br />
JACOB SHADWICK<br />
Reporter<br />
addiction to tobacco. They’re no longer<br />
going here. They’ve graduated” Anderson<br />
said.<br />
So who chews at school? “Gross<br />
people do,” answered Jordan Wildish.<br />
“People can do whatever they want, but<br />
it’s kind of pathetic that they have to do<br />
it in school. Like can’t you at least wait<br />
till you’re home?” opined Justin Stormo.<br />
And the spit? “IT’S DISGUSTING’<br />
Nathan Boys put it simply.<br />
Hopefully this year we’ll have less<br />
chewing tobacco on school grounds<br />
and a cleaner library. Anderson said<br />
it best when she said “The library is a<br />
NO CHEW zone” and with any luck the<br />
school will be too.<br />
NATHAN BOYS<br />
Columnist<br />
tunately. During Bush’s presidency, the<br />
comparison was thrown all over the place<br />
(though not quite to the current degree).<br />
I didn’t like it when Bush got smacked<br />
with it, and I don’t like it when Obama<br />
gets smacked with it.<br />
The main problem with Nazi references<br />
in political arguments is it cheapens your<br />
argument. It can be diffi cult sometimes to<br />
rebut your opponent, but connect his policies<br />
to Nazism and the tide easily turns.<br />
It’s an easy form of mudslinging because<br />
there’s no thought involved. Nearly every<br />
American thinks that Hitler was evil. It’s<br />
one the few readily available examples of<br />
evil left in our culture. Few Americans<br />
will take the time to realize that just because<br />
the Nazis did it, it’s not necessarily<br />
evil. Hitler was a vegetarian. Does that<br />
make vegetarianism bad? The Nazis supported<br />
animal rights. Should we automatically<br />
vilify animal rights groups because<br />
of that fact?<br />
People feel differently about the 7 th and<br />
8 th graders being here. Some are frustrated,<br />
some are confused, and others are<br />
excited.<br />
Vivian Kim, a sophomore, thought it<br />
was fun to have them at the high school<br />
because she has friends who are 7 th and<br />
8 th graders<br />
“It’s exciting. More loud and crazy. I<br />
would rather have loudness than silence”<br />
she said.<br />
Emily Cooper, a freshman, described<br />
the arrival of the 7 th and 8 th graders as<br />
“weird but we don’t really see them anyways.”<br />
Most students see little of the 7 th and<br />
8 th graders. The transition team worked<br />
In the past fi ve months, a new strain<br />
of infl uenza has gripped the world. The<br />
origins of H1N1, commonly known as the<br />
swine fl u, began in either Mexico or California.<br />
It has since spread throughout the<br />
world. Swine fl u, in recent months, has<br />
been found to not be the catastrophe that<br />
scientists feared.<br />
Swine fl u was given its name because<br />
the genes that it contained were similar to<br />
those of pigs. In further studies, H1N1 is<br />
similar to the genes of birds and humans.<br />
Swine fl u is not possible to contract when<br />
eating pork however.<br />
The symptoms of swine fl u range from<br />
mild to severe. In severe cases, hospitalization<br />
occurs and sometimes deaths results.<br />
People in good health can usually<br />
become well by themselves. Testing is not<br />
recommended or needed usually.<br />
People at high risk include young<br />
children, pregnant women and anyone<br />
There’s really only one good way to use<br />
a Nazi comparison. According to Benford’s<br />
law of controversy, “Passion is inversely<br />
proportional to the amount of real<br />
information available.” To effectively call<br />
someone out as similar to Nazis, you need<br />
to calmly and practically link the person’s<br />
policies to Hitler’s, then give an outcome<br />
of those policies, or in other words, a consequence.<br />
You can’t just say “The Nazis<br />
did that!” and expect to get anywhere.<br />
And you defi nitely can’t wave signs with<br />
“_______ = Hitler” and expect sane people<br />
to listen to you.<br />
There is a good, effective way to do<br />
things and get your point across. And<br />
there are a lot of bad ways of doing that.<br />
Let’s move past this and make an effort to<br />
civilly disapprove of the actions of politicians<br />
from now on. Demonstrations are<br />
necessary and we have a protected right<br />
to assemble, but there is a world of difference<br />
between rallying and making fools<br />
of yourselves.<br />
7th, 8th graders find mixed reaction<br />
SIDNEY DAVIE<br />
Reporter<br />
hard to maintain seperation.<br />
Tyler Spooner, a senior, said he rarely<br />
sees any of the younger kids except when<br />
he saw a 7 th or 8 th grader in the bathroom.<br />
“Awkward!” was his reaction.<br />
Other than that, the high schoolers<br />
have seen 7 th and 8 th graders only rarely.<br />
New rules have been set at the high<br />
school. Students may not enter the 7 th<br />
and 8 th and Freshman hall at lunch time.<br />
Also students may not leave campus<br />
without a note from the parent.<br />
Lauren Bowman, a junior, said it<br />
doesn’t really make a difference to her.<br />
She likes to keep to the rules.<br />
“ I don’t think its OK to break the<br />
rules” she said.<br />
H1N1: new flu not as fierce as feared<br />
CAROLINE STREK<br />
Reporter<br />
with a chronic medical condition. These<br />
people are already at risk for the regular<br />
fl u. Emergency signs include diffi culty<br />
breathing, bluish skin, vomiting, lethargy,<br />
irritability, dizziness, pain in the chest or<br />
fl u-like symptoms that improve but are<br />
accompanied by a fever and a high cough.<br />
One difference between swine fl u and<br />
the normal fl u is that older people do not<br />
seem to be at risk, as it is with the regular<br />
fl u. One third of people over the age of 60<br />
seem to have antibodies against the virus.<br />
Prevention is key to avoid contracting<br />
the illness. Getting a fl u shot could help<br />
prevent it as well. There will be a H1N1<br />
vaccine shortly, but it will be a separate<br />
vaccine.<br />
Covering your mouth when you sneeze,<br />
washing hands frequently, avoiding sick<br />
people and not touching your eyes or<br />
mouth can all help prevent spreading disease.<br />
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