Issue 1, September 21, 2018 Vol. 70

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Volume 70, Issue 1 September 21, 2018

“Rodgers to Randall Cobb into Chicago terri-tory! Randall Cobb in-side the 20 yard line! Randall Cobb is gonna score to tie the game!”

Mr. Teal and his son Tysen were in the Pack-er stadium to witness as quarterback Aaron Rodgers stole the show Sunday night by leading the Packers to defeat the Chicago Bears 24-23 in the kickoff of the 2018 NFL season.

Viewers in the stadi-um and at home on their couches were astonished that the Green Bay Pack-ers came back from a 20 point deficit to finally tie the game in the late fourth quarter after Aa-ron Rodgers was sacked

by defensive end Ray Robertson-Harris on third down and getting replaced by DeShone Kizer as the quarterback. It is one thing to ex-perience that marvel-ous feeling of being at home with all your friends and watching your team come back

from such a deficit against a rival team, but what does it feel like to witness such a

phenome-nal win in-person? Mr. Teal talked about

By Josh Karo  Friday:

7:00 PM: Foot-ball Varsity vs Hayward @ NHS

 Saturday: 9:00 AM:

Vol-leyball Varsity Invitational @ NHS

 Monday:

4:30 PM: C Vol-leyball Triangu-lar @ Hayward 6:00 PM: C

Football Game vs Spooner @ NHS

 Wednesday: 9:30 AM: Girls’

Golf Varsity Re-gional

@ Hidden Greens Solon Springs

 Thursday:

4:30 PM: Cross Country Varsity Invitational @ Ladysmith HS 5:45 & 7:30 PM:

Volleyball Match vs Hay-ward @ NHS

Airplane Story Pg.3 4600 Mi Away Pg. 4

Pg. 5 Senior Prof’s

Tysen Teal’s first Burrito!

Cigarettes may be on their way out of the main-stream of teenag-es, but vapes (another name for e-cigarettes) have started to take their place. One would be hard pressed to find a school in the United States that doesn’t have at least one student who vapes.

At Northwestern, most social circles seem not to approve of vaping be-cause it is known to most kids around here to not be a healthy activity.

Many vapers are made fun of for vaping be-cause the internet has spread stereotypes of vapers being a bunch of tools with egos bigger than the sun. To see this issue from a vaper’s point of view, I inter-viewed two of them.

Both interview-ees are female and attend North-western, and for the sake of this article, they will be known as Vel-ma and Daphne. Velma was in a relationship with a guy who vaped and so she felt pressured to vape because her boy-friend and his entire family were involved in the activity, and she wanted to fit in. She would constantly borrow her boyfriend’s and his family's vape pens

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By Steven Knaack

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Wisconsin Hu-mane Society res-cues five squirrels with ‘hopelessly entangled tails.’ The five juve-nile gray squirrels are siblings whose tails some-how got entan-gled together thanks to long stemmed grass and pieces of plastic the mother used when build-ing the nest. Luckily a good

Samaritan came across the bundle of squirrels in the grass underneath a tree in Milwaukee, Wis-consin. The squirrels were taken to Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at the Wisconsin Humane Society in Milwaukee on

September 9.

Because squirrels need their tails not only for balance, but also for warmth, the rescuers knew they had to be very delicate when trying to untangle the tails. After rescue workers

anesthe-tized the five squirrels, the Humane Center said they began “unraveling the Gordian Knot” of tails and nest material. For the rescue work-ers, this task was not easy; it was difficult tell-ing whose tail was

whose, and impaired blood flow was causing tissue dam-age to the tails. But fi-nally after a grueling 20 minutes of the rescuers snipping away at the squirrels’ tails, they were finally set free. Although the Humane Center

doesn’t know how the squirrels managed to get their tails tied together, they will remain at the Humane Center for the rest of the month under supervision.

By Sydney Larsen

ever she was around them and vaped as much as she could. She says that her friends never really approved of her vaping.

Velma found vaping fun and calming. After she broke up with her boyfriend, though, she stopped vaping, but ad-mits that has never re-gretted doing it. She may have stopped, but she believes vaping is okay and should be allowed during school in some form, like a vape club, saying that she has even vaped in school before. Daphne has different views on vaping, howev-er. She still vapes, but not very often. She thinks vaping has no

place in school. She did-n’t feel pressured to vape but wanted to try it be-cause some of her friends vaped. Then she found she liked doing vape tricks. She then decided to buy a vape pen from her friend for $50 and continues to buy her vape juice from that friend.

Velma and Daphne have parents who aren’t aware of their children’s vaping. Both girls know that vaping is unhealthy, but, based on the inter-views, aren’t aware of much of the negatives effects. They see it as at least a little more healthy than smoking cigarettes, and both have negative views on cigarettes. Dr. Irfan Rahman, a professor at the Universi-ty of Rochester, and his

team have been studying the effects of e-cigs and vaping. They found many things, among which is that the vapors inhaled may affect cells in the mouth in a way that can promote gum disease, which often leads to loss of teeth. Those same vapors don’t stop in the mouth and enter the lungs, causing more potential damage. It can cause smoker’s cough, impact immunity and do so much more. While vaping has just as many negatives as smoking, many kids aren’t aware of the num-ber of negative side ef-fects that accompany vaping. Many kids who want to vape will tell their parents it is okay, and many parents believe them. Due to the lack of

awareness, and probably the fact vapes are nicely scented, many parents allow their young teenag-ers to smoke, possibly increasing the health negatives by exposing kids to it at such a stage in their development. Vaping can help smokers quit smoking, so some adults use it to slowly lower their nico-tine intake. It may be good for that, but it is finding its way to where it doesn’t belong, with teenagers. It may be a while for vaping to be thoroughly researched and for the possible neg-atives to be as widely known as the dangers of cigarettes are.

‘Vapers’ from pg. 1

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“No, Sir- I would not like to see your cowboy shoe…”

“Airplanes are fun!” said no one ever. Every-body is smiling and hav-ing a jolly-good time eat-ing all that steamy, juicy fresh steak that makes you drool.

WRONG! Don't let the TV commercials of any airline bewitch you into thinking that air-planes are the best inven-tion since pizza - they are not. I’d rather be stuck within a car for Nine hours my obnoxious teenage brothers then be stuffed in a metal tub like a sardine in a can.

You’re probably thinking: “Come on, Sasha, its not THAT bad!” Well, to prove that it is that bad, here are some details from my own travels that demon-strate that airline com-mercials got it wrong or falsely advertise.

Those hot off the press, mind my own business, “organic” passengers

I think we are all intel-lectually developed to know that the title above is me just mocking the commercial passengers. There is no such thing as hot off the press passen-gers. We look like a bunch of gremlins and tend to smell like that ogre from Shrek movie. Don't get me wrong, there are people who look pinpoint

per-fect...nobody likes them. There are two sorts of people on the airplane: those who for some rea-son wants to be friends and those who want to mind be left alone. I land in the second category and invariably end up sitting with the first cate-gory of individuals. I must look like some PhD therapist fresh from Harvard, because I have had people tell me about their troublesome lives. Take Ms. Australia

lady for example. After preaching to me how

un-macho Spanish men and how all Russian women are a bunch of hoo-ha’s, she then proceeded to complain about her life to me and her divorce with “a drunk Turk and two outback Australi-ans.”

And if you think that's bad, let me introduce to you Mr. Creepster. He kept calling me “his an-gel from heaven” and then tried to show me his cowboy boots, stating that “only real American men wear them!”

He was Dutch, by the way.

Afterward, he then told me also about his two divorces and being newly wedded to a 26 year old (he was 60ish).

At least I have to be grateful that I only have people that can’t control their heavy heads and put their heads on my shoul-der when they sleep, tell me their lives, make me hold their cat or baby,

and kick my seat, where-as my dear mother had to put up with a lady show-ing her “battle wounds” on her legs.

That complimentary airplane food

Dear Airlines: I am still waiting for that complimentary air-plane food that you promised me on your commercial. I don't ap-preciate being lied to, so you can have your coun-terfeit rice with chicken curry and a tad bit of “your dog won't even it this ish” back.

Sincerely, Sasha

The lovely trolly dollies

Flight attendants: Those people that are constantly crabby while trying to put a painful smile on. They also have a tendency to think that we bother them. Take the example of my dad. He was in a British airplane

See ‘Airplane’ on pg. 4

By Sasha Achucarro

Edi- tor:

Ashley Olson

Staff Members: Sydney Larsen

Erin Germano Savannah Pank Hughston Remington

Steven Knaack Lucille Landwehr

Joshua Karo Alyssa Lundeen Sasha Achucarro

Cassidy Pooler

Advisor:

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when the flight attend-ants came and asked him what he would like to eat. He asked what was in the “Indian vegetarian salad” and the lady re-sponded annoyingly “Well . . . plants!”

There are also times were they would jab you in the back with their boney finger to wake you up just to ask you if you would like some water. “No ma’am, I would not like anything to drink. . . . In fact, I think I would rather sleep.”

The flight attendants aren't really that nice, I have to say. The only well kept and ‘nice’ flight attendants are the ones who work for the German airline

Lufthansa.

Well having made all of these negative

com-ments, I do have to rec-ognize that airplanes are the fastest and safest way to travel around the world.

We welcome Martin Kolenchik to Northwest-ern High School, as our current foreign exchange student.

Martin is a senior trav-eling from Slovakia. He left his parents and sister, who previously came to America as an exchange student. This is Martin's first time coming to America, and he says that so far America has been wonderful! “All of the people are good and everybody's nice.” Martin also shared some of the major differ-ences from back home. One of the main differ-ences is the food. “I love the food here! Normally in Slovakia we all eat healthy, but here it's a lot of fast food. I get a lot of burgers and pizza.” Another difference is the people. “People are

the same . . . except here they are more crazy. America is full of crazy people.”

One of Mar-tin's favorite hobbies is par-ticipating in sports, which is why you will see him out on the football field and

even-tually on the hockey rink in Ashland. He said that he is really enjoying playing football, which is “much better than soc-cer.”

He also says that the sports are much easier than class. Because eve-ryone speaks English so quickly, Martin admits, “I don't really understand what they are saying, so I just sit in a classroom all day.” One of his goals is to get much better at

English, so hopefully by the end of the year, his classes won't be nearly as hard for him.

Finally, I talked with sophomore Colin Trautt; he and his family in Pop-lar are Martin’s host family for the year. Orig-inally, Martin was sup-posed to live with a fami-ly in Ashland and be an Oredocker for the year, but that fell through, so the Trautts stepped in to enable Martin to

experi-ence high school life as a Tiger.

Adding someone to your family for a year can be a lot to take on, so I wanted to get Colin’s perspective on this whole situation. Colin said that Martin has been amazing to have at their home. “It is so fun having Martin at our house. It is a great experience.”

his experience at the game and what it meant to him. When asked about the atmosphere in

the stadium and his thoughts on the game, he shared that at one point the fans felt “deflated. It sucked the air out of Lambeau Field. After the first half, I was 101% sure we were going to lose.”

Late in the fourth quarter, the Green Bay Packers took their first lead of the night over the Bears after a

touch-down by wide receiver Randall Cobb. When asked about the moment when Aaron Rodgers came back in the third quarter, Mr. Teal com-mented that the atmos-phere changed: “When he got out on the field and started jogging, it was a standing ovation from everyone.” As the game continued, the fans “were amazed, aston-ished, energized, and we

had hope.” He went on to say, “In the final minutes no one was sitting down, everyone was on their feet.”

Aaron Rodgers fin-ished the game with three touchdowns, 286 passing yards, and was 20-30 on completions. Aaron Rodgers was soon after nominated for Air Player of the Week by FedEx.

‘Packers’ Continued By Lucille Landwehr

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By Sydney Larsen

Describe what vines or “memes” you stay up late thinking about. Ex-plain.

All of them, sleep is overrated.

If you were able to have lunch with your favorite celebrity, who would it be? Where would you eat lunch? What would you talk about?

Mr. Smith, at Chic-fil-a, talking about why he took down my Hawkeye pennant from his door.\

What are your plans for after high school?

I will be attending the University of Iowa next fall. That’s all I know.

Best and worst pur-chases.

Ice cream … also ice cream.

What was your favorite trend from high

school?

Crocs.

If you could create one mandatory course for future seniors, what would it be?

Geography. I’ve had several too many classes where students have asked which state in America China is.

“I will always remem-ber . . .”

The looming thought of Shrek being a possible musical option.

Ted Kyle

Senior

Class

Officers

Row 1: Vice President Nia

Albright

and

President

Journey Amundson

Row 2: Treasurer Ted Kyle

and

Secretary Gervase

Thompson IV

What is the dumbest way you’ve been in-jured?

S/o to when Greg Rhu-man punched me, ripped out my eyelashes … and gave me a black eye.

Star Wars battle scene but every sound is Cardi B.

Best and worst pur-chases.

Best: A shake a day for three weeks straight. Worst: Same as above.

Disregard females, ac-quire currency.

If you could create one mandatory course for future seniors, what would it be?

A skinny right after lunch so that once you stuff your face with food you can take a nap and get ready for fourth block grinds.

“I will always remem-ber . . Porta-potty or-ange.

Where do you see your-self in 10 years?

27 turning 28.

What his a recent story that you have followed in the news?

“The bachelor's getting so boring he’s getting dumped as often as the prime minister of Aus-tralia.” - Buzzfeed.

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Getting trucked by Mac-kenzie Correll while on a field trip to Adventure Zone.

Best Halloween cos-tume? (Please identify your age or what grade you were in.)

In 7th grade, I was a Jap-anese tourist while Bryce Radig represented the Mexican culture.

If you were to describe your graduating class as a type of candy, what type of candy would your class be? Explain.

Black licorice, because some people like it and some don’t.

Shaq, we would eat at some steak restaurant and just have a good time.

Catch up on sleep.

Kyle Curphy freaking out before football games.

In student loan debt.

Gervase Thompson

IV

Broke my arm doing hurdles in 6th grade in front of the entire school.

What was your least favorite trend from high school?

Mullets.

Best Halloween cos-tume? (Please identify your age or what grade you were in.)

Junior year, dressed up as Jughead and Betty from Riverdale with Brayden Guentzel.

Amanda Lumberg’s speech at the end of eighth grade.

I love you, and I miss you, huhhhhhhhhhh.

Amy Poehler. We’d have waffles at JJ’s Diner and we would talk about our favorite powerful women and her year on SNL.

Hopefully done with with medical school, and living on a lake.