In the past seven years, 1,760 transgender people have been murdered for the sole reason that they are trans1.
29 have been mur-dered this year alone. Roughly 98% of those slain were transgender people assigned male at birth, the other AFAB2.
Out of that 98%, the vast majority of AMAB2 trans
people killed are people of color.
Murder isn’t the only fatal problem transgender people face. 41% of all trans individuals attempt suicide, as opposed to the general population rate of 4.6%. Trans men are the most likely to do so, at 46%, with trans women at 42%.
There are specific fac-tors into these high rates, and all are derivatives of transphobia. Rejection from friends and family, discrimination, physi-cal, verbal, or sexual abuse, homelessness and microaggressions.
Rejection: Peers, fami-ly, and friends are like-ly to be unaccepting of trans identities, and
their correct name and pronouns. Some refuse to acknowledge them, kick them out of their home, and/or blatantly misgender3 them.
Discrimination: It is le-gal in 32 states to fire someone for being trans. There are bills all over the world being enacted or attempting to get passed that would require a person to use the re-stroom gender specific to their birth certificate on a basis that men will enter the women’s restroom to harass women-a myth
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Volume 67, Issue 10 November 20, 2015
Today:
6:30 PM: KBJR Parade in Duluth
DECA
compe-tition @ Kan-sas City
Drama One
Acts State @ Whitewater
Tuesday:
6:00 PM:
Boy’s JV & V Scrimmages @ NHS
Thursday: Hap-py Thanksgiv-ing!
Have a safe and
happy break!
Make sure to
get
all
your
homework
done, and
plen-ty of sleep!
Pg. 2 Turkey
Pg. 5 DNR
Pg. 6 Senior Profiles
By Jay Gaare
‘Remembrance’
Continued Pg. 3
Transgender SymbolEvery day we do things that we don’t ac-tually think about. We brush our teeth, eat breakfast and maybe even workout in the morning.
Another thing a lot of us do without realizing it is sweat. Some of us may sweat more than
others and others not at all. But why?
What is sweat? Sweat is composed of 99% wa-ter and evaporates off the skin’s surface to help cool the body. A natural bodily function. Humans sweat more than any other mammal.
Not everyone sweats the same. Everyone has a distinct sweat. Just like
your fingerprint; no one else has the same sweat. It is possible to sweat too much. Having over-active sweat glands is a medical condition called Hyperhidrosis, which can be caused by certain medications or medical conditions. Overactive sweat glands can lead to
‘Sweat’ Continued
Pg. 2
By Cassie Harvey
İyi yolculuklar (Have a nice trip)
Style: Despite most of Turkey’s citizens be-ing Muslim, which comes with a fairly me-ticulous fashion, Turkey
is also heavily influ-enced by European fashion, essentially keeping Turkish style modern.
It is fair to say that Turkish style is similar to that of other countries in Europe, such as Ger-many, Italy, France, or the UK.
Many Turkish Mus-lim women wear head scarves with a light cov-erall topcoat, or for those who follow Otto-man tradition, a black full body covering with a veil is more appropri-ate. However, since the veil is actually against the law but is very sel-dom enforced, even
head scarves in public or in government build-ings may raise contro-versy.
For most places in Turkey casual dress (shorts, jeans, t-shirts) is acceptable except when visiting a mosque where clean modest dress is required.
Thighs, shoulders, and upper arms should not be shown, and a hood or head scarf should be worn. Most of these standards apply to the male population as well, casual dress for most places, but modest dress when visiting a mosque.
Food: Beginning to make its way onto the worldwide culinary plat-form, Turkish food pulls its vibrant flavors from traditions of its own as well as from the Greek, Ottoman, and Balkan cultures.
Firstly, Corba, a sim-ple soup dish, proves to be a most popular selec-tion as it is eaten during all times of the day. Lentil or tomato soup serve as a base, some-times with adventurous preferences like tripe,
Editor: Jay Gaare
Staff Members: Cora Jarman Cassie Harvey
Miranda Maki Ashton Goette
Lilli Kovaleski
Advisor: Mrs. Thompson
Today:
Emma Nelson
11/21:
Drew Sotona
11/23:
Samuel Risley
Thanksgiving:
Taya McClure Noah Mechley
11/26:
Myriah Larson
11/27
Gregory Ruhman
11/29
Cerina Cimermancic Jenner Graff Calyndria Johnson Keilah Nelson
11/30
Cole Mccray
12/02
Tyler Davis Justin Little Alex Tuura
12/03
Alicia Michaud
Happy
Birthday!
dehydration.
There is a “good” sweat and a “bad” or “stressed” sweat. When doing physical activity we sweat and it is com-posed of mostly water, salt, and potassium. Stress sweat is released by a different gland in
the body and is com-prised of fatty acids and proteins. Stress sweat doesn’t evaporate and stays on the skin, caus-ing an odor to develop when the sweat com-bines with bacteria on the skin.
It is also proven that overweight individuals sweat less than those who are more lean,
be-cause they have a lower density of sweat glands in their skin due to fat underneath the skin. In 2013, a Swedish engineer, Andreas Ham-mar, wanted to draw at-tention to the millions of people who do not have clean drinking water. He created the Sweat Ma-chine, which pulled sweat from clothing and turned it into portable,
clean drinking water through a process of heating, spinning, and filtering. A sweaty t-shirt provided an aver-age of two teaspoons of purified drinking water. It would be more effi-cient if sweaty socks were used instead; a hu-man foot has 250,000 sweat glands, putting out half a pint of sweat daily.
‘Sweat’ Continued
By Ashton Goette
Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Fatih/Istanbul, Turkey.
that has zero cases to support it.
Students are often de-nied the right to use lock-er rooms that correlate with their gender and are not allowed to join gen-dered clubs or sports. 15% of trans people have been denied access to public places when their identification did not match their gender presentation.
Abuse and Harass-ment: 10% of trans peo-ple have been sexually assaulted by healthcare professionals, a 15% av-erage of transgender be-ings have been sexually assaulted while in custo-dy; however, 32% of black transgender people have been assaulted while in police custody.
50% have been harassed at work, and 6.5% have been physically or sex-ually abused while at work.
Homelessness: 20-40% of LGBTQ+ youth is homeless as opposed to 5 -10% of straight and/or cisgender4 youth.
1 in 10 transgender people have been evicted from their homes for their gender, 1 in 5 has been discriminated when seeking a home, and 1 in 5 trans beings have expe-rienced homelessness in their lifetime.
In addition to home-lessness, often transgender youth are put into gendered spaces that they don’t identify with. For example, a trans girl is placed into a boy’s group home. It’s also sig-nificantly harder for homeless transgender
youth to find safe and accepting adoptive or foster homes.
Microaggressions: Mi-croaggressions are seem-ingly small issues, inten-tional or uninteninten-tional, that portray derogatory messages to an audience based upon their margin-alization.
Transphobic mi-croaggressions include making transphobic jokes such as the com-mon “girl with a dick” joke, using transphobic language such as she-he, lady-man, tr*nny, f*gg*t, assuming and teaching others that there are only two genders that are de-termined by genitals and assumption that every trans experience is the same.
Microaggressions also include denial of person-al transphobia one may
have (i.e. a trans person calls you out on some-thing and you refuse to admit that you did it or that it was transphobic) and the disallowance of privacy (asking a trans person what genitals they have, assuming things about their sexuality and gender).
Today, November 20, is the Transgender Day Of Remembrance, a day trans people take to hon-or and mourn the losses of their trans siblings. We take this day for those who lost their lives to suicide or murder be-cause of how prevalent it is in this community. A world, the world we live in, in which you’re highly likely to be murdered or to commit suicide simply because you exist as you is a nightmare no one should have to endure.
Temple of Quechula, Chiapas, Mexico, is
uncovered due to drought dropping water levels 82 feet.
By Jay Gaare
‘Remembrance’
Continued
1) Trans/Transgender- one who does not identify completely as the gender they were assigned at birth. This includes gender non-conforming and non-binary individuals.
2) AMAB- assigned male at birth, AFAB- assigned female at birth.
3) Misgender- to refer to someone using the wrong name, pronouns, and gender. Example: a transgender boy being called a “lady, miss, ma’am, she/her, girl.”
4) Cis/Cisgender [pronounced “sis gender”]- identifying with the gender assigned at birth.
Above: Transgender Woman, Vicky Thompson,
found dead in cell after being sent to an all-male prison, suicide suspected.
Left: Home-schooled Ahaan Rungta is accepted
to MIT at age 15. Thomas Smith is fired from
Walmart after collecting empty cans in parking lot
and redeeming for $5.10 Patrick Hardiman receives
world’s most extensive (full) facial transplant.
On 11/12 & 11/13 The IS attacked Beirut, Lebanon; Baghdad, Iraq; and
Cheddar cheese has more potential to make you drowsy than turkey does; so why does turkey get the bad reputation when Thanksgiving comes around?
All meats and cheeses contain an amino acid called tryptophan (trip-tō -fan) (abbrev: trp). Tur-key has about the same amount of trp. as other poultry, but very few people complain of sleepiness after consum-ing chicken or duck. The inclination to sleep after Thanksgiving dinner has other factors involved.
Thanksgiving dinner is one of the largest meals of the year. Everybody eats until they’re stuffed and then just has to have one more bite of their favorite food. For me it’s the green bean casserole and the honeyed yams with a fluffy, golden lay-er of marshmallows on top . . . mmmmm. Most Thanksgiving foods are loaded with carbs.
All the carbohydrates get pumped into your bloodstream along with trp. and stimulate the production and release of insulin. Insulin lowers the carbohydrate levels in the blood but does not
lower trp. levels. Be-cause the trp. levels remain the same but no longer compete with carbs to cross the blood-brain barrier, the trp. is able to cross and make
ser-otonin. Serotonin then becomes melatonin and, voila, a sleep-inducing hormone is floating around in your brain. If you’ve been follow-ing what I’ve told you (if not, take Honors Biolo-gy) you may have
no-ticed that the same thing could happen when you eat any kind of meat or cheese. Trp. is an amino acid essential to survival, so try not to get too upset if you can’t keep your eyes open. Blame chem-istry.
By Cora Jarman
sheep brain, or tongue of various animals. Another cheap, tasty, and filling food, com-monly found at street markets, is Gozleme, a layered pastry filled with items such as spin-ach, cheese, potatoes and parsley. Baklava, a popular dessert, is layers of filo pastries, filled with nuts and covered in sweet honey or syrup.
Education: Students in Turkey begin school the first September after their sixth birthday. With a new educational system put into place in March 2012, students attend four years of pri-mary education, first level; four years of pri-mary education, second
level; and four years of secondary education. Students are no long-er required to go to school after the school year they turn fourteen; however, in order to go to higher schooling such as college or university, students must complete secondary education for a total of 17 years of schooling.
Activities: Soccer is popular. The Turkish
National Football Team has won many awards, including a bronze med-al at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, winning the UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2000, and a bronze medal in the 2003 FIFA Confedera-tions Cup.
Basketball and vol-leyball are also popular sports in Turkey, with fairly decorated teams. Some fun pastimes in Turkey include
swim-ming, boating, water rafting, yachting, hiking, biking, and hot air bal-looning. Turkey also offers quite a few unique sites to visit like the ancient city of Ephe-sus and various palaces.
Transportation: Like most of Europe, Turkey connects a varie-ty of railways and light rails for easy, and quick travel.
Along with that is the option of public road-ways, ports, harbors, air travel and private bus companies that provide travel between cities in Turkey. Most people ride the trams and rails to work, due to their ef-ficiency and reasonable prices.
Güle güle (Goodbye)
Mount Nemrut/Nemrud, Southeastern Turkey.
According to multiple websites and the 2015 deer hunting regulations book, hunters in Wis-consin will be allowed to choose how they will register their deer, a few ways that do not require that any official register-ing person physically see/witness the deer be-ing registered.
Hunters may either report their deer kill by calling it in, submitting it online or registering in person.
This new regulation is legal in 43 of the 50 states, including Wis-consin and Minnesota. If you choose to regis-ter by phone, you have until 5 p.m. the night after harvest to call. Call 844-426-3734 (844
GAME-REG) to register by phone. When regis-tering your deer online, go to gamereg.wi.gov; you will be asked a se-ries of simple questions about your deer and just like when you call, you have until 5 p.m. the night after you harvest the deer.
Last but not least, there are various local
businesses that will reg-ister your deer -- all you have to do is take your deer to a local gas sta-tion or business that is doing registration. When registering your deer electronically or over the phone, make sure you record the 10-character confirmation code on the bottom of your tag with a ballpoint
pen or a permanent marker. Make sure to keep the tag until all of the deer, is no longer in your possession.
To some individuals who hunt and are far from any local business-es this new form of reg-istration could be very convenient. However, one cannot help thinking that certain people will abuse this by killing more deer than they re-port or identifying a buck as a doe. Violations such as putting a doe tag on a buck or not tagging a deer at all could result in fines ranging from $50 to $500 or as many as 90 days in jail.
If you get a big tro-phy buck make sure you have the right tag for it. By Miranda Maki
The Thanksgiving Baskets put together this year by the middle and high schools number over thirty. Thirty-seven, actually, the most baskets collected at one time in the history of this drive.
This year, in addition to the usual food that goes into the baskets, each basket also has a wooden cutting board that was created by stu-dents in Mr. Letko’s
Tech Ed. class. All of the food will benefit people in the Northwestern communi-ty. Half of the baskets will be delivered to Iron River, and the
remain-der will go to Poplar. One criterion for recipi-ents of these baskets is that their family size is five or more members. Thanks to students and staff from the Maple
School District, many families will have a lit-tle more food this Thanksgiving.
Overseeing the event for her eleventh year was Mrs. Lahti, FCCLA advisor. Helping her were FCCLA members, especially Brecken Pau-lus, Madison Trautt, Alissa Ormond, and Au-tumn Campbell.
Thank you to everyone who donated food, mon-ey, and cutting boards! By Cora Jarman
Paul Konkler and Hayden Anderson hold Thomas Worth. Q: What is one piece of advice
for next year’s seniors? A: Stay hungry, stay
hum-ble...High school is the only thing that matters in life.
Q: What’s the most played song on your iPod?
A: Eat, Pray, Love (audiobook)
Q: What’s your favorite zoo animal?
A: My mixtape
Q: How did you find out Santa isn’t real?
A: I asked for magnetix and he bought me Great Value zipties.
Q: If everything went perfectly after high school what would you be doing?
A: Driving fast, taking chances, hopefully making 11K a year. Q: What’s the most embarrass-ing thembarrass-ing you’ve done in high school?
A: Applied myself.
Q: What’s the hardest class you’ve taken thus far? A: Phy. Ed. 9.
Q: What is one piece of advice for next year’s seniors?
A: Senior year is the best year of your life, only downhill from here!
Q: What’s the most played song on your iPod?
A: Hollaback Girl, Gwen Stefani
Q: What’s your favorite zoo animal?
A: Tucan
Q: If everything went perfectly after high school, what would you be doing?
A: Professional stay at home son.
Q: What’s the wackiest stunt you’ve ever pulled?
A: Drove 59 MPH in a 55 MPH zone and passed a cop. (I got lucky.)
Q: If you could have one myth-ical creature as a pet, what would it be?
A: Unicorn.
Q: Biggest achievement in high school?
A: Benched 105 lbs once.
Q: What is one piece of advice for next year’s seniors?
A: Live it up, Senior year is wild!
Q: What’s the most played song on your iPod?
A: Lean Like a Ch*lo, Down AKA Kilo
Q: How many days do you esti-mate that you’ve skipped? How many all-nighters?
A: Once bow season opened I pulled lots of all-nighters because I’d hunt all night: That’s when they’re most active.
Q: If everything went perfectly after high school, what would
you be doing?
A: I’d be fishing in the Bassmas-ter Elite Series and winning big cash.
Q: How many times have you pulled the seniority card? A: I didn’t get a card?
Q: What did you struggle with most as a freshman?
A: Breaking my pelvis as well as every other bone in my body.
Q: If you could have one mythi-cal creature as a pet, what would it be?
A: A bass.
