“What this campaign is about is asking the American people to think big, not small. To ask why it is that we are the only major country on Earth that doesn’t guar-antee health care for all people, that doesn’t have payed family and medi-cal leave.
A country that has more income and wealth inequality gaps than any time since 1928. A coun-try which has the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost every major country on Earth.
A nation in which bright young people can not afford to go to col-lege or others are leaving school deeply in debt, in which working parents in many cases cannot find high quality affordable child care…
And what I believe, is if we have the courage... if we stand together... if we have a vision of what
this country can become, if we are prepared to stand up to the Billion-aire class and create that vision, there is nothing that we can’t accomplish, and that’s what this cam-paign is about.”
On January 26th, Sen-ator Bernie Sanders and his campaign team visit-ed the DECC. His hour-long speech was intro-duced by Congressman Keith Ellison who started
the rally off on a good note; “Don’t say it can’t be done, because we’re already doing it.”
What Ellison was re-ferring to, was change in America, more specifi-cally the political cam-paign system.
A major flaw in our Presidential Race is that Online@ www.nw-tigers.org/the-octagon
Volume 67, Issue 18 February 5, 2016
By Jay Gaare
Today:
5:45 PM: Girls
C & JV Bas-ketball @ NHS
7:15 PM: Girls
Varsity Bas-ketball @ NHS
Saturday:
FBLA
Region-al Competition @ Chequama-gon
9:00 AM:
Var-sity Wrestling @ Superior HS
Monday:
5:00 PM:
School Board Meeting
Tuesday:
5:45 PM: Boys
C & JV Bas-ketball @ NHS
7:30 PM: Boys Varsity Bas-ketball @ NHS
Wednesday:
Blood Drive @ NHS
Thursday:
1:00 PM:
Musi-cal Perfor-mance for MS
5:45 PM: Girls C & JV Bas-ketball @ Bar-ron High School
7:15 PM: Girls Varsity Bas-ketball Game @ Barron High School
Pg. 2 Winter Driving
Pg. 3 Senior Prof’s
Pg. 4 Victorian outfit
‘Bernie Sanders’
Continued Pg. 4
Congressman Keith Ellison welcomes Senator Bernie Sanders to Duluth.
Timmy Schulz and Nate Pearson signed letters of intent this week to attend Michigan Tech and the University of
Minnesota-Duluth, re-spectively.
Both will receive ath-letic and academic
schol-arships to attend these schools and play foot-ball.
Timmy intends to major in engineering and Nate, computer engineering. Timmy will join his older brother Luke at Michi-gan Tech.
Hate winter driving? You’re not alone! Not only are winter condi-tions dangerous and frightening, they’ve be-come downright annoy-ing. Having your flights delayed or canceled be-cause of weather is easily one of the biggest
both-ers of the holiday season. What if I told you this problem could be solved?
Scientists at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln have created a new type of concrete that will melt snow and ice all on its own! The re-searchers mixed bits of steel and carbon into
concrete and, because there are both positive and negative compo-nents, it worked just like a battery when it got wet, warming the surface and melting the snow and ice without damaging any-one or anything that touched the concrete. Though it sounds promising, the cost of
repaving even just the major highways of the northwest is astronomi-cal. It’s much more like-ly that the DOT will choose to use this sub-stance to pave large bridges that get slick with ice during storms and parts of airport run-ways to avoid delays.
Editor:
Jay Gaare
Staff Members: Maddy Gross Isaac Klobucher
Lilli Kovaleski
Advisor:
Mrs. Thompson
2/06
Trenton Colby Kenny Dunny
2/07
Justine Moss
2/08
Ryan Lattiak Rose Tokar
2/09
Tyler Roy Isaac Young
Happy
Birthday!
Special concrete shown melting snow.
By Lilli Kovaleski
1.When you smile or laugh it works muscles in your face (so techni-cally you're working out) and your brain recognizes you smil-ing. It doesn't matter if it's real or fake your brain just knows it's a smile and it releases en-dorphins which are all these feel good chemi-cals and it makes you all happy.
2. Smiling or laughing can make less stressed.
Endorphins act as the body's natural painkiller.
3. It's a natural face lift; studies show it can make you look three years younger.
4. It's attractive! If
you're big on smiling and do it often, more people will find you attractive and that's helpful consid-ering Valentine's day is coming up quickly ;)
5. It's contagious. When you see someone gig-gling or smiling, it cheers you up.
6/ It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. So if you really want to work out your face, go ahead and frown. But I think it feels better to smile. How many muscles you use depends on how big your smile is.
Smiles and laughter can be the best medicine. Having a bad day? Smile! You didn't do so great on your math test? Find some friends and they’ll cheer you up! If you see someone else having a bad day, just give them a friendly smile. Smiles just give off good vibes.
I feel like if the world smiled more it would be a much better place. That kind of makes me sound like a hippie, but I really do feel that way. So please smile more, smile and laugh until your cheeks hurts and you can feel your abs coming on. “I guess when you smile it's joy coming out of you”- Tom Hiddleston
By Isaac Klobucher
Jake Makela, Thomas Rossman, and Monica Schnepper
Q: What’s the most played song on your device?
A: Justin Bieber -Sorry.
Q: How did you find out Santa isn’t real? A: My cousin told me in 3th grade; that ruined my life.
Q: If everything went perfectly after high school, what would you be doing?
A: Visit Bora Bora.
Q: What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done in high school?
A: Tripping over a table seat during A Lunch; the tables were full of people.
Q: How many times have you pulled the seniority car? Give an example. A: A couple times... mostly in the first weeks of school.
Q: What’s the hardest class you’ve taken thus far, why?
A: Large Animal Sci-ence… I won't eat any meat now.
Q: What’s your favor-ite high school memory?
A: Waking up in the morning and finding out school's canceled.
Monica
Schnepper
Q: What are your plans after high school?
A: College.
Q: Favorite memory of high school
A: Every day :)
Q: Most embarrassing moment in high school?
A: Accidentally swear-ing in a paper for Mr. Polzin’s class.
Q: If you were strand-ed on a island what three things would you
want to have and why? A: Rubik's cube all for obvious reasons, cow-boy hat, Joe Buck post-er.
Q: Favorite Disney character? Why? A: Spiderman, because he shouldn’t be a super-hero.
Make up your own question and answer it.
Q: Which kind of bear is best?
A: False - Black Bear.
Q: What three words best describe you? A: Yeah, sure, maybe.
Thomas
Rossman
Q: What is one piece of advice for next year's seniors?
A: Pick on Mr. Letko; he loves it, I swear.
Q: How did you find out Santa isn’t real? A: Santa’s not real?
Q: What’s your favor-ite high school memory?
A: Messing with Mr. Letko.
Q: What’s the craziest stunt/prank you’ve
ev-er pulled?
A: Hasn’t happened yet.
Q: How many times have you pulled the seniority card?
A: Every day in the lunch line.
Q: What’s the hardest class you’ve taken thus far? Why?
A: English 12. Because of Shakespeare.
Q: Write a small thank you to someone who has helped you in these past four years.
A: I’d say thanks to Letko, but in all reality Mrs. Wise is the one I’d like to say thanks to.
it can take billions of dollars to run for presi-dent and to make your-self known.
Bernie Sanders was against that, seeing how unfair it was, and how much it supported the inequality of wealth and class.
So, nine months ago, Bernie Sanders started his campaign off with $0, denying all big corpora-tions’ contribu-tions. Despite that, he has raised over $2.5 mil-lion from individual con-tributions, the most raised for a campaign from the general public in all U.S. history.
Sanders attributes his campaign’s success to the fact that “we’ve been telling the truth.” The truth, in Bernie’s eyes, is that our country is stuck, and America needs a po-litical revolution. He covered the reasons that he believes that the U.S. needs a political revolution, and not only that, he discussed how to
fix them.
One of the first major issues he spoke about was the wealth distribu-tion. The fact that 1% of the population owns as much as 90% is astound-ing, and should not have
you can find on his website, https://
ber-niesanders.com, but then he did mention most, if not all, including “wages in this country are too d*** low…$7.25 an hour is a star-vation
wage...we’ve got
to raise minimum wage to a living wage-$15 an hour.”
He also spoke on the issues of our broken criminal justice system. He said, “We should be investing in education and jobs for our kids, not our jails,” that “we ought to end the militarization of the police,” and “when a police officer breaks the law...that officer must be held accounta-ble.”
Though Senator Sand-ers is white, he does not ignore the evidence of the racism and prejudice that our country faces.
He acknowledges that the youth unemploy-ment rate for latinx peo-ple is higher, 36%, than it is for white youth, 33%, and that for black youth, the rate is much higher, 51%. When
ad-dressing the wage gap between men and wom-en, he didn’t just use the statistics for white peo-ple, he called out the fact that women of color will make significantly less than anyone who is white.
Wealth distribution, low wages, the criminal justice system and wage gaps are only a small portion of the issues about which he raised concerns.
He spoke about the 9.9% unemployment rate, and how in order to fix it we need not only to create jobs, but to keep high paying jobs. He spoke of “the greed, [and] the reckless be-havior of Wall
Street.” The crowd cheered when he talked about his plans for accessible health care, and free college tuition, and how we would fund this.
Bernie Sanders be-lieves that “people should not have to go in debt for trying to get an
education.” He stands for change in the fossil fuel industry, and that “there is nothing I can think of that is more important than leaving our planet habitable.”
Sanders says he “will do everything I can to make sure our children are not trapped in an ever -ending war [the war on terror.]”
All in all, Senator Ber-nie Sanders speech was amazing. I enjoyed it, and I am truly glad I went, only I am upset that I won’t be old enough to vote. It’s ex-tremely crucial for every-one who can vote, to do so, because in 2014 63% of the U.S. didn’t vote, and 80% of eligible youth didn’t vote either. If you want change, just like Bernie ex-pressed, you have to be a part of it. The Wisconsin Primary date is on April 5, 2016, so make sure if you are of age, please vote.
For any additional in-formation that I did not supply on Bernie Sand-ers, please visit https:// berniesanders.com/ issues/.
Bernie Sanders gives his speech at the D.E.C.C. rally.
Researchers and ocean-ographers at Columbia University are following evidence that suggests that oil in small amounts has actually encouraged the growth of some mi-croorganisms in the Gulf of Mexico.
In fact, the concentra-tion of one
microorgan-ism, called phytoplank-ton, doubled near oil seeps in the ocean floor. “This is the beginning of evidence that some microbes in the Gulf may be preconditioned to sur-vive with oil, at least at lower concentrations,” Professor Subramania, a Columbia University oceanographer who had
been studying the effects of oil on marine life, spe-cifically in the Gulf of Mexico, said in a press release.
Though he goes on to say that this evidence does not mean that any sort of prolonged expo-sure to the oil would be beneficial to the marine life, it was later
discov-ered through laboratory testing that phytoplank-ton don’t have any bene-fits at all from the oil, though they can tolerate small amounts.
This does not, howev-er, explain the earlier stated evidence, so re-searchers are continuing to study this phenome-non.
By Lilli Kovaleski FCCLA is a club that’s talked about fairly often in our school, but do any of our students who aren’t directly in-volved know what it entails? I certainly did-n’t. So, I interviewed junior Molly Niven about her endeavors in FCCLA fashion con-struction, a competitive event.
Molly has created an authentic 1880’s dress using all period patterns and including all au-thentic undergarments such as a petticoat,
cor-set, and crotch-less un- derpants. She has also
acquired au-thentic shoes and jewelry for her display. The creation of this master-piece took no less than 46 hours and 45 minutes, and a substantial in-vestment of cash, that Mol-ly says, “is too much to put in the paper.” Aside from competing, she also plans on taking some “cool pictures” of herself in the dress
and maybe even using it for a drama/musical pro-duction if the time period fits.
“Learning how to do new things such as in-serting steel boning was my favorite part,” Molly said. “I always love learning to do new things.” She definitely has a talent for sewing.
If you have a minute, swing by Mrs. Lahti’s room to look more close-ly at Molclose-ly’s Victorian Era outfit that is on the mannequin.
By Lilli Kovaleski
Name: Maximus (Max) Nicknames: Gluteus Maximus, Maxer
-Waxer, Maximus Far-ticus.
Age: 7 years old.
Breed: Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
Owner: The Gaare Family.
Max’s favorite activi-ties include antagonizing the two cats he lives with, nipping at the heels of his family to herd them, and whining to be lifted up onto beds that he can easily jump up on.
Max’s favorite toy is a fake bag of chips la-belled “Ruffs.”
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By Jay Gaare
New quarter! Which for me meant relief (no more math)! But with a new quarter comes new stress. I have a few tips that I'd like to share with you to help you stress less. So if you're majorly stressed or just very overwhelmed try some of these tips or a combina-tion
1. Try to remember this
TIPP.
T- Temperature: Keep cool. Use a cool wash-cloth or an icepack, or try splashing some cool water in your face. It helps to lower your heart
rate.
I- Intense exercise: By doing this you can help release some of your body's stored energy, which it needs to keep functioning under high stress.
P- Paced breathing:
Breathe. You need to chill baby, chiiiiiillllll! This is a very generic tip, but also a very effective one. Breathe in for five seconds and out for sev-en. This helps bring your heart rate down and hopefully your happiness levels up.
P- Progressive muscle
relaxation: When you get stressed you tend to tense up. Relax the mus-cles in your shoulders down to to your toes.
2. Have a little worry stone. This can be a smooth stone that you can keep in your back-pack, purse, or pocket. When you're taking notes, doing homework, or are stressed out, just take out your worry stone and run your fin-gers over it. Stress balls or other stim toys (small, often textured items or toys that give your hands something to do; for ex-ample beads on a string, tangle toys, etc.) are nice
as well; just something to keep your thoughts and hands occupied.
3. Think of a calming place for you. Focus your five senses on being in that place. What would you see, hear, smell, touch, and taste?
4. Force yourself to smile. It helps you chill out. This also works for being sad; it cheers you up! When you smile it releases good vibes, or feel good chemicals like dopamine, endorphins,
5. If all else fails, you could check out dai-lypuppy.com
By Maddy Gross
Teen Lisa Borch is sentenced to 9 years in prison after killing her mother. Said she was inspired by the IS, then later claims that was
a lie. Caller makes bomb threat to the
Wisconsin police department from Netflix’s Making a Murderer, claim-ing that they were gettclaim-ing justice for
the deemed wrongful conviction of Steven Avery.
Two toddlers are saved from sus-pected drug overdose by naloxone
(Narcan).
Small doses of painkiller opioid linked to decrease in suicidal ideation, and is
cur-rently being studied further.
Hawaiian man contracts HIV after receiving blood transfusion.
Dontrell Stevens wins lawsuit for $23 million against police officer Adams Lin after Lin shot and
para-lyzed Stevens. Lin is still employed. Maurice White, founder of soul band
Earth, Wind, Fire, dies at age 74.
