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Volume 69, Issue 19 February 16, 2018
The Northwestern chapter of FBLA trav-eled to St. Croix Central for the Region 1 compe-tition this past Saturday. 14 members competed in various events with speeches, demonstra-tions or tests.
Four groups will ad-vance to the state com-petition in La Crosse in April: Sydney Boden-dorfer and Mackenzie Correll in the category broadcast journalism, Nia Albright and Jour-ney Amundson in Entre-preneurship; Myranda
Breezee, Kasha
Hughlett, and Hope Nordrum in Emerging Business Issues, and
Jes-sica Shaver in Business Ethics.
In addition to the eight members continu-ing to La Crosse, six other members did very well with placements in
the top six or better. These members include Brooklyn DeGraef, Alli-son Luoma, Briana Linderholm, Delaney Brown, Marie Living-ston, and Matt Scott. By Journey Amundson
Friday:
5:45 & 7:15 PM: Girls Basketball Game vs Lady-smith @ NHS
Saturday:
Boys Wrestling Varsity Section-al vs Amery @ Amery
Tuesday:
6:00 PM: Boys Basketball Game vs Ash-land @ AshAsh-land
7:00 PM: Girls Basketball Var-sity Regional vs Spooner @ NHS
Wednesday:
9:00 AM: Blood Drive
5:30 PM: NHS Parent/ Teacher Conferences
Thursday:
5:45 & 7:15 PM: Boys Basket-ball Game vs Ladysmith @ Ladysmith
02/16 Aryn Nelson Joel Walsh
02/20 Kyle Copp
02/21 Rixta Cavil
02/22
Sydney Bodendorfer Jaydon Goette
Happy
Birthday!
Winchester Truth
Pg. 2 Act Tips Pt.2 Have A Great Weekend!
Winchester, a horror movie starring Helen Mirren now in theaters, is based on a true story. Located near San Francisco and over six acres large, the lovely Victorian Winchester mansion was once the United States’ largest private residence. From an eight-room house to a now, enormous es-tate, with nearly 100 rooms when finished, the Winchester mansion has become an icon in American history.
In 1862 Sarah Lock-wood married William Winchester, who was the craftsman for the idea of the first repeating rifle.
The Winchesters wel-comed their only daugh-ter Annie four years af-ter their marriage, but sadly, their Annie only lived a short life of six weeks. After William died in 1881 due to tu-berculosis, Sarah took
full reins of the family business.
Sarah’s newfound wealth could not ease the pain of her grieving. After months of
Sa-Helen Mirren starring as Sarah Winchester. FBLA NHS Team advances to state competition.
By Sydney Larsen
February 27 = the day many juniors are dread-ing. By this point you probably feel like you’ve already taken the test and you are ready to just get it over with.
As a senior I have taken the ACT not once but more than a few times to improve my score. I know how the ACT works and what you need to know ahead of time.
You more than likely already know what you need to know to prepare yourself for the ACT but, I have written this article because I know what it is like to take the ACT and I’m hoping these tips will help you for this big day.
1- Skip hard questions
- On the ACT, time pres-sure is a very real prob-lem for many students. To avoid losing points, you need to learn to tem-porarily skip questions that are giving you trou-ble before they eat up too much of your time. “Too
much of your time” means something differ-ent for each section: English: more than 30 seconds per question Math: more than 60 sec-onds per question Reading: more than 45 seconds per question Science: more than 45 seconds per question If you feel like you’re not any closer to figuring out a question after about 30 seconds, move on. Circle that question in the test book so that it’s easier to spot later on when you want to go back to it. Then, make a quick pass through the whole section and an-swer all of the easy ques-tions first so you don’t miss points by running out of time before you're able to get through eve-rything.
2. Use the process of elimination- In every section of the ACT there is only one correct an-swer. Yes, they do try to trick you, so you have to pay close attention to the reading, diagrams, num-bers, and questions.
3. Answer every ques-tion- Since there is no penalty for guessing on the ACT, make sure you fill in every bubble! An incorrect answer or an unanswered question both have the same im-pact on your score, so even if you have no idea how to answer some-thing, it's best to go ahead and guess. 4. Get a good night's sleep the day before the test- You'll feel a lot more prepared (and awake) on test day if you get a solid amount of sleep the night before the test. Heading into test day feeling sleepy and exhausted can dramati-cally affect your ability to focus and potentially lower your score. So get
to bed early!
5. Eat a good break-fast- It’s important to eat a healthy, satisfying breakfast before you take the ACT. This way you'll feel more awake and en-ergized before taking the test. Also, when sitting in a silent room, taking an important test, no one
wants to listen to a groaning stomach all day.
6. Stay calm- The most important thing to remember during the ACT is to keep a cool head. Especially given the time pressure you can’t get stressed and worked up because it on-ly makes things worse. Keep moving forward and answer what you can. You might find questions that initially seemed impossible are much easier when you come back to them.
Editor:
Ashley Olson
Staff Members: Sydney Larsen Crystal Taylor Journey Amundson Maddy Gross Jocelyn Luostari Ryleigh Hill Sydney Matherly Advisor: By Crystal Taylor
rah drowning in her own sorrow, Sarah reached out to a spiritual medi-um. It is thought that her husband's spirit had told her to build a new house for herself, and for all the souls that were taken due to the Winchester Rifle. Sarah began building her new home in San Jo-se, California, hiring nearly 22 carpenters who worked year round near-ly 24 hours each day. Sarah thought the sounds of saws and hammers were calming.
As the house grew to
include 26 rooms, rail-road cars were installed on her land so that she could easily transport building materials. As months passed, the house continued to expand; rooms were added on top of rooms, eventually turning into wings. The building grew to seven stories, holding three elevators, and 47 fireplaces. But the man-sion also included count-less staircases that lead nowhere, closet doors that open to blank walls, trap doors, and doors that opened to a steep drop to the lawn below.
Sarah Winchester made it quite obvious that she was intrigued by the number 13: nearly every window had 13 glass panels, as did the walls. Many of the wooden floors contain 13 sec-tions, and some of the rooms even have 13 win-dows in them. Even eve-ry staircase has exactly 13 steps.
Now this all may sound crazy to us, but this house was built and designed in the form of a maze to discourage spir-its. It was Sarah’s way of controlling which spirits entered her house for evil
purposes.
The Winchester man-sion is thought to be one of the most haunted houses in the United States, and they have just recently opened the man-sion for tours. Check out the Winchester website for more information on dates and tickets. But if you are like me and would rather just kick back, and enjoy the new movie that just came out based on Sarah Winches-ter and the ghosts haunt-ing her house, I highly recommend as I went and saw it last weekend.
Recently I sat down with Brody Burke, who may be better known as Hollow Profit, Northwestern's own up-and-coming rap art-ist, to get the details about his latest album, “Graduated.”
Me: “When will this new album be re-leased?”
Hollow Profit: “No set date, sometime before I graduate. I'm hoping for some-time before April.”
M: “When your album is released, where can people find it?”
HP: “On my soundcloud,
@Hollowprofit. But checkout my Insta-gram, which is also @Hollowprofit, for updates and freestyles.”
M: “Brody, . . . may I call you Brody?” HP: “Maddy,
I've literally
By Maddy Gross
If you are interested in visiting beautiful his-toric landmarks just out-side our neck of the woods, lend an ear. Old Main Park, or also known as “The Ruins,” is a four story brick build-ing owned by UMD that was built in 1901; it housed students, class-rooms, and the admin-istration offices.
Around Halloween of 1992, UMD announced Old Main was going to be open to the public as an apartment complex, but in February of 1993 intruders broke in and set flames to the interior of the ancient brick build-ing.
The remains of the building were gutted and removed, and UMD sold most of the bricks as a
fundraiser. But the red sandstone arches are still standing, and can still be found on East 5th Street, Duluth.
Another landmark in Duluth that you may not
have seen is the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memo-rial.
This memorial was built to honor the three men who were lynched on June 15, 1920. It was
the John Robinson Cir-cus that brought the three young men to town: Eli-as Clayton, Elmer Jack-son, and Isaac McGhie. By Sydney Larsen
Clayton-Jackson-McGhie Memorial honoring the three who died in the 1920 Duluth Lynchings.
See ‘Duluth’ on pg. 4
If you have been watching the Olympics lately you may have seen the letters next to coun-try’s flags when athletes names appear on the tele-vision screen. USA clearly means the United States of America, FRA, France; AUS, Australia. But, you may have wondered, “What coun-try does OAR repre-sent? This acronym does not stand for a country at all, but for the Olympic Athletes from Russia. The Russian ath-letes must compete under this title instead of the Russian flag because of the recent doping scan-dal.
If a Russian athlete wins a gold medal, he/ she will stand under the Olympic flag and have the Olympic anthem play while on the podium. Just before the open-ing ceremony, the Court of Apparitions for Sport
denied the ap-peals of 32 Russian athletes and 13 coaches who were looking to have their Olym-pic bans over-turned. The court previously over-turned a lifetime ban for 28 Russian athletes; in this in-stance the court ruled that the IOC had the right block these athletes and team personnel from compet-ing.
In the 2018 Olympics, there are 2,952 competi-tors from 91 countries. 224 athletes are from the United States. Now, if you were to narrow that number down to how many states have people representing them, it would be 31. W isconsin just so happens to have over a dozen athletes competing in the Olym-pics.
Quite a few of the
Wisconsin athletes are on the men’s and women’s hockey teams, about sev-en are in skiing and skat-ing events, and four are on the curling team. From an article in the Wisconsin State Journal, it appears that the young-est Wisconsinite is 19 year-old Ben Loomis from Eau Claire, who is competing in the Nordic combined ski event. The curling team from Duluth includes these four Wisconsin residents: Becca Hamilton, Matt Hamilton, and Nina Roth
from McFarland, and John Shuster from Supe-rior.
John Shuster is not new to the Winter Olym-pics; this is actually his fourth time compet-ing. He competed in 2006, when he won a bronze medal; in 2010, finished 10th; and in 2014, placed 9th. This past Wednesday, John Shuster and Matt Hamil-ton got their first win of this year, against South Korea.
By Jocelyn Luostari & Ryleigh Hill
In the middle is Duluth curler, John Shuster.
known you since kin-dergarten.”
M: “Ok, I’ll just call you Hollow. What’s
your motivation/
reasoning behind this album?”
HP: “Seeing the struggle people around me face; one student was talking with me about their depression. Everyone has hardships and I want to encapsu-late that sense; the sense that we all face changes in life. Really I just observe the crap people go through on a daily basis and want to connect. A way to show them it’s okay.”
M: ”Will this album be anything like your last album?”
HP: “I’ve grown so much since last year.
For people that want to compare last year’s album to my upcoming album, don't. They’re not similar in the sense in the change in quality, con-tent, style or the focus. Graduated is written
like a short film in the sense that there's a begin-ning, middle, and an end with an outcome follow-ing the story of an indi-vidual. You'll have to listen to it to it and it'll make more sense.
Right now I’m keep-ing thkeep-ings kinda vague, I just don’t want to give everything away, this project is real, in every sense of the word. It’s littered with topics con-cerning God, religion,
depression, the stress of everyday life, and the pursuit of happi-ness. An uncensored but mature look into the character’s life. Reality mixed with fiction.
A perfect blend to push the topics I feel are needed, and rele-vant to this genera-tion. I think there will be many people that will connect with this project. It was not an easy write, because of the sensitive content.”
M: “Hey, Hollow, the bell’s gonna ring here in a second, any
words for your haters or people that doubt you?”
HP: “You make me work, so I guess for that I should thank you.”
Some facts about Hol-low:
His birthday is on April Fools Day but he doesn't fool around when it comes to his music ca-reer. As of right now, his plans for after high school are to pursue his rap career and is influ-enced by Eminem and Kendrick Lamar.
I’d strongly suggest getting to know Brody or Hollow Profit as his fans call him, and giving his music a listen. He’s kind, funny, talented and pos-sesses so much potential. Graduated Album Cover.
‘Hollow’ from pg. 3
If you pay attention to the announcements you may have heard about trap club. I had no idea what trap club was so I went and talked to Mrs. Wick, the trap club advi-sor. I asked her what the heck trap club was. Mrs. Wick: “It’s a club open to boys and girls who enjoy trap shooting or would like to try trap shooting.”
Maddy: “What is trap shooting?”
Mrs. W: “You shoot shotguns at clay pigeons, which are little orange frisbees that are thrown in the air.”
So, the name’s a little misleading. No, clay is not sculpted to look like pigeons being thrown in the air, and no, you don't
actually trap anything. The club competes against teams that are from other Wisconsin school districts according to team size.
Events are always at Hawthorne; the team never travels anywhere else “except for state.” The scores are uploaded to the
Wiscon-sin state target league website where competi-tors can compare their scores to others’.
Consider joining. The
team is open to anyone regardless of experience or lack of equipment; equipment is provided and you gain experience with practice.
Some additional infor-mation:
The club is part of the Wisconsin state high school clay target league.
The season runs during the months of April and March and meets every Wednes-day night from 4-6 p.m. at the Haw-thorne Trap Club.
A safety certifi-cate and a $35 regis-tration fee to join and a weekly $5 fee. For additional infor-mation, talk to Mrs. Wick in Room 2051 or Marie Tenney, Tyler Hood, Gus Johnson, Tre-vor Janowitz, Zeb Hart or visit the
web-site http://
wiclaytarget.com
or http://
www.hawthornetrapclub. org/index.html.
All three were laborers for the circus that had arrived in Duluth by train and was greeted by an eager crowd. The Robin-son Circus hosted a free street parade as well as a day full of performances on June 14.
On the warm summer night of June 14, 1920, Irene Tusken accused six African American circus workers of holding her at gunpoint and raping her. Although there was no evidence to back up these accusations McGhie, Clayton, and Jackson and three other African Americans were sent to jail the evening of June 14.
According to a 2003 Associated Press article detailing the event, the following night, 5,000 to 10,000 people “carrying sticks and bricks stormed the jail, demanding jus-tice for an alleged rape
several days earli-er.”
“The mob over-powered police, broke into the jail, removed several prisoners and con-ducted a vigilante ‘trial,’ after which they picked three men to hang. “The mob dragged the men to a lamppost a block away, where, de-spite pleas from a police officer, a judge and a Catho-lic priest, they lynched McGhie, 20, then Jackson, 19, and finally Clayton, 19, who pleaded with his assailants, ‘Please, oh God, don't kill me! I am innocent.’”
A few tried to discour-age the mob, but their pleas were laughed upon. The Minnesota National Guard eventually arrived, officially breaking up the
mob. The remaining three black men were transported to the St. Louis County jail.
In 2003, a wall was built to honor the three men who were killed with sculptures of them engraved in the wall,
along with their story of what happened the night of June 14. This site can be found on Superior Street in downtown Du-luth.
‘Duluth’ from pg. 3
Old Main Park Arch.
By Maddy Gross
