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ROCKET SPORTS
November 7, 2014
Football ends season with a win
Lizzie Lazar
Reporter
Junior
RHHS football season
according to head football
coach Ray Boese RHHS’s
football team had a hard
season this year. “There are
a few distractions during
the course of the season
that have kept us from
achieving the goals I had
for us, but at the same time
there are a lot of people
who have shown growth,”
said Boese.
Because outside disciplinary problems have made
players absent from the
team, new players have
been forced to pick up the
slack. This season has also
seen more player injuries
than in previous years,
including broken legs and a
dangerous back injury.
Boese believes that several outside incidents have
had an effect on this season.
“We had several situations
involving alcohol that were
well publicized before the
season even started… It’s
surprising how many of
the things that carried over
[from those incedents] were
kind of part of that initial
distraction, because we had
to put people in new places
and take people off the
death chart,” said Boese.
The disciplinary actions
have forced new players
into unfamiliar positions
on the field. The team has
also had players missing
from illnesses and injuries.
These things added to the
fact that the team had three
new coaches, and it’s no
wonder the group had a
rough year.
These challenges
have not kept the coaches
from being hopeful for next
season. “I think that we
all feel like we are a better team than we’ve shown
and we’d like to be better,”
said Boese. “Our defense
has greatly improved;
Coach Vernon and Coach
Wutrich, Coach Wright,
have done a fantastic job.
Over the last three weeks,
our practices have been a
little more focused as we’ve
gone on and gotten rid of
some of those distractions,”
he added. Boese believes
that next season will be
much better, with talented
players and a stronger team
as a whole.
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Left to right, senior Ashtyn Cody, senior Ray Boese, junior Brody Hingst, and senior Jacob
Bernett are ready to beat the Mulvane Wildcats. Photo by Sarah Bonar.
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Junior
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THE ROCK-IT NEWS
Volume 14 Issue 5
History of
Gamer Gate
Part one
Devon Hayes
Reporter
Senior
For those who do not know
already, there is a large social controversy surrounding many of the
corners of the Internet. If the hash
tag #GamerGate sounds familiar,
then you may already know of the
massive, silent, controversy. In case
you do not know, but are interested
in the event, here is how it began.
In August of 2014, a group
known as The Fine Young Capitalists began hosting a contest for
women to present their ideas for
a possible video game. During an
interview with APGNation, TFYC
described their reasoning for holding the contest, along with what
they do.
“… We are a loose group of artists and entrepreneurs who work
with minorities to help them make
video games, graphic novels, and
videos. Our current project is to
get women to design video games
and in March we did an open call
where any women could come
up with an idea for a video game.
We took the top 5 best ideas and
assigned them concept artists to
design their game…. If there is
enough interest in the form of
pre-orders through crowd funding
then we’ll work with the winning
woman to create her game and give
her a percentage of the profits with
the rest going to charity.”
“We also wanted the backers to
understand that they were giving
money because they thought the
project would succeed; therefore,
TFYC is set up so anyone that
supports the project gets part of
the profits from the game to give
to charity. This was supposed to
create the idea in [one’s] mind that
he was investing in a woman. As a
radical feminist group, it’s important for people to see women as
creators of ideas that are financially
viable.”
On February 28th, self-proclaimed feminist Zoe Quinn had
found out about TFYC’s contest
and began to question various policies involving the contest.
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November 7, 2014
Band concludes season
with superior rating
Josh Farrar
News Editor
Sophomore
The band finishes their marching
band season at the annual Southern Plains Festival with a superior
rating.
The marching band has competed in three competitions this year;
Emporia University, Kansas State
University, and Southern Plains.
During the Latest competition,
which was the Southern Plains festival took place at Andover High,
the Rocket marching band and
about twenty-five other marching bands competed. The band got
superior rating of +1 during the
award ceremony. The band also
received the outstanding percussion
and outstanding color guard award
at the ceremony.
The competition before the
Southern Plains was the Kansas State University competition.
During this competition the band
competed against over forty other
marching bands. At the award
ceremony the Rocket Band was
awarded a superior rating of -1.
During the first competition at
Emporia University the band faced
with around ten to fifteen bands.
At this award ceremony the band
got an excellent rating of +2.
Band Director David Bartley
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Senior, Drum Major Madison Degnan conducts the band in their last home
appearance of the marching season. Photo by Shawn degnan.
Robotics takes third at Game Day
Darby VanHoutan
Reporter
Senior
Saturday October 25 was BEST
Robotics Game Day! Game Day
this year was at Hartman Arena in
Wichita. The theme for this year
was “Blade Runner”, pretty terrifying name for high school Robotics.
But have no fear; it is referring to
putting up the blades on large wind
turbines. Much more economically
cool than terrifying.
“The robot didn’t do as well as
we’d liked. Our scores were higher
than last year in the notebook, the
team exhibit, and the presentation.
Across the board it was excellent”, said coach Youse. The team
took home third place this year.
This success only gets them more
excited for the next.
Of course, it is only the beginning, which makes the team look
to the future. “I can not even say
how much I will miss the seniors.
The seniors always set the theme
and feeling of what is going on.
Since this is such a huge group we
have had such an awesome feeling.
I’m going to miss them so much”,
said Youse when asked about the
seniors flying the coop. It is going
to be an exciting year to watch in
BEST robotics.
Pictured above left to right is Lee Ann Youse, Breana Lafever, Keith Meikle, Shalen Wilkinson, Junior Caleb Woods, and senior Rebekah blakely. The group adds final touches to the robot
with the help from John Dirk (center.) Photo by senior Elizabeth Vest.
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ROCKET OPINION
November 7
, 2014
#GamerGate no true movement
a minority, the firestorm
that brought #GamerGate
to the forefront has its roots
in hate.
The ‘movement’ began
If you’ve been on Twitter this summer when develany time since September
oper Zoe Quinn received
1st, you’ve probably seen a
threats of violence after an
certain hashtag trending:
ex-boyfriend posted a tirade
#GamerGate.
about her. Those behind the
The #GamerGaters
threats justified their acbelieve that indie game
tions by saying Quinn had
developers and the online
“colluded unethically with
gaming press are “too cozy,” game journalists.”
i.e. developers collaborating
Thus #GamerGate
with journalists in order to
began, a rationalization of
get better reviews on their
the harassment of Quinn,
games. That is, according to the ex-girlfriend of a
them, what should be the
snubbed programmer, Eron
main focus.
Gjoni. GamerGate was the
However, there’s also a
subject of more than 2 milsubstantial, vocal movement lion tweets, a social media
that believes online gaming campaign at its finest.
press focus too much on
In a joint survey of 25%
feminism and the role of
of those tweets, Newsweek
women in the industry, so
and BrandWatch found
much that “actual coverage” some very telling results.
of the games is suffering.
Twitter users have tweeted
While those in the move- Quinn a total of over
ment would argue that
10,400 times since Septemthose in this other sect are
ber 1. Nathan Grayson, the
Meredith Bartley
Editor-in-Chief
Senior
journalist accused of giving
Quinn’s game favorable
reviews because the two
were in a relationship, has
received just 732 tweets.
If GamerGate is truly
about ethics among journalists when writing about
the video game culture,
why is the developer being
targeted, not the journalist?
Here’s the answer: it’s
not really about “journalist
ethics.”
After targeting Quinn,
the attack widened to
include the gaming “social
justice warriors,” like Anita
Sarkeesian, who runs a
YouTube video blog that
explores the representation
of women in pop culture,
or Felicia Day, an actress
and self-proclaimed gamer
who wrote an online essay
regarding the sexism in
gaming culture.
“GamerGaters” have a
problem with the “social
justice warriors” campaign
to see more realistic rep-
Life is hard; don’t make it harder
The fact is that women,
from the time they’re
born and learn to talk,
are taught by society that
their physical appearance
Life is rough. It is
is what gives them their
amazing and filled with
an undeniable level of joy, worth.
While little boys are
but it is rough. You’ve got
allowed to play around
your familial problems,
your problems in school, outside and get their
clothes dirty because
your problems with
“boys will be boys,” girls
friends. And to top it all
are told to sit with their
off, you’ve got your selfesteem issues, amplifying legs crossed, fix their hair,
and act “ladylike.” I know
all of that other terrible
that women are allowed
stuff.
to vote now and stuff,
Here’s the thing: life
but, really, is this equalis hard enough without
ity?
people—society, actualHow am I truly conly—telling you to change
sidered equal to my
the way you look, that
your physical appearance brothers if my brothers
are told, via television
is not good enough.
and magazine advertiseLife is hard enough
ments, that they can do
without being told that
your only worth, as a hu- anything, while the only
man being, is your physi- thing the TV and those
magazines tell me is that
cality, and that if you
I have the capability to
don’t work hard to imchange the way I look
prove it by the standard
of social norms, then you with anti-aging serums,
eyelash curlers, makeup,
are not good enough.
Olivia Vest
Copy Editor
Reporter
Senior
Cartoon by sophomore Sammie Wadell.
and other “corrective”
supplies? What exactly
do they want me to correct? And why aren’t they
telling my brothers to do
the same?
I guess you could say
that I’m a feminist. Actually, I really am. I know
that today’s society associates things like “manhating” and “feminazism”
with this term, but let’s
be honest. That is not the
case.
Feminism, true feminism, seeks to make
things equal for me and
the boys I know. It seeks
to make society consider
women equal to men, so
that young girls, like their
male friends, can grow up
without distorted views
of their appearance and
its true level of importance, so that they can
grow up with their brothers and boy friends with
the idea that they, too,
can be a success (based
off more than just their
appearance).
Don’t get me wrong;
I’m grateful to have the
rights that I do. But
has true equality been
reached in a society
where I’m told I’m not
good enough because my
appearance is a little off,
and my guy friends are
told that their appearance really isn’t even what
matters?
resentation of women and
minorities in video games,
especially after Ubisoft
recently abandoned plans to
add playable female characters in the newest Assassin’s
Creed.
Wait.
Women, who make up
48% of those who play
video games, want to see
themselves in the characters
they play?
How dare they.
Quinn has been driven
from her home in response
to the threats, according
to reports by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Sarkeesian has also gone
into hiding for her safety.
She was forced to cancel
a talk at Utah State University after an anonymous
letter threatened to massacre students if she went
through with her speech.
She’s also a character of a
game in which players beat
her up.
Day was “doxxed,” or
had her personal details
released online with malicious intent, just hours after
she published the essay on
Tumblr.com.
What Day wrote?
“Games are beautiful, they
are creative, they are worlds
to immerse yourself in.
They are art. And they are
worth fighting for, even if
the atmosphere is ugly right
now…I realized my silence
[was] out of fear that the
issue has created about
speaking out.”
She spoke out.
And she was demeaned,
degraded, humiliated, and
endangered, now that her
personal information is
circulating on the Internet.
Ethics in journalism?
Maybe GamerGaters
should check their own
ethics.
Source: http://www.newsweek.
com/gamergate-about-mediaethics-or-harassing-womenharassment-data-show-279736
Nicholas Sparks
brings tears to the
theatres once again
Darby VanHoutan
Reporter
Senior
Nicholas Sparks has done
it again. The Best of Me
came out in theaters on
October 17.
This story follows a man,
Dawson Cole, and woman,
Amanda Collier, to return
to the town that shaped
them. They return to small
town Oriental, North Carolina, after their childhood
friend Tuck passed away. But this is no ordinary
return. These two adults
were once undoubtedly in
love during their adolescent
years.
This movie contains
various flashbacks to the
memories these two shared
in high school and begs the
question, “Is endless love a
real thing?”
Though time split them
apart, the days they share
together nearly twenty-five
years later almost erases the
pain.
However, this Nicholas
Sparks story is no sunshine
and rainbows. The “if you
have seen one Nicholas
Sparks movie then you have
seen them all” definitely
does not apply to this story.
This ending will only leave
you wanting more.
The Best of Me, originally a book by Nicholas Sparks, is
playing in theaters for the holiday season. Photo from Google
images.
November 7, 2014
ROCKET SPORTS
Joe Milsap;
sports fanatic
Rebekah Blakely
Assistant Layout
Editor
Senior
Every morning, junior
Joe Milsap walks into class
with a whole new batch of
information on all things
sports- apart from a select
few. “I don’t like the NBA,
baseball, hockey, really
anything like that,” said
Milsap.
He talks of everything
from the most recent soccer
game to the track record of
an NFL player who’s been
out of the league for years.
All sports information is
interesting information to
Milsap.
Not only does he know
a lot about the sports he
fervently researches, he’s
also pretty good at predicting them. As for his forecasts for the year, he boldly
said, “The Chargers will
win the Super Bowl.” For
predictions closer to home,
he said, “KU will be out at
around the 16.”
To common peers, the
spiels he goes off on make
no sense. Milsap realizes
that his sports knowledge
is practically a second
language. Finding other
fanatics is hard for him
so as for his more intense
rants, he says, “I ramble off
to myself.”
Milsap’s passion isn’t an
easy one either. To reach his
level of dedication you have
to spend hours reading
about and watching sports.
“Eight hours on Sunday,
eight hours on Saturday,”
he says about his weekend
sports viewings.
As for his favorite team,
Milsap says it’s “probably
the Pittsburgh Steelers.”
He’s also quick to say that
two popular teams at Rose
Hill, the Broncos and
Chiefs, both “suck.”
Milsap even goes as
far as to download different tracks and live recordings from games such as
the World Cup, which he
stores on his phone and
listens to as if they’re music.
When asked why
he loves sports so much,
Milsap said, “It’s entertaining to watch; it’s kind of a
break, kind of relaxing, and
if your team is winning,
it’s kind of fun. It’s kind of
infuriating, though, when
your team loses.”
Junior Joe Milsap divides his
already limited time between
cross country and studying.
Photo by sophomore Josh Farrar.
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Volleyball attends State
tournament for a “4peat”
Winning their sub-state tournament was the final big accomplishment for seniors pictured
left to right Kynnedy Myers, Caitlin McDougald, Haley Slade, Coach Melissa Segovia, Jocelyn Bollig, Madison Degnan, and Brooke Wheeler. Degnan said, ““It has offered me a lot of
friends and connections that will last forever.” Photo by Lisa Slade.
Brandy Vaughn
Sports Editor
Sophomore
For the fourth year in a
row Rocket volleyball has
made it to the state tournament.
Before the girls could
start preparing for the state
tournament they, had to
deal with the competition in their sub-state at
Augusta on October 25th.
Their first game, the Rockets faced the Lady Orioles
playing just two sets with
both having scores of
25-20. After being able to
watch their competition the
lady’s started their second
game, against the Circle
Thunderbirds. They battled
with Circle for two sets
winning the first set 31-29
and the second set 25-22
Coach Melissa Segovia
said, “…I am most proud
of being down not once but
twice during the first set
against Circle and being
able to come back, come
back, come back and win
31-29.”
The following week was
used to prepare the athletes
not just physically but mentally Segovia said, “It is the
state tournament so everybody is a big opponent.
Being prepared trying to
take care of the little things,
respecting everybody there
and playing our game is the
most important thing.”
On Friday October 31st
the girls headed to Salina
for the opening ceremony
for the KSHSAA state
tournament. Later in the
day the Rockets battled
for three long sets against
the Chanute Blue Comets. The first set Rose Hill
fell short by a few points
18-25, during the second
set the Rockets did not give
up they fought during two
more hard sets winning
with scores of 25-15 and
28-26. Next up was the Topeka Hayden Wildcats, the
Rockets started out strong
only to fall to the Wildcats
with scores of 21-25 and
8-25. The last game of the
day was against none other
than the Bishop Miege
Stags. Unfortunately the
Lady Stags were victorious
over the Lady Rockets, 1825 and 13-25.
Unable to make it into
the next day the Lady
Rockets were still thankful
for another year of making
it to state, senior Madison
Degnan said, ”It felt accomplishing, I had gone
three years before and it
was a nice way to end my
senior year of volleyball.”
The seniors this year are
so fortunate to be able to
go 4 times in four years
and they are a big part of
why we are going this year.”
Read more about their
4peat experience in the latest issue of Rock-It News!
Cross country ends year Soccer winning
with one runner at state sub on a Tuesday
landing at fourth. Barger
said, “I know they wanted
to be in the top three
and that was their goal
throughout the whole year,
Cross Country team finwe just didn’t get it done.”
ishes out year
Senior David
The Cross Country team
Reaves
also advanced to
has finished out their seaState,
which
took place at
son strong, competing both
Wamego.
There,
he placed
at Regionals on October 25
at
twenty-second
with a
and State on November 1st.
time
of
17:20.
Barger
said
At Regionals, the girls
this
was
“his
second
best
team got sixth place which
time of this year, especame as a surprise. “I was
cially at a tough course at
projecting them as like a
Wamego.”
ninth or tenth; we had a
About Reaves’ percouple people step up and
formance,
Barger said, “He
prove times a little bit,” said
did
a
fantastic
job, great job
Coach Brandon Barger.
and
I
was
proud
of him.”
The boys team, however,
Concerning
the
fell short of their hopes.
start
of
the
year,
Barger
To qualify for State, they
said, “I just didn’t know
needed to get third place,
what to expect.” After
but missed it by one place,
many runners graduated
Rebekah Blakely
Assistant Layout
Editor
Senior
last year or decided to not
go out again, the team had
to find replacements. “We
had to find some people to
fill those spots up and those
were done very nicely and
they did a great job,” said
Barger.
With six runners
graduating this year, it has
been a bitter farewell. “I’m
really proud of my team
and they really made my
last season a great one and
I couldn’t have asked for a
better team,” said Senior
and Girls Captain Jessie
Nutsch.
For next year, Barger said, “We just need runners. We just need people
who want to go out for the
sport and kind of test it out
and see what it’s like.”
Meredith Bartley
Editor-in-Chief
Senior
The Rose Hill Soccer
team is taking the first steps
to state, beating Buhler in
the first game post-season
then taking the Regional
Championship against
Thomas More Prep.
On October 31st, the
Rockets took on the Monarchs at home in the Regional Championship.
Only Rose Hill managed
to score in the first half
with a goal by junior Parker
Austin. In the second half,
TMP scored next followed
quickly by a Penalty Kick
by junior Chace Beckham.
In their first post-season
game on Tuesday, October
28th, Rose Hill dominated
Buhler at home with a final
score of 9-0.
Senior Christian Helmke
scored the opening goal
eleven minutes into the
match. Beckham had a hat
trick by the end of the first
half. Helmke, Beckham,
senior Alek Santo, and
junior Daniel Steigerwald
each scored in the second
half for a 9-0 victory over
the Crusaders.
The Rockets traveled to
Mulvane for the final game
of regular season on Tuesday, October 21st. They
outshot the Wildcats 35-2.
Beckham scored first in
the seventh minute. Junior
Josh Treat scored next, in
the 17th minute. Back-toback goals by Chace and
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for Soccer.
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ROCKET FEATURES
Carpentry class builds Ridder starts
second
year
in
set for upcoming play advertising
Page
November 7, 2014
Nadia Khalidi
Feature Editor
Senior
As students walk by the
auditorium, they peek inside and notice the gradual
progression of the set for
the upcoming drama production Noises Off !
The production dates
are set for the middle of
November, and the shop
class has been hard at work
on the set for the last two
weeks. Senior Davis Cunningham said, “[The set is
worked on] all day, everyday; even after school.”
The boys who are currently
enrolled in Mr. Hill’s first,
fourth, and sixth hours
are building the set. “Mr.
Blauser, Ms. Dockers, and
Mr. Hill have to come and
see the work we’ve done
and grade us,” Cunningham
said.
The set will serve as a
two-story home in the
show. Cunningham also
said that the entire set
rotates. One of the hardest parts of building the
set, Cunningham said, was
“building the platform
with wheels separately
and then building the set
on top.” The set contains
stairs, which are made from
scraps from sets of previous
productions.
With the production
date drawing near, the set
is expected to be finished
in time for tech week. All
the hard work between
the Drama Club and shop
class, it will make for a
successful production from
both sides.
The carpentry class at the high school has been progressively working on the set for the upcoming play Noises Off ! Pictured (bottom)
from left to right: , junior Hunter Bowen, senior Jordan Watson,
Mr. Ryan Hill, senior Levi Barton, and sophomore Joseph Cunningham. Pictured (top) left to right: junior Bryce Barnett and seniors Joe Sliger and Dallis Nichols. Photo by senior Shanae Strate.
Josh Farrar
News Editor
Sophomore
Getting to know Ellie
Ridder
As senior Ellie Ridder
enters her second year as
part of the Rock-It newspaper staff, she is currently
the advertising manager.
She eventually wants to
become a news anchor for a
local television station, but
before that she is planning
on going to WSU to major
in communications.
Although newspaper
takes up time out of her
day, Ridder still has time
for things like cheerleading and hanging out with
friends. Cheerleading
is the only sport Ridder
participates in because she
is always told that she is
a very enthusiastic person
and it really appeals to her
personality. Like everyone,
Ridder has a secret pleasure
song and movie; she said,
“My secret pleasure song is
probably Nobody’s perfect
by Hannah Montana [Miley Cyrus] and my favorite
movie is Up because the
character’s name is El-
lie and it is just the cutest
movie.”
One thing Ridder would
like to do an editorial on is
to write about how people
should always be kind and
considerate, even if you
are in a bad mood. Two
people Ridder would like
to interview are the head
anchor from KWCH12
and Miranda Lambert.
With this being Ridders
last year in high school, she
is happy to leave so she can
start her life and get out on
her own, but she is sad to
leave because she will miss
everyone.
In the picture (above) is
Ellie Ridder. One interesting fact about her is that
her initials spell out E.A.R.
Photo by sophomore Josh
Farrar.
Business student for
NHS
continues
October: Haley Slade
Business students must
Lizzie Lazar
be good role models and
Reporter
must take and excell in
Junior
multiple business classes
to qualify for the recognition. To choose the month’s
The Business Student of
recipients, the business
the Month award is given
to a senior student who has teachers meet to consider
students who fit the critemet certain criteria each
ria. “Mr. Treat, Mr. Wright,
month during the school
and I nominate students we
year.
think are worthy. We get
The selection process
their transcripts, calculate
for choosing the business
their GPA in our classes.
student of the month is
very thorough; the students I ask their other teachers
what kind of student they
must posses certain qualities to qualify for the award. were, are they good role
models, that sort of thing,”
Business teacher Sydney
said Shelmen. The name
Shelman said, “The award
of the lucky student who
goes to a senior student
receives the award is anthat has taken business
classes, has excelled in those nounced at the end of the
day.
classes and displayed good
October’s Business
citizenship as well.” EveryStudent
of the Month is
thing the student does in
senior
Haley
Slade, whose
the classroom is observed.
hard
work
and
dedica“Are they willing to help
tion
has
paid
off.
Slade has
other people, other students
taken
Entrepreneurship,
out if I ask them to? Do
Business Economics, Acthey come in with a good
attitude, or are they playing counting 1 and Accountwhen we have to work? Do ing 2, Business Essentials,
Business and Personal
they do projects, put effort
Law, and has excelled in
into [those] projects ”said
each class. She has shown
Shelman about her criteria
outstanding citizenship in
for the award.
and out of the classroom,
and wants to major in business and graphic design in
college. According to Slade,
earning the award was a
great honor that brought
her much joy. It is her hard
work and dedication to
her business classes that
has rightly earned her the
honor of being RHHS’s
official business student of
October.
Senior Haley Slade is October’s
Business Student of the Month,
and has taken six different business classes. Photo by sophomore
Josh Farrar.
to serve school
and community
Although it is early in the
year, the club has already
started making waves
throughout the school.
Completely new this year
This year, NHS went
was the tutoring program,
through a slight makeover
which is a free service to all
with the addition of many
high school students neednew members and a coming help in any subject. Said
pletely new set of execs.
Hotz about the program,
After President Jaelyn
“Overall it’s going pretty
Glennemier graduated last well, we’re helping out a
year, senior Logan Hotz
bunch of students now.”
became her replacement,
One of the core values
along with senior Meredith for NHS is service projects,
Bartley as vice president,
which this year’s members
junior Tayler Mount as sec- have really given a kickretary, and senior Rebekah
start to. “Service projects
Blakely as treasurer.
are just our little ways of
Unlike many other clubs, helping out the commuNHS requires a thorough
nity and really putting into
application process to be
practice the NHS pillar of
admitted. Students interest- volunteering and helping
ed must have at least a 3.5
out your community,” said
GPA, as well as experience Hotz.
with leadership, volunteerOn Friday, October 17,
ing, and other extra curall members met early in
ricular. “They’re looking for the morning at the high
a lot, but you’re the best of
school on their off day to
the best; so to be in NHS
you should try to be the
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best of the best,” said Hotz for NHS.
about the process.
Rebekah Blakely
Assistant Layout
Editor
Senior
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#GamerGate...
National Novel Writing
November 7, 2014
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Month begins Nov. 1
Brandon Mork
Reporter
Sophomore
If you enjoy writing, then
National Novel Writing
Month, or NaNoWriMo,
might be for you.
NaNoWriMo is an
annual event in which
people from all over the
world compete to write a
50,000-word rough draft
for a novel in the 30 days
of November. Although
considered a competition, the participants do
not compete against each
other. They compete against
themselves. It is a test of
determination and dedication, and according to
past participants it is very
rewarding.
Senior Meredith Bartley
has been competing since
Band...
her eighth grade year. She
has completed a 50,000word goal every year, and
although NaNoWriMo
only just started a few days
ago, she wrote an extra
novel over the summer
with Camp NaNoWriMo.
Bartley said she wanted
to compete because, “I
like doing insane things
and I’ve always wanted to
write a novel and so this
challenge seemed like the
perfect thing to both do
something fun and complete something that had
been a goal of mine for
some time.” The novel she
wrote her sophomore year
was approximately 120,000
words, which is near the
word count of Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire.
National Novel Writing
Month has helped many
aspiring novelists put their
thoughts on paper by giv-
ing a definite goal. If you
want to write a novel and
need a motivator then go to
NaNoWriMo.org. National Writing Month
takes place every November.
Photo from Google images.
National Honor Society...
Other service projects
this semester include the
annual blood drive in
Continued from page 1...
matches the rest of the
November and Adopt-adistrict and has more
knew that things would
Family in December.
not go the way he expected.
distinguished markings
If you want to join
Bartley said “It never goes
for things such as Staff
quite as planed, you have to be
NHS, Hotz says a lot of
flexible and everyday you have parking. Said junior
people especially struggle
and member Ali Justice,
to adapt to where you’re at. I
with the volunteering
thought we learned some stuff “Painting the parking lot
a little slower but we kept get- stalls was really fun and it part so “make sure you
have a lot of volunteering
ting better each day.” The one
went really fast with the
hours or job hours logged
thing Bartley wishes he could help of the building and
change is not to have spent so
in.”
grounds people.”
much time on the “Intro” due
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paint the parking lot so it
“She asked about why
we thought women should
work for free, so we explain that they will receive
8% of the profits from the
game but also getting all
the art that was created for
their pitch for free. Zoe
also asked about our Trans
policy…. She had a specific
problem with us policing
anyone’s transition point.
We explained that the
reason for this policy was
to prevent men lying about
their identity to gain access
and to make it more accessible to people without
identification. “
W here are they
now ? Rose H ill
Alum ni sh i ne at
Kansas University
Meredith Bartley
Editor-in-Chief
Senior
Class of 2014 alumnus
Jaelyn Glennemeier recently performed in Proof,
a play at Kansas University.
Glennemeier, an English
and Theater major, was only
one of two female roles in
the four-person cast, considered an impressive feat
to the show being almost too
in the theater world.
long.
Besides this major accomplishment, Glennemeier is only in her first year at
KU. It’s not common to be
casted as a freshman, especially in such a small cast.
“It was insane. I called
everyone I knew as soon
as I called out, and that’s
before I even knew how
big of a deal it was to be
casted as a freshman. It was
really, really awesome,” said
Glennemeier.
Imma Lunatic
Glennemeier particiReporter
pated in Rose Hill’s drama
program, but says that her
Dear No Clue Nancy, of course you should vote. I cannot believe you would consider
college experience has been
not voting. Do you realize how much voting for our government officials does for you?
much different. “The first
If you do not vote, you do not have a voice. If, on the day of voting, you do not vote, you
week of rehearsal we sat
shall not speak to anyone or anything that day; because you will not have a voice. The
at a table and did research
things the government does for the citizens DO directly affect you. So vote. Now.
on our characters, [and] on
the theme of the play. We
even talked to some guys
Jo King
from the math department
Reporter
because it’s a play about
math, so it’s just a lot more
Oh so you’re planning on voting this year? I have one word for you, sir. Pointless. The
method acting, a lot more
only election you should worry about is the one on American Idol and The Voice. The
getting into what these
turnout of an election other than that doesn’t affect you. When you see those campaign
characters are thinking.…
ads don’t worry about whether they are true or not, because it actually doesn’t matter. Oh, It was also a faster process.
Mr. So and So caused the worst education fund drop in Kansas’s history? Who cares?
We had four weeks to put
Education funding is a joke. The bottom line is that no one cares about who gets elected, the play on.”
and that should include you.
Advice with Jo & Imma
“I am a senior and have recently turned 18.
With all these campaign ads, I’m feeling overwhelmed as a new voter. Should I vote, or just skip
this year? - No Clue Nancy
With this in mind,
Quinn began an open discussion over Twitter about
her interaction with TFYC,
claiming they were exploitative and transphobic. The
“discussion” turned dangerous when Zoe’s PR manager, Maya Felix Kramer,
publicly disclosed private
information of TFYC
member Matthew Rappard,
“… which Zoe replied to,
alerting her followers. Due
to this, I received a death
threat. My name Matthew
Rappard does not appear
on the current site or the
previous site for TFYC, and
I would have preferred to
be a silent partner.”
“I want to audition every
semester to just get used to
the audition process and I
think it’s fun. It’s fun to be
involved… It’s a really great
program and it’s filled with
awesome people.”
Also making waves at
Kansas University is class
of 2014 alumnus Chandler
Boese, a correspondent for
the University Daily Kansas.
“I write a couple stories a
week about different issues
on campus. I’ve only been
writing there for about
three weeks, so I’ve got
two stories published and a
third on Wednesday,” said
Boese, an English and Journalism major. “I mentioned
how much experience I
have and they wanted me.”
Boese was Editor-inChief of the Rock-It News
last year, and was on staff
for two and a half years. “I
think that taught me the
basics of news writing and
such.”
She plans on moving
up through the ranks to a
paid position in editing or
design.
“I hope it’ll teach me
some editing skills, especially if I do work on a paper in the future, like what
more professional papers
would want. It’s a different
atmosphere than writing
for the Rock-It.”
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