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Vol. 46 Issue 6 The Spring Break Issue<br />
http://www.chapelhillisd.org/pages/CHHS_Newspaper<br />
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Dallas Holocaust Museum<br />
Forget spring<br />
cleaning; it’s<br />
called spring fashion<br />
<strong>Junior</strong> <strong>leaders</strong> <strong>attend</strong><br />
SPRINGBREAK<br />
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Kelli Mott, Julie Ann<br />
Apoderado, and Sai Reddy <strong>attend</strong>ed<br />
the RYLA seminar<br />
Valentine’s Day weekend.<br />
They learned how to<br />
achieve goals of <strong>leaders</strong>hip,<br />
teamwork, communication,<br />
self-control, planning, compassion,<br />
and self-esteem.<br />
“I loved every part of<br />
RYLA; it gave us time to socialize<br />
and time to improve<br />
ourselves,” junior Julie<br />
Apoderado said. “On the last<br />
day we did a lot of physically<br />
challenging things; it was so<br />
much fun.”<br />
RYLA ( Rotary Youth Leadership<br />
Awards) is a seminar<br />
that aims to demonstrate<br />
Rotary’s respect and concern<br />
for youth, provide an effective<br />
training experience for<br />
selected youth and potential<br />
<strong>leaders</strong>, encourage <strong>leaders</strong>hip<br />
of youth by youth, and<br />
recognize young people who<br />
are providing service to their<br />
communities.<br />
It aims to challenge the<br />
ideals of young people from<br />
the age of 18 to 28 years.<br />
“Standards and values<br />
are being challenged from<br />
every corner,” Bateman<br />
SPRINGBREAK<br />
By MadisonAllen<br />
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<strong>life</strong>-changing <strong>leaders</strong>hip <strong>camp</strong><br />
Above: RYLA <strong>camp</strong>ers climbThe Giant’s Ladder - a partner climb<br />
to the top of the 50-foot structure. As the climbers reach the top<br />
the distances between the logs are increased, making it harder<br />
for the climbers to balance and stay atop the log.<br />
said. “More than ever, young<br />
people need strong, effective <strong>leaders</strong>hip.”<br />
The students spent three days<br />
and slept in tents for two nights<br />
at Boy Scout <strong>camp</strong>grounds in<br />
Carthage. They climbed trees,<br />
jumped off poles, and rock<br />
climbed.<br />
But they also learned how to<br />
improve communication skills,<br />
teamwork, and trusting skills.<br />
“The experience mostly<br />
changed how I looked at the challenges<br />
of <strong>life</strong>,” Apoderado said. “I<br />
learned how to face them when<br />
they came around.”<br />
The days spent at RYLA were<br />
filled with <strong>life</strong>-changing activities<br />
and lessons, like the Giant’s Ladder-<br />
a huge ladder that they had<br />
to get up with a partner-that required<br />
major teamwork and endurance.<br />
There was also a group discussion<br />
time on Saturday night.<br />
“Everybody was encouraging<br />
everyone else,” junior Kelli Mott<br />
said.<br />
The students who took part in<br />
RYLA left with more developed<br />
skills and higher self-esteem.<br />
They learned to recognize the<br />
importance of joy in <strong>life</strong> and met<br />
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ISSUE SIX<br />
FEBRUARY 27, 2008<br />
13972 State Hwy 64<br />
Tyler, TX 75707<br />
(903)566-2311<br />
TOP TOP TEN<br />
TEN<br />
THINGS THINGS TO TO DO<br />
DO<br />
OVER<br />
OVER<br />
SPRING SPRING BREAK<br />
BREAK<br />
1Sleep:<br />
2<br />
Sleep: Sleep: A no-brainer. In<br />
fact, you probably already<br />
had it taking up most of your<br />
break time. Good idea, catch<br />
up on those Zzzz’s.<br />
Homework: Homework: We know, we<br />
know. Definitely not first on<br />
the list, BUT it’s perfect to<br />
catch up on some of the work<br />
that you will definitely be<br />
greeted by on your return to<br />
<strong>camp</strong>us. Do yourself a favor.<br />
Have Have Fun: Fun: Whether you sit<br />
infront of your television with<br />
a bag of chips, exercise away<br />
the extra weight you gained<br />
over winter break, or go on a<br />
three- day <strong>camp</strong>ing trip - enjoy<br />
your break; have fun.<br />
3 4<br />
5<br />
Go Go T TTanning:<br />
T anning: Soak up<br />
some sunshine. And then<br />
when you go back to school<br />
tell everyone you just returned<br />
from the Bahamas.<br />
College College Road Road Road Trip: Trip: You<br />
have a week to visit all the<br />
college <strong>camp</strong>uses your<br />
heart desires. Pick atleast<br />
three and set up a timeline<br />
for visits.<br />
February 27, 2008 Entertainment Page 8<br />
Continued from <strong>Junior</strong><br />
<strong>leaders</strong> on P.1<br />
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lots of new people. Reddy,<br />
Apoderado, and Mott all keep in<br />
touch with the people they met<br />
at RYLA.<br />
“Every single person at RYLA<br />
was worth meeting,” Apoderado<br />
said. “There were so many different<br />
types of people, but ALL of<br />
JANUARY WINNER:<br />
<strong>Junior</strong> Caitlin Cook<br />
Name all<br />
the people<br />
in this<br />
collage,<br />
first name<br />
only.<br />
Cut out the<br />
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answer<br />
sheet on<br />
PAGE 6,<br />
fill in the<br />
blanks,<br />
and return<br />
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to RM 135<br />
and get a<br />
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them were <strong>leaders</strong>-I met some of<br />
the most amazing people there.”<br />
The experience was made up<br />
of a team of eight people and four<br />
group <strong>leaders</strong>.<br />
They worked together achieving<br />
their goals.<br />
“It was very uplifting and encouraging,”<br />
Mott said.<br />
RYLA is described as <strong>life</strong> shaping.<br />
It strengthens the <strong>leaders</strong>hip<br />
skills of students who have<br />
already showed leader potential.<br />
“It taught me how to be a true<br />
leader,” junior Sai Reddy said.<br />
The seminar was junior based<br />
this year. The juniors had to sub-<br />
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mit an essay and <strong>attend</strong> an interview<br />
to be selected for RYLA.<br />
“RYLA is such an amazing experience,”<br />
Apoderado said. “I was<br />
so depressed to leave the <strong>camp</strong><br />
and say goodbye to everyone I<br />
met.”<br />
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Jesus Jesus Habits<br />
Habits<br />
Getting Getting closer closer to to God<br />
God<br />
during during spring spring break<br />
break<br />
Opinions<br />
By DustinStoltzfus<br />
During the school year distractions<br />
like, not enough time, and random other<br />
circumstances can “detune” us from our<br />
“walk.”Spring break can be a good time<br />
to take a couple steps back and retune<br />
ourselves with God and become closer to<br />
Him and grow in our faith. To keep close<br />
to God Jesus practiced a few “Jesus Habits”<br />
that kept him “in tune” with His<br />
source. Using these habits he gained the<br />
strength He needed to teach, heal the<br />
sick, and deal with a world that rejected<br />
everything He stood for. Using His habits<br />
we too can direct our thoughts toward God<br />
and stay close to him.<br />
The first habit that Jesus practiced<br />
was the reading of His Bible. Reading the<br />
Bible gives us understanding of God, authority,<br />
nourishment, and it helps us to<br />
learn the sufficiency of God. The more<br />
understanding of God we gain the more<br />
able we are to hear Him speak and know<br />
when He is speaking to us. The authority<br />
that we gain from reading the Bible is<br />
the power to influence not just those<br />
around us but also God’s authority to influence<br />
us and change our lives. And finally<br />
, nourishment, which means to promote<br />
the growth of, this is true because<br />
reading our Bibles does nourish our souls<br />
and promotes the growth of them.<br />
Prayer is the second habit that leads<br />
to growth because it is our link to God<br />
and allows us to be quiet before Him and<br />
listen to what He has to say. Taking just<br />
a minute to pray can turn the whole day<br />
around and put us into a better perspective<br />
on <strong>life</strong>. God not only wants our huge<br />
<strong>life</strong> crushing problems but also our simple<br />
things like please help me on this test<br />
or give me energy to get though the day.<br />
Bulldog Bulldog Barks Barks Staff<br />
Staff<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
Julie Ann Apoderado<br />
Associate Editor<br />
Madison Allen<br />
Feature Editor<br />
Gracie Eskind<br />
News Editor<br />
Alicia Calderon<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Jeremy Smith<br />
Photography Editors<br />
Francisco Pineda<br />
Kelli Mott<br />
Art/Design Editor<br />
Julie Ann Apoderado<br />
Opinions Editor<br />
Areli Nunez<br />
Entertainment Editor<br />
Dustin Stoltzfus<br />
Advertising Manager<br />
Chelsea Palmer<br />
Reporter<br />
Kenneth Mortell<br />
Adviser<br />
Bettye Morris<br />
Principal<br />
Lamond Dean<br />
Assistant Principals<br />
Jeff Hogg<br />
Pam Theriot<br />
Superintendent<br />
Joe Stubblefield<br />
We’re called to ask God for everything<br />
we need, seek God every day through<br />
reading our Bible, and we knock on<br />
God’s door through prayer. Prayer not<br />
only adds to our faith but it adds to<br />
our dependence on God and strengthens<br />
our relationship with him just<br />
like relationships in real <strong>life</strong><br />
(Author’s note: That’s a whole other<br />
rabbit hole I’m afraid) and a closer relationship<br />
with God leads to the desire<br />
to worship our creator which is<br />
our next habit to talk about.<br />
The final thing that we can do to<br />
grow in our faith is to make ourselves<br />
a “quiet time.” A time in which we<br />
take ourselves and be with God and<br />
remove all other distractions. It can<br />
consist of Bible reading, prayer, worship,<br />
meditation, or anything that allows<br />
us to be with God and be before<br />
Him. It allows us to simply sit with<br />
God and just listen without any of our<br />
daily problems to distract us. Jesus<br />
had quiet times when He would go off<br />
and pray like before He had to go<br />
through the ordeal of crucfiction.<br />
Jesus communed with God one last<br />
time to gain strength and a layer of<br />
calm. We should use our quiet times<br />
in the same way to gather strength,<br />
calm, and wisdom to carry our cross<br />
throughout the day.<br />
The most important thing to remember<br />
is to do all things for God and<br />
place faith, hope, and love in Him so<br />
that He may work. In the end isn’t<br />
that the plan? In the quest for spiritual<br />
growth our largest adversary is<br />
time and with spring break starting<br />
Monday what better to start some<br />
habits that lead to growth?<br />
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By FranciscoPineda<br />
SOCCER GAME OVERVIEWS<br />
FROM FEB. 3 - FEB. 10<br />
February 3<br />
VARSITY: Varsity was not very lucky; although<br />
they gave much effort they could not<br />
pull off the goals to win against Nacogdoches.<br />
In the first half Nacogdoches scored 2 goals<br />
with some Bulldog players receiving injuries.<br />
With the second half underway varsity<br />
looked as if it would be able to save the<br />
game and win but tragedy struck. While<br />
making a save goalie Pedro Valdez got injured<br />
by one of the Nacogdoches Dragons.<br />
February 6<br />
JUNIOR VARSITY: The Bulldogs wanted<br />
to start off the season with a win against<br />
Athens. JV started and it looked like it would<br />
be a good day for JV. Bulldog attackers went<br />
up close and personal with the goals narrowly<br />
missing their marks. With the second<br />
halfthe Bulldogs scored a goal from<br />
freshman Pedro Gonzalez. JV started the<br />
season with a 1 to 0 win.<br />
VARSITY: With goalie Pedro Valdez injured<br />
it looked like would be a hard game<br />
for Varsity. Athens went up by two in the<br />
first half following up with one more goal in<br />
the second half. Although the bulldogs gave<br />
a valiant effort to catch up they could not<br />
and the game ended 3 to 0.<br />
February 10<br />
VARSITY: <strong>Chapel</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> varsity hoped to add<br />
a win to their records at the second district<br />
game. As the game started it looked like<br />
the team could do no wrong as Felipe Lopez<br />
started the game with a goal penetrating<br />
the Mabank defense. Moments later Gio<br />
Tranquillino answered with a goal making<br />
the score 2 to 0. With Gio’s goal, the second<br />
half ended, lifting Bulldogs spirits. With second<br />
half underway it looked as the Bulldogs<br />
were just toying with Mabank as they had<br />
found their rhythm. With this Bulldogs<br />
scored 3 more goals ending the game with<br />
a 5 to 0 victory.<br />
Sports<br />
The The FF FFA FF A T TTeam<br />
T eam<br />
show shows show s their their goats goats in in For Fort For t W WWor<br />
W or orth or th<br />
Julia Bain<br />
FFA President<br />
Page 7<br />
“Everyone did a great job of showing and did fairly well<br />
in the show ring. Most of all, everyone had a lot of fun.”<br />
The following Students<br />
<strong>attend</strong>ed: Julia Bain (Sr),<br />
Meagan Gouldthorpe<br />
(Sph), Andrea Umphress<br />
(Sph), Halie Vance (Fr)<br />
Above: (from left to right)<br />
Meagan Gouldthorpe,<br />
Julia Bain, and Halie<br />
Vance with their goats<br />
Far-Right: Halie Vance<br />
and Julia Bain with their<br />
goats in the show ring<br />
Right: Meagan<br />
Gouldthorpe and Julia<br />
Bain
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Fashion<br />
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Ten must-have<br />
spring fashion<br />
trends<br />
By AreliNunez<br />
(1) Color! Color! Color!<br />
(2) Waist-high skirts (3) Sheer<br />
Inspiration (4) Global Influences<br />
(5) Pretty Prints<br />
(6) Wedge heels (7) Goddess<br />
Touches (8) Borrowed from the<br />
Boys (9) A Shorts Story<br />
(10) Spring Dresses<br />
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There’s No Rhyme to Reason<br />
BY CAITLIN COOK<br />
When I think of something,<br />
I think what made me think that and why I think it.<br />
Features<br />
Page 5<br />
Over-analysis? Maybe. Maybe not.<br />
What I think of something that’s about to happen,<br />
I think about the thoughts I might have as I do that something.<br />
I knew before I went outside that it would be cold.<br />
I thought that I’d think it was too cold.<br />
Then I stepped out the door, and yes, it was very cold...<br />
But I thought of you.<br />
You’re not cold; I’m not trying to say you are. Actually, it’s<br />
the opposite. You’re like fire to my skin, except the difference<br />
is, you can’t burn me. That’s why I feel as if I’m<br />
melting when we touch. Am I playing with fire?<br />
I’ve been taught all my <strong>life</strong> not to play with fire,<br />
that it will hurt me, burn me. Yet, I’ve been through fire,<br />
and I have no burns. How is it possible?<br />
“How can you go through the fire and not be burned?<br />
You’re lying. This is fake, it’s someone else. That’s not<br />
you.” Is that really so? I’m visible to the naked eye. How<br />
can you not see me, this is me? Who are they to think<br />
they know?<br />
Is this why the cold weather is best? Is the cold keeping<br />
me from being melted to the ground?<br />
And then what is cold weather? Not being in fire?<br />
Either way, am I safe? To others, fire will burn me,<br />
even though it’s impossible to burn “fire resistant”...<br />
but too long away from the fire and what happens?<br />
The warmth disappears...<br />
And I become cold again.<br />
I’m tired of wearing this jacket. Clothes designed to<br />
temporarily keep me from freezing over; they’re all II’m<br />
allowed to use as warmth.<br />
“Don’t go near the fire; it’ll burn you1”<br />
So I wear the jacket, and rarely allow myself to taste the<br />
fire with my fingertips.<br />
Why taunt the feeling?<br />
Depression: the feeling that creeps inside the sadness<br />
and turns it into a monster, altering and controlling the<br />
very actions and thoughts of the host.<br />
The jacket is not the antidote.<br />
You cannot stop the cold.<br />
What is the only cure? Oh, it’s the fire, for sure.She<br />
can’t survive without the heat.<br />
“You’re changing; you never would have done<br />
this...you’ve playing with the fire for too long! You’re<br />
beginning to burn! Everyone can see the scars.<br />
Why can’t you?<br />
Freezers cause burns, too (freezer-burn)<br />
So is this the result of too much of not enough<br />
heat? She’s always been one for the hot, sunny<br />
weather. He’s always been one for the cold, winter<br />
weather. If she needs the heat, is he the fire to<br />
save her? IS he the one burning who needs to<br />
cool off? It’s like magnets.<br />
Opposites attract.<br />
Only dummies can’t see that. If you’ve never noticed<br />
before, realize this now. Magnets are attracted<br />
so strongly towards each other, they will<br />
not let go unless they are forced, unless that are<br />
pulled apart. The only way they can resist each<br />
other is if one is turned around, with its back to<br />
the significant other; but left alone, and it will turn<br />
itself around and reattach to its mate magnet.<br />
Laws of nature intrigue me.<br />
Who first discovered magnetism? The key word<br />
to that sentence is “discovered.”<br />
Exactly. No one created magnetism.<br />
No one; it was one three. God created magnetism.<br />
He is the master of all the laws of nature. He<br />
magnetized the very magnets that first defined<br />
magnetism. They had names, too. (Adam and<br />
Eve) So, from this, if God himself magnetized<br />
opposites, then shouldn’t they be allowed to come<br />
together, and not be forced apart?<br />
If God is the creator of all things, is He also the<br />
creator of knowledge? Yes. God is the source of<br />
all knowledge. So which knowledgeable person<br />
said, “There is no rhyme to reason?” For is reason<br />
has no rhyme, is the story of the freezing girl<br />
and the fire man, with the strong magnetic attraction,<br />
the truth?<br />
Is this true love struggle of a story reason?<br />
Or is it sick poetry that has no rhyme?<br />
A A s sstor<br />
s or ory or y behind behind the the Holocaus Holocaust Holocaus<br />
Above: <strong>Junior</strong> Kelli Mott listens to an audio story about how Nazi soldiers disposed of the dead<br />
bodies that accumulated during their mass destruction.<br />
KELLI MOTT<br />
Guest reporter<br />
Few people get the chance to meet and speak with a Holocaust<br />
survivor, as I did recently on a trip to the Holocaust Museum in<br />
Dallas. It was very enlightening and opened my eyes to much I had<br />
not been aware of. Max Glauben was only 13 years old in 1945<br />
when he and his family were taken to a concentration <strong>camp</strong> in<br />
Poland, simply because they were Jewish. His family perished<br />
there, but Mr. Glauben believes that he “survived to tell the stories<br />
of the ones who died, so that their lives will not be forgotten.”<br />
At first, Hitler and the Nazis did not seem bad. They encouraged<br />
Jews to register themselves and their families so that they<br />
could receive benefits. These “benefits” proved in later years to be<br />
not so beneficial. It began with the Jews being forced to wear stars<br />
on their clothing so that they could be identified. Then they began<br />
to be persecuted by not being allowed in certain shops by being<br />
humiliated on the streets. In 1942 the German officials in Warsaw,<br />
Poland, which had a thirty percent Jewish population and<br />
forced the Jewish people to build a brick wall around a small area,<br />
which became the Warsaw Ghetto. They forced more than 500,000<br />
people inside to live. Only the able-bodied adults were allowed to<br />
work for food. On the days they recieved food they were given about<br />
184 calories a day, less than two candy bars. This had to be used to<br />
feed the whole family, sometimes eight or nine people. Many died<br />
from starvation or from exposure to the elements. This was only<br />
the beginning.<br />
In 1943 German soldiers forced the Jews out of the ghetto on<br />
to boxcars that were crowded, smelly, and hot. It took five days for<br />
them to be transported to a concentration <strong>camp</strong> only two hours<br />
away. They unloaded, and women and children went in one line,<br />
men in the other. Women, children, and the elderly were sent<br />
straight to the gas chambers to die. The able-bodied went to were<br />
<strong>camp</strong>s to toild under harsh conditions. Anyone too ill to work was<br />
killed. They were humiliated, given meager provisions, and shown<br />
no mercy. In all, about six million Jews died during the Holocaust<br />
along with five million other gypsies, prisoners, and soldiers who<br />
died during World War II.<br />
In 1947 Max Glauben was liberated from his <strong>camp</strong> by American<br />
soldiers and was able to come to America shortly. Although he<br />
survived, many did not. This, he says, is why he lives-- to tell stories<br />
so that the world will not forget the past. For if we forget what<br />
happened in the past or do not learn from it, the past could happen<br />
again in the future.<br />
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot<br />
drive out hate. Only love can do that.” Source unknown<br />
“An injustice done to one man anywhere is an injustice done to all<br />
men everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
“The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.” Pastor Martin<br />
Niemoeller