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