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Page 4, The Ram Write-Up, Maple Valley Anthon- Oto Schools Heap of the Month By Austin Bettin This month’s heap belongs to Senior Aaron Bechen. His heap goes by the name of the “Gooole”-yes, that is 3 o’s. Aaron got this name from the actual type of car, which is a 1988 Pontiac 6000 LE, and if you look at the actual name of the car, you can see where Aaron came up with the name “Gooole.” This car has many problems including a shattered windshield (that is soon to be fixed), rusted doors and fenders, a transmission that is leaking, a passenger window that won’t roll down, a cracked headlight from hitting a deer, four shocks that are broken from jumping intersections, and also the trunk has the trunk key stuck in it. If that is not enough problems, this month’s heap just rolled over 203,000 miles. Aaron stated, “The miles on my “Gooole” are mostly gravel miles, not highway miles because it’s my work car, not my chick-mobile.” This Pontiac 6000 LE also has a secret talent. It can drive without the keys in the ignition. Aaron stated, “I can start the car and pull the keys out of the ignition and I’m still able to drive.” Aaron has had many good memories in his “Gooole”--too many to count he says. But Junior class magazine sales By Jesse Nielsen Between transportation, tux/dress, accessories, and flowers, prom is an expensive event. Students hope to save some money on a good cheap meal. This year the prom dinner is $15 per plate, which is a pretty high price for chicken or roast beef. It also comes with potatoes and gravy, corn, salads, and desserts, which can be purchased cheaper elsewhere. With the purchase of a meal ticket, two drinks are free at the dance. The high meal price is causing most of the students to eat elsewhere. Since most students are eating elsewhere, the dinner might be cancelled all together. So why the high price? Most people blame it on the junior magazine sales. To raise money for prom each year, the junior class sells magazine subscriptions and a certain percent comes back to the school for the prom funding. It was calculated that if every student sold 12 magazines, the prom committee would be able to afford whatever they wanted for prom. This includes lighting, a DJ, decorations, and most of the meal cost. Of the 76 juniors that were enrolled at the beginning of the year, 33 made the goal of magazines sold, 15 students didn’t sell any magazines, which leaves 28 students that did sell magazines but did not make the individual goal of 12 magazines. The Junior Class relies too heavily on one or two people doing all the work. This is impossible! The extra magazines past the goal for the top sellers still doesn’t make up for the 15 no sellers. This leads me to believe that there should be a minimum requirement on magazines if he had to pick just one, he said his favorite memory would have to be when a modular went out. He couldn’t drive the car for awhile and then when he was finally able to, Aaron and his friends took the car out. There are some positives to this heap. This ‘88 Pontiac has a good sound system, which includes a 12 inch subwoofer and a “Wal-Mart special CD player.” Aaron paid 500 dollars for this gem. Aaron says that he has added more character to his Pontiac 6000 and it is worth more money now than when he paid for it, physically and sentimentally. Should the goal be lowered? sold to go to prom. If you don’t sell a certain number, you don’t go. Now I’m not saying that the goal (12) should be the minimum because some who tried couldn’t get that many sold. The minimum should be five or so. This would make a huge difference in funds for prom and still not be hard to accomplish. Most people are probably thinking the ones who didn’t sell magazines this year aren’t going to prom. This isn’t entirely true. There are some juniors who didn’t sell that are going. Even so, last year’s Junior Class did have students who made the goal but chose not to attend prom, so this means it is not impossible to make the goal. What’s the solution? A small minimum on magazine sales should be made so that the burden isn’t as heavy on the few exceptional students. Body piercing laws questioned By Courtney Hahn Did you know that the state of Iowa doesn’t have any body piercing laws? That means if someone walks into a tattoo and piercing studio in Sioux City at the age of 13, they can get some part of their skin pierced. One studio in Sioux City is trying to get state legislators to put an age law into place to make sure all of the tattoo artists are certified by top schools. The studio that is pushing for these changes is Maya Tattoo located at 605 Pearl in Sioux City. Their main argument is that too many under-aged kids are getting piercings when they don’t even have a reason why they want to get something pierced. Also, individuals who want to become body piercers should be properly educated on the safety skills of body piercings. I think that if a child wants to be pierced, their parents should step in and have some say in the matter. I believe that is the problem with today’s kids; they don’t think they have to listen to their parents at any age and can just do whatever they please. Lawmakers are saying it will be difficult to get any laws passed because not every studio will abide by every little law that is set by the state of Iowa. I do hope that some laws are passed and everyone follows them, just to make the body piercing and tattoo industry less criticized by everyone who thinks that it is wrong to have a tattoo or piercing done. Hilarious movie hits theaters By Jeff Koithan Benchwarmers is a movie about nerds and baseball. It’s the funniest movie of the year so far. This film was directed by Dennis Dugan and the film was written by Allen Covert and Nick Swardson. The movie is about three grown up geeks who want to relive childhood and actually get to play the game baseball. They start a team of three players and start playing all the little league teams. Throughout the whole movie, you’ll be laughing your head off from all the verbal and physical comedy. The stars of the movie are Rob Schneider, who plays Gus, who is the most talented player of all three. The next star is David Spade, who plays Richie, a nerd looking to play baseball. Then there is John Heder, who plays Clark, who is the biggest geek ever! A lot of critics have said that this movie is great for the whole family and anyone with a sense of humor would enjoy this hilarious movie. I would most definitely have to give this comedy four out of four Ram heads.
Page 5, The Ram Write-Up, Maple Valley Anthon- Oto Schools Dance show held after months of preparation Members of the MVAO dance squad are pictured above performing their basketball hip hop routine at the dance show. By Sara Dose “Movin’ and Groovin’ in a Hicktown” not only was the theme for the MVAO Dance Squad’s annual dance show, but it certainly explained the atmosphere of the high school gym on April 7th. As a fundraiser, each year the MVAO Dance Squad hosts a dance show in which they perform their own routines, teach elementary and middle school kids a dance, and invite other schools to come and perform. This year, the special guests invited were Ames High School under the direction of former Mapleton native, Sarah (Petersen) Buss. Along with her, she brought her many dance team members and award winning routines. At the show, the MVAO Dance Squad performed two routines they competed with at the State Drill Team Competition in Des Moines in December. The type of routines they brought to state competition and performed in front of our home crowd were a pom and hip-hop routine.They also performed with the middle school dance participants and showed off their one of a kind glow dance, dancing in the dark with glow sticks. The dance squad has been preparing for this show since January, and have been practicing their state competition dances since August. “It was a lot of work, but in the end it paid off.” commented Captain Sam Marsh. Sophomores Blaine Remmick and Kyle Boys golf season underway By James Brouillette The 2005-2006 boys golf is underway and the weather is cooperating nicely for the boys allowing them to get out on the course early and prepare for their first meet of the year. The Rams are coached by second year coach Beau Jacobsen and first year coach Cary Conover. The Rams are a young team will rely heavily on the leadership of the team’s returning letter-winners which are Adam Peterson, Travis Brown, and Justin Wulf. For their first meet of the season the Rams traveled to Ida Grove to participate in a triagular with Battle Creek-Ida Grove and West Monona. The Rams put up a good challenge but ended up finishing 3rd place in the triangular. The varsity team member include Senior Justin Wulf, Senior Travis Brown, Sophomore Jared Boyer, Sophomore Ethan Wolf, Sophomore Dallas Heath and Junior Adam Peterson. Top scorers for the Rams were Justin Wulf with a team high 45, Jared Boyer with a 48 and Ethan Wolf who a shot a 49. The following meet the Rams traveled up to Odebolt to compete in a conference tournament. The Rams finished in the middle of the pack placing fifth out of eleven conference teams. Travis Brown played extremely well shooting 41 and winning the tournament. “Hopefully it’s one of many to come in my career and will help me someday get to the PGA Tour” stated Brown jokingly about his win. “The team is starting to come together and play good, and thankfully the weather has been perfect for golf. I’m really excited and looking forward to the remainder of the season,” commented Senior Alex Flanigan. The next meet for the boys will be in Remsen Union where they hope to continue playing good and improving their scores. The Ames drill team performs their novelty dance. McBride kept the crowd lively as emcees for the night. During intermissions, David and Jeff Koithan played their guitars and sang together. The Dance Show also included Senior night, in which two seniors were honored as being members of the dance squad for four years. The seniors recognized were Sara Dose and Jennifer Chwirka. As part of the conclusion for the night, a number of MVAO students and teachers were asked to come down to front and center and perform some simple dance moves in front of the audience. Participants were shown how to do a toe touch and a double turn. With new By Shane Erlemeier Running up and down the streets and on the track is where you may have seen some of the members of the track team this year. Most of this years track practice has been on the street due to the bad weather. The first meet, which was indoor, was held in Storm Lake. During the track meet it started to snow and we all thought that we would be getting out soon. They did finally call it after all of the field events were over with. It took the bus two and a half hours to get home that night. The next track meet was in Mapleton, there were only six other teams in attendance. Travis Hazard placed 2nd in the long jump with a jump of 18’4”. “It felt good to place second at our home meet,” exclaimed Junior found respect for dancers, the participants were proven that sometimes it isn’t as easy as they think. Jesse Garule wowed the crowd and visiting Ames squad with his impressive toe touches. The dance squad sponsor this year was Kathy Hamers. Hopefully the dance show will become an annual event at MVAO, being one of the dance squad’s most profitable fundraisers. This past year, the dance squad has performed at the 4th of July in Mapleton, a football game, two basketball games and their dance show. They have been quite busy and with new members being added as soon as May, they will already be preparing for another busy year. Boys track team is ‘running the streets’ Travis Hazard. Robbie Gustin placed 3rd in the high jump with a jump of 5’6”. “Track practice is hard and tough but the track meets are fun,” commented Junior Robbie Gustin. Matt Boyle also placed 1st in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.80. Kevin Zimmerman placed 3rd in the shot put with a throw of 40’6”. Travis Cameron placed 3rd in the 1600 meter run with a time of 5:05.16. The next track meet was in Holstein. There were 15 teams there. Out of the 15 teams, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto placed 5th. They also placed 3rd in the 4 by 400 meter relay. Travis Cameron placed 3rd in the 1600 meter run with a time of 5:05.82. So far this year, the boys track team has been performing very well and will continue to get better as the season winds down.
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