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First-Day Schedule
Happening Now •AP Chemistry: Test review 3:30 p.m. in A-217 •Quiz Bowl: Competition 4 p.m. in A-Wing •Boys Tennis: JV-B vs. Sioux Falls Christian 4 p.m. on WHS courts •Baseball: Varsity vs. Lincoln 5 p.m. on Harmodon Field 2; JV vs. Harrisburg 5 p.m. at Legion Park in Harrisburg •Volleball: Open gym 5:15 p.m. in gym •DECA: National competition trip student/parent meeting 6 p.m. in Little Theatre •Booster Club: Monthly meeting 7 p.m. in library
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Hamburger, french fries, calico beans •À la carte lines: Pepperoni hot pocket, taco fixings, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Girls Soccer: Players will meet at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday in the Little Theatre. •Audition: For the spring play after school Tuesday in the Little Theatre—see director Bryan Aukerman in A-126 for an audition packet today. •SALSA: Student service club will meet at 3:20 p.m. Thursday in the orchestra room, C-111. Meet service dog Kitty at the meeting. NOW Monday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Kubik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Mitchell Waddell Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . Owen Alvine Staff: Taylor VanderVelde, Ethan Hays, Alex Barron, Molly Cozad, Daxton Bonnewell Editors-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . Carson Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Maham Shah Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
Vol. 22 • No. 126
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Chorus, orchestra students earn superiors at contest Four chorus members earn perfect scores at event
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By Maddie VanderFeen arrior vocal and orchestra students competed at the Region 2 Solo and Ensemble Contest March 14 at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, earning several Superior honors. Chorus director Jeff Spencer was pleased with his students’ performance at the event. “I was very pleased with the students’ performances,” Spencer said. WHS had 20 entrants who received Superior ratings, the best available, including four perfect ratings in solo performances by juniors Jamie Bitz, Lauren Nelson and Milton Padilla and senior Spencer DeLange. Eight also earned excellent ratings—five were only one point away from a Superior rating. DeLange was pleased.
“Contest is always a good experience,” DeLange said. “It is fun to see everyone’s hard work pay off.” In orchestra, WHS earned 16 Superior ratings and 10 Excellent ratings. Director Karla Chiarello said her students did a good job. “I am incredibly pleased with the outcome for this event,” Chiarello said. “Washington High School was represented well in both the quantity and quality of the day’s performances.” Ensemble Superior ratings were received by the WHS Fiddlers Ensemble; WHS Chamber Orchestra, the string quintet of sophomores Olivia Roberts and Ethan Jensen and juniors Madison Hollingshead, Ashley Bautista and Alana Shields and the duet of Roberts and junior Julienne Korst.
Baseball team splits with opponents
By Ethan Hays The varsity baseball team split a pair of games with Watertown and Roosevelt Saturday at Harmodon Park. In the first game against Watertown, the Warriors needed an extra inning, winning 4-3 in the eighth. Senior Austin Kubik was the winning pitcher, his first win of the season and the team’s first win as well. Junior Alex Bertram led the
way with two hits, while junior Brandon Ford had a walk-off hit to seal the victory for the Warriors. Kubik said it was a nice overall game for everyone on the team. “We hit and pitched well,” Kubik said. The JV defeated Watertown 4-0 with junior Nick Marnin the winning pitcher. The Warriors couldn’t find
the same kind of success against a good Roosevelt team in the second game of the day, losing 15-2 in five innings on the 10 run rule. Senior Matthew Hedeen performed well offensively, going 3 for 3 in his at bats. With the loss, the Warriors moved to 1-2 on the season and will next face Lincoln tonight at 5 p.m. at Harmodon Park.
Quiz bowl teams take first, fourth in Tea Alex Barron and Austin Kubik WHS quiz bowl team members did well at the quiz bowl competition Thursday in Tea, taking first and fourth place in the 20-team event. The first place
team consisted of juniors Matthew Questad, Levi Rustand and Noah Witt and sophomore Jennifer Nguyen. Questad was overjoyed with the win. “It was a good competition,” he said.
“Everyone in our team performed well. I’m happy with how it went, but we’ve got to keep it up for future events.” WHS Team 2 which took fourth consisted of seniors Ryan Koch, Emmett
Simmons and Seth VandeBraak, sophomore Joe Simko and freshman Abbie Witt. WHS will host an after-school contest featuring Roosevelt and Lincoln beginning at 4 p.m. tonight in the A-Wing.
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A profile of WHS students
Editor’s note: The Warrior Q & A is a Sports weekly profile of Warrior students with the goal of helping members of the WHS community come to know each other better. Subjects are chosen by the Student/ Activity Leader of the Month Committee at WHS. Assembled by Carson Herbert
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Freshman student of the month •What are your plans/dreams for the future? After I graduate, I plan to go to college and run track or play another sport. •What are you involved in at WHS? I am involved as a member of the basketball, track and soccer teams. •What is your favorite class this semester? I like Spanish I class. My teacher makes learning fun. •What is your advice to readers of the NOW? I would advise them to join a club or activity and put themselves out there.
Monday, April 3, 2017 Mark DeReu
Freshman student of the month •What are your plans/dreams for the future? My plan for the future is to enlist in the military. •What is your favorite class this semester? I like math class because it is fun. •What is your advice to readers of the NOW? I would tell the readers of the NOW to study and to not give up. •Who inspires you? I am inspired by my friends and hope to be remembered as a kind and nice person after graduation from WHS.
Most seniors to enjoy testing time off The upcoming Smarter Balance testing is one of the most dreaded standardized tests in all of the land. In my experience taking the test last year, most of the test consists of questions that are so plain and broad it makes it a little confusing to figHear me. . . ure out a correct answer. The test is also very, very long and painsMitchell Waddell taking, taking two days to practice and three consecutive days to actually test. Testing also includes the science test this Wednesday. But if you are a senior like me, you have already taken the test and plan to reap the rewards.
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Starting this Wednesday, seniors who took the test last year get some time off. They don’t have to come to school until 10 a.m. this Wednesday, allowing us to get more sought-after sleep before school. Then on April 13, seniors need to be at school by 8:30 a.m., like a first day of the week on a Thursday. April 19 the day for the seniors will begin at 11 a.m., a big change compared to the usual routine. During this morning I plan on sleeping in and then possibly finding somewhere to go and have a nice breakfast with friends before starting our school day. The next day, April 20, senior report time is 10 a.m. and April 21 11:30 a.m. But fear not, underclassmen. If you do well on the tests, juniors, your time will come next year. Freshmen and sophomores, a variety of fun activities are planned. Senior Mitchell Waddell plans to catch up on his sleep.
College grads see little wage gain By Austin Weinstein Bloomberg News (TNS) WASHINGTON — The bachelor’s degree — long a ticket to middle-class comfort — is losing its luster in the U.S. job market. Wages for college graduates across many majors have fallen since the 2007-09 recession, according to an unpublished analysis by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce in Washington using Census bureau figures. Young job-seekers appear to be the biggest losers. What you study matters for your salary, the data show. Chemical and computer engineering majors have held down some of the best earnings of at least $60,000 a year for entry level positions since the recession, while business and science graduates’s paychecks have fallen. A biology major at the start of their career earned $31,000 on an annual average in 2015, down $4,000 from five years earlier. “It has been like this for the past five, six years now,” said Ban Cheah, a research professor at Georgetown who compiled the data. “It’s a little depressing.” The outlook for experienced graduates, aged 35 to 54, is brighter, with wages generally stable since the crisis. The economic premium of a bachelor’s flattened after the recession, according to a 2016 National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Robert Valletta, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Among the factors at play are advances in technology and automation, which are not only taking away U.S. manufacturing jobs, but also having an impact on white collar workers, Valletta found. Legal clerks and researchers are increasingly finding their jobs supplanted by computers, for example.
