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First-Day Schedule

Happening Now •AP Tests: AP Biology 8 a.m., AP Physics noon •Girls Golf: City Meet Second Round 1 p.m. at Willow Run •Track and Field: JV Invitational 3:30 p.m. at Roosevelt •Baseball: Freshmen/sophomores vs. O’Gorman 5 p.m.; JV vs. Roosevelt 6 p.m. at Harmodon Park •Girls Basketball: Open gym 5-6 p.m. in main gym •PTSA: Monthly meeting 6 p.m. in library •Band Boosters: Meeting 7 p.m. in band room

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 •All Drama Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in the Little Theatre. •Cheerleading: Try outs for next year will take place TuesdayThursday—competition cheer for current eighth graders-juniors in the gymnastics room and football sideline cheer for current freshmenjuniors in the main gym. •Competition Dance: Try outs for next year will take place WednesdayFriday in the gymnastics room and auxiliary gym—current freshmenjuniors 4 p.m., current eighth graders 4:45 p.m. 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

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Mostly cloudy Low 55°

Partly sunny Isolated showers High 85°

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Mostly sunny Not as warm High 72°

Two boys relays capture topfour spots at Dakota Relays Girls earn relay honors at O’Gorman Invitational

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By Alex Barron arrior track team members competed at the 92nd annual Dakota Relays Friday and Saturday at Howard Wood Field. At the event, sophomore Tupak Kpeayah, seniors Thuro Reisdorfer and Ethan McKinney and junior Bonheur Mvuyekure took third in the 1,600 meter sprint medley relay with a time of 3:39.49. Juniors Nathan Woodall, Topher Zahn, Mvuyekure and Yanas Sadi also took fourth in the 4 x 800 relay with a time of 8:17.83. In individual events, junior Shiloh Flanagan took fifth in the boys high jump with a height of 1.95 meters. McKinney also took fifth in the 100 meter dash, with a quick time of :11.35. McKinney actually ran a faster time in the

semi-finals, :10.92. Coach Everett Gebhart was pleased with the performances. “We improved our time on all of the relays, and had some good individual events,” Gebhart said. “The highlight for individuals was Shiloh (Flanagan) jumping to 6’5’’ on the high jump.” Zahn is happy with how the season is going for the team so far. “As a team, we are all starting to run better and more together,” Zahn said. “Our times are going down. We still have a lot of work to do before the state meet comes around.” For the girls, freshman Jacee Johannsen took seventh in pole vault with a jump of 3.12 meters. Senior Isabel Kinzer placed 17th in the 300 intermediate hurdles with a time of :48.44 at the Howard Wood Relays.

O’Gorman Invitational: By Mitchell Waddell The JV track team competed in the O’Gorman Invitational consisting of 13 teams Friday at O’Gorman’s McEneaney Field. Along with mostly the JV, a few varsity athletes competed to try and qualify for the state meet, as well. The girls won the 4 x 400 meter relay and took second in the 4 x 800 relay. For the boys sophomore Nate Freese won the 300 meter hurdles with a time of :43.15 and the boys 4 x 800 meter relay took third. The team is at Roosevelt today in their final JV meet.

WHS takes third at Metro Conference Meet By Daxton Bonnewell Warrior boys varsity tennis team members played a hard-fought battle on Saturday in the Metro Conference Meet, finishing third overall. Lincoln took first with 67.5 points followed by O’Gorman in second with 56.5 points and WHS rounding out the top three with 54 points, besting fourth-place Brandon Valley by 18 points. Roosevelt rounded-out the placements with 20 team points. In the Flight 6 singles bracket, senior Nic Gregg won his first contest and then lost to the eventual winner of that series Rahul Giri from Lincoln. Gregg later teamed up with fellow senior Ethan Hays in doubles

action, taking one and losing one. Sophomore Tory Shafer continued the theme of splitting and won his first match, following up with a tough loss at Flight 2 singles. While no Warriors topped any brackets, they all fought hard. Senior Ethan Hays was pleased WHS fought hard. “Our guys put all they could out there,” Hayes said. “Unfortunately, we ran into some tough competition. We will continue to work and we’ll be all right.” WHS has little break as they face O’Gorman Tuesday at McKennan Park and travel over to Roosevelt Wednesday.

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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? I plan to become a computer programmer. •What are you involved in at WHS? I am a member of the Rubik’s Cube Club and a casual member of the Chess Club at WHS. •What is your favorite class this semester? My favorite class is AP Computer Science, because I really like programming. •What is your advice to readers of the NOW? Be involved and put in as much effort as possible.



Monday, May 8, 2017 Katherine Jansen

Freshman student of the month •What are your plans/dreams for the future? I would love to become a teacher when I’m older. •What are you involved in at WHS? I am involved as a member of the volleyball and golf teams as well as in FCA and the SALSA volunteer club at WHS. •What is your favorite class this semester? I really enjoy both biology and geometry this semester. •What is your advice to readers of the NOW? Don’t be afraid to try new things.

Don’t like the weather? Just wait!

Let’s talk about something rather serious and touchy to all South Dakotans—the climate. South Dakota, sometimes called the “Land of Infinite Variety” is one-of-a-kind when it comes to the weather that takes place throughout the Hear me. . . state—one side of the state could be 80 degrees while the other is Mitchell Waddell just hanging around freezing. But you don’t have to travel to experience weather extremes. Last Monday when it snowed a few inches and then was 70 degrees only two days later, I was even swimming on Saturday night when it was about 75 and the water

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felt as warm as the day. This is just one example of how weird and confusing the South Dakota climate can be. Today, the high will be 85 degrees, a drastic turnaround from last Monday’s (hopefully) last blast of winter. Let’s not forget the April ice storm of 2013 where overnight sleet and rain began to cover and freeze everything it could, destroying power lines which left many Sioux Falls residences without power for a three day period and many trees and houses damaged. The heat we are seeing right now is fantastic, and my hope is that it carries on through the rest of school so when I graduate I’m able to do all the summer things I know and love. But since I live in South Dakota I’m not going to get too comfortable with the current weather. I’m sure we’re in for a treat, sooner or later. Senior Mitchell Waddell can’t wait to golf all summer long.

Humans are polluting with sound By Sean Greene Los Angeles Times (TNS) Natural sounds are an integral, yet often overlooked, part of the way we experience national parks and other public lands. But human activities— such as roads, development, and mining and logging operations— are drowning out this soundscape in almost two-thirds of protected areas in the U.S., according to a new study published in Science. Researchers from Colorado State University and the National Park Service listened closely and determined that humans have doubled the level of background noise in 63 percent of these protected areas, making it loud enough to disturb people and wildlife. In 21 percent of protected areas, human activity has cranked up the background noise so much that it’s 10 times louder than what the scientists estimated to be “natural” conditions. Here’s another way to think about it: a doubling of background sound—a three-decibel increase—makes it harder to hear the natural sounds in an area. If in pristine conditions you could hear a bird singing from 100 feet away, with anthropogenic noise you could hear it from only 50 feet away, said study leader Rachel Buxton, an acoustic ecologist at Colorado State University. A 10-fold increase in noise reduces your listening area by 90 percent. “We have really good research that shows how important natural sounds are for humans,” said Buxton, who fell in love with natural sounds listening to seabirds on the Aleutian Islands. They enhance mood, improve memory retention and “not only that, they’re just really beautiful.”