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Friday, May 12, 2017

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Happening NOW •AP Tests: Final day today—Human Geography 8 a.m. in auxiliary gym •Girls Golf: Varsity Invitational 10:30 a.m. today at Lakeview Golf Course in Mitchell •Boys Tennis: Warrior Invitational at WHS— WHS vs. Aberdeen Roncalli 1 p.m. and St. Thomas More 4 p.m. today and Rapid City Stevens 9 a.m. and Central noon Saturday •Track and Field: Rich Greeno City Meet 3 p.m. today at O’Gorman’s McEneaney Field •Baseball: Freshmen/sophomores 5 p.m. today and noon Saturday at Harmodon Park; varsity 5 p.m. today at Brookings and vs. Rapid City Stevens 3 p.m. Saturday at Harmodon •Beach Bash: Variety Show 7 p.m. tonight in auditorium

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich, tomato soup, peas •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •SMASH Book Club: Members will meet to discuss “Clan of the Cave Bear” fourth period and “Daughter of Smoke and Bone” fifth period today in the library. •Drama Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. Monday in the Little Theatre. •Boys Soccer: Players will meet at 3:10 p.m. Monday in A-118.

Other Reminders •Seniors: Please complete the Senior Exit Survey for the final Senior Issue of the newspaper now. Check your e-mail, including “Clutter” folder, for the link. Deadline is Monday. NOW Friday Staff

Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor Anderson and Sydney Stallinga Assistant Editor: . . . . . . Maddie VanderFeen Staff: Kylee Haub, Erika Lehan, Logan Barber, Kelsi Kearney 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. WHSNOW.COM Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service

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Celebration of upcoming summer begins tonight Variety show kicks-off Beach Bash Week at 7 p.m. By Sydney Stallinga and Kelsi Kearney ummer is nearly here, and Beach Bash week sponsored by the WHS student council will kick-off with the annual variety show at 7 p.m. tonight in the auditorium. The show will showcase a variety of student acts and advance tickets will be sold during lunch today for $5. Tickets will also be sold at the door tonight, as available. Next week Beach Bash will continue, including special dressup days similar to homecoming week leading up to Honor Fest on Friday. Dress-up days include Olympics Day on Monday as students show their pride in Team USA. Tuesday Warriors will get ready for the beach on Summer Day with shorts and sandals. Warriors are reminded that during dress-up days the school dress code policy remains in effect—dress in a school appropriate way. Wednesday will be sports Jersey Day as

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Warriors support their favorite professional teams. Thursday is Multiplicity Day as Warriors are challenged to find as many friends as they can and convince them to all dress the same. Friday is Spirit Day as Warriors do Orange and Black for Honor Fest. Honor Fest, sponsored by the Renaissance Committee, will take place on Friday morning, May 19, as WHS salutes academic and other excellence by students in a two-hour event. It will culminate with a slide show highlighting the year at WHS. Sophomore Libby Nachtigal said the variety show will just be the start to a fun Beach Bash week. “It’s my first show I am a part of,” Nachtigal said. “So I am very excited and think it will be a good show for everyone to enjoy.” Senior Jenna Siganos agrees. “The senior student council members are all really excited for their final Beach Bash,” Siganos said.

ToC presents fashion show at Augustana By Taylor Anderson and Erika Lehan The Translators of Cultures at Washington High School will present a “Celebration of Cultures” fashion show at 3 p.m. this Saturday in the Kresge Recital Hall in the Humanities Building on the campus of Augustana University. At the event, students from a variety of backgrounds will show off cultural dress. The event will also feature a talent show, panel discussion and food from different countries.

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Tickets for the event are $5 for students or $10 for adults. Members of the organization will sell advance tickets during lunch today. Tickets will also be available online at Augie. Edu/Diversity and at the door Saturday before the show. Proceeds from the event will be used for ACT/SAT test preparation for students in need as well as Translators of Cultures summer leadership camp. Counselor Patti LakeTorbert said the event has a Warrior Nation Events

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tradition at WHS. “It started a few years ago in the library,” Lake-Torbet said. “It got so big that we had to move it to Augie. There will be an hour of fashion and an hour of talent and food. It would be a great opportunity to bring your mother for Mother’s Day.” Senior Feven Goitom is participating in the show. “There will be so many cultures there,” Goitom said. “The different dresses will be amazing to see.” All WHS News

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Track teams list top performers of season EVENT..................GIRLS..............................................BOYS 100 M DASH.......Jacee Johannsen :12.6..................Ethan McKinney :10.6 200 M DASH.......Isabel Kinzer :26.8........................Ethan McKinney :22.6 400 M DASH.......Laura Petterson 1:01.16...............Ethan McKinney :51.17 800 M RUN.........Kelsi Kearney 2:24.4.....................Bonheur Mvuyekure 2:03.72 1,600 M RUN......Kelsi Kearney 5:30........................Topher Zahn 4:37.9 3,200 M RUN......Carlie Kray 12:05.6.......................Shodo Mahamed 10:03.2 100/110 HURDLES....Isabel Kinzer :16.2..........................Warmbein/Walker :17 300 HURDLES......Isabel Kinzer :48.2........................Nate Freese :42.9 400 RELAY...........Kinzer, Petterson,............................Kpeayeh, Reisdorfer, ............................Johannsen, Barber :51.2................Thomas, McKinney :44.1 800 RELAY...........Kinzer, Petterson,............................Kpeayeh, Reisdorfer, ............................Barber, Johannsen 1:46.8..............Freese, McKinney 1:31 MEDLEY RELAY....Moen, Barber,.................................Kpeayeh, Reisdorfer, ............................Petterson, Kearney 4:25................McKinney, Mvyekure 3:39.2 1,600 RELAY........Kinzer, Petterson,............................Woodall, Freese ............................DeBeer, Kearney 4:11....................Richard, Zahn 3:38.4

3,200 RELAY........Juac, Kearney.................................Sadi, Mvyekure, ............................DeBeer, Kray 9:55.1......................Zahn, Woodall 8:17.5 LONG JUMP.........Bre Richardson 15’5.5”.................Shiloh Flannigan 20’8.5” HIGH JUMP..........Aubrey Miedema 5’4”....................Shiloh Flannigan 6’5” TRIPLE JUMP.......Bre Richardson 34’9.25”...............Shiloh Flannigan 41’10” POLE VAULT.........Jacee Johannsen 10’3”.................. SHOT PUT............Jenna Sayler 36’3.5”.....................Will Farniok 46’8” DISCUS..................Raylynn Rohrer 113’10”................Thuro Reisdorfer 157’6” The Warrior track teams’ “Top Dawgs” is a listing of top performers by event for the season to date. Today’s results reflect the teams’ performance through the Dakota Relays and O’Gorman Invitational last weekend. The teams will be in action today at the Rich Greeno City Meet at O’Gorman High School.

Don’t miss out on last blast of WHS fun Howdy Warriors! Today we close out the AP testing season, and to celebrate WHS’s student council will host the 24th annual Beach Bash. Beach Bash began the year after the new WHS opened, and is a way for Warrior students to celebrate summer a few weeks before the end of school Hear me. . . and with all their school friends. The fun week full of dress-up days and activiMaddie VanderFeen ties will actually kick-off tonight at 7 p.m. in the auditorium with the Beach Bash Variety Show, showcasing much of Washington’s finest talents. Next week, starting Monday, in addition to the dress-

up days, there will be many “Minute To Win It” style games in the lunchroom before school, so get excited to have some fun and show your winning style for all to see, Warriors! Most importantly, it is imperative for all students to participate, dress up and have fun, especially as this is the final chance for the year to be with all your school friends and the senior class’ last chance to showcase their school spirit. It is sure to be an amazing week! Make sure to stay updated with the different themes and activities next week. You will not want to miss out. This exciting week will close off next Friday with the twohour Honor Fest assembly, closing out the year at WHS. Seniors will celebrate the end of our senior year with a senior class cookout that afternoon, courtesy of the senior events committee. Senior Maddie VanderFeen is very sad this is her last Honor Fest.

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Flu fighter found in frog slime

By Helen Thompson Science News Today (TNS) Frog slime just could be the source of the next flu drug. Scientists have spent decades searching for new drugs to combat viruses by mining proteins that animals make to fight off germs. And lately, proteins found in amphibian mucus have shown promise against HIV and herpes. Now it’s influenza.

Science Friday David Holthausen is a graduate student in immunology at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. He and his colleagues sampled slime from the skin of a frog. Called Hydrophylax bahuvistara, this frog species was discovered in southern India. Its mucus contains a host of proteins. The researchers tested 32 of them against a flu virus. Four showed promise. All but one, however, proved toxic to mammals. So the scientists focused on the last. They’re calling it urumin for a type of sword used in the region of India where this frog was found. Urumin didn’t harm mammals. It did, however, seem to give several flu viruses a hard time. It was particularly good at killing H1N1 viruses. And that’s fortunate, because these are a more common family of strains that sicken people. The slime protein even cut the reproduction of viruses in seven strains that had all become resistant to the effects of anti-viral drugs. The new research shows that urumin works by blowing up flu virus particles. It targets a so-called stalk region of a protein in the H1 strains. It will take more work to turn urumin into a true drug. But in time, it could serve as the basis for a new family of flu vaccines. Holthausen’s group described its new findings April 18 in Immunity.