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Final play of year opens tonight in Little Theatre
•Boys Tennis: State meet begins 9 a.m. at sites including Brandon Valley Middle School, McKennan Park and WHS •Girls Golf: Varsity Brookings Invitational 10 a.m. at Brookings Country Club; JV City Meet 3 p.m. at Hidden Valley Golf Course •Marching Band: Color Guard auditions 6 p.m. in gymnastics room •Show Choir: Parent meeting 6 p.m. in auditorium •Play: “Is He Dead?” 7 p.m. in Little Theatre
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Fish fillet sandwich, seasoned fries, carrots •À la carte lines: Italian dunkers, chicken fajita, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Renaissance Committee: Members will meet at 3:10 p.m. today in the main gym to set up for Honor Fest. •All Seniors: Will meet in the auditorium 4A Friday. •AP Information Night: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the commons.
Beach Bash 2017 Dress up, dude! •Today: Multiplicity Day •Friday: Spirit Day NOW Thursday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Green and Emily VanBockern Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Amy Walker Staff: Jada Cunningham, Aime Bita, Madi Forseth, Sidney Kennedy, Libby Nachtigal Co-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/ MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service
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‘New’ comedy by Mark Twain presented through Monday By Lauren Green and Emily VanBockern arrior drama students will open the final play of the school year, “Is He Dead?” a hilarious comedy written by Mark Twain and adapted by David Ives at 7 p.m. tonight in the Little Theater. The play tells the story of a poor artist in France named Jean-Fraincios Millet who crossdresses as a fake twin sister to raise the price of his own works following his “death.” Director Bryan Aukerman says the story is a hilarious farce not to be missed. “Because of PG-13 language, children may want to skip this one, but that being said, it’s a hilarious show with wonderful writing and very talented actors,” Aukerman said. “This is the funniest script I’ve read in years and I am very proud of the work the cast and crew have put in to make it come to life.” Freshman Blake Anderson, who plays Chicago in the play, is excited. “This is a very good play and the comedy is different from most of the plays that have been done at WHS, which makes this one unique,” Anderson said. All tickets are $5 and may be purchased after school in the Little Theatre or tonight starting at 6:30 p.m. at the door. Additional performances will be Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 1 and 7 p.m. and Monday at 7 p.m. as the show ends its run.
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Photo by Micki DeCurtins HE’S NOT DEAD—Freshmen Martin Kloster as the “widow” and Blake Anderson as Chicago in a scene from “Is He Dead?” which opens tonight at WHS.
Debate team presents awards By Madi Forseth and Libby Nachtigal The WHS debate team held their end-of-school-year banquet April 24 in the WHS commons as they honored team members for their success during the season with multiple awards. In novice, award winners included freshmen Trenity Rosenberg as Most Valuable, Cailin Williams as
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Most Promising and Kylie Banouvong as Most Spirited and sophomore Nora White for Outstanding Contribution. Rosenburg said it was a good season for the team. “The season went pretty well, overall,” Rosenburg said. “My favorite part was travelling to other places over the weekends!” Varsity awards for Outstanding Contribution went to
juniors Izzy Curry for Policy Debate and Most Improved Debater and Izzie Osorio for Individual Events and Lincoln-Douglas Debate and senior Hailie Schock for Public Forum. The last award, called “And Furthermore,” is named after Bruce Bringgold, a 1953 graduate of WHS. This award is given to the top senior debater—this year Braeden Decker.
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State boys tennis meet begins today at sites including WHS By Amy Walker The state boys tennis tournament will begin today at sites including WHS, Brandon Valley Middle School and McKennan Park and will continue through Saturday. Round one for the players will begin at 8 a.m. today in all three locations and will continue until 6 p.m. tonight. Senior Elliot Hartwig, who will represent WHS as the sixth seed in Flight 1, says he is ready. “Our team is confident going into state,” Hartwig said. “We had a hard last
week of practice and I think we can place well as a team.” The tournament will be a 32-player draw format with five rounds of competition. Four consolation rounds will be played, along with matches to determine third and fifth place on the championship side of the bracket. Play will move indoors in the event of inclement weather to the Huether Family Match Pointe, Great Life at Woodlake and the Country Club of Sioux Falls, a distinct possibility on Friday.
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May a bittersweet month for seniors
The month of May is the “month of lasts” or “month of good-byes” for me and many other seniors. Speaking for myself, I have already completed one of my final events of my high school career as an emcee at my last “Beach Bash Variety Show” last Friday along with other student council members. But that was just the start of many bittersweet moments still to come in the month, including my last HonorFest tomorrow, my last baseball game as a player (determined by Saturday’s results) and yes, one final column in the NOW today. It’s been a fun ride as I’ve moved Hear me. . . up from reporter to daily editor to editor-in-chief of the NOW for the Carson Herbert as a sophomore/senior past four years. It was one of the first activities I was involved in at WHS, and it even inspired me to pursue a potential career in the journalism field some day. But I don’t want to waste this space on my personal reminiscing. I’ve thanked many groups of people in previous columns, but I wanted to focus on the students and staff of WHS today. Without your involvement, participation and excellence in activities and academics, we as a newspaper staff would not be able to function every day. There would be no events, state championships or awards to cover or to take pictures of, and more importantly for WHS to celebrate. So I would like to thank you for all of your achievements you have made and also for the memories and support you have provided me over the past four years! Senior Carson Herbert will forever bleed Orange and Black.
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Responding to a major cyberattack By Matt Day The Seattle Times (TNS) SEATTLE — Cybersecurity attacks which began Friday and continued into this week and disabled an estimated hundreds of thousands of devices, targeted a vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft says was discovered by the National Security Agency (NSA). Details of the vulnerability were dumped online earlier this year — along with a slate of other vulnerabilities allegedly uncovered by the U.S. spy agency — by a hacker group called Shadow Brokers.
Technology Watch The flaw resides in a way computers running Microsoft’s operating system communicate with shared network resources like printers or files. Malware aimed at that vulnerability could gain control of a system through the communications protocol, and, from there, hop to other systems on a network and take them over, too. Microsoft issued patches on March 14 for many versions of Windows that closed the weak point, giving the update the “critical” designation applied to serious weaknesses that could allow an unauthorized user to take control of the operating system. But many businesses don’t receive Windows updates automatically. Their technology staff has to opt in because updates can often be a laborious process that requires them to ensure tweaks won’t interfere with other software or systems.
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