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Happening Now •Jostens: Final visit to take cap and gown orders during lunch hours in front of main gym •Debate: Novice After School Event 3:30 p.m. at Lincoln High School •Volleyball: At Lincoln High School—freshmen and JV 4:30 p.m., sophomores 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m.
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Corn dog, macaroni and cheese, steamed broccoli •À la carte lines: Pasta, soft taco, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Young Republicans: Will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-153. •Renaissance Committee: Members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in E-112. •Bowling: Team members will be announced at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Little Theatre. All who tried out or are interested should attend— one more girl is still needed for WHS to compete as a team. Practice begins at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Eastway. •SALSA: Volunteer service club will meet at 3:20 p.m. Thursday in C-111.
Other Reminders •Student Council: Election petitions are now available in the student services office—due Nov. 9. NOW Tuesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney Kennedy and Seth Benson Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . Taylar Erickson Staff: Daniel Slaven, Madelyn Moravec Editors-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Forseth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and Libby Nachtigal 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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Quiz bowl team returns to top of pack with win WHS takes first at O’Gorman competition
By Madelyn Moravec and Taylar Erickson team of Warriors captured first place at the O’Gorman High School/Sioux Falls Area Home School Association Quiz Bowl Tournament Monday evening at O’Gorman High School. The team consisting of seniors Noah Witt, Samantha King, Matthew Questad and Levi Rustand took first place at the contest. Three teams from WHS competed in total. The other teams placed 16th and 21st at the contest. King said it was a fun event. “There is good competition and our biggest competitors are O’Gorman and the home schoolers,” King said. “We have been doing well and we hope to improve. We have started off well, getting second and now first.” WHS will compete at the Tri-Valley Quiz Bowl Competition Nov. 27 at Tri-Valley High School near Colton.
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Photo courtesy Fred Reiner WINNERS—Quiz Bowl team members from WHS include (front, L-R) junior Jennifer Nguyen; sophomore Abigail Witt; freshman Riley Nold; junior Tory Shafer; senior Levi Rustand; (back) junior Josue Domingo; freshman Ashley Elton; sophomore Carson Price; seniors Noah Witt, Samantha King and Matthew Questad and junior Eli Waltrip. First place team members hold trophies.
Warriors visit Patriots on Halloween By Sidney Kennedy Warrior volleyball team members will try to scare up a win on Halloween night tonight as they visit the Lincoln Patriots in the second-to-last game of the regular season. WHS is currently 17-13. Lincoln is 11-14. WHS hosted Lincoln on Sept. 12, winning in three games. The Warriors are unrated this week, after losing to
O’Gorman in five games a week ago. Lincoln is also unrated. Tonight will be Lincoln’s “Think Pink” game, as Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to an end today. Coach Kelly Schroeder said he is excited for the game. “It is always fun to play Lincoln,” Schroeder said. “It is a big rivalry. No matter what the records are, it’s always an
intense game.” Senior setter Hailey Olsen said she is looking forward to the match-up tonight. “With this being our second to last regular season game, it adds to the excitement of playing Lincoln, and it always helps to have a big student section,” Olsen said. Warrior fans are expected to wear lots of orange and black in honor of Halloween tonight.
Over 700 books overdue to end first quarter By Daniel Slaven The WHS Library has over 700 overdue books out, as the first quarter comes to an end this week, and would like them
returned now. In order to reduce printing, the library is not planning to run overdue library notices this year. Instead, they will e-mail a list
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Teacher published in second poetry anthology book Jamin Ratzlaff included in “Trees in this Neighborhood Remember Me” By Seth Benson Last year’s staff Spirit of Washington award winner, WHS English teacher Jamin Ratzlaff, has parlayed his success at WHS into publishing success. Ratzlaff was recently published in another anthology poetry book, “Trees in this Neighborhood Remember Me,” now available on Amazon for $20. This is the second poetry anthology book Feature Ratzlaff has been published in. His first, “Thunderstorm,” was published in 2013, and contained three of his poems. Ratzlaff said he is humbled to again be published. “They made a call for poetry throughout the United States, so the fact they selected mine was an honor,” Ratzlaff said. His most recently published poem is called “9” and is about pheasant hunting with his dad. They could always find a pheasant
on Highway 9, Ratzlaff explained. Ratzlaff started writing short stories and poetry in high school simply because he enjoyed it. Then, when his father, former WHS counselor Jim Ratzlaff, passed away he started writing more therapeutically. Ratzlaff mostly writes about his dad and the memories they made outdoors. He enjoys being able to write by example for his students, not just lecturing the whole day. Ratzlaff said he has had a lot of good writing teachers along the way, both at Whittier Middle School and here at WHS, and he hopes to continue that tradition in his own classroom as he teaches American Literature and Composition. Ratzlaff said he hopes he has the opportunity to get published again soon. “The more I write, the more it gets focused on outdoor activities—fishing and hunting,” he said. “I hope these types of publications pick up my work.”
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History.com (MCT) On Oct. 31, 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approached the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called “indulgences” for the forgiveness of sins.
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Photo by Fred Reiner IN THE TREES—English teacher Jamin Ratzlaff distributed copies of “Trees in this Neighborhood Remember Me” to friends and family recently at Coffea Roasterie on Arrowhead Parkway in Sioux Falls.
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Luther’s frustration with this practice led him to write the 95 Theses, which were quickly snapped up, translated from Latin into German and distributed widely. A copy made its way to Rome, and efforts began to convince Luther to change his tune. He refused to keep silent, however, and in 1521 Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church. That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany, who issued the famous Edict of Worms declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and giving permission for anyone to kill him without consequence. Protected by Prince Frederick, Luther began working on a German translation of the Bible, a task that took 10 years to complete. The term “Protestant” first appeared in 1529 when a number of princes and other supporters of Luther issued a protest, declaring that their allegiance to God trumped their allegiance to the emperor. They became known to their opponents as Protestants; gradually this name came to apply to all who believed the Church should be reformed, even those outside Germany. By the time Luther died, of natural causes, in 1546, his revolutionary beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation, which would over the next three centuries revolutionize Western civilization.
