CAPITAL  HIGH  SCHOOL Volume  46,  Issue  6April  20,  2012

Editor  In  Chief:  Brenna  Patrick Assistant   Editors:   Jonathan   Reff     and   Devin   Ramey

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A very ‘entertaining’ sports assembly week

Novelist visits CapitalSarah Tregay talks about how she published her

book ‘Love and Leftovers’

BPA Prevails!Buisness  students  win  

competition

Emily LundquistNews Editor

PHOTO BY CLAUDIA RAZO

New SAT test requirement helps students ‘get on the road to college’

NHS inducts new members with Miss Idaho as special guest

PHOTO BY TODD NUTTING

Jonathan ReffSports Editor

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    Junior   Jonah   Link  -­

Link had fun with the assembly and said, “The organizing portion went really well, but we had situations where we had

to make little adjust-ments. I think the school was really involved which made it fun for everybody there.” “My favorite part was

because you’re in com-plete control for a good 50 minutes,” Link said. All the students in Student Council were required to dress up for Spirit Week, and Link

said his favorite day

because, “I got to wear my new hunting jacket.” Link said he loves Student Council and plans on doing the class again next year. “It really gets you in-volved in the school and you can do whatever you want to make the year one that you will never forget,” said Link.

   

   

Brenna PatrickEditor- in- Chief

Eighty-two students were inducted into the Larry S. Sand-meyer Chapter of the National Honor Society on April 6. Fourteen seniors, 15 juniors, and 53 sopho-mores entered the prestigious society in the CHS auditorium. “The governing board did a really good job of setting it up. I loved it,” said chap-ter co-advisor and li-brarian Susan Nickel. The ceremony be-gan with Principal Jon Ruzicka making a re-mark on how this event is what he looks for-ward to as a principal. Chapter co-advisor and German teacher Jamie Gilderhus gave the acknowledgments, then senior member Sam Johnson and se-nior inductee Connor Heikkila opened up the actual ceremony. Senior Katy Jekich spoke of the history of the National Honor So-ciety. After that junior Malcolm Tencate intro-

On the evening of Apr. 17 the janitorial staff moved 425 desks from the downstairs class-rooms into the auxiliary gym. On Apr. 18 every junior entered the gym

Idaho SAT School

school juniors the op-portunity to get on the

road to college by tak-ing a free, in school, college entrance exam. This is in accordance with a new gradua-tion requirement from

-partment of Education that requires juniors take a college entrance exam. The State Board of Education has cho-sen the SAT exam. College Board Vice President James Mon-toya said, “College is

-cial investment, and doing well on the SAT is one way to maxi-mize that life-time in-vestment. When used in combination with high school grades, the SAT is the most

year college success.” The actual test is di-vided into sections in-cluding reading, mathe-matics and writing skills students learn in their

high school coursework.

took  the  test  on  the  18th  

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if   you   don’t   have   the  

       The  Idaho  State  De-­partment   of   Education  

SAT   scores   are   used   in  the  admission  process  at  

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-­versities   in   the   North-­

SAT   scores   are   the  

and  Utah  State  Univer-­

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ated as the result of a 2007 Idaho state law that created new gradu-ation requirements to ensure more students graduated from high school prepared to go on to postsecondary education, according

-ment of Education.

 

duced the guest speak-er who was a former Miss Idaho and Capital High School graduate of the class of 2007, Genevieve Nutting. Nutting spoke about her experience in NHS, her high school years and where she was to-day because of NHS. “I think it’s exciting to see all the students that showed up and how dedicated they are to their school and to their studies,” Nutting said. “I loved how ev-eryone had such high energy and was very

supportive of one an-other,” Nutting said. Nickel gave recognition of service for the NHS. Juniors Theresa Konecni, Emilie Kel-ley, Christina Wilmot and senior Conner Smith presented the NHS principles. Kel-ley spoke of scholar-ship, Wilmot, service; Konecni, leadership; and Smith, character. Senior inductee Ju-liette Mukuna showed the emblem of NHS

recited the NHS pledge. Wilmot, Jekich, and

senior inductee Romaric Mukuna presented the

-bers that had met all their requirements. Kelley and Konecni also pre-sented the membership cards for new members. “I’ve done a lot of stuff with my church for lead-ership and community service. I hope to get out of National Honor Soci-ety friends who will like to do good things as well as I do, and gain a bet-ter sense of the National Honor Society values,” said sophomore in-ductee Andrew Welker.

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PHOTO BY CLAUDIA RAZO

Sophomores Julia Weyn, Mikahala Waters, Corrin Seidman, and Evan Wesphal join former

Capital student and former Miss Idaho, Genevieve Nutting, at the NHS induction ceremony.

on April 6th