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ON THE COVER: Snow coats the Boulder Valley (ELI BOONIN-VAIL).

Sneakers, athletic clothing, a calculator, and graph paper. Odd combination of objects to bring to a single class, right? For a group of 29 freshman, however, these supplies are necessary to begin their day in a recently pioneered Math-P.E. program at Fairview.

Prior to the first day of school, a group of ninth graders was selected, at random, to par-ticipate in an experimental two-period program that melds together Algebra 1 and Physical Education. This program, the very first of its kind in the district, is an attempt to increase focus and alertness in class, which, by extension, should improve student’s test scores. The motive is to stimulate the brain and help students learn more effectively. The idea of using physical activity to in-crease focus is unique in BVSD.

“There is a lot of research that proves that if you can get a person’s heart rate up for at least 20 min-utes, there is a 2-3 hour period where their brains fo-cuses really well,” said Michael Mowen, the algebra teacher in this program. Rob Vandepol teachers the P.E. portion of that class.

The program was pioneered through collaboration between Vandepol , Mowen, and Assistant Principal Sarah DiGiacomo. According to Mowen, “a lot of support from the administration was a factor that helped Algebra/P.E. class commence.”

Students start the day with about thirty minutes of physical activity. The physical activity involves a lot of games and movement. Then, algebra will be taught for another half hour, which leads to a 5-10 minute “brain break.” This break involves physical activities like juggling or stretching. To finish off, students do another 20-30 minutes of math. This class is two periods long. Algebra/P.E. class provides students with all their Algebra 1 credits as well as 10 P.E. credits, which amounts to two-thirds of the total P.E. credits required to graduate.

This program definitely has its benefits. “The two biggest factors that [Vandepol and I] have seen are optimism and alertness in our classes,” Mowen said, with regards to the results of this program so far. “Students are much more willing to come to class and learn. Test averages are higher than I have ever seen.” On top of the more effective learning style, Mowen added, “It’s just a fun environment.”

However, this program does present some challenges. According to Mowen, there are many scheduling conflicts. The most difficult aspect, however, is probably that having two teachers on the program costs money. FTE (full-time equivalent), a unit to measure whether a person is a full-time worker, is problematic in this project. Especially with budget cuts, it is difficult to have two periods that requires two teachers who only educate 29 students.

Although this class, a rarity in typical course offerings, has some definite drawbacks, it has so far proved to be a positive addition to the schedule. Whether it will continue on the following academic year is yet to be seen.

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FHS introduces intergrated Algebra/PE courseBy SHARONE GOLDMAN

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Halloween is over, and Thanksgiving is on the way. Though it’s only No-vember, Fairview’s administration is already planning classes and putting together course guides for the 2012-13 school year.

In assistant principal Sarah Digiacomo’s office, there is a giant, gridded green board, covered with magnets. The board is sectioned into subject ar-eas, then further divided into periods one through eight in neat rows. This board is the master schedule. Every teacher who instructs at Fairview has their resspot on that wall.

The process of putting courses into that schedule is difficult and carefully organized. Classes are col-or coded on Digiacomo’s board to denote characteristics of a course. For example, a course only offered once in a day is on orange paper, and IB courses are situated in red brackets. This leads to difficulty and conflict in scheduling. For ex-ample, Digiacomo says that when scheduling a “singleton” IB class, “I don’t want to put that against an-other IB class that there’s only one of. Or, I have to make sure that ev-ery kid in there -- in both -- is okay with that.”

Every year, teachers have the option of proposing new courses for Fairview. Teachers propose these based on a need they see within the school curriculum. “Our departments are constantly looking and thinking about what [the students] need for twenty-first century skills,” said Digiacomo.

In order to propose a course to be offered within Fairview, teachers must first find or propose it at a district level. Often, a class already exists in the Boulder Valley School District coursebook.

This book contains the course codes and standards for every class taught in Boulder Valley schools, from special International Baccalaureate codes for Fairview and Centaurus to vocational technology codes for Arapahoe Ridge. If a teacher chooses a code from that book, the class may be inserted

into the Fairview course selection guide. Then, it’s up to the students to sign up.

The process is far more complicated if no class code exists at the district level. If that is the case, a teacher must propose the course to the district,

wwrite a curriculum for the class, and get the curriculum approved by the district. Only then will the class be allocated a course code. This process takes the better part of a year.

This process has been undertaken before by a Fairview teacher. Art instructor Rebecca Feeney wrote Fairview’s popular Digital Art and Design course,

which now has four scheduled sec-tions of level one and one of level two.

Fairview’s course list may expand this next year. Along with Math PE (which is a concurrent Algebra 1 and Comprehensive PE curriculum), business and technology teacher Danso Gymarah is overseeing a stu-dent attempt to start a video game programming course. “If we get the numbers, we’ll try to make it hap-pen,” he said.

Gymarah is also looking to start a course that he calls “publishing.”

The class would work with various media, including video editing, digital music, and design software.

In order to add courses to the schedule, however, other courses must of-ten be sacrificed. Fairview only can offer so many total classes a year, limited by the number of teachers at the school. “If we decide out of nowhere that we want to add basketweaving, something has to come down so that bas-ketweaving can go up,” said Digiacomo.

With these courses, and more in the future, Fairview works to continue offering a diverse and relevant curriculum. “We need to look at our existing courses and put the filter of the twenty-first century graduate on them,” concludes Digiacomo.

Teachers hope to add new classes to BVSD coursebook

Master schedule hanging in Mrs. Digiacomo’s office (LEO LEONG).

By ELIANA GOLDSTEIN

Fundrasing for English Teacher Paul Bursiek’s daughter is a suc-By KATIE STEEN AND MATT SPARKMAN

Fairview Friends Foundation has organized a series of fundraisers in conjunction with student council to raise between $3,500 and $5,000 for Language Arts teacher and Fairview alumnus Paul Bursiek’s daughter.

Kyla Bursiek was born three months premature in Salvador, Brazil. She weighed 1 pound 4 ounces, about the same weight as four sticks of butter. Kyla was born with cerebral palsy, and she spent four months in the hospital before coming home to her family.

She is now eight years old, and is attending first grade. She needs a walker to get around, but she likes meeting new people and loves life. Kyla’s mo-bility would be greatly increased if she had the help of a service dog, however, the costs are up to 5,000 dollars.

The dog that the Bursieks are hoping to receive is named Roy and he is a loving golden retriever/black lab mix. “Fairview Friends has been kind enough to organize fundraising for a service dog,” says Paul Bursiek. The Bursiek family is in the pro-cess of applying for a dog through Canine Partners of the Rockies, a training-intensive program that trains and sells guide dogs and service dogs for peo-

ple with all types of disabilities. Fairview Friends Foundation was founded in

2003 by Fairview alumni hoping to make a differ-ence through small acts of kindness like gift bas-kets. Now it is a large, influential organization with four directors and a board of 17 ambassadors who are all Fairview alumni. Fairview Friends has a mis-sion: “to reach out to families and individuals in need, in an effort to provide assistance, lift spirits, and create an extended network of support and friendship during times of hardship and challenge.”

Student council has made it a goal for this year to raise money for the Bursiek family. The fund-raising has ranged from small, one dollar fees to enter a pumpkin carving contest, to bigger events like the Halloween-themed Zombie Breakfast at Applebee’s on Saturday, October 29th. They have also been attempting to integrate the efforts of Fairview Friends into the Fairview community in-stead of leaving it as a separate and distantly related foundation.

Josh Brown, a senior in student council, has taken on this project and had a goal to earn all of the money by the end of the first semester. Brown organized a booth through Boulder Creek Events

that sold beverages at the Boulder Hometown Fair and raised $500 for Kyla Bursiek. The volunteers worked for eight hours a day for three days in order to raise the money.

Largely thanks to the generosity of private do-nors, mostly alumni and some current students, they have reached their goal and plan to present the Bursiek family with enough money to buy Roy and then give the left over proceeds to another good cause. They are even considering giving it to clubs who are struggling due to the recent bake sale ban, says Head Girl Evey Nash. According to An-gela Karami, a senior helping with the fundraising, Student Council has raised $4,275 for Kyla. This includes the breakfast, personal checks and dona-tions, and money raised by a fundraiser earlier this year. “Our original target was $3,500 so it feels great to have raised that much and more,” says Karami.

Now the Bursieks will have enough money to get Kyla her dream dog, and with a month and a half left in the semester. The speed and efficiency of this fundraising is something to be admired, and as Josh Brown says, “it’s a testament to the strength of the Fairview community.”

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ROyal BannERThursday, November 10, 2011

Agape. This Greek term has not

changed my relationships all that drastically. However, it certainly has changed my at-titude toward relationships

and the way I look at other people. I believe it is a word and an atti-

tude more of us should live by. Agape (pronounced ah-

gah-pay) signifies unconditional love. It describes an untouchable kindness, an ability to put another above oneself regardless of anything positive or negative that person has done. It is an unfailing love that persists through our greatest failures, our greatest heartbreak, and our greatest pain. It overcomes jealousy, vengeance, enmity, and grief.

And the funny thing is that we can never truly imple-ment full agape love into any of our rela-tionships. It is too perfect for us mis-take-prone and judg-mental people to grasp, let alone use with other people.

However, there is one thing we can do. We can try our best to do, to be agape all the time. The great thing about unconditional love is that it applies to everyone—from our siblings to our class-mates to our parents, and yes, even to our enemies.

We can all implement agape love with our friends--the close ones and the not-so-close ones. Often we are tempted, when our friends ditch us, tell us something that hurts, forget about us, don’t include us, or are flat-out mean, to move on to another friend and forget about that person whom we are not happy with. Many times I, when a certain friend wrongs me, say to my-self, “That person is not my real friend. I have better friends than him.” I focus more on spending time and connecting with another friend, who then does some-thing against me, which causes the cycle to repeat over and over. This leaves an emotional void in me, as no one can deliver the support I want from him or her.

However, agape love is all about forgiveness. Situa-tions like the above are like bad memo-ries--you can’t just

ignore them and expect things to fix themselves. You either have to address the problem with that friend and forgive him or her no matter what, or resolve yourself to simply let it go and forgive him or her no matter what. Either way, unconditional love through forgiveness is key.

Here’s another group of people that, if our instincts

guided our actions, we would either avoid forever or curse out if we could get them alone: enemies (including exes). I know what it’s like to go around school and see people who you cannot look at without memories and flashbacks filling your mind. Whether those memories are positive or negative, they sure do hurt and nothing is ever the same again with those people.

That’s where agape steps in. No matter how much our emotions take hold and will us to take revenge or

pout, we all have the strength within us to counter the pain with kindness. Next time you see that friend, that guy, or that girl you’re thinking of right now, try being overly nice to him or her. Not only will this catch the person off guard, but it will also make you feel better, make things less awkward, and make the situation between the two of you more tolerable. Trust me, this one works.

A final group that I think could use some agape love from us high school students is, not so ironically, a group that has given us the greatest amount of unconditional love our whole lives long: our parents. During the stressful, hormonal times of high school, I know and experience as much as anyone the temper flare-ups, ir-

rational anger, seemingly inevitable arguments, and

utter confusion that we feel when dealing with parents. However, if we make the extra effort to not get of-

fended, to control our tempers, and to stay in control not matter what they say to us, we have the chance to give back unconditionally the love our parents give us unconditionally. Then, we can hold such a critical re-lationship together through the toughest periods and value so much more the people that have had our backs

ever since day one. My attempt to

love agape-style has not produced in-stant success and freedom from con-flict in any of my

relationships. However, I do believe it has slowly transformed my relationships and made them stron-ger each day. Why? Because trying hard to love un-conditionally encourages real relationships, peace, for-giveness, and a better attitude about people in general.

Hopefully, readers, one of these examples has brought up a face or two in your mind. We all know those peo-ple we can love better, not because they deserve it but simply because we have the power to love them better.

Agape love. It certainly is a challenge. Will you accept it?

Matt Johnson

Illustration credit: Zoe Polando

A better kind of love for you & me

“The great thing about un-conditional love is that it applies to everyone.”

“Trying to love uncon-ditionally encourages... a better attitude about

“Agape love is all about forgiveness.”

Op/Ed 5ROyal BannERThursday, November 10, 2011

Each year the mornings turn cool and the sky becomes a grey blanket. The trees put on a color show, then litter

their leaves across the earth. Fall is a glorious season on its own, but it is also a transition. Fall provides us with a taste of the bitter cold winter ahead, but reminds us of the warmth of summer that we leave behind. No one can forget fall is here because in each footstep it reminds us of its presence with a crunch of leaves beneath our feet. There are so many fantastic quali-ties that accompany Autumn, but some claim that there are cons and flaws to the season.

Autumn has a special quality that separates it from any other time of year: the carefree and heartwarm-ing activities that last the entire season. Family din-ners, pumpkin carving, and costumes are some of

the many rea-sons autumn brings joy to the vast majority of people. Kat Pepin, junior, said, “I do

not have a favorite season, but Autumn comes with a new wardrobe and good holidays, who doesn’t love Halloween?”

If turkeys and Halloween are not enough then the vast plethora of colors will be. Spring has its flowers, winter has snow, and summer has sun, but Autumn establishes a touch of both dark, luminous, bright, and vibrant beauties.

When leaves grow tired of their original color they transcend and become a new ex-otic color easy on the eye. Walking down a neighborhood street becomes an extravagant sight of hundreds of leaves, each a piece of a painting coloring the ground and clingy fragile to the grey branches. Some are red, yellow, green, soft, crunchy, or a combination of two colors at once. The only minor flaw is that it does not last and soon the small leaves depart their home on the branch and swiftly drop to the ground. But how could one consider this a flaw when it is all part of the elegant process.? This exposes a naked tree that shed it leaves revealing twisted branches extending from a rough trunk.

Some could argue that autumn’s cool, wispy air is too cold and it is a season for the indoors. A light pull over or thin jacket is an easy fix to this problem. Autumn has many outdoor activi-ties worth the chill. Trick or treating, corn mazes, haunted houses, and pumpkin picking are some of the best outdoor thrills offered and they are all crowded into Autumn.

Plentiful, warm dinners, hot chocolate, and movies are excellent indoor choices for the sea-son. Thanksgiving is one excuse to go overboard on food and have a party. If it gets too cold then stay in-side with some friends or fam-ily and play a game or watch a movie.

Many con-sider Autumn their favorite season like me, but many also despise the odd weather, and say that there are clutters of leaves that must be raked up. Leaves certainly are not a noticeable hassle compared to the beauty they dis-play. Raking leaves does not take long and they ac-cent the dull grass below. Alex Newhouse, ju-nior, says “I like winter better because it has more snow”, but others said that they enjoy warmer and sunnier weather. If only there was a season that was not too cold or too warm but perfectly balanced to suit everyone...wait we do have that wondrous sea-son its called Autumn! Instead of scorching in the blinding sun, or trudging through horrific bundles of snow, Autumn has a perfect integration of cool air, and some sun. If you think about it how many seasons have two names you would never call Sum-mer hot time, or Winter cold time, or Spring rainy time, but you can call this season Autumn or Fall. A season so nice it had to be named twice.

Many people are neutral about Autumn, I guess I can accept that. Mrs.

Edbrooke, teacher, exclaimed that Au-tumn has “football and leaves, but Colorado Autumn is not real Au-tumn not like the east coast.”

It only comes once a year, Autumn, the op-

timal fusion of everything perfect for just a short time. Rather than com-plain about leaves, enjoy them. Rather than whine about the cold, pick a plump pumpkin, get scared at a haunted house, or just

open your eyes and take a walk down the street. For me the only flaw that Autumn has is be-ing too short and not allowing us to partake in every ac-tivity, or see every sight it has to offer.

Thank you Autumn for shedding leaves from trees, making strangers hand out delicious candy, and smack-ing a smile on my face year after year.

“The trees put on a col-or show, then litter their leaves across the earth.”

“When leaves grow tired of their original color they transcend and be-come a new exotic color easy on the eye.”

By Saverone Ammann

“It only comes once a year, Autumn, the opti-mal fusion of everything perfect for just a short time.”

“Autumn has many out-door activities worth the chill. Trick or treating, corn mazes, haunted houses, and pumpkin picking are some of the best outdoor thrills...”

Snow melts on leafs as autumn marches towards winter (SAVARONE AMMANN).

The best season for many reasons

Leaves change from green to a vibrant red (SAVARONE AMMANN).

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BROMANCESBy PAIGE REISMAN, MEGAN DEBRUYN, AND RACHEL JOYCE

BROMENTS

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Junior class bros Jack Mayfield and Charlie Bowers have known each other since they were six years old, although it began to heat up a little in the 8th grade when they began to hang out daily. Charlie, who rates his bro a ten on being a wing-man, knows everything about Jack; from his obsession with his PS3 to how much he can bench press. Ac-cording to Jack, girls are not an issue in this bromance--nothing can come between these best buds.

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These best bros of nearly eight years share more than just a secret code of hand motions and the favorite color red. These freshman got nearly half of their questions right, and luckily are looking forward to three more years of high school in which they can get to know the little things - such as the colors of each other’s tooth-brushes.

Matt Koch and Brady Hill have played on multiple sports teams together and gotten to know each other very well over the past few years. The two share a common celebrity crush of Megan Fox; but even this mega-babe superstar could never break up this bromance. Al-though they were a little rusty on the random trivia ques-tions they were faced with, they proceeded to hug it out and ac-cept defeat together.

4th place: BRADY HILL & MATT KOCH

This game, reminiscent of the Newlywed Game, tested just how well each bro knew each other’s strangest personal secrets. Here’s how it worked: To avoid cheating, the bros of each bromance were separated, and each bro got a quiz containing 5 personal questions and a bonus question. After filling out their questionnaire, each bro was then quizzed on the other’s written answers. Each bromance got the same two tests, and the same opportunity at matching answers. The bromance with the most matches was proclaimed the winner.

Urbanictionary.com Definition:Bromance (N.) Describes the compli-cated love and affection shared by two straight males.

Photos: (from left to right) Davis Wheeler and Max Buster, Juniors (MEGAN DEBRUYN)Tyler Boelts and Michael Doliner, Juniors (LORIN LITNER); Luke Miller and Johnny Feauto, Freshmen (MARI JEWELL)

winners: BEN BULOW & NICK NASKY

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Senior Nick Nasky arrived to his interview a few minutes late, smiling and clutching a bag of Mexican food in his hand. He waved to his bro, Ben Bulow, and yelled “I got you Taco Bell!” The two shared a long embrace and Ben proceeded to eat the second half of the deliciously greasy quesadilla. This is just one of many bromantic moments between the two. Nick Nasky and Ben Bulow have been friends for a long time and, it seems, it was bro at first sight. They have known each other since the beginning of freshman year, but didn’t become bro’s until sophomore year when

they bonded over various types of inap-propriate jokes. Ben and Nick spend large amounts of time together, as

they are both outside backers on the varsity football team. Their relation-ship, however, goes much deeper than that. “I like Nick because he is a great guy to talk to” Ben said affec-tionately. “And I like Ben because he has great hair. We like looking into each other’s eyes for long periods of time.” Ben and Nick’s favorite pass times include coping with problems, long walks on the beach and interpre-

Thursday, November 10, 2011Royal BanneRIn-Depth 1a

Whatever happened to the Medieval Bean?

An investigation of nutrition policy and the students it affects

“It was like an at-tack. There was no sense of coordina-tion, no sense of teamwork, or really anything that you might expect from professionals.”

2a In-Depth 3aRoyal BanneRThursday, November 10, 2011

Royal BanneRThursday, November 10, 2011

Ban on bake sales creates climate of fear, mistrust Tyler Owen, one of the managers of Fairview’s coffee cart, is clearly upset.

The Fairview Buisiness Club is still 4,000 dollars in debt after purchasing a cof-fee cart last year for the top of the building, and he’s just been told by BVSD food services that they’ll need to close up shop.

Of course, within two weeks the coffee cart will be back open, but Owen has no way of knowing this as he sweats in his seat while giving an interview in the library. “It’s not done.” he says with defiant desperation, “We won’t let it just end like this. I suppose that there’s a slight chance that it could just be over. The district could fight us tooth and nail on every single argument we make, but we’re going to keep pushing the district to allow us to have this back. We would practically beg.” His rhetoric is fiery, and it speaks of the months upon months of concession to the district that the cart has faced.

Two years ago, Owen, then a sophomore, collaborated with several other stu-dents in FBC to create a presentation to BVSD Food Services on the benefits of caffeine. Fairview High School had hosted a coffee cart several years beforehand, but it had been shut down due to its selling of beverages containing caffeine, a violation of the BVSD’s Healthy Food Guidelines. The project gained approval through an FBC-backed petition and the cart operated without interference for the last three months of the the 2010-2011 school year.

But when the cart came back at the start of this year, its benevolent relation-ship with the district seemed to have vanished.

“It took us a couple of weeks just to get up and running because of all the health issues we were having with the district,” said Owen. “The minute school started we had meetings, I met personally with [FBC supervisor] Mr. Holland and said, ‘OK, we need to get this thing up and running’ and he agreed. But the problem was trying to meet regulations and standards, things which at the time we were completely unprepared to meet.”

One of the cart’s other managers, Junior Chad Rachubinski, said that it was clear from the start of the school year the the district’s standards were going to be far more stringent than in the cart’s first year. “When they [BVSD Food Services] shut down bake sales, we were worried because we’re also a club and the coffee cart is essentially a bake sale that we run every day,” he said. “We did end up getting permission from the district to have our operation open, but we were still kind of on our toes.” This concern only grew when the district began to curb the cart’s hours to keep the cart out of competition with the school’s lunch program.

Uninformed of any violations, the Medi-eval Bean had been operating sans district regulation for the three months it was open last year. The Colorado Department of Edu-cation’s Competitive Food Policy mandates that all food services run by school-approved organizations cease operations 30 minutes before any lunch periods, and resume 30 minutes after them. The Bean had been go-ing at all hours of the day, with its best hours coming during lunch time.

In addition, most of the Bean’s sales were of caffeinated items, which were explicitly banned from sale in any BVSD school in a 2007 guideline. When the Bean reopened at the beginning of this year, compliance with regulation sharply curtailed its sales. Having been forced to drop their hottest commod-ity and key hours, the students running the coffee cart thought that the worst was over and that they would simply have to adapt to current circumstances. Then, after a month of rocky business, Food Services temporarily closed the Bean for overclocking hours.

The FBC, however, had no idea that this was temporary.Fueled by frustration regarding the banning of bake sales, rumors spread of

fighting the BVSD through petition. Food Services Director Ann Cooper be-came a commonplace name and subsequent scapegoat. In the immediate after-math, the future of the coffee cart looked grim. “We didn’t know if it was going to be able to be reopened,” said Rachubinski. “We didn’t know what we would

have to do to get it reopened, and as it turns out it was much more simple than we thought.”

One of the Medieval Bean’s primary service operators, Senior Ishika Sinha, attributes some of the hysteria that followed in the two weeks that the coffee cart was closed to the cart’s financial position. “We haven’t paid off our cart yet,” she said. “Last year some part of the cart broke so we had to take out a loan to pay for a new one. We haven’t paid off that loan yet.” In addition, the cart was the primary way for the FBC to teach buisiness principals to its members. Its absence severely curtailed the club’s business practice.

Greg Holland, the FBC’s supervisor, was openly frustrated with the Food Ser-vice’s handling of the cart. “Nobody approached me,” he said, “nobody said ‘can we just talk to the advisor? We can just work this out.’ That didn’t happen. It was like an attack. There was no sense of coordination, no sense of teamwork, or really anything that you might expect from professionals.” He attributed much of the club’s frustrated reaction to the way that the BVSD treated the cart’s shutting down.

This frustration and fear was motivated by prior incidents. The coffee cart’s closure was not a stand-alone occurrence at Fairview High School, but rather a part of a large sequence of events related to nutrition regulation, the start of which was the ban of bake sales at the beginning of the school year. As The Royal Banner reported last month, the recent enforcement of a district-wide ban on bake sales at Fairview High School has had a drastic effect on student-run organizations. Having relied heavily on the funds that bake sales provided in previous years, clubs have found few safety nets in the absence of their prime moneymaker.

That’s why, when told that they would have to close their coffee cart, the members of FBC were worried to say the least. With a looming debt and their primary way of paying it off seemingly denied from them, FBC feared its coffee cart would go the way of bake sales, and their club the way of the clubs who rely on bake sales.

This fear was largely justified, as the Bean had been put under an intense amount of scrutiny in the weeks leading up to its clos-ing. District management had been higher than the year previ-ously, Ann Cooper was person-ally on hand to observe the cart’s violation of hours and shut it down. The cart was ultimately shut down because it had been opened 20 minutes earlier than it was supposed to in the 30 minute time period after lunch hours end.

This scrutiny has been a recurring theme throughout the school year with regards to dis-trict management of Fairview food sales. The IB store and treasurer’s office, both of which oper-ated similar food sales as the coffee cart, were also shut down by the district for failing to comply. The issue with these services, however, was not hours. The stores’ proprietors had simply failed to provide the BVSD Food Services with an inven-tory list. “Everybody in the school needs to pro-vide a list of all the things that they sell and if they don’t do it they get shut down,” said Fairview IB Coordinater Darren Bessett, who helped manage the IB store. “Apparently we didn’t do it.

However, neither store knew that such a list was a requirement, and were taken by surprise when they were shut down. “Had we known in advance, we certainly would have complied.,” said Bessett. “The first knowledge that I had of our need to provide a list [of inventory] came on the

day we were shut down.”The IB store has been in operation since 1997, and has had no trouble from

the district regarding either its hours or its products (both of which, it turns out, were in violation of BVSD policy) until this year. Both the store and the treasurer’s office were cited for selling Arizona Iced Tea, which has nutritional content that fails to comply with several BVSD limits. Strangely enough, Bes-sett said the Starbucks iced coffees which the IB store previously sold were not singled out by the Food Service’s report.

Unlike the coffee cart, both the IB store and the treasurer’s office have had few problems with reopening, going through the process of recording and send-ing their inventory to Food Services in just three days. This can be attributed to the fact that the stores are run by adults who keep in regular contact with, or are otherwise involved with, school administration, rather than by volunteer students whose time and comitment is limited by schedules. The IB store is supported and staffed by a large pool of IB program parents, whose primary concern is supporting the continued funding of the IB program. “Our purchaser had a nice list,” said Besset. “She provided the information to the district very quickly.”

While the IB store and treasurer’s office were able to gather an inventory list for the BVSD and confirm reopening in a matter of days, the process took the FBC a whole two weeks, dur-ing which frustration, fear and miscommunica-tion within the club threatened to damage the club’s determination to reopen. Eyes widened, falsehoods circulated, and blood boiled. Before the coffee cart’s inventory had actually been sent in, several students in the FBC had orga-nized a meeting with Ann Cooper, thinking the only way to get the cart reopened was to meet face to face. In the actual process of reopening, not a single member of the student body was able to speak with Cooper.

Though the FBC’s own fears regarding the fate of the Medieval Bean were ultimately unnecessary, they’re indicative of the growing tension within Fairview High School re-garding sales of sugary foods. Up until this year, district policy on bake sales had no effect on Fair-view students. This can be at-tributed to a laissez-faire mental-ity that Fairview administration took to district policy regarding nutrition in previous years. “The

noncompetitive policy has always been in place, that’s not a new policy,” said Fairview principal Donald Stensrud. “Enforcement of the policy has been, at most high schools, somewhat lax.” The process of enforcement came suddenly and quickly, with little warning given to the staff, let alone the student body.

Fairview’s grand nutritional overhaul can be traced to an audit conducted by the Colorado Department of Education Nu-trition Unit on the Boulder Valley School District in late at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. The audit anonymously assessed the nutritional stan-dards of several BVSD schools, among them Fairview. “CDE allegedly visited Fairview,” said Stensrud, “I use the word ‘allegedly’ because they never made contact with anybody on the administrative team. I have no record of them signing into the building.”

The audit found several compliance issues with BVSD nutrition regarding both content and hours of food sales, and motivated many of the severe changes that Fairview students may have felt this year, specifically in regards to bake sales.

Many, but not all.Ann Cooper became the director of BVSD Food Service in 2008, a good two

years before the CDE’s nutritional audit. That year, the Food Services program produced the BVSD Nutrition Services Feasibility Study, which foreshadowed a change from what she viewed as a less adequate “Wellness Policy” that had been in place beforehand. The study outlined a comprehensive plan of action for restructuring nutritional policy and process in the district, emphasizing re-stricting school diets to healthy foods and salad bars over what it calls an “a la carte” system of unhealthy choice that could be found in the “snack lines” of previous school years.

But the high schools in the district, Fairview included, were slow to adapt. Though the salad bar was successfully implemented, a la carte persisted, con-tinuing to give students the option to eat unhealthy food if they wanted to. Coo-

per saw that unhealthy selection would stay a certitude at BVSD high schools unless drastic changes were implemented.

Using the backlash from the 2010 audit as motivation, Cooper moved early this year to crack down on unregulated non-district food services in Fairview and other schools, closing bake sales at Fairview once and for all in the pro-cess. The district tasked Cooper with enforcing its Healthy Foods Initiative, which aims for emphasizing a garden-to-plate mentality through elimination of snack lines. “She has her beliefs about what food services should be and how nutritional services should be within the district,” explained Stensrud. “Her be-

liefs are not entirely reflected by the Healthy Food Initiative, because that came into being prior to her becoming director, but it’s her job to enforce these policies, and that’s what she’s done.”

Jane Brand, the director of the Colorado Department of Education’s Nutrition Unit, sympathizes with Cooper’s course of action. “Nutrition activity can mean many different things,” she said. “Ann’s role as a Food Ser-vice Director is to ensure compliance with federal and state regulation regarding the federal Child Nutrition Programs that are operated in BVSD.”

Seeing it as a means of getting kids to eat the healthier options now being imple-mented in school lunches, the Food Services program is attempting to shepherd the stu-dents of BVSD into the cafeteria. However, if establishments like the Medieval Bean were available to Fairview students during lunch hours, achieving this would be practi-cally impossible. Stensrud notes that school stores aren’t just Fairview specific. “Mon-arch, Broomfield, Centarus, Boulder. Every-body has a school store,” he said. “Everyone has a violation.” As a 2008 progress report included in The Nutrition Services Feasibil-ity Study puts it: “with so many choices, of-ten the choice or combination of choices [of students] will be poor.” Elimination of bake sales and restriction of other non-cafeteria food services are ways of getting rid of such “choices.”

Of course, with an open campus policy at the high school level, this attempt to strong-arm students becomes practically futile.

Many students will opt to simply leave the building and find unhealthy food elsewhere rather than stay at school and eat cafeteria food.

Federally, the 1988 National School Lunch Program requires state level agen-cies and school food authorities to “establish rules or regulations as are neces-sary to control the sale of foods in competition with lunches served under the Program.” This includes preventing the sale of competitive food in a “food ser-vice area” during the period at which students eat their lunches. Failure to do so results, as so many educational policies insist, in cuts in federal funding.

While the hours of competitive food service are indeed restricted at a state level, there is nothing requiring a total ban on bake sales in the Competitive Foodservice Policy. Though the auditors may have made comments regarding the nutritional content of food sold at BVSD schools, it is unlikely that they requested a halt to bake sales. Cooper and the Food Service’s policies are more restrictive than what the CDE Nutrition Unit calls for, even in regards to the reopened coffee cart. Colorado’s Rules for the Administration of the Healthy Beverages Policy makes no restrictions regarding caffeine, a substance which the BVSD has banned since 2007, before Cooper even became director.

Yet all the same, districts throughout the state have reacted to CDE policy with similarly strict policy. Former Fairview administrator James Butterfield says he finds BVSD policy consistent with what’s happened at his current high school, Niwot in the St. Vrain district, which has also enforced a ban on bake sales. “I believe these guidelines are at the State and Federal level, and it is up to each district to set policies in place to comply with them,” he said. “Since we don’t have bake sales, and Fairview is experiencing a ban, Continued on page 4a

By Eli Boonin-Vail

An assortment of beverages located in the IB store (ELI BOONIN-VAIL).

Students are able to buy food items at the IB store located on the

bricks (ELI BOONIN-VAIL).

From page 2a/3a it does seem that we are similar across the two districts.”

Brand agrees that Cooper’s reforms have been in keep-ing with trends all across the state. “There are a grow-ing number of districts that appear to be moving toward scratch cooking and focus on whole and fresh products,” she said. “As well as an interest in purchasing locally from farmers.”

Fear of both federal and state level fiscal rep-rimands has al-lowed the district to tighten nutri-tional standards. This tightening has taken Fairview High School, and its many student-run programs, by storm. Cooper’s anti-a la carte poli-cies, while appro-priate for elemen-tary and middle schools, may simply not be one size fits all. A survey of 70 Fairview students conducted by The Royal Banner shows that, even given the option of improved cafeteria food, a full 94% would rather leave campus to get lunch if there were no options like bake sales, the coffee cart, or the IB store available during lunch hours. An appropriate dietary confinement for a third grader may not be suitable for an eleventh grader. “A high school kid should have the choice to say, ‘yeah, today really all I want is a bagel,’” said Sten-srud. “My belief is that high school kids will make good choices. Boulder is not by any stretch of the imagination an obese community. Kids can eat healthy here.”

Strictness from the district has, within recent memory,

been overcome at a high school level. Many students at Fairview remember that BVSD web filters were once far more restrictive in the school building. This was because the web standards set by the district were applicable to all schools at all levels of education. Fairview students took initiative to challenge district standards on this policy, and

now the technology policies regarding high schools within BVSD are far more lenient than those for el-ementary and middle schools. “The most powerful movements I see in the school, and I’ve been doing

this for a long time, is when students bring up the is-sue,” said Stensrud.

Ultimately, the fate of bake sales and other food services at Fairview will rest in the students’ hands. Though the Food Services’ actions this year have cre-ated an obvious frustration, they have only been put in motion out of reaction to larger forces at work at the state and federal level. Whether or not Food Ser-vices will be able to manage flexible nutritional policy

hinges not only on the student and administration objec-tion, but also on ability to comply and adapt with neces-sary measures.

Holland summarized his, and the FBLA’s, experiences and frustrations with the district through a criticism not of how events played out in regards to the coffee cart, but in regards to what happened with the bake sales. “If you want to have guidelines and you want them enforced, then you have to show some organized effort to enforce them,” he said. “Maybe if they want people to follow the guide-lines, it would benefit the food services department to come and educate people about them. That way everyone could actually be in the know and do the right thing.”

In-Depth4a Royal BanneRThursday, November 10, 2011

Ann Cooper, the current BVSD Director of Nutri-tion Services, has dedicated her ca-reer to improving Americans’ health and diets.

After graduating from the Ameri-can Culinary Institute, Cooper worked as a professional chef for years, receiving acknowledgements from “The New Yorker,” “The New York Times,” and other major media sources. Cooper has also authored 4 books, acted as president of The American Culinary Federation of Central Vermont and served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Na-tional Organic Standards Board.

Cooper’s mission to transform school lunches began in the late 90’s, when she became the self-proclaimed “Renegade Lunch Lady.” Cooper began her work on school lunch reform at a small private school in New York, then continued at University of California at Berke-ley, and finally here in Boulder.

The list of foods Cooper ousted at Berkeley includes high fructose corn syrup, processed and frozen foods and vending machine snacks (foods that are slowly disappearing from Boulder Valley schools as well).

Through her Food Family Farm-ing Foundation, a nonprofit orga-nization whose mission is “To pro-vide tools that enable all schools, parents, advocates, students, ad-ministrators, teachers and food ser-vice staff to progress from serving highly processed, unhealthy food to serving fresh, scratch-cooked food,” (according to the organiza-tion’s website) Cooper launched two programs: The Lunch Box and Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools.

The Lunch Box website is an “on-line toolkit” with which one can build a personal school lunch sched-ule using the healthy recipes on the website.

Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools gives schools the opportunity to ap-ply for grants (funded by donations) to start their own salad bars. So far, 921 salad bars have been granted, ac-cording the organization’s website.

Cooper’s goal of making the pres-ence of healthful foods in school cafeterias commonplace rather than the exception to an unhealthy norm has been evident throughout her ca-reer, and now it continues here in Boulder.

Loss of bake sales creates issues among students

By Ella Jenak

Above, BVSD Food Services Direc-

tor Ann Cooper (CHEFFANN.COM).

Left, The FBC’s Midieval Bean,

which Food Services temporarily

shut down (ELI BOONIN-VAIL).

“Renegade” FoodServices Director has history of policy change

Student Life 11RoyaL BanneRThursday, November 10, 2011

Net Zero Club is an environmental group that aims to make Fairview a green-er school by reducing its carbon and waste footprint. Senior member Jennifer Zhu says, “We just try to make the community greener, starting with the Fair-view community.”In 2008, the year of its founding, Net Zero worked to make Fairview “green” by planting 59 trees on school grounds with the help of 150 student volunteers. The trees have made a lasting impact, as they are estimated to absorb 2,800 pounds of carbon every year. Another of the club’s accomplishments is reducing the amount of trash pro-duced at school. “We’ve increased our recycling by 64% by using stations which is when you put trash cans and recycling all in one place so that people don’t have to walk the extra feet to re-cycle,” said Zhu. According to the EPA, the changes made to the school’s waste management practices by Net Zero divert 260 cubic yards of waste from the landfill annually. Last March, the Net Zero Club members were acknowledged for their hard work when they won the President’s Environmental Youth Award for their positive influence on Fairview’s carbon footprint.This year, the club’s main focus is “the bag issue,” a part of Boulder’s Zero Waste Master Plan. The Boulder City Council is considering imposing a fee on using plastic and paper bags in grocery stores, something Net Zero is push-ing for.According to the Daily Camera, the Boulder City Council can choose between three options: impose a fee on all plastic and paper bags, ban all plastic bags, or ban plastic bags and put a fee on paper bags.Net Zero is addressing the “bag issue” by speaking at City Council meetings almost twice a month (since April). The club is in favor of placing a ban on

single use plastic shopping bags and a fee on single use paper bags.Besides lobbying for the ban of plastic bags, this year Net Zero hopes to make changes to the Fairview library. “We’re trying to write a grant to expand the library,” says club adviser Kris Moe, “because right now it only has 36 books on the environment and 6 of them are over 30 years old.” Moe hopes an increase in the library’s book selection will motivate Fairview students to learn more about the environment and newer books will be much more relevant to our current environmental crisis.

This year Net Zero received the Gen-erationOn (an organization that partners with schools to give kids the opportunity to respond to issues in their communi-ties) grant, the money from which they are using to purchase environmental doc-umentaries to screen at their meetings. One of these movies, “Planet In Peril,”

was screened at their most recent meeting and the portion shown focused on the illegal poaching of endangered species in China and the harmful effects of pollution on the Chinese’ health. Near the end of block lunch, the club members stopped to list possible ways in which they could make a difference in the issues presented to them by the film. The members of Net Zero work to make large scale changes, but their positive effect on the environment starts with their own behaviors. “I try to recycle whatever I can and I don’t get individually packaged stuff,” says sophomore Caitie Reck.As senior Shannon Burke puts it, the key to Net Zero’s success it that it “actu-ally makes tangible changes.” From planting trees to speaking at City Council meetings, Net Zero members certainly aren’t passive as they activate for the environment.

Net Zero Club: Turning Fairview Green One Tree at a Time

Net Zero: By The Numbers:59 trees planted on school grounds

2,800 pounds of carbon absorbed every year64% increase in school recycling

260 cubic yards of waste diverted from the landfill annually

Thanks to the Net Zero Club, Fairview now has sleek new trash dis-

pensing stations that allow easy recycling (NET ZERO CLUB).

Join In!Another way to join in without attending club meetings is through the Renew Our Schools Competition. This competition takes place during the months of November and December, concluding in early January. It will reward the school with the most improvement in energy conservation from last year to this year with solar panels, or an equivalent, earth friendly prize! Last year Fairview got nearly last in this competition, against all of the other high and middle schools in the Boulder Valley and St. Vrain school districts. This allows our school a lot of room for improvement, raising our chances of winning!

Check out fairviewnetzero.wordpress.com and the club’s facebook group for more info on the club’s mission, current goals, and other great environmental awesomeness

By ELLA JENAK

BROMENTS (continued) Photos: (from left to right)Dylan Mckinney and Nico Schweiger, Juniors (PAIGE REISMAN); Alex Waters and Cubby Lane, Juniors (JESSICA MERHEB); Ryan Shuman and Sean Cunningham, Sophomores (SEAN CUNNINGHAM); Nayt Perrin, Junior and Ryan Hartzell, Sophomore (ELISE MACLEAN).

EntErtainmEnt8 royal BannErThursday, November 10, 2011

I’m going to shake things up a bit over here at Rock on Rock. This is mainly because I’ve heard from various students that there is an EXTREME need for MORE TRASH IN THE ROYAL BAN-NER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the Entertainment section. You leaf to this page with the specific intention to perco-late filthy, disgusting, gossipy content into your eye holes, amirite? I mean if Entertainment isn’t

packed to the gunwales with COMPLETE UTTER TRASH then YOU WON’T GET ENOUGH TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So for this lil’ trashfest I’m throwing down a smattering of com-ments on the music video for Justin Bieber’s new Christmas ditty “Mistletoe.” Eat it up.*

First off, IT’S A CHRISTMAS SONG and he released it on OC-TOBER 17TH. There were still 69 days until Christmas on the day he released this song. That is cheating. EVERYONE KNOWS Christmas ditties come AFTER Thanksgiving or at the GOD AW-FUL earliest sometime after Hallow-e’en. I’m sick of Xmas already.

Seven quick seconds into the vid, we can see that Bieber has ap-parently parked his 50’s convertible in the middle of a road. I would like to take this opportunity to go ahead and NOT compliment him for doing that © Matt Sparkman. YOU CAN’T PARK YOUR VEHICLE ON A DOUBLE YELLOW EVEN IF IT’S ANTIQUE, JUSTIN. This only adds to the already supreme awkwardness of the convert-ible’s ubiquitousness in the vid. It’s a stupid color, the headlights are on, and it doesn’t possess an actual roof. It’s really not even a roof. It’s just a slab of vinyl. It’s a soft roof. Soft. Not hard.

ALSO, I SEE NO REASON WHY THEY ARE NOT DRINK-ING HIGH QUALITY ARABICA STARBUCKS COFFEE. J.B. and his “shawty” sucked down some generic brand java during at LEAST 37% of the music vid, which IMHO happens to be the per-fect amount of screen time to insert some steaming hot PROD-UCT PLACEMENTS. DUH. Starbucks just POOPS money and J.B. & Co. would have earned a pretty penny (or like 1,000,000,000 of them) with a P.P. Huge mistake. To make up for this deficiency, I’d say he and his team have to shoot for at least 9 product place-ments in his upcoming Groundhog Day vid (you know it’s going to happen).

ALSO, JUSTIN IS A NASTY HUMAN BEING IN THIS VIDEO! He ditched his “shawty” in the middle of their Nord-strom’s date for some blonde who just wanted to tug on that scarf a little bit (which his “shawty” just gave to him)!!! I shed SO MANY TEARS for that poor girl when J.B. just shrugged her off like that!!!

BUT WAIT A SECOND. THE NAME OF THE SONG IS “MISTLETOE.” OH SNAPPLE. As the title may suggest, there *IS* a redeeming kissing scene (OMG, I know). While I was watch-ing, I determined that the woman Bieber mecks with is really en-joying it. She doesn’t even have to act. Instead of cute, I thought it was actually slightly awk because the actor is clearly a grad student who only took the position to gain some capital (“it’s a dog-eat-dog world” is how she probably explained this behavior to friends), but is now hopelessly in love with a Canadian R&B/pop singer who is dating Selena Gomez (who is a hoss). (You don’t mess w/ hosses like Selena Gomez.)

I do have ONE good thing to say about Bieber’s latest, though: “Mistletoe” sounds EXACTLY like Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.” Thank heaven that Bieber has elected to plagiarise a gifted, Grammy-nom-inated musician like Jason Mraz. The impact of “I’m Yours,” with its repetitive I-IV-iii-V chord progression, 81 bpm tempo, unthreaten-ing vocals, and its overall fedora-ness is so intense that I actually get a migraine while listening to it. “Mistletoe” uses all the same tactics. It produces that same, instantly recognizable mechanical-pencil-through-the-skull sensation as a lot of Mraz’s work.

SO THERE’S YOUR TRASH, FAIRVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re wel-come. Please send me all of your spare caps lock keys and/or all of your xanthine alkaloids.

*I had to watch this video like 8 times so please be nice to me because statistically speaking I am going to be very irritable :(

R o c k o n R o c k

Sam Rock

I’m sorry Maroon 5, but you’ve just total-ly lost any bit of respect I once had for you.

I remember “Songs about Jane”—defi-nitely a respectable album in my view.

“Moves Like Jagger”? What IS this? There are days when I come home and

from the driveway, I can hear the music blasting in the living room. Through the window I can see my daughter and my hus-band in full dance party mode. And what you may ask are they boogie-ing to? Brit-ney Spears, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga (and admittedly some other stuff that I consider respectable). We have a critical disagreement in the household about what belongs in the category “good music.” We agree about much of it, but we do not agree about anything that plays on 95.7 The Party with that incessant, annoying dance club beat and a chorus that lodges in your head permanently. My family loves this music. I hate it.

Now do you see my issue with “Moves Like Jagger”?

I’m listening to it now as I write this and my head hurts.

And I’m sure this horrible song will be stuck in my head for most of the day to-morrow: “I don’t need to try to control you/ Look into my eyes and I’ll own you/ With the moves like Jagger/ I’ve got the moves like Jagger/ I’ve got the moves like Jagger.”

Much of this makes little sense to me. I’ve seen Mick Jagger. On stage. With the Rolling Stones, circa 1997 or so, at the King Dome in Seattle. I know he’s infa-mous for his moves, but I hate to admit this (because it might make it seem I don’t get the epic-ness of The Stones)...

The Rolling Stones concert was one of the most boring concerts I’ve ever attend-ed.

Only Chicago (in Denver during the summer of 1991) was worse on the boring concert meter. (I didn’t spend money on the Chicago tickets by the way—someone gave them to me and I went.)

Anyhow, the chorus of this song suggests that the speaker will “own” his romantic target simply by busting out his “moves like Jagger.” This is crazy talk. Are Jagger’s dance moves really that hypnotic?

Well to be honest, I couldn’t see him very well from our seats at the concert--we

were waaaaaaaaay up in the top level. Mick Jagger was only a little very wiggly thing way down there on the stage where all the music was coming from.

So I consulted the music video of “Moves Like Jagger”—and I dare you to watch that video and actually come away with any sort of understanding of what his moves actually are. It’s a hyper-collage of clips of people trying to dance like Mick Jagger interspersed with 2-second clips of Jagger himself, dancing I think, but it all went so fast I couldn’t tell. The camera doesn’t stay on one single person long enough for the viewer to come away with any clear under-standing of just what these magic moves might be.

Which leaves me to conclude that this song is just about that annoying incessant dance beat, that catchy whistle beginning, and that chorus that gets stuck in your head.

Our family has a clear agreement that if I’m in the car, 95.7 The Party is not on the radio. If it is, I feel trapped by that dance club beat that I cannot escape.

So Maroon 5 can just hang out on 95.7 The Party so I never have to listen to this song ever again.

Jaded about “Moves Like Jagger”An English Teacher takes on modern music

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Zerwin

Levine ≠ Jagger (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS).

Jbeebs Christmas ditty “Mistletoe”

9Royal BanneRThursday, November 10, 2011enteRtainment

HOROSCOPES w/ Artemis WysteriaArtemis Wysteria is in the building, boys and girls! Ready for your flavorful fortunes for this lunar cycle? Be prepared to have your thanksgiving themed, hand crocheted socks knocked off.

Aries (March 21 - April 19) You will have extremely good luck this month! So when you decide to crash at 7:00 the night before your Spanish exam, don’t worry. You will ace it... Or fail it, it’s a 50/50 chance. But unfortunately that is how luck works.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Did someone give you a present today? If they did, do not touch it or make contact. If you have no secret admirers and have not received any random surprise packages lately, you are lucky and have most likely been saved from an unfortunate fate.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20) Your friends have been raging the streets every weekend, but you keep leaving your leather and glow sticks at home, leav-ing you feeling more out of place than a beached whale in Kansas. Keep your chin up and flip on the TV instead. We hear “I Used to be Fat” is on every Saturday. Go crazy.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Missing somebody re-cently? Turns out they miss you too! Give them a call. Or send them a creepy e-card.

Leo (July 23 - August 22) Thanksgiving is coming up, and with those left over pieces of Halloween candy lurking in the pantry, the excitement of Christmas cookies, and an entire winter of lying around, you could gain a few pounds, Leo. But stay away from the gym like the plague. Honestly, just be fat and be happy about it. Tip: Cozy up to a Scorpio this month and they may share their triple chocolate birthday cake with you.

Virgo (August 23 - September 22) That kid that you secretly stare at in math class is very aware that you’re looking at him or her. Get a tissue, wipe up your drool, and try to be more discreet. Maybe buy some binoculars and try to keep your stalking long range for a little while.

Libra (September 23 - October 22) There was never a problem that couldn’t be fixed with duct tape or a good cookie. You’re current romantic dilemma is no exception.

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21) Happy Birthday, Scorpio! Use some of your birthday confidence to talk to somebody who previ-ously intimidated you. They are secretly afraid of the dark anyway

(and therefore, possibly Canadian).

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Mid-November will bring a pre-winter slump and your need for caffeine will have you feeling pretty antsy. Once the spasms start in your left eye you’ll know it’s time to start cutting back on the Starbucks in-take. If you don’t, you will lose control and end up permanently looking like Twitch from South Park.

Capricorn (December 22 - January 19) Turn on ABC Family tonight at 8:00 pm. You won’t be dis-appointed.

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Go to drawas-tickman.com. May the force be with you.

Pisces (February 19 - March 20) Yes, those jeans do make you look fat.

Fairview has always been a great venue for students to foster creativity and to follow their ambitions. That’s just what senior Lexi Schwartz has done by creating and recording a brand new collection of songs.

Schwartz released her first EP, “The Nomad,” under the stage name Grey Harrison on October 15. It contains five tracks of original material, and features Schwartz on vocals with an emphasis on piano. This combination creates a calming atmosphere reminiscent of the autumn season.

“I have always wanted to record so that I could share my music with others,” said Schwartz. “(I’ve wanted to) hear what they had to say, and hopefully, make someone feel something through it. I decided to do it now, because I’ve been working harder than ever in the music scene, had saved up the funds to do it, and felt like now would be the best time to just go for it.”

Schwartz recorded the album in the summer of 2011 at Coupe Studios in Boulder. Artists such as The Fray, Flobots, and Rose Hill Drive have all pro-duced records there.

While the songs have a unique feel, Schwartz says that a number of songwrit-ers have influenced her throughout her musical career.

“Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows, and the Counting Crows generally have been a huge influence,” said Schwartz. “Sara Bareilles, Johnny Rzeznik, Andrew McMahon, Tom Petty, Simon and Garfunkel, and George Harrison (have also been influential)”

George Harrison leaves his footprint on more than just the music and lyrics. When thinking of a stage name, Schwartz thought of her favorite Beatle: “He was an incredible songwriter, intellectual, and human being, and one of my

greatest inspirations.”“Also, Schwartz is not exactly a hip last name,” she joked.Grey Harrison tries to perform live as often as is possible—“I sometimes

run into a problem with my age, as certain venues are 18+, or 21+, but I’ve still been able to get out there. There are a few really excellent open mic nights run around town. I will continue playing out as long as I’m tolerated.”

“The Nomad” is available now on iTunes, CDbaby, Amazon, or from Schwartz herself on hard copy. Check it out!

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By SAM ROCK and MATT SPARKMAN

Grey Harrison’s first EP, “The Nomad.” (PHOTO: DONATED).

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Over the last three years, Fairview basketball has brought excitement to the Fairview student body and the community around Boulder. This year the team hopes to exceed expectations.

An important part of any team is strong leadership. The Knights’ captains are return-ing starters, senior guard Holden Killeen and senior forward Shane O’Neill. The team will also return senior forward Jacob Lorentzen who was the Knights’ starting post player.

Another recognizable player is senior center, Gibson Farone-Collins, who measures 6’ 9’’ and gives the Knights an inside presence, something they were missing on last year’s team. Another player to watch is junior point guard Brent Wrapp who has a lot of hype surrounding him.

Regis High School has dominated 5A basketball in Colorado winning three consecu-tive state championships, two of them being against Fairview.

“We really want to play them,” said O’Neill when asked if the Knights were intimi-dated by Regis.

Since October, the Knights have had morning practice as well as playing throughout the summer on club teams. Club teams give the players extra games in order to en-hance their skills throughout the offseason.

All of this hard work throughout the offseason will hopefully pay off as the high school season approaches. The goals for the Knights this season are high according to both Killeen and O’Neill.

“I really want to have a good close bond with my teammates and hopefully win a championship”, said O’Neill.

Killeen also has really high expectations for the upcoming season. “...to go as far as we can and to have a great season as a team”, he said when asked what his goals for the team were.

The Knights first game is on December 2nd at ThunderRidge. ThunderRidge poses a challenge as they bring a Cal Bears recruit, Kalieb Rodriguez.

Next the Knights will host the annual Fairview Festival basketball tournament which brings teams from all over the state. Fairview has been victorious in the tournament two out of the last three years.

Support from the Fairview community will be important for the Knights’ success this season. “If they come out to support us they should expect that we win every game we play”, said O’Neill.

Boys basketball shoots for state championship

By KALI CROSSEN, ALEX FLYNN and JAKOB OLSEN

The girls basketball program has grown in leaps and bounds, and this year the squad is looking to build on an Elite Eight appearance in last year’s play-offs.

The Knights return only one starter in senior forward Hannah Hyde, but Hyde was the second leading scorer with 8.7 points per game for the Knights last season. Fairview did lose their most dynamic scorer in Carlee Lough, but the Knights do return scorers who came off the bench last year.

Senior Sonia Ghosh averaged 6.8 points per game last season and can give the team a spark with bunches of three point shots. Also returning is junior Georgina Ryder who gives the Knights an inside presence to complement Hyde.

Fairview also returns senior guards Meghan Higgins and Julia D’Amico. Neither played significant minutes last year, leaving some uncertainty as to who will step up in the backcourt.

However, the returning players are not worried about a lack of team chem-istry, “We’ve played with each other for so long now that we know how our teammates play,” said Ghosh.

The Knights will open their season on December 1 with a home game against Longmont, 4A runner up last season. The Trojans beat Fairview 58-44 last year.

The Knights will then host the Fairview Festival. Fairview went 1-2 in their home tournament last year, and last won in the 2009-2010 season.

Monarch is the biggest obstacle between the Knights and a Front Range League title. The Coyotes are a perennial state title contender with several Division-I bound players.

The team has high goals for the season, and wants to take on the best in the state, “We want to make it to the Final Four and beat Monarch,” said Hyde.

Girls hoopers hope to build off last year’s Elite Eight finish

By ALEC PRONK

After thrilling finish, Knights look to continue momentum against Columbine at Recht

After an enthralling victory over Regis in the first round of the state playoffs, Fairview football, led by 32 seniors, looks to keep their season alive tomorrow against Columbine, the top seed in Colorado.

The Rebels enter the game as heavy favorites, carry-ing a 10-0 record into Recht Field. However, Colum-bine will likely be without their starting quarterback Justin Brown and leading tackler Jaxon Mohr.

“Both teams will come to play,” said senior tight end Dakin Platt. “They will play through their injuries.”

Even without Brown and Mohr, Columbine still brings a plethora of talent into Boulder. The Rebel offense be-

gins and ends with the brother tandem of Cameron and Brandon McDondle. Arguably the best running back duo in the state, the McDondles have combined to run for over 2,000 yards and 28 touchdowns on the season.

“It will be really hard,” said Platt. “It’s going to be a long, hard game.”

If Fairview coach Tom McCartney could pick any time to face a team as tough as Columbine, it would be right now. The Knights played some of their best foot-ball last Friday against Regis and they still have room to grow.

“We have to build step by step, one play at a time,”

said Platt.Conversely, Columbine is coming off arguably their

worst performance of the season. The Rebels faced the worst team to qualify for 5A playoffs, Fort Collins, and only beat them by a score of 28-10. Teams such as Highlands Ranch, Ralston Valley, Grandview, Pomona and Grand Junction all looked stronger than the sup-posed top team in the state.

The Knights and the Rebels kick off action at 7:00 P.M. The game will be held at Recht Field, as Fairview is the lower seed.

By MATT SPARKMAN

The basketball squad warms up before a preseason practice (SAVARONE AMMANN).

Coach Beauchamp leads a shooting drill during practice (ALEC PRONK).

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The city of Boulder is known for its abundance of outdoor recreational activities. From hiking to skiing to rock climbing, there is always something to keep yourself occupied here at the foot of the Rockies.

One of those popular activities (some local drivers would say an activity that is almost too popular) in Boulder is biking (specifically mountain biking). Although many drivers may not take a strong liking to the riders that pepper Boulder’s streets, it is un-deniably one of the most popular local sports.

However, something that is not very well known is the fact that biking is slowly gaining popularity as a high school sport. And something that is even less common knowledge is that Fair-view has its very own team. The mountain bike team is not a dis-trict sponsored athletic team, but that has not stopped the sport from spreading around the state.

Sixteen students fill out the Knights’ mountain biking team roster, led by junior biking sen-sation Justin Noel. The team is in its second year of action, and it has already grown significantly since last year when it had only two rid-ers.

Noel has been biking for 10 years, and he was one of last year’s riders. Noel’s dad, Steve is the coach of the Knights, and he is also an avid mountain bike rider and racer.

For every race, there is a freshman, sophomore, ju-nior and senior category. However, unlike other high school sports, everyone on the team contributes. The

freshman riders can contribute to the overall points of the team, but they cannot earn quite as many points as the riders ahead of them. Nonetheless, this scoring system creates a strong team bond among the riders.

Many of the local schools also have newly formed teams, including Boulder, Monarch, Ralston Valley and Golden. When asked if there is a rivalry between

Boulder and Fairview, Noel replies that there are defi-nitely strong tensions just like any other sport. To be fair, last year, Noel says, “we didn’t really have a ri-valry with Boulder because we only had two riders.”

The Knights ride in a 30-team league that has teams from all over the state (and one from Wyoming). The Knights are one of the strongest teams in the league, and they had some very strong races this year, finish-ing second one time and third twice. They have yet to race in their final event (the state championship), but

they hope to win it all.The Knights practice two times per week for about

one and a half to two hours, riding on local trails around the city. There are four races in the season, which started in August, and the final race (state cham-pionship) is on November 13.

When asked if he thinks the sport is growing, Noel replied “Oh, definitely. Colorado is now the fastest growing league in the country. [South-ern] California and [Nothern] California both have leagues, but they’ve been doing it for about 10 years and it took them a while to get to the point that they’re at.”

Noel says those leagues have about 300 to 400 riders, whereas Colorado already has 200 in its second year.

With a coaching staff stacked with talented mountain-bikers, the Knights seem to be on the right track to be-

coming a powerhouse in the state for years to come. It might come as a surprise to Fairview students that one of the Knights’ best athletic teams is the mountain biking squad, because chances are the average student does not even know that it exists. Seeing as there are only 16 students on the team, and the sport is in its second year of existence, it might be excusable.

However, it would be wise to watch for this team in the coming years, because chances are they are going to make some noise.

Fairview mountain biking club provides opportunity for young cyclistsBy CALEB PYKKONEN

When I asked senior Jennifer Tanis, why she enjoyed rugby, she responded with, “Rugby is so much fun because you can just wreck people to the floor and it’s okay.” This alone seemed reason enough to play rugby, but there is much more to this complex and thrilling game. Tanis plays the prop position, which is located in the top three attackers, and her job is to make tack-les and act as a front part of the first line. In rugby the ball cannot be thrown forward but only tossed back and then run forward. A rugby field consists of fifteen players on a field at once, eight attackers and seven defenders.

Although rugby seems like a harsh and brutal sport, senior Sarah Willette commented, “Rugby has the best community and sportsmanship, and people play because they love it”. Willette plays weak-side wing, whose job is to sneak around the other play-ers and run with the ball using speed. She is also the team’s designated kicker.

Mara Erhardt, senior, and Emily Hoskins, senior, are also part of Boulder’s local team, the Boulder Bruisers. The girls used to play soccer, but when fe-male soccer players became scarce they were unable to obtain a full team. They searched for a new sport that would keep them in shape, and rugby was just

what they had been looking for. Hoskins remarked, “My soccer team called me ‘wall’ because I was a physical player. Rugby is a good physical sport, so I played that.” Hoskins plays lock, which means she stands behind the props and pushes the team forward from behind, literally pushing on the back of the props to gain ground.

All of them show enthusiasm for the sport and talked of how exciting and elabo-rate the formations and positions were. They talk of how they are still puzzled on

the field at times attempting to get a full grasp of the game. They also included that the girls who played rugby were much friendlier than those involved in soccer. Erhardt, who has played the longest, insisted that “it’s intense on the field but not off the field.” Erhardt plays flyhalf, who leads the back line for defense and coordinates the offense.

Rugby is a sport that has it all: collisions and hits, speed and power, a great deal of complex-ity, plus friendly players. Each player plays of-fense and defense for their club, allowing them to stay in fantastic shape and maximize their understanding of the game. Whether you are part of the “scrum” (offense), or the defensive line and wings, rugby is a gritty and fun sport

through and through.

High school girls find athletic alternative in girls’ rugbyBy SAVARONE AMMANN

The Fairview mountain biking team poses for a team picture on one of the many trails they practice on (STEVE NOEL).

Boulder Bruisers girls’ rugby team in a scrum (BOULDER BRUISERS).

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