Table
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Final IDU
Project
Track
Lacrosse
Baseball
Movie Review: When a Stranger
Calls
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Feature Articles by Students
Marketing
Projects Conclude Freshman Year
by K.
Berhent
(Apr.
2006)
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As a team, we do numerous of group
projects. They are called IDU (interdisciplinary) projects,
which are designed to show how skills in each discipline are used
together to create new learning rather than separately as the
classes usually are in school, and we take class time to work on
them. To date, we have done a process analysis rooftop lab,
holiday culture, and Holocaust perspective projects just to name a
few. Each are in small groups and taken as a project grade
in various classes.
Currently, we are doing a marketing
project in groups of four. We have to design a product using
the principles of design and redesign we learned in science class,
and then research and critically analyze which markets it could
sell well in, using mathematical analysis and graph creation in
excel. Also, we have to sell it bilingually, which means we
have to make advertisements in both Spanish and English after
extensive study of advertising and culture in both the Spanish and
World Studies classes. Then after we have gathered all the
information, we will create complete, professional PowerPoints and
written marketing plans, culminating with a 15 minute presentation
trying to sell our product to the real world judges we have
invited to come. Of course, throughout the project, we use the
writing, organization, and even phone call skills we learned in
English class to create polished, professional materials and
communications with the business world.
Overall, this project provides excellent college and business world
preparation since this is how students will actually work beyond
high school classes. In addition to just the skills from
each class we will use, the project also tests skills in
cooperation, organization, time management, and professional
business communications, most of which we have studied in Focus
class. In addition, towards the end of May, we'll even have
a business professional in to teach us about business etiquette
and presentation skills.
Our marketing presentations will be from
May 24 to 26 in room 202 and anyone is invited to attend - just
check with the teachers or students to see when they are
presenting.
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Track
Team at Its Best by: C. Setterlin
(Apr.
2006) |
This
year’s track team has been motivated, committed, and moreover,
successful. A key to their successful season so far has been
their new main coach, Mr. Beatty. It is his first year as
main coach, however, he has been assistant coach for past years.
“He’s a good coach, and he keeps us motivated and in shape.
He cares a lot,” stated A. Scheerer. Along with Mr.
Beatty’s motivation, the track team works together to achieve
success. “Although it is an individual sport, in many
ways, it is just as much, if not more of a team sport as well,”
said B. Onders.
By working and striving for success this
season, the track team has been able to make huge accomplishments.
Their hard work has paid off so far this season because they have
managed to place second in two invitationals, and have won
numerous dual and tri meets so far. “The team is actually
really good and we have a good chance to rank very high in
O.C.C.'s especially with our 4 by 1 team and our 4 by 8 team,”
A. Scheerer predicts of the rest of the season. But the
season isn’t over yet, and there is still time for this talented
track team to have even more success by the end of the season.
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Lacrosse
By: E.
Voldmann
(Apr.
2006) |
This
year, the JV girls’ lacrosse team of Hilliard Davidson has
worked hard since February to be the best they can be. When
they started, they soon realized that they had a lot to work on if
they wanted to keep the tradition of great playing alive.
Back in February, the freshmen had serious troubles keeping up
with the upperclassmen. Since then, the team has learned how
to work with each other, and has improved their overall game.
The team has showed to be competition to most of the teams they
have played. Currently, their record is 2-3, but the
Cats plan to step it up during the next two weeks when they face
eight teams.
The JV team
works their hardest everyday after school for two hours and all of
their hard work pays off in the games. When asked about how
she felt the season was going, Taylor Gill, freshmen, and starting
midfielder, replied, “I think that we have done really well.
We have grown a lot as a team and we have yet to be disappointed
in how we have played.” The coaches, Jamie Buroff
and Heather Ross, also agree that the team tries their best.
Anytime a player does something wrong, one of them tells the
player and makes sure she understands what should be done in that
certain situation.
The
team would like your support, so come to any game. The whole
season’s schedule is on www.sticksup.com,
so stop by and cheer on the team! Their final game is on
Thursday, May 11 at Dublin Coffman at 5:30pm. Come by and
support the team!
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Freshman
Baseball By T. Backstrom
(Apr. 2006) |
The Hilliard Davidson Freshman Baseball team after Friday,
April 28 is 11-2. The two losses have come in out of league play
and were within the first five games of the season. Now they are
on a hot streak winning eight straight. In league play they
are 6-0, forcing the 10 run lead mercy rule in four games. They
also won the Dublin Coffman Freshman Baseball tournament with a
tough 3-2 win over Newark and a convincing 16-0 drubbing of Dublin
Coffman. The team has been one cohesive unit since regaining
T. Backstrom back from the mononucleosis virus and R. Meadows from
the J.V. team.
H. Broadstone and Z. Daniels are leading the team in hitting while
they rarely commit errors in the field. A.J. Pope, H. Broadstone,
and S. Hutter complete a unit of outfielders who lack in size and
arm strength but make up for it in speed. Z. Daniels, N. Van
Dyne, G. Goodwin, and A. Frazier split time at shortstop and
third, while, M. Renner and M. Flinta split at second. M.
Odierna and T. Backstrom split time at first and T. Kawakami, T.
Backstrom, A.J. Pope, and H. Broadstone do a majority of the
pitching.
There are great things destined for this team in the future if
everyone sticks together. There may even be a long play-off
run heading towards Davidson in the very near future when these
players start contributing to the varsity squad. The freshman end
their season on Saturday, May 6 playing a double-header at Bellefontaine.
During that week they also play at Westerville North Monday, at
Worthington Kilbourne Tuesday, at Thomas Worthington Wednesday,
and at Newark Friday. If they beat Westerville North Monday they
can lock up a league title.
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Scary
Movie Doesn't Do the Job
By T. Backstrom (Feb. 2006) |
Movie
Review
When a Stranger Calls
Directed by: Simon West
Starring
Camilla Belle as Jill Johnson
Tommy Flanagan as “The Stranger”
When a Stranger Calls is a remake of the 1979 When
a Stranger Calls, which is rated R for the bloodiness. The new
version however has zero blood and an ounce of gore to it. There
are 2 off-camera murders to insignificant characters. One of which
we don’t even meet and the other, the house keeper, we see for
around 15 seconds. Until later our main character Jill (Belle)
finds her underwater while trying to escape the murderer
(Flanagan). The director relies on sounds and automatic lighting
in the house to create suspense during the chase scene as you see
light after light go on when the apparent stranger stalks his prey
and you see a cat walk down the stairs. Then, Jill turns around to
see the stranger on the other side of this unbreakable glass in a
monster terrarium. This is the scariest part of the movie.
Everything before builds up to it because when you see the preview
you see the “We’ve traced the call, he’s in the house”
bit, so everyone is on the edge of their seat waiting for that
line and when it comes and after about 5 minutes of fighting its
over. Until the stranger rides past her in the cop car and hi
eye’s and Jill’s eyes meet and we see the scar on his face
creating a new fold in this bland plot. Too bad it came with 2
minutes to go in the movie.
This movie doesn’t end though. Jill remembers the face of
the man and she dreams that he tries to kill her while she is in
the hospital. The director kind of leaves you hanging when
Jill’s friend Tiffany comes over then leaves, but, there is a
branch that Tiffany has to get out of her car to move so she can
leave and next thing you know the stranger is using Tiffany’s
phone.
Overall if you are into the not very scary, no blood and
vague murder movie with scary title genre then this is the movie
for you to see. I guess if I was in 6th or 7th
grade this would be scary. This not very scary, no blood and vague
murder movie was also released for viewing at the wrong time.
People were just coming off Hostel and Saw 2 so when
this movie title shows up you think that this will be the third in
a trio of scary movies released within months of each other. So if
you haven’t seen it yet and you are very fond of the original
save yourself the 7 or so dollars and don’t go.
Rating: 2 stars/5 stars
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