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December 21, 2010
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Above:John Harris ( 11) makes a slam dunk while Lincoln Ei!st High players stand awe-struck during the Varsity Boys Basketball game against East High at Lincoln High on December 17th,,2010 . The Links defeated the, Spartans. 53 to 37. The Links also beat Fremont High School on Saturday December 18th, 2010 at Fremont. Photo by Seth Marshall. '
By Sam Larson List of Student Section Themes In mid November, some said senior Josh Hesson. "We on Page 4. students attempted to create worked really hard on those!" The air is cooling, the a student section T-shirt and The shirts were never apcheerleaders are joyfully were upset when they weren't proved, but they were ordered cheering, and the anyway. Hesson says LHS student secthat at the time, "We tion is going wild. didn't know that the It looks like another , shirts weren't apseason of winter proved." sports is on its way. Students have This winter attempted to make stu.:C sports season hasn't .dent section T-shirts for been without its fair the past few years, yet share of controversy the shirts have never though, according been approved. to some members According to Above:The LHS student section celebrates the Varsity Boys' win of the LHS student · over Southwest at Lincoln High on December 10th. The them,e for the senior Andrew Owens, section. The congame was a "neon out." Photo by Seth Marshall. thi ,s year's shirt, which troversy started, as featured rapper Whaka usual, with the student section approved by the administraFlocka Flame and his song T-shirts. tion. "It made me angry," "Hard in Da Paint" wasn't ap(Story Continued on P. 3) '
Lincoln High Varsity Football Coach Mike Fultz ' Retires By Erik Capo
"When you think about it, I've Lincoln High Schools head been at football practice nearly Varsity football coach. "It's been every day of my life, since the a fun struggle," said Fultz, of his · seventh grade," coaching career. said Fultz. "That's "We didn't win over forty years very many games, of participation in • but being around one of my favorite young people a11d things." enjoying yourself, On Wednesday, is something that's November very important to Above:Former Varsity Football 3rd, Mike Fultz . Coach and Lincoln High Teacher me." Mike Fultz retired as head coach announced his Fultz coached as after the 2010 season. resignation as a varsity assistant , Photo by Haley Keller '
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By Gwendolyn Ihrie Gretna High School took first place over Lincoln High due to a complicated and confusing point scale at the Nebraska District A-1 Contest for One-Act productions. According to the rating system, Lincoln High had 179 points and Gretna High School had 178. Lincoln High ,also took home 11 acting awards while Gretna only had 3. So how did we lose? G_oodquestion. Three judges watched the . performances. Judges criteria included choice of literature, quality of set, and among other things, acting. "The primary reason for the decision, it says in the handbook, is to be acting," Lincoln High English teacher and One-Act Director Patsy KochrJohns said. From the number of acting awards given to Lincoln High students, their acting talent should have moved them on to the finals. Bec;ause of a second, more subjective, 3-point
system where '1' is the best rank, Gretna won District A-1. The three judges gave Gretna · a 1, 1, and a 2. Lincoln High earned a 1, 2, and another 2. Gretna's total of 4 points put "Psycho Beach Party" ahead of Lincoln High's "A Company of Wayward Saints" with 5 points. The only thing unusual about this, Koch-Johns explained, is that we beat them in rating points, but got a lower rank, "We're not angry· at Gretna necessarily, it's just that they beat us," senior Greg Ward said. "In every competition you're going to be angry at the people who beat you, not those who judged you." Ward played the character of Harlequin. · "Gretna wanted to win just as much as we did," . senior Katy Keating said. She played Columbine in Lincoln High's show. Gretna went on to win 1st place at the contest. (Story Continued on P. 2)
Above:The cast of "A Company of Wayward Saints," directed by Patsy Koch-Johns performs in the Lincoln High Ted Sorensen Theatre ,on December 4th for the District A-1 One-Act Competition. Photo by Hannah Malone.
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Most buyers, however, don't purchase K2 for the smell, but rather for the powerful high it induces. A high that is "10 times more active than THC," according to Dr. John W. Huffman, the original developer of K2. THC is the ingredient in marijuana that gets you high, and for many marijuana users who end up on probation, K2 becomes a "replacement." But much less is known
about K2 than marijuana. With this boost in effect comes a boost in uncertainty. Huffman goes on to say, in an interview with WebMD, that, "It is like playing Russian roulette to use these drugs. We don't know a darn thing about them for real." And in this case, what you don't know can hurt you. Dr. Anthony Scalzo, professor of toxicology at St. Louis University, said he'd seen (Stor Continued on P.2)