Reitz Journalism

What got you started in football?
I started at six , my mom thought it would be good exercise.

Did you want to play?
No, I was lazy and all I wanted to do was eat and play video games. I kept with it because I liked the contact and I learned to love it.
Are you glad you did it?
Yes, I guess I just fell in love with it. I don’t know why, I just love it.

How long have you been playing?
10 years. My first team was for the Cardinals at Lake View for one year. I played for the Raiders for 1 or 2 years, the Broncos for one year, All Stars for one year, Harrison cub team for a year and Reitz cub team.

What awards have you won?
I was honorable mention and jr. all state, MVP, and player of the week.

What’s different from last year and this year?
Last year our coach was more laid back.
This year he’s more strict. I like the new coach better because he works us harder. He’s more strict in the weight room and he gives us more conditioning then we’ve ever had.

Does it mean a lot to you to be a leader?
Yeah it means a lot because a lot of people look up to me. I guess it means a lot because my team has my back in whatever I do, they look out for me and I look out for them.

Do you plan on playing football in the future?
Yeah, I want to go to Southern Illinois for football.

Do you want to play with Paul McIntosh?
Yeah, who wouldn’t want to. It would be an honor because he showed me how to push myself and he always has a positive attitude and that gives me one.

What are you doing after football?
After football I plan on going into law.

How has football affected your life?
It tought me how to be a leader and push myself more.
How has this helped you? I learned how to be a leader, a harder worker and I learned sportsmanship.

Have you ever felt like giving up?
Yeah, there’s a lot of conflict at practice and sometimes it pushes you to the edge.
Why didn’t you give up?

How many different teams have you been on?
About 5.

Have you played any other sports?
Track, I started freshmen year and I’m still on it.

Do you have a job?
Yeah I work at Mc Donald’s a crossed from bossie.

Do you like it?
No.
Why not?

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He Said - By Kyle Dill

Cheating is a very broad topic. There are the stereotypical activities that everyone views as cheating, but I have my own view of the word. If it causes your guy or girl to feel emotional grief, it’s cheating to me because you should put their feelings in mind if you really care about them.
Talking on the phone and texting is honestly a bad idea to do in a relationship. While it isn’t necessarily cheating, it leaves a potential opening for new feelings to form and former feelings to fade. If you really care about the person you’re with, you wouldn’t ever put your relationship in danger like that.
Flirting is just un-acceptable, especially if you and the person you’re with use “the L-word”. Flirting is showing interest and emotions towards another person, and if you’re content in the relationship you have there’s no reason to display emotions for any other person. It makes everyone jealous, and putting the person you care about through that is wrong and should be held as high on the pedastool as cheating.
If you have a friend of the opposite sex and you hug them, that’s okay. It’s okay for you to hug your mom, your brother, a teacher, or a best friend. You should be able to hug anyone you care about. It’s harmless contact to me. Anything elevated past a simple friendly hug is definitely cheating to me.
So in the end, cheating depends on the person you’re with, but we all know certain things that are cheating no matter what, regardless of whether or not your boyfriend or girlfriend cares about it.
The definition of cheating from my point of view is anything that would hurt the person that you’re with. Because of this, cheating can’t really be tied down to a list of things.

She Said - By Marika Garrett

Ladies, check this out.Being cheated on sucks, but sometimes we give our boys way to much grief for stuff that isn’t even cheating.
I talked to lots of girls on this subject and a lot of them said cheating was stupid stuff.
Texting another girl,calling another girl, hugging another girl,and flirting with another girl are all examples of stupid things we girls get upset about.
Talking on the phone and texting another girl could mean they are just friends.
Some girls might ask, “But what if he won’t let me see what he’s texting this girl?”Ladies, give our boys some space. If you can’t trust your boyfriend,then you shouldn’t be with him.
“Constantly in com-munication with another girl isn’t really cheating, it’s just annoying. It just makes me think that he’s bored talking to me and rather talk to her.” said Junior Reyneesha Hughley.
Hugging another girl? Fellas, come on! I personally don’t think that hugging is a big deal,but some girls might.
Any physical contact with another girl is setting yourself up for failure.
“Touching another girl in any way is wrong, I mean it could be nothing but how are we suppose to know that.” said senior Brittany Baylee.
Flirting is not cheating! Yes, it might make you mad but it’s just shameless fun.
I mean, in a relationship or out of a relationship, your going to flirt. But now fellas. To avoid a conflict with your ladies, if your going to flirt don’t flirt with your girlfriend’s friends or enemies, and never flirt in front of her!
Plus don’t go over the top, come on, everyone knows the difference between friendly flirting and going too far!
“We get that your going to look and flirt, because we look and flirt too. But when you do that while you’re with me, it’s just disrespectful,” said Junior Alexa Holder.
Cheating is kissing, dating, or anything you wouldn’t do with your girlfriend standing there.That’s the real definition for most girls. These are the things that really matter, and really hurt.
“I’d rather a boy just break up with me than cheat on me,” said sophomore Shanice Barnes, and that is how most of us girls feel!
Trust is the number one thing in a relationship and nothing shatters that trust like being cheated on.
So fellas, don’t try to have your cake and eat it too. And ladies, you need to talk to your boys, don’t tell them what to do but talk to them and tell them what you think is cheating is.
What you believe is cheating might not be the same as what your guy believes cheating is.

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For participatng on the Reitz Race for the Cure team, those that signed up received a free breakfast at the East Side Applebee’s on Morgan Avenue. The seniors that organized the team served up the breakfast to those that showed up. Freshman Tess Webber grabs another plate of pancakes and eggs to take to the diners. The filling breakfast was just what the team members needed before the 5K fun walk around Eastland Mall. This year’s Race for the Cure was the biggest in the history of the event in Evansville. Overall, 18,000 people participated in the main fundraiser for the Komen Foundation, making it one of the largest events in the nation, drawing more than the events in New York City, Houston, Chicago and Nashville. EVSC had over 800 members participate.

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EVSC Creates Foundation A new foundation has been formed by the EVSC to create a mechanism for people to donate to a fund particular EVSC programs or to create a sustained income to accomplish the core focus of the EVSC – student success.
The foundation is legally authorized to receive funds from donations, restricted or unrestricted gifts, endowments, trusts, bequests, and up to $25,000 annually from the school corporation.
Donations will go toward programs chosen by donors.
The EVSC Foundation will work in cooperation with the Public Education Foundation and will continue to support its funding and developments efforts for a variety of programs and projects of the EVSC, Gayle Long, EVSC’s new director of development, will serve as the executive director of the Foundation and assistant treasurer.Approximately 25 directors will be named in the near future to serve on the EVSC Foundation Board.
Barcoding System Payment options for textbooks A new barcoding system is in place this year to help track textbooks. Approximately 160,000 textbooks were barcoded and added to the new Destiny Textbook Management Program this summer.
In addition to the new barcoding system for textbooks, many EVSC parents have new payment opportunities. Elementary schools (except Lincoln) and all middle schools will participate
EVSC ACT Scores Up Slightly The ACT College Entrance Exam results for the class of 2008 were released recently. Of the 2008 high school graduating class in the EVSC’s five high schools, there were 65 EVSC students taking the ACT, which is more students than in the past seven years. The composite score for the school corporation was 20.5 out of 36.
EVSC results include:
• English from 19.8 to 20.2
• Math from 19.8 to 20.1
• Reading 20.8 to 21.1
• Scientific reasoning 20.5 to 20.0
National Honor Society Membership in the National Honor Society is an honor, not a right. Students who wish to be considered for membership in the National Honor Society may do so in their junior and senior years. Membership in National Honor Society is similar to applying for a scholarship. To be considered for membership, a student must meet the following criteria: 3.2 scholastic average (GPA)
Good Citizenship in and out of school Leadership and service points. A student should be thinking of earning 300 points in the freshman year and in the sophomore year. At the close of the first semester in a student’s junior year, he or she should have at least 600 points.
Each semester service and leadership cards should be filled out in homeroom, and the cards should be returned to the homeroom teachers.
School dances This year’s school dances will take place on the following dates:
Turnabout – December 6 at the Scottish Rite
Basketball Homecoming – January 23 following the game in the cafeteria
Prom – April 18
Cell Phone and Music Players (Headphones) Both items are not to be used in the building during school hours (7:00 a.m. – 2:50 p.m.). Students are totally responsible for these items if they are lost, stolen, or taken away by school personnel. Students must turn them off and put them away when entering the building or they will be taken away and can be picked up at the end of the day.
EVSC Hosts Golf Scramble The EVSC is on the lookout for all avid golfers in our community to participate in the second annual EVSC Close Up Golf Scramble. The event raises money for EVSC students to participate in a national program in Washington D.C. this spring.
The golf scramble, scheduled for Sunday, October 5, at Helfrich Hills Golf Course, will begin at 9:06 a.m., with subsequent tee times every eight minutes. Cost for individual players is $50 and $200 for teams of four. All proceeds will benefit EVSC student scholarships to attend the National Close Up Program in Washington D.C. in March. Those interested in participating in the golf scramble need to pre-register by filling out the form with this story or by calling Wendy McNamara, supervisor of social studies at the EVSC, 435-8467 by Sept. 26.
The National Close Up program in Washington D.C. allows high schools students the opportunity to learn more about our country first hand by visiting memorials, monuments, Capitol Hill and other areas of historical or political significance. In addition, students meet with elected officials, government representatives, lobbyists and individuals with knowledge in areas such as defense and foreign policy. Thousands of students from across the nation will attend the event.
All five EVSC high schools have participated in the program for the last 25 years. The rise in hotel and travel costs has put this program out of reach for the average student who wishes to attend. Proceeds raised through the golf scramble will help offset some of the expense EVSC students will incur. Students also will work to raise funds on their own to help with costs.

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With the start of a new school year comes new editors for the Reitz Reflections Yearbook and Mirror Newspaper.

Senior Taylor Robinson will head up the Reitz Mirror Newspaper for the 2009 school year. Robinson was a staff writer for the Mirror last year. She originally applied to the Mirror’s copy editor, but when the editor moved out of town, she was promoted to Editor in Chief. She goal this year is to fill the Mirror with more content that the students are interested in and to look outside the school for stories.

Senior Audra Brandsasse will be the 2009 Reflections Yearbook editor. Brandsasse was name editor at the end of last school year and attended YBC, the Walsworth Publishing Company’s summer yearbook camp. There she planned out the 2009 yearbook. Her ideas on where to take the book earned her “Best Design” honors at the camp and a nod from instructors that she was an up and coming graphic designer.

Senior Heather Aubin is the 2009 Business Manager for the journalism department. She will oversee advertising and subscriptions for both the yearbook and newspaper operations. Aubin will be responsible for generating advertising revenue as well as maintaining yearbook orders.

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Check out Fox 7’s coverage.
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School is still on lockdown, but police have just made a sweep of the second floor in the old building. According to an officer making the sweep, everything is ok, but they are making sure.

Police are still on the scene and from the windows students can still see over 20 squad cars in the front of the school.

When the school was first put on lockdown, an announcement went out that told all teachers to lock their doors and to keep all students in their room. As police arrived, it was clear that they were concerned as many officers were gearing up in SWAT armor and pulling out assault rifles and shotguns.

A second announcement was made that all students were to move to the interior walls, away from doors and windows.

Police are continuing to sweep the building. Police have made a second sweep of the second floor.

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Currently the school is on lockdown, but a message has been given over the PA that the “imminent danger” is over. Evansville police will be sweeping the building to ensure that everything is clear.

More to come.

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Currently the school is on lockdown. More information to come.

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Reitz High School won the district sweepstakes award at the Business Professionals ofAmerica (BPA) district contest. Twenty-six students from Reitz High School advanced tothe state BPA competition, which will be in Indianapolis in March.This is the second year in a row for the BPA to advance to state.

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