DG Issue 5

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0488dfc3.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0498dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Mrs. Davies                      Room 206</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mrs. Davies Room 20"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Diverse Grapevine 20052006"><U>The Diverse Grapevine 2005-2006</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 1"><U>DG Issue 1</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 2"><U>DG Issue 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id59.jsp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 3"><U>DG Issue 3</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 4"><U>DG Issue 4</U></A>   |   <B>DG Issue 5</B>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 7"><U>DG Issue 7</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 8 "><U>DG Issue 8 </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 9"><U>DG Issue 9</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DG Issue 10"><U>DG Issue 10</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0498dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>DG Issue 5</I></div> <div> LMS Teacher Begins Unique Birthday Drive</div> <bR> <div> by Angelee Santillo</div> <bR> <div>    Food drives around thanksgiving and toy drives in winter are very familiar to most Liberty students not only in the high school, but in the middle and elementary schools as well. These drives encourage students to bring in items to donate to people in need of them. This year, LMS teacher Ms. Kotarski and several of her students have begun a unique drive called a birthday drive.</div> <div>      According to Ms. Kotarski, “I came up with the idea from an article in a newspaper from another state.”</div> <div>      The students who helped Ms. Kotarski get the drive going include LMS 6<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> graders Caitlin Argent, Robert Beach, Joanna Jaquez, Amanda Raven, and Miguel Rodriguez. LMS staff members and students are also participating in the birthday drive by bringing in items to donate.</div> <div>      The purpose of the birthday drive is to collect items that would be appropriate for a birthday (cake mix, gift wrap) for families in the area who cannot afford to buy the items for themselves.</div> <div>      “It is very sad to think of a child who may not get their special day acknowledged because of a lack of money,” says Kotarski. “Many children in our district do not even experience a birthday cake.”</div> <div>      Anyone is welcome to participate in the birthday drive. Possible donations include cake mix, candles, foil pie tins, cake pans, small toys, books, wrapping paper, gift bags, bows, ribbons, tape, frosting cans, party hats, and sprinkles, along with any other appropriate donations. Items can be dropped off in the donation box located in the middle school lobby, and students may ask Mrs. Kirchner for a PBIS ticket each time they drop off items in the box.</div> <div>      The birthday drive is a great project that benefits both the less fortunate members of the area and the students participating.</div> <div>      “The students are becoming sensitive to the situations of others who may not be as fortunate,” says Ms. Kotarski. “They are also learning the positive feelings that come with doing community service.”</div> <div>      The birthday drive will run all year, and anyone is welcome to donate an item that may help to make a person in our area have a very special birthday.</div> <bR> <div> The Memory Project</div> <div> By: Greg Sandoval</div> <bR> <div>     The Memory Project is a recording of the history of Liberty through the memory of its senior citizens, which is a group effort between the Liberty Museum, Liberty High School and the world famous musician, Judith Pearce.</div> <div>     English teacher Colleen Mills' 9<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade students have already interviewed nine citizens with more then of 100 years of Liberty's history in their memories. They told of wars(non-specific), advances in technology, and electricity. Thirty-two students have participated in this project.</div> <div>     The students participating in this project will present reflective writings of the interviews. Musicians will perform pieces made from this project as an overall work.</div> <bR> <div> The Dress Code</div> <div> By: Mac Isseks</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> LHS Fashion: Dress to Impress or Pose to Expose?</div> <bR> <div>              “You're gonna have to change that.”</div> <div>  “Put a sweatshirt on, missy.”</div> <div>  “This isn't a photoshoot, put some more clothes on.”</div> <div>  Within five minutes of innocently sitting in the library, this journalist heard the aforementioned commands to two anonymous females about their outfits. The scene has been commonplace here in Liberty High School lately, as teachers and students continue to butt heads, with both sides refusing to surrender, about appropriate dress in Liberty. </div> <div>      Page 21 of the LHS Student Handbook entails the Student Dress Code with seven clear-cut violations, yet students are finding difficulty properly interpreting step two.</div> <div>      <I>2. Recognize that extremely brief garments such as tube tops, tank tops, net tops, halter tops, spaghetti straps, plunging necklines (front or back) and see through garments are not appropriate.</I></div> <div>      How brief is too brief? Whose body fits what garment? Why are teachers out to get us? Many students at LHS, including senior Jamie Lake, are confused about the ruling.</div> <div>      “I think the dress code should change. It's like, if a girl is willing to wear a spaghetti strap, the rule of three fingers doesn't make sense because it doesn't expose anything. Actually, my softball uniform is more revealing than my spaghetti strap. We shouldn't be punished for wanting to lower our body temperature,” says Lake.</div> <div>      There might just not be a solution to this “problem.” Teenage girls will always want to `show a little skin,' and teachers will always reprimand them for doing so. And in the background, teenage boys will always silently be in the girls' corner, enjoying the frivolous fashion of today's showy society.</div> <div>      “Maybe the teachers are just jealous they can't show what we can anymore,” says an anonymous junior with a laugh. </div> <div>      </div> <div>      </div> <bR> <div> <B>Attention Seniors</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>It's About That Time</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>By:  Priscilla Brown</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>To do what?</B>  Fill out your financial aid.  What is financial aid?  Financial aid helps you pay for college.</div> <bR> <div> <B>How to apply:  </B>Use the web</div> <div>                           Complete and submit the FAFSA</div> <div>                            Remember it's free</div> <bR> <div> <B>Need more info?  </B>Go to www.Hesc.org</div> <div>                                         www.nysfaaa.org</div> <bR> <bR> <div> You can also attend a local workshop.</div> <bR> <div>      On February 4, 2006 in the Grossinger Dining Room at Sullivan County Community College, there will be a SUNY Statewide Financial Aid Day.  The workshop will include discussions about Title IV, FAFSA, applying for the New York State TAP, and information on loans, grants and work-study.  The agenda is:</div> <div> 9:30-10:00: Refreshments and Registration, if not already registered.  </div> <div> 10:00-12:00 Financial Aid Day Workshop. </div> <div>  For more information to register for the workshop please go to <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.sullivan.suny.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sullivan.suny.edu"><U><U>www.sullivan.suny.edu</U></U></A></FONT> and click on the Financial Aid Workshop banner.</div> <bR> <div> The students involved are: </div> <div> Jeremy Garcia</div> <div> Amarynth Sichel</div> <div> Justin Garrett</div> <div> Jill Lieberman</div> <div> Crystal Peart</div> <div> Lamorne Chang</div> <div> Mat Arielly</div> <div> Ryan Cerullo</div> <div> Brittany Melchick</div> <div> Lansford Richards</div> <div> Pranali Trivedi</div> <div> Lindsay Jardine</div> <div> Kris Merklin</div> <div> Risa Bernthal</div> <div> Justin Sutherland</div> <div> Ian Davis</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>