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<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="id80.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 1"><U>Issue 1</U></A> | Issue 3 | <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 3"><U>Issue Three</U></A> | <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 4"><U>Issue Four</U></A> | <A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue Five"><U>Issue Five</U></A>  | <A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 6"><U>Issue Six</U></A> | <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 7"><U>Issue Seven</U></A> | <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 8"><U>Issue Eight</U></A> | <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 9"><U>Issue Nine</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>Issue 3</I></div> <div> Varsity 292</div> <div> By: Guadalupe Perez</div> <div>    placeCityLiberty has a new sports page! Webmaster Ralph Bressler (who also runs our school website) did a great job on the new web site! However, he still wants people to email him pictures and ideas. Varsity 292 recently held a poll for the varsity player who had the best season. The nominees were:</div> <div> <B>-Trevor Tompkins, Football</B></div> <div> <B>-Dustin VanLieu, Football</B></div> <div> <B>-Rebecca Scherer, Soccer </B></div> <div> <B>-Jasmine Walizedah, Soccer</B></div> <div> <B>-Kim McKay, Cross Country</B></div> <div> <B>-Trevor Tate, Cross Country</B></div> <div> <B>-Saeed Robinson, Soccer</B></div> <div> <B>-Evereth Ramirez, Soccer</B></div> <div>   After about a week of constant voting, Saeed Robinson was named the winner.</div> <div>    Varsity 292 is quite empty right now, so e-mail Mr. Bressler with more photos and ideas! </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Mis-Match Day </div> <div> By: Gauri Samant and Nicole Ross</div> <div>    On Wednesday, October 10<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Franklin Gothic Book" >th</FONT>, placeCityLiberty high School students came to school dressed to impress! Students showed their school spirit through stripes, polka dots, tye-dye and funky jewelry for spirit week. The halls were flooded with color when the bell rang for first period. Spirit week is known for its quirky events, and this year placeCityLiberty's students were filled with extra Indian Pride! Mis-Match day was a great success this year compared to the last, with more than half the students participating. Through mis-match day, students expressed their individuality and personal characteristics<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Franklin Gothic Book" >. </FONT>October 10<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Franklin Gothic Book" >th</FONT> was a day for students to relax and go against some school rules, without getting into trouble.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Franklin Gothic Book" > </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> School</div> <div> By: placeAsia Folsom </div> <div>    “Well, placeCityLiberty is okay. Some days are better than others.” says Shanice Owens. </div> <div>    That's coming from someone who has been in the placePlaceNameLiberty PlaceNameCentral PlaceTypeSchool District all their life. </div> <div>    How is CityLiberty for somebody who is new and who could have, believe it or not, come from a school less exciting than placeCityLiberty?</div> <div>    Well, I, Asia Folsom, am new to CityLiberty; and well, placeCityLiberty is not that bad. Yeah, placeCityLiberty school has its days when I'm like “Oh Gosh,” but then it has its days when I'm like, “I love it here.” </div> <div>    School to some kids is like an escape route, a getaway from troubles and worries, and for others it's a pressure builder, a Hell on Earth. We may all complain and groan “School is boring,” or  “Ugh, I hate it here.” But let's stop for a moment and consider ourselves lucky to be even be attending school. Sounds crazy, but true. Selfish are we? No, not exactly. We just have not yet realized how important school really is. School goes far beyond the education part, but only if we let it. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Winter Sports at Liberty</div> <div> By: Tricia Gerwer</div> <div>    Winter sports started at placePlaceNameLiberty PlaceTypeHigh School. Some of these sports are:</div> <div>    Junior varsity and Varsity Boys and Girls Basketball, Varsity Indoor Track, Varsity Alpine  Skiing, Varsity Wrestling, and Junior Varsity and Varsity Basketball Cheerleading. </div> <div>    These sports started practices in the beginning of November. Scrimmages and games started in the middle of November. </div> <div>    The Junior Varsity Boys Basketball coach is Mr. Stoddard. The Varsity Boys Basketball coach is Mr. Semo. The Girls Junior Varsity coach is Mrs. Bull. The Varsity coach is Mr. Lagattuta. The Indoor Track coaches are Mrs. Yaun and Mrs. Simpson. The Varsity Alpine Skiing coach is Ms. Ellmauer. The Wrestling coach is Mr. Lennon. Last but not least the Junior Varsity Basketball Cheerleading coach is Mrs. Koval and the Varsity coach is Mrs. Santillo. </div> <div>    Good luck to all of our winter sports teams! </div> <div>    Let's make it another great season!</div> <bR> <bR> <div> El Día De Los Muertos</div> <div> By: Brianna Mir</div> <div>    Recently the Spanish and French classes made posters. These posters dealt with El Dia de Los Muertos and La Toussaint, or, the Mexican and French versions of Halloween.  All of the posters were decorative, original, and creative. Students chose their own groups in which they all worked their hardest in order to win totally awesome prizes. </div> <div>    First prize was a large bag of candy, two homework passes, and an extra 15 points on a quiz. This was awarded to Will Ramirez, Jaquan Harris, Steven Hewlett, Juan Moreno. </div> <div>    Second prize was a small bag of candy, one homework pass, and ten extra points on a quiz, awarded to Sabrina Mastrogiovanni, Brianna Mir, Meg Goble and Billy Sheehan. </div> <div>     The last prize to be won was third prize which consisted of a small bag of candy, one homework pass or five extra points on a quiz. This was awarded to Janine Stricko, Risa Bernthal, and Josh Goldstein. </div> <bR> <div> Good Job!</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Liberty's Making a Come Back!</div> <div> http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordmlurn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags013f<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >   By: Kristen Heindel</FONT></div> <div>    “Football this season this year was the best season in three years!” exclaimed Mr. O'Connor, the Liberty Varsity football coach.  </div> <div>    Mr. O'Connor has coached football for twelve years has nothing but the best to say about his 5<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >th</FONT> winning team of section 9.  The team practiced since the summer when they practiced two a days.  Some of the boys went to football camp together which had them practicing three a days.</div> <div>    Since school started, the team's practice routine included running, getting psyched, hitting each other, and going over plays and defense. </div> <div>     “Attendance was good, and since everyone came to practice the results of our games were better,” said Mr. O'Connor. </div> <div>    PlaceNameChris PlaceNameLake, number 10 receiver, has been playing placeCityLiberty football since day one in seventh grade.   Chris recently broke his knuckles on teammate's helmet during a practice and needed to have reconstructive surgery.</div> <div>   Mr. O'Connor is disappointed that Chris got injured. </div> <div>    “He was a great pass route,” said O'Connor, adding: “The team is like a family.” </div> <div> Good job Liberty Football! </div> <bR> <bR> <div> The “Amazing” Feats of science</div> <div>    By: Sabrina Mastrogiovanni</div> <div>    Have you ever been stuck on a farm with an impending urge for vanilla ice-cream? Exploit your situation, and make it yourself! How, you may ask? Well, isn't it obvious? Just ask Mayu Yamamoto, of the International Medical Center of Japan, who won an Ig Nobel in Chemistry, and he'll tell you exactly what you need: cow dung. </div> <div>    Ever year Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, holds an awards ceremony in which honors scientists who have (in the words of the director of the Annals of Improbable Research, the science magazine in which hosts the awards ceremony) “done something nobody has every done”, hands out prizes called “Ig Nobels.” </div> <div>    Looking at the list of awards and winners makes me wish <I>I</I> was one of those geniuses. I mean, <I>why couldn't I </I>discover how sheets get wrinkled?<I> </I>(If you're wondering who really did iron out the answer to the that “age old question”, it was the U.S-Chilean team - whom received a neat Ig in the Physics category.)</div> <div>    And now, <U>the list</U> of the other winners: </div> <div>    Now, I don't know about you, but when I was alphabetizing my book collection (give me a break, I needed something constructive to do) I was having trouble with the books that began with “the” in their titles. For example, “The Giver.” Should I organize it under the T's, or under the G's? Well, the Literature award was bestowed upon Glenda Brown of Blue Mountains, placecountry-regionAustralia, who conducted a study on the word “the”, and how it confuses people when putting things in alphabetical order. </div> <div>    Oh - and what a <I>relief</I>! I now know that if I ever speak to rats <I>backwards</I> in placecountry-regionJapan and Dutch that they won't be able to differentiate the languages. The Linguistics award: The University of Barcelona team. </div> <div>    I bet Kuo Chen Hsieh of Taicheng, Taiwang is elated that he was attentive in Economics class. In 2001 he patented a device that throws a net in which traps bank robbers. Who would've thought of that?!!?? The Economics Ig: to Kuo Cheng Hsieh!</div> <div>    Ah, the Nutrition award. Scientists are constantly surfacing with new studies based on Nutrition. Brian Wansink of PlaceNameCornell PlaceTypeUniversity (Yes, that prestigious ivy - league school up by placeCityBuffalo) scrutinized the human appetite by serving bowls of invisible self - serving soup to his volunteers. (I don't know about you, but I'm sure up for a bowl!) </div> <div>    Hoorah! Hamsters everywhere must be applauding for the National University of Quilmes, whom snagged the Aviation award for discovering that certain drugs can relieve hamsters from jet lag. </div> <div>    And lastly, we have the Ig Nobel Peace prize which was awarded to the Air Force Wright Laboratory at the Wright - Patterson Air Force Base. Their peace inspired invention? None other than the chemical “gay - bomb” in which when used “will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.” Um… enough said. </div> <div>    And that wraps it  up for the Ig Nobel Prizes of 2007. One thing's for sure: If the world ever runs out of products in which produce vanillin, there's still a way to create that delectable vanilla ice - cream. </div> <div> Hooray for science!</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Lice Outbreak</div> <div> By: Gauri Samant and Allie Wallgreen   </div> <div> CityplaceLiberty students, beware! You could be on the verge of catching lice! There is rumor that mini outbreaks of lice are going around in our very own PlaceNameplaceLiberty PlaceTypeHigh School! </div> <div>    Louse (the singular of lice) is a tiny, wingless parasitic insect that lives among human hairs and feeds on extremely small amounts of blood drawn from the scalp. Although they may sound gross, lice are a very common problem. </div> <div>    Lice aren't dangerous and they don't spread disease, but they are contagious and can be downright annoying. Their bites may cause your scalp to become itchy and inflamed. Persistent scratching may lead to skin irritation and even infection. </div> <div>    Lice have specially adapted claws that cling firmly to hair. Sharing clothes, hats, combs or brushes increases your chance of catching lice. </div> <div>    If you think that you have lice, see a doctor right away. A doctor can prescribe a medicated shampoo, cream, or lotion to kill lice. It's also a good idea to use a fine-tooth comb to brush your hair after regular shampooing every 3 to 4 days for 2 weeks. Wetting the hair beforehand is recommended because it temporarily immobilizes the lice and they become easier to comb out.</div> <div>    Our school nurse, Mrs. Shorthall, gave us some inside information. She said that pamphlets are available for those who ask for it. She said that it is the student's responsibility to have their hair checked for lice. There are no annual head checkups. </div> <div>    If CityplaceLiberty students are infected with these brown little critters, they are to go home and get treated. If not treated right away, they may not return to school. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Life-Size</div> <div> By: Sabrina Mastrogiovanni</div> <div>    Students in Ms. Lambert's art class have been cloning! Students were divided into groups of three and had to create a life-size model of one person in their group. They  used a technique called casting; an easy technique artists use to create sculptures. They created these sculptures by wrapping layers of tape on the person's arms, torso, and legs. Each day they completed a body part and eventually ended up with the completed result. These pieces of art were displayed in the main lobby from Tuesday, October 30<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >th</FONT> until Friday the 2<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >nd</FONT>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Farewell Mr. Stoddard</div> <div>    By: Faith Mitchell</div> <div>    Mr. Stoddard is not our long term sub any more. He might come back to sub one or two days a week, however. Students can also see him after school because he coaches basketball. For Mr. Stoddard said that he did like working here and that he liked his students, for the most part. Mr. Stoddard also said that he will continue subbing and coaching but will be looking for a full time job. Instead of just subbing here he'd rather be a full time teacher. Mr. Stoddard will miss both staff and students, but if he had to choose who he would miss the most it would be the students because the students are what makes teaching so enjoyable.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>