Chloe treece

By Alisha Evich

Sports Co-Editor

Hawkeye: How do you feel about your time at state?

Chloe Treece: Going into the first day, I wanted to make it to the second day. I was proud I made it. I didn’t play the second day as well as I wanted to, I should have played better.

Hawkeye: Are you proud you’ve made it this far? 

C.T.: It was kind of what I expected of myself. I went to state sophomore year, so I already experienced it. It was alot better than sophomore year. 

Hawkeye: Do you plan on doing track for a future activity or a career?

C.T.: I did my senior project on golf and learning about golf instucting. My goal is to go to the LPDA tour. But if that doesnt happen then I’m planning on playing in smaller events. 

Hawkeye: Do you have any big accomplishments during your time in golf? 

C.T.: Making the second day was an accomplishment. It was kind of expected since I didn’t play my best. 

Hawkeye: Do you have any treasured memories of golf? 

C.T.: One was meeting other girls from around the state, that I would never play against in the season. It was cool to meet other people. 

TITI Chickoore

By Jacob Anderson

Hawkeye staff

Hawkeye: How do you feel about your time at state?

Titi Chickoore: It felt really good. That all my hardwork had paid off

Hawkeye: Are you proud you’ve made it this far? 

T.C.: Nope. well I’m proud that I made it but not my performance. It was my personal worst. 

Hawkeye: Do you plan on doing track for a future activity or a career?

T.C.: Well I’m getting into a Community College, and track ist offered. But I might want to go into the junior olympics.

When asked if she had a treasured memory of track, Chikoore stated she didn’t have one. 

Nina Penner

By Alisha Evich

Sports Co-Editor

Hawkeye: How do you feel about your time at state?

Nina Penner: It felt good. I was kind of having an off day, so I didn’t get a personal record or anything though. 

Hawkeye: Do you plan on doing track for a future activity or a career?

N.P.: I don’t know. I have other things in my life that I want to do.

Hawkeye:Do you have any big accomplishments during your time at track? 

N.P.: One of my big accomplishments was making it into the teams of 800.

Hawkeye: Do you have a treasured memory of track? 

N.P.: Not really. I remember when i was getting ready to run I looked up into the stands and I was nervous. 

Jenna Donohue

By Jacob Anderson

Hawkeye staff

Hawkeye: How do you feel about your time at state?

Jenna Donohue: It feels really good. It’s like you put so much effort and time into it and then it pays off. 

Hawkeye: Are you proud you’ve made this far? 

J.D.: Yes I’m proud I’ve made it this far, but I wish I had a little better meet. 

Hawkeye: Do you plan on doing track for a future activity or a career?

J.D.: Possibly next year cause I really enjoy it, we”ll see what happens. 

Hawkeye: Do you have any big accomplishments during your time at track? 

J.D.: Coming into the meets ranked low and did my best and finishing higher than I assumed. It felt really good. 

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The goal of most students is to work hard, get good grades, and enter a good college. One of the main impediments presented to students along this path is the steep cost of higher education. This will be especially harder in coming years due to rising tuition costs.
Washington State Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposal, if passed, will make it harder for students to pay for college. Gregoire has asked the government to increase tuition of state universities by 28 percent over the next two years.
“I’m asking our families and students to sacrifice a little bit,” she said. “Under the proposal, the tuition of four-year universities would rise by 14 percent each year over the next two years. The tuition of community and technical colleges would rise by 7 percent per year.”
MTHS counselor Angela Nivens encourages students not to get disheartened. “Students must continue their education, but the tuition cost of college is putting a barrier in their way of getting a good education that will impact the rest of their lives,” she said, “however, paying for college is the best investment over a lifetime. I paid through my college with loans and work-study and got through college. I never regret paying for college.”
Nivens believes that students should not pick a college based on cost alone; decisions should be made based on the programs that specific colleges sponsor, what the student will get in return for their investment, whether the school will fits with the overall character of the student and also the overall cost.
College tuition costs now have greatly increased compared to costs of college in previous years. “I went to Ohio State University in 1997 (9 years ago),” said Robin Cogburn, MTHS Spanish teacher, “where the tuition was about $20,000 a year. I also went to Eastern Washington University in 1985 (21 years ago), where the tuition was $3,000 a year. “
Becki Burguesser, a recent graduate and current English teacher says, “UC Davis in Sacramento California, an out-of-state university, costed about $16,000 a year in 2003-2006. Graduate school at University of Washington cost about $9,000 in 2007-2009.”
Gil Comeau, science teacher, attended Harvard back in 1971-1974. He recalls, “Back then it cost about $15,000 a year. Now, it is around $50,000 a year to go there.”
Gregoire’s proposal will increase the tuition costs further if it is passed. Counselors and teachers suggest is a good idea for students to talk to their parents for ways to pay for college as well as look to available loans and scholarships. It is possible to go to college with the available loans, scholarships, and other opportunities.

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Thirty-five years-ago, Ray Hanby, a former English teacher at MTHS, established the hiking club for all who wanted to participate and have marvelous time hiking.
The Hiking Club usually goes hiking once a month, at frequently familiar places such as Crystal Valley, Ebey’s Landing, Whidbey Island, and Fragrance Lake. Hikers usually leave at 8 a.m. and return around 5 p.m. on scheduled Saturdays. There are about 15 students that attend the affair but advisor Gil Comeau stated he would love to have more. He takes on this role because he enjoys the experience and feels that “hiking gives different skills and self-relliance and how to work with a group.”
The club recently had one hiking trip on May 23 at Lake 22 near Mt. Pilchuck, and their last hiking trip this year was on June 6.
Hikers also take longer summer trips, ranging four to five days. While on a trip one is able to do things that they might not have ever done, Comeau comments. He enjoys the feeling of accomplishment to seeing new, interesting and strange things; and of taking that final step to the top of the mountain that many people don’t get to experience.
Junior Gabe Much has been hiking his whole life and joined the club this year. “It’s fun to enjoy the outdoors with other people and just really relaxing,” he said. “It feels good to relish in God’s creation.”
Comeau likes to go hiking because it’s “fun, easy, not a sport”, and a different more interesting way to get to know people instead the same normal setting of everyday life. Never knowing what will happen on the hiking trip: seeing a new animal, finding a fossil, finding a dead body, never know what could happen in the woods. Over the past 31 years, about 1,500 students have gone on the MTHS hiking trips.
“Students that come back often remember the hiking club,” said Comeau “and the remarkable experience they had on the trips to the mountains.”
Joining the hiking club is easy; one needs to go hiking a filling out a permission slip bring a lunch, coat and $3. There is that little extra charge due to budget problems. Also with the budget problems they are not able to use the ASB bus next year and so hikers will need to find their own ride to wherever they will be hiking. The hiking club says it is always willing to help out any of their new member that wants to join in the fun of hiking.

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Honor Society’s 2008-2009 cookie dough fundraiser ended as a profitable success.
The group started this year off with a goal of selling a total of $3,000 worth of cookie dough, yet they finished the fundraiser off with $4,500. With a profit rate of 50 percent they made $2,250.
Honor Society member Samantha Morin started the drive off with a goal of selling two tubs of cookie dough to support the fundraiser. She finished the fundraiser off with three sold tubs.
“It helped make a difference!” said Morin.
At $15 apiece, 300 tubs of cookie dough were sold by the end of the fundraiser. The overall profits of the drive were divided equally between the local food bank and the Asian Institute located in the Middle East, giving $1,125 to each organization.
“It’s a great way to get people involved in their communities.” said Morin.
The Honor Society feels accomplished with their sales, and for what they contributed to the community. There is talk of Honor Society sponsoring future fundraisers next year, yet will allow the whole school to participate.

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In the last issue of the year, the Hawkeye staff would like to thank everyone who contributed to our success this year.
Thank you for your time, energy, commitment and support. We attended two national conventions this year and was awarded 7th in the Nation this spring. We also received Recognition of Excellence from WJEA at the state conference. This year, with your help, we volunteered at the Orion Center with food and blankets and once again produced a successful Jam Session. So here in our limited space are some specific thank you’s just to show a twinkling of our gratitude.
Students and Faculty: Thank you so much for your readership and support this school year. One of the reasons the Hawkeye has enjoyed success is because there is always news at Terrace from the interesting students and staff. We can hardly wait to serve you again next year.
Mark Isakson: Thank you for being awesome; need we say more? You have done a fantastic job as adviser working one-on-one with students, passing on your computer savvy to more generations of Hawkeye staff and for spreading your passion for our First Amendment rights across the school and beyond. We are very sad to see you go and wish you the best of luck in your next job. We will miss you.
Greg Schwab, Erin Murphy and Scott Morrison: Thank you so much for ensuring the safety of our First Amendment rights. Thank you for being easy to work with and great instructors of professionalism and responsibility. Thank you for caring about our school and our organization and we are excited to work with you next year. Hawkeye thrives because of you.
Kim Stewart and ASB: Thank you for caring so much about MTHS students. You are so helpful to our organization and we know we would be nowhere near as successful without you. This year has been difficult with declining funding but you still do an amazing job making this school a great place. Thank you for your hard work and cooperation. We hope to have another great year with you next year.
Nadine Coombs: Thank you for being so patient with us and for working so hard to make sure we could open the concessions stand and send students off to conventions. You have helped us to go so far (literally).
Hawkeye Parents: You are our secret weapon. You build us wheels, bring us food, help with Orion Center, and chaperone our events. Thank you so much for understanding how important our work is and continuing to believe in and motivate us. You are astounding.
Vincent DeMiero: Words cannot express our gratitude for our adviser emeritus in his help with Jam Session, conventions, guidance, and long weekend crunches. Thank you for always cheering us on and always “having” time to help. We will never forget what you have taught us, nor your passion for journalism.
DeMiero Family: Where to begin? Other than sacrificing one more family member to the vortex called Hawkeye, you have been constant motivators and encouragement. Thank you for the many hours you spent helping our eight issues, a special issue, Jam Session and conventions all run smoothly.
Scott Bush: You are always there for conventions, sporadically show up throughout the year and always try to remain available for retreats. Thank you for your continual support, great roll modeling and fond memories.
Tim Cashman and Michael Wewer: You two have graciously shared your classroom space with the Hawkeye even when we leave our papers lying all about and meeting notes on the board. Thank you for being so encouraging, supportive, and understanding of our work. We hope to work again with you both.
Jim “Animal” Pecotte and Lynda McDougal: Though we do not see you all the time and cannot enjoy your company on crunch nights or after all-staff meetings, we are always thinking of you and are eternally grateful for your continual encouragement. You will always be part of our Hawkeye family. We miss you two!
Richard Fazakerley, Terry Fain and Pacific Publishing: Thank you for helping us get out eight great issues—two of which have received awards. Thank you for remaining flexible, even when we are running late and for working with us past all our bedtimes. Most of all, thank you for helping high school journalists print their newspapers and exercise their rights.
Advertisers: Thank you for continuing to support our paper, even when budgets are thin. We appreciate your interest and hope to continue with you next year. We need you.

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Andrew Morrison, popular local Native American artist and Mountlake Terrace High School graduate, was notified of the cancellation of the multicultural mural he was painting in the Hub in fourth week of March.
The prepping and painting of the multicultural mural was planned to begin during Spring Break. The reason the activities/athletic coordinator at MTHS, Kim Stewart, gave him was plain and simple lack of funding. Morrison was very disappointed that the reason the mural was cancelled was due to lack of funding and late notification.
“This makes me look like a fool,” Morrison said. He stated that he had told hundreds of people about this mural, so now people, some of whom are his customers, will be looking for it and will wonder what happened.
“[I] thought it was a great way to build moral and camaraderie for the students and the staff,” stated Morrison.
Former MTHS graduate said that he is unsure whether he would attempt to do another mural for the high school. Morrison also has no opinion on where the fault lies for the cancellation, because he was given so little information on why there was no funding for the mural.

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We are living in exponential times. For example, did you know that it is predicted that this year will generate 4 exabyte’s (4×10^19) of unique information? That’s more info than the past 5,000 years. But, amongst these wild changes, the threat of the status quo is also rising exponentially. “Wars” are still raging at an alarming rate for no adequate reason, destroying cultures and civilizations, breeding horrid chaos and ignorance, all without an end in sight. Five percent of the world continues to run the politics of the rest. The economy is turning into another great depression on a global scale. The world is taking a sharp turn, and our generation has the power to decide what’s around the corner. Either we recognize these problems and do something, or we continue to ignore them and procrastinate.
Take the advice of Martin Luther King Jr. and judge our current over hyped president “by the content of [his] character, and not by the color of his skin.” Since his campaign, Obama has extended his dates on the supposed withdrawal on Iraq. He’s flip-flopped on Iran in front of different audiences. The military budget has risen from the Bush era. He wants to escalate chaos in Afghanistan in an unwinnable war by defeating an imaginary enemy. Its neighbor, Pakistan, has also reported numerous U.S. assaults on innocent villagers in the name of “fighting terrorism.” He ignorantly backed Georgia when they attacked their neighbors the “evil Russians.” U.S. policy continues to aid the Israeli government in its 60+ years of Palestinian oppression.
Meanwhile back at home, in the midst of an economic recession that’s snowballing out of control, he has supported unpopular banker bailouts and an economic “stimulus” package made up of more of your money than the total current cost of Iraq. Furthermore, Chrysler is failing and legal deals are being made with contracts, lenders, and the government. One company, Perella Weinberg, was forced to quit from these negotiations because, according to attorney Tom Lauria, his client “was directly threatened by the White House, and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal under threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight.”
The White House is infested with lobbyists, such as William Lynn, Mark Patterson, and the now head of the CIA and king amongst Wall Street lobbyists, Leon Panetta. Taking these facts into consideration after just 100 days, does this justify the “change” we were all promised? However, it is important to realize energy should not be directed at blaming Obama alone, as we’ve had all the presidents after JFK to blame as well. Energy should be directed towards realizing that there is no real difference from the right or the left; they’re two wings on the same bird. As Jesse Ventura always says, politics is like professional wrestling. In front of the crowd they seem to fight each other, but in the back rooms, they’re all buddies. Trust people, not parties, nor mainstream media outlets. Breakaway from this false left-right paradigm that most of the older generation is trapped in.
The most talked about thing right now, news wise, is the economy. There is one concept that requires understanding: inflation. Inflation is when a currency losses it’s purchasing power. The government, to pay for massive programs such as the “stimulus” package, has to get the money from somewhere. Well, you can either tax the money, which would be counter-productive, borrow it, which would further burden the American trillions in debt, or print it. Printing money out of thin air devalues current currency (inflation) and every dollar you own loses worth. The money is printed by a private entity known as the Federal Reserve, which, as previous chairmen Alan Greenspan paraphrased, is above the Federal government itself. Translation: the worthless pieces of paper in your wallet are backed by nothing, not even trust in the government. Economist Peter Schiff, though mocked in the mainstream till now, has been predicting for this crash before it was even thought a possibility. “You can’t spend your way out of a recession” echoes Schiff and other economists with some common sense. Schiff understands that everything the government is doing is going to deepen the recession, not cure it. Take college for example. Why do you think college prices are so high? Government loans. A couple of generations ago, a student could afford a decent university by working as a waiter during the summer, without loans, scholarships, or outside help of any kind.
The crisis has just begun. Peter Schiff predicts that with all this government interference we’re headed for a hyperinflationary depression. Congressman Ron Paul is in the same boat, and knows that the ultimate end will be the destruction of the dollar. Though readers may be too young to understand or take action now, intelligent economists like Schiff say financial protection lies in buying gold. Gold has real value and can protect against inflationary measures. In 2004, gold bottomed at $250 an ounce; in the future, don’t be surprised to see it at $2,500.
Unfortunately, things only get worse from here. Gerald Celente is the foremost renowned trends researcher, who uses current events to predict future outcomes, such as the 1987 stock market crash or the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also predicted this economic state of being, documenting this last year as “the collapse of ’08.” Celente predicts that we are headed towards the “Greatest Depression.” Because people will lose and keep losing, crimes are going to go through the roof, rivaling third world countries. New York City will look like Mexico City, the United States itself becoming a dangerous place. Tax revolts, hunger riots, violence, kidnapping’s will be a norm. Not to mention the tens of millions of guns just lying around. The survival instinct will erupt. Christmas shopping will be about food rather than retail gifts. We will see the U.S. becoming the first “undeveloped country.” Celente has a saying: “when people lose everything and they have nothing to lose, they lose it.” Over the next half a decade, our generation is going to go through much worse than the depression of the 1930s. In order for things to get any better, government has to stop interfering, let capitalism take its place. Innovation must create new jobs, like the Internet did in the 1990s recession. The best course of action would be to gain protection, stay proactive and gain the right information, or as Celente describes it as “attacking the attacker.”

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Senior experience: taking quizzes about yourself that rival those of Facebook, dressing up for an imaginary job five years from now, and pretending to have kids for the sake of sometimes messed up scenarios. Isn’t your experience as a senior supposed to be enjoyable?
Most of the curriculum in senior experience comes to the 17- and 18-year-old students too late. They teach the students about sexually transmitted illnesses (also taught in freshmen health), budgeting, job interviews, financial aid for college and some general laws. It would be more relevant to present most of this course material when the students are sophomores or juniors. It was less useful because half of the course was about getting a job and what to do with your money while many of the students got jobs back when they were 16 years old.
Filling out a job application for a future job was less helpful than filling an application out for a job we could currently get would be. It helps to know what our options are and how to get the job, but applying to Jack in the Box would have been more helpful than applying to some architectural company or hospital.
Students took tests to find out what kind of careers they would be good at and many of those careers require college degrees. If the assessments showed that the student would do well in a career that required one of these degrees but the student had only taken and passed the classes necessary to graduate high school and not the extras that colleges want, the student wouldn’t be able to go into that field. However, if the students took the assessments when they were freshmen, they still had a chance to prepare to go to college.
The unit about financial aid came late as well. There are many scholarships available for sophomores and juniors and many of the scholarships that seniors apply to are due before the second semester of school. Furthermore, learning about college loans before senior year would help students figure out exactly how they are going to afford college before they need to fill out scholarship applications.
Starting to learn how to keep a budget just before students go to live on their own is not a good idea. They will surely fail and end up back at their parents’ house because they thought they could afford more than they really could. But if they start budgeting when they turn 16, they have a few years of practice before they meet the real world.
So much of the work in this course basically taught nothing. Students looked at web sites and compared them or they took unfruitful quizzes. They learned what kind of shopper they were but if they spend too much, they did not learn how to stop. The class was so full of lessons students will not remember when the situation actually occurs.
So, if most of the curriculum would have been more helpful to sophomores and juniors, when should the school teach it? Much of the course work, such as the information about STI’s, relationships, families, and even co-worker relationships and job applications would easily fit in a freshman health class. Assessments about future careers, online shopping, laws about phishing and peer-to-peer file sharing could be in a FIST class.
Schools take on too much of the educating that parents should do. It should ultimately be parents who are a good example of healthy relationships, lawful and aware citizens, good workers and responsible spenders. Schools seem to be failing at it anyway so why not hold the parents a little more accountable. In a perfect world, parents would teach their kids all the tools taught in senior experience and the schools would pay less to reinforce these lessons.

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One of the most incredibly dangerous practices a society can tolerate within itself is allowing religion any input or power over the society. This is not a new theory, an untested one, or even truly debatable. In the numerous unfortunate examples we have of religious leaders being allowed legal powers and precedents, an invariable trend is their immediate use of this power towards undeniably harmful acts. When Christians were able to follow up on the Bible’s commandment of “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18), they did so with glee and nothing resembling fair democratic process. This sort of thing doubtlessly would have continued were it not for government intervention. The Spanish Inquisition and its penchant for burning human beings alive lasted over 350 years. This is not simply ancient foreign history, however. Mormons had to have their funds taken and their religion greatly restricted before they ended their polygamous practices, yet breakaway groups mainly centered in Utah still regularly gain notoriety on cable news networks for their polygamy and sexual liaisons with underage girls. They are only able to accomplish this with the help of local law enforcement tolerance.
Even more obvious examples emerge from the Middle East, in which religiously controlled governments have free reign to execute homosexuals and restrict the rights of women to unbelievable degrees. Though our American government is protected somewhat by the principle of separation of church and state, the Christian influence still presents a very real danger.
As history continues to show us, if religions are given power, they will not use that authority to force through bills demanding things such as universal health care, as one would imagine after hearing so much about Christian love and compassion. The moderate Christian majority is instead far more concerned with furthering the bigotry and intolerance against the homosexual minority espoused by their barbaric holy book.
One of the most despicable and sickening aspects of the American social conscience is how denying a harmless minority group fundamental rights such as marriage is seen as an acceptable political position in the 21st century among mainstream politicians and the American majority.
This is not the work solely of home-schooled fundamentalists as might be imagined; this is the average, moderate Christian leading the Crusade-esque fight against basic civil rights, lifesaving medical procedures such as stem cell research, women’s rights over undeveloped life forms dependent upon them, euthanasia, and the teaching of established scientific facts about how our universe and human race came into being. They have no choice, of course, since religions have ever been terrified of science: every fossil we uncover pushes Adam and Eve out of our collective histories and every advance in aeronautics shoves God out of our clouds.
These same people are at the forefront of support for the increasingly genocidal state of Israel, though of course both sides of that conflict have committed innumerable religiously motivated atrocities. Their ideals have no limit to how they will invade and intrude upon the lives of others. Thanks to some kind of perceived magical difference between premarital and postmarital sex, a teenage girl who acts upon healthy and natural urges does so at the risk of being labeled a “slut” or any various other creative and imaginative terms fueled by that classic Christian love and compassion. One needs only to look at the countless abuse scandals and cover-ups by the Catholic clergy to see the true dangers of sexual repression. It is almost unimaginable to think of the easily preventable disease, suffering, and death that will come as a result of the Pope’s recent ban on condoms.
How hard will religion need to fight against reason, rationality, and science before the sight of students praying in a circle around our school’s flagpole becomes unbearably horrifying? How much oppression, harm, and ignorance will the American populace fund and endure before it admits that religion has no place in our modern society? Do not debate the answer long. These people are already destroying the fabric of our society. Give them enough time, and they will destroy us all.

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By Dominique Bishop

Sports Co-Editor

This sports season has been an exceptional one for the Hawks. Women’s track and golf saw the front door, foyer, and living room of state, while softball went all the way, playing against the big dogs, Kelso, in the back yard. 

Six of the eight spring sports teams (softball, baseball,  men’s soccer, women’s golf, tennis, and track) had at least one player make it onto the South Division All-WesCo list.

Here’s a quick overview…

Sport                     First Team                                            

Baseball                  Senior, Paul Clingan; Catcher

                               Senior, Karsten Strieby; First Baseman

                               Senior, Ryan Sells; Pitcher                              

Men’s Soccer           Junior, Ben Winters; Goalie

                               Freshman, Jonathan Alvarez; Forward

                               Junior, Manix Alvarez; Midfielder

Women’s Track       Junior, Jenna Donohue; Triple Jump

Women’s Golf         Senior, Chloe Treece

Softball                   Senior, Kori Seidlitz; Pitcher

                               Senior, Kayla Watson; Catcher

                               Senior, Aly Delizo; Third Baseman

                               Junior, McKenzie Dessin; Utility Player

Women’s Tennis     Junior, Teryn Bouche and Senior, Ann Truong; Doubles

                               Second Team

Baseball                   Ryan Sells; Utility Player

Men’s Soccer           Senior, Tevor Gunderson; Defender

                                Junior, Dylan O’Day; Defender

                                Junior, Kiefer Higgins; Midfielder

Women’s Track       Freshman, Nina Penner; 800

Players who made the “Honorable Mention” list are:

Baseball: Andrew Woeck, Kyle Barisic, Matt Shafer, Jacob Mann, & Jaykob Sells.

 Softball: Chelsea Crews & Mindy James. 

Men’s Soccer:  Robert Yarbough & Levi Suryan. 

Men’s Track:  Dakota Red Cloud. 

Women’s Track:  Titi Chikoore & Jenna Donohue.

With the boost of seeing teammates make the list this year, maybe next year the Hawks will try that much harder, with hopes of being additions to the All-WesCo list.

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