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Show Page Ten - The Springville Herald - January 19, 2000 Fan club m fight club? by Stefanie Grassley Tuesday, January 4, Spring-ville's Spring-ville's high school basketball game turned out to be more like Rocky's I through V! When you hear of The Fan Club, you first might think of the "Superfans" on Saturday Night Live. But these guys don't sit around eating Polish "Saaashage" and saying "Da Bears!" Spring-ville's Spring-ville's Fan Club is a group of Springville guys who come to all the games to cheer on 'e ' .m. When they're not cheerii.c aicir team on, they're putting the other team, and it's players, down It all came to a head when the Payson Lion's fans with flying fists of flames, and no fear. The Fan Club has always been a part of SHS. but this is the first year it has become an actual organization, with actual posi- 9 r 5 - i t -4 2 A'1 tions. Lee Anderson, President of the club, says, "It's all about school spirit, and pumping up our team to win a few ball games." Membership to the club was by invitation only, and consists of only the cockiest trash-talkers Springville High has to offer. Senior. Dave Valeti, Club Chairman, says, "I'm here to support my team, and to have a good time. In this club it's all for one and one for all!" Members of the club claim to be family, but some take it so seriously it seems similar to a local religion. Helping Chairman Valeti is: First Counselor, Mike Dallin, Second Counselor, Mike Paraskiva, Third Kitione Afemui, Fourth, Monet Uha and Fifth, JNC. JNC (Senior, Jesse Carter), is a part of the Fan Club because, "Everybody goes crazy! Everyone's Every-one's got each other's back. When D-Bone (Valeti) says fight. we fight!" In the middle of Friday's game a wave of red shins, farmer farm-er overalls and one especially cute John Boyd (in a Payson girl's prom dress?) washed over the Payson fans who had unwisely unwise-ly but knowingly sat in the wrong section. Suddenly fists were flying and bodies diving from the top of the bleachers to get in on the action. Junior Kraig Olsen explains, "When their fans sat on their side, and we sat on ours, there was never a problem. But that time, they say by us, taunted us, and started a fight. We got fed up, we weren't gonna sit down and act like pansies. If they wouldn't have sat there, nothing would have happened. Next game, they won't sit by us now will they?" As a result, Payson fans bit off more than they could chew, kinda like Pee Wee Herman Her-man tripping Mike Tyson. It wasn't pretty! From a player's point of view, junior, Mike Barnes remarks, re-marks, "The Fan Club has a definite positive influence. On Friday Payson's star player got fed up with all the s! the Fan Club kept giving him, so he took his jersey off and quit the game, definitely a positive for us. The fight in the crowd also inspired me to play better." "We're just looking to have a good time, but we're misunderstood," misunder-stood," says senior, Jake Cope (official position: Head Trash-talker). Trash-talker). He's the instigator of all fights. His job is to start all the yelling and the pushing. He does his job well. Varsity cheerleaders Shannon Wood and Malea Washburn enjoy having the Fan Club help pump up the team. "They really help out. The Fan Club has a big impact on how the team plays. On Tuesday they beat Payson in overtime, I don't think the team could've done that without all the support that came from the stands," says Wood. Now, men of the Fight Club, I mean Fan Club, your purpose is to have fun and support the team, not gst thrown in jail for all out gang warfare? Even if Godfather Valeti DOES order a horse head gift basket for next week's coach, you don't want to come out of high school with a police record! On your future resume, "College-Good; "College-Good; Jail-Bad!" 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Great-grandparents Great-grandparents are Marion Bird of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. William Wil-liam Rowe of Milukie, Oregon and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Evans Ev-ans of Springville. The Spinal Column by Darren B. Obrey D.C. Soft Tissue Injuries in Whip-lash--rcal or imagined? With the ever increasing number of automobiles on the road, whiplash injuries have become more and more prevalent in our society. With an increase in this type of injury, of course, has come an increase in the number of personal injury liability liabili-ty suits. Those on the defense sides in these suites generally have held that the plaintiffs were fabricating or exaggerating their symptoms to obtain larger settlements, settle-ments, suggesting that once the cases were over, the symptoms would clear up miraculously. To many observers, however, it soon became clear that the constellation of symptoms complained com-plained of by these patients was relatively typical, consistent and somewhat predictable. This would not be the case if these patients were malingering (faking it). To obtain a clearer picture of the problem, investigators began to experiment with anthropometric anthropomet-ric dummies, laboratory animals, cadavers and human volunteers. It was found with these tests that injuries sustained from crashes varied from minor muscle tears to serious dislocations and fractures frac-tures to the neck and back, along with head injuries from the whipping whip-ping motion alone. Many of these injuries were not apparent on normal x-ray or advanced imaging such as MRI or CT. which are often used clinically to document cases. High powered and electron microscopes, mi-croscopes, along with laboratory and nerve function exams showed injury or alterations to many soft tissue components such as muscles, mus-cles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, arteries and veins and many types of connective tissue. The most concerning of all of this is the long term affects of these injuries. 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