Show shadow be kicked off the latest Suniwr series which was really cool to see Then she wrote the Health Headlines for the day and edited especially since I had never done a job shadow hut Mary Nicklcs was really nice and I had a lot of all the stones for the next showed me what it was like to he a news anchor and T learned so much by "shadowing” her! She said that she enjoyed television news because it was the most challenging There arc so many different aspects to consider with television news os compared with newspapers or radio "2Ncws" has nearly half a million viewers watching every week arid it was an awesome place to sec! I would encourage everyone to do a job shadow of someone they admire to learn mb re about their newscast The day before 1 visited die studios war the Super Bowl iso and there were a lot of phone calls the next day regarding the halftime show They shared some of the on the noon show which 1 thought was admirable they really do read feedback from everyone and use it onthe show Then 1 got to watch the noon show live 1 watched the fust half of die show’ by the news desk and for the second half 1 got to go in the control room and watch the news producer and everyone work It was very interesting to see everything they have to do during the show it was a lot more work than 1 had thought mostly because all 1 knew about was what 1 saw on TV which is just a small part of what is going on At first 1 was nervous to go to a broadcast major What you thought you knew (continued from pg 1) fun when occupation T was there' By Camilla Ohm When 1 started Ip write this article 1 thought 1 would write about how the school distributes finds and how too much attention and money is given to one group over She thought for sure that the school and district was paying for everything in athletics The money that comes for spoils is from the regis- ft will help you t space that lists a $40 fee for every sport you play is what makes up the athletic budget The athletic budget at MC is $50700 and the school decides which spoils will get what of that budget ft can he big or small for instance football consumes $9000 of the budget while Tennis receives $550 Another factor of school ex- pcnscs is activities For registrar tion everyone has to pay a $30 activity fee This money will go to student-bod- y groups such as Exec which receives $6000 and WAMA who gets' $800 Class officers : decide what you want to do in the future For mtrc information about job shadowing you can talk to your counselor or career center coordinator You can also visit www johshadoworg to find out more about how it works Experience is the best way to Jcam and you can have a lot of fun too! station more money to different groups But 1 was wrong again The football team) for example will go out to eat and possibly charge up a bill of $1500 That money doesn't come from the school hqwpver The athletes have organizations called booster clubs that receive donations from the community and furnishing die they do money for their meals boxes of Gatorade etc Other groups such as Model UN and SBO’s also receive a meal from the school mice in a while That money comes from the vending machine find 1 asked Martie how much we earn through die vending machines and she said $14000! No wonder vending machine companies want to keep the machines in schools 1 guess 1 have changed my opinion bn how the school operates Martie Smith said she felt the ' school distribution of funds was fair Whether or not you agree with her there it is! tration fees ticket sales and little booster club donations-Tha- However when 1 re- searched and got copies of the budget accounts ofjust how much money is spent and where 1 changed my mind i decided to tell you exactly how things work at MC 1 know a lot of people out another i there believe academics get no attention while athletics consume a huge part of the budget 1 used to think that too' So 1 am going' to give you a few numbers of expenses at MC to give you an idea of what lam talking about: For instance die district will fink out $57572 every year fin academic groups and classes such as De- bate Drama Band Art English and so on They pay for Chemistry ESL Special Ed PE Math History and almost every class you go to at Mountain Crest Here is what surprised me the most: for Athletics the district dishes but a grand total of $0 Nothing 1 this I thought 1 would learn that it would be how die school gave fund-raise- band competition entry fees CapriellcK school calenders news" ' paper and the literary magazine are all a part of this group So what about all the free meals and other advantages some groups get? When f asked Manic Smith school bookkeeper about rs ‘ Let's make way for FBLA By Jessica Ochsrnhrin Yc had some awesome Wow! pciiplc go really far in region competition for FBLA from Mountain Crest this year Here are those who placed and what they placed in: RJ Netzky placed 4th in Accounting 11 and in Business Calculations Jenna Furch placed 5th in Desktop Publishing and Lindsey Curtis took 5th as well in Telecommuni- cations ' Dahlin Fames die FBLA president took 4th in Networking Tyler Hoskin got 2nd in Banking Finance and 3idin Economics! ! Key: Club For State everybody is going to the Marriott center in Provo March 25th and 26th They’ll be staying for two nights and there ivill be competitions free time and a dance! For those ofyou wondering what FBLAstands for it’s Future Busi- nessLeaders of America Themis- sion for FBLA is to bring business and school together for students to have fun and hang out with their friends while doing it It enables all involved to get leadership skills and gives some major career de veloping programs that will help anybody big time when it comes to jobs in financing or accounting Some of the people who arc com- -' ' peting in FBLA will go to Nation- als in Denver Colorado this July You can sign up for FBLA in the fall up through October As was stated before Dallin Fames is the president so if you have any questions you can ask him or Mrs Vilr ' son the teacher in charge of FBLA Here is a website for the FBLA di- - vision: wwwfhla-pblor- g totally rocks the school By Shrilly Duhson 7 The Key Club is doing a lot of cool service projects right now Throughout- the year they have been doing activities with the kids at Millville Elementary The Key Club goes every Thursday after school hut anyone can gh any school day if you want to' participate Also this year the Key Club has been visitingProvidcncc Assisted Living The membcrs who go siiy its a lot of fun They get to do activities with them and for Valentine's they had a party there: The club also sold roses and bal- loons for Valentine's Duv at MC ' Recently they collected various new items such a toothbrushes and bed sheets The items were collected in third hour and the class that donated the most got an ice cream party On the 21st the items were donated to the Ronald McDonald House where families stay while their child is in thc hov Historian Courtney Hahnc says “Key Club has fulfilling afterschool activities? and that they always have a lot of fun! By tobacco (notev- cry one uses tobacco) tobacco (using to 2 bacco isn't glamourous) 3 Smoking and pregnancy (smoking is harmful to pregnant women and their babies) 4 Importance of family members as nonsmoking role models (family members should be positive role models by not using tobacco) 5 Secondhand smoke (it’s unhealthy to he around cigarette Shrihy Dobson 1 Tobacco prevention is important for everyone especially teens One way to prevent smoking and chewing tobacco is through education By learning about tobacco and its harmful effects and by par--' ticipating in activities against' to- hacco use wc can prevent smok- ing and chewing tobacco Coming up there is aTruth From Youth Advertising Contest This is the sixth year ftr-thcontest and anyone 5 to 1 8 can enter Last year more than 13000 students from 21 7 schools in Utah ' ' ' - Anti-Tobac- co participated sending in 7996 en7 7 tries ' " For the contest everyone creates an antitobacco TV radio or billboard ad This year the theme is “The Truth About Tobacco Get it" You can create ads by yourself nr with a group andenter as many times as you want The ad must include one of these five object ' tives: smoke)- - The grand prize winners get to help produce their work into real TV radio and billboard ads that will airinMayof2004Therearemany other prizes for each category Thanks to all the efforts for the smoking rate for Utah youth has dropped from 17 to 7 (1997-200The contest deadline is March 222004 For more information call or (801) 256-49or(801)53 1) 24 ' go to ybiithagainsttohaccocom |