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Halloween has passed, but everyone always appreciates a good mystery about the school they attend. If you’ve been attending MTHS long enough you will have probably heard about people encountering strange things happening in the school, especiall

Halloween has passed, but everyone always appreciates a good mystery about the school they attend. If you’ve been attending MTHS long enough you will have probably heard about people encountering strange things happening in the school, especially if you have ever been apart of the drama department or visited the theatre.

“I don’t really know who she is. We think she is a female ghost, because she seems to be most active around our male theatre technicians. She has been know to play pranks on techies and likes to play with the lights in audience area. We call her Gertrude, which she seems to be satisfied with.”

Jeannie Brzovic

drama instructor

These encounters are nothing of the fourth kind or trip to the French opera, but more along the lines of having odd things happen while working on an upcoming play or during drama class.

Serena Urrutia | The Hawkeye

A student roams the eerie halls of Mountlake Terrace High School with every little subtle movement of her footsteps filling the penetrable silence.

Unfortunately the photo taken by the former student could not be located, but those who did see it were instantly convinced that there actually might be something supernatural there

On top of the story of the possibility of a ghost wondering in the theater, some of you may know that the Hawkeye students stay behind at school late into the night on school days as well as on weekends, and have said to experienced weird things happening while we walked through the school.

Our own photo graphics editor, Heidi Lara-Flores, has claimed hearing weird noises while heading down to the news room to work, “ I was walking down to the room and heard doors and shuffling noises, and thought it could be one of the other staff, but he had left as I was coming in so that was ruled out. I also thought it could have been one or the janitorial staff but, it was much too late for them to still be here.” This was not the first time something odd has happened to one of the staff, and it certainly wont be the last time as long as the school is standing.

Though this has absolutely nothing to do with ghosts it makes you wonder about what happens after school hours.

One night a terrace alumnus and his friends were goofing around one night and decided to come to the school. Once here they walked to the to the back of the school, by the art rooms, and climbed on top of the fenced of air ventilation system to the roof.

After getting on top of the roof they walked a little ways to the very top of the roof and found a small door that seemed to be open. The hatch or knob seemed to be unlocked and only opened from the outside.

The alumnus and his friends decided on going inside and found themselves in a long small hallway. Along the left side were doors, and when they opened these doors they found a single chair and single light hanging from the ceiling.

At the very end of the hallway there was another door with another chair inside, but along with the chair on the back wall there seemed to be chains hanging on the wall. In The corner of this room there was also a ladder that looked to have led to an opening outside.

They climbed up the ladder and found themselves on a small type of balcony. It was very dark and they hadn’t brought any type of light source, but after looking around a bit up there they found what they think were rags with blood on them.

Once they had found this they quickly decided that they had better leave, and only spoke to friends about there strange finding, and dared not tell administration because they would, of course, be expelled.

There could be many explanations to this story, but no one will ever know. Only you can decide whether our school has unexplained events or places hidden in it or it’s history.

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These encounters are nothing of the fourth kind or trip to the French opera, but more along the lines of having odd things happen while working on an upcoming play or during drama class.

According to drama teacher Jeannie Brzovic, these trickeries have been going on for a while, “The theatre ghost was in residence before I got here. I don’t really know who she is. We think she is a female ghost, because she seems to be most active around our male theatre technicians. She has been know to play pranks on techies and likes to play with the lights in audience area. We call her Gertrude, which she seems to be satisfied with, and sometimes we put her name in the program, which also seems to make her happy. We have found that when her name appears in the program there are fewer unexplained problems and pranks. There was one photo taken by one of our student techies, and next to him was a blurred glowing figure of a woman. I think that was the moment that I started to believe there might actually be something to the rumor.”

Unfortunately the photo taken by the former student could not be located, but those who did see it were instantly convinced that there actually might be something supernatural there

On top of the story of the possibility of a ghost wondering in the theater, some of you may know that the Hawkeye students stay behind at school late into the night on school days as well as on weekends, and have said to experienced weird things happening while we walked through the school.

Our own photo graphics editor, Heidi Lara-Flores, has claimed hearing weird noises while heading down to the news room to work, “ I was walking down to the room and heard doors and shuffling noises, and thought it could be one of the other staff, but he had left as I was coming in so that was ruled out. I also thought it could have been the janitorial staff but, it was much too late for them to still be here.” This was not the first time something odd has happened to one of the staff, and it certainly wont be the last time as long as the school is standing.

Though this has absolutely nothing to do with ghosts it makes you wonder about what happens after school hours.

One night a terrace alumnus and his friends were goofing around and decided to come to the school. Once here, they walked to the to the back of the school, by the art rooms, and climbed on top of the fenced of air ventilation system to the roof.

After getting on top of the roof they walked a little ways to the very top, and found a small door that seemed to be open. The hatch or knob seemed to be unlocked and only opened from the outside.

The alumnus and his friends decided on going inside and found themselves in a long small hallway. Along the left side were doors, and when they opened these doors they found a single chair and single light hanging from the ceiling.

At the very end of the hallway there was another door with another chair inside, but along with the chair on the back wall there seemed to be chains hanging on the wall. In The corner of this room there was also a ladder that looked to have led to an opening outside.

They climbed up the ladder and found themselves on a small type of balcony. It was very dark and they hadn’t brought any type of light source, but after looking around a bit up there they found what they think were rags with blood on them.

Once they had found this they quickly decided that they had better leave, and only spoke to friends about there strange findings, and dared not tell administration because they would, of course, be expelled.

There could be many explanations to this story, but no one will ever know. Only you can decide whether our school has unexplained events or places hidden in it or it’s history.

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Cobain came from a broken home in Aberdeen, Wash., and Novoselic from Compton, Calif., but then moved to Cobain’s hometown in his mid teens. The two met in high school, where Cobain had just been turned on to the punk scene. They instantly clicked, and decided to start their own band – whose name they would change many times over the years. After calling themselves Skid Row, Pen Cap Chew, Bliss, and Ted End Fred, they eventually settled on the name Nirvana.

Their practice space was shared along with another band that resides in Washington, The Melvins . They came out with their first single in 1988, called “Love Buzz,” recorded with drummer Dave Foster to replace original drummer Aaron Burckhard. The song was originally by a Dutch rock band named Shocking Blue. After the successful release of the single, they began recording for the rest of Bleach. By this time, they had found new drummer Chad Channing. The album was majorly influenced by ’80s punk and ’70s metal.

In 1990, after writing songs such as “In Bloom” and “On a Plain” on tour, they started recording on their second album. Prior to this, they had fired Chad Channing, and were on the lookout for a drummer who would be a good replacement. Finally, after seeing him play with his band, Scream, they hired Dave Grohl.

One day during a recording session, they quickly wrote and then cut what would not only be their album’s first single, but would become their biggest hit, and later be considered one of the greatest songs of all time. The song, as you might have guessed, was “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and the momentum it gained would help launch Nirvana into super stardom.

By the time they finished recording and had began touring Europe, “Teen Spirit” was being played regularly on the radio and MTV. They noticed that all their shows were sold out, and people were going absolutely crazy for them. In September of 1991, they released the album “Nevermind,” which was selling 400,000 copies a week by December, initially selling over 7 million copies in the United States and 30 million worldwide. This caused an explosion in the Seattle music scene, with fans, newspapers and magazines referring to this new sound as “Grunge.”

Following Nirvana’s footsteps many other grunge bands would begin popping up and taking their share of fame, including Pearl Jam, who had much success with their debut album “Ten,” as well as the likes of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. “Nevermind” was later placed at No. 14 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and is considered the greatest album of the ’90s.

Nirvana would go on to release a collection of cuts from their early days, which they called “Incesticide.” The band then went on many tours, during which they decided to stop playing “Teen Spirit,” due to its extreme popularity. They released one more album in 1993, titled In “Utero,” which took on a harsher, more alternative sound. After Cobain’s suicide in 1994, the remaining members disbanded. Novoselic played bass in a few other bands, and even became a Washington politician. Grohl formed a new band, called Foo Fighters, who achieved great mainstream success, releasing seven albums to date.

Today, we commend Nirvana and other such bands for helping invent the “Grunge Scene” that became famous as Seattle music. The teenagers of the ’90s that listened to Grunge are sometimes referred to as “The Disaffected Kids,” or “Generation X.”

The Grunge style has become a stereotype, making the modern wearing of flannel shirts, ripped jeans, and sometimes Doc Martins a cliché, which is sometimes used ironically. In fact, while being questioned by a New York Times reporter, a Sub-Pop Records receptionist named Megan Jasper invented “Grunge Slang,” a joke about how some people thought people from Seattle talked to each other. These phrases included “lamestain,” referring to an uncool person, “wack slacks,” when taking about old ripped jeans, and even said that hanging out was referred to as “swingin’ on the flippity flop.” Funny enough, many major newspapers took these claims seriously and published their Grunge stories with these words included.

Teenagers identified with Grunge music in many ways. They saw it as a form of punk that was fun and melodic, but also serious in nature. It was ironic, angry music, with very meaningful lyrics. It didn’t matter who you were at the time; if you were a teen or a parent with two children, you were into Nirvana.

One popular feature of Grunge shows was the mosh pit. The mosh pit involved a large number of people rushing up to the stage at once, and going wild, punching each other, jumping up and down, and even crowd-surfing.

In the high point of the craze, Grunge hits were topping the charts. “Teen Spirit” was the most popular, but other hits included Alice in Chains’ “Man in the Box,” Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy,” and Soundgarden’s “Spoonman.” Magazines like Blender and Rolling Stone were all over the Grunge craze, further popularizing the music. When Cobain died in ‘94, many of the Grunge bands continued to make music, though the label of “Grunge” faded over time.

Recently, the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum (EMP/SFM) opened up an exhibit called “NIRVANA: Taking Punk to the Masses.” The exhibit is an interesting look at the history of Nirvana through interviews, pictures, and artifacts. These include videos of people involved with the Grunge movement, walls that show pictures of the band (as well as quotes from the members), glass cases holding guitars, clothing, things the band owned (including their MTV VMA Award), props they used onstage, selections from their own personal music library, pictures they took on tour, and even notes that Cobain wrote to people.

There is even a wall by the exhibit that shows a web of Seattle bands and the areas that they are from. People are welcome to write in their own bands in their locations of origin in order to make current Seattle bands feel more connected to the greats that came before them. Several documentaries were made about the Seattle scene, one of the most famous being “Grunge: The Year That Punk Broke.”

The remaining members of Nirvana later released a CD version of their acoustic live show, titled MTV Unplugged in New York. The album won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.

On Sept. 20, a tribute concert was held in honor of the 20th anniversary of “Nevermind’s” release. Novoselic was there to help play a few songs from the album, although Grohl was not there due to a scheduling conflict. Other performers included the Fastbacks, the Long Winters, Vaporland, Visqueen, Campfire OK, Valis, Ravenna Woods, and more.

A deluxe, remastered version of “Nevermind” went on sale that day. The show sold out quickly, proving once again that the people of Seattle, and indeed the world, will never forget the lasting impact Nirvana had on popular music.

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Of course it was not a fun experience when you turned on the television just out of sheer routine or because of friends or family calling you to turn to the news channel.

That day as you may or may not remember the Twin Towers in New York City were hit at 8:46 a.m. Eastern time, by two Boeing 767 planes going at a speed of just under 500 mph full of innocent passengers along with over a dozen al Qaeda terrorists and pilots.

Though just Trade Centers one and two were hit (the Twin Towers), debris falling off of the buildings caused most of the lower rise buildings to catch fire and Trade Center 7 to fall.

The total number of deaths was approximately 3,000 (including the terrorists), and another 6,000 injured.

One could start reading now for the rest of a lifetime trying to uncover all of the secrets behind America’s biggest terrorist attacks, but you will never get a straight answer telling you why that event happened on that certain day, and why the U.S. government hadn’t known what to do to have prevented something like that.

Odd ideas

Many people have probably noticed by now that a lot of little innuendos have been popping up about 9/11, because September 11 happens to be the emergency number to contact the authorities – 911. Also, the number of the first plane to hit one of the towers happened to be 11.

Simply going online one could find many mysteries that go along with the event.

Some people even go to the extremes that the attack never took place and that the whole thing is just a conspiracy or hoax that the government came up with to divert the people, or the simple and most frequent used motive, money.

Many 9-11 conspiracy theories surfaced shortly after the September 11 attacks, some bringing compelling arguments, and some not holding up at all.

For example, some theorists believe that the World Trade Center buildings were demolished by bombs, and that the phone calls from the planes were made up.

An interesting idea to figure out is to search a video of the crashes, or simply just photos, and study the smoke. Looking real close, it seems as though there are strange faces rising out.

Other conspiracy theories suggest people who were suspicious, or somehow accidentally received information of the attack being set up, like Deborah Palfrey and Danny Casolaro were about to release information, but suddenly “committed suicide.”

Also known as a D.C. madam because of her relations with government officials, Palfrey had come in the grasp of information. She was being sued for racketeering and intended to use the 9/11 information she acquired from the state officials to aid her case. Of course she was never able to deliver the information because of her sudden death.

Danny Casolaro on the other hand was writing a book that would reveal many things about the government, including information on the trade centers. Casolaro even warned his family that someone might try to murder him because of what as coming out in his book.

Someone could only imagine what the family thought when they found out that their son had committed suicide, but also have the thought that it was set up.

Back home…

Three hours later on attack day, in Washington, we were trying to catch up with what was happening in New York. In the high school, as some staff members may remember, the principal then, Mark Baier, was just informing the staff to turn the televisions on to keep up with the news when the power simultaneously went out throughout the entire school. One can imagine the reaction with all of the events going on in New York that the students started to panic.

It turns out that it was simply just a squirrel that had chewed on one of master electricity cables at a local power substation.

The fact of the matter is that something that happened miles away can still affect people far away and make them feel as if they are in danger too.

A fresh start

After all of the events died down in New York and emotional and physical wounds were finally healing, architects and construction groups were planning new buildings to replace the World Trade Centers.

A large group of talented and well known architects and artists came together and eventually came up with the “Freedom Tower.” They released the photo of the  new buildings in 2005.

The Freedom Tower will be the one that’s most visible and will be 1,776 feet high.

Many New Yorkers dislike the fact that there will only be one tower. Many want a second one to be 2,001 feet tall to signify when the original towers were destroyed.

Some even believe that the site should not be built over. This is because that bodies and body parts are being found constantly while they work there.

Trade Centers 1, 2 ,3, 4, and 5 are all being rebuilt. They will all be made of entirely steel, glass and concrete.

To go with all of the new Trade Centers, in memoriam of the people who died and the towers that fell, they are building a national museum in honor of everyone who died or gave of themselves to help out on the fatal day.

The new buildings will not cover the position of the original towers, but instead built around where the outline can still be visited and overlooked by the passersby.

There was also a big controversy going on because there might have been a mosque built near ground zero. Of course, because there were so many people against it, it was decided that the mosque would be built in lower Manhattan, in a place that was called Park51.

Behind the project

“Most New Yorkers know Larry Silverstein as the leaseholder on the World Trade Center. What they may not know is that he signed that lease in July 2001, just eight weeks before it was destroyed,” says a Silverstein Properties statement.

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The story of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, does not begin with the film debut in 1975, instead it begins within the mind of Richard O’Brien, a Londoner with a passion for rock ’n’ roll and the arts. O’ Brien, the brainchild behind Rocky Horror was an English  performer, who, in 1972 decided to create a rock musical originally entitled “They Came From Denton High”, the first show he had ever written. “Denton High” eventually became “Rocky Horroar Show” then “The Rocky Horror Show”. A stage production of Rocky Horror premiered in June 1973 at the Royal Court’s experimental Theatre Upstairs, a 63-seat venue in London.

The original stage version, which featured Tim Curry (Dr. Frank-N-Furter), Richard O’Brien himself (Riff Raff), Patricia Quinn (Magenta), and Little Nell (Columbia), proved to be such a hit that it was relocated to a converted movie house that seated 270 people, and then to the 500-seat King’s Road Theatre. In 1973, The London Evening Standard dubbed Rocky Horror as “best musical”.

Many English stars raved about the new musical, among them was actress Britt Ekland, who saw the performance and enjoyed it so much that she convinced American film and music producer Lou Adler to accompany her to a performance. Adler decided to bring over part of the London cast,  including Curry and O’Brien, and premiered Rocky Horror in America at the Roxy on March 21 1974, where it sold out for nine straight months.

The success of the American stage production led to 20th Century-Fox executive, Gordon Stulbert, to invest one million dollars into making a film version.

The film debuted on September 26, 1975 in L.A. and seven other American cities. Audience crowd grew to capacity in Los Angeles, but was dismal elsewhere. The film grossed less than $400,000 in its first three weeks and was withdrawn prior to its planned New York Halloween opening.

In hopes of salvaging whatever they could, Lou Addler and Tim Deegan, a publicist working closely with Rocky Horror, decided to open Rocky Horror as a midnight movie. Rocky Horror premiered at The Waverly in New York at midnight on April Fool’s Day 1976 and there it would remain for a record-setting 95 weeks. By mid-1978, Rocky Horror was playing at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays at over fifty locations around the nation. The Rocky Horror Picture show became the first motion picture to become a twice-weekly national institution.   It generated fan clubs, paraphernalia, collectables, bumper stickers, record albums, videos, pins, magazines, conventions, and look-alike contests. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was born.

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ver 280 fans descended on The Admiral Twin Theater in West Seattle for the April midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Vicarious Theater Company, have been performing at The Admiral Twin Theater for over 10 years. A former Terrace student, Holly Irons, agreed to be my liaison with the rest of the Vicarious Theater Company cast members. I arrived at the Theater on April 2 around 10:30 p.m. to get a sneak preview of the goings on of pre-show preparations. While there, I was pleasantly surprised by the welcome I received from the other cast members. They were warm and obliging and seemed excited to participate. Around 11:30 p.m., the audience started shuffling in, the energy coming from them was almost tangible, it was so strong. Finally after all the anticipation, it was midnight, time for the show to begin.

Before the film began, some of the regulars began to shout to the screen “lips!” I was confused, until bright red lip-sticked lips appeared on the dark screen. They came from the center, small, and then grew huge. They began singing the opening number “Science Fiction, Double Feature.”

This was definitely not like anything I had ever seen before. I spent the next two hours laughing hysterically, delighting in the music and characters, and being amazed at how the audience regulars were calling out comments to the movie as if scripted- as if these things were all supposed to be said and the movie wouldn’t even be the movie without the audience’s participation. That was what was so amazing: I was part of the show. The people in the rows behind me were wearing costumes just like the characters. Those members were introducing me to a part of the script that the screenwriters never wrote. It was like a strange portal to another world had opened, just for people like me. Freaks. Oddballs. Outsiders. The theater was an oasis. That is what Rocky Horror is all about, acceptance and challenging the norm. The storyline, in a nutshell, is as follows: two white middle “American” suburbanite newlyweds head off for their honeymoon and wind up more or less trapped inside a castle on a hill, occupied by various characters who engage in questionable activities, some of which we get a taste of, and some of which are only alluded to in song. This is a place of transgressions and of being taught new values and how to embrace them.

After the show was over, the cast began their post-show gathering and from there it was off to bed for sweet dreams of sweet transvestites from Transylvania.

Come celebrate Rocky Horror in all its glory. The Admiral Theater allows all the props that should come with the experience, such as rice, unbuttered toast, squirt guns, toilet paper, party hats, cards, newspapers and flashlights. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is performed the first Saturday of every month, always at midnight, and directions to the theater can be found on thezenroom.com. Bring $6, the cost of admission.

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In the past, Starbucks Corp. has only altered the logo twice since the original logo in 1971. The first change occurred in 1987 when the completely brown logo bearing the text “Starbucks”, “Coffee”, “Tea”, and “Spices” was changed to the green and black logo with the words “Starbucks Coffee”, not unlike the current logo. The next change occurred in 1992, and the only thing that changed was the artwork of the Siren.

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There are many theories as to why St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on the 17, and one of them is that the 17 is the day that St. Patrick died. As with how the day became a holiday, it is believed that as the Irish spread throughout the world, they took with them their heritage, history, and celebrations. Although St. Patrick’s Day is known worldwide, the biggest annual celebrations are obviously held in Ireland. A majority of the businesses close on the 17^th, and many Irish attend mass since it is a religious holiday as well. Large celebrations are held in American cities with large Irish populations. Parades, music, green attire, Irish food and drink, and children’s activities such as food, coloring, and games are present as well. There are even certain communities in which rivers and streams are dyed green.

As far as the Leprechaun myth goes, in Irish folklore it is a tiny elf or fairy who is supposed to know the whereabouts of hidden treasure. According to most Irish legends, if a person is able to capture a leprechaun and threatens it may be able to persuade it to reveal the location of the hidden treasure, usually a pot of gold.

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Get a Good Nights Sleep: Beggining at age 10 people need about 9 to 9 1/2 hours of sleep each night until they reach adulthood. When someone gets enough sleep they are less likely to feel tired or falling asleep in class. They are able to get things done quicker, including schoolwork.

Eat a Healthy Breakfast: By this age everyone knows that people need to have a well balanced diet, however only 38%  of americans eat breakfast on a regular basis. When students eat a healthy breakfast, as opossed to an unhealthy breakfast or no breakfast, they are less likely to feel hungry in class or have a “sugar crash” later. They are also able to stay focused better.

Avoid Sitting with Friends: If you don’t sit next to your friends in class then you are going to talk less and get more  work done. While it may be tempting to sit next to your friends it is definitely a wiser choice not to. Also, when  it comes to chosing partners for projects it is a good idea to choose people you know are good workers and will make you do your share.

Rid Yourself of Any Other Distractions: In todays world of technology many of our distractions in class are electronic. While you are in class turn off your phone, you don’t need to be constantly be texting friends. Also, not listening to your ipod will help you pay attention to your teacher.

Look at Your Teacher and Make Eye Contact: If you are paying attention to your teacher you are more likely to do well in school. Make eye contact with your teacher to let them know you are listening.

Know Your Objectives: Know what you are doing or what you want to get out of the class. You can also make small goals to help you reach larger ones. For example, turn in all missing assignments to get a higher grade.

Take Notes: When a teacher is giving a lecture make sure to take notes, also when reading a textbook. You can use these notes to study for a test later.

Get Involved in Class Discussions: When the class is having a discussion make sure to get involved by making comments and asking others questions. This will help you be more successful and many teachers give out participation points for this.

Ask Questions: If you don’t understand sometthing ask for help so you don’t fall behind. Don’t be afraid to ask a  question because chances are someone else has the same question. Don’t feel like your teacher doesn’t have time for you.

Do Your Best: Now that we are in high school it is up to the students to be responsible to do their work and get good grades. If effort is not put into an assignment it will definitly effect the grade.

Visualize Yuor Future: Going to college is a must for most jobs people aspire to have and good grades are a must for college. Imagining ones future is a great way to self motivate.

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