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*0 Should your siblings apply? IlH 1 pages Senior class enrolls across globe: SENIOR WILLS: page 8-9 | pages 4-7,10-15 stentorian the north Carolina school of science and mathematics 1219 broad street, durham nc 27705 voi. XXVI, issue 5 stentorian@ncssiTi.edu Record season Track team wins conference, runners place at state competition June 2006 By Mary Kohlmann ' The NCSSM track team, under the leadership of head coach Aiyano Bush, closed its most successful season yet at the state meet on May 19'*'. After a conference champion ship at which the men’s team took first place, the qualifiers arrived at the state meet at Ravenscroft School in Ra leigh. NC SSM students placed in thirty events ranging from shot put to hurdles. In the state 4,x800 meter relay seniors Lu cas Lankford and Kyle Wopart, along with juniors Philip Curley and Robert Yarbrough placed third. - “Standing on the podium and getting recognized for that was pretty amazing,” Lankford said. “We cut twenty seconds off our time atone point.” Other top three finish ers at the state meet included the male 4.\400 meter relay team, which took second place, jimior Mark Owalabi, who took sec ond in the 300 meter hurdles, Curley, who took second in the 3200 meter run and Wolpert, who took third in the 1600 meter ran. The men’s team finished sixth overall out of thirteen, and the women’s team finished thirteenth. Less than a week earlier, the men’s team won the conference championship for what 1^ Bush said is the first time in its history. “We’re mov- ing to [a public I school confer- ence] next year, so it had a finality to it,” Bush said. “The confer ence was on the day of proih, but everyone played their part. Everyone has to carry their load on a — track team, but we were good from top to bottom.” A solid team of coaches was instrumental to suc cess, according to Bush. Nick Lehman coached the long distance ratmers and Matt McKerr oversaw hurdling, while several family members of stu dents pitched in to help. “We really had great assis tant coaches,” Bush said. Bush said that it was difficult being a coach and SLl. “It’s time-consuming,” he said. “I want to have a relationship with [the athletes] as an SLI first, so it’s impor tant to let them know that those things are separate,” Junior Lizz Moody, who did the 100 meter and 300 meter hurdles, feels that these efforts paid off. “The coaches are awesome,” she said. “They’re really funny. They make it fun and not so competitive, which is.great, since we’re already under so much stress. There wasn’t a hurdling coach at my old school, and Matt McKerr was really-able to help.” But the students'are the most impor tant component in the team’s growth, and many have demonstrated an uncom mon level of dedication and disciphne. Moody described a meet at Elon Univer sity at which it was sleeting and snowing. “I’d gotten a great time on the 100 meter, and then nasty stuff started com ing out of the sky, but the 300 was still on,” she said. “We were really mad, but we finally just said, “Okay, let’s do this,” and we il got out there and started run ning around warming up—^and then they caiKelled it. We all got really close lying under the blankets together at that meet” According to Bush, this level of dedication was common. “Kyle Wolpert and Philip Cur ley each ran four miles altogether, and they got first or second in ev erything,” he said of another meet. Track is an unusual sport, ac cording to Moody, in that it has a team of people participating in in dividual or small-group events. “Track team is more school pride than anything,” said Moody. “You don’t get the close-knit thing. You get close to the sprinters or the jumpers or the distance people.” This level of specialization presents problems in coaching as well. “In track,” Bush said, “everyone needs an individual coach, so giving everyone enough attention was really difficult— basically impossible. The athletes need to be self-motivated to succeed.” Despite opposition, construction of field to begin By Max Rose Craig Brown and Catherine Constantinou, husband and wife, are residents of a twp story brick house on Pennsylvania Avenue, directly across the street from NCSSM. They said that in six years living next to the school, they never once have had trouble With a student. But they did take issue with the administration’s interaction with the neighborhood. “Every time [NCSSM] gets irritated, they cut off com munication,” Brown said. “We don’t want to wake up one morning and discover [the athletic field] built next to us. We don’t think that’s too much to ask.” Although riegotiations with the neighborhood will continue, funds for building lights and a new athletic field have been secured and construction will begin as soon as possible, ac cording to NCSSM President Gerald Boatman. Boatman said that the field, to be located behind Hunt Residential Hall on what is now known as the intramural field, is necessary for student “wellness, wholeness and physical activity. He said that the change in athletic conference this year makes it a necessary step. “It is not a matter of ‘we want to do it,”’ Boarman said. “We need to do it.” Junior Bryan Creviston, a member of the varsity soccer team, said that the students deserve the regulation field. “It is not fair to make us play in ninety degree weather at four o'clock in the afternoon,” he said. Creviston said that it would help the team prepare for away games. “It shows that we’re outstanding, not just academically, but athletically as well,” he said. Boarman said that he hopes to have the field completed by late August 2006. The lights, he said, will come later, as they are an eight week project. He said that $288,000 provided by the NCSSM Foundation will cover the cost. “We’re going to have a top-flight field and top-flight lights,” Boarman said. Boarman said that the second phase of the project, a track, is dependent on $800,000 in funding, which is most likely only possible in four or five years and that a third phase, bleachers, CONSTRUCTION, continued page 2 Photo by Luis Zapata Workers rewire Hunt open-lounges for new rooms. Second Bryan relocated. Hunt lounges made into new rooms By Hattie Chung In 2006-7, the residents of 2"“* Bryan will be replaced by members of the op posite sex. The administration’s reasoning behind this decision included liability issues. “Having one guys’ hall in the middle of a girls’ building ean cause liability issues,” said Kevin Cromwell, Director of Student Life Instructors. “Relocating these guys among other guys will de crease the chances of such issues from occurring.” Cromwell believes that rnoving 2"** Biyan boys to other male buildings with their fellow male peers will allow more freedom to travel around the building after 10:30, as well as provide many other benefits. “They will have greater access to their peers during study hours,” Cromwell said. “It will also keep the campus life at NCSSM more consistent by keeping all the guys together.” This change will require transforming the Hunt open lounges into a double and a triple to create new rooms for those who are displaced. While 2"'* Bryan boys are losing their hall and rooms, those residing in Hunt are finding their own losses. “Second Bryan people are great and all, but they’ll have a really tough void to fill. People are people, but a ping pong table is something more,” said junior Greg Rubinstein, future RLA for 2"'* East. “Not only does it bring great joy with the simple addition of two paddles and people, but a ping pong table also is a great listener to all of your problems. It never insults or annoys you, and it always puts you first. Now, these 2"'* Bryan refugees will be an interesting RELOCATION, continued page 2
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