Technology is getting a turn. The cell phone policy and Crete.

Technology is getting a turn.

By Sunshine Nowak-Wolff

Lead Reporter

With the new school year came new policies, one large change being the cell phone policy. Students are now allowed to use cellular devices in the cafeteria and in the halls, and in classrooms when decided by the teacher.
                Sydney Porpora, a senior, said, “I feel the phone policy gives us more freedom, and it better prepared us to be adults.
                The possibilities are endless on what someone can do with their cell phone. You can order things, put money in your bank account, even order pizza through a simple text message. Technology is changing, and I'm glad our policy is changing with it. I wouldn't change our phone policy; I feel that it's very effective.
                Ethan Chivari, senior, said that things are different at Crete than they were at his old school.
                “At my old school, we weren't allowed to have them at all, so now it's weird. I wouldn't change anything with the policy, though, other than the fact that I could use my phone as a calculator!"
                Quintin Nowak-Wolff, freshman, says that the policy is completely different than that of the middle school, where they weren't allowed to have their cell phones out at all, at any times during the school day. He says he also wouldn't change the policy.

Life of a Transfer Student

Transfer Students

By Alicia Humphrey

Staff Writer

       There are a lot of transfer students that came to Crete. Some like things about the school, and other dislike some things.

       David Lovette, Victoria Lovette, both have their own outlooks about the school.

They once went here a year ago, but decided to transfer back.  Coming from their old school, and back to Crete has been a big change.  But for them it wasn’t that bad because they knew their way around somewhat and it wasn’t hard for them to make friends.

       Also lucky for them some people already remembered who they were. Teachers like them, so far they haven’t been having any problems. Lovette said that Crete has a better atmosphere than her old school. She also likes the fact that Crete does pre-ACT practice.

       Since David and Victoria have been back at Crete some things has changed like the way they dress, and being more focused in school rather than the things that are around them.  Some things they dislike about the school is that the lunch got healthier, they do not serve the same things in the snack bar that they used too, and on half of days the passing period is shorter.

                                    Athlete of the Month

By: Tiayla Miller

            Opinions Editor

           

 Crete-Monee High School is very well-known for their exceptional football team. With this being the seniors last year of high school football, the Warriors boast a bunch of hard hitting linebackers, led by senior Drew Harvey (6-0, 215).
            Harvey is #2 and is the middle linebacker of Crete-Monee High School, standing at 6’0 and weighing in at 215lbs. A go-getter and leader of defense, he makes the calls and the others listen. Harvey focuses on the goals he made for himself and his team, a long time ago because he is a winner. Earlier in the week I asked Harvey how it feels to be a big part of the team.
            “It’s great. I love being a part of my team. I don’t call them my teammates I consider them as brothers”.
            Harvey says he plans on going to the next level in playing football. Within the season so far Crete overall is 4-1 and in Conference 2-0. When I asked Harvey what were his stats, he had a lot to say.
            He laughs and says, “I have 48 tackles on the season but I would have more if my coach kept me in the game every time we started to blow out the opponents.”
            The Crete-Monee Warriors football team won the homecoming football home conference game against Rich South by a score of 80-6. With scores like that the remainder of the season should be a piece of cake for the team. 

How are Freshmen handling high school?

Freshman Success

Seth Gipson

Staff Writer

Juniors and seniors you have helped make it a successful beginning of the school year for freshman. When interviewed most freshman said that upperclassmen have been nice to them, and they look forward to having a great school year at CMHS

  One freshman said she was going to be late to class because of a locker jam but an upperclassman helped her. Another freshman said he was lost walking through the hallway for 15 mins looking for his class until he asked a senior for help and was shown where to go.It’s been a good school year so far hopefully it stays that way.

BALLIN Like I’m KB

By Victor Moore

Staff Writer

Herbert Wright, AKA (Lil Herb) has had Chicago harmonizing since 2013. For those of you who don’t know, he’s recently released a new mixtape, BLIK, which stands for (Balling Like I’m Kobe). But was it worth the wait?
            Lil Herb released his much-anticipated “Ballin Like I’m Kobe” project on the internet Tuesday, September 29. It was pretty much the talk of social media. The mix-tape features 15 tracks with guest appearances from Lil Bibby, Lil Durk and more. Herb tapped some of new school Hip Hop’s talented producers for this project, including DJ L, DP Beats and C-Sick, to name a few. However, a handful of social media users bashed the mixtape, stating that he ought to stray away from his “sensitive” side and focus more on his “drill” music efforts that he excels so well in.
            Coming from the slums of Chicago’s Eastside, Herb grew up in Terror Town, and was always faced with peer pressure. Drugs, Alcohol, and violence were part of his daily routine. Both artists are associated with the gang N.L.M.B., a “Brotherhood” Herb added. They feel obligated to reach success by how they live.
            He was influenced by artists like Young Jeezy, Gucci Mane, Yo Gotti, Meek Mill, Lil Wayne, and Nas. He came up with other drill rapper Lil Bibby, whom he has collaborated on many tracks. Drake himself has offered the duo a positive recognition and implied that they would be a dynamic duo in his current group “OVO”, a team of Go-Getters.
            On September 3, 2015, he eventually signed a deal with Cinematic Music Group, which prompted him to change his name to G Herbo instead of stage name Lil Herb. When asked about leaving Chicago and starting a new and safer lifestyle, he declined.
            “I’ll never leave my brothers. That’s what NLMB is. Never Leave My Brothers. I started from the bottom. I’d do it all over if I could get all my brothers back. Until I reach them again in heaven, I’ll continue to ball like I’m Kobe for Jacobi D. Herring.”

Homecoming Compliments

Homecoming Compliments

By: Taylor Lafevre

Students spent countless hours getting ready for one of the biggest and most anticipated nights of the year. There’s no greater feeling than to receive a compliment, so a couple students gave their insight on who caught their eye at Homecoming.

Tashun Hardy

“Bria Henson looked very nice for homecoming and I liked her hair”

 Taylor Kwiek

“Danielle Despain’s dress was gorgeous, her hair was pretty, and all together she looked really cute”

 Dakota Little

“Jessica Hale’s dress was very pretty. Even though she didn’t win queen, she stayed positive and I admired that”

 Samantha Soto

“Selena Esquivel looked so pretty with her sparkly dress. Selena and her date looked perfect together.”

 Joseph Ware

“All of my brothers on the football team dressed nice and had the dance turnt. We all had tons of fun and enjoyed ourselves.”

Alexis Baker

“Veronica Mayes was really pretty in her long flowy dress, her hair was also pretty.”

Lavall McNulty

“I was really happy Julia Albrecht won homecoming queen”

Savannah Kiel

“Samantha Soto rocked her entire homecoming look!”

Kyla Miller

“Jessica Hale looked super gorgeous, even though she didn’t win, she still slayed my ENTIRE life.”

Ashley Randle

“I think everyone looked great. We all looked good and tasteful. Especially my best friends Cydney, Kyla, Khira, Lena, Bria, and Selena.”

Weekly Art Competition!

    Got art to show off? Are you a good writer? Poet? Why not submit your stuffs? Every week, we will pick art, short stories, poems, and such to be on the front page of our blog! Submissions should be given to Mr. Kenealy before Thursday every week. If you're a winner, we'll put your creativity explosions on our page the next Monday!

E Journalism email: theutimes@gmail.com
Be sure to leave your name! If you would not like to be named, you do not have to. Or, if you know an Mr. Kenealy or E Journalism member, hand it to them and trust they will be responsible ʕ•̮͡•ʔ

"Youth Idea" by M. De Guzman

All hail the King and Queen

Homecoming King and Queen

By Meckayla Saxon
Staff Writer

            Junior Joshua Houchins was named homecoming king and Junior Julia Albrecht was named homecoming queen of 2015.
            Along with being the newly crowned homecoming king, following the footsteps of Malic Matthews who won the crown in 2014, Houchins is also involved in Crete Monee’s mixed show choir group Cavaliers, wrestling, and theatre where he often has major roles.

Josh says that he really enjoys being homecoming king because now, people who didn’t know him before now do. He said that he got butterflies while walking with the homecoming queen, Julia Albrecht.
            Senior Taylor McKnight said of course she knew him and how handsome he is. She said she has been crushing on him since the eighth grade.
            “He’s funny, cool, school spirited and very caring. I have seen Joshua at the football games with a lot of school spirit. He has a lot of paint with our school colors all over his body with no shirt on,” said Taylor. “Every time I see him with no shirt on I would tell him to put a shirt on before he gets sick. “

            Justin Pierce does not know who Joshua is but he heard things about him like he is always at the games with a lot of blue and gold on.

            Mr. Mohr stated that junior Julia Albrecht, the homecoming queen, is a top-notch student because she is dedicated to Crete in many ways. She is the dance captain in show choir, part of student government, and National Honors Society.  

            “Without Julia Albrecht there wouldn’t have been a homecoming dance nor a pep rally during homecoming week,” said Mohr.

Overall Joshua’s and Julia’s popularity has seemed to increase after their crowning on

Saturday, September 26 at the homecoming dance.

“Listen to the kids bro!”
By Kyla Miller

Editor in Chief

            One of biggest nights in music occurred on August 31. No, I’m not talking about the Grammy’s; I’m talking about the MTV Video Music Awards, or most commonly known as the VMAs.

As usual a lot of crazy and exciting events happened but possibly one of the most anticipated and interesting things that happened was Kanye West’s acceptance speech for the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, also known as the Lifetime Achievement Award.

            Although this award is not an annually given, it has been presented to phenomenal musicians in recent years such as Beyonce (2014), Justin Timberlake (2013), and Britney Spears (2011). Although Beyonce and Justin Timberlake gave performances along with an acceptance speech, Kanye only gave an acceptance speech but a brilliant acceptance speech it was.

            To most people Kanye’s speech seemed to be an intoxicated rant about a bunch of nothing. In fact, during Kanye’s speech there were a lot of people asking, “What is Kanye talking about?”

         "I don’t understand how they get five people who worked their entire life … sold records, sold concert tickets to come stand on the carpet and for the first time in their life be judged on the chopping block and have the opportunity to be considered a loser!”

            One of the most interesting events of his speech was when he called MTV out for continuously playing the clip of his incident with Swift and then by having her present him with the Video Vanguard Award six years later in an effort to produce “more ratings.”

            Finally after a passionate monologue about the Millennials and his hope for the future he concluded his speech with a surprise.
            “As you probably could’ve guessed by this moment, I have decided, in 2020, to run for president.” Will you vote for Kanye? 

Kyla Miller

What TV Shows are people watching this fall?

America’s favorite past time is no longer baseball but is sitting down on a couch, snuggling up with a bowl of popcorn and watching TV. It’s finally fall and new and returning shows are appearing on television sets all over America so I went out and asked what shows Crete Monee staff and students are looking forward to watching.

Ashley Bartlett, senior, “I’m looking forward to Awkward.” Which premiered on August 31st on MTV.

Shania Jolly, junior, had only one word for me. “Empire.” Empire was Fox’s fastest growing show during the winter season with growing viewers every week. Empire  premiered on September 23 on Fox.

Mr. Lewandowski, football coach and technology teacher states that he doesn’t watch TV but loves Netflix and is currently watching “Dexter” and is excited for the second season of “Gotham” to appear on Netflix.

I received many repeats of the same answers such as Empire and Awkward. Looks like we’re going to have a good season in the name of good old fashioned television.

E- Journalism

By Taylor McKnight

News Editor 

There is an after school program at Crete-Monee for people who love to write and want to learn about journalism.

E-Journalism and is run by Mr. Kenealy, who teaches journalism, AP Literature and Junior English.

Students learned how to create a blog by watching a video that shows them step by step what to do when creating a blog. This blog is set up for students to do stories for the online newspaper at Crete-Monee. Students will put stories on the online blog that do not make it to the actual newspaper that will be given out.

Mr. Kenealy said, “Creating this blog will help our stories students have written get out.” 

E- Journalism meets once a month and they learn something new every time. E- Journalism members have an opportunity to make stories concerning the school and what goes on inside Crete-Monee.

The newspaper and blog is a good way for students who aren’t involved in extracurricular activities to see what is happening around the school. By figuring out news here at Crete, to hearing from the student’s about their experiences and all the fun games here. Although Mr. Kenealy could not give an exact release date for the online Web site, he did say Crete-Monee will see the newspaper and the online blog in the near future.