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Health students miss class for health seminar

By: Sarah Appleby
Have you ever thought about what happens to your body and life if you do drugs? On October 17th Dr. Bill Beachum came and spoke to all health classes about the effects of drugs. In an easy to follow fashion, Beachum discussed how smoking marijuana creates a film around the receptors in your brain, clogging your higher level thinking. An interesting fact that I did not know was the half-life of marijuana is 5-7 days but it takes months for it to completely clear from your system. CONTINUE READING ON PAGE ##

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By: Arielle Tripp

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doing my hair and makeup and taking pictures for my family. I think my dad almost cried. Though the highlight of the dance was being able to cut loose and dance (senior Kimberly Correa). The Homecoming dance took place October 13 inside of the big gym. In correlation to the themes of the homecoming game floats, the dance was themed Under the Sea. The gym was decked with sea shells, paper fish, bubbles and two projections of the movie Nemo. In addition, black clothes and blue lights decorated the entrance, which according to senior Taylor Scherer, made her at first feel as though she had entered a haunted house and something surprising was behind the curtains. As tradition, the Homecoming king and queen were crowned during the dance. Literally breaking up the

Obama in

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PHOTO/ Titans are dancing it up at Homecoming Dance.

dance floor, they were applauded and presented with their crowns again. CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 02

By: Sarah Snyder

Titan Varsity football trail Titan GSA does Ally Week 247 behind Heritage By: Jonathan Gurrola
By: Sarah Appplyby
Heritage, ranked ninth in the Inland area, stays on course and beats How does one come to thank people who support the equality of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) students at Temescal? Temescals very own GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) Club held what is known around the nation as Ally Week. According to the Gay Straight Education Network, its a week for students to identify, support and celebrate allies against anti-LGBT language, bullying or harassment during in Americas 15th to ON schools. the PAGE The 19th. 02 national event is usually ran by students October CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 03 READING

PHOTO/ Romney and Obama at the town hall debate.

President Obama was eager to make up for his lacking performance with Governor Romney Tuesday night at the Hofstra University debate in Hempstead, N.Y. Instead of the lifeless politician, as in the first debate, he acted as the president he is and took control. The President strove not to repeat his horrible night of the first debate, which even he called as an off-night. Tuesday night, though, the president was in command. He reinvigorated his own campaign by delivering the best debate performance of his political career. Governor Romney was good, dont get me wrong, but he just couldnt compete with the President, and most of the time, looked quite rattled. CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 04

Temescal Canyon as predicted. What was remarkable about the game was the number of turnovers due to interceptions. The game started with neither team scoring during the first quarter of the game. Heritage remedied this quickly in the second quarter, scoring with 10:: 8 left. But 3 the #5 Dawson Linderman returned the favor with a touchdown with 7:: 8 left on the 3 clock. CONTINUE

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By: Alyssa Casey

millions in America, Europe and around the world.

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Titan GSA does Ally Week
By: Jonathan Gurrola
Pledge To Be An ALLY. Students quickly huddled around the table with interest, and chose whether to sign the pledge. I was able to ask GSA Vice-President Sofia Johnston why she thought it was important for GSA to have celebrated Ally Week? As a GSA we need to show the school that we are making a change towards equality for everyone and that its okay to support gay rights;

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Under the Sea of Homecoming

By: Arielle Tripp
Continued from front page | This years king and queen are Devante Kirkpatrick and Letishia Zuniga. Both of which are highly enthusiastic, energetic and active within the student body through a variety of activities ranging from basketball to drama. The approximate 198 students who attended the dance were accommodated with

a DJ, indoor game activities and an outdoor eating area. The music was enjoyable and easy to dance to. And despite the dance floor getting rather warm as the night progressed, it was an excellent dance, great theme, appropriate behavior, and a good time.

PHOTO/ Representatives of the Gay Straight Education Network standing in an Ally Week campaign image. The image was used around the nation to publicize the event.
Continued from front page | The GSA Club held a week long pledging table during lunch. Where the club had made a poster with I

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ACADEMICS
Las Vegas, Spotlights On You
By: Mackenzie Vaughn

SAT dates coming up soon, are you ready ?

By: Sarah El-Mahmoud
On October 20, many Juniors gave up their valuable Saturday morning and came to school at 7:45 a.m. to take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT). Now that they have taken the first step, its time to get ready for the SAT. The SAT, if you dont know, is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States. It is intended to show how ready students are ready for college. The test takes three hours and 45 minutes to complete and costs $50. If you are college bound, taking the SAT or ACT is required for all college freshman. You might wonder what kind of score you should be aiming for when taking the SAT. The highest possible score you can get on the test is a 2400. However, getting anything above a 1100 is an acceptable score. The national average of SAT scores is a 1500. Each college has a different score range that they will take depending on its standards. There are various ways to get ready for the SAT besides the PSAT. I would suggest going on to sat.collegeboard.org for practice questions. Also, iPhone users should look for the SAT Question of the Day app which is a good way to practice for the SAT every single day. If you just cant wait to the SAT and get it over with, there is an upcoming test date on November 3. Since its so close, the fee is $77, and the deadline to register is as late as October 22. Other test dates coming up are on December 1 and January 26. The SAT is important for your future and I hope you decide to take it. If you are a Junior you have an early start, you can start preparing today so you can get the best score possible, and so you have more choices when applying for colleges. If you are a senior, there is still time, dont forget to register soon!

PHOTO/ The Lied Library has the capacity to store 1.8 million volumes and occupies 300,000 square feet in five stories, it has 2,500 study spaces.
University of Nevada: Las Vegas is ranked 12th most popular college in the country. Aside the it is from nation's a being biggest great in college one to of cities, attend. party

PHOTO/ Students usually buy a SAT study guide, like the one above, to help them prepare for the test.

If you arent quite sure what you want to major in, dont worry. UNL has a great selection of V different subjects you can major in. They range from nursing, to marriage and family therapy, to geoscience, and many more. The most popular majors are business and marketing. The university also offers a bunch of different sports teams. F rom water polo to table tennis, rugby to diving, you are sure to find one of your favorite sports. And if youre into rodeo, they have their own rodeo team! UNL offers certificate, doctoral, bachelors, and V masters degrees. The average age of students attending the school is 22 to 23, with 56% of the students being women, and 44% men. The student to faculty ratio is 22:1. While the majority of students attending live in state, 14% live out of state. The University of Nevada: Las Vegas is not only school, but a a great great school to attend.

SPORTS
Titans trail 247 behind Heritage
By: Sarah Appplyby

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Golf Titans won SBL

Last week the Temescal Canyons Girl Varsity Golf Team played at Summerly. The match was crucial to decide the top four girls that would go to CIF and the TC sophomore Baylee Barckley made it, coming in first position. Monday 15th October was the first day of SBL preliminary. At Summerly Temescal Canyon, Lakeside, Heritage, and Elsinore High School brought 25 girls. Temescal brought

PHOTO/ Heritage and Temescal preparing for the play.

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six athletes and they

PHOTO/ Taylor Connor

That was when the first of four played 18 holes course. The first 13th of them passed on the

interceptions occurred, with Marcus Kirkpartrick getting an interception for second day. Four were from Temescal: Sarah Appleby and Temescal. Soon after Heritage received the first of their interceptions, scoring Caylie Taylor, junior Taylor Connor and sophomore Baylee a touchdown on the same offensive drive with 3:57 left in the quarter. 54 seconds after the start of the third quarter Heritage made what Barckley. The second day, Tuesday 16th they played the all-

would be their final touchdown of the game, but not the last of their scoring. league. Until the end there was a tie for the first place, but Heritage proceeded to get a field goal, ending the point gain for the rest of Baylee broke it with a 20 feet pat and won the match. Besides the game. The third quarter finished with Heritage getting a second Baylee three girls from Elsinore are going to CIF . The athletes of the team described the course as

interception, though the offensive drive failed. The fourth quarter was long and difficult because of the hills on the sides, but relatively uneventful, with no points being scored, but Heritage managed to straightforward and well-known to them, because they get a third interception, an unusually high amount. played there several times. They are also proud of their ended season, in which they collected 12 victories out of 14 matches.

EDITORIALS
MOVIE REVIEW// Thats not Hermione The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By: Sofia Johnston
Kevin), and Emma Watson (Harry Potter). Logan Lerman portrays the awkward and shy freshman, Charlie, and Ezra Miller captures the hearts of the audience with his stunning performance as Sams gay step brother, Patrick. The most astonishing performance was Emma Watson as Sam, Charlies love interest and Patricks step sister. Sam is no Hermione Granger, but Watson, donning a flawless American accent, nails the role; proving that franchises do not ruin actors.

YouTube, over 295 million times also making it the most watched K-Pop video in YouTube history. What about the song and video has captured the attention of so many people The worldwide? may be a dancing

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leading cause for the stardom of the music video. The dance moves are easily replicable and are quite enjoyable to enact. As Psy told Ellen DeGeneres and Brittany Spears, the mindset of this dance is Dress classy and dance cheesy winning which seems in to be the combo American

PHOTO/ Emma Wtson, Logan Lerman, and Ezra Miller in movie poster, feature in the UK.
Lets face it, high school is no fun, especially if youre going into freshman year with no friends and your best friend has recently commit suicide, add the guilt of a family members death and you have The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chboskys vibrant characters come to life in this brilliant film, with actors like Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk about

Overall, this movie is a definitely a must see, especially if you read the book.

entertainment. The song proves that we dont have to understand the lyrics to fall in love with the song. With the catchy, of Gangnam upbeat, let-me-dance mood, people all over are moving to the beat and even trying to sing along. Gangnam Style has even blown the minds of people who dont like pop at all with its uniqueness and comedic qualities. Whether we laugh at the

Gangnam Style is Americans Style

By: Alyssa Casey
Continued from front page| The genre Style is K-Pop which means Korean pop music coming specifically from South Korea. As of September 27, this KPop spectacular has been viewed, on

EDITORIALS
Obama and His Win in Town Hall
By: Sarah Snyder
Continued from front page | Of course, I have no doubt that President Obama won this round by a landslide. The two candidates scraped over many different topics from education to tax cuts to energy costs. One of the most interesting topics though, was exchange over the terrorist attacks in Libya. Governor Romney challenged the President's assertion when he stated that it was an act of terror the day after the incident occurred. Obama was effective in answering Mr. Romneys criticism, and stated, was offensive. We dont do that. Romney was effectively proven wrong by moderator Candy Crowley when she agreed with Obama and supported him by stating that his claim was correct. The truth is, Romney was out of his at all league in this debate. The fact that he secured his own knock out in the end from the President by mentioning the 47% issue shows that he just wasnt in the right state of mind. If you are still somehow an undecided voter looking for the next chance to determine who you want to vote for, and I strongly suggest Obama, then you should tune in on the third and last Presidential debate that is going to be held on Monday, October 22 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, focusing on foreign policy.

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Health students miss class for health seminar

By: Sarah Appleby
Continued from front page | Brianne Harrison, a senior at Temescal Canyon, shared that the most shocking part of the presentation was the story that Nathan told. Nathan was a 16 year old who started doing drugs at 14 and now thanks to The Phoenix House has been clean for two months. In his story he said that his abusive father witnessed Nathan being run over by a car and only walked away. The other speaker was a 17 year old girl named Jackie. She spoke out of her experiences with alcohol and drugs. She too was sent to the Phoenix House and has now been clean for a year. It is no coincidence that this seminar coincides with Red Ribbon week the elementary schools.

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