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Vol. 83 No. 6 - February 2017
Women’s
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January
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• Has Trump Kept his
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five million people world-
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Executive
Order
Immigration Ban
Tony Zhou
Page Editor
On January 27th,
2017, President Trump
signed an executive order which enacted a 120
day ban on refugees coming into the United States,
and a 90 day ban on travel
to the U.S. from Iraq, Iran,
Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Sudan. Titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the
United States” he order also
suspended the Syrian refugee program indefinitely,
and it prioritized entry for
refugees who belong to a religion that is a minority in
their home country and are
victims of religious persecution. Finally, it reduced the
total number of refugees to
be allowed into the United
States in 2017 from 110,000
to 50,000.
Mass confusion and
Photo by Taylor Thees
Isabel Calderon in her Pussyhat
nonviolence, stating “We
will suspend our first judgement and do our best to lead
without ego.”
Many participants
in the march wore pink cateared hats, referred to as
“Pussyhats” as a movement
of solidarity. The idea of the
pink hat is from two friends
who bonded through their
love of knitting and wanted to take their passion for
knitting to a bigger stage
to support the march. The
idea was to make a visual
statement of a sea of pink in
D.C. during the march. The
“Pussyhats” are also a reference to President Trump’s
comment about women in
2005. The hats joined those
marching, but also those who
were unable to go to the capitol. The iconic hat allowed
those who could not march in
Washington to have a sense
of presence and involvement.
As word of the project spread,
more and more people wanted to make the hats. So many
people wanted to become a
part of this movement, there
was actually a shortage of
Photo by CNN
President Trump Signing his Executive Order
panic were the immediate
consequences of this executive order. About 500,000
people from the seven nations that the executive order specifically names have
been granted green cards in
the past decade, meaning
that hundreds of thousands
people who were legally allowed to be in the United
States can now be barred
from entering. Therefore,
immigration lawyers and employers have warned many to
refrain from leaving the U.S.
pink yarn in the country.
The two founders of
the Pussyhat Project hope
for the hats to serve as a
symbol of feminist activism
that extend far longer than
January 21st. One founder
shares to People Magazine,
“My dream is that a grandmother will give her granddaughter her Pussyhat, and
say ‘I wore this on January
21, 2017.’”
Over 600 cities in
the U.S. held marches on
January 21st. Many Ottawa
Hills students and community members attended marches around the
country, including seniors
Isabel Calderon and Kiera
Wolkins, who both attended the march in Washington.Kiera shared, “It was
amazing to come together
for a common cause regardless of things like race,
religion, or political party.”
With such a great
outcome from the march,
the campaign will not stop.
The organization has recently launched “10 Actions
for the First 100 Days” calling all of the participants to
reach out within their communities and take action
every ten days on an issue
that they believe needs attention. More information
on this new campaign can
be found at www.womensmarch.com.
Additionally, the vagueness of the executive order
seems to have left much
power in the hands of local
authorities, causing further
confusion.
On February 3rd,
2017, federal judge James
Robart of Seattle issued
a temporary national restraining order on President Trump’s executive
order restricting travel. On
February 7th, 2017, the US
ninth circuit court of appeals held oral arguments
on whether to keep the restraining order. Two days
later, the court decided to
uphold it, continuing the
block on the travel ban.
2 Opinion
Arrowhead Staff
Mrs. Karen Schoenberger
Advisor
Patrick Arnold
Editor-in-Chief
Front Page Editor
Juile Hoeflinger
Associate Editor
Entertainment Editor
Taylor Thees
Design Editor
Tech Director
Cameron Roller
Features Editor
Digital Committee Chair
Tony Zhou
Final Analysis Editor
Steven Randall
Opinion Editor
Santiago Garcia-Mata
Community Editor
Abby Hauck
Sports Editor
Staff Reporters:
Aidan Byrne
Jan Durst
William Koury
Hailey McGee
Ethan Riepenhoff
Nathan Robinson
David Rodriguez
Matthew Sherman
Adam Simon
Ben Werner
2016-2017
Santiago Garcia-Mata
Sports Editor
The United States
of America, one of the
wealthiest nations in
the world, and one of
the most industrialized
and developed as well,
is falling behind in taking care of its citizens by
keeping the minimum
wage so low that it has
actually been decreasing
since 1968, when adjusted for inflation. At this
point, working a mini-
Trump’s Platform: Truth or
Trickery?
Adam Simon
Staff Reporter
Donald Trump has
promised to do many radical things during his first
100 days as the President
of the United States, but
I believe that he has not
fulfilled his promises.
Trump said he
would secure our borders, build a wall, and
repeal Obamacare. So
far, Trump has not been
Ethan Riepenhoff
Staff Reporter
It seems as if
minimum wage workers
are protesting in greater
frequency than ever demanding higher wages,
sometimes as high as $15
an hour. But are their demands justified?
One primary assumption to be made is
that increased wages for
a specific job leads to
more people applying for
that job. In essence, the
belief holds that a wage
increase will encourage more people to work
minimum wage jobs. It is
not a question of whether
we want to pay workers
higher, but whether we
want to pay these specific workers higher. To
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answer this question, we
must analyze the stability of these jobs. Upon
doing so it is clear raising the minimum wage
would be implementing
a policy that promotes
mundane, replaceable
jobs over higher-level,
specialized careers.
This is primarily
because of the develop-
ment of robotic technology. Futurists like Elon
Musk predict widespread
automation for the future,
which will first hit jobs like
cashiers or shelf-stockers.
This is not the future, this
is the present. Wendy’s
president Todd Penegor
has said that Wendy’s has
already been looking into
automation and is in the
process of implementing
self-serving kiosks in about
“We should not a tenth of its restaurants.
expedite the pro- Ed Rensi, former CEO of
McDonald’s,
addresses
cess of automating the desire for a $15 minimum wage saying that it
workers by rais- will bring companies even
ing the minimum closer to purchasing more
efficient technology.
wage.”
We should not ex-
mum wage job can barely
sustain a single person,
much less a family. 1.3
million people are making exactly the minimum
wage of $7.25 an hour,
and 1.9 million are paid
“Raising the
minimum wage
to $10 would lift
about 900,000
Americans out of
poverty”
less than the federal minimum wage. Why do we let
these hard working people
starve in favor of corporate
profits?
able to do anything permanent and has angered
most of the American
people. His immigration
ban was meant to only
last 120 days, and it has
already been halted by a
federal judge. President
Trump stated, “If anything happens blame the
judge,” after the Justice
Department appealed the
judge’s order. Trump has
not been able to realize
that if he thought about
the travel ban before he
just wrote the executive
order that he may have
been able to create a per-
First of all, raising
the national minimum
wage to a modest $10 an
hour is completely reasonable and beneficial,
as it would increase consumer spending, thus
promoting job growth, as
well as giving people who
do not have high levels
of education the chance
to raise a family if they
so choose. The Economic
Policy Institute has stated
that raising the minimum
wage to $10 would increase spending, injecting
billions of dollars into the
market, and create about
85,000 jobs, decreasing unemployment. Furthermore, a person who
works full time for minimum wage pay makes
only about $3,000 a year
more than the national
poverty line, which puts
many workers at an unnecessarily risky financial
position in which they
have to hold onto every
bit of money they get. In
addition, because these
people are, in large part,
not highly educated, they
do not have the knowledge or experience to
move much farther up in
the chain of command,
which would allow them
to make more money. On
the other hand, increasing the minimum wage
to $10 would lift about
900,000 Americans out
of poverty, allowing them
to join the consumer society, and freeing them to
manent plan to help secure our borders.
Along the lines of
securing borders, Trump
has started to discuss how
he plans to get the wall
built. Trump plans for the
United States to pay for
the wall at first and then
will make Mexico reimburse Congress. So, to an
extent, President Trump
has agreed to what he
told the American people
about how Mexico will
pay for the wall. “When
you understand that Mexico’s economy is dependent upon US consumers,
Donald Trump has all the
cards he needs to play,”
said Chris Collins, congressional liaison for the
Trump transition team,
who is backing Trump because he has a solid plan
to make sure that Mexico
will pay for the wall.
Trump stated that
he would repeal Obamacare but nothing has
happened to it. Republicans are even getting
angry at Trump for not
starting the process of repealing Obamacare which
he clearly said he would
repeal very quickly after
pedite the process of automating workers by raising the minimum wage.
We need to keep people
working, and if that becomes more expensive,
automation will become
more cost efficient - even
quicker.
As time progresses, so will technology. Human jobs replaced by robots are inevitable, so if we
encourage growth in jobs
that are very vulnerable,
we would just be setting
people up to be laid off.
Instead, our government
should pursue a policy
that promotes meaningful
jobs off of which an entire
career can be based.
join the ranks of working
Americans.
The many people
who work minimum wage
jobs in America do not
deserve to be in poverty,
and deserve the dignity
and freedom that every
other working American
gets. Conveniently, raising the minimum wage
is a good first step into
giving those Americans a
better life.
he was sworn in. President Trump is now a little
over three weeks into his
Presidency and Obamacare has not even been
brought up by Trump or
cabinet until he had an
interview with Fox News’
Bill O’Reilly. “I would
like to say by the end of
the year at least the rudiments, but we should
have something within
the year and the following
year,” Trump said when
asked when he will start
to do something about
our national healthcare
system. Trump seems ill
prepared for the task of
President of the United
States at the moment,
but then again it has only
been just over a month
and things could start to
look much better very
soon for Donald Trump.
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Dystopia: Back
in Vogue?
Cameron Roller
Staff Reporter
In the wake of the inauguration
of Donald Trump, sales of the oft-lauded dystopian novel 1984, penned by
George Orwell in 1949, rose dramatically. The novel, which was written as a
pessimistic vision of the ultimate manifestation of Russian surveillance should
the nation’s repressive regime continue,
seems to have resonated with Americans under the impression that President Trump might be willing to rob
them of their rights and civil liberties.
While such a statement might exaggerate reality, the sales spike is indicative
of a phenomenon uncommon in modern society: the use of permanent works
as a consideration when analyzing the
present.
The modern individual receives
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the majority of his or her reactionary
content to a news event from quick social
media blips. When a controversial story
breaks, individuals will then decide their
stance on the basis of 140-character messages from individuals that they consider “worthy” of their viewing on Twitter,
Snapchat, and other social media.
That is what makes the sales spike
of 1984 so surprising, and frankly, quite
exciting. Instead of taking the instantaneous, reactionary words of a journalist
or celebrity as gospel (words that will
quite literally fade away after even just
twenty-four hours), the masses are looking to a novel, to a lasting work with a
permanent legacy, for instruction on how
to treat the future.
While the value of quick response
and argumentation is of undeniable importance, let us not forget the profound
nature of those who have left works that
touch on many of the same topics that
plague society today. In the wake of
heightened racial tensions, read a James
Baldwin novel, or listen to a Marvin Gaye
album. If you’re considering the implications of an immigration ban, read about
the history of such bans in the United
States and elsewhere. If you’re trying
to decide a general stance on war, poverty, or lifestyles, continue doing what
you’re doing with social media – but
remember, there are lessons from the
past in all such subjects, as many are
finding with 1984.
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Gamers, Prepare
Yourselves!
Matthew Sherman
Staff Reporter
With so many great video games
in the year of 2016 ranging from Dark
Souls III to Overwatch, 2017 looks to be
a promising year for gamers of all classes. Whether you’re a die hard fan of an
old franchise or only considering buying
a video game because you’re bored, here
are some of the most anticipated games
in 2017.
In mid-February, a game I personally am looking extremely forward to is
the MMO Arena game For Honor. If you
are a history buff, I’m sure that you have
wondered what would happen if Knights,
Vikings, and Samurai were to battle it
out. For Honor is exactly that: these three
George Orwell’s novel, 1984.
historic warriors in an all out battle-royal to see which is superior to each other.
Those looking for adventure
games should be on the lookout for Horizon Zero Dawn. This game follows a
tribe of human beings in a primitive environment, but the animals in the environment are all robots. The player uses
different tactics to survive in this hostile
environment overrun by machines.
Along with many new games,
sequels and continuations of famous
games are set to release this year. Fans of
Nintendo® will be delighted to get their
hands on a new edition to the Legend of
Zelda series, Legend of Zelda: Breath of
the Wild, following Link once again on
another grand adventure to save Hyrule.
Followers of BioWare® and Electronic Arts® with their masterpiece
RPGs should keep an eye out for Mass
Effect: Andromeda with an open-world
galaxy with thousands of quests to complete and planets to explore.
One game in particular that I
think gamers everywhere should be excited for is Red Dead Redemption 2.
Coming from the same developers who
made the wildly popular Grand Theft
Auto games, this game is pretty much
the exact same thing, but in a wild west
environment. This time around, unlike
the previous game, Red Dead Redemption 2 will have online multiplayer com-
ponents, which I believe will put it in
high demand for all gamers.
Another game that I am certain will reach the top of the charts is
the new God of War. Due to its massive fame in the past, veteran gamers
are sure to be looking for this game
on the shelves of their nearest GameStop. This time around, our favorite
god-killing warrior Kratos is not taking on the gods of ancient Greece, but
this time he plans to topple the gods
of Norse mythology, which will be an
interesting twist on the game, and I
am excited to see where this goes in
development.
Other games that have not
been given a confirmed release date
include a new Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed. Along with these, fans of
sports-oriented video games should
be ecstatic to learn the FIFA 18 is expected to release around September
2017.
Of course these are only a select
few of the many anticipated games
of 2017, and because of this, veteran
gamers and, as we would call them,
“noobs” should keep a watchful eye
out for these and other titles this year.
As a fellow gamer, my message
to my comrades is to prepare yourselves for a great year!
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Masterpieces
Redesigned
Abby Hauck
Staff Reporter
Kehinde Wiley’s collection, A New
Republic, opened at the Toledo Museum of
Art (TMA) on February 10, 2017. While the
TMA is known for its unique and beautiful
exhibitions, this display seems to be even
more distinct and politically and socially
charged than those previous.
Through his artwork, Wiley is able to
call question to the absence of various races,
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especially African American, and genders
in museums and alternative exhibitions
worldwide. He takes his inspiration from
pieces called Old Masters, which were
paintings created by well-known artists of
skill around the 19th century. These Old
Masters almost always portray European
aristocrats, which is where Wiley diverges
off. He replaces white subjects with his
own to juxtapose the traditional style and
context with a modern model. Wiley typically portrays young black men or women
in strong poses and clothing that would be
commonly seen today.
At a young age, Wiley was enrolled
into art school in his hometown of Los Angeles to keep him off the streets. According to Wiley, this was where his “love affair
with classical paintings,” began. However, at a young age he was able to notice
a gap in racial representation. He wanted
to not only represent those with black and
brown skin, but tell the story behind them.
By utilizing a method he calls “street casting,” Wiley invites typically black males
off the streets of Harlem to paint their
portraits while sporting street clothes but
posed as typical Renaissance subjects. Not
only does he profile potential models in
Harlem, but he also travels around the
world, primarily focusing on West Africa, to explore other cultures and the
faces that represent them. He incorporates prints from the country from
which his models come from and displays the different senses of beauty in
race, gender, and body types. With so
many variations in content come variations in perception. As Wiley stated,
there are as many interpretations of his
work as there are viewers, which is just
one of the many beauties of his collection.
Wiley’s exhibit featured at the
TMA, A New Republic, creates a space
where “new fields of providence are possible,” as reflected by the artist. Wiley’s
aims were to make his work irrational,
rational, beautiful, terrible, uncomfortable, and most of all, real. In his talk
for the Master Series at the TMA, he impressed the full house with his charm,
awe-inspiring tales, intellectual and
aware outlooks, and envelope-pushing
attitude, as he dove into his start, his
inspiration, and where he plans to go
next. Be sure to check out this thoughtprovoking and beautiful exhibit until
May 14, 2017!
not have to inform them
if he makes a big mistake
with one of these PPDs?
Trump’s power, and the
power of the presidents
before him, has gone
past the point of reasonable executive privilege.
If almost forty percent of
William Koury
Obama’s orders are enStaff Reporter
tirely in the dark to the
American people, how
June 24, 2015–the White House.
many of Trump’s will be?
President Obama has just released a new
Undoubtedly, Trump’s
Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)–
opposition will undoubtbinding orders that revolve around naedly be nervous about
tional security. This one, called PPD-29,
We know about the topics of 28 of the PPDs. Here are the
this lack of accountabiliwas quickly amended to PPD-30. Oddly,
four main categories that they cover:
ty, perhaps Congress too.
the last PPD to be released was in 2014–
All in all, given
it was PPD-28. So, what happened to
PPD-29? While its existence has been
Modern political scientists consider the
that Trump ran his election campaign
tacitly acknowledged by the White
authority to give secret orders to be one
on increasing the accountability of poliHouse press, neither the public nor the
of the most significant powers held by
ticians in Washington, maybe this issue
US Congress has any idea of its contents.
the president.
is one on his agenda for the future. We’ll
Now that Donald Trump has asjust have to wait and see.
sumed the office of the presidency, he
will be able to see these secret orders
created by Obama, and he will have the
power to undo all of them. If that were
to happen, the American people would
not even know, nor would Congress, or
the judiciary. The underlying rationale
for this confidentiality is that these orders revolve around national security,
and publicizing these orders would give
the so-called “enemy” an upper hand.
But, how can President Trump be
President Obama issued 43 Presidential Policy Diaccountable
to the people of the United
rectives (PPDs) in his two terms. Of those, we know
States–his new employers–if he does
about teh contents of 26, and have copies of 13.
Artwork by Kehinde Wiley
Wiley’s rendition of Jacques Louis David’s
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
The President’s
Secret Laws
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The Slow March
of Time
Steven Randall
Staff Reporter
In a report released January 26,
2017, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported that the Doomsday Clock,
the theoretical measurement of humanity’s proximity to global catastrophe, is
currently set at two and a half minutes
to midnight. Right now is the closest the
clock has come to midnight since 1953,
when it reached two minutes to midnight
(two minutes is also the closest the clock
has ever been). The clock moved in 1953
because the United States and USSR tested hydrogen bombs within nine months
Photo by patheos.com
Doomsday Clock
Drain the Swamp
Nathan Robinson
Staff Reporter
“Drain the swamp” was uttered
throughout Donald J. Trump’s campaign,
and no, it is not about Shrek. This swamp
that many politicians have referred to,
including Trump, is the government and
getting rid of corruption within.
January 20, 2017, marked the day
that Donald Trump was sworn into office.
This day also marked the beginning of his
first 100 day plan. The main focus of his
plan are creating jobs, equalizing trade,
and bolstering national security. Trump
plans to place term limits on members of
Congress in order to “break the cycle of
corruption,” to “give new voices a chance
to go into government service,” and to
drain the swamp.
He faces some challenges. A
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of each other. What prompted it to move
within half a minute of that near armageddon this year?
The report cited that: “world leaders made too little progress in the face of
continuing turbulence. In addition to the
existential threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change… trusted sources
of information came under attack, fake
news… and words were used in cavalier
and often reckless ways.” Specific incidents of concern included nuclear tensions between the USA, Russia, the Middle
East, and North Korea, advancing climate
change, and the election of Donald Trump
to the presidency of the United States.
To clarify: the Doomsday Clock
does not measure in actual units of time.
It gives no indication of when global disaster may strike, and it makes no guesses
for how or why that disaster may occur. It
is simply a thermometer, a gauge of proximity based only on current events and
the atmosphere of previous years. Its only
claims are that the world is close to the
brink, certain factors are responsible, and
that actions need to be taken to prevent
a catastrophe. For this reason, the clock
should be interpreted not as prediction,
but caution.
My first response to this news? I’m
not surprised. We’ve been seeing the warning signs for years. The clock has been set
at three minutes to midnight since 2015,
and we’ve done nothing to avert its progress. ISIS is losing in Iraq, yet jihadism
Supreme Court decision in 1995 passed
by a five to four vote stated that Congress
or states cannot make a law limiting the
number of terms Congress can serve.
Furthermore, Constitutional amendments
are also really hard to pass, requiring
a ⅔ supermajority in Congress and ¾
ratification from states.
He proposed they do this in five
steps. First, he will “institute a 5-year
ban on all executive branch officials
lobbying the government after they
leave government service.” Members of
Congress are able to serve an unlimited
number of terms. This ban may discourage
many looking to join his administration
from doing so. Secondly, he will ask
Congress to institute a similar 5-year
ban on “lobbying by former members
of Congress and their staffs.” Five years
still inspires many in the West to carry on
its legacy. Global climate change marches on while the leaders of the world bury
their heads in the sand. The United States
has been divided by the 2016 election and
President Trump’s first actions in a way
not seen since the Civil War. North Korea
is developing nuclear weapons that Kim
Jong-Un is just daring (or stupid) enough
to use against the West. The world stands
on the brink of destruction, and the slight
est push could send us over the edge. If
we do get pushed into conflict, get your
warmest Hazmat suit on because it’ll be a
cold nuclear winter.
Photo by blog.prolife.com
President Donald J. Trump
is a step up from the method currently in
place, with former House members waiting
one year, and former Senators waiting two
years to lobby in Congress. Third, he will
expand the definition of what a lobbyist
is so it would close current loopholes.
According to Trump, one such loophole
is former government officials labeling
themselves as ‘consultants’ or ‘advisors’.
Fourth, he will “issue a lifetime ban against
senior executive branch officials lobbying
on behalf of a foreign government.”
Finally, Trump will ask Congress
to pass a campaign finance reform, which
would prevent foreign lobbyists from
raising money in American elections.
These major changes to Congress
are supported by many such as former
Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz and
Florida’s Representative Ronald DeSantis.
Cruz is in support of the term limits in
order to put the government back to work
for the American people and to “put an end
to the cronyism and deceit” that has turned
Washington into a “graveyard of good
intentions.” DeSantis wants to take the
first step to reforming Capitol Hill, and this
program is that first step. Even with this
support, Trump faces an uphill battle, and
only time will tell the outcome of his plan to
drain the swamp.
6 Community
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Bolstering Enrollment Through To Build or Not to Build:
That is the Question
Tuition-Based Students
Aidan Byrne
Staff Reporter
Ottawa Hills students may be school- paign. OHLS will now spend $28,000
mates with tuition-paying students from to $37,000 on executing that campaign,
which is primarily composed of direct
Old Orchard and Sylvania during the
2017-18 school year. On Thursday, Feb- mailers and social media ads. The goal,
according to the school board, is to
ruary second, the school board moved
forward with plans to continue working recruit five elementary students in the
with advertising agency Hart Inc. in an coming school year. At $13,428 per
effort to increase the student population student, the in-state tuition paid by the
of the Ottawa Hills school district. The ad new students will more than make up
campaign will primarily focus on attract- for marketing costs.
As Superintendent Miller’s stateing tuition-paying students from young
families in Toledo’s Old Orchard neigh- ments suggest, the push for tuition students isn’t about the money; it’s about
borhood and Sylvania .
The efforts are an attempt to combat student numbers. School board presithe recent trend towards lower enrollment dent Brad Johnson claims, “Whether
in the elementary school. In the January they’re paying tuition or move in, either
2017 edition of the district-wide news- way, that’s a win for us.” The program
may eventually be expanded to target
letter, Around These Hills, Dr. Miller
reports, “With no changes between now middle and high school as well as eland then, when our current kindergarten ementary school students if the ad camthrough third grade classes replace our paign proves its efficacy, which means
current ninth through twelfth grade class- increased marketing costs. However,
es, we will have almost 80 less students the school board will wait to see the
in the high school—20 per grade level.” response to the current efforts before
more money is put into expanding the
To date, the school board has spent
roughly $10,000 for Hart Inc. to conduct campaign.
market studies and formulate a cam-
Valentine’s Day:
Yay or Nay?
millennials used to describe today’s loose
relationships among young people. With
the subtle sarcasm, I anticipated choice
E to receive 5% or less votes; but how
very wrong I was. Of course, everyone
Julie Hoeflinger
who voted for this option is in a relationDesign Editor
ship, which is completely reasonable, but
This month, I sent a survey to the
I really thought that options A, B, and C
student body about Valentine’s Day. The
would win a greater percentage of votes.
question read, “What would you rather
Either my sarcasm was too subtle, or all of
do on Valentine’s Day?” Multiple-choice
the lovebirds out there were detesting my
answers consisted of: A) Eat an entire
sarcasm. Either way, roughly 30% of us
50-piece Chicken McNugget by yourself,
will be taking a nap this Valentine’s Day
B) Cuddle with your dog, C) Take a nap, D) (myself included). And I can’t speak for
Buy your best friend chocolate and flowers, everyone else, but I’d say I’m pretty exand E) Spend time with “significant” other cited to take a long nap in my queen-sized
(the person you’re “talking to”). I received
124 votes before closing the survey down
due to technical errors. “Take a nap” is my
personal favorite response, considering
that’s what I will probably be doing this
Valentine’s Day (no different than every
other day), and the option unsurprisingly
received 28.2% of the votes. Option A
received 16.1% of total votes, B received
21%, and D received 10.5%.
However, I must say that I am
shocked by the number of votes answer
option E received: a whopping quarter of
the total responses. This option had quotation marks around the word “significant” to
poke fun at high school relationships, with
no offense intended but simply to appeal to
Results by Julie Hoeflinger
those who are single this Valentine’s Day.
Valentine’s Day Survey results
I also directed ridicule at the term “talking
to,” a rather illogical phrase coined by us
Patrick Arnold
Editor in-Chief
The proposed Secor reconstruction project has
developed significantly in the past month. On January 31, hundreds of concerned citizens of both Ottawa
Hills and Old Orchard, as well as representatives from
the OH School Board, OH Village Council, Toledo City
Council, and the Old Orchard Neighborhoods Association, gathered in the Old Orchard Elementary School.
Those in attendance discussed the project, as well as all
of the concerns surrounding the City of Toledo’s proposals.
Even though the project is 75 percent in Toledo
and 25 percent in Ottawa Hills, there are 13 homes in
Ottawa Hills which would need to be demolished to
expand Secor. Ottawa Hills Village Council has the
final say in whether or not the project can go forward,
because they must give Toledo permission to tear down
the houses in the Village. According to The Blade, a
safety study by DGL Consulting Engineers found there
were 199 crashes on the roadway from 2013 through
2015, with 68 percent resulting in property damage and
32 percent resulting in injury. Of the study emerged:
1. The first option is two lanes running each
direction with a 10-foot median, turn lanes,
and two-lane roundabouts.
2. The second option is similar to the first in
that it has two lanes running each direction
and two-lane roundabouts, but the median is
four feet wide.
3. The third option is what’s known as a “road
diet,” which has one lane in each direction
with a center turn lane and one-lane roundabouts.
4. The final option that came out of the study
is to leave the roadway as it is.
At the meeting on January 31, many rejected
all of these proposals in favor of a fifth solution. Much
like Talmadge, another high traffic street that passes
through a residential neighborhood, Secor would be
transformed from its current four lanes of nine feet
width, to two, wider lanes, with space for parking on
both sides and a lower speed limit. This option would
not require any houses to be torn down.
The biggest concern of the Village is the loss of
tax revenue from the houses that would be destroyed.
The rough estimate of lost revenue is about $5,000
from the district and about $51,000 from the schools,
with an extra $9,000 in income tax loss if the families
decide to relocate outside of the Village. The City of
Toledo has been offered a little over $8.3 million to
help fund the project, which would cover about 80% of
the cost.
The Ottawa Hills Streets Commission chaired
by councilman Rex Decker asked the Village to obtain
an independent traffic study, signaling that the Village
Council may be ready to reject the proposal given to
them by the City of Toledo. Toledo told the Village
that they needed to know whether they could continue
with the project before the end of March, so going forward, look for significant any Village Council decisions
regarding Secor.
7 Sports
Another
Championship, Another
Blown Lead
Ben Werner
Staff Reporter
On February 5th, the
New England Patriots defeated
the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in
the first overtime in Super Bowl
History, led by Tom Brady’s record-setting performance in a
25 point comeback.
The first half of Super
Bowl LI was dominated by the
Falcons and MVP quarterback
Matt Ryan, as the birds had a
controlling 28-3 lead at halftime, taking advantage of crucial
turnovers by the Patriot offense.
However, one of the worst
things someone can do is count
out Tom Brady, as he came alive
in the second half to finish with
a stat sheet of 466 passing yards
and two touchdowns, a Super
Bowl passing yards record. Running back James White set an
NFL Super Bowl receptions record with 14 receptions for 110
yards and one score.
For the Patriots, this gives
the duo of Coach Bill Belichick
and Tom Brady five super bowl
rings (Belichick’s seventh overall). If you didn’t already believe
that Brady is the greatest to ever
play, it’s extremely difficult to
argue he isn’t after capturing his
fifth ring, the most ever by a quarterback in NFL history.
For the Falcons, they join a
group of teams who have blown a
very significant lead on the championship stage in the past year,
joining the Golden State Warriors (up 3-1 on the Cavaliers),
and the Cleveland Indians (up 3-1
on the Cubs). However the future
is bright for loaded offense and a
rising defense, who will strive to
make it back next year.
Brady will turn 40 in August, but somehow continues to
get better and better and plans on
playing for 5-10 more years, believe it or not.
Super Bowl LI had monster viewership, gaining 113.7 average viewers, tied for the second
most watched game of all time.
The game was the most watched
telecast in Fox history, despite
coming slightly short of their Super Bowl victory two years ago
against the Seattle Seahawks,
which had a viewership of 114.5
million viewers.
Sports Betting in the US:
Why Is It Still Banned?
David Rodriguez
Staff Reporter
In 1992, the Professional and Amateur Sports
Protection Act was passed.
With its passage, gambling on
sports became illegal across
the United States, with the exceptions of Nevada, Oregon,
Delaware, and Montana. In
recent years, this federal ban
on sports betting has been under heavy fire. States like New
Jersey have challenged the
act’s constitutionality, while
figures like Senator John McCain and NBA commissioner
Adam Silver have called for
Congress to reexamine the
ban on sports gambling in the
U.S.
Similarly to the prohibition of alcohol in the 20th
century, there is no evidence
at all that suggests that the federal ban has prevented Ameri-
Arrowhead - February 2017
cans from getting their fix of
action in the sports betting
industry. Annually, Las Vegas
casinos and sportsbooks receive nearly $4,000,000,000
in wages, taxed at 25%. With
so many long term studies concluding that in essentially any
type of gambling, but especially in sports betting, the house
always wins in the long run, it
may seem like free money to be
collected on tax for the government. And while $4B is a substantial amount, it is estimated that annually, Americans
illegally wager up to $380B
on sports through an underground industry of offshore
betting houses in addition to
illegal local bookmakers, making sports betting America’s
second largest black market
industry.
Fighting as
One
Hailey McGee
Staff Reporter
This winter, both Ottawa Hills basketball teams held
events to support two different causes. It first started off
on Friday, January 27th when
the boys’ basketball team
faced off against league opponent Gibsonburg. The theme
of the night was “Knock Out
Brain Cancer.”
This was the second
year in a row that OH has
sponsored a game to raise
money for brain cancer victims and their families. A Gibsonburg fan and also brain
cancer survivor, Emma Carpenter, spoke to the fans at
halftime. To raise money for
the game, OH students bought
T-shirts to show their support
for the fight against brain cancer. Gibsonburg fans also con-
tributed to the night by wearing their grey. OH basketball
player Peter Roman said, “It
gave me motivation to play
knowing that a brain cancer
survivor and her family were
in the crowd.” The response
and the attention to this cause
from everyone involved made
it a huge success.
With such great success
from the night before, the Lady
Green Bears basketball team
was ready to host “Hoops For
A Cause” in support of cancer research and any families
that are affected. Fans were
instructed to wear pink to the
game to show their acknowledgement and support. With
the OH pep band there to play
and a full student section, the
players were hyped to play. Senior basketball player Morgan
Billstein said, “That was one of
the most exciting and memorable games because tons of
people came out to support
the great cause!”
Photo by Mr. McMurray
Ottawa Hills student section showing support for the fight against
brain cancer and for the OH basketball team as they faced off
Gibsonburg.
With all this dirty
money passing through the
hands of Americans illegally
every single year, the question
as to why this ban is in place
is finally receiving attention.
Many people would assume
that it has something to do
with morals, since gambling is
often seen as a vice. However,
the truth is that essentially the
only reason that the ban is still
intact is out of fear of a professional sports betting scandal.
Through American sports history, there have been numerous betting scandals exposed:
the 1919 Chicago White Sox
throwing the World Series,
numerous NCAA basketball point shaving incidents
throughout the 1960s, and
MLB legend Pete Rose betting
on games that he was involved
in. Sports fans across the nation
grow outraged at incidents like
these; however, in each of these
cases, there were strong mafia
ties that led to the scandals. It is
no secret that the Italian Mafia
has an extremely strong connection to illegal sports betting in
the U.S, and in these incidents,
their gambling ties caused them
to provoke scandals.
When the cause of essentially every major sports scandal in the history of the United
States traces back to the influence of illegal betting houses,
why would keeping betting illegal, thus upholding the massive
influence of illegal gambling,
prevent those involved
from causing another scandal?
8 Final Analysis
Arrowhead - February 2017
Dear Donald: The War on Media
Jan Durst
Staff Reporter
Dear Donald J. Trump,
Arrowhead News is truly sorry for not addressing you
via Twitter, the most presidential of mediums of the modern
era. Furthermore, we sent you a bathrobe. Every president
needs one, even if Mr. Spicer claims you have never worn
one while in office.
Now, we would like to discuss your relationship with us.
Even though we find your “war on the Media” offensive, we
would like to extend a formal apology. Firstly, we would like
to apologize for failing to cover the infamously unfamous
Bowling Green Massacre. Our failure to cover this tragic
event, along with many others, like the attacks on Paris
and Brussels, was appalling, and we hope to be better in
the future. Secondly, we would like to apologize for taking
pictures of your inauguration crowd. We understand that
size was very important to you when we discussed your
hands, and it was simply inflammatory of us to record your
crowd size. Secondly, we would like to apologize for criticizing your counselor for her “alternative facts” statement. We
alternatively admit that we are alternatively wrong to disagree with alternative facts. Lastly, we would like to formally apologize for recording your words. We understand that
if we are going to build a healthy, loving relationship in the
future, we will have to begin to disregard your “locker room
talk” and probably just stop reporting on what you actually
say. You only respond positively to news that is good for you
and the country, so we may even stop covering what you do
in office. Who knows? If we play our cards right, we could be
your Breitbart News one day.
With love,
The Arrowhead
Top Ten People That I’d
Rather Have as the Secretary
of Education Instead of
Betsy DeVos
Jan Durst
Staff Reporter
10. The Grinch
9. Forrest Gump
8. Bob Saget
7. Chris Hansen from To Catch A
Predator
6. Herbert from Family Guy
5. Fake News
4. Donald J. Trump
3. Spongebob’s Parents
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1. Alternative Betsy