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Mock Trial Prosecutes, Defends, and Conquers
The team hopes their success will bring them to state.

By Courtney Zane

Jes Markson, a popular director and producer, is on trial for the murder of her depressed husband Taylor Rodriguez. With witnesses such as Alex Palmer, the ex-criminal who works for Jes, Brook DeMartini, Taylor’s love interest, and Detective Green, leading cop on the case, the trials are kept animated and interesting. Quick-thinking lawyers battle it out in a guilty or not guilty debate with the evidence and witnesses to back up their arguments.
The Valley Christian Mock Trial team has had three trials since the competition started, bringing home two victories and one loss. Currently, they are doing excellent in fifth place out of all the teams in Santa Clara County. During the week of January 30, the prosecution attorneys, Sara Rose, Eli Brill, and Theo Tran, faced off against two teams. Defeating the first team by a huge amount of points, they only lost by one point to the second team. All prosecution witnesses, including Anna Iuppa, Kevin Zabihi, Lindsey Pitman, and Carly Rauch, did an excellent job of portraying their witnesses’ personalities.
With fabulous defense attorneys like Caroline Evans, Shaelyn Hanes, and Jake Walker, there was no way that the judge could have found the defendant guilty of murder beyond a reasonable doubt. And the defense witnesses, such as Meagan Crockett, Becca Pitman, and Sarah Suwanda, only added to the defense team’s very convincing argument.
The team hopes to continue in their success and make it to state competitions that will be held in Orange County this year.

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National Signing Day Brings VC Athletes to the Table
On Wednesday, February 1, four stars of Valley Christian’s four-time CCS championship football team committed as a group to San Jose State University. After weeks of deliberation, Danté Perez, Mark Piethe, Dominique Hunsucker, and Bryan North made the decision to join the 2006 Spartan football team. All received scholarship offers from several different schools; each evaluated his options and concluded that SJSU had the most to offer in all areas. The boys have become a part of the changing Spartan football program and are excited to see what this experience holds for them as they pursue their football careers.

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Homicide at Skyway Campus
When Anatomy and Physiology students entered their classroom on January 30, they were shocked to see a “dead” man on the floor. The man was laying lifeless, surrounded by bottles, blood spatters, and a knife. According to Mr. Doug Canepa, the murder had taken place earlier that morning, and there were five suspects, one of which was not able to be located.
After getting the basic information from Mr. Canepa, the students got to work. Each had designated responsibilities to attend to. The first job was to document the crime scene. Using skills learned over the course of the unit, students collected valuable information, took photographs, and collected evidence. “Collecting the evidence was fun. It’s not really like the CSI shows on television, the process is a lot slower, and we had to wear ugly hair nets and gloves,” said senior Maricela Galaviz.

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Father-Daughter Dance Coming
Have you ever wished that you could go to the Academy Awards or Grammy’s? Well now is your chance. Mr. Nardi’s 2005-2006 Leadership class is diligently working to prepare one of the greatest Father Daughter Dinner Dances. This high-end event will be held in Valley’s very own large gym from 6:30 until 10 pm on March 11. The theme: A Night On the Red Carpet will include an elegant arrival setup, a full dinner arrangement, entire dance floor, and an awards ceremony. The cost will be $40 per couple before the event, and $50 at the door. Although this evening is a Valley Christian High School event, the junior high is also being invited. Likewise, you, too, are given the opportunity to invite some girls outside of school, such as church friends. It is going to be a lot of fun, so do not hesitate from bringing anyone you would like.

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Rugby Makes a Name for Themselves
The Valley Christian rugby club has competed in its first two matches of the 2006 season. This under nineteen’s league has the Warriors facing opponents well beyond the typical high school athlete.
College Park was the first team to challenge the Warriors. As opposed to the regular halves of thirty-five minutes each, this was both teams’ first scrimmage at fifty minutes total. College Park due to it under nineteen rule is made up of mainly the hated Bellarmine Bells, respectfully hated of course. Down the skyway hill, the teams met on February 4 at Rolling Rock Park, a neighborhood park in community surrounding Valley Christian. The early afternoon (kick off) started the thirty-man battle to jump on the first ‘try.’ Remember that ‘tries’ can be compared to a touchdown in American football yet are worth five points. They are scored by not just reaching the goal but by touching the ball down into the try zone. Due to the location, the two point conversion kicks could not be taken because there were no field goal uprights; these would follow all tries.

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