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April 2006

Is Mr. Dre the Dr. Dre of photography? Relieving Stress
By Petia Kapintcheva ‘07
Flash Staff Reporter
“It is a different way for
students to work an art,
when they are not artists,”
said
Mr.
Drabant.
Almost more than two thirds
of the schools in
the United States
use digital cameras and programs for their
photography
class, yet here in
Fraser High the
photography
teacher,
Mr.
Drabant still uses
film, negatives,
and the dark
room. Would this
make him just old
fashion or an artist who sees the
beauty of photography?
“I would prefer
a combination of
both film and digital technology. The foundation of
the dark room is relevant to
how negatives are made into
pictures,” said Drabant.
Gene Plunar, Drabant’s
Gross Pointe South freshman art teacher, led him to
his fascination with the
quick result in the development of pictures. Later on in

By Jerica Pitts ‘08

college Drabant’s photography courses were enjoyable, full of freedom, and
the aspect of having the
time to do your work without being rushed gave him
a great eye for the artists to

be here at FHS.
Drabant’s career started
out here at FHS working
with 3D art and photography. Now almost seven
years later, Drabant is trying to catch up with the rest
of the country by requesting for new equipment such
as computers, scanners, and
cameras to start using digi-

tal technology.
The dark room is an asset
of photography and is unlike
letting a computer do all the
work. All the manipulation is
in the hands of the photographers. Even though Drabant
sees the value
in both digital
and film photography, seeing the results
in film and the
traditional
dark room is
very important. Showing
students
where it all
came from and
the process of
how it got to
that point is far
better off than
just seeing it
on a computer
screen.
“His classroom is a comfortable environment to be in,
his inspiration motivates you
to become something you
never imagine,” said Anne
Schley ‘07.
Drabant hopes that the fine
art of negatives and dark
room will be around for a
long time even though all the
commercial photography has
gone digital.

A sport for the mind
By John Milby ‘08
Flash Staff Reporter
This year the ’05-’06 FHS
Quiz Bowl team won
manyof the meets that they
participated in. They had to
forfeit two games because of
the death of their beloved
captain, Curtis Pytell, which
was a big loss to the team.
Many students enjoy Quiz
Bowl for a variety of reasons. Navtaj Singh, who is
the best person on the Quiz
Bowl Team when it comes
to geography, enjoys his involvement with the Quiz
Bowl Team.
“You get to learn a lot,”
said Singh.
Despite this reason, and
many others, there is a down
side to Quiz Bowl. Although
they are minor things like
practice on Monday and
Tuesday from 2:30 to 3:30,
and meets on Wednesday

that involve you being there
before bus leaves and last up
until anywhere from 6:006:30. However the worst
thing maybe the stress of being on the sidelines; it can
drive you nuts if you know
a answer and your not in.
“The worst thing about
Quiz Bowl is not playing
when you are the only one
that knows the answer,” said
Max Botimer, sophomore
on the Quiz Bowl Team.
Quiz Bowl is a sport that
is played using buzzers. It
is a trivia sport in which a
buzzer is used to answer
questions about facts. The
questions cover pretty much
every subject from English
to Mathematics. Questions
like: “what moon of Jupiter
may have an ocean under
it’s ice sheets?”, “which 19th
century British poet penned
‘the Rime of the Ancient

Mariner’?”, ”how do you
solve the indefinite integral
of squared X?” The way
Quiz Bowl meets are set up
of this sport is that there are
four rounds for every game
and there are two games for
every meet. The four rounds
are: two 20-question rounds,
a toss-up round, and a fill-inthe-blank category round.
The toss-up round is basically when you answer questions. There are random bonus questions. The fill-inthe-blank-category round is
the best word for the category, because you basically
pick a category and fill in the
blank for ten questions to the
best of your ability.
Quiz Bowl is very easy to
get into and you learn things
like the answers to the above
questions. Their coach of
three years, Mrs. Irbraham
would like to see more

Flash Staff Reporter
It is a known fact that high
school students undergo
stress throughout their teenage years. There is no way
around it. Rather or not it
may come from dramatic
situations in school life or a
major grade effecting exam,
stress is inevitable. We deal
with it in our own personal
ways.
All Fraser High School
students have to deal with
undergoing stress all the
time. To find out how students here deal with their
stress, three people were interviewed.
“I vent to my friends,” said
sophomore Kelsey Cash, “I
do it so that all my feelings
don’t build up inside of me.
That way I don’t go off on
someone who doesn’t deserve it.”
Senior Sarah Ramirez
laughed at first when asked
the question about how she
realizes stress but then she
quickly gave me her answer.

“When I am stressed I tend
to relieve it by holding onto
a stress ball. It really helps
me when I am frustrated
about something, hence the
name of it,” said Ramirez.
Sophomore Misha Pirzada
explained how she relieves
her stress about school, and
her personal life.
“When I get stressed about