![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
The Austin City Limits music festival took place over the course of two weekends, Oct. 4-6 and Oct. 11-13. Though the main goal of two separate weekends was to hopefully evenly distribute the mass amounts of people who attend ACL, many who attended the festival disagreed.
“There was still a ton of people at the festival,” senior Paul Madsen said after attending the second weekend of ACL. “I felt squished during every concert.”
ACL attracts people from all over the world because of the wide variety of bands that attend. It is a clash of cultures each day. With the separation into two weekends, there was bound to be some technical difficulties. On the last day of weekend two, ACL was cancelled due to a flooded Zilker park.
“I was so bummed when I heard,” Madsen said. “I didn’t get to see some of my favorite bands.”
Despite the cancellation of Sunday, the two weekends were identical. With nearly the exact same lineup, festival attendees shared the same experience no matter which weekend they chose. Heavily focused on the band, the art market is often overlooked. Even though one can find amazing products created by local artists and well known stores at extremely low prices.
“I was able to haggle a hammock that is usually $100 down to $45,” senior McCullough Gilpin said, who was very happy that he attended the first weekend considering he bought his hammock on Sunday.
Lots of people had different opinions on which bands were their favorite performers. With the range of music starting with techno and ending with country, it is no surprise that most attendees do not have a single favorite act. After attending the second weekend of ACL, senior Cameron Harlow was conflicted on whether or not Kendrick Lamar or The Cure was her favorite act.
“They have such a different sound,” Harlow said. “But they were both so good, I couldn’t pick.”
All in all, according to students, ACL 2013 was a success. Festival managers plan to reimburse the people who attended the second weekend by paying back one-third of what they paid for their tickets. Austin City Limits 2014 has a lot to live up to.
