The Dart: Vol 74 Issue 4

the St. Teresa’s Academy Kansas City, Missouri

THE PRESSURE TO BE PERFECT Members of the STA community share their struggles with body image.

Administration cuts Chinese course ›› pg. 4 | CSJ influence still present at STA ›› pg. 14 | Changes to STA Swim Team ›› pg. 26

CONTENTS

the Dart

vol. 74

issue 4

12 December 2014

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take a breather | Senior Lauren Zastrow catches her breath at swim practice Nov. 19 at Longview Recreation Center. Zastrow is one of the captains of the swim team. photo by MEG THOMPSON

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study session | Senior Ellen Weitkamp spreads her various pages filled with Chinese characters out in front of her during a free Dec. 5. Weitkamp typed the page seen using a school netbook. photo by ARINNA HOFFINE

news

4 // Mandarin Chinese to move online

star spotlight

8 // STA sophomore plays hockey on boys' team

reviews

10 // The Carrie Diaries: a relatable teen drama

features

12 // CSJ presence still visible on campus

cover story

18 // Body positivity is an ongoing mission

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home for the holidays | A street through the Country Club Plaza shows many buildings with lights Nov. 28. The Plaza lights were lit Nov. 27, Thanksgiving. photo by MADDY MEDINA

a&e

23 // Students sumbit work to Scholastic Art & Writing competition

perspectives

24 // The price of ignorance

sports

27 // Swim team makes adjustments to excel at State

community

28 // 'Tis the season for fun Kansas City holiday activities

last look

30 // Which STA teacher are you?

From the

Editors

It’s controversial, painful and unacknowledged. That’s precisely why we are talking about it.

When the Dart decided we wanted to write a story about body image, we had the opportunity to take it in a number of different directions. We could focus on anything from positive body image campaigns by companies such as Dove to how everyday language influences our perception of our own bodies. We decided we wanted to center our coverage on the media’s influence on body image and how it contributes to eating disorders.

In light of this being a sensitive topic on campus, Christina Elias and Katherine Green, the writers of the story, found it difficult to find students who were willing to talk openly about their struggles with body image. Some girls agreed to talk to our writers about their experience with eating disorders, but many were hesitant to allow their names to be printed in the story.

Whether or not those students’

names are printed in the pages of this paper does not change that this is a topic of conversation that needs to find light at STA. We hope that this story will spark an open discussion about body image and how we can affect our STA sisters in a positive way. As always, enjoy the issue, and don’t hesitate to let us

know what you think.

Sincerely,

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Editors-in-Chief Libby Hyde, Siobhan Miller, Emma Willibey Adviser Brad Lewis

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Question

by HANNAH BREDAR and GLORIA COWDIN hbredar15@stastars.org gcowdin15@stastars.org

What is the most intersting gift you've received?

“My grandma gave me a potato ricer for my 17th birthday.”

Haley Sirokman, senior “One year, my mom gave me 'The Body Book.' It was really awkward."

Amelia Lester, senior “I got a puppy for Christmas.”

Emily O'Neill, junior “Once, I got a ukulele for Christmas.”

Gretchen Schloegel, senior

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Administration cuts Chinese classes Next year Mandarin Chinese classes will be taught in a different format.

by ANNA BAUMAN abauman15@stastars.org

The administration has decided to change the format of the Mandarin Chinese language course next year due to low enrollment. STA has paired with the Kansas University Confucius Institute’s Interactive Distance Learning program as a way to continue offering the course. This change was made in order to accommodate the language in the STA curriculum, according to principal of academic affairs Barbara McCormick.

“Economically, we can continue to afford to offer Mandarin Chinese in this format, otherwise we would have to do away with it,” McCormick said. “[We] have to make a good sound decision economically so that the students can have an array of courses to choose from. Instead of getting rid

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chinese characters | Senior Ellen Weitkamp works on an assignment for Chinese class. Weitkamp is one of five students in Mandarin Chinese II. photo by ARINNA HOFFINE

of a course, let’s find a different way to offer it.”

Opposed to a traditional classroom setting, students will go to the Windmoor center for class five days a week where a KU teacher will conduct class over a screen instead of face to face.

The video conference room in Windmoor is equipped with the technology, including speakers, video and cameras necessary to conduct the class.

McCormick visited the Confucius Institute to observe this style of class.

“I feel like in watching that 15 or 20 minutes [of class], there are more oral conversations occurring in the language than I probably see sometimes in our face to face classes here,” McCormick said. “I think in order for there to be distance, they’ll probably increase the language use.”

Current Mandarin I student senior Kathleen Nicely said she is sad to see the current Chinese program go next year. Mandarin teacher Valda Hsu agreed that it is a difficult situation for Mandarin students.

“I have no idea how Mandarin is going to be taught on skype, it sounds irrational,” Nicely said. “So much of it is stuff you have to do one on one. I don’t know how it’s going to be taught in that kind of environment.”

According to Nicely, the different format may prevent students from taking the class.

“There’s kind of a vibe from the online classes that they’re harder because you really have to monitor yourself,” Nicely said. “If you don’t have the work ethic or organization, it’s way too hard. That’s one thing that having a physical teacher there is good for, she can actually be there to scold you when you need to do work.”

Nicely is one of four students currently enrolled in Mandarin Chinese I, while Mandarin Chinese II has five students and level three has one. This language was first offered three years ago.

“Mandarin was introduced because it is one of the top three UN languages,” McCormick said. “People today will benefit greatly to learn some Asian languages and culture so that in the future you can work in the business industry in a more compatible way.”

After three years of offering the language, enrollment still remains low. According to McCormick, other languages, such as Spanish and French, are more popular for students. “[Students] get [to STA] and they choose what’s either the easiest language, a language they’re familiar with, a language they know or something their friends are taking,” McCormick said.

“They don’t think about taking a risk and trying it. We have some brave souls that launch out of their comfort

box and take Mandarin Chinese, and I’m glad to hear that. I just don’t seem to be able to get the numbers high enough to offset the cost.”

McCormick said she is hopeful that students will sign up for the new Mandarin chinese classes next year.

“I’m hopeful that they’ll try it and they’ll sign up,” McCormick said. “We’ll take it a semester at a time if we need to and we’ll see if they’re successful, what’s working for them and what’s not.

We’ll have a lot of oversight to make sure that everyone is getting their needs met as best they can in that type of learning format. If not we’ll be ready to shift gears, make changes, do what we can, but I’m hoping that [students] are willing to take a risk.” H

Language by the numbers

The Dart compiled statistics about the most popular language classes at STA.

Seniors host fundraiser Dancing with the Stars sponsors senior activities like prom.

by MARYMICHAEL HOUGH mhough16@stastars.com

Senior class fundraiser Dancing with the Stars returned Nov. 20 after its absence last year. The event raised $3,700 to help fund the senior prom, senior class gift and emergency fund according to class president Anne Nulton and senior class moderator Lindsay Duff.

According to Duff, Dancing with the Stars is based on the long-running reality television show.

“A few seniors pair up with different teachers, rehearse in their free time and eventually perform in front of an audience in the auditorium,” Duff said. “The audience then votes for the performance they liked the best.”

The winners this year were seniors Taran Smith, Maria Flores, Dorian Bailey and former publications teacher Eric Thomas.

According to Duff, the senior class decided to host Dancing with the Stars as opposed to last year’s seventies-themed dance-a-thon due to lower operating costs and higher interest from students. “[The dance-a-thon] did raise a significant amount of money, but it cost a lot to put on and didn’t raise quite as much as we had hoped,” Duff said. “It seemed like it was not as popular among students as we thought it would be.”

According to Nulton many different fundraising ideas were proposed in early class meetings, including a dance-a-thon.

Dancing with the Stars, however, seemed to be the most popular idea. “[Seniors] were all really excited to do Dancing with the Stars from the very beginning,” Nulton said. “We wanted a fundraiser that people were pretty familiar with but would still want to come to and enjoy.” H

by HANNAH BREDAR hbredar15@stastars.org Spanish (I, II, III, IV, college III, college IV, college V, independent study) 399 students 73% of students French (I, II, college III, college IV, college V, independent study) 86 students 15.7% of students Latin (I, II, college III, college IV) 54 students 9.9% of students Mandarin Chinese (I, II, III) 9 students 1.6% of students

dancin' with the stars| Past publications teacher Eric Thomas dances with seniors Maria Flores, from left, Dorian Bailey, and Taran Smith. Thomas, who was the event's special guest, won first prize with his team. photo by ARINNA HOFFINE

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Administration hires students for after-school work STA hired several students to help clean STA after school for wages.

by LEIGH CAMPBELL lcampbell15@stastars.org

Four students have begun working for STA after school, according to principal of student affairs Mary Beth Compton.

Senior Alexia Arrieta and junior Jewell Allen both work for STA after school.

According to Allen, she began working for STA after her sister Emma Allen handed down the job to her.

“It was two years ago, and Ms. Hoecker announced over the intercom that if anyone wants to work for STA, they can come see her,” Allen said. “It was first-come, first-serve. So my sister did that. And after she got an actual

job, she passed it on to me.”

Similarly, Arrieta began working for STA after hearing Compton’s urging over the intercom at the beginning of the school year.

“Over the summer I was looking for jobs, but most of them wanted me to have work experience,” Arrieta said.

“And this is a great way to get work experience because is is not that demanding as far as time is concerned.”

According to Arrieta, most of the time she only works 15 minutes to one hour everyday cleaning chalk and dry erase boards. Allen also usually works less than an hour after school each day taking out the recycling or dusting chairs in the Windmoor Chapel.

“It is easy and not very time consuming so its nice to have a little extra to pay for my extra bills that I have,” Allen

said.

According to Arrieta, students get paid slightly less than $8 an hour. They are given a paycheck every two weeks.

“We do get these really cool paychecks and I feel really adult and mature,” Arrieta joked.

Arrieta is putting her $140 a month toward the the choir trip to Los Angeles this upcoming April. According to Allen, she saves her money for various expenses she may have.

“I am really happy that I can contribute especially with my parents helping out and so now I get to help,” Arrieta said. “It is a really big help.”

Both students agree the program is convenient and helpful. In addition to work experience and money, Arrieta feels as though she is contributing to the school. H

taking out trash| Junior Jewell Allen walks across the quad to the dumpster behind Goppert Nov. 21. Allen claims her after school job is "easy" and "not very time consuming." photo

by TORIE RICHARDSON

wipe and wash| Senior Alexia Arrieta cleans science teacher Mary Montag's board after the end of the school day Nov. 21.

Arrieta is putting her $140 a month towards the choir trip to Los Angeles this upcoming April. photo by TORIE RICHARDSON

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cleaning stars| Junior Jewell Allen pulls an unused trash bag from a roll in order to replace a used bag in Donnelly hall Nov. 21. Allen got the after school job after her sister passed it down to her after graduating in 2014. photo by TORIE RICHARDSON

Administration curtails club fundraisers STA limits club fundraisers to keep them under control.

by MADI WINFIELD mwinfield17@stastars.org

There are 24 official clubs at STA, and each club is allowed one fundraiser a year.

This year, STA administration is placing more emphasis on controlling the number of club fundraisers, according to principal of student affairs Mary Beth Compton.

“In the past, there has been some overlap of activities, particularly at the end of the year, and it just ends up diluting the message of both activities,” Compton said. “If you spread them out, it makes them all more successful.”

Senior and vice president of Spirit Club, Ceci Ismert, agrees with this rule. “[People would] raise

unnecessary amounts of money if we could have multiple fundraisers,” Ismert said. “Also, [now] you’re forced to plan it and carry it out better.”

Senior and co-president of Social Justice Club Brogan Caffarelli is in favor of the rule because it puts less stress on students. “[Fundraisers are] stressful,” Caffarelli said. “A lot of it is nice because the school gives you a lot of responsibility, but at the same time it can be intimidating. You’re 17 and applying to college while at the same time organizing this giant school-wide fundraiser. So it can be a little scary.”

According to Compton, one of the steps she has taken during her first year as principal of student affairs is to organize a fundraising calendar.

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“Many clubs are very interested in doing a fundraiser and that’s great,” said Compton. “I just try to be the person who keeps track of that calendar, and people have been great in trying to work together.”

Though Caffarelli agrees with the rule, she is sympathetic toward those who want more fundraisers.

“I understand the want to raise funds, but it’s important that the school isn’t completely continuously going through a fundraiser,” Caffarelli said. “The ones that are important… wouldn’t go as well if there was one every single week.”

“It starts to become too much if there’s constantly something going on that we need to be giving toward, which is good,” Ismert said.

“But with less, you kind of get more.”H

Each issue, the Dart highlights groundbreaking events in the world, US, Missouri and KC.

"The Weekly What" is a current events blog by junior Audrey Carroll that "narrows news items into simple, understandable segments with slightly editorial comments."

by BRIDGET JONES bjones16@stastars.org

in the world

in the u.s.

in missouri

Ashley Uys, a South African biotechnologist and his company, Medical Diagnostic have created a self-testing kit that will diagnose malaria in 30 minutes or less. The kit only costs 30 cents. This low price makes the kit more affordable to the public, also users can have access without travelling to a doctor.

Three students at Florida State University were shot and injured Nov. 20. The gunman was then shot by police in front of the school’s library. The gunman had opened fire around midnight. "You never think something like this is going to happen to you until you have to react in that situation when someone is screaming there is a gun in the building," FSU freshman Allison Kope told CNN.

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was not indicted for the fatal shooting of black teen Michael Brown in August. The decision, made Nov. 24, caused protesters to set businesses on fire and loot shops and gas stations. Protesters gathered across the country in New York, Seattle and Oakland, Calif. “Brown's death ignited a national debate on race and law enforcement,” according to CNN.

in kansas city This November has been the fourth coldest November on record. The normal average temperature in Kansas City in November is 49 degrees, however this year it has been 37.7. Tuesday, November 18 the record low of 6 degrees was set. This broke the old record of 14 degrees in 1903.

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star spotlight / bits & pieces

MARY CLAIRE

CONNOR

by MEREDITH MULHERN, photo by AMY O'LEARY mmulhern16@stastars.org, aoleary15@stastars.org

Sophomore Mary Claire Connor plays on an all-boys hockey team.

How long have you been playing hockey?

How did you get into hockey?

"I started in second grade, but I did figure skating and hockey for a few years. Then I dropped figure skating and I kept playing hockey"

"My older brother and younger brother played, and I always watched my brothers play and my dad coach, so that intrigued me. My dad always wanted me to play, so I decided to try hockey for a year and I really liked it."

What’s the hardest part about playing hockey?

What's the best part?

Do you think other girls should try hockey?

" [The hardest part is] definitely the checking, its so rough, and people don’t realize it unless they watch a game. All you do is knock people out. [The best part is] definitely the guys on the team. I’ve grown up with them, we’ve all played together since we started playing, its just fun. They’re really protective and always care for me."

Tell me about your team.

"I play for Carriage Club. It’s their first year having a high school team because high schoolers always dropped hockey to play for [Shawnee Mission East], so they started a carriage club team. We play [Rockhurst High School] so that’ll be fun."

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"Yeah, I think that people don’t realize how fun of a sport it is its not really known. It's obviously different and you have to go into it being tough. I’m not a very tough person until I started playing hockey. Now we have to train as a team and workout together to be in shape and we lift weights."

Has playing with boys affected your game in any way?

“Yeah I think the dynamic of boys and girls sports is extremely different. Boys are just so much rougher, they focus on aggression and knocking each other out. Boys can be stronger and more in shape. It's hard because they’re really good. I’m not bad but I'm just there for the fun of it."

Instagrams OF THE ISSUE Each issue, the Dart highlights students’ Instagrams.

This month’s theme: friends.

by LAUREN ZASTROW lzastrow15@stastars.org

PHOTO OF THE ISSUE arctic blast| A recent artic surge left fall leaves covered in frost in mid November.

Kansas City's record low of 24 degrees, set in 1891, was broken by a low of 23 degrees. photo by JESSIE CULVER

My life sucks // My life rocks Here, a student shares a moment that really made her cringe.

Here, a student shares an especially exciting experience.

by MADI WINFIELD mwinfield17@stastars.org

by MADI WINFIELD mwinfield17@stastars.org

My life sucks

My life rocks

"About a month ago, I went home to grab some clothes to spend the night at a friend’s house, and right when I got to my back door I saw a giant opossum in my kitchen. I ran back out the front door to my friend’s car so I wouldn’t take any chances."

-Mary Catherine Egan, junior

“After Rockhurst homecoming and Teresian, my mom put the pictures of me on Facebook, and different companies saw them and asked me to model. And when I was actually getting the dress at the boutique, they asked me to model, too. So I might be modeling for their next homecoming shoot in the spring.”

-Tori Cartee, sophomore

That’s what

she said

Each issue, the Dart shares entertaining student tweets.

by MAGGIE KNOX mknox16@stastars.org

Senior Fee Pauwels @FeePauwels IVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY UGGS IN ONE PLACE #sta Sophomore molly coble @molly_coble Can everyone just agree with everything I say or do? Thanks.

Photo by senior Taran Smith @taran_itup

Photo by senior Sara Jane McQuaid @sjmcquaid

Photo by junior Maddie Summers @m_summers

Next theme:

hometown

#dartnewsonline

Freshman Mavis Spearman @mavisj99 throwback to when i used to straighten my hair everyday

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Winter break television spree

Spend your holidays with these must-see Netflix series.

by BRIDGET JONES bjones16@stastars.org

The time has arrived. We have all been waiting for these beautiful two weeks since August: Christmas break.

While some of you may be going to the beach or the mountains, others may be planning on having a “staycation.” I know we all will find time between Christmas parties, sledding and sleeping to catch up on Netflix.

Now maybe you consider yourself a Netflix connoisseur or maybe you just got a Netflix subscription for Christmas, but no matter what, I know that you are going to spend at least one night this winter break watching your favorite show on Netflix. Looking for your first Netflix series to watch?

Maybe you just finished your favorite show and you need a new one. Then this is the list for you. Please enjoy this compilation of the best Netflix series for your winter break.

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1. Parks and Recreation, The Office, 30 Rock These three NBC comedy shows are classics and will have you laughing so hard you might spill your hot chocolate. The shows star some of my personal favorite comedians: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, John Krasinski and Adam Scott. There is such a wide assortment of episodes, 437 in total of all 22 seasons, that you might just have to skip that Christmas party you were dreading anyway.

2. American Horror Story This show may not be for everyone, nor is it very Christmas-y, but it is intriguing. From the two seasons currently on Netflix you will have plenty of late nights wondering if you would rather marry Tate Langdon or Kit Walker. You also might have a few nightmares about Bloody Face.

3. Parenthood You might think this is a show your mom would watch, but give it a chance. Parenthood is a truly heartfelt show that will leave you thankful for your family and loved ones during this holiday season.

4. Bob’s Burgers After being Tina Belcher for Halloween, I feel obligated to include this hilarious cartoon show. There are only three seasons on Netflix as of now, but these seasons are hilarious.

The Belcher family and their crazy antics will have you laughing through every episode.

5. Any Disney Channel throwback show There's no better time for a little nostalgia than Christmas. I’m talking Wizards of Waverly Place, Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Basically any of your favorites from your grade school days.

6. Freaks and Geeks There may only be one season of

this coming of age comedy show, but it is definitely worth a watch. With your favorite stars from today like Jason Segel and James Franco, this show will have you in tears of laughter. When the 18 episodes are over, you’ll wish there was another season to watch next in your queue. But hey, you might even be able to finish this one in just one day.

7. Arrested Development This Netflix original will remind you of 30 Rock and other NBC comedies.

The Bluth family will make you laugh out loud at the trouble they get into with money, prison and bananas.

8. Criminal Minds Since 2005 this crime show has opened eyes to how the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit works. With characters coming and going, this show’s nine seasons will have you gripping the side of your couch in terror and crying when your favorite agent is held captive at gunpoint.

9. "The Carrie Diaries" This prequel to Sex and the City will make you fall in love with Austin Butler. It is not a requirement to watch The Sex and the City prior to watching "The Carrie Diaries", as they do not depend on each other too much. "The Carrie Diaries" will have you dreaming of moving to New York to become the next hottest fashion designer or magazine editor for Vogue.

10. Saturday Night Live Everyone loves a little comedic satire in their lives, so why not watch season 37 and 38 of SNL on Netflix? These two seasons feature guest stars like Lindsay Lohan, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Jennifer Lawrence and will have you laughing so loud you might wake your neighbors. H

'The Carrie Diaries': entertaining but inaccurate Prequel to 'Sex and the City' misrepresents 80s fashion.

by MEREDITH MULHERN mmulhern16@stastars.org

Over Thanksgiving break, I watched the second season of "The Carrie Diaries" on Netflix, the prequel to the hit television series "Sex and the City."

The show, which takes place in the 1980s, follows the life of teenager Carrie Bradshaw, along with her numerous boy issues, friend drama, her internship at Interview fashion magazine, and her love affair with New York City.

The show itself is entertaining, funny, relatable to teenage girls, and overall, it’s a good series to waste a couple of days on during the upcoming Christmas break. Carrie Diaries has interesting characters—not to mention a very attractive Austin Butler—comedy, drama, moments that make you want to want to scream and moments that make you want to cry. Carrie herself is witty, intel-

Westport's

KC boutique stands out from other clothing chains.

by LINDEN O'BRIEN-WILLIAMS lobrienwilliams@stastars.org

As a teenage girl, having a broad and unique wardrobe is important to me.

However, being a teenage girl, I also don’t have unlimited money to spend on expanding my wardrobe. For the most part, I try to shop at relatively inexpensive places with plenty of options.

Living in Brookside, I find myself on the Plaza frequently, shopping at places like Forever 21 or Urban Outfitters. However, Forever 21’s clothes aren’t always the best quality and sometimes lack individuality. As for Urban Outfitters, the recent controversies with their offensive merchandise leave me wanting to shop elsewhere.

I recently heard about Bunker from some friends and decided to look into it.

Turns out, not only is it relatively inexpensive, but it definitely has plenty of options.

Located at 40th and Broadway, Bunker is a local store with clothes, shoes and

ligent, funny and charismatic. However, most of the time, she’s the reason you’ll want to scream and cry with her lessthan-exemplary decision-making skills.

She also has a tendency to create imaginary problems with her life in her head, but it all adds to the persona of Carrie.

A show that causes this many emotions just has to be good, and Carrie Diaries will certainly not disappoint in the entertainment department.

I love "Carrie Diaries," and many other STA girls do as well, but there are a few points where the show could be better.

For instance, the hair, makeup and fashion lacks historical accuracy. The characters in the show look like they are from 2014, not 1986. No one has the poofy 80s hair style. I have seen approximately two people wearing shoulder pads throughout both seasons. The outfits worn look like they can be purchased at your local Forever 21, and I have only seen Carrie wear one outfit that genu-

inely looks like it is from the 80s. The homes in the show look way too modern.

The girls’ makeup looks appropriate to wear out on the street today. Nothing in this show screams “80s” to me, except for the phenomenal soundtrack, consisting of bands like The Cure, Big Country, and Men Without Hats.

In order to make Carrie Diaries truly fantastic, the producers need to put more thought into making the 80s vibe more accurate, even if it’s just sticking a few girls in shoulder pads and crimping their hair.

The only detail that the producers have gotten right is Carrie’s hair, which they have done well approximately three times, and the cars driven in the show.

Overall, "The Carrie Diaries" is a great show. Even though the second season is unfortunately the last that will be made, that shouldn’t stop you from watching the series, and the inaccuracy of details shouldn’t stop you either. H

brings local flavor plenty of humorous books and little knick knacks. Bunker has been running since 1997 and is thriving still.

Immediately after I walked in the door, I was greeted with a friendly "hello" as I looked around for a little while. The local vibe is apparent through posters and artwork scattered around the store, giving it a comfortable feel. The individuality is interesting too; it’s a nice switch from shopping in malls and large chains.

Any questions I had were answered confidently and quickly. The staff was genuinely friendly and concerned with helping the customers.

Though there are many unique aspects of the store, perhaps the most interesting is the “Bunker Bargain Basement,” a basement made to look like a cave or bomb shelter containing piles of discounted shoes. Besides the basement, the store has “Baby Bunker,” a small section of the store for younger kids, giving it a family aspect as well.

As for what the Bunker actually carries, I’m convinced that most teenage

girls who shop at places like Forever 21 or Urban Outfitters would find the selection pleasing. The options are comparable to clothes you’d find at Urban Outfitters, but are unique and made better because the local store has flexibility in choosing what they sell. Whether you’re looking for a cute dress for a dance, a casual dress, jeans or maybe a hat, they’re sure to have something.

The prices are relatively affordable (around $30 for a top, $50 for bottoms) but there are also frequent sales. From the large sale section, the Bargain Basement, or, say, a Black Friday sale, even I can afford to shop at Bunker. It’s worth it, too: the quality is noticeably better.

If you shop on the plaza or at big chains, why not switch it up and try the Bunker? From the people, the clothes, its individuality and its prices, it’s worth a shot. Shopping local will give you something that nobody else is wearing and you’ll know that you’re supporting a great business like Bunker. H

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CSJ Mission Lives On

The Sisters of St. Joseph are still present at STA.

by LIBBY HYDE and HELEN WHEATLEY lhyde15@stastars.org hwheatley17@stastars.org

It was the fall of 1962 that Sr. Rose McLarney decided to join the convent shortly after her graduation from the college of St. Teresa, then housed in Donnelly Hall. She joined the Sisters

of St. Joseph of Carondelet, and now serves on the board at STA. Though she fondly remembers her time at the college of St. Teresa, she never attended STA high

school. However, she did have the opportunity to interact with many of the nuns on campus. “The sisters played softball with us, they were real people and very friendly and

BY THE NUMBERS STA's number of nuns as teachers has dropped since 1850. compiled by SIOBHAN MILLER smiller15@stastars.org

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very relational,” McLarney said. “That’s what attracted me, and I didn’t really think about becoming a sister until my junior year of college.”

McLarney said the biggest influence on her decision to join the convent was her interaction with nuns during those formative years of her life. Looking back at that time, she reflected that the most noticeable difference between those days and STA now is the presence of Catholic religious on campus.

McLarney said that in the 1960s, most of the teachers and administrators of the school were sisters.

More than 50 years later, life at STA looks spectacularly different.

Sr. Patty Clune, a gradu-

ate of STA and a former are called to this lifestyle member of the board, said they'll come.” that this decline of presThe Sisters of St. Joseph ence of CSJ on campus is have an associate program a result of two things: less for people who identify with need, and less women the spirituality and mission entering the convent. of CSJ, but do not desire Positions that were to become a sister. Many traditionpeople in ally only the STA The spirit of what filled by commuSt. Teresa’s is all sisters are nity have about is alive in now filled gone by lay through your DNA. people. this — Sister Rosemary “Many program, Flanigan, CSJ Sister of [the CSJ including sisters] president are not in the education Nan Bone and principal field anymore,” Clune said. of student affairs Mary “I think there’s a cyclical Beth Compton. Clune and side of it and there will McLarney agreed that while be time where there's a the number of Sisters of greater need… I trust the St. Joseph is declining, the working of the spirit and number of people interestwhen there are people that ed in becoming associates

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of CSJ is increasing.

“It’s just a really great way for faculty, if they feel they want to do so, to discover the meaning of the mission of the Sisters of St. Joseph more deeply,” Bone said.

Clune said that lay people began to come forward who were excellent educators and the Sisters of St. Joseph expanded their mission to fill the needs of the community. In the 1960s, that need was in education. Now that there are willing and able educators to fill those positions, the sisters have begun to fill other needs in the community, such as McLarney’s programs concerning restorative justice or Clune’s hope to someday work with children in Uganda.

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“Today we have a variety of needs that we're trying to respond to,” Clune said.

This willingness to respond to the needs of the community was inspired by a statue of Mother St. John Fontbonne who founded sisters of St. Joseph in France in 1650. Her statue shows her posture with one hand reaching out and one foot stepping forward. This symbolizes the sisters’ willingness to see the needs of the community they are serving, and address those needs.

Though there are less CSJ on campus today then there were 50 years ago, McLarney and Clune agree that the spirit of the sisters of St. Joseph is still alive and well on campus.

The idea of serving the

dear neighbor is one that is closely held to the Sisters of St. Joseph, and this is true for the students of STA as well.

“I think the sisters that are on the board on a regular basis will bring what’s going on in the community [to mind] when praying,” Clune said. “Maybe three times out of six years faculty and students would come before us and give us a real flavor for what’s happening.”

Sister Rosemary Flanigan, who now works in the library with the archives, explained the declining numbers of nuns on campus as a trend that is happening all over the world.

“How do you explain that this school is still going?” Flanigan said. “It’s

stronger now than it used to be. And who’s running this school? The people we taught. We took our know-how and passed it on, and now those people are doing the job. Nan Bone was a student here and Nan Bone is now running it.

Thats exactly the way history develops and so there isn’t the need for [CSJ] and therefore there aren’t the numbers.”

Flanigan concluded by saying that since 1650, CSJ have identified with the idea of “serving the dear neighbor,” something they passed down to the women of STA. “That’s just an expression that rolls off our tongue,” Flanigan said. “And that’s exactly what you guys are doing. What are you doing your service project for?

So you can serve the dear neighbor.”

Flanigan said that though the women of STA live in an individualistic society and culture, there will always be people to serve others.

“The spirit of what St. Teresa’s is all about is alive in your DNA,” Flanigan said.

“I think it’s just so amazing…

There will always be people who look outside themselves. There will always be people who are looking out for the dear neighbor, and as long as we can educate those people, and shoot ‘em out into the world so they can serve the dear neighbor, the spirit of St. Teresa’s Academy will be alive and well.” H

1. all lined up | The Sisters of St. Joseph gather for a photo for the 1949 yearbook. These sisters made up the faculty of STA, and the class of 1949 dedicated their yearbook to the sisters for guiding the girls "with a gentle hand and an understanding heart." photo courtesy of the 1949 yearbook 2. for the love | Sr. Rose McLarney explains her life as a Sister of St. Joseph and her relationship with STA. McLarney, a former graduate of the college of St. Teresa, currently serves on the board of STA. photo by KATHERINE MEDIAVILLA 3. workin' woman | STA alumna Sr. Patty Clune searches on the computer for an email. Even after graduating from STA, Sr. Clune still keeps in touch with her old classmates. photo by KATHERINE MEDIAVILLA 4. teacher teacher | A former STA French teacher and vice principal teaches a lesson to her class. photo courtesy of the 1965 yearbook

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(not so) SWEET Studies show an increase in sugar consumption is linked to a decrease in wellbeing.

by GLORIA COWDIN gcowdin15@stastars.org

250 grams. The average amount of American adults are obese. Additionsugar consumed in an STA girl’s day. ally, while soda consumption has Four grams equals one teaspoon, doubled in the last 30 years, diabetes which means there are about 62 teadiagnoses have tripled. Lowering spoons in 250 grams. This is equivathese statistics can begin with chillent to consuming 1 and ¼ cups of dren and teens learning to be more sugar a day. Maybe that doesn’t seem conscious of their eating decisions. like a huge deal. A cup of sugar isn’t According to principal of student that much, right? Wrong. According to affairs Mary Beth Compton, STA prothe American vides a multiHeart Assotude of support A big initiative of ciation, women systems to our school, and me should only enhance personally−something consume about overall student I believe in strongly is 6 teaspoons, wellbeing, but just overall wellness. or 30 grams, some gaps still — Mary Beth Compton, of sugar a day. remain in the Principal of student affairs Going by this area of healthy recommendaeating. tion, we consume roughly 8 times “A big initiative of our school, and more sugar than we should every day. me personally—something I believe Now think about all your “bad in strongly—is just overall wellness,” food” days. Or the days you stop by Compton said. “Physical, emotional, the development office for candy mental wellness. I so agree with this more than once. Or when you choose premise that your diet makes up a to drink sugary beverages with every huge part of that.” meal. Countless foods and drinks like However, many STA organizations these pile up and contribute to caushand out sweets on a regular basis. ing an epidemic that is steadily taking The development offices and many over America: obesity. administrative offices offer mini candy According to Kick the Can, a bars to students who drop in, and the website that is part of a project of the Fine Arts Boosters sell $1 doughnuts California Center for Public Health in the front halls of the M&A Building Advocacy (CCPHA), more than 1/3 of and Donnelly Hall every Thursday.

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features The problem with these treats is that nuts. In the last few years, the school they become a regular part of many has taken steps to encourage healthier students’ diets. Junior Emma Fernandez, eating, such as introducing a local lunch who avoids most processed foods and program. tries to include every food group in her “I think [healthy eating is] something meals, believes eliminating these sugary that needs to be ongoing and continufoods would benefit students. ally revisited. I don’t think it’s ever a box “We’re already learning here, so we that we check,” Compton said. “Bistro don’t want to have bad eating habits [Kids] is a big step. It was a big investwhile we’re learning,” Fernandez said. ment and commitment by the school “Like the doughnuts, to say ‘let’s bring This is why I do for instance. That’s in fresh, organic this job, because I breakfast, and you food, healthy don’t want to eat a choices; whether believe in healthy bunch of sugar right it’s a salad bar or eating.

— Scott Brake, Head before you have a entree.’”

Chef of Bistro Kids day of taking tests.

Bistro Kids is a That’s not a good Kansas City based way to start out your school lunch day. With right nutrition, I think it would program that offers local, sustainable, be easier.” made-from-scratch meals for students.

According to Compton, administraSTA is one of ten schools in the Kansas tive offices hand out candy to promote City area that uses Bistro’s lunch student interaction where there would program. According to head chef Scott otherwise be none. However, she Brake, Bistro lunches avoid using proagreed that STA can improve the quality cessed sugars as much as possible and of its snacks, or at least provide healthy always provide alternative options for alternatives to the candy and dougha sometimes much-needed sugar fix,

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such as fruit. Additionally, Bistro always provides a salad bar at lunch and has small gardens starting up outside M&A. The idea behind Bistro is that mental wellness directly relates to physical wellness, something which healthy eating enhances.

“This is why I do this job, because I believe in healthy eating,” Brake said.

“Being healthy and nutritious and feeding people in a healthy manner is something that I feel pretty strongly about and that’s the reason why I’m in.”

Although STA continues to make efforts to provide girls with healthier eating options, the decision of whether or not to eat better ultimately rests on students. Are you thinking about having a big glass of juice after school today? Eat fresh fruit instead, which contains nutritious fibers to keep you full. Tempted to stop by every office that offers candy?

Swap the candy for a granola bar and you’ll be energized for longer.

If students begin to eliminate added sugars from their diets, they may help to lower the statistics that are weighing down our country. H

Let's not sugarcoat the truth STA girls consume many grams of sugar each day.

by MARIA DONNELLY mdonnelly15@stastars.org

7:25 a.m. - Your carpool decides to visit the Starbucks drive-through for a morning pick-me-up.

9:30 a.m. - During a free, you and a friend visit the development office for some treats.

10:50 a.m. - Advisory time = snack time. Someone brought in Cheez-Its to share.

Grams of sugar: 49

Grams of sugar: 36

Grams of sugar: 1

7:15 a.m. - You quickly eat a bowl of cereal.

Grams of sugar: 10

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REFINED SUGAR IS LINKED TO: obesity hypertension high blood pressure hypoglycemia depression headaches fatigue

nervous tension aching limbs diabetes acne skin irritation stiffening of the arteries violent behavior

According to brain scans,

Sugar

is as

ADDICTIVE

Cocaine

as

source: guide2health.net

11:30 a.m. - Lunch time! Your mom packed you something healthy today.

Grams of sugar: 102

3:30 p.m. - Finally home from school. You had a healthy lunch today, so you deserve a little indulgence.

Grams of sugar: 28

6:30 p.m. - Your dad picked up Chipotle on his way home from work tonight.

Grams of sugar: 8

8:00 p.m. - A little dessert before you finally start your homework, right?

Grams of sugar: 16

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95 Did you know?

percent of people with

EATING DISORDERS are between the ages of

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source: DoSomething.org

The Dart explores eating disorders through the media and everyday life.

by KATHERINE GREEN and CHRISTINA ELIAS kgreen16@stastars.org celias15@stastars.org

*Name has been changed to maintain source's anonymity.

DoSomething.org's website defines body image as "the way that someone perceives their body and assumes that others perceive them. This image is often affected by family, friends, social pressure and the media." According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated disorders, anywhere as many as 24 million of the United States' over 300 million people suffer from eating disorders.

EATING DISORDERS AND THE MEDIA “My disorder was bulimia, so I would binge eat at times and then I would feel so bad about myself that I would just go and throw up.”

Last winter when junior Hannah* found papers leading to her parents’ divorce, she had already been experiencing difficulty in her friendships, school was stressful and the sport she played was getting crazy. On top of this, her family and others were telling Hannah different things about her weight and size.

It was someone within her family that told Hannah she was wearing clothes inappropriate for her body size. If she actually wanted to fit in with the friends not talking to her, she needed to be like them.

She needed to be skinnier.

“That kind of news made me think about [my weight] a lot, and it made me

feel sick so at first,” Hannah said. “I was like, ‘Well, he’s right. I need to fix this.

Maybe if I do, I’ll become friends with them again.’ So that’s what started [my sickness], and then it was just self-consciousness. At one point, even the smell of food kind of made me sick, but I would get so hungry that I would eat so much in one sitting and I would just throw it up.”

According to the National Eating Disorders Association, over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors. including skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting and taking laxatives.

Various organizations have recently been working to promote positive body image. According to its website, campaigns such as The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty work to create a “wider definition of beauty” and make beauty “a source of confidence, not anxiety.”

Dove has widened its campaign from not only finding real beauty but helping raise young girls’ and women’s self-esteem.

Despite this recent rise in positive body image promotion, as many as 24 million people in the United States still suffer from an eating disorder, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.

“I definitely feel like I get [pressure] from almost every outlet,” Hannah said.

“Obviously on the family side, and then with friends talking about the right clothes to wear, what you should look like when you go out, and with media and with this whole new Kim Kardashian thing, ‘Break the Internet.’”

Although Hannah overcame her battle with bulimia, anonymous student Casey*

PREMATURE PROBLEMS Young people in the U.S. worry about their body image from a young age.

compiled by MARY HILLIARD | mhilliard16@stastars.org source: the 2012 Heath and Wellness survey

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80% of ten year olds have dieted

is currently battling anorexia.

“My advice to anyone with any sort of mental illness would be to one, talk about it,” Casey said. “As much as you want to, you can't get over it yourself.

It's just like any other disease. Keeping it in only makes things worse because eventually you will blow up. That stuff is too heavy to handle on your own. [And] two, as a friend of someone with an eating disorder, be supportive but don't force them to eat. Trust me, we want nothing more than to have a normal life and to love our bodies. Again, we didn't choose this disease. Three, you are stronger than you know. You may think that it's over and you'll never win, but you can. Your eating disorder isn't who you are.”

IT DOESN'T JUST AFFECT THEM Science teacher Terry Conner began to suspect something was wrong with her daughter during her sophomore year in college when Kaitlyn would appear thinner and thinner every time she came home. Her mom chalked it up to a case of a college athlete working out too hard. But soon, Kaitlyn’s parents began to notice other changes.

“The other change I’d started to notice in her was her personality,” Conner recollects. “Of Conner my three kids, she was always the bubbly baby; she was so outgoing and she was homecoming queen at the school and she was the life of the party ... Then her personality starting changing in terms of, whenever she used to call me before this, when she’d talk to me, everything was like, ‘Hey Mom!’—and

of girls ages 15-17 acknowledge having an eating disorder

90% of high school juniors and seniors diet regularly

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cover story she calls me Marmie—‘Hey Marmie! How’s it going?’ Now when she’d call me from college, it got to the point where when I heard her ringtone on my phone I started dreading answering the phone because it was always some crisis—she’d had a car accident, she was in a panic because a teacher had said something to her about her being in class or something; it was just crisis after crisis after crisis after crisis. And the bubbly kid was just gone.”

Conner and her husband debated pulling her out of school to get her the help she needed, but Kaitlyn was “deadset against that.” She and her husband discussed it at length and set up a meeting between Conner, her daughter, her daughter's fiance and Kaitlyn’s doctor.

Conner says she admitted her concerns about how thin Kaitlyn was getting. By then, Kaitlyn was having digestive problems.

“So the first step was to do the kinds of things they have you do: she had to have a colonoscopy, and of course this freaked her out insanely," Conner remembered.

"She was like, ‘Nothing’s wrong with me, nothing’s wrong with me.’ So I said, ‘We’ve got to find out what’s wrong with you

and why you’re having these stomach problems.’”

The colonoscopy didn’t yield any answers. They turned to the help of a gastroenterologist, who speculated that she might have a gluten sensitivity that was the source of her digestive pains, so Kaitlyn put gluten out of her diet. Then the the gastroenterologist decided that maybe the pains were stemming from a milk sensitivity, so she put milk out of her diet.

“She doesn’t have a gluten sensitivity,” Conner admitted. “She’s not allergic to gluten or milk, but she said it upset her stomach. But what that’s doing is excluding whole classes of foods. Anything with gluten she won’t eat.”

By excluding milk and gluten, Kaitlyn was able to set aside entire food groups that she had a reason to avoid “Although we had said, ‘You need to go, you need to get help,’ she was dead-set against going in-patient,” Conner said. “I think she just didn’t ever want to admit to herself that she had a problem ... But it finally got so bad, she was so sick ... she finally got to the point where she realized, ‘I do have a problem, and I need help.’ ...

She finally called me and, again it was a Saturday morning, the ringtone was hers and I answered the phone and she’s crying, she’s hysterical and she says, ‘Mom, I finally realize I need help, can you please

find out some information on where I can go?’”

Conner and her husband began looking into area programs that would take Kaitlyn. Finally, they found a place that would take her for in-patient treatment—Research Medical Center, but their program has since closed.

“It was ... for her, I can’t think of a better word than hell,” Conner describes. “It was horrible. In terms of, not what they did, but she was in such a state of deprivation ... She’s my height, she’s 5’3”, and she got down to 73 pounds. She was just a walking skeleton. She looked horrible and her brain wasn’t functioning right, she wasn’t eating enough to even function her brain, so she was just horribly emotional and hysterical.”

“At Research Medical Center, when you go to an in-patient treatment, they’re going to feed you,” Conner explained. “And so she had to eat foods and at first it was like, ‘No! I can’t eat anything with gluten, I can't eat anything with milk,’ so she’s excluding all these foods and [the staff was] like, “Okay, let’s get some medical evidence on what you really are allergic to.’ She said she’s allergic to it all. They did allergy testing and she wasn’t allergic to [milk] so they made her drink it, like Ensure, which has milk in it. And the phone calls ... She’d call me hysterical and say, ‘They’re forcing me to eat things I’m allergic to,’ and yada

STACKING IT UP The Dart observed the progression of negative body image by age group. compiled by HELEN WHEATLEY hwheatley17@stastars.org photos by MARIA DONNELLY mdonnelly15@stastars.org sources: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Time, Heart of Leadership, CNN, NYC Girls Project, Teen Health and the Media

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She knows

8

50 percent

"fat"

of her peers want to be thinner, regardless of weight. Her

insult

will peak next year at

"skinny" is good and

is bad. She uses "fat" as an to her peers.

selfesteem 9.

yada yada. It was awful. The first week—it this ... this is something I can control. I can was just, I can’t explain how horrible it was control how much I eat, when I eat, what for all of us.”

I eat.”

At Research, the medical staff began Montag, who suffered from an eating to slowly reintroduce Kaitlyn’s digestive disorder in her high school and college system to food. Conner said that the first years, explains that there is more to the week of Kaitlyn’s in-patient treatment, psychology behind eating disorders than there was a 24-hour nurse that stayed in people assume. the room with her to make sure she didn’t “It really does take over and because harm herself or slow down the treatments it’s about [the idea that] this is the thing I by purging—the same reason that staff can control,” Montag said. “There’s somelocked the doors to the bathrooms for a thing deeper that this person is not findcertain time after eating. After spending ing ... There’s a bigger issue, but an accom40 days in inpatient plished person The doctor told us treatment, at 21 years isn’t going to tell she was within a old, Kaitlyn was finally you, 'I need you, couple weeks of showing enough signs I need help.’ But dying. of improvement to be this is a person — Terry Conner, released. that is so accomscience teacher Cases like Kaitlyn’s plished maybe in show the life and death many areas, that dangers of eating disorders. Some may at- they aren’t able to say, ‘I need help. I need tribute them to negative body image, but help here.’ That a person oftentimes with science teacher Mary Montag disagrees. anorexia or an eating disorder is someone “It’s not about the food,” Montag who does not know how to reach out.” explains. “It’s about control. It’s about According to Montag, the best way to something that most often affects very help someone with an eating disorder is accomplished people. More men than it through support. used to be. Older people than it used to “I think much of that comes from, ‘I just be. It used to be a young, late teens, like want to help you and fix it,’” Montag said. high school and college. You see younger “And it isn’t always ‘fix it,’ it’s a person learnchildren with it and you see older people ing—and once they really do learn—to with it. Because it’s a control. So somecontrol it and live with it and understand thing in their life is so out of control that it and reach out and share. The you really

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of her peers have dieted.

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healthy

body weight,

5.7 percent are

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body satisfaction has hit rock bottom. If she had low selfesteem at age

can let your finger up a little bit. Then that control bug of, something feels out of control, this I can control—that eases ...

You learn tools and coping skills, and that just comes with time and education. And kindness. And love. And patience. And listening. And letting someone talk without trying to fix them.”

Conner and her family continue to support Kaitlyn in the years after her treatment and recovery.

"While my daughter was hospitalized ... each family [or]support group had the opportunity to write an encouraging message on a poster placed on each patient's room door," Conner said. "The recurring message on each poster was, 'You are worth the fight!' Throughout her hospitalization and even today, I remind both Kaitlyn and myself that she is worth the fight against the negative feelings and images that tempt her to relapse. I think it is a great message for all of us. With prayer, patience and supportive help plus education, an eating disorder does not have to define or consume a person." H

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of her peers report being unhappy with their bodies.

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she is

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more likely to engage in heavy alcohol use by the time she's

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Making light of a heavy topic Girls need to stop shaming those who don't fit into the ideal mold of perfection.

The issue of body image, especially with teenage girls, has become one of putting down others because they don’t physically fit into a certain mold.

Why is it becoming so common for teenage girls to shame others and themselves in regards to body image?

Nobody benefits when comments are made about someone’s weight, size, height or appearance.

However, the root of these remarks is the “ideal woman” people notice at a young age.

For over a century, the media, in addition with other factors like beauty pageants, has focused public attention on unattainable, sometimes even unhealthy, portrayals of women.

This is not a one-sided issue. Our society has almost reversed its ideals with songs like Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” and Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.” These songs convey that

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to be a woman, you must be curvy, contributing to the new norm: skinnyshaming, or degrading thinner women.

With a society that has become so heavily centered on personal appearances, it is necessary to step back from the media for a moment and realize what is really at hand here.

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5 of 5 editors voted in support of this editorial

As young women in an ever-changing society, we are the voice of the body image movement. And as tough as it is, we need to be realistic. We need to realize that your physicality will, unfortunately, skew peoples’ opinions of you.

And although it is necessary to see the importance in the way you present yourself physically, we need to help

each other to love our appearances and to be in our own skin, whether big or small or short or tall and everywhere in between.

Tell your peers not to judge each other based on their appearance. Tell your peers it’s not acceptable to carelessly toss around terms like “anorexic” and “bulimic,” because there are people around you struggling with those conditions. Tell your peers it’s not okay to make rude remarks about another person’s weight. Tell your peers it’s not their place to make judgments about someone else’s eating habits.

However, it is even more important that you teach yourself that your looks do not define you. Don’t listen to the snide remarks and rude comments people say about you or your body.

Never stop reminding yourself the importance of feeling beautiful, inside and out. You are one of a kind. H

How do you think the media affects body image?

“The media portrays the perfect woman as skinny and gorgeous.

Many women believe that if they don't look like those Sara Stubbendieck women, then they aren't junior beautiful."

Haille Fritz sophomore

"The media pressures the public into thinking they have to be the 'perfect person' . . . People then have this preconceived idea of what an ideal body should look like.”

"I think the media sets guys and girls up not to be happy with the way they look."

Abbey Curran senior

Scholastic Art & W riting STA students submit work to nationwide contest.

by LINDEN O'BRIEN-WILLIAMS lobrienwilliams17@stastars.org

A recent presentation at STA draws students’ interest in submitting work to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. The 91-year-running competition encourages students all across the United States to submit their work, with 28 categories ranging from dramatic script to video games.

In 2014, Scholastic received 250,000 submissions, according to the organization’s website. Out of those 250,000, nearly 70,000 works were recognized with either regional or national awards.

Two STA students, alumna Emily Taylor and sophomore Sarah Ferron, received awards in the 2014 competition.

The requirements for entering are simple: a competitor must be in grade 7 through 12. To register, the competitor sign up through the website. As far as recognition, students’ work can be featured in galleries or various publications or awarded with scholarships.

Although there have been consistent submissions from STA over the years, 'Andi'| Sophomore Eleanor Grever is submitting the sharpie drawing on the left to the Scholastic Art and Writing contest. "My inspiration was a girl in my drawing class, Andie Round, and a sousaphone Mrs. Wallerstedt got from an estate sale or something."

Grever said. photo by JESSIE CULVER

this year is the first that a presentation has been given to encourage students to submit, according to English teacher Dianne Hirner.

UMKC Greater Kansas City Writing Project representative Katie Kline spoke to students Nov. 7 about “how to submit and what the judges look for in submissions,” said Hirner.

By introducing students to the competition, Hirner hopes STA will become more involved with Scholastic, since the titles available to win carry prestige and validity.

“If we can get [students] on board to consider submitting their own work to Scholastic, I'm hoping a pattern emerges where we see this as a consistent part of our language arts,” Hirner said. “We have a lot of talent here at St. Teresa's.”

According to Hirner, the competition gives students whose accomplishments may go unnoticed some recognition.

“This is really a way for students who are creative writers or aspiring writers to get some real recognition for their work,” Hirner said. H

Q&A:

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STA freshman has dabbled in poetry for five years.

by LINDEN O'BRIEN-WILLIAMS lobrienwilliams17@stastars.org

Freshman Allison Porras is submitting six poems to the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, including “Below the Poverty Line,” about a poor boy during Christmas.

Q: What sparked your interest in writing?

A: I kind of just always wrote in school and wrote poetry, too. My dad writes and his dad wrote, too. It's kinda funny. I never really thought that I could write or anything. My dad always had [my brother and me] write Christmas poems. … Then one year I did this Christmas poem and it was actually morbid, I guess.

Q: What is your writing process?

A: I’ve found that all the best poems I write are ones that just come to me. It’s funny because ... the words just kind of come, and they appear on the paper, and I look back like, ‘Oh! That happened?’

Q: Would you consider poetry as an outlet for you?

A: For me, it is both art and an outlet. So if there's something going on in my life that I’m feeling really deeply about, then I sometimes will just write about it. ... One of the poems I’m going to enter was about one of my friends who almost committed suicide.

Q: What are you seeking from entering the competition?

A: I just want to see what's out there and how my work compares to everyone else's. People have said that my work is really good, but there's always that thing inside me that's like, ‘Is it really?’ H

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by AUDREY CARROLL acarroll16@stastars.org

Many people are familiar with the phrase, “ignorance is bliss.” I used to agree with this statement, holding to my belief that innocence in youth was when people were really allowed to be themselves: that we can just shield ourselves from things we’re scared of. However, as I got older and was exposed to the “real world,” I realized that ignorance was actually shielding me from truly experiencing it. I was not living in the utopia I created in my mind where everything was perfect.

The world is full of conflict, war, poverty, hunger and many other upsetting issues that are, quite frankly, unpleasant for us to think about. That’s a fact. And when we try to think of ways

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we can help solve these issues, we turn away feeling hopeless that anything we do will change these problems.

This is the issue with ignorance.

Turning away from issues because you’re uncomfortable with them, or feel useless in the situation, actually makes it worse. When major problems are not addressed, nothing in society can advance politically, socially or economically. Blinding yourself from reality is much more harmful than helpful. In order to participate in society, people need to be informed on what is happening in the world around them - which can be anything from politics to the environment - in order to discuss these topics with others and find ways to make our current systems better for the world.

Staying informed can help create a smarter, more well-run society, and this all starts with teenagers. As young adults, most of us are starting to become familiar with our personal values and interests and in order to fuel this process, teenagers must do their best to stay informed through

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the news, the radio, and/or social media. How can you form your own opinion on a topic you know nothing about? People always putpressure on teenagers because it is our generation that will soon be the leaders of the nation, and even the world! While the pressure can be paralyzing at first, we need to rise above the expectations of others. We must inform ourselves about what’s happening in the world to take actions to make our future society as best as we see fit.

When you become informed, you are more in tune with the world around you. Curiosity and the willingness to learn helps spark a desire to be informed on certain events or topics.

Staying informed promotes individuality by creating opportunities for people to shape and build on their beliefs.

These beliefs and values then turn into passions, and although the world’s problems may give us doubt, this passion helps drive actions towards making significant changes in the world - changes that never could have been made with ignorance. H

Pirating cannot come for

by ELSA FEIGENBAUM efeigenbaum17@stastars.org

It seems so simple, so harmless.

That amazing song you just have to have plays on the radio, but then you see that $1.29 box on iTunes. Have

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no fear, you can just illegally pirate that song off the internet as you destroy the careers of singers, songwriters, producers, publishers, and audio engineers everywhere.

Pirating has been made extremely accessible to its users. First, all one has to do is search the phrase “YouTube to MP3” into google. Google will then spit out pages upon pages of many a virus filled website ready to commit crimes and probably hack into your computer.

Next, one can simply look up their favorite song on YouTube, copy and paste the URL, and hooray. Now you have the qualifications to pay $250,000 worth of fine and you might even get to

take a nice vacation to prison for five years.

But the music industry is taking a hit from this “harmless” piracy. In 2011, a mere 5% of all downloaded music had been legally obtained, an average of $800 dollars worth of piracy per ipod. Last January, record sales hit their lowest point since 1991, not to mention the 53% drop in music sales this year.

Music pirating is destroying the industry. Whether you feel like paying for that song, someone is depending on that money. And, since that song download could cost someone their job, is it really worth it? H

It isn't suicide, it's DIGNIFIED

by ALEXANDRA DAVIS adavis17@stastars.org

Editors' note: This column and the others featured on these pages reflect the opinions of the individual. They in no way reflect the opinon of St. Teresa's Academy or the Dart staff.

Terminal brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard died Nov. 1 at the mere age of 29.

Her cause of death was not from cancer but out of her own doing.

Maynard chose Nov. 1, and she died with dignity.

Maynard said to interviewers that she didn’t want to die. However, Maynards’ reason for ending her life becaue she was already was dying.

On numerous occasions she heard backlash from people who said that her opt for death with dignity was “just suicide” and could have been avoided if she were to “wait it out.”

Death with dignity is not suicide.

Period. It is the idea that a terminally ill

patient should be allowed to opt for a natural or comfortable death, rather than suffering until the end of his life.

It’s wrong for people to label death with dignity as suicide, and it’s also wrong for people to just assume what is best for the individual rather than letting the person decide for him or herself. Death with dignity is a personal choice that only the individual considering should decide, without outside influence.

All my life I have heard people say, “It’s my life; I’ll do what I want with it.”

Well, why can’t that statement be the same for someone’s choice for death?

Is it wrong to choose death on your own terms rather than just waiting it out and letting death come to you?

No, it’s not wrong, and it shouldn’t be wrong.

For me, I believe that a person has the right to choose for himself or herself, and I highly respect Maynard for her choice. What right do we have to say what is best for someone else when we can’t even begin to comprehend the turmoil the person is going through? A person’s life is his choice, and its up to him to decide what is best.

As for Maynard, may she rest in peace. H

State the facts Physician-assisted suicide is legal in 5 states in the U.S. compiled by LIBBY HYDE lhyde15@stastars.org

In all cases of physician-assisted suicide, the patient must be sound of mind when requesting it. This then must be confirmed by an additional doctor and witnesses. The patient must also be diagnosed with a terminal illness.

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Take a STAND AGAINST DOUBLE STANDARDS Let them know that you have the right to wear what you want.

2.The next time you are catcalled, ask that person how they think you feel when they say that. Tell them you will not be objectified and that they should keep their rude thoughts to themselves.

by MAGGIE KNOX mknox16@stastars.org

Junior Maggie Knox gives tips on how to avoid double standards.

1.The next time you are told that your outfit is too modest or too flashy or too inappropriate, ask that person on what are they basing their judgment.

3. Teach your friends, both girls and boys, to take a stand against the inequalities between men and women.

Teach them how those inequalities cause society’s double standards.

4. The next time you notice a double standard in action, remind yourself and the people around you that men and women should be judged on the same, single set of standards.

Or better yet, remind yourself and the people around you that men and women should not be judged. H Read more on DartNewsOnline

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sports

by CHRISTINA ELIAS celias15@stastars.org

break time | Coach Megan Nyquist lectures the team during an STA timeout. STA was trailing Benton High School 32 to 18 in the third quarter. photo by JESSIE CULVER

shake it off | Juniors Gillian Cutter, left, and Eleanor Lueke perform a handshake before the game Nov. 25. Every varsity team member has a different handshake. photo by JESSIE CULVER

fired up | Nyquist argues with the referee during the third quarter. Nyquist received a warning of misconduct from the officials. photo by JESSIE CULVER

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Stars lose first game STA loses 59-36 against the Benton High School Cardinals.

STA's basketball team lost to Benton High School 59-36 in their first game of the season Nov. 25.

According to assistant coach Robert Tonnies, the team knew that facing Benton, a Class 4 team and last year’s State champions, was going to be a difficult game.

“We knew that the way that we battle in this game will define in a lot of ways who we are going forward in the season, [because] we knew it was going to be a tough team,” Tonnies said. “The way we face that adversity defines our character as a team, so that’s what we were going for going in—build character.”

Junior Eleanor Lueke led the team with the most points, scoring 21 total.

According to Lueke, head coach Megan Nyquist told the team at the beginning of the game “to attack the basket and get to the rim.”

“I think that we started off a ton better this year than we did last year,” Lueke said. “I think that we started on a good, high note even though we lost, but I think that it’s going to be pretty good from here on out.”

Nyquist agreed, stating that the team as a whole “had some things happen last year that didn’t really let us get rolling as a team, some minor setbacks so this is kind of the start to what we want our season to be and what we want our program to be.”

Due to changes in game rules, there was an increased number of team and personal fouls. According to Tonnies, the team needs “to work on moving our feet and staying off them with our hands” coming out of their first game.

“If you’re guarding anybody who has the ball, there’s a no-contact rule while they’re dribbling, so you used to be able to put a hand on them or an arm on them, or if they’re running alongside you, put a body on them, [but] now all of that contact is a foul,” Tonnies said.

“By the end of the game ... our whole bench had fouled out, we had four on the bench with 20 fouls, and the girls that were in had 18 fouls. So there were

38 fouls total. We pretty much shot free throws the whole game.”

The JV basketball team played before the varsity team and won 31-16 against Benton. H

jump on it | Sophomore Tess Rellihan makes a lay-up against two BHS players.

Tess has played varsity basketball both years at STA. photo by JESSIE CULVER

out for the count | Sophomore Tess Rellihan laughs as she walks to the bench Nov. 25. Rellihan racked up five fouls, taking her and three other players out of the game. photo by JESSIE CULVER

Swim coach sets higher standards for season

take a breather | Senior Lauren Zastrow catches her breath at swim team practice Nov. 19 at Longview Recreation Center.

Zastrow is one of the captains of the swim team. photo by MEG THOMPSON

This year the swim and dive teams are making new changes.

by CLARE KENNEY ckenney16@stastars.org

The STA swim season started Nov. 10 for the 2014-2015 school year.

STA swim team head coach Andy Wilcox has made some changes from previous years to the swim team this season, including the number of people they will take to State. However, according to swim and dive team member junior Annie Alderman, attending State is best part of the season. “[State] is a good team bonding experience,” Alderman said. “You get to have fun with your whole team and you get to cheer on the people that are performing at State.”

The whole team will not be allowed to go to State this year because coach Wilcox thought the girls were too distracting last year, accord-

focus | Junior Sophia Prochnow prepares to dive off the board at dive team practice Nov. 19 at Longview Recreation Center. Prochnow is the dive team captain. photo by MEG THOMPSON

ing to swim team captain Maggie Hutchison.

“We didn’t do as well in State as we wanted to last year and coach said we were a distraction in the hotel room,” Hutchison said.

Not only will the team not be allowed to go to state according to Hutchison, Wilcox has also set new standards for the team this year.

“The coach set a little bit higher standards for the team,” Hutchison said. “He really doesn’t want anyone leaving practice for other activities, unless it is absolutely necessary. He has always wanted [swimming] to be considered as important as any of the other sports, so he doesn’t want anyone leaving for work because basketball wouldn’t be able to do that."

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member Mia Schloegel was very nervous for tryouts because of these changes.

“The changes made me so shivery,” Schloegel said.

“I didn’t know if I was fast enough or not and that made me really nervous for tryouts.”

The team was small enough this year that no one was cut and according to Hutchison, despite the changes, the team will still be as close as they have been in the past.

“Since it is a smaller team, I think we will definitely still be able to bond with the freshman as much as we have been,” Hutchison said.

“We are still doing a lot of the same bonding activities. We already had a team dinner and we have a retreat planned at Sky Zone.” H

just keep swimming | The swim team practices at Longview Recreation Center Nov. 19. It's about a thirty minute drive to Longview from STA. photo by MEG THOMPSON

glide to finish | Junior Andie Round finishes the set at swim practice at Longview Recreation Center Nov. 19. This is Round's second year swimming for STA. photo by MEG THOMPSON

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community

KC's holiday events form traditions for STA students.

by MARY HILLIARD mhilliard16@stastars.org

Plaza Lighting Ceremony In 1925, The Plaza Lights were a string of 16 lights over a store doorway. In 2014, there are thousands of lights covering 15 blocks of the Country Club Plaza.

This year, the Plaza Lighting ceremony turned 85 on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27. Royals outfielder and Golden Glove winner Alex Gordon, accompanied by Royals General Manager Dayton Moore, flipped the switch to turn on the lights.

This holiday festivity has become a tradition for Kansas City and many families.

Junior Molly Meyers has been going to the lighting ceremony for the past five years. According to Meyers, it is a good transition from fall to winter and the Christmas season.

“Before [the lights] are turned on, everyone is clearly in a rush to get [to the Plaza] from their Thanksgiving parties,” Meyers said. “But there is a lot of Christmas music and other entertainment for everyone while they wait. Afterwards, there's a fireworks show.”

The Plaza Lights are on from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. daily and will be turned off Jan. 18.

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Longview Christmas in the Park Christmas in the Park is a light display at Longview Lake. Visitors drive through the park which has been fully decorated for the holidays. The display features over 300,000 light bulbs and 175 animated figures.

A Christmas Carol at the Kansas City Repertory Theater Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol depicts the conversion of heart of Ebenezer Scrooge, who finds the true meaning of Christmas after a visit from three spiritual guides.

“Some think it is a show about a bad person, Ebenezer Scrooge, becoming a good person,” junior Gene-

2. vieve Wiedeman 2. said. “It is in fact a story about a person who was is good inside but as lost there way and then finds it again with the help of three ghosts. I think it sends a very powerful message because it is a story many of us can relate to.”

The show is in its 34th season at the Repertory Theater. Junior Genevieve

Wiedeman is a member of the ensemble this year.

According to Wiedeman, the majority of the cast has been in the Christmas Carol before. “[Seeing the Christmas Carol] is very much a holiday tradition,” Wiedeman said. “I know of many families who go and see it every year.”

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by ANNA HAFNER 2. see ya later, skater l Skaters glide around the Crown Center Ice Terrace Nov. 28. photo by MADDY MEDINA 3. starry night l The reflections of lit trees at Crown Center illuminate water left behind by a series of fountains Nov. 29. Crown Center is a popular destination during the holiday season, especially for its public ice skating rink. photo by ANNA HAFNER 4. bang! pow! l Fireworks burst above the Country Club Plaza at the 85th annual Plaza Lighting Ceremony on Thanksgiving evening, Nov. 27, in Kansas City. The lights are on from 5pm to 3am daily until Jan. 18, 2015 this holiday season. photo by ANNA HAFNER 5. kansas city prowler l The Kansas City Life Insurance building decorated for Christmas Nov. 28. photo by MADDY MEDINA

mas time is Kansas City is always my favorite,” Wiedeman said.

Crown Center at Christmas Time Crown Center has become a popular holiday visit for many Kansas Citians and their families. The shopping center decorates extensively for the holidays, including a large holiday train display.

The Mayor’s Christmas tree is also on display, a 100 foot tall real evergreen,

illuminated by Mayor Sly James Nov. 28. Also located at Crown Center is the Crown Center Ice Terrace, Kansas City’s only outdoor public skating rink in its 42nd year of operation. John frequently visits the Ice Terrace during the Christmas season.

According to John, Crown Center is “warm and welcoming.” during Christmas time. H

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thanksgiving pow-wow | STA freshmen Sara Schaefer, from left, Zoe Butler and Mia Schloegel gather in a circle to eat and converse during the STA Thanksgiving feast Nov. 25. Students celebrate Thanksgiving with their advisories with food, games or movies. photo by ELSA FEIGENBAUM

eat up| Students on second floor Donnelly congregate around a table full of food Nov. 25. Second floor Donnelly is just one of the many floors at STA which combines advisories for Thanksgiving celebrations. photo by ELSA FEIGENBAUM

the soup setup | Tables line the halls of third floor Donnelly Nov. 25 as students bring in a variety of food for the annual Thanksgiving feast. A magnitude of crock-pots helped keep soups, potatoes and meat warm before the floor began their meal. photo by ELSA FEIGENBAUM

crock pot squad | Junior Connor Hodes, left, and sophomore Michaela Coleman assist each other in carrying a crock-pot across the quad. Many advisories combined to celebrate Thanksgiving together for their Thanksgiving feast Nov. 25. photo

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In the Humans of STA Take a look at the current coverage on DartNewsOnline

STA remembers alumna Becca Lueke Students and staff honored Lueke Tuesday by placing flowers on the seal.

photos by JESSIE CULVER jculver15@stastars.org

sign of remembrance | Flowers adorn the seal in the quad to honor Lueke. Lueke played basketball for Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. flower child | Senior Fee Pauwels places flowers over the seal in the quad. Lueke, who graduated in 2013, died in a car accident one year ago Tuesday.

gifting garden | Juniors Maddie Summers and Claire McHugh and seniors Sydney Edmonds and Caroline Crockett place flowers on the seal. Students wore shirts with Lueke's name to honor her Tuesday.

a sweet gesture | Junior Sophia Mandacina, left, and sophomore Liz Barton place flowers on the seal to remember Lueke. A similar gesture was performed the day after Lueke's death.

rose garden | Bouquets frame the seal in the quad. The arrangement also featured 11 roses, a reference to Lueke being number 11 on STA's varsity basketball.

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