Devils' Advocate September 2017 by Devils' Advocate

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ADVOCATE HINSDALE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL- HINSDALE, ILL. - VOLUME 90 - SEPTEMBER 2017

Alt-Right Rallies

Local student at Charlottesville p.14

The effects of uncut sports p.22 The journey to view totality p.12

Bringing back â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s fashion p.18

contents Perspectives

News

Profiles

Features

3 Staff

A&E

4 Cartoon

Mission Statement

Devils’ Advocate strives to provide fair and balanced reporting to its readers by working with students, teachers, and community members. It is a student-run monthly newsmagazine that wishes to inform the student body of Hinsdale Central High School.

The Far Right Rallies

Togally Unfair

5 Battleground The Left and Right of DACA

White supremacy is closer to home after a 2017 LT graduate attends the Charlottseville rallies

8 News Feed and 6 Health Wholeness

Photo Feature

Photos from the 2017 Homecoming parade

7 Editorial The value of non

honors electives explained

9 Club Spotlight MIT Launch Club

Complete 12 Coverage from Carbondale Science teachers travel to see eclipse

26 Trends 24 Lollapalooza Retro Revival From windbreakers to denim

10 Annie O’Malley

skirts, students discuss retro fashion and trends

Contact Information

@hcDevilsAdvo on Twitter & Instagram @devils_advo on Snapchat Adviser: Cherise Lopez clopez@hinsdale86.org

Singer opens for Chicago’s tour

No Cut

Athletes weigh in on the pros and cons of making more sports “no cut” Cover & TOC photos by Clairice Krzysik

staff

Head Editors

Minna Hassaballa Editor-in-Chief

Juliana Mayer Managing Editor

Letter from the Editor Editorial Board

Adam DeDobbelaere Design Editor

Jayne Gelman Design Editor

Alex Choi Business Editor

Julia Chatterjee Copy Editor

Julia Baroni Copy Editor

Cassie Kruse Columnist

Clairice Krzysik

Nora Wood

Photographers

Caroline Bowater

At Devils’ Advocate, we know back-to-school season has been a whirl. The September issue marks the time of year we change positions and usher in our new staff. Our new design editors, Jayne and Adam, have revamped the magazine using a muted color palette and geometric minimalism. We’ve incorporated more illustrations this issue and even feature a political cartoon about Senior dress days. Keeping with Advocate tradition, you will still find a trends page and an infographic to capture Central from a glance. Our new staff tried to capture all that has happened this first quarter. Inside you can read profiles about the Earth science teachers’ venture to Carbondale for the total eclipse and how Senior Annie O’Mally is making a name for herself in music. We’ve also zoomed out of profiles with features on how students are incorporating ’80s fashion into their outfits, and how making more sports uncut isn’t necessarily better for everyone. Though the white supremacist rallies from early August happened in Charlottesville, our cover story highlights that, to many students’ surprise, a recent LT graduate was in attendance. We hope this issue helps you reflect on the first quarter of the school year and what makes you proud to be a Red Devil. Sincerely, Juliana Mayer

Feature Writers

Club Contributors Layo Adelakun

Annika Agrawal

Zaina Ahmed

Amanda Bagby

Bilal Khokhar

Lauren Lee

Ed Pletas

Charlotte Sudduth

Anya Uppal

Hannah Ahdab Aneesh Balusu Katie Buscher Audrey Carter Emily Goggin Yusuf Husain Nubaira Kabir Rima Rafiq Keshav Sanghani Jenny Witt

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battleground by Sophia Horowicz and Claire Lozier

THE DACA PROBLEM

CONTEXT: In June 2012, the Obama administration established DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program

grants “Dreamers,” or those 800,000 individuals who were brought here illegally as children, renewable two-year deferrals from deportation. Many have argued on both sides of the aisle over whether DACA is constitutional or not. On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration rescinded DACA and specified a six-month phase-out period for Congress to find a solution. President Trump’s decision sparked outrage and controversy that continues to be debated today.

o begin, DACA does not provide amnesty or a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants. DACA only delays the deportation of children, allowing them to work in the United States. Many DACA opponents, including attorney general Jeff Sessions, wrongly label the policy “unconstitutional.” Yet according to John Sandweg, former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a “multi-agency team, [including] career immigration law experts [relying] on the Supreme Court,” verified DACA’s constitutionality before its implementation. In the 1980s, the Supreme Court granted the president “prosecutorial discretion,” allowing the president to decide which immigration laws are applied to each undocumented immigrant. President Obama’s homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, ensured that DACA applicants are individually reviewed and certain charges (legally) not pursued. This keeps the DACA program completely within the bounds of the Constitution. Other proponents of President Trump’s decision claim it was a move to push immigration reform in Congress. Faced with a deadline and consequence, they say, Congress will finally legalize comprehensive reform. However, this comes after 16 years of painful, unsuccessful efforts to legalize variants of the DACA bill. In 2007, DACA was stalled by a bipartisan filibuster. In 2010, it passed the House, only to be shot down in the Senate. In 2013, DACA was incorporated into a broader immigration package- which failed in the House. Now, after years of futility, President Trump is bullying Congress into passing comprehensive immigration reform in just six months. This is near impossible. President Trump’s ultimatum leaves hundreds of thousands of children stuck in legal limbo, unsure of where they’ll be living in the Spring. If President Trump sought real legislative change, he could have pressured congress without holding DACA children hostage. Instead, he now uses the lives of an innocent population as political pawnswhile telling them to “rest easy.” SH

uch of the DACA controversy is in regards to the wellbeing of those it gives legal protection to: “Dreamers.” We all have sympathy for the Dreamers. They’ve lived in the United States for much of their lives and many of them know little about their origin country. The end goal should be to allow Dreamers to stay in America, however, the best way to help Dreamers is not through a temporary executive order. The best way to help Dreamers is through a permanent legislative solution. That is why President Trump’s decision to end DACA is warranted. From the start, the program’s constitutionality was questionable on the grounds of the “plenary power” doctrine, the idea that the executive and legislative branch have shared power over specific issues like immigration law. Congress has argued, and I agree, that President Obama’s creation of DACA was an overreach by the executive branch. While the courts have yet to rule on the constitutionality of DACA itself, in 2016 the Supreme Court upheld that DAPA, the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, an Obama administration expansion of DACA, was unconstitutional. This could suggest that, once reviewed by the Supreme Court, DACA would be found unconstitutional as well. It’s also important to emphasize the six-month phase-out period included in President Trump’s decision. This time window allows Congress to create immigration reform that could and should include legal implementation of the DACA program. And, as stated by Trump, should Congress not act within six months (in which case Congress would be blamed), DACA will be revisited by the executive branch and likely reinstated in some way. The core issue is and should be about the legislative process and its constitutionality. Legalizing DACA through the legislature would keep plenary power intact and uphold constitutional law. CL 5

illustration by Julia Baroni

by Cassie Kruse

elcome! This column is all about health, but don’t worry, it won’t be limited to workouts. I want to help you guys learn how to stay in shape in your mind, body, and soul during the school year. This month is about my favorite fitness apps to use during school. These apps are all different, but they help me stay in shape during the crazy busy day. And they’re free, an added bonus for a student on a budget. #igotyou

1. Lifesum

This has been my favorite find of 2017 because it has given me a tangible way to clean up my eating. This app allows you to track your food intake and exercise, specifically carb and protein intake, by having you input the food you eat, and also gives me healthy recipe ideas. I’m obsessed, and if you are serious about starting out this school year right then you will be too.

2. Zombies, Run!

There are some days when I know I am about to go on an exhausting run, and I’m completely unmotivated. This app has helped me turn those hard runs into serious entertainment. Each run is a “mission,” and you are either running from zombies, getting supplies, or saving people. You get to choose how long you want your “mission” to be, and it’s like you are inside your favorite TV show. If you are about to go on a hard run, this can be your saving grace.

3. My Water Balance

OK let’s be honest, while those mini S’well water bottles are cute, they don’t keep you hydrated. It can be hard to remember to drink throughout the day, and that is where this app comes in. You put in how many milliliters of water you drank, and it tracks your progress. It also alerts you every two hours to hydrate. photo by Nora Wood

Kruse uses Lifesum to track her lunch.

photo by Nora Wood

health & wholeness Kruse meditates outside the science hall using the Simple Habit app to relax after a stressful day.

4. Simple Habit

Meditation helps to refuel you during stressful times. This app guides you by showing you how to meditate, sit down, relax, and mostly practice your breathing. It even allows you to choose different reasons for meditating and helps you with them. It also gives you daily reminders to meditate. I set mine at night because it’s a great way to recuperate after a stressful day. With this app’s help, I meditate to reduce stress, boost energy, and calm anxiety.

5. Charity Miles I didn’t even know an app like this could exist. When you sign up you pick different charities you want to donate to, and there are seriously so many options. Then you log your runs, which translates to money that is donated to the charity you chose. The app has already raised $2.5 million for various charities, like Autism Speaks and Stand Up To Cancer. So, by working out you are doing good not only for yourself, but for the world. With the combination of these five apps, I am much more present in school, healthier, and a lot happier. It can seem overwhelming to have a well balanced lifestyle during the school year, but these apps taught me that it’s the little things that count. It’s easy to get lost in academics, but if you also focus on your health, you will find that your performance as a student improves. Each of these apps is a small way to better your life, and together help you be a happier and healthier Red Devil.

Non-Honors Electives: They Won't Tank Your GPA

any students enter the unchartered waters of high school with a meticulously planned treasure map. Take a left at world cultures and head straight for world history. Set up camp in health, survive the quicksand of AP calculus, hop over the river of non honor electives, and ‘X’ marks the spot: a chest encrusted with the letters “GPA.” Regular classes at Central are weighted at 5.0, a frightening 1.0 lower than the 6.0 weight of honors and advanced placement classes. Avoiding non honors classes in fear of a lowered grade point average is a problematic phenomenon among students. A student culture prioritizing numbers over passion and knowledge drives students towards this decision. Unfortunately, completely eliminating regular classes from a schedule means missed opportunities to further explore and grow interests. Classes like creative cooking, jewelry and metalsmithing, and sports marketing, while non honors, provide students with challenging environments to learn material not found in other honors classes. This is the one time in a student’s life that all of these classes will be offered to him or her just down the hall. “To not take advantage of [all of the classes offered at Central] because you think it is going to have a big impact on your GPA is sad,” said Ms. Lisa Hikes, guidance counselor. “It’s sad kids don’t enjoy themselves more.” The root of this problem is concern for the future. Come

illustration by Julia Baroni

There was so much I wanted to try.

fall of their senior year, students want a transcript that will impress colleges. However, it is important to remember that colleges do not accept numbers to their schools, they accept people. According to Ms. Hikes, college admission officers want to see students that seized the opportunities presented to them in high school. Pursuing classes out of pure interest rather than a GPA-based incentive to do so can demonstrate students’ passions to colleges in ways that a transcript of only honors classes sometimes can’t. Regular classes can also act as prerequisites for honors levels classes. Every academic department in the school offers honors or AP classes, students simply must alter their map to go find them. Of course, grade point average does hold importance. While some colleges use Central’s weighted GPA in their applications, others may use it unweighted. Either way, concerns about the future should not be the only thing that dictates the decisions students make now. “I don’t think there is a good enough reason to take a class only because it is honors credit for the purpose of college admissions,” Ms. Hikes said. “[Non honors] classes impact your GPA so slightly that it really doesn’t have a huge impact on your overall GPA.” Students should explore every class offered, honors or regular. Just because something isn’t on the map doesn’t mean it’s not a treasure.

This editorial is the consensus of the Devils’ Advocate editorial board.

newsfeed designed by Jayne Gelman

EKG Testing in honor of Michael Brindley

by Aneesh Balusu and Keshav Sanghani

On Thursday, Sept. 7, most students underwent an electrocardiogram (EKG) screening to test for abnormalities in the heart. The testing took place in the fieldhouse, in a series of stations. Students first retrieved their files and then preceded to a screening station. Parent volunteers, cardiologists, and members of the Young Hearts for Life and Advocate Medical organizations worked together to administer the screening process. The volunteer force met the day before and practiced on volunteer participants in order to have actual bodies that would emulate the hundreds of students coming the next day for their own testing. “As we laid down, the more experienced volunteer members

assisted the [parent volunteers] with the process of learning how to place the stickers necessary for testing,” said Grace Zhou, senior. Free to the students, the just1mike Foundation, created by the Brindley family in honor of Michael Brindley, sponsored the screening. Brindley passed away from sudden cardiac arrest while at a basketball camp in the summer of 2016. Brindley would have been a senior this year. The foundation works to raise awareness and fund testing for the prevention of sudden cardiac death in teens. Through the work of the volunteer force, countless students were given the opportunity to learn more about their bodies and protect themselves from any potential cardiac afflictions.

Homecoming BBQ

by Yusuf Husain and Nubaira Kabir

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Lucian Dipofi, senior, smiles as he makes hamburgers for the homecoming barbeque on Sept. 13.

“I’d say the turnout was great,” said Josie Wooldridge, senior. “There were a lot more people than what I was expecting.” Wooldridge said the barbeque was a fun way for her to show off her cooking skills and school spirit. Many Red Devils appreciated the hard work and dedication the Chef and Restaurant class put into the making of the traditional homecoming barbeque. “They’re doing a great job for something that is studentrun,” said Chloe Chen, junior. photo by Emily Goggin

For seven dollars, you could get yourself a burger, hot dog, apple crisps, baked beans, and some pasta salad all prepared by Mrs. McPhillips Chef and Restaurant class. Sixteen of her students prepped all week for the homecoming barbeque that took place in the courtyard on Wednesday, Sept. 13. “It was stressful earlier in the week when we were preparing everything, but now that we’re here, we’re just cooking it and giving it; it feels good,” said Aaron Antoniou, senior. “From what I’ve seen, this is clearly what everyone’s choosing for food today.” The smells of grilled meat wafted into many classroom surrounding the courtyard, drawing long lines of students and faculty to the tent set up during every lunch period.

Club Spotlight by Jenny Witt and Audrey Carter

Members of the MIT Launch Entrepreneurship Club discuss ideas for this year’s business theme during a morning meeting.

his school year, MIT Launch Entrepreneurship Club has recently become one of the school’s fastest growing activities. Every Friday morning, room 234 floods with students from all grade levels clamouring for the opportunity to submit their business proposal to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The club began last year when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) expanded their summer program into a year-long club for high schools. “Some teammates from golf were telling me about their company and claimed they needed some extra help making [it] successful, so we opened a chapter at Hinsdale Central,” said Tommy Clark, sophomore, one of Launch Club’s founding members. Clark is currently working with two of his fellow classmates, seniors Will Bradley and Marshall Demirjian, to create

an app that connects students who live near one another in order to carpool. They developed this app last year through MIT Club, but did not finish the coding in time for the presentation. In the past year alone, MIT Launch Club has gained more than 55 new members, with a weekly attendance of more than 75 students in comparison to last year’s 20, a 300 percent growth rate. “It’s really kind of exploded a lot faster than we had anticipated,” said club sponsor Mr. John Madden, Department Chair for Business & Technology. In teams of three to five, students in the club must create their own startup centered around a given theme. If their idea is in the top 10 percent of national teams, members are given the opportunity to attend a mentorship at MIT in the spring of that year to meet with other successful groups, receive feedback,

and potentially win prize funding for the development of their business. “[MIT Launch Club] is different from any other club because we are pure action. You are actually creating a startup company in a setting that shoves resources at you to learn and develop which is priceless and you can’t do anywhere else,” said Will Bradley, the club’s co-founder and Education Chair. Club members officially launched meetings on Sept. 16 when MIT announced this year’s project theme, environmental sustainability. “It is a great environment to pursue creating a business,” Bradley said. All interested students are encouraged to join. MIT Launch meets at 7:10 a.m. in room 234 on Fridays. Contact club sponsor Mr. Madden for further information: jmadden@ hinsdale86.org

It'll be beautiful

Student aims to inspire with her music Written and designed by Charlotte Sudduth When senior Annie O’Malley was nine months old, her mother held her up to a piano and for hours, she banged on the keys and, being unable to talk yet, she simply yelled. Ever since, O’Malley has had a love for music. By the time she was seven years old, she was writing her own music and quickly after that found her style an indie music vibe that she has stuck with through the years. According to O’Malley, the inspiration to write a song will strike at random times - after something as mundane as watching a movie, she’ll come up with the idea to write a completely unrelated song. From there, she has a system for writing. “Once I’m in the mood, I’ll pick an instrument - a lot of the time I do

piano. I pick four chords, I pick the melody, and I replay it over and over again. To me, writing music is not something I learned… I don’t know where it comes from,” O’Malley said. All of her years of singing, songwriting and playing instruments have paid off, as O’Malley has recently been opening for the band “Chicago”. Three months after sending a demo tape to the band’s manager, she got the call she’d been waiting for. “They told me that I could come to one of the shows and go backstage to watch, so we went, I watched, and then he asked me if I could open in Ohio in three days. So I figured it out, and I got my songs together. Afterwards, they called me and told me they’d send me the schedule and if I was down, we would just do a little tour.” O’Malley has now opened for the band two more times in Seattle, but the tour isn’t even halfway done - she still has three more shows in Florida, three in New Jersey, and possibly one in Chicago. While she tries to only look on the positive side, O’Malley says the journey to this point hasn’t been easy. “My mom is pretty much my manager, and we

always try to figure this stuff out, but we don’t know anybody in the business… This industry is just so difficult - one day it’s ‘Oh we’re doing this but the contract isn’t signed yet!’ then the next day it’s ‘We changed the entire show but we signed the contract’, you know? It’s so all over the place,” O’Malley said. O’Malley’s mother, Nadine O’Malley, has worked tirelessly to get her daughter to where she is today; her mother considers herself her “momager” and has gotten Annie performances with non-profits such as The Lone Survivor Foundation, Kris Kyle Frog Foundation, and many more. O’Malley has also auditioned for talent competitions like America’s Got Talent. However, as for her education, their family has a strict rule. “Our family has been brought up knowing that everyone will attend at least a four year university after high school. I said many years ago, the only way to get out of that is if [Annie] had an opportunity to go on tour. As for now, she is setting sites and applying to the University of Arizona,” Nadine O’Malley said. Despite the hardships, O’Malley knows her dream will be worth it in the end. “I want to be that leader for younger people. I want to make sure people know it’s OK to be different, there’s hope, everything’s going to be fine and work out,” O’Malley said. “It might be rough right now but there’s a path, and just follow it because eventually it’ll be beautiful.” ph

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complete coverage Earth science teachers drive to Carbondale to view the solar eclipse in totality

n Aug. 20, I-57 found itself jampacked with cars as tens of thousands of people made their way down to Carbondale, Ill. Included in the crowd were several Central teachers, entirely undaunted by the five-turned-eight hour drive on the interstate. Neither sitting in traffic for hours nor being surrounded by nothing but fields for miles stopped the science teachers from making the trip to Southern Illinois. They had one goal in mind--to view the solar eclipse, taking place the next afternoon, in totality. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon’s orbit brings it directly between the earth and the sun, temporarily blocking out almost all light reaching earth. As the moon lines up with the sun, it casts two shadows on the earth, one called the umbra and the other known as the penumbra. Those who are standing in the umbra see a total eclipse, which occurs when the moon completely covers the sun. Those in the penumbra see varying degrees of a partial eclipse, where the moon covers part, but not all, of the sun. The umbra is very small, meaning that only a few locations typically see the total eclipse. Although solar eclipses happen every 18 months, they may only occur in a specific location once a century. The solar eclipse that occurred this year crossed the entire country coast-to-coast for the first time since 1918. The total eclipse could be seen from 14 different states, the first time a total eclipse has been visible in the United States in the last 38 years. Starting by Lincoln City, Oregon, at 9:06 a.m.,

the 2017 eclipse traveled West until it finally ended near Charleston, South Carolina at 4:06 p.m. Totality, the point where the moon was directly in front of the sun, lasted no more than two minutes and 40 seconds at its longest. For the science teachers, located on the north side of the path of the eclipse, it lasted for even less time than that. “It got almost dark out, and we could hear crickets chirping because they thought it was nighttime. It was awesome and I can’t even describe it,” said Mr. James Ludois, earth science teacher. The earth science teachers have been teaching their students about solar eclipses for a number of years. This year, the teachers started out the school year by discussing eclipses in preparation for the upcoming event. “I was super excited seeing it because I had been teaching eclipses for six years, and I’d never actually seen one in person,” Mr. Ludois said. “It was so awesome to actually experience it and experience something that I teach.” For many of the science teachers, this was their first time seeing an eclipse, so viewing it in totality was a must. Mr. Alan McCloud, earth science teacher, had seen a partial eclipse during his college years, but had never experienced a total eclipse.

e from carbondale by Annika Agrawal and Anya Uppal

photo courtesy of Alisha McCloud

“During the total eclipse you could totally appreciate how dark the sky had become, and see the milky-white layer of the sun called the corona, only visible during total eclipses. It was an amazing experience,” Mr. McCloud said. In order to view this year’s solar eclipse in Carbondale, Mr. McCloud made arrangements a year in advance, renting out a big group campsite near Rend Lake, a large lake on the outskirts of Carbondale, for several of the science teachers and some of their families to stay overnight and watch the eclipse in an open area. Mr. McCloud and Mr. Ludois were joined by fellow science teachers Mr. Cory Sargent, Mr. Dylan Canavan, Mrs. Melissa Jensen, Dr. Jim Vetrone and Mr. Daniel Scheldrup. “We were like kids on Christmas,” said Mrs. Jensen, earth science teacher. The teachers watched as the partial eclipse started at 11:52 a.m., putting on their special eclipse viewing glasses, which protected their eyes from the direct glare of the sun, every few minutes to track the moon’s progress across the sun as the eclipse crept closer and closer to totality. “We could tell that it was getting slightly darker and

darker. The shadows looked weird, and the sky was kind of a weird color,” Mr. McCloud said. For the next hour and 28 minutes, the excitement in the air was palpable as the moon slowly inched across the sky to block out the sun and the sky grew dark, changing from the cerulean color of the morning to the dark blue of dusk. “Right when it was coming to totality, if you did a 360 view all around you, it was like sunset all around on the whole horizon,” Mr. Ludois said. Around the same time, hundreds of students at school were also witnessing the solar eclipse, standing together on Dickinson Field. After being given special eclipse viewing glasses, students left class during ninth period to see the rare event. From Central, only a partial eclipse could be seen. Although the eclipse in Hinsdale was largely obscured by cloud cover, many students still appreciated the experience. “If anything, this makes me more excited about seeing the next [eclipse],” said Aliza Panjwani, junior. Many of the science teachers are also planning to view the next solar eclipse in totality, taking place in 2024. Totality in 2024 will last up to four minutes at its longest, almost a minute and a half longer than totality this year, according to NASA. “I would recommend that anybody who didn’t get a chance to see it in totality should go [when] it happens again in Carbondale, six and a half years from now. It’s worth finding yourself in that path,” Mr. McCloud said. The next solar eclipse in the United States will occur on April 8, 2024, once again passing through Carbondale.

THE ALTby Zaina Ahmed and Amanda Bagby photos by Clairice Krzysik

Students react to white supremacy close to home

he smell of burning torches, the crowd’s fervent chants of “blood and soil”, the fists and pepper spray flying, and among it all there is a familiar face: Lyons Township High School’s (LT) former student council president, Nicholas Fuentes. On Aug. 12, a crowd of white supremacists rallied in the college town of Charlottesville, North Carolina to protest the removal of a statue of the confederate army general, Robert E. Lee. According to Al Jazeera, this rally was one of the largest white supremacy events in recent history, with hundreds in attendance. Fuentes was one of those attendees. Nicholas Fuentes, 18, was a member of Lyons Township’s Model UN and speech team, according to The Chicago Tribune. He stated on his Lyons Township Model UN student profile that the quote “Hunt or be hunted” by Frank Underwood was his life philosophy. Now, he is the host of a nightly YouTube show called America First, and on Sundays, he co-hosts the podcast Nationalist Review. Both center around his far-right political views. He’s made appearances on Fox News, Time Magazine, and NBC’s Today Show to discuss his views, as stated on his self-titled website.

Central’s longstanding rivalry and frequent interactions with LT made Fuentes’s attendance surprising. Angela Han, junior, didn’t know this mentality existed in Illinois, or so close to her community. “It’s pretty surprising, especially since I always thought that white supremacists mainly just came from the deep South,” Han said. “Knowing that there are white supremacists in Illinois, I’m feeling actually disgusted right now that our community is being represented that way.”

“I’M...DISGUSTED THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS BEING REPRESENTED THIS WAY.” - angela han, junior

Illinois’s neighbor state Indiana is one of the ten states with the highest concentration of hate groups, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Kai Foster, senior, identifies as a liberal and wasn’t surprised that someone who lived near the community harbored these beliefs. “When you come from a city like

LaGrange or Hinsdale you’re kept in a bubble and you’re not really exposed to other things around you; you don’t see the diversity of Chicago,” Foster said. Of the 3,028 students at HC, 72.5 percent are white students, and 27.5 percent are minority students, including 2.4 percent black students. According to The Chicago Tribune, Fuentes, who was committed to Boston University (BU), chose to drop out and go to Auburn University instead. After receiving backlash, including death threats, for attending the protest, he said in an interview with The Tribune that he would feel safer at Auburn as it is more conservative than BU’s campus. Last year, Fuentes visited his old high school to appear as a guest speaker on a student’s show. Bill Allan, the supervisor of television services at LT, noticed a shift in Fuentes’ views. In his interview for The Chicago Tribune, he compared his guest appearance last year to the TV shows Fuentes used to do when he attended the high school. “I think the biggest change was he went from conservative values to very deep to the right,” Allan said. “None of the stuff he produced [at LT] was even close to the level he’s at now.” Though college students like Fuentes were in attendance of this rally, there

was a variety of “alt-right” groups that travelled to Charlottesville, as the goal was to “Unite the Right” under a common belief. Like Donlevy and Han, many disagreed with the Unite the Right rally and travelled to Charlottesville to counter protest. Members of antifa (an anti-fascist group) and other groups against white supremacy came prepared for altercations, as did the Unite the Right rally participants. According to the Los Angeles Times, the rally members brought guns, shields, and rams, and the counter protesters brought pepper spray and bricks. The violence that ensued left 34 people injured and one woman dead. According to The Washington Post, on Saturday Aug. 12 at around 1:14 p.m., James Alex Field’s Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counter protesters, injuring dozens and killing one woman, Heather Heyer.

“THOUGH WE ARE ALL BLACK, EACH BLACK PERSON HAS THEIR OWN EXPERIENCES.” - kai foster, senior

President Donald Trump’s response to the violence at the Charlottesville rally caused backlash from different groups. “You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent,” Trump said. “Nobody wants to say that. I’ll say it right now.” Payton Frankiewicz, sophomore, agrees with Trump’s statement. “Both sides are guilty of resorting to violence when they should’ve maintained a peaceful protest,” Frankiewicz said. Those in support of the white supremacist message also condemned the violence at the rallies. With its headquarters only two hours away in Bloomington, Ill., a pro-white group known as The Creativity Movement (TCM) was also not pleased with the violence at Charlottesville, according to their website. TCM is focused on the advancement and survival of White people, and classifies itself as a religion. Although no members attended the rally, in a blog post from the website titled “Welcome to the Dark Side”, member Reverend Logsdon said the organization of the Unite the Right rally was impeded by the presence of

“HE ONLY SAW HIS OWN POINTS OF VIEW REFELCTED BACK AT HIM.”

-conor dunlevy, senior

police that favored counter protesters. “[We want] what is good for white people, a whiter and brighter world,” said a TCM spokesperson in an e-mail. The proximity of TCM and people like Nicholas Fuentes to Central made Foster recall her own experiences with racism as a black student. “There’s this thing called tokenism when a person feels like they have to represent their entire race,” Foster said. “That’s very intimidating because though we are all black, each black person has their own experiences.” Conor Donlevy, a senior, identifies as a Republican and said he believes the insensitivity felt by Foster at school and the white supremacy at the rallies both arise from ignorance. “We are such a homogeneous group; we don’t have a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, or income levels,” Donlevy said. “It’s what drove Fuentes to support the extreme right--he only saw his own points of view reflected back at him.”

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Fashion trends from 30 years ago make a comeback

ina Haveric wakes to a chilly fog while the sun breaks on an autumn Tuesday. It’s early enough to construct an ensemble for the following school day. Haveric files through her jean collection. Her final choice is a loose and boxy fitting pair of high-waisted, light washed jeans. She heads to her drawer filled with an array of vibrant colors and bold patterns. Haveric throws top after top over her shoulder in search for the best option. Rainbow stripes line the tank top that Haveric finally plucks from her organized cabinet of patterned tees. As she assesses the final look in her wall mirror, she adds a thin faced watch and a pair of brown leather booties to complete the outfit. Although her jeans, multicolored tops, funky patterned T-shirts, and shoes, mirror a wardrobe of archetypal American fashion in the 1980s, Haveric, 19, is a sophomore at Purdue University, who graduated from Central in 2016. On Instagram, she is known as @dinkkss, and posts frequent pictures of her outfits for her audience of more than 5,000 followers. According to Haveric, she draws fashion inspiration from the ’80s. “I love the bright colors and cool patterns of that era,” Haveric said. Her favorite patterns vary from polka dots to floral. According to ELLE, the current fashion cycle began to revisit the ’80s in 2010. During the early 2000s, influence from the ’90s was more prevalent than the influence from the ‘80s. “Coming off the colorful and grungy ’90s, the rapid advancement of new technology brought a wide variety of sartorial influences to wardrobes throughout the decade,”

said Gregory Babcock, style writer for Complex, in a September article. Styles of the ’90s reflected the growth of hip-hop with gold chains, baggy jeans, and snapbacks as worn by Will Smith in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The fashion trends of the 2000s were also a hip-hop inspired style as portrayed by Britney Spears in her music video for “Piece of Me.” This influence from prior decades doesn’t surprise Chelsea Ball, a former professor of fashion media at Southern Methodist University. “Fashion always comes full circle, just in different ways,” said Ball, in an interview she did for The Daily Campus. Popular stores have encouraged students to return to past styles by selling items that embody the ’80s. Scrunchies, Reeboks, denim on denim, bell bottom jeans, and windbreakers can currently be purchased at stores like Urban Outfitters and Nordstrom. Old brands that haven’t been popular since the ’80s, such as Champion, have now grown in popularity, as well. “[Champion] has been able to leverage this new surge of interest into one of the most impressive comebacks of any label in recent memory,” said Miles Raymer, a fashion writer for Esquire, in his article in the March 2017 issue. While some stores are creating new, ’80s-inspired items, Adidas is bringing back actual products it sold during that timeframe with a collection titled Adidas Original. The collection features Adidas’s new logo and is actually the old one used during the ’80s. The collection features the threestriped sneaker renamed the Superstar ’80s. According to Washington Post, the line of retro Superstar sneakers was photo by Clairice Krzysik Senior Meghan Johnson

Revival by Layo Adelakun, Julia Chatterjee, Julia Baroni

photo by Clairice Krzysik Senior Meghan Johnson

the top-selling sneaker product in 2016, surpassing brands like Nike and Jordan. According to Jeff Barker, writer for the Baltimore Sun, Adidas is adapting its designs, colors, and textiles faster than ever to meet the demands for ’80s fashion. Meghan Johnson, senior, is a student who draws on inspiration from this decade for her own daily wardrobe. “Bigger jeans that are cuffed and tighter at the end are my favorite ’80s trend,” Johnson said. “Eighties fashion is so fun. It’s so important to have fun in everything you do, even if that’s just through the clothes you wear.” Students were able to embrace the fun characteristics of the ’80s when dressing up for this year’s homecoming theme, “Back to the Eighties.” Sarah Badawi, sophomore, said that she wishes she was born during the ’80s. Not only is she a fan of the decade’s music, but also its fashion. Homecoming dress-days leading up to the dance, such as ’80s workout attire and band T-shirts, gave students a chance to try out the retro styles. “It was great to be able to dress up like I was living during the ’80s for a week,” Badawi said. Junior, Jamison Fowler favors the denim styles of the ’80s, along with Johnson. Fowler said denim is the key to having a cohesive and comfortable wardrobe. “Students are not afraid to experiment with new styles

[now],” Fowler said. “It did not used to be like that.” Fowler said she believes that today’s students aren’t afraid to test out new styles. She says students are more comfortable with experimenting with fashion because their peers around them are experimenting too. Retail stores have been a major influence to the comeback of the ’80s trend. Sarah Steil, senior, identifies herself as an simplistic-non ’80s dresser but appreciates the trend. “I would say Urban Outfitters is the mainstream store,” Steil said. “And the mainstream trend has been going back to old styles, so people have been choosing to dress like that.” David Sax, writer for the Los Angeles Times wrote in a January 2017 article that retro culture in general has made a comeback. Not only clothing items, but household items such as records and turntables have returned to stores like Urban Outfitters. “The conventional wisdom is that nostalgia is to blame for this twee trend,” Sax said. “They’re deifying outdated things and repackaging them as contemporary culture.” Haveric’s and many others favorite trend of the ’80s has been proved to be influenced by retail stores and the cultural pressure within the school. Haveric said Central’s culture is to do what your peers are doing and fit in. “So, if a few people started dressing retro it is likely that the people would follow the trend,” Haveric said.

"Fashion always comes full circle, just in different ways." - Chelsea Ball

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photos by Clairice Krzysik

- HOmecOming 2017

Homecoming King, Marshall Demirjian (right), and homecoming Queen, Kelly Nash (left), ride through Hinsdale before the football game with their partners Juliana Mejia (right) and Charlie Johns (left). The pair was crowned during the “Back to the ’80s” homecoming dance Saturday, Sept. 16.

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unior Ella Pope lowers herself into the frigid water of the pool after a long day of classes. She tries to focus on her practice, but the cramped lanes of other swimmers limits her space. She hurries to finish her practice as everyone flows into the locker room to change. Despite the long practices she has after school, she is content and relieved that she does not have to wake up at 5:45 a.m. like JV 1 does. This was the rigor of Pope’s schedule for five a days a week on repeat until her season was over. Pope paused her intense schedule this year, deciding to quit the swim team and pursue something she enjoyed more: water polo.

This year, sports teams such as swim and dive, volleyball, football, cross country, golf, tennis, and soccer are uncut. Uncut sports guarantee a spot for every student that tries out. For swimming, in order to accommodate the dozens of students who displayed interest, the team expanded its JV roster. Both students and faculty members are divided on whether or not this change is beneficial. With Central having about 30 percent of students in sports and 55

percent of them being uncut this change affects many. According to the Athletic Department, making a sport uncut is circumstantial; it is affected by the number of people who try out, the space in the school, and IHSA roster size. Many coaches find that cutting someone from the team is the hardest part of their job. Coach Robert Barber, head of swimming and varsity coach for 18 years, was one of the people who overlooked this decision and offers a different perspective. According to Coach Barber, the JV swim team has only been uncut three times in the past since his time coaching. “We are stretching ourselves even more to give these girls an opportunity; we don’t regret it,” Coach Barber said. The large amount of swimmers creates a booked schedule for the pool. JV 1 begins the day in the pool with their practice starting at 5:45 a.m and ending around 7:20 a.m. Right after school varsity goes into the pool, divers do their on deck warmup at 4:15 p.m. and start their practice at 4:45 p.m., which is also when JV 2 gets in. “[Having the divers] made it really tough because they need two lanes to dive in,” Pope said. “Already this six lane pool is relatively small. Most schools around here have about eight lanes. You’re already down two lanes in a four lane pool.”

MADE THE TEAM Athletes weigh in on cut and no cut sports written and designed by Bilal Khokhar and Lauren Lee

photo by Caroline Bowater and Edmundas Pletas

Pope believes the uncut rule and pool size affect swimmers’ schedules. “With a larger pool, people wouldn’t have to wake up at 5:45 a.m., five days a week before school and come back at 8:30 p.m. They wouldn’t have to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the school anymore,” Pope said. Coach Barber disagrees with this opinion, stating that practice time has been starting before dawn since the 1970s. “The cut/uncut component really has the most effect when we are doing dryland because we have limited space, ” Coach Barber said. Senior varsity swimmer Thomas Willemse remembers his time on the JV team fondly. He finds that a larger team provides a more supportive setting. “Having an uncut sport is good on a team, because

on than we could handle even though we have resources,” Heil said. According to Heil, the average number of players for a high school volleyball team is about 20 people. Last year the team had 15 players and now the uncut team has 24 players. This adjustment was made because there were not enough JV teams in the state. Therefore, the JV volleyball team would only get to play five tournaments while varsity would play 20. “There is enough drive for people to work harder; [the team] has so much competitive spirit it’s hard to choose who starts,” Heil said. Many people on the team including Heil, did not know varsity was going to be uncut. The coaches on the second day of tryouts told the athletes what their positions would be

“Stretching ourselves even more to give these girls an opportunity; we don’t regret it.” - Coach Robert Barber everyone is involved,” Willemse said. “We do have separate groups but when we’re at a meet, everyone is cheering for each other.” Along with being uncut this year, varsity volleyball has a bench system. If a student is in a starting position, they go play in the tournament, but if there is a JV tournament the same day they will pull people from the bench. On average the team splits up three or four times during a game. The team can do this because there are so many people on varsity volleyball this year. Some athletes such as Maddy Heil, junior, a member of the varsity volleyball team, disagrees with this system. “I like the uncut practice when everyone is together, but when we get to games, half of you are on the bench and half of you aren’t. It’s strange and it feels like we took more

and if they would play. If the coaches decided that the players would better as a “cheerleader,” they would still be able to go to practices, but they would not be playing at varsity games. “The coaches said that if there is a lot of talent we do not have to cut anyone this year that we do not want to,” Heil said. Pope believes that even though the adjustment to make swim uncut was sudden, she is happy that people want to work out and be an active part of the community. Coach Barber agrees saying students playing a sport helps to build responsibility and leadership skills. “We are a tight family. We practice together and we never leave each other,” Coach Barber said.

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