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Dr. Karen Warren Coleman will become the 13th Eugene McDermott Head of School.

She has crossed the equator by land, air and sea. She has run three marathons and climbed Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

She will be the graduation speaker at The Hockaday School’s 103rd Commencement.

Meet Dr. Karen Warren Coleman, Hockaday’s 13th Eugene McDermott Head of School effective June 1, 2017.

The Search Commences At the close of the 2014-2015 school year, after the resignation of former Eugene McDermott Head of School Kim Wargo, the Hockaday Board of Trustees embarked on a mission that would continue until November 2016: to search for the next Head of School. In July 2015, Michelle Neuhoff Thomas ‘83 was named the Chair of the Head of School Search Committee. Her job, then, was to form a committee that would spearhead the search efforts.

“I felt it was important to ask the Board [of Trustees] members who they thought were good potential search committee members,” Thomas said. “I also wanted to make sure I had a variety of constituents.”

In order to ensure a varied representation that had a broad grip on the school, Thomas scouted out parents from every division, alumnae from various decades, faculty members and trustees to form the Head of School Search Committee. The Committee was finalized in September 2015.

And so, every two to three weeks, the Committee convened in the Board of Trustees conference room on the Hockaday campus to discuss and interview candidates. As the process continued, the Committee met more and more frequently so that when fall 2016 arrived, they would often meet multiple times a week.

Over the year, the Committee worked closely with consulting firm Carney Sandoe & Associates, which conducts head of

school searches as well as searches for other administrative positions for independent educational institutions.

“We had two very strong consultants,” Thomas said. “One was Rayna Loeb, a former Hockaday parent. Aggie Underwood was the other consultant; she retired from being a school head and went into the consulting business.”

To begin, the two consultants published Hockaday’s Head of School position statement on the Carney Sandoe website and sent it individually to potential contenders in independent schools and higher education. The position statement was a document describing Hockaday and the specifics of the job.

“When a candidate received the position statement, their first step in the process was to contact our search consultants,” Thomas said. “There would be an interview on the phone and in person with a search consultant. If the consultant thought the person was a good fit, the applicant would set up a phone call with me.”

Thomas then spoke with potential candidates over the phone about Hockaday, asking why they thought they were good fits for the school. If Thomas thought the candidate was worthy to come before the full committee, the Search Committee would invite the candidate to come to Hockaday for a day-long interview on campus.

The Committee began meeting these candidates in February 2016. From an overall pool of about 150 candidates, the committee met with about 25.

“We had very good diversity in our pool in a lot of different ways,” Thomas said. “We had both men and women. We had candidates who were what we called rising stars, so people who had not been heads of school before but were aspiring to. We had candidates who were sitting heads of school.

We had a wide variety of representation in terms of different types of school."

Q&A Get to Know Dr. Coleman

Eventually, the Committee narrowed it down to six finalists.

“We were looking for somebody who was passionate about education and particularly girls’ education,” Thomas said. “We were looking for a strong leader who was both collaborative and liked working with colleagues, as well as someone who was a good decision maker.”

The entire process from start to finish took 18 months. By September 2016, the Committee had found the right candidate.

Finding the One In the late summer of the 2016-2017 school year, search consultants Loeb and Underwood spotted Coleman, who had worked during the previous school year as the Vice President for Campus and Student Life at the University of Chicago.

“We often identify strong candidates through our firm’s extensive network,” Loeb said. “A recent Carney Sandoe appointment, head of [Harpeth Hall School], had worked with Dr. Coleman, and enthusiastically suggested we call her for Hockaday. This woman had met her through their doctorate program together at the University of Pennsylvania.”

After their first conversation, Loeb was immediately struck by Coleman’s authenticity and transparency.

“My first impressions of Dr. Coleman are affirmed each time I speak with her, or share time with her,” Loeb said. “She is incredibly astute and impassioned about the education of girls.”

In September, Coleman came before the Search Committee members, who were similarly impressed by Coleman’s vast experience in education as well as engaging personality.

“There are so many things that we felt like Coleman had to offer to Hockaday,” Thomas said. “She has all the personal characteristics that we felt were important. She really is a connector with people, and she

A LEADER IN LEARNING Coleman speaks at the residential hall topping off ceremony in August 2015 at UChicago.

has a real enthusiasm for education. I think she will be able to move Hockaday from a great school to an incredibly great school.”

After Coleman’s first meeting with the Search Committee in early September, the Committee continued to meet with her as well as check her references. For Thomas, it was important to solidify her initial impressions of Coleman.

Although Interim Eugene McDermott Head of School Liza Lee did not have a formal role in the search process, she met with the six finalists—including Coleman—to answer questions they had about Hockaday.

These interviews took place throughout the summer and into the fall, and Lee’s final interview in late October was with Coleman.

“I instantly liked her. I can’t explain it,” Lee said. “She asked wonderful questions about the job. She asked questions that nobody else had asked, so I loved that about her.”

Lee recalled that Coleman asked about the strengths of the school and ways to get involved in the greater Dallas community.

However, there is one memory of Coleman that distinguishes itself in Lee’s mind.

“It just so happened, the day that I was interviewing her was a OneHockaday day, and she asked me if we could go visit one of the groups that was meeting in a classroom,” Lee said. “In one classroom, there was a little girl in tears. Dr. Coleman knelt down on the floor and asked her, ‘What can I do that would make you happy?’ And the little girl said, ‘I want to go outside.’ And so, Dr. Coleman just took her hand and took her outside, and they did a little walk and then she calmed down.”

After each candidate interviewed with Lee, Thomas called Lee to discuss the candidate. After Coleman’s interview, Lee only

What is one rarely known fact about you?

I’ve traveled to over thirty countries including photographing the big five in Africa, following the footsteps of Darwin on the Galapagos Islands, travelling to Cuba with a National Geographic Expert, and exploring the mysteries of ancient civilizations on Easter Island, in Peru and Egypt.

Favorite music?

My taste in music runs the gamut—and if you stop by my office, you may hear something playing from my Apple playlist—Adele, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, John Legend, Madonna, Maroon Five, Paul McCartney and Katy Perry. Asking students what they are listening to is the best way for me to learn about new music.

What is your favorite color?

I love all the colors of the ocean and the ways the colors change— from deep blues, to brilliant turquoise, to various shades of light and deep green.

Favorite word?

Just one? I’ll narrow it down to four for now: exploration, discovery, adventure and joy.

Favorite food?

There are very few foods I don’t like! I particularly like Mexican and Thai food, and sushi.

What do you like to do in your free time?

I love spending time outdoors—hiking, running, exploring new places. My husband Andy and I live in Chicago with our black Lab, Brunson. We love to travel and explore the world! We love great food and wine, and have always maintained a vegetable garden, which we hope to continue in Dallas.

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had positive things to say.

“I felt she was the strongest candidate for Hockaday specifically. For this particular school, she was just ideal,” Lee said.

The final decision to hire Coleman was made at the end of October, two months after meeting Coleman for the first time. The decision was first voted on by the Search Committee; then the Executive Committee, a subcommittee of the Board of Trustees; and lastly, the full Board.

“We looked around the room and knew she was the one,” Thomas said. “The vote was unanimous.”

On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, Hockaday officially announced Karen Warren Coleman as the 13th Eugene McDermott Head of School.

A Life in Education Throughout her life, Coleman has felt that her calling has always been in education.

Coleman grew up in New York City where she attended Stuyvesant High School.

In elementary school and junior high, Coleman played the clarinet and played soccer, and in high school, she was very involved in the theater department.

After her graduation, Coleman earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, graduating cum laude; a master’s in education from the University of Vermont; and has now completed her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

“It has been especially satisfying for me to apply and adapt my classroom learning to my career as an educator and an administrator,” Coleman said. “Every day, it is a privilege for me to work with young people.”

Indeed, Coleman has worked in numerous positions of leadership at higher education institutions. Early on in her career, she held student affairs positions at the George Washington University, the University of Vermont and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Afterward, she served as Associate Dean of Students at the University of California, Berkeley.

“In this role, I focused on helping students navigate the campus and connecting them to educational and leadership opportunities to enrich their personal and intellectual growth,” Coleman said.

Most recently, Coleman served as the Vice President for Campus and Student Life at the University of Chicago. As an officer of the University, Coleman was responsible for several campus departments, which included 350 staff members and an $80 million budget.

“I led the strategic direction for the division responsible for carrying the core mission of the university—changing the world

through the power of ideas—to all aspects of life outside the classroom,” Coleman said.

“At UChicago, I wore many hats.”

Coleman has much to be proud of regarding her work at UChicago. Coleman transformed the approach to inclusion efforts for students and was appointed a member of the President’s Diversity Leadership Council. She served as the lead steward of a brand-new $180 million, 800-bed residence hall and dining commons. She also secured university approval to lead an $18 million academic information system implementation. Lastly, she helped revise the student disciplinary processes for sexual misconduct and unlawful harassment.

Coleman stepped down from her position at UChicago at the end of June 2016 after seven years, though she remembers her experience as one of the most rewarding opportunities of her career.

“When I stepped down from UChicago, I had recently completed my doctorate and wanted to merge my professional experiences with what I had discovered through writing my dissertation,” Coleman said.

She subsequently joined the faculty at Loyola University Chicago, where she designed a course called Leadership in Higher Education for graduate students.

Then, during the summer of 2016, Coleman first heard about the Head of School job opening at The Hockaday School through the Carney Sandoe search consultants. She was immediately attracted to all aspects of the school.

“First and foremost, the mission of the School rings true with my own philosophy about education,” Coleman said. “From the creation of the School to the traditions, to the people, to the curriculum—the limitless opportunities for learning that have been offered for more than 100 years make Hockaday an awe-inspiring institution.”

After her first meeting with the Search Committee and visit at Hockaday, Coleman and her husband Andy came to Dallas to meet more trustees, and Coleman was able to spend more quality time with individuals in the Hockaday community.

“Working with the Head of School Search Committee was a very open, warm and communicative process,” Coleman said.

“There are many dedicated individuals who volunteered countless hours to reviewing the candidates, and they deserve a great deal of appreciation for their commitment to this thoughtful process.”

Now, Coleman is looking forward to making several transitions, one of which entails moving from higher education to working in a private school.

“I wanted to work with younger children during an earlier stage in their de-

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HOCKADAY AND BEYOND Top Left: Coleman met Hockaday students for the first time after her official announcement at the Daises and Donuts event on Nov. 11. They discussed a variety of topics, including Hockaday's proactive culture and memorable traditions.

Top Right: At the 2016 World Series, Coleman and her husband Andy celebrated the Cubs' victory.

Bottom Left: Coleman biked alongside the lush, green scenery in France.

Bottom Right: Lower School teachers Kristi Estes and Tymesia Smaw spoke with Coleman.

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velopmental journey,” Coleman said. “The learning experiences that girls have at Hockaday will shape their trajectory long after they graduate.”

For Coleman, the transition from higher education also presents many similarities, some of which include cultivating diversity and inclusion, being a team builder and navigating the tension between innovation and tradition.

Coleman is also looking forward to another great transition: moving from coeducation to an all-girls’ school.

“The education girls receive at Hockaday prepares them to lead extraordinary lives. This is amazing work, and for me, it’s a calling,” Coleman said. “To do this within an environment so deeply committed to girls' education—this is what drew me in. At Hockaday, we believe there are no limits to what our girls can become.”

Welcome to Hockaday As Coleman prepares to transition into her new role, she plans to visit campus periodically during the spring and early summer of 2017 to work with Lee, the administration and the faculty.

“I hope we’ll just spend time in this office together and do the job together,” Lee said. “It would be really fun for me to discuss things with somebody else, and it would be great for her to see what day-to-day life at Hockaday is like. For example, I eat lunch with the senior class, and I want her to be at all my lunches the weeks that she is here.”

In addition, Coleman will be Hockaday’s graduation speaker at the 103rd Commencement in May. “That way, the whole school can get to know her,” Lee said. “It’s a chance for the whole community to see her in her first ceremonial role.”

Coleman plans to spend the next months getting to know the faculty, staff and students as she comes to understand the culture, curriculum and operations of the school.

“My focus will be spending time with many members of the community so I am well-prepared to carry the School’s legacy forward,” Coleman said.

And Coleman has already enjoyed the time she has spent at Hockaday. She will always remember her first impressions of the school, which were very positive and affirming.

“I have already been so moved by your warm and gracious welcome and for the many gifts you have already given me—from the smiling and curious faces of the youngest girls to the more in-depth conversations with the Upper School students during the Daisies and Donuts receptions,” Coleman said.

Lee’s advice to Coleman is simple: be yourself.

“The best way to muddle through those early months is just to be yourself, and be honest, and enjoy the job,” Lee said. “And to the Hockaday community, I’d say take every chance you have to get to know her because she is an absolutely fascinating, creative, delightful, funny person.”

In the short term, Coleman hopes to help students navigate an increasingly complex and uncertain world and nurture their sense of self.

“We must be astutely aware of the enormous pressure students are under and make sure students have time to develop the necessary tools to become resilient, self-assured, healthy, and happy young adults,” Coleman said. “As a leader and an educator, I believe that success is measured over the course of a lifetime, and not at the end of the term or academic year.”

In the long term, Coleman aims to build up a strong, trusting team of educators at Hockaday.

“A leader must value, trust, and engage transparently with faculty and staff,” Coleman said. “By supporting talented faculty and staff, we will be positioned to deliver on the promise of our mission and demonstrate that we genuinely care about our students, in ways large and small, for generations to come.”

As a lasting thought, Coleman is wholeheartedly committed to supporting an inclusive culture where each member of the community is embraced for her unique contributions.

“It is essential that we think about how we live and learn together as a community,” Coleman said. “I’m eager to join the Hockaday and Dallas communities and look forward to working collaboratively with all constituents to continue to move Hockaday forward. Likewise, Andy and I are excited to explore and get to know our new city!”

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Fourward Dec. 16

Early Dismissal at 12 p.m.

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Residence Department closes at 10 p.m. for the holiday break.

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A Mindful Initiative Dec. 19Jan. 2

Students, Faculty and Staff have two weeks off school for holiday break.

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Goodbye, 2016. Hello, 2017!

Happy New Years Day.

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Grab your backpack and laptop for the first day of school in 2017.

Jan. 6

The Student Diversity Board hosts its second annual forum on refugees.

Jan. 7

The construction of the Hockaday and St. Mark’s Habitat for Humanity house begins. To get involved, sign up at x2VOL.

Jan. 13

Second quarter ends.

Congratulations on making it halfway through the year!

Jan. 14

No classes for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

tudy for Spanish test. Edit English essay. Finish math homework. Soccer practice.

Sound familiar? For some students, the list of to-do’s can go on and on, leading to overwhelming amounts of stress.

Countless studies have shown the negative impact of stress on teenagers and children and the importance of mindfulness, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.”

Mindfulness has been proven to not only improve overall health, but also to benefit performance in the classroom and beyond by various researchers such as Kirk Strosahl, Ph.D., and Patricia Robinson, Ph.D., authors of “In This Moment: Five Steps to Transcending Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience”.

Upper School formerly had a mindfulness program, commonly known as Whole Girl, but it was discontinued after the 2014-2015 school year.

Upper School Counselor Judy Ware said that “Whole Girl was discontinued because the students weren’t enjoying it anymore.”

The advisors leading the Whole Girl programs pushed for its discontinuation, but Ware said there are plans to create a modified mindfulness and character development program when the new Head of School is installed.

Despite the lack of a formal mindfulness program for Upper School, some students and teachers are attempting to de-stress and relax through teacher-led activities and student clubs. Upper School drama teacher Emily Grey, for example, began leading meditation sessions in the Lacerte Family Black Box Theater this year. Last school year, Upper School French teacher Molly Monaco led

yoga sessions with her advisory. Both yoga and meditation are common techniques to improve mindfulness.

Senior Kate Keough and sophomore Rachel Curry are leading the knitting club this year. Aside from working with needles and yarn, the knitters relax and take time to de-stress.

The club consists of roughly 50 students, with an average of 20 attending each meeting. During the informal meetings more experienced knitters help novices knit in a relaxing atmosphere.

“My junior year I started knitting because junior year is super stressful and I needed something to relax and take my mind off things, and it became a hobby that I really enjoy.”

Keough said. Keough created the club her senior year to spread her hobby.

But mindfulness can be instilled at an early age. With that in mind, Lower School is implementing organized activities to help young girls improve mindfulness to succeed in school and life as a whole.

Randal Rhodus, Head of Lower School, said that mindfulness curriculums are appearing in schools frequently, specifically to teach children how thinking about their emotions can help them in the classroom.

“Mindfulness techniques can be used in all types of situations.” Rhodus said. “Learning these techniques is especially important for younger children who don’t have all the skills to regulate their emotions.”

The Lower School faculty is incorporating mindfulness curriculum into the classroom this year. They are teaching students how their brains work and where their emotions come from.

To give more structure to the program, Lower School counselor Susan Hawthorne comes into each homeroom weekly to discuss mindfulness with students and strategies to “find calm” through meditation and breathing techniques.

“It’s extremely important for these girls to find time to relax.” Haw-

YOGIS Students from left to right: Meredith Jones, Grace Lowry and Megan Muscato do yoga with Upper School drama teacher Emily Grey.

thorne said.

Hawthorne focuses on relaxation techniques like deep breathing, yoga chimes and body scans, in which one focuses on relaxing the body from head to toe.

She began implementing these techniques three years ago when she noticed girls were tired but had trouble falling asleep. Now, some students say they listen to relaxing sounds and music they hear in class before they go to bed.

Hawthorne said mindfulness can “simply be working on breathing and relaxing your body to clear your mind and help focus and concentrate.”

Lower School classrooms are now equipped with “take a break” spaces and mindfulness baskets, which contain products such as glitter jars and other kinesthetic devices that can alleviate stress, and students can use these spaces during class when they need to relax. Teachers also use a website, calm.com, to play relaxing music and sounds after breaks like recess and lunch.

“I think that all of us in today’s society are going so fast, there’s so much in our surroundings that distract us, so many activities, that the only time we really settle and relax is right before we go to bed, so my hope is to help the girls just be in the present and stay mindful,” Hawthorne said.

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On Friday, Dec. 16, Upper School seniors will participate in a grade-wide community service project of Meals on Wheels for the first time instead of attending classes on the last day of school before the holiday break. Each advisory will drive in two to three cars to the Dallas Meals on Wheels headquarters where they will disperse and provide meals to elderly citizens and adults with physical disabilities. The idea for the service project originated with Laura Day, Hockaday director of service learning; Rebekah Calhoun, Form IV dean; and senior Emma Paine, chair of the community service board.

Students Attend Student Diversity Leadership Council Juniors Madison Camper, Sydney Polk, Maria Zhang, and seniors Wendy Ho and Melanie Kerber attended the Student Diversity Leadership Conference in Atlanta on Dec. 7 through Dec. 9. The theme this year was “Dreaming Out Loud: Waking Up to a New Era of Civil Rights.” Assistant Head of Upper School Renee Lafitte, Student Diversity Board Sponsors Lucio Benedetto and Katy Lake, and Director of Inclusion and Community Tresa Wilson, selected which of the interested students would attend the conference. Hockaday students have attended this conference since 2005.

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On Nov. 5, the Hockaday JETS team competed in the Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology Competition, or BEST competition. Following the theme of farming, the 34 teams competing in the BEST tournament constructed robots, made a marketing pitch, created a booth to exhibit their creation and produced an engineering notebook that documented the process. Hockaday placed third overall and qualified to attend the state competition in the Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco from Dec. 8 to Dec. 10 along with 73 other teams.

Although they did not advance to the national competition, the team improved their score by 1000 points.

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TED Prize Winner Speaks to Middle School Sarah Parcak, Ph.D., visited students on Nov. 14 in seventh and eighth grade, who are currently studying ancient civilizations, to talk about her work as an archaeologist and Egyptologist.

Parcak has blended history, science and technology in her archeology and discussed how modern technology can aid in scientific discoveries. A pioneer in the new field of satellite archaeology, Parcak uses satellite images to uncover hidden tombs, towns and other archaeological treasures. She received the 2016 TED Prize and the accompanying $1 million grant, awarded to “a leader with a creative, bold wish to spark global change.”

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Evictions Highlight Housing Problem West Dallas landlord evicts hundreds of low-income tenants, including members of the Wesley Rankin community

Dallas’ Pattern of Issues with Low-Income Housing Sandy Rollins, the executive director of the Texas Tenants’ Union, has noticed a long bias against low-income tenants both in Dallas and Texas, particularly due to “holes” in city legislature for protecting tenants.

While the organization has worked on tenants’ rights and public policy with some success, Rollins said that “there needs to be more protections.”

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mother of four in West Dallas supports her children, ranging from kindergarten to college, on her own.

Her oldest daughter, 22, travels two miles a day to attend El Centro Community College while also working part-time at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, which provides the family with their main source of income. Two of the other children attend Uplift charter schools in an attempt to gain a better education and end the cycle of poverty.

However, HMK Ltd., a low-rent landlord company, sent the family—along with 100 more tenants—an eviction notice early this September, forcing them to find other housing on short notice.

Shellie Ross, the senior director of education at the Wesley Rankin Community Center in the heart of the West Dallas evictions, believes that “those living in poverty and low-income housing continue to be pushed to the margins, because we don’t know how to coexist with people who are poor.”

While Judge Ken Molberg of the 95th Civil District Court approved a temporary injunction to allow the families to remain in their homes until either Jan. 3, 2017 or the end of the 2016-2017 Dallas Independent School District school year, the family may face significant obstacles in finding other low-income housing in Dallas due to its scarcity.

In the meantime, Ross has attempted to provide aid for families struggling with a possible eviction.

The community center, along with Los Altos Neighborhood Association and Habitat for Humanity, hosted a meeting to assess the individual needs of members of the community as well as to create a list of possible solutions.

“We decided in collaboration with these other groups to be really clear, to be really informative, and to build the community up so that they feel that we are connected and also to figure out what we can do together,” Ross said.

In addition to housing needs, Ross has noted the psychological—and subsequent health—strains the evictions have placed on her community. For example, she and 30 children who frequent the community center walked outside to return home when they came upon a bulldozer destroying a house across the street. The children sat on the lawn in awe, according to Ross.

In response, the community center has provided counseling to these children, including those whose houses are not even at risk.

Senior Molly Piccagli, who has volunteered at the community center since eighth grade, met one of the high schoolers at Wesley Rankin whose family was recently evicted from their home. In order to afford their new housing, the high schooler and his eight family members who were evicted, live in a one-bedroom home together.

“You could just tell that he had been through a lot,” Piccagli said.

However, Ross recognizes that the community needs more than just emotional support: they need a solution to the overarching low-income housing problem in the city and have attempted to examine other cities to find a model that could work in Dallas.

Without a model that could be applied to the crisis in Dallas, Ross said, “I am kind of crazy enough to think that we could come up with one.”

While she has not yet found a solution that could be applied to the issues in Dallas, she reached out to Hockaday’s Director of Service Learning Laura Day after the first eviction to see if the community could provide any additional support due to the two institutions’ close relationships that have developed for the past 10 years. For example, Hockaday donated their old computers to the community center.

After hearing about the crisis occurring in the West Dallas community, Day then approached Upper School juniors to produce a chalkboard memorial wall to allow the community to have a tangible way they can help their neighbors and friends.

“We wanted to create a wall that people could go to and write memories or prayers or hopes for their community as a way to allow these kids to have some way to process,” Day said.

Rollins specifically referenced the opportunity to cure a default before an eviction, which allows tenants to pay their debt to the landlord and maintain their residence after they break their lease agreement.

While many states have legislation protecting this right, Texas does not.

Other incidents in which Dallas has acted against tenants include an October City Council vote against legislation preventing discrimination against low-income residents with Section 8 vouchers, housing aid generally given to citizens whose income is less than half the Dallas median income.

Instead, the City Council passed a “source of income discrimination ordinance” that states developers who receive subsidies from the city must accept Section 8 vouchers in at least 10 percent of their rental properties.

Council member and chair of the council’s housing commission Scott Griggs of District 1 has longed supported a measure that prevented landlords from denying Section 8 vouchers but recognized the need to settle for any legislation at all after 9 fellow council members voted against it.

Griggs called the decision “a step as opposed to a leap” in the right direction in an interview with the Dallas Morning News.

While many advocates have attempted to pass legislation protecting the rights of tenants, many low income families continue to struggle to find any housing at all, a fact recognized by Ross. At the onset of the evictions, Ross and her colleagues at the Wesley Rankin Community Center looked for hours upon hours for housing for these families but could not find any housing available. For example, the Dallas Housing Authority has a one to two year waiting list.

Day also noted that moving away from the community to other low-income housing often puts families at a disadvantage due to the interconnectedness of the neighborhood. “The issue is when you live in such a tight-knit community like they do, this lady makes the tamales, and she picks my son up, and this person is my grandmother’s aunt,” Day said. “There is this system that is getting disrupted.”

The problems with affordable housing also exist within the Hockaday community.

In a survey sent to the Hockaday Upper School student body, faculty and staff with 172 respondents, 11.2 percent of those who responded claimed they had

difficulty finding a place of residency that they could afford.

Jason Baldwin, who works in the Child Development Center at Hockaday, has noticed that many of his friends in the service industry as waiters struggle to find safe, affordable housing within reasonable distance to downtown Dallas. Many move to the suburbs where inexpensive housing is more available, but “the people who do choose to live in Dallas are forced to move to less desirable areas,” Baldwin said.

In addition, although Baldwin can afford his apartment in the White Rock Lake Area, he has noticed the gentrification of the neighborhood as the low income apartments along Skillman Road have been torn down so that developers can build luxury apartments, such as Lake Highlands Town Center.

“I know the new apartments are starting at $1000 [rents per month], which are ridiculous for a one room studio,” Baldwin said.

Furthermore, a 2013 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report found that the Dallas city government reacted negatively to all projects providing low-income housing in north Dallas, a higher-income region in the city. This report may hurt the amount of federal funding the city could receive for low-income housing as a result of a failure to comply with strict civil rights requirements.

While the HUD report did not precipitate immediate action from the federal government, the report drew the attention of city leaders such as Mayor Mike Rawlings, who wrote in a released statement that the allegations are “serious and deserve the city’s immediate attention.”

A Hope for the Future Members of the West Dallas community have risen up against HMK and have filed a civil suit against the corporation for unlawful retaliation against those who had requested repairs to their properties. The trial, which will be decided by the judge rather than a jury, has been set for May 22, 2017.

Rollins “absolutely” believes that the landlord retaliated against his tenants and hopes to see a decisive victory for not only these tenants but tenants across Texas.

In the meantime, the city has committed itself to the improvement of a growing impoverished community through programs such as Neighborhood Plus, GrowSouth and

THE WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY Top: On the chalkboard memorial wall, many of the comments written in Spanish share prayers for the community as a whole and individual members as well as requests for others to pray for them.

Bottom Left: Students at Wesley Rankin receive homework help among other services. The staff and volunteers at Wesley Rankin try to keep a positive environment in spite of the current housing crisis.

Bottom Right: According to Day, families have lived in houses built by their relatives, like this one in the West Dallas community, for several decades. Contractors hope to build in this up-and-coming neighborhood and find minuscule code violations to evict these families.

Neighbor Up. In March of 2016, 10 panelists from the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to sustainable city planning, spoke at Dallas City Hall to provide expertise regarding possible improvements to the various programs.

The chair of the panel and Los Angeles-based residential developer Tony Salazar called these programs “components of a larger piece that needs to be put in place.” He also remarked that these programs will not accomplish anything unless the city provides them with more capital.

While these programs may require years to see any progress, Ross welcomes members of the West Dallas community to the Wesley Rankin community center to take advantage of the counselors and other resources provided by the center. Similarly, Rollins hosts three workshops every Wednesday night to give one-on-one aid to tenants needing advice about a range of topics.

Rollins stressed the importance of this housing issue as a greater problem that truly affects the well-being of a community.

“Families suffer, the children suffer, the community suffers if there aren’t enough places for everybody to live,” Rollins said.

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et’s face it. Donald John Trump is going to be our 45th president. He will be the most powerful man in the world for the next four years, whether we like it or not.

Recently, Trump started to pick his advisors. On Friday, Nov. 18, he selected Representative Mike Pompeo of Kansas as the new director of the CIA, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Retired Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as national security adviser. Earlier in the week, Trump appointed Stephen Bannon as chief White House strategist and Reince Priebus as chief of staff.

Several of his picks are quite controversial.

Alt-right conservatives and white supremacists rejoiced at the pick of Bannon as chief White House strategist. Previously, Bannon served as chairman of a conservative news organization, Breitbart News, which has close ties to racist, anti-semitic and misogynist parts of the Internet. Breitbart describes itself as “anti-establishment,” yet ironically enough, Bannon will now be working in the establishment.

On the other hand, Trump appointed Re"What kind ince Priebus, the Chairman of the Republican of message National Committee and the epitome of the does this establishment.

President-elect send to the Trump’s decision to make these two appointments is very strapeople?" tegic. One man serves as the rising populist side of the Republican party while the other voices the concerns of the establishment. This contrast between the two allows Trump to hear both sides before he can make a decision.

I understand the strategies behind this decision. However, what I disagree with is the idea that anyone who is so closely associated with racist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic ties can be such a close adviser to the president. What kind of message does this send to the people?

These aren't the only controversial picks.

Flynn has called Islam itself (not radical Islam) a threat. During the campaign, he sent out a tweet saying, “Fear of Muslims is Rational.”

How can we trust a man who associates Islam with a threat? How can the person who is supposed to protect the ENTIRE nation do his job if he excludes an entire religion? Not only has he identified Saudi Arabia, a long time ally, as a threat, but he calls Russia, who the U.S. has blamed for invading Ukraine, at worst an “exaggerated threat” and at best, “a potential friend.”

Oddly enough, this view contradicts both senior defense officials from the U.S. intelligence community in general.

Each of us has our voice, our opinions, our experiences that allow us to choose the way we want to think about this election. And we are entitled to that. We are entitled to having our own opinions. Many of us have strong views.

Sophie Theallet, a French designer who has dressed First Lady Michelle Obama, tweeted a letter explaining why she will not do the same for Melania Trump: “I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady. The rhetoric of racism, sexism and xenophobia unleashed by her husband’s presidential campaign are incompatible with the shared values we live by.”

And this is exactly what gives me hope that everything will turn out okay. It will be okay because we aren’t afraid to share our views. We aren’t afraid to speak out for what is wrong and advocate for what is right.

What can we do now? Move on. Deal with it. Speak out.

Please don’t let this election bring us down. We are better than that. I know this may be scary, but we can get through it. We always have. And we always will.

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o one expected Hillary Clinton to lose on Nov 8.

In fact, all polls indicated that she would win by a landslide. But as the night went on and as the New York Times’ “Live Presidential Forecast” slowly tipped towards Donald Trump’s side, millions of people around the world looked at each other and wondered the same thing: what happened? Since then, news sources have explained the “Trump phenomenon” to the best of their abilities and tried to answer all those unanswerable questions, but one person has mostly stayed silent: Hillary Clinton.

After a slew of tweets the day after the election, mostly concerning keeping an open mind about the years to come and to keep fighting for what you believe in, Hillary’s online presence has been relatively silent, only tweeting four times afterwards. So where has Hillary been?

For the past few weeks, she has only been sighted a few times around her home in Chappaqua, New York, walking her dog, buying Thanksgiving supplies, visiting book stores.

Clinton gave her first speech after conceding the election on Nov. 16 at the Children’s Defense Fund Gala, an organization of which she has been a longterm supporter. Throughout the speech, she spoke about her attempts to cope with the results of the election as well as her hope that Americans will continue to fight for what they believe in.

“I know this isn’t easy. I know that over the past week, a lot of people have asked themselves whether America was the country we thought it was,” Clinton

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But her words were not the focus of media attention after the gala. Instead, news sources all over the country commented on her appearance, more specifically her lack of makeup. News sources such as the Daily Mail claimed that her “unkempt” appearance indicated she was “clearly no longer concerned about impressing the public visually.”

Clinton was put under further scrutiny when some of her supporters instagrammed selfies of her taking a hike without makeup.

Her next public experience was on Dec. 8, at Senator Harry Reid’s retirement celebration. While she did not directly speak about the election results, Clinton attempted to joke about the situation.

“This is not exactly the speech at the Capitol I hoped to be giving after the election,” she said. “But after a few weeks of taking selfies in the woods, I thought it would be a good idea to come out.”

There are no indications about what Clinton plans to do in the future, but we can expect that she will handle herself with the grace and maturity that she has displayed since election night.

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o many day students, the boarding department is something of an enigma. Beyond the ramp entrance near Tarry House lies the mysterious world of boarding, filled with weekend trips, late nights in the library and dinners in the dining hall. However, Director of Residence Life Meshea Matthews is looking to change that mystery through a new boarding-day student initiative: Hockahomestay.

The program is targeted at the sophomore class and will give these girls the chance to experience life in the boarding department for two weeks at a time. Matthews said that the primary reason behind the program lies in the desire for further integration between the boarding and day students, which the Residence Life team considers a primary goal within their positions.

“There are so many things that day students don’t understand about a boarding student’s experience,” Matthews said.

In addition to keeping up with rigorous school work, as a day student would, boarding students also have to attend to their personal well-being and navigate situations such as a conflictive roommate situation or homesickness.

The secondary reason behind the program, according to Matthews, is to provide a true college preparatory experience to students. Although seniors leave in the spring academically prepared for school, many have never lived independently before.

“There is a lot of pieces that come along with making choices for yourself and living independently with a nice support team around you, something that feels like a fami-

ly,” Matthews said.

Sophomore Sophie Rubarts, who is interested in the program, feels that living in boarding would give her a chance to learn how to live independently.

“Having to balance school work, taking care of my room and living with a roommate, I think most colleges are like that,” Rubarts said.

Activities students will take part in at Hockahomestay • Curfews • Dress dinners • Hall meetings • Sunday laundry

Sophomore students who sign up for the program will be randomly placed with a roommate and will live in one of the several boarding guest rooms. House Council President Heidi Kim said the program is serious and aims to ensure that the student gets the true experience of being a boarding student.

Rubarts, who is has friends in boarding, notes that an aspect of the program would be getting to know new people.

“I also think that it is a chance to bond with people I otherwise would not have. A lot of people in boarding are very reserved so it would be nice to try to get to know them a bit more,” Rubarts said.

But the decision to target sophomore students stemmed from the idea of “the forgotten year,” as Kim called it. While the freshman class attends Mo Ranch, the junior class experiences the Junior Research Paper together and the senior class participates in the Allaso Ranch retreat, sophomores can often feel left behind, according to both Matthews and Kim. “[They are] developmentally ready to roll at that age, and secondly, there is not something that bonds the grade in a great way a focus that you couldn’t step away for two weeks to [participate in Hockahomestay],” Matthews said.

And Rubarts affirmed this statement.

“Everyone says that sophomore year is the forgotten year,” Rubarts said.

Matthews called the program signature to Hockaday, and said that it separates Hockaday from the surrounding area college preparatory schools.

With a boarding department that houses upward of 100 girls from all around the world, Hockaday is the only school in the Dallas Metroplex with a boarding department. The boarding aspect allows Hockaday, and only Hockaday, to be able to provide this unique experience to day students.

But the process to finalize the program was long and not an easy one, several presentations in front of administration and the Board of Trustees were required. However, Matthews said that the program will be up and running by the spring semester.

“We had to go through the approval process. Next year we will be advertising the calendar (program) through the summer

CROSSING OVER Students from left to right: day students Swiler Boyd and Ellen Schindel chat with boarders Emily Wu and Cirrus Chen in a boarding common room.

and girls would come in and start with us,” Matthews said.

As House Council President, Kim sees it as her job to help with the integration of the temporary boarding students. Kim was involved in the planning process with Matthews and supports the program.

“I think that it is our job to be there as a support system, to help them with anything, whether that is how to work the laundry machine or where the best places to go to study are,” Kim said. “We are there to be a helping hand.”

Matthews and her team are ready to step in and help out the girls who sign up for the program. However, there is a rule in place that prohibits students from going home and returning to the program should they experience homesickness. Matthews knows that her team is ready to make it easy on the girls.

“At the end of the day, we are doing all of this already. It is not something that feels so foreign,” Matthews said. “We are family.”

For more information about the program, contact Meshea Matthews at mmatthews@hockaday.org. Sign-ups for the program will open early next semester.

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t’s a typical morning. You’re sitting in class, raising your hand. Suddenly, the intercom comes on: “This is a lockdown. Locks, light, out of sight. ” You’re startled, a bit panicked and the first thing that comes to your mind: What now?

Head of Hockaday Security Karen McCoy has been addressing this question for many years. Most recently, she implemented Hockaday's lockdown plan, Locks, Lights and Out of Sight. This plan instructs teachers to lock their classroom doors, turn off the lights and get themselves and their students out of sight from potential attackers. This plan was devised using the best practices from across the U.S. regarding lockdown safety.

But the procedure schools follow today is different from the one that was followed in the late ‘90s. On April 20, 1999, Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado experienced one of the worst high school shootings in American history, leaving 23 victims wounded and 13 dead.

“If you look to Columbine, the best practice at that time was for police officers who were responding to a school shooting to wait until SWAT arrived. Teachers and students weren’t familiar with lockdown drills,” McCoy said. “After Columbine, everything changed. Everything that first responders did changed.”

However, the Locks, Lights and Out of Sight plan does not account for many variables that can occur during a lockdown situation. Students and faculty alike have questions about how they should react.

“I’m not sure what students are supposed to do if they’re not in a classroom,” sophomore Allie Lynch said.

“What should students do if they’re outside?”

Students that aren’t in a classroom when a lockdown begins will not be allowed into a room. This is to ensure the safety of those within the room. Displaced students should try to find a bathroom, lock themselves in a stall and stand on the toilet. McCoy recommends another strategy if a group of students find themselves locked out during a lockdown drill.

On July 7, 2016, Dallas made international news

when a shooter killed five police officers, wounding nine officers and two civilians. The shooter hid on the campus of El Centro College, and students at the school took precautions to protect themselves.

“During the Dallas shooting there were people in the restrooms at El Centro College; one person walked out of the restroom and saw the shooter. He returned to the restroom and several of them [braced] their feet against the door,” said McCoy, “They made calls to 9-1-1 during the incident. This has been repeated in other incidents.”

If unable to find a bathroom, students should locate another safe place to hide, such as a closet or cabinet, and faculty should be informed and ready to react as well. Rebekah Calhoun, Form IV dean and Upper School health teacher, has questions herself.

“Questions arise when I’m unsure about exactly what do. For example, am I supposed to close all the blinds or leave them open? I’ve heard conflicting accounts of what the police prefer,” Calhoun said.

Because of these uncertainties, some students and teachers desire a resource to ask questions about active shooter and lockdown situations.

McCoy and her team are aware of this and make efforts to answer these questions. Teachers receive training and information at in-service work days. David Benke, Ph.D., the educator who effectively stopped an active shooter at Deer Creek Middle School in 2010 talked to faculty and staff last January; McCoy believes that teachers benefit from listening to other teachers speak about their experiences with lockdowns.

“When teachers talk to other teachers, it’s better than police officers telling teachers what to do,” said McCoy, “I was in law enforcement for 30 years, I could get up there and tell people what they have to do. But if I’m a teacher, they’re more likely to listen to me.”

McCoy and the security team are working to further educate students on lockdown procedures. McCoy plans to implement a school-wide safety app that she and other faculty already use. The app, CrisisManager,

instructs individuals on what to do in emergencies. McCoy hopes that the app will be available to students in the fall of 2017.

The security team is working to put together an assembly for students based on the Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events program that they have attended. However, it’s challenging for McCoy and her team to bring the student body together for this kind of assembly.

“We have to make sure parents know that students are seeing this, and we want to invite the parents to come,” McCoy said, “If you’re going off to college, I’d much rather students know what to do in an active shooter situation than not know what to do.”

Anne Marie Gingery ‘16, freshman at University of Texas, agrees with McCoy that it’s crucial to know what to do in a lockdown. To her, lockdown drills are especially relevant now that Texas carry law allows students to carry guns on campus. “There could easily be a situation where there would need to be a lockdown.” Gingery said.

Active shooter situations and lockdowns aren’t exclusive to schools. Nine people were injured after a gunman opened fire at strip mall in Houston last September. On Dec. 2, 2015, a married couple injured 22 people and killed 14 others in an attack in San Bernardino, California. McCoy emphasizes the importance of being prepared, no matter where you are.

“Get out, get away from that situation,” McCoy said.

“If you have a gut feeling that something is wrong, don’t wait. If you can’t get away from the situation, hide.”

She emphasizes that being prepared for an active shooter situation is the best way to ensure that people don’t get hurt.

“We don’t want to scare anyone, but it’s the world we live in,” McCoy said, “People aren’t scared of the world, just some of the events that happen.

You won’t be as afraid in an active shooting situation if you’re prepared.”

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first day at the University of Kansas, on Nov. 7, 2014, alumna Daisy Tackett, who left Hockaday in 2013, attended a Halloween party at the Jayhawker Towers, the university-owned dorms which house many students and athletes. As the night went on, a KU football player invited Tackett to his apartment. That night changed her life forever.

It’s no secret that women on college campus’ are vulnerable to sexual assault.

According to the National Sexual Violence Research Center, one in five women are sexually assaulted at some point in their college career.

Recruited to row at KU, Tackett, like many other college freshman, had disregarded these statistics until she became a part of them: when she was sexually assaulted by the football player. This event forever altered her interactions with friends, family and other contacts that make up her social network. “[The assault] really led to a lack of trust in people. Also, I don’t like being touched. I get really freaked out when people touch me in public, even on the shoulder or a pat on the back,” Tackett said. “Little stuff that I didn’t normally think about before I definitely think about it now.”

Taking a Stand It took Tackett almost a year to report the assault to KU’s Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, the university’s department in charge of responding to harassment complaints and overseeing university policies on incidents such as discrimination and sexual violence.

“I didn’t report it for about a year, mostly because I felt like people wouldn’t believe me because he was a football player,” Tackett said. “I was kind of ashamed. I’m not small, I’m a rower, I’m big, I’ve taken self- defense and I knew how to be smart in situations but this still happened. I was really kind of upset with myself for a while.”

Tired of suffering in silence, Tackett emerged from the isolation of her dorm room to report the sexual assault. She used the values she learned at Hockaday in advisory, in the classroom and on the water to give her the strength to come forward.

“Something that we talk a lot about in sports is mental toughness, and I think that Hockaday gave me a lot of base mental toughness going into this,” Tackett said.

Kyle Vaughn, former honors English teacher at Hockaday, impacted Daisy in the classroom and beyond when she was in Upper School. Acting as a mentor to many

students including Tackett, Vaughn strived to teach his students how to establish their voice and speak out against the injustices of the world.

“At Hockaday, I always taught my students to use their voice to advocate for themselves and others, especially through writing, and to better themselves and learn to empathize with others,” Vaughn said. “Social justice and human rights were always big focal points in my courses.”

With this foundation, Tackett was determined not to be another nameless, faceless “Jane Doe” as she decided to share her name with the media. She would stop at nothing in order to protect other students from sexual assault.

“Think about all the times you’ve read comment sections on news stories about Jane Doe or anonymous complainer. People are so harsh, it’s incredible,” Tackett said.

“They don’t think that’s a real person behind that lawsuit. So what I wanted to do was put an actual name and an actual face to campus sexual assault at KU.” With more than 90 percent of sexual assault victims on college campuses not reporting their assault, Tackett chose to share her name with the media to encourage other women to overcome their fears, which had silenced their voices for too long.

“I wanted to help other people feel empowered to come forward,” Tackett said. “I remember hearing stories about people that read about my case and came forward about their own sexual assaults and already got justice.”

Vaughn recognized Daisy’s courage and praises her for taking a stand.

“I am incredibly proud of Daisy for speaking out and seeking justice. I am glad that she is advocating for own rights, but I am also so grateful for the good that she is doing for so many others,” Vaughn said.

The Aftermath But her attacker kept on raping women. Ten months after the assault, KU freshman and recruited rower Sarah McClure was sexually assaulted—by the same man who raped Tackett. With similar stories, McClure and Tackett were frustrated by the University’s limited support.

Tackett along with McClure became irritated with the IOA, which was reluctant to fulfill promises of escorts to class and campus parking passes to make them feel safer at KU. The women felt a sense of abandonment from their rowing coaches and teammates. Suffering from verbal harassment from their team and their attacker, they no longer feel safe on campus.

“I noticed kind of a change in how the KU rowing team treated me, which was very upsetting because I was a recruited athlete so I thought that they would be behind me a little bit more,” Tackett said.

Eventually the IOA recommended the rapist be permanently expelled, even though he was never charged with a crime as a result of these allegations. He was also required to stay away from McClure and Tackett and banned from campus for 10 years. But this didn’t stop him from transferring to Indiana State University, where he joined the football team. When the new school discovered more information regarding his past at KU, he was removed from the team but not from the university.

Tackett’s parents sued the University of KU under the Consumer Protection Act, claiming that the university had made false claims about the security and safety of their dorms and withheld information about past incidents of sexual assault on their campus. McClure later joined the lawsuit.

In a separate lawsuit, the McClure and Tackett families brought a class action lawsuit against KU claiming that the hostile environment of university violated Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination in federally funded institutions, including discrimination against pregnant students, sexual harassment and sexual violence.

“If I hadn’t reported my sexual assault and if I hadn’t put the pressure on KU to constantly investigate my assault I wouldn’t be where I am today,” Tackett said. “Yes, things didn’t necessarily turn out the way I wanted them to but I learned that advocating for myself was the only way to get out of this bad situation.”

And Tackett and McClure are not the only victims who feel their attacker did not receive the justice he deserved. According the the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, only 5 percent of sexual assault cases result in a felony conviction and only

3 percent of rapists are imprisoned. This leaves 97 percent on the loose.

But a major change occurred in 2015.

According to American Association of University Women, on July 1, 2015, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act became a law which requires colleges to be more proactive in ending sexual violence. If any university chooses to disregard this law they are at risk of investigation and disciplinary action from the U.S. Department of Education.

A New Beginning Looking for progress in her own life, Tackett decided to get a fresh start, leaving KU in the spring of 2016 and transferring to New York University.

In contrast to the hostile environment at KU, Tackett felt comfortable at NYU with a large network of support from her classmates, including many Hockaday, St. Mark’s and Episcopal School of Dallas alumni who currently attend NYU. “It’s really awesome to see these people support me even though I haven’t necessarily gone to school with them for three years now,” Tackett said.

Tackett decided to tackle a different aspect of rowing at NYU: coaching. But she struggled to be in a rowing environment following the assault and after a few months she decided to end her coaching career and focus on studying political science and history, her two current majors.

Tackett, however, could not stay away from the sport for long; she eventually joined a club rowing team at NYU, which she says is much more relaxed than rowing on a division one level.

“I really love the sport of rowing,” Tackett said. “This team gives me an opportunity to kind of re-fall in love with the parts of rowing that were ruined for me while I was at KU.” Almost losing one of her most prized passions, Tackett aims to teach all people, whether victims of sexual assault or not, that silenced voices must fight to be heard.

If she had continued her life in silence she could still be suffering.

“One of the most important things I’ve gained from this is it’s really important to advocate for yourself, because if you don’t advocate for yourself that’s when people take advantage of you,” Tackett said.

“I think that is one of the things I really learned at Hockaday.”

“Having a voice is respect for yourself,” Kramer said. “There are a lot of things in this world you have no control over, but I hope you stand up for yourself with the things that you do have control over.”

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competition. Seven Hockaday second graders: Julianne Myhre, Katie Lovein, Thandi Chisango, Callie Coats, Madrid Garrett, Margaret Hohenshelt and Eres Stone – just recently released their own newspaper entitled “The Daily News.” Myhre serves as Editor-in-Chief of the paper.

The girls came up with the idea to create their own newspaper while working on creative writing during FLEX time at school. They began making the paper in October, writing both during the school day and at home, and found that the process involved lots of work and “outside of the box” thinking.

Garrett said that the hardest part was impressing the Editor-in-Chief. Despite the difficulties, the girls had a lot of fun. Chisango’s favorite part was coming up with silly jokes to put in the paper, and there is an entire section dedicated to “funny moments of editing.”

Other sections include a joke library, a section on bank robberies, a cookie debate and a “friendship notices” segment in which classmates who “[make] people feel grate [sic]” can receive a shout-out.

Though they may be published journalists, the girls prefer to call themselves simply “7 awesome people who love to write!” They plan to start another issue when they return from Thanksgiving break, and hope to have it completed sometime in January.

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rouched around the board game “Sorry” on a November afternoon at the after-school care program "Happy Happenings," senior Vyanka Sotelo and fourth grader Georgia Fuller wait in anticipation as Fuller rolls the dice. With this roll, Fuller wins the game and Sotelo gasps, feigning surprise and cracking a smile. "You're young than me and you won?"

Job openings in “Happy Haps,” which were recently created for students like Sotelo, pave the way for stronger relationships between girls across the Lower, Middle and Upper School divisions.

The jobs at Happy Happenings were opened up after Director of Daisy Afternoons Anne Kennedy found that there were not enough teachers to watch Lower Schoolers during the after-school care program.

“I walked into Happy Haps the first week in August, and we had so many girls that it was a bit chaotic,” Kennedy said. “I realized that we really need more sets of eyes,” she said.

Kennedy then contacted CFO JT Coats to ensure that the school would support hiring Upper School students to meet the program’s needs. After getting a thumbs-up from Coats, Kennedy designed a course to educate each of the student workers on the protocol for working at Happy Haps.

While there was no formal application for the program, each girl was required to send an email to Kennedy expressing her interest in the job. The only requirements were to be U.S. citizens and fill out a Hockaday employment application.

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Wednesday, Dec. 7, junior Claire Rattan arrived back in Dallas after participating in the Island School’s 100-day program this past semester in Eleuthera, Bahamas.

How did the school prepare for Hurricane Matthew?

We stopped classes and had a whole day of hurricane preparation, which involved whacking down coconuts, cutting down excess foliage, re-docking kayaks and boats, moving cots, packing up all of our belongings, barricading all the doors and windows. Then, we stayed in the Center for Sustainable Development for three days without showers and with two bathrooms and very limited rations.

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Best tanning spots on the island?

Sunset Beach and Fourth Hole, but really anywhere gets good sun.

However, I never wasted my time on the island tanning.

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“In the spirit of the One Hockaday initiative, we care a lot about bringing divisions together,” Rhodus said.

And according to Rhodus, the Lower Schoolers’ response about this new program has been a positive one as well. “There is something about working with older students that Lower Schoolers are drawn to,” Rhodus said.

Kennedy echoed Rhodus’ sentiments.

“Whenever those [Upper School] girls walk in, all the little ones get up and rush to the big girls and start hugging them and asking them, ‘Will you show me how to jump rope?’”

Fourth grader Georgia Fuller, who participates in the after-school program, appreciates that the Upper School student workers understand the young girls’ interests. “Sometimes my friends and I will bring up something that we like, and Addie and Vyanka will say, ‘I did that when I was your age,’” Fuller said.

Lower School students like Fuller also find mentors within the Upper School girls.

“They feel comfortable asking girls in Upper School for homework help and advice, too,” Kennedy said.

Rhodus and Kennedy hope to expand job openings to those who are interested in working with children as part of their future careers and understand how to work with younger girls.

“This is an opportunity for the Upper School students who have an interest in working with children to continue to grow their skills,” Rhodus said.

From 1-10, how was the 48-hour wilderness solo experience?

If one is amazing, then it was a one. You only get a tarp, an orange, a bagel, a cup of fruit and nut mix and a brick of cheese.

Without a watch, I had the amazing opportunity to reflect on the semester, recharge and prioritize the rest of my semester.

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How many students were you with each day?

The semester is like an hourglass.

You first start as a large community of 51, then you go on down island trips with 12. Next, you go on expeditions with 8, which culminate in the solo experience.

After the solo, you go back to 12 for the rest of the expedition then to the large community with 51 students. Lastly, you have over 100 people on parent's weekend.

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HELPING OUT Senior Addie Walker plays with third grade girls on the Lower School playground after school. Walker typically watches over the girls while they complete homework and play outside.

"Happy Haps" by the Numbers

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Hockaday Upper School students working at "Happy Haps"

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What was the biggest challenge?

It was probably coming to terms with the fact that the people and things at home that you love are going to change during the semester program. But also it's realizing that you are changing, too. Everything you experience at Eleuthera prepares you to come home and accept those changes.

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What did you do in your free time?

Explored the island, went to high rock, snorkeled in the caves, free dived, went out on a panga to watch the sunset, found the banyan tree and went to Harbor Pointe Restaurant!

CLIMBING OUT Each morning, junior Claire Rattan had morning exercises involving swimming, running and climbing this wall at the Island School's 100-day semester program.

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school course, and it is an online course for anyone who works around children,” Kennedy said.

The course includes videos that deal with learning what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior around children.

Applicants are also asked to complete a background check. After meeting these requirements, Kennedy interviewed each of the prospective student workers.

Four girls—senior Vyanka Sotelo, senior Addie Walker, junior Maye McPhail and junior Kaitlyn Cerney—were hired in early November.

Walker heard about the opportunity after Director of Residence Life Meshea Matthews sent an email to boarders advertising the position, and she was hired partly due to her caring nature and her rich experiences working with younger children.

“I have a lot of personal experience working with young children since I have five siblings at home,” Walker said. “I’m used to dealing with them on a daily basis,” she said.

As a boarder, Walker was also drawn to the job by its uniqueness and convenience.

“I wanted to experience having to commit to something, but I’ve never had a real job before and I don’t drive,” Walker said.

Walker’s and the rest of the student-workers’ job includes playing with the Lower Schoolers on the playground, doing arts and crafts with them and overseeing the completion of homework.

Head of Lower School Randal Rhodus oversaw the appointment of these Upper School girls and was excited to foster interaction between girls of different ages.

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t's a weekday morning in the spring of 2015, and Upper School anatomy teacher Brandi Finazzo is driving to school, the circadian rhythms of radio chatter flushing her car speakers.

As she pulls up to a stoplight, an advertisement for Be The Match, a national bone marrow library, takes the air, and Finazzo turns the volume up.

Sharing the stories of cancer patients in need of bone marrow transplants, the PSA implored listeners to get their cells swabbed, in order to be matched with these individuals through a donor registry.

“I was really touched by the stories, and I got very, very upset when I realized what a deficit we have as a country in donor pools,” Finazzo said.

Spurred by the advertisement, Finazzo implemented a project in her anatomy classes last year, in which students researched organ transplants, created video PSAs for transplantation and then 3-D printed a full-scale skeleton.

“I wanted to marry some kind of education research for the girls,” Finazzo said.

After the successful completion of the 2015-2016 project, Finazzo, in her own words, wanted to “ramp up” the program this school year.

Assisted by Academic Technology Specialist Candace Townsley, Finazzo created a publicly-accessible website, on which anatomy students will publish their research.

But the collaboration between Finazzo and Townsley didn’t stop there. “Well, if we’re going to do [the websites], then we need to see what else we can do for organ donation,” Townsley said. “It kind of became a snowball. But it’s a good snowball.”

To further the cause, Finazzo has already set up a swab drive event at the end of the year in conjunction with Gift of Life, a national bone marrow registry, which matches potential bone marrow donors with needing patients.

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She has also contacted the American Red Cross, Southwest Medical Alliance and other organizations regarding participating in the end-of-year donor registration drive.

“The main goal is to expand our national library of donors and to get people more informed on the deficit in this country,” Finazzo said.

Gift of Life representative Lindsay Katz said that potential bone marrow donors are indeed easily misinformed, especially on the transplant process. “Most people think it's a really intense procedure and there's a ton of recovery time, but in reality, it’s not,” Katz said.

Some bone marrow transplants involve donating marrow from inside the hipbone, a procedure that spans a few hours and involves anesthesia.

Katz, however, said that the majority of bone marrow transplants involve donating stem cells through blood, and are completed through needles and a machine without anesthesia.

“Donating is really a minor thing. It takes up a day or just a few hours, and you can literally change a family's life, change a person's life, change so much by doing this small act of kindness,” Katz said.

The event will take place in the Science Center’s Ownby Family Lobby in the spring, and will be open to everyone in the Dallas area. Trained in the process by Katz, Finazzo and other teacher volunteers will swab cheek cells of participants between ages of 18 and 45, register them in the bone marrow transplant library, and contact them if they’re found to be a match with a needing individual.

“We wanted to reveal all of [the project] at an event at Hockaday, where we invite the entire community to come in and register to be a donor,” Finazzo said. “I wanted to do community outreach outside of our walls here, to the Dallas area.”

Junior anatomy student Rory Finn

A BONY SMILE Junior Rory Finn observes the anatomy project skeleton. The display case that housed the 3D-printed organs was created by students in tech crew and anatomy.

sees the swab drive as a departure from Powerpoints and in-class presentations. “It just makes the stuff you learn all so real,” she said. “I also think such a big event will effectively attract the attention of the student body.”

Despite the large scale of the event, individuals who sign up at the swab drive must at least consider potentially donating their bone marrow, according to Katz.

“If somebody swabs, they go on the public registry, so anyone in the world could be matched with them,” Katz said. “If someone who swabbed is the only match for that cancer patient and decides not to do the donation, it's almost more heartbreaking for the family to know that there's someone who could save the patient, but who chose not to.”

For Finazzo’s anatomy class, the project brings in one element especially key in current-day medical fields: technology.

“There's not always a place to stop and talk about the cool medical technology that's out there. This project was a way to get the girls exposed to what's out there, what's possible and what the future is in terms of our health as a species—like xenotransplantation and alternative theories,” Finazzo said.

Some of Finazzo’s plans are still tentative. Although Gift of Life has already agreed to participate, she’s waiting to hear back from a few of the organizations and has yet to decide on the exact date of the end-of-year-drive.

“But I know what the ultimate goal is: to make it bigger than just a class project,” Finazzo said. In that, she already has.

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Chief Financial Officer JT Coats provides insight into her comfortable and functional wardrobe. Coats believes that it's important to be modest and professional.

A look into unique fashions of individuals at Hockaday Clotheshorse Anonymous, Lace black jacket

Unknown, Necklace

“I like necklaces, but I hate bracelets because I can’t type with them on, and they bother me.”

Q: Who’s your style icon(s)?

“It has the greatest cut. I just started to appreciate the power of a jacket.”

Reese Witherspoon. She’s always dressed conservatively but cool. She’s appropriate, fun and not over the top.

Q: When you’re not working at Hockaday as the CFO, what do you like to wear?

Banana Republic,

If I’m not in work clothes, I’m almost always in workout clothes like tights, long sweatshirts, hats and tennis shoes. Also, I want to be able to workout at any point if I get a break between soccer or lacrosse games.

Black blouse

Anne Klein,

Black rubber-soled wedges “With them, I can climb stairs and run across campus. If I had to run a mile in these shoes, I could do it.”

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“[My clothing] has to look clean-cut, not fancy.”

Express,

Red straight-legged pants PHOTO BY MARIA HARRISON

“I tend to like fun and splashy colors. I wear a lot of pants, because I am cold all the time.”

Q: If you had to pick one decade or one fashion movement as your favorite, which would you choose?

I really like the 80s with the preppy penny loafers, sweaters and khaki pants.

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EXPLORING THE ARTS

Hawley-wood in Brooklyn Hockaday alumna produces original film documentaries

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an intense week of school, many Hockaday students might be found browsing Netflix, looking to find some rest and relaxation. What they may not be expecting to find, however, is the work of a Hockaday alumna in the documentary category.

With the help of FilmBuff, a company that distributes independent films and documentaries around the world, filmmaker and director Suki Hawley ‘87 and her film company, RUMUR, was able to add their documentary “Who Took Johnny” to the ever-popular streaming website’s repertoire. But this acclaimed documentary is just one of eight works directed and edited by the filmmaker.

Interested in film since her high school years, Hawley began her editing career at Hockaday with the difficult non-linear video editing system. She was part of a video class taught in part by current Head of Fine Arts, Ed Long, in the 1980s.

“It was very unwieldy, but at the same time it was very disciplined and trained people to make their selections carefully and their timing carefully,” Long said about the non-linear editing system.

Although the system was tricky to use, this advanced technology was rare at the time, and Hockaday was one of the few schools in the area that had it on campus, a feature of the school that Hawley found to be vital for her experience. The alumna’s initial pull to film had been her love of video games, and once she was exposed to Hockaday’s editing system, she decided on a career in film.

“Had Hockaday not had that equipment so early, I might not have found that calling,” she said. Hawley first showed interest for documentary in her video class, but also enjoyed making music videos. Long described the video department at the time “freewheeling,” and allowed the small group of students to work on whatever project they chose. “It was really free form, and it was kind of exciting because all of the other classes were so structured,” Hawley said.

After graduating from Hockaday, Hawley attended Wesleyan University, where she majored in Film Studies. Film directing, Hawley explains, is a difficult career to begin, as “there’s no obvious ladder to climb.”

She believes that since there is no clear-cut path to follow, an aspiring filmmaker should simply begin. “Often the best way to do is to just do it—make a short film or some other

THE BOARDER LINE What’s happening in boarding right now On Sunday Dec. 11, the Senior Ornament Ceremony, which took place in the Great Hall, honored each of the seniors with a heartfelt speech written by a junior. After each speech, the senior placed an ornament, given by the junior who recited the speech, on the large tree decorated with some of the ornaments from past Senior Ornament Ceremonies.

TEAR-FILLED SPEECHES Junior Tiffany Baek cries while reciting her speech to senior Yiwen Yang.

LEAVING THEIR MARK Junior Grace Zhang helps senior Cher Qin find where to place her ornament on the tree.

This tradition has been around for at least 40 years at Hockaday.

Besides speeches, the Senior Ornament Ceremony was filled with tears, hot chocolate and memories of the seniors, who will be graduating Hockaday this upcoming May.

film and put it out through festivals or online,” she said.

Hawley has led an active career in film making and has created and directed eight films with her film studio, RUMUR. The Brooklyn-based company consists of Hawley, her husband Michael Galinsky and their partner David Beilinson. The three collaborate to create their films, but each has a certain job particular to their skill set. Hawley’s primary task is long-term editing, and thus she and Galinsky, who shoots footage, work closely.

“We have kind of a hunter-gatherer relationship where I go out and hunt and gather and she makes sense of it,” Galinsky said. In accordance with her interests while at Hockaday, Hawley’s preferred style of film is documentary, as she appreciates the ability to tell the story of a subject’s life through the medium of film.

“Characters are what drive me and tell me stories emotionally that convey how interesting human nature is. Once you get involved with shooting a character, then you get so much more involved in their lives and interested in telling their story and conveying what they’re going through,” Hawley said.

And Hawley finds that Hockaday’s influence on her career stretches farther than

FILM CREW Alumna Suki Hawley and her husband Michael Galinsky film an interview to collect footage for an upcoming documentary.

simply early exposure to film editing. She finds that the rigor and structure of Hockaday help her in structuring documentaries and films. Being taught critical thinking skills at a young age has helped Hawley to take a non-partisan approach to film making, a rare quality in many modern documentaries. “Being a filmmaker, I think it’s important to step outside and see things as a whole from a bird’s eye view, and be able to translate that both emotionally and factually through the medium of storytelling,” she said.

Hawley recognizes and remembers the difficulties that filmmakers face in beginning. She advises any aspiring filmmakers to persevere and continue to push for the career they want.

“It’s all based on you sticking to it and figuring out what works best for you and your skill set,” Hawley said.

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Like many during this Christmas season, you might need a break from tree decorating, box wrapping, letter mailing, cookie baking and present shopping, so spread the holiday cheer by sipping some creamy hot chocolate or an even hotter bowl of steaming soup. If you need activities to do after putting up the tree and stringing the lights, then you’re in the right place.

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Vitruvian Park In a relatively unknown and up-incoming part of Dallas lies Vitruvian Park. Its friendly atmosphere, large pond, easy walking paths, food trucks and sand volleyball courts, not to mention the countless restaurants surrounding the park, has brought many visitors. From Nov. 25 to Jan. 1 the park lights up their hundreds of trees with rainbow Christmas lights to create a prime winter wonderland. The park is open 24/7, with free admission. Bundle up for wintry nights, perfect for some hot chocolate and fuzzy coats under the lights.

North Haven Gardens Cafe If you need to shop for holiday decorations and treat yourself to a warm cup of soup afterwards, look no further than North Haven Garden’s Cafe. A few steps from the entrance, you’ll find the store’s modern, quaint cafe where they serve superb cups and bowls of soup that are fairly priced at $3 and $6 respectively. The soups they offer change daily and the vegetables used are hand-picked from the cafe’s garden. Pair the soup with a seasonal tea or a steaming coffee, and you have a perfect meal for post-Christmas season hustle. While at the Garden, make sure to browse the nature-inspired art gallery which displays the work of local artists.

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A classic holiday tradition in Dallas, ice skating around the tall, twinkling Christmas tree in the Galleria Mall is not one to miss out on. Catch Macy’s Grand Tree Lighting Celebration this Saturday, Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. Admission is free, and the lively show features Missile Toes, Galleria’s “backflipping, pyrotechnic, ice-skating Santa,” according to its website.

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THE FOURCAST EXPLORES THE EPIDEMIC* OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: AN ISSUE THAT AFFECTS ALL WALKS OF LIFE. STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY AURELIA HAN & CHERYL HAO

She is your locker neighbor. She is the girl in front of you in the lunch line. She is the faculty member who you always greet in the hallway.

She could be you. Or perhaps, she is you.

One in three women in Texas will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. Domestic violence does not discriminate. Victims come from every race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, education background, sexuality and age. * Term used by Genesis Women's Shelter to describe the prevalence of domestic violence The people photographed on the cover, opposite page and centerspread are not abusers or victims of domestic abuse.

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In a survey of 200 Upper School students and faculty or staff, 64 percent responded that they have known someone who has been a victim of any form of domestic violence.

Fourteen percent of these responders said that they themselves were or are victims of domestic violence.

This type of violence, according to Genesis Women’s Shelter in Dallas, occurs when a person in a relationship intentionally tries to establish power and control over the other through physical, psychological, emotional or sexual abuse. People often hear “domestic violence” and can tag the words rape or punching, and while these actions indeed make up a life-threatening part of the abuse possibilities, they only cover a fraction of the reality.

The blurred boundaries of domestic violence may partly originate from society’s tendency to romanticize actions or words, which belittles the victim and feeds power to the abuser. Today’s culture oftentimes glamorizes a boyfriend’s jealousy and possessiveness as a sign of true love, painting the picture that passionate romance must include dominance and a dark-haired, dark-eyed gruff man who controls the girlfriend. On popular fan-fiction website Wattpad, the titles of trending stories include “Claimed by Him with Love,” “Endless Bonds” and “My Possessive CEO.” The latter has 14.2 million views and nearly 300,000 likes.

According to Jordan Watson, the Assistant Director of Clinical and Professional Services at Genesis, society thus justifies domestic abusive behaviors.

“I tell the story about going to watch ‘Twilight’ for the first time and just being appalled by the movie because the idea is that this big strong guy loved [the female protagonist] so much and needed to protect her because she was so fragile and weak,” Watson said. “The message is that if a relationship is not dramatic, and we don’t have these big fights, so we can have big makeups, then it’s not really love.”

However, those big fights come with consequences, whether physical, sexual, psychological or emotional.

Partially due to the advertisement of these fantasy stories to teens and young adults and the lack of education in dating, 16 to 24-year-olds are the most likely to experience abuse, and often experience abuse at its highest in severity and danger. Forty-three percent of college women in the dating stages of their relationship encounter violent or abusive behaviors, and one in three girls will suffer physical abuse before the age of 17.

Then, as these young adults are beginning to enter more serious relationships, they are oblivious to harmful partners, and are thereby deceived into believing an abusive relationship is normal.

With less independence and sometimes lack of financial resources, this age group is more vulnerable to somebody coming in, dominating and making one feel afraid. In oppressive relationships, Hockaday’s Upper School Counselor Judy Ware worries that girls cannot determine when to draw the line, especially when it comes to their first loves.

“I worry about my girls here at Hockaday who are in abusive relationships with guys,” Ware said. “As young women and girls, we’re taught to be nice, to be peacemakers, to be loving and to be kind, and sometimes that doesn’t serve us very well.”

Another fallacy lies within the stereotype that domestic violence only occurs in low-income and uneducated homes and in disadvantaged communities. On the contrary, this abuse affects all neighborhoods and all families, no matter the background.

Sara Held, Hockaday senior and member of the Genesis auxiliary group Teenage Communication Theatre, learned many truths about domestic violence, amongst other societal issues, by listening to speakers and performing skits to schools around the community.

“We might hear about abuse only in lower-income and uneducated situations a lot because that’s the way media portrays it,” Held said. “In reality, it happens so much more frequently than what we think within higher income families and between different types of relationships.”

While domestic violence can occur with the male as the victim, women are overwhelmingly the more common victims, as 89 percent of patients who report to emergency rooms on domestic violence calls are women. Held believes society upholds men in such a way that they are given a privilege of resources and benefits to escape abusive relationships unavailable to women.

Highlighting the difference between the ability to protect oneself and to leave an abusive relationship, Watson understands that in a situation where a man is dominating a woman, she in some ways becomes stuck because he controls all of her resources, money, support system and often the kids. In the classic “he said, she said” story, when it comes to domestic violence, the girl often loses because abusers tend to be charming and charismatic, making it inconceivable that he could ever lay a finger on her.

“Abusers often really care about their public image and put a lot of effort in looking good in the community, so it’s why abusers are men of positions, they are pastors, preachers, city officials and big business men,” Watson said. “They are the guy in the neighborhood that’s always grilling and playing with the kids.”

Anatomically, men are also oftentimes built stronger, giving them the upper hand physically and in some cases, a more feared presence.

This ability to trigger fear, anxiety and discomfort defines domestic abuse, because once someone feels afraid or uneasy, she tends to change in that moment to protect herself.

Although a lot of behaviors in relationships aren’t healthy and appropriate, like calling a sister a derogatory name, it’s not abuse if it doesn’t provoke fear. With the human natural instinct to change one’s behavior to stay safe, domestic abuse ultimately breaks down to power and control over another human.

THE PHYSICAL TRAUMA Physical abuse comprises of two different types from the abuser: one is meant to hurt the victim and the other is to intimidate. The latter includes anything where the abuser uses

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This is sexual abuse.

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ctim, which includes kicking, punching, slapping and strangling, the recent years. On the other hand, physical abuse through innever physically touch the victim but still uses his body to create ngs like blocking the door in a room, punching the wall or knock-

esn't have to show bruises or scars to have suffered from physical to Meitra Doty, Ph.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Texas ter, the ability to conceal and cover with makeup and turtlenecks one’s surroundings to recognize signs of abuse. [the abuser] usually knows better than to hit you right in the face or unable to cover up,” Doty said. “I’ve never had a woman just ould see the bruises on her. It’s never that obvious. It’s always a

day know Academic Technology Specialist Candace Townsley as woman who signs off her emails with okie dokie! and hosts codchool students. Townsley is a wife, mother to 29-year old twins, Hockaday community, but these roles are a part of her survival tic violence survivor. Previously in a physically and emotionally er first husband, the father of her children, she lived in subjugayears (Read her story on p 18). that he was a lot stronger than I was, and I learned very quickly, n when you ding a bell and give him a treat that if I didn’t fight top more quickly,” Townsley said. “I tolerated the beatings for a e hit my eight-month-old twin children, my girls, that I knew I

elf, but her daughters were just babies, crying and not knowing nnate instinct, as a mother, to take care of her children and save rom this relationship.

OICE nd under any circumstances where consent was not given, the se. Characterized by any sexual contact without permission, rape ted to, kissing, grabbing, sending nude pictures and forcing to r. However, abusers also exploit coercive sexual abuse to avoid ening and taking away the ability to say no. ying ‘you are going to have sex with me, or I’m going to hurt you,’ to have sex, she is choosing to protect herself in that moment,”

d control are all taken away. in a work environment, a Hockaday student, who will go by the ced sexual assault in the form of rape after explicitly saying no. abuser were not in romantic relationship, many times, abuse can lationships -- not necessarily a romantic one. elf at first, but one of my good friends said to me, “you said no, said. “It doesn’t matter if you kissed him 100 times before, if you

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abuse are often disregarded over physical and sexual abuse. mon abuse that occurs and includes actions like inducing guilt, or lying, demeaning and being possessive, all of which causes a m. emotional violence often have trouble identifying and naming it

ent, who agreed to speak under the name Carolyn*, struggled boyfriend. u do and how you feel, and a lot of people misunderstand it bengy,” Carolyn said. “A lot of time it starts out as: ‘Oh, I miss you? t with me?’ But then it progresses to: ‘Why don’t you care about n who loves you.’ That progression makes it so that the victim ning, and it’s very subtle in how it happens.” e she was in an emotionally abusive relationship until she had months. When she told two of her friends on how he acted, they as being abused. emotional abuse is not identified as a legitimate genre of abuse, d on the abuser’s crass personality, or from them simply having

dent, who spoke under the alias of Rebecca*, experiences emoher mother, and has only recently recognized the ongoing abuse r many years. at [the abuse] wasn’t normal. I felt incredibly guilty to be thinken I knew that women were experiencing sexual abuse and physr happened to me. I felt guilty to call this abuse,” Rebecca said. domestic abuse was violent or that the emotional aspects were really, they’re all equally harmful.” motional abuse hurt and affect their victims just as much as a s would. minders from their abusers such as “If you’re not with me, you obody else loves you,” mentally healthy, strong and independent vulnerable, subordinate figures with no say in their choices. nce.

of the oppressor takes a heavy toll on its victims. The effect of all can result in diagnosed illnesses, most commonly post-traumatnd depression. onsequences do not always mean having a professionally diagdaily basis, survivors may suffer from insomnia and a heightened feelings of uneasiness and high-alertness. Over time, these contrust for future friends, family and, especially, partners. ctims survive their situation, they come out a different person as vious emotional or physical beatings often impose eternal shame

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CHILDREN, MY GIRLS, THAT I KNEW I HAD TO GET OUT.

HOW TO HELP Given the statistics that one in three women is a victim of domestic violence, chances are that either you will be (or currently are) the victim, know someone who is, or both.

Looking in from the outside, especially if you are not close to the victim, there are not really any obvious signs and you cannot pick out the sufferer from a crowd of people.

“Victims are extremely good at hiding what they are going through. There are all kinds of sad faces in every hallway, but it can be about a million different things,” Ware said.

A Hockaday faculty member, who will go by the name of Nancy*, was the help and support system for her college roommate who was in a physically and emotionally abusive relationship. Nancy did not suspect that her roommate, a college athlete whose personality radiated confidence and strength, had been beaten by her boyfriend when she stumbled home.

“Something that hurt me through all of that was watching people make judgments and assumptions of others. None of us know what we would do until we’re in that situation,” Nancy said, “You don’t know. If you judge by an appearance, you’re never going to understand it because it just happens.”

If you think you are in an abusive relationship, assess your situation and know your resources: the school counselor, a trusted adult or friend and know that the local women’s shelter is open to anyone in need. If you believe your friend is in an abusive relationship, consider what your friend is going through, and that it is easier said than done. Give them time, but if you see no change, do not be the one to let the violence escalate. Remember that even though it may not seem this severe, in many cases, domestic violence escalates and it can be a life or death situation.

The support system is critical for domestic violence victims, but taking care of yourself comes first.

“You have to be your own advocate,” Townsley said. “You don’t want someone who finds joy in cutting you down and belittling you. You are worth so much more.”

In the time to be afraid, be brave.

If you are in a situation and need assistance, call the domestic violence 24/7 help-line: 1-800-799-7233.

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and guilt. Some women blame their negative experiences on themselves, so survivors still feel like they could've prevented what happened; many women try and find every excuse to pin something on themselves.

Doty sees patients that are, or once were, victims of domestic abuse.

“As victims get beat down emotionally and psychologically, they start to think they deserve this — somehow they’re the bad guy — which makes it lot easier for them to become a victim of the domestic violence,” Doty said. “At that point, if they don't have much self worth, and somebody puts their hands on them, they may not react the same way they would have a few years prior, if somebody just out of nowhere on their first date hit them.”

Especially if the victim has a history with the abuser, it may be harder to leave as the relationship progresses. According to Doty, between young couples, who usually live with their parents and are financially supported by them, there is an attachment to their first love.

There is an idea between the “firsts”: her first romantic partner, her first love, her first kiss and the first person she had sex with. This results in an impermeable emotional connection, even when the threat or prevalence of domestic violence is present.

As for partners who are married or are dependent on each other, she may have to consider that her partner may be her primary source of money and shelter before she even thinks about leaving. There also may be children in the picture, which prevents a woman from leaving the household and relationship.

“Both partners need to make decisions in a dating relationship... Not wishful thinking, like ‘this could be so wonderful,’ but ‘what have I seen so far?’” Ware said.

This shame and guilt that victims tend to experience are directly correlated to the low number of victims that share their stories with another person. The U.S. Department of Justice reports that approximately 25 percent of all physical assaults and 20 percent of all rapes are reported to the police. Even less incidents of emotional abuse are brought to the authorities. The U.S. Department of Justice believes that victims do not see the legal system as an appropriate tool to solve these disputes.

“There’s a stigma that this only happens to certain types of women, and it would be very humiliating to come out and say that this man was [abusing] me, and I let that happen,” Doty said.

And even after setting all stigmas aside and enduring the inner turmoil of debating whether to tell, victims still may experience shaming.

Isabella recalled that when her situation was made known throughout her workplace, there was a clear division in the reactions of her polarized co-workers. Her friends doubted her story and even blamed her for putting herself in that situation.

“People were saying, ‘Oh, you led him on to it,’ ‘You shouldn’t have hung out with him,’ and ‘It’s your fault.’ I never realized how prevalent that idea is,” Isabella said. “When I told my friends, their first question was ‘I’m sorry, are you OK? But the second question was, ‘how did you act?’”

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This relationship happened between my college roommate and her then-boyfriend. It started pretty small, with some verbal abuse, but eventually that led to him hitting, punching and scratching her. She would come back to our apartment really late at night and wake me up to help her patch herself up. I cleaned up her cuts and then we would spend a good chunk of the night, me just listening to her while she cried, trying to figure this out. I gave a lot of pleas for her to leave him. Eventually she got pregnant.

She went to his apartment to tell him, and he beat her so badly that she miscarried. He left the apartment after he beat her and she got to some place to get a hold of me. I took her to the hospital - at this point, I’d known her for a long time because we went to opposing high schools, but I really thought a lot of her family. The choice was, do I go against her wishes which was to not tell anyone, or do I tell her parents? I knew in my heart that was the right thing to do. That decision cost us our friendship for a period of time, but in retrospect, when we look back on it, she thanks me for getting her family involved because they were there for her and supported her all through it.

- Upper School Faculty Nancy

The abuser in my family is my mother. She does not physically touch me, my brother or anybody in my family, but she is manipulative. I’m not sure if she knows what she’s doing, but she’s mentally and emotionally controlling. She doesn’t have control over her anger and how it manifests over her words and facial expressions. I felt incredibly guilty to be thinking that this was abuse when I knew that women were experiencing sexual abuse and physical abuse and that never happened to me. I felt really guilty because I thought that I was lucky.

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It was in a work environment. One of my colleagues was always super touchy and flirty, and it was kind of weird. One time, it went past that, and he got very up into me, and I said “no, we are just friends," so he backed off for a week or two. We were working where there were a lot of places to go where other people weren’t around.

I went to go get something in another room and he followed me to there. He locked the door and sexually assaulted me. I didn’t say anything to anybody because I thought that it could have been my fault, and I wasn’t aggressive enough.

That night, he came in at two in the morning and got in my bed, so I screamed, and someone heard me screaming, so I had to talk to my boss.

Because he ended up getting fired, the work place became divided with people who was on my team or on his team. My parents know, but we never really sat down and discussed it. A couple of my friends know, and some treated me very different.

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My first husband, who was from Iran, viewed me as his property. When we were dating, he was a little abusive, but I would always give him excuses or blame myself. Once we got married, the abuse became a lot more severe. If I would make him mad, he would beat me physically with his fists or with objects. At first, I would fight back because to protect myself, but I learned very quickly that he was a lot stronger.

It's not only the physical abuse but the emotional abuse as well, by saying "you are a bad wife, you shouldn't have done this," and at some point, you start believing it. I've had broken bones, split lips and cuts. Everything. I tolerated it for one and half to two years, and I tried to leave twice, but my mind wasn't strong enough to think I could make it on my own. Every time, he would say "I'm so sorry, I'll never do it again.” I would be a millionaire if someone gave me a penny for every time he said he was sorry. It wasn't until he hit my eight-month-old twins (pictured above) that I knew I had to get out. They were helpless and laying there, and when he slapped them across the face because they were crying—that was what made me leave.

When we went to Lubbock for Thanksgiving, he would take a gun or a knife and threaten me if I didn't behave, saying there would be a "bloodbath in Lubbock" because he would kill me and all my family. It was October that he hit the girls, so I was getting ready to leave, especially

- Upper School Student Isabella

because we were going to go to Iran in February, and I knew that if I went to Iran, I would not come back with my children. He basically kept me in the bedroom the entire Thanksgiving because he didn't want anybody ask about bruises or anything, but my middle sister came into the room one time when he was yelling at me and told me that I didn't have to take it anymore and my family received calls from the pastor of my church saying I had bruises and was always making up excuses. I knew that was a chance for me to leave. We called the police because he had a knife under the seat, and the police escorted him to the edge of town.

My parents packed me and the girls up, and we drove two hours down to Midland. I left everything, everything that I had in Oklahoma. I had a job, I was a student at University of Oklahoma, I left all my belongings my precious violin, all my yearbooks, and I just left it because getting out of my life was more important. It was just stuff. My girls will be 29 so I haven't been in contact with him for 28 years except that he has messaged me on Facebook a couple of times. I can say now I am no longer afraid of him, but when I was younger I was constantly looking over my shoulder.

- Candace Townsley, Academic Technology Specialist (Pictured above)

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Junior pursues passion for costume design through Hockaday Toward the end of lunch on even days, junior Kaitlen Cerney heads to the Nasher-Haemisegger Family Center for the Arts to work with Drama and Fine Arts Coordinator Susan Hubbard for her independent study: Costume Design.

Last spring, after performing with the concert choir and show choir for two years, Cerney decided to try something new. She wanted to fill her time and explore a new passion.

“A lot of my family members didn’t want me to drop choir because they wanted to see me perform,” Cerney said. “But I’d rather be behind the stage.”

So last May, after hours of research and brainstorming with Hubbard, Cerney asked Hubbard to sponsor her for an independent study in costume design.

At Hockaday, independent studies, which are graded as pass or fail, “are designed for the advanced student who wishes to pursue a special interest,” according to the Hockaday Course Catalogue. The student and the teacher must complete a proposal form in which they fill out the specific objectives, the reason for the project, actual work to be completed, and a schedule of meeting times.

“We talked about creating an area for costumes and a theater that would be useful to the actors,” Hubbard said regarding the focus for the independent study. “I told her that this would be a great opportunity for [Kaitlen] to be on the ground floor to help figure out the organizational process of how we sort costumes, keep them organized and catalogued.”

Head of Upper School Terry Murray approved the independent study at the beginning of this school year, and Cerney and Hubbard have been meeting in Hubbard’s

office to research costume design, go through costume collection at Hockaday, Cerney dethe inventory of costumes at Hockaday and cided the costume and color scheme for each brainstorm ideas for costumes in upcoming character in the play.

Hockaday performances.

“I start by creating a mood board with “[Cerney and I] are doing very basic ideas on how the clothes of the time period things currently, like basic hemming and ba- looked, then I go to the costume closet and sic design from a raw dress that we want to create a rack of anything that I think might fit alter,” Hubbard said. “For the rest of the year, into the aesthetic of the production,” Cerney we’ve discussed picking out a pattern, going said. “After I have a good amount of costumes into the sewing process in terms of cutting out to chose from, I start trying things on the cast.” the pattern, picking the fabric and creating Although most of the costumes were alsomething original from fabric.” ready made, some needed a specific look and And Cerney is not new had to be designed and to costume design. In the produced. Cerney creat2014-2015 school year, Cered a fairy dress worn by ney, a freshman at the time, freshman Lily Forbes, wanted to work on sound one of the fairies in the [Cerney] made design for the St. Mark’s play. Starting with a plain it into fall play, “The Hounds of white dress, she dyed it the Baskervilles,” because purple, brown and an assomething her old career goal was to sortment of colors. Then, run a record label. But the Cerney sewed on scraps of totally different. costumes crew approached fabric, ripped the dress up her and asked her to work and sewed more scraps on instead on costume deto the dress under the susign—they needed more pervision of Hubbard. members.

Cerney learned how Since then, Cerney to do basic hand sewing has worked on the coslast year when Hubbard Lily Forbes tumes crew for a multitaught her how to hand Freshman tude of performances. This stitch all of tulle, lace school year, Cerney was and other fabrics onto the head of costumes for the dress.

“The Boxer” and is doing the same for this “I thought the final product was realyear’s Hockaday Upper School musical, Dis- ly cool because [the dress] started out so ney’s “Beauty and The Beast,” plain, but [Cerney] made it into something As head of costumes for “The Boxer,” totally different,” Forbes said. “Whenever Cerney researched the time period of the play, you put on a costume, it really makes you late 1910s to early ‘20s, by looking in books, feel like the character.” on websites and in movies. After ordering cosAfter “The Boxer” ended, Cerney and tumes from websites and borrowing from the Hubbard began to brainstorm ideas for

CREATIVE CREATIONS Junior Kaitlen Cerney shows off the fairy dress she designed for Hockaday’s fall play “The Boxer.” The dress was worn onstage by freshman Lily Forbes.

“Disney’s Beauty and The Beast” musical, which they pin on an idea board in the costumes space.

“It’s inspiring to look at the idea boards, because they spark a thought about putting a feather or changing the buttons or adding something that you wouldn’t have thought of if you hadn’t done the research,” Hubbard said.

And as soon as the cast for the Disney musical was announced, Cerney and Hubbard started looking at each character and got measurements and shoe sizes. For this musical, the majority of the costumes will be rented from Rose Costumes, a costume store in Denton, Texas. However, Cerney and Hubbard hope to use some of the same costumes used for “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Upper School musical in 2012, to achieve the country-folk, fairy-tale look in the tavern scene of “Beauty and The Beast.”

In May, at the end of the school year, Cerney will begin to replenish the stock of costumes, fabrics and other materials needed for next year. After the announcement of the 2017-2018 Hockaday theatre season, Cerney will start researching the time periods and brainstorming ideas for the costumes in next school year’s performances.

“When I go and see a performance, I am always looking at the costumes, because that is what draws me into the play, musical or dance,” Cerney said.

ide Ins en’s r l t o i Ka ook f ” B e a x r Ide e Bo h T “ Before piecing together costumes for “The Boxer,” junior Kaitlen Cerney collected inspiration on the time period from the internet. Then, she placed all of the photos inside a sketchbook.

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Ceramics Steps It Up Ceramics students' art featured in the Crow Collection

Not many people can say that they have had their artwork shown in a renowned collection, but now 38 Hockaday ceramics students can proudly add this feat to their resumés.

An exhibit at the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art titled “Clay Between Two Seas: From the Abbasid Court to Puebla de los Angeles” gave Hockadaisies from beginning and advanced ceramics classes the chance to display their hard work for all of Dallas to see.

The exhibit, which was put up on Sept. 21 and will continue until Feb. 12, features an installation of 210 tiles in a special community mural made by ceramics students from six different schools in the Dallas area: Henry B. Gonzalez Elementary School, Montessori Children’s House and School, Plano Senior High School, Singley Academy, Skyline High School and The Hockaday School. The community mural was shown from Oct. 21 to Dec. 3.

Each tile was made in the Talavera style, a particular pottery technique that comes from Puebla, Mexico and is distinguished by its unique white glaze. Javier Espinosa Mómox, a well-known Talavera ceramist from Puebla, visited the Hockaday ceramics studio on Sept. 21 to lead a ceramics workshop. During his visit, which was facilitated by The Crow Collection, Mómox showed off his own work and taught ceramics students how to make

tiles in the Talavera style.

Ceramics student and senior Emily Stallings was grateful for the experience to learn from Mómox.

“I definitely appreciate the skill and hard work that he puts into his works, so seeing him do it firsthand was really awesome,” Stallings said. “It was really cool to actually do it and try it for ourselves.”

Upper School Ceramics teacher Kevin Brady took his students on two field trips to see the community mural. The first group visited the Crow on Nov. 15 and the second group visited on Nov. 17. Stallings was part of the first group and loved seeing her own tile on display.

“When you walk by it's like, ‘That’s so cool, people get to see what I made!’”

Stallings said. “Everyone in the class was looking for theirs, and it was really cool to see it.”

Looking at his own students’ tiles, Brady was just as dazzled by their work as he was by Mómox’s.

“They have more creative ideas than they give themselves credit for, and they’re learning to take risks and to act on their creative ideas,” Brady said.

For Visual Arts Chair Susan Sanders-Rosenberg, this partnership with the Crow Collection is representative of a larger relationship between Hockaday Fine Arts and the Dallas community.

Hockaday ceramics’ relationship with the Crow Collection is already set to continue

HARD AT WORK Upper School Ceramics teacher Kevin Brady helps students in the studio.

through a new venture.

In a collaboration facilitated by the Crow, Hockaday ceramics students will soon be working to create plates with autobiographical imagery on them. They will then exchange with ceramics students from Skyline High School. In mid-January, there will be a luncheon at the Crow where all of the students will come together and eat food off of the plates that they have made.

“There’s an amazing family connection with the Crow family and Hockaday,” Brady said. “They’ve always been very generous with the school.”

Sanders believes that this project was a priceless experience for Hockaday ceramics students.

“It connects the girls to the art that they’re making in a living, meaningful way that’s beyond the walls of the studio,” Sanders said. “It’s a wonderful thing to be able to start experiencing that in a protected space.”

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How to Wrap a Gift A box sits at your feet, piles of wrapping paper and crumpled tape around it, both of which you have destroyed in your frustration. It’s that time of the year again – Christmas. This concise guide will give you all of the knowledge you need to boost your gift-wrapping skills.

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Find a flat, clear surface to work on, and lay out all of the materials you will be using before starting. Organization is key in this process. Then select a box of appropriate size to fit your gift. Boxes make the wrapping process significantly easier.

Fold the remaining side over the first and tape. Flip the box so that the taped sides are on the bottom.

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STEP � STEP 5 Find the top, un-taped edge of the paper. Make a crease in it by first folding down the upper edge, cutting off excess paper accordingly. Once this is done, tackle the bottom edge by repeating the process. Fold the bottom edge up over the already folded down top edge. Secure tape over both sides.

Repeat step 6 with the remaining open edge.

STEP 2 Measure and cut out the paper that you will be using. When measuring the paper, it should be able to fit around the box, with the sides of the paper measuring equivalent to the height of the box.

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STEP 3 Center your box on the paper. Start by folding one side of the paper over the box and taping it the middle of your box. This will be the bottom of your gift.

STEP 6 Add finishing touches such as ribbon or bows to make it distinct and personalized.

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This arugula and beet-based salad uses ingredients from across the Dallas area.

Seasoned with olive oil, minced garlic and lemon juice, SAGE adds button mushrooms to this classic salad in order to create a unique spin on the dish.

The star of this dish is a cod fillet flavored with lemon juice, fresh parsley, dried basil, dried oregano, minced garlic and ground black pepper. With their take on the classic Italian giardiniera, or pickled relish, SAGE also includes tomatoes, green bell peppers and yellow onions.

The daily hummus bar, which has been a hit with faculty and students alike, features a different twist on the garbanzo bean-based dish. This hummus variation adds sweet potatoes to savory dip in order to create the perfect combination of sweet and savory.

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A staple on almost every family’s dinner table for the holiday season, SAGE’s house-roasted beef with potatoes combines the flavors of a juicy steak with that of crisp roasted potatoes.

Cooked to the perfect medium rare, this dish is one of the table's showstoppers.

SAGE’s tomato jalapeño soup adds a little kick of spice to this classic soup. With the crunch from the toasted crostini and the creaminess of the soup, this dish is the perfect appetizer to a great meal. It’s the perfect combination of smooth, refreshing and flavorful.

Topped with curry powder, the curried quinoa and mango salad mixes two opposing flavors to create a savory and sweet combination.

This salad exemplifies the holiday season as the red of the quinoa and green of the lettuce mingle.

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SAGE Dining showcases a variety of their best holiday-inspired dishes. From house-roasted peppered turkey breast to chocolate cheesecake, this food spread is the ultimate way to celebrate the holiday season. However, this table is only a fraction of what SAGE will serve in the weeks prior to the holiday break. Hidden within the cafeteria, the kitchen is a Santa’s workshop as the staff are busy whisking, baking and sautéing away. With fresh and local ingredients, SAGE produces restaurant- quality food daily for the Hockaday community. As they promise variety, balance and moderation, these holiday dishes are delicious yet picture-perfect and healthy.

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The roasted cauliflower is one of the Hockaday community’s favorite dishes year round.

Especially during the holidays, this simple vegetable side pairs perfectly with main dishes like the house-roasted turkey or beef. Prior to roasting, SAGE mixes the cauliflower together with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Made in SAGE’s own “Art’s Bakery,” as coined by baker Arternio Alvarez, these delicious Christmas sugar cookies add to a showstopping holiday dessert table. The ornaments juxtaposed with the Christmas trees provide the perfect embodiment of the Christmas spirit.

As one of SAGE’s specialty dishes for the holidays, this Oreo cheesecake contains multiple layers, including a Graham cracker crust, classic cheesecake filling, a chocolate ganache and crumbled Oreo on top.

While it’s decadent and rich, it’s the perfect sweettooth treat for the holidays.

A staple almost every day for SAGE, these steamed green beans are adorned with a tomato rose with basil leaves. The crunchy, savory side dish seasoned with salt and pepper provides the perfect addition to any holiday dinner table.

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must admit something: I have a fear of contracting salmonella poisoning from consuming uncooked eggs. The Center for Disease Control says on its website, “When eating out, avoid restaurant dishes made with raw or lightly cooked unpasteurized eggs, and check to make sure the restaurant used pasteurized eggs in foods that contain raw or lightly cooked eggs, such as hollandaise sauce, Caesar salad dressing, and tiramisu.”

Nevertheless, eggs Benedict is an exception to my fear of salmonella poisoning.

This delicious dish actually came along by accident. Lemuel Benedict, a retired Wall Street stock broker walked into the Waldorf Hotel in 1894 to find a cure for his hangover. As a result, he ordered, “buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon and a hooker of hollandaise.” And thus, the eggs

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Benedict was born. The maître d’hôtel, Oscar Tschirky, liked the dish so much that he put it on the hotel’s menu but with a slight change; he used ham instead of bacon and an English muffin instead of toast.

With this story in mind, I went on a search for an innovative eggs Benedict, one that was unique but also was tasty.

Appropriately, my first stop was Benedict’s Restaurant. With locations in both Texas and Colorado, Benedict’s truly is an ideal Sunday morning brunch spot. A homey feel results from the simple wooden tables lining the huge windows.

True to its name, there are eight types of eggs Benedict on the menu, each with unique twists such as the Brooklyn Benedict (with pancakes instead of the usual toasted English muffin) and the Smoked Salmon Bene-

A Fantastic Beast of a Film

have to admit: when I walked into the theater to see the latest installment of the Harry Potter movies, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” I was a little concerned about the movie I was about to see.

As a die-hard Potterhead, the mixed reviews of the movie that I’d heard from friends were enough to make me wish I could cast Protego to shield me (too soon for a spell joke?) from any storyline missteps.

By the time I emerged from the dark theater a couple hours later, however, I knew firmly where I stood: I was ready to cast the Accio charm to summon the rest of the “Fantastic Beasts” trilogy (I can’t stop with these references. I’m so happy Harry Potter is back.)

Set in New York 70 years before the

popular “Harry Potter” books and films, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” focuses on wizard Newt Scamander—picture a very young Charles Darwin with a wand— played with a heart-warming idealistic world view by Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne. He brings along some magical beasts who cause some chaos in a Muggle bank, roping wouldbe bakery owner Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) into a wild chase to hunt down the creatures. Caught in the act by magical investigator Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), Scamander must evade American wizarding forces who want nothing to do with him or the gentle creatures he tries to protect. All in all, the movie is a nostalgic romp through 1920s New York and through J. K. Rowling’s incredible wizarding world.

That’s not to say that “Fantastic Beasts” is a perfect movie; it isn’t. The glossy metallic landscape shots are sometimes a bit gratuitous and there are about a half-dozen plot holes left by the time the credits rolled.

I would also have loved a couple more references to familiar Potter names, though

ditional Benedict. Yet, in this case, unusual turned out to be delicious. The meat and English muffin were drenched with a sweet and a little bit sour BBQ sauce that popped with flavor with each bite. With a gooey yolk, the poached egg was cooked to perfection, soaking the entire creation the second it was cut open.

The eggs Benedict also comes with two circular goat cheese potato cakes. With a taste like overcooked hash browns and with a burnt look, they detracted from the overall presentation of the dish.

However, the good thing about Smoke is that you can order this dish until 3 p.m. The lunch time rush on a Saturday was expected, but the service was mediocre. I thought the waiters forgot about me twice because I sat outside on the patio. Upon arriving, no one came to take my order, and I waited 20 minutes for my check to come.

Nevertheless, the eggs were worth the wait.

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there were shoutouts to Albus Dumbledore, already a magical grandpa 70 years before Harry’s storyline, and evil warlock Gellert Grindelwald, that slightly reaffirmed my knowledge of the magical world.

There was something about “Fantastic Beasts,” though, that really spoke to me. I’m Eddie Redmayne stars in not sure how to pinthe latest installment of point Warner Brothers’ the Potter film franchise. target audience—I’d guess anyone with a ticket—but in my heart of hearts, I know who the movie is meant for.

Those of us who grew up with Harry Potter—who used bathrobes as wizarding robes, who had at least one Hogwarts-themed birthday, or who got sorted on Pottermore, whether or not they agreed with the website’s final ruling (as a Slytherin, I’m still bitter over being sorted into Gryffindor).

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dict. I chose the Goat Cheese and Mushroom Benedict.

The service was prompt on the early weekday morning I went. Unfortunately, the poached egg was a little too undercooked for my taste. The Chipotle Hollandaise sauce was the precise amount of tangy to distract me from it, but I almost didn’t taste the goat cheese and mushrooms because of the overwhelming amount of sauce. Nevertheless, the fresh arugula and tomatoes balanced out the overall taste, providing a fresh touch. Served with a slice of watermelon as a garnish, the Benedict is nothing less than scrumptious.

My next stop was Smoke.

Located in both Plano and Dallas, it takes traditional barbecue to a whole different level. Unlike Benedict’s Restaurant, Smoke serves breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as brunch.

With options centered around brisket, ham, sausage and other meats for lunch and dinner, it seems appropriate the restaurant would offer a Pulled Whole Hog BBQ Eggs Benedict.

Unfortunately, this is the only Benedict on the menu.

The brisket and sauce is an unusual variation on the tra-

he Weeknd, born Abel Tesafaye, released his third album, titled “Starboy,” on Nov. 25. With this new album, he walks a fine line between youthful infatuation and darker, harsher lust. “Starboy” paved the way for a new era of Tesafaye’s music, but is it for the better?

Tesafaye has long been praised by critics for his unique music style, but his new album is auto-tune heavy and dabbles in three or more different genres of music, including R&B, pop and EDM. This mix makes for an awkward melting pot of artistic yearning—it seems that Tesafaye wants to transcend the pop stardom that his 2015 song “I Can’t Feel My Face” earned him.

It is not a surprise that many of the songs in “Starboy” include references to various drug use, casual sex and racial slurs; Tesafaye is known for his sordid lyrics. For this reason the songs are not as radio-friendly as the titular song “Starboy,” which centers on Tesafaye’s weariness with his newfound popularity, and instead delve into a deeper, darker place.

But there is something unique about the recently released album; featured guest artists such as Lana del Rey and Kendrick Lamar’s presence gives the album a more profound impact. With cameos in “Stargirl Interlude” and “Sidewalks,” del Rey and Lamar provide much-needed outside influence; this makes these songs a little easier to take seriously.

The stardom theme and his complaints about fame are palpable in his lyrics. In both his hit song “ S t a r b o y ”a n d continually through the album, Tesafaye refers to himself as “Starboy” as reference to his mega-popularity. In “Ordinary “Starboy” is available on Life,” Tesafaye iTunes for $13.99. sings “If I could, I’d trade it all / Trade it for a halo.” By “all,” he means his life of stardom, and “halo” relates to a life of perfection. However, these immature, vapid complaints about the luxuries that come with fame derail his attempts to become a mature artist.

Tesafaye’s dirty lyrics and autotune-heavy style is unpleasing to the ear.

It’s shocking to skip from a song about night clubs and strippers to a crooning love ballad; listening to the album was like being lurched around on a chain.

It’s time for Tesafaye to choose if he wants to keep producing pop songs with insignificant lyrics, or to take a risk and find a more compelling meaning in his music, even if it sacrifices popularity. One could almost say that “Starboy” needs to become a “Starman,” both musically and personally.

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“Fantastic Beasts” is ideal for those people. “Beasts” accesses its audience’s inner second-graders, perfectly content at giggling at people getting stuck in charmed suitcases and even more content to stare wide-eyed at the incredible CGI magical creatures.

“Beasts” is basically the wizarding movie for the millennial. Though Harry Potter certainly had tough times, Beasts” fully harnesses a gritty-dark vibe. Whether it’s with greyscale coloring or with themes approaching more adult than those in the original eight “Potter” films, “Beasts” is a children’s movie for young adults—the same young adults who grew up side-by-side with Harry.

Hopefully, the next four movies of the five-movie series continue to be this pleasantly surprising. After waiting five years since the last Harry Potter movie and nine years since the last book, the Potterheads truly deserve something as fantastic as this movie.

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It’s nice to have someone that isn’t just a coach supporting you non-stop.

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n August at the start of the 2016 cross country season, sophomore Parker Hawk came to preseason with a strained lower back. By the end of the season, Hawk had placed 19th overall at SPC and fourth for Hockaday runners with the help of a new High Performance program.

Cross country coach and sports performance program coordinator La’Boris Bean helped Hawk rehabilitate her injury.

Two years ago, Bean and Physical Education Coordinator Elia Stanfield approached Director of Athletics Tina Slinker to pitch the idea for a High Performance program to improve athletes’ conditioning and work to prevent injuries.

“Coach Stanfield and I came up with this idea,” Bean said. “We presented a proposal to the athletic director of what we thought of the strength and conditioning program and what it could do for Hockaday.”

On her part Slinker believes that the addition of this new program this year is vital to the success of the athletics program.

“We have talked about a program like this for several years. We knew it needed to happen, but we didn’t know how to get it in place,” Slinker said. “Mr. Murray is very supportive of it. That and the combination of coach Bean, coach Jenny Francuski and coach Stanfield presented it to the Board [about two years ago. Interim Eugene McDermott Head of School] Liza Lee really wanted it.”

Bean received approval from Slinker and the Board of Trustees in 2014 and started a summer auxiliary program that girls could sign up for in order to improve their conditioning for the upcoming sports seasons. According to Bean, 30 to 35 kids

attended the program that summer.

Compared with last year’s 165 injuries “It was a big hit, but it was a little during the same time frame, the number late for it to be added into the Hockaday has been slashed in half with only 80 from schedule,” Bean said. “Throughout last the start of preseason until immediately school year, we didn’t do anything. Next before the 2016 Fall SPC Championships. summer, I am going to have a whole Hawk, who came into cross country different view of High Performance.” season with an injured back, believed that Bean’s goal is to have the program the work Bean had done with the program offered throughout the summer, especially helped heal her injury and allowed her to during July, in order to start the conditioning run at the final SPC race. process not only for fall athletes, but also “I had pulled a muscle in my lower for those in winter, spring and even non- back. The new program was really helpful Hockaday athletes. because Bean knew not to run on it and And volleyball, field hockey and instead had me bike on the stationary bike,” crew benefited from the Hawk said. “He program as well. At the slowly built me up start of the fall preseason into running again.” training in August, Bean Bean shared worked with the coaches Hawk’s sentiment "The number and implemented this and believed that the one message program into the practice High Performance schedules. program also helped is that this is Fencing, which is her prosper as a about Hockaday an off-campus sport that faster runner. is joined with St. Mark’s “Hawk started athletics and the School of Texas, didn’t off really slow and by follow the new program Hockaday School the end of the cross because, according to country season, as one.

Bean, it was difficult she made the SPC to coordinate the High team and had the Performance program fourth fastest time Laboris Bean with these coaches. for Hockaday,” Bean Assistant Athletic One of the main said. “She had more Director purposes of the High back injuries, so Performance program is we supplemented injury prevention. her workouts with According to Head Athletic Trainer weights and time on the bike. Each week Jeanne Olson, since the program’s inception she got better and better.” for the fall season, injuries, ranging from sore As the winter sports and eventually ankles to strained muscles, have decreased. spring sports begin, the High Performance

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Assistant Athletic Director La’Boris Bean gives senior athlete Kate Love a lesson in the dead lift.

program will continue in an attempt to create more well-rounded athletes that can compete at the highest level against rival teams.

“You are seeing other programs that are doing this and I feel like sometimes we are running into teams that are more physical,” Slinker said. “I hope that it gives us that high performance standard that once we get on the field or court with them that we are matching them that way as well.”

According to Slinker, she and Bean visited other area SPC schools in order to observe their strength and conditioning programs. Most of these schools already had these programs in place due to a sport Hockaday does not offer: football.

Slinker and Bean hope that the addition of this program will help give the Hockaday athletes a more level-playing field with their opposition. While the program is currently focused on athletes, Bean wants to continue to expand it to all non-athletes and eventually Middle and Lower School.

“This program is for Hockaday as a whole,” Bean said. “The number one message is that this is about Hockaday athletics and the Hockaday School as one. If you want to come and workout in the program, you can whether or not you are an athlete.”

At the start of his High Performance program, Bean tests every athlete’s maximum weight on the back squat, bench press, dead-lift and incline. Junior Alli Pluemer demonstrates each lift.

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Game Background On Friday Dec. 2, the Hockaday junior varsity soccer team traveled to Trinity Valley on one of the coldest days of the year thus far. With a low of 46 degrees and light rain showers, the team struggled to stay warm as the game began after a shortened warm up. Despite these conditions, they worked together to execute complex passing patterns to challenge their opponent.

First Half The first half dragged on with little action. Cold and wet, none of the team’s shots were successful. At the announcement of halftime the score remained 0-0.

Biggest Play At the beginning of the second half, freshman Karen Lin dribbled the ball down the field at full speed, weaving through players twice her size. As she went in for the goal the goalie pressured her to move fast and with one swift punch at the ball she scored, marking the first and last point of the game.

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WHAT'S THE GAME PLAN? The team congregates in a huddle during half-time to plot their comeback against Trinity Valley

BASKETBALL EVENTS

Solo Scorers Basketball game finds two Hockaday players left on court

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n a dimly-lit, lofty basketball court at Valley View High School on Dec. 3, freshman Kate Petersen dribbled down the court, determined to score a few points in the last few seconds of overtime to squeeze out a win.

The Callisburg High School opposition pressed in on Petersen, so she looked around and tried to spot a teammate whom she could pass the ball to.

Anxious to continue scoring, she only saw one other Hockadaisy left on the court: freshman Kate Woodhouse. All of their teammates had been fouled out of the game.

With the sound of the buzzer, the game ended and Petersen, disheartened, accepted the outcome. The final score? Hockaday 28, Callisburg 32. This close score was on par with how the Hockaday team performed throughout the Valley View Tournament.

According to head basketball coach Lee Green, fouls consist of “incidental contact,” including hitting another player in the wrist while dribbling or running into another player.

Once a player receives five fouls, she is

asked to sit out for the rest of the game. In addition, the other team typically receives one or more free throws.

The first foul was made by freshman Margaret Woodberry. The second came from sophomore Tahira Choudhury, who fouled out minutes into overtime. Lastly, freshman player Catrina Liang fouled out, reducing the team’s size from five players to two.

Petersen and Woodhouse believe that the drive to win contributed to the number of fouls that the team received. “We were playing really aggressively, so that’s what was wrong,” Woodhouse said.

According to Petersen and Woodhouse, the referees were strict with respect to fouls in this game.

“The referees were calling it pretty closely, so there was not too much room for error,” Petersen said.

Although fouls proved to be a detriment to the team in two games, Green applauded the girls for being unafraid in their playing style.

“We’ve been encouraging players to go after the loose ball, shoot when open and

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FRISBEE FANATIC The junior varsity basketball team, pictured in green jerseys, warm up before practice.

be aggressive on offense,” Green said. “They are learning how to persevere, and even when you are down players, the girls pushed through until the very end.”

While the team did not ultimately win, the two girls believe that they learned valuable lessons through the process. The JV basketball girls even managed to win one of the five games, the game that they played against Valley View High School, in this tournament.

“We didn’t lose any of the games by much,” Petersen said. “[Even when you’re losing], I’ve learned that you might still have a chance,” she said.

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The College Football Playoff will start on Dec. 31 in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta with the University of Washington, the number four seed, facing the University of Alabama, the number one seed; and the Ohio State University, the number three seed, playing Clemson University, the number two seed in the Playstation Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

But controversy arose on Dec. 4 when these four teams were announced. Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said, “We've always heard that conference championships matter and division championships matter, and now it's confusing.”

In the inaugural playoff in 2014, Texas Christian University and Baylor University were crowned co-champions of the Big 12, leading to the exclusion of both teams from the final four because there was no clear Big 12 champion.

Bowlsby and the rest of the Big 12 subsequently voted to initiate a championship game in the 2017 season.

This season, Ohio State lost the Big 10 East division as a result of a head-tohead loss to Pennsylvania State University, which then led to Penn State’s crowning as the Big 10 Champion after defeating the University of Wisconsin in the championship game.

In the final rankings, the playoff selection committee ranked the oneloss Ohio State as the number two seed and the Big 10 champion and two-loss Penn State as the number five seed.

According to the selection committee’s guidelines, it considers conference “championships won, strength of schedule, head-to-head competition and comparative outcomes of common opponents.”

While Ohio State did not win the conference championship, they still had a 11-1 record, which was enough for the selection committee to rank them as the number three team in the country.

Not only were the teams set to participate in the playoff announced on Dec. 4, but also the 37 other bowl games, ranging from the New Year’s Six Games, like the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, to lesser known ones, like the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

In order to obtain bowl-eligibility, a team must win at least six games, but in recent years as a result of the addition of more bowl games, schools that have not won the benchmark six games have been selected for bowl games. This year, the University of North Texas and Mississippi State University will play even though both of their records sit at 5-7.

While the committee selected some teams with records under .500, other notable programs were left out due to lackluster seasons. The University of Notre Dame, which has been a football powerhouse since its first season in 1887, finished at 4-8, the first losing record under coach Brian Kelly, and the University of Texas fired their coach Charlie Strong, following the program’s third straight 5-7 season.

While these notable teams have been left out, the College Football Playoff will still bring excitement over the Holiday Break as the teams fight for the national title.

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Renaissance Man

Upper School Head takes role as goalie coach

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unning off the field during a tiring soccer game, junior Bailey Brand receives an encouraging pat on the back and a ‘Good job!’ from the new 2016 varsity goalkeeper coach, Terry Murray.

Although Murray, Head of Upper School, is normally seen in a suit and tie, this winter, he trades his formal wear after school for athletic clothing and joins the Hockaday varsity soccer team on the field as the goalkeeper coach.

Murray has been involved in soccer for most of his life and began his career as a goalkeeper around the fourth and fifth grades. After college, he continued to play soccer, and the sport has continued to be a central part of his profession no matter where he was.

“Whatever teaching I have been doing, I’ve had coaching in there,” Murray said.

When he first began teaching at a boy’s school, he gained a position as the school’s goalkeeper coach and advanced to lead assistant for 10 years.

At the Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School, the school Murray

worked at before Hockaday, he was the head soccer coach for 13 years. Apart from his in-school coaching experience, the current Head of Upper School coached for an academy company and directed CMC Soccer Camp in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Murray has also coached other sports, but soccer is his passion. He appreciates the inclusivity of the sport, and the fact that men and women play the exact same way.

“It’s one of the few sports where your body type or size or speed doesn’t always matter. You can always find a way in,” Murray said.

Although he did not coach last year, Murray loved attending Hockaday soccer games, and last year’s Southern Preparatory Conference (SPC) convinced him that he needed to start coaching again.

“Watching the girls and watching all their games at SPC kind of got my bug going again last year,” Murray said.

After Tina Slinker told head coach Rodney Skaife about Murray’s interest in coaching, Skaife approached him and offered the specialized position of goalkeeper

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Skaife and his players see the benefits from this recent addition as another coach means more feedback and insight.

“The goalkeepers would say they feel like they’ve got some extra support, and the general team thinks they have another set of eyes looking,” Skaife said.

Sophomore Ashlye Dullye, a first-time goalkeeper, appreciates having one-on-one training from a coach that sees the game through the eyes of a goalkeeper.

“He’s really understanding, and he offers a lot of good advice about my technique,” Dullye said about Murray.

Terry Murray himself has gained a lot from the experience, as coaching allows him to work with students in a different environment and see them in a new way.

“It’s so vital in our jobs as teachers or coaches or administrators to make sure that we’re seeing students in spaces that are different than just the classroom, because you get to know students so much differently and you get to see the true learner and the true person they are,” Murray said.

From the opposite perspective, Junior

DIVE FOR THE BALL Head of Upper School Terry Murray coaches varsity soccer goalie Ashlye Dullye in the crisp autumn air.

Bailey Brand appreciates her being able to see Murray in a different setting than his administrative position.

“It’s nice to have someone that isn’t just a coach that’s there supporting you nonstop. It really makes you feel like the school cares,” she said.

Although he has been able to attend nearly every practice of this season, Murray’s schedule is extremely busy, so he will most likely have to take this commitment year-by-year.

Skaife has appreciated Murray’s assistance this year as he now has another coach helping out.

“We very much like to think that we’re all interchangeable and that we can cover for each other so it’s nice to have someone around to give feedback,” Skaife said.

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With the holiday season fast approaching, the last thing on anyone’s mind is to go running. But surprisingly, the next few months hold many winter-themed fun runs, all of which benefit different charities and have exciting after-race parties. This is a good chance to donate to charity, work off those holiday sweets, and have a great time all in one event.

BMW Dallas Marathon Dec. 11, 2016, Downtown Dallas

Jingle Bell Run Dec. 21, 2016, Hilton Anatole

The Dallas Marathon is a nonprofit organization that focuses on promoting mental and physical health through exercise. It was established in 1971, which makes it Dallas’ largest and Texas’ oldest marathon. It attracts runners from all over the globe and hosts a Coors Light Post-Race Party with beer, food trucks and live music from “A Hard Night’s Day,” an award-winning Beatles tribute band. There are full and half marathon options, along with relays.

The Jingle Bell Run has been organized between the Trinity Strand Trail, Mavs Foundation, and Luke’s Locker since 2009. It offers a one-mile fun run and a more serious 5k course through the Dallas Design District. The Jingle Bell Run is now sponsored with Generational Equity, which promises to bring “Wall Street to Main Streets stores.” A big party follows, with food and live music.

Hypnotic Donut Dash Jan. 28, 2017, Fair Park

Hot Chocolate 15k/5k Feb. 4, 2017, Fair Park

This race features donut hole stations, provided

by Hypnotic Donuts, along its course. There is a 5k course and a one mile course, and a chance for an award for those who place in the top three places of each age group. There is also a “Chubby Bunny” contest after the race, where runners will have a chance to participate in order to win two free tickets to any future Mellew event.

The Color Run Details to be announced The Color Run is possibly the world’s most wellknown fun run. This race is an untimed event, in which the “Color Runners” are only given two instructions: to wear white, and to finished plastered in color. At the end there's a Finish Festival, equipped with music and massive color throws.

Though the Color Run is not affiliated with any specific charity, it has donated more than $4 million to over 80 different charities combined.

Dubbed “America’s Sweetest Race,” this race has a sweet treat at the end, whether you choose to do the 15k or 5k. Participants are given a goodie bag upon registration, and at the end of the race there is a Post-Race Party, where hot chocolate flows freely. This event is partnered with Ronald McDonald House, a charity that provides a “home-away-fromhome” for families and children facing a serious medical crisis, and runners can choose to donate upon registration.

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Fourward Jan. 3

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Junior varsity basketball vs.

Southwest Christian at 4:30 p.m. (home)

Varsity soccer vs.

Fort Worth Country Day at 5 p.m. (home) FRESHMAN SWIMMING STANDOUT

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Varsity basketball vs.

Greenhill at 6 p.m. (away)

Junior varsity soccer vs. Trinity Valley at 5 p.m. (home)

Varsity swimming and diving at Greenhill at 6 p.m. (away)

Junior varsity basketball vs.

Oakridge at 4:30 p.m. (away)

Varsity soccer vs.

E.S.D. at 6 p.m. (away)

Freshman Abby Tchoukaleff reaches new heights while swimming

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ith the smell of chlorine, With the smell of chlorine, echoes around the pool and a splash, freshman Abby Tchoukaleff starts her daily routine: wake up, swim, school, swim, sleep, repeat.

Indeed, swimming pervades Tchoukaleff ’s schedule. She practices first with Hockaday’s varsity swimming and diving team two days out of the week; her club team, the Dallas Mustangs, every weekday at Addison’s Loos Natatorium; and on her own time during weekends with her coach Mook Rhodenbaugh at the Southern Methodist University pool.

In Rhodenbaugh’s eyes, this hard work has paid off for Tchoukaleff, who is not only a “leader during practice” on the Mustangs team, but also more recently was a participant in the U.S. Junior Nationals Swim Meet.

“There are two Junior Nationals meets in the country—East and West.

The Dallas Mustangs are part of the West, which basically includes all of the swim teams west of the Mississippi River,” Rhodenbaugh said. “Swimmers and relay teams need to achieve qualifying times to participate in the meet.”

Tchoukaleff was a part of two relay teams last year during the Nationals meet in College Station, Texas: the 200 Freestyle and the 400 Freestyle. In the

200, she finished 32nd and in the 400, she finished 33rd.

“Abby is a leader in practice and continues to learn more about how hard work and awareness are key contributors to her continued improvement,” Rhodenbaugh said.

Tchoukaleff has had a standout performance on the Hockaday varsity swimming and diving team as well. At Hockaday, she is on the faster end of the 30-student team and has already made good impressions on both her peers and her coaches.

“She has an infectious, positive and energetic attitude, and she always tries her best,” said freshman and fellow Hockaday swimmer Noelle Diamond.

Tchoukaleff balances two teams at a time by swimming during the mornings and afternoons. On the Dallas Mustangs, she is part of the National Team, which is the highest level group and mainly consists of the best 25-30 swimmers in the program.

Having swum for almost 11 years, Tchoukaleff switched to the Dallas Mustangs when she was eight, after swimming at the Town North YMCA for five years. Throughout the years, Tchoukaleff has accumulated several awards since 2010. She won the Golden Mustang Award 5 times for 2010, 2011,

MAKING WAVES Like other Hockaday swimmers, Tchoukaleff practices in the pool with the team in the morning on Tuesdays and Fridays, and in the afternoon on every other weekday.

2012, 2014 and 2015 and has also won the Outstanding Swimmer Award from the Mustangs annual team banquet last spring, three times for 2014, 2015 and 2016.

And swimming has also helped Tchoukaleff form the basis of her character and personality. With such a demanding sport, she has learned how to balance a homework load, a social life and attending practice six days a week. It has also provided her with a strong support system through her close-knit team.

“From a young age I have learned how to deal with disappointment, like missing a cut by .01 of a second, and using it to motivate me to exceed my original goal.” Tchoukaleff said.

But despite all of Tchoukaleff ’s individual capabilities in the sport, she still emphasizes the importance of team spirit.

“We are all one team, reaching for the same goal of winning SPC this season,” Tchoukaleff said.

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Back Under the Lights Hockaday Alum joins Hockaday Varsity coaching staff

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he whistle blows, signaling the beginning of the game. Cleats pound the ground, leaving a wake of grass and dirt in its path while a chorus of pants heave in rhythm. Players scatter the field, motivated by their fellow teammates and coaches that line the edge of the field.

A new face stands among the crowd, shouting words of encouragement and support to Hockaday soccer players: alumna Christina Goldberg ‘02.

When Goldberg returned to the school 14 years after her graduation to take a job in the Development Office, she didn’t know that she would become assistant coach of the varsity soccer team as well.

“I had seen that there was this opening in development, and I had been thinking about going into fundraising and development for a little while, and I thought that it would be perfect,” Goldberg said, recalling what brought her back to Hockaday.

New to Development but not to the Hockaday soccer program, Goldberg herself played on the varsity team all four years of

high school when she attended Hockaday.

She was lured back to Hockaday after hearing word that a job in the Development Office had opened up.

While pursuing her school soccer career during her years as a high school student, Goldberg was coached by Rod Skaife, current varsity soccer coach.

“I remember her very well,” Skaife said.

“She was very committed, very hard working.”

Shortly after her return to the school to begin her new job in development, Goldberg was approached by Skaife and asked her to join the coaching staff. After the leave of Joni Palmer, the former assistant soccer coach, Skaife needed to fill the position and offered the job to the Hockaday alumna.

“He approached me saying, ‘Chrissy, I need an assistant coach! Come play for me,’” Goldberg said, imitating Skaife’s distinguishable British accent.

During her time on the team, Goldberg had played the position left back. The team proved to be strong the years that he played,

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS After her work is done in the office, Goldberg heads out to practice with the girls.

even going as far as to win the Southern Preparatory Conference Goldberg’s sophomore year.

In addition to her four years on varsity, Goldberg played Hockaday soccer in seventh and eighth grade. Her soccer career did not start there, however—she started playing the sport in kindergarten. When playing on this kindergarten team, she formed many memorable bonds, one of them being with her husband. She met him on the co-ed team that they both played for, and after parting ways, they reconnected years later through a mutual friend.

“I guess soccer has always been a big part of my life,” Goldberg said.

Both Goldberg and Skaife first stepped on Hockaday’s soccer fields on 1998, Gold-

berg as a new varsity soccer player and Skaife as a new coach at Hockaday. During her soccer career, Goldberg was always a very strong, skilled athlete, according to Skaife, and he feels that her easy going attitude and words of encouragement will bring a fresh outlook to the sport.

“She likes the traditions of Hockaday and the traditions of the conference, so I think she will want to continue them in a manner that an alumna would appreciate,” Skaife said.

Goldberg hopes to bring a sense of encouragement to the team throughout the season. She does not plan to implement any big changes, but hopes the players will improve on small things, throughout the course of the season, such as set plays and handling the ball when it is in the air.

And she has already established a connection with the girls. In turn, the players have responded positively to her coaching style.

Ashlye Dullye, a sophomore player on the varsity team, is very complimentary of Goldberg and admires her coaching style.

Dullye believes that Goldberg’s experience at Hockaday gives her a unique outlook that most coaches who are not Hockaday alumnae cannot grasp.

“I think Coach Goldberg’s experience [at Hockaday] has allowed her to understand us and all of the pressure put on us in terms of academics while also playing a sport,” Dullye said.

Goldberg returned to Hockaday and found herself back on the fields she so loved in a matter of months. According to both Skaife and Dullye, she not only brings a sense of positivity to the team, but a fresh outlook on matters as well.

“I think it’s encouraging that someone who works in Development wants to give up their time and come down and work with the girls and see what their mission and what their work is being used for,” Skaife said.

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the kind of person we want in our lives.

If we want to change the norm and put an end to this notorious characteristic of our generation, we need to be more persistent and less accepting. If we want respect, we must demand it.

It’s almost the most wonderful time of year.

Time for the holidays and a long two week vacation.

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ering our ties with our brother schools. After being a part of this community for a while, we don’t know anything different from what we are exposed to, forgetting that there is another culture beyond the gates of 11600 Welch Road.

And as a result, we inadvertently have started to ignore this kind of degradation, even to the point that we have gone numb to it.

It’s time to realize that while we may advocate women’s rights to equal pay, equal rights and equal education, these efforts to support feminist movements mean nothing if we continue to stay silent when we are faced with the issue of equal treatment, simply because the opposing side is someone close to us.

By allowing our friends to degrade, insult and devalue us without even a slap on the wrist, we are actually perpetuating the problem.

It all goes back to the double standard that exists among our age group’s culture. When a guy has many girls fawning over him, he is considered “the man,” someone to look up to and aspire to be.

But when a girl has the attention of multiple guys, she is called a slut and a whore.

And so, it is time that we as young women stop saying, “It’s okay, I’m used to it,” and start saying “No.” No to the insults, no to the objectification and the put-downs, no to the verbal abuse.

We need to stop living in fear of losing a friend or damaging our reputation. Because the truth is, if the person is really our friend, they will stop abiding to this deplorable societal norm that requires them to objectify women. But if not, maybe we should be questioning if they are

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lut.” “Whore.” “Bitch.” “Skank.”

These are only a few of the many insulting terms, some too graphic to mention, that are used to define us young women by many of our male counterparts.

While these words may be considered playful banter among friends, they each have impact: the potential to destroy someone’s self-confidence.

If we don’t agree with something they say, we are bitches. If we don’t reciprocate their feelings, we are sluts. And worst of all, if we call them out on this kind of language, we are “overreacting.”

At Hockaday, we are empowered as young women to see ourselves as future leaders and to never let anyone tell us otherwise; however, we are not taught how to respond when the adversary is our own friend.

Most likely, if we were outside of the comfort of Hockaday’s bubble, we all would have no problem speaking our mind and telling off a stranger who was making lewd comments about us. But when faced with the issue of potentially ruining a friendship, the stakes seem a lot higher.

The majority of us have learned how to ignore these comments and just accept that “that’s just how they [guys] are.” But there lies an inherent problem.

That’s not just “how they are.” Not all guys fall into this category. For the ones who do, they weren’t simply born making sexist or demeaning comments — society taught them to be that way.

There seems to be this fatal pattern that we Hockaday girls often fall into, a toxic verbal culture with some of our male confidantes.

Perhaps it’s because we go to an all-girls institution. Many of us put up with what other girls may not because we are worried of sev-

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VS. The year was 2011. As a new Hockaday student, I hiked the three flights of the LLARC stairs, surrounded by new everything: new people, new buildings, new smells. One thing I clutched ever so tightly brought me comfort: my Toshiba.

Familiar I was with the world of the PC. From its thick base to the overheating fan, my Toshiba (fondly nicknamed Tasha Toshiba) has and always will bring me a great sense of familiarity and nostalgia. Because I didn’t grow up in a Mac household, the Toshiba will always be my rock.

The style of the Toshiba is classic. The metallic letters that blazon the word “TOSHIBA” catch the attention of that Mac user from across the room. Sure, they have a piece of fruit on their laptop, but you have something shiny.

Besides the familiarity factor, PCs are dependable. Remember that time when you tried to print your Jane Eyre essay right before class, only to be greeted with the rainbow spinning wheel of death on your Mac? The wheel whirled for hours, as your files tailspun. With the mouse gone, your Mac was useless. The only remedy was to send your paper to a friend with a PC, whose computer connected with printers from the get-go.

Another (quirky) plus of the PC is its touchscreen. For those days when my mouse pad is acting up, or I am too lazy to control the mouse, I can simply reach out a finger and manipulate the screen. Want to submit your JRP at literally the touch of a finger? Get yourself a PC and voilà.

I also owe my love for the Backstreet Boys to my very own Tasha.

There was a period of time in Middle School when I would open up my computer and it would be playing “I Want It That Way.” There were no programs open and it was before Spotify. It truly was a mystery but a welcomed one.

PCs are also compatible with Hockaday. When your PC breaks, you can simply go to the third floor Tech Desk. If they cannot fix it there, they will gladly send it off for you, free of charge. If you have a Mac, you are out of luck. You have to make an appointment at the Apple Store’s Genius Bar and then pay an excessive amount for a potentially small issue.

Don’t get me wrong: I welcome new technology. I realize that Macs are trendsetters and sure, they look pretty. Just because something looks good doesn’t mean that it is the best option. Please know that I have an iPhone—I am not an Apple hater. However, I crave the familiarity that my PC gives me. Long live the wheezing computer and clunky base—I am undeniably a PC girl.

I remember the exact moment I got my first laptop. It was in sixth grade, and every student was so ecstatic to get their hands on their new, rotating and touch screen Toshibas. Little did we know that they would be the bane of our existences. My Toshiba started to do this cute thing where it would randomly crash and restart and, in the process, delete all my work. And I’m not even going to talk about the TWENTY-MINUTE battery life.

But my life completely changed sophomore year when I was graced with the opportunity to use what I soon realized was the best computer ever: my MacBook.

First, the outward appearance. It’s hard to say that every PC is ugly, since there are so many different varieties, but you can definitively say that every single MacBook is absolutely gorgeous. To an extent, all computers are made of the same inner hardware, so why not look to the aesthetics when choosing a brand new laptop (but really anything would be better than those 3-inch, clunky Toshibas).

There are only a few different types of MacBooks, so to a non-techy gal like me, I don’t have to be bogged down by random, customizable options, and I can just focus on the already-great hardware that my computer comes with.

While PCs were originally the only device available for Hockaday students to use, we have had the “Bring Your Own Device” policy for over a year now! The tech department has given Mac users all of the capabilities that we might need to print, use the Wi-Fi and function in class.

Not only can we do everything that a PC person can do (and more), but Macs are compatible with the iPhone, the smartphone most people have anyway. It’s nice to easily have all your music and photos and internet synced up across your devices.

If you are creative in any way, Macs are the computer for you. The programming that Macs have built in for video-making, photographing etc. far surpass the desires of any amateur artist. I can be a music producer with Garageband, a photographer with iPhoto and a filmmaker with iMovie.

It all comes down to personal preference in the end. If you like nice, pretty, useful devices then the Mac is the way to go. If not, well there’s a world of PCs out there for you to choose from.

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More Than A Participation Grade Ashlynn Long Staff Writer

You’re sitting in class and the student next to you is always raising their hand to speak. You, on the other hand, don’t feel comfortable speaking your mind in front of the entire class.

This doesn’t mean you don’t participate; you might show effort in others ways, such as working particularly hard on group assignments or projects. However, you can’t help but be concerned that perhaps not being vocal is dragging down your GPA. I find this extremely unfair.

In classes that are more challenging for me, I’m more eager to participate, but not just so my teacher will take pity and boost my grade.

Participating in class allows me more opportunities to clarify points I’m unclear on and generally makes me more present in the class. However, this kind of participation is not for everyone.

Many students don’t comfortable participating vocally in class, due to anxiety,

shyness, introversion or discomfort at the idea of sharing personal thoughts with a class. Vocal participation doesn’t always show how well a student is understanding concepts taught in class.

If teachers were to value participation above graded work, students could lose points despite knowing the concept.

Emily J. Klein, professor of teacher education at Montclair State University in New Jersey, believes that grading participation is unfair to students.

In an article she co-wrote with Meg Riordan for Quiet Revolution, an academic website dedicated to the research and advocacy for introverted learners, she argued that participation grades penalize quiet learners.

Graded work such as tests, quizzes and papers are a better touchstone of a student’s grasp of a class than participation. Graded work is a concrete benchmark of how a student is understanding concepts.

It is important to remember that participation is also subjective. One student may contribute greatly to class discussions but not participate much in group projects—another student could be the exact opposite, but be docked for not showing participation in class.

Many students feel that participation grades actually hinder their ability to learn and hurt the classroom environment.

For example, Janet Bilhartz, Head of the Hockaday English Department, has had many of her senior English classes request that she not grade their participation in class discussions.

Students say that when their discussions are graded, they’re only talking to talk and cannot focus on the quality of what they’re saying.

Grading participation presents a challenge to teachers well as students. Bilhartz finds that grading participation in class discussions compromises her ability to effectively teach her students.

She’s so busy trying to grade how her students speak that it’s difficult to think analytically about the content of what is being said.

Most people think of participation as raising a hand in class. According to Shelley Cave, Director of The Dr. William B. Dean Academic Learning Support Program at Hockaday, there are many ways to show effort.

Some examples would be supporting others in a group activity or helping classmates review for assessments.

However, none of these participation factors should be weighted as heavily as graded work.

Graded work allows teachers to see how a student is grasping a concept, and the

process that the student uses. A class discussion can’t reveal how many hours were put into a paper or how many problems a student worked to review for a test.

That counts more for than how someone was perceived to participate.

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A few weeks ago, I went to study at Starbucks. As I settled down, sifting through my work, I overheard a conversation between two ladies: white, mid-40s and fiercely Christian. Vociferous complaints about “Starbucks’ attack on Christianity” and the moral decline of America resounded throughout the cafe. I was so inspired by their rightful indignation that I spilled my coffee on my JRP, dashed for a pen and promptly wrote a haiku expressing my innermost dwellings.

I was so inspired by their rightful indignation that I spilled my coffee on my JRP, dashed for a pen and promptly wrote a haiku expressing my innermost dwellings.

Last year, Starbucks bucked the Christmas-themed trend and opted for a simpler, more inclusive design for its cups, sparking outrage from many devout Christians who

felt their religion was being attacked.

They felt that Christianity, the most practiced religion in the world, had been oppressed by a new cup design.

Well, let me offer you a sneak preview of the underrepresented club. There are two months every year we feel especially marginalized, and that is during November and December, colloquially referred to as the holiday season.

Actually, it should just be called the Christmas season because despite America’s attempt to embrace all religions and traditions, I am inundated by Christmas foods, mistletoe, nutmeg, Santa Claus and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” every time I leave the sanctuary of my home.

Although I am a minority and I celebrate my own traditions, I appreciate the Christmas spirit. I bake Christmas desserts, decorate my house, partake in gift exchanges and I enjoy it.

I do not complain that my holidays and traditions are underrepresented even though they actually are. So when I hear this gripe from Christians when all things Christmas are currently being shoved down my throat, I get a little agitated.

The Starbucks cup is not a symbol of Christianity. The repeal of Christmas designs is not an attack on Christianity. It is just a large corporation taking progressive steps to be more inclusive of its customers.

Corporations should be allowed to exercise the same religious freedom as individual people, and if the Starbucks franchise establishes a secular policy for their employees and customers, it is their prerogative. The criticism surrounding the newer cups is not justified.

Several different religions are practiced in the United States, and according to a 2013 study conducted by the Pew Research Center, Christianity, which once dominated the religious demographic in America fostering over 50 percent of the population, is on a sharp decline.

In light of this statistic, “minority” traditions should have equal representation in today’s diverse society.

I would like to affirm that everybody is entitled to their beliefs, including the bitter ladies at Starbucks. My intent is simply to express my own opinion, not to belittle anybody else’s anger.

Users enjoyed sharing and creating short clips on the app before its popularity plummeted after the growing use of other social media platforms that offer longer videos and more engagement metrics.

There are many theories behind this specific culprits of this fated demise, but the ones that seem most plausible are the ever popular Instagram and YouTube.

The popularity of one app over the other is all about convenience. Before YouTube extended its reach of consumers and Instagram rebranded and made posting videos very accessible, Vine was the app users preferred for videography.

However, according to Defy Media, YouTube is now reputed as one of the world’s biggest video sharing mediums, offering selections of short humorous clips as on Vine, in addition to many other options.

But, perhaps the most fatal blow to the app’s popularity was the success of Instagram.

With its easy transportation of media to other social media engines and its additional features such as Boomerang, which allows users to record small humorous clips that play on loop, Vine’s purpose

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quickly became lost.

Trends will continue to come and go as our needs continue to change and adapt.

When a company is designing a new social media outlet, the members think about a single question in particular: what do consumers need?

As our generation continues to progress into one that relies more and more on vanity, companies have put out apps that they think will assist in helping users more easily share and upload photos and mementoes of their life.

This is an example of a need that will most likely continue into the future for quite some time. Unlike a fad, it serves a greater purpose than to simply entertain.

Trends are securely implemented into our culture. They latch onto consumers’ deepest wants, making them unlikely to simmer out. Vine, however, proved to be the exception.

Perhaps Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat will one day join the app graveyard with the others, but until our society’s desires and culture drastically change, I think it’s safe to say that they are here to stay.

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If you are like the majority of America, you spent many disappointing summer days finding another pidgey on Pokemon Go, wasted excessive dollars on crushing virtual candies and used up countless hours tapping your screen to make a pixelated, yellow bird bounce through pipes. Cringeworthy, I bet.

It’s hard to imagine our lives without certain social media trends such as Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and Spotify. But, what about Myspace, Brighten, Pandora, Dubsmash or perhaps the most memorable of them all: Vine, an app which lets you record six second videos to play back on loop.

Why is it that certain cherished apps remain on our phones for years, while others are soon sent to the virtual abyss after we press that fated black “X” on their top left corner?

It’s because some apps are destined to be trends, while others are only meant to satisfy consumer needs for a period of time.

It’s what differentiates a fad from a trend.

Fads are short-lived, temporary distractions that fill a void and entertain a boredom that lies within us. Trends, however, aim to satisfy a greater purpose, to alleviate an ongoing issue that many users continue to face. Vine, for example, used to do just that.

On Oct. 27, Vine announced that the company would shut down its app in the coming months. While the app was responsible for the discovery of many notable icons such as Shawn Mendes and Us the Duo, the six-second video app owned by Twitter has lost significant business over the years.

According to a survey conducted by Statista, out of the top one percent of Vine users, those with 10,000 or more followers, only about 48 percent of them are still currently active—half of these users have stopped using the app altogether.

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HOLIDAY HISTORY

Hanukkah, meaning “dedication” in Hebrew celebrates the re-dedication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem after the desecration of the sacred building by King Antiochus of Syria. Judah Maccabee, the leader of the Jewish fight against the monarchy, brought his people together to rebuild the temple and rededicate it. When they entered the destroyed temple, there was only enough olive oil to light the menorah for one day. Yet, a miracle occurred and the menorah remained aflame for eight nights.

HOLIDAY HISTORY

In 1966, Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa to encourage African-Americans to celebrate their African origins. The seven principles of African Heritage are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and fate and the kinara’s seven red, black and green candles each represent one of these.

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Based on the miracle of the menorah that stayed alight for eight nights, Hanukkah, commonly known as the Festival of Lights, is celebrated for eight nights. Each night, Jews receive one gift and light one candle on the menorah, most often from their families or close friends.

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Christmas is celebrated by Christians to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of Luke, Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem and Jesus is born and laid in a manger, where angels proclaimed him a savior for all people. It is celebrated on Christmas Day as well as Christmas Eve.

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Although Christmas has recently shifted towards a more secular tradition, individuals who celebrate the holiday still light the Christmas tree and hang stockings for each member of his or her family. In addition, many Christians often also display a nativity set, which showcases the scene of the birth of Jesus, above their mantle or elsewhere in the home.

Fourcast breaks down the history, traditions and foods that members of the Hockaday community participate in.

HOLIDAY HISTORY

Boxing Day is celebrated in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations and is considered to be the second day of Christmas. While the origin is not definite, Boxing Day is commonly said to have begun in the 19th century with the aristocratic families of England thanking their servants and other service people by giving them a box of Christmas gifts, money and food. Although Boxing Day was originally tied to Christmas, most people celebrate the day in modern times.

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HOLIDAY TRADITIONS

While Boxing Day still represents a day for the individuals who celebrate it to thank those around them with a box of goods and to give to the needy, it also draws many similarities to Black Friday in the U.S. It is now often seen as a “shopping day,” in which many stores give great discounts on their products or door-busters prices for early shoppers. Just like Black Friday, Boxing Day has even extended its time span of influence, now giving rise to a “Boxing Week” of shopping.