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CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL NEWSMAGAZINE Vol. 81, No. 7 | Feb. 23, 2017
the perfect fit. Sizing system discrepancies make it difficult for CHS students to find clothes they feel comfortable in. PAGE 26 | GILLIAN PAXTON
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NEWS BRIEFS | 6
Student activists share their stories about how they became passionate about their beliefs and why they choose to be vocal.
CLUB SPOTLIGHTS | 7 As Dance Marathon approaches, let’s take a look at the different ways House and Cabinet members raise money for the event.
POLICING POLICIES | 10
Businesses may advertise in the HiLite if their ads adhere to guidelines. The advertising policy is available in Room C147 or at www.hilite.org/ads-info. Grace Zhang
NEWS // 6
BEING VISIBLE | 24
(FUND)RAISING FOR RILEY | 8
CREDENTIALS
Editor in Chief
CONTENTS
Jessica Mo
Web
Adam Stockholm Allen Zhang
Copy Editors
Kelsey Atcheson Adam Gostomelsky
Emily Dexter Heidi Peng Adhi Ramkumar Pranav Sriram Carson TerBush Christina Yang James Yin
Perspectives
Accountant
Entertainment Teresa Chen Kalea Miao
Sports
Manahil Nadeem Gillian Paxton
Indhu Meena Ramanathan
15 Minutes
Adviser
Cory Steele
Jim Streisel
Social Media
Principal
Gabby Perelmuter Rebecca Qin Angela Sun
Superintendent
John Williams Nicholas Wahl
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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS On page 8 of the January issue, in the “Inventeam A New Path” story, Tony Ou was labeled as a freshman. He is actually a sophomore. Additionally, the photo on page 14 of the January issue is from the IndyStar. The HiLite strives to correct its errors. If you notice any inaccuracies in this or past issues, please contact management1617@hilite.org.
CHELSEA DAI, CAROLYN ZHANG | PHOTO
Students and administrators reflect on new poster policies that have been implemented at CHS.
FEATURE // 12 ALTERNATIVE MEDIA | 12 Following the election of Donald Trump, students reflect on the implications of social media misinformation.
RED, WHITE, BLUE AND BLACK | 14 Students and teachers discuss the lack of awareness of African and AfricanAmerican history during Black History Month.
DUMBO’S FINAL BOW | 16 With National Wildlife Awareness Day in March, students reflect on the closing of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and how it shows the continued exploitation of animals in entertainment.
SOCIALLY UNDERRATED | 18 CHS students and teachers evaluate the role social workers and student mediators play during National Professional Social Work Month.
I’M JUST A BILL SITTIN’ ON CAPITOL HILL | 25 See what bills are being considered right now in Congress and how to contact your U.S. Congress representatives.
AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | 25 A comparison of the highlights of Trump’s first 12 days of executive orders compared to the past two presidents.
COVER // 26 FITTING IN | 26 Some CHS students struggle to cope with confusing clothing sizes.
ENTERTAINMENT // 32 TAKE NOTE | 32 CHS students reflect on the auditioning process to become performing arts majors.
FOR THE ARTS | 34
STUDENT SECTION // 22 SOAPBOX | 22 Read about which media sources students trust and why.
ASK THE HILITE | 23 Theresa Ramos explains how to properly consume media in the current times of political upheaval and fingerpointing at the press.
Carmel mayor Jim Brainard issues art grants to 21 local arts organizations.
FEATURED
MAKE-UP MADNESS Junior Charlotte Seidensticker demonstrates her special effects makeup skills. This look was inspired by the Queen of Hearts from “Alice in Wonderland.”
54 SECOND CHANCES | 35 Reporter Armaan Goel argues Samsung has a chance for redemption.
OSCARS | 36 Take a look at all you need to know about the 2017 Academy Awards.
HOLLYWOOD STARS...AND STRIPES | 38 Students and teachers discuss the ethics of films based on historical events.
ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS | 39 Take a look at some upcoming movies, video games and events.
SPORTS // 40 CARBS TO GO | 40 Learn how diets and nutrition affect CHS athletes.
CDC VS INTRAMURAL | 44 Many students from CHS play in Carmel Dad’s Club and school competitions. Find out what makes these leagues popular.
UP IN THE AIR | 46 While the Olympics brought a lot of attention to gymnastics, boys still feel a lack of inclusion.
PERSPECTIVES // 48
15 MINUTES // 54
DON’T BOOT KAHOOT | 48
A DIFFERENT KIND OF ARTIST
The HiLite Staff encourages administrators to rethink the Kahoot ban.
WATER YOU DOING | 49 Section Editor Kalea Miao comments on Hollywood’s decision to create a movie about the Flint Water Crisis.
COLLEGE ON A BUDGET | 50 Social Media Editor Gabby Perelmuter argues students should consider cheaper undergraduate colleges.
AN EDUCATED INVESTMENT | 51 Social Media Editor Angela Sun urges students to invest in the best undergraduate education no matter how expensive it is.
SENIORITIS IS A SHAM | 52 Section Editor Kelsey Atcheson reminds seniors that Senioritis is just an excuse.
NO LONGER WHITE GOLD | 53 Reporter Emily Worrell commends the Oscars for nominating more diverse actors.
Junior Charlotte Seidensticker does stage and special effects makeup.
ONLINE DIVING INTO THE DEEP A part of 31 straight state titles, learn about the other half of the CHS swimming program -- the diving team.
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PRODUCER
As March is National Nutrition Month, it is important to know where our food comes from. Take a look at everything that goes on behind-the-scenes at CHS cafeterias to produce the meals that students receive each day.
THE DELIVERY
DID YOU KNOW? It takes the cafeteria managers approximately four weeks to adjust their orders to meet the students’ interests and purchases as well as account for differences in each lunch period.
Docks
Orders are placed by Theresa Quade, the CHS cafeteria manager, based on prior numbers and the menu for the week, with popular items being kept week to week.
Shipments arrive early in the morning at the CHS docks each week.
Main Cafeteria
THE VENDORS
CHS attempts to source local produce as much as possible.
US FOODS
PIAZZA PRODUCE
SUSHI BOSS
Primary Vendor Annual Purchases: $683,596.12 Fishers, Indiana
Produce Vendor Annual Purchases: $95,312.28 Indianapolis, Indiana
Sushi Vendor Annual Purchases: $51,986.00 Indianapolis, Indiana
Delivery Truck
AUNT MILLIE’S
SNAPPLE, COKE, PRAIRIE FARMS
Bread Vendor Annual Purchases: $20,651.52 Indianapolis, Indiana
Beverage Vendors Annual Purchases: $238,093.62 Indianapolis and Anderson, Indiana
ACORN DISTRIBUTORS
HERSHEY’S
COMMERCIAL FOODS
Utensil Vendor Annual Purchases: $70,317.77 Indianapolis, Indiana
Ice Cream Vendor Annual Purchases: $8,235.73 Xenia, Ohio
Food Vendor Annual Purchases: $35,869.23 Indianapolis, Indiana
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Average Servings
THE CAFETERIA CHS served 186,357 lunches first semester of this school year.
Pasta Bar/Chicken Parmesan/Lasagna - 445 servings Mashed Potato Bowl Entrée – 581 servings French Toast Sticks – Breakfast for Lunch – 614 servings Students’ favorite meals are consistent throughout all cafeterias.
THE STUDENTS
6:30 a.m.
Breakfast staff arrives to set up breakfast for the students.
8:00 a.m.
Lunch staff arrives to begin lunch preparations.
11:00 a.m.
First period of lunch begins; meals are produced specifically for each period based on student interests in each period.
2:30 a.m.
Staff leaves for the day after cleaning up and planning for the next day.
Salad Bar Pizza
Carmel High School
Some of the most popular bevarages are PowerAde Mixed Berry Zero and Snapple Tea
One of the most purchased favorites by the students is the Chicken Parmesan
Main Entree
Pasta
Greyhounds
Average a la carte purchases were $1.64, which is anything in addition to the $2.60 base.
What is the favorite part of your job? “It’s been a lot of fun, we have a lot of people from all over the world, which is so much fun, because we are learning different people, different cultures, different way of doing things, so that’s been awesome”
CHS Cafeteria Manager Theresa Quade
Approximately two out of five students purchase their lunches on a daily basis.
ADITYA BELAMKAR, SHIVA VALLABHANENI | GRAPHIC GRACE ZHANG | PHOTO CHS CAFETERIA MANAGER THERESA QUADE, DIRECTOR OF FOOD SERVICES JENNIFER MCFARLAND | SOURCES
NEWS
NEWS BRIEFS | FEB 23, 2017
News Briefs SABRINA MI | BRIEFS
SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS: Brendan Yap, Science Bowl president and senior, leads a group practice round of questions to prepare for Regionals. Yap said, “In general, I think we’re the strongest across pretty much every subject. Our hope is that (at) Nationals this year, we can place (in the) top five.”
TODAY
MARCH 10
ComedySportz will have a match in the Studio Theater.
End of third quarter.
SATURDAY
MARCH 12
Dance Marathon will begin at noon.
Daylight-saving time will begin.
SABRINA MI | PHOTO
MARCH 4 Participating students will take the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) test. Science Bowl will attend its regional competition.
MARCH 5 The Carmel Clay Public Library’s Young Adult Winter Reading Program will end. The top winner will receive a $400 gift card.
(ROUND)ABOUT MORE ROUNDABOUTS This year, the city of Carmel plans to construct 14 new roundabouts. Take a look at which parts of Carmel the upcoming construction will affect the most.
For more info on the upcoming construction, go to: hilite.org/news.
new roundabout
Gray Road
JAMES YIN | GRAPHIC CURRENT IN CARMEL | SOURCE
Carmel Drive Carmel Drive will have the most new roundabouts, with five projects
Gray Road
Carmel Drive Monon Center
Hazel Dell Parkway
Towne Road
116th Street
The upcoming Towne and 116th will be the most westward roundabout
Keystone Parkway
Towne Road and 116th
Meridian Street
CHS
Gray Road will share a roundabout with 96th street and have two additional roundabouts
96th Street 96th Street will have four new roundabouts
96th Street
Hazel Dell Parkway Hazel Dell Parkway will have the most eastward roundabouts
FEB 23, 2017 | CLUB FEATURES
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CLUB SPOTLIGHTS JULIANNA KESSILYAS | SPOTLIGHTS
KENYA CLUB SPONSOR: Kathy Hallett
WHAT IT IS: Kenya Club raises money for students in secondary school in Kenya who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. It raises money with the Umoja Project of the Global Interfaith Partnership. Their biggest fundraiser is the Kenya Carnival at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis on Feb. 25 from noon to 4 p.m. The activities will include performances, carnival games, crafts and inflatables. Admission is free, but game tickets are a dollar each.
(FUN)DRAISING: With club members, Jamie Goetz, Kenya Club president and senior, discusses upcoming events and projects. Goetz said, “Our personal club at Carmel is trying to raise money for eight tuitions.”.
THOUGHTS: “We focus a lot on personal connections with the kids that we work with in Kenya,” Goetz said.
JAMES YIN | PHOTO
PRESIDENT: Senior Jamie Goetz
26.2 SPONSOR: Katie Kelly
SCIENCE BOWL For more on Kenya Carnival, go to: hilite.org/news.
SPONSOR: Virginia Kundrat
PRESIDENT: Senior Xinyi “Gabriella” Wang
WHEN AND WHERE: Wednesdays and Thursdays after school in Room B214
WHAT IT IS: 26.2 is the amount of miles in a full marathon, and this is part of what the club is about. Members meet together after school or on the weekend to train together for full or half marathons or any local races. The club members are currently training for the Carmel Marathon on April 22.
WHAT IT IS: Science Bowl prepares members for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl. Students are quizzed in a style similar to “Quiz Bowl.” Competing teams are comprised of four students and one alternate. The Indiana Regional will be on March 11, when the winners will get an all-expenses-paid trip to the national competition in Washington, D.C. at the end of April.
THOUGHTS: Summer Snyder, 26.2 club vice president and junior, said, “Our true dedication leads us to succeed and achieve more than I ever thought was possible. I have learned that training for longdistance running and building up your endurance is just something that takes time and a little motivation. Because we put so much into our running, completing races is all the more rewarding.”
MONUMENTAL MILES: Xinyi “Gabriella” Wang, 26.2 president and senior, and Summer Snyder, vice president and junior, ran at Monumental half-marathon this November. The Monumental halfmarathon is one of the events the club members train for.
XINYI “GABRIELLA” WANG | SUBMITTED PHOTO
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DANCE MARATHON | FEB 23, 2017
(F U
ND ) RAISING FOR RILEY
As Dance Marathon approaches, CHS students reflect on methods of raising funds CARSON TERBUSH | STORY Wolff said. “We’ve just evolved to try and make it easier for our students.” Each year, students consistently raise more and more money for Dance Marathon. According to Jackie Yang, Cabinet member and senior, the quotas for Cabinet and House members increase annually as well. “Our quota (for Cabinet) this year is $1,000. To a lot of people that may seem like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s $1,000,’ but for us it’s a year-long process. We know that we’re going into it and usually people go way above $1,000,” Yang said. “People aren’t really stressed about
QUICK QUIZ Take this quiz to see how much you know about Dance Marathons.
1. Dance Marathons are an American phenomenon of: a. the 1920s and 1930s b. the 1930s and 1940s c. the 1990s and 2000s d. the 1970s and 1980s
2. Another name for a Dance Marathon is a: a. Spinning Derby b. Pinewood Derby c. Bunion Derby d. Boogie Derby 3. During which event did Dance Marathons become popular? a. The Great Depression b. The Great Inflation c. World War II d. Recession of 2008 1. a 2. c 3. c
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very year, student government members set ambitious goals for Dance Marathon. According to the Riley Children’s Foundation website, Carmel Dance Marathon is the largest in the nation, and each year it continues to grow. The members of House, the CHS student government group that plans and fundraises for Dance Marathon, utilize multiple fundraising tactics to continue expanding CHS’s Dance Marathon legacy. Zach Gartenhaus, House member and senior, said there are many ways to fundraise. “Especially because Dance Marathon is in its 11th year this year, people have really learned how to be effective in raising their money. Emails work really well for some people, contacting businesses works really well for some people. It really just depends on the person. For me what’s been most successful is going door to door,” Gartenhaus said. According to Sarah Wolff, student government sponsor and ceramics teacher, the relatively new use of online fundraising allows students to raise money more effectively and efficiently. “When we started this, there was no online fundraising, and we had students doing letter writing campaigns with stamps. That’s so antiquated in the world now that we live in, but that is how we fundraised at the time. We would give students a form letter and we would ask them to fill it out and send it in the mail to their grandparents, and ask for a check. Now, with getting online with credit cards, it takes me less than a minute to donate,”
HISTORYLINK.ORG | SOURCE
THOROUGH PLANNING: Cabinet members and juniors Jack Muller (left) and Evan Veatch (right) set up the basketball tailgate. House events such as these are held in order to help raise money for Riley Children's Hospital.
ADHI RAMKUMAR | PHOTOS
it. With the amount of effort we put in, it’s almost impossible not to hit it. We go above and beyond it.” Yang said the quota is raised annually to encourage Cabinet and House members to improve their fundraising efforts. “Every year, we see that people are capable of making more money. For (Cabinet members) especially, we see that the minimum, what the quota is, that’s what people are going to strive for. If the minimum is $600, people are going to go for $600, and once they reach that $600 they’re like, I’ve hit it, I’m done. Us raising it every year just gives a little bit of a push.” Wolff said the main goal of increasing expectations for fundraising is to increase the effort students put forth, not to try to “beat” the previous year’s amount. She said despite Dance Marathon’s history of topping its total each year, student government does not stress this aspect of fundraising. “I’m sure there’s going to be a year where we don’t beat (the total), and for
FEB 23, 2017 | DANCE MARATHON
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SPEAK UP! What do you do to raise money for Dance Marathon? “I try and find corporate sponsors to donate to us and then we give them different benefits...we (also) go door to door with our red buckets...I also...utilize my online page to send out emails...and I post on Facebook and get it out on every social media outlet I have.”
Junior Rachel Lacy
“I send emails to neighbors and family members. I have a link in my bio on Instagram...I’m going to go around (and) talk to some of my neighbors about why they should donate to the cause.”
Freshman Emma Uber all I know it could be this year, I have no clue. To be quite honest, we have to get away from that, and we have to say, ‘Did we do all that we could for someone who needed it more than us?’ That’s the bottom line.” According to Yang, Dance Marathon is beneficial to both the community and those who volunteer. Yang said, “Kids these days feel like, ‘I’m just a kid, I’m just a teenager, what can I do?’ (Dance Marathon) is a way to show that you can do something. Yeah, it’s (only) $110, but that makes a change. You are doing something to make an indent on that board that goes up. You are up there. You are part of that. You are part of this change.” Wolff said she agreed that fundraising for Dance Marathon benefits those who volunteer. However, she said volunteerism is important overall. Wolff said, “I think it’s more important that you find something (you care about). Whether it’s the kids at Riley Hospital or something you have a passion for, take it and do something for somebody else other than you. Run with it and use what you’ve been given; your time, your talents and your treasures, and help something or somebody else H that needs it.”
CARSON TERBUSH, ADHI RAMKUMAR | SPEAK UPS ALINA YU, ADHI RAMKUMAR | PHOTOS
“I use a lot of social media sites like Facebook and Instagram and my Twitter. That usually helps promote other people to see because I went to Riley when I was younger, and then people see my story and they donate to a good cause.”
Freshman Connor Inskeep “First off, I usually send out emails to my grandparents and people I know closely. I actually use a lot of social media because I have a Facebook and I’ll just post my subwebsite for the donation page, so I’ll have a lot of friends and adults that will donate money.”
Sophomore Zachary Wilson
CANNING FOR A CAUSE: Junior Zack Linville and senior Kelly Kingston go “canning,” a term which refers to going from door to door speaking to citizens for donations. Canning is a common method of raising money for Dance Marathon. Linville said, "Obviously the money goes to Riley Hospital for Children, but more specifically, a lot of it goes toward research and opening new funding projects, stuff like that...A lot of that money can be used to help offset what they have to spend on people who may not be able to afford their healthcare."
APURVA MANAS | PHOTOS
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POSTER POLICY | FEB 23, 2017
POLICING POLICIES Students reflect on the challenges and strengths of new poster policy ADHI RAMKUMAR | STORY
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ccording to the center for Public Education, students’ freedom of speech at school has been a conflicting issue throughout the United States’ history. The recurrence of this conflict has resulted in a recent update to CHS’s poster policy to delineate students’ freedom of expression. (See “Poster Premise” at bottom.) Selin Oh, TEDx officer and sophomore, said she feels the updated policies overbear on a student’s freedom to speech. Additionally, she said the new policies defeat the overarching ideology of TEDx. “Personally, I’m definitely not the strongest proponent of these new restrictions. The ideology of TEDx is ‘ideas worth spreading,’ which is kind of the opposite of what’s going on here. I think that’s an important value,” Oh said. “Obviously, there needs to be some sort of balance. We need to be able to foster a conducive environment to be able to talk about controversial topics. I don’t think it’s right to just stick up a poster without any conversa-
tion to follow it, but on the other hand, I don’t that it’s right to totally ban (freedom of speech).” Furthermore, according to Oh, given that students spend a majority of their time at school, it is important that polite discussions are propagated through posters and signage. “It’s a little disheartening to see that the only posters that can be up on the walls are words and the only images are logos. In a sense, it almost dehumanizes the school. For instance, our callout posters were in sets of four and so one of them had the logistical information, but the other three were ideas put out in some popular TED Talks. Based on these new changes, it seems like we aren’t able to do something like that now,” Oh said. Besides the necessity to maintain a safe student environment, Principal John Williams also said that administrators would like to limit the amount of posters in the school in order to maintain a neat physical environment. “Some of this is just aesthetics,
ACCESSING THE POLICIES
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Ask Mrs. Wiseman for access to Canvas page
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Ask a club sponsor for a link to the page
3 Check online for the school board mandate on the CCS website POSTER PLAN: TEDx officers (starting from left) Selin Oh, Shubhi Sinha, Shae Rickel and Hannah Paul discuss poster designs for their upcoming event. The club said it plans on meeting with Wiseman for poster approval soon.
RACHAEL TAN | PHOTO
too. One of the things that we pride ourselves on is how clean our school is. We would not want to have our Commons with people sticking up whatever they would want to put up. And it happens from time to time.” Williams said. According to Assistant Principal Brittany Wiseman and Williams, CHS has dealt with similar issues where an established school policy was updated, and they said such a change is not a first. “In any policy that we change, sometimes those changes are brought about because the wording was misleading and new situations arise,” Williams said. “Administration has a formal process where we go through our handbook and look at what changes would be appropriate or beneficial. For instance, our policies on Academic Dishonesty, headphones, and cell phones were changed a few years ago.” According to Wiseman, coming to a consensus on what is a “right” policy varies with the complexity of the issue. Wiseman said, “Some (decisions) are ‘Duh,’ and (others) are where we will talk to some other people and those might take them longer. Basically, our intent is to be purposeful about our decisions. My belief is that, in high school, you should have a minimum amount of rules you have to keep your building running.” For her part, Oh said she hopes students’ voices are encouraged to
POSTER PREMISE Administrators discuss reasons for new poster policy
ADHI RAMKUMAR | STORY ccording to both principal john Williams and Assistant Principal Brittany Wiseman, new poster policies were implemented as a result of a controversial anti-abortion poster put up last November by members
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THE NEW GUIDELINES
Here’s a look at a previous year’s TEDx poster and some of the changes TEDx and other clubs will have to make in order for their signs to comply with the new guidelines.
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Club signs must be used solely to announce club meetings.
Signs cannot be combined to make a larger image.
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Words on the poster must be limited to the date, time and location of club meetings.
Club logos must be submitted for approval by Sept. 1 each year.
TEDX | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION be heard more when trying to decide on policies to enact. “Honestly, I feel I’m often on the receiving end and these rules just emphasize that feeling,” Oh said. “We’re the ones who are being affected by such changes, and I feel us students should be included in such discussions. More specific to this, I hope a conversation about this is encouraged and the school can learn more from an experience like this.” However, Wiseman said students
are highly encouraged to speak to any administrator should they have any concern against policies of any kind. Wiseman said, “I think a student could go to any administrator, but there are many avenues. The key is that it’s important that students know they have a right to say what they feel. If someone has an idea, we encourage them to make us aware of it and they can even use an anonymous alert if they wish to not have their name tied to it.” Looking into the future, Williams
of the Teens for Life Club. After discussion among administrators over winter break, the policy related to posters was immediately updated as of the beginning of this semester. The club has now been cleared to put their poster back up. Members of the Teens for Life Club declined to comment for this story. On the new policy, Wiseman said, “Once (a poster) is made, it usually takes about a day or two to get approved, and then they get a stamp. There’s a certain number (of posters) that can go in each of the cafeterias, and then if for some reason there would be a (poster) that has not been approved or been questioned, it’ll be taken down and given back to me, and then I contact the club sponsor and have a conversation with the sponsor and the club leader.”
POSTER REVIVAL: (Background) ProLife Club’s poster promotes adoption over abortion. The club said it plans on recreating and putting it back up.
MARY CARMEN ZAKRAJSEK | SUBMITTED PHOTO
PRANAV SRIRAM | GRAPHIC
said policies may change based upon new technological advancements and growing changes in society. Williams said, “The role of leaders is to evaluate as a situation occurs, and decide what appropriate changes need to be made. We can change a policy in five minutes and we can make exceptions to them also. That’s the job of leadership. That’s why we’re constantly evaluating our policies. As technology evolves, we have to look into that.” H
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The previous poster policy had some ambiguity in its wording, with no exact dimensions and sizes given. This resulted in confusion regarding what exactly students could put on posters. Williams said the intent of signs, to describe the location of a club meeting or event, has not changed at all, but he said administrators have simply done a better job of being clear of what is expected of students. “The hope and the intent for signs is to get more people involved in student interest clubs,” Wiseman said. “We want students to know, ‘Okay, so what do we offer at school?’ The hope is if I see a sign for (a club)… I’m going to go show up there so I can go be a part of that H group. That’s why we have the signs.”
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Students find ways to cross-check their media sources in order to avoid false news on social media ALANNA WU | STORY
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on TV, maybe CBS or Cable News Network (CNN). For simple stuff, like incidents, they can have faulty sources, they don’t even mention sources, and on social media there’s so many things that can be discredited and just 62% of taken way out of proportion.” Americans get However, studies show the majority of the U.S. their news on population is not as dedicated to staying well-informed social media. as Kaehr is. According to a 2016 study conducted by Pew Research Center, 66 percent of people who have PEWRESEARCH | SOURCE Facebook accounts use it for information. While this in and of itself is not concerning, an analysis conducted by NBC News in 2016 suggested that the majority ARE YOU LYING ON SOCIAL MEDIA? of Americans preferred fake news Here’s a closer look at the extent to which on social media to real news. Media people rely on social media for news and how misinformation is spread. specialist John Shearin said he believes the highly divided political What social media outlets do people turn to for news? climate right now plays a large role in whether or not people allow Facebook 44% themselves to be misinformed. “If someone can come into a YouTube situation, totally objective and 10% be presented with a statistic, with Twitter a fact, they’ve got a fair chance 9% of distinguishing, ‘Oh, is this really true?’ With the emotionally Instagram 4% charged political situation we’ve got 10 right now, people come in with an 20 30 40 50 % of U.S. adults using site for news agenda, with a point of view. They want to hear something ugly about the person they don’t like. So, when How much of news shared on social media is misinformation? a piece of information is put out Shared story they there, they don’t say, ‘Well, would later found was he really have done that?’, ‘Is she 16% false really that type of person?’ No, they Shared story they think, ‘Yes! I knew he was a S.O.B 14% knew at the time and this proves it!’” Shearin said. was false Kaehr, who supported President 23% Have done either Donald Trump during the election, of these said he developed a habit of cross10 20 30 40 50 referencing facts because, according to % of U.S. Adults who have Kaehr, many of the articles targeting PRANAV SRIRAM | GRAPHIC Trump during the election ended up PEW RESEARCH | SOURCE being false or taken out of context. Social Media Service
n an era when clickbait and fake news articles are becoming more and more common, sophomore Luke Kaehr has learned to take any news article he sees with a grain of salt. According to Kaehr, no fact in any article can be trusted until it is cross-referenced with another source, especially when it comes to politics. “I try to compare as many sources as possible,” Kaehr said. “I normally research on Google, I’ll go to Fox News, and I’ll check another news outlet that just happens to be
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“(He is portrayed) as such a horrible guy, when in actuality we haven’t even seen what he’s done yet. I think a lot of people discredited him and thought negatively of him, they spoke lots of horrible things about him, personal attacks, false criticisms against him,” Kaehr said. “I think they attacked him for nearly everything he’s ever done and blew nearly every small detail about him out of proportion and completely tried to make him look like a fool.” Shearin said misinformation has, in general, become more common in recent years because of advances in technology and the rise of social media. “It is so much easier to get misinformation in front of a wide audience quickly. We’ve always seen misinformation made public,” Shearin said. “But now somebody can go on Facebook, or go on Twitter, put something out there, (and it) can be seen by hundreds of thousands if not millions of people within the hour. There is an old saying, that I’m going to misquote, to the effect of ‘a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.’ If it’s a juicy bit of information, true or otherwise, that’s going to circulated past on and on. ” Nicole Laughrey, Pinnacle yearbook adviser and
TEACHING MEDIA: Media specialist John Shearin works with seniors in AP Capstone Research working on their projects in the library. Shearin said that databases are one of the ways students can find information to avoid media misnifnromation.
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mass media teacher, reflected these views and said it is up to consumers of media to prevent convenience from creating opportunities for misinformation. “Convenience is huge. Social media is something you guys are doing anyway. When information comes your way in a manner that is very convenient and passive, students and really just people in general embrace that,” Laughrey said. “I think that sometimes, it gets really difficult, because right now we live in a world where we are very much able to tailor the news that we get to our interests, and to our own opinions. When we find news, or a news site, whether that’s fake or not, that seems to support our predisposed opinions and beliefs, then we just roll with it.” As for avoiding misinformation in social media, Shearin said he recommends CHS students to go back to the basics. “I don’t think I can tell the readers anything new. They’ve heard it all before. Don’t believe just because you see it in print. I keep coming back to the word ‘skepticism’. Don’t be so naive as to immediately embrace whatever, even if it’s reinforcing what you hope to be the case,” Shearin said. “Maintain a healthy skepticism and do a little H research. You can’t just go with consensus.”
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH | FEB 23, 2017
RED, WHITE, BLUE AND BLACK
Students reflect on Black History Month’s founder’s goal: cultural education JORDYN BLAKEY | STORY
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hen carter g. woodson created ‘negro History Week,’ he intended to create unity to teach the United States about African Americans’ achievements. However, Jordan Daniel, secondgeneration Ethiopian and sophomore, said Black History Month should focus on the full history of African Americans and Africans alike. “I do feel like that, in general, it is needed for Black History Month to focus on not only history from the 1700s and up, but also from 3,000 years back, the full history of Africa and not just America,” Daniel said. According to Tolerance.org, a website sponsored by the Southern Law Poverty center, Woodson also created ‘Negro History Week’ because he saw a lack of black history taught in schools and wanted to educate Americans about African American history; Daniel said the same should be done with African history.
DID YOU KNOW? The first historically black college and university was Cheyney University, established in 1837. PBS | SOURCE
“Everybody should have the opportunity to learn black history throughout the year, which is why I’m in the process of starting a club called African History and Culture, and our goal is to have a class here at CHS so that anybody that wants to can learn about African history and culture because there definitely is a gap in that field of knowledge,” Daniel said. She said in her time as a Carmel Clay student, she wasn’t taught much about black history. “I feel like that’s definitely an issue that needs to be resolved, and we as students can do that,” Daniel said. Additionally, Jazlyn Visor, African American and senior, said CHS should focus more on black history because it is a part of U.S. history. “It should be (like) other races like Native Americans, because we’re all part of U.S. history, but we only focus on the Caucasian part of it, which I don’t think is fair. I would like to know more about my history as well,” Visor said.
FEB 23, 2017 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH
TEACHING TIDBIT: U.S. history teacher Kenneth Browner lectures to his class. According to Browner, it is important that all cultures are explored within the curriculum today.
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REFLECTION: Senior Jazlyn Vizor poses during SRT. Visor said, “Being a black
person, Black History Month is basically just another day. I feel that it is really for people who aren’t African American and for them to see what our culture is and to have a better understanding of it.” REBECCA QIN | PHOTO
THE HISTORY OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH Take a closer look at the development of what we know today as Black History Month:
AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY
1915 Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for ASALH CARTER G. WOODSON, FOUNDER
A CENTURY OF BLACK LIFE,
Negro History Week
HISTORY AND CULTURE
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN
U.S. history teacher Kenneth Browner said there should be classes dedicated to different cultures. He said he created the curriculum for the black history course in Lawrence township, one they still utilize today. “I’m fine with them brokering classes with different races, cultures or groups that have contributed in some way shape or form in society,” Browner said. According to Tolerance.org, one of Woodson’s main points was that education could help fight racism and discrimination. Daniel also said educating others about African history can help with this problem. “This is a really big thing because when you learn somebody’s history you get to understand them more and it is the responsibility of our schools to fight that (discrimination) by educating people,” Daniel said. “We have so many stereotypes in the world today and those people just base those stereotypes on crap they see on social media or things they may have seen in print and never take the time out to learn the cultural differences that really make us different,” Browner said. Like Daniel, Visor said CHS should offer other culture classes. “When we have U.S. History, once they get to the 1960s we’ll talk about Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, maybe go beyond just those two figures and talk about others as well,” Visor said. According to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Woodson thought Black History Month would eventually be unnecessary. “I think that what (Woodson) said is true; we shouldn’t have to have a month that shows recognition to our culture, it should just always be like that, but unfortunately that’s not how it is because the world doesn’t operate like that. We have to kind of force it upon others to understand what we go through and our success and how we have overcome the struggle,” Visor said. Overall, Daniel and Visor said Black History month should be a time to educate others about both African and African American History. Visor said, “Basically, I just don’t want people who are not AfricanAmerican to think of it as just another day. Just try to ponder on the things that African-Americans went through within the country.” H
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the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) in order to promote the achievements of African Americans.
1926 Woodson and the ASNLH sent out an official
press release announcing Negro History Week, which took place on the second week of February.
1960s Following the Civil Rights movement, many
college campuses turned Negro History Week into a month-long celebration.
1976 President Gerald R. Ford officially recognized Negro History Week as Black History Month.
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WORLD WILDLIFE DAY | FEB 23, 2017
DUMBO’S
FINAL BOW The end of the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus circles back to the exploitation of animals in entertainment LIN-LIN MO | STORY
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Here’s a few events of circus history and for the animals in it.
1960s, ‘70s The minority opinion that elephants didn’t belong in circuses began to tip over into the majority 1990s Described as “an active time for all sorts of activism in the name of animals” 1998 Three-yearold elephant Kenny was forced to perform even though he was sick; he died shortly after a performance in Jacksonville
oing to the circus isn’t as common now as it was last century, but Joanna Zhang, Action for Animals club leader and junior, said she enjoyed the throwback form of entertainment since her parents took her to a show many years ago. Zhang said, “The whole experience is really crowded but sort of exciting because you see some fun performances. I mean, as a kid, I thought I was really excited. The only one I remember is the Ringling Bros. (show) in Indianapolis in the Bankers Life Fieldhouse.” However, Zhang said she had a moment of clarity. “I didn’t think much to it because at the time I was young, but I definitely didn’t enjoy it like as you would expect in a circus. I more thought of it as those animals didn’t seem that happy,” Zhang said. Despite the sentiment and culture the circus brought, “The Greatest Show on Earth” will give its final bows on May 21 after relentless attempts by animal rights organizations to shut it down. But the closing is only one victory in a larger war for them. March 3, U.N. World Wildlife Day, aims to tackle major issues for wildlife like over-exploitation. Although Ring-
1999 A four-year-old elephant, Benjamin, drowned in a pond as he tried to move away from a trainer poking him with a bullhook.
ling Bros.’ dropout is considered a victory by many, the end is not on the horizon yet. World Animal Protection, an organization spearheading talks about animal cruelty in the tourism industry, launched its “Wildlife. Not Entertainers” campaign in 2015 to fight against this issue. Elizabeth Hogan, U.S. Oceans and Wildlife Campaign Manager of World Animal Protection, said via email global tourism is expected to grow to 1.8 billion tourists in 13 years. Though notable benchmarks in public awareness were made, Hogan said, “We estimate that approximately 110 million people globally still visit cruel wildlife tourist attractions each year, mostly unaware of the animal abuse involved.” Sophomore Bella Galardi has never been to an animal circus before, and she said she never will because of personal morals. She said she agrees with Hogan that the Ringling Brothers’ demise will not end animal cruelty in entertainment right now and said it may not ever go away. “I don’t think you can really stop animal cruelty. There’s always going to be someone who’s like, ‘Oh I’m gonna get the animal to do backflip and people are gonna pay me a lot of money for it.’ There’s always going to
REMEMBERING THE PAST: Junior Joanna Zhang reminisces her past experiences at the circus with balloons reminding her of her childhood trip. Zhang said while there is some awareness of animal cruelty in the entertainment industry, there is not enough.
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2004 Ringling killed an eight-monthold elephant, Riccardo, after he fractured both his hind legs when he fell off a circus pedestal
FEB 23, 2017 | WORLD WILDLIFE DAY
be that person that can see something else for their personal gain and there’s not really a way you can get rid of it,” Galardi said. She said the personal ban from wildlife entertainment is also affected by her firsthand encounter with animal cruelty. Galardi said, “(Animal cruelty) bothers me because, well, I had to move one time because the people that owned where I lived used to kick our dog—because he bit them once when they were messing with him—so that’s kind of where it comes from for me. Besides moral ethics to it—you should treat everything equally—it also comes from seeing my personal, loved pets being treated horribly.” Hard-hitting stories of animal abuse in tourism entertainment, like Tilikum, the SeaWorld orca that died this January in Orlando, or Kenny, the three-year-old Asian elephant of the big top that died overnight in 1998, have fueled objections against the practice backed
up by psychological analyses of circus animals. Hogan said, “A life in tourist entertainment is no life for a wild animal. Around the world, wildlife including elephants, tigers and lions are taken from the wild when they are young or bred in captivity in the name of tourist entertainment. Every day, wild animals in entertainment suffer as a result of capture, transportation, training, breeding and poaching. They endure harsh and intensive training to force them to perform and interact with people, living their whole lives in cruel captive conditions.” Hogan continued, “What’s more, captivity stops wild animals from expressing their natural behavior and permanently damages their physiological and psychological well-being. There are thousands of wild animals caught up in this cruel industry, and the intensity and duration of their suffering is simply unacceptable.”
“Besides moral ethics to it…it also comes from seeing my personal, loved pets being treated horribly.” Sophomore Bella Galardi
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Zhang said, “Not only have the elephant acts fallen from their former glory, people are not interested in this form of entertainment anymore.” “People didn’t really like watching it, and also because of some backlash against (animal acts), they had to make the acts less interesting. People didn’t want to watch it even more because they just did really simple tricks to keep the animals, but it sort of alienated both the audience and animal rights activists,” Zhang said. However, Zhang said she has reached a new outlook on circuses since her first encounter with trapeze artists and ringmasters. “I think there’s some awareness (of animal cruelty in circuses), but not enough, because people focus more on things that are more in the news such as SeaWorld and people wearing fur, so that sort of gets put on the back of people’s minds,” Zhang said. “I would say, especially if they don’t treat the animals properly, then... I discourage H people from going.”
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Feld Entertainment, owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, agreed to pay a $270,000 fine to settle allegations that it violated federal animal welfare laws in its handling of its animals
At least 30 Ringling elephants, including four babies, have died since 1992.
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SOCIAL WORKERS’ AWARENESS MONTH | FEB 23, 2017
SOCIALLY UNDERRATED CHS students, staff evaluate the role social workers, student mediators play
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arch is national social Workers’ Month, a period of time set aside to educate society about the invaluable contributions of individuals such as CHS social worker Abby Cartwright-Brattain. For the past seven years, Cartwright-Brattain said she has conducted individual and group counseling so students can find support. She also conducts prevention and mentoring programs. Most importantly, she helps families of students find resources. From looking at data to getting referrals from teachers, she said she did everything she
can to find those students among thousands who may need help with the social injustices in their lives. “The most difficult part (of my job) is just knowing all of the things going in (students’) lives that are tragic and awful, but knowing you can only do so much and wondering how they’re doing after the day’s over with,” Cartwright-Brattain said. To her, a social worker is an advocate for people who have social injustices in their life. Yet, social workers often work behind the scenes, away from the attention of many students and teachers. In July 2016, Odyssey,
which is a social media platform that democratizes content, published a column written by Julia Kalish, a social worker in training. She stated, “Social workers are extremely underrated for the life-changing and genuine work they accomplish.” Cartwright, for her part, said, “I wouldn’t necessarily say (social workers are) underrated, but I don’t think all of the students know about my position or what social workers do in a school.”
WELL-ROUNDED WORKERS There are multiple types of social workers. Here are a few. Clinical Social Workers diagnose mental, behavioral and emotional disorders and provide mental health care School Social Workers
Child and Family Social Workers protect vulnerable children and intervene in cases of abuse or neglect and help families in need of assistance and help to find housing or services
work with teachers, parents and school administrators to develop plans and strategies to improve students’ academic performance and social development
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FEB 23, 2017 | SOCIAL WORKERS’ AWARENESS MONTH
However, social workers are not the only people at CHS who do important but often anonymous work. Frances Rafferty, GKOM council member and senior, said the GKOM council is underrated because it is seen as a lesser form of leadership at this school. In fact, most students do not know GKOM council members are actually student mediators. Because of this, she said it can sometimes be problematic. “I do wish that (the terms GKOM council and student mediators) were put together more because it’s important to know that we exist. I think a lot of the times students, even myself, try to take matters in their own hands, and there’s so many different moving pieces of a problem that they can’t all try to handle themselves, and they try to, but they become overwhelmed, and it tends to fall apart sometimes,” Rafferty said. GKOM lead sponsor Mike Meyer said he tries to give these student mediators as much freedom as possible when they are solving minor issues such as student time management advice, by asking them to handle it themselves unless the situation is serious. At that point, Cart-
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MEDIATING wright-Brattain said the GKOM is ferty said it is also possible for stuLEADERS: trained to let the GKOM sponsors, dents to question whether or not Social worker counselor or a social worker know. the adult they went to for help acAbby Cartwright“It’s important to break out of tually cares about them. Brattain (left) your shell and seek help if you need In response, Cartwright-Bratand Head of help with a problem,” Rafferty said. tain said, “Me personally, I care Special Services “(Student mediators are) here to about every kid that’s in here. That’s Lacey Grabek flip through a help. We are specifically trained to why I got into this field. When I student survey deal with difficult situations.” was in high school, I felt like there binder during At the same time, Cartwrightweren’t adults that really cared, and their break. They Brattain said she understands stuthat was the first thing that made also discussed dents may never reach out to her me to want to get in a field like this. upcoming themselves because they may not I haven’t forgotten that’s how I was counseling know how to, feel embarrassed or felt at that age.” events later on. just simply not want to talk to an As a result, Meyer said the goal APURVA MANAS adult, but she said she is not a judgof both the GKOM program and | PHOTO ing person at all. social working is personal engage“I think I make everyone feel ment; it does not matter who stucomfortable when they dents reach out for as long as come. Once they get here, they seek help. I don’t really have kids who Cartwright-Brattain said, “ I think a lot of times don’t want to see me. I think “I want all of the kids to take knowing that it’s confidential students, even myself, try care of themselves mentally and (that) it’s a judge-free to take matters in their and emotionally. I feel like zone, I’m hoping that kids own hands... but they kids are so overworked, spread would want to come,” Cart- become overwhelmed, themselves so thin, have so wright-Brattain said. “I know and it tends to fall apart much anxiety and just I want that kids are going through them to be happy young peoso many things right now, sometimes.” ple, not worry about so many and that’s why we’re here, things. I hope that if they so they should try to come Senior Frances Rafferty have problems going on, then down and get some help.” I can help solve some of (the H In some situations, Rafproblems) with them.”
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What media sources do you trust and why? “For news sources, I would probably trust more of the televised news rather than internet news because it’s easier to have that stuff warped than being able to hear it televised live, so I think that’s more trustworthy than other aspects.”
Junior Shelby Everitt
SOAPBOX “I don’t know too much about news media, so I trust kind of whatever is on, whatever I see first. (There is) nothing I don’t believe or not trust.”
Sophomore David Blackwell
“I always go to CNN.com. It’s just what I’ve always been using.”
Senior Maxine Vincent “News sources such as CNN and Fox News have a traditional history of being accurate unless they are biased which they sometimes are if it’s an op-ed piece. I usually trust .org, .edu, .gov sources because I find that they include accurate information without bias.”
Sophomore Muskaan Ramchandani
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ASK THE HILITE Q: In today’s politically charged climate, how can students properly consume the news? RAIHA ZAINAB | Q&A AND PHOTO
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I think that the best thing that students can do is educate themselves that each news outlet has some sort of bias and that when consuming news, you have to be a little careful of that. (You should know) which news sources can skew a little left or a little right, or which ones are really more in the middle. Then, once you have an idea of that, when you’re reading from those news sources, you can at least gauge very consciously the words that are being used by those reporters. It largely goes unnoticed what verb is used or what adjective is used and what that word choice puts in your mind.
Q: How can students avoid media bias? A: You can’t. I mean we’re talking about a perfect world, but nobody’s perfect. Nobody’s going to be straight down the middle of the road, so you can’t avoid it. You need to be aware of it.
Q: Would you say that most news sources are accurate? A: I think they’re accurate in the way they portray their bias. I think they all strive for accuracy. Journalists went to school to be journalists, and they want to do a good job for the most part but, at the same time, they’re human beings, and they maybe work for an organization that has certain ideas or certain philosophies, or they agree with a certain party, and you just have to be wary of that.
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Q: What media networks do you think are the most reliable?
A: I think that NPR, for example, is very good, (as well as) The New York Times. I think The Washington Post is good, (however, it is) a little to one side I suppose.
Q: How can media sources adhere to journalistic principles? A: Well, pretty easily in a perfect world. But, here’s the thing though: money drives everything. So, if money is involved, then media sources may let themselves be driven by that, and that’s just a fact of life for certain news outlets… I think there are a lot of good people out there who are trying to do a good thing but, as with anything, there are a lot of turns and twists in the road and a lot of decisions to make, and I think we all need to be aware of that as that news comes out.
Theresa Ramos, CHS Media Specialist and Media and Communications Department Chair
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STUDENT ACTIVISTS | FEB 23, 2017
BEING VISIBLE
Student activists share why they are outspoken about beliefs RAIHA ZAINAB, LILLY ST. ANGELO | STORY
Senior Mary Carmen Zakrajsek has been president of the Teens for Life Club since her junior year. She has been to a national training program on how to educate others about anti-abortion beliefs and has taught numerous pro-life classes to middle schoolers and other students. Zakrajsek just recently went to the March for Life in Washington D.C. on Jan. 27.
Why are you passionate about being anti-abortion? It sparked a fire in my heart because I knew I would have to do something in my life for fighting for human rights. I love being passionate, being an activist and this was just really on my heart to speak up for the most vulnerable. Sophomore Gabi Ruderman took a part in her first protest at the Women’s March on Jan. 21. Over the past year Ruderman has been paying more attention to politics and the news and wishes to be more active in her beliefs from now on.
Why did you decide to go to the Women's March? I decided to go because my grandmother always encouraged that and she took her kids to rallies and marches when they were younger and felt that they were in this country that has this democracy and they should take advantage because here, they could freely express their voices through their freedom of speech and press and to gather publicly.
Read the rest of these student activist's stories and how they were inspired to be vocal about their beliefsonline:http://hilite.org/49980/ student-section/being-visible/
SPEAKING UP: Senior Odelia Satchivi, Mary Carmen Zakrajsek, and sophomore Gabi Ruderman pose with signs and famous landmarks while participating in marches for their beliefs. With recent political upheaval, students are feeling the need to voice their opinions.
MARY CARMEN ZAKRAJSEK, GABI RUDERMAN, ODELIA SATCHIVI | SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Senior Odelia Satchivi has a unique perspective on racism and minority struggles. As a first-generation American in her Ivorian family, Satchivi did not grow up in the African American culture, yet she feels the effects of racism as a minority and advocates for the Black Lives Matter movement.
How do you believe we can decrease racism in our country? We all have to kind of get out of our bubble and understand that...we don’t just live in Carmel, Indiana, we live in the United States, we live in this world. The whole world isn’t just black and white. We need to learn other people’s cultures because I think the main problem with racism and ignorance is the fact that people don’t know other people’s cultures.
FEB 23, 2017 | BILLS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS
I’M JUST A BILL, SITTIN' ON CAPITOL HILL
These bills were sponsored by Republican representatives of various states
Past and upcoming national bills you should keep yours eyes peeled for.
H.R. 387
H.J. Res. 38
H.R. 7
H.J. Res. 58
This bill will depose standard of teacher education and preparation. Federal TEACH Grants would also be affected
This bill will require a warrant for information from Internet service providers
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This bill will make the Hyde Amendment permanent. This takes away federal funding for abortions that are not done to save a mothers life or to prevent a pregnancy caused by rape.
This bill will repeal an Environmental Protection Agency regulation on surface coal mining. Communities dependent on large rivers’ fresh drinking water will become vulnerable to “company secret” toxins
Contact your Indiana representatives and share your thoughts U.S. Representative Susan W. Brooks Submit to: https:// susanwbrooks.house. gov/contact/email-me
U.S Senator Joe Donnelly Submit to: https://www. donnelly.senate.gov/contact/ email-joe
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AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A brief explanation of executive orders Has the full force of law within parameters already set by Congress and the Constitution
Official statement from president about how federal agencies are to use their resources
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executive orders in first 12 days of office
Did you know..... There is no actual mention of exectuive orders in the constitution Executive orders can be overruled by the courts or nullified by legislators after they are put into effect
DATE: Jan. 24 Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal DATE: Jan. 30 Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements DATE: Feb. 1 Protecting Nation from Foreign terrorist entry
Donald Trump
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executive orders in first 12 days of office
George Bush
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executive orders in first 12 days of office
277 TOTAL
Barack Obama
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fitting in. For some CHS students, clothing sizes are a struggle to find and understand. GILLIAN PAXTON | STORY CAROLYN ZHANG | PHOTO
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or senior sarah biette, shopping for clothing is a difficult experience. But unlike some of her fellow students, her problem is not the rapidly changing trends but rather something far more difficult to overcome: most stores do not carry her size.
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“I can count on one hand the number of stores I frequently shop at that I know I’ll find something that at least fits me,” she said. Biette is one of a growing number of female students who shop for plussize clothing. According to Bloomberg Gadfly, a website that compiles data on financial trends, U.S. sales of women’s plus-size apparel has grown 17 percent in 2016, compared to a 7 percent growth in overall sales. This reflects a nationwide trend, as the average American woman now wears between a “Misses” size 16 and size 18. However, because most stores set their largest straight-size as a “Misses” size 14, many students have difficulty finding the same variety of clothing in alternate sizes. According to Biette, this is not only a frustrating problem but also an alienating one. “I think that a lot of plus-size clothing focuses on covering things up, whereas if you walk into any other store for teenagers, it’s kind of like ‘Wear whatever you want!’ And especially in the summer, like all of the shorts in plus sizes are very, very long, and it’s kind of hard to find clothing you’re not hot in,” she said. “But just, overall, the alienation of those who are plus-size and kind of seeing that as a separate group is really hard.” Biette’s relationship with plus sizes extends beyond the daily struggles to find clothing in her size. She also connected to a surprising number of people on Twitter through her experience with alternate sizes. “I purchased a bikini last year towards the beginning of the summer, and I saw a trend goSEW UNIQUE: (TOP, MIDDLE LEFT) Senior Remi Meeker sews a dress in her sewing class. Meeker makes and alters her own clothes. (BOTTOM LEFT) Meeker opens her drawing pencil case and looks at clothing designs in her sketchbook.
REBECCA QIN | PHOTOS (RIGHT) Senior Sarah Biette (left) poses in her plus-size clothing while senior Remi Meeker (right) poses in clothes she made and altered herself.
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30 ing around on Twitter of people posting pictures of themselves in response to this idea that people over 130 pounds can’t wear crop tops, people over 130 pounds can’t wear a bikini… so I put on my bikini, took a picture of myself in my bathroom mirror and posted it saying that, basically ‘Yes you can!’” she said. According to Biette, the post received attention from people all over the country, many of whom messaged her with their own stories of embarrassment over wearing plus-size clothing. “In a way, (the messages) made me more confident because it showed that were a lot of people who felt the same way I did,” she said. This societal idea may be connected to the lack of availability of not only plus-size clothing but also other alternative sizes like petite and tall clothing. However, the lack of availability of alternate size clothing is an unfortunate reality due to the way the fashion industry handles sizing. Sarah Penquite, University of Cincinnati graduate with a bachelor of science in fashion design, said she believes the fashion industry’s problem with alternative sizes comes from the way clothes are designed. “Things are not made and designed for average-sized women, they are made for someone 5 feet 8 inches or 5 feet 9 inches and size 4, and then sized up to what would be average,” she said. She said this practice comes from Europe where the smaller sizes are closer to average. In addition to a lack of availability of a variety of sizes, Biette also said she finds difficulty determining what sizes are correct for her, as the same sizes may fit differently from store to store. The lack of uniformity among women’s sizing is also due to problems in the fashion industry. According to Penquite, sizes in women’s clothing are not standard from store to store. This is due to the fact that many shoppers are less likely to buy sizes represented by larger numbers, so stores arbitrarily choose smaller numbers to represent larger sizes, a process known as “vanity sizing.” In addition, the sizes that exist have not changed much in decades, so as the average woman increases in size, clothing sizes remain the same.
the size of the plus-size market. The plus-size market makes up a significant sector of the clothing market. Here’s a bythe-numbers glance at just how important it is.
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31 “If you’re looking at patterns that you can make yourself, they have only changed a little bit since the 50s when patterns were mass-marketed. You could go to the store, buy a pattern and make your clothes. So, when you see all the things that say ‘Marilyn Monroe was a size 14’... in today’s sizes, she would be a 6,” Penquite said. In fact, these problems with sizing are not exclusive to plus-size clothing. Senior Remi Meeker said she makes and alters her own clothing due in part to the fact that she finds sizing difficult to understand even in straight sizes. “(The system of sizing) is definitely confusing, and really unfair on girls, because vanity sizing really damages self-esteem and self-image and makes them think they have to be one size because a size 3 is the ideal size,” she said. In response to the lack of options, online retailers like ModCloth have begun to offer a wider variety of sizes than most retail stores, and some websites, like Eloquii, have found success by exclusively selling plus-size clothing, making a wider variety of sizes available to a wider variety of shoppers. However, Biette said that while she occasionally shops at online retailers, it is not always easy to guarantee clothing bought online will fit because sizes are not consistent from retailer to retailer. For in-store shopping, she said her favorite stores for plus-sizes are Torrid, Forever 21 and Lane Bryant. “But that’s about it for where I can shop, because many stores don’t have the clothing for me to wear,” she said, “And if they do have it, it’s
a look into plussize clothing. Here’s a look at what a size 14 is in three retailers that sell plus-size clothing: Eloquii, Lane Bryant and Simply Be. Notice how even among these brands, sizing varies. All measurements are in inches. HEIDI PENG | GRAPHIC ELOQUII.COM, LANEBRYANT.COM, SIMPLYBE.COM | SOURCES
DRESSED UP: Senior Remi Meeker tries on the dress she made in sewing class. Meeker said clothes shopping was difficult for her, and thus she makes and alters her own clothes.
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also very expensive.” According to Penquite, these problems won’t go away as long as consumer habits in the United States remain the same. “America will not move (toward sizes based on the average) until it is profitable to do so, and so far it’s not,” she said. “Especially in younger markets where upper teens who are buying their own clothes…and young adults are willing to wear things that don’t fit as well just to have the fashion... It doesn’t matter to the age group that is wearing them, they’d rather be fashionable than not, even if it doesn’t fit as well.” For this reason, in the meantime, shoppers must cope with the confusing and even demoralizing truths of the way clothes are sized. For Meeker, the best way to find clothes that fit is to make them. “If you have the opportunity, you can always learn how to sew, take things in or add fabric to something. It’s all about personalizing your clothes for yourself,” she said. Meanwhile, Biette said she finds the best solution is to ally with others. “It’s not a health concern for plus-size fashion, it’s not ‘Oh, we don’t want to model an unhealthy lifestyle’... I think that, really, in the end, it’s a human concern. Don’t devalue, discriminate or knock down those of your friends who might need to shop for bigger or smaller clothing, because size is in our society is such a taboo issue in general, no matter what size you are,” she said. “The first step would be to be open with your friends, open with those around about your size and H how you feel about it.”
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n the upcoming months, many seniors at this school will begin to hear back from colleges to finalize their decisions for the future, finally drawing the lengthy college application process to a close. But for students like senior Jacob “Jake” Letts, the difficult portion of the application process has just begun. Instead of applying to a college in the traditional academic sense, Letts said he plans to audition for the musical theater programs of various colleges this spring. According to Letts, for students interested in pursuing a career in musical theater, they are required to audition for the music schools of their choice instead of sending in a traditional application. This process is designed to showcase the applicant’s abilities and display their talents to a panel of judges, helping the judges decide which applicants would be the best fit for their program. “The application process is really time-consuming and stressful. I just want to get it all done,” Letts said. Despite the lack of focus on academics in the audition process, receiving acceptance into these programs is extremely difficult. College audition coach Kelly Smith said, “(Students need to know)
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that it’s harder to get into a musical theater performing arts program than it is to get into medical school. That’s what I want them to know.” While being accepted into one of these schools requires tremendous levels of dedication and perseverance, the audition process is also incredibly rigorous and challenging, according to Smith. Smith said most musical theater auditions begin around 8 a.m. and can last until 6 p.m. To begin the day, auditions typically begin by conducting a brief question-andanswer session with auditioning students and their parents. Following this, the 30 to 40 students will change into comfortable clothes to begin the dance portion of the audition. Dancers will learn and perform various musical theatre jazz combinations, which usually takes 45 to 90 minutes. After this segment of the audition, individual auditions allow applicants to perform various song cuts and monologues. At some schools, students are also expected to complete a music theory exam to conclude the process. During these auditions, the judges look for applicants to meet certain criteria and requirements.
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Smith said judges’ main priority during evaluations is singing. Throughout the process, judges also look for marketability, acting and dance ability. The weight of these different categories varies depending on the school, but a student’s vocal ability is consistently the primary focus. However, before students can even audition for school, they must begin the application process in the fall. Letts said the application process can begin as early as November and ends as late as the end of March. Letts said, “(The prescreening) was the first step. For a lot of colleges, I’ll have to do a prescreening, so I have to send in a video of me singing and acting, or just singing, or singing and dancing, those kind of things. That way they can see me. Then I will either pass the prescreening, which will let me go to get an H audition, or I don’t.”
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Students planning to pursue careers in musical theater audition for colleges
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ART GRANTS | FEB 23, 2017
FOR THE ARTS
Carmel mayor Jim Brainard issues $914,500 worth of art grants AMY ZHOU | STORY
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s part of a predetermined amount of money allotted to developing local art programs each year, Carmel mayor Jim Brainard awarded $914,500 to 21 various organizations this year as part of an effort to support local arts. Using a formula created by Brainard and the city council, it was determined that 1 percent of the city’s total revenue would go towards the local arts, and this is the 15th year of this tradition. Abigail “Abby” Carmichael, Indianapolis Children’s Choir (ICC) member and sophomore, said the funding would help with various expenses in the choir. “(ICC) is an organization that seeks to bring music and higher education to kids in central Indianapolis and the surrounding areas,” Carmichael said. With this purpose in mind, the $6,000 allotted to the ICC would help with travel expenses and any new equipment the organization needs to update. Carmichael said high personal expenses tend to deter people away from joining the choir, but the new fund would help out with this problem. Emily Erghott, executive director of the Carmel Clay Historical Society, voiced similar beliefs in terms of what the money would help fund.
“Generally, government fundings go towards the society’s events and yearly activities that are open to the public,” Erghott said via email. “It’s a nice gesture for the art organizations in Carmel to show that the arts are important to this community.” Carmel city treasurer Christine Paula said an application is required in order for a group to be considered
MUSIC MAKING: ICC choir director Sarah Hassler leads the choir. Hassler said the grant will be used for outreach.
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an art and, in turn, a valid recipient of the arts fund. However, the funding is not going to strictly local arts, as money will be allocated to organizations outside of Carmel as well. “You would think that since it’s Carmel money that it would be allocated to just Carmel,” Paula said, “but sometimes these groups come into Carmel and play and I guess that helps them be able to do that so that might be the rationale.” However, ultimately, the decision of where the money is awarded remains up to the mayor and the city council. Carmichael said she believes the grant would personally help the choir as they travel to new places and tour different areas. She said, “ICC does a lot for reaching out to kids who otherwise wouldn’t have access to good music education, so I think the grant will help the choir to continue to work on H that mission.”
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Reporter Armaan Goel discusses Samsung’s chances for recovery post-Note 7 ARMAAN GOEL | COLUMN
hen the note 7 was unveiled on Aug. 2, 2016, it seemed to be the perfect handset. It had a gorgeous display, a best-in-class camera and an innovative iris scanning technology. As Verge.com put it, “the Note 7 is quite a few steps ahead of its competitors.” However, news coverage of the device soon turned from raving reviews to reports of its design defect. After months of recalls, replacements and bans, the Note 7 was officially taken off of shelves, solidifying the Note 7 as one of the largest tech recalls of all time and leaving the future of one of the company’s flagship devices unclear. With Mobile World Congress coming up on Monday, consumers will likely get their first look at Samsung’s Galaxy S8
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assure devices do not suffer from the same issues again. According to Forbes Magazine, Samsung has been testing over 200,000 Note 7 units to identify the issue that plagued the device. The company has also made an official statement detailing its finding. However, purely convincing users its devices are once again safe to use is not enough. Samsung must give consumers the features they want in order to truly recover. Therefore, one of the most important features Samsung must include in its new device is a headphone jack. Although it may seem like a small feature, the headphone jack’s effect on the reactions to the iPhone 7 launch show that it is very important to many people. Most people already have headphones, and do not want to have to buy new products or use a clumsy adapter in order to listen to their music. In a poll conducted by Droid Life, 71 percent of voters said a smartphone needs a headphone jack, indicating the overwhelming desire for the port. H The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Armaan Goel at agoel@hilite.org.
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OSCARS | FEB 23, 2017
Here is a comparison between other well-known award shows
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At this age, Christopher Plummer was the oldest winner for any acting category.
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Roger Ross Williams, director of “Music By Prudence,” becomes the first black director to win an Oscar. However, his speech was quickly overshadowed when estranged producer Elinor Burkett storms the stage and interrupts his speech.
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The 2014 Academy Award host Ellen DeGeneres takes a selfie with stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and more. This selfie became the most retweeted photo, currently with over 3 million retweets.
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“The Revenant” actor Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins an Oscar, ending an era of jokes and memes that lasted through his 27 years in Hollywood.
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Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook” actress, goes to retrieve her Oscar for Best Actress but trips and falls on the stairs.
Here’s what to look forward to this year: “La La Land” tied with “Titanic” and “All About Eve” for a record number of 14 nominations. In order to beat Titanic’s record for most wins, “La La Land” must win 12 Oscars.
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will host Sunday’s 89th Academy Award for the first time.
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HISTORICAL FILMS | FEB 23, 2017
HOLLYWOOD STARS...AND STRIPES
Students, teachers discuss the ethics behind films based on historical events MISHA REKHTER | STORY
“Saving Private Ryan,” “Schindler’s List” and “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” which comes out on March 31. The former category of movies dives into the heart of many debilitating conflicts and often cover heartbreaking tragedies. As a result, opinions differ on the morality of these films as well as how the portrayals of events differentiate in accuracy and relevancy, making the issue even murkier. Sophomore Sammie Roger said, “The issues these types of movies discuss are challenging to portray fairly, and with their immense profitability, these movies definitely test the boundaries of ethics.” However, Roger said these films
slew of movies with plots revolving around true historical events have flooded movie theaters in the past few years. These movies divulge into two distinct categories. One category centers around recent events and disasters such as “Patriots Day,” which came out in wide release last December about the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 and “Deepwater Horizon,” which came out in wide release last September and focuses on the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The other group delves into older, lingering issues such as “12 Years a Slave,”
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can be considered morally sound if they bring awareness to an issue and do an adequate job of correctly portraying reality. On the other hand, freshman Marcus Prine, who disapproves of these films said, “The people making these movies are being inconsiderate. All they want to do is make money and they’re willing to exploit anything and anybody to make a profit.” However, Prine said movies that analyze events from decades ago are more ethically sound. “Enough time has passed where it is okay to discuss the disasters and the wounds are less fresh,” Prine said. “While it is still wrong to profit off of these calamities, by then, the movies can be used to make people conscious of a particular event.” Social studies teacher Allison Hargrove who each year plays these films in her class said, “Movies like ‘Schindler’s List’ are able to evoke emotions that facts just cannot. The movie is able to humanize all the situation and does a great job showing the severity of the tragedy to students.” Furthermore, she said many of these types of movies revolve less around turning a profit and more-so wish to bring light to a deeper issue. Hargrove also said she shows “Schindler’s List” to her classes because it provides an accurate depiction of reality. “With ‘Schindler’s List,’ it was obviously more about educating people than it was about making money. The director, Steven Spielberg, even donated all of his personal profits to charity,” Hargrove said. Roger said, “The movies tend to do a good job showing everything like it really happened.” “Historically accurate movies are able to provide a greater impact because their story is real and they are able to bring awareness to real H events that transpired.”
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Entertainment Briefs SWITCHING IT UP
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On March 3, Nintendo will release the Nintendo Switch, a hybrid video game console, for $299.99. The console combines the handheld and home console experience through insertion of the main console unit into a docking station to connect to a TV. Players can remove the console from the dock to experience its function as a portable touchscreen tablet. The JoyCon wireless controllers, which contain motion sensing abilities, can be played attached or detached from the tablet. Take a look at the Nintendo Switch’s different play styles. handheld mode
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Pop artist Ariana Grande will continue her Dangerous Woman Tour at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 11 at 7 p.m. This will mark the first time Grande has toured in Indiana. Her concert will feature a lineup of Little Mix and Victoria Monet. The tour started earlier this month in Phoenix and will end on April 15 in Orlando, Fla.
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Learn how diets and nutrition effects CHS athletes ANGELA SUN | STORY
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T CHS, MANY ATHLETES change their diets to help them attain their athletic and physical goals, which vary from sport to sport. According to Evan Bouillet, varsity cross-country, track and field member and senior, while the cross-country team is advised to consume many carbohydrates before meets, there is no strict set diet for cross-country runners to follow. “There is not really a difference between cross-country and track diet-wise. We try to eat as much lean protein and as many vegetables as we can. During our summer cross-country camp, we have a dietitian named Heather Fink that comes and talks to us about many different kinds of good food for us to eat and to get us into training shape. She really encourages us to drink green smoothies to make us healthier and feel better during the season. It’s a great way for us to get our vegetables in, and it’s a good source of fuel throughout the day,” Bouillet said. Since Bouillet is a multi-sport athlete, he, like many others, must learn to change his diet during his sport seasons and off-season between track and cross-country. According to David Creel, nutritionist and food psychologist at St. Vincent’s Hospital, balancing calories both during the season and the off-season is key to high performance as an athlete.
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“You want to balance your calories during the off-season as an athlete, and during training, all athletes need to stay hydrated and need to keep up carbs,” Creel said. “Carbs are looked as the most important of the macronutrients. You need other nutrients as well, but carbs are key for recovery, especially for endurance activities, things such as running, cycling and soccer. In order to succeed, athletes should focus on psychological preparation rather than preparing their diets. The nutrition part is relatively basic. Listen to what everyone tells you, eat a variety of foods and balance sugar, sweets and beverages.” Football players too need to balance their diets from the season to off season. For multi-sport athletes like Jalen Walker, varsity football player, track and field runner and senior, he has to maintain two types of diets depending on which sports season he is in. For Walker, adjusting his diet during the off-season is crucial in successfully preparing his body for the different sports in which he participates. “For track, I must eat less than I do in football because of the sport,” Walker said. “There is a lot more running involved. I will eat more carbohydrates, more pasta and stuff, especially before competitions. The night before a big football game, I eat a pasta and some chicken, and then a little bit more pasta just to get enough en-
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ergy. For track meets, I eat a lot more pasta than normal the day before. I also eat a lot more vegetables and fruits before track meets. I definitely drink a lot more water just to stay hydrated throughout the day. It differs in preparation for each sport.” However, maintaining certain diets isn’t the only way to prepare for competition; athletes like Walker also prepare mentally and physically for important games and matches. He said, “For football, it’s all about mentally getting yourself ready for the game rather than physically getting yourself ready by eating certain foods. (For football), you’re getting ready for certain plays and all of that stuff. You have to lift to make sure you’re physically ready. Track-wise, I take it easy before a big meet. You don’t want to waste all of your energy because you don’t want to get tired before the meet even starts. It’s just a bit different in terms of the mental and physical preparation (between sports).” For other athletes, the focus of a diet is more traditional - that is, to lose weight and have a healthier lifestyle, which would in turn improve their athletic performance. Will Patton, Hockey Gold player, football player and senior, said he began a stricter diet before football season started this year during the summer off-season. “This year, especially, at the football season I started cracking down on my eating for my personal grati-
fication,” Patton said. “A lot of what I did was watch my portion sizes, especially for dinner. Rather than eating two dinners, I ate one dinner. I realized that I didn’t need to eat that much; my body just didn’t need the extra energy. I just drank water and focused on eating more fruits and veggies. Overall, I simplified what I ate. At first, it was really hard because I was still hungry because I would eat way more before I started my diet. I thought I was hungry even though I wasn’t; I was just so used to the large portions and extra snacking that I thought I was hungry. I left out a lot of food that I didn’t need to be eating. Overall, I’ve felt better. I’ve lost around 20 pounds since the beginning of football season. I’m still working on it will on the diet. I feel gratified from feeling better. When I was on my diet, I focused more on my strength exercises than cardio in order to keep my strength up for football. Many people think that running is the only way to lose weight, but you lose strength. That way I kept up my strength that way and muscle workouts.” Since diets during sport seasons usually focus on reaching the goals for those specific sports, athletes’ diets change during the off season; however, these diet changes vary from athlete to athlete, not necessarily from sport to sport. Bouillet said, “During the offseason, our diet is a little less strict
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3,500 The number of calories a highly active teen needs
661 Amount of calories in the most popular meal at CHS - French toast sticks with sausage patties
since you’re not training for competition at the time. The motivation to eat healthy everyday kind of goes away during the off-season. Coach doesn’t really put too much emphasis on diet (for the varsity team) because it’s mostly on us. I think that he trusts us to eat right on most days because we all want to do our best and diet is a large part of that. There is not really a difference between cross-country and track diet-wise, so the off-season transition isn’t very difficult.” Patton said, “When I’m in a sport, I definitely have to eat a little bit more because I’m so active. In the off-season, I am able to eat a little bit less because I don’t need more energy. In the transition I just gradually take away an aspect of food so that the transition can be more subtle.” For athletes like Walker who are currently in pre-season winter training, their diet transition is different from that of athletes like Bouillet and Patton. “Right now I’m in winter training for track,” Walker said. “During football, I didn’t really watch my diet, since it didn’t really affect my performance that much. Now, during track season, I am much more aware and careful of my diet. I’m not necessarily trying to lose weight, I am trying to maintain my weight, so I have to watch what I eat; I can’t eat junk food, chips, and soda. For track season, I just need to H clean up my diet a little more.”
What did Michael Phelps eat in one day for the 2008 Olympics?
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SPEAK UP!
“My pregame meal is weird, it’s two bananas, two pieces of toast with omega, three spoons of peanut butter and then I drink some chocolate almond milk.”
What is your favorite pregame meal?
“I actually eat the same thing every gameday. I wake up and eat chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember.”
Sean Galligher, varsity men’s volleyball player and senior
Jared Richey, varsity men’s soccer player and senior
“I love my bagel and cream cheese with fruit, or Jimmy Johns. It’s yummy and doesn’t feel heavy in my stomach so I can have energy and play the best I can.”
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What is equal to 12,000 Calories? 1lb = 3,500 Cal 12,000 Cal = 3.43 lbs Bengal tigers eat 6,500 Cal in a day
Kathryn Scott, varsity women’s tennis player and senior
1.85 times a 12,000 Cal = Bengal Tiger The recommended daily Caloric intake for the average male is 2,500 Cal
ADAM GOSTOMELSKY | SPEAK UPS KELSEY ATCHESON | PHOTOS JAI SANGHANI | GRAPHIC THE MAYO CLINIC, INFORGRAPHICJOURNAL.COM | SOURCES
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BASKETBALL | FEB 23, 2017
BATTLE OF THE BALL Students compare benefits between Carmel Dads Club, intramural basketball SAMEEN SIDDIQUI | STORY armel dads club and CHS both run intramural to offer a chance for athletes who are interested in playing a sport to be able to compete with others but in different ways. Dads Club is an organization that lets athletes of all ages who live in the Carmel Clay township to compete with one another, while intramural is just for CHS students. According to Dads club commissioner Duane Hostetler, the main purpose of Dads club is to help prepare students for CHS sports teams. On the other hand, CHS intramural director Mike Meyer said the focus of intramurals has mainly been on basketball ever since it started and to let students participate in a sport they otherwise would not be able to since the sports division at CHS is very competitive at the varsity level with skill and overall population of the school. Hostetler said one of the biggest difference between the two clubs
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is that intramural is more studentrun. Intramural participants get to pick their own teammates and in Dads Club the coaches and commissioners are in charge of that. Meyer said each intramural team coaches itself, whereas Dads club has a more organized system and has a broader set of rules. Jacob “Jake” Waples, Dads Club member and senior, said, “I love my teammates. For the most part you don’t always know who is going to be on your team. Fortunately, I got the other seniors I requested and we got put with a great group of juniors who all know each other very well, and we all get along great.” Caleb Shaffer, intramural member and sophomore, said, “We get to choose our teams, and we’re all really good friends. A couple of us have played with each other before so we knew each other’s playing styles. That makes it a lot easier to play recreationally rather than competitively. There’s nothing wrong with playing with a random team. It forces you to adapt to your teammates, but when picking your own
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MIKE MEYER | SOURCE FIND THE OPEN MAN: Jacob “Jake” Waples (center), Dads Club player and senior, passes the ball during a Dads Club game. Waples said the games are intense but also a lot of fun while he plays with friends in a competitive setting.
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team, you’re familiar with them, and it just makes things a lot more fun playing together.” Hostetler said the Dads Club nine-week season consists of one practice a week and a game on Saturday. Although Dads Club is a nonprofit organization, members still have to pay a fee which goes into renting venues, hiring referees and providing a sponsored shirt. Likewise, Meyer said intramural teams have to pay $75 for referees during the playoff season and shirts. He said the teams have to referee for themselves until playoffs start, but there have not been many conflicts occurring from it. He said Dads Club has teams that compete at the same level with one another and at the end of the year they have a gold and silver tournament between the two different competitive levels. Teams do not need to be made up of any specific grade level and are players are chosen by the team captain. According to Hostetler, there are some people who join basketball just for fun. He said it would not matter to those players which team they are put on or if they win the championship. Their main purpose is just to have fun. He said the Dads Club tries to make playing any sport for them as fun as pos-
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sible but also with a competitive aspect for those who do want to compete to have a chance to win the tournament. Waples said, “All the games are competitive and, for me, competition is the fun part of Dads Club. I don’t like to play basketball and just mess around when I play. I want everyone’s best shot. Just goofing around every once in a while is great, but at least for me, I’d much rather go play in a competitive game than a game where we are just there to mess around.” Shaffer said, “With Dads Club, you do have practices. It’s a formality; (Dads Club athletes) take it a little more seriously than (intramural) do since it’s an organized sports club. But with intramural, you don’t have that pressure, and you don’t have to have that much of a time commitment. Usually after football, I try to stray away from school sports, since they’re so time
consuming, but I still want to stay active, so this was the way to do it.” According to Meyer, another difference between Dads club and intramural is Dads club has separate teams for both genders but intramural is coed. He said this year intramural has around four to five teams that are mainly girldominated. He said if there is an all girls team playing an all boys team, the girls have the choice of doubling their points. Hostetler said there is not a rule separating the two genders, they just do not have anyone of the opposite gender playing on the other gender’s team. However it will not create problems if it happens. Meyer said, “Being part of an organized club for a sport helps create a good combo of both fun and competitiveness. Enjoy these years as you can ‘cause when you grow older you can’t just go to your wife and say ‘Hey, I’m going to a basketball practice’ because you have too H much responsibility.”
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NOT IN MY HOUSE: Sophomore Caleb Shaffer rises to block an opposing player during an intramural game. He said he prefers intramural since he is allowed to choose his teammates.
ALINA HUSAIN | PHOTO
Unfair Play
CDC, Intramural offer different styles of play Intramural Players referee themselves during the regular season, but pay extra for referees during playoffs. Carmel Dads Club CDC hires referees for every game, which players pay for with a registration fee. Players aren’t allowed to argue with referees. AGRAYAN GUPTA | GRAPHIC CDC.COM, MIKE MEYER | SOURCES
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GYMNASTICS | FEB 23, 2017
UP IN THE AIR Students discuss how there is more to gymnastics than just what is seen on the Olympics JESS CANALEY | STORY
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FLY HIGH: Gymnast and senior George Schrader practices flipping. Schrader participated in CHS Color gaurd and will carry his talents to Purdue for cheerleading with hopes of joining Cirque de Soleil in the future. MIKE JOHNSON | PHOTO
t chs, many students play a variety of sports ranging from dance to football. However, gymnastics, a commonly known sport for its popularity in the Olympics, makes up a small amount of athletes at CHS. While many are aware of its presence, often times people do not know the amount of dedication and time that it takes to be a successful gymnast or acrobat. Sophomore Jacob Freedman has been doing gymnastics for 13 years. As a child, he used to compete in all six events: rings, vault, high bar, floor, tee bars and pommel bars. Now, he specializes in power tumbling, trampoline and double mini, which is another type of trampoline. “My mom put me in day classes during the winter because I had nothing better to do and I had so much energy. I’ve just been doing it ever since,” Freedman said. Senior Matthew “George” Schrader was a competitive gymnast like Freedman for a long time until he switched to competitive cheer to focus on acrobatics and tumbling in the eighth grade, which he continued to do until his junior year. “My junior year I performed as an acrobat (for the Carmel Marching Band and Color Guard) and since have been training by myself for the immediate future, which entails Purdue cheerleading and eventually auditioning for Cirque du Soleil after college,” Schrader said. Training for a competitive sport like gymnastics requires hours each day at the gym working on strength, flexibility and agility in addition to working on the actual tricks and performances. Freedman spends five to six days a week at the gym doing various activities such as
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MISSING THE TEN
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A look at the different event in gymnastics.
Getting a perfect performance score is the hardest it has ever been Last two Olympics 10’s Why is it so hard to get a perfect 10 now? Scoring is split into 2 panels
Lavinia Milosevici (Romania) during 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
Li Lu (China) during 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
working with coaches and personal trainers to train his muscles and also perfect his technique. “Four days a week I train at Deveau’s School of Gymnastics, and we do all the events. I work with my coaches, and we focus on just flexibility and then the skills,” Freedman said. “Then just a few days a week I go and train with a personal trainer and do workouts just to build upper body, and that’s just strength building and not focused on anything else but strength.” Schrader has a similar schedule with different focuses and types of training depending on the day of the week. “Everything is pretty consistent across all extreme sports and acrobatics. Lots of strength training and conditioning with more emphasis on cognition than repetition. We train a complex skill set so practices are a place of learning, and conditioning practices are held completely separate,” Schrader said. All of the preparation and hours in the gym come down to competition. Freedman explains how gymnastics works on a judging scale of one to 10 with different degrees of difficulty, or DD. “Baseline is 10 with no extra difficulty, and if you add harder skills, that makes your difficulty harder,” Freedman said. “So if I’m doing a pass that
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“D” Panel Judges on what gymnast does (flips, leaps)
The rings use upper body and core strength with coordination in order to keep them stable.
“E” Panel Judges on how gymnast has performed but focuses more on grace than skill
has a 1.1 degree of difficulty, more than the baseline for that level, then my pass would be scored out of 11.1 instead of ten, so it gets added onto. They’ll also deduct from 11.1 instead of 10.” Scoring and judging for competitive cheerleading, acrobatics and tumbling differs slightly, according to Schrader. He said it’s more based on the ability of a team to carry out the stunts well overall throughout the two and a half minute span of the performance. The judges look at factors such as difficulty, jumps, techinique and even coed representation. “Due to the way the scoring system works, a team that falls and takes the deduction could very well
Parallel bar routines include swinging skills, hanging positions and upper arm positions. In order to perform the vault gymnast must run to a spring board and must use their hands to push off inot a handspring.
win over the team who struggles. So it is normal for coaches and gym owners to dispute and fight with judges,” Schrader said. At the end of the day, all of the hard work and time that gymnasts and acrobats alike put into their training is well worth it for their one moment of performance, execution of a stunt and the overall bond made between teammates. “I’ve definitely devoted a lot of my life to gymnastics. It’s a big commitment for me and my family, so I’ve missed out on hanging out with friends and other sports and activities, but it’s definitely worth it,” Freedman said. “I love the sport and it’s just what I’ve always done. It kind of shapes H who I am as a person.”
HIGH FLYER Gymnast and senior George Schrader flips in the air during his practice. Schrader participates in tumbling and different cheerleading events. Throughout the week Schrader does both strength training and different practices with stunts and routines. MIKE JOHNSON | PHOTO
PERSPECTIVES
KAHOOT BAN | FEB 23, 2017
DON’T BOOT KAHOOT
CHS administrators should rethink their decision on Kahoot block; benefits outweigh drawbacks. HILITE STAFF | COLUMN
OPTIONS OFFERED Despite the decision to ban Kahoot, the school has offered alternatives.
Quizlet Teachers assign group by student’s names
Socratic Teachers can create online “rooms” for quizzes
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to remove users from the quiz before it begins. If students ecently, CHS administration made the decichoose inappropriate names, teachers can choose to remove sion to block the website Kahoot on school wifi them. If the issue persists, and a class should continue to be networks, making it impossible for teachers and unable to use the game appropriately, the clear solution is students to use the site as a learning and review the individual teacher should cease tool during class as they have in the to use Kahoot as a tool in that indipast. Problems arose with the game vidual class. as students chose inappropriate OUR VIEW While it is true the administranames or shared the quiz code with tion has proposed alternatives, even friends outside of the class. While CHS administrators should a surface-level glance of the list of there should be consequences for rethink their school-wide alternatives reveals that they do not students’ behavioral problems, CHS accomplish the same thing Kahoot administration should unblock the ban on Kahoot. Ultimately, does. Quizlet is an app in which users Kahoot website from school wifi. it is an educational device can share decks flashcards, not a game Firstly, teachers use Kahoot ultithat aids many students activity. Socratic is overall a less commately for a good purpose. Kahoot is a valuable tool for teachers and preparing for tests. There are petitive alternative. While Quizizz is certainly a more true-to-the-original students because it turns schoolwork, many alternative solutions alternative, students and teachers are which can be tedious, into someother than banning the game simply not familiar with it. thing enjoyable. Competitive but The heart of the issue is there are low-pressure quiz games provide an completely. better ways to address the problem alternative to traditional teaching and other than to take it away from all review methods. Kahoot gives classstudents and teachers. While what is effectively a school-wide rooms efficient access to this alternative without the need for ban of the game seems like a simple and effectual solution, the extensive planning: it’s simple, it’s accessible, it requires little reality of the situation is these problems do not occur in all setup and it engages students. classrooms. Many classrooms at CHS use Kahoot purely as a Blocking Kahoot schoolwide is not an effective solution. H positive learning tool. Teachers, or any other administrators of Kahoot, are able
SPEAK UP!
What’s your opinion on the Kahoot ban? “It was decided after a lot of discussion. I think the concern is how we can monitor the use of Kahoot and, in particular, the names. We were concerned about that and didn’t feel comfortable. Despite that, we have provided other ways to accomplishing the same thing. ”
Principal John Williams
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“I feel like Kahoot was a really good resource teachers could use to help us study for tests and learn things. The ban is hindering our ability to learn.”
Lenna Gottschild, sophomore
“I’m really angry about the ban because I feel like Kahoot helps students in their learning process and to ban that it completely unreasonable.”
Allie Vanneman, senior
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WATER YOU DOING
While citizens of Flint, Mich. fail to get clean water, Hollywood makes a movie out of the problem. KALEA MIAO | COLUMN JAI SANGHANI | GRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
Flint, Michigan
This water looks bad
WHAT’S IN YOUR WATER? Fluoride Added to water system to reduce tooth decay Cloudiness typically caused by oxygen bubbles when water is pushed through the faucet
This water is bad
White Particles form when minerals like calcium dissolve in water
NEWS BREAKING NEWS: FLINT, MICHIGAN HAS POISONOUS WATER Channel
1 Month Later....
This water looks bad
Tiny Black Particles usually form because of carbon filters, like a Brita Lead leaches into water when lead pipes corrode UNC.EDU | SOURCE
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ince April 2014, Flint, Mich. has faced an ongoing water crisis. The event has been discussed by news stations, celebrities and politicians, yet remains unsolved. Now, according to Deadline, the TV station LifeTime is planning a TV movie entitled “Flint” which covers the crisis. Though the movie has secured Cher as its lead actress, citizens of Flint have yet to secure clean water. To recap the situation, the city has gone without clean water for almost three years now since it began sourcing water from the contaminated Flint River. Initially, the concerns were with the disease-causing organisms in the water, but in March 2015, it was revealed the water contained 397 ppb (parts per billion) of lead, according to CNN. The corrosive water of the river ate away at the lead pipes of the city, leading to rashes from the toxic water. Yet, despite this the“Flint”team still believes in making the movie. To be fair, the “Flint” team said their goal for the movie is to shed light on the crisis. Additionally, Cher donated 181,000 bottles of water to Flint in January 2016 and has been active about the topic on Twitter. However, though this publicity will bring attention to the crisis, the revenue that is being put towards the movie could be better used. According to IMDb, the budget of a LifeTime movie is about $500,000, and according to the research company Nielsen, only 83,000 households receive the network. The movie may only have a limited impact on the small audience it reaches. Rather than spending $500,000 on a movie, LifeTime should take action and put the money towards the city. A 24-pack of Nestle bottled water costs $5.99, and with the predicted budget for “Flint,” LifeTime could donate about 2 million bottles of water. Better yet, it could donate to organizations that work to improve the water crisis . In short, awareness of the situation is welcome, as keeping the issue in the minds of others may bring change. This kind of company has the resources to make real change if they care enough to do so, but as of now, it seems as though those involved with “Flint” would rather profit from a movie. H
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The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Kalea Miao at kmiao@hilite.org.
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COLLEGE DECISIONS | FEB 23, 2017
COLLEGE ON A BUDGET Undergraduate college does not need to be expensive to be valuable. GABBY PERELMUTER | COLUMN
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ollege is expensive. Rethat, we also have two schools in the ally expensive, regardless PUBLIC UNIVERSITY Big Ten, meaning amazing sports of if you are going to stay PROS: and activities. There is no reason in state are going out of - Publically funded, less to go out of state if you don’t absostate. However it doesn’t have to be expensive lutely have to. The in-state schools as expensive as a lot of schools make - In-State tuition offered also offer so many different scholarit. Around me I see so many people - Larger selection of ships that are for students who have stressed awaiting responses from top majors exceeded in high school, making schools in the nation where they will it even more affordable than what later pay upwards of $70,000 a year CONS: would be the original cost. Financial for school, and here I am proud of my - Crowded aid is also known to be very good for acceptance, enrollment and finished - Often considered less students staying in-state. housing application to IU thinking prestigious I plan to go into the field of opin my head how ridiculous all these tometry and when I graduate from people around me are. College is not PETERSON’S | SOURCE college my salary will be much larger like comparing name brands; in fact than many who will graduate from the more expensive it’s quite the opposite. They all specialize in their own colleges without having to sell my internal organs. thing. It is an investment in your future, but that inMuch like other students, fell in love with more presvestment doesn’t need to cost as much as a heart transtigious colleges, I fell in love with IU. And for me, he plant. You can’t get a generic brand college education, atmosphere, the people and the ability to flourish and it’s just an undergraduate education. For me, I will have do exactly what I feel I am supposed to do with my at least eight years of education, and although it is comlife without having to be a $100,000 in debt pletely within reach for me to attend a “more prestioutweighed the “prestige”. gious” university, the cost of schooling would be much H greater than the outcome of my education. The views in this column do not necessarily My entire undergrad will cost less than one year at reflect the views of the HiLite staff. many “more prestigious” schools. Not only that, IU has Reach Gabby Perelmuter at Average Tuition so many other opportunities for me outside the classgperelmuter@hilite.org. $9,650 room. From greek life to sports and intramural sports, there are so many other activities that IU is going to Room and Board Cost offer me that do not involve six figures of debt. $10,440 Indiana is a state blessed with so many amazing collages with all sorts of different majors and schools of all Cost of Learning Materials sizes that can fit people of all $2,720 different needs. Not only
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AN EDUCATED INVESTMENT
Students should consider the merits of attending more expensive undergraduate colleges. ANGELA SUN | COLUMN
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or most seniors across the going to a school that costs around the nation, the financial aspect of annual salary of an entry-level full-time PRIVATE COLLEGE a college is the number one dejob, and no, my parents are not swimPROS: termining factor in choosing a ming in cash. I am a middle-class citizen - Smaller class sizes college to attend. That is why, especially who falls into the economic category - Often considered more for Indiana residents, in-state institutions that puts me right out of financial aid, prestigious are extremely attractive options, and I but I couldn’t be more excited for my - More diverse completely understand the appeal. For future. Penn is my first-choice college - More scholarships me, as a future computer science and enbecause it is the top-ranked school in offered trepreneurship and management major, the country to study both computer sciI understand that the IU Kelley School ence and business, and I fell in love with CONS: of Business and the College of Engineerthe school and its proximity to major - More expensive ing at Purdue can provide me with very startup headquarters in New York and high-level education experiences at great Philadelphia and alumni connections to prices. I have applied to both with pride, Silicon Valley. I grew up believing that if PETERSON’S | SOURCE but my aspirations are elsewhere. BeI went to a school like Penn my dreams cause of my familial environment and my own circumstances, and aspirations could come true, which will allow me to pay I think that picking the right college is all about increasing back my parents many times over. Going to Penn means that your chances of accomplishing your career goals. For me, that I can repay my parents for all of the sacrifices that they have goal is to succeed in the technology industry. made for me. I hope to become an executive of a large technology comMy parents and I have extensively discussed and prepany or startup in Silicon Valley, and I think going to pared for the extreme financial burden of my college edua prestigious school will provide me with the concation, and I am extremely grateful that they are allowing nections and opportunities I need to succeed me to live my dreams out. I understand that most people in the future. For me, I found those opdo not have the opportunity to set the financial aspect portunities at the University of Pennaside when it comes to making a college decision. When I sylvania, and I was lucky enough leave Carmel this May and go to Philadelphia, I will work Average Tuition to have been accepted in as hard as I can to succeed. I think it is my duty to succeed $49,320 December. Yes, I am as much as possible for my parents who left behind everything in China to bring my brother and me to the country Room and Board Cost H of unlimited opportunity. $11,890 The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Angela Sun at asun@hilite.org.
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2. Stanford University
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SENIORITIS | FEB 23, 2017
SENIORITIS IS A SHAM
Seniors shouldn’t use senioritis as an excuse to slack off on schoolwork. KELSEY ATCHESON | COLUMN
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hold maybe one of the reason colleges ask for end-of-year most unpopular opinions transcripts. The best advice to avoid STAYING MOTIVATED around: senioritis is a this fate? Go to class, do homework Having trouble keeping up the motivation for sham. While I will recogand study for the tests. You might schoolwork? Use some of these tips. nize both Merriam-Webster and Dichave gotten the “I’m in!” letter, but - Set attainable goals. tionary.com to provide an accurate that doesn’t mean you’re immune Keeping a list of realistic tasks helps keep you definition of the word, I still refuse to from the “Sorry, we don’t want you focused and motivated. recognize it as a real “illness.” anymore” letter. - Try something new. To start, for those who don’t know Teachers also know while you Taking up a new hobby or starting a new project what senioritis is, let me help you. As might not want to do the stuff they can keep laziness from setting in. defined by Merriam-Webster, it is “an assign because you are a “second-Encourage your friends. ebbing of motivation and effort by semester senior,” you still need to. Staying motivated is easier in numbers— school seniors as evidenced by tardiCollege won’t be any easier because encourage your friends too! ness, absences and lower grades.” it’s college. In fact, it will most likely, While many of my fellow seniors and should be, harder. So slacking off IVYWISE | SOURCE believe this is a real affliction, to me now only hurts you now, but it will this is really an excuse seniors use also hurt you in college. Plus, teachers when they really don’t care about have heard every excuse in the book, their grades after they’ve been acceptso your senioritis one won’t work any ed to their college of choice or just because day soon, no matter what you might think. they have a senior mentality and believe their Yes, college is going to be fun, and it is only a teachers will “let it slide.” few months away, but that doesn’t mean you can While I see how one can see these as valid quit now. You still have those few months left in arguments, let me show you how they aren’t. high school and end-of-year transcripts to send so H You might be saying, “I got accepted, not keep working hard. like they can kick me out.” Wrong. According to the National Association of College Admissions The views in this column do not necessarily reflect Counseling, 22 percent of colleges said they had the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Kelsey Atcheson revoked an admission offer in 2009. There is a at katcheson@hilite.org.
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FEB 23, 2017 | OSCARS
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NO LONGER WHITE GOLD
New Oscar nominations provide hope for less discrimination, more diversity. EMILY WORRELL | COLUMN ith the 89th academy awards coming up in just three days, no one is more ecstatic than this movie junkie. Yet, last year’s incredibly small amount of racial diversity found among major nominees caused the trending hashtag #OscarsSoWhite in protest. This was not an isolated incident. It was the second consecutive year in which all 20 nominees for acting roles were all white. With this poor quality in diversifying the Oscars over the past two years, I was worried this year would bring much of the same. To learn more about However, I am happy to say the Oscars this year the Academy is finally startand in the past, see ing to recognize actors of all pages 36-37. ethnicities and movies that focus on racial issues. Two of the films nominated for best picture, “Fences” and “Hidden Figures,” both feature casts that were almost entirely African-American and had a strong message of not only racial but also female empowerment. “Fences” features an AfricanAmerican family in the 1950s with a son who is held back by his father’s fear of discrimination and a woman who ultimately decides to be strong independently, leaving her husband “a womanless man.” Meanwhile, “Hidden Figures” focuses on female, African-American mathematicians for NASA. “Moonlight,” another best picture nominee, focuses on an African-American man’s struggles growing up in a rough neighborhood in Miami. “Loving” tells the story of an interracial couple fighting a legal battle for their right to be together. These four movies received a combined total of six acting nominations—much better than the zero acting
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“Fences”
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Denzel Washington), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Viola Davis), Best Writing (Adaptive Screenplay)
Starring: Denzel Washington Viola Davis Stephen Henderson Jovan Adepo
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ONE-WOMAN RIOT
“Hidden Figures” Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Octavia Spencer), Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Starring: Taraji P. Henson
Octavia Spencer Janelle Monáe Kevin Costner Kirsten Dunst OSCARS, IMDB | SOURCE WIKIMEDIA COMMONS | PHOTO
nominations African-American actors received in the past two years. The film “Zootopia” was also nominated for best animated feature film. Although this may seem unrelated to the powerful, ethnically-based dramas mentioned earlier, it is probably one of the most important movies nominated. The movie focuses on a world where animals can speak and live together; however, there is a distinct societal divide between predator and prey. Though this may seem like an innocent piece of fluff for children, it actually contains important racial messages, with the predators and prey representing different racial groups; however, what’s interesting is that the movie switches around the stereotypes and discrimination enough one cannot precisely tell which group is supposed to represent what race. The fact this is a children’s movie makes it even more powerful; we are sending a message of non-discrimination and anti-hatred to the children of our society, our future leaders, and we are sending them this message at a young age. I was almost beside myself when I saw this movie earned a nomination. Are the Oscars going to be perfectly non-discriminatory all of a sudden? No. Does this sudden influx in diversity mean America is a post-racism society? Absolutely not. But this is progress. It may seem like a small step, but at least for this year, the reign of #OscarsSoWhite is over. From “Fences” to “Moonlight” to “Zootopia,” our society has started to address its problems—and these nominations H show people are listening. The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Emily Worrell at eworrell@hilite. org.
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MAKEUP ARTIST | FEB 23, 2017
A DIFFERENT KIND OF ARTIST Q&A with junior Charlotte Seidensticker, stage and special effects makeup artist
HANNAH GLAZIER | Q&A CHARLOTTE SEIDENSTICKER | SUBMITTED PHOTOS
How did you get into makeup?
It kind of started that I was just watching makeup YouTube videos and thought, “Oh this is cool. I’m going to see if my mom can get me makeup at the drugstore and I try that.” Freshman year I joined makeup crew for the fall play and it ended up being fun and I enjoyed it. I ended up doing more intricate makeup and it spiraled into this passion for making weird things on my face.
What is your favorite makeup creation?
I’ve done a lot of character makeup and I did it a really long time ago, but one time I made myself a female Terminator. That was my favorite because I got to do glamour, but also do this cool metal effect and make it gory on the side so I got to really pull everything together.
How long does it take to create these characters?
It depends on the character that I am doing. I do the Hulk, so I will paint my entire self green which can take about two hours. If I am doing a look for the first time and I am experimenting with a bunch of stuff, then it will usually take one to two hours just because I am taking my time. Once I’ve gotten a look down—like I do the Joker a lot because I go to conventions a lot—it will only take an hour-ish. It’s a long time, but it’s an enjoyable hour. It’s a stress reliever.
What has been your biggest challenge as an artist?
It can be expensive to be a makeup artist. Sometimes when I am stressed out I do makeup to not stress out. One of the toughest things is to get outside of your comfort box. For me, I usually do characters so I will try to stick exactly to what the character looks like and because I am such a perfectionist; if it doesn’t look exactly like the character, I feel like it’s bad. So I’ve learned to step out of my box and be okay with everything not being perfect, and that has led me to some of my best works.
Any advice to aspiring makeup artists?
Keep experimenting and keep doing makeup. If you don’t like the way it turns out, either just wipe it away because it’s temporary or keep building because you can create something really cool — that’s how a lot of my favorite pieces have started. I keep going and find something that you love to do. Some love glamour, and some love gory special-effect makeup. So, find something you love and do it because it’s fun.
FACE-PAINT A PICTURE: Junior Charlotte Seidensticker shows her various makeup looks. These include (top) a gory version of Belle from Beauty and the Beast with slashes on her face, (bottom) a female Terminator and (right) a skeleton.
SCARRED OVER Check for irritation. Before using any new product on your skin, test to make sure you aren’t allergic. WIKIHOW | SOURCE CORY STEELE | GRAPHIC
Create a scar using scar wax, a type of special effects makeup.
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Clean your skin. Makeup might not adhere correctly to grimy or dirty skin.
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Apply an adhesive, like spirit gum, to the area where you will put your scar.
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Warm a small amount of scar wax. Start with a small amount and add more if needed. The wax won’t be malleable if it’s cold.
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Apply the wax. Form it in your preferred shape. For instance, if you want a long, thin scar, roll your wax into a “snake.” Add texture with precision tools or more wax.
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Blend the wax into surrounding skin using your fingers and makeup to match your skin color.
Check out more of Seidensticker’s makeup at hilite. org/category/ fame
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SOLO SOUNDS | FEB 23, 2017
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SOLO SOUNDS Sophomore Jocelyn Shan warms up with “Violin Concerto No. 23 in G Major” by Giovanni Viotti at Noblesville High School for the ISSMA District Solo and Ensemble competition on Feb. 4. Shan received a gold rating and will move on to State this Saturday at Northview Middle School. CAROLYN ZHANG | PHOTO