3.20 Issue

Carmel High School newsmagazine

news

Student Section

Junior Connor Hutt hosts Japanese exchange student

Entertainment

The Hip-Hop Club will host a dance battle on April 17 page 11

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CHS Orchestra to perform concerts in Vienna

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Students consider post-high school plans and returns on college education in the wake of Obama’s free community college proposal.

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Cover Story Aaron Shi

Managing Editors Madison Adzema Matt Del Busto Chrishan Fernando Aster Samuel

Feature Michelle Dai Cynthia Wu

Ads Team Ellen Peng Accountant Patrick Shaffer Acumen Lauren Lu Stephanie Zhang 15 Minutes of Fame Sarah Liu Beats/Calendar Natalia Chaudhry Katie Long Brielle Saggese Selena Qian Melissa Yap Alex Yom Jenny Zhao Creative Director Dennis Yang

Front Page Scott Liu Alex Yu Graphics Haley Bracken Jiva Capulong Olivia Jacko Akshar Patel Tiffany Xie GMN Liaison Arsalan Siddiqui News Christine Fernando Laxmi Palde Perspectives Maham Nadeem Sriya Ravi Photography Nivedha Meyyappan Alice Zhu Sports Emma Love Shakeel Zia

Social Media Sreeti Ravi Ally Russell Entertainment John Chen Lianne Yu Student Section Jessica Tao Web Adit Chandra Miles Dai Kevin Fei Aneesh Luthra Willie Zhu Online Directors Jason Klein Rushi Patel Writing Coaches Miriam Hu Kyle Walker Reporters Lucus Cheng Asim Dhungana Daniel Goldberg Matthew Han Nida Khan Jasmine Lam Katie Long Gabby Perelmuter Naomi Reibold

Grant Smith Katie Summitt Angela Sun Kari Truax Shiva Vallabhaneni Sitha Vallabhaneni Sreya Vemuri Gabriella Wang Annika Wolff Angela Wu Sara Yin Cynthia Yue Anni Zhang Grace Zhang Michael Zhao Matthew Zheng Photographers Divya Annamalai Kyle Crawford Miles Dai Mike Johnson Dara Levy Swetha Nakshatri Jaymee Stout Sara Yung Adviser Jim Streisel Principal John Williams Superintendent Nicholas Wahl

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Editor in Chief Helena Ma

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contents 4|Just a minute A look at the greatest films of all time

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6|news News Briefs

18|feature Social media platforms have been increasingly used for public shaming

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22|student section

Economics club members to participate in the High School Fed Challenge

Junior Connor Hutt hosts Japanese Exchange student from sister school in Seikyo

8|news City of Carmel is partnering with Zagster to bring a bike share program to the city

23|student section Speak Ups: If you could host a student from a foreign country, which would you choose?

10|news U.S. nutrition advisory panel has decided to drop cautions about eating food heavy in cholesterol 11|news Hip-Hop Club to host charity dance battle on April 17 12|feature Students participate in growing trend of taking multigenerational vacations 16|feature

corrections and clarifications In the Feb. 20 News Briefs, the clock should be set to move forward one hour for Daylight Savings Time, not back.

In the Feb. 20 Q&A with the cast of “The Duff,” cast member Robbie Amell’s name was spelled incorrectly as Robbie Arnell.

The HiLite strives to correct its errors. If you notice any inaccuracies in this or past issues, please contact management@hilite.org.

Students watch many newer television shows that portray a variety of races

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36|entertainment Reporter Brielle Saggese highlights what she learned from the ABC show “The Bachelor” 38|entertainment Students share their reactions to the ABC Show “Fresh Off the Boat” 39|entertainment Entertainment Briefs 40|sports A preview of the upcoming women’s rugby season

25|student section April Fool’s Day Tweets + Spring Break safety tips

42|sports Martial arts are becoming more popular in Carmel

26|cover story Students decide between attending fouryear colleges or community colleges

44|sports A preview of the upcoming men’s volleyball season

32|entertainment CHS Orchestra to hold concerts in Vienna during Spring Break 34|entertainment Portrayal of spring break in film challenges accuracy of its depiction

46|sports Carmel Dads’ Club programs prove to be effective towards CHS athletic success 48|perspectives Staff Editorial 49|perspectives Social media editor Sreeti Ravi discusses the importance of stressing learning

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50|perspectives Reporter Grant Smith critiques media sources 51|perspectives 15 Minutes of Fame editor Sarah Liu comments on autism awareness 52|perspectives GMN Liaison Arsalan Siddiqui explores athletes’ role in media 53|perspectives Yearbook editor and guest columnist Joie Li discusses yearbook and newspaper writing + Graphic Perspectives 54|15 minutes of fame Senior Abby Abel promotes Special Olympics through serving on the National Youth Activation Committee 56|back cover DECA International competition will take place in Orlando from April 25 to 28

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afi's "top 100 films of all time" 1. CITIZEN KANE 2. CASABLANCA 3 . T H E G O D FAT H E R 4. GONE WITH THE WIND 5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 6. THE WIZARD OF OZ 7 . T H E G R A D U AT E 8 . O N T H E W AT E R F R O N T 9. SCHINDLER’S LIST 10. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN 11. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1 2 . S U N S E T B LV D .

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35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT 36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY 37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES 38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY 39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO 40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST 41. WEST SIDE STORY 42. REAR WINDOW 43. KING KONG 4 4 . T H E B I RT H O F A N AT I O N 45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 47. TAXI DRIVER 48. JAWS 4 9 . SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY 52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY 53. AMADEUS 5 4 . A L L Q U I E T O N T H E W E S T E R N F R O NT 55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC 56. M*A*S*H 57. THE THIRD MAN 58. FANTASIA 59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE 60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 61. VERTIGO 62. TOOTSIE 63. STAGECOACH 6 4 . CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 66. NETWORK 6 7 . T H E M A N C H U R I A N C A N D I D AT E

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NEWS

Katie Summitt

News Briefs

NEWS BRIEFS Sunday

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All accepted NHS juniors are required to attend the NHS Induction ceremony. Family members are welcome.

This is the last day to register for AP Exams. Registration can be completed online and a late fee of $10 must be paid.

HONORED TO HELP: Logan Gentile, tutor for the National Honor Society, helps a student with his math homework during a free tutoring session. NHS members must apply in order to be accepted into the society.

April 3 to 13 Spring Break will take place during this week. Flip to the Entertainment and Student sections for Spring Break coverage.

April 11

The Carmel Arts & Design District Gallery Walk will take place in downtown Carmel.

Swetha Nakshatri

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April 16

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April 20

The admissions to selective colleges meeting for interested students will take place.

Frosh Rock will take place in the Freshman Cafeteria.

ACT Testing will take place April 18. Testing begins at 8 a.m.

The Hall of Fame and Academic Scholar Night will take place at the Ritz Charles.

April 18

April 21 The Theater Rookie show will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Studio Theater.

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The maps for other events can be found at carmelmarathon.com

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Earth Day originated in the US but became recognized worldwide by 1990. On the very first Earth Day, 20 million people gathered in the streets of America to protest the industrial revolution. An environmental movement was born as a result.

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RESERVING THE FED CHALLENGE Economics Club members to attend competition

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N APRIL 22, five students will

compete in the High School Fed Challenge at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, according to Paul Clayton, Fed team sponsor and business teacher. Clayton said the competition requires students to analyze monetary policy.

“I certainly enjoy helping them prepare for it and learn about the economy, and it’s fun to get to go to the actual Federal Reserve Bank,” Clayton said.

The Fed team—which consists of sophomores Michael Wang and Brendan Yap, juniors Jessica Tao and Joe Philleo and senior Kevin Mi—will give a 15-minute presentation to three judges at the competition.

However, the most difficult part is the questioning period afterwards,

DARA LEVY LET’S GET FISCAL: (Left to right) Junior Jessica Tao, sophomore Michael Wang, business teacher Paul Clayton, sophomore Brendan Yap, senior Kevin Mi and junior Joe Philleo (not pictured) will participate in the 2015 Fed Challenge.

Participating teams of three to five students will offer 15-minute presentations.

Wang, Yap and Clayton said.

“The most challenging thing is probably when we have to defend our presentation in the Q and A session in front of the judges,” Yap said. “They can ask us about anything...so we have to be aware and stay on our toes.”

Wang said this competition differs from the normal Econ Challenge.

“The Econ Challenge tests us over microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory and general current events whereas the Fed Challenge only tests us on what the Fed can do and the U.S. economy,” Wang said.

Clayton said his goal is for students to learn more about the economy.

“Of course you always like to win, but the point really isn’t about H winning, it’s learning,” he said.

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RE‘CYCLING’ BICYCLES Carmel implements bike-share program

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Carmel unveils plan to partner with Zagster for bike-share program

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JIM Bikeshare representative, the public said Carmel bike-share program allows the public will partner with Zagster to use bikes for a small fee, providing to implement a new bike-sharing both convenience and a “greener” program designed to provide mode of transportation. Haley also transportation options for Carmel said the idea for the Carmel bikeresidents. Carmel plans to allow bike share program was inspired by the rental by late March. success of the Pacers Bikeshare in Walt Buschbacher, recreational downtown Indianapolis. biker and junior, said this bikeHaley said, “Indianapolis share system is an opportunity to Cultural Trail Inc. launched help those who either do not have Pacers Bikeshare in April 2014 cars or want to exercise more. As with 25 stations and 250 bikes an avid biker, he advocates an throughout the downtown area. increase in bike usage.

The goal for this system was to help “My experience biking started transportation in a metropolitan around when I was five years area and to be environmentally old. I became very fond of biking aware. Since it was so successful, and have continued biking the idea probably spread to across the nation in Carmel, which is states such as Utah, a great place to Nevada, Colorado DID YOU KNOW? have a bike-share and Michigan,” In 2014, 600 cities in 52 program. For the Buschbacher said. “I Bikeshare, countries hosted bike- Pacers continue mountain most of the bikeshare programs, offering biking and road share stations are biking. I really hope 570,000 bicycles in total. on the Indianapolis that this new program TREEHUGGER.COM / SOURCE Cultural Trail since around the city could many people enjoy get people interested that area.” in biking and love it like I do.”

“Overall, I think the bike-share According to Brainard, people will benefit the community in many can go online and make their own ways, such as helping (with) getting accounts to rent a bike from one people outside and exercising, rack and return it to any of the and I feel that it will lead to the other racks throughout the city. increased popularity of pathways “It provides convenience and like the Monon Trail to allow ease for those who want another bikers to get rid of stress,” she said. way to get around the city,” “On the money side of things, this Brainard said via email. bike-share would also make biking According to Karen Haley, more affordable for everyone to Executive Director of Indianapolis bike and it will overall help bring H Cultural Trail Inc. and Pacers the community together.”

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SHARING IS CARING: Walt Buschbacher (left, upper right), recreational biker and junior, rides his bike on the Monon Trail.

Buschbacher said he hopes Carmel’s new bike-share program will encourage more people to ride bikes.

A Pacers Bikeshare docking station (lower right) stands in Indianapolis.

The Pacers Bikeshare program was launched in April 2014 and includes 25 stations and 250 bicycles.

$75 $15 per year

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Where Zagster Bikes are Located

per month

$8,600 total

Carmel Arts & Design District

Carmel Clay Public Library Carmel Elementary School

Monon Trail

City Center Drive Bike Dock Maintenance, Repositioning, Customer Services Automated Locking System The Palladium

S. Rangeline Road Carmel City Center

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Cholesterol

CHOLESTEROL CONFUSES CONSUMERS

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us at this point, THREE WAYS TO MAINTAIN because we Committee (DGAC) decided don’t have any HEALTHY CHOLESTEROL LEVELS to drop the long-standing cholesterol cholesterol-type 1 Have a healthy diet 2 Exercise consumption recommendation limits in school from the 2015 edition of the Dietary lunch,” Smith Limit fat intake to 25 Have at least 30 minutes of Guidelines for Americans. Instead, said. “I don’t to 30 percent of total physical activity five days a week calories the committee said cholesterol should know if that’s not be considered a nutrient of something they Eat at least two servings (7 concern for overconsumption. will do further ounces total) of fish per week According to Rose Smith, down the road.

Carmel Clay Schools (CCS) Food They do mention 3 Know the different types of fat found in found in food Service dietitian, the DGAC makes saturated fat as Fried and baked Omega-3 fatty Plant sterols/ Saturated fat is foods and some recommendations for the guidelines, being more of acids are found stanols are found mainly in margarines are in fatty fish and plant-derived but cannot make them official — a factor versus animal products. high in trans fat. nuts and can compounds; this this is done by the United States cholesterol, but Fried foods Look for foods help reduce type of fat can are high in Department of Agriculture and we’re already with zero grams cholesterol reduce cholesterol saturated fat. of trans fat.

United States Department of Health levels levels under saturated and Human Services. fat limits at Katie Long GOODMEASUREMEALS.COM / SOURCE Though the change could cause schools, so only changed due to further research. some people to add more eggs or 10 percent of our calories can come Junior Olivia Wang said she meat into their diets, Smith said the from saturated fats.” pays attention to general nutrition change in recommendation most Sports dietitian Heather Fink information and to what she eats likely will not affect school lunches said this confusion is “one of our because her parents “have always as much as daily diet, because biggest challenges in the nutrition been really big on gardening and CCS schools are not under any world.” She said the guidelines fishing and buying natural foods.” cholesterol limits as of now. don’t try to cause confusion, but She said another reason she tries to “As far as school lunch standards rather evolve as research evolves, be health-conscious is that the food go, I don’t know if it will really affect like the cholesterol guideline has people eat have an impact on health later in life.

HEALTHY EATING: Junior Olivia Wang eats during her lunch period. She said With the changes, Wang said that with the new guidelines, people may change their long-term eating habits. though some people may change their diets, the change won’t have immediate, direct impact; rather, the questions surrounding the changes may cause confusion about which foods are healthy and which are not.

“I think (people will be confused) because I think with health and dietary patterns, the information isn’t always consistent as to what is good for you and what isn’t,” Wang said. “Some sources will say one thing and others will say something else, and I guess it’s even more complicated by how the federal guidelines aren’t always consistent year to year and they’re H always changing.”

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Danny Goldberg

HIP HOP TO HELP

Club plans a dance battle for charity

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all for charity. CHS Hip Hop Club will be hosting a dance battle next month. However, unlike other dance battles, next month participants will dance for charity.

The event will take place on April 17 in the varsity gym.

According to Kelley Yu, club member and sophomore, Hip Hop Club is partnering with Global Giving Club for this event.

Kenny Lin, Hip Hop Club coTUTTING,

president and senior, encourages students to attend the event.

He said, “Everyone is welcome to participate in the battle.” The event will cost $5. The money collected from spectators’ tickets will go directly to charity.

“The charity aspect is a great way to funnel what energy we have to those who are in a less fortunate position,” Lin said.

The club members plan to utilize the dance skills and moves they have

POP IT, LOCK IT: Kelley Yu, Hip Hop club member and sophomore, practices hip hop moves. According to co-president and senior Kenny Lin, the ND Battle will help students learn about urban culture.

Four hip hop dance styles: Breaking One of the first pillars of the original hip hop movement Floating Emphasizes slick “floating” movements as if the dancer is dancing in the air Krumping A style with four basic moves: jabs, arms swings. chest pops and stomps.

Locking Style that consists of sudden pauses and freezes Popping Body is twitched or jerked in a certain way

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acquired to turn a profit for people less fortunate than them. The Global Giving Club will decide the charity in upcoming weeks.

The event is known ND Battle. Lin said he has many activities planned for the event that will help the students of CHS understand urban culture.

“Hip-hop dance is important because it is a fast-growing culture and is, unfortunately, foreign to Carmel, a suburb of Indianapolis,” Lin said. “(The goal of our event) is to introduce new culture.”

Activities planned include team battles for popping and breaking, which are staples of hip-hop dance and culture. Lin also planned a cypher for the event. During a cypher, the crowd forms a circle in which dancers dance inside to show off their skills.

“This event will be bigger than last year’s (event) and the hip-hop culture will be strong,” Lin said.

Nicole Laughrey, Hip Hop Club sponsor, also encourages students to attend the event.

“The crew that does show up is a core group of really dedicated individuals,” Laughrey said.

This is Laughrey’s first year as sponsor of the club. She said it is great that the club will be donating all profits from tickets sold at the event to a charity.

Yu said she is excited for the event but also nervous about how it will go, especially since a lot of the seniors from last year have graduated.

“Through the art of dance and togetherness of community we hope H to turn a profit,” Lin said.

To see Kelley Yu, Hip Hop club member and sophomore perform the six-step dance move, visit our website, hilite.org

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ALL MY CHILDREN (AND GRANDCHILDREN) CHS students travel more with multiple generations, extended family

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WINTER BREAK, freshman Nora Clemens went to the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas. It wasn’t just a simple getaway to soak up some sun, though. Clemens was accompanied by her immediate family, two aunts and their respective families, her grandparents and a great-aunt: 18 people in total.

“There were a lot more people than just my immediate family and me, so we got to spend a lot of time VER

in each others’ companies. It was a lot of connecting and getting to know everyone better,” Clemens said.

With three generations of family traveling together, Clemens’s vacation is considered “multigenerational travel.” According to a summer 2014 study by AAA, multigenerational family trips are on the rise, with 36 percent of families surveyed saying they planned to take such a trip by the summer of 2015. Compared to a survey asking the same question

PERFECT PHOTO OP:: Freshman Nora Clemens (middle row, far left) poses with her extended family on a trip to the Bahamas.

Clemens said she enjoys trips with both her family and friends.

done in 2013, the percent of families planning to take these trips has raised by 4 percent.

Multigenerational trips have increased in popularity among CHS students’ families as well.

Virtuoso, a luxury travel company, named multigenerational travel the biggest travel trend for the fourth year in a row in its annual Luxe Report in 2014.

Clemens said her family’s vacation was a celebration of her grandparents’ 50th anniversary.

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M u lt i g e n e r at o n a l T r av e l “Fifty is a pretty big number in terms of anniversaries, so to celebrate theirs, my grandparents wanted to fly us all out to the Bahamas,” she said.

A November 2014 Wall Street Journal article titled “The Multigenerational Family Vacation” credits the rise in multigenerational travel to an increase in people’s desires to have “meaningful experiences” and make to those experiences count. Money, convenience of travel and increasingly active seniors are other factors.

Lila Torp, human development and family wellness teacher, said, “The trend to take multigenerational trips has been around and has been gaining popularity for several years now.

Part of this has to do with the fact that healthcare is better, so people are living longer. Because of that, many grandparents are in typically better health than they would have been a few decades ago at the

same age. Nowadays, they’re more active, more able to go (on big vacations) and have more money to travel.”

Clemens said her grandparents chose to go the Bahamas because it would be different from life in the city and suburbs where her family lives. Like Clemens’s family trips, most multigenerational trips are geared toward culturebased travel. Some of the most highly sought-after vacation destinations are in Europe so families can tour many countries at once, and in Africa for its safaris and cruises for accessibility to a wide variety of places.

According to Mark Moorhead, travel agent and owner of The Travel Agent, Inc., many families go to these places so younger family members can learn local cultures and older members can guide them in global experiences.

“It used to be that everyone went to Florida to just play on the beach. Now, my clients are a lot more inclined to expand on that and try new things. They’re going on African safaris and cruises in the Galapagos Islands,” Moorhead said.

“It used to be that people just went to warm places they were familiar with. Now, it’s not so much. They’re more interested in adventure and learning and experiences.”

Despite all the benefits of going on a multigenerational Visit pages 34 and trip, Moorhead said many 35 for a graphic on problems could arise in the Spring Break travel. execution. He said people have to manage “three generations of calendars.” As a result, most multigenerational families take trips together during longer school breaks, such as winter, spring and summer.

Families also have to accommodate people’s individual needs.

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Torp said that finding activities that appeal to multiple generations and are simultaneously userfriendly are crucial.

She said, “If you’ve got elderly grandparents, something with a lot of climbing or walking probably won’t suit them well. On the other hand, something that

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doesn’t have much activity in it probably wouldn’t appeal much to children. So, you’ve got to find a happy medium, where you’ve got to find an activity that will appeal to all generations. That makes things all the more difficult.”

Clemens said her family found activities to suit the needs of everyone.

UNDER THE SEA: Freshman Nora Clemens (far right) scuba dives with cousins. Clemens said her family found activities to fit the needs of everyone during the trip.

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NORA clemens / SuBMITTED PHOTO “If someone suggested that they wanted to do something, we would try to make room in our plans for it. We would just reserve a time for it. As for anyone else who didn’t want to do it or wanted to do something else in that time, there was always someone else willing to go along with them,”

Sophomore Hiroki Okano My whole family goes to historical places that my grandpa used to go (to). They bring back memories for (older generations), and they can explain what happened...They actually lived through that, while I'm probably going through my phone, so (my grandpa) might ask me to look up stuff, wars or castles we look at, on my phone, and it's really neat.

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m u lt i g e n e r at i o n a l t r av e l she said. “No one really got shortchanged; there was nobody who was sad because they had to miss out on something they really wanted to do.”

According to Clemens, part of the reason they were able to please everybody was that her family had done a lot of planning. The November 2014 Wall Street Journal article stated many families plan their vacations up to a year in advance. Clemens wasn’t directly involved in the planning process for her family’s trip, but she said she assumes a lot of work went into it.

“My grandparents did pretty much all of the work, and it was a lot, because it was a huge trip and lots of people were going all the way to the Bahamas,” she said.

Clemson said her grandparents researched where to stay, what activities the Abaco Islands offered and coordinated travel times for the entire group. Clemens said the rest of her family only had to do easier tasks, such as packing.

Torp agreed on the importance of planning.

“In the trips I’ve been involved in, one of the most frustrating things is when things are not planned. Everybody gets together, and you know you’re going to go do something, but you also know it hasn’t been agreed yet as to what you’re going to go do. Then, you spend a lot of time waiting and wondering,” Torp said.

OTHER TRAVEL TRENDS There are also U.S. travel trends by gender, duration, flight method and travel purpose.

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of travel took place for business purposes

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Even though Clemens was surprised her trip went so smoothly, she said the best part was getting to spend time with her extended family. According to Moorhead, the value of multigenerational family trips stems from the love and affection people feel for their families and the opportunity to be with them.

Clemens said, “My family doesn’t take these huge trips with everyone a lot, and since we’ve all gotten older, it’s a way to catch up with everyone. It’s really nice to

Junior Suzie Rodimel The kids usually want to play beach volleyball, whereas my grandparents want to sit out in the sun and have their feet in the pool. A lot of times, (my grandparents will) just watch us play volleyball, cheer us on, and then we’ll hang out with them afterwards. We bond either way.

be able to spend all of this quality time with the people that you call family but you don’t get to see them that often and don’t know them very well.”

However, Clemens said she can’t compare traveling with family to traveling with friends.

“I’d be fine with either,” she said.

“With each group, there are different interests and different things you’ll want to do together, so you can’t say which is better. I would have enjoyed it either way, because I’m doing things H I love with people I’m close to.”

Senior Clara Spolyar My mom and grandma prefer going to mountains and landscape areas where it’s more calm, and my sister and I like to go to places that are more crowded and have more culture...normally, we go to both places a couple of times.

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while watching TV, junior Asif Hossain found himself relating what had been portrayed on TV to his own experiences in an eerily similar way.

He had been watching the second episode of “Fresh Off the Boat,” a TV show that began airing last month that details the lives of members of a Chinese family dealing with a recent move from Washington D.C.’s Chinatown to Orlando, FL. “(In ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ the children) used to go to the Chinese Learning (Center) in D.C., but they don’t really have one in Orlando, so the mom makes it up for them so that they study, and I kind of related to that,” Hossain said.

Years before, Hossain’s parents had placed him in an education program outside of school, Kumon, similar to the Chinese Learning Center in “Fresh Off the Boat.”

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watching the show because he found that he could relate to its racial diversity.

In addition to “Fresh Off the Boat,” Hossain also watches the TV show “Black-ish,” another show with racial diversity.

Recently, many TV shows, such as “The Fosters,” “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Black-ish” are portraying a greater variety of races.

According to Tim Pollard, Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Telecommunications at Ball State University, TV networks have begun to air more shows with racial diversity because they are trying to gain more viewership from audiences in order to earn advertising dollars.

“Traditional broadcast television continues to see a loss of viewership to niche networks, streaming services and social media. They need to get eyeballs in front of the

NETWORK DIVERSITY New shows have become 3.8% more racially diverse, so here’s a look at the races of main characters in four different television networks.

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set,” Pollard said via email. “They are now going after the growing African-American and LatinAmerican populations. Eyeballs (equal) higher ratings (which equal) more ad dollars.”

To Hossain, one of the reasons he believes TV industries have begun to incorporate more racial diversity is the ability to include different cultures and to target different audiences.

“For years, we’ve had humorous things that Caucasian families do (in comedic TV shows), and (racial diversity is) a way for TV industries to bring in a new type of humor based on the different culture, and it’s definitely targeted toward a different audience based on a lot of the stereotypes that are…true and relatable to the audience,” Hossain said.

Hossain said he enjoys watching TV shows like “Fresh Off the Boat” because they are relatable.

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A comparison of the average viewership of the latest season of these racially diverse shows(*) with other popular shows on the same network

TELEVISION TIME: Junior Asif Hossain watches “Fresh Off the Boat” online with his brother. He said he enjoys it because he can relate to the characters.

those, and I think of memories I had in Kumon and how once it was so annoying, but now I look back at it, and it’s funny how popular it is.”

Junior Frances Sormillon watches the TV show “The Fosters” that portrays the family of a lesbian couple—an African-American and a Caucasian—who take in two foster children and adopt two Hispanic

twins. According to Sormillon, one of the reasons she enjoys watching the show is that it addresses sensitive topics including racial diversity.

“I find it very interesting to see characters that differ from the typical all-white cast,” Sormillon said. “It’s nice to see that the entertainment world is evolving to be more racially accepting and diverse. I think it’s great that more shows are taking a risk and trying to open the public eye to a racially diverse society.”

To Sormillon, the growing number of TV shows regarding racial diversity signifies the growing interest of Americans in the lives of people of other races. “(Audiences) get to see how other people deal with stereotypes,” Sormillon said. “It’s naturally more interesting that way.”

Hossain said these racially diverse shows are opening the eyes of audiences to different cultures. “‘Fresh Off the Boat’ and ‘Blackish’ are promoting the acceptance of diversity even more in our culture and how all humans are relatable in our own peculiarities but through different cultures,” Hossain said. “For example, a black family is odd just like a Asian family just like a white family…We’re all odd, so why are we making fun of each other?”

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THE SHAME GAME increased social media use leads to conflict

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attended the State Championship football game against Ben Davis, which Carmel lost 42-24. It was after the game, Kehoe said, that her friend suggested tweeting a picture of her with a trashcan and tweeting about the football team. At that time, Kehoe had fewer than 200 followers on Twitter.

“After I posted (the tweet), it went for a good 24 hours, and it got about 20-something favorites and a couple of my friends at Ben Davis who thought it was really funny.

They ended up retweeting what I posted, and it got traction at Ben Davis,” Kehoe said.

It was the weekend after the game, Kehoe said, when her tweet caught the attention of her fellow peers and classmates.

The tweet caught the attention of both Ben Davis and Carmel students with nearly 100 retweets and over 170 favorites, according to Kehoe.

Kehoe said she received insults regarding her appearance and multiple death threats because of her tweet.

“It kind of went crazy. People were telling me to watch my back and not come to school,” Kehoe said. “Everything they said to me, I kind of disregarded it.”

Similar to Kehoe, Justine Sacco, former PR executive at InterActiveCorp (IAC), posted a controversial tweet about AIDS that became viral, according to a recent New York Times article by Jon Ronson. According to Ronson’s novel So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, released on March 12, Sacco is not the only victim of this public shaming as a consequence of uploading insensitive comments. The book highlights other recent instances of public shaming, such as Lindsey Stone, who posed for a photograph that mocked a sign at Arlington National Cemetery. Later when the photo was found, numerous Facebook users created the Facebook groups “Fire Lindsey Stone” and “Set Fire to Lindsey Stone.”

Ronson’s view is that social media has evolved into a tool for shaming and ruining reputations.

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The caption read, “Picture with the carmel football team #greyhoundnation.”

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public shaming stated that there is an entire spectrum of emotions an individual may experience that can cause a domino effect. Out of these emotions, however, it is anger that is most contagious emotion—far outranking, in second, joy.

On that note, Melinda Messineo, chairperson and associate professor in the department of sociology at Ball State University, said the usage of technology has removed the potential for a cooling-off period.

“At that point, what you were feeling or whatever you were experiencing something at that time might dissipate,” she said. “Well, technology immediately allows for this public shaming. The first thing that comes to mind, you can immediately put it out there in a comment section or something without as much potential for reflection that might have happened in older media types of format.”

In addition, Messineo said, a contributing component in the increase in public shaming on social media platforms is the increased potential of anonymity.

“People have always been able to publicly shame someone, but the degree of access and the potential of anonymity has been increased in the years so this is one of the things that technology has been made possible that has been something harder to do in the past,” Messineo said.

Sophomore Josh Khantsis said he was put under the spotlight when people anonymously left questions and comments regarding his sexuality.

“It started with random people making accusations

that I’m gay and people making fun of the fact I am friends with a lot of girls and not friends with guys,” Khantsis said. “Sometimes the things people left me won’t even be questions and were just blatant statements that I wouldn’t know how to respond to, so I would just delete them.”

Khantsis said the attention from his ask.fm account intertwined and bled onto his other social media accounts.

“There were instances on Instagram where I would post some artsy picture or a selfie or something and people would literally write the word ‘gay’ in the comments section on my picture,” he said. “I would try to delete the comment as fast as I (could) before someone else would see it.”

Kehoe said it’s so easy now for people to find information they want.

She said, “People can easily find you now, especially if they know your name or if you use the same username for all your social media account(s). People can easily find you and harass you on other websites also.”

According to Messineo, there needs to be more awareness on media literacy in order to prevent further public shaming.

“We don’t have high media literacy in general in our society and so we as a culture need to be for our kids and our young adults that is entering this landscape,” Messineo said. “If you have higher media literacy, you’d have higher awareness and better filters and better frames on how to respond and see these things that are happening.”

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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams claimed that he had been in a Chinook helicopter that was attacked in the Iraq War. Soldiers who were part of the incident called him out, and people began to shame him on social media platforms like Twitter.

Justine Sacco, former director of communications at InterActiveCorp, tweeted this out before her trip to South Africa. She only had 170 followers, but it spread on Twitter during her flight, and she was fired because of it.

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SWAPPING SISTER SCHOOLS CHS hosts students from Seikyo Gaukuen school in a home-stay exchange program

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have been mingling with the more than 4,800 students here. These new students are all unique but have one common thread: They are from our sister school, Seikyo Gaukuen School, in Kowashnagano, Japan.

These exchange students arrived two days ago on Wednesday, according to Jon Kane, coordinator and administrative committee member, and will

depart on March 27. While the students are here, the host families plan to give them opportunities to experience life in the United States through both day-to-day activities as well as scheduled events such as a Pacers game, ice-skating, laser flash and a square dance.

Kane joined the program about 20 years ago, when one of the coordinators at the time asked him if he would like to join. He did, and said it was an amazing experience.

HOUSE HOST: Junior Connor Hutt holds a postcard from Japan.

Hutt said he is hosting freshman Japanese student Keita Maekawa, the student he stayed with last year.

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“When I found out that I was going to be able to travel to Japan with the group, I was really excited because I had never thought of going to Japan before,” Kane said.

“An experience like this is very life changing. It opens your mind up to other cultures, outside of Carmel, outside of yourselves. Living with a family really stretches you, a family that you’ve never met before like that, stretches your, just your interactions with other

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If you could host an exchange student from any foreign country, which one would it be and why?

Senior Bailey Clark “Since I’ve already done the foreign exchange program in Japan, I would be more comfortable with hosting a Japanese student because I could potentially meet up with the girl I stayed with at our sister school. I could also practice my Japanese and learn more about the culture.”

Senior Alex Bissell “I would host someone from Europe because it seems like the closest thing that I would be able to do. More specifically, I would want host someone from France because I am very interested in the country and just French in general. My parents are also very interested in French, so it would be a good fit.”

people. It opens your eyes to a lot of things.”

Junior Connor Hutt joined the exchange program because a few of his friends had participated in the year prior and really enjoyed the experience. Hutt is hosting a boy named Keita Maekawa, the same person he stayed with when he traveled to Japan last summer.

“I joined (the program) last year, and basically, you can sign up and it’s an open meeting, and we meet twice a month and we talk about having our students here or last year we were talking about going to Japan because last year we went to Japan. You have to fill out an application and then you do this interview with the people that run the program,” Hutt said.

Administrative committee member LaDonna Kliewer said she first became part of the program six years ago when her daughter hosted a Japanese student. Now, each of her three children have hosted a student, and she said the experience has shown them the similarities of their cultures and broadened their perspective beyond the benefits of Carmel.

“We just had such a great time and a really neat connection with (the first girl we hosted), and she’s now part of our family and we consider her part of our family,” Kliewer said. “It’s something that I wanted to help other families be able to do, give them an opportunity to connect with other cultures and learn more about the similarities between ourselves and people from other countries.”

Hutt also said he has gained a lot from his experience with the program.

“I’m getting a lot of cultural awareness, and I’m making lifelong friends. I’m meeting new people from Carmel that I wouldn’t know if I hadn’t been in this program,” Hutt said. “I really like the new aspect that I get to bring to my life, the new experiences that I get, like having hosted a student and being in Japan.

(It has) been really life changing.”

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This week, CHS hosts students from Seikyo, Japan. Here’s a quick look at what they and their host families will be doing.

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Tuesday 9:30 a.m.

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Seikyo students field trip City Hall and garden

Meet with Mayor Brainard City Council Chambers

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Thursday Visit Shops Downtown Carmel Pacers Game Bankers Life Fieldhouse Ice skating Carmel Ice Skadium Laser Flash Return to class

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Spring break is all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

Here are some tips to make it as enjoyable and safe as possible.

Ignore strangers who approach you or offer a ride. Don’t make extra conversation with them because no one needs to rehash a Liam Neeson film. This tip may seem obvious, but it is always a safety precaution that you need to take into consideration.

Without a doubt, getting lost is always an uncomfortable situation to be in.

However, a map can help you avoid this hassle. Oftentimes, you can find a map or GPS system in your mobile device.

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Have an idea of which attractions you will sightsee. This will help you avoid getting lost. In addition, you will have more time to spend at the sites and less time planning during the trip.

For additional information regarding food and water safety and entering/exiting requirements, look into your destination first. Water quality can vary widely outside the United States.

Limit your exposure to sun to prevent dehydration and sunburn. If you plan to be outdoors, sunscreen is a necessity, especially if you plan on going to the beach or a ski resort. Snow and water actually increase the reflection of the sun’s rays, making it easier to get sunburned, so pack a bottle of sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15.

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Comparing the Costs of

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While many CHS students will pay high prices to go to a traditional four-year college, expecting to be successful in the future, others will take the less expensive route of attending a community college.

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ver the next six years, senior Jack Denger will spend close to $300,000 studying pharmacy at Butler University.

He will spend two years taking general core classes, three years taking rigorous pharmaceutical courses and one final, expensive year in rotation to ensure a successful future. “(The future) could turn out any number of ways.

It really all depends on if I do well in school. If I make it through school, I’ll no doubt have a job. The Butler pharmacy school, specifically, has somewhere between 97 percent and 99 percent job placement ratings before graduation, so basically every single kid that goes out of that school either gets a job at a retail pharmacy or in a hospital,” Denger said.

The millennial generation, which includes everyone born after 1980, is incredibly optimistic about the future.

According to a Bank of America and USA TODAY report published in late 2014, 80 percent of all millennials believe they will be as well off as or more successful than their parents. Additionally, according to a 2014 report by the Pew Research Center, the millennial generation is the most educated generation in history, with over one third of its members having at least a bachelor’s degree, and according to data on the CHS Class of ‘14, 87 percent of students attend a four-year college and 8 percent attend a two-year college or trade school after graduation. Yet, the average traditional college student in America has around $28,000 in debt, which, according to Dan Clark, Ivy Tech Community College Hamilton County Campus president, can be avoided by taking core classes at a community college and transferring credits.

“The difference (between taking a core class at a fouryear school and taking it at Ivy Tech) is that at Ivy Tech, it would cost about $400. The same course at a four-year college would cost around $1,000, and that course is transferable, so if you take it at a community college, it counts at a four-year college,” Clark said. “Let’s say you save $600 or $700 on that course. If you do that ten times, you save around $6,000 in tuition, and if you don’t pay room and board, you save another eight, nine, $10,000 a year, so you can easily save $30,000 by taking those introductory courses at a community college and transferring those courses to a four-year college for one or two years.”

This is the route senior Kayla Stiff said she plans to take.

Stiff said she will take core classes at Ivy Tech, then transfer to a four-year school such as IUPUI to pursue a degree in wildlife biology.

Stiff said, “Careers don’t look back on how much you spent for college. They’re not going to look up, ‘Hey, how much did you pay for college? Oh, you went to a cheaper college, you’re not going to get this job.’ There is an aspect of Harvard and Stanford that are really high colleges, but sometimes, with those places, you still get the same job that someone else (would) from a lower college.”

According to Melinda Stephan, College and Career Resource Center programming coordinator, cost plays a huge role in students’ college decisions.

“I think (college is) one of those things where it’s an expensive investment and it’s an important investment, so people are really thinking about affordability and value, and the buzzword in the field is ‘return on investment.’ If I’m going to spend this money on a college education, what am I going to get out of it?” Stephan said.

Denger said that in his college selection, deciding on choosing the expensive route was a hard decision, but he

“There is an aspect of Harvard and Stanford that are really high colleges, but sometimes, with those places, you still get the same job that someone else (would) from a lower college.” thinks his investment will pay off. He said he could have gone to Purdue University for about half the cost, but ultimately decided to pay the full price to go to Butler because he felt like it was the best fit for him.

However, paying a high price for a college degree is not the only way to ensure a successful future due to the changing job market, according to Clark.

“In competing with our global competitors, it’s becoming clearer that we’re pretty competitive with the Ph.D. and Masters level. Below that, we’re not as competitive in applied science and technical fields, and we may have a surplus of Baccalaureate degrees. And so to be really competitive, there are actually some fields (we need to fill), particularly technical fields, in which we have too few students,” Clark said.

Additionally, President Barack Obama has proposed to make community college tuition free for those who qualify.

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plan would make the first two years of community college free, which could benefit about 9 million students a year should they be willing to maintain good grades and stay on track to graduate. However, both Stiff and Denger said if the proposal were to go through, it would not affect their college plans. Stephan said she thinks creating free community college would increase more optimism for those with financial barriers.

Stephan said, “I think generally here at Carmel, we have pretty optimistic students. We have well-prepared students. We have high-performing students, we have students that are ready to move onto the next step, so when all those things align, I think it’s easy to be optimistic, but if you go somewhere else, there may not be as much optimism because there may be more barriers to that access, and going back to that plan to create free community college, when you do things like that, you create more optimism.”

Senior Jack Denger studies in the library for math.

He said he is excited to start a new chapter of his life in a new place next year, though he will not be far from his home.

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To read our staff’s position on community college, flip to Perspectives on page 48.

Senior Kayla Stiff stands in front of an Ivy Tech location in Carmel. Stiff said she plans to attend Ivy Tech for a year, taking core classes.

Clark said he thinks the proposal for free community college would not only create more optimism among students but also would allow students to graduate on time and debt-free.

“I think (Obama’s proposal would affect Ivy Tech) in a very, very positive way. I think it would help more students graduate on time, and I think that’s the most important thing,” Clark said. “They might have to live at home for a couple of years, they might not work for a couple of years, but if they can get the degree finished on time without any debt, then they would be way ahead of where they might be otherwise.”

Stiff said although she believes pursuing education after college can help with finding a career, it is not completely necessary.

“If you don’t go to college, you can still get a good job if you try hard enough. If you want a career to move up on each step in your life, I’d suggest going to

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$3,465

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$1,090

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$9,804

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$2,336

$3,242

Other

$1,808

$79

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$14,523

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college because knowing the information and having a diploma, it’s easier to get a good job with a good salary,” Stiff said. “I want to be a zookeeper, so for me, having a wildlife biology background would get me into the zoo easier than someone who got out of high school (directly).”

Denger said he also thinks a college education can be very important, but it depends on the student’s situation Denger said, “Especially in Carmel, because of the socioeconomic status, I feel like there’s a lot of social pressure for kids my age to go to college and to get a degree, when really, for some kids, it just depends on who you are.

For some people, it might just be more beneficial just to join the workforce or stay and go to community college, but I think if you’re looking for a career rather than just a job, I think college is pretty important.”

In terms of motivation, Stephan said students are motivated to go to college by both the hope of a better future and a desire to learn.

“We’re typically saying ‘How are you going to be a contributing member to society? How are you going to be a good citizen?’ and one of the ways we are contributing members of society and good citizens is what we do professionally, how we spend our time, how we take care of ourselves, how we pay our bills and that sort of thing. Focus on the future is definitely an important reason why students think college is important,” Stephan said. “But I do talk to a lot of students who are just really curious and want to learn more about things. It’s one thing to go to college because you need to get a job, but it’s another to go because you love learning.”

Denger said he is looking forward not only to the experience of college but also to the outcome.

He said, “A lot of people say the biggest thing to expect in college is that you’ll change, and you’ll inevitably change a lot.

I’m sure that’ll happen to me, which I think is kind of something interesting to look forward to. I kind of want to get involved with something different that I haven’t been involved with before.”

A February 2015 poll by the Pew Research Center found that compared to European millennials, significantly fewer American millennials say success in life is determined by outside forces. The same poll also found that 73 percent of millennials in the United States believe hard work is important to getting ahead in life, compared to 17 percent in Greece and 25 percent in France.

Stephan said despite students’ perceptions that they may have little control, hard work does pay off.

“I think the reality is students absolutely have control over their opportunities and their future. The money you

sometimes don’t have a lot of control over, but the one thing you typically have control over is amount of effort.

Sometimes you don’t always have a lot of time, depending on the circumstances, but if you’re willing to do the things you have control over and then utilize the resources to answer the questions about finances, there’s really no reason why people shouldn’t place a high value (on higher education),” Stephan said.

Denger said he believes hard work, not fate determines a person’s future. Stiff, however, said while she does believe hard work plays an important role, her faith does as well.

Stiff said, “Deciding my own future, I think it should always be up to me. Hard work does get you a good future.

If you’re lazy and don’t do anything in school, you’re not going to get anywhere. But, I’m a Christian, so I let God take control of everything. I don’t let myself be in this stress bump and think everything is up to me; really, (God) is in control.”

Stiff also said that she remains optimistic that she will be successful in the future. Stephan and Clark also both said they remain optimistic for the future of the millennial generation.

“I think in the United States and especially in the state of Indiana, the future is very bright,” Clark said. “And I think so for this reason: particularly in the state of Indiana, and all throughout the Midwest, the proportion of our population that is young is declining. And so we need

“If you’re willing to do the things you have control over and then utilize the resources to answer the questions about finances, there’s really no reason why people shouldn’t place a high value (on higher education).” people like you. The country needs people like you. The country needs and the state of Indiana needs almost every young person to succeed.”

Stephan said she also believes the future is bright for the millennial generation.

She said, “I think it’s absolutely optimistic, but I’m an optimistic person. The opportunities that are available for learning, for growing, not just studying but experiencing, are so much better than when I went to college 25 years ago in terms of studying abroad and internships and service learning, and I think if students are willing and able, that generation, there’s no boundaries in terms of H what they can do.”

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A CLASSICAL ADVENTURE

chs orchestras to perform in vienna, austria during spring break D URING

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the CHS orchestras will take a trip to perform in Vienna, Austria. The orchestra program does a performance tour every three years, with the last excursion having occurred in 2012 to California.

However, this year’s trip is special for many students because it will be the first time traveling to Europe, or even another country.

Naheel Khatri, Camerata Orchestra cellist and junior, said, “I’m looking forward to looking at all the historical sites that I’ve never seen before.”

According to associate orchestra director Elisabeth Ohly-Davis, the group will visit several cathedrals and perform sacred pieces.

“We are playing in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the middle of Vienna, and since they are a house of worship, they require a sacred program. We’re playing a few church

to the Haydn Hall at the Esterházy sonatas by Mozart and some sacred Palace, where Franz Joseph Haydn music by Bach, and another church composed for many years. Those are concerto grosso by Corelli, and going to be our highlights. some hymn arrangements,” We’ll be spending some time Ohly-Davis said.

DID YOU KNOW? in Salzburg to visit Mozart’s Khatri said he looks Vienna is often called “the birthplace and some of the forward to performing with city of music,” having been cultural sights as well.” others in historical sites.

Khatri also said he has “I’m very excited. I’ve the home to many illustrious never been in Europe before, musicians, like Wolfgang high hopes about visiting so I’m looking forward Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig the Schönbrunn Palace due to (the trip). I am very Van Beethoven and Franz to its historical significance as a residence of the excited about performing Schubert.

Habsburg dynasty. at the Esterházy Palace, as ABOUTVIENNA.ORG / SOURCE According to Aleck I have never had a musical Belcher, Camerata Orchestra opportunity such as this, and bassist and sophomore, the Vienna probably won’t for the rest of my trip will not only be a fun adventure life. It’s an honor,” Khatri said. with the touring of traditional sites Ohly-Davis said she agrees. and various performances, it will She also said the orchestra also be a bonding experience for the members going to Vienna will orchestra members. get the opportunity to perform in Belcher also said he is ecstatic Salzburg, Austria. about travelling to Vienna as well “There’s going to be a variety as the music the orchestra students of sightseeing, and (we’re going)

GOING THE DISTANCE Every three years, Symphony and Philharmonic orchestras do a performance tour out of state. How far will they travel this year compared to previous years?

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4,737 miles to Vienna, Austria (2015) 4,666 miles Vienna

to Saint Petersburg, Russia (2006) 2,091 miles to Los Angeles (2012) 717 miles to New York City (2003 and 2009)

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SWETHA NAKSHATRI will be performing.

“We’re preparing a lot of sacred music so that we can perform it in lots of pretty sacred places. That means a lot of Mozart and Bach,” Belcher said.

He said he feels prepared for the concerts in Vienna and also expects to have a lot of fun.

“It’s a big trip, but I’ve traveled before, and I’m confident that the orchestra can handle it. We will be taking tours of Vienna and Salzburg.

I’m super excited to see the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and that’s going to be pretty neat. It’s going to blow my mind,” Belcher said.

However, the music the orchestra will play for Vienna is relatively easy because the focus is on pieces for competitions, according to Belcher.

“It’s kind of a time crunch with

VUNDERFUL VIENNA: Senior Hannah Estabrook and sophomore Ray Jiang, Symphony Orchestra members, play scales to warm up during their orchestra class.

Estabrook is among the students who will be heading to Vienna, Austria over spring break to play at a variety of venues.

what’s happening with ISSMA state, because we’re preparing Vienna music at the same time.

It’s kind of difficult because a lot of people don’t really have that time to practice Vienna music, but it’s nothing crazy hard, so I think we can do it,” Belcher said. “Our priorities are on contest music right now so we’re playing really easy music for Vienna—well not easy, but just not as intense. We always perform well, so I’m confident and feeling pretty good.”

Ohly-Davis said, “We are just ready to go. It’s going to be great. Spring break can’t come soon enough. It’s an awesome opportunity to be able to be with your friends and see these amazing things and make music together. I can’t think of a more H perfect combination.”

OH, THE PLACES THEY’LL GO Esterházy Palace

St. Stephen’s Cathedral

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Beautiful sunny days, lounging by the beach all day, Sound familiar? This is what movies make out spring

THE SCHEDULE OF A SPRING BREAK MOVIE CHARACTER Friday 10 a.m: You groan as you wake up from your slumber. You wonder why you’re awake at this time and realize that spring break has begun.

You go back to sleep.

1 p.m: You get out of bed, put on a Hawaiian shirt and call your friends to hang out.

11 p.m: You and your friends go out to the party that everyone has been talking about and meet the most attractive person. You decide to pursue him or her.

Saturday 2 a.m: You convince the beautiful specimen to go on a date with you later.

4 a.m: You get carried away at the party and get a tattoo of a cliché quote and tribal design. You then go to sleep to relieve the pain from your new tattoo.

4 p.m: You wake up feeling like you’re on cloud nine and excited for the date. Ah, love is a magical thing.

10 p.m: You go out with him or her, and the date ends on a sour note. You’re crying over all of your life’s troubles.

Saturday Night: You haven’t showered in a while. Everything reminds you of that date. You decide it’s time to get a grip and go to another party with your friends.

Sunday Midnight: Uh-oh, he or she is at the party. You pluck up the courage to talk to him or her. You two make up, and your heart is no longer broken.

12:30 a.m: You’re in a partying mood and drink tropical smoothies while your friends are drinking heavier liquids.

Monday 2:00 a.m: You and your friends buy $650 worth of fireworks and light them up to end the night.

7:50 a.m: School begins, and you and your significant other begin your journey as high school sweethearts.

STEREOTYPICAL SPRING BREAK MOVIE CHARACTERS Who the movies say you will meet on your spring break All examples are from the spring break movie “From Justin to Kelly”

The “Average Josie” Poor “Average Josie” is just trying to fit in, but with the “mean girls” at her throat, she just seems out of her element.

Example: Kelly

The “Cocky Party Boy” He is often seen partying the night away and hitting on unsuspecting girls with his “bros,” and often falls in love with an “Average Josie” and reinvents himself.

Example: Justin

The “Ditzy, Flashy Girl” She can be found tanning on the beach with minimal clothing.

She is a master of the side eye and is the typical mean girl.

Example: Alexa

The “Creepy Weirdo” Awkwardly stands alone in the shadows, speaking in strange metaphors and giving ominous warnings.

Always listen to the creepy weirdo. Always.

Example: Carlos

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coming back home with loads of stories to tell. break to be. However, how accurate are the films?

THE REAL NUMBERS in april of 2014, a total of 2,427,609 americans traveled to foreign countries

europe: 868,367 caribbean: 629,774

asia: 381,817

central america: 213,929 middle east: 141,744 south america: 123,068

africa: 27,596

oceania: 41,314

top 10 spring break travel destinations: 1. Las Vegas 2. Cancun, Mexico 3. Orlando, FL 4. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 5. New York 6. New Orleans 7. Chicago 8. Miami Beach, FL 9. Playa Del Carmen, Mexico 10. Riviera Maya, Mexico

13.99%

percentage of college students who spend: 37.76% $0 - $499

48.25% $500 - $999

over $1,000

in april of 2014, 301,545 people Departed for travel from the indianapolis airport

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2. sob stories make great conversation After years of watching the show, viewers have noticed a certain coincidence that nearly all “Bachelor” contestants share: the sob story. This season did not disappoint, as its contestants lined up to share their private secrets with Chris and, of course, ten cameras a foot away. Although there were plenty tears shed this season, “Bachelor” contestant Kelsey Poe took the melodramatic cake.

“Isn’t my story amazing?” she said. “It’s tragic but it’s amazing. I love my story. I know this is a show about Chris but this is my story too. Stay tuned, Monday nights at 8.

The love story unveiled.”

So when the conversation is lacking at your next rendezvous, bring out the Kleenex and rehearse that Oscar-deserving monologue. Everyone knows the best relationships are built on awkward sympathy and fake tears.

The

Dating can get pretty expensive between the nice meals, fancy dates and pricey gifts. Luckily for the fellas of CHS, “Bachelor” contestant Ashley Salter inspired a new way to impress your date without spending the big bucks. Upon meeting the bachelor, she gave a lesson on onions and their symbolic meaning in a relationship.

“Every person you meet is like an onion,” she said. “You cut them, but when you cut them, what you do is you peel them back layer by layer.”

Instead of buying your significant other a bouquet of flowers, simply pick up a sac of onions. Your date will realize not only your commitment to her favorite reality show but also your desire to really get to her core. We promise that nothing speaks to a woman more than vegetables and “Bachelor” references.

BACHELOR

1. Roses are red, but onions are better

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3. New mexico is, in fact, a part of the united states We’re not saying Chris’ wife needs a 4.0, but a basic understanding of United States geography is always handy. When she was told the show was filming its next episode in New Mexico, it become apparent that “Bachelor” contestant Megan Bell probably failed her 5th grade states ITH THE ELEVENTH and capitals test.

SEASON of “The “I think that New Mexico is Bachelor” just wrapping definitely going to be a culture up, viewers will commence a two shock from what I’m used to,” she month long hiatus free from watching said. “You know the hats, the the serial dating of America’s most sombreros that everyone wears eligible. For these next two months, in Mexico? I don’t know if they lonely singles across the country will wear that in New Mexico. I’m scramble to fill the void once occupied so excited. I’ve never been out of the country.” by a weekly dose of roses, date cards and To avoid this mishap, keep your comments short and the ever so popular fantasy suites. So sweet. Vagueness is the key to the perfect date, so let without a reality show to demonstrate your words play hard to get. Dialogue is overrated when the complex concept of modern dating, you can always just sit and smile. will love cease to exist? Without a weekly reminder that people date “for the right reasons” and are still “looking for love” will couples be able to find their way? To continue the magic of this season to the next, we recommend you to reflect on the wonders that “The Bachelor” has preached on life, happiness H and of course, love.

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4. break up in the badlands? have a ride home

In the dramatic Two-On-One Date, Chris took contestants Ashley Iaconetti and Kelsey Poe to the South Dakotan badlands, where they conveniently found a bottle of wine and a fourposter bed. After some run of the mill “Bachelor” drama, Chris proceeded to dump both girls and ride off in his helicopter solo, leaving them stranded in the middle of nowhere with only a cameraman for a guide.

Obviously high schoolers may not plan their dates in the heart of the Badlands but this tip is always one to keep in mind. Even in the worst relationships, postpone breakups to when you have a ride home or at least to when you can be stranded in a place with wifi.

Unless you have a “Bachelor” budget The views of this article do not with your own personal helicopter, it is necessairily reflect the views of the better to wait than to be abandoned HiLite staff. Reach Brielle Saggese at by your date. bsaggese@hilite.org

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FRESH THOUGHTS FOR ‘FOTB’ chs students discuss the new show “fresh off the boat”

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Based off of the book of the same name by Eddie Huang, chef, restaurateur, food personality and former lawyer, the new ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” follows the adventures of a younger version of the author and his experiences growing up as a second generation immigrant in a predominantly white neighborhood.

Like it’s fellow ABC show “Black-ish,” it uses comedy to tackle the issue of cultural identity in a foreign place. This show has not gone unnoticed by CHS students, some of whom voice their opinion of it below. H HE TITLE WRITES ITSELF, REALLY.

Freshman Kiki Koniaris Q: What did you think about the show after you saw it?

I thought it was quite funny actually. Some of these things are relatable. My grandmother is an immigrant from an Asian country, so some of these things I could totally understand and relate to.

Q: What country is your grandmother from?

My grandma’s from Korea, so there was this segment on perms. That was how (Asian women) were seen as professional or rich. I’ve seen clips of the show, and my grandmother wore perms. She got a lot of perms, and her hair was very curly. It was funny for me because it was so relatable.

Sophomore Joyce Tang Q: What did you think about the show after you saw it?

I thought the first episode was really funny because it’s about this Asian kid, and he brings Chinese food to school. All these white kids were like, “Oh my gosh. That stinks.” It just reminded me of when I was in elementary school.

Q: What do you think about the other stereotypes other than the Asian ones?

The white people in the show seem, like, really clueless and ignorant. I can see how it’s a stereotype because some people might be ignorant of other races, and they don’t understand how other races work. I feel like a lot of people now just educate themselves more, and it’s not so much like the people in the show because the show was set in the 90’s.

Junior Max Jolly Q: What did you think about the show after you saw it?

I thought it was funny. It kind of uses stereotypes to its advantage for humor sometimes, but then it can also reject them at times for other humor. It kind of takes its pick there.

Q: What was your opinion about the mom in the show?

She had quite an accent that I thought was a little bit over-the-top sometimes. I thought she was an interesting portrayal of an Asian mom. The stereotype is a tiger mom, but she wasn’t always like that, which I appreciated.

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COUNTDOWN TO THE APPLE WATCH Apple’s newest tech to open for preorder

MESSAGE On April 10, the much anticipated Apple Watch will be open for pre-orders. The watch, created with the original idea of a timepiece in mind, will, oddly enough, mostly do things that have nothing to do with time. It will act as an extension of the user’s iPhone, with iOS 8 and several features such as message previews, the ability to answer calls and then forward them to an iPhone, direction mapping, a heart monitor, a timer, and even a camera. It is projected to start at $349.

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“This is an opportunity for the band to become something it could only become by losing a founding member.”

— BEN GIBBARD, FRONTMAN FOR ALTERNATIVE ROCK BAND DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, SPEAKING ABOUT THE DEPARTURE OF BAND MEMBER CHRIS WALLA, AND HOW IT RELATES TO ITS NEW ALBUM KINSUGI (TO BE RELEASED MARCH 31).

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...And the party goes on The latest installment in the fun-filled, friendship-ruining party game series, “Mario Party 10” will be released today. The game will be the first of the Mario Party games for the Wii U. Mario Party 10 will introduce a new game mode called “Bowser Party.” In this game mode, the fifth player controls the formidable koopa king with the Wii U GamePad.

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CATCHING ON rugby grows in popularity at chs, in the United states

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with its first game at noon at the American Legion, located in Carmel on West Main Street.

Sophomore Maria Bashmakov said the team has played several short matches by attending a Jamboree in preparation for tomorrow’s game. “(Jamborees) are helpful with game experience even though they’re short matches. They’re also a lot of fun and it’s great to see the other teams,” Bashmakov said.

This year, the women’s rugby team has been training since Jan. 20. In addition, Bashmakov said the team has talked about training between their main seasons, the fall and spring, to keep the team’s abilities strong.

Head Women’s Rugby Coach, Rusty Skoog, has been unavailable for comment.

SEASON TOMORROW

According to senior Peyton Barr, preseason training has been going well and the new coaches have enhanced the team’s game.

“It’s all about learning and making sure the new players are familiar with the game, “ Barr said.

When practices began in January, they were held inside and often consisted of conditioning as well as physical playing time. Bashmakov said that practices usually start with an intense warm up followed by activities that reinforce the basics and are designed to help out new team members.

However, as January ended, the team moved practices outside and began incorporating more running into its practices.

Bashmakov said she works out and participates in all-star and nearby clubs during the offseason, which

LOOKING AHEAD: Sophomore Maria Bashmakov looks at her teammates during a practice.

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women’s rugby keeps her in shape and makes the transition from spring to fall simple. However, the transition from fall to spring is more difficult, she said, due to the weather.

“Our coach recommends that we condition outside of practice,” Barr said. “But rugby to most of us is about having fun and playing on a team full of people that we love.”

“This year we have more coaches that are working us a lot harder than last year. We have two new female coaches. One is an alumni of the Carmel Rugby Program, and she supports and helps us during practices,” Bashmakov said. “The second coach is brand new to rugby.

She has been in charge of our warm-ups at the beginning of practice, ranging from over a hundred jump squats to over a hundred crunches. She’s also disciplining us more than we’re used to. Overall, it’s a positive change that we’re excited to have this season and we look forward to the outcome.”

Last year, according the Bashmakov, was one of the better seasons, and the team had a good record.

Bashmakov also said the team lost some valuable players this year, but she thinks that they will make

WHAT IS RUGBY?

Here are some basic facts and rules of the game that is increasing in popularity among CHS students.

You may tackle the ball carrier, but no other player.

The ball must be passed backward or to the side, never forward.

a l ly r u s s e l l up for it with the effort they have been putting into getting ready for the season.

“We were very close to making semi-finals,” Bashmakov said. “This year with our new coaches, I’m expecting an increase in our endurance and ability, H resulting in a better end of season result.”

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A try, worth five points, is scored when the ball touches the ground in the opponent’s in-goal area. An additional two points can be scored by kicking the ball through the goalpost.

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SQUAT TO THE TOP: Sophomore Maria Bashmakov and her teammates do squats during practice.

Bashmakov said that the new coaches have implemented more conditioning into the team’s training, which she believes is beneficial.

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SPORTING A DIFFERENT BELT with Martial arts becoming popular at chs, what are the differences between the two?

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HEN HE WAS A KID, JUNIOR MARIO LAZAGA

wanted to be a one man army capable of taking on many people at once. After seven years of training, Lazaga has finally reached his secondary black belt in taekwondo.

“When I first started, I was nine about to turn ten, and I remember that I wanted to learn how to fight and be cool. Now that I’m older, I think, ‘OK this is actually useful stuff ’, if I ever go to a big city and anyone tries

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A HOP, A KICK AND A JUMP: Junior Mario Lazaga practices his taekwondo stances.

Lazaga is a secondary black belt in taekwondo.

to mug me, I know how to get them on the ground without getting hurt and without hurting them too badly,” Lazaga said.

Throughout CHS, many students are involved in a sport, but some students such as Lazaga have been doing martial arts since they were a kid. Many of these forms include taekwondo and karate. According to Lazaga, there is a big difference between karate, taekwondo and other styles like kung fu.

According to Master Yoo, head of Master Yoo’s World Class Taekwondo, “Number one, karate came from Japan, taekwondo came from Korea.

Secondly, right now taekwondo is an Olympic sport, which means it’s a very safe martial art. Third, taekwondo uses a lot of kicking techniques and lower body strength.

It exercises your lower body, karate is a lot of ‘hand’ technique.”

Senior Cameron Martin, who instructs at Adamson’s Karate Studio, had a similar idea between the distinction of the different martial arts saying that, “It’s kind of specific, a lot of it’s where it’s coming from, it’s a little bit different. Karate as opposed to taekwondo, if you’ve seen it in the Olympics, it’s a lot of kicking, while karate uses more punches than kicks, and kung fu is a little bit different from China, using many of the ‘animal styles’, like the stereotypical things you see in movies.”

In popular culture, there are many stereotypes in martial arts.

According to Lazaga, as a kid watching all the different movies, he wanted to be a good fighter, but after learning taekwondo for so long, he said that movies portray a

stereotype that martial arts is just fighting, but in reality, there are significant differences.

According to the American Taekwondo Association (ATA), taekwondo is a form that came as an amalgam of different Chinese and Korean styles. Taekwondo can be broke into three words; tae, meaning “to kick or jump”; kwon, meaning “fist or hand”; and do, which means “the way.” According to the ATA, taekwondo is a style famous for its wide range of kicks.

“I know for a fact that my master at my taekwondo school, the way he teaches things is different than the way other masters do, and that makes a big difference. I might have not learned the same mental skills if I did karate or had a different master,” Lazaga said.

I have been to different international competitions, and there are some schools that focus strictly on form, and others on sparring, but I think my teaching is more focus-based and goes through all the mentalities that you need to learn.”

Karate on the other hand, literally translates from Japanese to kara meaning empty, and te, meaning hand. According to Oxford Dictionary, it’s, “an Asian system of unarmed combat using the hands and feet to deliver and block blows, widely practiced as a sport.”

“Karate is definitely different.

A lot of the sports are team sports, so a lot of times you’re working in teams, while karate is very individual.

It’s difficult to explain, because the culture is a little bit different than any other sport I’ve played in the past,” Martin said. Also, many times when you play a sport for a long time, you’ll

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TAEKWONDO Taekwondo uses mainly kicking techniques that are both strong yet graceful. Punching and blocking with parries and takedowns are taught as well. Kicking techniques are emphasized more however.

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World Taekwondo Federation style is the official taekwondo style that’s used in the Olympics and is the most practiced style.

White: The lack of color signifies purity and innocence. The novice has no knowledge of taekwondo.

Yellow: The color of the rising sun. Seeds in the ground begin to germinate and grow. Basic taekwondo techniques begin to be learned.

KARATE Due to the wide popularity of the sport, karate has many different styles. Thus there is no one set style of karate.

Karate is not an Olympic Sport. It is debated whether it will become an Olympic Sport for the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo.

Taekwondo is an Olympic sport.

Sparring is the only event in Olympic Taekwondo.

Green: The color of growing things that all can see.

Power begins to develop.

Blue: The color of the sky which growing things reach for. Physical and mental power starts to stabilize.

Red: The color of blood, the essential life force. Maturity, honor and respect are exhibited as character begins to perfect.

Baji (Pants)

Dobok (Uniform)

Uwa-Gi (Jacket)

Belteu (Belt)

Sodeguchi (Sleeve Opening)

Eri (Lapei)

Obi (Belt)

Zubon (Pants)

Black: Black is the combination of all color. The final stage where technique is mastered within the humble and serene beauty of the plant.

Tae means “to kick or jump”; Kwon means “to fist or hand”; and do means “path” or “way.” Hence, taekwondo can be translated as “the way of the foot and fist”.

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Karate is primarily a striking art, with punching, kicking, knee/elbow strike and open-handed techniques. The movements are crisp and linear. And also has various blocking techniques like parries and takedowns are taught as well.

White: White signifies a birth, or beginning, of a seed. A white belt student is a beginner searching for knowledge of the Art. Yellow: Yellow signifies the first beams of sunlight which shines upon the seed giving it new strength with the beginning of new life.

Orange: Orange represents the growing power of the sun as it warms the earth to prepare for growth in the spring.

Green: Green signifies the growth of the seed as it sprouts from the earth reaching toward the sun and begins to grow into a plant.

Blue: Blue signifies the blue sky as the plant continues to grow toward it. A blue belt student moves up higher in rank just as the plant grows taller.

Purple: Purple represents the changing sky of dawn, as once again the student undergoes a new change and prepares for the transition to advanced student.

Brown: Brown represents the ripening of the seed, a maturing and harvesting process.

Black: Black signifies the darkness beyond the Sun. A black belt seeks new, more profound knowledge of the Art. As he begins to teach others, he plants new seeds and helps them grow and mature.

The meaning of the word karate is “empty hands.” It refers to the fact that Karate originated as a system of self-defense which relied on the effective use of the unarmed body of the practitioner.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that these two asian martial arts are the same. have a coach for a few years. Especially when I was growing up, we had a different coach each year in Carmel Dads Club, but I’ve had the same karate coach since I was 5 years old.”

Though both styles of martial arts may be different in form, style and focus, both Lazaga and Martin concur that martial arts has helped them in places other than the dojo.

“It builds that subconscious goal-setting attitude because I remember that when I was about to get my black belt, they made you go to these long seminars and made you focus and memorize everything you’ve learned before, and then when I came back to school after summer break, I realized that I was more in focus with a larger picture of school and homework,” Lazaga said. “It wasn’t just, ‘Do the homework,’ anymore, it was, ‘I gotta remember everything that I learned before,’ That’s when I asked myself, ‘Why am I doing this.

I never did this before’. That’s when I connected the dots.”

Furthermore, the two martial arts are also very similar in the fundamentals taught. Sensei Adamson, who runs Adamson’s Karate Studio said, “Here at Adamson’s, and I’m sure this is true with other martial arts schools, we do a lot of goal-setting, and goal-attaining I believe that this becomes habitual, and this becomes addictive. When you

DID YOU KNOW?

Over 70 million people in 188 countries practice taekwondo and about 4 million of them are black belters.

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set a goal and achieve it, that’s true confidence, number one.

Number two, it feels good, and you want that feeling again, so then you set another goal. And then you achieve it, and this is addictive.”

As a prospect for a school sport, though, both Martin and Lazaga said it would be cool, but would not be applicable in the school setting.

“It might be difficult for martial arts to be a school sport because there are so many different varieties of it. If you pick one, it will isolate the others, and you also have to find someone who is knowledgeable enough,” Martin said.

As the popularity of martial arts as a sport continues to grow, Lazaga and Martin both said it is a good way to learn life skills that you will use in the dojo and outside the dojo.

“They teach you to focus on a certain task,” Lazaga said. “All the different life skills they teach you are applied everywhere, and a lot of times also in school. They teach you how to work as a team, how to be sure and remember certain things. It just collects to have a massive effect.

Overall, that drive I learned keeps me on track on whatever H subject needs to be dealt with.”

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men’s volleyball

SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS men’s volleyball looks to recapture state title with underclassmen-dominant team

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RESHMAN YEAR WAS THE FIRST TIME ALEX SCHMITT,

middle blocker for the men’s volleyball team and junior, ever picked up a volleyball in his life.

“I saw a call-out meeting and thought, ‘Hey, what the heck,’” Schmitt said.

After one month playing JV during his freshman year, Schmitt moved up to varsity and has been playing there ever since. He said his first varsity start was against Moeller High School, who was 13th in the nation at the time.

Additionally, he plays on Indy Assault, a local club that, Schmitt said, is a mix of the best 17-yearolds in Indiana. He said Indy Assault is a good way to stay in shape and get his swing back before the regular season.

Schmitt is not alone in his discovery of men’s volleyball.

Jack Stanton, right side hitter and senior, also discovered volleyball during freshman year.

“Basically, my freshman year I was looking for something to do as a spring sport,” Stanton said. He said that Jack Lesure, who was a senior at this school at the time, told him about men’s volleyball.

“I decided to go out to open gyms

VOLLEYBALL TIMELINE

Here’s the history of the sport of volleyball from 1895 to 1996.

1890 1895: YMCA Instructor William G. Morgan created the game of volleyball.

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and fell in love with it,” Stanton said.

Stanton will be the only senior on this season’s volleyball team, which is dominated by underclassmen. Jon Harmon, Head Coach for the men’s volleyball team, said the team has a strong group of sophomores this year, and along with only one senior, the team has three juniors.

As the only senior, Stanton said, “You definitely have to step up as a

GET SERVED: Jack Stanton, right side hitter and senior, sets a ball up for a teammate during practice.

Stanton has been a part of the team for four years.

mike johnson leader because there’s not going to be any direction and the coach can’t do it all by himself.”

Of Stanton, Harmon said, “He’s just a good young man. He’s a silent leader.”

Although Stanton is the only senior on the men’s volleyball player, he said he is used to being in that situation by now.

“It’s different. I remember last

1916: Volleyball was added to schools, colleges and intramural programs.

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1900: A special ball for the sport was created.

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1930

1940

1930: The first two-man beach volleyball game was played.

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DIGGING FOR STATE: Jack Stanton, right side hitter and senior, takes part in practice.

Stanton is the only senior on this year’s men’s volleyball team.

mike johnson year I had friends as a junior they were seniors and I would hang out with them and this year it’s kind of weird but I don’t think too much about it honestly,” Stanton said.

“Being a senior, you just have a greater deal of responsibility.”

Harmon, Schmitt and Stanton all have high hopes for the upcoming season despite the youth of the team.

Harmon said that Carmel should be a top four team this year.

“Every year we step on the court, our goal is a State title. When we step on the court, expectations are to play at a level that’s that high,” Harmon said.

Harmon said Chesterton, the Indiana Boys Volleyball Coaches Association (IBVCA) champion last year, only graduated one player and will be a front-runner for the title this year. He also said that Roncalli, Noblesville and Cathedral will be contenders. Carmel lost in the Semifinal 1 to 3 last year to Roncalli, who has been to the State game the last two years. Carmel won the

IBVCA title in 2011 and 2012.

“I don’t know if we will (win the State title this year,) but I think we definitely can. The talent is there,” Stanton said. “We just have to focus and play hard and play together, and if that is not in the right mold then we won’t win, but if it is then we definitely will win.”

Chesterton and Roncalli, last year’s matchup in the State title, both have experience against Carmel. Although Chesterton and Roncalli may have more upperclassmen, Harmon said that the sophomore-dominated team has members who are sophomores “by grade” but are vastly more experienced than most tenth graders because

NUMBER OF NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS PER STATE With Midwest volleyball colleges on the rise for NCAA championships, here are the tournament winners since 1970.

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1949: The first World Championships were held in Prague, Czechoslovakia

1960

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1980 1983: The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) was formed.

Former Champions UCLA

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1986: The Women’s Professional Volleyball Association (WPVA) was formed.

1957: Volleyball was designated as an Olympic team sport.

1950

of their involvement in club volleyball throughout the high school offseason.

“Experience is experience, you can’t beat that, but we have heart and we’ll get lucky,” Schmitt said.

Stanton said he thinks the team will stack up well against opponents and that by the end of the season they should be in good shape for a tournament run.

Harmon agreed and said they will be in a position to battle for the State title.

“Regardless of what happens, it’s been fun,” Stanton said. “Being the only senior, you’re kind of by yourself but you get the opportunity to build the underclassmen… (for the State title) don’t count us out.”

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Pepperdine

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Southern California

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UC Irvine

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BYU

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Stanford

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San Diego State

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Ohio State

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Loyola Chicago

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Lewis*

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Hawaii*

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Long Beach State

1

1990: The World League was created.

1990 1996: Two person beach volleyball was added to the Olympics.

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Carmel dad’s club

SUCCESS STARTS EARLY The carmel dads club feeder program hugely benefits chs athletics

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ARMEL HIGH SCHOOL IS NO STRANGER TO ATHLETIC SUCCESS.

With 123 IHSAA State titles, CHS ranks the highest in number of State championships, almost doubling the next highest, North Central.

Ethan Merriweather, basketball player and sophomore, said the feeder programs offered to athletes in Carmel play an important role in the school’s success.

He played on a Carmel Dad’s Club (CDC) Pups team and said he wouldn’t be the player he is today without the program. As Merriweather continues to grow as a basketball player, he said he has realized how much the program truly helped him.

“Playing on the Pups team for three years straight allowed me to become really good friends with my teammates and develop a strong relationship with my coaches. Playing for the Pups fueled my love for playing basketball,” Merriweather said.

CDC president Jack Beery said the program has a big impact on high school sports. He said the program is proud to say it has played a big role in the development in several of the strongest athletes at CHS and that a large percentage of CHS athletes have been a part of at least one CDC program.

“A strong feeder program positively impacts all sports.

High school coaches involved in CDC programs can start working with kids at young ages and implement drills and philosophies that they will run in the future at the high school,” Beery said.

According to True Sport, a program which, according to its website, “advocates the importance of crucial life lessons that can be learned through sport,” starting sports at a young age benefits athletes greatly. True Sport references the five “C’s”—competence, confidence, connections, character, and caring— as the most critical components of positive youth development. It states that playing youth sports can provide young athletes with all five “C’s.” Beery said he agrees that athletes can learn more than just how to play a sport through feeder programs.

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PRACTICE PAYS OFF: Ethan Merriweather, basketball player and sophomore, shoots during practice.

Merriweather said he greatly benefitted from CDC basketball program.

The year that CDC was founded by a group of dads.

mike johnson “Learning at young ages, proper fundamentals, how to be a teammate, how to work hard and how to have fun with athletics are so important. This is the opportunity to create a positive foundation for these young athletes that can stay with them throughout high school years,” Beery said.

Along with Merriweather, Walter Ackerman, baseball player and junior, said CDC has impacted him as well. He said he learned fundamentals from CDC that still benefit him today. Additionally, he said he made lifelong friends.

As Ackerman is preparing for the upcoming season, he said he is grateful to have learned what he did when he was younger. He agreed having such a strong feeder program

1980

The year that CDC voted to name their athletic complex “Mark Badger Memorial Park,” after 9-year-old Mark Badger, who lost his life to cancer.

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increases the competitive level of CHS sports, which creates a strong athletic program.

Ackerman said, “I gained a passion for playing baseball through CDC because I met a lot of my new friends that I’ve grown closer to by continuing to play with them over the years. CDC taught me the fundamentals of baseball and helped me develop as a stronger player.”

Beery said CDC has created a great partnership with CHS coaches in the sports CDC offers. He said the partnerships communicate the fundamentals that athletes should be learning and get CHS coaches involved with younger athletes.

“We are very lucky to have coaches at CHS that understand the importance and connection of the CDC programs and their high school program. We are in communication often and many of the high school coaches put on beneficial clinics for our coaches and athletes,” Beery said.

Merriweather and Ackerman said that other than learning fundamentals from CDC, they have also learned how to be positive athletes. Ackerman said he learned how to be a smart player and that CDC helped him define his character, as he gained some of his closest friends through the program. For Merriweather, he said he learned so much including what it takes to be the best player he can be. The two both said they are grateful they were a part of the program and that it will continue to help support the high school’s sports.

Merriweather said, “Playing for the Pups teams taught me how to become a better leader and enhanced my talents. I also learned how having good communication and positive body language on the court is important.”

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The current number of CDC members, which include coaches, volunteers and school systems.

GETTING AHEAD EARLY: Junior Walter Ackerman throws a ball during an indoor baseball practice.

Ackerman said that CDC helped him become passionate about baseball.

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11,000

The number of athletes that participate in various CDC programs each year.

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The number of sports that CDC currently offers.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Staff editorial

paying for college

Cost should not be a roadblock.

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VERYONE KNOWS THIS STATEMENT TO BE TRUE:

college is an expensive economic burden. In some cases, college becomes so costly that some forego the chance for a higher education due to the price tag alone. This should not be the case, as college is a great investment that should be available to everyone. To help relieve the burden of the cost, there are scholarship agencies, job opportunities, Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) services and, more recently, the community college opportunity that President Barack Obama released in his State of the Union address. The raw truth is that cost should never be a hindrance to receiving a college education.

Even though the general thought of a community college education is not a respected one, President Obama stated that over 40 percent of students choose community college over the classic university. Many of those students see Obama’s opportunity as a way to pay for college while not taking out student loans, which could take an entire lifetime to pay off.

Because of this, the Obama Administration is seeking to implement a system in which community college is tuitionfree for all interested students. If the system were successfully implemented, the price burden of college would disappear.

Without the inconvenience of prices, everyone interested in a college education should be able to receive one.

The community college route isn’t the only available segue to a college education. FAFSA provides aid to students who are either below the poverty level or have money issues at home so they can afford the college education they want. The organization checks tax information from the parents and gives the students however much aid they see fit. Another route to look into is taking multiple Advance Placement (AP) classes. In large universities, high AP exam scores often translate into college credits and cut either whole semesters

Collegiate Road Block Oftentimes, people forego college just because of the high price tag

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Public tuition has increased 90 percent

or years off your time in college, which would in turn translate to saving literally thousands of dollars in tuition and fees. Doing well in AP classes could also come with merit scholarships, which reduce the price burden even more. Even though many find it difficult to do well in a college-level class, the rewards are so great that it is worth a try. For almost no cost, you could be shaving off a large fraction of the price of a college education and still come out with the same college degree.

For some people with difficulties in paying for college, enrolling in a high-level class may be even harder due to their situation. An alternative to those who struggle with grades is finding a job. In Indiana, minors who are at least 14 years old can be employed with a work permit. In other words, a 14-year-old can start earning money and eventually accumulate an ample amount for college. The best time to get a job is during the summer, when restaurants, theme parks, hotels and national parks all see a hiring boom in order to compensate for increased tourism. Also, during the summer, students don’t have to worry about conflicts between school and work schedule.

Remember this: every dollar you make is a step closer to achieving your college education. The ultimate goal of these efforts is achieving a college education, a prerequisite to living comfortably above the poverty line and having a fulfilling career. Let’s be honest: no one dreams about working a minimumwage job until the day they die. Everyone wants to succeed in his or her own way, and achieving a college education is a way to do that. Regardless of the situation, money should never come between us and H our dreams of attending college.

Rise of Community Colleges Over 40 percent of people attend community college Obama Administration is seeking to implement a system where community Private tuition has college is tuition-free for increased 41 percent all interested students

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It’s not all about the grades

Schools should de-emphasize grades and emphasize learning.

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it is easy to become stressed due to the increasing pressure surrounding grades and GPA and whether or not they meet the expectations set not only by society, but also by yourself.

Recently, like most other seniors, I took part in the college application process, and it seemed as though college talk was inescapable at school. Regardless of whether it was before school, during class, during lunch or even after school, people were always having collegerelated conversations. Topics like what colleges you applied to and what credentials you had were among the many discussed, but they always had a constant underlying theme: GPA determined where you applied.

We all know it’s true. Some colleges offer a holistic approach to viewing applications, but essentially GPA offers the most weight in a college’s decision.

A student with a 4.0 GPA and a few extracurricular activities obviously has a higher chance of getting into a renowned college than a student with a 3.0 and numerous activities.

This causes most students to enter high school with the notion that they must do absolutely everything they can to receive the highest GPA that they possibly can, which defeats the actual purpose of school—to learn.

In the November 2011 issue of Educational Leadership Journal, author and lecturer Alfie Kohn stated that educational psychologists who studied the effects of grades in the 1990s came to three conclusions: Grades tend to diminish students’ interest in whatever they’re learning, grades create a preference for the easiest possible task and grades tend to reduce the quality of students’ thinking.

I remember last year during one of my science classes, my teacher passed back a test on which the majority of the class had done poorly. Most of those students asked for points back, but my teacher strictly told them that it’s not about the grade­ — S A STUDENT IN HIGH SCHOOL,

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Colleges with nontraditional grading systems Evergreen State College Issues narrative evaluations of students’ work

Goddard College Has a file full of narrative evaluations documenting that student’s learning and growth

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it’s about what you learn, and this resulted in many upset and angry students.

Because students know that the main and, technically, only criterion that represents their progress in school is that final grade on an assignment or assessment, they stress about the result instead of the process of learning.

This is not the only effect. Students can begin to have negative thoughts about their ability to perform if they do not live up to their expectations and end up with worse results due to fear and insecurity.

This is what educational psychologist Caroline Pulfrey noticed in her study consisting of three experiments in August 2011. These three experiments proved that the anticipation of a grade increases performance avoidance, fear of failure and loss of interest. Common sense might suggest that providing students with both a comment and a grade would be beneficial, but research shows that the positive benefits of formative comment is overshadowed by the negative effects of the grade.

Some students focus on achieving an “A” to the point that they sacrifice their creativity for the easy way out, the emphasis being that if doing things the easy way gets an “A,” then why bother putting in extra effort for an “A”? This is one of many reasons that has led school districts in the United States to change their grading systems. With this change, low performing schools, such as the Windsor Locks Public School system in Connecticut, have noticed an increase in student performance. As of September 2014, 25 school districts in Connecticut adapted the following grading system: exceeding standards (ES), meeting standards (MS), progressing toward standards (PS) and limited progress (LP). A 2010 study showed the elimination of grades produced substantial benefits with no apparent disadvantages in medical school.

The pressure to perform and “be the best” is escalating on students who hope to purse education after high school. The value of learning has been disregarded for letters and numbers that most students think define who they are. Successes and failures should be celebrated because they are both an integral part of learning.

Just as someone else’s words cannot define you, a letter cannot define you either.

H The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Sreeti Ravi at sravi@hilite.org.

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buzzfeed

buzzing on buzzfeed

Know your role in deciding what’s trending.

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OMETIMES FEELING SILLY and

adventurous, I pull garbage. No important information is shared and pop stars out my phone and open Buzzfeed, a social media and TV actors are treated like gods. content provider that prides itself on featuring Neatly organized into cute lists that are easy for readers content that is “trending” online. Buzzfeed has formed to digest and centered on trendy celebrities, TV shows and a true media empire over the last few years, expanding movies, as well as popular internet viral content, Buzzfeed’s its content into breaking news, long-form narrative click-bait is the ultimate trap for readers. You click on it, journalism and informative videos. scroll through list, take the stupid quiz so you know Sounds like a fantastic source for which letter in the title of “Frozen” you are (that intelligent discussions and vitally important is a real quiz, I’m the “F”) and Buzzfeed makes a groundbreaking news…Until you open Buzzfeed ALL OF US ARE IN profit from advertising, a profit that is made even CHARGE OF THE and see its “trending” content. greater ever time content is shared.

“11 Times Drake Looked Like A Dinosaur.” INTERNET. NOT This is no accident either. By keeping careful “9 Celebrity Tweets You Missed Today.” “21 track of what type of content gets the most JUST BEYONCÉ Awkward Things That Happen On Your First clicks and targeting demographics very narrow Day at Hogwarts.” “15 Beyoncé GIFs to Get FANS. SO MAKE demographics more likely to share content, You Ready To Take On 2015.” “Beyoncé Was A THE IMPORTANT Buzzfeed has engineered its site as a social-mediaLiteral Angel At The Grammy Awards.” “Just based-money-making machine. And they’ve made PROFITABLE. a Reminder That Beyoncé Owned the 2005 a killing, valued at about $850 million, according Oscars.” “41 Albums That Should’ve Won Album to Wired.

Of The Year Over Beck At The Grammys.” I So what can the average CHS student do about clicked on that one; it was just 41 pictures of Beyoncé’s this mountain of ridiculous content? album, “Beyoncé.” I’m not sure how the Buzzfeed staff feels Remember that you control what is clicked on the most about Beyoncé. and most frequently shared. Before you click on that list of And if you’re bored reading about Beyoncé, Taylor Swift adorable dog GIFs, realize that you have the power to make and “Orange is The New Black,” and in the mood to learn something else trending, something worth sharing, so that more about yourself, take one of Buzzfeed’s introspective others may see it and truly be enriched by its content. personality quizzes.

Because, despite everything I just said, there is a “What kind of Bae Are You?” For the record, I’m a tremendous amount of really good content on Buzzfeed, “Supreme Bae.” “Which 2015 Academy Award Nominee Are fascinating narrative stories about real people as well as You?” Benedict Cumberbatch, although my friends always critical breaking news. As a frequent reader of Buzzfeed, pegged me as more of a Michael Keaton. And my personal I have seen the massive dichotomy of content, the useless favorite, “Are You The Gwyneth Paltrow and the important, both seemingly endless in supply. And I Of Your Friend Group?” Now, thanks remember, as you should, that it is up to each and every one to Buzzfeed, I know that I am not the of us to decide what kind of content trends.

Gwyneth Paltrow of my friend group.

If we the readers make the important content more hot Thank God, I was worried. and viral, you can believe that the people who run Buzzfeed This content that dominates the will push it more aggressively than the barrage of posts Buzzfeed homepage, particularly the about Beyoncé. Because their aim is not to provide terrible “Buzz” and “Trending” sections, is content, it is to make money. So make the important nothing more than click-bait, content profitable. that is designed to attract readers to And if you hate everything on Buzzfeed and are not a open and share through other part of any of the narrow demographics they target, make social media outlets, such as your own content. Join the Buzzfeed community (yes you Facebook and Twitter. Often can do this) and make your own voice heard. times, this content is absolute We are all in charge of the internet. Not just Beyoncé fans. H

THESE DAYS REAL IS SO RARE

The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Grant Smith at gsmith@hilite.org

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disability

perspectives

Sarah Liu

MAHAM NADEEM

‘dis’ does not belong in disability

We can learn a lot from respecting special needs people.

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“acceptable” and often struggle to do so, and we need we are actually pretty to learn to see beyond that and understand what they blessed to be able to interact want to communicate to us. relatively well with special needs I have sibling with special needs. He was actually students. There’s Best Buddies, United diagnosed with autism around the time I was born, Sound, Special Olympics, Unified so I’ve lived with that knowledge my whole life. To be Track, etc. We feel that we actually treat 46% of sure, the past 16 and three-quarters years have taught our special needs kids well, and we do, children me a lot. One of the most important lessons I’ve to an extent. identified learned is patience—from learning However, while we do with ASD that it takes time for my brother and have these programs, think had average others just like him to learn lessons, about the following: how THAT KEY WORD or above and that I need to bear with him do we interact with special average IS THE MAGICAL through that process. needs students outside of intellectual Another lesson I’ve learned is extracurricular activities? R-WORD KNOWN ability. tolerance—to be able to stand my Do we walk with them? AS RESPECT. AND brother’s shortcomings without Do we talk to them? What EVERYONE CAN overreacting to the consequences. kind of support do we give That took a while to learn, but from them? Or do we even do PARTICIPATE those experiences, I’ve been able the opposite of what we IN THAT BY to tolerate not just special needs should and completely MUTUALLY students like my brother, but also look down on them? diversity in general to a greater About 80% of Just because a student is SHOWING IT. extent. And you, reader, can further children identidisabled doesn’t mean they develop these and more too from any fied with ASD are any different from any special needs student—not just him. either received of us. They are often just In any school, we, including adults, should support special educaas smart if not smarter than we are. In special needs students as well as our peers. April is tion services fact, according to the Autism Research Autism Awareness month, and there are many for autism at Institute, 10 percent of people with opportunities to get involved, such as participating in autism have characteristics of savants, school. some of the extracurricular activities I mentioned and CDC.GOV / SOURCE people with extraordinary skills in more. The sky the limit on your involvement. areas such as memory, art, music But don’t feel like you have to join a group and math. On the other hand, these to get involved. You can greet special needs characteristics are seen in fewer than students in the hallways or chat with them one percent of the entire population about how they’ve been. You can sit with of America—including the disabled. them at lunch. You can invite them to go So just because those with disabilities with you to fun events. aren’t considered as “normal” doesn’t There’s one minimum that everyone can mean we need to treat them with any do—summed up in one word. That key word less respect. is the magical r-word known as respect. And From what I’ve seen often in everyone can participate in that by mutually my life, special needs people tend H showing it. to be misunderstood. In terms of any misbehavior, those with special needs are often innocent—they don’t The views in this column do usually have malicious intent in their not necessarily reflect the actions. When they interact with us, views of the HiLite staff. Reach they don’t always respond in ways Sarah Liu at sliu1@hilite.org. that we normally consider as socially T CHS,

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silence speaks

silence speaks

Public interactions mold our image.

The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Arsalan Siddiqui at asiddiqui@hilite.org.

July

February

RECENT NFL SCANDALS Baltimore Ravens runnning back Ray Rice knocks then-fiancee Janay Palmer unconscious in an elavator.

Califronia Panthers player Greg Hardy was found guilty for choking and threatening his girlfriend.

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the week before the big game. As a result, the star running back was not doing himself or the media a favor as his standoffish demeanor become the story and the media had little or nothing to work with.

Like Lynch, Russell Westbrook, point guard of Oklahoma City Thunder, is known for his unwillingness to speak with the media. After a win against the Golden State Warriors on Jan. 16, in which Westbrook passed for a career high of 17 assists, Westbrook responded to the journalists with one-word answers and visibly showed his annoyance before saying, “I just don’t like you,” to a reporter.

Like Lynch, Westbrook did not make it any easier on himself, as his interview after that game brought a negative light on his reputation.

Although Lynch and Westbrook may not be inclined to speak with reporters in general, they should at least try to answer the journalists’ questions instead of showing visible frustration and giving one-word answers, even if some of the questions are a little vapid. They do not necessarily have to be in depth, but at least a response with some sign of effort will reflect better on those athletes, while also giving journalists some content to work with. Most interviews with elite athletes do not even warrant much attention so actually participating with the press instead of being visibly and verbally reluctant to speak would benefit those athletes instead of drawing a shadow over their reputations.

The student-athletes here at CHS should use Lynch and Westbrook as reminders of how to deal with the media properly. The old adage “actions speak louder than words” applies in this case, and participating with the media instead of shutting them off would be easier on the behalf of both the journalists and H the athletes.

NFL makes its rules against domestic violence stricter.

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of two match ups against the Arizona Cardinals in the 2014 NFL season on Nov. 23, 2014, reporters asked Marshawn Lynch, Seattle Seahawks running back, multiple questions regarding his performance in the game. Lynch responded to every question reporters asked with “yeah.”

After the second match up against the Cardinals during the season on Dec. 21, 2014, reporters again asked Lynch multiple questions as part of their job. Lynch responded to every question with “thanks for asking.”

During the Super Bowl media days, the NFL required Lynch to speak to the media, since he competed in Super Bowl XVIX as a member of the Seattle Seahawks.

While Lynch did participate in the press conferences, he responded with “I’m only here so I won’t get fined” 29 times. This refers to the NFL warning to fine Lynch if he refused to talk to reporters, and it also refers to his previous fines, around $100,000, for refusing to speak with the media during the 2013 NFL season and the first half of the 2014 NFL season.

Despite Lynch’s well-documented refusal and reluctance to participate in interviews, reporters still want to interview him. This is due to the fact that Lynch is one of the elite running backs in the league, tied with DeMarco Murray, Dallas Cowboys running back, for the most rushing touchdowns during the season. In addition, Lynch does a lot of charity work with inner-city youth in his hometown of Oakland, CA. However, his behavior with the press brought up a vital question during Super Bowl week: Are athletes responsible for dealing with the media in addition to playing their sport?

Well, athletes should also consider the media’s perspective. Just like professional athletes have a job to play their sports, journalists also have a job to fulfill since they have to conduct interviews with athletes and write articles.

According to an interview with Michael Silver; American sportswriter, Lynch said he does not speak with the media since he does not want to bring attention to himself and does not want to take the focus away from his teammates. As noble as Lynch’s intentions were, it unfortunately backfired on his part. His conduct with the media drew more attention and it eventually became the biggest headline during FTER WINNING THE FIRST

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Student journalists should have each other’s backs.

the school there are two rooms, side by side, containing iMacs, printers, red pens, paper and ideas.

Physically, the rooms are structured to produce similar work. However, there is much more than just writing that goes into the production of newspapers and yearbooks.

I am on yearbook staff. But as someone who has many friends in both publications, I know the ups and downs and struggles of both staffs. I also have seen the heated disputes that can follow; debating which publication has it harder, who has more awards, which publication is more popular than the other or which publication is, overall, just “better.” Whatever that may mean.

But despite the arguments between staffs, we’re both in the same boat. With the rapidly changing field of journalism, there is concern to change and adjust our publication. According to a State of the News Media 2013 study by The Pew’s Research Center for Excellence in Journalism, there has been a drastic decline in print journalism overall with the rise of an online news source presence. There has been a 7.2% increase in digital news sources. Over 39% of people got their news sources from their mobile devices. Such an increase in digital print has made actual, physical print gone, well, out of print.

Since the staff produces the Hilite every month, alongside an Acumen every other month, the newspaper staff seems to have a more prevalent role in the school because of its scheduled distribution. Newspaper distributes in a more timely manner. However, the yearbook is equally as important in maintaining school information as the newspaper.

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may cost over $50 to purchase and may be extremely heavy to carry around, rarely will you find a year where extra yearbooks were not in demand. A yearbook’s function is to preserve the contents of the year into one high-quality print of 500 pages for years to come.

In essence, it’s impossible to compare the school newspaper and yearbook because their functions are entirely different. While the newspaper focuses on the now, the yearbook focuses on important events happened in the past, two completely different time zones.

In the fast paced world that we live in today, there isn’t much time for us students to lounge around and decide what we want to keep tabs on. But with the resources we have at school such as the newspaper, yearbook and radio and TV stations, along with access to local, national and international news, there’s no excuse to not be informed. And for student journalists, it’s not a matter of who is “better.” It’s how we are getting our student body to acknowledge what’s going around in our school and our community.

Friendly competition between two publications is understandable and even healthy. But when it gets to the point when we can’t support each other for our hard work, our dedication, is it really worth it? The decline of print media strikes this question: if we don’t have each others’ backs and appreciate the hard work that went into each publication, then H who will?

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The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Joie Li at jli@carmelyearbook.com.

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SPREADING THE WORD Senior Abby Abel serves on the Special Olympics National Youth Activation Committee (YAC) Why did you get involved in Special Olympics?

Well, I’ve always been involved with Best Buddies and such, so (I thought) that’d be a really great opportunity to meet new people and kind of get on the ground for this new partnership and work with people and kind of create a different atmosphere in schools of social acceptance and inclusion.

How did you get selected for the YAC? Going into my senior year, I went to a National Summit with other people from all over the states. … There, we learned about the National Youth Activation Committee, and we gave different proposals, and we were asked to apply, and after, (my partner, *Mitch Bonar, Special Olympics athlete and Noblesville High School student, and I) applied as a pair. We got accepted, and there’s less than 20 people on it, so it’s really selective.

What does the YAC primarily do?

(It) promotes Project UNIFY, which is to unify students with and without intellectual disabilities in sports. And then they have different subcommittees, and the subcommittee I’m on is the Play Unified. (For example,) we have unified track here, which partners Special Olympics athletes with IHSAA athletes, and we just work in different sports and different proposals to get people involved and to play unified together.

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What do you most enjoy about serving on the YAC? I think the best part about it is that we’re working with the athletes. You learn a lot and get to hear a lot of inspirational stories about people overcoming a lot of adversity to be where they are now, and I think the coolest part is being able to play with athletes that never thought they (would get) the chance to play for their high schools.

What ways do you think CHS students can get involved?

We have a lot of awareness events throughout the year that we need more participation. Going to unified track, like just joining unified track or just coming out to a meet, coming to our games, participating as volunteers and if they are in an IHSAA sport, then they can go to their coach and ask them to nominate them to be on our committee.

Are there any last comments or thoughts that you would like to share with readers?

“Champions Together,” which is the coined term of the IHSAA partnership with Special Olympics, it’s not just to play unified. It’s a lifestyle change, to include everyone, not just people with intellectual disabilities, but everyone. And if you continue that through your life, to constantly serve others and volunteer, it’s a great opportunity.

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UNIFIED WINNING: Senior Abby Abel (left) and John Joest (right), Abel’s Best Buddy and freshman, run during the first unified track practice of the season. Abel and Joest will be partners in unified track for this spring season.

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Mark Matsuki, DECA president and senior, Zachary “Zak” Grove and Barron Reeder, DECA members and seniors, (left to right) celebrate their first place win at the 2015 DECA State competition in the category “Learn and Earn.”

They contributed to the overall State win for Carmel and will participate in the International competition in Orlando on April 25 to 28.