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“The Avengers: Age of Ultron� will be coming out May 1

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Senior Kyle Betelak is a beekeeper

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REDEFINING SUCCESS Though many use income as measure of success, some CHS students prefer to define success through the satisfaction they obtain from pursuing their interests

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8|news Environmental Club to host an event celebrating Earth Day in order to raise awareness for environmental concerns

11|news This year, prom will be relocated to The Crane Bay, instead of the Fountains Banquet and Conference Center

Interact Club to partner with Paws and Think to bring in dogs for participants of Hounds for Hounds to play with on Tuesday

10|news Art Club members work on new ecofriendly sculpture for the CHS Arts Garden

12|feature Rape culture becomes more prevalent as number of rapes decrease

4|Just a minute Your guide to summer music festivals 6|news News Briefs

16|feature CHS students face loneliness, resulting in other health issues

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18 18|feature CHS students and teachers show greater interest in cooking at home than eating at restaurants 22|student section With National Dance Week starting Saturday, students share their experiences with this creative outlet 25|student section A pretzel recipe for National Pretzel Day

26|cover story Students define success in terms other than money 32|entertainment “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” to be released May 1 34|entertainment CHS choirs to perform at ISSMA for first time 36|entertainment Star Wars remains popular among teenagers

39|entertainment Entertainment Briefs 40|sports Preview of the women’s tennis team 42|sports A look at how similarities between a baseball swing and a golf swing has helped junior Palmer Tweedy become a better golfer

44|sports A look at what CHS athletes are doing to prepare for the next step in their careers 46|sports Preview of the Unified Track Team as it enters its 2nd season 48|perspectives Staff Editorial 49|perspectives Photographer Alex Yom discusses the recent controversy over RFRA

50|perspectives Reporter Sitha Vallabhaneni talks about being book smart

53|perspectives Reporter Katie Long talks about instant gratification

51|perspectives 15 Minutes of Fame editor Sarah Liu discusses human gene editing

54|15 minutes of fame Senior Kyle Betelak shares his experiences as a beekeeper

52|perspectives Reporter Asim Dhungana discusses the limitations of online courses

56|back cover Students participate in SRT Brain Game tournament

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Make friends with people at the event. It’s a celebration of music, fun and good times.

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Bring these essentials to defend against the elements, remember the experience, stay safe and have fun.

Figure out the time and location of each of the acts so you don’t miss any you want to see.

Get your tickets as early as possible to avoid paying extra or missing out completely.

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News Briefs

NEWS BRIEFS Tomorrow

May 1

The ISSMA Large Group Contest will take place. Several orchestras and bands from CHS will take part in this contest, where each group will be scored by a panel of judges on overall performance.

National College Decision day is today. This is the deadline for seniors to make their final decision for universities.

Thursday to saturday Jazz a la Mode, a fundraiser for the CHS Jazz bands, will take place.

Tickets are $10 if purchased online beforehand and $12 at the door.

I’M NOT THAT STRESSED OUT FOR THIS DAY SINCE I’M ALREADY COMMITTED TO PURDUE, SINCE THEY ARE GIVING ME A FULL RIDE. I’M JUST HAPPY TO BE GOING TO COLLEGE COMPLETELY DEBT FREE AND HAVING MY PARENTS RELAX FOR ONCE. MARA FATTAH, SENIOR

May 4 to 15: AP Exam schedule 8 a.m.

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JAZZY PRACTICE: Director Michael Pote conducts a jazz band during a morning practice. According to Pote, the group will continue to practice in the morning at 7 a.m. to prepare for their upcoming event, Jazz a la Mode.

april 29 Spring SAT Prep class will take place from 3:30 to 6:15 p.m. Students interested can visit the Counseling Center for more information.

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May 4

-Psychology

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-Calculus AB -Calculus BC

-Chinese Language and Culture Seminar

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-English Literature and Composition

-Japanese Language and Culture -Physics 1

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-Computer Science A -Spanish Language and Culture

-Art History -Physics 2

-German Language and Culture -United States History

-European History

-Biology -Music Theory

-Physics C (Mechanics at noon, Electricity and Magnetism at 2 p.m.)

-United States Government and Politics

-French Language and Culture -Spanish Literature

-English Language and Composition

-Statistics

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The Senior Theater Recital will take place from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Studio Theater.

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The Spring Musical will take place. The musical this year is “Big,” inspired by the 1987 film. Tickets can be purchased through the performing arts web page online.

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-Chemistry -Environmental Science

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-Comparative Government and Politics -World History -Human Geography -Microeconomics

-Italian Language and Culture -Macroeconomics -Latin

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HOUNDS FOR GREY‘HOUNDS’ Interact club partners with paws and think

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NTERACT CLUB will host Hounds for Hounds on Tuesday in the freshman cafeteria from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for $2 per person. The club is partnering Paws and Think to bring 10 to 15 dogs to play with students.

Gabby Seal, club president and sophomore said proceeds go to Paws and Think to teach children to read.

“All of the money goes to a program that helps little kids who can’t read, so they read to the dogs, who aren’t judgmental. It’s a nice stress reliever right before finals week and AP testing period; so if you want to get rid of some of that stress, come and play with the dogs,” Seal said.

According to Seal, the dogs will be brought in by Paws and Think

swetha nakshatri WHO LET THE DOGS OUT: During a meeting, Natalie Cotherman, Interact Club member and sophomore, discusses ideas and organization for the Hounds for Hounds event.

Members will host Hounds for Hounds on Tuesday in the freshman cafeteria.

employees trained in taking care of the dogs. Additionally, students will have toys available to play with the dogs and bowls and treats to feed them. Also, the entire freshman cafeteria is available for this event, which provides ample space for students to play with the dogs.

Michelle Subler, sponsor of Interact Club and social studies teacher, said this service project is aimed to benefit CHS students by bringing them together in a new way.

“I’m really just excited that students are able to just play with dogs on the school campus,” Subler said. “It’s a very inclusive event since pretty much everyone can participate. Playing with H dogs relaxes everyone.”

HOW DOGS BENEFIT HUMAN MENTAL HEALTH Just a few minutes with a dog can drop anxiety levels 37 percent and lower blood pressure.

Interacting with a dog often requires exercise, which relieves stress.

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Petting a dog releases oxytocin, endorphins and dopamines, causing relaxation.

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NVIRONMENTAL CLUB will host an event at the Community Garden on May 23 to celebrate Earth Day, according to club sponsor Maryellen St. Angelo. According to the Carmel Green Teen website, the Carmel Clay Schools (CCS) Community Garden is located on the grounds of Carmel Middle School, and 98 plots are available.

Earth Day, the largest civic event in the world, was celebrated yesterday, and according to Earth Day Network, its purpose is to “broaden the base of support for

sarah liu THE GREEN TEAM: Maddie Adkins, Environmental Club copresident and sophomore, presents ideas for the club’s Earth Day event during a club meeting.

Adkins said the event is aimed at raising awareness for the environment.

environmental programs, rekindle public commitment and build community activism around the world through a broad range of events and activities.”

Co-president and sophomore Maddie Adkins said the main purpose of this event is to raise awareness. St. Angelo said there will be games that have an environmental teaching aspect to them, as well as vendors such as those at the Farmer’s Market.

She said the club has contacted organizations such as Hoosier Environmental Council, Carmel

GOING ‘GREEN’ CHECKLIST Water your lawn in the evening when it is cooler Collect rainwater to water your lawn Unplug unused appliances Close vents and doors in unused rooms Print on both sides of the page to save paper EPA.GOV / SOURCE

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Green Initiative and Indiana Recycling Coalition to hold booths for families to learn information on how they can incorporate sustainability into their everyday lives. The event will also host a competition to see who can make the best art sculpture out of recycled materials. St. Angelo said there will be prizes due to the Carmel Green Teen grant the club received. She also said in order to keep the event festive, there will be live music by an undecided student musical group from CHS. “Basically, what we’re going to try to do is hold a community event, something that can happen every year that’ll make people excited about recycling and showing people that environmental issues and helping the environment can be fun,” Adkins said. “People in the community have been asking a lot for something like this. It’s also an opportunity

for people to raise awareness about what we do as a club at CHS is how important environmental issues.” can we be a more efficient school, When people attend the event, but I want somebody to come to St. Angelo said they can also take the this fair and learn how they can opportunity to learn and check out be more efficient at home,” Adkins the Community Garden. All said. “How can they recycle Carmel residents and CCS more, and what methods can employees can own a part they take into their lives?” of the organic community DID YOU KNOW? Adkins said students can garden. Owners are free to Americans celebrated the make a significant impact on grow whatever they want on first Earth Day on April 22, their community by being their lot and each plot costs 1970. That day, 20 million environmentally friendly. $10 per year. The application people gathered in the Also, she said hopefully to apply for a plot can be streets in the United States people will learn universal found on its website. to protest industrialization, methods to be effectively St. Angelo said the club marking the beginning of the environmentally friendly. members are hoping that environmental movement.

“I’m really passionate people learn that they can about the environment and DOSOMETHING.ORG / SOURCE do many simple things taking care of the Earth, in their everyday lives to and I like to support the protect and take care of kids in their efforts to do their environment. the same thing,” St. Angelo said.

“What I’m hoping is that people “I think it’s great that they become learn something new that they empowered and take on projects didn’t know before, because a lot of like this to celebrate the Earth.” H This special day takes place every April and although Earth Day took place yesterday, there’s still time to be green and help the environment, just as the Environmental Club aims to do.

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Your Earth Day Resolutions What you can do at home, at school and at the grocery store

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REDUCE, REUSE AND MAKE ART art club to work on project for arts garden

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OR THE REMAINDER OF the semester, Marisa Arakawa, Art Club president and senior, will continue to work on the installation of the art projects and sculptures for CHS’s arts garden with the art assistants, sponsor Jennifer Bubp and the other club members.

“We are working on a recycled project for the Art Club currently, and we are gluing pennies onto a butterfly to hang,” Arakawa said via email. “In the spring we are also beginning to plant flowers and clean up so that we can host students and teachers for the art show.”

According to Bubp, the club’s main priority is to finish its butterfly project. She said the installation of the butterfly sculpture is another element that members plan to add to the

courtyard next to her classroom.

“From an aesthetic standpoint, when the Freshman Center was first built, that courtyard was completely bare,” Bubp said.

“So I was like, ‘Wow, we should transform it and turn it into a usable space and invite the people to come out.’ After that, the original goal or vision is to add another element to it, so eventually we will evolve it to something beautiful.”

Bubp said Art Club members decided to partake in the project after the former owner of Greek’s Pizzeria donated 150,000 pennies that were covered in epoxy, a type of adhesive, to the club.

“When (the former owner) left the restaurant space, he thought, ‘What am I going to do with all these pennies?’ Well, they have

GREEN ART: Marisa Arakawa, Art club president and senior, works on an art project using pennies.

Arakawa said this project is for the Art Club.

glue on them, and so you can’t just take them to the bank because the bank won’t accept them. So as he had these barrels of pennies, they’re literally useless right now,” she said. “When he presented it to us, he said, ‘A,’ use these pennies for Art Club, which is what we’re doing right now, or ‘B,’ take the glue off these pennies. Then you can cash them in, and then that money will go into Art Club.”

According to Arakawa, the money will be used for both the butterfly sculpture and raising money for the club. The remaining pennies will be used to fund trips for students to attend the Scholastic Art Awards in New York. However, Arakawa and Bubp said the current process of removing the epoxy is extremely time-consuming and they expect to finish the project by the fall of next school year since they will have to remove the glue from each penny separately.

“Art Club is working on (the butterfly sculpture) in the art room, and it will make the arts garden more beautiful, as well as (reuse) products, so we are helping the environment and our community at the same time,” H Bubp said.

PENNY PROJECT: This is the Art Club’s current project.

According to sponsor Jennifer Bubp, it will be placed in the arts garden.

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HIS YEAR, PROM WILL take place at The Crane Bay, located downtown near Lucas Oil Stadium, rather than at the Fountains Banquet and Conference Center as it has in prior years.

According to Junior Class vice president Stacy Morozov, the location was changed due to various reasons.

“The location was changed due to the prior building being renovated.

The new place was chosen because we needed a large enough venue to accommodate for all of the kids, and that was the perfect place,” Morozov said. “It was chosen to be at The Crane Bay to ease flow of traffic and not be backed up in another location. It worked well because it was owned by the same people, so the school didn’t have to alter where the payments go and such.”

Junior Yutian Hu, who said she plans to attend prom this year, said the location change will have both advantages and disadvantages.

Hu said, “It will take longer to travel to prom due to it being located downtown and will increase the possibility of accidents happening on the way to prom or back home. (For)

PROMISING LOCALE: According to Stacy Morozov, Junior Class vice president, prom’s location changed to host the large number of students as well as the renovation of the prior venue.

people who are unfamiliar with that place, there may exist potential safety issues; however, it provides a different atmosphere of prom for people who participated last year.”

Morozov said she agrees with Hu and said there will be many new experiences associated with prom this year.

She said, “I believe students will need a more responsible driver there and back due to the farther location, (but) being

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(This) shouldn’t be too affected by the location.”

Apart from the planning aspect, Hu said the overall nature of prom will only be affected in a small way.

“I do not think (the location change) will affect the nature of prom that much, but the new location does catch people’s attention. It matches CHS’s spirit of leading the trend.”

Ultimately, both Hu and Morozov said they are excited because the location change will have an positive effect on the prom experience.

Morozov said, “(The location change) is for the better. Change is a good thing. This new venue will give the Greyhounds a new H outlook on prom.”

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However, she had a deep secret she did not tell anyone about; she had been sexually molested. Leonard kept this incident to herself for seven years until she told her mom about it at age 13.

Leonard said, “(When I told my mom), it was such a big relief to take it off my shoulders because ENERGETIC

I had to see him for every single weekend or more for those seven years. It was a constant reminder of what had happened, and I had never been able to get over it.”

With recent reports on college campus rapes, one could assume that the number of rapes and sexual assaults is increasing. However, according to FBI.gov, the number of forcible rapes reported to law enforcement has decreased over the years. The number in 2011 was actually 2.5 percent lower than the 2010 estimate and 9.5 and 12.4 percent lower than the 2007 and 2002 estimates, respectively.

GETTING INVOLVED: Sophomore Abby Leonard (second from left) attends a Cru meeting.

Leonard said she has shared and spoken about her experience at church many times.

Dr. Amanda Miller, gender studies professor at the University of Indianapolis, said that the decrease in rapes is caused by changes in cultural attitude and more people speaking out about rape.

“Cultural attitudes about rape have changed pretty significantly over time. I’m definitely not saying they’ve changed for everyone.

There are absolutely still ignorant people who are very much victimblamers. But in general, women got tired of that,” Miller said. “With the spread of things like the Internet and social media and women gaining more power in general, in

DID YOU KNOW? Today is Denim Day, during which people are encouraged to wear jeans, or denim, to raise awareness about sexual assault and support survivors.

Some organizations celebrate it on April 29.

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education and the workforce, they felt more comfortable speaking out about it.”

However, Miller said there has been a backlash toward this female power, which has resulted in a more prevalent rape culture, “normalizing sexual assaults and a cultural attitude that those who are sexually assaulted must have somehow asked for it.”

Rape culture can been seen in many aspects of society, according to Miller, such as school dress codes and people telling women not to drink alcohol at parties.

Leonard said she has seen a lot of rape culture in society as well, especially after telling others about her sexual assault.

“Sometimes there will be people who say things like, ‘Well, it’s just a boy being a boy’ or kind of blow over it. That hurts a lot because they’re diminishing something that has affected you for so long,” Leonard said.

However, she said she has always been greatly affected by her sexual assault, both physically and emotionally.

“Over the seven years (I did not tell anyone), I just felt like a waste. (The sexual assault) was continuously just on me. I felt as if I couldn’t breathe most of the time

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because it was just so much of a burden to deal with and actually, it kind of affected me physically as well,” Leonard said. “I used to wake up so scared in the middle of the night that I would throw up. It was such a scary experience.

Sometimes I have flashbacks, and I’ll wake up paralyzed, and I can’t move because I’m so scared.”

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In addition, as a result of the sexual assault, Leonard said she became apprehensive about being with the opposite gender, afraid of being taken advantage of again.

She said, “Whenever I was with any guy alone, whether it was my dad, my stepdad or a teacher, it would always scare me because I had a doubt and a lack of trust in the ability of guys to control themselves…just a fear that that was going to happen again.”

According to Miller, rape culture makes it the women’s responsibility to prevent rape, as opposed to the men’s responsibility not to rape someone. Leonard said that after telling her story, many people made excuses for her stepbrother, blaming his upbringing and family problems.

She said many people asked her what she did wrong to cause the sexual assault. Although she did blame her stepbrother for the incident, she said she also blamed herself.

“For some reason, I thought I deserved it. For some reason, I brought it on

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TRADING TEARS FOR TIARAS Learn about sophomore Abby Leonard’s organization Started: Spring 2014 Purpose: Mentoring youth that have been abused and helping them to see their worth Volunteers: Most have been abused before Goals for the future: Expand and increase the number of shelters the volunteers participate in and ultimately help every abused child see their great worth in Jesus

n i v e d h a m e y ya p pa n myself, which is completely ridiculous now that I’m older and realized that it’s not my fault at all,” Leonard said.

Brittany Winebar, youth program coordinator at Prevail, an organization that advocates for victims of crime and abuse, said it is not abnormal for victims to blame themselves.

“Many teens and children do feel guilty about getting the offender in trouble, about how their family, friends and community responds, for being in a risky situation, that they

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may have liked certain parts of the abuse, for creating new stressors for the family,” Winebar said via email.

However, according to Winebar, it is important to remember that it is never the victim’s fault.

“Sexual assault is only preventable by the people who commit the crime,” she said via email. “Survivors are not responsible for the abusive acts of others. We can’t force someone to rape us. That is their decision

NO MORE is a movement that raises awareness and encourages people to put a stop to sexual assault and domestic violence. It was created on the basis that speaking out about these issues would help prevent them.

REACHING OUT: Sophomore Abby Leonard spends time with her mom.

She said her mom was the first person she told about her sexual assault, and that helped her recover.

alone. Sexual contact should be an excited ‘yes’ from both parties.”

Miller said victims often blame themselves because of the way they are taught to not be victimized.

When something happens to them, they think they didn’t do enough to prevent it, which is not right.

“There’s nothing that victims can do in these circumstances. The rapist is often a guy that you know and trust,” she said. “What are you supposed to tell somebody? Don’t hang out with your friends? Don’t accept a drink from your boyfriend?

Don’t be alone with your husband?”

Miller said one way to prevent rapes is to enlist males as allies, which is what President Barack Obama is currently doing with the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative. Many college campuses have also started

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to train males to look out for female friends or tell male friends when they have stepped over the line.

Miller said, “(The kind of men who are rapists) are not going to listen to me. They think I’m one of those angry feminists and (that) I just don’t understand, ‘she wanted it anyway’ and every excuse you hear in the book. They generally don’t have very positive attitudes towards other women. But they do buy into that sort of bro culture, where they feel positively towards other men.”

Despite everything she has gone through, Leonard said she has been able to make her sexual assault into something positive.

She said she talks to a lot of girls who have been through similar situations and people who think they are worthless because of what happened. In addition, she has started working to create her own nonprofit organization that helps sexually and physically abused girls called Trading Tears for Tiaras.

Leonard said, “I’ve kind of come to terms with (the sexual assault).

It’s something that happened, and it does not define me. It’s a really big thing because in our culture people are so focused on, ‘Oh, you were raped,’ and you’re known as the person who was raped. But that does not define you as a person. You’re so much more. So I guess I just realized that that’s something that happened, but I can use that experience to help so many other girls who have been in that same experience.”

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Do students talk to you about sexual assaults, and is it often that they do?

Kids do come to me about sexual assault. It can be very difficult for them though because so many times they think it was maybe their fault, and so they’re embarrassed to say something. It’s a big step, and it’s great when they do, but it’s a big step when they come and talk to me and tell me.

What do you usually do or say to victims to help them recover?

Carmel Clay Schools’s protocol is that if somebody shares something with me concerning sexual assault or any assault, I don’t ask a lot of questions.

What I do is I get a police officer in, and that police officer will just ask the basic questions: Did it happen in Hamilton County? Do you know the address? Do you know the person’s name? Then what happens is someone from the police department will contact them, and they will set up what is called a forensic interview. At this interview, this location is in Noblesville, they’re sitting in this room, and in another room, watching on a big screen TV is anybody who needs to hear that person’s story, so maybe Department of Child Services, the police, the prosecutor, there’s a place called Prevail which is an advocacy, so all the people who need to hear the story are there, and they can ask the interviewer to ask certain questions…That way the student doesn’t have to repeat their story over and over. That’s why we don’t ask a lot of questions.

If someone is uncomfortable coming to you or talking to someone about it their assault, what do you suggest that they do?

It depends on who assaulted them. If it’s someone in the home, it can be a little more difficult. But if it’s someone not in the home, go to a parent or guardian or an adult that you trust.

Is there anything else you’d like to add?

I would just encourage students to talk to someone and not try to deal with it on their own because teenagers are really not equipped. They just don’t have the maturity and emotional strength yet to deal with that.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States. It operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.

HOPE), tries to educate Americans about sexual assault and helps victims.

Circle of 6 is an app for iPhone and Android that helps to “prevent violence before it happens.” It allows people to inform friends of their location, alert friends to call and interrupt a situation and call pre-programmed national hotlines.

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CHS STUDENTS EXPERIENCE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF LONELINESS

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of the second semester, sophomore Danielle “Dani” Newhouse moved to CHS from Japan. This wasn’t Newhouse’s first time moving. However, at every new school, there is one constant: Newhouse must find new friends.

“When I first moved to CHS, I felt a little lonely. When I first go to class, everyone already knows one another. It’s like no one seems to want to talk to you, since you’re just another face in the crowd,” she said.

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students like Newhouse are part of a growing loneliness epidemic.

According to a March 2015 Birmingham Young University study, loneliness should be on people’s radars as a major public health issue, with a 15 percent increase in teenagers who identified as lonely since 2000.

The study compares loneliness to the likes of obesity and drug abuse in terms of its effect on health.

A University of Chicago study conducted in January 2009 found that adults who identified as being

YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME: Sophomore Danielle Newhouse talks to junior Kimaya Raje.

Newhouse moved during winter break and felt lonely at a new school, but she said school activities helped her make friends.

lonely were more likely than nonlonely adults to participate in selfharm and have weakened immune systems, sleeping disorders and high stress levels.

While Newhouse didn’t experience illness or have trouble sleeping because of loneliness, she said she did feel stressed.

“Not knowing anyone made me really stressed. I felt that in a lot of my classes, everyone already had their own established friend groups,” she said. “I definitely felt a lot more self-conscious. I was really

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paying attention to how people might look at me or what they might think of me.”

According to CHS social worker Jane Wildman, there is a strong correlation between loneliness, depression and anxiety.

“Loneliness is pretty prevalent among the students I see. (Anxiety) and loneliness are two of the bigger things that accompany loneliness.

Sometimes, it gets to the point where people become suicidal,” Wildman said.

According to a December 2013 report by the American Association of Critical –Care Nurses, there are two types of loneliness. In one type, a person may have lots of social interaction but still feels lonely since he doesn’t have meaningful relationships with others. In the second, people don’t actually have social interactions.

Newhouse said she experienced both kinds of loneliness when she moved to CHS. “Halfway through the year, the other students didn’t really know I was new, since there are so many people at this school,” she said. “I’m kind of a shy person, so I didn’t really say ‘hi’ to all these people. It was pretty hard to meet people and talk to them.”

Newhouse said she felt she experienced more perceived loneliness, where there was a discrepancy between the levels of social interaction she wanted to have and the social interaction she did have.

Newhouse said, “I was lucky, because I had a friend in Japan who moved from Carmel. One of her friends showed me around the

school and introduced me to her friends. At first, I felt like I didn’t really have a strong friendship connection with them. I felt that people just were with me because they had to be, since I didn’t really know anyone else.”

Wildman said that both types of loneliness are harmful. She attributes a decline in social interaction and an increase in loneliness partly to the use of technology. Despite all the contacts people can make through social media, they lose the chance for face-to-face interactions.

CHS has its own methods of combating loneliness in new students: Greyhound Connection. According to Quincy Smith, Greyhound Connection co-president and junior, club members help new students socialize and acclimate to CHS. “Loneliness can be really hard

I GOT NO BODY Here are a few ways that loneliness affects the body.

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on a new student. It can affect them in their classes because in a lot of classes, you have a lot of partner work. If they don’t know anyone and they don’t feel comfortable, it’ll be hard for them to find partners,” Smith said. “I’ve never been a new student, but I think that everyone’s had that feeling before, feeling out of place. I can understand people’s loneliness, and I try to help them.”

To overcome her loneliness, Newhouse said she opened up to her peers.

“I’ve definitely become more sociable. I’m more confident with the people I meet, and I’m able to create strong friendships and relationships.

Now, when I see someone, they’re like, ‘Over here, come hang out with us!’ I spend time with my friends in the morning now. I’m sure my loneliness has improved,” she said. H

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home cooking

COOK-IT-YOURSELF CHS students and teachers show greater interest in cooking at home

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MIX. She measured the rest of the ingredients. She made the batter and placed the pan into the oven.

All that was left for her to do was watch the cooking magic of the transformation of the batter into deliciously scrumptious brownies.

With the baking process underway, she, Amanda Ventura, baking student and sophomore grew increasingly excited with BROWNIE

each passing minute. This was her first time making brownies.

“I … was really excited ‘cause I just still couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact how the liquid turned into a solid ‘cause batter’s basically liquid; I just found it really weird, and I was just really excited. I remember leaving that light oven on and just staring at (the batter) until (it) actually turned into brownies because I just thought it was a really cool

HOMEBAKER: Amanda Ventura, cooking student and sophomore, mixes a brownie batter she has prepared. Ventura said one reason she prefers cooking at home is because of the economic factor.

process,” Ventura said.

For Ventura, her experience making these brownies helped spark her interest in cooking.

According to the recently released report, “Encouraging More Visits from Millennials,” from the NPD Group, millennials such as Ventura have begun to demonstrate a greater interest in cooking at home rather than eating at restaurants.

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home cooking consumer science teacher who on how much the food costs, and then, teaches several cooking classes, usually, we figure out we can actually said she has seen more students do it at home for a lot cheaper.” interested in the cooking classes Junior Alex Isler who cooks offered at CHS now than compared dinner on the weekdays for her family to the past few years. members also said that the expensive “Our enrollment in our foods nature of eating at restaurant in classes has increased over the years,” comparison to the inexpensive nature Brown said via email. “I feel that of cooking and eating at home plays a students want to learn more about factor in the reason she cooks. food and how to prepare as well as Isler added that another reason have a class that they can eat in. There she would rather eat and cook at are many students that say they cook home than eat at a restaurant is that at home and want to increase their she enjoys cooking. personal skills “Eating at a and knowledge restaurant does for when they are DID YOU KNOW? have certain older and living advantages, like if on their own.” you’re tired, then 65 percent to 72 percent of Brown said total daily energy came from it is more relaxing, she believes foods from home. and you don’t that the main NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV / SOURCE have to do your reason more own dishes, and students have you don’t have to been enrolling make the food, but in CHS cooking classes is that they I really find that I definitely like recognize the value of cooking. eating at home better because … a “They know that everyone lot of the time, what I order, I either has to eat and (that) learning can’t finish or I don’t really like,” Isler how to prepare your own food is said. “And if I make my own food, I important,” Brown said. usually know that I’m going to like According to Brown, although it because I’ve made it before, and I she believes millennials are still enjoyed the meal, and then, because inclined to eat at restaurants, she you put your own work behind it, also thinks that the overall trend you want to finish it, and it, I don’t of millennials’ growing interest know, it’s kind of like a pride behind in cooking stems mainly from it, like ‘I’ve made this dish,’ so I kind economic reasons, the increased of have to say that I enjoy eating at popularity of TV shows regarding home and like making my own food food and the understanding of the better, but I don’t like doing the importance of cooking. dishes afterward.”

Ventura, who said she wants Ventura said she also is more to become a chef, shares similar interested in cooking at home than views to Brown’s regarding eating at a restaurant. the value of cooking and the “If you make food at home, I economical nature of cooking as find it fun ‘cause I get to go, and reasons for the growing interest in I find all of these different recipes, cooking. Ventura said she decided and I try to find one that works, to take the baking course because and it’s just fun experimenting she believes cooking is not only with them and experimenting with important but also economic. the food. Then you get to taste it, With regards to the economics and it’s so good, and it just feels of cooking at home versus that better because you made it, not of eating at restaurants, Ventura someone else,” Ventura said. “You said, “(My friends and I) go out to eat feel like you achieved something H sometimes, and we always complain because you made this dish.”

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Maham Nadeem

dance week speak-ups

KEEP ON MOVIN’ ON with national dance week beginning saturday, how are students celebrating?

BRICK BAN, AMBASSADORS MEMBER AND JUNIOR What do you like most about dance?

“To me, dancing is a different medium through which you can express emotion. The difference between dancing and talking is that dancing is not worn out. When you say ‘I love you,’ it comes to mean absolutely nothing just because people say it every two seconds. When you are dancing you can connect to another person on an emotional level that cannot be described or imagined by someone who doesn’t dance.

It goes so much deeper than a physical activity.

People argue that dance is a sport but I find that insulting. It is far more physically demanding than any sport I can think of and yet there is an artistry behind it that make it so much more impressive.”

What got you interested?

“Who doesn’t want to get up and dance when they hear a cool song on the radio? It’s just such a fun thing to do. It’s not so much a desire or inspiration; it is a need to dance.”

What’s the most difficult part?

“The most difficult part of dancing is a question that would take years to explain. There is absolutely nothing easy about it. But that is one of the reasons it is so much fun. You constantly have to strive for perfection, but you also have to live with the fact that it’s impossible, your whole life is the pursuit of something that doesn’t exist. I guess that also qualifies dancers as crazy. We are chasing after something that isn’t even there.”

People who play sports don’t have to make their sport look easy.”

MOLLY O’CONNOR, AMBASSADORS MEMBER AND JUNIOR >> What do you like most about dance?

“I think dance is a really great way for people to express themselves especially if they’re too shy to sing in front of an audience. But also it’s just a lot of fun and I really love challenging myself so it’s been a great way to do that.”

What got you interested?

“I started dancing because I wanted technical training since I’m very involved with musical theater and show choir. However, once I started it, I really began to love it

separately from choir which made me want to join it competitively and take more classes. The thing about dancing that’s hard to swallow is that not everything can be learned and perfected and mastered as fast as you want it to be.”

What’s the most difficult part?

“I’m always seeing something I want to learn or watching someone else who I can learn from but it feels like there’s always so much more to improve and develop no matter where you are in your training.”

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THE ORIGINS OF DANCE show choir 1960s, Midwest roots: IU singing Hoosiers and Bishop Luers High School

HIP HOP

ballet

1970s, South Bronx roots: Latin American and African beats

color guard

15th century, renaissance Italy influenced: French and Russian ballet

19th century, roots: Swiss flag spinning (Fahnenschwingen), military band

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KENNY LIN, HIP-HOP DANCER AND SENIOR What do you like most about dance?

“Dancing is a universal language that brings people together. You can connect with others without speaking a single word. The cool thing about dance is all you need is rhythm. You can communicate the same ideas whether you practice dance or not.

Dance is powerful.”

What got you interested?

“I pursued dance. I wanted to assign selfworth and elevate my ‘game.’ By learning break dancing, or b-boying, I hoped to get ladies. It all started freshman year with Hip Hop club. I watched my upperclassmen dance flawlessly, and it was mind-blowing.

However, by the end of the month and throughout the next few years I learned that dance was

not just to show off to others, it was like what I said earlier, a form of communication. I was the paint brush and the floor was the canvas.

Just like poetry, certain movements in dance convey different emotions.”

What’s the most difficult part?

“So, the most difficult part of dance, for me, is consistency. There are always ways to improve your own dance, but it takes a lot of dedication to keep practicing.”

KATY HOOK, COLOR GUARD MEMBER AND FRESHMAN >> What do you like most about dance?

“You can do so much with the style of dance. There are many different types so you can basically express yourself any way you like.”

What got you interested?

“I started dancing when I was 3 years old, and I got more into dance because I wanted to be an Ambassador like my cousin.

I specifically got into Color Guard because my brother was in marching band.”

What’s the most difficult part?

“Sometimes, it can be stressful stepping onto the color guard floor. It’s difficult to only think about Color Guard and keep the rest of H your life balanced.”

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DIY Dough-licious pretzels 2

With National Pretzel Day coming up this Sunday, try out this simple recipe.

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1 | Put the warm water in a large bowl. Sprinkle the yeast on top. Let this stand for about five minutes, until the mixture looks frothy. If the mixture doesn’t froth up properly, either the yeast is old or the water is the wrong temperature.

2 | Whisk together the flour, sugar and salt. When the yeast mixture is ready, pour in the flour mixture. With the dough hook attachment, beat on low speed for about one minute. Then increase the speed to medium and knead for about eight minutes.

3 | Coat another bowl in vegetable oil and put in the dough. Turn the dough to coat. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, then let sit in a warm place to until the dough has doubled in volume, about 30 minutes.

4 | While the dough rises, cover the baking sheets in oiled parchment paper. Coat the parchment paper in oil.

Put plastic wrap over the entire tray and press down to coat it in oil. Next, punch down the dough and knead until smooth.

Pretzel Dough Ingredients (makes 16 pretzels

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-1 cup warm water (105°F to 115°F) -1 packet (1/4 oz) active dry yeast -2 and 3/4 cups flour -1 tbsp. granulated sugar -1 tsp. salt -Vegetable oil -Baking soda bath -Approximately 6 cups water -1/4 cup baking soda -Coarse salt 7

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5 | Cut the dough into 16 equal pieces. Put eight pieces under the plastic wrap on each baking sheet. On a clean surface, roll the dough into a 16 to 18-inch rope. Take the ends of the rope and cross them twice. Then press down near the middle to make the pretzel shape.

6 | Let the pretzels rise until they have doubled in volume, or wait about 15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 425°F. Boil the 6 cups water in a large saucepan.

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7 | Add the baking soda to the boiling water—there will be fizzing. Using a slotted spoon, place two pretzels in the water. Let them cook for one minute, then flip and cook another minute. When finished, place on the wire rack to cool before moving back to the baking sheet.

Discard the plastic wrap.

8 | Once all eight pretzels on one sheet have been boiled, top with coarse salt. Put the tray into the oven for eight to 10 minutes, rotating halfway through.

Repeat the process.

9 | Wait for the pretzels to cool, and then remove from H baking sheet and enjoy!

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LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT: Soldiers of the Indiana National Guard march in the rain at the National Guard Armory in Muncie. Luisa Perez, Private and senior, led the group during the marching exercise.

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While people in countries with more advanced economies such as the United States believe their children will be “worse off financially� in the future, CHS students define success in forms other than income.

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sk three people to define success, and they’ll say several different things. Ask more, and some will start to repeat some of these things: money, careers, relationships, and luxury, all of which characterize a vision of happiness many people chase throughout their lives—the American Dream.

But Luisa Perez, Private and senior, isn’t aiming for those same parameters of success. A day for her yields many fruits of hard labor.

Instead of long car drives, she spends hours crawling or marching through mud and mire. Instead of moneyed leisure, she practices land navigation and drill and ceremony. Instead of a white picketfenced house, Perez aims for a rugged army door.

Her military training workouts are grueling. And she does it all for a vision of the future very unlike that of most seniors. It was by no means an easy road to take, but Perez said her decision to walk this path “wasn’t tough at all.”

“That’s all I’ve been wanting to do for a few years,” Perez said.

“I decided join to the Army because I wanted to give back to this country that has given me so much. I’ve always wanted to fight for a cause, and I feel like that’s how I found what to fight for. I want to fight for freedom that we are given every day and make sure that we keep it.”

She said it would help her achieve her goals towards what she wanted to do in her life.

“I am in the National Guard right now, (which is) part of the Army, and what I do is that after I graduate high school, I’m going to go to basic training and job training, and then I’m going to start college (in the) fall of 2016; then I’m going to go four years, get my degree in social work and do ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps), which is a reserve officer’s training cadet to become an officer, and by the time I’m out of college, I’ll be an officer in the army, and then I’ll try to do medical officer,” Perez said. “I’m working very hard to achieve everything that I want to achieve. I work every day—after school I work out so I make sure that I pass my physical exams, and I’m always keeping in touch with my recruiter, and I’m getting good grades. I already got accepted into IU, so I know that I do have a plan of what college to go to, and the National Guard is paying for my college.”

When making her decision, Perez did not consider income as a parameter for her choice.

“I feel like I’m only going to be successful if I keep on going through what I’m doing right now,” she said. “I think someone can be successful and be completely poor because I feel like success doesn’t

“I think someone can be successful and be completely poor because I feel like success doesn’t have anything to do with materialistic things.

Luisa Perez

have anything to do with materialistic things (or) materialistic achievements.”

While Perez doesn’t worry about making a lot of money, a 2014 Pew Research study showed that 65 percent of people in countries with more advanced economies believe their children of this generation will be “worse off financially than their parents.” According to social studies teacher Dan Bates, Americans tend to consider money as a major factor of success, and their excess consumption has contributed to this attitude.

REASONS FOR PERSPECTIVE “We’re a society that’s still, as distorted as it is as far as where people should be, still into conspicuous consumption,” Bates said. “We still live in a community where we’re surrounded by it in all sorts of ways. People are waking up a little bit to it, but it’s still there.”

According to Bates, in recent decades, older generations of Americans—such as the baby boomers—have realized they have consumed more than they could, contributing to consequences of the resulting current debt for immediate and future generations.

“It’s as if those in that generation are saying, ‘OK, look, we’re about to die, and we’re going to give you the bills for all that we did.’ And so as a country, we’ve lived beyond our means. As households, we live beyond our means, and that has to stop at some point,” Bates said. “So the perception that people have, as far as what’s going to happen with today’s children or with today’s generation, (is that) they have a much better sense that it can’t be maintained.”

Social studies teacher Michelle Foutz said she agreed and also said the current financial condition with the massive debt would affect how future generations fare in life.

“I think that people (in America) focus more on income levels as a measure of success than you might see in other countries, and I don’t think that’s necessarily true, but I think we focus on that,” Foutz said. “The more debt that we have, the greater debt that we are putting on future generations. So in the future, how are they going to deal with that? They could have higher taxes, which means they’re going to have less disposable income; they’re going to have (fewer) government programs, and all of those things will affect the standard of living.”

Bates and Foutz also said a factor accounting

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STATE DEFENSE: Luisa Perez, Private and senior, leads soldiers of the Indiana National Guard in a marching drill at the National Guard Armory in Muncie. Perez and the soldiers practiced marching commands and coordination.

DID YOU KNOW?

BHUTAN In the 1970s, the nation of Bhutan adopted the philosophy of gross national happiness (GNH) rather than gross domestic product (GDP) as the measure of its progress. GNH rests on four pillars: better education/health, conservation of culture, environmental protection and good governance.

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for the outlook of economically advanced countries compared to that of countries less economically advanced is the difference in growth rates.

“In these emerging economies, everything is upward and ever upward, and so there’s that feeling of, ‘Well look at how things are here now compared to how they were 50 years ago.’ Well, they’re substantially better in those countries, and so then that is imparted on their beliefs or their ideas about what’s going to happen with their children,” Bates said. “(For developed countries), their growth rates haven’t plateaued, I mean they’re still in the 2 percent range of growth, but you have some of these emerging economies that are like 4 percent. If you’re talking in billions, that’s huge.”

Foutz said she agreed and also said the economic growth rate has especially slowed down in the United States, also affecting outlook.

“We’ve been experiencing a sluggish economy, unemployment is higher than we want it to be, GDP has been slow, we’ve seen slower growth of our GDP, the stock market hasn’t been performing that well—we’ve had a financial crisis in 2008,

(TOP) FORWARD MARCH: Luisa Perez, Private and senior, marches alongside soldiers of the Indiana National Guard in an exercise.

(BOTTOM) ATTEN-TION: Perez leads soldiers of the National Guard in a salute.

*Happiness vs Economic Progress and so I feel that incomes generally are not rising like they used to, and I think that’s a contributing factor,” Foutz said. “Because of the growth in those nations and the increased numbers of jobs and the incomes rising in those countries, they’re much more optimistic about the future economy than we are, and they’re also transitioning to a more market-based economy, which is contributing to the increased numbers of jobs and opportunities in those nations.”

Perez said she agreed with Foutz that growth creates optimism.

“I feel like when a nation is so rich and maybe the parents are already rich and everything, they probably aren’t as optimistic for their kids to be the same because they already expect it for them, but for poor nations, I feel like all they hope is that their kids will have a better future, that’s like all they’re thinking about (and) all they’re being optimistic about,” Perez said.

According to Bates, another factor that could have contributed to people’s attitudes toward the future of immediate generations was the growing gap between the rich and the poor.

Additionally, he said the largest income growth occurred among those with the highest incomes of the society.

“You could have the C.E.O. of General Motors in the 1970s making around $600,000, and the average line worker in the General Motors plant was making $20 an hour. And 20 years later, they might be making $40 an hour, which is a 100 percent pay increase, which seems like a big deal, but the C.E.O. went from $600,000 to $9 million.

And now it’s even far beyond that,” Bates said.

OTHER WAYS Bates described his opinion for how people could think about what it means to be successful in the future.

“I would tell them to look and try to imagine being 70 years old, and looking back on what they’ve done, and will they have a sense of integrity that allows them to say, ‘I feel really good about what I did’ or ‘When I’m 70, will I just look back and think, “I made a lot of money”?’ If that’s what you want to look back on when you’re 70, then go for it. But I’m not sure that’s the best idea,” he said.

Meanwhile, Foutz said the corporatedominant nature of America seems to set income as a direct measure of success, but that people of different careers define success in different ways.

*Happiness based on GDP per capita, generosity, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom to make life choices and perceptions of corruption

DENMARK Happiness: 1st GDP: 34th

NORWAY Happiness: 2nd GDP: 26th

SWITZERLAND Happiness: 3rd GDP: 20th

NETHERLANDS Happiness: 4th GDP: 17th

SWEDEN Happiness: 5th GDP: 22th WORLDBANK.ORG, USNDSN. ORG / SOURCES

“If you look aside that in other sectors, I think you’ll see less of that, especially in government jobs where your income potential is much more limited. But you are in those positions for largely non-monetary reasons, and your measure of success is based on how many people you help or what you’re able to achieve in that position,” she said. “That has nothing to do with money.”

Foutz also said some of her own goals as a teacher had nothing to do with money, and others can think in the same manner regardless of what career they pursue.

“I would say that early on in my career when I started teaching, I wanted to earn my master’s degree; I wanted to earn my National Board certification, so I had different goals in terms of my level of education, and I achieved those. So that would have been one area, and then (there’s) also just what you’re able to do within your own classroom. You have your own personal goals and measures of success. (For example,) if you’re a math teacher, and your goal is for 80 percent of your students to achieve this score on this standardized test, I would say that teachers all have their own individual achievement goals. I think that it’s different for every teacher, (and) I think it’s different for every profession, but I definitely think that there are measures of success outside of income,” she said.

Bates said he agreed: Although money is considered a major factor of success in America, it shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

“In America, it’s a game. It’s the game of trying to acquire the most stuff,” he said. “Just don’t get caught up in the game. Just do those things about which you feel good.”

Perez said she also agreed, saying for her, joining the Army would help her find success by helping her achieve her goals to serve a good cause, and income wouldn’t matter in the end.

“I think I measure success by the achievements that I have made in my life. I measure how successful I am by the amount of good things I have done, and I feel like how I treat other people (also matters). I feel like someone is not successful if they’re mean, even if they have achieved a lot of things, but I feel like someone is successful when they actually care about others and know to work towards the good of work,” Perez said. “I feel like everybody’s successful if they always give a person a positive view on life, so I feel like just their views, their characteristics and their attitude H can measure success.”

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A VINDICA T IV E RE T URN

‘AV E N G E R S 2 ’

The sequel of The Avengers’ 2012 film, “The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron,” will be coming to theaters on May 1 with a great amount of still-unanswered questions. We hope not to answer these questions, but to pose even more and expose the myriad of possibilities that could occur in this upcoming blockbuster.

THE NEW HEROES VISION In a trailer depicting the villain, Ultron, trespassing the Avengers tower, Ultron destroys Tony Stark’s (Iron Man’s) A.I. assistant, J.A.R.V.I.S., and steals its remains. He then uses these remains to create a robot of his own: “Vision.” Marvel has been keeping a tight lid on this wildest of wild cards. Will he turn on his creator and join the Avengers (as is the cases in the comics), or stay loyal to Ultron? Only time will tell.

QUICKSILVER

SCARLET WITCH

In the end credit scene of "Captain America 2," we were introduced to Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, two heroes with the powers of superspeed and telekinesis, respectively, and major members of the Avengers. However, they seemed to be under the control of the villain Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker.

Could the Avengers possibly have to fight against the twins before they can fight alongside them?

HAWKEYE

Arrows may not seem like the best armament to deal with enemies who can hurl blasts of energy, but tell that to Hawkeye, who seems to do just fine. However, his role in the first “Avengers” to shoot arrows and kill bad guys most likely won’t change much in the sequel.

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MEET THE VILLAIN: ULTRON THE HULK Physicist Bruce Banner once said “you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” Due to the fact that he transforms into the Hulk when he gets angry, he’s probably correct. In the trailers for an untransformed Hulk is seen stumbling through woods, destitute and haggard. What could have happened to put the Hulk in that position?

THOR In one of the trailers, he can be seen lifting Stark up by the throat. Could this have been because his anger towards Stark for causing the whole mess in the first place (Stark built Ultron, the antagonist in “Avengers 2”) or an unknown, equallyjustifiable reason?

Tony Stark (Iron Man) creates Ultron, a mechanical robot made from artificial intelligence. His original purpose was to defend the world, but he develops a purpose of his own: to destroy the world. He evolves through phases that progressively become stronger, making him near invincible in his last phase.

IRON MAN

In the movies he has appeared in, we have seen him use his most iconic armor, but in the trailers, he breaks out the Hulkbuster, a suit specially designed to combat the Hulk. There seems to be more than one baddie than Ultron.

BLACK WIDOW At one point in her life, she could have been considered an enemy of the Avengers.

She worked with the KGB, then turned to freelance spy work. Whether or not her shady past will be brought up in the upcoming film is not certain, but watch out for this wild card.

CAPTAIN AMERICA Captain America is respected for both his fighting skills and goodness of character.

His character enables him to be one of the few worthy enough to lift Thor’s hammer in the comics. Whether or not this ability will carry over to the film-verse is still unknown, but it is heavily speculated that one cast member besides Thor will lift the hammer in “Avengers 2.”

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ISSMA

A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING

Ambassadors and Accents to compete for first time at ISSMA

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S SHE HAS DONE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE

Kathleen Muloma, Ambassadors member and senior, walks into Room P118, a room with platforms and a mirrored wall hidden by a curtain. In this room, the Ambassadors will rehearse until May 2, when they, along with the Accents, will travel to Ben Davis High School for the preliminary round of the Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) competition.

This year will be the first time Ambassdors and Accents will compete in the ISSMA competition.

According to Elizabeth Kouns, Ambassadors and Accents director, both choral groups have had a history of competing in show choir categories; however, for the ISSMA competition, the groups will perform as concert choirs.

“Concert choir is a little different than show choir because concert choir is more traditional choir. You stand in a group, and you sing, as opposed to what show choir is, the glitzy costumes and the dancing and all of that,” Kouns said. “This is the first year in a really long time (Ambassadors and Accents will be competing in ISSMA)—I have found some plaques and trophies around here from ISSMA from the 1980s, but it’s been a really long time since any of the groups from Carmel’s choir department have been representatives of the school in ISSMA concert choir.”

Muloma said choral ISSMA

AMBASSADORS & ACCENTS SPEAK UPS

YEAR,

Sophomore Taylor Bickett “I’m most excited about–we’re doing this cool Gospel rendition of ‘This Little Light of Mine.’

There are really cool solos that go into it, and I think that sounds really neat for the choir.”

Senior Aaron Jacobs “I’m most excited to see how well Carmel does because we did really well in our winter season this year, and we’ve done a lot of competitions before, but we have not gone to ISSMA yet. So, it’s a new thing for me and for the whole choir. We did well in competition, but you know, who knows?” has two major components: sightreading and performance. Sightreading constitutes 10 percent of the total score; the choirs will be scored on their rhythm, melody and harmony. The performance aspect of ISSMA will include three songs, two from a staterequired list and one of choice.

These three songs will make up 90 percent of the final score. The top

DID YOU KNOW? Indiana music festivals first took place in the 1930s.

ISSMA.NET / SOURCE

16 competing schools will qualify for the ISSMA state competition, and among those 16 schools, eight will be ranked in state.

According to Muloma, ISSMA is more challenging because of the added components of sightreading and the requirement for musical literacy. Normally, the choir will have a song for four to five months where they will have

ISSMA SCHEDULE

Here is a schedule of when the choirs, along with band and orchestra, will be playing at ISSMA: May 1: 6 p.m.

Band #1 Ensemble Pike High School - 6 p.m.

Choral Treble Ensemble Ben Davis High School - 8:50 a.m.

9 p.m.

May 2: 8 a.m.

Orchestra #1 Ensemble Pike High School - 8:30 p.m.

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time to break it down.

“There’s an added air of less security just because we haven’t experienced as much other performing arts programs. We just don’t know how things are going to be, and that can affect your confidence. Not knowing is an added stressor,” Muloma said.

“You’re judged by tone quality, being able to vary from song to song, intonation obviously, different dynamics and just

musicality in general. This is the kind of thing where you have to pay attention to detail. You have to be able know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.”

Even with sight reading being a challenge, Kouns said the biggest problem is merely inexperience.

According to Kouns, other schools have the experience to know exactly how to run the audition.

“It’s just going to be a learning experience, like anything the first

Band #2 Ensemble Pike High School - 11:30 a.m.

1p.m.

Choral Mixed Ensemble Ben Davis High School - 10:30 a.m.

THE BIZ: Ambassadors and juniors Emily Urbanski and Patrick Reeves practice during rehearsal.

This year’s performance at ISSMA will be a new opportunity for the performers and directors.

Orchestra #2 Ensemble Pike High School - 5 p.m.

5 p.m.

8 p.m.

LIANNE YU ISSMA.NET / SOURCE

time, you kind of can’t tell what it’s going to be until after you do it. It’s like explaining to someone what it feels like to ride a roller coaster, well ‘you just got to get on it,’” she said.

Muloma also looks to the ISSMA competition to improve the Ambassadors’s technical skills.

“I am so excited. I love the classical sound. I love the harmonies—which we can’t do as much for show choir. I love the choices we have (for ISSMA). I love seeing the peoples’ faces when we nail a sight-reading section we just got, or when we get a really hard harmony or dynamics,” Muloma said. “Seeing us grow technically is something that’s been there since the beginning of the year, but has skyrocketed because we’re being challenged by something we’re not used to.” H

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asim dhungana

star wars

in a generation

not so far away...

examining family’s role popularity of the ‘star wars’ franchise

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UNIOR KATE LOVE HAS BEEN FASCINATED by “Star

Wars” since she was about seven years old.

She said, “It’s kind of like a pop cultural legend ... They just really kept it going, and now they’re rebooting it, so that’s probably one of the reasons it’s still really prevalent today.”

Since it was first conceived by American film director George Lucas in 1977, “Star Wars,” the epic space opera franchise, has retained its presence in society, becoming a cultural icon and reaching those who weren’t even born when the series first aired.

According to Kate, the series appeals to teenagers and young adults for a number of fundamental reasons.

She said, “I think it’s just the science fiction. Any time, even with ‘Star Trek’ or any old science fiction or science fiction from books that’s been rebooted into a movie, (it) kind of just grabs the attention, I think, of a lot of teens and adults now.”

In her case, Kate also said she believes her father, English teacher John Love, played an instrumental role in kindling her interest for “Star

Wars.” In a similar vein, John said he remembers when his own father took him to see the first film when he was only seven years old.

“It was just something, I think, my dad and I could kind of share together. I would remember, too, after we would go see the movie or we would go out, I collected all the Star Wars figures when I was a kid (and I still have them),” Mr. Love said. “I think he enjoyed sharing that a little bit. I think it was one of those things where he kind of relived his childhood a little bit, too, through the films.”

Mr. Love said he probably also had a little bit of influence on Kate’s interests as she was growing up.

“I think it’s just one of those things that your kids find some kind of common interest,” he said.

“I have the films here (at school), and so oftentimes, when I would be here grading on the weekends or in the evenings, sometimes my kids would be with me, and when they were little I would just pop in a movie. That would be a movie that would be in the background, so I think sometimes they just kind of gravitated towards it.”

Junior Joseph Dobie, also a

fan of the series, said he started to watch the movies from a young age, but he does not believe his parents played a large role in his feelings about the series. However, he does remember watching the movies with his family when he was younger.

He said, “I think it’s just something our parents have enjoyed more so, and they kind of showed us it, and we kind of said, ‘You know what?

This is actually pretty cool.’ So, we go around and we spread it, and I think that’s why (it’s so prevalent).”

The next movie in the main series, “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens,”

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THESE AREN’T THE DEMOGRAPHICS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR “Star Wars IV: A New Hope”

25-59

Age groups with which this movie is most popular

8.8

It’s IMDb rating. The secondhighest for a “Star Wars” film.

“Star Wars VI: Revenge of the Sith”

Under 18

Age groups with which this movie is most popular

7.7

It’s rating on IMDb. The highest rated of the prequels (Episodes I, II, and III)

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will be released in December this year by Disney, who acquired the franchise in 2012. Even though some fans are concerned about Disney’s plans for the series, Kate said she has no worries.

“I think (it was a step forward), because Disney can do a lot with it.

Disney has a lot of resources, and so there’s a lot they can do with the series. They had already, in their parks, a ‘Star Wars’ section, and they already had some TV shows going through one of their channels, so I wasn’t entirely surprised that they totally grasped it in their realm. I think it will make it do even better,” Kate said. “I’d just like it to continue to be good. That’s all I really want. As long as it’s still action-packed and has a good story behind it, they can pretty much do whatever they want.”

Despite constantly changing tastes and trends, Kate said she thinks “Star Wars” will be able to retain its popularity in the future.

She said, “It’s such a pop culture icon, I think, that it will maintain throughout. Whether or not they continue it as a series, I think it will still be well known years later.” H

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CREATIVE COMMONS

Entertainment Briefs THE BELLAS BRING IT BACK

After winning the national acappella competition in Pitch Perfect, Beca (Anna Kendrick) and her all-girls singing group, back in Barden University, enter an international acappella competition which no American team has ever won before.

See Beca and the Barden Bellas in Pitch Perfect 2 as they face off against their biggest rivals yet, the German acappella group Das Sound Machine, and its eccentric leader (Flula Borg) when the film comes to theaters on May 15.

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dreaming

Watch CHS’s adaptation of BIG the film as this spring musical as childhood nostalgia washes over.

Showings: May 14 to 16: 7 to 9 p.m. in the auditorium May 17: 2 to 4 p.m. in the auditorium

“We felt that doing the same thing, or the same instrumentation again, just wasn’t for us.”

— MARCUS MUMFORD, FRONTMAN FOR FOLK ROCK BAND MUMFORD & SONS. HE SAID THE BAND AIMED AT BECOMING MORE ELECTRIC FOR ITS NEXT ALBUM WILDER MIND WHICH WILL BE RELEASED MAY 4.

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The final Hunt Accompany master swordsman and hunter Geralt the Rivia one last time in The Witcher 3: Witch Hunt as he battles against the otherworldly army known as the Wild Hunt to revive humanity and stop the enemy’s invasion into the Northern Kingdom.

This thrilling action role-playing game for the PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox One and Macintosh will be released May 19.

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Sports

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a l ly r u s s e l l

SWINGING INTO A NEW SEASON women’s tennis team aims for third consecutive state title

women’s Tennis

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faces will be the norm as members of the women’s tennis team attempt to win a third consecutive IHSAA State championship in their upcoming season.

Molly Fletchall, tennis player and senior, said “our varsity team is very different this year. We only lost one player last year and we have a lot of returning players and a lot of incoming players, which means there’s a lot of fighting for spots this year.” According to assistant coach Carl Mower, with four new freshmen and a new junior joining the team, one can be certain that last years’ varsity lineup will be altered this coming season.

Mower said the team this year is highly unusual. “I can only think of maybe one or two other times we’ve done that with that many freshmen,” Mower said. “Usually there’s at least one freshman on the team, so it’s not unusual, but I think the number we took was unusual.” As a member of the team who started as a freshman, junior Lauryn Padgett said she looks at the situation positively.

“We have four freshmen who have moved up, and last year we only had one so it adds a lot more diversity on the team. (The freshmen) bring many positive attitudes and new players to mentor. They show signs that our team can be a legacy in Indiana OUNG AND NEW

HITTING HER GOALS: Junior Lauryn Padgett runs to a forehand during practice. Padgett was a part of two State championship teams and said she hopes to win a third this season.

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ONE STEP AT A TIME: Head Coach Mike Bostic talks to team members as they create a list of team goals.

According to the team, winning the State championship once more is their ultimate goal this year.

tennis,” Padgett said. to reach their goals of a state Mower said he agrees that the championship. Head coach Mike legacy of the team’s dominance is Bostic said, “I think our team’s an important factor when choosing unity has set us apart from the the lineup, adding, “one of the big other programs. There have been reasons we do it is so we can build some extremely talented teams we for the future and so they can be have faced and if you aren’t united around it so they know what they you are going to have a difficult can expect for the future.” time winning,” Bostic said. The Another addition to the team, players agreed that the strong junior Samantha Galloway, will bond between the teammates aids only further add to the turbulence the team’s dominance in the state. the team faces in regard to the “Having a strong bond helps us lineup. After moving to Carmel to motivate each other and push from Portage, MI, each other to Galloway said she become better was pleased to on the court,” DID YOU KNOW? find that Carmel’s Fletchall said. team was a far Serena Williams won the “Out there on more competitive Wimbledon twice in a row in the court, it’s atmosphere than 2002 and 2003, making runner not just to win what she had up the next year. Then again for me, but it’s experienced at her Williams won two successive also to win for old high school. titles in 2009- 10, but did not some of my “The tennis make it to the title in 2011. closest friends.” team at Portage In order TENNIS.COM/ SOURCE Central was much to bond the smaller and much team, the weaker,” Galloway said. “I was seniors organize team sleepovers out with an injury on my right and events. “We are really shoulder when I attended there working to have more team getbut played left handed for them. A togethers, and our group message lot of the JV girls who play there is definitely a place where the girls have never even played tennis in have been connecting. I’ll have their life.” like a hundred messages in an In addition to being hour,” Fletchall said. competitive, the team also works Bostic said he is excited with to bond and unite in order Galloway joining the team. “I

have gotten to know the new players over the past couple of weeks and they are great girls,” Bostic said. “Galloway brings a lot to the table and is going to be a force to be reckoned with this season.” Galloway shares in Bostic’s enthusiasm and says she is excited to play for a competitive high school team.

Galloway said, “Carmel is way more demanding in conditioning than my other school. I had to work with a personal trainer to keep up my speed as well as a physical therapist for my shoulder. Portage Central offered no conditioning to help me in either of those. It’s so nice having team conditioning because it’s way more enjoyable working with my teammates. It cuts down the amount of times we have to go to the gym by ourselves,” Galloway said.

Although she was an older student entering the team for the first time as a junior, Galloway said she felt welcomed by the girls.

Mower said, “Even if we do have some new players, it doesn’t take long for them to become acclimated to the group because the group is very accepting and it’s a pretty H seamless transition usually.”

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Golf vs. Baseball

A ‘HOLE’ NEW BALL GAME CHS students transition to Different sports

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emma love UNIOR

PALMER

TWEEDY

STOPPED

PLAYING BASEBALL IN EIGHTH GRADE

AND BEGAN HIS CAREER IN GOLF. The two sports are actually very similar. According to articles by Golf Digest and The New York Times, many baseball players play golf on the side. Likewise Tweedy said transitioning between the sports helped him see the many similarities.

Tweedy said, “It’s a common misconception that a baseball swing and golf swing are different. My golf coaches told me that there are a lot of similarities regarding impact, the way you turn your hips on impact and release. There are a lot of similarities between the swing, but obviously in baseball, you’re swinging at something moving in the air rather than something on the ground, but in the rotational aspect of it, there are a lot of similarities.”

But Chard Reid, head coach of the varsity men’s golf team, thought differently. According to Reid, while both sports have a swing, the swings are more different than similar.

“There’s not a whole lot that can carry over,” he said.

I had some softball players at Heritage, when I used to coach there, that did well in golf because they understood what caused them to hit a ball in right field, and they could understand why they’re pushing the golf shot. They understood the dynamic of what’s going on with their body, but I don’t really know if there is a lot of similarity there.

There is definitely an awful lot of difference; you’ve got a static ball versus a moving ball, there is just a lot different.”

On the contrary, Tweedy said he sees the similar movements, he said the foundations are all the same, “The swing plane for golf is obviously faced towards the ground, the swing is more upright and then a baseball swing is more horizontal. It kind of seems radical when you say it, but they are actually very similar in the movements. The way you go into a baseball should be the same way you do in golf. You’re squaring your hands, rotating the hips and then the follow through,” Tweedy said. “The swing technique is a little different because of where the ball is when you hit it, and also the way you come into the ball, really the swings are almost identical besides the plane.”

FOLLOWING THROUGH: Junior Palmer Tweedy finishes a swing during practice.

Tweedy said the similarities between a baseball swing and a golf swing have helped him and even made him a better golfer.

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On technique, the major differences are in the playing baseball to golf have to do with the style. An example is how a golf swing not only has to hit mind set,” Tweedy said. Although the ball hard, but it has to hit straight. This causes the golf I’m focused on beating the course swing to be less explosive and more precise. According to in golf, baseball really gave me Justin Quick, freshman head coach of the men’s baseball that mind set that I need to beat team, golf puts itself in many different the opponent, and it kind of circumstances, has many different clubs set a fire in me to be really and baseball uses different techniques competitive. Every day I DID YOU KNOW? based also on the type of pitch. practice, and I really want Quick, who has played both sports Only one person, Samuel Dewey Byrd, to beat the number one said, “There can be some crossover or has played in both a World Series (for guy, his name is Jeff. I just carry over, but mechanics within the the Yankees in 1932) and the Masters have this edge that is just a swing are certainly different. Simple (1941 and 1942). little bit more motivation to GOLF.COM / SOURCE common things in a golf swing like work a little harder. When I keeping your front arm straight. That’s exercise, and I go to the golf never a part of a baseball swing. In course, it’s because I want to baseball we preach taking the knob of the bat to the ball; beat that kid so badly.” that would never be referenced in golf. There’s counts in After beginning golf, Tweedy baseball at bat where you can change your approach, or said he realized the transition has what you’re anticipating or looking for from the pitcher, made him a better golfer and a more pitch-wise, and in golf that never has to be taken into competitive player. Tweedy practices consideration because the ball is always sitting there. To golf every day in preparation for this be truthful, the swings are apples and oranges. I think the upcoming spring season. He said, similarities lie a lot more in the individual and team aspect “Every day I practice, and I realized and the mental approach to the games.” that in baseball, you can hit one of Quick, Reid and Tweedy all said the major overlap is the three and be a hall of famer, which mental preparedness and toughness needed for the game. obviously is tough hitting a 98-mileDefined as “a collection of attributes that allow a person to an-hour fastball, basketball if you persevere through difficult circumstances (such as difficult make baskets too, but golf you have training or difficult competitive situations in games) and a new type of shot every time, there emerge without losing confidence” by sports psychologists, are so many different circumstances mental toughness is a necessity in any sport. For golf and and that’s why golf is definitely the baseball, this is a significant similarity according to Tweedy. toughest sport. Obviously, that’s just H “I think most of the ideas transferred over from my opinion, though.”

STYLISTIC SWINGING A lot of the similarities and differences between swings are difficult to spot, so we’ll break it down here.

If you swing with just your hands or fail or your timing is off, you will not be able to hit the ball hard and you will lose accuracy.

Number of baseball/softball players vs. golf players in USA as of spring 2014 (in millions)

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In baseball you step into the lead leg to shift the weight. In golf you need to be able to push off the back foot and transfer weight.

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There is no “takeaway” in a baseball swing.

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TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME: Elliot Shebek, college commit and senior, catches the ball in the warm up. Shebek has committed to play baseball at DePauw University.

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Seniors Elliot Shebek and Megan Rauh both have committed to playing sports in college.

Shebek has committed to DePauw University to play baseball.

He said playing college baseball has always been a plan for him.

Rauh has committed to Auburn University in Alabama for equestrianism. Unlike Shebek, she said she did not know until her sophomore year of high school that she wanted to do so.

“I started riding when I was eight, just taking lessons. Then I started showing through fourth (grade) and now nationally through the AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) circuit,” Rauh said.

According to Shebek, he has been playing baseball for as long as he can remember and said he

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started around the age of five.

“It’s taken lots of work, countless hours of training, but (playing in college) has always been the goal,” Shebek said.

Athletic Director Jim Inskeep said playing sports in college is often a goal of many student athletes; however, the number of students who receive scholarships from schools is not as large as most may think for a school like Carmel.

“The numbers are probably not as high as most would think.

There are not that many Division 1 scholarships available, and when you break that down into individual sports, that number gets a little bit lower. Looking at our sports, the highest percentage is from our swimming programs, girls being number one and boys being number two,” Inskeep said. “From there, there are a variety of different sports: women’s soccer has a high number of Division 1 commits, our boy’s soccer kids don’t have as high of a number, mainly because there are a lot of boys that play for the developmental academy that

Name: Alex Heger Grade: 12 College committed to: Robert Morris University How excited are you to take the next step and participate in college athletics?

I’m really excited to see a whole different game of transforming from high school to college and the whole lacrosse aspect of it as well too.

What have you been doing to prepare for playing in college?

I’ve definitely done a lot of lifting and some off-season work as well as practice right now and games.

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don’t play high school soccer and then they decide on a Division 1 scholarship.”

Inskeep and Shebek both said an important part in the process of picking schools involving sports is picking a school that both goes with the sport and what takes place after college.

“I had many offers from around the Midwest, but after many months of talking to family, we felt (DePauw) was the best school for me,” Shebek said.

Rauh said she visited a few schools to find the one that best fit her.

“I visited a few schools that have equestrian as a sport, and I quickly realized how great of an opportunity it would be to sign with a school, an opportunity that I couldn’t pass up,” Rauh said.

According to Inskeep, it is important to look past the college years in the sport and what comes after college.

Rauh said she will be training over the summer, as well as the rest of the academic year, to prepare.

Rauh said, “I’m mostly excited, especially for the new people I’m going to meet, the warm weather and to experience a new part of the country. I’m also nervous about being 10 hours away from my friends and family.”

Shebek said leaving Carmel and going to DePauw will be different; however, he said he is excited and ready for this change.

According to Shebek, he will be practicing and training during the summer.

“I’ve always dreamed about it as a kid. I’m very grateful that I get to play the greatest game for at least four more years,” Shebek said.

According to Inskeep, coming out of Carmel can be a large change for many students.

“There’s a lot more publicity that goes into going to a larger school for college, but that’s not always the best fit for the student,” Inskeep said. “To me, if they’re going to a school for sports, then I hope they’re going because it’s a great opportunity that they’re going to be able to play somewhere and planning for their futures.”

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PERCENTAGE OF STUDENT ATHLETES THAT COMMIT FOR COLLEGE AND GO PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL 6.9%

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Name: Ryan Kokoska Grade: 12 College committed to: University of California Santa Barbara How excited are you to take the next step and participate in college athletics?

I’m very excited to meet new people who I haven’t met before and go to a place where it is warm year round and compete for a championship.

What have you been doing to prepare for playing in college?

Well my high school coaches and club coaches have helped me in the past four years. Also I just got my fitness packet from my college, so I’m looking forward to working on that.

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SECOND TIME BACK FOR UNIFIED TRACK unified track enters second season hoping to compete for state title

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EADING INTO THEIR SECOND SEASON, Unified Track members hope for another fun-filled year and a chance at the State meet. Unified Track is a track team that consists of athletes with and without disabilities competing together in traditional track and field events. It is a team created by IHSAA and the Special Olympics to unify student athletes and athletes with intellectual disabilities. This year the team will compete against several other schools in the area and participate in Sectionals beginning May 30.

According to Molly McGuire, head coach and junior, the team members are excited to start the season and to improve their skills.

“Unified Track is a great experience. It allows people of all abilities to participate in a schoolsponsored sport. We are working hard towards getting better every day, having fun and preparing to compete,” McGuire said.

Now that the team has one season under its belt, McGuire said the team has been working on overall organization and that each athlete has been focusing in on balance, strength and speed.

She said this year the team will compete at the Hamilton County Sectionals, and State meets if they make it. Along with McGuire senior and volunteer, PJ Gibson, said he is looking forward to another great season. He said it’s an honor to be a part of Unified Track and enjoys seeing everyone come together as one.

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WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: Molly McGuire, unified track head coach and junior, motivates her teammates.

McGuire said the team hopes to compete for the State title.

get to stay active and promote competing alongside one another.

It is a good opportunity to stay fit, make new friends and promote togetherness,” Gibson said.

Club Sponsor Kathleen Overbeck said that the program has been a strong addition to the school and that it is a way to bring all the students together and expose their similarities rather than exposing their differences.

Overbeck said it is a great opportunity to have the program completely run by students. She said McGuire is a strong head coach and has dedicated a lot of time to the program.

She said, “Molly has developed the calendar with the practice schedules and runs all the

alex yom practices so it is very different from a traditional track practice.

Having her be able to do that flips the power which creates a unique and cool aspect to the program.”

The team practices three times a week and will specifically compete in the 100 meter dash, 4x100 meter relay, the 400 meter dash, shot put and long jump. McGuire said the team will compete against several nearby schools such as Noblesville, Hamilton Southeastern and North Central. The team will compete in pairs for each event as they are working toward working together.

Gibson said that being a part of Unified track has brought him and his partner very close.

Gibson said, “My role is to help my partner practice for the various

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unified track track meets, and our goal is to improve over the season.

He and I didn’t know each other going into the season, but now we are good friends. We have a blast and are excited to compete together this year.”

Gibson said he wants the team to do well in Sectionals, but overall having a good time is the team’s ultimate goal.

He said the team learns so much more than just the sport, and it is a great way to promote awareness. McGuire said she agreed in the sense that it is important everyone on the team is having fun and that Unified Track has helped bring everyone together as one.

“I love being able to see everyone helping each other improve and seeing the athletes gain confidence in themselves. Ultimately we want everyone to have fun, but we work towards helping the athletes develop a love for our school, competition and the sport,” said McGuire.

Champions Together and Special Olympics have joined together in order to create Unified Track programs in high schools. Special Olympics is an opportunity for athletes who cannot compete in traditional high school sports to get the chance to

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there are 57 schools in indiana that participate in the ihsaa unified track and field tournament

Together On may 8, The Carmel unified track and field team will have its first meet. carmel is one of many teams in the state. take a look at what this program is all about.

the 57 teams are divided into 5 sectionals. the sectional meets will take place on may 30. carmel’s sectional will be hosted by noblesville and will also be attended by nine other schools in central indiana. schools that finish first or second at the sectional will advance on to the state championship at indiana university on june 6.

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unified teams have to be made up of equal numbers of students both with and without intellectual disabilities.

the first meet of the season will be the county meet on may 8 at CHS

be a part of a team and compete. Overbeck said that unified track is a chance for athletes to see if they like the structure of sports and can be a springboard to the Special Olympics.

“Any of these athletes can enter the Special Olympics.

Some of the athletes will go on to do other sports such as basketball. Unified Track gives the athletes the opportunity to see if they like sports, competition, and practices,” said Overbeck.

According to Champions Together, unified track is an opportunity for athletes to grow in skill, friendships and leadership. It states that awareness has increased for unified sports and that many fundraisers have taken place to promote and raise money. McGuire said it has helped promote awareness tremendously and said it is an inspiring organization to be a part of.

McGuire said, “Unified sports help increase awareness state-wide and focus on an athlete’s ability not their disability. We want everyone to know that they are included and can be proud of the contributions they H make to their school.”

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diversity in education is key

Students should take on broad-based learning.

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Although the state stresses the significance of STEM subjects as the fundamentals in education, it is important for students to be at least exposed to the arts by taking on more courses in the liberal arts department. This exposure, however, is greatly limited with the newly applied STEM Education Implementation Rubric.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 74 percent of college graduates with STEM degrees go into non-STEM jobs. A CNN Money article states that, with the lack of non-STEM graduates to fulfill these jobs, some employers, who do wish to hire graduates with STEM degrees for jobs that require such a degree, are cautious of what people in the work force would have to offer for long-term benefits.

Despite this, a 2008 study by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences confirms that there is a trend between humanities majors and STEM majors even as more disparities are evident. The research exhibits how students who are pursuing a major in STEM are more inclined to take more science courses and less of those relating to humanities and vice versa.

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shrink the divide between the majors. According a The Boston Globe article, colleges that specializes in STEM courses, like MIT, encourage students to delve into more humanities programs, as the curriculum has also “evolved significantly over the past 50 years to require all undergraduates to spend substantial time on subjects like literature, languages, economics, music and history.” In addition, undergraduates at MIT are required to take on a minimum of eight courses relating to the humanities, arts and social sciences—which constitutes about a quarter of a typical underclassman’s available course time. Students are pushed to take such courses for not only the enhancement of political, culture and economic knowledge but also to enhance fluency in normal day-to-day tasks.

As students, we’ve all heard it before. Focusing on only one area of study and striding towards that field will ultimately guarantee us a more successful career and future.

However, diversionary learning is more beneficial because research in both humanities and STEM compliment each other in education, despite their differing educational styles. In order to close the division between STEM and humanities, schools must encourage students to be openminded and diverse in their choices and should not enforce requirements that actually hinder their willingness to take courses outside their primary field of study. The STEM Education Implementation Rubric does not leave room for students to diversify their education. We should instead acknowledge that, while these two areas in education are different from each other, we need to attempt to work diligently in both the humanities and STEM courses in order to close this polarization of education. These efforts will prepare us for any future because jobs in either route will require knowledge of the other.

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Proper clarification must be given to avoid another RFRA debacle.

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SIGNED the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) into law. The bill has resulted in a huge backlash against Indiana. Countless people across the country have labeled our state as bigoted and backwards. The criticism has died down, but this whole debacle was a preventable situation that was just the result of a lack of common sense.

First, some clarification of the RFRA is necessary.

Contrary to popular belief, the RFRA is not a license for private business owners to discriminate. It does not make it legal for a coffee shop owner to deny customers just because they are gay. It does, however, prevent the government from discriminating against religious Americans in court. All this bill does is reaffirm the principle of the First Amendment, freedom of religion. So, when people are on trial, they can use their religious beliefs as a means for defense in court.

It does not mean that they are right or that they will win.

Some say that Indiana’s RFRA does promote discrimination because the LGBT community is not specifically protected in our state Civil Rights laws, but that’s a different i ssue. With that argument, a store owner could have discriminated with or without the bill. The RFRA itself has nothing to do with discrimination; it does not give legal backing for business owners to discriminate against the LGBT community.

However, for the majority of the public has turned this bill into a gross misinterpretation. A New York Times article that begins with “A new law in Indiana allowing businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples in the name of religious freedom” is an example of how the RFRA has been skewed. Countless misinformed people, including me, taking to social media to deplore the bill sure doesn’t help either, but the blame doesn’t just fall on one side. Those who applaud the law and want to use the RFRA as legal backing to “deny gays” are simply wrong as. The RFRA does not allow that. It has nothing to do with discrimination.

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huge reason why this bill was labeled discriminatory was because of the way our lawmakers handled it. There seemed to be a mission to prove that Indiana was still a socially conservative safe haven after it lost a battle against same-sex marriage last year, but despite ideological differences, this huge backlash still should not have happened.

Long before this bill landed on the Governor’s desk, the majority of Hoosiers were against it. They knew that large organizations like Gen Con and the NCAA-valuable assets to our state’s economy-were against it. They knew that signing this bill, albeit somewhat unwarranted, would cause huge backlash to our state. Yet despite all of these “warning signs” our lawmakers passed the bill without any clear clarification for what the bill truly was and how it would affect us.

Misunderstandings happen everyday and to everyone.

But when a harmless piece of legislation is interpreted as license to discriminate and causes most Americans to turn on our state, then we have a problem. The media can always say they want to churn up big stories, and the public can just say they’re misinformed, but our lawmakers should have no excuse. There is no reasonable explanation for why our lawmakers cannot carefully consider the consequences of a bill and make sure everyone understands what it does before it is signed into law.

This column isn’t about ideological differences or partisan politics. It’s about common sense. Something our state government needs. They knowingly rolled out a misunderstood bill without proper clarification and directly led our state to much criticism. That is not good leadership, much less basic governance. They made a mistake and they know it. Governor Pence went on multiple local and national news outlets hoping to clarify the law and signed a provision on April 2 that would ensure the RFRA won’t be used as legal backing for discrimination, but this reaction could have been avoided in the first place. The way the roll-out of the RFRA has been handled by our state legislature sets a dangerous precedent of misgovernance. The entire RFRA debacle should be used as a lesson: no bill should be signed into law without proper clarification from our lawmakers. It’s H something that should’ve been common sense.

The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Alex Yom at ayom@hilite.org.

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Sitha Vallabhaneni

book smart

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We have become ignorant through our perception of a place.

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someone about the first thing they think about when they hear the word “Africa,” you’ll probably get a response related to animals, AIDS, Ebola, malaria, hunger or landscapes based on Tarzan or The Lion King. Even in AP Human Geography, people tell you, “If it’s bad, it’s usually Africa.”

Africa, however, has some of the richest country in natural resources. It also contains some of the many countries in the spur of development, such as Brazil, Mexico and China. According to The Economist, Africa is starting to become the place to manufacture goods, and work once given to China is instead going to newly built industries in Africa. But the real question stands: How many of you have actually visited these countries? Do you know what it feels like to live in a completely different environment from the United States? The perception that we have on other places is biased before we even visit there.

Geographers coined the term “perception of place,” which is our understanding of a place through books, movies, stories or pictures. The Jungle Book, “Madagascar,” “Mulan,” the Magic Tree House books—all of these experiences from when you were little, and the history you’ve learned in school, have contributed to the creation of your own cognitive map. Your perspective of how different places appear accumulate in your memory, so whenever someone mentions a place, you take that image “out of storage.”

But like that image, your perceptions are fueled by your imagination, leaving the real truth hidden from your mind. But the truth of many places breaks all of the stereotypes.

I’ve heard people say that India is filled with poor, polytheistic vegetarians who speak Indian. No. Just no.

A 2013 article from the Hindustan Times showed that about 780 languages are spoken in India. Out of those 780, there is not and will never be a language called F YOU ASK

Commercial Bank of China has bought 20 percent of Standard Bank, a South African lender and the continent’s biggest bank by assets.

14 percent of China’s investment abroad was to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Indian. Moreover, India has the largest democracy, as every rich and poor has the power to vote. I’ve been to India several times, the last time during winter break. I realize that India has a ton of pollution, poverty and overcrowding, but no one knows about the shopping centers (with luxury brands) that are more high-class than The Fashion Mall at Keystone.

No one knows about the movie th eaters with couches for seats. Yes, your own comfortable couches with leg rests. They have Wal-Marts, Baskin Robins, Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut, Starbucks and many other popular brands THIS IGNORANCE that we have here. Is IN OUR SOCIETY there a mall in Indiana that has a whole floor IS OUTRAGEOUS. dedicated to children and teens? No? Well, let me introduce you to Shoppers Stop. This mall has designer clothes and makeup, a movie theater, furniture, home goods, and yes, one entire floor with an arcade and hang-out spot for kids and adolescents.

We are lucky that we get to live in a fully developed country with great education, economy, entertainment and infrastructure. However, our textbook-based knowledge on places around the world has made us appear to be close-minded, when we are actually just plain ignorant. This ignorance that’s in our society is outrageous. The stereotypes that we have made for India are many times wrong. I’ve never seen a snake charmer in any of the trips I’ve made to India. We all share this ignorance though, but being exposed to another completely different environment has helped me understand that I shouldn’t judge a place by my textbooks. If we were to look past textbooks and stereotypes and actually gained knowledge about the places around us, our cognitive maps would be less prejudiced.

Cities like Delhi, Lagos and Mumbai can compare to New York City and other large developed places in the US. To add to all of that, people have more disposable income in these countries. So tell me that these places are poor with slums and hunger H everywhere. Enlighten me.

The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Sitha Vallabhaneni at svallabhaneni@hilite.org

HAPPINESS, TRY IT IF YOU LIKE IT

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Sarah Liu

real or not real?

Human gene editing should be allowed but only to a certain extent.

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with IU alumnus James Watson and his partner Francis Crick discovering the double helix structure of DNA in the 1950s, winning a Nobel Prize for it in 1962. Ever since, biotechnology has skyrocketed.

After starting with plants and resistance to pests and pesticides, it relatively quickly extended to humans with the mapping of the human genome in the early 21st century, the editing of the human genome after that, and even more recently, the possibility for designer babies—all in less than 50 years.

Gene editing is useful in many ways. It can work against many of the most notorious diseases, most of which arise from genetic mutations. If the capability to edit human genomes to fix those mutations becomes available to the public, then it would be possible to eliminate those genetic diseases. This is called gene therapy, and it is currently legal.

However, while the benefits that gene therapy may yield are great, such powerful technology can also be used in ways that many think that it shouldn’t be—namely the possible advent of designer babies.

According to bionetonline.org, this is basically the journalists’ term for the phenomenon of editing the genes of a developing embryo so it develops the traits that its parents may want it to have, such as beauty, intelligence, strength, hair color, eye color, etc.

Sounds scary? I agree. According to several biologists interviewed for a 2015 NY Times article, one of the biggest dangers of gene editing is the that the DNA-editing enzymes can make errors. Even the most recent gene editing innovations, such as CrisprCas9, as accurate as they are said to be, aren’t perfect.

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44 percent of Americans said they worry that DNA research involves unforeseen dangers.

71 percent of Americans said they’re excited about the possibility that DNA research could bring major medical breakthroughs.

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could cause unwanted yet inheritable problems in even gene therapy, let alone in designing babies—that is a major concern for bringing it to the clinic. And some issues caused by editing errors don’t arise until after the baby is born, which would be problematic for the parents.

On the other hand, to the general public, most concerns about designer babies involve morality and ethics rather than safety. If we gain the power to control our germline, we’ll be able to control the destiny of human heredity.

Seems scarier than the potential deformities that WE ARE ALL editing errors can cause? PERFECT IN OUR Ethicists have primarily OWN WAYS. been concerned with this possibility in the future and that its full implications haven’t been considered carefully enough.

Religious people argue that parents choosing their child’s traits essentially lets them play the role of God. Others find it concerning that the child doesn’t get a say in his/ her life—just because the parents want the child to be that way doesn’t mean the child wants to be so. It’s also more concerning that designing children would reshape our definitions of “desirable” traits, potentially leading to stereotypes and discrimination of those without such characteristics. It’ll decrease diversity, which I think should instead be appreciated, and negatively affect people who can’t afford such procedures because it would increase the socioeconomic gap, which has shown to be a huge negative effect throughout history.

While some of the more powerful gene editing techniques should also be tested beyond the shadow of doubt of its safety, they should only go to use for the right reasons, and if any, those would be to treat disease, not to design the next generation. As this could become reality in your lifetime, you should be more aware of the fact that it’s happening and be sure to know its implications so that not only will you be smarter due to the knowledge you just gained from learning about it, but so that you can take an educated stance on this issue should it affect you in the future. We’re all perfect in our own ways, and we should not be in charge of being “perfect.”

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The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Sarah Liu at sliu1@hilite.org.

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Asim Dhungana

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You get what you paid for

Online courses remain inferior to a true classroom experience.

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the Introductory Human Physiology course from Duke University through Coursera, an organization which works with universities to offer a variety of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to users through its website. Coursera, as well as edX and Udacity, other MOOC providers, emerged in 2012, which The New York Times coined as “the year of the MOOC.” Three years later, great strides have been made in the realm of online pedagogy; however, these online courses still have many issues with them.

As an example, take a student learning chemistry through an online course. With the limitations of a computer, this course is necessarily restricted to covering theoretical and conceptual work, making it void of the practical skills and laboratory experimentation which characterize the traditional class. This student would then be missing a vital part of his education, which would only lead to problems in his future education.

A May 2014 study conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California showed that, in the short term, in every subject area, students were less likely to succeed in an online course than in its traditional counterpart.

Statistically, success rates were found to be 11 to 14 percent lower in online courses.

This lack of success could be attributed to many causes. A potential source is lack of motivation. From my own experience, I can assure you that the presence of an online class is much less impending than that of a traditional class. Although there are EFFICIENCY deadlines, there are no ISN’T LAZINESS. immediate penalties for not logging into class

on a regular basis, given that there is no set class time for most courses. As days turn into weeks, it is easy to see how a person could fall behind and eventually drop out of an online class, where extreme flexibility ends up ironically becoming a detriment.

That being said, I don’t think MOOCs are worthless. In fact, I think they’re very useful, and, in their quest to stimulate learning and curiosity, they have been very successful.

An important purpose of MOOCs is to mitigate the limitations that income imposes on education. While most online courses cannot earn a person a degree, they can serve as stepping stones to foster further learning. According to the previously mentioned Public Policy Institute study, even though online courses have poor outcomes in the short term, students who take at least some online courses are more likely to get associate degrees or transfer to four-year universities than those who only take traditional classes, displaying the long-term value of curiosity.

After taking the human physiology course through Coursera, I didn’t think that I was a master at human physiology. Not for a second. But that wasn’t my goal.

Going into the course, I was just interested and wanted to learn something new that I didn’t already know. Taking a course may expose you to an interesting subject you had never heard before, or it might help supplement your schoolwork by learning about a topic through a slightly different perspective. Just don’t rely on it for a strong educational foundation.

H The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Asim Dhungana at adhungana@hilite.org.

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Instant gratification has plagued our youth.

my bus had to pull over for help. If I remember correctly, that Friday was peculiarly warm and sunny, a note on the unpredictability of springtime Indiana weather, and my bus was filled with students like me who were eager to arrive home for the weekend.

Like any other Friday, the bus pulled out of the school area and into the streets, awkwardly maneuvering around the roundabouts while the students happily chatted about their weekend plans.

Looking out the window, I knew where the first stop would be, yet within a couple of seconds of me staring at my phone, I was surprised to hear the familiar hiss of the bus doors open. Our bus, which should have been dropping off students at the first stop, was instead parked where the buses went once they had dropped off all of the students.

Around me, students were as equally confused and surprised, wondering why the bus had just made a right turn into a parking lot and away from their homes, where the weekend waited. The bus driver pulled the microphone down from the ceiling and told us that the bus’s turn signals were not working, and she needed to stop for help as a result.

While a technician tested the control board, students around me were becoming restless. They were anxiously peering out of their seats, shouting questions and groaning about how their days were completely ruined because of the wait. Apparently, what seemed like “forever and ever and ever” to one kid was in reality only five to 10 minutes.

Like the other students on the bus, I was surprised by the delay, but I was more surprised by the reactions of the students. Once the bus started on its route once more, several students loudly complained and grumbled about how the remainder of their day was going to be horrible, mentioning how the wait for the bus to be fixed was excruciating.

The recent and COUPLE WEEKS AGO,

PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE.

50 percent of mobile users abandon a page if it does not load within 10 seconds.

25 percent of mobile web users browse only on their phones, never using a laptop, tablet or desktop to access the internet.

SLATE.COM / SOURCE

rapid rise of technological advances has, if anything, taught society to value the instantaneous element of life. Whether it is texting a friend or checking social media updates, more and more people of this age have learned to value the speed of technology and the instant gratification that comes as well. Stores offer next-day shipping, video websites offer movies and television shows that can be streamed immediately, and amusement parks offer fast passes, all to save time.

Of course, time is valuable and should be used wisely, but the general patience of the public has worn noticeably thin. A late 2012 study of 6.7 million Internet users at the University of Massachusetts Amherst showed that with each second the start of a video was delayed, a percent of the users would give up trying to view the video altogether. When a delay lasted only half of a minute, over 80 percent of users abandoned the video.

So many times in life we let ourselves become bothered by the fact that tasks are not completed as quickly as we would like them. When a friend doesn’t reply to our messages or a computer seems to take a little longer than usual to load a document or video, we all feel a bit anxious on the inside. And sometimes we happen to show it on the outside. I have seen people yell at their computers, curse at the Internet connection and groan at their screens out of frustration, and none of those actions made time speed up.

Our gut reaction is not necessarily always the right reaction.

So, relax. Take a deep breath, and just have some patience. That Friday, when I got home 15 minutes later, the H weekend was still waiting for me.

The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Katie Long at klong@hilite.com.

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BEE-HOLD THE BUZZ Senior Kyle Betelak is a beekeeper

April 23, 2015

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Bee-hold the buzz

Anni Zhang

Kyle Crawford

What first got you into beekeeping?

My neighbor worked in the Peace Corps down in South America, and he taught people down there how to raise bees so they can be self-sufficient. So he brought that back to Carmel, and he had his bees, and I thought that was cool, so I started that as well.

How do people react when you tell them you’re a beekeeper?

Actually, most people just think it’s weird. I haven’t told anyone other than my best friends. I don’t know anyone else who has beehives.

What have you learned from bee keeping?

I’ve learned how important bees are for the environment.

A lot of bees are dying out, and if we do not have people taking care of bees and living with the bees, then eventually we wouldn’t live for very long either.

Are you scared of this job?

Not really. At first I was. Last year when I got a box of 13,000 bees and (had) to shake them up and dump them in, that was very scary at first because I’d never dealt with so many. But after a while I just got used to it, and it didn’t bother me.

Save the bees!

The relatively recent drop in the honeybee population poses serious threats to the environment and our food. Here’s why.

This is called colony collapse disorder (CCD).

Colony collapse disorder caused the disappearance of one third of commercial bees from hives.

One of the leading causes is neonicotinoids, a pesticide that affects bees’ nervous systems in a way that interferes with navigation.

SO WHAT? Pollen from flowers can easily attach to bees’ hairy bodies, enabling the transfer of pollen among flowers.

This allows plants to reproduce, or produce the fruits and vegetables that we eat. This explains why flowers are brightly colored: the colors attract bees to them so that bees can transfer the pollen around.

What are some common misconceptions about bee keeping?

Most people get scared about the bees because they can sting. I mean, that is logical, but really, the bees are not going to sting you until you try to kill them or attack them.

I just wish people would be less afraid of bees when they are just flying around. Some people squash bees when they’re just on a flower, and the bee isn’t trying to hurt anything; it’s actually just helping out the environment.

What other thoughts or comments would you like to share with readers?

Beekeeping has really established my connection with the environment because I feel like I’m a part of it, and I’m doing my part for it. It is unique because before this, I would just go to my house when I came home from school, but now that I have this, it is just a feeling that helps make me more conscious of recycling and the gas mileage on my car; it just keeps me thinking about these things much more.

Visit the HiLite YouTube channel (www.youtube. com/user/ HiLiteOnline) to see Betelak working with his bees.

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Bee POllination accounts for production of

70 percent

of all fruits, vegetables, Nuts and seeds that we eat.

Some of those that rely on it the most Include:

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THEREFORE: No bees = no pollination = less food Visit hilite.org/archives/41199 to see an in-depth interactive graphic about CCD. ASAPSCIENCE, TIME MAGAZINE / SOURCE

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april 23, 2015

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Chris Nardi (front), Brain Game member and freshman, competes in science teacher Alyssa Mastin’s SRT with his teammates during the Brain Game tournament. The quarterfinals and semifinals take place today during SRT.

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