AUG. 15, 2012 I VOL. 77 I ISSUE 1
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Inside this issue: NEWS
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Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
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Macbeth by Shakespeare
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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As vegetarianism grows in popularity in America, CHS students take part in the trend.
federal guidelines this year by adjusting its menu and prices.
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High school students hang out in downtown Carmel’s hot spots.
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The Unknown Divides Despite this school’s diversity, students tend to self-segregate into friend groups of the same race.
SPORTS
PERSPECTIVES
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Managing editor Tony Tan argues that students should focus on learning rather than academics.
Hamlet by Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Chris Johnson and Meredith Baranowski are this year’s SBP and SOH.
Halftime speeches are shown to affect athletic performance.
Editor in chief Victor Xu discusses students’ rights awareness and the applications of the First Amendment. OMEED MALEK / COVER PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
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LOOKS THAT
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Toxic
Beauty:
With society becoming more imageconscious, personal care regimes are growing increasingly elaborate. Many high-tech cosmetics on the market claim to work wonders, but statistics and information about common hazardous ingredients present should raise questions for consumers about what they’re really putting on their skin.
Cosmetic Chemicals Toluene: Creates a smooth finish for lipsticks, polishes and many cosmetics, but is known to interfere with fetal child development.
Formaldehyde: Not only causes depression and headaches, but is also a known carcinogen. Commonly used to embalm corpses and dead animals. Look for it in soap and nail polish.
Parabens and Aluminum: Both chemicals are active ingredients in antiperspirants. Besides plugging sweat ducts, they can put women at a greater risk for breast cancer.
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate: Makes shampoos and toothpaste bubble and lather. Can be contaminated in manufacturing processes to produce several carcinogens.
Synthetic Fragrances:
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Over 10,000 ingredients, 90 percent which have never been tested, are permitted for use in cosmetics. 1 in every 120 personal care products contains known or possible carcinogens. Meanwhile, 1 in 3 women wear makeup each time they go out. 6 in 10 wouldn’t consider going to work without it.
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It’s easy to become exposed to dangerous chemicals through skin absorption (moisturizer), inhalation (hairspray) or ingestion (lipstick).
What to Look For: Pure pigments, oils and butters, as well as certified organic extracts.
What to Stay Clear Of: Artificial fragrances or colors, preservatives and toxins.
It’s simply called “perfume,” but fragrance can contain up to 3,000 ingredients that trigger allergies and affect the central nervous system. ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP, DAILYMAIL, LESSTOXICGUIDE.CA, MINDBODYGREEN.COM, REUTERS / SOURCES
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NEWS
News Briefs News Briefs Updates on clubs, activities and events in the school. Hot Dog Dance: Friday, Aug. 17 All freshmen have the option to attend the Hot Dog Dance, scheduled to take place next to the football field after this Friday’s game.
Ambassadors Car Wash: Saturday, Aug. 18 Wash off the grime your car collected this summer. The Ambassadors will hold a car wash at CHS this Saturday.
Open House: Thursday, Aug. 30 Parents can meet their students’ teachers and take a tour of the school at the annual Open House, scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
Wondering when your clubs are meeting? Looking for some new clubs to join this year? Go to hilite.org for regular updates on over 100 clubs and activities going on at CHS.
Summer is over, but students can look forward to the breaks ahead. Labor Day: Sept. 3 Fall break: Oct. 19-21 Thanksgiving break: Nov. 22-23 CARMEL CLAY SCHOOLS / SOURCE
Count on Math Tutors New SRT system gives students a more convenient, accessible way to receive additional help from peers BY ARUNI RANAWEERA aranaweera@hilite.org
Benefits of Peer Tutoring
Students looking for help with math will have more options than ever before with the new Math Tutor SRT system in place for this school year. Under this system, each level of math— algebra, geometry, calculus, etc.—will have its own Math Tutor SRT filled with student tutors who have demonstrated strong skills in the subject. Because the number of student tutors will exceed the number of math department teachers, the new system should make additional help in math more available and accessible during SRT. “We...put in place some SRTs where there is a teacher and some student tutors that are focused solely on assisting with a particular subject,” math department chairperson Jacinda Sohalski said. “So for instance we might have an Algebra II SRT, so any of the Algebra II teachers could write their students a pass, and then Algebra II students could go to this particular room and get assistance.” Senior Rochelle Camden, who has both tutored and been tutored by peers, said she believes the new SRT system will be effective. “I think that’s a lot easier than going to a teacher sometimes,” Camden said. “You can always get a different perspective from a student, and they might have a different way of teaching, but the teacher tends to stick to one strict way of teaching.” According to Sohalski, one of the main reasons for the new system is to ease crowding during SRT. “We have a lot of students that come to us during SRT for help, which is great, but when you’ve got 30 other students in the classroom too of your own SRT, and then you’ve got additional students, so we’re trying to make it more efficient so we can better help those students who need the assistance.” Camden said she agrees that math SRTs could get crowded in the past, and she said she hopes the Math Tutor SRTs will ease the lines in the future.
• More tutors available • More comfort and ease between tutors and peers • Students view ideas from another student’s perspective instead of from a teacher’s • Tutors gain an opportunity to lead and demonstrate skills • Tutors gain teaching skills • Tutors gain deeper understanding of topics through teaching • Teachers have more time to lesson plan • Social interaction with peers LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTRE / SOURCE
“I’ve gone into see teachers before for help, and they can only focus on so many kids at once,” Camden said, “and you get issues with not being able to get help when you need it.” Sohalski said while she hopes the Math Tutor SRTs will ease crowding and help students look for assistance in math, the system is still new and may face minor bumps as the year progresses. “We’re going to spend the year tweaking it, you know, looking for ways to improve how we manage it, how we do it,“ Sohalski said, “and then hopefully it will be something H we can get in place.”
It’s hot, hot, hot.
This summer’s heat shattered highest temperature records in Indiana. Here’s a look at some stats from the past few months. The average temperature in June was 84 degrees Fahrenheit. This is 1.2 degrees higher than the record set in 1986.
There were 26 days where the temperature reached at least 90 degrees Fahrenheit in July, which set a new record. The previous record was 25 days in 1901.
This was the third driest June on record in Indiana.
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Four counties, including Hamilton County, issued a mandatory burn ban on June 29.
By the end of June, parts of Indiana were already classified in the extreme drought D3 category. The use of fireworks was highly discouraged. INDIANA STATE CLIMATE OFFICE & THEINDYCHANNEL.COM / SOURCE LIANE YUE, TONY TAN, ROCHELLE BRUAL & ARUNI RANAWEERA / GRAPHIC
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Cafeteria adjusts menu, prices
Meals meet new federal guidelines with more fruits, vegetables, whole grains
BY JAKUB WALERSTEIN jwalerstein@hilite.org
I see how setting requirements for what a lunch can be is a good idea, but I don’t think they should charge more for not buying a whole lunch. Christopher Hillard Sophomore
What’s on the menu? The new cafeteria guidelines spearheaded by First Lady Michelle Obama strive for these changes to school lunches in the next 15 years. • Whole grains to replace all white grain
• Only low-fat milk available
• Brown rice to replace white rice
• Less sodium in every meal
• Leafy greens for every meal
• Calorie caps on entrees
• Red-orange vegetables for every meal
• No trans fats
• Starchy vegetables for every meal
• Fruits and vegetables doubled
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School lunch price increases over the years The new menu will be funded by a $0.10 increase in prices for every meal, but this isn’t the first time there has been an increase. $2.50
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The cafeteria, according to cafeteria manager Anne Marie Woerner, used last year to plan and prepare for the changes to take place this year. These changes (see chart below) are due to new federal guidelines regarding school lunches implemented last year. Most of last year went into preparing and planning for this year, and the cafeteria has planned how lunch will work down to the minute detail, such as carrying fruit trays a different way to deal with the weight of increased fruit and vegetable servings to come this year. “Many of the workers at the cafeteria have been here for a very long time, and they all know their jobs very well,” Woerner said. “At this point, the cafeteria pretty much runs itself, which allowed us to think ahead to (this) year’s changes.” Assistant Cafeteria Manager Holly Hull said she agrees with Woerner.
“The conversation since I got here in the middle of (last) year has been about the changes to come (this) year,” Hull said. “I think we’re very prepared.” The cafeteria has not, however, prepared the students for the new changes. Next year, to make a lunch, the new legislation requires both a fruit and vegetable side with the entrée and drink. If this is not met, then the lunch costs significantly more since it does not meet the new standards. “I think the hardest part of (this) year will be getting students to understand what makes a lunch,” Woerner said. “I don’t think we’re going to sell as many full lunches until the kids figure out that the best deal is the full lunch.” To help students understand what makes a full lunch, the cafeteria will provide several notices, including putting up signs, labeling the different components of lunch at the cafeterias and possibly collaborating with video classes to create a video for the announcements. Sophomore Christopher Hillard said he supports the new standards but disagrees with how the cafeteria will enforce them. “I see how setting requirements for what a lunch can be is a good idea, but I don’t think they should charge more for not buying a whole lunch,” Hillard said. Woerner said she believes the changes will be good for students, and she is happy that the school is prepared for them. “That was the focus of this year, really, just getting ready for next year,” Woerner said. “I think these changes will definitely be positive.” While several changes will be implemented this year, all changes outlined in the federal regulations will be enacted over H the upcoming years.
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COOKS IN THE KITCHEN: Lunch ladies put together chicken sandwiches (top) and stack fruit trays (bottom) during a typical school day. New federal guidelines will require schools to provide more options for fruit and the use of whole grain in breads and buns such as the ones used in chicken sandwiches. The new menu will result in a small increase in the prices of school lunches.
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Friends, Not Food As Americans choose to eat less and less meat in recent years, CHS students also commit to being vegetarian and, despite initial difficulties, plan to continue BY DHRUTI PATEL dpatel@hilite.org
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ne day around two and a half years ago, senior Marlee Szabo decided to quit. However, it wasn’t a major addiction or detrimental way of life that caused Szabo to decide she had enough. Rather, Szabo chose to embrace a completely different lifestyle, one that she felt better represented her opinions. Szabo resolved to stop eating meat and become a vegetarian. “I decided to look into (vegetarianism) more, and I found that it had a lot of environmental benefits as well as the fact that I was concerned with animal rights,” Szabo said. “I struggled with the idea people have of ‘Oh, I eat beef, but I wouldn’t eat a dog.’ That just doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t understand the difference because I’d have a cow as a pet, too.” Szabo is one of many Americans who have recently begun to consume reduced amounts of meat, if not cutting it out altogether. According to recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projections, the United States will see
I struggled with the idea people have of, “Oh, I eat beef but I wouldn’t eat a dog.” That just doesn’t make sense to me because I’d have a cow as a pet, too. Marlee Szabo Senior
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a sharp drop in meat consumption this By the Numbers year, with Americans expected to eat 12 The percentage of Americans who are intrigued by the lifestyles percent less meat and poultry than they of vegetarians or identify themselves as vegetarians ate five years ago. Time reports that the average American will eat 165.5 pounds of beef and poultry, compared to 189 pounds in 2007. Furthermore, initiatives such as the Meatless Monday events that are in association with Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health are attracting attention in big cities such as New Orleans and Phoenix and furthering the vegetarian cause. Registered dietician David Creel, who works at St. Vincent Bariatric Center of Excellence in Carmel, said he agrees that vegetarianism is growing compared to the past. Creel said he attributes the overall trend to people being more 5.2 Percent of people comfortable with eating differently as surveyed who are they can still maintain a healthy diet “definitely interested” and to certain people’s concern with the in a vegetarian diet moral or ethical treatment of animals. in the future However, with adolescents specifically, Creel said he thinks the trend has more to do with curiosity and finding a way to MILK identify oneself. “I would think that teenagers are kind 3% of looking for an identity in lots of different of kids ways, and it’s a time to experiment with age eight 10% lots of different interests,” Creel said. of adults to 18 are “(Adolescence) would be an ideal time who consider vegetarian to incorporate what we have learned into themselves our lives.” vegetarian Szabo said she too has seen a growing frequency of vegetarianism in the United States, compared to China, which is where she lived when she first decided to become a vegetarian. VEGETARIAN TIMES / SOURCE “I certainly saw a wider variety of CONNIE CHU / GRAPHIC vegetarian options available for the public,” Szabo said. “Before I left (the United States) in 2006, I didn’t really see that much prevalence, but when I moved back in 2011, can do it, and it’s probably a healthier diet, but so many things I saw it had increased.” have sugar in it, it takes great pains to avoid it.” However, despite the growing presence of vegetarians Szabo said she has had personal experience with feeling and vegetarian options throughout the nation, Creel said he like a burden when she goes out to eat with her friends believes that there can be some social difficulties associated or goes to a friend’s house. However, though that aspect of with vegetarianism. According to Creel, meat is still a large vegetarianism is not enjoyable for Szabo, she said often she part of the American diet, and when individuals restrict their has found a simple solution for finding something to eat, such consumption, it can be difficult to accommodate them. as eating pasta without the meat sauce. “When I grew up, it was like, ‘What are we having for Senior Amelia Nelson, who like Szabo said she chose to dinner?’ and mom says, ‘We’re having chicken or pork chops,’ become a vegetarian due to concerns with the treatment of and it was a very meat-centered diet,” he said. “Vegetarians animals, agrees that her new vegetarian lifestyle has given her sometimes don’t fit in very well, like when they go to someone’s some trouble, especially at work. house and the main part of the meal is meat, it’s hard to find “I work at Bub’s (Burgers), which is hard, just because good options…it’s like saying I’m not going to eat sugar. You
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Benefits and Risks
Risks
Benefits
quickly. However, if a parent is well-informed and supports the decision, vegetarianism can A direct comparison of the advantages and still be effectively adopted. disadvantages of having a vegetarian diet “As a teenager, you might have the cognitive ability to plan well, but you’re typically not • Less absorption of buying your own food.” Creel said. “So I think saturated fat in the diet it really depends on the family dynamics and • Healthier sources of the knowledge-base of the parents and how protein if acquired willing they are to work along with the child • Tends to be more fiber, or adolescent.” magnesium, potassium and Nelson said although her friends and vitamins C and E in diet family were against her vegetarianism • Meat is often replaced with before due to health and nutritional • Protein deficiency healthier food groups, such concerns, they have eventually adapted to • Lack of n-3 fatty acids as whole grains and fruits the idea of her being a vegetarian and now • Iron deficiency • Lower risk of heart disease enable her to do so. • Zinc deficiency • Lower cancer rates “My best friend’s family still tries to make • Iodine deficiency • Calcium deficiency me eat meat whenever I go over there because they think I’m too skinny, but my dad has really JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION / SOURCE gotten used to the idea of it,” Nelson said. “He’s CONNIE CHU / GRAPHIC retired, so he spends some of his time making me tofu and things, and it’s really great.” everything looks so good and I have to carry it out to tables, Nelson also said her family’s support is a main factor as but I can’t eat it myself,” Nelson said. “And it really sucks when to why she probably will never go back to eating meat again. my manager has gotten mad at me before because when According to Nelson, she said if she did, she would become tables will ask me ‘Oh, what does the elk burger taste like?’ I sick and not be able to continue eating meat as she has have nothing to say to that because I’ve never had it before.” abstained from it for so long. Despite these social difficulties, though, Creel said if the Szabo agreed with Nelson and said she has no real reason diet is well planned, teenagers should have no trouble with to go back to eating meat, despite the minor inconveniences maintaining a vegetarian diet, especially with the support vegetarianism has brought her. of their family. According to Creel, at a younger age, “I don’t really miss meat or crave it that often,” Szabo said. children don’t have the cognitive ability to plan healthy “It was pretty easy to separate with and so unless I have a good H vegetarian diets, leading them to abandon the lifestyle reason to, I wouldn’t look back.”
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Eat out In restaurants, meat can be easily mixed into a course: bacon crisps as toppings or food cooked with lard. Always make it a point to ask if there is any meat in a dish. Local restaurants will be able to better serve your needs than a chain restaurant with a formulaic menu. MEMPHISYANKEE.HUBPAGES.COM / SOURCE CONNIE CHU / GRAPHIC
Quiche Recipe If you want a head start on developing a vegetarian diet, here’s one of senior Szabo’s favorite recipes. * 4 sheets of frozen puff pastry * 1 leek, finely sliced * 2 tablespoons of olive oil * 1 cup of milk * 1 cup of cream * 6 eggs * 2 teaspoons of freshly grated lemon zest * 1 teaspoon of salt * freshly ground black pepper * 3.5 ounces of feta cheese, diced into 36 pieces * cooking oil to grease a 12-hole cupcake pan * a 3-inch diameter cookie cutter (1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Thaw puff pastry according to package instructions. Grease cupcake pan with cooking oil. (2) Rinse off any visible dirt and slice the roots from the end of the leek. Remove the dark green tops, leaving the light green with the white portion of the leek. Slice the leek as thinly as possible. Rinse the sliced leek in a fine mesh colander to get rid of hidden dirt deep in the layers of the leek. Drain and pat dry with a kitchen towel. (3) Heat the olive oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add the leek and cook until it is just wilted (when the slices of leek are about to give off the liquid). Turn off the heat.
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(4) Using a whisk or a fork, beat together the milk, cream, eggs, lemon zest, salt and pepper in a bowl. (5) Place a sheet of thawed puff pastry (with the plastic divider still attached) on a chopping board, plastic side down. Use a cookie cutter and cut the sheet. A 3-inch diameter cookie cutter can yield nine portions per sheet. (6) Transfer the cut puff pastry to a cupcake tin. Press the pastry slightly in the hole to form a “cup” to hold the egg mixture. (7) Distribute a small portion of leek into each hole. Pour the egg mixture and top with small slices of feta cheese.
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(8) Bake quiche for 20 minutes or until the egg filling is firm and the top surface is golden brown.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Goin’ Downtown
Looking for something to do? You don’t have to go far. Downtown Carmel has many attractions for CHS students. Here are a few of the most popular ones.
Huddles provides a healthier alternative to ice cream BY LINSU HAN lhan@hilite.org Since its opening in 2011, Huddles on Main Street has become a popular place for students to hang out. Not only does it provide a welcoming atmosphere to the customers, it also serves frozen yogurt, complete with over 50 different toppings to choose from. “It tastes just like ice cream, and you can top it with all the different toppings like hot
fudge or crumbled cakes,” said sophomore Xiaowen “Jada” Zhao. According to store manager William Valdez, at least 30 students visit Huddles on an average school day, especially in the evenings after school. “It’s a pretty upbeat atmosphere,” Valdez said. “A lot of students come here since it’s close to the school. There’s a pool area in the back too (for residents). It’s a really popular area—especially (since it’s) in the middle of downtown.” Although Valdez said the most popular
frozen yogurt flavor is Cake Batter, Zhao said her favorite flavor is Cookies & Cream. The restaurant itself seats four people per table, with a maximum of around 50 seats with additional seating outside. Stationed around the room are flat-screen TVs which are turned to sports channels and a small bar area for customers. According to Valdez, yogurt costs 45 cents per ounce, and there is a “buy nine yogurts, get one free” offer. Store hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 H p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
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PICK YOUR FLAVOR: (Top) Some of the frozen yogrut machines in the shop. In addition to the dessert shop in downtown Carmel, Huddles has another location in Indianapolis. According to store Manager William Valdez, Cake Batter is the most popular flavor.
It tastes just like ice cream, and you can top it with all the different toppings like hot fudge or crumbled cakes. Xiaowen “Jada” Zhao
Huddles customer and junior
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Fun Facts These are some interesting facts about a few local stores. Huddles • Est. 2010 • Able to cater to parties and events • Frozen yogurt is healthier than ice cream
Bubs • Est. 2003 • “Bub” is a family nickname for Matt and his brother-in-law Chuck • Indianapolis artist Mike Brown painted the colorful farm-scene murals found throughout the ice cream store
District Exchange • A place for students to buy and sell new and recycled clothes while giving back to the community • Supports a different charity every year HUDDLES,COM , BUBS.COM, DISTRICTEXCHACE.COM / SOURCES
District Exchange offers clothing options Clothier recycles gently used garments, offers frequent deals, supports local talent
BY JOSEPH LEE jlee@hilite.org Some students in CHS might be upset at the fact that other students wear the same clothes they do, but have no fear, The District Exchange is here. The District Exchange, just a block from CHS on Main Street, is a second-hand clothing store for teenagers. All of the clothes are trendy, unique and priced nicely. Another nifty aspect about this store is that if someone has to wait while their friend shops, he or she can wait in the back room and have a drink or eat some candy. “I really like it that there are a lot of clothes there that a lot of people don’t have,” said junior Emma LaPlante. “If you go to most stores, you’ll see things that everyone in the school is wearing. But it is more unique
when you go to a secondhand store, and also it is a lot cheaper. You can get good deals, better than you would at regular store.” Also, according to manager Sara Baldwin, the store hosts shows in the summer. “We had people from the high school who were in different kinds of bands come and play in our front yard,” she said. “And we set up ladder golf and corn hole in the parking lot so people can hang out, watch the bands, play games and shop all at the same time.” Ultimately, according to LaPlante, The District Exchange is a place for everyone, “I think everyone should go there because it is really close to the school,” she said, “so it’s really accessible. Since teenagers don’t often have a lot of money, like when you become more independent and you start buying things for yourself, it’s a good option and it is H really fun to shop there with friends.”
Bub’s Burgers remains a local favorite BY JOSEPH LEE jlee@hilite.org From birthday parties to the last day of school, going to Bub’s is always a gratifying experience. Since Adam Richman’s arrival for
the television show “Man v Food,” Bub’s Burgers and Ice Cream has become a hot spot for tasty food. Owner Matt Frey said, “Free advertisement (like “Man v Food”) is always good. But it can be used as a double-edged sword. Most of the customers that got us here can’t eat here as often now [because it
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LOCAL GRUB: Located next to the Monon, Bub’s Burgers is a popular restaurant in Downtown Carmel. In addition to eating hot dogs and burgers, students can order ice cream before or after meals.
is always so crowded].” Additionally, Bub’s is a perfect place for students as they can eat burgers and hot dogs, talk with friends, have ice cream and play a game where the goal is to hoop a ring around a metal hook. This game is located outside along Bub’s picnic tables. Senior Julian Sollenskog said, “(Bub’s has) been a staple of social activity around Carmel for as long as I’ve been here and I think they provide a good environment for just sitting back and hanging with friends.” With giant hamburgers ranging from the Big Ugly to smaller portions like the Less Ugly, Bub’s can draw in hungry students and satisfy palates. According to Sollenskog, he has had his own memorable experience with the Big Ugly. “It is definitely a challenge to take down. I’ve personally only done it once, freshman year spring break I believe, but it was definitely an experience worth having,” he said. Ultimately, Frey said Bub’s is a “feel good” place for people of all ages. “If someone is going to go out and spend money to eat, they choose to go to the places where they get good food, good quality, good service, and the ambience,” he said. “We value the fact that you walk in the door whether you’re 18, H 17, 15 or 38.”
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FASHION HAUL: According to the District Exchange website, the store donates to a different charity every week. They also provide customers with a variety of brands to shop from.
Other Local Stores Here are some more of Downtown Carmel’s cafes and restaurants. Tea Buds This fun tea cafe offers a wide selection of loose teas, teaware, bubble tea and pastries. This cafe is well known for its bubble teas which customers can customize using different flavors and “bubbles.” Tea Buds is also famous for its various iced teas which come in many different flavors of tea.
Donatello’s Italian Restaurant This new restaurant features classic Italian dining. The menu consists of classic Italian cuisine cooked by award-winning chef Patrick Aasen. Customers will be able to enjoy a carefully cooked meal made from fresh ingredients.
Sonata Cafe Sonata derives from European culture and food, with appetizing and flavorful snacks, meals and beverages. From delicious coffee to delectable dishes, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Sonata is also known for its various tapas. This cafe was made in order to incorporate an art environment into a dining setting. TEABUDSBREWING.COM DONATELLOSITALIAN.COM SONATACAFEBARART.COM / SOURCES
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GATHER ROUND: In the spring of 2012, students, mostly African-American in ethnicity, convened in the front commons area of the school, dubbed “the black spot” by many of those who
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n the front commons of this school is a spot that any Greyhound would recognize. Every afternoon and passing period, this ordinary spot, an open lobby area jammed between the front office, library and auditorium, becomes filled with students coming together to talk, socialize and make plans for the weekend. But what makes this meeting spot distinct from many others at CHS is that nearly all the students who meet here are African-American. “It was originally the ‘black spot;’ that’s what they call it,” junior Asia Henderson, an African-American student and a regular at this meeting place, said. “There’s a lot of white people at the school, so we thought that since there’s only a few of us that we should all get together and, you know, be friends, and that’s just where we all go to hang out.” Senior and African-American Jaila Brewer said she is also a frequenter of the “black spot.”
“(The spot) is majority black. There are a couple of Caucasian people that come here, and that’s pretty much it,” Brewer said. “We just sit around, talking and listening to music, (and) talk about our day and our weekend and things like that.” Meeting spots at this school dominated by a single race are not unique to just “the black spot” and African-American students. Large concentrations of minorities can be
seen in several other areas of the school, such as a dominantly Asian population meeting at the front of the media center and multiple lunch tables composed of students of uniform race. That, according to IU sociology professor Stephen Benard is not unusual. Underlying these racially separated gathering grounds, he said, is the existence of racial “selfsegregation” in friendships. CONTINUED Self-segregation, he said is not ON NEXT PAGE
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frequent this meeting place. Many students at this school and nation-wide choose to socialize largely within their race and create large friend groups of uniform ethnicity.
PAGE 12 | COVER STORY | HILITE | HILITE.ORG | AUG. 15, 2012 COMING TOGETHER: On right, junior Asia Henderson (right) socializes in “the black spot,” where many AfricanAmerican students meet during school. Below, junior Stephanie Lee (left) talks to a friend in orchestra SRT, where she interacts with many other Asian-Americans. Henderson and Lee said that shared experiences and understanding makes it easiest to create same-race friendships.
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segregation caused by a law, nor is it de facto segregation. It is instead separation caused by the group itself. In terms of friendship, he said, racial self-segregation is the choice, consciously or subconsciously, to become friends with people of the same race. This school is not alone in its selfsegregation in friendship. In a study conducted by the National Longitudinal CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
Survey of Adolescent Health, students of different races were asked to identify the races of their friends. White students surveyed reported that 85 percent of their friends were also white, and black students surveyed reported that 85 perfect of their friends were also black. In the group surveyed, however, white students made up only 51 percent of the population, and black students made up only 38 percent, highlighting the disproportional composition of races in friendship circles.
While self-segregation in friendships is not necessarily harmful or malicious and can even have positive effects, the reason why it happens is wide and expansive. Especially at this school district which has, according to the Carmel Clay Schools website, a student body composed of 21.7 percent minority students, a relatively high statistic, racial selfsegregation can be both easily avoided and readily accessible. According to Benard, the leading reason people gravitate toward people of the same race is a desire for similarity. “There’s actually a really general tendency for people to want to spend time with people who are similar to them. We call that ‘homophily,’” Benard said. “You see that absolutely for race, but you also see that for other things like gender and political beliefs or interests. So people definitely tend to affiliate with other people who are similar to them.” Henderson said she agreed that similarity is a factor in why she sometimes prefers to associate with people of her own race. “(People with similar backgrounds) feel more comfortable about (people like them), I guess. Like, they can relate more,” Henderson said. “Like, black people relate to each other by, like, their family and their parents especially.” Like Henderson, Brewer said she feels more freedom to be herself around other African-American students. “I know the people can understand me more when I come (to the ‘black spot’),” Brewer said. “I can talk the way I want to talk and everything like that.”
Where We Stand
According to a 2002 study from Ohio University, in which students identified friends who shared their races, the odds of a same-race friendship depend on a school’s diversity or racial heterogenity
A breakdown of ethinic minorities in the Carmel Clay School district
Odds of a Same-race Friendship Nomination
The Rise and Fall
In low diversity areas, minority students make interracial friendships
With greater diversity, students are more able to make friends within their own race
At the peak of self-segregation, students make more friends within their races, especially if there are two primary ethnic groups
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Pacific Islander / American Indian 0.6% Asian 10.7%
Multiracial 4.9%
Black 3.5%
Diversity increases further, enabling real racial mixing
Hispanic 2.1%
1.6 1.5 1.4 1.3 White 78.3%
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AUG. 15, 2012 | HILITE.ORG | HILITE | COVER STORY | PAGE 13 Like Henderson, junior Stephanie Lee, who is Asian-American, said her sense of reliability with people of her own race leads her to have a friend group that is dominantly Asian. “I guess I can just act more myself around (other Asian students), and then they can usually understand how I feel better,” Lee said. “We have so much in common. We go through the same things, I guess, (with) school work... and they tend to know how I feel because they go through the same things as me.” Benard added, however, that in addition to homophily, racial stereotyping is another factor in determining friendships and how people self-segregate. According to Benard, “There is a history of racial stereotypes in the U.S… that can sometimes lead to members having more negative opinions of people from other groups or maybe be less trusting of people of other groups, so that can also exacerbate this tendency to self-segregate.” Henderson said she agreed that stereotypes contribute to how people view her and her friends. She said she sometimes feels that non-black students expect her to associate with other African-Americans and that non-black students have negative views toward the “black spot.” According to Henderson, “Some people think that black people are more loud or ghetto, and there’s a lot of white people who are loud and ghetto, too. But once they see the spot they think, ‘Oh that’s ghetto over there, let’s not go over there’.’” Racial stereotypes may have an even greater
impact than may be consciously realized. According to Benard, these stereotypes are sometimes so deeply embedded within society that they continue to have influence. “There are a lot of people who don’t believe in the stereotypes, but they can even be unconsciously affected by them just because the culture is kind of saturated with them, so that can affect peoples’ behavior,” Benard said, “even if they’re not really aware of it and even if they don’t really think the stereotypes are true.” While Henderson said that a large majority of her friends are AfricanAmerican, she added that she does have friends of other races, as well. “One of my best friends is white,” Henderson said, “and I feel comfortable doing everything with her as I do with other people. I think it’s good to be friends with all races.” Lee added that she also has friends who are of different races, but she finds it easier to befriend those of her own race. “For me, I think that if you’re like the same race, then it’s easier to become friends with them,” Lee said. “But I think that you can make friends with other races too.” Benard said he agreed that crossing barriers to other races may present challenges when it comes to adjusting to new environments and situations. “You know, I think there are a lot of people that you may think you don’t have a lot in common with,” Benard said, “and having more diverse ranges of people can be a lot more challenging.”
While segregated places like the “black spot” and an Joseph Schaller, last year’s Asian-dominated front of the media sponsor of the Diversity center seem to Focus Group (DFG), shares present awkward or the group’s role in promoting unusual situations, interracial interactions here in fact, they do not display uncommon The Mission habits. This racial Encouraging diversity and working to s e l f - s e g re g at i on resolve any related issues at this school. may not necessarily be negative, but, The Methods according to Benard, “Mix-It-Up” Day — On this day, members a separation from of DFG encourage students in the freshman s e l f - s e g re g at i on cafeteria to eat lunch with people outside could have benefits. their normal friend groups in order to create “There’s certainly new dialogues and new friendships. nothing wrong Black History Month — In conjunction with associating with the Lifelines Club, the group promotes with people who awareness of the month by putting up are maybe more posters, holding trivia contests on the similar to you or morning announcements and playing music you have things in during Friday passing periods. common with. It’s JOSEPH SCHALLER / SOURCE not necessarily that you don’t want to interact with people of the same race,” Benard said. “I think, you know, just that there’s a lot of advantages to interacting with people who are different from you, that you can learn things from. I think that in the U.S. we tend to go a little more in the direction of not having those H ties across different groups.”
Bridging the Divide
The Long Road to Here
Racial segregation in American schools has evolved from strict separation to forced integration, but now, more than 50 years after the days of Brown v. Board of Education and busing, this nation’s diverse student population may be diverging again
1954 - In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decides that separate schools are “inherently unequal.” The process of desegregation continues over a decade.
1896 - The U.S. Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision upholds Louisiana’s “separate but equal” law.
1988 - Nearly 45 percent of black students go to schools where whites are a majority, the highest point of integration so far.
1991 - The Supreme Court relaxes postBrown v. Board desegregation orders. Some school systems withdraw from integration entirely.
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1875 - The Civil Rights Act prohibits public, though not private, facilities from discriminating by race.
2000 - The U.S. Census shows that Hispanics replace blacks as the largest minority group, a vast increase resulting in school segregation by not only race, but poverty and language as well.
1849 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court permits segregated schools, inspiring the later “separate but equal” doctrine.
2003 - School segregation exceeds that of 1970, when states were actively desegregating.
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SPORTS
Words of Wisdom Coaches use speeches to get their comments across and to inspire players BY JACOB BOTKIN jbotkin@hilite.org
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ome of the greatest halftime speeches ever spoken contain some of the same common elements. Each was extremely persuasive and all had carefully selected “key” words in them to trigger emotions within the player and further motivate the athlete. Halftime speeches are designed to motivate players and to try to make improvements for the second half. Coaches do this by looking at their team’s performance and trying to come up with a well-delivered speech that will help the team. According to the football Head Coach Kevin Wright, there are certain key words that get his players riled up and ready for the game. “The key words would be ‘finish’, ‘intensity’, ‘focus’, ‘resiliency’, ‘be physical’, and ‘play together’,” he said. Speech 10 teacher John Love said other players can also help. “I find that using phrases such as ‘I believe you can…’, ‘I believe in your…,’ can inspire people. This is very dependent on the person, however. I think that the coach/teacher has to know his or her audience,” Love said via email. Love said that the other key aspect of an effective halftime
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PEP TALK: Head Coach Kevin Wright gives a speech to the football team during halftime. Speeches often use key words in order to better inspire players by thinking about what the team needs to hear.
speech is that it must also be a great persuasive speech. “First the audience must trust the speaker. Speakers develop this through ethos or personal appeal,” Love said. “An audience has to have ‘buy in’ before they can be persuaded by others. A good speech is well-organized, well-written and well-delivered. A good persuasive speaker has analyzed his or her audience and has clearly determined the wants and needs of that audience.” Through the years, there have been two main types of halftime speeches: one when your team is losing and one when your team is winning. According to Wright, coaches must analyze the first-half performance and then come up with the speech. The coach might have to change his speech based on whether his team is ahead or behind after the half. “When you are behind, you have to analyze the situation and say, ‘Are we behind because we haven’t played well by making mental mistakes, or are we just getting outplayed?’ If we are ahead, we always talk about forgetting the first half and pretending that the score is 0-0. We want to play like we can and we don’t want to drop off when we start to substitute,” Wright said. Some coaches said they like to use silence or just speaking less and allowing players more time to think as a way of getting their message across to their players during halftime because they think that the silence can be even more powerful than speaking. “I think that a lot of times less is more. I will say something or I will say my point, and then I just keep quiet because I want to hear from them,” Wright said. “Some of the best speeches aren’t given by coaches; some of the best speeches are given by the players.” Although not compelled to give a halftime speech himself, Chris Johnson, lacrosse player and Student Body President, said he prefers halftime speeches from his teammates. “Yes, sometimes words from your teammates mean more than the ones from your coaches, but both can be very motivational,” Johnson said via email. According to Love, it is important to plan ahead as much as you can for a successful halftime speech. It requires a quick mind and a quick analysis of what the audience, in this case the team and the players, needs and wants. “I think that it helps you prepare by going through your halftime speech throughout the week. I do think about my halftime speeches and the fact that every game is a little bit different. Some games are more like business trips or like a business meeting because if you do what you’re supposed to do then things will take care of themselves,” Wright said. “You can’t give a fire and grid (brimstone) halftime speech every game, so you have to pick and choose. It is great to get kids fired up, but after that first kickoff, if you get hit in the mouth very hard, then all of that goes out the window.” According to Wright, the football team always likes to come back to three main points in its halftime speeches. “The things that we always come back to are the concepts about playing smart, playing hard, and playing together,” Wright said. “If you do those three things, then at Carmel we believe that those things win games.” H
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SPEAK UP: Head Coach Kevin Wright delivers an inspirational speech to motivate the football team before the game. According to Wright, coaches need to analyze the team’s performance in order to make a more inspiring speech.
Inspirational Quotes These are some of the most famous quotes used during halftime speeches “All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.” ~Walt Disney “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~Thomas Edison “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” ~Winston Churchill “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” ~Vince Lombardi “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” ~George Halas “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~ John Wooden
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Soccer players must choose between school, elite extracurricular club BY SEAN TRUAX struax@hilite.org The Developmental Academy (DA) is a premier soccer club that allows the best players from each state to compete against top teams from other states. This way, some of the most skilled high school players get a chance to compete at the highest level in tournaments and showcases across the country. In the past, players who play for the CHS men’s soccer team were also able to then go on and play for the Developmental Academy. However, this year the Academy is moving to a yearround program. This means that any high school player thinking about playing on the U16 or U18 DA teams must choose between high school soccer and the Developmental Academy. It is uncertain why the DA changed its schedule this year, but Eric Dick, soccer team member and senior, said it might be because of the growth of the academy. “The only reason I can think of them changing the schedule is because more states have created DA teams for themselves,” Dick said. “This way it allows more games to be played between states from all over the country as well as gain more exposure to competition.” No matter what the reasoning, coaches and players from the men’s soccer team face tough decisions about the future of the team and their individual futures. According to Dick, the Developmental Academy offers beneficial experience
that cannot be gained by playing for the high school team. “The training, competition and overall environment run hand-in-hand with a college soccer atmosphere,” Dick said. “It is the final step to take if you want to play collegiately or possibly further.” Along with the experience, DA players gain an upper hand in being recruited. By going to states all over the country, players have the chance to play in front of large audiences and college scouts. Another perk of playing DA is the ability to travel around the country. The likelihood of a club team from the east traveling to play teams in the west is very slim in high school soccer, but according to Dick, the DA promotes this. The DA also offers the Christmas showcase, which is one of the biggest recruiting events of the year. While there are positives to playing for the Developmental Academy, there are also negatives. Mason Seiler, soccer team member and senior, said he has already decided he won’t be playing for DA next season. “Playing for the Developmental Academy is a huge commitment compared to the high school team,” Seiler said. “If you play for DA, you’re traveling out of town every weekend.” Although it isn’t official which players are playing DA and which are playing for the high school team, Dick said he believes a few will choose DA. “We won’t fully know until the first day of try outs,” Dick said. “However, based on those playing on the DA right now
Fall Sports Schedule
BOBBY
BROWNING
Here’s a look at some upcoming games and matches for fall sports Men’s and women’s cross-country:
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Saturday Carmel Classic Invitational at Northview Church (9 a.m.)
Lead by example. It’s time for this year’s Senior Class to take charge of the school. This Friday is the first home football game, the first time for students to get behind their team. Last year, our school demonstrated just how talented and successful our athletic programs are. With an unprecedented seven State Titles last year, one may think there is nowhere to go but down; however, I’m not talking about improving our teams. I’m talking about continuing to improve our fan base. It is remarkable how many people I have heard insult this year’s Senior Class, saying that last year’s class was so spirited and this year’s class won’t continue the support. People are saying this year’s class won’t be nearly as supportive of our sports teams as previous years. Maybe I’m weird, but if people said those things about my class, I would take it as a challenge. So yes, Senior Class, I am challenging you. Prove everyone wrong. Show that not only are you as spirited
and other info, if I were to predict I would say four or five.” Even if just a handful of players choose to play for the Developmental Academy, that leaves holes in the team for next year. Head Coach Shane Schmidt said missing players would have an impact but not kill the team’s chances of winning a State Championship. “Missing players will have an impact, but we will still be an extremely good team,” Schmidt said, “one of the favorites to win a State Championship.” Like Schmidt, Dick said the high school team will still compete at a high level and players and coaches haven’t changed their goals just because of a few lost players. “Losing players next year will no doubt affect us, but it doesn’t change the mindset of the team,” Dick said. “The team’s goal is to still win a State Championship.” Seiler added that it wouldn’t just be Carmel losing players, but others teams throughout the state. “It is easy to forget we aren’t the only ones affected by the new change,” Seiler said. “Most of the top teams in the state will be losing players to DA as well.” Dick said the team will treat the loss the same as when players graduate or can’t play due to injury. He also said new players on the team must step up and fill the voids of the past players. “If we do lose players to the DA, they will truly be missed on the field, however, I remain 120 percent confident that there are other soccer players here at Carmel High School H that will step up and take their place in the spotlight.”
Women’s soccer: Friday v. Marian at SB St. Joseph’s Invitational (6 p.m.)
as last year’s class, but show that you are more spirited. The whole school is looking up to you. If you show up to soccer games and cheer like crazy, the school will follow. If five of you show up to the first home basketball game, the school will follow, and the team won’t have close to the support that it had last year. Look to the right and read the list of upcoming sporting events. There are so many opportunities for you to start the year by carrying over the same level of support as last year. Make Big Game and Wild Bunch the largest and craziest groups that this school has ever seen. Now it’s your turn to lead the school, not only for those of you who will be captains of your teams on the field, but for everyone off the field as well. Start the year off right, set the tone early and show us how spirited your class can be. We’re all watching, ready to follow H your lead.
Men’s soccer: Tomorrow v. Ben Davis at home (7 p.m.)
Men’s tennis: Today at West Lafayette (5 p.m.)
Football: Friday v. Columbus North at home (7 p.m.)
Women’s golf: Tomorrow v. Lawrence North at home (4 p.m.)
Volleyball: Tomorrow at Roncalli (7 p.m.)
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PERSPECTIVES Speak Up!
Staff Perspective
The policy for punishment should accurately reflect the crime committed Unfortunately it’s something that happens every year: students using a wide range of resources and tactics to give themselves unfair advantages on tests and assignments. Although it is safe to say that this will continue to occur, the method with which administration will punish this act has changed. As of this school year, a new cheating policy was implemented that replaces a zero percent with disciplinary action as punishment for cheaters. As taken from the CHS handbook, “academic dishonesty occurs when a student engages in any behavior or uses any unauthorized device (including but not limited to cell phones, calculators, and other electronic devices) which gives the student an unfair advantage or represents another person’s work as his/her own… The penalty for cheating will follow the Sequence of Disciplinary Procedure as outlined in the student handbook.” This Sequence of Disciplinary Procedure, also taken from the updated CHS Handbook, begins with “discussion and counseling with classroom teacher,” resulting in either detention or parent contact. The next step is for the teacher to contact the student’s counselor, who will then refer the student to the Student Services Administrator. Ultimately these actions may result in detention or suspension for the student but never a zero percent; a policy that may lead to an increased leniency to cheating. This change in cheating policy is a directly linked with the adjustment of Carmel High School’s grading policy. This new grading policy expresses a preference for administration to mete out zeros to students who “knew nothing, rather than did nothing.” While this may be ideal to show that a student with an NHI (Not Handed In) might “know something,” a student who cheats is incapable of knowing right from wrong, a lack of intelligence that is clearly reflected with a zero percent. In fact, most cheaters may find that a zero makes a larger impact than a suspension. Although students who cheat may be lazy, they also are demonstrating that grades matter to them enough to put in an effort to cheat the system. By substituting a zero percent in place of a test or large project that a student cheats on, a grade can drop as much as a letter grade. For a cheater, this kind of consequence will have a lasting effect, both in memory and on his or her GPA. On the contrary, when the punishment is suspension,
the student’s grade can remain virtually unharmed. In some cases, the ability to redo a test or large project can even be beneficial, resulting in more time to study and learn the material. Ultimately, a student who cheats can turn out with a better grade than a student who took the time to learn the material, solely based on the amount of time spent on preparation. But even as misbehaving students benefit from this policy change, teachers pay a price in comparison. By eliminating the previous zero policy, teacher’s responsibilities are multiplied. For every cheating student, teachers will have to recreate tests and assignments for that student to retake. In some cases, where cheating has become a group effort, it becomes even more of a hassle to deal with large groups of students. Multiply this occurrence by however many classes a teacher has and the amount of time and effort to recreate and monitor the taking and completion of the new assignment increases. For some teachers with multiple classes, this task can be a strenuous addition to an already busy schedule. As the workload amounts, it seems inevitable that more and more cheaters will slip through the cracks. In a perfect world this concern for cheating could be dismissed, but if that were the case then there would be no cheating in the first place. In reality, it is unfair to punish teachers for the actions of misbehaving students. In the previous policy, students were the only ones who were negatively impacted by their actions, and adding more steps to the process only increases the chances of cheating incidents going unpunished. The policy for punishment should accurately reflect the crime being committed and only punish the violator. Giving students the opportunity to repeatedly cheat but still improve their GPA is handing cheaters the perfect way to “cheat” the system. Students who are repeat offenders should be hit where it hurts the hardest: their grade cards. Although suspension is an accurate way to deal with other forms of misbehavior, using it as repercussion for cheating is unnecessary and may not Grading offenses should be handled by grade deductions. That should be the first form of punishment, followed with suspension only if H there are other factors that deem it necessary.
Our Stand: Giving students the opportunity to repeatedly cheat but still improve their GPA is handing cheaters the perfect way to “cheat” the system. Students who are repeat offenders should be hit where it hurts the hardest: their grade cards
COMPILED BY KAYLA WALKER
What is your opinion on the new cheating policy? “I think it is a good policy and will probably deter students from cheating.” Will Baach Junior
“It’s better than a zero and doesn’t effect your overall grade.” Syma Bari Junior
“I think there should definitely be consequences for cheating. I think we need to teach them (students) to be honest.” Elizabeth Sprague
World Language Teacher
The New Cheating Policy What the new policy will entail Academic dishonesty is defined as any behavior or use of any device that lends a student or students an unfair advantage on schoolwork Examples of such behavior would be: “plagiarism, talking during assessments, using cheat sheets, looking at or copying another student’s work, and/ or relaying information to students in other classes about specific information covered in class”. Consequences for cheating (as statement in the CHS handbook: • Conference with the student • Contact parent(s) • Complete an office referral indicating academic dishonesty occurred and describe the incident • Provide an alternative assignment CHS HANDBOOK / SOURCE
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MELINDA
SONG What happens to a dream deferred? What if I claimed the entirety of the cosmos can be formed from 12 elementary particles governed by four fundamental forces? That’s exactly what the standard model of particle physics posits. Since the early 1970s, both experimental and theoretical particle physicists have been testing the consistency of this model, which, if accurate, would describe the fundamental structure of all matter in the universe. Up until July, the model was extremely effective in understanding all 12 elementary particles in relation to three of four fundamental forces. (Gravity has been historically pesky.) In addition, physicists armed with the standard model ably predicted the existence of certain particles years before they were empirically discovered, thus lending the theory further credence. Six quarks—up and down, charm and strange, top and bottom—make up protons and neutrons, while six leptons— the electron, muon, tau and their respective neutrinos—are the other basic constituents of matter. Force-carrying particles known as bosons—the photon, gluon and W and Z bosons— correspond to the electromagnetic, strong and weak (nuclear) forces. The discovery of these particles in the late 20th century helped substantiate the standard model. Yet despite this
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Hello Higgs. A recent particle physics discovery carries more importance than you might think. progress, physicists still struggled to explain the origin of mass in our universe. That struggle (may have) ended on July 4. Researchers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson, which is theorized to have created the Higgs field during the early stages of our universe and can explain how matter attains mass. In 1964, Peter Higgs and other particle physicists suggested that all particles were inherently massless following the Big Bang. Only after the universe cooled down to a critical temperature did the “Higgs field” form, and it was responsible for imparting mass to the 12 fundamental particles (except the photon). Essentially, the more a particle interacts with the Higgs field, the heavier it becomes. Though theoretically sound, the Higgs mechanism was untestable until the building of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Even then, the Higgs boson only lasts for fractions of a second before it decays, so measuring it amidst post-collision debris was not easy. Therefore, its highly probable discovery with a statistical significance of 4.9 sigma (meaning
there is a one-in-two-million chance the signal was due to background noise) is truly a milestone in modern physics. Furthermore, on Aug. 1, CERN stated that even stronger evidence, and a two-in-one-billion chance the signal was caused by background processes, has identified the newly discovered particle as the Higgs boson. Implications of finding this notoriously elusive particle are wide-reaching. In addition to explaining the origin of mass, the Higgs boson would complete the standard model by unifying the weak and electromagnetic force. Through this unification, electricity, magnetism, light and some types of radioactivity would become manifestations of one underlying force known as the electroweak force. Moreover, if this Higgs-like particle were actually the Higgs boson, then the universe itself would open up to a whole new realm of discovery. The Higgs boson could be to 2012 what the electron was to 1897. Honestly, it’s too soon to assess the lasting significance of these exciting times in particle physics, especially as CERN scientists continue to scrutinize their findings. However, given the data publicly released thus far, I’m willing to greet this longawaited “God particle” by its appropriate name. Hello, Higgs. H
NATALIE
MAIER What goes around comes around. As I searched for articles to complete my final exam project for AP Environmental Science last May, I was shocked to find out a few facts about Indiana’s contributions to water pollution. The state has pretty lax laws on what industrial companies can place into rivers and waterways, but I didn’t expect what I found out. According to an article from the Associated Press, Environment America, a group that wants to make the environment better for the future, found that Indiana topped the charts for the amount of chemicals we put into water systems. Shockingly, in 2010, one Indiana company alone dumped 24 million pounds of pollution into the Ohio River. Now, this matters for a lot of scientific reasons that would take hours to explain. The obvious reason, though, is that people drink this water, and it harms animals. It’s cleaned before humans consume it, but it could still affect our health. Who really wants some nasty chemical compound floating around in the water they drink, shower or cook with? Hopefully, the answer is nobody. This might seem like it won’t matter if the water is cleaned, however, making changes is a complicated issue. Taking away these industries would rob Hoosiers of jobs and money to support
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It’s not easy being green. As Indiana companies pollute rivers, individuals need to take first steps for change. their families. But alternative jobs need to be considered. This isn’t exactly a new topic, environmentalists have been preaching about the need to protect our resources and pocketbooks for decades. In the early 1970s, the country began to take the first steps toward environmental reform. Rachel Carson, a marine biologist, wrote the book “Silent Spring,” which told concerned Americans all about water pollution. Today, she is regarded as the founder of the contemporary environmental movement. Her book really pushed the need to regulate the environment. As a result, more and more young people, “liberals” as some call them, wanted to save the environment. Congress reacted to this pressure and passed the Clean Water Act and other laws to create a cleaner environment. We have made great strides as a country. Of course, this couldn’t last long. When Reagan became president, he placed fewer restrictions on taking care of the environment. Policies became more in favor of big businesses, which is truly sparking any and all environmental debates. Politicians around the world have had to balance the pressures of a healthy economy and a hazardous environment for many years. However, the increasing number of environmental problems isn’t quite a death sentence just yet. We can help our planet, but it
needs to happen sooner rather than later. People need to change and make adjustments to their lifestyles. There’s only one problem. People are afraid of change. They can’t face the fact that the world that their children will live in will be a completely different place than where they grew up. In a few decades, humans will pump all the oil out of the world and limit the amount of energy resources we have. Almost all of our food will include dangerous chemicals and be unhealthy, like corn syrup. Unless, of course, people start to push for change. This has to happen as a grassroots movement. The government isn’t going make a decision that would take money from big oil or industrial companies. Kids need to grow up with recycling and using less electricity in order to make the change for a healthier environment when they grow up. In many ways, the world needs to change its values and want to be resourceful again. This shouldn’t take more stories about polluted waters and fish infested with mercury poisoning to make a difference. This movement definitely doesn’t need to be sparked by a burning river, like it was in the ‘70s. It needs to start again simply because it’s the right (not trendy) thing to do. Because in the end, it’s simple: we H need to take care of our home, so it can take care of us.
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TONY
TAN No news is bad news. Welcome (back) to high school. As summer vacation comes to an end, many students will welcome school back into their daily lives, seeing again friends and acquaintances whose faces have appeared only in thoughts and dreams. Ironically, however, the same students will end up wishing for days off school after a few days. Many of these complaints derive themselves from workloads or grades. To continue this school’s tradition of excellence, it should not surprise students that classes increase significantly in intensity once the curriculum gains momentum after the first few weeks of school. By that time, as you stroll through the halls during a passing period, it won’t be uncommon to hear classmates soliciting each other for information about recent quizzes or exams, hoping to grasp maybe an extra point or streamline their studying. I’ll have to admit, I have been guilty of occasionally trying to exploit my friends, too. But at times I feel that the idea of school in the minds of some students has been so overly dominated by points and percentages that these people are
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Find yourself. As we return back to school, a new year of opportunities unfolds. missing the point of education. There was a phrase that the orchestra director here used. Roughly quoting him, it went something like this: “Don’t let your academics get in the way of your learning.” This might seem a bit paradoxical at first, but there is a truth in it that we can all learn from. In my past three years here, I have often seen classmates too bogged down with worrying about how many points they receive on the test or what percent they need on a project to get a satisfactory grade in the class to even understand or realize what they’re learning about. Instead of calculating the mass of the limiting reactant or the answer to a tough algebra problem, they are more concerned with calculating the minimum number of points they need. Not to undermine the universal gauge of student performance, but grades are not the most important goal a student should pursue in high school, contrary to popular belief. What’s more important is that you should use school to not only learn about the subjects you chose to study, but
also to learn about yourself. I know this sounds extremely cliché, but learning about yourself is essential to finding that comfortable niche in which you will reside for the remainder of your life. Don’t believe that the most popular paths out there are the best – the best career path is the one that fits you. There are careers out there that may not pay well or are less well-known. But these things should not matter to you if you are passionate about the subject. Sure, a doctor might have a higher salary than a librarian, but if you know that practicing medicine or working with patients doesn’t particularly interest you, there is no reason why you should be aiming for that career. A low-paying passion leads to a happier life than a lucrative burden. Take the time to really try and find something you’re passionate about this year. Branch out and explore subjects you think you might be interested in. Don’t be afraid to try new things. Four school years is shorter than you may think, a H popular senior phrase goes. Make the most out of it.
RYAN
ZUKERMAN Hello, Newman. In 1984, 233,286 people voted in the election for Indiana’s eighth congressional district. After an extremely close race, the Indiana Secretary of State declared Rick McIntyre the winner by 34 votes, after ignoring other recounts that showed Frank McCloskey in the lead. After the House conducted its own recount, however, it seated McCloskey and declared him the winner by just 4 votes. Just four votes made the difference; a margin so slim that it accounts for just 0.00171 percent of the total votes cast. In that particular election every individual vote counted, and the same could hold true for the election this year. This year we are lucky to experience a political season like none other. Republican nominee Mitt Romney will run against incumbent President Barack Obama, and for the first time in 35 years, someone other than Richard Lugar will sit as a Senator from the state of Indiana. Even more exciting than that, however, is the fact that some of us (myself excluded) will get to play a role in the election. One of us could be the single deciding vote. As exciting as this is, however, it is also problematic; our generation is embarrassingly unaware in regard to politics. According to the Pew Research Center’s News IQ Quiz, only 43 percent of people ages 18 to 29 could identify House Majority Leader John Boehner as a Republican and House Minority
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Every vote counts. Teens must understand the importance of being politically aware. Leader Nancy Pelosi as a Democrat. Additionally, only 44 percent of people ages 18 to 29 could identify the Republican Party as the “party (that) is generally more supportive of reducing the size and scope of the federal government.” Not only is this embarrassing, it is also troubling. The importance of being politically aware cannot be understated. The government and politicians–both local and national–are directly involved in each citizen’s daily life. Not only does the government control issues that affect adults and families–like taxes, wages and retirement–but also issues that affect the typical high school student, like driving laws and education policies. Additionally, it is important which candidate shares the same values and ideals as you. Putting faith in a random candidate often proves to be detrimental, as that candidate and you may share completely opposite views on a landmark issue. Even if you cannot vote, however, political awareness is still of the utmost importance. Support for a candidate (I’m reluctant to say “campaigning”) can make the small difference needed for victory. It is not like the election does not matter; every citizen in the United States has a dog in this fight, as the outcome will impact every single citizen, all 312 million of them.
The ignorant student here might point out that we live in a nation of more than 300 million people, and one vote in 312 million makes very little difference, but he could not be more wrong. In the 2000 Presidential election, 5,962,657 people voted in Florida. After a mandatory statewide recount, it was declared that Republican George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore by 537 votes, thereby winning the U.S. Presidential Election. In that particular election, 537 votes made up 0.00901 percent of the total votes cast. 537 votes in a country of (at the time) 281 million made the difference between a Republican President and a Democrat President. Even here, on a national scale, it is evident that every individual vote counts, and students need to remember that. Tuesday, Nov. 6 is right around the corner. Between then and now we will see two National Conventions, a VicePresidential announcement and an influx of campaigning. Between then and now we have ample time to research and make an informed decision on who to support. As I said earlier, the importance of political awareness cannot be understated. Every person matters and everyone should participate, for if it comes down to it, you could be that H one, single, deciding vote.
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VICTOR
So we beat on, boats against the current
XU
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Know your rights. Students should be cognizant of the First Amendment rights they retain at school. This summer, the right to bear arms came under public scrutiny and incited a nasty debate across partisan lines. Considering the horror of the Aurora theater massacre, it’s certainly an important debate to be had. Amid the hubbub over the Second Amendment, however, I thought more about the First Amendment—specifically, the fact that students know very little about the amendment’s pertinence during school. This became clear to me while I was attending a program for aspiring journalists in June. One of the final speakers at the program was Mark Goodman, a professor at Kent State and former president of the Scholastic Press Law Center, a national legal organization that supports high school and college journalists. A skilled orator, he dazzled the audience with information ranging from copyright to various press rights court cases. It surprised me that he could keep us engaged despite a seemingly dull topic, but it surprised me more that my fellow audience members didn’t know anything about that topic. These were dedicated high school journalists- the foremost reporters, editors and photographers from across the nation, each exercising his or her First Amendment rights by publishing a newspaper. They had no idea about press rights, much less student rights in general. If these “experts” had such meager knowledge of student rights, then how much would average students know? Maybe I shouldn’t have been so taken aback, though. No classes in Indiana’s education system explicitly teach students about their scholastic rights except for journalism courses. I was only enlightened with the knowledge of my freedoms when I took Newspaper 1 as a freshman. I’m assuming the average reader will benefit from a quick overview, then. The first landmark case you should know is called Tinker v. Des Moines. In December of 1965, John Tinker, Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt wore black armbands emblazoned with peace signs to school in protest of the U.S. government’s policies in the Vietnam War. The school board in Des Moines had enacted a regulation two days before to ban such armbands, so administrators suspended the students from school when they refused to remove them. The dissenting students’ fathers filed a complaint, which worked its way all the way to the Supreme Court in late 1968. The Court held that the Tinkers and Eckhardt had expressed themselves passively and without disrupting the school. Their actions were constitutional. The case set the precedent that teachers’ and students’ First Amendment protections don’t stop at the schoolhouse door. Tinker protected the expression of opinions, no matter the nature of those opinions. If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. The caveat was that these expressions couldn’t be “disruptive.”
The decision was sharpened by Bethel School District v. Fraser, which involved a student who made a speech filled with sexual innuendos. Justices decided the school district’s suspension of the student was constitutional, thus permitting schools to punish a student for expressing himself indecently or suggestively. In 2007 Tinker was again modified by Morse v. Frederick. A student in Juneau held up a nonsensical sign reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” during the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, and he contested the resulting suspension. The Supreme Court decided the student’s actions were not protected by the First Amendment because it allegedly promoted illegal drug use in a school environment. For example, a student couldn’t constitutionally wear a shirt promoting alcohol consumption to school. Interestingly, however, a student could legally wear a shirt advocating lowering the age limit for drinking. Tinker and its modifications are just the tip of the iceberg. Cases branch out addressing each aspect of the First Amendment in high schools and colleges, especially in relation to freedom of the press. But why should you care about your rights? The Tinker case shields students’ ability to express opinions. It ensures that religion won’t be regulated by public schools. Students enjoy a remarkable degree of free speech today under the case’s precedent. Still, for better or worse, there are limitations to the First Amendment when you enter the school doors. By recognizing the scholastic freedoms you have and don’t have, you can plan the manner in which you express opinions in school. You can also avoid disciplinary actions stemming from misunderstanding your rights. While the administration here is relatively understanding and tolerant of student expression, many schools nationwide don’t enjoy the same privileges. The Student Press Law Center maintains a newsfeed of the latest clashes between school administrators and expressive students on splc.org. Situations arise nationwide over different interpretations of what constitutes disruption, according to Tinker. In June, the principal of Port Angeles High School in Washington attempted to stop distribution of the newspaper because the word “gay” was present in a word search by coincidence. Apparently he felt the buried word could offend readers and disrupt the school’s learning environment. I question how many of the school’s students were aware of their principal’s actions and proactively fought the decision. Probably very few. It’s unlikely such blatant violations of the First Amendment would be a problem here, but students should nevertheless be knowledgeable of their rights within the school building. In doing so, students will know and can act if they are being cheated of constitutional liberties during H high school or college.
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15 MINUTES OF FAME
Presidential Preview Student Body President Chris Johnson discusses his goals for this school year BY HENRY JACKSON hjackson@hilite.org What are your goals this year as Student Body President? I’d really like to get the whole school more involved in the events throughout the year.
What event are you looking forward to most this year?
I can’t really single any event out because I’m looking forward to all of them. This year is going to be great; I’m just looking forward to the year as a whole.
What made you want to run for Student Body President?
I ran for class president in eighth grade and ever since then I’ve been really involved in this school. I love Carmel High School and all the things we do here.
What would you like CHS students to know about you?
I’m looking forward to next year and that any time they need to talk to me that I’ll be available.
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The Speaker’s Secrets Speaker of the House Meredith Baranowski shares her plans for her new position What makes you a great student leader?
What’s most important is to be respectful of and kind to others. I really try to put my best effort forward in everything that I do, and I believe that when you treat yourself with respect, others will do the same.
What are you planning to do to increase student involvement in school events? This past year I’ve worked to build up the Carmel High School student government Twitter account, @CarmelHSGov, and I believe it’s a great way for all students, not just student government members, to be in the know about what events are taking place and other updates. Social media is a huge facet Cabinet taps into to market the information we need to get out to students, and I plan on continuing to encourage this strategy.
What do you want CHS students to know about you?
Please don’t hesitate to approach me or introduce yourself. I want to get to know as many students as possible.
What is your top priority as Speaker of the House?
My top priority as Speaker of the House can only be defined after discussion with next year’s Cabinet and input from Carmel students. I’m very interested to hear any kind of feedback! I want to accurately address what student government members and CHS students alike are interested in.
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