9.11 Issue

NEWS

STUDENT SECTION

15 MINUTES OF FAME

Traffic policies affect bus drop off and pick up areas

Students show varying degrees of enthusiasm for Homecoming

Freshman Gabi Rivera discusses the effects of her unique birthday

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Carmel High School newsmagazine september 11, 2014

WATER, ICE AND EVERYTHING NICE CHS students discuss the effectiveness of recent social media movements, such as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and #YesAllWomen page 26

By Brielle Saggese

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Art students to participate in the High School Art Display at the Hoosier Salon

Student tries to find balance between creationism and evolution

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Editor in Chief Helena Ma Managing Editors Madison Adzema Matt Del Busto Chrishan Fernando Aster Samuel Ads Team Ellen Peng Accountant Patrick Shaffer Acumen Lauren Lu Stephanie Zhang 15 Minutes of Fame Sarah Liu Beats/Calendar Natalia Chaudhry Katie Long Selena Qian Brielle Saggese Melissa Yap Alex Yom Jenny Zhao Creative Director Dennis Yang Cover Story Aaron Shi

Entertainment John Chen Lianne Yu Feature Michelle Dai Cynthia Wu Front Page Scott Liu Alex Yu Graphics Haley Bracken Jiva Capulong Olivia Jacko Akshar Patel Tiffany Xie GMN Liaison Arsalan Siddiqui News Christine Fernando Laxmi Palde Perspectives Maham Nadeem Sriya Ravi Photography Nivedha Meyyappan Alice Zhu Sports Emma Love Shakeel Zia Social Media Sreeti Ravi Ally Russell

Student Section Jessica Tao Web Adit Chandra Miles Dai Kevin Fei Aneesh Luthra Willie Zhu Online Directors Jason Klein Rushi Patel Writing Coaches Miriam Hu Kyle Walker Reporters Divya Annamalai Natalia Chaudhry Lucus Cheng Asim Dhungana Daniel Goldberg Matthew Han Olivia Jacko Nida Khan Jason Klein Jasmine Lam Katie Long Akshar Patel Selena Qian Brielle Saggese Katie Summitt Angela Sun

Kari Truax Sitha Vallabhaneni Sreya Vemuri Kyle Walker Gabriella Wang Annika Wolff Angela Wu Tiffany Xie Melissa Yap Sara Yin Alex Yom Cynthia Yue Michael Zhao Grace Zhang Anni Zhang Matthew Zheng Photographers Divya Annamalai Kyle Crawford Miles Dai Mike Johnson Dara Levy Swetha Nakshatri Jaymee Stout Sara Yung

Adviser Jim Streisel Principal John Williams Superintendent Nicholas Wahl

Tips for job interview success

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Q&A with CHS’s three new choir directors

Student-directed Studio One Acts to show from Sept. 25 to 27

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Entertainment Briefs

With a new coach, the cross country team looks to continue its success

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Local athletes like GMN Liaison Arsalan Siddiqui feel that Indianapolis is bigger in the sports world than many people think

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New health policies limit bake sales and the selling of foods that do not meet nutrition requirements

Many AP courses will be undergoing curriculum changes both nationally and within CHS

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Senior Mallory Marrs tells her late uncle’s story of ALS through the lens of social media

“The Maze Runner” to hit theaters Sept. 19

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Admnistration changes traffic policies for bus pickup and dropoff

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24 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge trickles through social media and reaches Carmel’s own Principal Williams

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How iOS 8 compares to existing operating systems on the market

Netflix originals like “Orange is the New Black” obtain increasing popularity

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15 minutes of fame

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More and more CHS students use yoga and meditation to relieve stress

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Freshman Gabi Rivera talks about being born on Sept. 11, 2000

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Remembering the fall

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7:59 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 takes off

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

8:14 a.m. – United Airlines Flight 175 takes off 8:20 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 77 takes off 8:41 a.m. – United Airlines Flight 93 takes off 8:46 a.m. – AA Flight 11 crashes into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center

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News Briefs

NEWS BRIEFS Sept. 12 All of CHS will follow a Green day schedule on Sept. 12.

Students will attend both blue and gold day classes to accommodate the Homecoming activities.

Sept. 13 The Homecoming dance will take place on Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. in the fieldhouse.

Sept. 15 to 19

Custodial and Maintenance Staff Recognition week will take place from Sept. 15 to 19. Make sure to thank the custodians and maintenance workers.

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The performing arts department will host auditions for the fall theatre production at 3:30 p.m. in Room P123.

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The marching band will host its community night at 6:30 p.m. in the stadium parking lot.

Sept. 25 to 27

Studio One Acts will perform May the Best Fan Win, The Plaid Man, The Driver’s Test and Soap Opera at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theater.

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The choirs will perform at 7 p.m. in the auditorium.

Students wishing to attend may purchase tickets at the bookstore or from a link on the performing arts website.

BANDING TOGETHER: Marching band members practice after school.

The marching band will host its community night on Sept. 26.

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“WE’VE GOT A LOT OF FUNNY EVERYTHING— FUNNY SCRIPTS, FUNNY TALENT, FUNNY EVERYTHING,” KINSEY ERICKSON, STUDIO ONE ACTS DIRECTOR AND SENIOR, SAID

Homecoming Day Schedule (Green Day): Sept. 12 7:50 - 8:15

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Homecoming day is one of the only two days of the year during which nutrition restrictions will be lifted. See page 7 for more information about the new nutrition standards.

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Nutrient Standards

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New nutrient standards limit bake sales

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ruled that all foods sold during the school day must meet certain nutrient standards. The rule also states food sold at bake sales must meet these standards and cannot compete with the school lunch. Vice Principal Brittany Wiseman said Homecoming and Dance Marathon will be the two exempt fund-raisers that Indiana allows for each school.

During exempt days the nutrient standards do not apply, but the items sold must still be store bought.

“This is all part of the lunch program. It’s for participants in the school lunch program, which is also part of the breakfast program,” Wiseman said.

Living Hope Club, which spreads awareness on female infanticide, plans to fund-raise outside of school and partner with the Center for Global Impact, an organization that helps women in Cambodia, according to Grace Miller, co-vice president and junior.

Miller said, “I think that we will definitely have to find new ways to fund-raise. It might hurt our fundraising because the previous year that’s our primary source of funds.”

Wiseman said there are many opportunities to fund-raise. She said that if clubs send people representing their club to a restaurant, the restaurant will donate 10 percent of the money made that night.

“The last club that turned some in, I think made $375, and they just had people go eat at Which Wich during that day,” Wiseman said, “(Clubs) have really good luck with students

making money by participating with the Hamilton County Parks and Recreation. They pay for students to help with community events that they do, and they make tons of money compared to bake sales.”

Wiseman said, although bake sales and in-school fund-raisers are no longer allowed, clubs can still sell products outside of school in order to fund-raise for their clubs.

“Honestly from what I see, clubs don’t make a lot of money from bake sales. I think it has to do with the camaraderie of getting together, going shopping getting the items, sitting at a lunch table together, conversing with the people that come up to you that you talk about your COOKING UP NEW RULES: club, maybe you can Cafeteria worker prepares food that adheres to new gain membership nutrition requirements. that way, but I don’t

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According to College Board, the AP U.S. History exam was APUSH TO NEW HEIGHTS: completely redesigned and Karen Taff, AP U.S. a new lab requirement was History teacher, added to AP Computer Science teaches her class.

A curriculum.

Taff said that The new lab requirement the new AP U.S. replaced the GridWorld case History curriculum will be more study with a lab component consisting of at least 20 hours similar to a college level course. of hands-on lab experiences, according to College Board.

However, the AP Computer Science A Exam in 2015 will not incorporate questions that focus on the new labs, but will instead continue to test students on concepts outlined in the course description. In addition, all questions related to the GridWorld case study will no longer be included on the exam.

Concerning the AP U.S. History changes, John Hebert, AP U.S. History teacher, said via email, “There is a complete overhaul of the curriculum in terms of what is being taught and how the students are being tested.

Teachers have more freedom in what and how they teach but students will be tested in more predictable ways.

I think what students can expect on the exam in May is a test that covers the standards but gives them the ability to draw more comparisons and support claims with information of their choosing.”

Junior Kimaya Raje, who is currently enrolled in AP U.S. History, said she thinks the new curriculum will be similar in difficulty to the old curriculum; however, the new MADE CHANGES

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Raje said via email, “I think the course will be similar to years past in difficulty as less memorization is nice, but we will be tested on skills that we may not have developed as well since they were not previously stressed. I prefer the old (curriculum) because memorization is based upon studying well. For the new method, you may be prepared, but if you haven’t developed the necessary skills, you may not succeed.”

AP U.S. History teacher Karen Taff said she disagrees with Raje in terms of whether or not the redesigned curriculum will be better than the previous curriculum.

Taff said, “I honestly think that the test is going to be (a) much better test because it’s going to test depth as well as breadth. Now, we are being intentionally focused on making sure that we cover historical themes, as well as checking to make sure that the kids can demonstrate the skills, whether it’s argumentation or

identifying cause and effect, or using historical evidence. All those things we’ve always done, but now the tests are really going to be more specific to making sure the students can do that.”

According to College Board, while the old test included 80 multiple-choice questions, one document-based question and two free-response questions, the new exam has only 55 multiple-choice questions, one document-based question, four short answer questions and one long-essay question. The main goal of reducing the number of multiple choice questions was to better assess thematic understanding and application of historical thinking skills, Taff said.

In addition, Hebert said rather than the multiple-choice questions being driven by simple facts, a source is provided and students are required to interpret it.

Because of the change in curriculum for AP U.S. History, Raje and Taff both agree that students will have to find different ways to study

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than in previous years due to the fact that College Board has not released any practice tests. According to Taff, some of these ways include using materials given in class and practicing with tests throughout the year.

Taff said, “We’ll get lots of practice in class with the activities that we do and, of course, the tests we take throughout the year, I’m working really hard to try to model the way we test and how we assess the test consistently with what’s on the website and what I learned at the AP Summer Institute at Louisville.”

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activities and tests as study tools this year, Raje also said she plans to focus on different aspects of the course than she has in previous AP history courses.

“I plan to focus on the big picture of history,” Raje said. “The course is really thematic now so I will make sure I know some details but really focus on how these details contribute to the overall outcome of certain events throughout history.”

In addition, both Hebert and Taff said they are not worried about students’ scores dropping as a result of it being the first year of the new exam.

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Taff said, “Typically, nationally, whenever the test is changed, scores drop. I don’t know what will happen but our students have always done better anyway than the national statistics, so we’ll just do the best we can.”

However, despite the potential score drop, Taff said the redesigned test is an improvement from the old one.

“Based upon my work with professors at (Indiana University), the new AP test is more in line with what’s going on at the university level, rather than the old test which was really a trivial pursuit in some ways,” Taff said.

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of school this year, sophomore Joyce Tang rode the bus to school like last year. Unlike last year, her bus dropped her off at the natatorium instead of the west parking lot.

“I was surprised when they changed the bus locations. I liked the old spot better,” Tang said.

Administration has put into effect new traffic policies this year in an attempt to make improvements upon issues seen in the past. Changes include different drop-off locations, parking locations and restriction of certain kinds of traffic to specific

CHANGING LANES: Students enter school at the natatorium in the morning.

New policies will change how and where students will enter the school.

areas. The new policies are especially meant to separate staff and student traffic from bus traffic.

Assistant Principal Joseph Schaller, who helped implement the new policies, said buses no longer drop off at the west parking lot and now drop off either near the natatorium or along East Drive. Parents can drop off students either at the Freshman Center or the west parking lot.

“It’s just a little bit of reorganization on where buses drop off and where students drop off. It was designed by the police here who do the traffic and they were trying to alleviate some of

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the traffic issues we were having,” Schaller said.

Approximately 70 buses come to CHS in the morning, inevitably causing traffic.

Schaller said, “(The new policy) separates the civilian traffic with the buses. When we have 50 kids on a bus and they get off, it creates a lot of foot traffic.”

Bus driver Darrell Nichols said he has to pick up students 10 minutes earlier in the morning this year to account for bus traffic getting into the school. He said the reorganization is a nice step forward.

“Teachers and students are together, so everybody can stay out of everybody else’s way,” Nichols said.

During the first few days of school, many buses arrived much later than usual.

“It was taking (the bus drivers) a little bit longer than I think they expected,” Schaller said.

Nichols said everything will get easier once everyone gets accustomed to the changes. However, Tang said she does not agree.

“I don’t like (the new policy). I have to walk so far to the natatorium,” she said. “It takes a lot longer to get dropped off in the morning and it takes longer to leave in the afternoon.”

Schaller said he understands the traffic issues many people are facing, but he does not think it will be possible to eliminate them all.

“We have all these different groups that are coming in (to the school), so we would love for it to be a little smoother. But on the other hand, it’s going to take a little bit of time. That’s what people need to really understand,” Schaller said.

“Leave a few minutes early. Give yourself enough time so that you’re not in a rush. That way, if you do get caught in some traffic, you don’t H have a bit of road rage.”

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on 22 N. Rangeline Rd. will host the High School Art Display Sept. 27 and 28 for the Carmel International Arts Festival. Last year, The Olive Mill hosted the event.

The new gallery, previously located in Broad Ripple, works with another in New Harmony for the Hoosier Salon, a statewide nonprofit organization. Emily Winship, the Carmel Hoosier Salon manager, said she is hopeful that the new location will positively affect the display.

Junior Katy Voor, an IB Visual Arts student, showed her art in the High School Art Display last year.

Although the location has changed, Voor said she does not think it have a major impact on the display.

“I don’t think (the new location) will affect anything. I mean, it’s a really large exhibit and gallery. It’s a HE HOOSIER SALON

really big festival, so I don’t think the new location will change the exhibit, because people are everywhere throughout (the festival),” Voor said.

According to Jennifer Bubp, CHS art department chairperson and Art Club sponsor, the High School Art Display showcases a wide variety of student artwork from both CHS and University High School.

“We’ll be showcasing ceramic pieces, jewelry, paintings, drawings, mixed media, fiber (arts). . .And, this year, we’ll also be exhibiting some work at ADVISA, a business that’s a few stories down from the (Simply) Sweet Shoppe,” Bubp said.

For senior Drew Moreland, an AP Studio Art and Introduction to 3-D Art student, this will be his first year participating in the High School Art Display. Moreland said he is looking forward to

conveying messages or ideas through his art.

ART YOU TALENTED: “I think it’s good to Katy Voor, IB Visual Arts express as much as you can student and junior, and Drew Moreland, AP Studio to the art community, and Art student and senior, this will be helpful for that. pose with their artworks.

I mean, there’s no point in Voor and Moreland will making art if you’re not both present their work going to have anyone ever at the High School Art to see it,” Moreland said.

Display at the Hoosier The gallery will be open Salon on Sept. 27 and 28. from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 27 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 28. Winship said the gallery expects 400 to 500 people on Sept. 27 and 200 to 300 people on Sept. 28.

“I’m really looking forward to it, because I’m looking forward to meeting some of the high school students and seeing their work,” Winship said. “I feel like high school artwork sometimes doesn’t get as H much attention as it should.”

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HUMAN BALANCE: Mormon and junior Megan Armstrong tries to find a balance between evolution and her faith. Armstrong said she currently believes in literal creationism.

Evolution vs. Creationism

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Evolution vs. creationism

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CHS students try to find balance between evolution and creationism

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junior Megan Armstrong could see the snow drifting down from the dark, February sky. But the snow was the least of her worries. She had a sense of creeping dread, which cumulated as she approached her biology classroom. Half of the students were already there, and Armstrong trickled in with the remaining students. That day, her class would begin its evolution unit.

“I remember going into class knowing that I was walking into something where things I had been taught all my life were going to be tested,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong said she considers herself a literal creationist, someone who believes that God created all things out of nothing in six days, as recorded in the Bible.

Although she learned evolution in her biology class, she said her beliefs concerning the origin of life conflicted with what was taught in class. According to Armstrong, CHS has neglected teaching the creationist side of the argument.

“If Carmel has a really huge science department, and we teach a lot of really different, specific sciences like body science and sports science, and if there is scientific backing to a creationist viewpoint in the origin of mankind, then it should be taught along with out other sciences,” she said.

Armstrong’s words are in light of the firing of John Freshwater, an eighthgrade science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School. On Nov. 19, 2013 the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the school board was justified in firing Freshwater in 2011 for refusing to remove Christian materials from his classroom, according to the Los Angeles Times. Freshwater’s attorney confirmed in April 2014 that the instructor had petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the state court’s decision. However, the court only affirmed the school board’s decision and avoided the issue of whether Freshwater could teach creationism. In spite of the court’s declining to comment, the ruling sparked controversy and dissent.

According to Armstrong, Freshwater was wrong in his refusal to comply with the school’s instruction.

“It’s not okay to just ignore your boss, you know?” she said. Regarding the teaching itself, however, she said Freshwater should not have been fired if he had been teaching the scientific evidence for creationism.

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Her words are in alignment with a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case. In Edwards v. Aguillard, the Supreme Court ruled that “teaching a variety of scientific theories about the origins of mankind to school children might be done with the clear secular intent of enhancing the effectiveness of science instruction.” Armstrong said she agrees.

“I think, because there is scientific evidence to back creationism, that it should be taught in science classes, because we teach science in science classes,” Armstrong said. “And if we’re going to teach evolution, which has scientific backing, then we should teach creationism, which also has scientific backing.”

AP Biology teacher Jeff Young said he was unsure of whether teaching creationism is prohibited in Indiana.

“I do know that no legitimate science teacher would teach that,” he said.

The latest Indiana state standards for science, published in 2010, require students to “describe how modern evolutionary theory provides an explanation of the history of life on

earth and the similarities among organisms that exist today.”

Armstrong’s experience in her biology classroom reflects this standard.

“We weren’t really taught about an origin that wasn’t anything but evolution,” she said. “And I think that was what made it the hardest, because (the teacher) treated it like fact, as if she was teaching me math. So it was rough at first.”

Although P. David Polly, adjunct biology professor at Indiana University, said he does not believe evolution must be taught as fact in public schools, he said he nevertheless considers learning evolution important.

“Evolution is an appropriate part of scientific education, because it is something that we observe through many lines of evidence at many scales. It is central to scientific understanding of biological processes, anatomy, genetics, DNA, cancer, viruses and flu epidemics. We can manipulate evolution in the lab and in agricultural industry,” Polly said. “Thus, there are many cases in

which courts considered challenges to the teaching of evolution and ruled against them.”

As Armstrong filed out of her biology class that day, she still felt a lingering sense of dread.

“I think (I felt) more so the same as when I walked in,” she said. “We had a long unit going. On the first couple of days, I was exasperated. Then I started getting upset, not like tearfully upset but like wounded, you could say. I didn’t really go through the five stages of grief. It affected me slowly.”

Matthew Hahn, biology professor at Indiana University, said he has had conversations with students about their faith and evolution.

“Several of my students have talked to me about trying to reconcile their beliefs with what they’ve learned in my class,” he said. “They’ve always been very respectful about it and have just wanted to talk, not argue.”

Polly said he has had a similar experience with students.

“Indeed, when I was a student, I had conversations with many teachers about it,” he said. “Losing one’s faith is a frightening thing, and

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EVOLUTION VS. CREATIONISM THE BASICS EVOLUTION

Descent with modification. All life on earth shares a common ancestor.

THE ONGOING DISCUSSION On Feb. 4, Bill Nye “the Science Guy” and Ken Ham, Answers of Genesis CEO, debated the teaching of creationism versus evolution. YouTube streamed the debate live, garnering almost three million views.

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NYE’S CASE Evolution is responsible for the origins of mankind, and it should be taught in schools.

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HAM’S CASE Secularists have hijacked science. Biblical creationism should be taught at school.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON & “COSMOS” YOUNG-EARTH CREATIONISM Includes literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative; rejection of evolution theories

OLD-EARTH CREATIONISM Involves many branches; acknowledgement of supreme God as well as evolution

When Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s science documentary series, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odessy,” first aired, creationists were outraged

by DeGrasse Tyson’s disproving of creationism and emphasis on modern scientific theories.

Creationists claimed it lacked consideration of creationism and focused on only one side of the argument.

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it is a shame that many people suffer it because of how they were taught religion. Charles Darwin, who first hypothesized the mechanism of natural selection, agonized his entire life about his faith. Many scientists today, especially those raised in cultures outside the United States, were not taught that faith depends on material facts like how old the Earth is or whether evolution occurs.”

Eventually, Armstrong said she discovered the solution to her conflicting beliefs.

“The first month, it was really

hard, because I was taking notes on something I didn’t believe in. I was taking tests and lying on test paper so that I could pass. I started to zero it out and take it as fact so that on a test, you can just accept it,” she said. “And then I had a brief, but nevertheless important crisis where I thought, ‘If this isn’t fact, is anything I’ve ever been taught my entire childhood fact?’

And then I did some research on it, and I realized that there’s a lot of science that they’re not teaching me right now. After I picked up on all that, I realized she’s teaching

me one part of the story, and I know both sides, and I still choose to believe what I do. And then it became easier.”

Actively searching for both sides of the argument, according to Armstrong, establishes a balance between creationist and evolutionist views.

She said, “I feel the knowledge has expanded, and I’m almost thankful for how rough that was on me, because that made me realize if you really care about something, you should look into it. I feel better because I came out stronger.”

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d i v ya a n n a m a l a i DEATH OF THE MALL: Sophomore Odelia Satchivi shops online with her laptop. Because of online commerce, many malls around the United States have been abandoned and are becoming more obsolete.

FALL OF THE MALL ONLINE SHOPPING TAKES TOLL ON MALLS SOPHOMORE ODELIA SATCHIVI

came home to find a package waiting for her. Inside was a pair of shoes that she ordered online.

“There were these baby blue Vans and they didn’t have them in the store; I think they were not in season anymore, so I got them at Zappos and they were 20 bucks cheaper, and I was really excited when I got them,” she said.

This is just one of many items Satchivi has purchased online

instead of in a conventional mall. Satchivi said she prefers the accessibility associated with online shopping, and she is not alone. According to an August 2014 National Public Radio (NPR) article, teen “mall culture” has been decreasing and is gradually losing DID YOU KNOW? its iconic significance in America.

Over 400 malls The decline of malls is have been closed indicated by the sweeping cluster in the past de- of abandoned malls in the United cade. States, especially in the Midwest.

Within Indiana, six shopping centers have gone out of use, including Lafayette Square and the Eastgate Consumer Mall in Indianapolis. What was once a hearth for dining, entertainment and consumer goods seems to be slipping from American culture.

“I think they closed because they didn’t have enough money. (Similar to) a few years ago we had the recession, so people weren’t going shopping as much,” Satchivi said.

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“There’s not as much that’s offered anymore; most malls don’t have movie theaters anymore, and they’re mostly geared toward little kids.”

When Satchivi was around 9 years old, she would frequently visit the mall. In contrast, she currently goes there about once every three months. She said this is due to teens being more likely to socialize at local festivals or restaurants, where there are more entertaining activities.

Not only are malls being replaced by teen-centered venues, but the concept of walk-in sites is also becoming outdated, according to social studies teacher Michael OToole, who demonstrates social trends and patterns in his AP Human Geography classes.

“It has to do with a lot of brickand-mortar stores, as they’re called. Stores you actually go in.

One, people don’t go to buy there anymore as much; they go to window shop a little bit. With the ease of online shopping, it’s just so

much more convenient, and then, teenagers don’t buy a lot of the same things that they used to. When I was in the ‘90s, we went and (hung out) at the mall all the time. But you would go to the CD store (or) underpriced movie stores,” he said.

This type of generational difference is illustrated in the fact that some teens don’t perceive the mall as a social space.

“I guess most people think that the mall (has) nothing to do, so it’s kind of boring,” Satchivi said. “You can get the same stuff online that you can get in the mall and even more, so if you’d rather be doing something else, it’s better to go online and not waste time.”

According to NPR, e-commerce such as online shopping has changed consumer habits, gradually making malls obsolete. Despite once being the manifestation of American life, malls are losing their role in an increasingly mobile society that places emphasis on time.

Overall, the convenience of online shopping has contributed to Satchivi preferring it to physically going to a mall.

“Being in high school, you don’t have a lot of time anymore. And then I also swim, so I don’t find a lot of time to do many things, so it makes it easier,” she said.

Junior Evin George, who goes to the mall once a month, said he still favors physical department stores for their palpability.

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when you see something you like and you order it, you don’t exactly know that it’s going to be like it is in the picture. But if you’re there in the store you can actually see. Especially clothes; I don’t think it’s a good idea to shop online for clothes, because you need to try them out. You need to see how it looks on your body,” he said.

Although such stores present an undeniable physicality, this aspect may be the reason why teens are considering malls to be passé. Among designer stores and cheap food courts, there is suburban sprawl and failed plans for redevelopment contributing to the decline in mall culture, according to a June article by The Guardian.

Consequently, people, specifically youth, are looking for entertainment in amusement parks and carnivals, as stated by Satchivi.

OToole said, “At places like Carmel, there are so many different student activities and clubs, and I

think that’s taking up a good portion of time.”

Along with saving time, Satchivi sees many other benefits to online shopping. For her, it’s about having a wider selection of products available to purchase.

“I shop at my favorite (online) stores. Especially here, since we don’t have really big stores; we don’t have all the clothing, so it’s kind of a hit-andmiss at the mall, but online you get exactly what you want,” she said.

Although George said he prefers malls to online shopping, he and Satchivi both enjoy the diverse selection both mediums provide.

“Because (the mall) has so many different stores, it pretty much has everything you need to survive in one big area. It’s a good social gathering area, too. You get food, clothes, electronics and everything in one area. You don’t have to drive around everywhere,” he said.

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for shopping. For several generations the mall has been a trademark of the American lifestyle; however, it has lost some of its significance. According to Satchivi, many people she knows buy most of their clothes online.

“There are just more options and promotions online,” Satchivi said. “People find stuff that is either customized or really unique online, and you don’t really see many things H like that at the mall.”

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Abandoned America North Towne Square Mall: Toledo, OH

Here is a look at some abandoned malls from around the nation.

Woodville Mall: Northwood, OH

Randall Park Mall: North Randall, OH

Dixie Square Mall: Harvey, IL

Eastgate Mall: Indianapolis

Hawthorne Plaza Mall: Hawthorne, CA Crestwood Mall: St. Louis, MO

Randall Park Mall: Randall Park Mall officially opened in 1976. When it opened, it had five major department stores, including Higbee’s, The May Company, Sears, J.C. Penny, and Joseph Horne Company, and many surrounding stores. It was said to be one of the biggest malls in the United States.

By 1989, many of the small stores had become vacant. J.C. Penny closed in 2000, and some of the other department stores closed within the next two years. Competition with Southgate Shopping Center, which was built only a few miles away, improved the mall’s status, but now Southgate is more prosperous.

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Rolling Acres Mall: Akron, OH

Turfland Mall: Lexington, KY

Easgate Consumer Mall: Eastgate Shopping Center was the first mall in Indiana, and it was built as an open-air mall. In 1981, the mall was bought by Simon Property Group. However, as other malls began to open up around the area, it started to struggle and was renamed Eastgate Consumer Mall as an attempt to attract more customers.

This ultimately was a failed attempt to revive the mall, as many stores left Eastgate for Washington Square. Since 2002, it was sold twice and left to die. In 2008, Lifeline Data Centers bought the mall. As of now, the mall has been turned into a data storage center and also hosts the Indianapolis Homeland Security Department.

Cloverleaf Mall: Chesterfield, VA buzzfeed / source

Turfland Mall: Turfland was opened in 1967, and it enjoyed success through the 1980s. After other malls, including the Lexington Mall and Fayette Mall, opened up in the area, Turfland began to lose business in the 1990s. Despite renovations and new additions to the mall, it could not keep up with the expansion of the Lafayette Mall. The mall was officially closed in 2008. As of now, a few restaurants Staples, The Home Depot and Walgreens reside in the mall area. It is in the works of being renovated once again and renamed Turfland Towne Center, which will be occupied by retail stores, office buildings and residential homes.

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HOMECOMING CHILL VS. THRILL From least spirited to most spirited, we present: the Homecoming Spectrum

FRESHMAN DAVID WANG IS THE EPITOME OF UNEXCITED FOR THIS EVENT WHILE STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT BOBBY GREASER IS HOMECOMING-READY.

What do you know about Homecoming week?

David: I know close to nothing. I’ve heard it’s a really popular activity here at the high school. Barely any of my friends have mentioned anything about Homecoming week. What I heard from my GKOMs is that Homecoming week is a timespan of multiple activities and the dance is one thing; that’s basically all I know.

How excited are you for Homecoming festivities?

David: I’m not excited about Homecoming because I think it’s a waste of time. I would rather play video games and study. It’s because I’m ignorant, and I don’t really know what Homecoming is really about.

Also, I’m not really excited for Homecoming festivities because no one really mentions them to me. I’m not really interested. I would rather attend church activities and hang out

with my friends. I mainly won’t be participating because I don’t really know what Homecoming is all about.

What have you done to get involved in Homecoming?

David: Not really anything. I don’t plan on do much either.

I don’t think any activities at Homecoming really catch my attention. I think that a sporting event would catch my interest more. Stuff like basketball or tennis would be fun, anything really that would just push away from all this peppy school stuff. It doesn’t really matter to me. Some of my teachers have mentioned the dance and festivities. The teachers said that it would be a cool experience and that a lot of your friends would be there.

Some of my GKOMs said stuff about the things going on during the week, but I don’t really H remember anything.

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SPIRIT: Wang remains clueless while Greaser demonstrates excitement for Homecoming.

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What do you know about Homecoming week?

Bobby: Homecoming week is the predominant spirit week at CHS. I mean no other week at Carmel can really compare to Homecoming week. Every day is a different spirit day. For all the freshmen out there, we have the Leg King and Kiss Queen. Leg

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How excited are you for Homecoming festivities?

Bobby: How could you not be excited? To me, it’s the best week at Carmel High School because the entire school comes together that week. Especially on Homecoming day itself, that green day gets me really excited. It’s something that you only experience once a year, those 25 minute classes, the drum lines—my personal favorite part of Homecoming day, and the huge all-school convocation at the stadium. The green day is the mixture of the blue and gold days, which means that you have all your classes in the same day. Homecoming day is by far the most unique day of the year.

That night is also the night of the homecoming game, which is a great event that all students should go to.

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clueless You’ve been at CHS for four years yet you still have not attended a Homecoming game or dance.

would make them stand out at the races. Also, there are prizes for the most unique teams if you aren’t an athletic person. I hope that students really get into all of the activities that are planned for Homecoming week.

the cheerleader You dress up for spirit days only when you feel like it. You have mild spirit, but you always dance your heart out at Homecoming.

What have you done to get involved in Homecoming?

Bobby: Well, as Student Body President, the Senate focuses more on spirit week and court relations. Court relations are the nominations for Homecoming court; each grade gets to vote two girls, but the seniors get to nominate five and a Homecoming queen. Also we (Senate) have been trying to get convertibles for the Homecoming parade, because you can’t have a Homecoming parade without convertibles.

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Homecoming court, trike races and donated convertibles. Your love for CHS is infinite.

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#ALSICEBUCKETCHALLENGE TRICKLES THROUGH CARMEL

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According to the ALS Association (ALSA), ALS strikes as many as 30,000 Americans nationwide.

The disease is “a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body,” according to the ALSA website.

Throughout the life of the patient, the disease first leads to complete paralysis of the body and eventually to death.

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As of Aug. 26, the ALSA has raised 88.5 million dollars to be put towards ALS research. This total is exponentially larger from 2013’s funding of only 2.3 million.

Senior Matthew Keene, like many other students nationwide, had a vague understanding of what ALS even was before the ice bucket challenge came to be in late July. After seeing the challenge blow up on social media, Keene said that he now understands how severe the disease really is and that more attention should be brought up to it than that of in the past.

Keene nominated Principal John Williams to do the ALS ice bucket challenge. Williams said that he would do that challenge if Carmel raised $2,000 and at the first home football game, Williams got ice water dumped on him in front of the 5,000 plus students and families.

“The challenge inspired me to learn more about the devastating disease this is ALS and how it affects people and I learned that it is a disease that can happen to anyone and that spreading awareness for it is definitely a good thing and is something that hasn’t been done H enough,” Keene said.

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On Aug. 17, senior Mallory Marrs uploaded a picture of herself soaked from head to toe and grinning from ear to ear onto her account.

ENTS PARTICIPATE IN A NEW FORM OF Instagram “Today, I did the OPELLED FORWARD BY SOCIAL MEDIA. #alsicebucket challenge for my hero, Uncle Jeff, and got to only feel an ounce of what he battled every day until he passed in 2006,” the caption read.

By clicking “post,” Marrs became a part of a trend that included almost everyone from Justin Timberlake to former President George Bush.

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The ALS Association is one such charity that has used social media activism to its benefit by raising $94.3 million (at the time of publication date), according to its website, as well as increasing awareness of the disease.

Because of her connections with ALS, Marrs has kept track of the ALS Challenge’s progress over the past month.

“It’s not a well known disease so I’m proud of (the challenge) because people are starting to notice (it). The ALS association is raising so much money, and that’s just the most exciting part to me because it’s getting attention and people are getting a grasp on what it is,” she said.

Although the ALS Challenge has been one of the most popular forms of social media activism, other movements ranging from awareness of sex trafficking to racial equality have also been circulating the feeds of Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Facebook.

Marrs credits the effectiveness of this type of activism to its simple nature. Compared to other types of promotions, she believes that social media provides an easier platform for organizations like the ALS Association to spread their message.

“It gets around so easily, (and) there’s so much social media to use. It’s easier to spread than putting up a poster or writing

(Third from left): Senior Mallory Marrs does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in front of the school.

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a letter. Like, how easy is it to retweet someone or share someone’s post on Facebook?” she said. “It’s easy to tweet, it’s easy to text, (and) you’re probably going to do it that day anyway, (so you) might as well make it charitable. If you want to say something, or if you want to promote a cause, you are one tweet or post away from doing it.”

Junior Raelyn O’Dell participates in the #yesallwomen movement, a campaign that advocates for the end to women’s inequality and harassment.

Although O’Dell promotes a different campaign from Marrs, O’Dell also finds that the easy nature of social media provides a successful platform for activism.

“People would talk about it on social media and then if you see it so much, it becomes just part of your daily routine.

And seeing people talk about feminism so much, that’s a

great thing, that’s really good,” she said.

Once a movement has gained popularity, its next objective is to keep that following growing. Social media possesses certain assets for a campaign to gain momentum and gather more supporters. For example, a post originally intended for 100 people can be shared, retweeted or copied for hundreds of additional people to watch.

Cindy Wise, Executive Director of the ALS Association Indiana Chapter, said she believes momentum was imperative to the progress of the Ice Bucket Challenge as well as any other campaign. Wise said what started as a small idea became a major movement only because of how quickly it reached a wide audience. “(When I first saw the challenge) I was just overwhelmed that someone started this. I think that when I

#Yesallwomen On May 24, 2014, a man shot and killed 6 people, showing extreme hatred towards women for not sleeping with him. #YesAllWomen arose in response to #NotAllMen, a hashtag that claimed that not all men are misogynist and treat women like objects.

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first saw it I thought, ‘Oh, what a great idea, something fun,’ because there’s nothing fun about ALS, and it just took off,” she said. “I think the longer it’s alive, it reaches more people. (The ALS Association) talks about it; we share where it’s at as far as the dollars raised, the wonderful people throughout the country, both celebrities and just individuals, who are doing it. This effort has not only brought awareness and education, but it has brought the needed funds for the ALS Association.”

The ALS Challenge has certainly found this momentum by accepting money from 739,000 new donors in the past month, according to its website.

From Marrs’s experience with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, she agreed that once a movement is posted, social media allows that post to travel quickly. “(The challenge) started off small, but when you nominate three people and then those three people do it, and then it becomes 30 people, and this usually happens in 24 hours or less,” she said. “I feel like people get to see people’s reactions to it, and then you can see how everyone else is doing it and how it connects. It’s kind of a domino effect, because if one person does it, then the next person does it. I think people are seeing their friends do it, and (they’re) like, ‘Oh, that looks like fun,’ but they don’t know there’s a bigger message and support behind what’s actually happening.”

O’Dell has seen this momentum in the women’s rights movement as well. She said the rise of social media activism has allowed #yesallwomen to grow at CHS. “Just today I was in the second-floor E rooms, and I heard some girls at their locker talking about it, and it was refreshing, almost, because I used to not hear much about that at all,” O’Dell said. “I was kind of considered in the minority, I guess,

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users to people they don’t even know only adds to this momentum. In Marrs’s case, she saw the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from a celebrity’s Instagram post.

She said, “The first time I saw it on social media, a celebrity did it, and (the caption) said ‘ALS Bucket Challenge,’ so I googled it to make sure it was the same disease we were talking about. It was just a celebrity off of ‘Pretty Little Liars’ that did it, so I was like, ‘That’s really cool,’ and then I was secretly hoping someone would nominate me so I could do it.”

Unlike an average user, celebrities can post to hundreds of thousands of fans. So when Bill Gates, Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey posted #ALSIceBucketChallenge, the momentum of their posts was sent to more than 30 million followers.

The fact that social media is already used for educational purposes also aids its effectiveness at advocating a cause. According to Wise, users have grown accustomed to learning about a certain charity or organization through social media.

“What’s always been the challenge for the ALS Association is to really educate people and bring up the awareness of the disease because basically most people haven’t ever heard of it, so the Ice Bucket Challenge at least helped people understand what ALS is,” she said.

O’Dell said a major goal of the #yesallwomen campaign is simply to educate users on feminism. Accordingly, her personal goal is to show feminism’s true meaning through her tweets and posts.

“Through social media and through the internet, a lot of people are becoming more educated on the feminist movement. It’s not such a taboo word anymore, where it used to be you would hear the word ‘feminist,’ and you would think of some crazy radical, but now, it’s becoming more normal,” she said.

Marrs also sees that social media activism can inform her peers

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and correct misguided ideas about a particular cause.

“I got tired of people being like, ‘Oh, (the challenge) is just for fun,’ or seeing a girl on Twitter put some description about ALS (that) wasn’t even correct, so that was frustrating.

But ‘Sports Center’ made this really good package on it and people actually got the message and if my friends did the video they would be like, ‘This is for Mallory’s uncle who passed away,’ so that made me really happy,” Marrs said. “Before (the challenge) I would say, ‘My uncle passed away from it, and most people would be like, ‘Well, what is it?’ and then you (tell) them Lou Gehrig’s disease, which is what it’s based off of, and then you have to explain it from there. It’s nice now because if I’m like, ‘My uncle had ALS,’ I don’t have to explain.”

Because social media is a broader platform than most education programs, it is effective at giving more attention to little known organizations like the ALS Association. Wise is most proud of the challenge for achieving coverage of such a previously unrecognized disease as ALS. Before the challenge, she said the Indiana

community wasn’t well accustomed to the disease. In comparison, Wise has seen a vast difference in how the public receives ALS after the challenge gained popularity.

“We have never had so many people sign up to be a part of our walk or to donate or to offer to volunteer to provide services to families.

It’s just woken the community up to the need (ALS has). ALS is a devastating disease, and the people that are battling this disease not only need people that understand it, but they need help. This is a very debilitating disease and it devastates an entire family,” she said.

On a national outlook, donation levels from before and after the challenge prove the movement’s success at bringing awareness to a

“The one thing I hold close to my heart, (social media activism) is causing other people to hold closer to their hearts.”

#Bringback ourGirls On April 15, 2014, 273 girls in Nigeria were kidnapped by a terrorist group named Boko Haram.

17-year-old Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai expressed her wish to “bring back our girls, now and alive.”

(First from left): Senior Mallory Marrs poses with her uncle, who was diagnosed with ALS.

previously invisible cause. According to its website, the ALS Association has received $91.6 million more from July 29 to Aug. 27 of this year compared to that same time period last year. In other words, the organization has seen almost a 3,500 percent spike in donations.

Marrs said she also credits social media activism for allowing unpopular topics to have a chance in the spotlight.

“That’s just the most exciting part to me because (ALS is) getting attention. It should get more attention,” Marrs said. “There are a lot of diseases that should get more attention. There’s a lot of (advocacy for) cancer but then you hear about something else, and it’s nice to hear something else get a little more attention and support from the community. The one thing I hold close to my heart, (social media activism) is causing other people to hold closer to their hearts.”

Ultimately, O’Dell said she finds social media activism is most effective not just at promoting a topic, but also at promoting a public’s future.

“I do believe social media will continue to push women’s equality forward. Through social media and Facebook shares and people reposting on Instagram, people will become more aware of the inequality that women face in modern society and a lot of people upon being exposed to that will create their own opinions on things that they never really had opinions about before,” she said. “I know it sounds cheesy and stereotypical but we are the future. We’re going to grow up to be the people who are in positions of power and who have H the opportunity to change views in society.”

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lucus cheng

Sept 11, 2014

Scott liu

maze runner

new dystopian film to come out Sept. 19

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HE MOVIE TITLED “The Maze Runner” is set to make its debut on Sept. 19 in theaters across America. The movie is based off of the first book of the Maze Runner series, The Maze Runner. It is anticipated to have many of the same characters that were present in the original book. Like many movies that have recently been released, “The Maze Runner” focuses on a dystopian society that takes place in an area called The Glade.

The story starts out with the protagonist Thomas waking up in a lift that takes him above ground into The Glade where he is greeted by its members. Thomas discovers that every single inhabitant of The Glade is male and that they have all lost their memory, having no recollection of what happened prior to when they were placed in The Glade. However, they have all discovered that what lies outside of their living area is a huge and ever-changing maze, which seems to be the only way out. The only problem is no one has ever made it out alive from the maze. Things turn upside down when a girl, the first girl ever, arrives inside the lift that brought all the other boys and delivers the terrifying

message that she is the last person ever to be sent through the lift into The Glade. Now, it is up to the members of The Glade to find their way out or to be destroyed by the terrors that the maze holds.

The cast features a variety of actors and actresses from multiple acting backgrounds.

Dylan O’Brien, who plays Stiles in the hit television series “Teen Wolf,” takes the role of lead actor by playing Thomas. A series of upand-coming actors and actresses such as Ki Hong Lee will also be featured in the film.

Compared to other dystopian films, “The Maze Runner” brings a different feel to the genre. Unlike in other dystopian movies such as “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent,” the boys living in The Glade are free to roam about the maze and even make up their own rules and roles within their society. However, “The Maze Runner” does seem to have a higher entity that controls what goes on in the maze. Someone or something seems to regulate everything that happens in the maze, from providing supplies to the boys to

Dylan O’Brien, “Thomas”

controlling at what time the gates that lead outside The Glade close.

This theme of a higher group of people is very similar to that of other dystopian films. “The Maze Runner” seems to bring a new pitch to the dystopian theme by giving its characters a bit more independence than those in other dystopian movies.

Due to the success of the book, the promotions and other dystopian movies, “The Maze Runner” is slated to be a big success. Theaters could be as full as they were for many other dystopian movies like H this.

DID YOU KNOW? According to Dylan O’Brien, due to the dangerous, snake-ridden location of the set of The Glade, he had an anxiety dream the day before filming in which he had been bitten by a poisonous snake.

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Thomas

GALLY

Gally bullies Thomas on his first day in The Glade.

He believes he remembers Thomas from somewhere and does not like him. Gally is not popular among the rest of the Gladers.

Teresa is the only girl to be present in The Glade. She delivers a chilling message that everything in the maze is going to change. Thomas feels as though he knows Teresa from somewhere.

MINHO

Minho is one of the original Gladers. He is the leader of a group called the Runners, who scour The Maze everyday in hopes of finding an exit. He is a bold, dependable leader.

newt

Newt used to be a Runner and is second-in-command in The Glade. He is sarcastic but quickly makes friends with Thomas by explaining how The Glade functions.

Newt is Albyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend.

THE CHARACTERS

Thomas is the protagonist.

He comes into The Glade with all his memories wiped, just like every other boy there. He is quick to make friends and enemies among the members of The Glade.

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ALBY

Alby is the leader of The Glade members. After a bad accident inside the maze, he stays within The Glade.

He is a bit hot-headed but experienced.

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ELLEN peng

Q&A

Q&A WITH THE NEW CHoiR directors With the introduction of three new directors, the CHS choir program will undergo changes while maintaining some traditions. This year, CHS welcomes Director of Choirs Kathrine “Katie” Kouns, Associate Director John Burlace and Associate Director Joseph Foltz.

Director of Choirs Kathrine “Katie” Kouns Directs the Ambassadors, Accents, Blue & Gold Company, Allegro and Counterpoints and helps with one of the Applied Music classes.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish as one of the new choral directors?

A: We’re trying to put a big emphasis on all of the ensembles, so everybody feels important no matter where they are. They (will) all still feel a part of something special. We are also trying to make sure that the groups have a wide variety of music.

Q: What is music to you?

A: I think that music is one of the greatest expressions of who we are. It’s kind of cliché, but it’s a universal language. It just applies to everyone, and everyone can connect to music. I just think that sometimes we seldom concentrate on the beauty in the world and just enjoying life. And I think that music gives us that opportunity.

Associate Director of Choirs John Burlace Directs the Ambassadors, Blue & Gold Company, Select Sound and the Counterpoints.

Q: What changes, if any, will you be making to the choral department?

A: There is a natural sense of change since all three teachers in the choral department are new. We will bring some new ideas, visions and goals. However, I hope to remain true to the traditions and legacy that made CHS the place I (wanted) to be.

Q: What have music and working with students taught you?

A: Everything. They have taught me passion, compassion, expression, artistry, work ethic and so much more. Teaching music is the best job in the world. I get paid to come to “work” and help students make their dreams come to life. All the while, my dreams get to come true one class at a time.

Associate Director of Choirs Joseph Foltz Directs Allegro, Encores, New Edition, Descants and Counterpoints and teaches Applied Music.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish now as a new associate director?

A: Just giving all of the students who come through our program a great experience. We can sit and drill notes and music and dance moves all day long, but the really important part is that they feel as though this experience has helped shape them as a person. We all learn something from what we do, and us three are hopeful that music can teach all of the students something that they can take (home).

Q: What has music taught you that you want to teach your students?

A: It has taught me…how lucky I am and how fortunate we are…since not everyone has the opportunity to do the things they love. It has taught me something (that) I hope to share with my students. That is, to find your passion whatever that is…and to make that a part of you.

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STUDIO ONE ACTS

COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

Studio one acts to run from sept. 25 to 27

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EPT. 25 TO 27, the cast and crew members of the Studio One Acts plan to host a series of short plays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Studio Theater. According to Kinsey Erickson, student director and senior, the performances provide opportunities for anyone who has an interest in theatre and comedy to watch or partake in fast-paced plays.

“Studio One Acts are four oneact plays that seniors at Carmel High School, who have been selected, direct,” she said. “(The performance) is a really fun way to get introduced to theater at the high school. It’s the freshmen’s first opportunity this year to see a play.”

Jim Peterson, producer and sponsor of the Studio One Acts, said he agrees with Erickson and that students should look forward to the originality of the plot and setup behind each performance. “(The show) is not a formal sitdown, and (the plays) always have a funny twist to them, so I think they should really look forward to having a good time. It’s a lot of fun, and it’s a short-attention span theater,” he said. “They’re great because they’re short and are oneacts, and they’re shorter than a lot of one-acts. Some of them may only be like 10 or 20 minutes long.

It’s kind of fun in that format to go really quickly and move on to see another story.”

Erickson said the directors choose published plays that have

a comical plot in order for their audience to have an enjoyable experience. For this very reason, Erickson has chosen “The Plaid Man” because in the it, Cupid and Death are in a manipulative relationship. “(Death and Cupid) are dating, and what they do for is fun is they take control of other couples and make them fight so they have a live-action drama of them for their kicks and giggles,” Erickson said.

“So on their date, they’re having a nice dinner. They’re controlling this couple, George and Martha, and they’re making them bicker back and forth. In the process of that, Death and Cupid actually start talking about their future and relationship, and they’re doing it through George and Martha. So it’s really crazy, but it’s fun. It’s a

STUDIO FUN: In the Studio Theater, director and senior Kinsey Erickson directs rehearsal for the upcoming Studio One Acts. The acts will include four one-act, comedic plays.

lot of ridiculous situations.

In addition to The Plaid Man, there are three more plays: Driver’s Test, Soap Opera and May the Best Fan Win. According to Haley Glickman, cast member and junior, in Driver’s Test, a woman attempts to get her license from her zany driving instructor. In Soap Opera, a man falls in love with his washer machine. In May the Best Fan Win, a group of people watch and commentate on another group of people watching a sporting event.

Glickman said although the plots are unusual, people will enjoy the shows because of the comical storylines and situations.

“The One Acts are a lot about physical comedy,” she said. “They sound really weird, but (they) are H actually really funny.”

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Grace Zhang

Akshar patel

Introducing

iOS 8

4.4 KitKat

PhotoKit

iOS 8’s new PhotoKit allows users to crop, straighten, enhance and add filters to pictures immediately after capture. Also iOS 8 will introduce a time-lapse mode to the camera app.

The camera app features a photo editor that contains a number of filters and the ablity to make pre-set settings. However, KitKat does not have a time-lapse mode.

Email

You can mark emails as unread or delete them with a single gesture and you can minimize a message you are composing in order to see the rest of your inbox.

As an attempt to minimize updates, Android has put its stock email app on the app store.

Apple has changed the keyboard to predict what users will type next based on their previous emails and messages.

Android has already had this feature for several updates. There are other apps avaliable that make the keyboard even smarter.

In iMessage, Apple’s iOS 8 allows users to start a group conversation, leave it and delete people from it with relative ease.

KitKat lets you send GIFs and use the Auto Awesome feature to brighten your video chat sessions with Google Hangouts.

Interactive Notifications in iOS 8 will allow for direct action on the notifications for texts, email, reminders and apps without leaving the app that is currently open.

Currently, the Android operating system does not have a similar feature, but it will be a part of the Android L operating system.

Interactive Group Notifications Message

iOS 8

Quick Type

Apple was released iOS 8 on Wednesday Sept. 10 for download. The release was mainly a refresher update that allows Apple to remain competitive. Here is a comparison between iOS 8’s new features and those on Android’s 4.4 KitKat operating system.

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Katie summitt

‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ IS THE NEW BLACK Original TV series achieveS popularity AMONG chs students

The story follows the protagonist Piper Chapman’s 15 month stint in the fictional Litchfield Correctional Facility.

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ITH 12 EMMY nominations, the Netflix original television series “Orange is the New Black” (OTINB) has more than enough to brag about. The series’ popularity caused its increasing fan base to flood social media networks with more than a million Facebook likes and nearly 800,000 Instagram and Twitter followers. OTINB is based on the book by Piper Kerman, who reveals her life as an inmate in a women’s prison. The series changes Kerman’s last name and adds intense drama and entertainment for viewers. In addition to the flooding of social media, Netflix launched “Orange is the New App,” an application accessible to iPhone and Android users which allows fans to share and add their own photos with favorite cast members included.

The conveniences of internet and availability of Wi-Fi virtually everywhere allow Netflix to easily be accessible wherever and whenever. This easy accessibility enables the Netflix original series fan bases to quickly advance in popularity. In addition, iPhone and Android phones have access to the free Netflix app located in the app store. As Netflix continues to add millions of new subscribers, it also continues its competition with HBO. To continue its soaring popularity,

Netflix has had to be more than simply a streaming service that airs the best television shows of other networks. Its had to create its own original programming.

With huge success of the original series, they’re looking to build upon the collection of bingewatching shows according to a Netflix representative. “House of Cards,” “Hemlock Grove,” OTINB, “Lillyhammer,” “Marco Polo,” “Narcos,” “BoJack Horseman,” “Sense8” and “The Killings,” all Netflix original series’, have all set it apart from all on-demand programs and will continue doing so as subscriber’s accessibility to Netflix rapidly increases.

According to a Netflix representative, fans seem to be actively interacting with fellow fans mainly through the show’s official Facebook page which results in a domination over existing Netflix original series like “House of Cards”, “Arrested Development” and “BoJack Horseman”. While OTINB got glowing reviews and higher ratings than the previously listed Netflix original series, Ethan Szuhaj, social media fanatic and junior, said he frowns at the series’ domination “I see a lot of Facebook and Twitter posts about the show and from what I’ve seen of it I think it is concretely split between sexes.”

Szuhaj added that the convenience of the full season’s availability on Netflix makes it easily accessible to many, but “Arrested Development” is still

number one in his viewing queue.

While fans wait for season three to debut, Natalie Tanchon, bingewatcher and sophomore, said she believes fans will not be disappointed as long as a few changes are made.

“I hope that the Twitter rumors about previous seasons inmates (cast members) eventually come back and reunite with the main character, Piper at Litchfield Prison again,” Tanchon said.

More and more people are discovering the show at their own pace, and the “Orange” hype only seems to be growing.

“Watching the series unfold and grow across the world and especially across social media is super exciting,” Tanchon said. “Jenji Kohan (creator of OTINB) has done it again!” H

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Sara yung

BLAZIN’ A NEW TRAIL

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A REVIEW OF CARMEL’S NEWEST PIZZA JOINT, “BLAZE FAST FIRE’D PIZZA” LAZE FAST FIRE’D PIZZA

puts the “fast” in fast food. A crisp crunch of crust burst into my palate with the first bite.

As I continued chewing, however, my Art Lover’s pizza revealed the creamy consistency of ricotta cheese and softly roasted artichoke hearts; the symphony of textures blended fabulously.

I’ve been to numerous pizza joints in the Carmel area, but Blaze Fast Fire’d-Pizza (Blaze) is the first I’ve seen to lay out all its ingredients and allow customers to point to and select toppings for customized pizzas. This unique layout really speeds up the longer wait time for pizzas to be prepared and baked.

While I’m used to waiting 20, sometimes 30 minutes for a pizza at a sit-down restaurant, Blaze’s 800-degree oven cranks pies out in about 10 minutes.

It was also a pleasant surprise to be greeted with warm hospitality at the doorsteps. The employees immediately asked for my name

when I ordered and addressed me personally as I picked out toppings.

When the order was ready, they called me up to the register for the pies, which came on individual serving plates, greater enhancing to the personalized feel of the restaurant.

But let’s get down to the main course of this review: the taste. All of Blaze’s pizzas feature a thin-crust.

While the restaurant emphasizes custom-made pizzas, customers can also order one of its nine signature pizzas, which I got for this review.

I ordered the Art Lover, Veg Top, White Top and Meat Eater. The Meat Eater was particularly greasy, and while the name suggests a copious mound of meat, mine just had one or two sausage chunks and a piece of pepperoni on each slice.

It is a very heavy-tasting pie and after eating it I felt like I completed my caloric intake for the day. The Veg Out pizza, however, had much more balanced flavor. Despite only having vegetables, the pizza was so wholesome I didn’t even notice

ART LOVER’S LOVE: The Art Lover’s pizza, shown here, is one of the many offered at Blaze’s.

It features red sauce, artichokes, mozzarella and ricotta cheese and chopped garlic.

the lack of meat. I found the White Top pizza to be the easiest to eat, but contained little sauce and was much dryer than the others. The fresh arugula on top added a fresh brightness, along with slight hint of pepper. Finally, my favorite: the Art Lover pizza. There was a good ratio of cheese to sauce and the flavors balanced without any competing for dominance. But just like Meat Eater, eating the Art Lover pizza can be messy. The red sauce dollops both overpowered chunks of the pizza and made it difficult to eat without creating a mess. Overall, the pizzas tasted good but lacked uniqueness and variation. After trying out all the slices, I couldn’t distinguish the signature pies from one another.

Judging solely on taste, I would rate Blaze a 3.5 out of 5.

However, the silver lining for Blaze’s is its speedy and hospitable service. It truly puts the “fast” in fast food and if anyone is in for a quick and fun place to eat, Blaze is the H place to go.

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Entertainment Briefs

FÜTBOL to “FIFA 15” will be released on Sept. 23. It promises to bring with it more realistic attacking runs, player memories (your team will show emotion based on how well—or poorly—they play), more realistic goalkeepers and more intelligent teammates who will be able to recognize what’s happening in a match and adjust their strategy accordingly.

“Forza Horizon 2” the newest addition to the popular Forza franchise, will be released on Sept.

30. This game will bring the realistic driving mechanics the series is known for combined with an arcade-like feel, a vast open world set in southern Europe for you to explore and over 200 cars to choose from.

FERRARIS G A M E S T O P, A I R H E A R L D . C O M / S O U R C E S

“We sort of treated it as a vacation from the start and all vacations come to an end,” ADAM REED, CREATOR OF THE

TELEVISION SHOW “ARCHER,” STATING THE END OF “ARCHER VICE” IN THE UPCOMING SEASON

UPCOMING ALBUMS OCT. 7 “YOU’RE DEAD!” FLYING LOTUS Hip-hop producer and rapper Steve Ellison, better known by his stage name “Flying Lotus,” will be releasing his much anticipated album “You’re Dead!” next month.

The album will feature artists ranging from jazz great Herbie Hancock to rapper Snoop Dogg.

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“WORLD ON FIRE” SLASH

“BLOOD MONEY LA FAMILIA” SEPT. 22 THE GAME “THIS IS ALL YOURS” SEPT. 30 ALT-J “ART OFFICIAL AGE” PRINCE METACRITIC / SOURCE

SPORTS

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AARON SEALS

NEW COACH, SAME GOAL

men’s cross-country team attempts three-peat

FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS,

the men’s cross-country team has brought the state title to CHS and has been ranked #1 preseason. In addition, for the past two seasons, the men’s cross-country team had an assistant coach.

He is now the head coach.

Colin Altevogt, world language teacher and men’s cross-country head coach, has taken over as men’s cross-country head coach this past summer.

“We’re excited,” Altevogt said. “Three varsity guys are back from last season, including the best guy in the state, and our young guys are doing a great job.”

Altevogt previously was assistant coach for the men’s cross-country team, where he had “written the training program.”

KYLE CRAWFORD

Altevogt said that he still writes the training program as head coach, but he also “measures time standards.”

To make the team, which is 99 strong, Altevogt said they had to meet a benchmark running time. It differs from grade to grade.

Two of those boys who made the team are juniors Thomas Revard and Ben Veatch, both of whom are coming off a strong season last year and will run varsity this year.

“We think Altevogt is the right guy for the job, and we expect to do great things,” Veatch said. “Besides

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NEW COACH, SAME GOAL

winning the State championship, which is a team goal, Coach Altevogt’s goal is to improve every runner on the team, no matter how fast he may be or how slow he may be.”

“We’re all family,” Revard said.

“Altevogt is also working to bring the girls and boys cross country teams together again in terms of the meets we travel to so we have that ‘family bond’ thing that faded away when our previous coach took over.”

Altevogt is not only in charge of the cross-country team athletically, but he takes it upon himself to see the

boys do well academically and make sure they go off to college successfully.

Altevogt said that if he saw the boys’ grades drop, he said he would “talk about it. I want to see these boys go to college.”

“I’m in a special SRT for student athletes who are Division I or Division II athletes who struggle academically.

It provides me with a quiet place to study,” Revard said. “Daily life can be a challenge at times, especially since I usually have to make up sleep on the weekends due to athletics and the general academic load. For student-

athletes like me, the most amount of sleep you can hope for is 8-9 hours of sleep.”

In addition, Altevogt said “Teaching helps me as a coach.”

Veatch said he really hopes the team will win the state championship this year.

He said, “We have high expectations this year and hope to improve ourselves along the way.”

“My goal is not only to win the state championship for a third year,” Revard said, “but to be elected to the H All-State team.”

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KARI TRUAX

HOW YOUNG IS TOO YOUNG?

STUDENTS BEGIN WEIGHT TRAINING AT YOUNG AGE TO FEEL MORE Prepared FOR HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS

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T THE AGE OF 13,

bodybuilder and junior Jamie Dash stepped in the gym to lift weights for the first time. Dash, along with many high school athletes, began lifting free weights in middle school in order to get a step up from other high school athletes.

“I had been going to the gym ever since I was little, but the first time I picked up weights was seventh grade,” Dash said. “I honestly don’t think there is an age that is too young to begin lifting as long as you have someone intelligent about weightlifting with you.”

According to American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), recent studies show that adolescents can begin to engage in weight training with limitations.

ACSM states that within the last decade, weightlifting has become more and more popular for younger ages. Youth who are beginning to lift weights need to have professional supervision and an age-specific routine to follow.

Kevin Wright, football team Head coach and weight coach, said he agrees with ACSM that youth should begin lifting weights while they are in the middle school level, but need to take precautions. Wright said beginning lifters should start out by developing core strength, speed and flexibility.

“Strength training has to go along with flexibility and you have to have a base program in which you are building core strength. Research shows when there are injuries in younger

mike johnson WEIGHTING FOR SUCCESS: Bodybuilder and junior Jamie Dash works out during Advanced Physical Conditioning.

Dash first started lifting at the age of 13.

athletes it is from lack of core strength,” Wright said.

For Dash, beginning weightlifting at a younger age has put him a step up from other athletes and bodybuilders. After taking part in competitions, Dash said he realized that it would have been more of a challenge for him to be successful if he began lifting in high school. He said lifting has helped him feel more confident and that lifitng has assisted with prevention of injuries.

“I believe there are absolutely no negatives to being strong, unless your strength comes from an

unstructured and unhealthy diet.

It is very important to follow a strict diet and routine as a bodybuilder.” Dash said.

Both Dash and Wright agreed the competitive level of high school athletics would be altered if all athletes didn’t begin weight lifting until high school. Wright said waiting until freshman year to start weightlifting would cause many injuries now that athletes are competing more frequently these day between school and out of school teams.

“With youth sports now a day you are playing

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so many games that you almost have to incorporate strength pieces so that when athletes get to high school they are prepared for the vigorous sports,” Wright said.

Dash said weightlifting in middle school was beneficial for him, but Jacob Abrams, sophomore and basketball player, said weightlifting before high school is the reason behind many youth injuries.

Abrams began lifting his freshman year in the basketball preseason. Abrams said he never experienced any injuries while participating in middle school sports and that at this age your body is still developing and not ready for weights.

“Lifting earlier would not have helped me because when you are younger your muscles are still developing. And if you lift while you aren’t fully developed, there is potential it can hurt your body,” said Abrams.

“I wasn’t doing any strenuous lifts, so my body wasn’t being over worked.”

According to ACSM, weight lifting for children is more beneficial than hurtful. Dash agreed and said he was eager to begin lifting when he was in middle school. He feels he has benefited exceptionally from getting a step ahead of other athletes and that he has prevented many potential injuries he could have faced.

“It’s not about how young you start. Dash said, It’s about how well you understand it.”

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WEIGHING THE WEIGHTS matthew han

BODY WEIGHT

A lot of benefit is gained from simply using your body weight. Exercises like pull ups can be done relying on body weight alone. Plus, it often gets quicker results.

kettle bells

Kettle bells are simply a heavy weight with a wide handle attached.

The simplicity make it a part of several exercises.

It involves multiple muscle groups and provides a quick cardio and muscular workout.

dumb bells

Dumb bells have a great variety of uses. They are small, portable, and are available in several different fixed or adjustable weights.

SETTING THE BAR: Bodybuilder and junior Jamie Dash lifts quite often. He said that lifting at a young age was beneficial to him.

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Bar bells

Bar bells typically consist of a weight bar and sets of free weights that you can add to the bar to adjust the resistance weight. The versatility of weight makes this an advantage, and it gives a stable feel when lifting. www.overstock.com / SOURCE

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CYNTHIA YUE

Students learn yoga, meditation to relieve stress, consider mindfulness

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OLINE ZHONG, YOGA STUDENT AND SENIOR had studied for her final examination for weeks but found herself panicking the night before the exam. As she continued to study, her notes and papers were scattered across her workspace, reflecting the panic rising within her.

One year later, after participating in a six-week yoga and meditation class, Zhong feels much more peaceful and relaxed than she had previously.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs, which include yoga and meditation, are meant to help people relieve stress. According to Diana Singleton, Clinical Coordinator of Buchanan Counseling Center and MBSR Workshop instructor, mindfulness is the practice of focusing on the moment in the now and being present in the moment nonjudgmentally.

“Our mind typically is most comfortable going either into the past and thinking about regrets or replaying stories from our paths, or we’re in our future, thinking about what we have to do or worrying about what we need to accomplish or what we need to study or take care of, and we’re not very often just in the moment, in the now,” Singleton said. “And so, when I say the now, I mean just this now, just this moment, so you train your mind to just focus on being in the very moment that you’re in.”

Zhong, who practices yoga and meditation, has not practiced mindfulness, said meditation and yoga have helped her focus on the present instead of the past.

“I remember my yoga teacher always said, ‘Forget the past; forget what you did before you came to my class today; just focus on right now; focus on what is in front of you right this moment.’ I love this quote because it fits the definition of mindfulness,”

I DON’T RELIEVE IT: Junior Joline Zhong balances on one foot.

Zhong said yoga makes her feel more peaceful and relaxed.

Zhong said.

Originally, mindfulness was associated with spiritual practices and had been in faith communities until more recent times. According to Singleton, Jon Kabat-Zinn, founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, brought mindfulness practices to the medical community.

Singleton said, “It can be for people who have medical conditions.

I have all kinds of different folks that come to my class, so I have people, a lot of people who come who have stress-related jobs at Methodist Hospital. Some of them have medical conditions, but many of them have work-related stress.”

Singleton said the purpose of mindfulness is to decrease stress and fight-or-flight chemicals in the mind and body. “(Brain-body chemistry includes) an increased pulse rate, an increased heart rate; all of that brain-body chemistry is appropriate if your stressor was something like you

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needed to get away from a sabertoothed tiger but now, in our current environment, we don’t have those kind of threats,” Singleton said. “The threats are more psychological, like we’re fearful that we won’t do well on a test, and that will result in impairing our future, so that chemistry actually isn’t useful anymore to us, so we have to counteract it. Mindfulness actually elicits rest-and-digest chemistry, so it’s the opposite of fight-flight-freeze chemistry; it’s rest-digest chemistry.”

According to Singleton, participants of the MBSR program she teaches practice formal meditation with the body scan meditation, gentle yoga, sitting meditation and walking meditation.

One of the meditation practices Zhong does is the sitting meditation.

She first practices her yoga poses for

about 20 minutes, and after the yoga, she meditates for about 10 minutes.

“When you do meditation, it helps clear your mind and helps you think in a better way,” Zhong said.

Singleton said MBSR programs are also helpful for students who are stressed.

Student Assistance Coordinator Jane Wildman said, “(CHS) is a very academic school, and a lot of the parents are educated, some highly educated, and it causes a particular climate here. Kids feel a lot of stress to do well, you know, competition to get in the best schools or competition to beat their peers. There’s all sorts of academic stress, so in addition, a lot of students have stresses outside the school, stresses with family (or) friends. A lot of outside influences can cause stress that prevents students

or makes it very difficult for students to focus at school.”

Zhong said she can think straight without being stressed and can study better for tests as well after doing yoga and meditation, which are also practices of MBSR programs.

“I think (an MBSR program) would be a good program. I mean I would go into it if I signed up for it. I think that goes well with yoga.

They both help relieve stress, and even if you’re not having a hard time, I think yoga and mindfulness, I think it’s great to learn, and it’s very essential to have,” Zhong said.

Now, the morning has come, and as Zen music fills the room while she lies on the yoga mat with her palms facing the ceiling, Zhong closes her eyes, relaxing and clearing her mind from stress. H

BALANCING STRESS: Junior Joline Zhong closes her eyes and relaxes while she does yoga. Zhong said yoga helps her think straight.

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THIS IS INDIANA

Indianapolis should no longer be overlooked a ALL IN FOR O INDIANA citiesjournal.com released a list for the top 13 best sports cities in the United States. Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami were on the list. Guess what city did not make the list? Indianapolis.

As a person who has lived in the Indianapolis metropolitan area for nearly my entire life, I was appalled at the fact that Indianapolis was left out.

While Indianapolis has that small-city feel and is not as GMN Liaison big as cities such as New York Arsalan Siddiqui or Chicago, which did appear on the list, the impact our city has on the sports world is vital.

For starters, Indianapolis hosted Super Bowl XLVI three years ago. In an interview with WTHR three days before that Super Bowl, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell praised the hospitality of the people in Indianapolis. As a matter of fact, Indianapolis bid to host the Super Bowl in 2018. Although Indy lost that bid to Minneapolis, a Forbes.com article published three months ago stated that Indianapolis will most likely be successful in hosting future Super Bowls..

Moreover, the Indianapolis Colts also play a vital part in the NFL community. In the last 10 years, the Colts have made a name for themselves with superstars such as quarterback Peyton Manning, receiver Reggie Wayne and running back Edgerrin James. Furthermore, the Colts showed the NFL they are a team to beat as they made it to the playoffs nine times in the last 10 years.

Lucas Oil Stadium, the home of the Colts’, is packed with fans during home games. Last season, fans filled up 104.7 percent of the stadium’s maximum capacity during home games, which counted fourth in the league.

Football is not the only way that Indianapolis affects the sports world. The city is significant in basketball as well. Indiana is known as a hotbed for basketball and the state capital hosts the state’s NBA team, the Indiana Pacers. In the 1990’s and the 2000’s, the Pacers were one of the most dominant teams in the NBA. Fans also adored retired player Reggie Miller when he played for the Pacers from 1987-2005. Just in the past three years, N APRIL 26,

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the Pacers were one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference, as they earned a three seed or better in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Like Miller, Paul George, an up-and-coming small forward, has become a fan favorite and franchise player.

The NFL and the NBA are not the only ways that Indianapolis influences the sports world.

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headquarters is in Indianapolis so the city has a major effect in the collegiate sports world. Additionally, Indianapolis hosts the Final Four every five years as well as the Big Ten basketball tournament and the Big Ten football championship.

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Seattle, an up and coming sports city, also has some of the most raucous fan bases in the nation.

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Indianapolis has has a successful history with their sports teams. It is also the home of the Big Ten tournament every year and has hosted the Super Bowl previously.

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in the city. Fans in the spring and summer head over to Victory Field and watch the Indianapolis Indians. Last spring, Indianapolis launched a new professional soccer team known as the Indy Eleven.

An average of 10,375 spectators have watched each Indy Eleven game since the team launched last spring. Even in autoracing, Indianapolis has made a name for itself as the Indianapolis Motor

Speedway hosts both the Indy 500 and the Brickyard 400 annually.

While Indianapolis does not have a big media market like those of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the city has a crucial importance in the sports world whether it’s in the NFL, NBA, NCAA or minor league teams.

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With a strong start to the season, the men’s soccer team continues it’s season versus North Central High School at Murray Stadium.

SEPT. women’s volleyball 16 CARMEL VS LAWRENCE NORTH

The women’s volleyball team plans to continue it’s season against the Lawrence North Wildcats at the Eric Clark Activity Center.

SEPT. women’S SOCCER 17

CARMEL VS WARREN CENTRAL

With the soccer season off to a great start this year, the women’s soccer team will oppose Warren Central at their stadium.

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The women’s golf team hopes to continue it’s regular season success and carry it’s momentum into the IHSAA sectionals which are hosted at Ben Davis. shiva vallabhaneni

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Staff editorial: Water pressure

STAFF EDITORIAL

Water pressure.

Don’t donate to ALS because of peer pressure.

“IT’S NOT HOW MUCH WE GIVE but how much love we put into giving.”

Mother Theresa could not be more correct, especially when it comes to the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon that has consumed social networks such as Facebook and Twitter for most of this summer. From June 1 to Sept. 3, there have been more than 1.2 million ice bucket challenge videos on Facebook and 2.2 million more on Twitter, including celebrity challenges. In this same span of time, there have been over $107.4 million donated to the ALS Association compared to the $2.5 million during the same time period last year. However, even though those who do donate seem to be good people, the motive to

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donate must change; most people participate in the challenge purely out of social peer pressure. Mother Teresa is right: Raising awareness for any cause should be from the kindness of the heart, not from the desire to maximize the number of likes on a post.

With peer pressure everywhere, especially on social media nowadays, we believe that increased awareness for ALS has merely become a product of extreme peer pressure. Another example of social activism was in 2012 when the #Kony2012 movement helped steer the United States toward sending 100 military personnel to capture the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony in order to free the children he had enslaved; this is an example of social activism that was very effective in accomplishing the goal that was set, and came from the kindness of people’s hearts because there was not a challenge involved.

However, this is an exception. Even though the end result is usually positive for campaigns that are spread by social media, the motive to participate in activism must change for all such causes. Students should be using this trend as an opportunity to educate themselves and get involved in increasing the awareness for the cause out of the kindness of their hearts, not as an opportunity to fit in with everyone else on social media. We are asking students to rise above the status quo; it is encouraged just to donate to a certain cause instead of posting something to social media. Even if the $100 donation is not feasible, a simple $35 donation that comes from the heart is more morally valuable by far than a celebrity’s $1 million donation and a post that gets 200,000 likes on Facebook just as a publicity stunt. We want students to help purely towards the cause with their hashtags, not their own position on the social ladder.

In the end, kindness is what matters the most because as Mother Theresa pointed out, there is much more love put into giving out of kindness regardless of the amount donated. Even if a campaign such as the ALS challenge dies down, which like all other trends, it inevitably will, those who donate purely out of kindness will continue to donate and to raise awareness. If this is true, then the motive to donate is purely out of the kindness of the heart.

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Philanthropy’s consequences and the questions charity raises.

THE ICY WATER ENVELOPS ME and I gasp. Millions

before me have already taken that same plunge.

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is the most recent in a long line of social media activism campaigns.

However, as a movement that has raised a significant amount of money and awareness for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) research, it also raises serious questions about philanthropy in our world today.

One of the most significant issues with philanthropy is the effect of moral licensing. Once people have behaved in a way they perceive as “morally good” (donating to charity, recycling, pouring ice water on their heads), they tend to become liberated to engage in more morally questionable behavior that they would have otherwise avoided. They think if they do something bad later, it’s okay because they already donated or recycled earlier. Philanthropy itself is not to blame for this effect. Rather, it is the way we as a society perceive charitable and morally good actions.

Too frequently, we act because of narcissistic rather than altruistic tendencies: We often care more about looking good, rather than actually doing good. We want “good person” points. This is unsurprising, because there is a lot of social pressure to support charitable causes.

Moral licensing precipitates another problem: funding cannibalism (no, this does not mean donating money for people to eat other people). Funding cannibalism is the phenomenon of a well known and widely supported movement “cannibalizing” funds from another cause.

Because of moral licensing, we are likely to limit the amount of money we donate. Thus, if we funnel money into one cause, we neglect others. Coupled with the power of social media, funding cannibalism calls into question our assumptions about activism—primarily that “all causes are equally important.” Indeed, even charities are unequal: some are more efficient and cost effective than others. It is imperative that we prioritize who and what we support. Should we, for example, be giving $100 to ALS when every $300* donated to UNICEF could save a child’s life? (If you want to satisfy your altruistic urges and license yourself to lie to your parents later or something, go to http://www.unicefusa.org/help/donate. If your parents ask, I never said it was okay to lie to them.)

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When we consider the power of $300, many more questions arise. When donating, where do we draw the line? If every $300 could save another child’s life, is there a point where we stop? Do you really need a new phone, which is worth two lives? How about a car? A college education? Groceries? And what about the time value of money? If we assume one is smart with their money, $300 could turn into $600 in the future. If we wait a few years, we could potentially save the lives of two children rather than just one.

But then we must consider the urgency of the causes those $300 would have gone to. For example, if our donation today is the last step to eradicating cancer, and prevents millions of people from suffering during the next decade, it seems obvious we would donate today rather than donate twice as much in a decade.

Are you confused yet? Good. Philanthropy is not simple, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.

As a relatively prosperous community in a developed country, we are undoubtedly obligated to use our resources to better the world. But before we do, we must be sensitive to the consequences of our actions. Some poor, thirsty child could be drinking that water you just dumped on yourself. *In New York University philosopher Peter Unger’s 1996 book “Living High and Letting Die,” he calculates the cost of saving a child via UNICEF or Oxfam America donations to be approximately $200, which includes providing food, water, shelter, and medical care from the ages of 2 to 6. Accounting for inflation, the modern day cost H would be $300.

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

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BREAK OUT

KYLE WALKER

BReak Out.

Shooting of Michael Brown reveals nationwide need for change in attitude.

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of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, an article by The New York Times, “Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise,” characterized Brown as “no angel.”

Although Alison Mitchell, the publication’s national editor, defended the article as a “nuanced story about the young man,” the social media universe exploded, with the hashtag #noangel quickly accumulating thousands of mentions. Outrage ensued also from the media’s portrayal of Brown through photos, one of which was seized by several blogs proclaiming that Brown’s flashing of a “gang sign” reveals he was a “thug.”

Unfortunately, his story is no anomaly. Brown was one of at least four unarmed black men to die at the hands of police officers in August alone. In a 2002 study published from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Chicago, participants played a game in which they pressed “shoot” in a video simulation if they thought a suspect was holding a gun. Psychologists have found students are more likely to shoot an unarmed black person than an unarmed white person.

The problem doesn’t even end with a tendency by police officers to err on the side of shooting unarmed black men.

A The Huffington Post article “When the Media Treats White Suspects and Killers Better than Black Victims” highlights our disturbing tendency to “put the victim on trial”: A contrast exists between the headlines “Ala. suspect brilliant, but social misfit” describing a former professor who murdered three colleagues in 2010 and “Montgomery’s latest homicide victim had history of narcotics abuse, tangles with the law” reporting the shooting of a 25-year-old black man this year. The Staten Island Advance notes the brilliance of Eric Bellucci, a mentally ill man who allegedly killed his parents, while NBC News mentions Trayvon Martin’s disciplinary issues. This is the trend from which anger erupts at Brown’s depiction primarily as “no angel”; it seems some view deviation from perfection in minorities’ behavior as an excuse for officers to act as juries, judges and executioners.

What impact does this have on CHS students, as we are neither police officers nor reporters for media with a nationwide audience? A trend of police shootings of young, unarmed black men and their subsequent portrayals in the media serve as a reflection, rather than a cause, of the societal perception of minorities even today.

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WO WEEKS AFTER THE POLICE SHOOTING

The racial makeup of Carmel is 85.4 percent white, with only 3.0 percent African American. The median household income in 2010 was $101,494, almost twice the 2012 national average. It’s easy to see how this school’s students can become contented with a mostly white, middle-class existence. But as Farrah Gray, American businessman and motivational speaker, said, “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

A few weeks after Brown’s death, I attended Broadway United Methodist Church in downtown Indianapolis. It was a change both from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where I usually attend, and from Carmel. The sidewalks and buildings on the drive there were not the well-maintained ones I’ve become accustomed to in this affluent community; the congregation consisted of all ages and ethnicities, both of those well-off on the socioeconomic spectrum to those living below the poverty line. What struck me most was a testimony from a black member of the church of an encounter with the police in his youth that left him with 21 stitches. His days of being bitter, he claimed, were over. In light of the shooting in Ferguson and the aftermath, including a flare-up of racial tensions nationwide, he invited everybody to the church parking lot that Saturday for a kickball game in which everybody, regardless of background, would be welcome to play. “It’s a kickball game for peace,” he said.

We have the option to settle for viewing the world through our current lens of idyllic suburbia, through a perspective that maintains a relative lack of diversity as the norm and regards the world outside city confines as a distant one. In doing so, however, we deprive not only ourselves of the opportunity to experience a world that has more to offer than what is here, but also society of wiser, more cultured members who can succeed in eradicating H perceptions best left in the past.

The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach Kyle Walker at kwalker2@hilite.org.

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Maham nadeem

Never forget.

9/11 is a day of remembrance and respect.

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grew up in it. That is the world we remember, we know no other.

MILITANTS, 3,000 DEATHS. Throughout the years, the topic of the attacks has On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked invariably resurfaced in conversations with my parents, four planes in an attack that rattled the entire nation. my teachers, and just adults I At 8:46 a.m., 13 years ago on this very date, American know.

A commonality in all of Airlines Flight 11 struck the north tower of the World these conversations is the line, Trade Center in New York City. Seventeen minutes “I will never forget what I was later, United Airlines Flight 175 struck the south doing. ” These adults remember tower. Thirty-four minutes after this, American what they were doing, who Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon Building. they were with and what was At 10:03 a.m., the final plane, United Airlines Flight happening as the planes crashed 93, crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. and the towers fell. They can In an attack that lasted merely one hour and 17 relive the tragedy. minutes, 3,000 human lives were lost.

This got me thinking: We call today Patriots Day. We call it a day of n i v e d h a m e y ya p pa n what do we remember in our remembrance, of silence, of commemoration. moment of silence? When we all stand up and Mr. Taking all this into consideration, I sat down about Williams announces a moment of silence on the PA, two weeks ago ready to whip out a passionate column what do we recall? The fact of the matter is that we about how this date has left a profound impact on my can’t possibly have an emotional connection to an life. I stared at my blank word document for an hour, event we hardly remember. To make matters worse, then two. I thought maybe I was just suffering from in every social studies class I’ve taken, my teachers writers block. I texted a friend expecting a vibrant have skimmed past modern history. So, we barely answer to clear up my angle; his response shocked obtain any solid information of this national calamity me. After thinking for a while, he said 9/11 did not through school at least. leave an impact on his life, at least not a personal one.

The solution to our perils simply lies in more At first, I thought that this answer was totally knowledge.

Our apathy is merely a product of absurd. How can such a catastrophe not leave its scar? ignorance.

I urge you all to seize the day and But then I thought about it and mulled the idea awaken your inner patriot. Watch videos, read around in my head. My fellow seniors and I were articles and gain perspective. Learn something around four to five years old at the time. To say that to remember as you stand the attacks changed our lives or our perspectives, before the flag and was, in fact, a ridiculous answer. As it happens, revere this national I highly doubt we have any recollection of a tragedy today. pre-9/11 world.

H 3,051 146,100 So, in effect, we can’t pinpoint a marked Jobs lost in Estimated The views in this column New York significance of this date in our personal lives. number of owing to the children who do not necessarily reflect We did not suddenly transition attacks lost a parent the views of the HiLite staff. into a world of panic or fear Reach Maham Nadeem in the years following at mnadeem@hilite.org. the attack, we 6 $600 /11:

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remembering robin

Remembering Robin.

Find the bigger story, be cognizant of media coverage.

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beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams committed suicide.

He was 63. CNN later reported that Williams had been suffering from severe depression, and had recently made several trips to drug rehab, including a visit this summer.

Williams had admitted to being a former addict and alcoholic.

Williams’s wife revealed that the actor was also in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, which had not yet been made public. Nearly 50 percent of people with Parkinson’s suffer from depression.

As you can imagine, the coverage of this story was wall-to-wall. Several celebrities, including many of Williams’s peers, spouted off on Twitter and various other outlets. Practically all of the statements about Williams were glowingly positive. They honored Williams for his vast comedic talent and genuine personality. Coverage also praised the various projects Williams was involved in, whether or not these films or television shows were acclaimed in their own time.

Although much of this coverage may be true and appropriate, there is a much bigger story here.

Depression affects 14.8 million Americans every year. Depression is involved in more than two-thirds of the 30,000 suicides that occur in the United States every year. Even more alarming, nearly two-thirds of people who suffer from depression do not receive treatment.

Despite how grim that may sound, there is some hopeful data about depressions. About 80 percent of people who sought treatment while depressed said it significantly improved their lives and helped them to recover.

Both of these aspects of depression in America were largely left out of the coverage of Robin Williams’s death. What many in the media may be forgetting is despite Williams’s celebrity profile and huge talent, he was a human being and another victim of depression.

As unique as he was, he was in this case sadly common.

Many people find themselves in the same shoes.

On the other side of the story, Williams was involved in a long-term battle with addiction and was in the early stages of a non-curable, debilitating disease. Many have commented that these circumstances explain his actions. But then again, we must remember that even severe depression can affect anyone. Although certainly, these circumstances could well have been the reason for Williams’s suicide, the idea that only people with addiction and major diseases will commit suicide is rather irresponsible.

Even worse was the attitude taken towards Williams’s suicide by many professional media organizations.

Commenting on Williams’s death, a National Public Radio reporter concluded his remarks about the comedian by commenting, “[Williams] is, as his genie character in ‘Aladdin’ would have it, finally free.”

It is incredibly irresponsible to suggest that suicide is a way for depressed people to “free” themselves.

Again, most people who seek help for issues with depression can make recoveries. The last message we want to send to people is that committing suicide will free them from their pain. Depression is treatable.

Robin Williams was a great talent who brought joy to all of our lives and touched “every element of the human spirit.” He deserves the accolades he has received and is receiving after his death. But for the sake of ratings, all of the media outlets who covered the story left out a well-needed discussion of depression.

Not only about how widespread depression is, but also about how treatable it is.

The full story could have included more of these key facts, and less replays of “Good Morning, Vietnam,” as funny as it is.

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IT’S 9/11.

It’s also my birthday.

Freshman Gabi Rivera was born on Sept. 11, 2000.

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SOME TEACHERS IN THE PAST HAVE SAID even though my birthday is on a

sad day, it’s good that I can still have fun and that the tragedy doesn’t affect how I celebrate,” she said. “People shouldn’t judge me because even though my birthday is sad, I hope that people can recognize that I like to celebrate it because that’s the day I was born.”

“Sometimes people think it’s weird, and sometimes people make fun of it just because that’s my birthday. They just laugh and say, ‘You must never have a good birthday,’ and stuff like that,” she said.

“One time, when we went out to dinner on my birthday, (people there) always ask if there’s any birthday celebrations, and when we said it was me, I just remember me and my friends were getting weird looks because we’re celebrating my birthday on such a sad day.”

“Most of the time whenever I have my friends over, we’ll go out to dinner and then right before we eat, we’ll always pray, so then during that, we always to remember the ones that were lost in 9/11,” she said. “Every time that I do have my birthday, we always take just a moment to recognize that even though we are celebrating, we need to remember what happened on that day.”

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ALL HAIL KALE Oct. 1 is National Kale Day. Here are a few things you should know about what’s being called “the queen of greens” and “a nutritional powerhouse.”

The Family Tree Kale is rich in compounds that are known to fight different cancers, especially colon.

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The high amount of Vitamin K supports normal blood clotting, antioxidant activity and bone health.

Kale is a powerful antioxidant, with a high content of Vitamin A that is very good for the skin.

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Kale is abundant in two cartenoids that prevent UV damage to the eyes.

Kale is part of the cruciferous family tree, which also includes broccoli, brussel sprouts, bok choy, cauliflower and cabbage.

Kale is high in Vitamin C, which benefits the immune system and metabolism and helps with hydration.

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Every leaf of kale you chew adds another stem to your tree of life.

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-Ancient Turkish proverb

How to enjoy kale

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Enjoying Kale:

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Kale can be enjoyed in various forms both raw and cooked, including kale chips, kale soup, kale salad and green juice.

One Cup One cup of chopped kale contains the following vitamins, minerals and nutrients * The percentages are the percent of daily value based on a 2,000 Calorie diet CARE2.COM / SOURCE WEBMD.COM / SOURCE WIKIMEDIA COMMONS / PHOTO

133% Vitamin A 9% Vitamin K Potassium Iron Copper Manganese Phosphorus

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Storing Kale:

Store fresh kale, unwashed, in an air-tight zipped plastic bag for up to five days in the refrigerator.

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Choosing Kale:

To find the freshest kale, look for firm, deeply colored leaves with hardy stems.

Smaller leaves will be more mild in flavor.

2.9 134% g Protein Vitamin C

The fiber in kale helps lower blood cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart disease.

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What it’s good for

33 Calories