Volume 37, No. 04
March 24, 2016
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Mental Health of Chefs in Spotlight
BY: Dan Salisbury, AOS Culinary
On January 31st, the culinary world was rocked with the suicide of Chef Benoit Violier. Many highly respected chefs took to the Internet to pay their respects, with Paul Bocuse tweeting he was a “great chef, great man, [with] huge talent”. According to a New York Times article written by Dan Bilefsky and Kim Severson, Violier was a
Pedestrian Safety Week
Take for example, the shift beer. A cold reward to surving through another night doing two hundred covers in an hour, to working an oven with a third degree burn that hasn’t properly healed, to dealing with the front of house staff making life miserable, and overall just another day on the job. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM), in 2014 there were an estimated 9.8 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with serious mental illness, or SMI. This number rep-
BY: Joie Luiso, AOS Culinary
Late on thenight of February 14th, CIA student, Justin Arnold, was struck by a car while crossing Route 9 on his way to the Speedway gas station. Justin was left in critical condition due to the vehicle not being able to see him, therefore making no effort to stop or slow down. It is during tragic times like these when we come together as a student body and school community to not only send our thoughts and prayers to Justin and his family, but to spread awareness about student safety and to make changes that will in time, prevent tragedies like this from occurring again. During a recent interview with SGA President Randy Boden, I was informed about the changes that are going to be considered in order to fix an issue that has been prevalent on campus for many years. The administration has taken immediate action after receiving news about this accident. Vari-
Intersection of Route 9 and West Dorsey Lane, where the incident occured. photo courtesy: Jennifer Dunger
ous meetings were held to discuss ways to fix the problem and to educate our students. New speed bumps will be placed around campus to slow down the moving traffic and flashing lights by crosswalks will be placed to allow pedestrians to be more visible. Making these changes would create a safer environment for both drivers and pedestrians. One of the biggest solutions to this
problem would be implementing flashing lights into the cross walks both on campus and on Route 9. Of course with creating solutions come some challenges. The flashing cross walks come at a costly and timely expense in which the administration is still trying to work through. Pedestrian Safety Week is being held from March 28, 2016 to April 1,
farms to feed the world. The only way to keep up with the exponentially growing population and shrinking resource base is to radically change how we produce our food or we could be looking at a huge crisis in the near future. From this need of new farming and production techniques, comes a couple of new practices. One is sustainability, and the other is organic crop production. Organic agriculture, as defined by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB): “Is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain, and enhance ecological harmony.”
Essentially meaning; agriculture with as little man-made input as possible trying to farm, as they perceive at least, the most beneficial to the environment in the agricultural setting. To do this, all uses of pesticides, herbicides, chemical nutrients, genetically modified seeds, will need to be forgotten. Unfortunately, food producers rely more heavily upon the application of manure and, in most cases, are forced into higher tillage to control weed pests. The production of organic food keeps to the main principle of returning organic matter back to the soil. Until 1962, organic agriculture really was not something the general population knew or even cared about. But, in 1962 Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ came into print. The publication was a graphic statement about
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Organic vs. Sustainable
Late Executive Chef of Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Switzerland: Benoit Violer. photo courtesy: time.com
French chef who ran the Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville in Switzerland. He was at the very top of the top; number one in the French ranking “La Liste”, which identifies the top 1,000 restaurants in the world, and was named 2013’s Chef of The Year by the French guide Gault & Millau. Just like that, he was gone. There was no suicide note, no hinting at the action he took, nothing. Perhaps the reason will never be understood, yet what should be understood is that mental illness in the culinary and hospitality industry is far too often overlooked and ignored. Chefs may turn to a stiff drink rather than a therapist, a joint rather than a deep discussion.
resented 4.2% of all U.S. adults. An older survey in 2008 found that just over half (58.7 percent) of adults in the United States with a SMI actually received treatment. Although this survey is nearly ten years old, it concludes that not everyone receives the help they should be getting. Now, place these statistics within the culinary and hospitality industry. How many chefs and cooks have the time, money, and resources to see a therapist, to fill a prescription, and have the willpower to seek help? Far too often, having masochistic and tyrannical qualities is seen as a sign of strength. Yet, having a mental illness or even talking about it, is seen as a weakness.
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Agriculture, to many, is just an industry of cows, pastures, and farmers. Most people cannot even fathom just how essential agriculture is to not just our well-being, but our very lives. People of the United States have been spoiled. Never having to worry about the grocery stores running empty because, even to this day, the problem is not growing fast enough to starve us out as a country. The day though is fast approaching that we could not be able to keep those grocery stores stocked. Due to the depletion of the vital resources needed to produce our food, it is becoming increasingly difficult for today’s
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CIA Dress Code
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SGA Update, Letter Goodbye
BY: Wil Hand, AOS Culinary
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Pedestrian Saftey, Matcha
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“Entertainment”
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“Industry”
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