Issue #2: 10/25/2018

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Last year, 3,500 LT students were given a survey about their mental health and substance abuse habits. The following data shows the percentage of students who indicated they used these substances.

Freshmen: 41% Sophomores: 58% Juniors: 70% Seniors: 79%

Freshmen: 29% Sophomores: 46% Juniors: 52% Seniors: 58%

Freshmen: 16% Sophomores: 31% Juniors: 52% Seniors: 58% compiled by Tessa Voytovich

The results

While the issue of high school vaping has been thrust into the spotlight—with school

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Source: Illinois Youth Survey

LTTV wins national Emmy award Blackout 2018 basketball coverage makes history

In past years, the pool has been closer to 1,000 or 1,500 entries, making this year more competitive than usual. LT’s coverage was selected among by Harper Hill only four others for the “Live Events” category. @harpss42 “I think if [someone] who didn’t even know about sports production With no facts to back it up, LTTV advisor Bill Allan posted a note watched all five entries, it would be very clear which one is the most proon the station’s website in 2007 naming it the best high school television fessional looking and sounding,” Allan said. “It’s ours hands down. We are station in the nation. No one questioned or fought him on this statement. miles above the level of normal sports production.” For games, LTTV travels with a production truck that holds close to Now, 11 years later, this claim has evidence to back it up. LTTV was presented with a national Emmy Award on Oct. 18 for its coverage of the half a million dollars’ worth of equipment. This includes a Tricaster 8000 Switcher, a top professional broadcaster switcher with the ability to do in2018 Blackout basketball game. “It feels good obviously, you can’t deny that,” announcer Max Abra- stant live replays, live video roll-ins and freeze frames. All sounds are conhamson ‘18 said. “To see that your sports department was named the best trolled separately, and everything is done live. LTTV has high-end equipment, but it’s what the crew is nationally, that feeling is realable to do with this equipment ly indescribable.” that sets their production apart After winning first place in from others, Allan said. the Midwest Media Educators Sideline announcer Leo High School Video Festival, Bruni ‘20 agrees: “I believe LTTV was considered for the [the equipment] played a factor National Student Production in the outcome, but I think a Award. A clip from their live bigger factor was how experisports coverage of the 2018 enced everyone was with the Blackout game was nominatequipment. We were trained ed by the National Academy extremely well by Bill Allan of Television Arts & Sciences. and Paul Moorehouse ‘18 to “I’m honored that we even be ready for the game.” got nominated,” Allan said, When selecting the winner, before the announcement of not only is the whole producthe final results. “Just to hear tion reviewed, but there needs Tom Bergeron say ‘Lyons to be a compelling narrative, Township High School Black- LTTV students and staff nervously watch the presention as Tom Bergeron begins to Allan said. The judges are lookout Game’ and to see the clip announce the National Student Production Award winner (Kulat/LION). ing for a production that tells a and know that thousands of people all over the world are going to be watching that live will be an whole story from multiple angles. It is important for sound and audio recording levels to be spot on, as well as camera shots and directing. honor in and of itself.” LTTV was able to perfectly capture the moment Tyrese Shines ‘18 Current and former LTTV students and staff gathered in NC room 17 during eighth period on Oct. 18, eagerly awaiting the results of the awards nailed the shot that sent the basketball game into overtime, Abrahampresentation. They tuned into the live-streamed awards presentation son said. The astute directing, seamless replay and spot-on, passionate anhosted at Emerson College in Los Angeles and captured the celebratory nouncing only added to this coverage of the monumental play, setting LT moment—in their usual nature—on camera, and have posted the reaction apart from the other nominees. “I think we just had our A-crew on that game and everyone bought video on their website. “We exploded with cheers and excitement,” Allan said. “The whole into that game, so it was a very special night,” Abrahamson said. “It just shows that if you believe in what you do and you invest in what you do, group was elated.” There were 2,000 entries across the nation for a total of 15 categories. someday you might get that recognition.”

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A part of why she began using was that she saw all of this substance abuse occurring on social media and eventually started to wonder what all of the hype was about, she said. “I saw people posting on social media photos of them going to parties and drinking,” Carrie said. “You could obviously imply they’re at a party, so I tried throwing my own parties at one point and that’s how people started to know me.” When she started, she never expected to end up trying Xanax, Adderall and more of the “hard

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Our position: In order to help solve LT’s drug problem, the school should randomly drug test athletes and immediately expel drug dealers.

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StaffEditorial

Look here for some quick reads on this issue’s features.

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by Lars Lonnroth @larslonnroth Carrie ‘19 has tried almost all the drugs under the sun. She has vaped. She has smoked marijuana. She has drunk alcohol. She has abused prescription drugs. She has even used LSD— once she did it at school. Carrie, who was granted anonymity in order to discuss her experiences, is also enrolled in AP and honors courses. She gets As and Bs, she said, even while going to school under the influence many days. But when she started using during the summer before sophomore year, what she was really trying to do was to fit in. “People in high school strive to be popular and cool,” Carrie said. “That’s what you want. Not a lot of things matter in high school other than grades, college and being popular. That is basically it. You want to be known, and that is how you do it—going to parties and drinking.”

drugs,” but at first she didn’t think that drinking and having parties were that big of a deal. “I was thinking ‘Alright, this is what people are doing, whatever,’” Carrie said. “I also didn’t think it was that big of a deal since parents drink. They go to the bar with their friends and drink, so I kind of did the same thing.” Some of those sentiments were reinforced by the results of the Illinois Youth Survey, which surveyed around 3,500 LT students last year and looked into the mental health and substance abuse habits of the LT student body. The survey, which most Illinois schools had the choice of taking, reveals that substance abuse at LT seems to occur at a higher level than other schools in suburban Cook County who also took the survey. “You can’t help but worry for our kids and the damage they’re doing to their bodies,” Assistant Principal Kris Costopoulos said. “When you’re unable to think clearly and make good choices, you’re putting yourself in harm’s way.” While some schools like Hinsdale Central didn’t take the survey, 31 local high schools in suburban Cook County did. Scott Eggerding, LT’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction, was involved with organizing the survey through his involvement in the Coalition for a Drug Free Lyons Township. After analyzing the survey’s results, he said that there are a multitude of reasons why substance abuse may be higher at LT. “It’s hard to extricate the school and community and the behavior to simple causal factors,” Eggerding said. “But I think the data at least shows that kids are using and they’re trying things, some more than others.”

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Illinois Youth Survey underscores that drug use at LT exists—and exists at higher level than many other schools in area

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