Issue #7: 5-25-17

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Number of in-school instances of students caught with nictotine products

JUUL: LT’s vape trend Student leaders chosen

Class Board, Student Council positions for 2017-18 school year announced following online, club elections

JUUL e-cigs, pictured, are popular among young adults for their sleek design and discreet nature.

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One JUULpod contains the same amount of nicotine as 20 cigarettes, or one pack.

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Source: juulvapor.com, LT Administration

by Mikaela Larson @mikaela_larson As the spring semester comes to an end, Student Council and Class Board are preparing for the 2017-18 school year. Class Board’s Infinite Campus elections ended on April 28 and named the presidents for the rising sophomores, juniors and seniors. “My goal as president is to keep a balanced budget all year long,” Student Council President-elect Brandt Siegfried ‘18 said. “Ideally, we will never go in debt because this year it took a lot of money to compensate for what we lost in Lionfest. Another thing I would love to have happen is to get homecoming attendance over 3,000 because that is one of our primary incomes for the year.” Student Council officers are chosen through the voting of Student Council members, while Class Board elects are chosen by their respective grades. “I’m super excited to work with the entire [senior] class over the next year,” 2018 Class Board President-elect Amaria Clarke ’18 said. “We started planning

prom, graduation, a class gift and a ton of other stuff for the past few years. Now we finally get to do the real thing.” Class Board and Student Council are two separate, independent clubs. While many people do not recognize the differences, they only overlap for events like the All-School Assembly. Students up for Class Board need to be consistently involved in the club because everything builds up to senior year. For example, planning the senior gift begins as early as freshman year and fundraising often takes place over all four years in order to reach the monetary value, Clarke said. “As students progress and mature, advisors become more hands off,” 2018 Class Board Advisor Jacqueline Alberico said. “Once students go to NC, they are on their own. Members have to decide and plan all fund raisers and follow through with them.” The teaching of responsibility and communication is key to success. It leads to preparation necessary in college and the adult world, Alberico said.

Get to know your 2017-18 leaders! Brandt Siegfried elected Student Council President and Amaria Clark elected 2018 Class Board President.

Student Council President 2017-18

Class Board President 2017-18

“It’s small, but so powerful,” Domanchuck said. He said that small things could be done to improve students’ levels of stress. “It’s the little things that matter.”

by Sheridan Spiess @sheridanspiess During lunch periods on May 3, students gathered in the courtyard to attend the first ever LT stress management day. A team of “stress-busters” welcomed students with live music, bubble wrap and a comfort dog. Most students spent their time petting Angel, the comfort dog, to take stress away caused by studying for AP tests and upcoming finals. “I knew LT was missing something,” Gaby Monte ’18 said. “I was stressed and so were the students around me.” LT counselor Maria Boyle created a team of “stress-busters” for the first time this year. She chose students to discuss stress at LT and how it can be managed Caretaker Mark Stapleton talks to students. (Spiess) by students. In these discussions August Domanchuck ‘17 brought up the idea of a During one of the stress-busters weekly meetstress buster day. Included in the conversa- ings, Emily Flores ‘17 decided to contact her tion was a comfort dog, commonly used on church which participates in a comfort dog procampuses to help students cope with stress. gram. The church brought their comfort dog Angel

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Below, find a quick overview of this month’s issue. Page 2: Learn about the trip students took to China to further their studies. Page 3: Take a look at the plans for the upcoming Relay for Life this June at Bennett Field. Page 4: Read more about two nearly adjacent house fires in Western Springs suspected to be arson. Page 5: Flip to read about Josh Leak’s ‘17 Art Explosion event. Page 6: The last Twitter box of the school year (featuring LION staff) is a must see. Page 7: Read one staffer’s take on why you shouldn’t be excited about season 2 of “13 Reasons Why”. Page 10: Marco... Find out more about LT’s girls and boys water polo teams. Page 11: Read the exciting story behind LT Boys Gymnastics’ best state meet finish ever.

Comfort dog helps students de-stress at NC Dog visits NC courtyard to relieve stress due to AP testing

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in to help students during AP testing. The trained dog is cared for by volunteers in the church who bring her to locations in need of emotional support. She visits places where natural disasters and tragedies have taken place, along with simple visits to patients in hospitals. After a student who attended Cossitt Elementary died earlier this year, Angel visited to help the students. Comfort dogs are able to help those who are stressed, so taking her to school during AP exams made sense to the stress-busters team. “It was really nice to have this opportunity because it makes me smile and think about something besides school for a minute,” Makaela Faldani ‘18 said. Boyle asked her students to look at the different aspects of stress to discover the best way to manage it. This was the school’s first anti-stress day, and they hope to have more in the future. The music and comfort dogs put smiles on students faces and allowed them to de-stress for a day. “Our goal was to help students analyze stress to be able to manage it better,” Boyle said.

Page 12: It’s time again to crown LION’s Athlete of the Year. Pages 14-15: Most LT students look forward to each summer’s music festivals. Learn more about this summer’s festival scene in our two-page spread. Page 16: Read new reviews of the area’s best foreign restaurants. Page 17-20: LiOnion is back, and funnier than ever. Page 22: See this year’s graduating seniors try to beat their The Grid answers from freshman year. Page 23: See a visual breakdown of the 2016-2017 year. Page 24-25: Find out about LION’s favorite memories from the past year. Page 28-31: The longawaited college section. Find out your fellow classmates’ plans for next year.

Find “The Class of 2017’s Mixtape,” this year’s senior section, on pages 21-32.

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