Vol. 102
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San Francisco, CA 94112
“Licensed to Inform”
Lick Welcomes New Water Polo Team by Cole Crawford ’16
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lustered closely together on the big wooden bench in the foyer as they wait to begin practice, the motley crew of the new Lick-Wilmerding Water Polo Team exudes friendly, inclusive, jovial, and slightly rambunctious energy. This fall marks the inaugural season of the L ick-Wi lmerding Water Polo team. A co-ed team of eighteen boys and seven girls, the group practices on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons at the City College natatorium, located across the street from Lick. Fifteen minutes later, the team is in the water. Coach James “J.D.” Ellingson watches them carefully as they warm up. Ellingson, bearing an impressive beard that somehow matches his stocky and compact build, shouts encouragement and pointers at his athletes. He walks barefoot on the waterslick cement around the edge of the pool; he seems to yearn to jump in the pool himself. Ellingson says that water polo was the perfect sport to add to the Lick sports program. “It fits into the Lick
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Erin Tsang and Kelby Kramer play water polo. photo by Cole Crawford
tradition,” Ellingson insists. “It’s an intellectual sport. There’s very much a team element to it, and it teaches you about respect.” “Water polo is a mix of soccer, wrestling, and hockey,” continues Ellingson. “It facilitates many different styles of play.” A self-described “water kid,” Ellingson grew up near a lake and started swimming competitively at age six. He began playing water polo in the seventh grade, and plays on an amateur team today.
Ellingson says he has been pushing for a water polo team at Lick for years. Starting in February of last year, that dream slowly became realized. The new squad comes as part of a reshuffling of the sports schedule. Recently, Lick’s sports league, the Bay Counties League (BCL) West, elected to move girls soccer to the winter. This move allowed girls to participate in other spring sports, such as lacrosse and track & field. CONTINUED ON PAGE
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Summer Spain Trip is a Huge Success by Loic Marcon ’17
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his summer, Lick-Wilmerding sponsored two student trips abroad. The international trips to Spain and Senegal are lead with the goal of “equipping students with a global connection and understanding. [It] is an important component of graduating students who feel responsible for a creating a world marked by peace and equity,” according to Head of School Eric Temple. The trip to Spain was a two and a half week excursion led by Georgiana Osipova and Rosa Zapatero, two members of the World Languages Department at LWHS. The trip was initiated in the 1980’s, when Osipova led trips with other Lick faculty members. This year, there were 25 students who stepped into the circle. The first five days were spent as a group. They explored Madrid, touring the Royal Palace, two museums, and enjoying the Spanish culture out on the
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street. Afterwards, they drove an hour and a half south to the historic city of Toledo, where they toured churches, synagogues, and mosques dating back to the early 14th century. On their second day in Toledo, in the mid-afternoon, they made their way to Madridejos, a small rural town about an hour south of Toledo, to meet the family that would host each of them for the next two weeks. Although the majority of the Lick students stayed with host families in Madridejos, four students were placed in separate towns: three stayed ten minutes way in Consuegra and one student stayed about 30 minutes away in a town called Camuñas. Zoe Harris ’16 felt isolated in Camuñas. I spent “two weeks in Spain with la familia Yugo (her host family)... introspectively thinking about what it really means to be independent. I can not describe the hip parts of urban Spain in the slightest. I do know, how-
ever, that the most economically useful crop to grow is grapes, most American crime shows are dubbed in Spanish, it costs two euros to go to the pool (and most people go at around seven at night), and I eat and drink much faster and much less than most Spaniards. I found a trail behind our house on which I would run every night and become better friends with myself. I spoke more Spanish, faster, more casually, and with new vocabulary in each sentence. Porque no sé qué más puedo decir… ¡que aventura tuve en España este verano!” Others, like Maddy Nakada ’16, who were in Madridejos with the rest of the students, call the experience, “difficult at first,” but she says that, “although the first three days felt like forever, the last week flew by.” For Nakada, there were a lot of cultural habits that she had to figure out while there. CONTINUED ON PAGE
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ick-Wilmerding‘s mission statement identifies LickWilmerding as “a private school with a public purpose.” At the core of the school’s identity, Lick previously served public purpose through the intercession and Jellis block program. However, under the leadership of the Center, the program has been reinvented into the Public Purpose Program (PPP) to reinvigorate student service and better serve the school’s mission. Unlike other independent or parochial schools, LickWilmerding did not have a service requirement except participation in the Jellis Block week. Attendance at every “Jellis Block” was a graduation requirement; the week was organized by advisors for their advisees. Jellis Block plans varied from advising to advising, and ranged from construction of furniture, to working in community gardens, to teaching art in schools, to working in a food bank, or helping out the Lick community. Last year, Lick-Wilmerding transitioned from the Jellis block program to the Public Purpose Program, a new system designed to improve service learning for students. When asked what motivated the transition to the new system, Alan Wesson, the Service Learning and Public Purpose Program Director for Lick-Wilmerding said that the two main reasons for the change were consistency and continuity. Wesson explained that Jellis Block’s consistency issues were created by an uneven range of experiences for different advisories. Some advisories undertook incredible service projects, but Wesson would also have parents come to him and say, “I thought Lick was a school that cared about getting involved in the community, and my student just stayed at school all day not knowing what they were doing; they might as well have stayed home.” Christine Godinez, Director of Student Inclusion, Leadership and Civic Engagement, shared the sentiment. Godinez pointed out that “not every advisor has the skillset or the desire to plan a really meaningful Jellis block.” CONTINUED ON PAGE
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Lick Students Visit Cuba with Model UN by Ryan Kimball ’17
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or the first time since 1963, travel and trade restrictions were lifted between the U.S. and Cuba. This is the first step in reestablishing ties between the two nations since tensions be-tween the two nations escalated during the Cold War. During spring break last year, three members of the Lick student community were given the opportunity to travel to Cuba as part of a student program under these new policies. Maya Levin ’16, Ryan Kearns ’17 and Liam Maniscalco ’18, members of the prestig-ious Model U.N. League of Creative Minds program, spent ten days in and around the Cuban capital of Havana touring the country. They got the chance to discuss Cuban policies and the quality of life with a Cuban doctor, a local journalist, and a Cuban economist. The program also included meetings with Cuban diplomats, including the ex Head of Foreign Relations for Cuba, as well as the former ambassador to the European Union, to discuss the problems plaguing the country and the solutions and changes being established. Through Levin’s, Kearns’ and Maniscalco’s experiences in Cuba, they are able to provide a glimpse into a nation where U.S. travel was banned for roughly 50 years. There are many negative perceptions of Cuba in the U.S., owing to a strained relationship magnified by the Cold War. While the three students acknowledged some issues affecting Cuba, they also highlighted many of the successful elements of the country, as well as a burning and growing sense of optimism for the future. Kearns described an “air of optimism” that was present amongst all the people they met and talked to in Cuba. This optimism and hope are
The Cuban contryside photo by Maya Levin
number of Cubans working in the private sector has more than tripled since 2008, to nearly half a million last year.” Levin described improvements in another aspect of the Cuban private sector, noting, “you can own and sell property now.” The Lick students agreed with the sentiment that Cuba is improving, but they also had some skepticism. Even amongst the optimistic and patriotic Cubans these students met with, the majority of the Cuban people mentioned “restrictions and free speech limitations” according to Maniscalco. Levin noted that while the baseline for poverty is much higher due to Cuba’s communist influence, “people are restricted in what they can do in every regard.” These restrictions have interesting and unexpected consequences. For example, working as a tour guide is more desirable to working as a doctor in Cuba. Levin explained how the tips a tour guide receives are very lucrative and unique due to the regulations of most Cuban jobs. Doctors, on the other hand, do not
Art in Cuba depicting Che Guevara and the Cuban flag photo by Ryan Kearns
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rooted in changes that have already been established. The emergence of a Cuban private sector, where Cuban citizens no longer have to work directly for the government, is growing rapidly and is an early sign of progress. According to a New York Times article by Azam Ahmed and Victoria Burnett, “the
have nearly the prestige of American doctors. Maniscalco stated that being a doctor is not a “desired” job in Cuba, noting that that it is a public service job with no unions. “You can go to jail for a botched surgery,” Manis-calco added. With that being said, the Cuban healthcare system is widely considered to be amongst
the best and the world, with free and quality healthcare available for all Cuban citizens. Despite the suprising attitude towards doctors, the Lick students all agreed that the Cuban universal healthcare system is excellent.
ing is breaking at some level,” Levin concluded. As for the future of U.S.–Cuba relations, the three students seemed optimistic that the U.S. and Cuba would enjoy an improved relationship in the oncoming years. The U.S. embassy is now open in Cu-ba, and Kearns described the reports of anti-American sentiment associated with Cuba as “bloated” and exaggerated. However, there are still obstacles within Cuba that make it difficult to completely reestablish ties. According to the Lick students, Cuba was littered with anti U.S. propaganda through the forms of posters and writings. Some propaganda compared the U.S. to the Nazi party, and America was often referred to as “El Imperio,” or “the Empire.” With that being said, the Lick students witnessed signs of a positive change. As Americans traveling in Cuba, they had a unique perspective on the Cuban view of Americans. Despite expectations of being treated with
A Cuban Street with a propaganda billboard, translated to “Socialist Revolution” photo by Ryan Kearns
On a visit to a Havana slum, the Lick students realized that poverty in a traditional sense was not present in Cuba. Levin was surprised at her realization that, “I didn’t see anyone living on the street. Everyone was in buildings.” The services available to people living in a slum included running water, electrici-ty, healthcare, and education. According to Levin, almost everyone they met spoke English. Kearns noted “the conceptual stuff associated with poverty isn’t here.” Kearns is referring to images of starving, homeless, and helpless individuals, all of which simply were not present amongst the places they visited. With that being said, certain elements of poverty were clear during their visit. A tobacco factory they visited reminded all three students of a sweatshop, where masses of people were subject to poor working condi-tions and very repetitive and laborious tasks. The buildings as a whole were also a sign of the poverty crippling the country. The students noted that most buildings were old, dirty and worn down. “Every build-
contempt, the students all described Cubans as very nice and respectful towards them, despite their home country. “No one hates us there,” Levin stated. The diplomat they met even embraced American culture, noting, “I like Panera bread. I like McDonalds.” Despite all these obstacles and shortcomings, Cuba is truly in a period of growth and change. With Raul Castro’s statement that he will step down in 2018 at the end of his term, Cuba will theoretically be open to elections. While the legitimacy of the future election was questioned by all three Lick students, Cuba will likely be run by a new, younger leadership, and the “air of optimism” that Kearns described dominates and will continue to dominate the Cuban landscape. The Cuban people are ready for change, and the U.S. is ready to be a part of Cuba’s promising future.
Lick-Wilmerding’s $20 Million Budget by Aden Misra Siebel ’17
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Revenue and spending statistics from the 2014-2015 Annual Report statistics courtesy of the Lick-Wilmerding Alumni and Development Office
of School Eric Temple explains how keeping the tuition manageable and the school funded is a constant challenge. “The CPI has been going up 3%, and our tuition has gone up 3.8-4.8% every year,” he explains. The CPI is the Consumer Price Index, the measurement of the price level of basic consumer goods. This means that seemingly large increases in revenue may do little more than keep pace with rising inflation. Temple emphasizes the vital role that fundraising plays to maintain our school’s budget. “Around 7% of the budget comes from fundraising,” he explains. Temple is encouraged by
the frequency of donations to the school. He says donations are a way for people to feel like they are a part of the school and give to an organization they believe in, as well as receiving a tax deduction tied to donations to non-profits. “Something that I feel is important for students to remember is that our school is a non-profit, and that means that we rely on donations in order to survive,” he said. One of the highest priorities for our school’s funding, as told by both Johnson and Temple, is flexible tuition. The flexible tuition program
allows families who need support to receive financial help to supplement their student’s tuition. Around five million dollars is spent on the flex tuition program each year. Johnson estimated that around 37% of families participate in this program. Temple explained how the flex tuition program allows our school to fulfill one of its most important missions, providing for students of all backgrounds. “The flexible tuition program is really vital to our school… Part of the reason that so many families want to apply to our school is because they do feel like, ‘Oh, I actually have a shot’, and that is something we need to keep alive.” He also made clear how many donors sympathize strongly with the flex tuition program. “People are always really generous and understanding when it comes to the flex tuition program. It’s wonderful to see.” The majority of the school’s budget goes to paying salaries. “We are a people driven organization,” Temple explains. “Our faculty are the heart of the school, and of course we wouldn’t be able to run without them.” He explained to me how the school makes a constant effort to keep salaries competitive with national benchmarks, particularly benchmarks in the Bay Area. “Salaries are currently in the top 25% of independent schools like ours” he said.
THE SECRET GARDEN “Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? Not so well she said, see thy lily’s dead, Pull it up and out you go!”
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ased on the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this musical adaptation is classic literature wonderfully reimagined. Following a tragic cholera epidemic in Colonial India, Mary Lennox is discovered as the only human survivor. She is sent to live with her Uncle in Yorkshire, England, at Misselthwaite Manor, where the lost souls from the past roam the 100-room mansion. The ghosts function as they would in Ancient Greek Drama, narrating to the audience, as well as commenting and reacting to the action. This lovely mini-musical opera includes a live pit orchestra, talented dancers, and strong vocals and acting. Costumes are from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and include magic and special effects. The Secret Garden is visceral, transformative; at its core, it is about the miracle of life: rebirth and renewal. You won’t want to miss this timeless masterpiece of musical theatre. Appropriate for the entire family.
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ick-Wilmerding’s budget is more than 20 million dollars a year. It costs $20 million to maintain a large campus, provide opportunities for families to receive flexible tuition, provide supplies and meals for more than 490 students and adults, and pay an extensive and well-trained group of over 100 faculty and staff a competitive wage. Running a school like Lick is no small venture. The budget is established through the continuous work of board committees, administrators, the business office, and requests from all departments. “It is a huge effort by many different people to balance a budget like this every year,” informed Melanie Johnson, the school’s Chief Financial Officer. Many hours go into our school’s complex budget. The school is constantly growing, and each facet of the school must have its budget managed and reworked every year. Managing and investing the school’s endowment in a responsible manner, Johnson explains, is an essential part to meeting Lick’s financial needs. Lick’s endowment is around $50 million, and is overseen by a board committee in order to keep the school running effectively for generations to come. Johnson says “The principal [of the endowment] has to be saved. Only the income from its investment along with other amounts can be spent based on an approved spending rate.” The school is able to draw on about two million dollars of income every year to support the needs of students. It might seem as if the school’s $41,500 a year tuition would be plenty to keep the school running, but Head
Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman Music by Lucy Simon
Cast: ALEIGH BEAVAN-SZABO ……. THE ROBIN NICOLE BORDERS ……. LILY NIGEL BERKELEY……. DR. NEVILLE CRAVEN DANIKA CLAIBORNE ……. DANCER LIAM COHEN ……. LIEUTENANT SHAW PENNY DEVLIN ……. MARY LENNOX SHELBY DEVOLDER ……. CLAIRE HOLMES MEREDITH FRY ……. ALICE SIDNEY HIRSCHMAN ……. COLIN CRAVEN MARI KURE ……. DANCER IXCA LOPEZ-ALESHIRE ……. DANCER DAVID RUPRIGHT ……. MAJOR HOLMES
LIAM MCDONNELL ……. CAPTAIN ALBERT LENNOX ASHLEY OGUEJIOFOR ……. AYAH MAX OZER-STATON ……. ARCHIBALD CRAVEN JULIA MOSER ……. MRS. SHELLEY ISABEL POVEY ……. ROSE LENNOX LOIS SHAW ……. MRS. WINTHROP MAIA SHWARTS ……. MRS. MEDLOCK MELODY SIFRY ……. DICKON ALEX SOUTHWICK ……. MARTHA NOAH WONG ……. FAKIR DWAYNE YOW ……. LIEUTENANT DANIEL HOLZMAN ……. BEN WEATHERSTAFF
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UNPACKING PUBLIC PURPOSE PROGRAM from Front Page Kate Wiley, Dean of Students, agreed with Godinez about the unevenness of the Jellis Block experience, “As a whole, across the school, there was a lot of discrepancy.” Another issue with the Jellis Block program was continuity. Wesson, Godinez, and Wiley each pointed out that Jellis Block was a distinct block set off from the rest of the school year. Jellis Block did not actually integrate service into students’ lives. The separation of Jellis Block from school days suggested service and school are exclusive, rather than woven into a cohesive program of service learning called for in Lick’s mission statement. Jellis Block seemed to many advisories like checking the box of “doing service” without actually making a difference for either the student or their communities. The Public Purpose Program, the successor to Jellis Block, was designed to solve these issues. The new program offers a comprehensive and different path for each grade. The program was intentionally designed to better reflect the Lick-Wilmerding mission. The freshman program is based around a series of workshops which explore public purpose, responsibility, and service in the context of Lick-Wilmerding. These workshops have the benefit of standardizing understanding of what service means to a freshman class coming from a diverse set of schools, some with stronger service programs than others. The workshops culminate in a full day of service, chosen by the freshmen class. Last year, this day of service was cleaning up Ocean in partnership with San Francisco Parks and Rec, with various groups focusing on different areas of the Ocean Avenue corridor. Sophomores are required to
The Public Purpose Program by Year infographic courtesy of Quinn Donohue
complete 40 hours of service. This requirement for service is a departure from Lick’s previous policy which only encouraged students to engage in service. According to Godinez, “making it optional for
“Making it optional for students to engage in service learning doesn’t help students live it.” students to engage in service learning doesn’t help students live it.” Students can fulfill up to 10 hours of their service through helping out at Lick-Wilmerding events like open houses. When asked if 40 hours of service was a lot, Godinez answered that she didn’t think it was. Students could easily fulfill their requirement through attending four of the monthly service days organized by the Center and working at admissions open houses. While this would be an easy way to fulfill the requirement, both Godinez and Wesson hoped students would use
Alan Wesson speaking to the Honors Statistics PPP Class photo by Quinn Donohue
the opportunity to plan and do something they are very passionate about. Godinez says she found “The students who stick to one thing finish up their hours really quickly.” In fact, close to ten students had finished their 40 hours before the second semester. Sophomores last year pursued an astonishing range of activities to complete their 40 hours of service. One student worked with the California Academy of Sciences to help with research on dogs and another worked to lower the municipal voting age to 16. Students worked with the SPCA and with Food Banks like Glide and St. Anthony’s. Sophomores cannot complete their 40 hours of service during the summer. When asked why, Godinez responded, “There are students that have the flexibility in their schedule during the summer to go travel and do summer immersion programs or volunteer. There are also kids who have to work so they can’t volunteer. We don’t plan service days in the summer, so I wanted it to just be as equitable as possible.” Wesson agreed with Godinez, but also added that the time constraint was in some sense intentional. Students live busy lives, but Jellis block was very separate from a student’s day to day life. Jellis Block, according to Wesson, was “a week where your life stops, and you do volunteer work, and then go back to your life.” This clashed with the Lick-Wilmerding and PPP mission, which aims to integrate service into the life of every student. The 40 hours is an effort to teach students how to make time for something that matters like service (although the lessons learned can be applied to other important areas as well). By forcing students to do their service work during the school year,
Wesson says, “Volunteering is a thing that’s in your schedule, something that you do regularly. In that way, it becomes part of your way of life”. Students can accomplish their 40 hours during the various breaks throughout the school year. Juniors and seniors are required to either be enrolled in one PPP course, carry out a semester long independent study, or do a year long internship with a local nonprofit. PPP classes are offered by teachers who choose to take on the additional responsibility (unlike Jellis block, where all advisors were required to participate). Classes can make a direct impact, like Honors Statistics, which works with nonprofits, or PreCalculus PPP which helps run Math Cafe, or can be focused on learning and raising awareness about an issue. The same requirements hold true for internships and independent studies as well. Interns this year are working on marketing for One Degree (community resources program) and are tutoring for Reading Partners. One student is carrying out an Independent study on the causes and responses to a lack of female computer scientists, while another looks at the history of food as a necessity and cuisine as a choice. PPP classes were intended for the majority of students, while independent studies and internships were for those with a clear vision in mind. However, according to Wesson, this year due to scheduling difficulty, students who wanted a PPP class were unable to receive one. While the Center is working closely with the students to help them plan internships or independent studies, this is an unintended consequence of how the schedule worked out and after scheduling priorities. The 20 PPP classes this year are more than enough for all juniors and seniors to participate in, and many students have more than one PPP class. Wiley urged critics to remember that this is a new program. “I want students to be excited and encouraged, but also to be flexible, because there are going to be bumps in the road.” Despite these concerns, the Public Purpose Program has already been remarkably successful and as a successor to Jellis block will better embody the Lick-Wilmerding Mission.
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Lick students tour downtown Madrid. Photo by Keanu Velasquez
Tom ’17 was with one of those families. He states that, “at first, I found it really difficult to communicate with my host brother, Rodrigo, simply because we spoke different languages and came from very different worlds. Obviously, I was there to improve my Spanish, and I wanted to be immersed, but I just found so many things to be strikingly different. That being said, as the trip progressed, I definitely found both Rodrigo and myself moving beyond our linguistic differences, and trying to relate on a different level. By the end of the trip, I found that I had not only
improved my Spanish, but been able to overcome how different everything was, and just relate to Rodrigo as a friend and as my host brother.” Osipova describes her experience as a chaperone: “I have led about 12 trips to Spanish-speaking countries with Lick students and
“They treated me as a member of their family, joking with me and discussing current events..”. each country experience is unique. For Spain, I love introducing the students to the Prado and Reina Sofía museums, where they must listen and understand our museum guides who only speak to them in Spanish. The fact that they had studied the art works in Lick classes and therefore had a foundation to draw upon in order to follow the expert guides is central to why I lead these trips. Picasso’s “Guernica” and Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” are visually stunning works that help
our students understand historical events and masterful art. Also, in Spain, since the family stays are the central piece, and I too lived with a family, this is the most exciting interaction. While living with a Spanish family, you get to know yourself better while making lifelong friendships.” Osipova partook in a two-month immersion trip herself when she was a high school student. Reflecting on the reason she continues to go on these trips, Osipova says, “I lead these trips because it is my hope that the Lick World Language trip will have a positive impact on each student’s world view and language experience. Hopefully this will be the first of many educational trips that foster global friendships and inquiry for each LW student and hopefully our students will be motivated to study additional languages.”
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“For the first few days that I was with my family I would say, “Gracias,” thank you, whenever they made dinner, gave me a towel, did my laundry, or drove me somewhere. After those first few days they began to laugh at me whenever I said it. Their laughter wasn’t malicious, it was as if they were sharing an inside joke that I wasn’t aware of. When I told the other students on my trip about this phenomenon, many of them noted that they had experienced the same thing. We realized that while here in the United States we feel the need to verbally express our gratitude for everything, in Spain that wasn’t true. Words were not needed for us to express our gratitude for everything that our host families did during the two weeks that we were part of their family.” Ryan Kimball ’17 enjoyed “getting to know my family on a personal level. While we went on some excursions to local tourist sites, it was the daily life and interactions I had with my family that really stuck with me. Our meals were very comfortable and homey, and they treated me as a member of their family, joking with me and discussing current events. Even sitting around and watching episodes of Family Guy and The Simpsons in Spanish with my family was entertaining.” During the homestay, students invested their time in critical thinking about the Spanish language. While some families spoke English very well, others knew almost no English. Cole
Look for an article on the Senegal trip in the Paper Tiger’s November issue!
Top left: David Ludeke and Kate Clawson at fountain with kids. Bottom left: Segovia from above. Bottom right: Exploring the streets of Segovia Photos by Keanu Velasquez
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Pop-up Shops: Marketing Strategy for New and Old Businesses
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by Zeli Grey ‘17 and Jill Reilly ‘17
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an Francisco is home to many shopping malls, department stores, and global chains, but in recent years, has also been a hub for temporary pop-up businesses. These shops typically exist in a location from one day to one year. Some businesses begin as pop-ups to test out unexplored markets, whereas others resort to the pop-up model later on in their existence as a way to broaden their clientele. Modcloth and Boba Guys — two notable businesses — have found success in utilizing the pop-up model in very different ways. Modcloth — a new PopUp shop located on Grant Ave. — has been receiving a lot of attention lately for their golden age inspired dresses, affordable vintage pieces and their adorable storefront. Before Modcloth was a pop-up, the business began as an online retailer. The idea for the business came to Susan and Gregg Koger when they were college students at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Susan’s love for vintage pieces and thrift shops inspired her to create a unique online retail store. According to Modcloth’s former COO Kerry Cooper, Modcloth doesn’t “push ‘key looks’ like some retailers.” This past summer Mod-
cloth added a new aspect to their business by launching their downtown pop-up (called a “fit shop”). Modcloth used the pop-up model as a tool to increase their exposure nationwide and learn more about their customers. When Cooper started at Modcloth, it was a small online retail store, based in Pittsburgh. Throughout her three years as the COO she learned a lot about Modcloth and their values as a business. When asked about these values, Cooper explained, “I think ModCloth started from a very authentic way of helping women find the best clothes for them.” Modcloth’s genuine approach has been greatly appreciated by many customers. By opening up a pop-up, Modcloth is able to reach more clients — especially since their westward expansion. Their new pop-up is in San Francisco, which allows them to branch out from their hometown of Pittsburgh. Now, with the addition of a pop-up, Modcloth is able to reach a much larger variety of customers. Before customers all over the country could only order their favorite pieces online. Now patrons The storefront of Modcloth’s Pop-up on Grant Avenue and inside the shop. photos by Rachel Pankoninl who have never heard of the store can simply walk past the gold and white storefront and stop in for a on clothes to find the perfect fit, Andrew Chau, co-founder of quick peek. And those who pre- skipping the hassle of online re- Boba Guys, replied, “It’s really fer trying on their clothes before turns. about resources and testing... purchasing can stop by and try Most San Franciscans have We weren’t a proven model, so heard of or even been to the what we would call nowadays small, local boba shop, Boba artisanal boba, back when we Guys, but most people are un- started in 2011, didn’t exist.” aware that Boba Guys started From the store’s chemout as a pop up. The shop got istry-inspired aesthetic to its their start as a weekly pop-up experimental flavors, the eleat Ken Ken Ramen, a Japanese ment of exploration remains noodle restaurant on 18th street. prominent in the business toCo-founders Andrew Chau and day. When asked to reflect on Bin Chen, former co-workers at how the store’s start as a pop-up Timbuk2, connected over their influenced the development of love of milk tea and were deeply their business, Chau remarked, disappointed when their favorite “As a pop-up everything is so boba shop in the Mission closed temporary, so that’s actually down. However, the shop’s clo- why Boba Guys is so experisure gave them what turned mental. You still see our chemout to be a revolutionary idea, istry-looking sets and our sciencoined by the “Boba Guys” as tific motif; we do all that partly artisanal boba. Chau and Chen because our DNA in the beginwere determined to turn their ning was experimental.” visions of horchata with tapioca And this experimentation balls and Thai Iced Tea with al- proved to be the business’s key mond jelly into a reality. There to success. Boba Guys is now was only one problem. They had known for their unique flavors no customers, no kitchen, and of “hipster boba,” as Chau called no storefront, so they turned to it, as well as their storefronts’ a business model that required sleek design. From pop-up to less capital and gave them a pioneer of the artisanal boba inchance to promote their growing dustry, Boba Guys is an example business. When asked why they of a pop-up success story. A look into the Boba Guys stores in San Francisco photos by Jill Reilly decided to begin as a pop-up,
Archbishop Cordileone Enforces Homophobic School Contracts by Olympia Francis Taylor ’18 and Alex Yeh ’18
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n Winter 2014, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, under the leadership of Archbishop Cordileone, unveiled new morality clauses to its faculty handbook. The changes condemn abortion, contraception, homosexuality, artificial insemination, and samesex marriage. It goes on to call embryonic stem-cell reaserch “a crime.” The local Catholic high schools affected by the changes in the faculty handbook are Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Archbishop Riordan High School, Marin Catholic High School, and Junipero Serra High School. The clauses have emphasized the disconnect between Archbishop Cordileone and the spirit and policies with which Pope Francis is guiding the Catholic Church. The San Francisco Chronicle quotes Rev.
“This is not the style of Pope Francis, this is not the language of Pope Francis, and it is not the priority of Pope Francis.”
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“[The signers] presume to speak for the Catholic community of San Francisco. They do not.” Many members of the local school communities have
Junipero Serra High School, one of the four schools affected by the clauses Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
our institutions, your decision is perfectly reasonable.” In bold typeface it continues, “We want you to know that we are praying for you and support you 100%.” The petition, as of October 6th, has over 40,000 signatures. In April of 2015, a full-page ad was printed in The San Francisco Chronicle imploring Pope Francis to replace Archbishop Cordileone. The ad accused Cordileone of fostering “an atmosphere of division and intolerance,” and argued that the proposed language for the faculty handbook is “closer to persecution than evangelization.” The advertisement was signed by many prominent figures in the Catholic community, including Brian Cahill, retired executive director of Catholic Charities CYO, Lou Giraudo, the former city commissioner, Charles Geschke, the chairman of Adobe and former head of the University of San Francisco board of trustees, Catholic School Board Members and Tom Brady’s father. A statement was issued hastily by the archdiocese discrediting the advertisement.
reacted negatively as well. A sophomore from Sacred Heart (SH) spoke out in an interview with The Paper Tiger. “SH is meant to be a family, and family includes everything,” they said. “That means everyone is respected for who they are or what choices they make; if we pray, you don’t have to be praying to our God. You can be in our religion class without following our religion. So when Cordileone forced the teachers to sign the contract, it’s like he was forcing his beliefs and his religion on us, which is contrary to what we believe in. I’ve been thinking: what happened to the big, openminded family that we support?” This student is not the only one thinking the family-like bond has been broken because of the changes in the handbook. When another student was asked why they chose to attend Sacred Heart, she responded, “Sacred Heart has always been very accepting; I could feel that when I shadowed here. It’s been very loving and warm, and that’s why I came. It’s been fun and it feels like family,
but these new clauses are not what we are about.” While the majority of the community is unhappy with the doctrine, they currently do not see a lot of change. A former parent described the community as “holding [its] breath.” The archbishop issued a statement soon after the morality clauses were released. He wrote “I honestly did not foresee the reaction that ensued,” in a letter to teachers on May 29, 2015. No Employment Rights After several changes to the Archbishop’s original words, teachers voted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 to ratify the three-year contract that set the morality clauses in motion this September. The vote was sharply divided and the contract barely won with 90 votes for and 80 opposing the changes. The clauses themselves threaten the jobs of many faculty members, specifically those who identify as or support members of the LGBTQ+ community. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone stated that Catholic school faculty should never “contradict, undermine, or deny” the teachings of the church, prompting some teachers to leave these schools. “Most teachers were really upset with the doctrine, that just because you are gay or because you choose to use birth control and so forth, that you could be fired because of those decisions in your personal life,” a teacher said. “There were two components; the doctrine of what you affirm and believe, all these very Catholic ideologies, and then there was the other component that was more legal, and that was us becoming ministers… by becoming ministers it meant that we had no employment rights,” explained a Sacred Heart teacher. Without being recognized as teachers, they would receive no employement protections or rights under California and Federal Law. The word “ministers” has since been altered, ensuring the teachers’ employment rights, for now. Still, the community is strong. “This is all amazing,” a Sacred Heart student said in an interview with the Paper Tiger. “This all shows that our students are unified on this topic and we want to support the teachers who are heavily affected.”
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James Bretzke, professor of moral theology at Boston College. “He [Archbishop Cordileone] does not have his finger up to the ecclesial wind. He has not changed direction. This is not the style of Pope Francis, this is not the language of Pope Francis, and it is not the priority of Pope Francis.” The restrictive clauses went into effect this 2015-2016 school year. “A Community Outrage” A Sacred Heart teacher, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, described the community reaction to the new explicit restrictions in the faculty handbook, “The parents were outraged and supported us, the students were outraged, it was really a community outrage.” Online reactions to the decision have been passionate but varied. The website http://www. teachacceptance.org/, started by students and parents opposed to the changes in the handbook, attacks Archbishop Cordileone’s policies. “We cannot in good conscience support language that sows fear, and creates division and discrimination,” reads the website. “We cannot in good conscience accept language which is harmful to our children and their teachers, and threatens our school community.” The popular hashtag #teachacceptance has gained public notice, and articles surrounding
the topic have run in The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and on Fox News. “#teachacceptance is essentially a movement to peacefully protest the recent occurrences instigated by Archbishop Cordileone,” explains a student who attends one of the high schools affected and chose to remain anonymous. “We, as a community, wanted to ensure that students and faculty alike felt like they were in a safe environment. We were fighting for our equality.” A petition calling on the archbishop to stop his efforts to implement the “outdated and discriminatory” morality clauses, as of October 6th, has over 7,000 signatures. One website, Catholicvote. org administered a separate petition to support the archdiocese. The website states, “Given the hostility to the teachings of the Church and growing attempts to coerce
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The First Step in Recovery from St. Paul’s Rape Case: Changing the Language by Zoe Harris ’16
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n May 2014 at St. Paul’s School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, a fifteenyear-old freshman girl accused senior Owen Labrie of sexually assaulting her. The encounter was part of the “Senior Salute,” a reported ‘tradition’ at St. Paul’s during which graduating seniors engage in a competition to target and kiss — or go farther with — younger students. A senior at St. Paul’s described, when asked about the Senior Salute in an anonymous interview with the Paper Tiger in September, that “the tradition had kind of stopped happening in the last couple of years. Owen was kind of holding on to that old culture. All the news says ‘oh, the senior salute is this ageold tradition,’ but it really only became part of St. Pauls’ students’ vocabulary six or seven years ago.” She continued, “but I’d say [the Senior Salute] is a thing that a lot of people did.” During the Spring of their freshman year, she and many of her friends were propositioned by seniors (who were eighteen and nineteen at the time) asking if they wanted to meet up and “make out.” Labrie had initially asked the girl to meet up over email, and the two exchanged flirty emails and Facebook messages after the assault. During the case, Labrie’s defense lawyers used those messages to assert that the encounter was consensual as she didn’t immediately report it or cut off communication with her alleged attacker. According to the senior, it was common, before the Labrie case, for students to “proposition each other over email.” The vocabulary surrounding hookup culture, in addition to the Senior Salute, was unique to St. Paul’s. To say someone “hooked up,” the common term is “they scored,” or “he scored her.” Owen Labrie was charged with felony sexual assault, misdemeanor sexual assault, endangering a child, and using a computer to solicit a minor under the age of sixteen. He pleaded guilty to all charges and claimed there was no sexual penetration: according to Aaron Cooper for CNN, Labrie told the court that “it wouldn’t have been a good move to have sex with this girl.” On August 21st, fourteen months after the incident, Labrie was acquitted of felony sexual assault charges and convicted of the misdemeanors of having sex with a minor and using a computer to proposition her. His sentence will be officially
determined on October 29th, and he could face up to seven years in jail on the computer proposition conviction. He is required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. St. Paul’s — a school that has produced congressmen, three Pulitzer prize winners, thirteen United States ambassadors, senators, lawyers, and a Nobel Prize winner — has been a target of negative media attention since May 2014. “The trial has been deeply painful for all of us in the St. Paul’s community, but especially for the young woman who has suffered through this nightmare,” read an email signed by the Board of Trustees President and obtained by The Huffington Post. “People have said that their parents sent them to school with rape whistles” said the St. Paul’s senior, and “one of my best friends said that he was introducing himself to a freshman girl and she [seemed] afraid of him. He saw fear in her eyes when he said he was a senior.” The effects on the school are, of course, further affecting families of St. Paul’s students. The Paper Tiger’s senior student contact at the school also reported that “younger students have said, ‘I’m not scared, but my parents are scared something will happen to me.’ That’s definitely something that’s changed.” St. Paul’s first step in mending the community? Trying to change the vocabulary and hookup culture in the young adult community they’re fostering. A
“We’re working on the vocabulary that we use surrounding relationships.” letter from St. Paul’s to the alumni after the outcome of the trial was announced read: “sexual contact is now seen as the point of origin of many relationships, not a part of an emotionally developed relationship. These issues have highlighted some of the differences in educating students in the 21st century.” The casual hookup culture in the 21st century breeds potential situations such as that of Owen Labrie and his alleged victim: reported by Jamie Novogrod for MSNBC, Labrie claimed in his testimony that the two “had a passing, social relationship,” and the encounter was initially arranged via emails exchanged between the senior and the freshman. At St. Paul’s, and most high schools today, this type of relationship — and attitude towards it — is not uncommon. The accuser’s reaction
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— “I wanted to not cause a conflict,” she said, according to the NYTimes. “I felt like I was frozen” — was likely bred from both her lack of comfort (and lack of a relationship) with Labrie as well as the drastic age and power gap. The St. Paul’s senior addressed the school’s response to this issue: “Something that the school is really aware of now are power dynamics between the older and younger students, between boys and girls. It can have an affect on the way they talk to each other. We’re learning how to approach a problem with someone who might be in more of a position of power that you without putting them off or getting yourself into trouble. It was more tailored to that rather than the case itself, we’re trying to improve the school’s culture and that was one way to do it.” The school’s letter to the alumni continued in addressing the environment’s hookup culture vocabulary: “Many terms, including “senior salute” and “score” that are part of the student vernacular, have been discussed as part of the trial. These terms, and the behaviors they suggest, have and will continue to be addressed by the School community.” The St. Paul’s senior commented on the terms as well — the administration is working towards a reshaping of the culture, but the students are also invested in the change. “We’re working
a lot on the vocabulary that we use surrounding relationships. People used to say ‘I scored her,” or “I scored him,” and now we’re kind of trying to move away from that and more towards healthy relationships. I think there’s definitely a culture change in the way older students and younger students interact. In the dorms, especially, we’re really careful with the younger students, to not use the word ‘score’ and to not talk about casual hookups, and to not address that part of the culture to them even though they do know it exists.” When she was asked about the term by a younger girl in her dorm, she responded “actually, we’re not going to partake in that part of the culture anymore.” A community that values relationships and serious language referencing hookups is a community moving away from cases such as that of Owen Labrie. As St. Paul’s reshapes policies and fosters older students who will use this case to guide their conduct, it gives the school the tools it needs to move forward. Changing the vocabulary and attitude towards sexual conduct, St. Paul’s maintained a space to reflect upon, rather than ignore, the atrocity that befell it last May. Said the senior, “as soon as we got here [this Fall], the school was like, ‘let’s address the elephant in the room, we’re going to talk about this for as long as it takes.
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spring counterpart, boys outnumber girls on the water polo team by a ratio of about 3:1. Commitment to the team was a bit of a concern to Smith when the idea came up. Typically, when not enough students sign up for a sports team, the sport is cancelled for that season—which caused the dissolution of Lick’s golf team and boys’ volleyball team (which was cancelled after only four boys signed up one year). Though few students offered their full commitment to water polo last spring, Smith decided to establish the sport anyway because it is not a particularly risky or expensive endeavor. Lick has the City College pool leased for the entire academic year; during the fall, the pool remains unused (with the exception of cross country team attempts to run in it). “This season will serve as a foundation year,” says Smith. “We’ll start from the bottom and work our way up.” Today, Lick-Wilmerding has a facility, a coach, and a team filled with athletes who are ready to compete. The only thing they lack is competition. With the exception of Marin Academy in San Rafael, no other schools in the Bay Counties League play water polo. However, Coach Ellingson
Above: Freshman goalie Rafael blocks a shot. Below: Coach JD Ellingson leads a conditioning workout photos by Cole Crawford
Above: Practice begins promptly at 4:00. Below: The players training hard photos by Cole Crawford
remains undaunted. Outside of San Francisco, he knows, there are larger schools that have established teams and play in competitive leagues. Ellingson hopes to join one of these leagues by next year. The lack of competition does not disillusion the athletes; they still practice with ferocity. Ellingson puts his team to work. After warmups of treading water and passing, the athletes are subjected to a brutal conditioning routine consisting of quick swim sprints, calisthenics, and more treading water. From an outsider’s point of view, it looks like Satan’s aquatic version of Jazzercise, sans the jazz. “Swimming is hard, but water polo is fun,” says Trent Hommeyer ’16 as he flops out of the water, exhausted. “It’s the swimming part that kills me.” After the conditioning, the team splits between swimming laps and pass-and-shoot drills. For a mostly inexperienced team, the shooting is particularly impressive. The athletes whip shot after shot, painting the corners of the goal. “One of the most interesting things about water polo is the diversity of the group,” says Dave Egerter, father of Aubrey Egerter ’17 and assistant coach to J.D. Ellingson. “You have some really experienced kids, and some kids who are just getting into the water.”
Nora Stacy ‘17 confirms Egerter’s claim. “The only experiences I’ve had [with water] were swim lessons as a kid,” she says. Ellingson added that “three to five people couldn’t even swim” when practice first began in September. Though its ranks consist largely of rookies, the team also includes several veteran players. These players have served as mentors and leaders on the team. “A lot of people were terrified of water polo, so it’s nice to ease their fears,” says Kelby Kramer ’17, a longtime player of the sport. “It’s actually really fun,” says Evan Fuller ’18, a water polo player who gained her experience with the sport through playing in competitive leagues in Orinda. “I love watching people get it; it’s like watching people try to solve a really hard puzzle and get that ‘a ha!’ moment…it’s really rewarding.” “[This team] is typical of Lick,” says Mr. Egerter. “It doesn’t matter what you bring to the party: you’re part of it.”
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Lick followed suit with the move, which had several consequences. For example, the girls’ move provoked the idea to move the boys’ team to the winter. That move would make sense, because many club soccer teams meet during the fall. Commitment to both club and school teams would improve if boys could play club soccer in the fall and school soccer in the winter. However, with these teams moving, Lick needed another co-ed team for the fall: in the winter there is wrestling, and in the spring there is baseball. Lick Athletic Director Eliot Smith pitched the idea of a water polo team last spring. When students demonstrated a sizable interest, he began making plans to go ahead with the team. One of the reasons why the water polo team was established was to attract more interest in water-sports from boys. Over the past few seasons, girls have outnumbered boys on the swim team by a ratio of nearly 3:1. Ellingson was looking for a solution to get more boys in the water in the fall before the swim season. He determined that the aggressive nature of water polo might draw more boys to swim in the spring. So far, the plan has worked well; converse to its
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A Fantasized World: The Growth of Fantasy Football by George Dicke ’17
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ravis Benjamin, Tavon Austin, T.Y Hilton and Ted Ginn. These four players are incredibly valuable receivers to those who play fantasy football. Fantasy football, a game that was started by a group of middle-aged New Yorkers before the age of the Internet is evolving into a multi-billion dollar industry. How do fantasy football sites make money? There are two main revenue models. The first model has been implemented by, “The Worldwide Leader in Sports.” ESPN is one of many fantasy football sites that relies on ads to generate revenue while making it free to signup to play. CBS Sports, among other sports sites, charges a fee to join a league, which makes league homes on these websites free of bothersome advertisements. Fantasy sports sites are not the only companies capitalizing on the fantasy football boom. The NFL has created a program that places viewers around the league into moments in which offenses are in the “redzone,” the area of the field between the 20 yard line and the goal line. Basically, the service gives viewers the opportunity to
catch every touchdown from around the league, since the most touchdowns occur when a team is in the redzone. At a whopping $49.99 per season, the service is aimed at serious fantasy footbal aficionados.. The implementation of the NFL RedZone service highlights that
A growing number of football fans soley cheer for their fantasy footbal squad people aren’t watching games for the sake of rooting for a team. Instead, the growing number of fantasy football fanatics solely cheer for the one quarterback, two to three running backs and wide receivers, one tight end, a team defense and a kicker- that make up a standard fantasy squad. In a fantasy football league, each team is owned by one person. Most leagues are comprised of 8-14 teams, each of which consists of players on National Football League teams. These athletes will give each team points depending on their performance. Two teams then matchup each week where the
team with the most points from its players wins. One of the main characters from the fantasy football inspired television show, The League, Pete Eckhart, exclaims, “God bless fantasy football. There are many things a man can do with his time… this is better than those things.” According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, 56.8 million people ages 12 and over are playing fantasy sports, making Eckhart’s seemingly ludicrous comment seem true. I participate in a ten team league with a few buddies from Lick, and there are leagues comprised of Lick freshmen, sophomores, seniors, and faculty. Fantasy football leagues give participants a chance to crunch numbers, simulate team management and of course, talk smack. In addition, young fantasy football players are thrown into trade negotiations, a situation that teaches mutual agreement. Fantasy football teaches many life skills. Whether a fantasy football player becomes a lawyer, a politician or a farmer, chances are that they will have to perform negotiations at some point in their
A Lick student tinkers with his fantasy lineup. photo by George Dicke
career. And fantasy football can help. A fantasy trade requires two team owners to communicate their needs effectively. For instance, if a team owner forgets to draft a quarterback the team owner will have to convince a member of the league to give them a quarterback. The ultimate goal is to produce a deal that is mutually beneficial, but in reality, the possibility of getting ripped off is very real.
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Warriors To Take Up Residence In San Francisco by Marcus Veal ’16
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he Golden State Warriors’ highly anticipated 2015-16 season is quickly approaching with a little less than two months until opening night. The Warriors, the league’s reigning champions, won the NBA Finals last year and are one of the favorites to win again this upcoming year, despite the competitive Western Conference. The Warriors’ value and star power has been on the rise over the last couple of years and so have the chances of the franchise moving from Oakland to San Francisco. The move has been recently confirmed to a new location in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco across from the UCSF campus. The arena will hopefully be
championship. The remaining seasons (the ones when they didn’t make the playoffs) were marked by horrendous records and low rankings both in their division and their conference. Yet, despite years of disappointment and numerous changes in staff and players, the Warriors’ fans remained optimistic and proud of their team. Before the Warriors’ rise to becoming one of the best teams in the league, their previous playoff appearance was in the 2006-07 season, during which they barely snuck into the playoffs and shocked the world by upsetting the number one seed the Dallas Mavericks before being eliminated by the number four seed Utah Jazz in the second round. What seemed to be an extraordinary transition from a
Oracle Arena — the current home of the Warriors photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
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finished in 2017 and the inaugural season of the new arena would be the following year. The greatest opposition to the Warriors move comes from the residents of the East Bay. The Warriors have played in Oakland since 1972. In the last 43 years, the franchise only made 14 playoff appearances, and out of those appearances, only two NBA
consistent last place team to NBA champions and one of the best teams has made the fan’s patience worthwhile. Three years ago Warriors fans witnessed the beginning of a new era. Dubbed “The Splash Brothers,” guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson have been a driving force behind this positive transformation. Famous for their shooting accuracy, especially from
beyond the three point line, the two have become the face of the Warriors’ franchise. Understandably many East Bay residents are devastated by the news that Oakland won’t be home to the defending NBA champions starting in the 2018-2019 season. Aside from their longstanding loyalty to the team, some residents fear that if the Warriors ultimately leave the city, other professional sports teams in Oakland will follow. The Warriors’ home in Oakland is shared with the baseball team, the Athletics or A’s, and the football team, the Raiders. The A’s and Raiders share the O.co Coliseum (right next to Oracle Arena) which has a reputation of being unkempt. Over the past couple of years, the A’s have been negotiating to move to San Jose. However, a recent Supreme Court decision shut down the plans for a new home in San Jose. For the time being, the A’s will stay in Oakland but negotiations for a move somewhere are ongoing. The Raiders might have plans to return to Los Angeles, where they played before coming to Oakland. On the flip side, San Franciscans are ecstatic about the idea that San Francisco might once again be the home of the Bay’s Team. After the Warriors relocated from Philadelphia in 1962, they found a home in San Francisco, playing in the historic Kezar Pavilion. In 1972 the team moved to its current location in Oakland but older Warriors fans in San Francisco still remember the 10 Kezar years and would love to get their team back. As of October 6, 2015 an agreement between San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee, UCSF and the Golden State Warriors seemed to clear the way for the Warrior’s move to the new stadium in Missions Bay. Larry Baer, the CEO of the San Francisco Giants and Lick-
Wilmerding parent, contends that the Warriors move will “be great for the city of San Francisco and especially great for the Mission Bay
The Warriors move will “be great for the city of San Francisco and especially great for the Mission Bay neighborhood” neighborhood.” He believes that the move will “bring more activity and energy to that part of the city.” When asked about the possibility of fan support shifting, Baer says “the central location that San Francisco provides in the Bay Area will allow more opportunity for more fans, especially from the South Bay, to attend games” and believes that the population and fan support of the Warriors will only expand and not decrease. Although there are hard feelings by some, all fans can do now is hope the success of the Warriors continues. While the Bay may be divided over this move, there’s one thing that everyone has in common: a love of the Warriors and believe that this team can win a lot more championships. The fight for the Warriors to move to the new site at Mission Bay is still not over. Environmental groups are suing the team to prevent the stadium’s construction. It remains to be seen which group — proponents of San Francisco based Warriors, or environmental groupss — will persevere.
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on the team; while the intensity and level of play is incredibly advanced the team camaraderie and chemistry is cool.” The team is fresh off a dominant win against International 5-1 and tremendous battles with Stuart Hall and University both resulting in a draws at 2-2 (against Stuart Hall) and 1-1 (against University. They look to continue this great play when the regular season goes into full swing. The Lick-Wilmerding Boys Cross Country Team has their work cut out for them. The reigning BCL Champs who won all 4 divisions (Boys and Girls Varsity, and Junior Varsity) last year, are led by coach Jeff Gardiner. Captains Cole Crawford ‘16, Brian Ebisuzaki ‘16 and Jackson Vachal ‘17, are determined to improve off strong seasons, with Ebisuzaki turning in a stellar 10:59 2 mile time at the first race of the season at the Ed Sias Invitational. Several varsity boys made statements at the recent Stanford Invitational. Nick Harris ‘19 clocked in one of the fastest freshman times ever, while Jackson, Brian and Erik Stein ‘18 set course personal records or PRs, as they are known by fans of cross country. The boys team will compete with league favorite Marin Academy, as well as an up and coming University team in a run for another title. On the Girls Cross Country Team, Jill Reilly ‘17, continues to impress as she claimed 15th place at the Stanford Invitational, edging out University’s freshman phenom with a strong finishing kick. Senior captains for this year’s team, Alexis Bullock ‘16, Marissa Fong ‘16 and Maddy Nakada ‘16, will lead a team to overcome potentially disastrous injuries to three varsity runners by turning in a strong showing at the upcoming BAC Challenge at Golden Gate Park. Nevertheless, the girls look like they’re ready to both defend the BCL title and make a statement at both the NCS and State Meets. The Girls Varsity Tennis Team has been comfortably on top of the BCL West, undefeated in the past two regular season, winning two straight BCL West championships and making two very deep North Coast Sectionals tournament appearances (including making it to the semifinals last year). Led by captains Sonia Martin ‘16, Carolena Leon
Boys Soccer photo by Santiago Mejia
‘16 and Catherine Peabody ‘16 the Tigers look to continue their dominance in the BCL West and make it even farther in the NCS tournament. Captain Catherine Peabody ‘16 says, “I think we have a lot of potential in the team and I’m really excited to see how far we can go this
season. Everybody obviously wants to three-peat, but I think mostly I’m just excited to get to know new people and bond as a team.” The team appears to continue as a dominant force in the BCL West with wins against International and Urban.
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Girls Varsity Cross Country in action photo by Leslie Dicke
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all sports in the BCL West (Bay Counties League) are highly competitive. Intramural competitions in each sport are neck and neck, and it looks like it will stay this way through the playoffs. Lick-Wilmerding fields five teams in the fall and each team has a recent history of success. Lick Volleyball played an impressive 2014-15 season; they made both BCL playoffs and NCS. This year, led by captains Alexa Saccone ‘16 and Jasmine Mai ‘16 our Lick tigers are fresh off of a strong preseason and eager to do well in the regular season. When asked about how the season is going, returning player Tatianna Capko ‘16 states, “The team has really improved from last year. We have a lot of talent and maturity on this team and everyone is ready and eager to play.” So far, the team has had an impressive 2-0 start to the season with wins against Urban and International. This fall Lick introduced a brand new co-ed sport to the fall sports line up: Water Polo. Led by captains Kelby Kramer ‘17 and Keanu Velasquez ‘17, the inaugural season seems promising; the players are optimistic about the future of Lick Water Polo. Velasquez says that “So far water polo has been really fun. The team has grown a lot through camaraderie, and more and more people come out and join the team every day.” Because this is the first year of water polo, Lick is not in a league yet and has been playing in scrimmages against other schools with a water polo team. They just scrimmaged against the City College Water Polo team and their first official game of the season is fast approaching. Last year Varsity Boys’ Soccer had a deep run in both the BCL playoffs and the North Coast Sectionals. With the team moving up a division in NCS, Lick is humbled, yet hungry to do well and represent our school to new opponents. The team is led by seniors Antonio Quadra ‘16, Nathan Gorjance ‘16, Spencer Burget ‘16, Jack Fong ‘16 and Dixon Layton ‘16. These guys and the rest of the team are determined to win the BCL West championship and go deep into the NCS tournament. Junior Joe O’Connell ‘17 who is transitioning from JV last year to Varsity this year says, “We have a lot of great players
Girls Volleyball players photo by Santiago Mejia
Girls JV Tennis photo by Santiago Mejia
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The New Faces of Lick-Wilmerdi by Bonnie Wong ’17
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n August, the Lick community greeted the new freshman class, the class of 2019, as well as nine new faculty and staff members. The additions to our adult community bring their skills, knowledge, and love of learning both to their work in the classroom and to the their work on the staff and management.
Teaching Around the World: After teaching abroad for the last six years, Ernie Chen is back in the Bay Area. Chen had the opportunity to combine his love for teaching with traveling when working with the School Year Abroad Program. He taught math for three years in Italy and China. “School year abroad is a program that takes 60 kids to either China, France, Italy, or Spain. You go for a year, living with a host family, and you become immersed in the language while taking their cultural classes,” Chen explains. After being gone from America for so long, Chen is excited to get back into the groove of his San Francisco lifestyle. Chen says, “Right now I’m really still getting my life back in order. I had a life here previously and I’m just catching up with it now by spending time with friends and family, as well as watching all the television shows I’ve missed!”
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Catherine Fung
Current Position: English Faculty (English 1 and English 2) Previous Job: English Professor at Bentley University
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Rachel Botamino
Current Position: Spanish One Semester Sabbatical Faculty (Spanish 2A, 3H) Previous Job: French and Spanish Teacher Lick, and then retire to Spain: Botamino was born in France after her family fled Spain and the regime of Generalissimo Franco. Her entire family returned to Spain after Franco’s death; Botamino also plans to settle there and spend quality time with them after her first semester at Lick. Although Botamino has traveled all over Europe, she still likes Spain the most. “There are things I like about both France and the United States, but I’m just able to relate better to the people in Spain,” Botamino explains. After leaving Lick at the end of this semester, Botamino plans to take some time off to relax in the Caribbean and then head home to Spain.
Writing Her Own Book: Catherine Fung is currently writing an academic book about refugee literature, based on her research. Although the book is still in it’s middle stages, Fung knows exactly how she wants her book; a strict focus on academic research. Throughout the process of writing an academic book, Fung has slowly but surely found her academic voice. When asked what motivates her to write a book, Fung explained, “It can be pretty hard at times, but I enjoy the brain work. I like the problem solving that comes with it.” Fung plans on working on the book throughout this year and to complete it early next year. In addition to writing her academic book, Fung works for a literary journal called, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. MELUS strives to enlarge photo by Bonnie Wong the definition of U.S. literature through studying and teaching about different ethnically specific authors and literary work. “I’m currently coRyan Fernando editing, with Professor Marguerite Nguyen of Current Position: Web Editor Previous Job: Web Developer at a local business Wesleyan University, a special issue of refugee literature,” Fung explains. Although Fung is the in Palo Alto outgoing Book Reviews Editor for the journal, Diversity at Lick: When asked about what she hopes to bring her knowledge from writing attracted him to Lick, Ryan Fernando stressed the for MELUS into both her academic book and the importance to him of Lick’s diverse population. classroom. Fernando attended three different high schools because his family moved constantly. Through all the different environments and people at these schools, he was able to learn about the importance of each person’s story and experiences in life. “Being the new guy at all those places was awful. But now when I look back at it, the experiences made me a much better person,” Fernando states. “Academics at Lick are great, but I think Lick’s diversity teaches patience and tolerance, which will go a long way for people.”
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Ernie Chen
Current Position: Math Faculty (Algebra 1, Algebra 2A, Stats and Applied Math) Previous Job: Teacher at a School Year Abroad Program
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Ann Maisel Cafe photo by Elena Moore
Zachery Nacev
Current Position: LSC Associate and Testing Coordinator
ick-Wilmerding and Their Stories Bonnie Wong ’17
Previous Job: Civil Rights Law Firm (Legal Assistance) Lending a Hand: When asked why he was first drawn to being the LSC Associate, Nacev expressed his passion for helping others. After making the transition from teaching World History at Match High School in Boston, Massachusettes to being a legal assistant in a Civil Rights Law Firm, Nacev realized that legal work wasn’t the best fit for him and that his passion lies with helping students and building connections with them. “I like working with students, helping and facilitating them to do work that is important to them. That’s actually what excites me about Lick, the mentality of doing meaningful work,” Nacev says. In addition to helping coordinate peer tutoring, planning the administration of the PSAT, and helping students with writing and general class skills, Nacev has a deep love for soccer. He has been playing ever since he was a little kid and is now both a center mid fielder and center back in the Sports 4 Good league. He has brought his passion for soccer to Lick and is currently the Assistant Coach, working alongside Coach Smith, of the Boys’ Frosh-Soph soccer team.
One of Torres’s highlights in traveling is the chance to explore different cultures and broaden her experiences. “One of our [hers and her Torres husband’s] favorite places that we’ve been to so far is the Yucatan Peninsula — more specifically, we love Tulum — where the weather is warm and humid and the Mayan people are friendly,” Torres says. Torres also enjoys outdoor activities in general. She loves hiking. Next summer Torres and her husband are planning to embark on the Camino de Santiago Hike, a rigorous 500 mile pilgrimage walk across Spain to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
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Melanie Johnson:
Current Position: Chief Financial Officer Previous Job: CFO at Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco Stepping up in the Community: Growing up volunteering had consistently been integrated into Melanie Johnson’s lifestyle and values. 13 years ago, Johnson decided that she wanted to transition into non-profit work. Johnson says, “I’ve always had this desire to serve.” Johnson strives to diversify her experiences by working with a variety of people through non-profits. Although Lick is unlike the other organizations she has worked with recently, she really connects with the values of Lick’s community. “I love the idea of a private school with a public purpose. It really zoomed in on everything I’ve been working towards.” Johnson explains. As the year continues, Johnson hopes to become more active with students and join volunteering opportunities.
McCullough Library photo by Maurice Herbst
photo by Robin von Breton photo by Bonnie Wong
Christopher Schenk
Current Position: English Faculty (English 2) Previous Job: English Teacher at a high school in Maryland Runner at Heart: Cross country has played a vital role in Chris Schenk’s life ever since he started in high school. “Cross-country defined my high school experience. It’s what I loved doing and I made some of my closest friends running. It was how I really defined myself,” Schenk says. Although he doesn’t run on a team anymore, he still loves running on trails and he loves the challenges that come along with that. His passion for running is shown through his dedication to running. “As soon as I got here [Bay Area] I signed up for the Golden Gate Half Marathon.” He plans to support Lick’s cross-country team and plans to attend many of their upcoming meets.
Camille Walker
Current Position: Development Associate Previous Job: Recent graduate from San Francisco State, worked Part Time at the Student Center Stationary Designer: Every year before starting school Camille Walker would purchase a planner from Sugar Paper LA. But when she went last year they had sold out of her favorite planner which sparked the idea of making her own planner. “At Gigi Torres Current Position: Math Faculty (Deductive first it was just a bunch of papers in a notebook and then I got motivated to make it into book Geometry and Algebra 2) Previous Job: Math Teacher at Immaculate form,” Walker says. Although she’s just getting started with making planners, her love for arts Conception Academy and crafts has helped her set goals for the future, Adventure Seeker: Outside of the classroom, which include creating notepads, calendars and Gigi Torres loves traveling with her husband. other stationaries. photo by Bonnie Wong
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Girls’ Soccer Moving to the Winter by Jill Reilly ’17
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he 2015-2016 winter sports season will be the first time the Lick Girls’ Soccer Teams play in the winter. The move from spring to winter came after a decision by the Marin County Athletics League, more commonly known as MCAL, to move all of their Marin girls’ soccer teams to the winter season. Because the Lick girls compete against these teams during their season, they were left without competition, forcing Lick to make a monumental decision. The athletics department resolved to follow MCAL, moving the Tigers to the winter, so that they had a chance to compete in the league and sectional championships at the end of the season. Although it seemed inevitable, this change is not necessarily universally supported. When asked if he thought the change would be well-received by the Lick girls, Eliot Smith, Athletic Director, replied, “My biggest concern is for the small sports, like JV soccer or JV girls’ basketball, because now we have to make a decision: do we have enough girls to field a team?” This has been a key question since the beginning of the discussion whether to move
girls’ soccer to winter. Dual basketball and soccer players are being put in a tough position, as they are now forced to choose one sport or the other. When asked to share her reaction to the change, Sydni Green ’16, who has played both basketball and soccer for the past three years, admitted, “In years past they [the athletics department] had said it was going to happen, but I never really believed it, but I guess it was kind of a shock or, not a slap in the face, but shocking. It sucks to choose when my sports have been set as one per season and I have been playing those since elementary school, so it was kind of hard to give up one.” Another argument against the switch is the effect of winter weather. Unlike basketball or wrestling, soccer is played outside. With El Niño, predicted to be the strongest in years, and California’s rainy season hopefully underway, games and practices may be rained out. Additionally, with the season falling outside of daylight savings time, the teams may be forced to end games and practices earlier, or play exclusively on fields with lights. On the other hand, the elimination of girls’ soccer from the spring season benefits some female athletes. Previously, the girls’ soccer season coincided with lacrosse,
Girls Varsity Soccer photo by Noel Danseco
badminton, swimming, and track & field. The move to winter allows girls who played soccer during the spring season to try out a new spring sport or play a sport they previously gave up to play soccer. Therefore, many dual spring sport athletes are thrilled about the season change. Jamila Wilson ’17, who ran track her freshman year and played soccer on a club team outside of school, but decided to play soccer her sophomore year, explains “I ran track freshman year, but I also wanted to play soccer, and it was a hard decision for me both freshman year and sophomore year, so it is nice having the chance to
play both sports.” An additional argument for moving girls’ soccer to the winter is that most club teams play in the spring, creating conflict between school and club soccer. Wilson adds, “Usually more important soccer seasons are fall and spring, and so in terms of club soccer it’s a lot nicer to have school soccer in the winter.” Girls’ soccer tryouts will commence on November 9, 2015. What about the boys? Will they follow the girls to the winter? When asked, Smith replied, “It’s being discussed.”
or more each season on fantasy. A growing number of people are investing money in daily fantasy sites, most notably DraftKings and FanDuel. Unlike traditional fantasy football, users of daily fantasy sites such as DraftKings and FanDuel pick different players each week instead of sticking with one team for an entire season. Daily fantasy football players enter into contests with random people. Andrew loves fantasy and watching football, but he questions the legality of the emerging industry of daily fantasy sports. He asks a questions on the minds of fantasy critics. “With daily fantasy sports, how does that get away with not being considered gambling?” The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 made online gambling illegal while exempting fantasy football, claiming that fantasy football takes enough skill to distinguish itself from traditional online gambling. A diverse group, including people under 18, are betting on NFL players through daily fantasy, throwing gobs of money into pools with random people. Some people will win, but just like gambling, the majority of participants lose money, because the odds are stacked against them. Nevertheless, the the leading providers of daily fantasy sports, DraftKings and FanDuel have spent a combined $100 million dollars from August 1st to September 15th, according to iSpot.Tv, on television advertisements. With this aggressive marketing spending, the numbers of daily fantasy sports users have increased tremendously, and DraftKings and FanDuel’s projected value has surpassed $1 billion. Additionally, DraftKings
has struck a deal with the National Football League Players Association enabling professional football players to appear in their ads. The site has also introduced daily fantasy college football, which Roy Eisenhardt, a sports law professor at UC Berkeley, thinks will catch on very quickly. However, Eisenhardt reveals that the NCAA is “now worried [daily fantasy] is going to infiltrate the reason why people support college teams...and that is you’re not rooting for the college team but you’re rooting for particular players.” Additionally, the major conferences have sent a letter to DraftKings asking them to discontinue their college football services. With the difficulty of avoiding DraftKings and FanDuel’s ads, college football may yet embrace fantasy and change the way fans watch college games. The general trend over the past few years suggests that fantasy football’s popularity will continue to grow. However, people have mixed emotions about what my mother calls “nothing more than a major time suck.” Whether that is a true judgement or not, millions of Americans are taking to their couches to track the Comcast Channel that takes viewers around the NFL to document fantasy relevant plays. Although these Americans may never be seen by the public on any given football Sunday, they will solidify friendships and gain the skills necessary to wheel and deal.
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Three time member of L-W Fantasy Football, Chip Thompson ‘17, commands the reputation of a hard headed trade go-getter. Thompson, who finished second last year, reveals that “the trick about fantasy football and trading is to never give any of your trading secrets away... period.” Fantasy football players can develop their very own trading and negotiation strategies that will translate to other aspects of life, especially in the workplace. As Chip, students and faculty embark on a 16 week trek, it’s a given that trades will happen, some more effective than others, and fantasy football competitors will develop negotiation tactics essential for success. Andrew Manansala, Admissions Associate at LWHS, estimates that he spends three and a half hours each week bettering his fantasy team, not to mention the hours he spends on Sunday cheering on his fantasy players. He fills his Twitter feed with fantasy football, following 57 fantasy football experts to get advice. In fact, Andrew once even wrote freelance articles for numberfire.com, a website run by J.J. Zachariason, one of the writers Andrew follows on his Twitter feed. For Andrew though, fantasy football is fun. “I love watching football, and fantasy football gives me a reason to watch [the NFL] on Sunday” exclaims Andrew. The game also brings people together. He plays to keep in touch with his high school classmates from Lick, some of whom live on the East Coast. Like most fantasy football participants, he plays to win. The
The jersey given to the loser of Andrew Manansala’s fantasy league photo by Andrew Manansala
ability to brag to all of one’s friends is insanely fun and losing a league can be heartbreaking. In many leagues, punishments are given to the losing team. Andrew’s league awards the baseball jersey used by Lick alumni Nico Madrigal-Yankowski, an assistant baseball coach and JV tennis head coach at Lick, to the losing team. This is because Nico has a reputation for making unfair trades which cause him to lose. Known as “The Nico”, the loser is shamed by having to wear the jersey in public, as well as perform any (usually embarrassing) tasks ordered by other league members. Fantasy football can improve communication skills through trading, strengthen bonds and bring happiness to those who play, but it can also make people lose money. Most leagues today have buy-in, and the only way to win money is to come in first place. The odds are against fantasy players. In a recent survey sent out to Lick students that play fantasy football, every respondent said they bet $15
Women Soccer Players Win World Cup but Wait for Respect by Mo Mitchell ’18
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The San Francisco Lions scoring a goal photo by Steve Lambright
don’t even travel when (games are) on turf because they won’t play on it.” The same article later quotes Wambach, “The men would strike playing on artificial turf.” The attorney representing the group in the gender-discrimination lawsuit, Hampton Dellinger, revealed in a statement to the Washington Post that the players were suing because “forcing the 2015 women’s World Cup to take place on artificial turf rather than grass was not only wrong but also constituted illegal sex discrimination…The difference matters: plastic pitches alter how the game is played, pose unique safety risks and are considered inferior for international competition.” FIFA didn’t just fight the case; instead, they reportedly sent these players the message that if they continued with the lawsuit, they wouldn’t be permitted to play at all. The players, already preparing for the tournament, dropped the suit.
Is the danger of turf real? The American Academy of Neurology, along with other researchers and medical groups, has been conducting studies on turf with some worrisome results. Turf has been pointed to as a cause of increased number of injuries, like sprained ankles, turf burns and concussions. It shows that women are more likely to get concussions playing soccer than playing other sports, and that concussions seem to be more likely when playing on turf, rather than grass. Another danger is that turf gets dangerously hot, while grass stays relatively cool. A study conducted in 2002 on artificial turf practice fields at Brigham Young University in Utah measured the surface temperature on both grass and turf fields, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The average of the grass fields was 78.2 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to 117 degrees
Girls playing soccer in the 2012 World Cup photo courtesy of Llgar Jafarov
Fahrenheit on the turf fields. Turf is generally more than 30 degrees hotter than natural grass. During the study by BYU, one day, as the air hit 98 degrees, the field heated up to a blistering 200 degrees, causing BYU to set “a standard of 120 degrees as its safety cutoff. At 122 degrees, the study showed injury to skin occurred within 10 minutes,” reported Abilene Reporter News. After a World Cup game, Michelle Heyman, an Australian forward, was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, “You wouldn’t want to see the bottom of our feet after a game...The skin is all ripped off; it’s pretty disgusting. It’s like walking on hot coals with your skin ripping and slowly cracking, constantly.” Not only does the heat endangers players, turf is also toxic. According to the Environmental and Human Health Inc., “Of the 96 chemicals detected [in artificial turf], a little under a half have had no toxicity assessments done on them for their health effects. … Of the half that have had toxicity assessments, 20 percent are probable carcinogens.” Besides just health concerns, turf also affects the game. It affects the way the ball bounces, and the rubber pellets get into players eyes as they slide or head a ball, covered in turf. As horrible as being forced to play on turf sounds, it’s only one of the many inequalities that plague female players. There are gaping differences in the tournament venues. The 2014 Men’s World Cup was played in brand-new stadiums with grass, while some of the women’s games were played in a 30-plus year stadium on turf. The smallest arena in the men’s world cup held almost 40,000 people, while many of the women’s arenas seated just over 10,000 people. U.S. women also received far less air time and very little pre-cup coverage, despite being favorites to win, while the men got much more attention with a next to nothing chance of winning. Even the prize for women the World Cup was not equal. The U.S. women won $2 million for winning their final; the German men won $35 million. Just to get in the round of 16, men’s teams won $8 million, four times as much as the female champions. Despite its promised responsibility to promote the game for both men and women, FIFA has a long history of mistreating its female players. Some hope that with the resignation of Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, because of corruption charges, women’s treatment by FIFA has a chance to improve. Many of the women players have had negative interactions with Blatter and other top FIFA officials. CONTINUED ON PAGE
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his year, the U.S. women won the World Cup. Their spectacular performance was eagerly followed by 26.7 million viewers on television in the U.S. alone. According to FOX News, the game is the mostwatched soccer game in American television history; the match had more viewers in the U.S. than any men’s soccer game. The game had more viewers than the World Series, the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup. The U.S. Women are at the top of the global soccer world, and women’s soccer is finally beginning to get some of the attention it deserves. While fans support women’s soccer, FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football, doesn’t give women’s soccer the same respect as it does to men’s. FIFA decided to play the women’s World Cup tournament on artificial turf, while the men’s tournament was played on fields of bright green grass. Moreover, the women’s World Cup was played in smaller, older stadiums, with less pre-cup coverage, less funding, and millions less in prize cup money. The women’s final would have been the perfect end to a perfect tournament, if not for the artificial, plastic, soleblistering turf, a reminder that women athletes still have a long, long way to go. Before the tournament, outrage mounted against the decision to use turf. A group of internationally-acclaimed players filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit against the Canadian Soccer Association and FIFA. According to USA Today, the group was composed of more than 80 female players, including Brazil’s Marta Vieira da Silva, Germany’s Nadine Angerer and the U.S.’s own Abby Wambach. The players noted that every men’s World Cup, and all women’s games before this year, have been played on grass, as it is seen as the superior playing surface. Sydney Leroux, a U.S. forward, said in an article in USA TODAY, that “Men would never play a World Cup on turf. Some men in Major League Soccer
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JUST WIDE OF THE GOAL; WOMEN SOCCER PLAYERS STILL STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY from page 15
FiveThirtyEight wrote that Blatter suggested, in 2014, as a way for the women to increase popularity of women’s soccer, “They could, for example, wear tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men–such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?” Women do not, in fact, play with a lighter ball, which was apparently unknown to the man who had been running FIFA for five years. On June 2, 2015, after Blatter announced his resignation as FIFA president, effective after the association’s February 26, 2016 elections, Megan Rapinoe, the U.S. midfielder, tweeted, “Ding dong the witch is dead.”
of the Year in 2014, plays on the Boston Breakers. She explained, “When people find out you’re a professional soccer
“Prior to Title IX no one paid any attention to women’s sports at all” player, they think it’s awesome. But they think it’s awesome because there are certain assumptions that go along with the life of being a professional athlete. And they don’t realize that for us [women], it’s kind of like the exact opposite.” The team tried to help Reeves so that she wouldn’t have to worry about rent by placing her with a host family, but it still wasn’t perfect because “My
for the last 25 years. One explanation, put forward by Kuang Keng Kuek Ser of Public Radio International, as reported by The Washington Post, points at America’s social attitudes towards women as a factor in the U.S. team’s success. After reviewing the United Nations’ Gender Inequality Index, Kuek Ser recognized a direct relationship between a country’s performance on gender equality to it’s performance on the soccer field. The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is a measurement, country by country, to find out how well women are doing compared to men in terms of health, political power and economic standing. He graphed the top 23 teams in this summer’s World Cup, and the results are startling. The teams with the most points in the tournament were all countries with
A game between the Boston Breakers and Cutler Ridge Soccer Club photo by Leonard Cederholm
However, on Thursday, October 8, Blatter was suspened by FIFA’s ethics committee, while it investigates the charges brought against him. Other high-ranking FIFA officials were also suspended, and some were even banned, from all football activities, for 6 years. While professional salaries are not established by FIFA, but by independent leagues, there are huge discrepancies between men and women exist there too. The minimum salary in men’s professional league, Major League Soccer, is $60,000; the minimum salary in the National Women’s Soccer League is $6,842. On salaries like this, many professional women players struggle to make ends meet. Jazmine Reeves, the Rookie
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host family was great, but at the same time, as an adult, you want to be able to pay for your own apartment,” she said. Unfortunately, this lack of funding lost the Breakers a valuable player, and the soccer world a worthy addition to its ever-expanding ranks. At only 22 years old, she retired from playing professional soccer, instead taking a job at Amazon. “Who wouldn’t want to do what they love and say that’s their job?” Reeves asked. “I’m not saying I would never play again, but I can’t live off of what they gave me. I can’t.” As far behind as women soccer players are compared to their male counterparts in the U.S., they’re still miles ahead of women players in the rest of the world. For women in many countries, playing soccer isn’t an opportunity they ever get. San Francisco soccer coach and educational researcher, Norman Ferrer, revealed, “The first time that I ever actually saw girls playing organized soccer was when I came to the U.S. …. I grew up in Colombia, and I didn’t grow up with girls playing soccer; it was a boy’s sport.” The U.S. women have dominated international women’s soccer
a fairly low level of gender inequality. Certain rules and regulations in America have contributed to lower levels of gender inequality, and one of those is Title IX. After Title IX was enacted in 1978, the number of girls and women playing soccer shot up. According to Benjamin Morris of FiveThirtyEight, “The number of women playing high school soccer in the U.S. rose from just a few tens of thousands in the 1970s to about 375,000” in the 21st Century. Almost 20% of high school female athletes now play soccer, making it the 3rd most popular women’s team sport. Martha Stoddard, a performing arts teacher at Lick-Wilmerding High School, and a former soccer player at Stanford, recalled, “Prior to Title IX, nobody paid any attention to women’s sports at all.” As the U.S. women do better and better, more girls are inspired to get into the sport, seen clearly in the increase of players after the 1999 World Cup, which was won by the U.S. women’s team. FIFA reports that worldwide, girls make up only 12% of youth soccer players, with more than half
of that 12% coming from the U.S. alone. In the rest of the world, girls playing soccer is often unusual and looked down on. Coach Ferrer noted that even in countries where girls do play soccer, they don’t start until they’re in high school. Other countries are now “developing the infrastructure [to get girls playing soccer from an early age]….The Spanish government just mandated that all professional club teams create development academies for girls...this is happening right now in many places…The governments and national organizations are saying we need to develop women’s soccer... Most countries are still at the very beginning stages of developing girls soccer.” When girls do play soccer in some countries, they aren’t looked at like heroes, as are their male counterparts. In Brazil, for example, there is a huge difference in the treatment of budding male and female soccer players. Boys are taught to play soccer and walk simultaneously, while female players are often referred to as “sapatão” or “big shoes,” which are slang terms for “lesbian.” In Brazil, women were officially banned from playing from 1941 to 1979. While the ban has been lifted, there is still no national league in Brazil for women. Even if soccer organizations are striving towards gender equality, they have to ask themselves why this gap exists in the first place. Why is women’s soccer treated so differently than men’s? Some coaches point to differences in the way that girls play compared to boys, even at a young age, but Ferrer argues that differences are often “over-emphasized,” which “gets in the way of providing opportunities for girls to develop into strong players.” He asked, of all these supposed differences between men and women, how much of the difference is the player, and “how much of that is what we conditioned [them] socially to do?” Although women still have a long way to go, many are heartened by the recent success stories in women’s soccer. When asked what impact she thinks this summer’s win at the World Cup will have on the rest of the soccer world, Stoddard replied, “I hope that it will say
“Male athletes are more highly praised for their accomplishments” hey the U.S. takes women’s soccer seriously. Look at these women, they’re really good; they really work at it.” Bonnie Wong, a defender on Lick-Wilmerding’s soccer team, also commented on her hopes for the future, “It’s disappointing how male athletes are more highly praised for their accomplishments in soccer, even at the high school level. Hopefully, over time, people will look past the gender of the person and focus on her skill as a player.”
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Raiders and 49ers: Team Previews by Zeli Grey ’17 and Ryan Kimball ’17
All stats and info come from espn. com, unless otherwise noted. Opinions and observations come from Ryan Kimball and Zeli Grey. Raiders Team Preview:
The Raiders Season Hinges on: The Raider’s 2015 season relies on their second year Quarterback Derek Carr. This will be Carr’s second season in Oakland. At the end of 2014 season he finished with a 58.1 completion percentage, 3,270 yards and 21 touchdowns. He threw 12
How will the Raiders fare this season? photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
development. Amari Cooper was a top five draft pick this year, and he set numerous receiving records at Alabama over his productive four years there. Michael Crabtree is a definite upgrade as a number two receiver, and Derek Carr commented that he has “the best hands I’ve ever seen.” While coaching might not be a strength of the Raiders, it is a definite improvement from the turmoil that plagued last year. Jack Del Rio has playoff experience as a coach for the Jaguars and a coordinator for the Broncos. While he has a lot of work to do in his new position, he appears capable of leading a playoff team. Weaknesses: In a word, multiple. Outside of a small core nucleus, the Raiders roster is flawed on many levels. Nearly every player on the team is either an aging veteran or an unproven young player. The secondary and offensive lines are notably weak, and they are relying on former sixth round pick Latavius
interceptions and fumbled four times. Carr’s stats were subpar on nearly every level, but the Fresno State alum was plagued by a poor offensive line and receiver play all season. Carr flashed traits like touch, arm strength and accuracy in his rookie season, but he needs to play consistently in order to give the Raiders a chance to win on a weekly basis. His development is the ultimate X factor for any success the Raiders enjoy this year. 49ers Team Preview: Strengths: The 49ers still have a lot of talent at nearly every position group. Navarro Bowman and Ahmad Brooks are both pro bowl linebackers, and young pro bowl safety Eric Reid leads an underrated secondary. On offense, Joe Staley is a proven star as Colin Kaepernick’s blindside protection, and he will hold the offensive line together despite the loss of talented guard Mike Iupati. Carlos Hyde and
Raiders Vs. 49ers: Who will have the Better 2015? photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Torrey Smith will lead new look running and passing games, and Colin Kaepernick, despite his inconsistencies and his lackluster 2014, has had success before. We consider him to be a slightly above average quarterback capable of winning games this year. Vernon Davis is another talented 49er that appears ready for a bounceback season. The Niners handpicked Jim Tomsula over a variety of coaches with more experience, a sign that they truly believe in his coaching ability. Eric Mangini, the new defensive coordinator, has a proven track record as a head coach in Cleveland and New York and led very strong defenses throughout his coaching career. New offensive coordinator Geep Chryst is a former quarterback coach committed to furthering Colin Kaepernick’s development. While the Niners have lost Harbaugh, their replacements are promising and offer potential. Weaknesses: The 49ers are still reeling from the horrific offseason they endured this past year. Justin Smith retired as expected, but he was still a key player and leader on the defense. However, things went from bad to worse when the defensive captain Patrick Willis retired unexpectedly at the age of 29. Even more shocking, Chris Borland, fresh off an unbelievable rookie year and widely viewed as Willis’ replacement, retired at the age of 24, citing concussion worries and a lack of passion for the game. In addition to the loss of these players, the 49ers also fired their head coach Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh had previously taken the team to three straight NFC championship games. They hired a first time coach in his place. The losses don’t end there. Frank Gore, Mike Iupati, Aldon Smith, and Ray McDonald highlight key losses, but there are almost too many losses to
list. Pro Football Talk 49ers noted that the 49ers “have lost more playing time than any other team” going into this year. The offensive line appears particularly weak, with unproven starters all across the right side. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick had the worst statistical year of his career last season, and the 49ers still missed the playoffs despite all of the talented players they had on the roster. To make matters worse, the 49ers play in the incredibly competitive NFC West dvision. The 49ers have won most of the titles in this division, but Seattle has had a great run in the last few years – winning the Super Bowl in 2013 and also appearing in the Super Bowl last year. The Rams and Cardinals also appear competitive and enter the season with high expectations. The 49ers Season Hinges on: The 49ers season hinges on their defense coming together. Last year was a complete mess for the Red and Gold, and the offseason was arguably worse. Former head coach Jim Harbaugh is gone, along with a whopping six defensive starters. With that being said, they have a young, talented group of replacements and a coaching staff with a proven track record of developing young players. The 49ers have not only lost numerous players to free agency and retirement, but they have also lost the leadership of linebacker Patrick Willis and defensive end Justin Smith. The 49ers defense is now led by the talented linebacker Navorro Bowman, and their season relies on his leadership of the 49ers young and unproven defense.
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Strengths: The Raiders have a small, promising, young nucleus. Khalil Mack is a rising star in the league in just his second season. A top 5 pick in last year’s draft, the Buffalo University outside linebacker finished third in rookie of the year voting and finished the season with 80 tackles and 4 sacks. He showed even more potential, and appears poised for a year two jump alongside pass rushers Justin Tuck and Aldon Smith. The Raiders significantly upgraded their receiver position this offseason, hoping to further Quarterback Derek Carr’s
Murray to lead their rushing attack. The 34-14 beating they took against the Cincinnati Bengals in week one only further displayed the Raiders’ roster weaknesses. While Jack Del Rio’s playoff experience is a strength of the team, he has yet to have sustained success as a head coach, and his coaching debut was far from ideal. The Raiders have a history of ineptitude in their coaching staff, front office, and roster, and these deficiencies might hinder their success this season.
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El Niño: The End of or a Pause in the California Drought? by Maddy Nakada ’16 and Maya Rich ’17
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alifornia’s rainy season generally starts in early March and lasts until late October, but for the past four years it seems as though we have been stuck in a perpetual state of AprilSeptember. Across the state, lawns are browning, lakebeds are drying, and snow packs are melting at a concerning rate. The first response to these observations would be to point the finger at climate change, and this is certainly a factor in the severity of the drought. The warm weather, causing precipitation to fall in the form of rain rather than snow, has impacted the accessibility of water statewide. Although rain is a good thing, it poses storage and distribution issues. California has a Mediterranean climate meaning wet winters, dry summers, and snow packs, which accumulate during the cold months. The snow packs gradually melt into useable water during the heat of the summer, which is vital for water accessibility in this type of climate. However, a report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association in 2014 attributes the drought not to human-induced climate change, but to a high-pressure atmospheric ridge off of the West Coast that is diverting precipitation north to Alaska and British Columbia. Scientists are studying the resilience of this ridge, and what factors contribute to the extremity and likeliness of ridges formation. A study published in September 2014 argues that the formation of a ridge is much more probable with the current concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, directing the causation of the California drought back to humans and their effect on climate change. The ridge also gives rise to a new problem: it is diverting cold air away from the ocean, forming an area of warm water off of the West Coast. This area, “The Blob”, dominates a large geographical landscape, and the air flowing from the ocean over the Blob is warm, restricting precipitation in California. It’s no surprise that many Californians are rejoicing as meteorologists predict that the weather system known as El Niño will likely bring precipitation to the parched state. However, this widespread excitement is largely based on a number of misunderstandings about exactly what El Niño is and its ability to reverse the effects of California’s severe drought. El Niño is part of a larger weather system called the El Niño Southern Oscillation. El Niño Southern Oscillation is a variation in ocean temperatures and wind patterns in and over the Pacific Ocean. El Niño and its
counterpart, La Niña, are weather patterns that occur as a result of these variations. When the winds over the Pacific that normally travel East to West die down, warm water from the Western Pacific travels to the Eastern Pacific and El Niño occurs. When cold water from the bottom of the ocean gets pushed upwards, La Niña occurs. The two alternate with one or the other occurring every three to seven years. A common misconception is that El Niño is coming this winter or that it might not come at all. In fact, El Niño is already here. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) first declared the presence of the El Niño weather pattern in March of this year when they first concluded that increased ocean temperatures were consistent enough to be indicative of the occurrence of El Niño. In a report released on September 7th of this year the NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) stated that, “There is a greater than 90% chance that El Niño will continue through Northern Hemisphere winter 201516.” However, even if El Niño does continue into this winter it is unlikely that it will reverse the effects that four years of drought have had
A map of the severity of the California drought graphic courtesy of Mother Jones
the groundwater and mitigate subsidence. What California really needs is snow in order to see a significant reversal of the effects of the drought. California’s biggest reservoirs, the ones that major cities and large farms get their water from, are fed from the snowpack in the Sierras as it melts. Snowpack is better than rainwater because it provides a steady source of runoff water over a longer period
“Without the snow pack, the rain falling during an El Niño would only be a shortterm solution for a long-term problem” on California. One reason why El Niño may not be able to undo the effects is that even if it does continue into the winter there is a possibility that it will not actually bring any rain. The biggest factor that could prevent rainstorms from making their way into California is The Blob. This pool of warm water has created a high-pressure region along the west coast that makes it nearly impossible for storms to hit the mainland. There is also the possibility that parts of the Southeast will get rain while California gets very little or even no rain as every El Niño is different and meteorologists cannot predict exactly where the rain will go. A second reason why El Niño may not be able to undo the effects of the drought is that while the ground would absorb some of the rain from an El Niño storm, the majority of it would run-off into rivers and streams and eventually end up in the ocean. One of the biggest effects of the drought has been on farmers who have been forced to dig new wells or deeper wells in order to irrigate their crops as reservoirs dry up. Groundwater is being taken out of the ground so quickly that on August 19, 2015 NASA reported that parts of the central valley are sinking at a rate of up to 2 inches per month. In desperate need of rain, El Niño would not completely resupply
of time so a larger percentage of it is absorbed into the ground or collected in reservoirs. As Kevin Van Leer, a product manager for Risk Management Solutions, Inc. puts it in his article “‘Super’ El Niño – Fact vs. Fiction,” “Without the snow pack, the rainwater falling during an El Niño would only be a short-term fix for a long-term problem.” Furthermore, El Niño can actually hinder the formation of snow packs. In order for a snowpack to form, a mountain has to be covered in snow from its base to its peak. The increased temperatures from El Niño make it harder for this to occur because the snow at the base melts faster than it might normally melt. Melting snow, especially as a result of El Niño, can cause more damage than just run-off flowing off the mountain. The additional moisture on the mountain creates the risk of mudslides. Areas that are especially susceptible to mudslides are those that have recently been burned in wildfires, which includes over 300,000 acres that burned and are burning in California this year. El Niño also brings the potential for major flooding in these fire-swept areas. Some of the worst floods could take place in areas such as
southern Lake County, where the Valley Fire recently raged through 76,000 acres of land, or the Rough Fire in Fresno County which as of October 2, 2015 is 95% contained and has swept through 151,00 acres. Although there is little we can do to prepare for El Niño; we do need to continue our defense against drought. The California Government is already taking strides to cut back on water usage statewide. In May 2015, Governor Jerry Brown ordered a 25% reduction of California water use, as well as more specific restrictions based on regional water use. For example, some of the highest cutbacks in the Bay Area have been in Hillsborough and Brentwood, while San Francisco has only been asked to cut back by 8 percent. To discourage water waste, the Governor has also been encouraging fines, and although there have been fines handed out for up to $200, authorities are being urged to issue fines up to $10,000 to water-wasting cities, districts or even private companies, if necessary. Projects proposed to share California’s water supply throughout the state include Brown’s Sacramento-San Joaquin proposal. But as we make plans to provide water for all of the state, despite decreased supply we have to plan with awareness of the long term impacts of short term solutions. Whether El Niño turns out to give us the hoped for heavy rains this winter, we need to realize that it could have some damaging effects and it will most likely not make a huge dent in our drought recovery process. Heavy rains would be a temporary relief and we as a community need to continue to be mindful and conserve our water usage.
Mediterranean Refugee Crisis Pressures Countries To Take Larger Steps by Dana Wu ’16
Refugee Crisis by the Numbers 137,00 — the number of refugees the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates have travelled across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, from January 2015 to July 2015.
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they are in, then they may be condemning them to death — or to an intolerable life in the shadows, without sustenance and without rights.” Migrants and refugees moving inside their 1,867 — the number of refugees home country are and migrant missing persons or called internally deaths at sea, from January 2015 to displaced persons July 2015 alone. (IDP). Under the UNHCR definition, 83% — the increase in refugees IDPs are similar to and migrants crossing the refugees except that Mediterranean in the first six “IDPs have not crossed months of 2015. an internationally recognized national 2015 has been a particularly border to find taxing and crucial year for sanctuary.” As a result, migrants and refugees, as many IDPs “remain under make perilous journeys across the protection of their Irish Naval Service rescuing migrants from an overcrowded boat as part of Operation Triton, June 2015 the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. governments, even if photo courtesy of Flickr They seek protection from war the government is the and persecution in their home cause of their displacement.” European Union is working to countries. But while the figures The people making the alleviate the migrant pressure on Key Migrations for refugee and migrant travel journey across the Mediterranean nations such as Italy and Greece, • Over 140,000 ethnic are staggering, these numbers Sea are mostly Syrian, Afghani, by proposing the Migrant Quota Rohingya — a minority are only a fraction of the number or Eritrean refugees traveling System. This system would Muslim group — have of displaced persons worldwide. to Italy or Greece. Syrians, require all EU nations to share fled Myanmar and People have called this the worst forced to flee because of war, the burden of hosting refugees by landed in Thailand, humanitarian crisis since World have previously taken refuge in creating quotas for the number of Malaysia, and War II. neighboring countries, such as migrants which each country has Indonesia since 2012 — The UNHCR makes a Turkey and Lebanon. But conflicts to accept. Italy is one of the most Reuters. distinction between refugees erupting in these countries make outspoken supporters of this short • 70,000 migrants make and migrants, defining migrants it harder to support the waves of term solution, which accounts for their way across the as people who “choose to move migrants entering their countries. the distribution of over 160,000 Balkans, moving into in order to improve the future Ambassador Lewis Lukens, current migrants in Europe. Serbia and Macedonia prospects of themselves and their Diplomat in Residence at University —The Guardian On September 14, an • 7.6 million internally families,” and refugees as those of California, Berkeley, former US emergency meeting in Brussels displaced Syrians who “have to move if they are to Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea- resulted in Europe Union are fleeing to Turkey, save their lives or preserve their Bissau and former Consul General governments putting a stall on Lebanon, Jordan, freedom. They have no protection in Vancouver, B.C., suggests that this plan. Carsten Nickel, a senior Egypt, and Iraq — from their own state - indeed it is part of the reason the migrant crisis vice president at a political risk Mercy Corps often their own government that has escalated so quickly and in such consultant firm told The New York • 137,000 people have is threatening to persecute them. great proportions in 2015 alone, is Times, “A mandatory quota for the migrated across the If other countries do not let them technology. He says that the growing E.U.-wide relocation of migrants Mediterranean Sea this in, and do not help them once influence of social media and the is unlikely to be achieved quickly, year —The New York global availability of if at all.” Times technology has allowed The United States has • There are over 860,000 the problem to become recently taken on a larger role in refugees, asylum a more pressing this international humanitarian seekers, or IDPs inside Ukraine, many seeking international issue, crisis. In the past, America has to flee to Russia — forcing it to front-page not hosted large numbers of UNHCR headlines. refugees migrating across the The question Mediterranean Sea to Europe, of who accepts despite having the space, but responsibility for these has provided over $4.5 billion in keeping with the best tradition refugees has caused humanitarian aid since the start of America as a land of second dissension among of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. chances and a beacon of hope,” the members of the On September 20, 2015, Secretary Kerry stated. “And it will be accompanied by additional European Union (EU). of State John Kerry announced financial contributions to the In a press release, that the Obama Administration humanitarian effort, not only Jean-Claude Juncker, plans to drastically increase its from our government but from President of the intake of refugees in the coming the American people.” European Commission years. The US will accept 85,000 Ambassador Lukens (executive branch of refugees in fiscal year 2016, says that “a benefit of having the EU), states “Now which starts in October 2015, and open borders to refugees is is not the time to take 100,000 refugees in fiscal year that they bring innovation and fright. It is time for 2017, compared to the current spirit. Historically, immigrants bold, determined and cap of 70,000. Many of the have been a part of who we are concerted action by the additional refugees would come as Americans, and contribute European Union, by its from Syria, a country ravaged by hugely to society.” institutions and by all an oppressive government and civil war. “This step that I am its Member States.” Refugees in Macedonia at the border of Gevgelija Photo courtesy of Currently, the announcing today, I believe, is in
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8 Movies to See Before You Graduate High School by Luke Righetti ’16
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ighlighting high moments and low moments, these are the seven must-see movies before you leave high school. 1. Starting off my list is the 1993 classic about high school in the 70’s, Dazed and Confused. Keg parties, freshman hazing, championship football games, and a creepy David Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) are just a few 70’s staples present in this movie directed by Richard Linklater. The movie follows freshman Mitch Kramer (Wiley Wiggins) as he outruns senior bullies, follows a group of senior partiers, and tries to fit in and find his place in the crazy hormone fueled experience known as high school. However, Dazed and Confused is not a strict coming-ofage story, simply put, this movie created a genre of it’s own: the “pot” movie.
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2. The same director, Richard Linklater, also directed Boyhood (2014), an incredible coming-of-age story. This project follows the life of the fictional Evans family over 12 years – father Mason
Sr. (Ethan Hawke), mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette), daughter Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) and the son Mason Jr. (Ellar Coltrane). The audience watches this family grow and evolve in real time, actually watching the actors grow up over the 12 year production of the movie. It truly feels like you are seeing these kids and adults experience a genuine life. There are no crazy plot twists, dark foreshadowing, or insane climaxes; the movie showcases life in the most real and existential way possible. 3. If you have ever wanted to just not get out of bed one morning, if the school grind has pushed you just a little too far, then you might relate to director John Hughes’ Ferris Buellers Day Off (1986). The film chronicles the events of Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) as he enjoys a “fake” sick day. Ferris frequently breaks the fourth wall to explain to the audience the nuanced art of lying. This comedy places you in the head of a rebellious teenager. 4. John Hughes was also the mind behind Sixteen Candles (1984). Sixteen Candles follows Samantha (Molly Ringwald) as she tries to enjoy her 16th birthday party in the shadow of her sister’s wedding. But not all is lost when she learns she has gained the affection of Ted (Anthony Michael Hall). The only problem? He may be the only one who likes her, and she likes a senior. An incredible story of a teenager who suffers almostevery embarrassment possible, this film may seem lovey-dovey and gushy, but it really is a great heart-warming story of a teenage girl finding herself in high school. 5. Speaking of rebellious teenagers, Director Paul Brickman’s 1983 Risky Business is all about a goody-two-shoes turned pimp. Joel
Goodson (Tom Cruise) is an AllAmerican star student and jock faced with the difficult decision of picking an Ivy League college to attend (what a hard a life). However when his parents leave him home alone for the weekend, he turns his house into a brothel to pay off a prostitute to whom he owes money. Sporting much darker themes than the happy-go-lucky day of Ferris Bueller, Risky Business delves into the dark temptations that come with being a teen, yet still remains a comedy. The movie is also notable for the infamous scene danced to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock an’ Roll.”
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6. At number six is a slightly more serious entry than the past three comedies. John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club was released in 1983 and is about five students from different cliques, brought together to serve a detention. Amidst the hijinks of pranking the overly strict principal, these students share truly heart-touching moments,
transcending the barriers of friend groups and pouring their hearts out to each other. It is an excellent story about the truth of people and how there is often a lot more complex feeling behind the facade students show during school. The lessons are invaluable and characters are engrossing; the movie does not disappoint. 7. Director Mark Waters’ Mean Girls is a 2004 comedy all about cliques and the strict laws of popularity which govern the social world in school. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a new girl at North Shore High and accidently falls into the clutches of the popular girls on campus, who are dubbed the “Plastics”. On the surface this zany comedy brings on plenty of laughs. However, it delves into the dangers of exclusive social cliques, and the harmful effects they can have on youth. And guys do not be turned away by the title, this is a powerful comedy with laugh-outloud moments for everyone. 8. This next one is a personal favorite that you have undoubtedly heard of, even if you don’t know the movie well. 1999’s American Pie is the classic coming-of-age sex comedy by the Weitz brothers (Chris and Paul). It is a period comedy about the stereotypical high school males coming up on their last year in high school that satirizes the age-old acceptance ritual of sexual intercourse as a rite-of-passage. These movies, although spanning vastly different genres and themes, show high school in all it’s glories and faults and deserve to be seen before you graduate.
Good New Flicks For Fall-Winter by Luke Righetti ’16
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s 2015 draws to a close, Hollywood is pulling out all the stops for the 2015 holiday season. Below are a few anticipated movies coming out before the end of the year. Batman vs. Superman promises to be more successful than its ridiculous title would suggest. Produced by Christopher Nolan, the mind behind the most recent Batman trilogy. Batman vs. Superman has a star studded cast including Ben Affleck, Amy Adams, and Jesse Eisenberg. Fans asking for a deeper look at the DC universe just might get their prayers answered, and possibly even knock Marvel off of its superhero throne. However, Marvel is more than stepping up the challenge with their new superhero movie, Deadpool. The witty, sarcastic, and lewd mutant mercenary, played by Ryan Reynolds, might be an R-rated ver-
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sion of Iron Man. The trailer is filled with witty dialogue and ridiculous jokes which radically diverge from the gritty Batman and Superman movies. Moving from the world of superheros and villains to that of real people, Oscar-Winning director Alejandro Iñárritu’s new film; Revenant is a western thriller starring Leonardo di Caprio and Tom Hardy. This movie
follows di Caprio as Hugh Glass, an American frontiersman on an epic adventure. However the production has gone well over budget, has been plagued by poor weather and awful working conditions on set. Still, this movie might break the no-Oscar curse for di Caprio. The other western thriller this
season has Samuel L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino working together in their new movie The Hateful Eight. Starring Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson, this western thriller could be quintessential Tarantino. The film follows a group of post-Civil War bounty hunters as they take shelter from a blizzard. Jackson and Tarantino aren’t the only power couple gracing the big screen this year. Joy brings together Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro and director David O’Russell for their third collaboration. The story centers on Joy (Jennifer Lawrence) attempting to start a business. I will say this looks very similar to a lot of their other movies, for better or for worse. American Hustle and Playbook Silver Linings were both Oscarwinning and nominated films.
Getting Crafty with KK! by KK Narita ’16
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he crafting movement is going strong. When I googled “craft sites” there were 144 million results. I have a lot of experience with sewing but I was looking for fun things that I could make and share. I chose to make silly putty, water-colored mug, and a lotion bar. I chose these crafts because I thought that Lick students could use them in their lives, and Pinterest said they were quick and easy. Before I even thought about crafting, I consulted the crafting queen Taft Kilpack ‘16 to seek her wisdom. I thought it would be best to ask someone who sells her own crafts through her shop MakingTembo. Her tips for new crafters: “save your work! Even if you don’t immediately love it, it’s always interesting to look back on it later.” She also suggested I keep notes about what I did in each project.
be an example of it. In terms of my process I would just suggest not to use the household product Borax. Not only was it hard to find, but it also didn’t add any stretchy quality. Although the texture of the “goo” was cool it was not the same as the childhood egg shaped classic silly putty, that is still available for purchase. There are replacement recipes that use corn starch and other supplements. Those have a clay like texture but are not as crumbly as my gooey creation.
quickly. Kurtz mentions this in her video but I just want to emphasize this tip again. Also, nail polish that is more water based spreads out better. I would recommend not using high polish finish because it has fast drying properties. While that’s great for your nails it is not so great for the mug. Finally, do this in your sink and use a plastic tub that you will not want to use again. If you get nail polish in your sink use your handy dandy borax to scrub it and the polish will come right off.
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rather experiment and scour for lotion bar recipes on Pinterest than do homework. Crafting can be a procrastinator’s dream. Once you start crafting it’s hard to stop, I still pin different lotion and soap recipes; my curiosity is getting to be overwhelming. My best crafting lesson is that perfection just doesn’t belong in some areas of your life; the best things may come from mistakes and crafting pro-
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Drawstring backpack modeled by Isabel Povey Photo by KK Narita
Glitter Silly Putty Photo by KK Narita
A playable blob that is malleable and has no real use other than entertainment is an easy craft for Lick kids if they want a fidget toy in class or want something to get their mind off homework. I found this recipe on the social media crafting site, Pinterest. Courtesy of Crafty Mom Blog Ingredients: 4 oz. of glitter glue, or regular glue with added glitter. 1 tsp of Borax (Frustrating and difficult to find, I had to purchase mine through Amazon.) 4 oz. of water Total craft time: 10 minutes of total crafting time , 5 minutes of cleaning up the goo from the bowl Amount of guesswork: High-Medium End Result: ◆ I don’t know if there is an exact correlation between a high estimation rate and the low quality end product, but this craft would
Lotion bar modeled by Brandon Balladares Photo by KK Narita
Watercolored Mug: Credits to Audra Kurtz Lotion Bars: Ingredients: Credit A delightful Home Blog 1 white ceramic mug Ingredients: Plastic bin deep enough to sub- 3 oz raw beeswax (I purchased merge the entire mug mine on Amazon) 3 oz Coconut oil Craft Time: 25 mins( not includ- 3 oz of Cocoa butter ing the day the mug has to dry), 15 Muffin tin minutes of cleanup Craft Time: 45 mins (including Amount of guess work: Low Me- the 30 minutes lotion bars must dium be in the freezer) cleanup time: 20 Minutes End Result:◆ ◆ ◆ Amount of guess work: Low, I chose this craft because however I improvised. there is an ever growing need for a unique mug at Lick, that you can End Result ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ spot easily when you lose it. This craft has only one step and the This craft was the one I materials were very easy to find. saved to try last. I was slightly inI ordered a plain white mug from timidated by the stove involved. Amazon. Plain white mugs can There were three simple steps. easily be found at Walgreens or on Melt all the ingredients together, Amazon, where I purchased mine. pour into oiled muffin tray, then For this craft, I watched the video finally enjoy in the shower before from the vlogger Audra Kurtz, who your body wash. This recipe called posted an image recipe on Pinter- for lavender essential oil; my est as well. Kurtz expertly swirled cabinet was bare of any lavender, the nail polish in the plastic tub but was fully stocked with great and flawlessly executed the dunk. smelling teas. So when all my inKurtz’s final product had a marble gredients were melted I threw in like finish, while mine looked like my favorite earl grey tea. My faa tried to remove a nail polish de- vorite thing about this recipe was sign. I re-dunked it to spread out you can add a little something the nail polish and I started to like different each time you make it; the final product more. I want to experiment with things KK Tips: The nail polish like coffee, lavender flowers and creates a film on the top if the plas- other natral products. tic tub so it’s important that when My three crafts have the nail polish is swirled it is done taught me a lot. For one, I would
Wood bowl made by Kevin Hou Photo by Kevin Hou
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Water colored mug Photo by KK Narita
Bracelet made by Averie Kellenberger Photo By Averie Kellenberger
Above are examples of crafts that other LickWilmerding High School students made, inside and outside of class. From top: A canvas drawstring bag made by KK Narita ‘16. She made the bag in four steps. Moderate sewing skills are required. A wooden bowl made by the president of wood club, Kevin Hou ‘16. This is a layered bowl that has a plywood accent. A bracelet made by Averie Kellenberger ‘16, a current Jewelry student. This is an example of soldering and using different types of metal.
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An Inside Look at Amy by Elena Moore ’17
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he complimentary exhibitions, Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait and You Know I’m No Good opened on July 23 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and will continue until November 1, 2015. Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait is the intimate story of Amy Winehouse as a young Jewish girl growing up in London. The exhibit is narrated through her personal possessions — her application to a performing arts school, a leather suitcase filled with photographs of her family and her collection of designer heels used for performances are among a few of the more notable items. Winehouse, who died in 2007, was a singer-songwriter known for her multi-faceted musical style — a mixture of blues, soul, jazz and reggae. The partnering exhibit, You Know I’m No Good, features three contemporary artists’ works inspired by Winehouse’s public and musical images. Though many remember the struggling side of Winehouse associated with substance abuse, these two exhibits (alongside the museum’s public programs) work together to paint an unseen, familial picture of the singer. After interviewing one of the curators of the show, Pierre-François Galpin, I discovered that the exhibit Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait was originally created by the Jewish Museum in London. The current exhibit at the CJM is the show’s first appearance in the United States. Galpin gave me an inside look at the process of curation. Although this particular exhibit was borrowed, for the CJM installation, the staff chose new details for the design and graphics. For example, they chose a bubblegum pink paint color (surprisingly Winehouse’s favorite) for the entrance of the exhibit and removed the glass protective cases to create a more personal experience for the viewer. He noted that the typical process of deciding the focus of a show includes studio and gallery visits, internet research and viewing current exhibitions around the Bay Area. One of the most controversial aspects of the exhibit is itsfocus on her identity as a Jewish daughter and sister rather than her darker side. Galpin noted that this question was debated in-house as well, since the show portrays Winehouse in a positive light. This is understandable because her brother, Alex Winehouse, helped curate the show — he wanted to share his personal and endearing relationship with his sister. Most people are already familiar with the tabloid stories of Winehouse’s addictions and so this take on her life is refreshing and gives the viewer a behind the scenes look. However, the staff at the CJM still wanted to ensure a balance between the positive and negative. Galpin mentioned that this was one of the reasons the curatorial staff chose to commission the second exhibit, You Know I’m No Good.
These artists painted, filmed and drew pieces that reflected the darker side of the singer. Rachel Harrison, an artist from New York, created a series of untitled drawings that portray Winehouse alongside notable figures from art history, like Picasso. In addition, the CJM’s public program department is offering events that help balance the exhibit and create a dialogue about the artist’s life and battles. On September 20, 2015 the Museum co-planned Do Tears Dry On Their Own? Life Skills, Art, and Amy Winehouse alongside Oasis for Girls, an organization that empowers young women and teen girls, which focused on stress and depression in relation to everyday decisions. Throughout the span of the exhibit, there were also numerous gallery talks including a chat with Don Ed Hardy about the meanings behind Winehouse’s tattoos and another with Shaina Hammerman, a scholar of Jewish history and culture, focusing on the British Jews in Downtown Abbey. Cecile Puretz, the director of access and inclusion at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, explained the sentiment and purpose behind the Do Tears Dry On Their Own? Life Skills, Art, and Amy Winehouse workshop. She says, “Everyone knows the Amy Winehouse of the tabloid magazines who very publicly struggled with so much, but through this workshop we aimed to shift that negative and overly-stigmatized perception, and to draw attention to Amy’s complexity and vulnerability as a human being who had tremendous talent and passion. In our society, mental health, substance abuse, and eating disorders carry so much stigma and shame, and as a museum we felt it was important to create a space that openly talked about these issues that are faced by so many young people.” Puretz believes that the health and wellness of teenagers are crucial issues in the community and that the Amy Winehouse exhibit provides the perfect opportunity to create a dialogue. She aimed to plan a workshop that would discuss Winehouse’s own issues while “scaffolding on those discussions with tangible life skills and self-esteem building activities that could guide them towards safe and healthy decisions in the contexts of their own individual lives and struggles”. Her last goal was to show that art and music are healthy outlets to relieve stress and depression. Although Winehouse died at the age of 27, her impact continues. While observing her personal items, such as her tour suitcase filled with stolen family photos, and listening to her mixtape of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, one is reminded of the person behind the image. Amy Winehouse was a Jewish girl living in London who loved designer heels and reading novels and this exhibit is her family portrait. Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission St Friday-Tuesday 11 am-5 pm Thursday 11 am-8 pm Wednesday closed
Installation view from Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait, Jewish Museum London, July 3–September 15, 2013.
Photo by Ian Lillicrapp. Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait. On view July 23–November 1, 2015. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
Pierre François Galpin at the entrance to the exhibit photo by Elena Moore
A young Amy outside her Grandma’s flat in Southgate. Photographer unknown © The Winehouse family. Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait. On view July 23–November 1, 2015. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
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the stage. Nguyen walked out to introduce the series and the speakers. Then Heti, July, and Nguyen took their seats and the evening officially began. Thao focused a lot of her questions on the friendship between July and Heti as well as their processes of creating. July and Heti’s interactions were frank and open. Describing the origin of their friendship, Heti explained how she got off the phone after interviewing July and immediately sent her an email asking if she could talk with her for one hour every day for the rest of their lives. July took a few days to respond with a yes and so commenced their friendship. Miranda July wrote, directed and acted in two feature length films, Me You and Everyone We Know (2007) and The Future(2011) and recently published her first novel, The First Bad Man. July also founded the app Somebody in collaboration with Miu Miu which describes itself as, “Half-app / halfhuman. Somebody is a far-reaching public art project that incites performance and twists our love of avatars and outsourcing — every relationship becomes a three-way.” Q. Amelia Levin-Sheffield: What can students at independent high schools such as Lick-Wilmerding in San Francisco or College Preparatory in Oakland (July’s alma mater) do to better understand the privilege of receiving a quality education and why it is important to extend that same privilege others? A. Miranda July: There was this This American Life episode a few months back, two episodes about integration and I kinda wished that I had heard something like that when I was in college because I think there’s this sense that a good education is “one thing” and you’re getting it when in fact what you’re getting is a specific education that is good in some ways and is missing other things and you have to kind of make up for it. You have to seek out in your city what’s missing from your education, just as you would if you were at a school that didn’t have as good success stories. Go to ThisAmericanLife. org, it’s a double episode and just
listen to the whole thing. (The video July suggested is titled The Problem We All Live With and can be found on thisamericanlife.org) Shelia Heti has written over ten different books, including short story collections. Heti’s autobiographical novel How Should A Person Be? was named the best book of the year by The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her other novels, Women in Clothes, The Middle Stories, Ticknor, The Chairs Are Where The People Go and We Need a Horse have all received critical acclaim. In 2013 Heti wrote the play, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid which was performed by Suburban Beat in Toronto. Q. Amelia Levin-Sheffield: In addition to the funding, what do you hope the six collegebound students “get” from the City Arts and Lectures/826 Valencia scholarship? A. Shelia Heti: Probably a feeling that people want them to do well and that there’s people rooting for them not only in university but all the way through their lives. I hope that they feel really supported and encouraged and loved. It’s not just the money, it’s also that people think they’re great. Thao Nguyen is a professional musician and is a guitarist and vocalist for the band Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down. Nguyen is currently based out of San Francisco and works with many non-profit groups such as California’s Coalition for Women Prisoners. Nguyen has released six albums and her most recent, We the Common (2013) received positive reviews from sites such as Allmusic, SF Weekly andPopMatters. Q. Amelia Levin-Sheffield: Although you are a professional musician, you still make time to volunteer with community outreach programs such as the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Why is public purpose volunteering important to you? A. Thao Nguyen: It’s very important on a few levels, one
personally. I didn’t intend to pursue music professionally, I intended to go into domestic violence prevention and support work, but when I was in college I was interning at a domestic violence shelter and I realized that I couldn’t confront that on a daily basis. I didn’t have the constitution for that, and so I switched gears and decided to pursue music with the promise to myself that I would stay as involved as I could because it’s a very personal matter for me that I stay well aligned and advocate however best I can. The other thing is that it’s really easy when you are in this line of work to lose perspective. You can easily have a different impression of yourself than what’s true — which is that you are just a person — because your job is people paying attention and applauding when you show up, which is really unrealistic. Anyway, it’s easy to become an asshole and so the closer that you can stay to your community and the closer you stay to being a true citizen and a contributing member of your community and of your society the healthier it is for you. If you have the privilege of attaining any kind of platform or any kind of sway it’s just important to use it well and not take it for granted, and it is such a lucky job to have that it’s easy to stay grateful. It is important for students to see how the Public Purpose Program work that they are doing as part of our Lick-Wilmerding educational process can continue, no matter what career they choose and path they take as adults. The program is about more than just getting teenagers to engage with their community, PPP gives them an introduction to an important avenue of life long contributing and sharing.
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ach fall, the San Francisco nonprofit organization City Arts and Lectures produces, in addition to other events, a unique public purpose program,“On Arts,” to raise money for another esteemed San Francisco non-profit, 826 Valencia and its College and Career Readiness Program that awards six scholarships annually to deserving college-bound Bay Area students. The On Arts series, held at the Norse Theater, runs from September to December and features conversations with writers, artists, comedians, actors and others. The speakers from last year’s series ranged from actress and comedian Lena Dunham to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of Americanah. This year’s series will feature guest speakers such as chef authors Yotam Ottolenghi and David Lebovitz, actor Jesse Eisenburg and author Jonathan Franzen. (For the full lineup of On Arts speakers visit cityarts.net) This fall I am writing a column that will explore how individuals in many different vocations engage in public purpose work throughout their lives and will include interviews with City Arts and Lectures and 826 Valencia staff as well as some of the guest speakers involved in this year’s On Arts series. This column, in fact, ais my public purpose project this year. Last year I volunteered at 826 Valencia and taught third, fourth, and fifth graders reading and writing at the Buena Vista Horace Mann School in the Mission District. I look forwards to being able to be connected to the 826 Organization again this year. The first guest speakers for the “On Arts” series were Sheila Heti and Miranda July in conversation with Thao Nguyen at the Norse Theater on September 17th, 2015. The stage was dimly lit with a small red “On Air” sign above the three chairs. The audience ranging from high school and college students to professors to hipsters — writers and lovers of literature and artists of every type — buzzed with expectation. Then a spotlight focused the audience’s attention on
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Fleet Week: Is it Worth It? Each Indigenous Peoples Day weekend, thousands of spectators gather in the Marina, Marin Headlands, Crissy Field and on the Golden Gate Bridge to watch the Blue Angels soar above the Bay. Yet, for many San Franciscans the annual show is an unwanted, inescapable intrusion into their daily lives and some feel an example of profligate waste. The planes’ first practice flyover is often jarring; they scream deafeningly across the sky. Heads turn up and look at the sky, expecting to see a huge plane hurtling towards them, but instead they see four small planes flying in perfect quartet into the distance. The jarring shock of the planes’ noise lessens with each flyover; the intensity does not. For students and workers across the Bay Area, the screeching of the Blue Angels forces work to stop for a few seconds; the deafening noise hampers the ability to think. Although the show itself occurs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons, practice flights begin early Thursday afternoon, mid-way through the workday. The noise is even worse for young children with no understanding of what is occurring. It’s true that Fleet Week is a week during which San Francisco celebrates the sacrifices made by our soldiers in the armed forces. However, this celebration comes at enormous expense to the US Navy; San Francisco’s Fleet Week costs the Navy between $7 to $10 million per year. The Blue Angels air show alone makes up a substantial part of this budget. When the government shutdown in April 2013 forced the Navy to cancel the remaining Blue Angels shows of that year, the SF Examiner observed that the cancellation “would save the Navy $15 million to $20 million dollars.” It costs $24,000 per hour to fly the planes and each plane costs $21 million to manufacture. Local proponents of Fleet Week argue that while Fleet Week costs the federal government money, the money that it brings in at a local level offsets its costs. Although Fleet Week is certainly a boom for local businesses, it still uses funds that the Navy could use to upgrade its fleet or for humanitarian purposes. including providing relief for victims of natural disasters. Instead, these funds are being used to rent docks and to buy fuel for the 12 Navy ships and numerous planes that participate in the San Francisco Fleet Week. Additional funds go to pay the hundreds of sailors who talk to guests, show off exhibits, and even take selfies with visitors. Given the cost of Fleet Week, the Navy would be better off sticking to its core mission of protecting our country and offering humanitarian aid to others across the globe. Still, some love Fleet Week.
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Trump Actually an Illegal Alien by Matthew Eng ’18
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eal estate mogul Donald Trump threw a tantrum last week after it was discovered he is actually an immigrant. When President Barack Obama demanded Trump release his birth certificate, Trump became visibly distressed, breaking into a nervous sweat. Trump insisted he had never seen his birth certificate, and said he would personally retrieve it. At his lawyer’s office, Trump’s birth certificate was retrieved from his private vault. When he saw it, letting loose a flurry of rage, Trump stuffed several thousand dollars in loose bills down the throat of his lawyer. The cash was the only weapon he had at hand. Many witnesses claimed that Trump attempted to flee the building, but was swiftly tackled by a guard and apprehended.
Trump’s lawyer, after clearing his air passage, wheezed, “He always maintained he was from Queens, New York, but he’s actually from Quedlinburg, Germany. Still though, at least I got a bonus.” Trump supporters everywhere were baffled by the news. “I honestly had no idea about this,” said a perplexed staff member. “He’s been living and doing business here for years. “A least he’s not one of those illegal Martians that’s come to destroy the U.S.” Trump, with the support of his many followers, argued that he could not be an illegal alien, as he was not green and had no antennae. The following day, Trump emerged from his tower, composed. “About Germany,” he announced to the waiting papparazzi, “When do their elections start?”
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