The rivalry 22 Racing through 2022 23 A lifetime of competition

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The Boston Red Sox vs. The New York Yankees, The Los Angeles Lakers vs. The Boston Celtics, The Carlmont Scots vs. The Sequoia Ravens.

Most sports rivalries occur due to close geographical location; the Carlmont and Sequoia rivalry is no different.

“The schools are in close proximity, so they are our natural rival, and they have been for a long time, so the students can get a little more into it,” said Patrick Smith.

Smith is the athletic director for Carlmont and says that the rivalry is not only good for school spirit but also gives players more drive because they are able to get more hyped up for that game in particular.

“It’s a really good outlet for them to understand how things are supposed to be done,” Smith said.

Even though the rivalry is not official, the thought of it gives athletes a different kind of adrenaline, as they hope that their games will end in victories, giving them bragging rights.

“For a while now, we have had specific games at the end of the season for certain sports, where we play Sequoia to win a trophy,” said Conner Cook, a junior. In each sport where this rivalry takes place, such as lacrosse or football, there is a trophy or plaque given to the winners. For football, the award is the coveted Terramere Trophy that has been passed back and forth between Sequoia and Carlmont since the 1950s.

“The rivalry is very important. It means something to the school and something to the community,” said Eric Rado, Carlmont’s football coach.

Carlmont was established in 1953 and had a rich sports history, winning the Terramere Trophy numerous times.

Before the Peninsula Athletic League was established in 1996, Carlmont and Sequoia had been playing games against each other for 43 years before that.

“It gives the players something to shoot for year-round,” Rado said.

Each game can have different energy depending on who the team is playing; rivalry games have a unique kind of energy as the athletes can feel like they are a part of something bigger.

Not only can the athletes feel a difference, the crowd can too.

“In the championship game in 2010, there was no space available in the stadium. It was at Sequoia, and it was standing room only, and both sides were completely packed,” said Rob Poulos, Sequoia’s football coach.

The 2010 rivalry game between Sequoia and Carlmont was also the championship game that year, as they both had the best records in the league. The crowd’s energy at that game was unlike any other.

There was a similar occurrence in 2009 during the rivalry game that was hosted at Carlmont. This was prior to Carlmont having bleachers on both sides of the field, and the stands were so packed that fans were spilling out onto the sidelines of the field.

“I think COVID definitely threw a wrench into things, but this past year our student section has been awesome,” Rado said.

In the 2021 fall season, Carlmont took home the Terramere trophy beating Sequoia 17-7, and Carlmont was able to end their season with a bang.

Poulos explains that the hardest part about the rivalry is figuring out how to be rivals while still maintaining comradery between teams.

“There’s no reason to hate each other all year long. For two hours, we are going to go head to head, and then after that we are going to go back to being friends,” Poulos said.

Racing through 2022

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Formula One is the most popular car racing sport worldwide. What is it all about, and what will the 2022 season be like?

Formula One has existed since 1946 and is so named because of the racing car model rules that were first developed (that model is called a “formula”), according to the book Formula One Racing For Dummies. Earlier series had no limitations on how a racing car could be built, which made racing very dangerous. Now, Formula One car regulations are one of the core components of the race.

The technological aspect behind each car makes Formula One unique compared to many other races since each team designs and builds their own. Romit Bhatnagar, a senior, is an avid Formula One fan and was drawn in through the Netflix show Drive to Survive, a dramatized documentary about Formula One racing.

“I was really bored on Netflix, and the Formula One show Drive to Survive was recommended to me,” Bhatnagar said. “The sport has had a huge increase in viewers that is mainly attributed to the show.”

Each Formula One team has two drivers, and the main draw for most Formula One fans is to root for a particular driver (as opposed to the team). Bhatnagar’s favorite driver is Daniel Ricciardo.

“He hadn’t had a great season in 2021, but I still have hope for him,” Bhatnagar said.

While many Formula One fans are initially drawn to the sport by rooting for particular drivers, they often gain an appreciation for racing technology and engineering.

“I’m looking to do engineering in college,” Bhatnagar said. “If you’re into F1, it’s something that just kind of comes with the sport.”

This year, each of the ten teams has built a car in accordance with new regulations and modifications to that formula that dictates what can and can’t be raced with. One other major addition in the 2022 season is the new track: Miami will open for its first Grand Prix, or race, on May 8.

Take a look at the 2022 Formula One calendar by scanning the barcode below!

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A LIFETIME OF COMPETITION

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From skiing to horseback riding to dance, some do it all and everything in between.

Starting at four years old, Lilly Mallinckrodt was pushed into a flurry of competitive sports. Throughout her life, she has participated in skiing, horseback riding, and dance. After years of training and commitment, she was finally ready for a skiing competition called the National Aspen Competition.

Although she was encouraged to continue, the pressure of the sport she used to love slowly became a chore.

“I was super nervous about the competition, and by that time, I already hated the sport. No matter how many people told me to keep going, I couldn’t travel with my team,” Mallinckrodt said.

But even with encouragement and years of training, accidents can’t be helped. She ended two rounds of the competition with a blown-out knee. She had ripped both her medial collateral ligament, which holds the bone and cartilage together, and posterior cruciate ligament, which connects the thighbone to the top of your lower leg bone.

After the experience, she expanded her interests to horseback riding and dance, specifically ballet and lyrical. She built herself back up with routined physical therapy and eventually was ready for her first major horseshow with the prized Mustang horse she had been training for two years.

“I was so proud of all the work I put into the competition. We won in our dressage category and the hunter hack,” Mallinckrodt said.

AN AGE-OLD STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS

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PHIE WEI

The notion of feminism in our modern world is often dismissed with the idea, “you have equal rights; what more do you want?” but our work towards gender equality isn’t done yet. Since being banished to the household, we’ve come a long way, but women and feminine-presenting people still aren’t treated equally in the workplace, earning less than men working the same job and facing gender discrimination from employers and coworkers.

“Feminism is still needed today. Maybe not in the way that it was needed in the 1960s, but now even more so,” said María Valle Remond, a genderqueer senior at Carlmont. “It’s not a pro-women and anti-men movement; it’s a movement where all genders and people are equally as valued, and harm reduction is valued in order to destroy the systems put in place that overwhelmingly benefit men and negatively affect women and feminine-presenting people.”

In our modern world, intersectional feminism is key to equality. Intersectionality, the analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person’s social and political identity combine to create different modes of privilege and discrimination, allows for women of color and queer women’s additional barriers to be recognized and overcome.

“Intersectionality plays a big role in my identity as a multi-marginalized person. There’s sexism, but then the combination

of racism and sexism perpetuating stereotypes for women of color. Countless times I’ve heard, ‘Oh, you’re Asian and a woman, so you really can’t drive’ and worse stuff than that. So because I’m fem-presenting, I still face prejudice because I’m perceived as a woman, so I identify as a woman of color, but I am non-binary,” Weitz said.

The patriarchal society doesn’t just harm women. It adds stigma to men expressing emotions, limits women to work in the household or with childcare, and restricts non-binary people to the binary gender roles it upholds.

“Although I’m not a woman, I grew up as one, and I’m still fem-presenting. I’ve experienced a lot of misogyny and sexism when I was younger doing more ‘manly’ things, and I still experience misogyny by people who perceive me as a woman,” said Hannah Weitz, a nonbinary senior at Carlmont.

Feminine-presenting people still face injustices in modern American society. In 2020, women earned only 84¢ for every man’s dollar, according to a Pew Research Center study.

Feminism isn’t a new concept; it was first spotted in 380 B.C. in the classic Socratic dialogue “Republic.” Plato advocated for women, noting that they possess “natural capacities” equal to men for governing and defending Ancient Greece. Women of Ancient Greece then staged protests against a law that restricted their rights to gold and goods, and it was eventually repealed.

Centuries later, the enlightenment fostered its fair share of feminist thinkers. In the 1700s, Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” fought alongside Duchess Margaret Cavendish, advocating for equality amongst men.

In the 1800s, many women stood at the forefront of the Abolitionist movement in the antebellum United States, demanding the end of slavery. Women soon realized that they hadn’t acquired the very rights they were fighting for African Americans to achieve. Once they took to the streets, queer women and women of color were excluded from the movement.

After the Seneca Falls Convention, women frequently filled the streets, demanding their rights after centuries of being legally inferior to men. Protesters were met with retaliation and, in some cases, arrests, but never any tangible change. Feminists organized nationwide protests referring to their Declaration of Sentiments outlining the rights they were fighting for until, finally, 72 years later, they received the right to vote in 1920.

After the Great Depression, women’s employment rose by 24%. Around 10.5 million to 13 million women were employed, according to History.com. While men lost their jobs left and right after the stock market crash of 1929, white women mainly held onto their “women’s work,” like nursing, teaching, and civil service, which were more stable than the industries dominated by men like coal mining and manufacturing. Though, women of color were constrained mainly to domestic work.

“Feminism belongs in the workplace, but it shouldn’t just be throwing women into jobs usually dominated by men. We can’t expect women to do well in these industries if they’re not given education, training, and resources to succeed and are thrown in unprepared to meet the gender quota,” Weitz said.

Despite making up a quarter of the American workforce, women earned far less than men. In some states, women’s working hours were restricted, preventing them from working at night.

Then, during World War II, women were encouraged to enter the men’s workforce to replace missing workers. A new wave of feminism was born, this time promoted by the U.S. government through massive publicity campaigns. Many were inspired by posters and film reels of women in the workplace like Rosie the Riveter.

In 1942, the National War Labor Board endorsed policies requiring companies to provide equal pay for women, directly replacing male workers.

The government’s campaigns succeeded, adding an estimated 6 million women to the civilian workforce and adding 310,000 women working in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943. Women made up 65% of the industry’s workforce during this time.

But after the war, women were expected to return to their patriarchal households, and those who chose to stay in the workforce were paid less than the men working beside them or were demoted to lesser positions. After women proved themselves in the workplace, many women wanted to continue being self-sufficient and have financial freedom, escalating the efforts to correct gender discrimination in the workplace.

In 1945, the U.S. Congress introduced the Women’s equal pay act, which would’ve made it illegal to pay women less than men for work of “comparable quality and quantity.” The measure failed to pass despite ample support from women’s rights groups, and by 1960 women were earning less than two-thirds what the men in the same position.

In 1963, despite heavy opposition from business groups, Congress passed the Equal Pay Act as an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The act outlined that employers can’t award unequal wages or benefits to men or women working jobs requiring “equal skill, effort, and responsibility, which are performed under similar working conditions.” It also included guidelines for when unequal pay is permitted, based on merit, seniority, worker’s quality or quantity of production, or other factors not defined by gender.

Still, President John F. Kennedy acknowledged that “much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity” for women after noting that the law was “a significant step forward.”

Even 57 years later, in 2020, women were still not earning the same as men in the workplace.

Increased education and opportunities for women and legal aids have helped close the gap, but it’s still there. While it may seem small, only a 16¢ difference, it would take women an extra 42 days of work to earn what men did in a year.

Often excuses like, “A lot of women choose to stay home and parent,” or, “A lot of women don’t want to work” along with “Women just choose lower-paying jobs,” are seen on social media, used to excuse the modern wage gap. Still, it exists because of numerous other factors.

Women are two times more likely to work a part-time job than men. On average, women take more time off from employment to care for children or family members, according to Pew Research Center. This reinforces the patriarchal standard that women have to take care of everyone.

The exact reasons for the gap are difficult to measure due to the social stigma associated with asking about pay and workplace treatment. Still, the gap can be largely attributed to gender discrimination in the workforce. According to Pew Research Center, about 42% of working women said they’d experienced gender discrimination at work, compared to 22% of men.

One of the most common forms of gender discrimination is earning inequality. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women earn less than men in nearly all occupations and earn less compared to their counterparts at every level of educational attainment.

“Feminism absolutely belongs in the workplace. Women should be paid and treated equally to their male counterparts. People need to realize that women work just as hard as men, and sometimes they’re paid less for doing the same job,” said Sophia Cerelli, a freshman at Carlmont.

Despite centuries of fighting, women still aren’t receiving gender equality. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 45% of people who believe it’s important for women to have equal rights with men suggested equal pay as an example of how gender equality can be achieved.

“I think the government needs to make laws so everyone, no matter their gender, will make the same wages. It’s not fair for anyone to do the same job and receive different pay,” said Tyler Newman, a junior at Carlmont.

After over 60 years of fighting for equal pay, now is the time to achieve it.

“Maybe someday people will get it through their heads that women are just as equally deserving as men, and they won’t be demonized for just wanting equal pay,” Weitz said.