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February 14, 2014

Convent of the Sacred Heart HS • San Francisco, California

Vol. 20, Iss. 4

4 BEING BARBIE Unrealistic expectations lead to self-esteem issues.

Sophomores travel to Costa Rica 5 DESSERT FOR DAYS Student starts baking business in her free time.

6 BLUE AND GOLD Q&A with Golden State Warrior shooting guard and defense specialist.

7 INTERNSHIPS Alumnae experience the work force while still in college.

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HOLA, AMIGOS Sophomores volunteered at local schools near Dominical, Costa Rica during a week-long immersion experience in

January. Jill Cardamon, Chris Garcia-Feuss and Angie Scott paint a room at a local school in preparation for the upcoming school year (left).

Natalie Podell, Lily Ross and Megan McMicking play with local children (top right). Elliot Hayne draws with students (bottom right).

Convent and Stuart Hall sophs immersed themselves in Costa Rican culture by adventuring in the rain forest and working with locals.

Kendra Harvey Reporter

One hundred and four sophomores from Convent and Stuart Hall spent eight days in Dominical, Costa Rica for a cultural immersion trip, that included horseback riding, zip lining, white water rafting and providing community service.

“The adventure that all the students and chaperones experienced, stretched our boundaries,” President Ann Marie Krejcarek said. “Everyone was out of their comfort zone in the trip, and it was such a privilege to be with these students in this environment.”

“I definitely did feel outside of my comfort zone,” Lily Ross said. “Everyday there was some-

thing new that I had never done before. Everything basically gave you a rush of adrenaline, and I think that everyone needs a little thrill to spice up their overall experience.”

Krejcarek says the Sophomore Classes engaged in community activities and worked together in order to achieve the objectives set by the school.

“Our goal was to unify the Sophomore Class in addition to gaining a language and cultural immersion,” Krejcarek said. “It was nice to get all the students equipped to travel and engage globally.”

Students volunteered in three local schools in Dominical, three hours south of San Jose, by painting classrooms and playing with the children. There was a

large language barrier between the students and the children, according to Aurelio Jimenez, a Spanish 4 Honors student.

“I was called upon multiple times to be a translator for everyone who didn’t speak Spanish or who were in a lower level,” Jimenez said.

Although there were communication difficulties, students found they did not really need to speak to the children to have interactions, according to Julian Moreno, Stuart Hall Sophomore Class President.

“I take Spanish, so I thought I would understand them, but I had no clue what they were saying,” Moreno said. “So I just sort of smiled and played soccer, even though I did not talk to them much.”

The chaperons aimed for an unplugged experience by only allowing students to bring a digital camera to fully absorbed themselves in the trip.

“I actually really enjoyed not having technology all week,” Ross said. “I found that I had more personal interactions with people, and I didn’t really think about my phone or checking Instagram or anything. I found when I came back that I didn’t even check my phone.”

Students feel more bonded as an entire class since the trip, according to Moreno.

“It’s not so much something you could see, it’s something that you could feel,” Moreno said. “For the guys, we have even more fun with each other now and the bond feels stronger.”

8 DIM SUM Restaurant refines bite-sized Asian dumplings.

QuickReads ►►NO SNOW, NO PROBLEM

Winter Break begins on Feb. 17 with classes resuming on Feb. 24 for all four schools. ►►GLITZ AND GLAM

“The Great Gatsby”-themed Father Daughter Dance will take place on Feb. 28 in the Main Hall of the Flood Mansion. Tickets are $25 per person. ►►POKER FACE

Casino Night is on March 6 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Main Hall of the Flood Mansion. Admission is free. ►►MIDTERM MADNESS

Midterms start on Monday March 10. Students will either have exams, class, presentations or projects in the two-hour time slot. Everyone is required to stay 80 minutes while taking an exam.

Local tragedy sparks end-of-life debate Tatiana Gutierrez Editor-in-chief

A local family’s fight to keep its 13-year-old daughter on a ventilator after being declared brain dead coupled with a pregnant Texas woman’s family’s struggle to remove her from a ventilator have caused renewed debate over the definition of end of life and end-of-life treatment.

“Brain death means that somebody has complete and ir-

reversible death of the brain and brainstem,” Dr. Scott Heidersbach, who works in pediatric critical care at Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland, said. “They will never wake up or breathe on their own or be able to do anything. The only way to keep the organs functioning is keeping the patient on a machine.”

Jahi McMath, an Oakland, Calif. teenage girl underwent surgery to treat pediatric sleep

apnea, and on Dec. 10 was declared brain dead as a result of complications from the surgery.

Although Heidersbach is a doctor at Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland — the hospital where McMath underwent surgery and was declared dead — he did not talk about the McMath case due to privacy concerns.

Marlise Muñoz was 14 weeks pregnant when she was found on See Tragedies spark, p. 2

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Tragedies spark end-of-life debate From Local tragedy, p. 1 her kitchen floor after collapsing due to what doctors speculate was a pulmonary embolism.

Her family wanted to respect Muñoz’s previously disclosed wish to not remain on a ventilator, but John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth did not comply with the family’s request, citing Texas law that an individual may not withhold or withdraw lifesustaining treatment if they are pregnant.

“I don’t see how we can use a provision of the law that talks about treating or not treating a patient in a case where we really don’t have a patient,” Tom Mayo, associate professor of law and medical ethicist at Southern Methodist University, who took part in writing the law said.

“That’s not a question of philosophical speculation — that is ‘dead’ in Texas and all 50 states.”

Both statutory and case law state individuals are deceased when they are declared brain dead by a competent medical authority.

“There are two types of death,” Heidersbach said. “One is cardiac death where the heart has complete cessation and cannot be restarted. The other type of legal death is brain death.”

“Someone can be acutely ill with a sickness like pneumonia and be on a ventilator even though they are not going to be in vegetative state,” Heidersbach said. “There is nothing wrong with the brain — they just need to be on a ventilator because it puts pressure into lungs and helps them breath.”

A ventilator — commonly known as “life support” — facilitates a patient’s inhalation by delivering pressurized air or pure oxygen into the lungs.

A ventilator does not complete the task of respiration, the process of the lungs and tissue exchanging inhaled oxygen with the carbon dioxide waste produced by the body to be exhaled.

Physicians insert a breathing tube or perform a tracheostomy, inserting a breathing tube into the trachea, which connects the throat to the lungs, to stabilize a patient’s breathing if the airway has collapsed.

“Breathing is relatively a low level of functioning,” Heidersbach said. “It’s actually harder to keep the airway open because that requires a higher level of brain function.”

Generally a ventilator is used when an individual suffers from an illness that inhibits or hinders breathing, during and possibly after a surgery or the individual is in a vegetative state, a clinical condition in which an individual exhibits unawareness of self, their environment and maintains minimal brain activity.

This state must be sustained for at least one month in order to be considered persistent, according to the American Neurological Association.

Patients can either breathe on their own or rely on a ventilator when they are in a vegetative state, depending on the type of injury sustained. Ventilator patients may later breathe independently at some point, according to Heidersbach.

“The function of breathing can still come back,” Heiders-

bach said. “Although, in some cases they won’t be able to recognize people or talk, walk, or eat on their own, they’re still alive.”

McMath’s family says the girl is still alive and fought the hospital in court to have her transported to an acute care facility,

Not everyone agrees with that, but a lot of people do.”

Winkfield says she does not want to take McMath off of life support because she believes a miracle can take place.

The Catholic Church teaches that no extraordinary measures

not human.”

When individuals who have not signed a DNR or designated a proxy to decide whether or not heroic life saving action should be taken, the next of kin is responsible for the decision.

“That, frankly, can be a really

Basic brain functions Controls word production.

Receives and interprets sensations like pain, temperature, pressure.

Controls the ability to solve problems and plan.

Controls vision.

Controls word understanding.

Controls behavior and emotion.

Controls memory and emotions.

Source: St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital

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despite Children’s Hospital’s objections.

Erick Muñoz went to court, on the other hand, to have his wife taken off of a ventilator after she was pronounced brain dead.

“Since my wife’s death on November 26, 2013, I have had to endure the pain of watching my wife’s dead body be treated as if she were alive,” Muñoz said in his affidavit. “When I bend down to kiss her forehead, her usual scent is gone, replaced instead with only as I can describe as the smell of death.”

One of the chief physicians at Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland declared McMath dead as well as an independent expert from Stanford Hospital agreed upon by the hospital and the family. A county judge agreed with the doctors’ verdict.

McMath’s family and lawyer requested the hospital put McMath through further procedures to have her suitable for transportation to another facility.

“Every day I just feel like a piece of me is being taken away,” McMath’s mother Latasha Winkfield said at a press briefing after her daughter was pronounced dead. “I look at her and I feel like as her mother, I’m supposed to be able to help her, but this hospital has my hands tied.”

Physicians take into consideration factors such as the type of injury, how the injury was acquired, the extent of the injury and other patients outcomes who have sustained similar situations when predicting a patient’s future quality of life, according to Heidersbach.

“We make a very educated guess,” Heidersbach said. “Most physicians tend to focus on the level of alertness and awareness in the patient. We can’t always tell where things are going to go.

need to be taken to sustain life, according to the Rev. Dave Pettingill, a retired professor of theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park.

“Good medicine is good moral theology, so we have to rely on people who are professionals in the medical profession,” Pettingill said. “If a person is what you would simply say ‘vegetative’ and there is no question that they could be revived, then the Church would say that no extraordinary means needs to be used and to let the life play out according to what will happen.”

California residents have an option to sign a prehospital “Do Not Resuscitate” directive.

“A person has the right to die with dignity,” attorney at law John Hurabiell said. “That simply means that if in advance of incompetence or losing consciousness a person has specified in writing that meets the requirements of the law, that they do not wish any ‘heroic life saving measures.’”

The DNR prevents a person in need of emergency services from resuscitation attempts or any other life saving measures, according to the prehospital form authored by the State of California.

“The Church really has a great respect for the human,” Pettingill said. “When something isn’t human and is artificial, there is always that suspicion that comes where you say, ‘Okay, let the person go with dignity.’ A new phase of life is beginning — the person is not going on to darkness or to emptiness, but on to God.” “Extraordinary means would be if you had a person on a machine and that was the sole reason that they went on living,” Pettingill said. “The person may not be brain dead, but being kept alive by a machine the church would say is extraordinary and

slippery slope,” Hurabiell said.

“The next of kin is defined more by case law than it is by statutory law, other than a spouse.”

If the next of kin is not a spouse, a parent or eldest child or next eldest child would make the decision regarding their family member’s end-of-life care. The next of kin can be a brother or sister if the patient does not have a spouse, parent or child of age.

“If the patient is brain dead, we gently and as kindly as we can let them know the patient is gone,” Heidersbach said. “We give the family time to grieve, gather family members and to look at body. Then we eventually turn the machine off.”

Muñoz was taken off of a ventilator 22 weeks into her pregnancy after a judge sided with the Muñoz family and Muñoz’s previously disclosed wishes.

McMath was transported to an unknown facility to care for her, and she remains on a ventilator.

“The medical decision to stop all the means is perfectly moral,” Pettingill said. “If you don’t have the information from the doctor, you can’t make a moral decision.

There is no direct killing or violation of human rights; they’re just saying there’s no more we can do.”

The Church encourages individuals to specify their wishes prior to illness or death.

“You find that a lot of people come to the conclusion that the end of life is the end of life,” Hurabiell said. “There are other people that will hang on with their fingernails, if need be, to the last two minutes of life, but that’s very personal to the individual. You get over the romanticism of youth at a fairly early age.”

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Families, companies prepare for impending drought Alice Jones Managing Editor

Gov. Jerry Brown announced a statewide drought in late January asking citizens to cut household water use by 20 percent.

Businesses and families around California have already begun a plan of action.

“We have currently reduced watering the greenery of the campuses in the evening to three days a week to eliminate evaporation, ” Facilities Manager Geoff DeSantis said. “We are also allowing the lawn to grow a little longer than normal to promote deeper root growth, which will help the grass to only be watered less.”

This previous year had the lowest rainfall in the state’s 153year history, and 2014 is already projected to be the driest year on record. Demand for water in California is at its highest, with the current population at 38 million from the 20 million during the 1976-1977 drought.

Saving water per person statewide can allow California’s agriculture to receive the 80 percent of the state’s water required to grow half of the nation’s nuts, fruits and vegetables, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

“Knowing we were heading towards a drought, we decided to make one of our green initiatives to reduce the Schools’ water usage,” DeSantis said. “On a monthly basis, we look at all sinks, toilets, water fountains and hose bibs on both campuses for leaks, and repair them right away.”

Marin County residents reduced water usage to 37 gallons per person in the 1976-1977 drought, slashing their consumption by 63 percent. Cutting back on landscape watering can reduce a household’s water consumption.

“In a the typical American family lawns and toilets are the biggest use of water,” Marissa Orso, AP Environmental Science teacher, said.“Bathing is the third on the list, but an aerated low flow shower head is a good way to reduce water use and still enjoy water pressure while showering.”

“When I was living in Presidio Terrace during the 19871992 drought, I had to choose between watering my roses and doing my family’s laundry,” art history teacher Sonia Evers said.

Brown is ordering all state agencies to limit water use as well as cutting back on unnecessary watering along highways and in public buildings. Mandatory rationing will be inevitable as the drought progresses which will be the first of a lifetime for any current students, according to Orso.

“Using these steps, we have reduced our water usage on both campuses by 13 percent,” DeSantis said. This is a small step and we are working to make it bigger.”

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Overthrowing the reign of drought

any Bay Area residents awoke to the pounding of rain against their windows last Thursday morning. Four days of sporadic showers had many crying “miracle” after one of the driest seasons on record, but the California drought is far from over.

While the past week has been exceptionally wet, with San Francisco receiving over three inches and Sonoma County getting four inches, the Bay Area would normally have received about 14.5 inches by this point.

Although reservoirs levels are creeping up, they are still far lower than necessary for California to escape drought.

Even if the rain does continue over the next few weeks, conserving water is the only way to avoid a future of water rationing and snowless mountains.

Using less water sounds great in theory, but when faced with taking sporadic, 3-minute showers, cutting down on water doesn’t sound quite as appealing.

Stories of past generations recycling shower water and not flushing toilets, (“If it’s yellow

let it mellow, if it’s brown, flush it down”) are just as applicable today as they were over 30 years ago.

California building codes require all houses built after 1994 will be required to install lowflow plumbing fixtures by 2017, although the state will most likely be out of the drought by that time, conservation is imperative to sustaining a healthy environment.

The United States Department of Agriculture recommends citizens who are not interested in replacing their existing showerheads and toilets turn off the faucet whenever possible.

Many Americans don’t realize how much water they use in a particular day between washing hands, flushing toilets, taking showers, doing laundry, running the dishwasher, drinking, watering lawns and brushing teeth.

The average American uses between 100 and 176 gallons of water per day, according to the World Water Organization.

Conversely, the average African family, uses and average of five gallons of water per day, less than one gallon per family member.

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Mandated water rationing hasn’t yet been imposed, but if Californians continue to use the same amount of water and rainfall levels remain low, citizens may soon see the government fining those who use above the directed water level per home.

Breaking out of old habits is often difficult and although turning off the faucet while brushing teeth may seem like

a small change, it can have a positive “ripple effect” on the environment.

Taking shorter showers and using minimal amounts of water are temporary solutions to an longterm problem. Californian droughts tend to come every 30 years, and although the need to conserve is particularly strong at the moment, using less water, even in times without drought is hugely beneficial

to the environment.

The California drought stretches beyond just the state.

As one of the world’s top agriculture producers the effects of California’s drought will be felt worldwide. If everyone cuts down their showers by 20 percent, flushes only when absolutely necessary and turns off the tap when not in use, the negative effects of the drought can be curtailed.

HOW ARE YOU CONSERVING WATER DROUGHT?

“I’ve been turning off the sink when I’m brushing my teeth or washing my face, and I use cold water instead of letting it run while I wait for it to turn hot.” ­— Julia Praeger, sophomore

“I try to take shorter showers, turn off the water when I brush my teeth, and when using the washing machine, I tell my parents to keep it on the low level.”

— April Matsumoto, freshman

“My family puts the extra water from our showers in a bucket so we can use it to water the garden. My parents are also looking into installing a greywater system.”

— Abby Newbold, senior

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Teens put to stereotypes

Tatiana Gutierrez Editor-in-Chief

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ominic, my 4-yearold brother, asked me to be his guest to his Special Friends dinner at his preschool where we had pizza and danced to songs like the “Hokey Pokey.” Although I wrote on my nametag that I was Dominic’s sister, I still noticed the strange glances from other adults accompanied by the uncomfortable question, “So, is he your son?”

I have grown accustomed to the awkward laugh and “Oh, I’m sorry,” after telling adults that I am Dominic’s older sister, since I have been asked the same question since I was 12-years-old.

Dominic and I do look alike, but I have never really understood why adults jump to the conclusion that I am his mother rather than asking if I am his sister or babysitter.

Popular MTV shows “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” have drawn attention to teen pregnancies and teenage moth-

ers caring for their children while the mothers themselves are still growing up.

Shows like these have created a stigma that any teenager walking down the street with a toddler must in fact be a mom, yet the teen birth rate has actually declined over the past 20 years, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The times when I babysit Dominic for the whole day can be exhausting. If I look away for a couple of minutes he is already off making a mess or causing trouble.

Toddlers demand constant attention and care, since they are unable to do the simplest of tasks like feeding or clothing themselves.

It is hard for me to imagine caring for Dominic full-time while trying to take care of myself, since I usually make myself frozen meals that I can heat up in a microwave for about three minutes and have done my own laundry maybe twice in my life.

I commend these teenagers for being brave and taking on the task of raising a child, whether or not they are supported by the father, family or friends, but I wish others were not so quick to judge.

The demeaning glances I get from mothers at the playground when they see me playing with Dominic don’t bother me since I know he’s my younger brother, but I would hate for someone to think of me as lesser because I chose to take on the responsibility of raising a child at such a young age.

These moments with Dominic have made me more accepting and open-minded to unorthodox circumstances or situations and have also made me aware that people often assume the worst in others.

I don’t always assume the best in people too, but because of the demeaning glances I receive from other parents and their belittling tone when asking me about Dominic, I’ve tried to be less critical and judgmental of total strangers.

1. Kaitlyn Farrington wins halfpipe gold at Sochi Olympics.

1. It’s the first time men haven’t medaled in the event.

2. Congress is considering bill to ban in-flight calls.

2. Claims are it’s for sanity, but is being obnoxious illegal?

3. Flappy Bird is deleted from the App Store.

3. Phones with preloaded versions sell for thousands.

4. Giants’ Spring Training begins today.

4. Season starts next month.

5. Half of Tahoe’s runs are closed.

5. Winter Break starts this afternoon.

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Perfection

Pressures

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Teen girls face the challenges of critical peers, overbearing parents, boys’ unrealistic expectations and media’s frequently unattainable standards.

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Madison Riehle Editor-in-chief

eing bombarded with messages from their friends, parents, boys and especially social media can take a toll on the way a girl perceives herself in the mirror at the end of the day.

These “role models” can give off the message that the reflection a girl sees isn’t good enough, leading to detrimental effects on her self-esteem.

Seven in 10 girls suffer from self-esteem issues, a thinking disorder in which individuals feel that they are not “good e n o u g h ,” whether in school, physical appearance or relationships with friends and family members.

Girls who have low self-esteem can sometimes be affected by depression, bulimia, anorexia or self harm.

“There needs to be a better representation,” junior Gaby Messino said. “Everyone is just trying to fit in, and the way that the media defines ‘fitting in’ is that you have to be pretty, you have to have the right clothes and the right face. It’s not okay.”

Low self-esteem issues frequently take root at home where mothers can not only pass on their own insecurities, but take out their self-loathing on their daughters, according to family therapist Susan Badger.

“When children feel loved, supported and protected by parents, they are prone to feel ‘good’ and secure about who they are,” Badger said. “If parents are abusive, negligent, unavailable or critical, this can be hurtful and damaging.”

The Dove Beauty campaign recently produced a short YouTube video on mothers and daughters, teaching them how to redefine beauty through taking a selfie.

Mothers spoke about their insecurities, and their daughters responded with experiencing the same self-doubts.

The relationship of a mother with high self-esteem directly relates to a daughter experiencing higher self views, according to a study of 113 mothers and daughters published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

While self-image problems may begin at the home, the school environment can be the

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place where problems from home heighten due to other girls who are also insecure with themselves.

“If kids lack that sense of selfworth to start with, bad experiences and mean people can make them feel much worse,” Badger said. “They are more vulnerable to bullying, teasing or being excluded.”

Over 70 percent of girls ages 15-17 avoid daily activities like going to school when they feel bad about their appearance, according to dosomething.org.

Eighty-eight percent of students reported feeling bad about the way they looked because of something a friend said to them, according to an anonymous Broadview survey distributed through a link sent to school email addresses in which 50 percent of students responded.

Girls can also experience feelings of self-doubt at school because of isolation and exclusion by other girls.

“When girls are excluded from a clique, the feeling of isolation may be more different for girls than boys because they tend to prefer to be in groups or work in groups,” Women’s Studies teacher Sarah Garlinghouse said.

The ideals of beauty can also be set by the expanding mass media culture and advertising.

Advertisements constantly determine what is beautiful through highly retouched, enhanced and unrealistic models, who in contrast to the average American woman, is inaccurate, according to the Social Issues Research Centre.

The people behind the scenes who create, edit and distribute the work make it seem that their figures and appearance is realistic and attainable, while only 5 percent of the female population can attain what a model appears to look like, according to the Social Issues Research Centre.

“It’s just so much in your face,” Garlinghouse said, “so much media, it’s very much in your face all the time and it’s hard to avoid it.”

Mass media can give the implication that girls always need

Everyone is just trying to fit in, and the way that the media defines ‘fitting in’ is that you have to be pretty.

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a happy and upbeat attitude and that girls are always in control.

Girls feel that pressure to be the bouncy, energetic model of a human being, and take it out upon themselves when they aren’t, often in a negative way, according to Badger.

Young girls who interpret the mass media standards of beauty may see themselves as not good enough to what is before them, and boys can become convinced of artificial standards of what girls should look and act like.

“Boys can have an effect on how girls see themselves and how they think they’re supposed to act,” Badger said. “Girls are far too willing to comply with what boys want from them. They damage their self-esteem when they go against what is right for them because they’re too worried about not being ‘popular’ or getting dumped.”

Sixty-one percent of the respondents of The Broadview survey said they felt bad about the way they look because of a boy, 77 percent responded they have felt they had to change the way they looked for a boy, and 24 percent said they changed the way they looked due to pressure from a boy.

Nash Grier, Cameron Dallas and JC Caylon, who have a combined total of 8.2 million followers on the popular, 6-second video app, Vine, have recently gone to YouTube to produce videos for their teen fan base.

In their most recent video together, “What guys look for in girls,” Grier, Dallas and Caylon commented on what they believe are the most desirable attributes of girls.

“Shave!

B r u s h your teeth, shave!” Grier said in the video.

“When you have that little peach fuzz… no. When you have arm hair, no, just wax it, shave it. Just when there is hair, it’s terrible.”

The video received over a million views before it was deleted a few weeks ago.

Along with physical appearance, Grier, Dallas and Caylon gave instructions on how girls should act, calling on them to be happy, active and energetic, but “not annoying about it.”

“There is this idea of what we should be,” Messino said, “People shouldn’t focus on what random people want them to be or do. It may be cliché, but just be who you want to be.”

Girls are far too willing to comply with what boys want from them.

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Self-esteem and body image Media, peers, and parents often put pressure on adolescent girls’ actions and appearances, which can have detrimental effects on their health and future.

Women experience two major drops in their self-esteem during their adolescence.

The first drop occurs between the ages of 9-13 and the second drop occurs between the ages of 18-23.

Less than 11% of girls would describe themselves as beautiful

Risk of teenage motherhood is raised by up to

50% among

teenage girls with lower selfesteem.

75% of girls with low selfesteem engage in activities like cutting, bullying, drugs, smoking, drinking or anorexia.

1 in 4 women between the ages of 16-22 have an eating disorder.

13% of women smoke to lose weight.

31% of girls admit that thay have starved themselves to lose weight.

90% of high school girls diet regularly.

81% of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat.

60% of girls compare their bodies to fashion models.

57% of music videos portray women in condescending ways.

47% of girls say they strive to look like models in magazines.

Sources: NYC Girl’s Project, Confidence Coalition, Psychology Today Madeleine Ainslie/The Broadview

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‘Siobhan in the City’

Junior spends semester studying the urban core of the ‘Big Apple’

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pending an afternoon atop the Brooklyn Bridge simply observing the structure, the city below and fellow bridge-goers was a normal school day for junior Siobhan Lewkowitz who spent the past semester attending an urban based experiential education program in New York.

Lewkowitz often spent weekends and class periods exploring different aspects of New York City as part of CITYTerm’s Urban Core curriculum, which focuses largely on the city’s culture and history. The semester-long program is open exclusively to 30 juniors and seniors each term.

“I had both basic classes which were my Spanish and math classes, and then Urban Core classes which were specific to CITYTerm and dealt with New York City,” Lewkowitz said.

Although Lewkowitz and her peers lived on on the 96-acre campus of the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., they regularly took day trips into the city.

Outside of the dorms, CITYterm was far from a typical boarding school experience.

“It was such a different way to learn,” Lewkowitz said. “I would implement every aspect of my education in my life and with the people I talked to, versus sitting in a classroom doing math.”

The program’s goal is to educate students on the basis of experience, according to CITYterm’s mission statement.

“We would go out into the world and discuss major implications of smaller things,” Lewkowitz said. “For example,

‘Here’s the bridge. What would happen if it were to fall to the right a bit?’ or ‘How does climate change affect the park down the street?’”

The nonprofit prompts students to see things differently, and think about what is beyond themselves.

“All classes were discussion based,” Lewkowitz said. “They were very cohesive and taught us how to see the ways in which things connect, even if they seem unrelated. It showed me how learning all adds up to something greater and you use what you learn, which was a big part of how CityTerm worked and taught.”

Lewkowitz was not the only one who noticed a change in her outlook on learning.

“I think being away gave her a new perspective,” Lewkowitz’s mother, Mairi McKeever said. “It affected how she sees both the world and people and how she can then apply that to what she’s learning.”

“CITYTerm was really important in my personal development,” Claire Kessler-Bradner, former CSH art teacher and graduate of CITYTerm said. “It showed me all the things I could do on my own and how to sort of look at the world around me in a different way.”

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CITYTerm in the fall of 1997 in the third semester of the program’s launch. Based on her experiences with the course, Kessler-Bradner introduced the program to Convent during her employment.

“I was eager to connect the girls with CITYTerm because I think it opens a lot of possibilities in the world when you can see that learning can take so many different forms,” KesslerBradner said.

Apply ing knowledge and stepping outside comfort zones was a big part of what C I T Yt e r m pushed students to do, according to Lewkowitz.

“In Urban Core classes we would spend a week or two on different subjects dealing with the city,” Lewkowitz said. “We would set up interviews, talk to people, learn about certain aspects of the New York and it really forced us to go to the outside world and apply ourselves.”

A sizable adaption to life at CITYterm was managing her time, according to Lewkowitz.

“I didn’t have my parents to help keep me on top of things and tell me go to bed which was tough,” Lewkowitz said. “I became a lot more independent because I wasn’t with my family in my usual settings.”

I find myself wondering how things can be altered for the better and what the world today would be like if we did make little changes.

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McKeever often found it challenging to find the balance of

how much – or little – to communicate with her daughter.

“The hardest part as a parent was that I wanted to be there if she needed help or was in a difficult situation,” McKeever said.

“I also wanted her to enjoy a great situation so I would wonder if everything was okay and wanted to check in with her, but and at the same time I knew that I needed to give her space to get comfortable on her own.”

Lewkowitz came back to San Francisco in December and is attending Convent for her second semester of junior year.

“Because I left in the fall I feel like I’ve missed a lot,” Lewkowitz said. “It’s tough to be away from the friends I made there and it’s weird being back here with all my old friends.”

Lewkowitz’s semester in New York played a significant role in deciding the courses she would be able to take upon returning to school in San Francisco.

“I couldn’t take any AP classes,” Lewkowitz said. “To do so I would have needed to take it earlier in the year and it would be too hard to make up the class work.”

Lewkowitz was the first and likely the last Convent student to participate in the program as the school is no longer affiliated with CITYterm so as to encourage students to engage in exchanges within the Sacred Heart Network, according to Head of School Rachel Simpson.

“I notice new things now,” Lewkowitz said. “I find myself wondering how things can be altered for the better and what the world today would be like if we did make little changes.”

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TREKKER Siobhan Lewkowitz walked an average of three hours a day while experientially studying in New York City.

Lewkowitz rode the subway for an average of seven hours every week for 16 weeks and MetroNorth trains for 14 hours every week .

Baking ‘Desserts for Days’

Junior starts at-home baking business, and bakes for her friends teachers and classmates.

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FROSTED Zara de Matran adds detailing to her layered vanilla multicolored, frosted miniature cake. She plans to launch a website at http://dessertsfordays.com.

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nlike her friends who spend their after school hours participating in school productions, running for student council and singing in choir, junior Zara de Matran is often in her kitchen mixing cookie dough and decorating three-layer cakes as part of her baking business.

“My business is called Desserts for Days and I actually got the name from The Broadview’s column ‘Food for Days,’ ” de Matran said.

De Matran has not only increased her knowledge within the kitchen, but says she has learned the basics of business.

“I am not only learning how to bake, I am learning about reality, such as making a profit, how much I should be getting paid, if I should have a flat rate or if I should be paid by the hour,” de Matran said.

The small business that she

runs mostly for students and staff members upon request which does include work outside the school, but she has not advertised to the public.

“Over the holidays I baked a Buche de Noels for Mrs. (Rachel) Simpson and Mrs. (Patricia) Kievlan,” de Matran said.

“I worked for Mrs. (Christina) Ciniti for her son’s (Bryce Cinti) birthday where I made 50 cupcakes. I also cater. I did two New Year’s Eve parties — I made cream puffs, lemon cookies and hors d’oeuvres.”

Flyers with contact information are posted in the stairwells and hallways advertising and promoting Desserts For Days.

“My mom saw her flyers in the school and ordered vanilla and chocolate cupcakes for my birthday as a surprise,” sophomore Angelica Scott said.

Zara shares images of her most recent baked goods, and occasionally the recipes, through social media and her blog, dessertsfordays.tumblr.com.

“I created my blog because I wanted to document the stuff I bake,” de Matran said. “I am also into photography, so my blog incorporates my two loves, baking and photography.”

Zara says she has been baking since the age of 10.

“I am a self-taught baker, so I don’t have any special insight because I just picked it up on my own,” de Matran said. “My dad always cooks — and he is really good — and I think that influenced me. I am a really specific organized person and so I really like measurements and being exact — which is a huge aspect of cooking.”

Desserts for Days is entering its second year of business, and this second year has had a large increase in production.

“Food has always been really important in my life, but I really love making stuff that is so delicious that you can really savor the taste and experience,” de Matran said.

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SPORTS

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Q&A with Warrior’s Kent Bazemore

Madison Riehle chatted with Golden State Warriors’ shooting guard and defensive specialist about the team and plans to move to San Francisco.

Q: A:

You came from Old Dominion just a couple years ago, what’s it like transitioning from college into the NBA? “Now that this is my job you have a lot more responsibility than college — you have class, study hall, tutoring session if need be.

In the NBA, you have basketball 24/7. You have nutrition, travel, games, and you have to work out on your own to stay in shape. It’s a lot more vigorous as far as on the body. You get tired a lot, but you just have to keep pushing.”

Q: How does the your team’s chemistry off the court affect how you all play on the court?

A: “On the court you have to trust the guys to give them your all. That’s what we have here. We all hang out a lot off the court.

We have group text messages where we chit-chat all the time at night when, for example, someone’s bored. Knowing the other side of a person outside of the jersey is really important as

knowing someone on the court.

When you look a guy in the eyes when there’s two minutes left and you’re down by six and you know that he has your back, it’s real important.”

Q: How do you support your team during the game?

A: “Positive encouragement, keeping them positive, like ‘great shot,’ ‘good pass,’ ‘good screen.’

Telling them the small things because that stuff goes a long way.

With all the media — the social media, Twitter — you have people heckling players after bad games. As a teammate it’s your job to keep the morale up and keep the team chemistry as positive as possible.”

Q: Do you think the proposed new arena will make the Warriors one of the most attractive teams for free agent in the league?

A: “Oh yeah, without a doubt. I think the Bay Area attracts a lot of guys anyway. You see guys like Matt Barnes, who’s played on every team out here — the Lakers,

Clippers, Kings and the Warriors. You’ve got Coach Mark — a lot of guys like to play for him too. Golden State is slowly becoming that team that guys want to come play for. We’ve got Andre Iguodala this summer.

We were in talks with Dwight Howard. We’re definitely on the map as far as being the place to play.”

Q: How do you like the Warriors chances of winning the Championship this year?

A: “I’m going to be biased because I wear a Golden State jersey everyday — I think we have a very good chance. We are still getting guys back. We just got Jermaine O’Neal back, we just acquired Jordan Crawford, so we are still ironing some kinks out. A lot can happen within some 30-odd games. We are just staying the course and believing in ourselves and coming to the gym, working hard every day, and hopefully we win the championship in June.”

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SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL

Preforming under pressure Long-time ballerinas reassess their commitment to pursuing a dancing career.

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Camilla Bykhovsky Senior Reporter

ike a baseball player who spends scores of hours on the field each week, ballerinas who divide their time between academic classes and ballet school are not guaranteed a place with the pros.

Three girls who spent most of their high school years dividing their school day between academics and ballet are reconsidering their future careers and where ballet fits in.

“I love dance but it’s not my passion,” junior Lisa Cameron, who left San Francisco Ballet School this past year, said. “I’ve always wanted to do something in the medical field, so it wasn’t as difficult to quit as somebody who saw themselves as a professional dancer.”

Cameron now dances for enjoyment rather than in an intensive program, which is a common choice for many high school dancers.

“I quit because I wanted to focus more on school,” Cameron said. “I was injured the year before, so I was off dance for a while. This allowed me to get a taste of what not doing ballet was like, and it was better than I thought.”

About 100 dancers train in the SF Ballet school, and from those, two to four will be chosen to enter an apprentice program in which the selected dancers will get an opportunity to work with the professional program and possibly advance to become professional dancers, according to Ballet Master Cathy EricksonNemy.

“I was super upset for a few

days when I got let go because is not advancing and getting ballet has been my life ever since stronger, then the school will let I was a little girl,” junior Christhem know that they might want tina Braa said. “I got over it, and to look elsewhere,” Ericksonnow I’m glad that San Francisco Nemy said. “As hard as it is letBallet told me not to return beting go a dancer, it is actually a cause I got new experiences good thing because if the dancer when I went to Kirov is not going to make it, Academy of Ballet in it is better to look for Washington, D.C. for a other opportunities earyear.” lier rather than leading Convent has been them on a blind alley, so flexible in its schedulto speak.” ing for dancers by putDancers who finting core classes such ish formal studies and CAMERON as English, history, move on to take higher math and science in the level classes, continue morning and indepento take classes throughdent study for classes out her career. such as theology, so “I wanted to focus girls can leave midday completely on ballet to make it to rehearsal if I was going to be a BRAA and dance classes, acprofessional dancer,” cording to Academic Braa said. “I decided Programming Director home schooling would Doug Grant. be a better option, even “Many of my classthough I would be missmates no longer go ing out on real school, to school and either this was my dream, and home-school or do inafter stopping SF Ballet CAREY-JONES dependent study, which a year ago, I decided to allows them to fit school dance ballet for fun bein around their ballet schedule,” cause it is hard to stop once you Dervla Carey-Jones, who athave started, but I will be explortends SF Ballet School said. “Being other art forms, like acting ing at Convent has made me able and singing.” to fit ballet into my high school Many who continue to focus experience.” on ballet find it very rewarding Parents receive an evaluaas it helps teach endurance and tion of their child’s performance how to be patient with skills as twice a year from the dance they are developing, according school focusing on the student’s to Carey-Jones. technical aptitude, commitment and physical development. The school may or may not offer the dancer re-enrollment at the end of the year.

“The school is by invitation and not open to the general public to join, and if a dancer

“I love dancing on the Opera House stage because of how great it feels to perform and have a huge crowd applaud what you and your friends have made seem effortless,” Carey-Jones said.

NBA Photos/Getty Images with permission

#20 Orginally from Kelford, North Carolina, shooting guard Kent

Bazemore dribbles down the Oracle Arena court in Oakland. The team is considering moving across the bay to a new arena in the City.

ON THE RUN Camilla Bykhovsky Senior Reporter

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Course chaos

he gun goes off and 200 racers begin the 3-mile trek in 84 degree heat around the Stanford Golf Course. Passing the first mile mark, the race begins to separate into the faster and slower paced runners.

Our coach, standing under the timing booth, yells out our first mile split time; 5:46. I went out too fast and needed to slow my pace to keep a consistent speed so that I would be able to finish the race strong.

Passing the 2-mile mark, I began to feel slightly lightheaded and my legs began to cramp up, but I disregarded these feelings, as most runners under these conditions would be experiencing similar fatigue. I was within the top 10 placers, so I needed to keep going, but as I progressed down the course, it became harder to breath, and with every step I took, I felt my legs almost give out from under me.

Just seconds from the 800-meter mark before the finish, I felt the ground begin to move and the sun became much brighter — almost blinding — and I collapsed mid-stride. Determined to keep going, I helped myself up, but it seemed an impossible task, and I blacked out.

The next thing I remember is being carried from the course, and people yelling for an emergency cart to take me to the medical tent.

The nurses kept telling me to take deep breaths to slow my heart rate because my blood pressure was 180/60.

I was dehydrated, and due to the over-exertion put on my body, I collapsed. I tried fighting the nurses, but eventually had to submit because if my heart rate did not de-

crease, I would go to the hospital. A few moments later, I had an IV inserted.

I had never pushed myself running through such a horrible feeling, and after this incident, I was worried that I would never have the ability to fully exert myself without becoming petrified.

My next race was the following weekend, and I feared that this feeling might overcome my body once again.

I have never felt fear for something I am so passionate about, so approaching the starting line, memories from the past weekend flooded my mind.

After having talked to my coach, I knew what I had to do: to clear my mind, drink water before the race, relax and rely on my talent and training rather than overthinking and psyching myself out.

I started the race very hesitant, at a slow, jogging pace, and after about a mile, I realized how much time I had to make up if I was going to even come close to my previous time.

I pushed myself, even harder than I did at Stanford, and starting passing people, improving my time and my place.

I felt fatigued, but because of the frightening experience I had endured, I now knew my limit and I could now push myself within my own boundaries.

I finished the race stronger than I had ever been able to, learning how to care for myself in preparation for a big event, but more importantly, to push myself enough to fulfil my potential, but not too hard that I crack under the pressure.

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Internships provide experience during college

Alumnae get work experience before entering the ‘real world’

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Ashley Latham Senior Reporter

fter arriving at her internship at Above Average Productions, Elena Dudum (’11) checks the schedule to see which celebrities are appearing on the show, runs around New York City looking for costumes and props, then reads and edits scripts before sitting in on a filming of a skit.

Now a junior attending Barnard College, Dudum has also interned at Oprah Magazine and Teen Vogue.

“I first applied through Barnard’s career website,” Dudum said. “I didn’t hear back after sending in my resume and cover letter. I did more research by going through Google and found a more general email. I also sent my resume to the Hearst Magazine Internship Program.”

Internships provide college students with job experience while still attending school as well as an opportunity to explore careers before entering the workforce, according to Dudum.

As a book intern, Dudum worked alongside a team at Oprah Magazine assisting a variety of editors from beauty, health, features, food and entertainment, and worked with the magazine’s blog.

Hearst Magazines, like many employers, requires interns to be enrolled in a degree program and receive college credit in lieu

of financial compensation, acinternships to be a helpful learncording to the Hearst website. ing experience.

While interning with Red Sox “I learned to not take ‘No’ for baseball team in the Cape Cod an answer,” Herlihy said about Baseball League, Katie her internships. “The Carlson (’11) even used more I heard no, the her own money to relomore I kept on working cate for the internship. and trying harder.”

“The internship was Sixty percent of large not paid,” Carlson, who companies consisting of worked in merchandise, 100 or more employees ticket sales, concessions, offered internships in DUDUM fundraising, and as a 2012, according to Inpro-scout liaison, said. ternships.com. Intern“I actually had to spend ing not only gives the money out-of-pocket to experience of being in rent a house and a car the job force, but it helps for both summers that with potential jobs by I spent there, but it was providing a foot in the definitely worth it,” Carldoor for college students son said. before they graduate.

Pearl Plonsker (’11) Now a senior at CARLSON also interned with the Scripps College, HerYarmouth–Dennis Red lihy has a guaranteed job Sox Cape Cod Baseball with Nestlé after a paid League, which accordinternship with the coming to Carlson, is the pany this past summer. most prestigious sumBeing well prepared mer league for college for an internship is key players. to landing the job. Both HERLIHY While studying abroad Herlihy and Dudum for a semester in Beijing, credit their time at ConIna Herlily (’10) interned with vent and their experiences with the World Wildlife Fund in susleadership, in Broadview for tainable finance. Herlihy got her Herlihy and Student Council for first internship, at Merrill Lynch, Dudum, as readying them for after her freshman year in coltheir internships. lege and received college credit “Coming from Convent for two of her three college inand being in Student Council ternships. made me very prepared,” said Having an internship on a reDudum. “I was able to talk to sume can help the job applicant adults and communicate and and many college students find kind of be a go-getter.”

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TEAMWORK Carlson (’11) stands with members of the Yar-

mouth–Dennis Red Sox baseball team. Carlson spent the last two summers in Cape Cod working for the collegiate summer baseball team based in Yarmouth, Mass. The Yarmouth—Dennis league plays in the Cape Cod Baseball League’s Eastern Division. Carlson’s past two summer internships with the team were unpaid, although Carlson said it was worth it.

KATE CHOPIN WRITING COMPETITION

Essay winners announced

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TEA TIME Seniors Sophia Kelley, Addie Schieber and Abby Newbold practice a skit that was scheduled to be performed at the Writers Awakening Festival thips mornping. The Women’s Studies class assisted the English department in the assembly by portrayed the lives of Kate Chopin and St. Philippine Duchesne and their “risks of the heart.” The all-school winner was chosen by former educator at Sacred Heart Prepatory in Atherton, Constance Solari.

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s of press time, visiting author Constance Solari was scheduled to name sophomore Liana Lum all-school winner of the annual Kate Chopin writing contest this morning.

Solari, the head judge of the competition and a former English teacher and administrator at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, also wrote the historical fiction novel “Sophie’s Fire” about the life of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat during the French Revolution.

The “Kate Chopin Writing Contest” was created in the early 1990s by former English department head Ann Cromey.

“I wanted to make writing really important to students,” Cromey said. “I thought that a contest that you could win and get acknowledged for would make writing as important as playing volleyball or basketball in the students’ minds.”

The English department rechristened the awards ceremony “The Kate Chopin Student Writers’ Awakening Festival” this year.

“We named [the competition] after Kate Chopin because she went to a Sacred Heart School

and attribute it to her writing because of its beauty and power,” Cromey said. “It’s affected so many lives.”

All English classes wrote their responses to the prompt “Write a story in which you, someone you know, or a character of your own imagining experiences a ‘risk of the heart,’” on Jan. 6 and 7.

“St. Madeleine, like Kate Chopin, was a forerunner and a visionary to assist women in achieving their dreams particularly in education and spirituality,” English teacher Julia Arce said.

The top 10 contest winners were chosen by English teachers of a grade that they do not currently teach. The top four were then selected by non-English teachers and sent to Solari who chose ranked them and chose the all-school winner.

“I thought it was amazingly clever how what appears to be just the Kate Chopin competition was maneuvered to Janet Erskine Stuart to make her come alive for the students,” Solari said. “Janet Erskine Stuart, of the big three of the Sacred Heart, was the one who wrote the most about education.”

This year’s Kate Chopin assembly was scheduled to feature a Women’s Studies class presentation on the lives of Kate

Chopin and St. Philippine Duchesne who both took “risks of the heart.” A skit after the presentation was to feature Chopin, Erskine Stuart and the high school’s patroness, Maud Flood, played by seniors Sophia Kelley, Addie Schieber and Abby Newbold, respectively, having tea.

“We are trying to get people excited because writing is a risk and a big thing,” Kelley said.

“You are putting your heart out there and letting someone read something that is supposed to be the most intimate part of you.”

“I wanted to make writing really important to students,” Cromey said. “I thought that a contest that you could win and get acknowledged for would make writing as important as playing volleyball or basketball in the students minds.”

This year’s winners are freshmen Caroline Salveson (1st), Bella Kearney (2nd) and Delaney Moslander (3rd); sophomores Kate Carson (1st), Maya Greenhill (2nd) and Chloe Lovato (3rd); juniors Paloma Palmer (1st); Franny Eklund (2nd) and Christina Braa (3rd) and seniors Margaux Gaede (1st), Lauren Baum (2nd) and Madeline Schieber (3rd).

—Madeleine Denebeim contributed to this story.

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CITY LIFE

FOOD FOR DAYS Alice Jones Food Reviewer

Sum-thing special

Hong Kong Lounge II takes typical to-go dim sum and adds a level of class and care that’s worth paying for.

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im sum usually brings to mind the image of mystery meat and pulling bits of paper off of a steamed pork bun, but Hong Kong Lounge II on Geary Street has added a level of sophistication and quality to its utterly unique dim sum menu.

A delicious three-piece order of Steamed Pork Buns ($3.95) outshines any 60 cent single pork bun off Clement Street any day. The bun dough is surprisingly light compared to the typically heavy and filling dough of less expensive options.

The quality of the diced pork cooked in red chilli sweet sauce in the absolutely spectacular Baked Pork Bun ($4.50) matches its higher price. The dough is delightful sweet, with a soft and squishy bottom topped by a light crumbly caramelized sugar layer that is out of this world.

One of the most popular dim sum items are the Shanghai Dumplings (6 for $8). Each bit-size piece is ready to burst with rice wine

and sesame oil, adding tang to the shrimp and pork filling. Be warned: Keep the dumpling on the plate when cutting into it to avoid squirting rice wine on yourself.

The Curry Mushroom Samosa (3 for $3.50), a typically Middle Eastern pastry, is folded and fried to perfection. The curried potato chunks blend harmoniously with some chewy bits of oyster mushroom enclosed in a crispy pastry pocket and served with a sweet chilli dipping sauce.

The Fried Shrimp Egg Rolls (3 for $4.50) is another indulgent dim sum option. The outer layer is flaky and thin, but when bitten into the chewy inside melds with pieces of shrimp, cabbage and crunchy carrots into a texture-paluza .

Hiding in the Noodles and Porridge section of the menu is a delectable Steamed Shrimp and Chive dumpling (6 for $6.50), another sublime crustacean choice. The savory special soy sauce adds salt to the dumpling’s subtle flavors, while

the chives diversifies the textures of the thick, smooth casing and the equally chewy shrimp bits.

The best pot stickers are the Pan Fried (6 for $5.75). The bottoms have a bit of crisp while the rest of the dough is supple and chewy, attempting to contain the juicy hunk of the pork and shrimp mixture inside.

The most satisfying ending to a meal is finishing with Steamed Custard Buns (3 for $3.50). The dough is light and fluffy filled with a velvety thick custard for a mellow dessert.

Be careful when filling out the self-marking menu. “One” means an order that may be three to six pieces.

Hong Kong Lounge II is located at the corner of Parker Avenue on Geary Boulevard and is open for lunch Monday through Friday 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and dinner Monday through Thursday 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday dinner is from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday to Sunday lunch is from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Incorporating them into the uniform with tights or cords are only a few ways to wear this diverse look.

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Quickly’s employee mixes mango tea and boba for a customer (top). Different types of boba and sit on display on the counter at Quickly’s on Fillmore Street.

Hall and Heart: Drawn to Life

Sarah Selzer Senior Reporter

n any given afternoon people of all ages brave a line that begins outside the doors of bubble tea shops to purchase a cold, frothy drink filled with gummy “pearls” sitting on the bottom of a plastic chalice.

Bubble tea stores popped up in the American market around 10 years ago, and have grown into trending establishments around San Francisco.

“All the different flavors of tea can be overwhelming the first time you try bubble tea,” sophomore Stella Smith Werner said. “The tea adds a refreshing flavor in addition to the boba that make the drink as unique as it is.”

Most stores allow customers to select up to five flavors of tea such as milk tea, papaya, mango, passion fruit, coconut and taro along with different chewy tapiocas for each drink.

“Bubble tea’s addictive traits come from its uniquely tasting boba balls and the various amounts of regular and milk

tea you can pair it with,” freshman Masha Kozlov said. “Between popping boba, regular boba and lichi, there are so many alternatives to choose from no matter what bubble tea store you go to. ” Stores such as Tpumps, TeaWay and Honeyberry are accessible throughout the city, mainly in the Inner Sunset.

“I go to Quickly’s because their stores are located almost everywhere in San Francisco,” junior Paloma Palmer said.

“But Boba Guys, which is located in the Mission, is my favorite store because you can tell their product isn’t as artificially flavored as others.”

Prices range for bubble tea depending on its quality and the store it’s from.

Tpumps sells a 16- ounce cup for $2.75, and a 20- ounce cup for $3.75, whereas at Quickly’s a 16- ounce cup is $2.50.

“No matter which store you go to, I think that bubble tea has become a great addition to the food culture of San Francisco,” Palmer said. “I hope that more bubble tea stores will open up in the future because of how popular it has become.”

Rachel Fung