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Convent of the Sacred Heart HS • San Francisco, California

Vol. 21, Iss. 6

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New schedule intended to create balance A revised schedule, limit on AP courses, altered graduation requirements set to take place in 2015-2016 school year.

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A modified schedule incorporating the elective period into the block schedule, adjusted course requirements for graduation, and a limit on the number of Advanced Placement courses students may take are scheduled to go into effect in the 2015-2016 school year as an attempt to create a more balanced learning environment.

“Our design thinking day on Jan. 9 helped us come to this,” Head of School Rachel Simpson said. “In addition to eight scheduled blocks we had a ninth period ‘elective period’ that everyone was scheduled into. Electives are now being incorporated into an eight block schedule day so that students may really elect to take the class.”

Electives courses will have more meeting time and count towards students’ grade-point averages, according to Simpson.

“I wanted to really bring it to the question of how do we make this an elective that is primarily for the freshman and the sophomore in the service of creative voice and expression,” Simpson said.

Despite the elimination of a ninth block, the basic frame of the school day will still be from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., yielding an approximate 23 additional hours of instruction time over the course of the school year, according to Simpson.

Perhaps one of the biggest changes to the curriculum is the recommended limit of five AP classes, a policy which does not apply to the Class of 2016, according to College Counselor Rebecca Munda.

“We typically offer 15 AP classes,” Munda said. “When colleges see that they typically expect students to take the most challenging course load, and if we don’t have any guidelines in place, then that is setting the expectation rather high. We are now putting students in a position where there is not that pressure to take an extreme amount of APs to be competitive for college admissions.”

Many students think the new policy will create a better balance and a less pressured environment, according to junior Jill Cardamon.

“It will provide a less-stressful atmosphere,” Cardamon said.

“As a junior I’ve already surpassed the recommended number of APs, but I don’t feel as though I’ve had a lot of balance with those classes. I think the new schedule will help students manage their course loads.”

Munda says students should not feel they need to take five AP courses. The limit is in place as a guided maximum, not a recommended value.

“While a lot of people feel the school is restricting us too much, I think the limit is going to be beneficial overall,” junior Willa Hegarty said. “It will help students who are working hard to get an appropriate amount of recognition by colleges. Even still, five APs is pretty impressive.”

Physics is added to the graduation requirements for juniors who are not enrolled in AP Biology. Students who take AP Biology as a junior will take physics as a senior, according to Simpson.

“This is to ensure that students have a full science background.

6 A YOUNG DIVIDE Gender stereotypes forming at an early age

8 SAILING ALONG Sailing team to raise their state ranking

We want to expose students to the three essential scientific fields,” Simpson said, referring to biology, chemistry and physics.

In lieu of a Women’s Studies elective course for just seniors, the subject matter will be incorporated into all classes next year.

“The faculty will embed the topics of Women’s Studies across the curriculum, making it a signature part of our program in which all students participate,” Simpson said in an email to parents and students last week regarding next year’s course flow.

As of the 2015 Fall Semester, the only four-year course requirements are English and theology, giving seniors more flexibility in their schedules.

“By senior year we want seniors to have completed as many graduation requirements as possible, which means that they are afforded a program with more elective choice,” Simpson said.

The goal is to create a challenging curriculum allowing students to explore their interests, according to Simpson.

“There’s going to be a lot of flexibility so students can really start to figure out what they want to do and pursue it, without having the requirement to take a class a student might not be interested in,” Cardamon said.

“It provides more of a balance, students will have a lot more options in structuring their curriculum.”

Dry spell creates environmental issues Kendra Harvey Video Editor

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HANG LOOSE Junior Chloe Lovato misses her wave at Stinson

Beach while surfing with the Onda Linda Surf Club. The Surf Club is hosting the ocean cleanup and guest speaker tomorrow for Service Day.

3 CLOWNING AROUND Alumna directs documentary in refugee camp

Even as residents are making attempts to save water California is facing unforeseen consequences of the state’s 3-year drought with long term effects on the iconic Redwood trees and its waterways.

Water conservation should be a main priority due to decreases in resources, according to Samuel Sandoval, assistant professor and University of California Cooperative Extension specialist at UC Davis.

“If you look around at your neighbors, how many times have you seen the sprinklers?” Sandoval said. “How many times have you seen water running on the pavement out of the backyards?

How many people have you heard are taking shorter showers or are using back up water?”

Despite Sandoval’s observations that not all residents are conserving water, California’s

water conservation has risen to 22 percent last December, according to California’s State Water Resources Control Board.

“I have been taking showers that are five minutes long or less,” junior Amanda Joa, who has been actively conserving water with her family since October, said. “My family also tries to conserve water by using water from old water bottles to water plants instead of turning down the hose or pouring it down the drain.”

Joa says conserving water has become a routine.

“It was difficult at first because some other family members are not doing that we are doing like not letting the faucet run or not flushing, but we just remind them,” Joa said. “It took a while, but we got into the habit.”

The government should put prevention policies to save water See Drought p. 2

12 GONG HEY FAT CHOY Chinese New Year celebrations to take place in Chinatown

QuickReads ►►P U T I T AWAY

Head of School Rachel Simpson is encouraging students to put away their electronics while in the hallways. The simple act of putting technology away will improve face-to-face connections between students, according to Simpson. ►►DESIGN THINKING

In keeping with the spirit of innovation started at the Design Thinking day in January, Convent & Stuart Hall is offering two $2,500 Launch Grants to students who come up with the most promising and creative proposals for a new product. ►►BECOME A MEMBER

Prospective students in 10th through 12th grades can now apply to become a part of the National Honor Society. Members are selected based on scholarship, leadership and citizenship, as well as recommendations from their teachers and advisers. ►►RAISING FUNDS

The 2014-2015 Annual Fund concluded with the highest participation between all four schools of any year to date.

Ninety-six percent of families contributed, raising $1,867,375. ►►RETREATS

Freshmen will be having their retreat at Mountain Home Ranch Resort instead of the traditional overnight at school. Sophomores will be going to the Marin Headlands Hostel, Juniors to URJ Camp Newman and Seniors to Bishops Ranch for their annual overnight retreats.

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Rent increase leads to vacancies Neely Metz Senior Reporter

On an ordinary school day morning, students and teachers alike would crowd into Tully’s Coffee on the corner of Jackson and Fillmore streets, eager for their favorite morning beverage to get them through the day — until Tully’s unexpected closure in November, forcing former customers to walk an additional three blocks for a caffeine fix.

The closure of Tully’s portrays the fate meeting many businesses in Pacific Heights as rent prices for commercial leasing fall prey to the City’s latest tech boom, and landlords insisting hefty rent increases.

“The Tully’s closure really struck me,” senior Sabrina Mendiola said.

“I used to go there every now and then to grab either a snack or my morning cup of coffee. Now I have to walk all the way to Starbucks, Noah’s or Peets coffee — which can be a hassle when they are full or busy.”

Pacific Heights is considered by many to be one of the most exclusive and expensive neighborhoods in San Francisco. The average asking rent price per square foot is currently $45.57 depending on the size and quality of the space, and has gone up 9 percent from year to year, according to a LoopNet statistic.

“The rent is affecting businesses from making ends meet,” Mendiola said. “Throughout my years at Convent I have noticed a lot of stores closing, mostly restaurants and clothing stores.”

Employment in San Francisco is at record-high levels for the increasing population, according to a 2014 SocketSite study. With escalating

employment, with many jobs being well-paying positions in tech, the discretionary income for the City is among the highest for cities in the country, according to City Data.

More discretionary income means more money available to be spent on purchases outside of necessities, such as new property, which can provide an influx of citizens to popular neighborhoods like Pacific Heights, raising rent as the demand for property persists.

“Discretionary income could come into play,” real estate agent David Bellings said. “That’s where people decide instead of living in one part of the city to move to another part of the city that’s more expensive, or they might buy a bigger condominium or a bigger house that they wouldn’t normally buy because they have more discretionary income.”

San Francisco has an estimated population of 825,000 and is among the 20 fastest growing cities in the country despite its limited size, according to World Population Review.

A dense and growing population, a high demand and limited supply for property and a large portion of the demand attributed to wealthy “techies” all contribute to rent rising in the City, according to Bellings.

“A lot of why rents go up and why real estate prices go up in any city is supply and demand,” Bellings said.

“Because we have limited resources, limited land and limited places to build, the supply doesn’t go up that much. But the demand seems to be increasing more and more and some of that is attributed to the tech boom.”

Rent control is a restriction on the amount that landlords can raise rent per year, but only applies to certain types of property. Unless business owners live in the building they are leasing, rent control does not apply to commercial property. Once the particular lease has expired, the landlord can raise the price of rent to any desired amount, according to the San Francisco Tenants Union.

Landlords can hike up the rent to test the amount that tenants are willing to pay, forcing business owners to decide whether to continue paying or to vacate the property, according to Bellings.

“Unless you negotiate 30 years or something, eventually that time frame ends and eventually in that time frame that you’ve been renting, the rents will have gone up significantly and the landlord is free to do whatever they want with market rent,” Bellings said. “It could cause closure. Or they could move to another part of town, and that can affect your business and can cause closure in that regard too.”

The increase in closures of businesses in Pacific Heights has caused a loss of community in the neighborhood, according to Mendiola.

“Pacific Heights lost the feel of a community because so many stores that have been there forever and are closed due to rent,” Mendiola said.

“It’s an endless cycle. I used to be surprised that a store was opening or closing on Fillmore, but now I’m not because it happens so often.”

Meanwhile the former Tully’s location remains unoccupied with messages from former customers and loose brown paper covering the windows.

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COFFEE BREAK Juniors Anneka Dorresteyn and Natalie Podell sit outside a vacant Tully’s Coffee after school drinking Starbucks. Tully’s Coffee has been closed since November, and has remained empty since.

Drought causes hazards The 3-year California drought, despite water conservation, causes algal blooms, danger to wildlife and local flora.

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DROUGHT Oakland resident Sue Marek walks her dog Buddy on

the designated pathway surrounding Lake Chabot. Lake Chabot was one of two lakes in the Bay Area affected by algal blooms.

From Dry p. 1 in place, according to Science department chair Ray Cinti.

“When a species is in danger, we start to realize its value and how its loss would be so detrimental,” Cinti said. “We should now realize ‘Wow, water is pretty precious and we have taken it for granted.’”

If the current season of warmth and dryness continues, Redwood trees will not be able to continue producing more saplings, according to Cinti.

“The coastal Redwoods are able to get about 30 percent of its water supply from absorbing water directly from fog in their needles,” Cinti said. “It is not too dangerous for the adult trees right now. It’s effect is really on the saplings, and there is more concern for if this persists.”

The lack of rainfall over an unusually dry winter season is expected to continue to cause

unusual environmental changes.

Three dogs have died from exposure to algal blooms in Oakland’s Lake Chabot in December and February, and the cyanobacteria buildup that produces harmful toxins was also discovered in nearby Lake Temescal.

“In the whole 80-year history of the park they never had it,” public information supervisor Carolyn Jones said. “The ones at Lake Temescal are now gone, but we still have to be careful.”

Temperatures averaged 57.0°F in San Francisco this winter, the highest in recorded history and is likely to cause another bloom in warm summer months because lack of rain and warm weather.

“At this point we are hoping and waiting for the drought to end so this can go away,” Jones said.

Dogs and owners should avoid direct contact with the algae or

water, according to Jones.

“My dog doesn’t like water so we just keep him on the trail away from the water,” Oakland resident Sue Marek said about keeping her dog Buddy safe.

Park officials have posted warning signs at the entrance of Lake Chabot and along walking trails as well as a notice on their homepage to bring awareness to the issue.

“We put up more signs, put up signs in Spanish and did a huge outreach to caution people to please keep your dogs out of the lake,” Jones said.

Large groups of people all saving a little water at a time will create a difference, according to Sandoval.

“We can stop and look at ourselves and see what we use water for,” Sandoval said. “I think there is more that we can do. It is the power of the people that can really make a change.”

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Shooting for happiness Alumna makes movie on Syrian border focusing on the impact of happiness. tainment for educational purposes, said. “This concept of he war-torn Zaatari refuproviding laughter to people is gee camp on the Syrian very unique.” border is an unlikely place Dowd, who worked for CNN, for clowns with their bright outABC News and Al Jazeera fits and red noses contrasting the America after studying internableak, dust-covered tents as they tional politics and journalism in perform for children, bringing a Georgetown University’s School rare smile to their faces. of Foreign Service, stayed alone Directed by Reilly Dowd in Zaatari for two weeks in Oc(’08), “The Language of Laughtober to shoot videos for a pitch. ter” is told through the lives of After organizing a team for her two women, 27-year-old Slovafirst film, she returned with a kian clown Timea and crew to the camp 26-year-old refugee where they spent the and mother of three month filming. daughters Hanadi. The “Spending a month independent documenat the same location, tary film focuses on the you build trust, relarelationship between tionships that really clowns and refugees make a difference,” and the impact of haphead of photography DOWD piness.

Thierry Humeau, “The moment I heard about who has covered war zones and the Red Noses ‘Emergency social unrest for television netSmile’ mission, I knew it was a works such as National Geostory worth telling,” Dowd, who graphic and Al Jazeera, said. is currently seeking funding for “Time is essence in filming a editing, said. “So many people documentary, and that’s how asked me, ‘Why would you risk you build a storyline and disyour life for a story?’ There are cover characters.” endless amount of headlines More than 3 million refugees about politics, terrorism and have fled war-torn Syria, and kidnappings, but we never hear over 100,000 Syrian refugees live about the beautiful stories or in the camp. Most expect to stay people who are impacted. With for only a few weeks. this documentary, I am trying to “Three years later, you see peoput a human face on the statisple starting to accept the camp tics.” as home, pouring cement founRed Noses International Orgadations and putting real hinges nization typically sends “Clownon their doors,” Dowd said. “At doctors” to work in European the same time, there’s just a lot of hospitals to bring laughter to boredom in camp and not much the sick and suffering. Having entertainment.” expanded to 250 Clowndoctors Dowd lived with Timea while located in 11 countries, the orthe team spent most of the time ganization launched its crisis-infilming her daily life and perfortervention program, Emergency mances. Other times they reSmile, in 2012. corded Hanadi and her life with “On one end you have these her daughters. clowns and the other end you “Over the course of the have refugees, people who are month, Hanadi and Timea besuffering and in desperate need gan developing this incredible of laughter,” producer Srdjan relationship, even though Timea Stakic, who worked with the speaks no Arabic,” Dowd said.

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FILMING Reilly Dowd (’08) films a Syrian refugee family for her documentary “The Language of Laughter” in Zaatari Refugee Camp. Dowd has started a Kickstarter campaign to finish her film. dan and shot Timea doing her typical clown work in hospitals.

We wanted to get a sense of her daily life in hopes of mirroring it with Hanadi's life in the camp.”

The documentary team faced security obstacles, shooting permit approvals and increased challenges while filming in ground zero, the world’s “most dramatic humanitarian crisis,” according to the U.N. “As a documentarian, if you really want to be honest and truthful about the story — you roll up your sleeve and go where it is,” Stakic said. “As a producer, I had to say ‘If you want to take this amazing opportunity to tell an amazing story, things are going to happen, and you’re going at your own risk.’”

Dowd said she was driving with her producer and two nongovernmental organization workers through a security checkpoint just outside of the camp when she witnessed a shooting.

“I was really surprised because you’d think in broad daylight, where there are women and children around, you wouldn't see that,” Dowd said. “It was a sobering moment and reminder that, yes, there is an inspiring human story we are focusing on, but danger also comes with the territory of being in that part of the world.”

Communication was also a challenge with some women, according to Dowd, who hid their faces out of fear or were unable to talk because a male figure or spokesperson would be there

speaking for them.

“Hanadi was unique in that she was willing to share her story and show her face on camera,” Dowd said. “Her father passed away the first day she got into camp, and her husband was arrested in Syria about three years ago, so in many respects, she is truly an independent woman.”

The crew worked closely with the NGO Mercy Corps, and

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some crew members report they were personally impacted by the stories they witnessed.

“There’s so much beauty in this part of the world,” Dowd said. “What we saw was an amazing amount of resilience and humanity.”

Dowd also had to keep in mind cultural sensitivities and respect cultural norms while paying attention to certain shots, the building of a story arc and worker salary.

“I’m familiar with both war and with being an immigrant, not knowing when you’ll see

your family again,” Stakic, who was born in Yugoslavia and left alone for the United States when he was 16 during the first years of the war, said. “I’m complaining about how cold it is when it’s 60 degrees out while a friend I just made is living alone with her three kids, and it’s freezing out there. It puts everything in perspective and shows you what’s important.”

The film crew noticed that despite the camp’s harsh living conditions, refugees had a connection to each other on a very personal level, a lifestyle that those in the Western world do not have, according to Stakic.

“These are real people who just want to go to school or fall in love or just want the best for their kids,” Stakic said. “I hope this film will show just a glimpse of these people, who are like us but are living in different circumstances.”

Due to the film crew’s almost unlimited access to the campsite, Humeau said he believes they were able to break new ground.

“The real challenge now is editing,” Humeau said. “It’s a tedious job that takes time, and there are hundreds of ways to edit the film and tell the story, some good, some bad.”

The next step is spreading the word before post production and start applying to film festivals.

Dowd has launched a Kickstarter campaign which runs until March 16 to raise $30,000. Currently $7,308 have been raised.

“This is a call to action,” Dowd said. “It’s a beautiful story that hopefully we can share with the world. But we need to raise some additional funds to make it happen.”

New club promotes service

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CLUB MEETING Juniors Victoria Oestermann, Laurel Cinti and Isabelle Armstrong (left to right) lead a club meeting for Students in Action, a new club to promote community service.

Grace Ainslie Reporter

embers of a newly formed campus club made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for bag lunches filled with chips, an apple, a drink and cookies on a recent Sunday afternoon and then distributed the bags to the homeless in the Tenderloin.

Students in Action, a service-oriented club created by the Jefferson Awards Foundation, plans to have weekly to bi-weekly service opportunities on weekends for its members, according to co-head of SIA Isabelle Armstrong.

“You teach your peers how to lead and how to interact with others,” Armstrong said. “It's much more than service, but service is our core.”

SIA has operated at Stuart Hall for over a year and is both student lead and student managed,

according to SHHS faculty moderator Ray O’Connor.

“Last year our service director presented the program to me and asked me if I would be interested in starting something like it at Stuart Hall,” SHHS SIA leader Julian Moreno said. “We spread over to Convent because we think the message of service to others and really engaging with service in a positive way is powerful.”

Moreno introduced Students in Action to Convent in early February during an assembly, inviting the girls to start their own chapter.

“When Julian came to present it, I saw it as an opportunity to play a larger role in the community service locally,” Armstrong said. “We are only focusing on charities in the city.”

Focusing service efforts locally follows the Students in Action goal of trying to “create maxi-

mum impact,” according to SIA’s website.

Despite working with Stuart Hall on its One Less Hungry Project, the Convent chapter is looking for other community service organizations with whom they can partner.

“We have the capability to join so many different charities and functions and do so many things at once while still aiming towards our goal which is service and community helping others,” Armstrong said.

Active in 300 schools across the United States, Students in Action was created in 2006 by the Jefferson Awards Foundation to develop student leaders while helping the community.

“Students in Action is a great way to connect with the youth of the United States, volunteer, and give back to others in the community,” Moreno said.

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Making the safe call Teens exempt from legal consequences when calling medical assistance for friends passed out from binge drinking.

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eenage lore is filled with stories of young women whose first time binge drinking could have been their last had they not been rushed to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. And with good reason.

Adolescents between the ages of 12 and 20 consume about 11 percent of all alcohol in the United States — over 90 percent of which is consumed via binge drinking, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Big events or parties are where most underage drinking happens,” an 18-year-old high school senior who asked not to be identified said. “People lose track of how much they drink, and it can get scary when they begin to wobble and slur their words. Drinking games don’t help either, because then getting drunk becomes a competition.”

Consuming alcohol is illegal in California under the age of 21, except in the presence of consenting family members.

Drinking games often contribute to binge drinking, the consumption of four drinks in two hours for women and five for

men, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

“The main problem is that when kids start drinking, especially if they have not eaten or are thirsty, they drink a lot of alcohol and do not realize they’ve had too much until they’ve reached a level of poisoning,” Laura Catena, emergency medicine doctor at University of California, San Francisco and California Pacific Medical Center, said. “The less you drink on a regular basis, the slower you metabolize alcohol — and since most kids are not regular drinkers, they can get drunk very easily — especially small thin women.”

Inexperienced drinkers can easily consume life-threatening amounts of alcohol without realizing it.

“People lose their inhibitions when they drink, and they may not realize that they are drinking too much,” Catena said. “They might go quickly from talking to passing out and not breathing well, because alcohol is absorbed within 30 minutes.”

Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, changing mood and behavior and making it more difficult to think

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clearly and move with coordination, according to NIAAA. “The main reason teens drink is because of the effect it has on them,” a 16-year-old high school sophomore said. “It has reached a point where a lot of teens do it and, in a sense, it has become normal.”

Individuals who participate in binge drinking and consume too much alcohol may need immediate medical attention. Minors who are present at the scene and call for help do not need to worry about legal ramifications under the California Business and Professions Code 25667 that grants the caller immunity from criminal prosecution.

The minor must call 911 for someone in need of medical assistance due to alcohol consumption, be first to report an incident to 911, or remain on the scene with the person who has alcohol poisoning until medical assistance arrived, according to the code.

“It is good to know that if anything were to go wrong, I could call for help and be protected by law,” senior Quinn Moslander said. “I think most teens’ biggest worry is getting in trouble and getting caught, so that is why some might hesitate to call.”

Warning signs of alcohol poisoning are, but not limited to, confusion, vomiting, slowed breath-

ing to less than eight breaths per minute, lowered body temperature, and unconsciousness according to the Mayo Clinic.

“If you were ever concerned and don’t know if someone drank alcohol or took a drug, and they are not so sick that you would need to call 911, you can always call the Poison Control Center,” Catena said. “They might tell you to go to the hospital, but that is the place you can always call for information.”

The California Poison Control System is open 24 hours, seven days a week and can be reached at (415) 502-8605 or by calling 911 and asking to be redirected.

Academic stress stimulates depression Depression can stem from overwhelming school work and activities.

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igh school often tests students limits, but in certain cases the stress of homework and extracurriculars become too much to handle for teens and can become detrimental to their mental health.

Five percent of teenagers, aged 13 to 18, suffer from a depressive order, with only 30 percent of those receiving treatment, according to the John Hopkins Adolescent Depression Awareness Program.

“Depression is when you are sad,” a 16-year-old high school student who has been clinically diagnosed with depression and asked not to be identified, said.

“Either for a reason, or not a reason, for a long period of time and there is little to nothing that can be done to get you out of that. It’s like you are drowning, and you can see everybody breathing just fine.”

Symptoms of depression can include sadness, anxiety, irritability, restlessness, loss of interest in activities that previously provided joy, problems with focus or sleep, and suicidal thoughts or actions, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

“Often times I see depression playing a role in teenagers’ ability to focus and to feel motivated towards school,” Morgan Howson, licensed marriage and family therapist, said.

Depression is a medically diagnosed disorder with multiple different variations, including major

depression, dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder, or SAD and bipolar disorder, according to Mayo Clinic.

Women are 70 percent more likely than men to experience depression at some point in their lifetime, and by age 15, girls are twice as likely as boys to have had a major depressive episode, according to the NIMH. “You’ll have friends or people you connect with who say that they’re there for you even if it’s every two hours,” the 16-year-old said. “You want so badly to accept that help, but you start asking yourself if they really mean it and you get self-conscious.”

Depression can often lead to suicidal thoughts or actions. The strongest risk factor for suicide is depression and 15 percent of those who are clinically depressed die by suicide, according to Suicide Awareness Voices of Education.

Teens suffering from depression are encouraged to participate in school to stay busy and use school as a distraction from their negative feelings or behaviors, according to Mental Health America.

“If it were really obvious that a student was down or not her normal self, I would ask how they were feeling, and if the response seemed severe enough, I would take it to the people suited to deal with that, like Mrs. [Annie] Egan,” sophomore history teacher Michael Stafford said.

Depending on the severity of ones’ depressive symptoms, depression can make it impossible

for a person to carry on her normal activities, including sleep and focus.

“There will be weeks when I can’t get out of bed,” the 16-yearold said. “It’s pretty hard because I need to get out of bed in order to get to school, and I will miss incredible amounts of school, but the idea of just having to be there is too overwhelming.”

Almost 50 percent of those who are clinically depressed are also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

“Depression and anxiety are separate, but they often are diagnosed together and likely to arise at the same time,” school counselor Annie Egan said. “If you have anxiety around school, and anxiety is not stress, but it’s an irrational level of strain around something, if you are not doing well in school and are anxious about an assignment, that can bring on the depression.”

A consequence of unwatched, or undiagnosed depression can be suicide.

“Your safety is hands down the most important thing,” Stafford said. “We will drop anything to make sure everybody is safe and well taken care of.”

Students seeking help or someone to talk to can meet with Egan, who has a confidentiality policy unless there is concern for imminent harm to self, harm to others, or harm to the student by another person. She is reachable by her school phone extension, email and by dropping by her office.

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Going for the gold Senior creates kitchen database for a transition home for prestigious Girl Scout award.

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nlike her friends who spend their after school hours participating in school productions, running on the track and swimming laps for the swim team, senior Caroline Lo works once a week in a Tenderloin shelter, loading her student-run kitchen database with kitchen stock, recipes and volunteer information.

Lo’s weekly visits to the shelter kitchen is for her Girl Scout Gold Award, bestowed onto high school students who find a sustainable solution to a problem in the world or in their own community. Lo is changing her corner of the world at Raphael House, where she previously volunteered through National Charity League.

“Raphael House is a transition house that helps families in the San Francisco area get back on their feet by providing housing and food,” Lo said.

Lo, who has been a girls scout for 10 years, sat down with Raphael House’s head chef and the director of finance who together concluded the shelter most needed a stronger organizational system for the kitchen.

“I have been researching different kitchen software for restaurants, chefs and cafeterias,” Lo said. “I look for what they offer and see if the software matches the needs of the Raphael House.

I am currently in the process of talking to software representatives. My next step would be to purchase the software, load all

the information and then teach the Raphael House how to use the database.”

Scouts must complete a seven-step process that takes them through identifying an issue, creating and presenting a plan, and educating and inspiring others.

“All the steps are equally important because they build a lot in terms of development,” Kamaria Belgrave, National

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Awards Program Specialist, said.

“The steps teach girls how to research during the investigation, teach peer to peer engagement as they develop their team, they enhance presentation skills, and teach organizational skills when scouts learn to plot out a plan of action.”

“To earn your Gold Award you have to create a proposal with a timeline of action, finance tracking sheet, connections and then present your gathered material to the Girl Scouts Organization of Northern California,” Lo said. “They then discuss the

project and give feedback, which takes three months. After it is approved, you can start the project, which needs 80 hours onsite.”

In addition to helping the community, Gold Award recipients benefit from their experience by distinguishing themselves in the college process, being seen as leaders, learning time management skills and building a network, according to girlscouts.org.

“My Gold Award is a project that combines what I have learned about service and what I have learned about leadership,” Lo said. “It takes a lot of dedication and time to organize and orchestrate a project like this.

I’ve also become more appreciative for organizations like the Raphael House. The volunteers and staff take time out of their day to help the families, always with a positive attitude.”

The Gold Award, previously known as the Golden Eaglet and First Class award, is approaching its 100-year anniversary, celebrating young women who have distinguished themselves as leaders since 1916.

“A lot of colleges really look for this form of leadership in an application, giving Gold Award recipients an edge against other young women who have not strongly impacted their community,” Belgrave said. “It helps develops girls as a person and as young women. It really propels these young women forward in life teaching them a number of critical skills needed for adulthood.”

There are 2.8 million Girls Scouts.

Girls Scout’s worldwide family has 10 million girls and adults members in 145 countries.

2/3 of every Girl Scout cookie purchase is put to use by Girl Scout counsels.

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‘42 Street’ opens next week

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efined harmonies and pitter patter of tap shoes are flooding the Syufy Theatre during rehearsals for next week’s spring musical.

Set during the Great Depression, “42nd Street” chronicles the story of aspiring actress Peggy Sawyer (Cat Heinen) and accomplished performer Dorothy Brock (Christina Braa) who are both working hard to make it big in on Broadway.

“I love how sassy and mean I get to be, senior Christina Braa said about playing Brock. “She’s just so ridiculous, it’s outrageous. I get to do things that wouldn’t get to be acceptable. I get to throw champagne in my stage boyfriend’s face.”

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MUSICAL REVUE Sophomore Sabrina Chaffee, who plays Mag-

gie, rehearses a solo in the opening number (above). Senior Marie de Tomasi, freshmen Francesca Petruzzelli and Natalia Mella, and sophomore Bella Kearney practice a tap dance routine for the opening number (right). Director Pamela Rickard demonstrates an expression as the cast rehearses during a scene in Act One (far right).

Sawyer gets her break in “Pretty Lady,” the Broadway musical within the show, when Brock injures herself.

The cast of 31 has been rehearsing since early December, working on acting, singing and dancing.

“Most of the leads are called everyday of the school week and towards the end we have a full day rehearsal on a Saturday,” Braa said. “I will probably spend more than 100 hours preparing for the play.”

Unlike the salsa moves in the two previous musicals “Westside Story” and “In the Heights,” dancers are sharpening their rhythmic dancing skills.

“I’m really enjoying learning tap,” ensemble member Bella Kearney said. “It’s something

that I won’t get to do anywhere else.”

The large ensemble fulfills director Pamela Richard’s goal to have as many students as possible participate in the show.

“Its not about just a few people, and that is the challenge of picking a musical,” Richard said.

“For me it is how to give as many people as possible enough to do to make them really excited.”

The musical runs one and half hours to two hours with a 15 minute intermission, according to stage director Sabrina Mendiola.

“I’m hoping that a lot of people come to see it” Braa said. “It has lots of energy.”

“42nd Street” plays on March 12 and 13 at 7 p.m. and March 14 at 3 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door.

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Gender-oriented occupational inequity affects women, children Gender prejudice in the workplace affects poverty rates and leads to male dominated fields.

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he 2015 Oscars were marked by acceptance speeches calling on the audience to address social issues.

Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette’s speech shed light upon the issue of wage inequality between men and women, making Facebook’s Trending news for the day.

The average woman in the United States will make around $37,791 this year compared to $49,398 made by the average man, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

“Women are affected, obviously, in a negative way because they are not being paid as much,” Stephanie Román, a research assistant at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, said. “When you look at the poverty numbers, there is a much greater percentage of women in poverty than men, which contributes to the problem.”

Full-time female workers make only 78 cents for every dollar earned by men, causing the wage gap to hit 22 percent, according to IWPR. “There is an idea going around that the statistics around the issue are exaggerated or manipulated in a way to make the issue seem bigger than it is,” senior Zoë Baker said. “The fact that men are still being paid more than women for the same job is unacceptable.”

The issue spurs from occupational segregation, where a woman in a male-dominated work field will not make as much as her male counterparts, while a man in a stereotypically female field will make the same or even more as his female counterpart, according to Román.

“It’s something that hinders women’s economic and financial status,” Román said. “It is harmful to women’s economic security as well as their families.”

It is a cycle, where women are not paid equally to men, then fall into poverty, causing their children to become part of the cycle as well. Single women with children are more likely to be in poverty than married couples with children or single men with children, according to IWPR. “This is especially pressing

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and important for women who are single mothers who maintain households,” Román said. “The fact that there is a gender gap, and the fact that women aren’t being paid equally really affects the female head of the household.”

Women hold 48 percent of the jobs in the workforce, yet they only hold 25 percent of all STEM jobs — jobs in science, technology, engineering and math — according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

“There are a lot of educational issues that may happen along a women’s educational career where she might feel like science and math class are not a welcoming place for women,” Román said. “This might prohibit her from having an occupation in a STEM career because along the way of getting to that place there have been all of these different things that happen.”

The rate of change in the equality gap has remained stagnant in the past years, partially related to the economic recession, but also due to policies, according to Ramón.

“At the current pace of change, it will take 81 years to achieve gender parity in the workplace, more than 75 years to reach equal remuneration between men and women for work of equal value, and more than 30 years to reach gender balance in decision-making,” according to the Call to Action document generated at the annual UN Women conference in Beijing.

In President Obama’s 2015 Economic Report one of the key issues to tackle this year is wage inequality. The report outlines the economic issues that Congress should address.

“Women can put pressure on their local and elected officials and their Congress members who represent them to make pay equity a priority,” Román said.

Not one country has yet achieved equality, according to a press release from UN Women at the 2015 International Women’s Day in Beijing.

“Convent has educated me on how widespread gender inequality is and has given me the tools such as confidence to fight it and stand up for myself,” Baker said.

Women hold 48 percent of the jobs in the workforce, yet they only hold 25 percent of all STEM jobs.

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Editor’s Note: As a staff, we are opposed to running quotes from anonymous sources, but we also believe we have a responsibility to protect our sources when they discuss personal, sensitive topics, even when they agree to go on the record.

We thank our sources for their candor and without them this story would not have been possible, but we have chosen not to run our interviewees’ names in this article. oing out to dinner and a movie has become almost as outdated as using a flip phone. Teens are opting to hook up rather than go out on dates as a part of the growing hookup culture that creates a double standard in which women are considered promiscuous and men are praised for their endeavors.

“Everyone is looking to relate,” Dr. Michael Swetye, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, said. “It’s a basic human instinct and we do it from the time we’re born as little babies. We look for attachment and connection and continue to do so through our friendships and family relationships and eventually it can happen in romantic relationships.”

Hook ups are casual sexual encounters between two people who are not currently in a relationship.

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“Sometimes having a boyfriend or a girlfriend can be too much work and commitment,” an 18-year-old high school girl said.

“Generally, you don’t have feelings for the other person, so there aren’t any strings attached.”

These brief encounters are more about satisfying a physical need than searching for a future partner, according to the APA.

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“When just hooking up with someone I feel like it’s not necessarily real or passionate,” a 17-yearold high school girl said. “It’s just used as a form of pleasure.”

Thirty five percent of 187 participants in a study asking them to describe their feelings after a “typical hook up” said they regretted the hook up and felt disappointed,

according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

“Say if you’re at a party and the guy you just hooked up with now won’t talk to you or make eye contact with you at all, that’s when a girl, I would say, would feel used because there’s just none of that extra attention,” the 18-year-old said.

Only two percent of respondents said they felt desired or wanted after their hookup, according to a U.S. National Library of Medicine study.

“Emotional intimacy can be complicated and very frightening to people,” Swetye said. “Especially teenagers, who are new to romance, can be frightened. They may not be conscious of it, but they can be frightened by emotional intimacy. Hookup culture is probably a way that some teens are consciously or unconsciously avoiding real emotional intimacy.

When hooking up, they imagine they are being mature and intimate simply due to the physical contact, but in reality it’s immature and superficial.”

Sixty four percent of teenage boys say that they have been “in love,” compared to 60 percent of teenage girls, according to Stage of Life.

“It’s more meaningful,” the 17 year old, who has been dating her boyfriend for over a year, said. “I get to form a relationship with someone for a long period of time and get to know them as a person, opposed to a short period of time

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er connection, but often results in women being shamed for plauded for their promiscuity. without really getting to know the person.”

The 17 year old who was only hooking up with her boyfriend at the time said she was victimized for being with him.

“There was a lot of gossip going around the school because I was with him,” she said. “One girl even mentioned it to my face and said, ‘I can’t believe you’re with him — that’s so gross.’”

Women are often shamed and considered promiscuous after their hookups, but men are revered by their peers, according to the 18-year-old.

“There is definitely a double standard,” she said. “A girl isn’t hooking up with a lot of guys to be gossiped about, it’s just natural.

Both guys and girls are doing this for the same reason.”

Forty seven percent of women and 34 percent of men express an interest in starting a relationship with their most recent hook up, according to the APA. “Men may have more of an ability to shut down the emotional and attachment aspects around physical intimacy relative to women,” Swetye said. “This may be part of the reason that in teen culture we see a celebration of hooking up by the boys and a shaming of it by the girls.”

This double standard can be attributed to possible pregnancy, according to Swetye.

“There is a biological setup for

men to be less emotionally invested in sexual intimacy than women because of the biological reality of pregnancy,” Swetye said. “Since women give birth to the child they are typically the primary attachment figure. There are many systems within the female physiology

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and the female brain that are wired for bonding and attachment.”

Although these brief encounters are considered a norm in the media because of movies like “No Strings Attached” and “Hooking Up,” healthy relationships require more than just physical intimacy, according to Swetye.

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life with the romance piece of it, along with physical intimacy,” Swetye said. “It takes a lot of maturity to know how to integrate those and to really understand what a rich emotional life with another person involves. Hookup culture keeps things superficial — it does not promote learning how to build a mature emotional life that is blended with physical intimacy.”

The Catholic Church teaches that sexual relations or only acceptable in marriage, according to the Rev. Dave Pettingill.

“Sexual relations is such a sacred and marvelous thing that it needs to be nurtured to be given its full meaning,” Pettingill said. “The full meaning the Church believes is in marriage because people have to come together first of all spiritually, emotionally, psychologically and then their sexual expression become the sacrament of all those other comings together.”

If teens are feeling uncertain about their relationships, Swetye urges them to seek out a trusted adult.

“Teens who are feeling confused or frustrated by a romantic relationship should try to find a trusted adult with whom they can talk about it,” Swetye said. “Someone who doesn’t judge or criticize, but listens and offers a mature perspective. It could be a favorite aunt, or teacher, or parent — anyone trustworthy who seems to have a healthy emotional life.”

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Gender stereotypes affect childhoods that we’ve created for her.”

It can be hard to find gender ink-themed toys dominate neutral products for children, the Girls’ Toys tab of the such as clothes in red, yellows or Toys R Us website. A pink greens, according to history teachCadillac-branded model denotes er Michael Stafford, who has two the Bikes and Ride-ons, and a daughters, ages two and five.

“When you go to the clothing pink “Hello Kitty” boombox indicates the electronics section. Only store, all of the girls’ clothes are the “Frozen” merchandise dis- pink and all of the boys’ clothes rupts this pink online landscape, are blue,” Stafford said. “You have yet clicking on those section tabs to look really hard to find stuff reveals little-to-no Frozen mer- that your kid can wear that is not specifically geared towards frilly chandise at all.

“When I was really young I girls or rambunctious boys — and didn’t like pink, and I wore it be- this is before the kid is even noticcause I saw pink everywhere,” ju- ing it.”

Stafford, who teaches the Renior Julia Praeger said. “But when I got older, gender stereotypes sponses to Oppression class, says really didn’t affect me because I that gender-based stereotypes had an older brother. I did a lot directed toward children are a of things like watch shows like form of oppression aimed more at ‘Yu-Gi-Oh’ and ‘Naruto,’ and play young girls than at boys.

“Gender stereotypes aimed at ‘Pokémon.’ I was very tomboyish.”

Most children are exposed to girls are one of the reasons we gender stereotypes through the have a need for feminism,” Staftoy industry, where sex-based ford said. “This indoctrination stereotyping has grown to “un- and these stereotypes are set at a precedented levels” during the very early age — that girls can only past generation, according to go so far, that girls can only accomplish this then-sociology much, et cedoctoral canditera.

That’s date Elizabeth stuff that my Sweet in an arwife and I are ticle she wrote both strugfor the New gling against, York Times in since we’re 2012. both femi“When I nists.” was younger Some toy I played with companies baby dolls and are seeking play kitchens,” to change sophomore that heavilyGia Monachibiased atno said. “Now — Michael Stafford mosphere. that I’m older, Named “PeoI feel that in a ple’s Choice” way they’re imand “Most posing gender roles early on in life and saying Educational Toy” at the 2014 Toy that girls have to play house, clean of the Year Awards, founder and the kitchen and take care of kids.” CEO Debra Sterling launched Children become more aware the toy company GoldieBlox “to of “boy” and “girl” interests and inspire the next generation of fecan differentiate between gender male innovators,” according to stereotyped toys by the age of the company.

“Goldie and her friends are a three, according to the American group of diverse, quirky characAcademy of Pediatric’s.

“Bennet’s really attracted to ters who work together to solve all things that are stereotypically problems by building simple mafeminine — pink things, prin- chines,” the company wrote in a cesses, queens,” philosophy teach- press statement. “They’re each er Paul Pryor-Lorentz said about interested in different areas of his 3-year-old daughter. “My wife STEM, providing girls with conand I try intentionally to create a fident and positive role models.”

GoldieBlox states its goal is to gender-neutral environment, and it’s interesting how even with that close the gender gap in STEMshe’s attracted to those things. It related career fields and “disrupt could also be that she’s genuinely the pink aisle” through products attracted to that aesthetic, which featuring stories and interactive construction toys for girls, acis fine.”

Pryor-Lorentz said his daugh- cording to the company.

Despite GoldieBlox’s revoluter started being affected by ideas about gender roles when she tion in toys aimed at young girls, started to be able to understand much of the toy industry is still heavily mired in sex-based expecsentences.

“She’ll take offense if I say that tations for young kids.

“A conversation that each of us she looks handsome when she’s getting ready for church on Sun- needs to attend to at some point days, because she says, ‘they tell is ‘what has the effect been of me at school that you’re not al- the way that I was raised — how lowed to say a girl is handsome has that shaped my sense of my or a boy is pretty,’” Pryor-Lorentz self and of my world and what it said. “Her notions of gender iden- means to be a person’ because it tity are rigid, even though that’s does for all of us,” Pryor-Lorentz not necessarily the environment said. “For better and for worse.”

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SETTING SAIL Coming in from practice, junior Paige Dunlevy

takes down a sail while bringing her FJ off of the water and onto the dolly to de-rig it at the St. Francis Yacht Club on San Francisco Bay.

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lacing 19 out of 30 at their last regatta, the Convent and Stuart Hall sailing team anticipates another successful season to move up their state rank.

The sailing team is currently ranked 17th out of 64 teams in the state, improving its 30th ranking spot from four years ago in the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association.

“Their ranking is a great showing that effort, hard work, commitment and practice all pay off over the years,” sailing coach Brent Harrill said. “Nationwide, our district probably has the top five schools in the country and it is very competitive.”

Captains Paloma Palmer, Hannah Baylis and Will Paulsen, who have all been on the team since their freshman year, make sure everyone is informed with the times and dates of all regattas and practices, according to junior Paige Dunlevy.

“It’s a lot of coordination getting everyone to practice and traveling as a team,” senior Claire Mohun said. “It takes a

lot of really strong communication and you just have to keep in touch with everyone and they’re very good at making sure that happens.”

The seven schools in the City with sailing teams use a fleet of 14 boats owned by the St. Francis Yacht Club.

“Each school has their individual team, but there are only two coaches at the yacht club,” Mohun said. “We have practice the same day, are all coached together and all sail together. We’re more of a Saint Francis Yacht Club team, but when it’s scored we are one team — Convent and Stuart Hall.”

Sailors not only need to have physical and mental strength, but they must factor in that they’re playing with Mother Nature whenever they go on the water, according to Harrill.

“Sailing takes a lot of understanding of the weather and wind patterns, as well as the the geographical locations that you’re sailing in,” Harril said.

“We experience different tidal currents in every different venue we go to and the state of the waves and water all affect the de-

cisions you need to make.”

Sailing forces sailors to focus on the task at hand, forget about anything else that is not relevant at the time and takes a lot of mental skill.

“Sailing forces me to only concentrate on what’s going on in the boat and what’s happening in the present moment,” Dunlevy said.

The teams current ranking of 17th in California, was is the ranking the team ended with last year.

“Hopefully we can move up from our current ranking and finish a few spots higher and achieve a better state result than last year,” Harrill said.

The team still has two more statewide competitions in which it can better its ranking, a regatta in Santa Barbara March 14-15 and the league championships hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club April 18-19.

“Rankings matter, but over that I hope that we can learn better tactics and get better as a team overall because in the end, that is what will lead to us moving up in the rankings,” Dunlevy said.

Not so juicy news Juice cleanses may not rid the body of toxins and may cause more harm than good.

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uice cleanse advocates claim fasting while consuming only juices can lead to an improved lifestyle, but it may not be as healthy for the body as promoters of the practice make it out to be.

Senior Sabine Dahi tried a three-day cleanse, but began experiencing unwanted effects from her choice of more sugary juices rather than vegetable juices.

“I just started off doing it just to see if I could do it,” Dahi said.

“By the third day, I just felt completely dizzy because I switched out a lot of my juices for sweeter ones because I couldn’t drink some of the green ones that were in my package. I read afterwards that that was a bad idea. I was basically on sugar for three days.”

A juice cleanse consisting mainly of fruit juices containing high quantities of sugar causes a boost in blood sugar levels and excess insulin within the body, without the required fiber needed to balance out the insulin, according to Salter.

“If you consume too much , your body spikes too highly in insulin and often times it can be followed by a crash,” Rhiannon Salter, who is certified in nutrition from the Tufts Friedman School of Public Health said. “If you’re having a juice, I would always advise accompanying it with fiber to help avoid and prevent such stark crashes and spikes.”

Although a juice cleanse is often claimed to be tool in nutri-

tion consumption, minor weight loss and detoxification of the body as well as important components of a balanced diet are lost when the food is juiced, according to Fit Day. “They can be a healthy addition but not on their own, they’re not a complete food,” Salter said.

“I’ve watched a lot of my friends try juice cleanses, and they end up being really hungry, pretty miserable and kind of grumpy because they’re not getting all of the food groups.”

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Pursuing a juice cleanse without including whole foods into the course does not achieve the suggested daily intake of 14 grams of fiber for every 1,000 calories, according to the USDA Dietary Guidelines of 2010.

“With juice cleanses, all of the vegetables and fruits are put into a juicer and the pulp and fibrous materials get left behind when the juice is extracted,” nutritionist Kristina Todini said.

“So while you may be drinking the juice from six apples and a

pound of spinach, the fiber is left behind. Fiber is very important for your digestion and for slowing down your body’s absorption of the high amounts of sugar from the juice you are drinking.”

Juice bars are increasingly appearing in multiple locations all around San Francisco including Pacific Heights, the Mission and the Financial District, offering juices containing mixtures of fruits, vegetables and spices.

“We have different categories like greens, fruits, citrus, roots and signature blends,” senior Lian Radcliffe, who works at Pressed Juicery said. “Pressed Juicerys’ goal is really just to make healthy juices that taste good and are affordable.”

Pressed Juicery claims its cleanses work in removing toxins caused by an unhealthy food regimen, according to Radcliffe.

“What cleansing is aimed at is to give your digestive system a break,” Radcliffe said. “Your body is constantly working to digest your food, and it takes up to six or eight hours to digest just one meal. It also helps speed up your metabolism.”

Juice cleanse side effects, including weight loss and frequent trips to the bathroom, can be falsely interpreted as a detox experience, according to Todini.

“Your body naturally detoxes itself, and there is no evidence to substantiate the claim that juice is detoxifying,” Todini said.

“Your body has its own natural detox system, the liver and the kidneys, and it will detox whatever you ingest. The detoxifying claims probably stem from the

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Caroline Morgan samples a citrus juice while Vincent Yannicelli puts together her three-day juice cleanse at Pressed Juicery on Union Street (above). Juice cleanse suggested guidelines (left) outline options for individuals considering the solid food-free regimen and the prices for one, two and three-day fasts.

Cleanse advocates claim juiceonly fasts nourish, detoxify and refine the body, however many nutritionists say the lack of fiber in pressed juices increases insulin and can cause sugar spikes and crashes in the blood system. Fasters lose water weight that is regained once they reintroduce solid foods. fact that juice cleanses restrict eating whole foods, and following this diet will cause water weight loss initially. As soon as you begin eating whole foods again, you will gain the weight back.”

The bulk of fruits and vegetables in a healthy and balanced diet should be provided by the whole food itself and not by juices, according to USDA Dietary

Guidelines of 2010.

“I wouldn’t suggest a juice cleanse,” Todini said. “Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables, drinking six to eight glasses of water, going outside and getting some exercise, eating healthy fats such as avocados or other vegetable oils, and getting protein sources either from meat or from plants would be the best cleanse.”

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of intensity this season,” Niehaus said. “Compared to last season, I just think there is more focus this year. With one big team, we always have enough people for drills and it gives us more options.”

Talent is throughout the field and overall the team is well balanced, although it might be a low in terms of strength and

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he Cubs 2-1 record in preseason soccer has the team feeling confident it is off to a better start than last year’s team which only won one preseason game.

“I think there is a higher level of intensity this season,” senior Sarah Niehaus said. “Compared to last season, I just think there is more focus this year. With one big team, we always have enough people for drills and it gives us more options.”

The team lost to Head Royce in its first game of the season 100, then came back to beat Gateway 4-2 and beat San Francisco Waldorf 4-0 this past Tuesday.

“I want to help the team feel more confident about who they are,” Coach Ricardo Azucena said.

“We are not the biggest or the strongest, so I am hoping to really try to get in the girls’ heads and help them emotionally and mentally develop and become stronger.”

New coaches Azucena and Joel Snyder both started playing at an early age and together have been coaching for over 30 years.

The duo is co-coaching varsity, as the squad is not large enough to also have a JV team.

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numbers when rotating in the bench, according to Snyder.

“There’s some promising support there,” Snyder said. “I think if we keep a solid pace going then we can supplement with our bench and hold a good game. Our objective is to do well in league and see if we can build on our strengths.”

The team has a lot of dedica-

tion, talent and potential based on the commitment of players within the team, according to Azucena.

“We have some good, strong leaders,” Snyder said. “We are looking for them to help make other players around them better, so we can have a good team management of the ball and move up and down the field with some pace and control and create opportunities.”

With only three seniors on the team, few of the seven freshmen are in the starting lineup.

“Starting with different people that I haven’t played with before is hard,” Ballest-Cordero. “It was interestingly rough at first but now I think that we are all starting to work together better as a team.”

The preseason continues until March 13 with a matchup against Bentley Friday and another game coming up against Drew next Friday. The regular season begins March 18 with a league game against International High School at Crocker Amazon.

“We are getting used to how we play as a team,” Niehaus said.

“We have been working on formations in practice that will help us move the ball around more in the games.”

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OFFENSE Senior Sabine

Dahi fights for the ball with San Francisco Waldorf defender as senior Quinn Moslander awaits a pass at Crocker Amazon Field (above). Senior Christina Berardi prepares to receive the ball and offensively attack the other side of the field (left).

Berardi serves as the team captain. The team is in its preseason, having won two of its first three matches. The regular season starts March 18.

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STEP INTO THESE SNEAKERS

SPORTS ROUNDUP Badminton

Basketball

vs. Drew 2/25 2-6

Varsity

vs. International 3/3 3-2

vs. University 2/3 32-48

Sailing

vs. Lick-Wilmerding 2/6 31-32

Norcal 7 Gold 2/7 Cubs Team- 15th

vs. Marin Academy 2/10 41-26

Cubs Team 2 18th

vs. International 2/13 31-35

PCISA 4 Golden Bear

Gold 2/21-2/22 19th

vs. Lick-Wilmerding 2/18 34-47

Norcal 9 2/28

vs. Sonoma Academy 2/25 56-36

Fencing

vs. University 2/28 31-47

vs. School of The Arts 3/5 TBD

JV

Soccer

Pre-season Varsity

vs. University 2/3 (no results posted)

vs. Head Royce 2/24 0-10

vs. Lick-Wilmerding 2/6 6-46

vs. Gateway 2/26 4-2

vs. Marin Academy 2/10 25-34

vs. SF Waldorf 3/3 4-0

vs. International 2/13 (no results posted)

Track Sunset Invitational 3/6 TBD

Swimming

vs. Drew 3/3 TBD

Play like a girl

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Women defy gender stereotypes in male dominated sports.

fter my usual warm-up run at Lincoln High School, I glanced across the field and saw a group of girls with flags secured around their hips, throwing around a football while executing offensive and defensive plays.

Being a student athlete for most of my life, it never crossed my mind that a girl could play a sport predominantly played by boys. The girls played just as rough as I have seen boys play flag football, all while smiling and enjoying themselves just as much as any guy would.

I have been taught from a young age that male dominated sports- like flag football- are only be played by boys just because they were are “too dangerous,” but watching these girls play sparked a new appreciation.

Female tennis players, figure skaters and gymnasts showcase great athletic potential but they are commonly celebrated only for their “feminine” attributes of grace and glamour. Girls who choose to wrestle, play rugby or compete in basketball are shamed because “masculine” sports take away the woman’s femininity.

We should not focus on a woman’s beauty, but rather her skill when watching women’s athletic events. No one should determine which sporting events are deemed “gender appropriate” for girls. If a woman wants to play a

sport, she should have the right to play it.

The social, cultural and athletic pressure on females who participate in “opposite” gender sports needs to decrease so girls can feel confident when taking on athletic opportunities presented to them.

Ronna Heaton, a 15-year-old wrestler recently claimed the title of the first girl to ever compete in South Dakota’s State Wrestling Tournament, placing seventh overall. Heaton’s successes lead her to travel to Sweden as a part of an Olympic Wrestling Development team.

Heaton says she hopes to compete at the international level while getting interest from many colleges that offer women’s wrestling programs.

Title IX, the federal law prohibiting in education and athletics on the basis of sex, has given young women like Heaton the right to grapple with the boys, but this is not enough. Title IX continues to make sure girls have access to equal opportunities in playing whatever sport they like, but it should further inspire women and men to break the stereotype that women are too “feminine” to play male dominated sports.

Male or female intimidation shouldn’t stop a girl from participating in something she’s passionate about. Pushing for athletic gender equality will lead us one step closer in bridging the gap between the sexes in sporting universe.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

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Colloquialisms misrepresent clinical words

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ost — if not all — teens have experienced hardship at some point in their lives, causing them to fell disheartened. Frustrated, they may inappropriately use the adjective “depressed” to describe this feeling.

The misuse of the terms surrounding depression, and other disorders, can be insensitive to persons who suffer from clinical depression and whose sadness goes beyond simply feeling unhappy.

Major depression is one of the most common mental illnesses and is characterized by a persistent state of feeling sad. It can severely affect an individual’s thoughts and behavior, and health, according to the Stanford School of Medicine.

An estimated 25 million Americans suffer from clinical depression each year, and 50 percent of all people who commit suicide suffer from major depression, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The overuse of the word to describe less serious situations has caused the word to lose much of it is severity, according to the Mental Health Treatment online directory.

KISS co-founder Gene Simmons

made headlines last year after making an insensitive comment about depression during an interview for the website Songfacts.com. Simmons remarked about “a putz, 20-year-old kid” who says ‘I’m depressed, I live in Seattle” before saying an expletive followed by “... then kill yourself.”

Recognition of depression can be affected due to a participant’s prior experiences with depression, its “narrow clinical conceptualizations,” and the use of the word colloquially, according a study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

One of the main types of depression is bipolar disorder, which is also casually misused to describe a person who frequently changes her mind. Its overuse has also caused it to lose much of its severity, as seen through Kylie Jenner’s 2013 Twitter post, “I miss my black hair I’m so bipolar.”

One in four people with major depression are undiagnosed, according to the

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U.S. National Institutes of Health. Individuals who regularly express feelings of despondency should check to make sure they’re not clinically depressed.

The frequent use of clinical terms to describe less serious situations has caused the rise of colloquial connotations, all of which inconsiderately make

light of another person’s hardship.

Students need to take the first step by eliminating the use of these words in a cavalierly manner in conversations in order to educate each other to their true meaning to create a more accepting society.

HOW DO YOU THINK THE NEW AP POLICIES WILL AFFECT STUDENTS?

“It affects me because I want to take more than five APs and I feel like now I can’t without having to go through a long process of applying formally for classes that I want to take. “ — Hailey Long, sophomore

“I think if you’re a student who wants to take a certain amount of AP classes, and you’re at the academic level where you can, you should be allowed to take them.” ­— Katie Newbold, sophomore

“I expect students to do better in the APs because they will have less classes, less stuff to deal with and less stress.”

— Katerina Doricko, junior

“I think it’s sad because it’s not allowing students to take classes that they might want to take. It’s restricting things in a way that they don’t need to be restricted. ” — Clara Phipps, junior

“Capping the amount of APs is actually a good idea. By capping it and restricting certain courses, it makes students choose to take classes that they’re actually interested in rather than not.” ­— Sabine Dahi, senior

KEEPIN’ IT RIEHLE Madison Riehle Editor-in-Chief

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Looking past self-judgement Overcoming self-consciousness is not easy.

s a fourth grader, I had an overwhelming sense of confidence. My long, thick blonde hair defined me from everyone else, and I flourished off the compliments I would get from my family and friends. I truly saw nothing wrong with myself.

My image was shattered when we had to weigh ourselves and take measurements of our bodies for science class. My partner told me, with conviction, that I had bulky, flubbery, “man” arms. Then she proceeded to weigh herself and I realized that I was nothing like her — I was heavier and more wide set. Looking around I felt, for the first time, out of place and different in a way that I didn’t like.

As the girls in my class grew up and matured, I remained a brace-faced, pale, awkward girl through middle school, hoping that my baby fat would disappear.

By high school I was pushing myself to go to the gym multiple times a week, eat fewer carbs, lighten my hair, tan more, shave constantly, get manicures and spend a frivolous amount of money on makeup.

The girl next to me wasn’t my friend; she was a mirror that made me realize how I could be

perceived as unusual, and it hurt.

My looks often times took precedence over school work or studying, and any slight remark on my appearance sent me into overdrive to reverse what someone else thought was wrong with me.

It has taken me 18 years to not only accept that I am the way that I am, but also be proud of myself.

This realization came with the understanding that happiness doesn’t come from a tube of mascara or someone’s remark on new clothes.

When I became tired of changing myself for other people, I found friends who accepted me for the way that I am, not for how I made myself up to be. I still enjoy working out, by my motivation has changed. I work out to feel better, not to hope that it changes someone’s perspective on me.

With a new mindset my grades, anxieties and outlook on life changed drastically. Being able to cut out the noise made it easier to hear what is truly important.

I am now able to appreciate that I may be different from the girl next to me, but that doesn’t make me any less beautiful.

1. Students clean up Ocean Beach tomorrow during Community Service Day.

2. Narbonne High School’s girls basketball team wore pink to raise awareness for breast cancer.

3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.

4. Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech addresses women’s wages and social equality.

5. We’re having the warmest winter in San Francisco’s recorded history.

1. Residents and tourists continue to abuse local beaches.

2. The girls were kicked out of the postseason for a uniform violation, which was later rescinded.

3. House Speaker John Boehner sidestepped Obama administration protocol.

4. Estimations are women will reach wage equality with men in 44 years.

5. The drought continues.

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Pro/Con: Young drivers navigate the city Driving during teen years provides responsibility and freedom.

Drivers increase chances of accidents when they step into the driver’s seat.

Liana Lum News Editor

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lthough teen driving is convenient and fosters independence and responsibility, it is also dangerous, costly and time consuming.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teens, with the risk of crashes being three times more likely with drivers between the age of 16 and 19 than with drivers aged 20 and older, according to Centers for Disease and Control Motor Vehicle Safety.

These high accident rates are associated with inexperience. Beginning drivers, no matter how prepared, tend to underestimate or fail to recognize dangerous situations because their reaction times and impulse decisions are slowed and inaccurate.

Even after months of practice, beginning drivers driving other teens are easily distracted. MSN Autos states that death rates increase with each additional passenger.

Car crashes involving teen drivers can be attributed to unwise decisions, like drinking under the influence and ignoring the seat belt requirement, according to

the CDC study.

Texting and using distracting apps like Snapchat divert teen attention from the road as 21 percent of those involved in fatal crashes were distracted by the use of cellphones, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

During the school week, lack of sleep causes slower reaction times and thus increases the chances of getting in an accident.

Although young people ages 15 to 24 represent only 14 percent of the United States population, they cause accidents that cost $19 billion or 30 percent of motor vehicle injury costs for males and $7 billion or 28 percent for females, according to the CDC. Adding on to this is the high cost of car insurance for beginning drivers who are charged a premium for inexperience and increased accident incidence. The Insurance Information Institute states that teen driving insurance raises a family’s annual premium by an average of 84 percent or $2,000.

Besides such dangers, driving is time consuming. Finding parking before school starts or during passing periods for students who don’t have parking lots at their school causes distraction and an increased probability of getting tickets and class tardiness.

Under California law, learning how to drive requires 30 hours of Driver’s Ed and 50 hours of training with a licensed driver over 25 years old, 10 of which hours must be at night. An additional six hours of training are required with a professional, paid instructor.

While the inability to drive seems like a disadvantage to teens, refraining from driving is environmentally friendly. With car services like Uber and bus stations located all over the city, transportation is equally accessible and convenient.

The cost of driving outweighs the benefits, and teens can always get their licenses at an older age.

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n a city where a different event happens every weekend, the ability to drive to different venues is an important aspect of freedom and convenience.

Teens who drive save time by not having to wait for buses or other forms of time-consuming transportation. Such forms of travel are not always reliable with their unpredictable and infrequent arrival times.

Cars are also much safer than public transportation or taxis services, since students can lock car’s doors and immediately depart from any location or situation that seems potentially dangerous.

Riding buses can also be uncomfortable, as more people shove to make room for themselves in crowded spaces. It’s not uncommon to find oneself uncomfortably cramped against multiple individuals invading the personal area of others.

Sudden changes in arrival times for bus lines make it difficult to find alternate ways to locations when one isn’t able to drive.

Even with taxis or driving services, teens do not always have money on hand to pay for high rates. San Francisco taxi rates are $3.50 for the first 1/5 mile, $0.55 for each additional 1/5 mile and $0.55 for each minute of delay which can add up to a high fare.

Families with an extra driver have more convenience for giving extra rides to sports practices, piano lessons or tutoring sessions.

California has no tolerance for teens driving under the influence, and any blood alcohol level over 0.00 percent can result in license suspension for up to five years. Along with this, drivers may not have passengers who are not immediate family under 25 unless they are accompanied by an adult and drivers have a curfew.

Car accidents among teens has decreased 68 percent since 1975, mostly

because of these stricter rules, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Teens having more strict rules on driving regulations allows for them to be sure they need a license.

Only 44 percent of teens get a license within a year of eligibility, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

Getting a license has many values that can be overlooked.

Teens should have a license because it gives more freedom and independence to teens, and with safety laws, it is very manageable and safe for teen drivers and their families.

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Taking a shot at reality

Viiolent video games numb feelings towards taking human lives.

lood and guts never really turns my stomach, so I didn’t think twice when I agreed to go see “American Sniper” with my dad. I walked into the theater expecting to watch a typical all-American war movie, but was shocked by the film’s emotional intensity.

I struggled to watch the opening scene when U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, “the most lethal sniper in U.S. history,” is forced to execute a mother and her son who were about to throw a grenade at U.S. Marines.

Kyle’s hesitation to pull the trigger served as some comfort that he understood the gravity of his actions, but watching a 12-year-old boy get shot in the head for obeying his mother was sickening.

As Kyle is shown on rooftops killing hundreds of people, I couldn’t move past the idea of what it must feel like to take someone else’s life.

Although the Iraqi people are depicted as savages, they are still mothers, fathers and children.

Kyle suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, but this component could be easily dismissed if the audience was completely desensitized from the severity of murder.

I watch my 9-year-old and 5-year-old brothers play the first person shooter game “Call of Duty:

Ghosts” and brag about the targets they kill and witness their amazement with the digital splattered blood and the collapse of their “enemy.”

Little boys playing war with Nerf guns is significantly different than being desensitized by playing hours of violent video games, that turn people into targets, dehumanizing their users by making killing others enjoyable and entertaining.

These games equate guns to toys and make killing more of a pastime than a last resort in warfare.

Kyle doesn’t find satisfaction in killing people but finds fulfilment in protecting his country.

He is willing to do this job and suffer from both the physical and emotional repercussions of war for the safety of others.

He never killed anyone until he was truly convinced someone was a threat to U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians, as opposed to video games where a player can kill as many enemy soldiers as they want even if it doesn’t help them advance.

Kyle’s actions were heroic and he understood there isn’t a restart button in reality, but participating in endless hours of killing is only practicing a complete disregard for human life.

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CITY LIFE

Chinese New Year Parade to conclude celebrations Community ushers in Year of the Ram. Fiona Mittelstaedt & Asha Khanna

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ver a million people are expected to make their way to Chinatown this Saturday for the Chinese New Year festivities and commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Chinese New Year celebrations began on Feb. 19 and will continue through the annual Chinese New Year Parade on March 7. This will celebrate the Year of the Ram.

“It brings everyone together,” Karen Eng, Public Relations Director at the Chinese New Year Parade Office, said.

“It's not just the Asian community, but we bring so many people from outside the Bay Area who travel to see the parade.”

Over the two-week span, many Chinese families prepare their homes in preparation for the New Year. Some practice Feng Shui, the act of balancing energy by moving or replacing items in the home, including purchasing new plants which symbolize growth.

“We have a Feng Shui consultant come and assess our house and see if we should replace any furniture, or if we should move any furniture to have better luck for the new year,” freshman Erika Wong said.

The Chinese Historical Society, one of many organizations which is coordinating celebrations, plans for the afternoon of March 7 to be filled with lion dancing and a showing by artist Frank Wong, who creates mini dioramas of his youth growing up in Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s.

“Our organization in general is really here to be able to provide information and history about the Chinese in the United States,” Lenora Lee, who works at the Chinese Historical Society, said. “We celebrate the Chinese culture and how it has evolved and we celebrate the achievements and struggles of the Chinese who came early on.”

With over 5,000 participants in over a hundred different groups the annual parade is expected to have 2 million viewers,

making it the largest parade and celebration of its kind, according to the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade website.

In addition to the marching bands, lion dancing, corporate and community floats, a train float commemorating the Chinese who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad will make its debut on Saturday.

The Mandarin students recently incorporated the Chinese New Year festivities into a weeklong celebration in class.

"Our teacher brought lion heads with a costume and everything, so we got to learn how to lion dance," Wong said.

Mandarin teacher Yuhong Yao assisted the high school students in making traditional Chinese lanterns which they gave the kindergarteners, whom Yao also teaches. High school classes also learned the ancient skill of dumpling making.

“The dumplings make the whole family come together,” Yao said. “This is what Chinese people eat together to celebrate Chinese New Year.”

Pulse What’s pumping in The City

It’s Hammer time Loose-fitting “hammer pants” are comfortable options at home or on the go.

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hether you call them hammer pants, soft pants or stretchy pants, they’re all the same.

These fun flowing pants, popularized by the rapper

MC Hammer, are making a comeback. They’re perfect for lounging at home or going out on the town, the pants come in all colors, patterns and styles.

CELEBRATION Chinese

lion dancers perform on stage at the Flower Market Fair festival on Feb. 14 (top right).

The Flower Market Fair allows families to prepare for the New Year with fresh procduce for their celebrations. Musicians perform during a lion dance event (above). Instruments used during lion dance performances include gongs, symbols and drums. Festival goers on Feb. 14 walk down Grant Avenue, one of the streets closed off for the Flower Market Fair.

LF $60

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Pacsun $30

Lisakai $37

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