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Coastal clean up comes to campus.

No empty chairs, no empty tables Theater department performs “Les Misérables” to full houses.

4 WHAT’S UP DOC?

Former teacher brings health solutions worldwide.

6 HIGHLY INFORMATIVE Edibles, marijuana in the media attracts teens.

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Soccer team builds strength through bonding.

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DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING? Seniors Lucius Johnson and Chloe Lovato sing “Master of the House,” the anthem of the sneaky innkeepers Monsieur and Madame Thenardier. The Convent & Stuart Hall cast performed “Les Misérables” on Thursday and Friday evenings, closing with a Saturday matinee. The show, which ran two-and-a-half hours, featured nine leads and a large ensemble.

The show centers around former convict Jean Valjean (Daniel Im), who assumes guardianship of a young orphaned girl (Delaney Tobin) when her mother Fantine (Serafina Cinti) dies. The show was accompanied by a live eight-piece orchestra featuring Leon Tsai on piano. Stage managers Maya Shur and Kelly Rosanelli, who assisted director Pamela Rickard, plan to hold their managing positions until they graduate.

Rising juniors consider AP, IB

Claire Kosewic Senior Reporter

Convent and Stuart Hall High Schools’ recent approval as International Baccalaureate World Schools requires rising juniors to make a choice between participating in the IB Diploma Programme or enrolling in a combination of regular, honors or Advanced Placement courses.

“I am planning to do IB in the fall,” sophomore Katie Thomis said. “I’ve researched a lot about the program and I think it fits re-

ally well with my learning style, because AP is much more of a fact-based program, while IB seems to be focused more on abstract thinking.”

Students who choose to participate in the Diploma Programme must take six core academic classes in addition to completing the three core elements dictated by the program, theory of knowledge; the extended essay; and creativity, activity, service.

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Museum showcases stunning gowns.

QuickReads NEW CHAIR ON BOARD

Current Chair of the Board of Trustees Mark Tellini announced Gabriela Parcella as next board chair.

Parcella, now in her fourth year as a board member, was unanimously elected, according to a letter from Tellini. She will serve a three-year term starting in July.

CELEBRATE SPRING

Cheap fashion enables abuse

Contemplating what it’s worth.

Neely Metz Copy Editor

As spring magazines highlight the season’s newest trends and hot styles, they often choose to focus on who’s wearing what while glossing over who’s making what.

Modern day slaves make up over 30 million people around the globe, much of which occurs throughout the production of apparel in the fashion industry, according to Not For Sale, a campaign dedicated to the protection of people from human trafficking and slavery. India is home to 14 million of the people tethered to present day slavery, and is also one of the largest clothing production exports in the world.

“It’s not as simple as just rais-

ing the price for an individual person,” Amy Hall, the Social Consciousness Director for Eileen Fisher, said in a phone interview. “When the local community finds out that workers are earning more, the local businesses raise their fees. In fact their net take home becomes no better than before the wage increased because their local cost is going up.”

Low wages, unlivable conditions and insufficient workers rights are only the tip of the iceberg as workers in leading fashion exports face both physical and emotional abuse as well as adverse discrimination in their working environment.

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The theme for Celebrate Spring this year is “Do You Believe in Magic?” The annual spring fundraiser will take place this week on March 18 with the luncheon on Friday. The adultonly auction and gala is Saturday, March 19.

SPRING CLEANING

Freshmen and sophomores are required to attend the annual spring student-led parentteacher conferences. Students will meet with their parents and PAWS advisors to discuss their performance over the quarter and review their action plans starting on March 15.

CLASS RETREATS

Freshmen and sophomores will participate in local servicerelated class retreats, while juniors and seniors have overnight trips outside the City.

Juniors will spend the night at Camp Newman in San Rafael this Thursday and Friday, The Senior Class will return to St. Dorothy’s Rest where they previously spent time together as a class earlier this school year. Seniors leave Friday and return on Saturday.

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Annual Community Service Day moves from seaside to school.

Low-cost clothing permits mistreatment

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HELPING HAND Sophomore Lulu Desai scrubs the second floor bathroom in the Flood Mansion during Community Service Day. Students helped clean all areas of the school in order to show their appreciation for the janitorial staff.

Rising juniors to pick AP or IB courses From Rising p. 1 “IB classes are like AP courses because they are both academically challenging, rigorous classes where there is a final test mandated by an outside agent,” Diploma Programme Coordinator Devin DeMartini Cooke said. “There is an outside group who ultimately has the final say in your success of the programs.

“An IB student may receive the same or similar information to an AP student in a comparable class, but they will be getting it in different ways,” DeMartini Cooke said. “However, while an AP student’s score in the program is determined solely by the AP test, the IB student’s score in the program is dependent on the final test plus other accumulated points.”

All students will receive a grade from their teachers on their Convent High School transcripts.

Students often cite that a twoyear course is too big of a commitment, the 4,000-word essay is intimidating, or not being able to take certain specialized classes as reasons for not enrolling in IB. “The dedication to take the same certain classes for two years is very intimidating for me,” sophomore Jill Hernandez said. “But mostly, I’m planning not to do IB because I want to take psychology and marine biology as an upperclassman.”

Sophomore Francesca Petruzelli concurs with Hernandez that a two-year class commitment is not something she wanted to make because alternative classes unavailable through IB have garnered her interest.

“Originally I had heard about

IB helping with college admission and that was really attractive to me, but recently I decided that it wasn’t for me,” Petruzelli said. “I really want to take AP U.S. History. Even though I know that History of the Americas is somewhat similar, I just don’t think it’s right for me.”

According to a March 3 Broadview survey of the sophomores to which 26 students responded, 26 percent plan to participate in the Diploma Programme, while 4 percent are undecided and 70 percent do not plan to participate. Of those not planning to participate, 70 percent plan to take AP courses instead, and 26 percent plan to take neither IB nor AP classes.

School officials are not surprised by the relatively low, firstyear enrollment numbers.

“Thirty percent was actually our goal for first year enrollment in the program,” DeMartini Cooke said. “We can talk about it a bunch, but that’s not the same as seeing your classmates go through the program, which I think will definitely increase numbers.”

Goal Two, Criteria 2 of Sacred Heart Schools mandates the school “provides a rigorous education that incorporates all forms of critical thinking and inspires a lifelong love of learning” which is what all classes offered by the school strive to do, according to DeMartini Cooke.

“Before I knew that IB was an option, I was planning to do AP just because I figured that was the next step in my academic career,” Thomis said. “Now I’m about fairly positive that I want to do IB, and that it is the right fit for me.”

From Cheap p. 1 club,” junior Charlotte Cobb, a co-founder of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Fashion Club, said.

“Students just need to know that there are people their ages being paid such a small amount for all the work they do. It’s completely inhumane and that’s what people need to understand.”

Generating $150 billion in illegal profits each year, 78 percent of modern slavery is labor related, according to the U.N. International Labor Organization.

Although the garment industry employs both males and females, 80 percent of industry workers are women.

Employers prefer women over men due to cultural stereotypes that management can take advantage of in order to pay less, enforce longer hours and impose more abusive tendencies, according to Clean Clothes Campaign.

“It goes without saying that low wages in any country or community have a rippling effect to purchasing power, both for that family and the community,” Hall said. “In terms of women, there are studies that show when women become wage earners in families they earn more respect, which has a ripple effect outwards in terms of eliminating or reducing

sexual harassment and abuse.

Women then earn a higher status in the community because they have purchasing power and a certain value in the developing world.”

Women are more vulnerable to various forms of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as their subordinate social standing makes it difficult to speak out about their mistreatment and exploitation. Although female employment has been said to reduce abusive agents, women continue to be demeaned, abused and limited in the garment industry and beyond.

Abuse targeted at garment workers runs rampant in many leading fashion exports, including Cambodia, where 90 percent of employees are women. Female workers in Cambodia’s garment sector face forced overtime, limited to no breaks and sexual abuse, while some workers are even underage children, according to research done by Human Rights Watch.

“The Responses to Oppression class, in the segment where we learned about mistreatment in the clothing industry, helped bring to light some of the issues in the industry,” Cobb said. “I think the maltreatment that workers are put through is one of the worst parts about the fashion industry.”

Paying the Price Minimum monthly wages in the clothing industry.

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Although most abuse and mistreatment in fashion production takes place oceans away, some cases have been uncovered right in the United States. Forever 21 was called into court in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Labor for sweatshop-like conditions in their garment factories in Los Angeles, cited for evidence of wage, overtime and working hours violations among its suppliers.

This followed a similar case from 2001, in which workers in the LA factories complained of unfair labor practices and conditions, prompting Forever 21 to move the bulk of its production overseas. While most employees are paid per hour, workers in the LA factories are paid per garment made, allowing management to pay less than minimum wage and enforce more working hours.

“I’m more interested in clothing companies that practice proper production habits rather than mistreating their workers and just abusing the power they have as part of the clothing industry,” Cobb said. “I’ve still tried to find affordable things which can be difficult, but if you look hard enough you can find it. I think this also ties into the fact of looking at local companies and small boutiques in your neighborhood rather than big corporations which not only supports your local economy but you can almost always find places that don’t practice abusive production habits.”

Even though social and consumer awareness has increased, cash registers at fast fashion retailers, stores that sell trendy clothing for relatively cheap prices, continue to ring. In order to decrease the abuse occurring in factories employed by large fashion companies, customers need to consider the true cost of buying by limiting what they purchase, according to Hall.

“I’m actually going through a closet renovation, and I realized that what I wear in a week is probably all I need to have and all of this other clothing I could probably never see again,” Hall said.

“That’s really what we’re all facing right now,” Hall continued. “We should really think, ‘What is this going to do for my wardrobe and my lifestyle that I can’t already do now.

How many wears will I get out of it?’ If it’s something that I’m only going to wear like once a year, I would say it’s not worth buying.”

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Planning the party Parent Association prepares for its largest annual event.

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ut-of-the-box themes on websites and school buildings such as “Do you believe in Magic?” issue a call to action by a powerhouse cooperative that raises over half a million dollars annually for all four schools.

“Everybody in the four schools can come to participate in our events,” Parent Association President Kirsty Ellis said. “It’s a great opportunity for people get to know each other and experience that sense of community.”

The Parent Association organizes major school events year-round such as the Golf and Tennis Classic in October, Christmas on Broadway in December and Celebrate Spring in March — the association’s largest fundraiser event of the year.

Funds from all Parent Association-organized events go to-

ward supporting financial aid, scholarships and the operating budget of the school, including remodeling spaces and funding teacher enrichment programs.

The Celebrate Spring luncheon, marketplace, gala and live auction take place over two days and attract about 1000 attendees.

“Celebrate Spring definitely builds community because, as an elementary school student, I remember high schoolers running some of the booths,” junior Caroline Salveson said. “You can interact with people of other grades along with your friends.”

Interactions and community building can go beyond the student body.

Junior class parent Sandra Alvarez helped organize a class parent social in the fall and she, along with class parents of other grades, is planning a second social for the spring.

“The association is definitely a plus for the parents because, even with our Junior Class function in October, I got to know a lot of the parents that I had never met before,” Alvarez said.

Alvarez also attends and volunteers at several events as a class parent.

The Parent Association accepts the help of any members of the Schools of the Sacred Heart community who want to volunteer or attend any of the organized events, according to Ellis.

“Our school is so blessed with incredibly committed and hardworking volunteers,” Ellis said.

“It’s a lovely thing to see.”

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WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS A woman inspects a necklace at a boutique during the Christmas on Broadway fundraiser. Local vendors donate a portion of their proceeds to the Schools (top). A Celebrate Spring advertisment lights up the Main Hall in the Flood Mansion for the “Do You Believe in Magic?”-themed event that takes place this weekend (above).

From classrooms to courts Teachers coach a variety of school sports.

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fter a day of being active in the classroom, many teachers replace their formal work clothes with t-shirts and athletic shorts to coach a school sport.

“I ran track for a little while in high school, and it was something I really enjoyed,” math teacher Amy Leaver, who coaches track and field, said. “I thought it would be a good experience just to see that from a coaching point of view and hopefully see that happen in students as well.”

Golf, basketball, cross country and badminton have all enlisted teachers to coach their teams.

Junior Sarah Hong, having participated in both badminton and basketball for her freshman and sophomore years, has been coached by four teachers. Her current badminton coach is history teacher Sarah Garlinghouse.

“If it was a teacher that I didn’t like, that would be terrible,” Hong said. “But this year with

G-House (Garlinghouse), it’s really been great.”

Even though more off campus coaches are enlisted for school sports, teachers are encouraged to help coach a sport they are interested in, according to Athletics Director Elena De Santis.

“If teachers have an interest in any sport, we invite them to coach,” De Santis said. “It’s great that they are already in line with our school’s mission and Goals — and to have our teachers see their students in a different light.”

Having teachers as coaches allows athletes to form stronger connections with them both in and out of practice, as well as the opportunity to ask any questions pertaining to the sport during school hours, according to Leaver.

“Initially there might be a little more trust when you have a teacher-coach because you know what to expect, you know that they’re always going to be there,” Leaver said. “They’re not going to leave all of a sudden, and if you have any questions you can

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TALK IT UP Teammate Sarah Hong and alumnus Shing Hoi Lao listen to badmiton coach Sarah Garlinghouse. The team is currently undefeated in its first four games of the season. talk to them during the day, not only at practice.”

While some students may find new coaches daunting due to lack of mutual recognition, those familiar with their teachers will already have more trust in the athletic relationship, according to Hong.

“It’s great having a teacher as a coach, especially a teacher that I’ve had, because you already know them,” Hong said. “I think the coach-player relationship should be based on a lot of trust, so it’s nice not having all of the awkward introductions at the beginning of the season.”

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FUN FACTS Bust of Shakespeare

BUST OF SHAKESPEARE

Artist: Anonymous Date: Late 19th century Medium: Bronze Region: France Location: Main Hall A three-quarter bust of William Shakespeare with mustache, pointed beard and balding head.

This is fourth in a series highlighting the art hanging in the Schools of the Sacred Heart.

Bust of Charlotte Corday Artist: Jean Baptiste Clesinger Date: 1858 Medium: Bronze Region: France Location: Main Hall The bust shows Charlotte Corday, a royalist sympathizer during the French Revolution, wearing a scarf.

BUST OF CHARLOTTE CORDAY Source: SSH Appraisal Book

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Overseeing overseas aid Teacher-turned-nurse provides international aid through work with Doctors Without Borders.

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rom aiding in trauma care in Yemen to managing Ebola response in Liberia, a former French and drama teacher is pursuing humanitarian work abroad for Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, an international non-gover nCZECH mental organization focusing on medical emergencies.

Miriam Czech, who taught for seven years at Convent, returned to MSF in 2006. She previously worked with the organization in Sri Lanka as a translator and radio operator, while teaching at an international school during the beginning of her teaching career, and has always held an interest in nursing.

“As an older and more mature nurse, having learned from being a teacher at Convent, I am able to put the needs of the person I am working with first,” Czech, whose husband also works for MSF, said. “So, it’s a patient-centered care just like we are student-centered culture at Convent. And, those are huge advantages that also allowed me to become a trainer of nurses. ” Before earning her nursing degree, Czech was in charge of human resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working to return hospitals to the Ministry of Health while engaging in emergency programs in response to a choleric epidemic, a flood which required redistribution of medical supplies, a

Feeding your curiosity For alertness and cognition, food writer and registered dietician Katie Morford recommends eating balanced meals, which consist of the following:

Fruits and Vegetables

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measles epidemic and a measles vaccination campaign.

“That response to the vaccination campaign where you basically vaccinate every child you can find in the middle of nowhere, carrying everything you need to maintain the cold chain, from rented fridges to tiny lunch boxes, all to keep the vaccines cold, it’s this nightmarishly huge task to do. It really pushed me and inspired me to come back and join nursing school.”

Having taken night classes while teaching at Convent to fulfill nursing school prerequisites, Czech left to earn her nursing degree and complete her clinical experience, returning to the field once again in 2012.

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Since then Czech has trained nurses in South and North Yemen and South Sudan and helped open a labor and delivery center in Kabul, Afghanistan as Nursing Director. In Liberia she managed health promotion and public health services during the Ebola crisis. Most recently, as Head of Programming in North Yemen, she managed emergency stabilization and referral services in the conflict zone, and is currently in Dubai working on documentation.

“As medics we do less direct patient care in the field than you might think, so the photos they take of us holding a baby and wearing a stethoscope, we don’t always do,” Czech said. “We have highly qualified and culturally adapted national staff members who do most of the actual patient care. The non-local staff generally looks after management — resources, staffing, protocols, communications, and so on.”

A typical day for Czech is similar to one in the United States, composed of gathering information and using problem solving and evidence to advocate for her patients.

“Miriam’s work is at the interconnection between health and education, with a focus on women’s health,” Head of School Rachel Simpson, who taught French with Czech and has kept in contact with her through email, said. “I believe she’s driven by an awareness of global issues and a desire to respond to the issues that most affect underserved and underprivileged women in the world.”

This desire is mirrored by students, especially by junior Samrawit Beyene, who wants to become a heart surgeon and work in Ethiopia.

“I grew up watching interviews of people who couldn’t find treatments for life threatening diseases,” Beyene said. “I want to do some work with obstetric fistula (an abnormal connection between the rectum and the vagina). Affecting women, and mainly those who gave birth when they were younger, it’s an issue that’s really close to my heart.”

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AID ABROAD Former French and drama teacher Miriam Czech, who currently works with Doctors Without Borders, takes a photo with her health promotion team in Monrovia, Liberia. Czech has worked as a nurse, translator and radio operator for the organization.

Many citizens in Middle Eastern countries face antibiotic resistance, poor regulation in private healthcare settings, and lack of access to free healthcare, according to Czech.

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Other countries believe they have a right to interfere, but Czech adds that these nations need to learn about the Middle East rather than assume blanket truths.

“Domestic or sexual violence exist, for example, but we see

quite little,” Czech said. “In the West we tend to dismiss the Middle East as backwards, and that is spectacularly untrue especially in terms of the high quality media that you get in this part of the word.”

As someone with first hand experience in the field, Czech advises students to gather news sources from multiple avenues, as often times sources do not represent the entire story.

“This will give you a good idea of the assumptions and stereotypes we are carrying around without even realizing it,” Czech said. “Practicing awareness is the best thing you can do, so when somebody asks you a question or it comes time for you to make a decision as a voter or participant in a discussion, you will have clear facts at your disposal.”

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Teens can improve cognition and focus in school through diet, lifestyle.

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lthough teens may try to maximize their performance in school by getting an adequate amount of sleep and reviewing class notes, they might not know that their diet can also be crucial to academic success, affecting how their brain functions.

“Everything that we put into our body affects the function of our body, whether it’s physical or mental,” Katie Morford, a registered dietitian who runs the blog “Mom’s Kitchen Handbook” said. “Some people don’t think about the fact that it’s actually the food that we’re taking in that nourishes not just how we perform on the soccer field but also how our brain works.”

The brain constantly requires glucose in order to function, as brain cells use that as an energy source, according to physiology teacher Raymond Cinti. Excess glucose is stored by the body as glycogen, dictating an individual’s blood sugar levels.

“As the blood level of sugar goes down, the body recognizes

that and regulates it like a thermostat,” Cinti said. “The body releases more of its store in order to try to keep the blood sugar level constant. After awhile, the stores start to run out and the sugar goes down, and there are effects. Brain function is affected by that.”

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Failing to eat or hydrate during the day can slow brain function, according to Morford.

“I used to have a habit of skipping breakfast, and that would just leave me feeling really fatigued in the morning,” junior

April Matsumoto said. “I would have a hard time focusing on what was happening in class, and it pretty much affects me the whole day until I’m able to eat.”

For sustained alertness and cognition, Morford recommends eating balanced meals with protein, complex carbohydrates and some healthy fat throughout the day. Complex carbohydrates can be found in foods such as peas, beans, whole grains and vegetables.

“To eat a meal to sustain you throughout the day for most people would mean eating a very large meal, which can actually interfere with feeling very well,” Morford said. “If you had a huge meal at breakfast, you might not be able to concentrate. So you’re better off eating a breakfast and a lunch, and if you need a snack in between have a snack in between.

Some individuals may choose to supplement their diets with vitamins, such as vitamins B and C, which aid in the production of neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers used by nerve cells within the brain, and

vitamin D, which deals with an individual’s ability to think, concentrate and problem-solve, according to Livestrong.

“Vitamins play a role in all dimensions, certainly brain, but also in our immune system and energy levels,” Cinti said. “Regulating proteins rely on these little structures, and therefore they’re crucial. I think it’s not a bad idea just to take a multivitamin, just to make sure you’re getting all of your essential vitamins and minerals.”

While some people may choose to utilize supplements to enhance cognitive function, Morford recommends focusing on eating a balanced, wholesome diet.

“Something like Omega-3 fats, they’re not in a ton of foods,” Morford said. “There is a case where maybe supplementing with some fish oil may not be such a bad idea, but in general I’m not a big fan of neglecting the importance of filling up your diet with healthy foods. My own philosophy is that it’s best to focus on food.”

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Texting lingo goes mainstream Messaging slang integrates into everyday speech.

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erms such as “bae” and “on fleek” are paving their way into modern day vernacular through Instagram captions, Snapchats and even the dictionary.

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“Young people bring new language into the culture,” Lynne Soffer, Professional Dialect, Speech and Text Coach, said.

“They speak it around their parents and their aunts and their uncles, and it spreads that way.”

In the “early ages” of cellular devices, flip phones limited the number of characters, the generic text box permitting 160 characters per text, leading users to shorten phrases to acronyms.

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Although text messages and social media captions have since expanded in word count, constant condensing of language continues due to Internet and social media, according to Soffer.

“Very often, what happens online is simplified,” Soffer said.

“Very few people are writing moving profundities on Twitter and Facebook. It doesn’t seem to be the easy or default way to talk, and as a result, we are artificially inflating and hyping language at the same time we are reducing it.”

Every culture has always shared abbreviations, but changes in language are further sped up by the Internet.

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“Most of the time we are constantly communicating, fast, but not mindfully and superficially,” Soffer said. “This constant communication without actual communication is demeaning and denuding and diminishing what communication can be.”

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Forty-five percent of teenagers prefer communicating using a mobile device to face-to-face communication, according to Common Sense Media Research.

Few current high school students have known a life free of cellular devices, making them a generation of cell phone user “natives” as opposed to the “immigrants” that characterize their parents’ generation.

on fleek “There’s so many elements that contribute to why we say what we say,” Soffer said. “Some of it is generational, some of it is locational or regional, and some of that is then situational. We are a product of our time and our place.”

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The most popular acronyms students use online are “bae,” meaning “before anyone else,” and “omg,” meaning “oh my god,” according to a Broadview survey conducted on Feb. 23 in which 47 percent of students responded.

“This language and form of communication is kind of like our little code,” sophomore Starneisia Hooper said. “Adults aren’t always likely to catch on very quickly.”

Exceptions exist in adults who spend more time with teenagers, according to Soffer.

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The frequent use of Internetdeveloped language is extremely popular among teenagers using social media, according to Hooper.

Oxford English Dictionary editors have embraced certain Internet-originated terms by adding words like “selfie” and “vape” to the dictionary and naming them Word of the Year for 2013 and 2014.

“The more you watch movies, the more you’re online trolling around, the fewer books you read,” Soffer said “The fewer books you read, the less likely your vocabulary is to expand. I think people nowadays use less vocabulary and throw a lot of buzz words back and forth.”

“These terms aren’t like traditional dictionary words, but as long as they don’t make their way into business papers or formal things like that, then I think it’s fine,” Yu said. “It’s a little weird that those terms are in the official dictionary, but I don’t really mind it.”

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“I’m really seeing these terms everywhere now,” Hooper said.

“My mom will say, ‘Out with my bae,’ and I’m like, ‘No, you have a husband, say that you’re out with your husband.’”

Marketing experts’ attempts to deceive, manipulate potential customers thwarted through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.

The increase in online advertising brings new marketing techniques.

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phones between fifth and eighth grade, only five or six years after their parents did, according to a Broadview online survey conducted on March 8.

“It’s something that every teenager has really adapted to over the ages,” junior Chloe Yu said. “New inventions will lead to new words, so when the front camera came about, it just became easier to say ‘selfie’ instead of ‘I took a picture of myself now.’”

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ophomore Tess Wilmoth was scrolling through her Instagram feed when she saw a post of a mascara she was interested in buying, but reading the comments changed her opinion.

“The packaging said you would get long and thick eyelashes, and it was supposed to make them natural looking,” Wilmoth said. “But the comments said it was clumpy and too thick and it wouldn’t come off your lashes, so I didn’t want to buy it anymore.”

False claims can be seen in all forms of marketing, such as television commercials, billboards and the packaging of the product, to lure prospective consumers into buying products, ac-

cording to Dhruv Singh, Chief Operating Officer for Pay Mate, a mobile commerce company.

“It could be getting people who are actors that claim to be customers make false representations or misleading statements,” Singh said. “Or the company could have a lab that they actually paid to get an endorsement from without that lab ever conducting tests or giving a certain approval for the product.”

With the influence of social media on the rise, advertisers may have to rethink the claims they make.

“These days with social media, you do something dumb, it can get everywhere all over the place,” Mark Weiner, Professor of Practice at the Leavey School of Business of Santa Clara University, said. “The ability to flat

out lie has shrunk because it can sting you so badly given social media.”

When a company makes a false claim about a product and a customer writes a bad review on social media, it can spread easily and influence the likeliness of prospective customers buying the product, according to Weiner.

“Everyone can get in touch like they never could,” Weiner said. “How fast can you get 15 million hits? It would make me think twice as the advertiser.”

Social media does not always have a negative effect on customers’ opinions regarding products.

Kylie Jenner’s lip kits have started a craze over social media because of the good reviews, especially in comments on her

Instagram account, according to Wilmoth.

Celebrities like Jenner have millions of followers viewing their posts.

“It’s coming from a really big celebrity whom a lot of people follow, and so when I see comments about how good it is from a lot of people, it makes me want to buy it,” Wilmoth said.

Social media can also be a positive influence on prospective customers if someone with a major following gives a good review, according to Wilmoth.

“Sometimes I watch YouTube videos where girls talk about their favorite products,” Wilmoth said. “If I see they have the same skin tone or hair color as me, I may buy the products they talk about because they will probably work for me.”

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Smoking marijuana as an adolescent may result in lasting brain alterations, affecting memory, according to a Northwestern University study.

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California holds the largest legal cannabis market in the U.S. at $1.3 billion.

Half of youths aged 12-17 report that it would be “fairly” or “very easy” for them to obtain marijuana if desired.

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The two common components of medical marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), have different properties and are used to treat different symptoms. Marijuana with high levels of CBD will not give users the common high that THC is known for inducing and can also counteract commonly THC-induced psychotic paranoia, according to HealthMJ. “Weed does not have the same effect on me that it does on others because of my condition,” the student, who uses marijuana to relieve post-seizure pain from convulsions, said. “When I smoke, everybody else seems totally high and I feel mostly the same. I feel a little bit of a buzz which is mostly a sense of calm.”

Different levels of THC and CBD work differently to slow growths of oral, lung, liver and blood cancers, as well as leukemia, but both are equally effective breast cancer treatments, according to Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

There is evidence that both THC and CBD work to slow the growth of brain cancer as well, according to The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

“Somebody who is suffering from chemo who has no appetite whatsoever, who is just wasting away, is told to eat more, and they can’t keep anything down,” biology teacher Marisa Orso, who teaches a unit on medicinal marijuana in her physiology class, said. “With medical marijuana, the side effect that gives people the munchies, all of a sudden now that can be used medically, and sure enough it causes them to have an increased

appetite, and it’s actually a great help.”

The student’s current medications work to prevent seizures on a timed basis and stay in the bloodstream for 12 hours, meaning that when a pill is missed, it is more likely for a seizure to occur.

“The medications I use now cause nausea and headaches and side effects like that,” the student said. “I’m allergic to a lot of medications, which limits me in my options of the medicines I can take.”

Marijuana has been identified as an analgesic, so it is capable of relieving pain from headaches to much worse, according to the Institute of Medicine and the Governing Board of the National Research Council.

“I get a lot of pain after seizures, mostly headaches and body aches if I convulse,” the student said. “The use of marijuana as a medicine would help that, and it would actually eventually reduce the amount of seizures I would have.”

The side effects of marijuana offer medical benefits, but most of it involves smoking it, according to Orso.

“When you have young children and teenagers, you don’t necessarily want that,” Orso said.

“There are ways now to get it to every segment of the population, that don’t necessarily involve smoking weed.”

Most dispensaries in San Francisco sell an array of cannabis products including topical products, edible chocolates, infused honeys and butters, gummy candies, pretzels and glazed nuts and marijuana in an extensive selection of strains, according to WeedMaps, a web directory that catalogues the menus of each dispensary.

“There is no correlation that legalization leads to increased use of marijuana,” Armando

Gudiño, California Policy Manager at the Drug Policy Alliance’s Los Angeles office, said. “The important thing for us is that by making it legal, we make it safer and less accessible.”

Teens who obtain their drugs illegally — whether for medicinal or recreational use — are more vulnerable to marijuana laced with other drugs, according to Gudiño.

“Marijuana flows freely in the streets of inner cities from criminal organizations like local street gangs or cartels,” Gudiño said.

“When you go to these dealers, you go to somebody whose sole purpose is to make money off of you, and often times these are nefarious characters who might take advantage of you.”

Teenage customers prefer to buy from a dispensary because their products will come with a label, according to another anonymous Bay Area high school student, who uses marijuana occasionally.

“The label lets you know what you’re getting,” the student said.

California regulations for medical cannabis products require they are packaged and labeled with clear warnings about the product’s intoxicating capabilities, including a complete list of pharmacologically active ingredients and their amounts as well as how the amounts pertain to the servings per package.

“Purchasing marijuana legally through a dispensary is safer,” the student said. “It’s also not as scary as buying it from a suspicious dealer who could have laced it with who-knows-what.”

The medical marijuana program that exists today was legalized in 2003 when Senate Bill 420 was enacted in California.

“Medicinal marijuana is not a cure,” the epileptic student said.

“But, it’s a good way to take care of my system.”

Weed better be careful Marijuana-infused edibles are a dangerous alternative to smoking that may result in unexpected consequences.

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s the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, Colorado anticipated the seemingly non threatening drug to generate more government revenue, but they didn’t anticipate serious repercussions for their actions.

Coloradans recently heard reports of edibles, marijuana infused foods, causing a man to shoot and kill his wife after experiencing severe hallucinations of the the apocalypse, and a 19-year-old to jump off a building after demonstrating erratic speech and hostile behavior.

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tion of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in modern hemp plant hybrids.

“It’s not necessarily that THC makes it bad or good, but it is an entirely different substance,” school counselor Annie Egan said. “It’s like apples and oranges, what that drug does, but then you throw edibles into the mix, any kind of false sense of safety goes totally out the window. It’s not even apples and oranges. It’s Fritos and a salad.”

THC composed 0.74 percent of marijuana leaves, or cannabis, in 1975, but manipulation of the plant and different varieties make THC levels 12.3 percent, according to Danielle Ramo, University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry Assistant Professor, who specializes in teen and young adult substance abuse.

Marijuana brownies, one of the variety of foods that can be laced with the drug, may seem harmless. They don’t smell or look different than conventional treats, but eating

too many has more side effects than a stomach ache.

“It doesn’t have to be in a weird container, and there is nothing ‘off ’ about it,” Egan said. “It is a totally innocuous food item, and you have no idea how much you’re getting.”

There are no regulated or suggested serving sizes of edibles. Packaged items in cannabis dispensaries or by Colorado vendors do not always indicate how much cannabis one is consuming, and often do not specify that edibles take 30 to 60 minutes to process in the body, with the effects lasting up to 12 hours.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd chronicled this problem in one of her pieces, “Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude.”

“What could go wrong with a bite or two?” Dowd began.

“Everything, as it turned out.”

While smoking marijuana has immediate effects, edibles take longer to process, leading to more severe side effects, including lack of energy, confusion, abnormal muscle movements, breathing problems and anxiety, according to Muir Wood Adolescent and Family Services.

This is what Dowd experienced in her hotel room after consuming the edible.

“I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours,” Dowd wrote.

Some edibles can have five to 10 mg of THC, a relatively light dosage, while others can be anywhere up to 500 mg.

“My friend gave me a 500 mg bar, and it wasn’t working after a few minutes, and since I didn’t know how it worked, I took some more,” one high school Bay Area student, who asked to remain anonymous to protect their identity, said.

“After a few hours it all hit me at once, and I entered a state of panic. Then I went back home, and I slept for 17 hours. My grandma had to come in and check my pulse because I was asleep for so long.”

The previous illusion that marijuana is safe is gone, according to Egan.

“Edibles are probably the scariest thing that has happened to marijuana in recent past,” Egan said. “People go to emergency rooms for that. It is not totally safe and peaceful land which is the reputation. It is so different now.”

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Injuries that knee-d to be addressed

Knee problems require injured to find alternatives to workouts, sports and daily activities.

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STRETCH Senior Cat Heinen squats with a stretch band in order to help re-align her knees from patellofemoral syndrome, knee pain caused by outer leg muscles pulling the kneecaps the wrong way.

Heinen performs a set of exercises and stretches every day including squats and leg extensions.

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limbing up the 10 flights of stairs from the Syufy Theatre to the Flood Mansion third floor is exhausting for most students, but for senior Cat Heinen, it literally is painful.

“I have patellofemoral syndrome, which means my outer thigh muscles pull my kneecaps the wrong way, so when I go up or down stairs, it puts the wrong pressure on my kneecaps,” Heinen said. “I dance, but ballet requires you to use different muscles, so my knees don’t hurt because I’m using the right muscles to keep my knees in place.”

Patellofemoral syndrome is one of the most common causes of knee pains for teenage athletes, especially for girls, who can easily overuse their knee during sports and workouts, according to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.

Also known as anterior knee pain, patellofemoral syndrome can be caused from an unaligned knee cap or overuse of the knee, which wears down the cartilage under the kneecap, according to Dr. James Chen, an orthope-

dic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine.

Heinen began experiencing pain in her right knee last August and was diagnosed in November. To alleviate the pain, she does a series of stretches and exercises for 10 to 15 minutes a day at home.

Sophomore Jocelyn Shilakes was diagnosed with patellofemoral syndrome during last year’s track season when she had reoccurring pain in her knee.

“I went to physical therapy for eight weeks during the winter to try to strengthen my leg and different muscles around my knee,” Shilakes said. “Within the first few weeks of the track season this year, I had to talk to my coaches and adapt my workouts to best fit the injury that I have.”

Shilakes wears a patella band below her kneecap during physical exercise.

“The band puts pressure on the patella’s muscles,” Shilakes said. “It helps to compress it so it aligns properly when I’m exercising.”

Staying fit and lean can put less stress and weight on the joints in the knee, which can ul-

timately prevent the syndrome, according to Chen.

“Like any joint, the knee joint must be very tight and stable and have all of its cushion,” Chen said. “The most important thing in your knee is the cartilage.

Once you wear it out, you can’t get it back. You can get a knee replacement, but that’s a pretty drastic measure.”

Chen recommends those who suspect they have a knee problem to visit a doctor immediately to prevent further complications in the treatment of the injury.

“Sometimes, we need to take X-rays to make sure bones are not broken,” Chen said. “Or we need to get a MRI that can look at all the structures in the knee, including the tendon, cartilage and the ligaments.”

Patellofemoral syndrome has not stopped Heinen or Shilakes from participating in sports, although they must modify their exercise.

“I see the athletic trainer at Stuart Hall,” Shilakes said. “I also run less than others and I do more cross training, like biking and weights, and technical work when I am not running.”

Council created to benefit sports captains, teams

Newly created ‘Captains’ Council’ allows team captains to come together, discuss challenges that arise as seasons progress.

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pring sports captains are learning and collaborating to promote leadership by strengthening themselves, their teammates and the games in a newly-created council.

“Captains’ Council is an opportunity for leaders of all sports to talk about issues and different techniques that we can use to become better captains,” varsity soccer co-captain Izzie Panasci said.

Teammates or coaches appoint athletes to be captains, according to Athletic Director Elena DeSantis.

“Some coaches explain what that means and some don’t,” DeSantis said about being a captain.

“So, I said, ‘Let’s get everyone together and explain what it means to be captain and a leader.’”

Following a two-hour introductory meeting with Samantha Salvia of Positive Coaching Alliance, an organization with the goal of building strong characters for high school athletes, the council plans to discuss captains’ roles and the challenges they may face throughout the season.

“It’s not so much oriented on the winning aspect, but more on the idea that teamwork can thrive,” swim co-captain Bella Kearney said. “The meetings can be a reminder of what we learned and implement them directly to our sports.”

Captains are taught that teamwork brings success and is more important than scores throughout all sports.

“A lot of issues that happen in sports just come down to people and has less to do with the sport itself,” Panasci said. “A group of other people who have the same intentions for the season is helpful because they can offer a different perspective on problems that may come up.”

The council helps captains motivate and create a healthy environment for their team, according to DeSantis.

“I learned the importance of being a cohesive leader, really being there for your team and the power of positive encouragement rather than being a negative influence,” track and field co-captain Laurel Cinti said.

Each captain is working to set goals for the season, ranging from positivity and motivation among teammates to praising certain players at school assemblies.

“You’re the captain, so that means you’re probably a pretty motivated athlete,” Kearney said.

“We learned about motivating and getting your other members of the the team to appreciate the sport, contribute to the sport, and try as hard as they can.”

If a team’s community is tightknit, it will result in a more successful, energized team, according to the Panasci.

“I want to focus on support for each team member because it’s important in track and field,” Cinti said. “Most people think that the top athletes are more important than other athletes, but every single person that participates is just as important.”

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fter winning its second game this season, the soccer team has already beat last season’s record, and players hope to make it to the championships in their new league.

The team plays in the Bay Counties Central League, competing against new faces as all former competing schools — except for International High School — switched to the winter season.

“This season is going to be a little different from previous seasons because we have a stronger team with more depth to our roster,” co-captain Delaney Moslander said. “We have new players from every grade, so they’re able to contribute more and help fill some gaps.”

JV and varsity teams are combining for the second season, giving JV players a chance to step outside of their comfort zones, according to coach Joel Snyder.

“It worked out really well for us in terms of having the numbers that we need on the roster,” Snyder said about combining

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the teams. “It also supported us being able to grow the JV level players into varsity players.”

The combined team allows for less experienced players to observe the strategies and plays of the varsity-level girls, according to freshman Cece Giarman.

“I look up to the older girls when looking for new moves,” Giarman said. “Even if you mess up in a game, they say things like ‘It’s okay. Don’t worry. You’ll get it next time.’ Last year they only won one game, and we’ve already won two, so hopefully we’ll continue doing well.”

The captains play a significant role on the team in terms of motivation, according to Moslander.

“I care a lot about soccer, and I always make sure to put in my best effort at games and at practices,” Moslander said. “I’m hoping that my passion and my effort will resonate with some of the younger girls on the team, and they’ll want to work as hard as I do.”

In addition to motivating the team, co-captain Izzie Panasci says part of being captain is giving constructive criticism in the most helpful way possible.

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FOOTWORK Freshman Cece Giarman prepares to pass around her opponent in a match against The Bay School of San Francisco. The Convent team has players of all grades and skill levels who began their season in February.

“When you do give advice, you do it in a way that is positive, negative, then positive,” Panasci said. “It’s kind of like a sandwich.

You let people know what they are doing well, and you also pick an appropriate time to tell them what went wrong. You want to be as light as possible.”

Snyder and assistant coach Ricardo Azucena have different coaching styles that make for the

perfect combination, according to Panasci.

“We as coaches look at areas of personal development outside of soccer — physical development and making sure you’re maintaining yourself health-wise,” Snyder said. “Mental toughness is also part of it — your ability to focus and be disciplined to get done what needs to be done.”

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Setting the pace

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rack and field athletes set 29 personal records at the Sunset Invitational, their first meet of the year, on March 5.

“I didn’t really know that I cut off that much time,” sophomore Caroline O’Connell, who shaved 10 seconds off her personal best in the 800 meter race, said. “I was just going really fast and sticking with the group.”

Head coach Michael Buckley has high expectations for the team after the unexpected start of the season.

“That’s a great start obviously, that means that the first month of training went better this year than it did last year,” Buckley said. “It really bodes well for how

the team will shape up over the course of this season.”

The team participates in three regular season events, which affect league standing, and attends multiple invitationals, which do not affect league standing, including the March 5 invitational, hosted by Convent & Stuart Hall at Kezar Stadium. Seventeen schools with a combined estimate of 550 students attended the invitational, according to Buckley.

“For the team it was a good learning experience,” junior Gia Monachino said. “The meet doesn’t count towards our standing, but it’s a good chance for everyone to try out their skills and their events.”

Almost 90 team members will compete in over 15 different

events, including sprinting, distance, throwing and long jumps.

“I’m excited now that as an upperclassman I get to be more of a leader for the rest of the team,” co-captain Katie Newbold said.

“I’m excited to help the freshmen learn how you handle certain things in track and see them at their first meets.”

This afternoon’s meet at Kezar Stadium is the first league meet that will affect the team’s standing.

“Track is such a versatile sport because you can do so much like throwing or jumping or sprinting or distance,” Newbold said.

“I feel really good after I finish a practice or race because it feels like I’ve accomplished a great physical feet and that’s not something not everyone can do.”

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RELAY Junior Katie Newbold runs with a baton as she competes with her relay team at the Twilight Relays on March 12 (left). Five girls beat their personal bests. Junior Ana Cahuas receives the baton from senior Mae Singer while racing in the rain (right). Cahuas ran the 800 meter during the Twilight Relays.

of playing on the field and enhancing the experience for others as well, according to Panasci.

“I’m really loud on the sideline, even if it can be embarrassing because I’m just screaming,” Pansci said. “When you’re out there and someone calls your name and you know that you’ve done something well, that kind of makes you want to play better and continue playing.”

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Mistakes outweigh greatness

Athletes will be remembered for their faults.

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here is a difference between making an honest mistake because of ignorance and making a mistake because you never thought you would get caught.

Maria Sharapova, the highest-paid female athlete in the world, says she has made a “mistake.” Sharapova admitted in a press conference last week to failing a drug test at the Australian Open.

The five-time Grand Slam champion confessed to taking the recently banned drug meldonium, which she claims she did not know was prohibited.

The substance was allegedly prescribed by her family doctor to help with medical issues she was dealing with in 2006.

For many athletes who take performance enhancers, the thought of getting caught, banned or suspended never crosses their minds. They feel invincible because they are succeeding in their sport and in the prime of their careers.

This doesn’t apply to Sharapova’s case. She had been taking meldonium for 10 years, before the ban existed.

There should be different consequences depending on the evidence and the person’s background and experience in the sport. Critics and tennis fans should keep in mind

Sharapova has never been subject to such allegations and has had a respectable reputation in the tennis community throughout her whole career.

Athletes should not have their reputations and triumphs within their sport ripped away from them if they supposedly did not know what they were doing at the time.

More times than not, people are quick to judge when they hear words or phrases such as “steroids” and “performance enhancing drugs.” Although it is always the athlete’s wrongdoing, it may not be caused by the want to get ahead and cheat.

Sports fans should look at this incident with Sharapova and build off of it and realize that not everyone is the next Alex Rodriguez or Barry Bonds.

Sharapova’s fans and critics need to listen to her and investigate her side of the story instead of jumping to conclusions and basing their opinions off of history or their ignorance.

A historic and legendary career like hers should not be tarnished because of what is a lack of knowledge. This mistake should never outweigh her victories on the court and accomplishments off of it.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Think before you buy

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ou see a $10 shirt in the window and think “What a steal,” not stopping to consider how it can be so cheap, or buy a chocolate bar, inexpensive enough to be purchased with your spare change.

lating overtime regulations and paying below minimum wage — Forever 21 included, according to change.org.

Some of the most widely known chocolate brands use child labor to cut down cacao pods that are used for the final product that is sold in the United States.

Child laborers can be acquired in West Africa by promising high pay to families in exchange for their children, when in reality the average cocoa farmer makes less than $2 per day, according to the Food Empowerment Project. Hershey’s, Mars, Godiva and Nestle are all brands that have reportedly used these labor tactics.

Teenagers make up a large percentage of consumers targeted by advertisers. We often do not stop to think about the deliberate techniques that are used in advertisements in order to lure people

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We have all found ourselves at the check-out counter, submitting to the lure of a well-advertised product on a billboard or on TV. The shirt from the window and the bar of candy on the shelf, however, might not be as attractive if we knew the truth about their origins.

Choosing between the shirt that was made ethically in the United States or the shirt that was made by workers who are paid substandard wages is not difficult.

All it takes a little effort to look into how popular brands make their products and make a conscious decision not to support the ones that exploit laborers.

The shirt in the window is from Forever 21, and may be one of their products made by workers being paid below minimum wage. The United States Department of Labor found in 2012 that certain Los Angeles sewing factories were vio-

into purchasing unnecessary or unfairly manufactured products.

Whether or not a product is fair trade, an item for which the producers have been paid a living wage, should influence the decision to buy it. Many items are now labeled as fair trade products.

Forever 21 is known for selling inexpensive clothes, but by paying a bit more for ethically produced clothing and by

opting for ethically produced chocolate such as TCHO and Dandelion Chocolate, the extra couple of dollars they cost guarantees workers are paid fair wages.

It is our responsibility as global citizens to be aware of what we are buying and join the growing movement to have few items of better quality, made by people who are justly compensated for their work.

WHAT CONVINCES YOU TO BUY A PRODUCT?

“If I’m on the fence about it, I will look up the reviews online and if it has a good review online, I will buy it. ” — Sophie Egan, freshman

“I look for something that is good quality but is also affordable and something that I wouldn’t be able to buy somewhere else.” ­— Carlota Rubio, sophomore

“If the brand promotes how ethical it is or, if I truly need it, I will bypass my prior ideals.”

— Kelly Rosanelli, sophomore

“For clothes, I buy it if it looks good on me, but I don’t buy it for the trend. ” — Sophia Hettenkofer, junior

“If a good friend who I trust tells me it’s a good product, if it’s not super expensive and I genuinely need it, then I’ll buy it.” ­— Miranda Lis, senior

TAKING THE LEDE Liana Lum

Editor-in-Chief

What on Earth are we doing?

Global warming is a trending ‘hot topic.’

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rom Pope Francis’ urge to protect our Earth in “Laudato Si” to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar acceptance speech about climate change, global warming is garnering increasing attention from public figures.

Scientists have warned of climate change and its consequences for years, including a rise in global sea levels, whose rate this decade is double that of the past century. Global temperature has increased, with 10 of the warmest years having occurred in the past 12 years, affecting sea life, weather patterns and especially people in developing countries, according to NASA’s Global Climate Change site.

As teenage girls living in a first world country, we do not experience the most direct consequences of climate change. Sure, our parents may drive a hybrid, and we may use reusable water bottles and take shorter showers. But, more often than not, these decisions are made to settle our conscience, rather than out of a true urgency and understanding to protect our world and others living in it.

Half way across the world our counterparts are walking miles each day to collect water and firewood, while we only need to turn our faucet or switch on a heater. As vegetation dies off and animals migrate due to changing weather patterns, families in developing counties must relocate to survive. These young women spend less time on their education and become more vulnerable to violence.

Pope Francis has said that “to change the world, we must be good to those who cannot repay us.” This applies to his statement on climate change as a “global problem with grave implications.” Global warming not only harms our Earth, but it perpetuates poverty and gender inequality. We have lost a “sense of responsibility” that must be regained.

Lacking foresight to our actions’ consequences and ambivalence to others’ wellbeing, we must realize our duty to humanity beyond our own interests. Extending beyond climate change, we must recognize our global responsibility — to act with humility and selflessness out of a well-developed conscience.

1. Congé is coming.

Congé is coming.

2. Increase of rain relieves 4-year drought, with California’s largest reservoir 77 percent full from 29 percent in December.

3. Apple will release its newest iPad and iPhone on March 21.

4. U.S. conducted an airstrike against ISIScrucial sites based on information from a detainee.

5. Vladmir Putin announced Russia will withdrawal from Syria.

1. Student Council won’t say when, but they do taunt us.

2. Flash floods have become a threat to local communities.

3. FBI trial will begin one day before the release.

4. A U.S. veteran has been found guilty of trying to join ISIS. 5. Approximately 13.5 million Syria refugees still need assistance.

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Potential law restricts age

Governor Jerry Brown considers changing the legal age for smoking.

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Kristina Cary

Managing Editor

he California Senate passed a bill over Thursday that will raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 that will now go to Gov. Jerry Brown, who could veto it or allow it to pass with or without a signature of approval.

The bill, having already passed the state Assembly the week before, is one of several new measures recently reviewed by state legislators aiming to limit smoking.

Signing this bill into law would promote the public’s general well-being, as it would be harder for minors to obtain cigarettes, reducing the likelihood that they will smoke as adults.

Nearly 90 percent of smokers start by age 18, according to the Office of the Surgeon General. Once a teen starts, it can be hard to stop due to the highly addic-

tive nature of nicotine, a key component of cigarettes, creating an unhealthy cycle that can be hard to end.

Cigarette smoke can negatively affect nearly every organ in the body and cause a host of diseases, as well as erode an individual’s general health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can also affect those around a smoker, as secondhand inhalation can also cause a range of health complications.

Young adults can be vulnerable to a widespread array of social and environmental influences promoting tobacco use, including images and messages presented by movies or prominent social figures.

Socially, teens are heavily influenced by their peers, and raising the smoking age would legally limit older high schoolers from smoking, constricting circulation of cigarettes as it would be harder for teens to share them with underclassmen, lead-

ing to less glorification of smoking among teens themselves as they no longer see it among their friends.

While it is now up to the governor to decide whether or not to sign the bill, its ultimate goal of reducing access to tobacco is in the interest of the general public.

It may not completely eliminate smoking among individuals under 21, but it would be a crucial factor reducing circulation.

Cigarettes pose a clear and present danger to both smokers and those around them, and passing this bill would be a definitive step towards reducing smoking among teens.

As a community of young women who fall under a critical age range when it comes to the formation of smoking habits, it is also our responsibility to remind our peers about the dangers of tobacco and cigarettes in order to promote a healthy community.

What are you doing?

SHOULD CALIF. RAISE THE SMOKING AGE?

“I don’t think people should be smoking in general, but holding off that choice for longer seems like a good idea.

— Sydney Caba, freshman

“I’m glad they made it higher because that gives people’s minds time to mature more and be able to make sounder and safer decisions for their health.”

— Trinity Lee, sophomore

Throwing my life away “It’s about time. When you’re younger you can start forming addictions that will last a lifetime. By the time you’re 21, you might be more mature and make the decision not to smoke. ” — Gia Monachino, junior

“It’s harder to pose as 21 when you’re below the legal age, so I think it’ll curve off smoking as teenagers.” ­— Maxine Hanley, senior

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Folding the Trump card

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istening to a drama-filled fight full of snarky comebacks and insults, I forget I am not watching the latest episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” or girls fighting for “love” on “The Bachelor” — I am watching the potential future leaders of this country during a presidential debate.

Political races can get dirty, with candidates bringing up little things from the past and finding the best way to outwit opponents.

However, leading Republican candidates Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are taking their political statements to the point of making personal attacks on each other.

Most first graders learn the Golden Rule — treat others as you would like to be treated — a difficult concept for these candidates.

Sadly, respect won’t cost them the election.

The majority of media attention going to these candidates is about who has the better insult rather than focusing on their actual plans if elected.

I see more articles on social media about “How Donald Trump Became America’s Insult Comic in Chief ” or “9 Outrageous Things Donald Trump Has Said About Latinos” before

I see any real political views or actions about him.

As of this morning, Trump has 458 of 1,237 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for the general election, according to the Associated Press Vote-Counting Network.

Somehow Trump, and his insults, are putting him on track to win.

The more civil debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders last week brought up the sophomoric behavior of the Republican party. Sanders even quipped, “And when you watch these Republican debates, you know why we need to invest in mental health.”

Trump, Cruz and Rubio should not be dumped into the same category as people actually living with mental health disorders. If they expect to run a country, their civilities should be respectful and their discussions like capable adults.

As a country who acts as a global leader, United States presidential candidates should represent themselves with seriousness during these debates. As far as entertainment goes, we have the Kardashians for that.

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Sewing exhibits success De la Renta’s dresses dazzle at the de Young.

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GLAMOROUS A custom evening dress made for actress Sarah Jessica Parker is on display at the “Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective” exhibit at the de Young museum. The dress is made of white duchess satin with black silk velvet and the designer’s name embroidered across the back.

hile spending time at a museum is not most teenagers’ idea of fun, a new exhibit of sweeping ball gowns by world-renowned fashion designer and icon Oscar de la Renta that opened Saturday at the de Young is hardly a stuffy museum exhibit.

Curated by former editor-atlarge for “Vogue” magazine André Leon Talley, the exhibition is organized into thematic sections based on cultural influences apparent in the clothes as well as other defining stylistic periods.

The show begins with Oscar de la Renta for Elizabeth Arden in which the eye is drawn to three flowy, “Dreamgirls”-esque dresses, opposite a collection displaying ready-to-wear styles he created for Arden during the 1960s.

“I believe that my sole purpose as a designer is to make something that a woman would want to wear,” de la Renta said in a 1972 interview. De la Renta said he judged whether a piece was a success or not by asking, “Would my wife wear this?”

The second room of the exhibit is a juxtaposition of early daywear pieces that bring to

mind the style of the young Jackie Kennedy displayed beside dramatic evening ensembles in golds, rich browns, and other neutrals which show off the spectacular details of each dress.

From the day and evening wear section, the show becomes categorized by the cultural influences apparent in the designs, from Spain to Asia and Russia.

Stepping out of the red gallery housing the culturally-inspired ensembles and into the garden inspiration room is like taking a breath of cool air. Everything from the lighter colored clothes to the movie-sized screen playing footage of the garden on the de la Renta’s’ Connecticut estate effuses spring and freshness.

It is in the garden inspiration room where visitors encounter one of the most beautiful pieces of the exhibit, a 2006 blue and white chiné silk taffeta gown with a scooped neckline, three-quarter length sleeves and ruffled flounces at the hem and cuffs, worn by Kirsten Dunst in “Vogue’s” September 2016 issue.

After walking through a recreation of a famous “Vogue” photoshoot by de la Renta in 2010, visitors find themselves in a room full of mirrors that give 360-degree views of de la Renta’s

most recent work, including pieces worn by stars such as pop singer Taylor Swift and “Vogue” editor Anna Wintour.

Through his work, de la Renta shows that fashion is a way in which people express themselves in any setting, by dressing to impress. He combined the natural strength and power of a woman with head-turning seamless style, grace and elegance that turns heads.

Exhibit pieces are on loan from the Oscar de la Renta archives in New York City, other museums and personal collections. It would be a shame to miss this once-in-a-lifetime experience of de la Renta’s genius, on display only at the de Young.

“Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective” is open to the public through May 30 in the Herbst Exhibition Galleries. Admission to the exhibit is by timed ticket every 15 minutes, and includes general admission.

Tickets are $15 for youth (ages 6-17) and students with ID, and $30 for adults, 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., Tuesday through Friday.

The de Young is located at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive in Golden Gate Park directly across from the California Academy of Sciences.

Urbanization overwhelms district Gentrification takes long-term residents out of the Mission.

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he Mission district’s 24th Street, dotted with “For Sale” signs and traced by Google bus routes, is just one street in the area facing gentrification and changes in culture for the heavily Hispanic neighborhood.

San Francisco’s tech boom is changing the demographics in the Mission, one of the City’s poorest neighborhoods and attracting the wealthiest of Silicon Valley to the area with relatively affordable housing and one of the City’s warmest microclimates, according to Mission Local, a news website dedicated to the Mission district.

“All of the restaurants that my family used to love have now been pushed out of business,” sophomore Mary Crawford, a

six-year Mission resident, said.

“It has definitely become more difficult for people to find places to live and work.”

Families and business owners across the City are losing the homes they have lived in for decades due to rent increases and buyouts by wealthier Bay Area transplants who can afford to live there.

The average monthly rent for all residential properties in the Mission increased from $2,400 to $3,800 between 2010 to 2014, according to Zillow, an online real estate company.

“Gentrification threatens diversity,” Peter Cohen, Council of Community Housing Organizations Co-Director, said. “We need to find ways to preserve the culture of the Mission.”

CCHO and other nonprofits are providing assistance to resi-

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he last thing to waste time on in when running late in the morning is tieing shoes, and slip-ons are the perfect solution.

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dents being forced to leave their homes.

“We are a coalition of 23 housing organizations,” Cohen said.

“All of the organizations either build affordable housing, provide services for people in affordable housing or do organizing in advocacy for affordable housing.”

The organizations work with City Hall to promote policies that make it harder for landlords to evict tenants and buying existing apartment buildings where people may be evicted, according to Cohen.

“It really is about who gets to live in San Francisco today and into the future,” Cohen said. “If we don’t find a way to combat gentrification, the risk is that we lose the diversity of our cities and that’s what makes cities great.”

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EVICTED? A house in Duboce Triangle hung signs in their windows saying “US TOO,” referring to being evicted from their residence.

Previously, a sign in the windows above said, “Evicted?”

Many landlords are willing to evict or buyout rent-controlled tenants, who cannot have their rents raised, in order to sell the house or apartment at a high price.

“If we just end up creating a homogeneous city that is primarily for one group of people, then there is a lack of ethnic diversity,” Cohen said. “We lose a great city.”

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