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September 26, 2014

Convent of the Sacred Heart HS • San Francisco, California

Vol. 21, Iss. 2

2 MAJOR DECISIONS Some seniors opt to apply to college without a major

Sophomores focus on oppression Kristina Cary Senior Reporter

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REFOCUSING Sophomore history teacher Michael Stafford examines sophomore Bella Kearny’s evidence in favor of the Europeans in the Native American versus European trial in the new sophomore “Hislish” class. The trial consisted of two parties with the Native American side as the prosecutors and the Europeans as the defense. Hislish is a double-period history and English class forcused on oppression.

The class is based off classwork and presentations with no homework or tests.

QuickReads

►►SO IT BEGINS

A standardized testing information night for the Class of 2016 will be on Tuesday starting at 6 p.m. ►►4-DAY WEEKEND

A four-day weekend begins on Friday, Oct. 10, classes will resume on Tuesday, Oct. 14 after Columbus Day. ►►TESTING

The Freshman, Sophomore and Junior Classes will take the PSAT on Wednesday, Oct. 15. ►►WORKSHOP

The Senior Class will have a college workshop to complete applications on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 9 a.m. ►►THREE TO GO

The first quarter will end on Friday, Oct. 17 after the Mid-Semster Exloration. ►►MATER

To celebrate the feats of Mater, students can attend Mass with a “Mater” figure in their life at 10:30 a.m. followed by a brunch.

Clad in a Convent-branded burgundy sweater, rose-colored trousers and a zebra-print barrette, Samrawit Beyene stood at the front of the classroom and held up her right hand as she faced the teacher and the crowd in front of her, said “I do” and was sworn in to court during a mock trial.

Beyene and the 51 other sophomores are the first to participate in the new “Responses to Oppression” dual English and history course co-taught by Rachael Denny and Michael Stafford.

“I think it’s great because we learn about stuff that happens in the present,” Beyene said. “I think focusing on oppression makes it more real and makes you see the issue in a whole new way. We’re learning about the different forms of oppression and trying to do something about them.”

Dubbed “Hislish” by students and teachers, the new course focuses on dealing with andSee Responses p. 2

3 COED CLASSES Coed classes add flexability to the schedule

5 #SELFIE Selfies are about more than just looking good

6 DROP AND COVER Californians reminded to form disaster plans after Napa quake

12 HOLE IN ONE Mini-golf course opens in old mortuary

Burnt-out motor causes evacuation Madison Riehle Editor-in-Chief

A burnt out motor caused an evacuation of the Broadway campus Tuesday evening, interrupting and cutting short several after school programs.

Fire trucks responded to a pulled fire alarm around 5:40 p.m. when multiple witnesses smelled and saw smoke on the lower floors of the Siboni Arts & Science Center.

“When we got here there was a lot of smoke that had filled the theater,” Lieutenant Ken Smith of the San Francisco Fire Department said. “There was no actual fire, since electrical fires are different. Once they get hot and start to burn, there is a different kind of smell that’s not actually a fire.”

The smoke in Siboni was caused by a motor in an air handler that continued to run after the ball bearing stopped turning, according to Plant Operations Director Geoff De Santis.

“The circuit blew upstairs in the mechanics room,” Smith

said. “It was from the big fan that creates the air conditioning — that’s where it blew and it came through the air ducts that push the air out, which caused the smoke to fill up inside the theater.”

Administrators were able to identify the location of the pulled fire alarm due to the fire panel in the Main Hall, according to administrative assistant Donna Morgan When one fire alarm is pulled within the school, all of the fire alarms go off to ensure that everyone evacuates and is safe, according to Jaime Dominguez, Head of Stuart Hall for Boys.

“The fire department came in to identify the cause and to make sure it’s safe to go back into the buildings,” Dominguez said. “We [had] people observe overnight to make sure nothing else happened.”

The fire caused minimal damage and none to the structure or classrooms. Despite fire alarms ringing occasionally on Wednesday as they were reset, classes continued as normal.

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RING THE ALARM One out of the two firetrucks which responded to the fire extends its ladder to the top of the Siboni Arts & Science Building attempting to find the source of the smoke. It was later determined that the electrical fire was caused by a blown circuit in the mechanics room.

Volleyball, football, soccer mark Homecoming Delaney Moslander Senior Reporter

Preluded by a Homecoming Dance last Friday in the Main Hall, Homecoming Week continues tonight with the varsity volleyball game and tomorrow with a Stuart Hall soccer match and football game.

“It’s been a request for a few years to have a more legitimate Homecoming experience,” Student Activities Director Devin DeMartini Cooke said.

To make the event more inclusive of both schools’ sports programs, the girl’s varsity volleyball team will play at University High School tonight and the boy’s soccer and football teams will play tomorrow.

“Since we’re an all-girls school, our games should be valued just as much as a football game,” varsity volleyball captain Rachel Booth said.

Both schools are celebrating Spirit Week with themes which

were successful in previous years, according to Student Body President Amanda Mah. The Stuart Hall games begin tomorrow with soccer against Lick-Wilmerding at City College of San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. and continues with an alumnisponsored tailgate at 11:30 a.m., including music and food for $10 before the football against the Trinity Christian Warriors from Monterey at Boxer Stadium at 1 p.m.

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Responses to opression New soph ‘Hislish’ project takes topic of opression in history and English.

From Soph p. 1 responding to issues such as slavery, genocide and global inequality in history and literature.

“I was really skeptical about it at first,” sophomore Mackenzie Maly said. “Now I’m actually really glad that they did it because I think it’s really unique and not a lot of people have the opportunity to take classes like this.”

The course takes place during two back-to-back 75-minute periods, although students’ schedules and transcripts list the class as separate sections of History 2 or History 2 Honors and English 2 or English 2 Honors in order to indicate students are fulfilling both history and English requirements.

“We realized that if we actually taught this course as a team, instead of, for example Ms. Denny assigning a paper on the Tempest, and me assigning a paper on the conquest of the Americas, we could assign one paper on how the Tempest describes the conquest of the Americas,” Stafford said. “It covers both fields brilliantly and that frees both of us up to do other cool things with the class.”

The instructors introduce historical events in conjunction with related literature, while focusing on building skill sets.

“Every unit is a complete blend of both history and English expectations in content,”

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Denny said. “Neither the history or English supplements the other — they both are of equal importance.”

The class gives students a measured amount of autonomy in how they want to approach a given topic, according to student teacher Rhiannon Salter.

“It’s a little more self-directed,” Salter said. “We’re saying, ‘Yes, you need to have a final product that looks like this, but how you get there is in part up to you.’”

Honors and non-honors students are graded using the same formative assessment document, which holds honors and nonhonors students to different levels of proficiency.

“They’re all in the same class together, which I think raises the level of learning and expectation for the whole group,” Denny said. “It does both groups a disservice to not have them together because there are things that you can learn from a nonhonors group and theres things non-honors students can learn from an honors group. It helps to have both kinds of thinking in the room.”

Students who want to take the Advanced Placement World History exam in May can choose to participate in review classes that take place every other Thursday, even if they are not enrolled in the honors course. Students who do not wish to take the exam can use the period as an academic study period.

It’s not a formal class — it’s a self study.

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HISLISH

Sophomore Ally Arora discusses with sophomore history teacher Michael Stafford before acting in a mock trial of Native Americans versus Europeans. Arora was one of the Native American’s attorneys in the trial (top).

Sophomores (from the left) Katie Newbold, Daphna Bendull, Bella Kearney, Lillian Lachman and Neely Metz present their arguement to the judge, Stafford (bottom).

“Anybody who wants to can put in the extra time and effort — I’ll prep them for the AP exam,” Stafford said. “It is not a formal class — it’s self study.”

All sophomores are required to participate in the class’s design thinking seminars on the Thursdays when the AP review course is not taking place.

“Design thinking is like a mini class where we learn to think outside the box,” sophomore Sabrina Chaffee said. “Design thinking is the capstone project in a way. What we’ve done

so far is start to go through the steps; first start with empathy, then brainstorm questions. You go through prototypes and keep going until you have a product and find a way to help out your client.”

Students will choose a particular form of oppression and work with an outside source of their choice to design their own responses to it for the culminating activity. This project takes the place of the former 20 Percent Project and the Sophomore Symposium.

“The last five weeks of school we have dedicated time for them to connect with outside organizations that are responding to a particular form of oppression,” Stafford said. “They get a lot of choice as to what form of oppression they want to tackle and respond to, and the’ve got specific time set aside to actually do it.”

“It really does combine the history and the English,” Chaffee said. “You can really see how it overlaps and they join together really nicely.

Making major decisions Seniors decide to check a major or ‘undeclared’

Julia-Rose Kibben Senior Reporter

While embarking on the college application process — which entails essays, supplements and interviews — seniors are also faced with the decision to select a possible major or to check off the undeclared box on their applications.

“I’ll be applying to colleges undeclared because there’s a lot of subjects and majors I really like, and I can’t choose one,” senior Kathryn Yu said. “I think it’s hard for a 17-year-old to already know what he or she wants to do.”

The undeclared option allows applicants to delay committing to a particular major until the end of their sophomore year of college.

“Undecided is actually one of the ‘most popular majors,’” College Counseling Director Rebecca Munda said. “It does not hurt students in the process and it does not necessarily give them an advantage to declare a college major.”

Smaller liberal arts schools tend to cater to the needs of students with a specific majors in mind. For students who want to

take a variety of courses, a larger university may be more fitting, because the school gives freshmen a chance to weigh their options before selecting a major.

“Every school is different,” senior Rachel Booth said.

“Some schools you can apply undecided in general and then later choose a major, but there are a couple schools I’m applying to where you have to apply directly to the business school because they are separate.”

Competitive majors such as business, psychology and film can be more selective, and at some colleges, students have to apply as incoming freshmen.

At these schools it can be harder to transfer between majors because each discipline is a separate school within the university. Some institutions make it easier to switch — all that is needed is a meeting with an adviser and a transfer approval.

“I declared my major in my third semester,” Natalie Sullivan (’12) said. “I felt quite intrigued

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and passionate about music therapy, but when it came down to it, there was no question about declaring performance and songwriting as a dual major.”

Even though a student may be admitted to a university with an undeclared major, each college has an average acceptance grade point average and standardized test scores, but scores will not prevent a student from being considered by admissions.

“It depends on the program of study,” Munda said. “If a student has a particular major that they’re interested in, then the college will hone in on those academic courses that relate to that academic area of interest.”

Most college admission departments accept scores from SAT, ACT and SAT Subject Tests, but they also expect a variety of coursework to be completed to meet the expectations of their application requirements.

“Some of the schools I’m applying to want you to have really heavy math courses, computer

Every school is different.

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UNDECIDED Senior Kathryn Yu works on her Common Application in the computer lab after school. Yu is one of many seniors who has decided to apply to college undeclared. programming courses, and sometimes even biology or English courses,” Booth said. “It depends on the school, but if you have to declare your major when you apply then having taken these courses will increase your chances.”

When prerequisite courses are required for a particular major, some colleges will give appli-

cants additional time to take the courses before officially declaring the major.

“Since I’m applying undeclared I want to take a variety of classes that I’m interested in,” Yu said. “I like that I’m going to be able to explore different majors and jobs and find one that I truly like.”

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Coed classes expand opportunities Students and faculty adjust to new schedule, allowing more classes between Convent and Stuart Hall.

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he yellow school bus filled with grey skirts and khakis that has been driving the 10-block stretch between Convent and Stuart Hall every afternoon, shuttling students to coed language classes, now runs between every class period due to the expansion of coed class offerings throughout the day.

Coed classes, previously restricted to the language department, now encompass upper division math and history courses as well as AP Computer Science and physiology.

“I think we as a school have taken an approach of being careful in choosing which classes are and which classes aren’t coed,” Matt Woodard, physics and psychology teacher at Stuart Hall High School, said. “I personally like teaching a single-sex physics class, but I do think it is beneficial to have my psychology class be coed.”

Twenty-minute passing periods allow buffer time for students between campuses.

“The time used for students to get from one campus to the other is also a great time for me

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to meet with teachers when I do not have to go to the Convent campus,” senior Declan Ebeling said. “It gives me an extra break in the schedule to study, meet with teachers and do work that I otherwise would not have had time to complete.”

Incorporating the passing time into the schedule has not affected the length of classes with the shortening of assemblies from one hour to 40 minutes and eliminating long lunches on Wednesdays.

“Although I am a little upset about the shortening of lunch, I feel that it was a good trade off because with the 20 minutes, I can get to Stuart Hall on time, and even grab something to eat,” senior Taylor Schendorf said. “In the end, it takes away some of my social time during lunch, but it’s a good tradeoff academically.”

Some students traveling between campuses also need to leave their electives 10 minutes early to get to class on time.

I think we as a school have taken an approach of being careful in choosing which classes are and which classes aren’t coed.

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COED COLLABORATION Seniors Sabrina Mendiola and

Louis Bulivant observe different types of tissue cells under a microscope to determine their functions. Students draw their own versions of the different types of tissues they see through their microscope.

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“Teachers have been very accommodating to us leaving early,” Schendorf said. “They teach the important parts of the lesson first so that we do not miss too much, plus the way that elective was scheduled fits perfectly for students who have to get to another campus quickly.”

The addition of coed offerings over the last five years has allowed students to select more courses, mostly at the junior/senior elective level, according to Head of School Rachel Simpson.

“There is definitely a wider selection of classes for me to choose from due to all the coed offerings,” Ebeling said. “Last year I took physiology at the Convent campus, but I had the problem of showing up to class late almost every time because of the transportation issue which has been fixed this year.”

The two high schools review the course registrations in the spring, using the data to assign courses to teachers.

“In the case of language courses, coed offerings in Mandarin, French and Latin created robust programs in these areas,” Simpson said. “The Spanish department felt strongly about adding an honors level at Level 2, and this also invited more coed language in Spanish in order for students to be in the best language placement for them.”

There is definitley a wider selection of classes.

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Seminar satisfies seniors The theology department takes a different approach in teaching the Sacred Heart Goals and Criteria.

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enior Kathryn Yu eases into her Monday morning as she grabs a seat in the middle of the semi-circle of desks lining the Duchesne Room, stretches out her legs on top of her backpack on the floor and leans her head back against the wall, while she watches the second half of “Good Will Hunting” during theology class.

The words “test” or “quiz” do not appear on the Senior Theology Seminar syllabus. Instead, class periods often include a student-led seminar about the film or text assigned that week, pertaining to the Sacred Heart Goals and Criteria.

“Before, I didn’t really pay attention to the Goals and Criteria of our school,” Yu, after leading a seminar on “Good Will Hunting” with two other classmates, said. “Having a better understanding of them after these seminars, I see why our school places an emphasis on them.”

Senior theology teachers Kate McMichael, Paul Pryor Lorentz and Rachel Bundang revised the class last year, referencing a course required by a col-

lege where Bundang previously taught.

“It was a required course for all their students regardless of what their major was,” Bundang said.

“They were asked to take essentially that school’s version of the Goals and Criteria and mix it in with whatever their coursework was. So that if they were going to be in nursing, or if they were going to be an English major or a poli-sci person, they had to answer how do these goals and criteria fit into how you’re preparing yourself to be in the world.”

The seminar style was chosen to prepare the seniors for potential seminar courses offered in college, and this style also allows for deeper self-reflection, according to McMichael.

“The way to really take something in and make it your own is to have to teach it,” McMichael said. “We were hoping that by the end of your time at Convent, all students would have this opportunity to reflect on who they are and how they’ve been formed — whether they’ve known it or not — by the Goals and Criteria.”

Students leading the seminar must submit a lesson plan the night before class, explain-

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SEMINARS Seniors Sarah Niehaus, Christina Berardi and Alex Wood (left to right) take notes during a lecture during their seminar style senior theology class. ing how they plan on filing the 75 minute class time with discussions, activities and related content, connecting to a Goal of their choice.

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“It’s tough finding videos and quotes that relate to the goals because they are unique and specific,” Yu said. “You also don’t have that much time to put together an hour and 15 minute seminar, since there might only

be a day in between the class where we finished watching the movie and the seminar.”

Although planning for the class may be difficult, this style promotes a reflective environment, according to Alyssa Viscio (’14).

“It felt more like a meaningful discussion than a class,” Viscio said. “It was laid back, and everyone had a chance to speak. It was nice to take a break from any stress or major work to watch films and talk about our Sacred Heart experience.”

The theological component is rooted in the Goals, which themselves are based off of the teachings of the Society of the Sacred Heart, according to Pryor Lorentz.

“The theological connectedness is that the Goals and Criteria are certainly based in the history of the Sisters of the Sa-

cred Heart and Madeleine Sophie Barat’s personal mission to educate young women and now young men,” Pryor Lorentz said.

“It’s also based in the Gospel message of love and forgiveness and understanding.”

For the first three quarters, seniors will write a reflection on their growth and present a summary, as well as discuss their reflection to a panel of faculty members.

“We want our seniors to have an opportunity to reflect on who they are having been formed by anywhere from four to 13 years of Sacred Heart education,” McMichael said. “Such as, what difference does that make in who you are, and what difference will it make in the world as you step off the marble stairs, change out of your white dress after graduation, and move on into your future.”

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Me, myselfie and I Looking at the world through the camera lens of a phone has affects on teens, especially girls, and culture as a whole.

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Madeleine Ainslie Managing Editor

he selfie epidemic, the incessant snapping of self portraits, has invaded the lives of teenagers, largely changing how girls digitally express themselves.

“Selfies are sort of a secularized version of the self portrait,” art history teacher Sonia Evers, who has a Ph.D.

in the discipline, said. “Self portraiture is about status, so maybe it’s the essence of democracy that everyone is a valued human being so everyone can be self portrait-ed. It communicates that what everybody does in their lives is of importance.”

Many, like freshman Kelly Rosanelli, find the selfie to be narcissistic and a reflection of the vanity of modern American culture.

“I don’t take selfies because they seem kind of awkward and egotistical,” Rosanelli said. “It seems to be just another way for people to validate their beauty, which gets annoying. I have a Snapchat, but I don’t use it for that exact reason.”

Selfies can be categorized into “pretty selfies” and “ugly selfies,” according to women’s studies teacher Sarah Garlinghouse.

“There’s a double-sided selfie culture,” Garlinghouse said. “There’s the pretty selfie, which you can control the angle and get the light in just the right spot, but then there’s also the ugly selfie which seems to be more popular among teenage girls.”

The ugly selfie removes some of the stress society puts on girls to constantly be pretty, according to Garlinghouse.

“The point of the ugly selfies is all about getting the strangest, most unattractive pose and expression,” Garlinghouse said. “It removes the pressure of being perfect because the uglier it is the funnier and better the selfie is. It also removes the selfie taker from ridicule. If someone takes a pretty selfie and people don’t think its pretty, then it’s almost like they’ve failed.”

The normal selfie gives the photographer more control over what they look like but also has its disadvantages, according to senior Anna Lyons.

Student body selfies submitted via email.

Images compiled by Aoife Devereux and Madeleine Ainslie.

“The ultra-posed selfie tends to give the connotation that someone takes themselves really seriously or are superficial because they appear to be hyper focussed on how they look,” Lyons said.

“It’s is a double standard because society scrutinizes women for their beauty — all the while telling them that they aren’t allowed to care if

they are pretty or not.”

Judgement is extremely prevalent in society and largely contributes to selfie culture and how people, especially girls, portray themselves, according to Evers.

“Humans, by nature, gravitate towards exaggeration,” Evers said. “Perhaps, the ugly selfie is a form of that attraction to exaggeration, or if people are really trying to make

themselves look ugly, they are taking control so that no one can judge whether they are attractive or not because they have forcefully made themselves unattractive.”

For others, however, the ugly selfie is way to express oneself.

“The ugly selfie a lot of times shows someone’s personality more than the pretty selfie,” senior Quinn Moslander said.

“An ugly selfie often results in a laugh and more relatability, whereas pretty selfies seem to be more for show.”

The difference in selfexpression through selfies speaks to a larger societal issue, according to Garlinghouse.

“It’s sad that the only way we can be ourselves is to make ourselves appear as strange and ugly as possible,” Garlinghouse said.

Society’s standards in conjunction with selfies can further promote young women worrying over their image, according to Garlinghouse.

“The problem with selfies is the amount of time that we’re seeing our own image,”

Garlinghouse said. “We see our reflection so much taking selfies and that gives us more opportunities to obsess over

what we look like.”

Ninety one percent of teenagers post photos of themselves online, according to Pew Research Center.

“The perfect selfie is idealized art, its unattainable,” Garlinghouse said. “Nobody looks like themselves after a photo has been perfected, crafted, cropped, edited, and put through multiple filters.

Because men are biologically more visual in what they find appealing, women, from a historical point of view, have spent more time enhancing their appearance to attract the right partner and selfies are just perpetuating that.”

For others, the problem with selfies is that they keep people from interacting.

“Selfies almost keep people from talking to each other,” junior Antonia De Leon said.

“They allow people to not have to ask other people to take a photo of them, because they can just take it themselves. It keeps people in their own bubble.”

For Moslander, not having to go out of her way to ask someone else to take the picture is a benefit of selfies.

“IPhones make it easier to document a moment,” Moslander said. “If I’m in the moment and having a great time, I don’t have to remove

myself from what’s happening and get someone to take a photo of me, I can just whip out my phone and take a picture of me and my friends.”

The selfie was largely promoted by the introduction of the camera phone and was mainstreamed in 2010 with Apple’s iPhone 4, which featured a forward facing camera, making it even easier for selfies to be snapped and

shared, either privately by text message, or publicly through uploading to various social networks.

“Selfies absolutely depend on the cellphone and really came into being because of the iPhone and the improvement of the camera within the iPhone,” Moslander said.

“Taking a selfie using a bigger camera is much more difficult.”

The act of sharing selfies is facilitated by social media platforms, especially Snapchat, a photo messaging app which allows its 60 million users to take both videos and photos then add up to 31 characters of text or drawings, before sending it to other approved users of their choosing, according to the Pew Research Institute.

“A lot of times selfies are used as an extension of a conversation to counteract some

of the negative parts of texting, which can be misconstrued, perhaps to add more clarity to the message,” Charis Denison, owner of Prajna Consulting, a consulting agency specializing in teens and families, said.

A key component of Snapchat is videos and pictures can only be viewed for a maximum of 10 seconds, unless a recipient takes a screenshot of the image, in which case the sender is be notified. This particular feature is appealing for many users, including junior Antonia deLeon.

“With Snapchat people are

able to have a photo that’s only there for a short period of time, making it less permanent,” De Leon said. “Since Snapchat notifies the sender when a screenshot has been taken, people can have more control of where that photo ends up. It gives people more of a sense of security that that photo won’t be passed around.”

Photos that have been screenshotted still can be put up on the Internet, where the subject of the image no longer has control over its usage.

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Vaccinations not given a shot I

Liana Lum News Editor

t began with cold-like symptoms from headaches and fevers to decreased appetite.

Within a couple days, bumps resembling blisters and bug bites appeared on junior Jill Cardamon, beginning at the torso and spreading to the rest of her body. When the anti-itch creams were ineffective, she knew she had chicken pox.

“We decided not to have Jillian vaccinated because of personal beliefs,” Jill’s mother Miriam Cardamon said. “The chicken pox vaccine was very new, and available data on any potential long-term side effects was basically non-existent at the time.”

Like Cardamon’s mother, many parents are cautious about vaccinating their children due to potential immunological and adverse side effects.

“People should understand that vaccines really have produced one of the biggest public health benefits over these past many years,” Dr. Cornelia Dekker, a professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, said. “It’s really important to remember where we were before we had immunization available compared to where we are now.”

Vaccinations prevent infectious diseases and strengthen immune responses by exposing the body to a small or weakened amount of the infectious agent.

Vaccine development takes 10 to 15 years and involves clinical

trials and multiple applications to the Food and Drug Administration, who continues to monitor and evaluate the vaccine after approval.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends high school students

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Vaccines really have produced one of the biggest public health benefits over these past many years.

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have a tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccine (Tdap) and polio vaccine as well as the meningococcal vaccine that prevents meningitis, which is especially prevalent in dormitories.

“One of the newer vaccines, which I think is still underutilized among teens, is the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV),” Dekker said. “It’s also important for adolescents to get their influenza vaccine every fall.”

The HPV vaccine is given in a three-dose series, ideally before young adults engage in sexual activity, protecting them from cancers and infections caused by the virus.

Minors 12 years and older can receive vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, including the one for HPV, without paren-

tal consent, according to a California law passed in 2011.

Infectious diseases, like measles and mumps and rubella, are reappearing in colleges and universities, according to Catherine Martin, Director of the California Immunization Coalition.

“College students who are traveling to and from foreign countries have imported cases of these infectious diseases into college campuses,” Martin said. “People travel so much more than they used to.

If we don’t keep up our vigilance in protecting our community through vaccination, these diseases can come back.”

Despite the increased risk of contracting diseases, a higher number of parents are choosing not vaccinating their children, with about 1.8 percent of parents nationwide opting out of vaccines for religious and philosophical reasons, according to the CDC. The rate of personal-belief exemptions in California jumped by nearly a percentage point since 2008, according to the California Department of Public Health. Beginning this year, California parents are also required to obtain a health care practitioner’s signature, ensuring they understand the pros and cons of not receiving vaccines, before enrolling their children in school.

“One of the most common reasons parents refuse to vaccinate their children is fear that it will cause a side effect or illness,” Dr. Flynne Lewis, a pediatric

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The decision not to vaccinate, often influenced by potential adverse side effects or philosophical beliefs, allows for the reappearance of infectious diseases.

resident at University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, said. “Our clinics also have patients who don’t get vaccinated because they don’t have access to medical care.”

Some parents erroneously believe that diseases had already begun to disappear before the development of vaccines or that vaccines can cause life-long disabilities.

“Many of these claims come from social media,” Lewis said.

“The autism claim came from a study by British Dr. Andrew Wakefield. He has since had his license suspended and is facing charges of professional misconduct in the UK for incorrect claims he made in this study.”

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Others claim that giving a child multiple vaccinations at the same time can overload the immune system.

“All parents want to do what’s best for their children,” Dekker said. “There are some who are misinformed by the media and are concerned that a particular vaccine may cause an adverse reaction or that the timing of vaccines might not be best for their child.”

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) receives about 30,000 cases each year since 1990, of which 10 to 15 percent are identified as serious and associated with “permanent disability, hospitalization, life-threatening illness or death.”

Martin advises families to find a trusted doctor or healthcare practitioner and go by their recommendation, saying the vast majority of doctors recommend vaccinating children and adults following CDC recommended schedules.

“Not vaccinating children definitely affects others,” Lewis said.

“They can spread the disease to other children who haven’t been vaccinated or who are unable to get the vaccine due to their age or various medical conditions.”

Close to 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented, and 32,000 American children’s lives were saved between 1994 and 2014, according to the CDC. “We know that vaccines are not without side effects, typically a fever, sore arm or tiredness,” Martin said. “It is rare that children develop serious side effects, and millions of kids have been safely vaccinated without incidence. We strongly believe that vaccines are safe, effective and save lives.”

“Getting chicken pox has severely affected school work and influenced my other activities,” Cardamon said. “I don’t have a strong feeling about vaccines, but I am more aware of them and infectious diseases.”

Selfies can affect girls’ images From Selfies p. 4 roundings sent primarily by teenagers, with over 700 million photos uploaded to the service each day, according to Fortune.

“Snapchat allows people to have essentially, face to face conversations without the time commitment of FaceTime,” Lyons said of the video chat application.

Social media platforms have become a primary source of connection among American teenagers, with 29 percent saying that apps like Snapchat and Facebook are their main forms of communication with their friends, according to Fortune.

“Snapchat makes communication more expressive,” junior Victoria Oestermann said. “I’m a little more foolish on Snapchat.

I mainly send silly selfies of me making weird faces to my best friends because I know only they will see them.”

Snapchat helped integrate selfies into the world of communication and reversed a lot of the narcissistic conventions surrounding them by turning the selfie into means of expression rather than documentation, according to Moslander.

“Selfies are much more forms of communication than they are works of art,” Moslander said. “I think a lot of times sending selfies through Snapchat is better than texting because I can’t put my facial expression into a text, and sometimes that added feature of a picture helps get the point across.”

While many see selfies solely as a form of communication, Garlinghouse also views the images as an artform.

“I think selfies are a form of

self-expression,” Garlinghouse said. “It’s a kind of artwork. In the same way that Frida Kahlo painted a self-portrait or Cindy Sherman portrays herself in a different identity, selfies are a way of exploring who someone is and how they want the world to see them.”

Girls take selfies more often than boys with 50 percent of teen boys sharing selfies on snapchat compared to 77 percent of teen girls, according to Digital Market Ramblings.

“Girls live in the moment and are really social and are used to

being looked at and trying to appear certain ways,” Denison said.

“I think that selfies are sort of an extension of that, not just in a superficial way, but they have been socialized a lot more to be photographed and interact in a more visual way.”

Worldwide, over a million selfies are taken each day, 14 percent of which will be digitally enhanced according to Media Bistro.

The obsession with the self portrait is displayed in the media as well. Not only will ABC television debut the new primetime show “Selfie” on Tuesday, but the band Chainsmokers released a song titled “#SELFIE” in January, which quickly made it on to Billboard’s Top 100. President Barack Obama even took a selfie with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service.

“Selfies allow people to position themselves in a certain way and to catch a certain light,” Moslander said. “They allow people to have total control over how the picture is taken because the subject and photographer are the same person.”

People are so concerned about their image that many don’t like taking pictures as they don’t like the way they look in the final pic-

ture, according to Evers. Selfies allow the subjects of the photo to see themselves before the picture is snapped.

“In the past it seems like many people hated having their picture taken,” Evers said. “Maybe selfies are also showing a greater acceptance of who one is because people aren’t constantly worrying about looking great for the picture; they’re just documenting their life as it goes through and showing themselves as they really are.”

Women spend almost 40 percent more time daily with social media sites than men, 3.6 hours versus 2.6 hours, according to Burst Media.

“Humans want to feel important, significant and seen,” Denison said. “A selfie, superficial as it is, is a really quick way to achieve that.”

For many sharing the selfie is the point of the picture itself, as it acts as a way to prove that one has done something or been somewhere, keeping friends and followers informed about what one is doing, according to Garlinghouse.

“It’s another way of telling a story,” Evers said. “If someone takes selfies doing all of these daily things then it’s a shorthand way of

documenting moments in your life. It’s sharing your life, and that’s okay, but the con is that it can end up being rather narcissistic.”

Selfies are not unique to American culture. Most selfies are taken by Australians, followed by Americans and then Canadians, according to the Pew Research.

“Selfies are less cultural and more generational,” Evers said.

“Maybe there’s a perspective that the young have been raised by parents who focus a lot of attention and build their lives around their children. Those children — my children are as well — are used to the world almost circulating around them and maybe that’s where selfies have emerged from.”

The act of taking a selfie says a lot about the culture of modern day life, according to Lyons.

“Nobody wants to take the time out of the day to do the smaller things anymore,” Lyons said. “We all want things done fast and want to have instant conversation and instant everything really. I think selfies represent that.”

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Drop, cover and hold aren’t the only preparations families need to take to be ready for the next big quake; kits, drills and action plans are also safety necessities. Though there are several organized drills, families should prepare themselves should there be an earthquake while at home.

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orthern Californians were reminded of the danger of living on a seismic fault and the need for emergency preparedness when a 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook the Napa Valley Region on Aug. 24, marking the largest seismic activity in California since the Loma Prieta quake in 1989.

Earthquake preparedness is riddled with misconceptions; getting out of bed during an earthquake is not a safe option, standing in a doorway does not offer protection from falling debris, nor does exiting a shaking building.

“I was taught that during an earthquake I should stand under a doorway, but I now know that standing under a door is a commonly mistaken belief,” senior Allison Watts said. “My time at Convent has taught me earthquake preparedness do’s and don’ts through annual earthquake drills.”

A preplanned strategy is central to security for those living within an earthquake country, whether it is a safety procedure, family communication plan, alternative evacuation routes or an earthquake preparedness kit.

“My family’s first priority is to get shoes, get the first aid kit and get out of the house,” senior Siobhan Lewkowitz said. “Our first aid kit has canned food, mini propane tanks, can openers and two to three five-gallon water jugs.”

Forming a family disaster plan may entail identifying safe spots, acting on the common phrase “drop and cover” and learning how to protect oneself.

Statistics show only 40 percent

of Californians have assembled family disaster plans, according to a University of California Los Angeles California Earthquake

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Preparedness Survey.

“For a family, the number one thing to think about is what is everyone doing on an average day,” Jason Ballmann Southern California Earthquake Center Communication Specialist said.

“Families need to learn how to perform drop, cover and hold on, and then they need to think about what their communication plan is going to be and how to stay connected.”

Communication after an earthquake is especially important for minors separated from their parents, but cell phone calls may be disrupted due to the magnitude of incoming cellular signals. Texting has a higher chance of connecting to a cellular tower and saves battery life when competing for reception.

“We recommend to text first and talk second,” Ballmann said.

“You can send hundreds of text messages in the same bandwidth as a one minute phone call. Likewise, cell phone towers might go down, some phone lines can go down for landline phones and in a major earthquake’s aftermath

there might not be connection at an electronic level.”

Disaster kits should be stocked with water, non-perishable food, flashlight with batteries, first aid kit, whistle to signal for help, can openers and cell phones, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“People should consider what kind of medication they should have in their kit,” Ballmann said.

“They should have copies of important financial documents, which could be a copy of a family’s home insurance policy and social security numbers.”

Over 80 percent of California households have flashlights, first-aid kits and batteries but only 40 percent of Californians keep the recommended minimum of water storage, according

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to the California Seismic Safety Commission.

“Water is the most important aspect of a kit,” Ballmann said.

“The rule that we recommend is one gallon per person per day for two weeks. If you do the math that is 14 gallons of water, and that is just a minimum recommendation.”

Californians will drop, cover and hold on while participating

Almost every year, Alsaka experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake.

The average earthquake lasts around one minute.

There is a 67% probability of a major earthquake hitting the Bay Area in the next 30 years.

in the Great California ShakeOut on Oct.16 at 10:16 a.m.

Some people expand their drill to align with their organization or needs they have outside the aspects of a drill, according to Ballmann.

“At the basic level the Great California ShakeOut asks people to practice drop cover and hold on for one minute,” Ballmann said. “The goal of this drill is to prepare people for the next big earthquake. We are hoping for more than 10 million participants. Every year more and more people are getting prepared for earthquakes, and our drills are starting to reach beyond California.”

Convent and Stuart Hall do two earthquake drills a year, the first drill is on Oct. 16 and the second drill will be conducted on March 25, according to Geoff De Santis Plant Operations Director.

“Convent and Stuart Hall have participated in The Great California ShakeOut every year for the past three years, and will do so again this year on Oct. 16,” De Santis said.

There is room for improvement even for Californians who are prepared with resources like earthquake kits, safety strategies and communication plans, according to Ballmann.

“Modern families are not as prepared for the next big earthquake as we would like, but much more prepared than in the past,” Ballmann said. “The South Napa earthquake forces us to look at these situations and see how we are going to favor. There are steps that people should take, and the steps to earthquake safety is a good place to start.”

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Yoga shows benefits for both physical and mental health, contributing to the growing popularity of the activity.

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xercise may be beneficial for helping teens stay fit and maintaining their mental health, but yoga takes it one step further by warding off anxiety and stress and improving breathing and relaxation, according to a new study.

Teens who practiced yoga scored higher on psychological tests for anxiety, mood problems and anger, while teens who did not practice yoga scored worse on the tests, in a 10-week study

by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

“It’s a really good way to get to know your body and to take some time to get in touch with your mind,” Purusha yoga instructor Brittany Morman said.

“When you’re a teenager and even later in life, your body changes a lot, and yoga can really help you connect with your body even through those changes.”

Senior Connolly Steigerwald has been practicing yoga a couple times a week for about 18 months.

“Yoga helps with the awareness of yourself and your body,” Steigerwald said. “It’s a combination of meditation and spirituality with physical activity, which is really helpful for your mind, body and working towards goals about where your body needs to be.”

The practice of yoga can be traced back 5,000 to 10,000 years

in India, and still finds relevance in the 21st century.

“We talk about yoga in the abstract, which gives us a chance to really experience a part of the Hindu practice,” sophomore theology teacher Kate McMichael said. “I think anything that allows us the opportunity to take a deep breath, focus and experience stillness in a world that is so busy is very beneficial.”

The tradition and practice of yoga is passed on from teacher to student through oral teaching and practical demonstration.

“You can be pregnant, young or older to do yoga, but overall I really believe anyone can benefit from it,” Heather Wells, who has been practicing yoga for seven years said. “I think one of the great things about yoga is that there is a kind for every stage in your life.”

Students in regular physical education classes tended to have increased scores for mood problems and anxiety where those taking yoga classes stayed the same or showed improvement in the Harvard study. Negative emotions also worsened in students taking regular physical education, while improving in those taking yoga.

“Yoga is a combination of meditation and spirituality with physical activity which is really helpful for your mind, and where your body needs to be,” Steigerwald said.

Cross-Country College Prep Invitational at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline 9/9 Total medals won including SHHS: 12 Place: 5th out of 14 teams Lowell Invitational at Speedway Meadow 9/20 total medals won: 2

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STRETCH English department chair Rachael Denny strikes a yoga pose during the weekly faculty and staff yoga class. Yoga can help to relieve stress as well as providing exercise.

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Bikram yoga, known as “hot yoga,” is said to increase vigor, strength, flexibility and detoxification through sweating.

Most types of yoga are based off of Hatha yoga, which consists of easy-to-learn poses that incorporate cardio, strength, flexibility and breathing.

Vinyasa yoga focuses on breathing and and flowing sequences, and is a more accelerated and intense version of Hatha yoga.

Iyengar incorporates full-body stretches and poses that are held for a minute or longer; it can be a good option for those recovering from injuries, the elderly and the disabled.

Ashtanga yoga is known for being more difficult, cardiovascular and faster which is often practiced by serious athletes looking for a challenge.

Working out for free in the City Free workout sites around the city do not require membership ­— just motivation.

vs. Bay 9/19 Isabelle Armstrong and Samantha Lee 6-1, 6-0 Lauren Wasserman and Grace Apple 6-0, 6-0 Megan McMicking 6-0, 6-2 Allison Watts 6-4, 6-2 Charlotte Holper 6-2, 6-2 Sarah Paulsen 6-3, 6-1

Varsity Golf Vs. San Domenico at Fleming 9/9 196-182 Vs. Bay 9/17 260-217

JV Volleyball Vs. Drew 9/19 25-15 25-21 Vs. Marin Academy 9/23 17-25 19-25

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WORKOUT AREA IN MARINA The Fitness Court on the Ma-

rina Green is part of a workout space designed to motivate people with free workout equipment. The court consists of stations that workout all parts of the body, and includes bars for pull ups, blocks for lunges and jumping and equipment for ab workouts.

Vs. Marin Academy 9/12 India Thieriot and Adley Wechsler 6-4, 6-2 Trinity Lee and Nora Hanak 1-6, 2-6 Kerry Cron 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 Ava Jones 6-1,6-3 Antonia de Leon 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 Vs. Urban 9/23 India Thieriot and Trinity Lee 4-6, 6-4, 10-6 Nora Hanak and Gabby Gupta 6-0, 7-5

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CRISSY FIELD TRAIL With a round trip of 3 miles along the Neely Metz/The Broadview

LYON STREET STAIRS The 288-step high Lyon Street Steps run between Broadway and Green streets in Pacific Heights next to the Presidio and overlooks the bay. Walking or running the stairs can benefit the quadriceps, hamstrings as well as glutes.

water, Crissy Field is a popular walking, running and biking trail. The flat dirt trail is dog friendly and off-leash year round, with the exception of the west beach. The trail ends at The Warming Hut, but there is an optional trail up to the Golden Gate Bridge for a higher impact workout. Go to http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/ crissy-field.html for further information.

Kerry Cron 6-3, 7-5, 7-3 Ava Jones 6-1, 6-2 Antonia de Leon won on forfeit

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Testing the waters Sailing team starts initial preparation for their second season as “Gold Fleet” competitors this fall Alyssa Alvarez Senior Reporter

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aves crashing against Flying Junior boats while sailors attempt to maneuver around buoys sets the scene for a typical sailing practice on the San Francisco Bay. “Our skills have improved since last year and we have more of a sense of team,” senior Hannah Baylis said. “As a team, we need to work on creating a tighter bond as a group and developing more of a knowledge.”

The sailing team’s scheduled regattas for the fall season are in Monterey, Newport Beach and throughout Northern California.

“Our goal this year is to place in the top 10 in the state and improve from last year’s ranking,” sailing director Brent Harrill said. “We want to continue the growth and get more people involved.”

The three-hour practices in preparation for regattas consist

of warm up races and starts, boat handling and synchronizing movements with a partner.

“During practice, we rotate in skippers and crews so everyone gets a chance to sail,” junior Gwynie Dunlevy said. “We have three boats on the water and the coaches go out on motor boats with the rest of the sailors so we can rotate in and out.”

Winds, currents and waves affect the decisions made by the boat’s skipper according to Dunlevy. The sailors fit and set the boat accordingly for these specific surroundings and conditions.

“Skippers drive the boat and work the main sail,” Dunlevy said. “The crew works the jib and all the controls of the boat that help you go faster and power your boat.”

The team placed 18th at the Pacific Coast Championships last season and moved up to Gold Fleet, which consists of the top 25 teams in the California.

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ON THE RUN Camilla Bykhovsky Sports Editor

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ff-season is a time for athletes to rest up for the next season and take a break from the intensive workouts. For most runners, however, this long break can be detrimental to their training and abilities.

This past summer I traveled for two months, and did not run a single day. Coming back into the season, I over trained to compensate for my lack of training, and I ended up not being able to compete due to an injury that could have been prevented if I had been consistent with training on steady increasing increments.

For the month of July I lived in Ney York City for an internship. During my time, I tried to go for a run through Central Park at least four times a week.

At first, it was nearly impossible. I could not find the energy to roll out of bed and sacrifice a slow relaxing morning at a coffee shop to running in the East Coast summer heat.

“The hardest part of a race is the start, then it’s smooth sailing until the end when you give everything you have until the finish line” kept ringing in my ear from my coach amongst the coffee shop chatter and humming espresso machine.

I kept telling myself, “tomorrow I’ll do it.” Tomorrow turned into days, which turned into two weeks and soon enough, I was halfway through my trip and had not yet gone for a single run. Something I loved to do so hard to start.

I decided that no matter what, I was going to put on my running shoes, running shorts and t-shirt the next morning, and I was going to run.

The 6 a.m. alarm went off, and I began to question my sanity, but I inevitably followed through with my promise to myself, and reluctantly tied my shoes and headed out the door.

I ran at an extremely slow pace, simply enjoying the fact that I was in New York experiencing the city from a runner’s eye. Though once I began to run, I could not stop. I had still followed through with my promise and overcame the mental boundary; half the battle was done. The rest was up to me.

About 100 yards a head of me a girl my age was running, and it was obvious she had been training for years. I stuck with this girl’s pace for about two and a half miles, then pulled off to the side panting. I checked the pace — I had been running faster than I normally would do halfway through the season.

After, the runner’s high hit me, and I began to run every morning, even if it was at an easy pace, just so I could get out and be active.

I found that although the initial hurdle can be intimidating and procrastination is the main culprit behind it, I decided that as an athlete I was avoiding my responsibility, so I sucked it up and ran.

ment and that we were able to advance,” Baylis said. “It also puts our name out there and shows that we are a serious team.”

In addition to three weekly practices on the bay, the team has a fitness workout on Wednesday afternoons in the Herbert Center.

“We usually work on core strength and cardio,” Dunlevy said. “Workouts are helpful for sailing because you need to be strong to be able to do different tasks on the boat.”

Both girls and boys on the coed team competed in high school regattas over the summer to maintain their fitness for this season.

“The team is going to be successfully led by the upperclassmen Hannah Baylis, Paloma Palmer and Will Paulsen,” Harrill said. “Those guys have been working really hard over the summer, and I think they will be able to have some great results and work together as a team.”

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ON THE BAY Seniors Claire Mohun and Will Paulsen compete in

the Northern California High School Championships hosted by the Saint Francis Yacht Club. The team place 9th and 10th overall.

High school athletics can provide opportunities Prospective college athletes are evaluated on not only their grades, SAT scores and supplements, but also on their athletic performances.

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iciously typing over a dimly- lit computer screen in the corner of the library, senior Allison Watts composed yet another email highlighting her athletic achievements as a tennis player to college coaches all over the country, who could determine her future as a student athlete.

Prospective athletes like Watts need to be realistic about their

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Joining crew has opened up the option for me to further my athletic career.

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ability to commit and further their physical ability, playing key roles in the college experience and the application process, according to Athletic Director Elena DeSantis.

“When someone is interested in playing a sport in college the first thing they should try to do is match themselves with schools that fit their level, whether that be a DI school or a smaller DIII school,” DeSantis said. “After this is established, it’s up to the student to contact schools and coaches in order for that student to figure out whether or not they would be a good fit for their athletic program.”

Student athletes can start filling out questionnaires on college

websites as early as junior year to notify schools an athletic profile exists.

The coaches are normally really nice when they respond to your emails,” Watts said. “I was scared at first they wouldn’t get back to me, but they always let you know straight up if they want to keep in contact with you.

It feels awesome to form even the smallest of relationships with them over email because it has given me the confidence I need to continue with this process.”

Creating an athletic profile for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications also allows students to set up a template with previous stats, a video and an essay where coaches from all over the country can view depending on the sport.

“I feel like if you are good at the sport you do, you have the advantage over other applicants because the schools see you as an asset to them,” senior Zoe Baker said. “After rowing for a while, I began to take the sport more seriously. Joining crew has opened up the option for me to further my athletic career in college.”

Practice schedules, tournaments and individual training are taken “to the next level” because student athletes are held to a higher standard, according to alumna Eliza Kylce (‘13).

“Fencing for Stanford University is definitely more work than I expected with practice being six days a week, three hours at a time, plus conventions on the weekend,” Klyce said. “You have to make sacrifices all the time to go to tournaments and workouts which brings a different dynamic to your life as a student, but it

teaches you how to build upon your responsibility because you to become a ‘student athlete.’ “ Not only do the athletes practice in close proximity, each team member takes the sport in a more serious light that creates a tighter bond and unique dynamic, according to Klyce.

“With all the time we spend together, there’s a bigger sense of camaraderie on the team, a deeper sense of community then when I was on the fencing team of high school,” Kyle said. “The atmosphere while we train is great because we all want to do well but we push each other at the same time.”

Starting the recruiting process early as a junior is a good way to “get the ball rolling” in order to

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start a career as a future college athlete, according to DeSantis.

“Ultimately high schoolers playing a sport wishing to continue in college, or a student athlete’s training at a collegiate institution have made the conscious decision to better themselves,” DeSantis said. “Learning how to deal with time management, physical and mental setbacks and challenges from being on a sports team shape athletes into the people they become.”

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Vaccinations create a healthier community

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y routinely immunizing populations around the world, health professionals have completely eradicated diseases such as smallpox, and have achieved the near-disappearance of illnesses such as polio, yet many adults refuse to vaccinate themselves and their children.

Vaccines are an essential agent in maintaining the general welfare of a community.

They save millions of lives each year by preventing widespread epidemics and protecting the public from a multitude of harmful diseases and the often-fatal complications that are linked to them.

It is our responsibility to remain up-to-date on our vaccinations in order to diminish the risk of contracting preventable illnesses. Living in a community requires adhering by a social contract, and being vaccinated for the most serious and common illnesses promotes a healthier environment where fewer people are sick, reducing the probability that contagious diseases spread.

Having the foresight to become immunized against diseases does not just spare one the unpleasantness of being

sick — it reduces the chances individuals are burdened with medical expenses or overcome by the stress of having someone close to them gravely ill.

Some individuals cannot be vaccinated due to allergies to some vaccine components, or individuals often may have a medical condition, such as cancer, weakening their immune systems and making vaccination dangerous. It is understandable for such individuals to remain un-vaccinated, however the majority of the population should still maintain a current vaccination regimen.

There are risks to becoming vaccinated for healthy individuals, but the consequences of contracting preventable diseases and illnesses are far worse than most of the vaccines’ side effects. It is less likely to experience an adverse reaction to a vaccine than it is to contract a preventable illness.

Neglecting to get vaccinated can cause a resurgence of diseases contracted during childhood, which can be especially dangerous and potentially fatal for the elderly. The resurgence of easily-preventable diseases such as pertussis — or whoop-

ing cough — is also an issue, with the CDC having recorded more than 48 thousand reported cases in 2012.

The Catholic Church teaches that the well-being of a society depends on the welfare of its inhabitants, and by maintain-

ing individual health through staying up-to-date on vaccinations, this societal obligation ensuring the community remains healthy is fulfilled.

A larger awareness of the importance of getting all medically-recommended vaccina-

tions needs to be promoted throughout the general public. As a community, it is our responsibility to make sure we are up-to-date on all vaccinations in order to foster a healthy and vibrant atmosphere for everybody.

IS BEING CONNECTED TO TECHNOLOGY 24/7/365 A GOOD THING?

“It’s good because you can reach your friends and family easily, but it’s good to be disconnected so you can experience what’s around you.”

— Jemima Scott, freshman

“It’s always nice to have technology as a resource that’s so readily available, but I feel like we’re almost becoming too dependent on it.” ­— Cameron Newman, sophomore

“I think we should disconnect when we’re with people, because we could lose social skills, but it’s good to find out what’s going on in the world.”

— Lillian Lachman, sophomore

“I think in some cases it’s excessive, but it’s more of a comfort knowing that I have my phone with me or my Facebook open when I’m doing work.”

— Abby Dolan, junior

“The downside is some apps are causing trust issues between the teacher and student in the classroom. We’re also so connected to our devices that we don’t always acknowledge what’s going on around us.”

— Zara de Matran, senior

KEEPIN’ IT RIEHLE Madison Riehle Editor-in-Chief

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s I lay awake at one in the morning, post-European History cramming, I turned on the Today’s Comedy station on Pandora to try to get my mind off of the homework I still needed to do and tests I needed to study for.

Among the unknown comics came a familiar voice from my childhood, the unmistakable animated vibrato of Robin Williams.

I grew up with Robin Williams — “Flubber” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” were undeniably my favorite movies, and not just because the set of the latter is four blocks from my house.

As I got older, “Night at the Museum” and “RV” became sleepover hits. And now, listening to Williams at 1 a.m., and watching “Good Will Hunting” in our theology seminar, he is still the funniest comedian, entertainer and actor of the 21st century.

That first time I heard Wil-

liams talk after he passed, I was shocked at the insensitivity of Pandora for playing his routine a few weeks after his death.

I later realized, when someone dies, they shouldn’t be put into a category of “He who should not be named.” Rather, a life should be celebrated and remembered for its achievements.

Since I was a kid, I found a sense of social acceptance in making people laugh. When I felt awkward or out of place, I made up for it with impressions and side comments that would usually ensue laughter.

This was, and sometimes still is, my secret alter ego.

When I look at Robin Williams and his legacy, the most important thing I’ve found is that when he went on stage, he didn’t care about being judged, and his main goal was making the crowd happy. For someone who suffered from depression, this was the place to take his

own alter ego.

I think for both of us, comedy is a way to forget about the insecurities that life presents us with, whether that is feeling uncomfortable in a situation, or just not feeling good enough.

As I write my college supplement essays, I often find the underlying question to be: How will you stand out within our community and the world?

These kinds of questions especially make me reflect on my life, making me wonder what my lasting impression will be, and especially wonder how I will be different from the norm.

Like my childhood icon, I hope my impact will be about standing out among the crowd, causing people to laugh and making someone the tiniest bit happier. If this is even a fraction of the difference I know Robin Williams made, I’ll be fine.

1. Giants have a shot at the Wild Card.

1. The regular season is coming to a close.

2. Emma Watson gives a speech on feminism at the United Nations headquarters.

2. Misogynists violently threatened Watson afterwards.

3. President Obama told the United Nations to take a stand against violent extremists in the Middle East.

4. Spirit week was this week.

5. Somali pirates freed American journalist Michael Scott Moore.

3. When arriving in New York for the speech, President Obama used a coffee cup to salute a Marine.

4. Some students chose not to participate.

5. Extremists have murdered three other journalists in the past two months.

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Does tech help keep us connected?

Madeleine Ainslie Managing Editor

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echnology is often scrutinized for disconnecting people and taking them out of the real world and into a universe made up of binary code instead of one dominated by other humans. In actuality though, technology connects people in ways that would otherwise be impossible.

Social media is a large component of technology and society as a whole. Sites like Facebook allow people to stay updated with family, friends and acquaintances, becoming the cheaper, more convenient, year-round Christmas card. It keeps friends involved in the lives of each other and doesn’t cost 49 cents to send.

One out of every 13 people on Earth are Facebook users and the average user has 130 friends, according to Facebook. Such social media platforms offer a convenient way to share information as a status or photo will appear on the homepage of — on average — 130 other people.

Social media connects users on an educational level as well. Ninety eight percent of schools use Facebook, according to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research.

Organizations and schools often use social media sites to spread information or connect with students and members as it is an inexpensive and easy way to reach a large audience.

Social media often also acts as a news outlet, with 48 percent of young Americans saying they get their news through Facebook, according to Facebook.

Connecting on social media gives people the ability to prepare what they want to say, leading to more confidence as 57 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds said they talk to people more online than they do in person, according to Online Schools.

Although the social advantages to technology are important, the ecological benefits are also noteworthy. Devices like the Kindle and iPad allow individuals to read novels, magazines and other publications without using paper, especially when 12 to 15 million hectares of forest are lost each year, the equivalent of 36 football fields per minute, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

Technology allows people to have connection at any location.

Forty five percent of 13 to 91-yearolds said they have more time for their family and friends because technology enables them to do work from anywhere, according to a survey by the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for the Digital Future and Bovitz Inc. Phones, laptops and television sets are so often accused of keeping people apart, blaming the lack of human connectivity on the dominance technology exerts on society.

Technology gives people the opportunity to be productive and connected, but it can often be easy to procrastinate because of its social convenience. Thus, it is the user who must decide to use technology and social media wisely.

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echnology connects, and yet it disconnects.

From Facebook to Snapchat to YouTube, any teenager with Internet access is not only in touch with what is going on in the world but with what is going on minute-by-minute with each of her friends. It can often be overwhelming and distracting as teens become more dependant on technology, making it harder and harder to step away from the virtual world and join in on reality.

The average teenager spends more than seven hours each day on a smartphone, computer or television, according to a study of 8 to 18-year-olds conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2010.

The time spent scrolling mindlessly through feeds takes time away f r o m school work and productivity — and especially time away from interacting with family members and friends beyond the social walls.

Teens who use social media are five times more likely to use tobacco and three times more likely to abuse alco-

hol, according to research by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

Teens who post pictures of themselves drinking or using drugs influence others who want to do the same.

Viewing pictures of peers with “more interesting” lives than their own can cause the user to feel inadequate and insecure.

Smartphones, although handy for giving directions or finding a restaurant to eat at, are ultimately more distracting than useful to teenagers. In an instant, a text can be sent and interrupt the person on the receiving end.

Although teens — and many adults — think they can deal with these constant distractions, only 2 percent of people are able to do so, according to a study by David Strayer at the University of Utah.

The drama that used to stay at school, before phones or Facebook, is now brought home with an individual, making cyberbullying a widespread problem. Because bullies can not only reach the target wherever he or she is, it also makes the act easier. Pressing “Send” is less difficult than a punch, and has a much longer effect.

Advertisements for new technology usually claim the product is the newest, fastest, model and that it will simplify the user’s life. The reality is it is quite the opposite. It drags in updates and notifications and people who need an answer back.

The first step is to take the initiative and put the phone down and limit the hours spent on social media. By cutting back on the unnecessary time spent on technology, more time can be allotted for real life interactions.

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henever I told my friends I was going on a service trip, a majority of the time they would give me a strange look and sarcastically respond with, “Who could you possibly be helping in France?”

Volunteer work took me to Lourdes, a recognized Catholic holy site of healing because of reported visitations from the Virgin Mary and more than 60 confirmed medical miracles.

A day’s work varied from greeting and escorting the sick pilgrims off of early-morning trains, ushering priests through thousands of worshippers during Communion, guiding pilgrims into the holy baths and creating a pathway for the candlelight procession.

During a group reflection, I shared the most fulfilling aspect of Lourdes was how I could see my actions directly benefiting others, which was especially true the day I worked in the baths.

The baths consist of two rooms separated by a curtain. In the first room, volunteers hold up a sheetlike robe to shield the undressing pilgrims, after which, they wrap the robe around the pilgrims as they wait to be escorted in the next room.

It’s one thing to hold up a towel while a friend changes, but doing this for a complete stranger in a cramped room filled with disrobing strangers who do not speak the same language was extremely uncomfortable.

Most of the time I communicated through hand gestures because I don’t speak French, which only made me feel more out of place, especially

when I had to motion to the pilgrims to take off bras and underwear.

The baths had been described to me by previous volunteers as one of the most spiritually satisfying aspects of the trip, but as I awkwardly stretched out my arms holding a robe, which had already been wrapped around hundreds of naked women and children, made it particularly difficult for me to reflect on a deeper meaning.

The volunteers rotated between working in the changing room and the bathing room, which had a rectangular gray marble bathtub with steps leading into the ice-cold water iconic to Lourdes.

During one of Bernadette’s apparitions, the village girl got down on all fours in the grotto and rubbed mud on her face while villagers watched skeptically.

Under this mud was a spring of water, which was later attributed to miraculously curing sick villagers and as well as the ill who traveled to Lourdes centuries later, therefore associating Lourdes water with healing and miracles.

As each pilgrim took off her robe at the top of the stairs, volunteers — who were usually seeing a tad too much of the pilgrim — would simultaneously wrap them in the same wet sheet used by everyone else who bathed that day.

With one volunteer on either side of the bath, we would hold onto the pilgrim’s upper arm and wrist while walking slowly down the two steps towards a small statue of the Virgin Mary mounted at the end of the tub.

“Cool, now this gets even more gross,” I thought as I dunked my hands in the freezing water everyone had bathed in — now with floating strands of hair and unidentifiable particles — to wash the sheet which had touched hundreds of bodies ranging from children to women well into their 70s.

All pilgrims regardless of their age, felt some sort of angst while standing at the edge of the bath, and it took an immense amount of self-control to not let my disgust and anxiety manifest on my face.

This anxiety and disgust was quickly overpowered by awe as I registered as to why so many people come to Lourdes. Holding onto the right arm of a pregnant woman who was brought to tears as she bent down to kiss the statuette, and then wore a blissful expression as she leaned back into the water seconds later.

It was humbling to assist someone in such a personal and spiritual moment.

Despite my feelings at the time, my actions were helping someone in an undeniably meaningful experience, in turn, making these brief encounters with strangers equally as meaningful.

I understood the reward of putting myself in an uncomfortable situation, after being forced to take leadership in an unfamiliar setting.

Not having the option to back out and being forced to rise to a challenge of more than three hours of non-stop human interaction in foreign surroundings has given me a newfound sense of confidence.

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CITY LIFE

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Upcoming City Events Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line and Tyler Farr Concert

Shoreline Amphitheatre Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.

Sam Smith Concert

Fox Theater Oakland Sept. 28 at 8 p.m.

Fleet Week-Parade of Ships

Friday Oct. 10th from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Off the Grid: Presidio Picnic and Food Truck Party

Sunday Sept. 28 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lorde Concert

Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 Greek Theatre, Berkeley, 8 p.m.

Alice Now and Zen Fest

Sept. 28 Sharon Meadow in Golden Gate Park (Gates open between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Show starts at noon and ends at 5 p.m.).

2014 Komen SF Bay Area Race for the Cure Sunday, Sept. 28 at 9 a.m. Ferry Building across from Justin Herman Plaza.

Christina Perri Concert

The Masonic, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m.

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URBAN REPURPOSING Gumball machines repurposed into golf ball dispensors contain the balls

used on the course at Urban Putt (top). Colorful putters await golfers (left). San Francisco resident Dan Sternfeld tees off at Hole 3, the Transamerica Windmill (right).

Mortuary remade as mini golf course

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n a former mortuary in the Mission is a carnivalesque miniature golf course, complete with replicated San Francisco scenes, drums and a robot controlling a grand piano.

Urban Putt isthe only miniature golf place within the San Francisco, but the 14-hole course is shy of the regular 18 due to space.

“I went over the summer for fun with my mom,” senior Christina Berardi said. “It is really cute. It’s in one big room, with a lot of holes, which were really creatively designed.”

The course opened on May 5 and took two years to complete from the beginning of the design process to the opening. After the city approved the permits, the construction took a year.

“Conceptually, I wanted to make sure the course itself matched the city,” Urban Putt

CEO Steve Fox said. “The basic idea here was to create something that would be new, that would be urban in feeling, as opposed to the kind of suburban half-acre plots, a plot that you might see somewhere else.”

The holes include a virtual, a skee-ball, a submarine hole and two holes that make use of vertical space by carrying the ball up, and shooting it down.

“It is in a smaller space so we to think in very different way in terms of construction and about what a mini golf hole ended up looking like,” Fox said. “That meant some of the holes we were coming up with were going to be vertical instead of horizontal.”

The design of the holes also pay homage to the city and the Mission neighborhood with two San Francisco-themed holes and a dia de los muertos hole, which also respects the the former mortuary.

“It’s great because you can

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play with your friends, but at the same time it’s challenging so you get to compete with your friends, Vu Pham, who was attended a Zinga party at the course, said.

“It was cool because the holes are so unique so every time someone goes, there’s a cool, different outcome.”

Along with the golfing, there is a full bar — for the over 21 set — on the main level and restaurant upstairs.

“It was cool because it wasn’t just a plain mini golf place that’s usually just some twists and turns,” Berardi said. “Everything is interactive and you could tell each hole was really well thought out.”

Prices start at $8 for children ages 5-12, and $12 ages 12 and up. The course is open on weekdays 4 p.m. to midnight and on weekends from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Only guests 21 and older are permitted after 8 p.m.

Urban Putt is at 1096 South Van Ness Ave, 415.341.1080.

What’s pumping in The City

Flash Tattoos A metallic take on temporary tattoos Flash tattoos are non-toxic, temporary tattoos that come in a variety of metallic hues and jewelry esque shapes.

They only last four to six days, but their glimmer and sparkle set them apart from longer lasting products such

as henna.

Flash tattoos can be found on many online shops and cost right around $20, coming in packs of three or four sheets. Flash tattoos are a beachy and lightweight alternative to normal jewelry.

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