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Convent of the Sacred Heart HS • San Francisco, California

Vol. 21, Iss. 3

3 EMBODY INDIA Graduate starts photo campaign on women rights

International thinkers 6 ‘NATURAL’ FOOD LABELS Food labeled ‘natural’ can mislead the buyer

In the 1970s the first AP class was offered to engage students at a higher level of thinking..

1805 The first "Plan of Studies" outlined the higher standards of education and the curriculum required throughout the Sacred Heart schools.

In 2009 teachers began to turn the traditional classroom upside down by "flipping the classroom'

7 YES MEANS YES California legislation outlines the definition of sexual assault

The international Baccalaureate program will begin in the Fall of 2016

9 HOOP DREAMS Basketball season starts up again with a new head coach

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12 DEPARTED SOULS Columbarium offers one of the few in-city resting place

International Baccalaureate courses may be introduced into the curriculum in the fall of 2016 after both high schools undergo a 2-year evaluation process.

Alyssa Alvarez Senior Reporter

If both Convent and Stuart Hall High Schools successfully complete a two-year review and evaluation process, current freshmen and sophomores will have the opportunity to engage in International Baccalaureate courses, beginning in Fall 2016.

The IB Diploma Programme is an academically challenging and balanced program of education that has received recognition from leading universities, according to the International Baccalaureate Organization.

“The reason it is recognized highly in college admission is because of the skills and abilities that a student graduates with,” President of Schools Dr. Ann Marie Krejcarek said. “They are excellent writers, excellent thinkers, global thinkers.”

The International Baccalaureate has four successive “programmes,” the Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme, Diploma Programme

and IB Career-related Certificate, for students aged 3 to 19. Both high schools plan on implementing the Diploma Programme for Grades 11 and 12 into the curriculum.

“I think what’s exciting about the IB program is that it has a very strong learner profile that outlines clearly the characteristics of the IB student,” Head of School Rachel Simpson said.

“Those qualities - such as reflective, inquiring, principled, compassionate, resonate deeply with the Goals and Criteria of Sacred Heart education.”

Current juniors and seniors will not participate in the Diploma Programme or any IB classes because schools must complete a candidacy process before they can begin registering students.

Current freshmen will have the chance to earn the full diploma and current sophomores can take IB courses during their senior year, but not receive a diploma for the program.

“It’s a two-year process,” Krej-

carek said about the review stage for the school. “The first step is having all of the teachers who would teach in the program trained so they have to do extensive professional development.”

Some teachers have recently completed their Category 1 training, which is the initial exploration of the IB program and courses.

“To be trained in IB, you have to create a very thorough plan of everything you are going to teach,” Simpson said. “Not just the content of what you are teaching but why you are teaching it and making connections to subject matter related to other parts of the program.”

Many schools within the Network of Sacred Heart Schools already have adopted the IB Program, according to Jaime Dominguez, Stuart Hall for Boys Head of School and Vice President for Curricular Alignment.

“The IB is something that has a global currency as a strong academic program,” Simpson said.

The IB Diploma Programme has six academic groups consisting of Studies in Language and Literature, Individuals and Societies, Mathematics, Sciences, Language Acquisition, and the Arts. Students choose one subject from each of the groups, but can elect to choose a sixth subject outside of the Arts.

Three or four of the courses must be taken at a higher level with 240 classroom hours and the other courses are taken at a standard level with 150 classroom hours. IB classes will be optional and open to all students.

“It really fits into our curriculum already in terms of academic preeminence,” Devin DeMartini Cooke, who is slated to become Convent’s IB Coordinator said.

“Students would be taking a history class that would be an IB history class as well as a language class as well as a math class.”

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QuickReads ►►S E N I O R S S P I K E I T

Varsity volleyball Senior Night against International High School starts at 5:30 p.m. tonight in the gym. ►►A GRAVE CELEBRATION

Students are invited to bring in mementos of deceased loved ones as a celebration of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day (Day of the Dead) for Monday Chapel. ►►STUDY SESSION

Students attend their G period class Thursday for the annual Evening School, an open house.

Students arrive at 5:30 p.m., and visitors observe classes from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. ►►TEACHER TALK

Classes will not be in session for students as parent/teacher conferences take place on Friday from noon to 4 p.m. ►►TEST RUN

Juniors can take a practice SAT Saturday, Nov. 8 from 9 a.m to 1 p.m. and a practice ACT the following Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ►►A PLAY ON WORDS

The coed production of the comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is showing Nov. 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. in the Syufy Theatre. Tickets are $10 at the door.

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GIANTS FEVER Junior Bec ka Padgett sports a Giants Jersey

on the day of Game 7 of the World Series. Students throughout the four schools were decked out in orange and black. See Orange, p. 9

►►FOR THE WIN

The Fall Sports Banquet recognizes athletes on Thursday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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There’s no place like home In the 3rd most expensive city in the U.S., housing demand outstips supply Madison Riehle Editor-in-Chief

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Most San Francisco residents agree, The City an expensive place to live. Housing options are confined to the seven square miles, and with an increasing housing market and an influx of Silicon Valley “techies,” young adults like Emma Fahy (’09) are experiencing the high cost of rentals as housing prices continue to rise.

“I am renting because I didn’t have the savings for a down payment after studying abroad my junior year of college, so I live with three girls” Fahy said. “I got lucky finding an apartment. A new building opened up in the Mission, I viewed it and signed the lease the same day as the showing.”

San Francisco is the third most expensive city in the United States, followi n g New York City and Honolulu, with the cost of living 61.2 percent above the national average

and the median home value at $750,9000, according to a 2014 Kiplinger survey.

“It’s incredibly challenging,” Farrell said. “San Francisco had always been an expensive place to live, and it has always been an issue. What we have is lack of planning for an increase of population growth combined with a rising economy, which has created this housing crisis today.”

The average college graduate makes around $50,000 a year, and the median San Francisco rental price is around $3,120 as of June 2014, according to Business Insider. For college graduates looking to come back to The City, finding a few roommates is a good way to alleviate the housing cost in the city, according to San Francisco District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell.

“Find some roommates in The City, or else it’s going to be very difficult,” Stephen Gomez, president of GPK and Associates, said. “It’s probably the best way to soften the pain of living here.”

In comparison to the rest of the country, California — and especially San Francisco — lacks sustainable affordable housing options.

Homes are considered affordable if the resident is paying no more than 30 percent of his or her income towards housing, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing. San Francisco was listed as being affordable to only 14 percent of Californians in second quarter of 2014, according to the California Association of Realtors.

“The market’s going to be cyclical no matter what,” Gomez

said. “Stock markets are always a good barometer for local real estate. When the stock markets are healthy and doing well, people are feeling wealthy and content, and that tends to make our market look better.”

An affordability, or housing, crisis differs from a housing bubble in that affordability is characterized by low supply and high demand alongside high rent prices, while in a bubble, prices are unexplainably high and rent prices are low, according to the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.

The state is currently in the worst affordability crisis since 1989, according to the National Association of Realtors.

“It’s a supply and demand situation,” Gomez said. “If the demand out ships the product then you’re going to have multiple buyers for properties and that’s going to push prices.”

The rise of lack of demand can be attributed to the fluctuations of the economy and job market, according to Gomez.

Fahy moved back to The City in 2013 after graduating from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. to work as an account executive. Fahy represents one in over 75,000 people who have moved to San Francisco in the last decade.

“As a city we have to prepare for the next economic downturn,” Farrell said. “When that is, is anybody’s guess. It’s not an if, but a when. We need to make sure we are prepared from an economic perspective and housing perspective.”

San Francisco has already be-

gun to take measures not only to plan for an economic downturn, with the potential passage of propositions like Prop. G, a 24 percent tax on multi-unit properties, but also with plans for future affordable housing developments that are still in the developmental stage in City Hall.

“Large developments around South of Market are going to have some impact on the number of housing units available right now,” Farrell said. “They should have some positive effect on the unaffordability right now of San Francisco in terms of our housing crisis.”

Housing projects for people who are being priced out of San Francisco include Hunters Point and Bayview, Parkmerced and Treasure Island.

“Over the course of — not only the next five years — but the next 10 to 20 years, these projects are going to produce tens of thousands of new units in San Francisco that will serve to relieve the pressure right now on our housing situation,” Farrell said.

Up to 8000 new homes and 140,000 square feet of new commercial and retail space will be built within the Treasure Island Development alone.

Construction is planned to start within the next six years, with 25 percent of the apartment spaces offered at a belowmarket rate, according to the Treasure Island Development Authority.

“Buying is still a goal of mine,” Fahy said. “My friends are here, family is in The City, my life is The City. Why live anywhere else?”

Schools investigating international program From International p. 1 ponent (CAS), which involves students in activities outside of their studies. The Theory of Knowledge is an additional critical thinking course within the IB that deepens students understanding of knowledge and nature of knowing.

“In a traditional academic program, there is an emphasis on providing students with a lot of content knowledge,” Dominguez said. “This program goes beyond just providing content knowledge, but really focuses on critical thinking and analysis that we value more than just feeding students with information.”

Tests and assessments in the IB are more aligned with critical thinking skills than content.

The marks for each course are graded on a scale of one to seven in which seven is the highest. A diploma is awarded to students who gain at least 24 points.

“We like that it aligns really well with our Sacred Heart Goals,” Dominguez said. “The other Sacred Heart Schools that have adopted it have been really helpful in helping us to see that this is exactly what Madeline Sophie Barat had in mind when she introduced the way in which she educated girls 200 years ago.”

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BACCALAUREATE Juniors Katherine Burkett and Sammi Lee participate in a lab focused on cell

respiration in AP Biology. The schools plan to continue to offer both AP courses as well as the IB program.

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Alumna founds blog for women’s rights Photo campaign spreads awareness of gender inequality in India

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Photos: Tiana Abdulmassih /With permission

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lege sophomore Roshnee Raithatha and senior Sachin Patel pose with playcards for the emBODYindia campaign.

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arvard students posed for photos as Tiana Abdulmassih (’11), stood behind the camera, taking photos for emBODYindia. emBODYindia is a photo campaign, intended to reach students all over the world, and spread awareness and support for women’s rights in India.

“The message is obviously a global one; it doesn’t necessarily only apply to India, it applies to people in the States as well, and all over,” Abdulmassih said. “The end goal is to get people from all countries participating and just discussing the problems they’re having and how we can help them.”

Abdulmassih and her roommate Disha Verma decided to take action through a photo campaign as a response to a scandal concerning Indian actress Deepika Padukone.

Typical women’s clothing in India is modest, consisting of yards of draped cloth and revealing clothing is looked down upon.

Indian culture has only recently accepted some forms of Western clothing, so Padukone making an appearance in a plunging neckline came as a shock. The Times of India Entertainment, a verified Twitter account posted a link to a video of Deepika Padukone with the caption “OMG: Deepika Padukone’s cleavage show!”

The video was taken down shortly after when Padukone responded “Supposedly India’s ‘LEADING’ newspaper and this is ‘NEWS’!!??” from her own Twitter account. The actress later added “YES!I am a Woman.I have breasts AND a cleavage! You got a problem!!??” in a Twitter post.

“My roommate was very upset about it, and she said she really wanted to do something,” Abdulmassih said. “We started brainstorming and decided to start a photo campaign.”

The blog features full-body portraits of individuals standing while holding homemade signs in front of them with messages like “My clothes don’t define me,” and “Feminism is… the RADICAL notion that women are human beings.’”

“I think they were smart by making it an image-based blog rather than a website stating a bunch of facts saying why we need feminism,” senior Zara de Matran said.

“It is engaging, and we get to see that it’s not just Indians representing feminism— it’s women, and men from all parts of the world.”

The team worked with the Harvard students, taking portraits for the campaign on campus for two days. Abdulmassih edited 17 photos originally and published the first round.

“We published the blog at midnight,” Abdulmassih said. “I went to bed around 2 a.m., and then woke up at 8 a.m. for class, went on the Internet to see how many hits we’d gotten, and we had actually gone viral in India, which was part of the main goal.”

The Women’s Studies class has found connections from the emBODYindia blog to Goal 3 of Schools of the Sacred Heart— “A social awareness that impels to action.”

“I think it’s relevant to Goal Three because it hits close to home for them, but they also open it up to a bigger community,” de Matran said. “They see the issue and take it to social media where it can be circulated and capture the attention of a bigger audience.”

Since the photos were published to the emBODYindia blog on Sept 24, the blog has gained 4125 followers of just Tumblr accounts, and continue to gain an average of 100 followers per day.

“We got contacted by a non-profit T-shirt maker, who helps with advocacy campaigns, and she said to me, ‘Hey, I made a T-shirt design for you guys, and all of the profits can go to whichever NGO (non-governmental organization) of your choice, are you guys interested?’”

Abdulmassih said.

Booster, the non-profit T-shirt company, is now selling for $15 on Booster’s and emBODYindia’s websites with proceeds going to benefit the national campaign No Country for Women, founded by college students at Brown University.

Students from 10 other schools around the world have contributed photos.

Abdulmassih is scheduled as a panelist of female entrepreneurs coming to speak to Convent students at an assembly on Jan 9.

“What we’re asking for isn’t necessarily out of the orFor more information dinary,” Abdulmasabout emBODYindia sih said. “It’s just for and a link to the blog, women to be treated scan the QR code. as equal.”

Centennial year concludes Telecast to Network schools closes year dedicated to memory of inspirational Sacred Heart educator Ariana Abdulmassih Senior Reporter

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he two high schools gathered in the Syufy Theatre to watch a telecast of the closing ceremony ending the year-long celebration of the life of Mother Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ whose writings on education still influence the Sacred Heart Community.

The Centennial Year opened with a telecast from the Convent and Stuart Hall Herbert Center on Oct. 21, 2013 and closed with a ceremony at the Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, New Jersey on Oct. 21, 2014, acknowledging the schools named after Stuart.

“I think the Centennial has brought a sense of interconnectedness and brought all the schools closer,” senior Maya Melrose said.

Every Network school was invited to create a prayer flag for the Opening Ceremony at Broadway where the flags were blessed and then individual flags were distributed to the Network schools for the remainder of the year.

“The flags were a symbol of our interfaith community here at our schools, being sent on a sacred journey representing Janet Erskine Stuart’s past travels and experiences of new places,” Kristen Monfredini, CES Campus Minister said.

The schools returned the flags to Stuart Country Day School for the Closing Ceremony, and each school will receive its original flag back.

Each Network school also created a stepping stone for a Janet Erskine Stuart garden on the campus of Stuart Country Day School in honor of Stuart’s life achievements as an educator and Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

During the Closing Ceremony, viewers watched a video of students from participating Network schools presenting their stepping stones.

“When I was watching the video, I saw how all the schools were contributing, and it put into perspective how connected the different schools are, but also how we are all working towards a common goal,” Melrose said.

Janet Erskine Stuart was an inspirational educator who left writings on education that transcend time and fit 21st century educational values and aspirations, according to Head of School Rachel Simpson.

“She had the courage to go her own way,” Simpson said. “What really sticks out for me is her intense sincerity, thoughtfulness and commitment to the idea that for each of us, life is a journey of progress and transformation, of successes and failures.”

As part of the centenary year, SHHS Theology Chair Ray O’Connor and Campus Minister Sergio Vasquez attended a twoweek conference and pilgrimage that was held in London in the summer of 2014.

“The first week was spent on a conference at Roehampton University,” O’Connor said. “We gathered with educators from the university itself and other RSCJ and presented papers on Janet Erskine Stuart’s background, history and educational philosophy.”

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STEPPING STONE The stepping stone made by students at CES and SHB representing the Sacred Heart Schools of San Francisco for the Janet Erskine Stuart garden.

The second week included a five-day retreat located an hour outside of London, featuring presentations by RSCJ on who Janet Erskine Stuart was and where she traveled.

“There is still a great deal for us to learn from Janet Erskine Stuart today,” O’Connor said. “She will always be an eternal source of insight, wisdom and learning and that is what the conference and retreat were all about.”

Stuart was an educator that believed in growth mindset, risk taking and having the courage to fail, according to Simpson.

“We are very lucky as Sacred Heart Schools to have a foundational thinker of her caliber,” Simpson said. “Janet Erskine Stuart is really someone who differentiates us, giving us a rich tradition of transformation and innovation.”

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Landing an international education

Looking abroad

The decision to apply internationally is influenced by subject major, cultural immersion, tuition and distance.

Julia-Rose Kibben & Delaney Moslander Senior Reporters

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omorrow is the deadline for many early admission and decision applications and supplements for American colleges, with regular applications closing within the next two months, but senior Zoë Baker still has time to complete her application to University of British Columbia which is not due until mid-March.

Many foreign schools such as the University of British Columbia, University of St Andrews in Scotland and Trinity College Dublin have finite deadlines in the spring, but applications can be submitted anytime before the deadline with a guaranteed decision two to four weeks after submission.

“The deadline isn’t until March 15,” Baker said. “It is really nice and makes the process a lot less stressful.”

Six students have matriculated to international schools over the past five years, according to College Counseling Director Rebecca Munda.

“It’s a very similar application process for schools that are also in the U.S.” Munda said. “Some international schools are on the Common Application but many have their own application.”

Most international schools require students to declare a major in the application process, unlike many American universities where applicants have the option to apply undeclared.

“Studying art history in Europe allows me to immerse myself much more with the culture and relate that to my education,” senior Hannah Baylis, who is

applying to University of St Andrews, said. “There is a much richer history of art and architecture in Europe and being able to attend school there would be a dream.”

Some students are drawn into applying internationally because schools outside of the country have strong programs pertaining to their area of interest, giving students the ability to focus on specific majors and cut out other required non-major curriculum, according to Munda.

“UBC has the exact major I want to study,” Baker said about pursuing a major in global resource systems. “Other schools offer similar majors, but nothing exactly like it.”

Around 30 percent of students at University of St Andrews are international students, with Americans making up approximately 15 percent, according to the St Andrew’s University website.

“I think it’s great because I know that, specifically for University of St Andrews, a huge percentage of their students are from around the world and aren’t from Scotland,” senior Anna Lyons said. “That’s a big plus — getting to meet people from around the world.”

Cultural changes and differences can affect the decision to apply, according to Baylis.

“It would be a fun and new experience to stretch outside of my comfort zone and travel to a different country for college,” Baylis said. “As much fun as the typical Greek life and football team sounds, there is something about being immersed in a completely different culture that draws me in.”

International colleges may not be for everyone.

“It takes a certain type of student because it is a big leap of faith for a student to not only transition to college, but to leave the country as well,” Munda said.

Applying to schools in Canada, like UBC, gives students the

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There is something about being immersed in a completely different culture that draws me in. ­—Hannah Baylis

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opportunity to have the experience of studying internationally while staying relatively near home.

“Once I thought about it, schools in Dublin and London seemed too far,” Baker said.

“But I still liked the idea of going abroad for college, so UBC was perfect. It’s still in another country, but it’s only a two-hour flight.”

Some students are attracted to the distance factor, according to Jocelyn Friday (’09), who recently graduated from the University of St Andrews.

“The reason I chose to attend an international school and the main benefit I found is that it gives me a global perspective,” Friday said. “I’ve studied with

students from all over the world, a more diverse background than you would find in the United States, more diverse socioeconomically because schools are cheaper.”

Many colleges offer financial help specifically directed towards international students.

“In terms of students looking to go to school in Canada, financially this can be very attractive because schools in Canada are similar in cost to UCs in California,” Munda said. “It actually can be quite affordable for students.”

Living abroad can make travel in Europe easier.

“If you do go there on your weekends or spare time — if you have saved up enough money — you can travel to different places in Europe and really have an understanding for that continent and not just necessarily the place where you spend your four years.” Lyons said.

Convent hosts 80 to 100 visits a year from college representatives to introduce students to as many options for colleges as possible, according to Munda.

“Convent has been really good at having college representatives from international schools come to school and meet with the students,” Lyons said. “They’ve been really encouraging throughout the process.”

International schools can offer the perfect fit for some students, bringing a new perspective they otherwise found unattainable.

“Studying abroad offered me the ability to live a life that I’ve always dreamed of,” Friday said.

“It represented the opportunity to build and to create a life that I did not see as possible from the U.S.”

“I want to be able to see other parts of the world while also being able to get to know a place, another city really well and not just a place where I can go to travel, but where I can get a good education out of it and just have a good time.” ­— ­Siobhan Lewkowitz

“I’m intrigued with the idea of stepping out of my comfort zone and immersing myself into a new culture. The idea of being so close, geographically, to European opportunities is of course very appealing as well. St Andrew’s is a highly regarded university, especially in the art history field which is my area of interest.”

— ­Hannah Baylis

“I love their programs, and I like the idea of being independent and studying abroad but it’s also really nice because I have family close to there.”

— Anna Lyons

AP trips supplement curriculum Madeleine Ainslie Managing Editor

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MUSEUM The AP Art History class observes and analyzes the

Penitent Magdalen by Georges de la Tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The class traveled down to Los Angeles to visit six museums before taking the AP test.

hile AP classes are notorious for teaching to the test, Convent teachers find ways to incorporate both day and overnight trips to augment classes and enrich the set curriculum.

“We took stats on the game for statistics and applied it to a project,” AP Statistics student Rachel Booth said about attending a Giants game with her class in September. “My group for the project did stats on all the runs, and we made graphs on it, made box plots and calculations and then turned it in for a grade.”

The AP Program offers 36 courses in a wide variety of subject areas, according to the College Board, and last year Convent offered 18 different exams.

“We’ve always done AP differently,” Science Department Chair Ray Cinti said. “One of our goals is academic pursuit and excellence, but overall it’s building personal growth and I think that trumps the quest for a particular score, what we are trying to instill is beyond the love of learning.”

Cinti takes his AP Biology class on a four-day trip to Yosemite National Park every year before the first week of school.

“The AP philosophy is getting a ‘five,’ but our school philosophy is belief in a student’s personal growth,” Cinti said. “Its very core is to take the student where they are and allow them the opportunity.”

Students find the trip beneficial to help them understand biology in real-world situations.

“Some of the things we did in Yosemite was based off the summer reading,” senior Sarah Niehaus, who took AP Biology last year said. “We went hiking, we went to a river and collected some little bugs that live under the rocks in the river and counted them, and checked the PH of the river and the oxidation level.”

Approximately 4.2 million exams were taken by more than 2.3 million students at over 19,000 high schools last year, according to the College Board.

“It appears on the surface that this type of experience isn’t going to manifest into the students’ ability to answer a multiple choice question on an AP exam,” Cinti said. “That speaks to the fact that the exam is not the ultimate goal for the class.

It’s one of the goals to be successful on that exam, but more importantly to instill a love of the subject. The biology trip to

Yosemite National Park, focuses on getting students ready for the start of the academic year, while the yearly AP Art History trip to Los Angeles is designed to help students prepare for their final AP exam.

“I immerse my students in art,” Sonia Evers, AP Art History teacher, said. “We usually go to four or five museums. Being in front of an art piece is a very different than being in the classroom looking at a screen.

Students respond to the piece and everything starts to make sense.”

Last year’s three-day trip actually covered six museums about two weeks before the AP exam.

“There’s a lot of things that we learned about, but when we experienced it, the painting or the work gave us this feeling that couldn’t be studied,” senior Christina Braa, who took AP Art History last year said. The trip not only helped students on the exam, but also gave them a greater appreciation for art.

“It gave me lots of examples to work from and it was easier to remember things that we saw in the museum because it had more impact on our memory,” Braa said. “It gave me more details to use in the essays.”

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racking her daily expenses from Tully’s Coffee runs to clothing purchases into an Excel spreadsheet, senior Alexandra Wood emails her monthly spendings to her mother, who checks the records before giving Wood the next month’s allowance.

“I learned about the importance of saving,” Wood said. “Even if I have money in my account, I need to just fill up a nice savings account for college.”

Like many other high schoolers, Wood manages her money in preparation for college and beyond, learning financial skills and the importance of having a budget.

“Young people, on average, tend to have a high percentage of discretionary income, meaning a high percentage of the money they take in can be used more freely because they are not paying household expenses,” Susan Sharkey, Director of the National Endowment for Financial Education High School Program, said. “They have an advantage in which they have a few dollars they can always put away and get into the habit of saving money.”

Whether students work or receive an allowance, the rationale in spending and saving money is the same, according to Eddy Gutierrez, Vice President Senior Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch.

“The whole idea of finance is taking some of your earnings or allowance and putting it away, knowing you’re not going to spend it right away,” Gutierrez said. “You then spend the rest of your money wisely as opposed to blowing it all away in a week.”

Eighty-six percent of teenagers said they would rather learn about money management in the classroom than make finan-

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cial mistakes in the real world, according to a 2011 Charles Schwab survey. Learning how to budget money comes

into play when students enter college.

“In a couple of years, you’re going to be out on your own, living on your own and relying on yourself,” Gutierrez said. “You need to learn how to manage money so you have ideas around budgets. It’s important to start in high school as opposed to in college.”

Sharkey recommends creating savings accounts where money will be less tempting to spend as well as a checking account with just enough money for regular spending.

“As your saving builds up, I would also consider moving it to a certificate of deposit (CD) because it earns interest more frequently or investing in mutual funds that grow over the average inflation rate of approximately 3 percent,” Sharkey said. “You want to look for ways you can grow your money and make it work for you.”

It is not too early for teens to think about the future in terms of retirement and an emergency fund.

“I would suggest saving for retirement as soon as you get a job,” Sharkey said. “If you start early, it will pay off because the money can be invested, helping it grow faster for retirement.”

The importance of having enough emergency savings was among the top lesson learned from the recession by teens, earning 73 percent of votes in the Charles Schwab survey.

“Creating an emergency fund, a pool of money that will grow systematically, gives you that cushion of emergency money,” Gutierrez said. “You’re less reliant on asking for money in the event of an unexpected expense.”

Some high schools offer teens the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience on money management, forming skills of discipline needed for personal finance habits.

Economics teacher Michael Steinbrecher instructs students to record expenses and then speak with their parents on their monthly budget for college, comparing the numbers.

“The only way to manage your money wisely is to not give in to urges,” Steinbrecher said. “You need to learn to make substitution choices and have limits on buying so you don’t live beyond your means.”

Being unaware of such limits can result in debt and restrict financial freedom, which is especially easy when using credit cards.

“So many youngsters make mistakes with credit cards because they are easy to get and use,” Steinbrecher said. “A destroyed credit rating will take decades to fix, and if you don’t

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manage your money well, no one will lend you any. That’s going to have huge ramifications.”

Holding a job is one way students can become more conscious of their financial spending.

“It’s made me think twice about the money I spend,” junior Franny Eklund, who has worked at Pacific Puffs since the beginning of summer, said. “Before I buy things, I’ll think ‘This costs this many hours of work.’ It’s made me more frugal, which is good in preparation for college.”

Students have also pursued an interest in economics through personal projects, learning about basic economic theories.

“My partner and I created an online resource for teens,” junior Willa Hegarty, who studied teen finance for her Sophomore Project with junior Sophia Slacik, said. “There they can learn about the fundamentals of the stock market and different techniques to manage their money through videos we produced.”

The National Financial Educators Council reported that youth from over 40 states scored an average of 59.6 percent on their National Financial Literacy Test, indicating the number of teens uneducated in finance.

“When I first heard about finance on NPR (National Public Radio), it seemed like one big ambiguous concept,” Slacik, who is also co-treasurer of the Junior Class with Hegarty, said. “After learning about the stock market and getting some basic knowledge, I now understand finance’s major influence in world affairs, and I can comprehend more news topics.”

Bad habits can develop as a consequence of not wisely managing money and being financially uneducated, according to Gutierrez.

“If you accustom yourself to going through money the moment you get it, then 10 years later you’ll be living paycheck-to-paycheck,” Gutierrez said. “If there’s an interruption in the paycheck flow, you won’t have a safety net to fall back on.”

By building a financial foundation in high school, teenagers can develop skills that will help them throughout life.

“The goal should be building good habits,” Gutierrez said. “That way when you go into the workforce and start making money, you already have that frame of mind where the moment you earn money, you allocate a certain amount to saving and reasonably spend the rest.”

“In college, my mom won’t be there to check on my spending,” Wood said. “I’ll be able to get a job and save my money.”

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ags of snack foods like Lay’s Potato Chips, Cheetos and Tostitos boasting the words “all natural” in bold letters fill the grocery store snack aisles, but consumers looking for a healthy nosh might be better served in the produce section.

“Hundreds of articles in the grocery store will say ‘natural ingredients’ or ‘100 percent natural’ or ‘98 percent natural,’ ‘natural fruit flavors’ and that doesn’t mean that it’s actually natural,” Rhiannon Salter, a former food public relations officer who is nutrition certified said.

The Food and Drug Administration has no official definition for the world “natural” or authority over how the term is used.

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the food has probably been processed and is no longer the product of the earth,” the FDA wrote in a consumer factsheet on nutrition.

The agency allows the use of the term if the food item does not contain added color, artificial flavors, or synthetic substances.

“Natural foods should be unprocessed in a way that they maintain their nutritional values and properties,” Cory Reddish, a

licensed naturopathic doctor said.

“They shouldn’t be bleached or dyed or contain things like additives or preservatives.”

Companies often appropriate the term to attract consumers wanting healthier options, according to Salter.

“The term ‘natural’ has been hijacked by different food companies to mean something else,” Salter said. “They can get away with that because companies argue that the chemicals they are using in their products occur in nature so the product is natural.”

Senior Connolly Steigerwald, a cashier at at Greens and Company, a local, organic cold pressed juicery, says the term natural has a broader meaning.

“Natural can actually mean that foods might contain ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, which is still allowed to be considered natural, while organic products have stricter rules considering the use of pesticides, growth hormones, and pesticides,” Steigerwald said.

“Even though that doesn’t really reflect my definition of natural, ‘natural’ doesn’t actually imply much about the quality of the products.”

“It seems crazy to need a definition for natural, but without it companies find ways to exploit the term,” Salter, who also teaches history and advises the Food Justice club, said.

About two-thirds of consumers said they believe the term means that a processed food has no artificial ingredients, pesticides or genetically modified organisms, according to a survey of 1,000 people conducted by Consumer Reports National Research Center.

“When I did food PR, I had to take a claim and make it newsworthy,” Salter said. “It was com-

plicated because there are certain ways to imply things and lead the consumer in a certain direction without actually saying it. It’s manipulating words.”

Word manipulation seems to be working. Sixty percent of shoppers said they look for the term “natural” on food labels, according to a Consumer Reports survey.

“On the nutrition facts of a product, there is no recommended daily value for sugar,” Salter said. “The Sugar Lobby doesn’t want consumers to see how much of their advised daily percent of sugar they’re consuming in just one serving.”

Products can be derived from natural ingredients, but adding an excess of ingredients like sugar or high fructose corn syrup can reduce its health benefits, according to Reddish.

“So many products used high fructose corn syrup for so long that eventually the horrible implications of high fructose corn syrup were made public,” Reddish said. “Because of the public’s pushback companies are now scaling back on how much high fructose corn syrup they add in their products and using real sugar and finding that it’s healthier.”

Fifty-nine percent of global consumers have difficulty understanding the food label nutritional facts, according to the Nielsen Company.

“I like to use the classic rule to look on the labels and see if you can pronounce everything on the label before buying something,” Steigerwald said. “As I become more conscious of what I eat, I always find myself buying foods that I can look at the labels on and I know what everything is. The less processed the better.”

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can be expensive and also time consuming, according to Steigerwald.

“I would love to be one of those families who goes to the local farmers market every weekend and stocks up for the week,” Steigerwald said. “Unfortunately, that doesn’t really work because my siblings eat a ton and can be

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picky, and my mom isn’t much of a cook. I would love to cook meals from locally grown ingredients, but I just don’t have the time right now.”

Other drawbacks to consumers buying natural food products are the cost, according to Reddish.

“The more processed something is the cheaper it tends to be,” Reddish said. “If companies can manufacture more of a product it will be cheaper, but a lot of times natural foods are made in smaller quantities and with less processed ingredients which in turn are more expensive, driving up the price.”

Because natural foods are more expensive, healthy options tend to only be available in wealthier neighborhoods.

“Good, healthy food is not available in areas of higher need where people can’t afford it but

there’s lots of cheap, unhealthy choices like McDonald’s,” Salter said. “There’s a Whole Foods in Pacific Heights, but finding a Whole Foods in Hunter’s Point or the Western Addition is really difficult.”

These food deserts further divide social classes and contribute to higher rates of obesity in individuals of lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

“It’s important to be educated about where food is coming from because consumers are given more power than they realize,” Salter said. “Teenagers have the financial power to start buying real, whole, natural foods and by doing so showing companies that that is what is important and enticing to them.”

While it is important to eat healthily, a fixation on one’s diet can be damaging, according to Salter.

“In Western culture we’ve gotten to a point where we have such an unhealthy obsession with food,” Salter said. “We are obsessed with food and with picking it apart for the nutrients it contains. We are obsessed with weight, and yet America is the second most obese nation in the entire world.”

Mexico surpassed the United States as the most obese country in July, according to the Associated Press, with 32.8 percent of Mexican adults considered obese, compared to 31.8 percent of adults in the United States.

Eating less processed food and more natural food, especially produce, is the easiest thing people can do for their health, according to Salter.

“When people eat foods with lots of additives and chemicals, consumers essentially lose control of what they’re putting in their bodies,” Salter said.

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‘Yes means yes’ California enacts new legislation redefining sexual assault and requiring affirmative consent from both parties

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ecent state legislation singling out public colleges and universities more clearly establishes the line between consensual sex and rape as defined by the “Yes means yes” legislation.

Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill after the California State Senate unanimously voted to enact “Yes means yes” for California late last month. The new bill defines consent as, “an affirmative, unambiguous and

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conscious decision” by both individuals during a sexual action. “‘Yes means yes’ is more concrete way to look at it because with the word yes people actually have to get some sort of acknowledgment, it makes the grey area smaller,” Madalyn Rokisky-Ring (’07) who has been vocal about the California Institute of the Arts’ alleged lack of pursuing sexual assault cases said. “With ‘No means no,’ one can claim she didn’t say no, but she didn’t say yes. The new bill requires a verbal confirmation such as ‘Yes, I want this,’ or ‘I want to participate in this.’”

The previous definition, “No means no,” was blamed for creating a lack of decisiveness and failure in sexual assault cases on college campuses. The new legislation outlines the boundary between consent and defines lack of consent as being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or a state of being asleep.

The bill applies to colleges and universities that accept state financial aid funding and outlines investigations regarding campus sexual assault cases in which recklessness or intoxication on behalf of the accused is not compliant with consent. It is the duty of each partner involved in a sexual situation to assure that affirmative consent is not silence, or a lack of resistance or protest according to Senate Bill No. 967.

“The strength of the new bill is attributed to the fact that they are encapsulating intoxication levels and whether the person is conscious or not during a sexual activity,” Rokisky-Ring said. “It’s hard because the personal life of the student is touchy. A lot of

things happen off campus which the administration can’t really control.”

Institutions receiving state funds must create partnerships with community-based organizations to direct students to agencies for assistance or create student services including mental health, counseling, legal assistance, victim advocacy and will include services for the accused.

The bill requires universities to adopt a “victim-centered” response policy regarding sexual assault, dating, stalking and domestic violence. It will also implement programs to prevent future assaults which focuses on the concerns and needs of sexual assault victims.

“A victim-based policy takes away from the culture that coddles sexual offenders, claiming that he was a good student, an active member of his community or an all-star athlete,” senior Siobhan Lewkowitz, who took Women’s Studies last year, said.

“It takes away from past cases where they placed the blame on the victim.”

Outreach programs will educate the student body, oncampus organization, student groups, and athletic teams about the institutions sexual assault policies. It is the responsibility of the student body to follow the bill and uphold the established affirmative consent standards.

“It gives guidelines for an administration as to handle a situation, I know there have been rules in the past but they have never been this finite,” RokiskyRing said. “It is a joint participation between the student in question and the administration.

It is up to the administration to provide a safe environment, but it is also up to the students to enforce the regulation.”

Approximately 35 women out of every 1000 college students are raped during the academic year, but less than 5 percent of college rape cases are reported, according to The Sexual Victimization of College Women National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statics.

“There is a lot of sublimation of women that goes on in our culture that people do not really notice,” senior Gaby Messino, who is enrolled in Women’s Studies, said. “It is our society that adds to this rape culture. As citizens, we have to be the ones to stop it and point out the subtle things that people have intertwined into our society and have gone without notice, becoming almost ‘normal,’ so to speak.”

Refusal verses consent can create an unclear boundary, but the clarity of hearing “Yes” versus the confusion facing the word “No” clearly outlines the difference between assault and agreement which is now embedded into California Law. “A big aspect of rape culture is that it is not black and white, for example when the assaulted did not say yes but they did not say no,” Mesino said. “It’s more important to get the approval, not the disapproval. It’s the question,

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‘Is it rape?’ and the answer is, ‘Yes it is.’”

University of California, Berkeley freshman Kellie La (’14) says she is concerned about the party atmosphere which attributed to a student being recently arrested on the charges of rape, but was not held because of lack of evidence.

“When girls on campus talk about partying, there’s often discussion of which fraternities to avoid because they ‘roofie,’” La said, referring to the use of a common date-rape drug. “It’s disappointing to see that certain houses have reputations and girls have to make the conscious decision to avoid them in order to stay safe, rather than assuming that they can have a good time without the danger of being drugged. Staying safe has become the girl’s responsibility.”

The “Carry that weight” campaign led by Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz, who says she was sexual assaulted in her dorm room the first day of her sophomore year, has promoted publicity surrounding sexual assault in universities at an international level.

“It is a bold and symbolic move the girl took in protest,”

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La said about Sulkowicz carrying her mattress around campus.

“There have been other cases of victims protesting assault and lack of administrative help at universities in the past, but her form of protest made the situation all the more real and tangible for people.”

The new California legislation sets a standard that applies to women as well a men, creating a well-defined boundary for all students as they grow as individuals and develop sexual relations by highlighting that consent is not silence, drunkenness or a lack of resistance.

“It goes back to teaching men that women are not these sexual objects, but it’s hard because sexuality can’t always be talked about in a non-provocative way,” Rokisky-Ring said “I think it is a broad conversation that has to start before students reach college, outlining that women are equal partners with men and that just because one girl wears a shorter skirt she is no different than any other girl.”

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There are 35.5 sexual assaults over a 6.91 month period.

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35% of attempted rapes, 12.8% of rapes, and 23% of threatened rapes occurred during a date.

9 out of 10 female college students personally know their offender.

2 3 2/3 of sexual assault victims did not report to school officials or relatives.

Students living in sorority housing are 3 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault, as opposed to students living in on-campus dormitories.

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Students who engage in binge drinking in high school are more likely to experience rape while intoxicated.

1 in 4 women report surviving an attempted rape or a rape within her lifetime.

88% of female students have never consumed an unattended drink.

76% of students have never consumed a drink handed to them by a stranger.

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inderella lost her shoe as she fled the ball, possibly because wearing heels made it impossible for her to run due to the pain in her feet, illustrating even princessesto-be can experience negative effects in their feet when they wear heels.

Although popular for footwear, wearing heels can negatively affect the foot structure, ankle and posture, causing pain and possible long-term damage which may require surgery.

“Anything over two inches will force a woman’s weight to go over her forefoot as opposed to her rearfoot,” Dr. Mark Co, a podiatric physician and surgeon, said. “When women wear high heels, the smaller forefoot bones are now bearing the weight of the body as opposed to the larger rearfoot bones that are designed to carry more weight.”

Wearing heels daily forces the foot to adapt to being arched and eventually the foot will be unable to contract into the position of a flat shoe.

“If you wear heels all the time, your foot gets used to being in a pointed position and your calf muscle and Achilles tendon get tighter,” Co said. “Subsequently, when you go barefoot or wear a flat shoe, since you are used to a pointed position,

it puts more pressure onto the forefoot.”

Despite knowing the consequences, 39 percent of women say they wear heels on a daily basis as a fashion statement, according to the American Podiatric Medical Association. High school girls, despite enduring pain, continue to wear shoes ranging from pumps to platforms to wedges at school dances, according to freshman Edna Tesfaye.

“I have knee problems, so I am not necessarily supposed to wear them,” Tesfaye said about wearing heels to dances. “I still wear them since I feel short around my friends, to feel taller.”

Certain styles of dance may require dancers to wear heels, according to junior Catherine Heinen, who takes dance classes at Star Dance Studio.

“For my salsa dance class, we wear 2 1/2 to 3-inch heels,” Heinen said. “It’s harder, but it pays off since we have to focus on staying in relevé (lifting of the heel off the ground) and keeping ourselves upright when we dance. Usually, only the ball of my foot hurts the most, but only for a little while.”

Wearing heels affects the bones in the base of the foot and causes greater harm to areas of previous injury.

“Wearing heels can result in tight calves,” Co said. “Tight calves can make any problem in

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the foot worse. Tight calves can create conditions such as plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, stress fractures, and can make conditions such as bunions and hammertoes worse.”

Any woman with a preexisting bunion, a painful bump on the joint next to the big toe that forces that toe to bend towards the other toes, is not advised to wear heels since they will continue to cause damage, according to Co. Yet many women still choose to wear heels after feeling bunion pain.

“Heels definitely have a certain aesthetic and are an icon of femininity,” Co said. “They’re a way to express female attractiveness and power. From a psychological perspective, it makes a lot of sense why women would wear heels and why they become part of their identity.”

“I think heels can be a fashion statement,” Heinen said.

“There’s a lot of creativity in what heels can look like with colors and styles. I think wearing heels now and then is good, but they should be more for special events for looking bold.”

The foot pain can be managed, but if pain continues, women should see a podiatrist so the foot doesn’t receive further damage.

“There you can get examined to see whether you need to make changes to your shoes,” Co said.

HEELS The bones in the foot are restricted in the heel, which causes the center of balance to shift forward and up.

This can cause knee complications along with discomfort in the arch of the foot.

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POSTURE Heels have been proven to affect the posture of

women who wear them over long periods of time, causing curvature of the spine and slouching. Women who wear flat shoes are less likely to develop bad posture and foot problems.

Don’t snooze? You lose Lack of sleep has harmful effects on teen development Tatiana Gutierrez Editor-in-Chief

“Grades, social life or sleep, pick two,” is a running joke between students who manage to balance their demanding course loads with extracurriculars like sports and jobs.

“I would say that I don’t get sleep because my job runs pretty late,” senior Franny Eklund said. “Once I get home, I tend to be pretty tired, so I want to just hang out for a little. By the time that’s over, I have to start homework, which usually takes a few hours.”

Teens need a little over nine hours of sleep every night to properly function throughout the day, according to the National Sleep Foundation.

“Generally there are a lot of things that can affect somebody who does not get enough sleep,” Dr. Hans Yu, who practices internal medicine said. “You are more likely to get sick, gain weight and lose your concentration and are more forgetful. People become more anxious and jumpy and on edge.”

Sleep deprivation can lead to a lower stress threshold, impaired memory and trouble concentrating, according to the National Sleep Foundation.

“I generally get around six hours of sleep during the school week,” Eklund said. “If I don’t finish my homework that night, then I have to wake up early in the morning to finish the rest of it, usually around 5 a.m.”

Chronic lack of sleep can cause hypertension, heart disease, irregular heart rate, stroke and diabetes.

It is natural for teens to not fall asleep by 11 p.m. because biological sleep patterns shift towards later times during adolescence, according to the

National Sleep Foundation.

“I try and get as many hours of sleep as possible and usually get around seven to eight hours a night,” junior Isabella Coolins said. “Even if there is a night when I don’t have a lot of homework, it can be hard for me to fall asleep super early.”

Fifteen percent of teens reported they get at least eight hours of sleep on weeknights, according to the National Sleep Foundation, compared to 10 percent of Convent students, according to a survey of 157 students.

Individuals who sleep less than the recommended hours may not enter deep sleep, REM, which is necessary for complete rest, according to Yu. “When we’re in our delta stage the body basically rejuvenates,” Yu said.

“Everything slows down when you are in delta sleep, and some of the systems become less active which allows for them to reset themselves.”

REM sleep stimulates the region of the brain associated with learning, and sleep plays a role in the consolidation of memory, according to the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

“The few times I stay up late to finish my homework, the following day I am too tired to concentrate or I say things without thinking,” senior Alanna Hu, who has morning practice for crew at 4:45 a.m. said. “Most of the time by second period I am so tired that it is hard to concentrate.”

The consolidation of memory is necessary for learning new information, according to Harvard Medical School.

Sophomore Bella Maestas started the Relaxation Club to offer students a

time during the day to rest and reduce any anxiety they might be experiencing.

“I created the club because I wanted to be able to calm down the morning of a test,” Maestas said. “There are a few girls in our community who have anxiety and it’s always great to provide a place where your friends can relax while in a stressful environment.”

Anxiety can cause sleep problems or make existing sleep problems worse, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

“It’s important for people to get a certain amount of relaxation in their day,” Maestas said. “When your mind doesn’t receive a break, stress builds up. This can cause anxiety and meltdowns especially in teens.”

Creating and following a schedule for homework and extracurriculars while incorporating time to sleep can allow for a regular sleep schedule since sleep becomes habitual.

“I do homework on the weekends,” Hu said. “For homework due on Tuesday, the days I have morning practice, I generally do it on Saturdays, or do it the night before if I didn’t stick to my homework schedule I created for myself.”

Ninety-seven percent of Convent freshmen, 88 percent of sophomores and all juniors and seniors report homework as a main reason for not sleeping, according to a Broadview survey.

“I lose concentration pretty easily and I can’t really listen to lecture because I’m super sleepy,” Eklund said. “I don’t get to sleep because I am trying to get everything done, but at school I can’t pay attention. It’s a pretty frustrating cycle.”

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Orange October Giants win in Game 7 of the World Series

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iants fans’ can rejoice after “Orange October” ending with the Giants winning game seven of the World Series against the Kansas City Royals.

Games 3, 4 and 5 were played at AT&T park with the Giants losing Game Three, but winning Four and Five.

“People were definitely a little bummed,” Katie Carlson (’10), who works as an intern for the Giants in the Media Relations department during the playoffs said. “We knew that we had to win all three at home in order to clinch the World Series in San Francisco. But overall, spirits were still high.”

The Giants continued their every-other-year winning streak after playing in their third World Series in the past five years.

“Fan’s had ‘faith’ that we would do well next time,” sophomore Ally Arora, who attended Game Three said.

Both teams playing in the World Series were “wild cards” for their leagues.

“Most people have a lot of faith in the Giants and still believe in the ‘Giants Torture’ since the Giants are such a scrappy team,” Carlson said from her dorm at Stanford University. “Everyone at the ballpark is so excited. The

police officers are wearing special SFPD Giants hats.”

AT&T Park was filled with fans loudly chanting “Let’s go, Giants!” while exiting the stadium, according to freshman Olivia Sanchez-Corea, who attended Game Five.

“It was the last home game we would play for the rest of the season and we really needed to win,” Sanchez-Corea said.

The Giants 2010 and 2012 World Series titles were also won while on the road.

“The atmosphere at the World Series was electric,” Carlson said.

“The fans sang along and cheered to every song and chant that the stadium or organist played. Especially when Steve Perry comes out in the eighth inning to sing ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.’”

The Giants organization tries to make the World Series games memorable by bringing in different celebrities, well-known San Franciscans and former players to participate in different aspects of the World Series games.

“What is so special though is the way that they try to include important members of the Giants family in ceremonies — Barry Bonds, JT Snow and Darren Baker, Bryan Stow, and Robin William’s kids,” Carlson said. “Their inclusion really shows how the Giants organization honors their own.”

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GIANTS FEVER Some lucky Giants fans snagged World Se-

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ries tickets, like sophomore Ally Arora who took at panorama of AT&T Park during Game 3 (top) and of the unfurling of flag during the National Anthem (middle left). Juniors Alexandra Farrán, Audrey Brooke wear Giants attire in support of Game 7 on Wednesday (above), as did senior Alexandra Wood (left).

STEP INTO THESE SNEAKERS

The ball is now in his court Basketball is now under the leadership of a new head coach this upcoming season

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TALK THE TALK Dean Ren Marquette converses with Athletic Director Elena DeSantis, sophomores Ally Arora and Ariana Abdulmassih and junior Anneka Dorrestyn (left to right) about the seasonal practice schedule during the preseason meeting held in a Herbert Center gym classroom.

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chorus of pounding basketballs dribbling against the dull, wooden floor will echo in the Herbert Center Gym at the start of basketball season, but with a new head coach leading practices and games.

Ren Marquette, Dean of Stuart Hall High School, has agreed to coach both the JV and varsity teams this season, starting in mid-November.

“I have spent most of my life analyzing the game,” Marquette said. “My father was the one who inspired me to be a coach, and from there I received my first job at Whittier, three years after graduating college, as an assistant coach for four years. In addition, I have coached at several Jesuit and non-Jesuit institutions over the past two decades.”

The practice plan for the season will incorporate multiple drills pertaining to footwork exercises and hand-eye coordina-

tion techniques when handling the ball, according to Marquette.

“At our first pre season meeting we discussed a practice schedule and the general attitude that is expected of us,” junior Alex Farran said. “He has a strong plan for the season and I am excited to see how it plays out.”

Both JV and varsity teams traditionally practice separately, but this season they will practice together.

“My long-term goal for this season is for both teams to become better basketball players and to be able to use their individual skills in a team effort in JV and varsity,” Marquette said.

“It’s all about the position of advantage with the skills that they build throughout the season.”

Marquette says he plans to run a fast-break offense, combined with a heavy defense plan during practices and in games that will serve as staples for the season.

“Everybody will learn to play defense, which is the most im-

portant part of my complex plan as a coach,” Marquette said.

Marquette has spent 35 years playing and coaching basketball.

“I think that he will bring his experience from past coaching years to the table as well as a really good positive attitude,” junior Isabelle Armstrong said.

“He has an array of different defensive and offensive plays that will strengthen our team significantly.”

Workouts will include more playing time and skill strengthening with footwork, handling the ball and adjusting together as a team, according to Marquette.

“There are so many things to learn from basketball,” Marquette said. “This sport shapes character in how you learn to react, which develops mental toughness. I hope the girls learn this season that character comes from commitment and actively wanting to be better.”

Tryouts are scheduled for Nov. 10 in the Herbert Center Gym at 3:30 p.m.

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eam USA won its first Women’s Volleyball World Crown earlier this month, beating China in the final championship match 26-24. Not many people knew about the victory due to lack of coverage from the media.

The sad reality is that if an all-girls high school like Convent doesn’t celebrate this accomplishment, it doesn’t say much for the appreciation and recognition of women who play sports. If men were on the playing field, the reaction to their victory would have been different. Men’s sports remain appreciated and valued to a higher standard than women’s events within the sporting world in general.

When I entered high school I became confused as to why all-girls sports teams aren’t promoted and recognized just as much as their male counterparts. My male cousins who are the same age as I have multiple tailgates, rallies and spirit days to help their school communities get hyped for games. It is a little depressing that on Homecoming Weekend a few weeks ago, we had a tailgate for the Stuart Hall football team, but no extended pre-event for the girls varsity volleyball match against University High School.

The growing number of women who actively participate in professional sports, intramural and school sports alike challenge the gender

imbalance in sporting ability.

Young girls like Little League player Mo’ne Davis continue break barriers regarding societal labels in athletics. She is only the 18th girl to participate in the Little League World Series since it first began admitting female players 40 years ago, but her 70 mileper-hour fastball stuns fellow players and the public alike.

Davis’s accomplishments overpower the fact that the male population purely dominates sports. Her accomplishments also prove that all women can step up, be rough and exceed gender stereotype that females can’t play sports because they are too fragile or delicate.

Although a higher number of women and girls play sports today, men who play professional sports still receive thirty percent more pay than women who play professionally. Most sports commentators remain male, and there is higher participation at men’s sporting events than at women’s.

We need to celebrate women’s athletics by attending more games, going out to women’s sporting rallies and publicly advocating for women in sports. Mothers and fathers, boys and girls should be able to see that no matter who is playing a sport, they should receive equal recognition for their athletic effort.

That needs to start changing now.

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Losing Z’s to get some A’s

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t’s not unusual to see students gathered in the Center before school, holding large cups of coffee and jokingly arguing about who got the least amount of sleep the night before.

While not all students suffer from sleep deprivation on a regular basis, many arrive to school tired and exhausted, usually from staying up too late because of school-work, extracurricular activities or late-night internet browsing.

Eighty-seven percent of high schoolers sleep less than the recommended 8 1/2 and to 9 1/2 hours per night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Although sleep-deprivation is a well-established facet of the high school experience, students need to make sure they are not overworking themselves to the point where their health is at risk.

Lack of sleep can lead to hazardous consequences such as unintentionally falling asleep while driving or performing other tasks requiring one’s full concentration. Approximately 38 percent of Californians reported falling asleep unintentionally at least once in the 30 days prior to being polled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Teens who suffer from sleep deficiency are also more likely to be afflicted by chronic diseases such as depression or diabetes, causing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to dub sleep deprivation a public health epidemic.

Sleep deprivation can limit a student’s learning and problem solving abilities, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Staying up late on school nights and making up the deficit on the weekend can also lead to irregular sleeping habits, which can lower the quality of students’ sleep and disrupt their biological clocks.

Despite negative effects from sleep deprivation, students sometimes sacrifice sleep in order to balance school work, extracurricular activities and their social lives. Even though experts state students should get at least eight hours of sleep, sometimes students have to balance many responsibilities and commitments, and end up procrastinating as a result, leading them to stay up too late.

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Some teens have sleep disorders such as insomnia preventing them from getting sufficient rest. It is understandable if individuals suffering from a sleeping disorder have more trouble sleeping, however this is not an excuse for students who procrastinate or waste time on the Internet.

Students need to be more conscientious about how they’re allocating their time so they can get enough rest. Getting the minimum recommended hours of sleep can lead to a better quality of life and increased productivity, allowing students to be more successful both inside and outside school.

HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR TIME IN TERMS OF SCHOOLWORK?

“I try and do the homework that

“It depends on what the subject

early and complete everything

me know when I should do things and how much time I have

— April Matsumoto, sophomore

— Maya Young, sophomore

“I do a lot of extracurricular things to help me maintain my

“I make the most of the time have and use free periods and

more activities I have the better I

I get home, I spend my time on

— Sabrina Mendiola, senior

KEEPIN’ IT RIEHLE Madison Riehle Editor-in-Chief

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Developing confidence Lessons learned in the water

t the age of four I was the embodiment of a California surfing beach child — my hair was sun bleached blonde, skin was always sunburned, and was constantly in the water surfing with my dad on his board.

By the time I was eight I was surfing alone and I already thought that I was going pro.

But my confidence wavered when I paddled for my first solo wave, turned around and saw, what I thought was, the most enormous and ominous wave.

I had become so accustomed to feeling safe on the board with my dad that when I faced the wave alone, I faltered and let the wave go by. For the entire summer I would paddle for each wave with confidence only to kick my board around at the last minute and return

to the lineup, ashamed that I couldn’t bring myself to catch the waves I knew I could.

Surfing requires letting go and accepting what happens with nature, but I couldn’t relax and commit myself to riding the wave. The idea of letting go meant getting pummeled and judged by more experienced surfers for taking a valuable wave and wasting it.

Perception is based on position. By altering position, the often daunting aspects of challenges become manageable. In the water, laying on the board, the wave was a lot bigger than I thought it was. It was when I finally got up and faced my fear, I realized how oblivious I had been to the realistic size of the wave, which was waist high, and I was not scared at all.

Nine years have passed, and I have since faced my fears in

the water, yet they are just as applicable now. I face obstacles daily that scare me. Sometimes it’s a Spanish test, an English presentation or trying to run the extra mile on a treadmill at the gym. While my perception of these things is like that of the wave, I know how to react.

There are always going to be times when things seem impossible and intimidating and the option to dismiss the problem or task is a lot easier than to take the initiative. However, in order to get ahead in life, taking the easy way out or not making the effort at all isn’t beneficial.

The initial fear of falling short can overpower the outcome. I would rather, though, give it my all and fail than sit on the sidelines and let perfectly good chances go by.

— Maya Greenhill, junior

“I usually do my homework the night before, but I try to get it

— Gabby Tom, freshman

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Propositions face voters on Tuesday Prop E: Taxes sugar-sweetened beverages

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Prop J: Raise the city’s minimum wage

he proposition would increase the cost of soda by taxing 2 cents for every ounce of sugar-sweetened beverages. The money earned from the tax will fund improvements for physical education, health and nutrition programs in public schools.

he ballot measure would raise San Francisco minimum wage from $10.74 to $12.25 on May1, 2015. Followed to get to $15 an hour by 2018. The increase will rise as the cost of living becomes more expensive.

The tax on sugary beverages promotes healthy living. The consumption of sugary beverages is the primary source of empty calories and added sugar in Americans’ diets with a 500 percent increase in the past 50 years,according to the American Heart Association.

Sugar consumption has been associated with rising obesity rates, diabetes, heart disease, liver damage and tooth decay.

Nearly 32 percent of San Franciscan youth were either obese or overweight as of 2010, according to a report by the University of California Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.

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An increase in the minimum wage offers multiple benefits, including a decreased financial gap between social classes, more affordable living standards and sets a precedent for other cities.

Passing the ballot measure would help reduce the city’s growing income inequality, with 23 percent of the workforce earning raises, according to the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at University of California, Berkeley. The same study shows that 26 percent of women in the city would receive raises. This allows greater support of family and makes the high cost of living in San Francisco more affordable.

Part of a Bay-Area “regional refer-

endum,” the measure also has the potential to influence raises in nearby Oakland, Richmond, Berkeley and Concord.

Employers are not significantly opposing this ballot measure. Large tech companies employ few minimum-wage workers, and small-business owners plan to maintain profits by raising prices with the wage increase.

The minimum wage increase will not cause any significant financial harm, even gaining momentum as low-wage workers have received a constant income despite California’s recovery from the recession.

— Liana Lum

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Minimum wage will affect businesses throughout San Francisco. With the increase of minimum wage will come higher prices on goods, and businesses will become more expensive.

Workers may benefit, but private employers will not hire as many people. As this minimum wage raises, so will the cost of living.

San Francisco already has the highest minimum wage in the country. Eighty nine percent of workers in San Francisco make more than minimum wage;

therefore, there is not a need for an increase in the minimum wage.

If the minimum wage increases, the rate of hirings will decrease and the rate of people being laid off will increase, especially in the restaurant and food business, according to a study at the University of California, Berkeley.

The minimum wage act will hinder businesses and their employers along with increasing the costs of prices.

— Kendra Harvey

The 2 cent increase per ounce on sugary drinks is unnecessary and will not stop obesity.

There are already programs in place for diet and exercise, and the conflict of the tax will cause businesses greater problems than benefits to the public.

Adults should be able to make healthy decisions for their kids without having a tax in place.

The soda industry has spent $7.7 million to prevent the ballot from being passed, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The cost of living in San

Other notable Nov. 4 ballot propositions

The tax will not affect any government money, instead costing the soft drink industry, represented by the American Beverage Association, who makes the most profit from soda production. By passing the tax, consumers are discouraged from buying sugary drinks due to price tolerance, demonstrated in research from University of California San Francisco, Columbia and Harvard Universities.

Soda tax produces more benefit than harm, reducing unhealthy consumption while creating the resources, up to $54 million per year, necessary to promote recreation and nutrition programs in the city.

— Liana Lum Francisco is already high and adding to it would not benefit families.

Soda is just a part of the obesity problem in America. To completely overcome it, the taxation of all junk foods would be necessary along with less expensive health options such as vegetables and gym memberships.

It is an unfair tax for people to pay for regulating health since people should be aware of their own consumption.

— Kendra Harvey

Prop H

Prop K

The “Union Iron Works Historic District Housing, Waterfront Parks, Jobs and Preservation Initiative” will revitalize the area around Pier 70, allowing public access through waterfront parks playgrounds and recreational facilities.

The “Golden Gate Park Recreational Fields Renovation Act” will require using natural grass in the fields and remove nightime lights.

The “Declaration of Policy-Affordable Housing Goals” if passed, will address the current housing affordability crisis and provide opportunites for low and modertate-income San Franciscans to purchase homes.

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Persistance pays off Self-advocation leads to success

very morning as I frantically run out of my house lopsided, balancing my halfopen backpack on one shoulder, my shoes and car keys in one hand and my breakfast in the other, my mom shouts like clockwork from the kitchen an always-helpful re minder.

“Don’t forget to grab your lunch and take your medicine!”

The second semester of my freshman year I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — commonly known as ADHD — after counselors and psychiatrists looked at my high grades and questioned whether I felt it was necessary to proceed with the testing process as on the surface nothing appeared to be “wrong.”

Despite their initial reactions, I pushed to continue testing, which meant being asked every possible personal question for hours on end, rearranging multi-colored blocks into complex patterns and completing various verbal, visual and auditory tests.

The first doctor I visited to prescribe medication, upon receiving my results, didn’t get the “vibe” I had ADHD and felt that medication wasn’t necessary because I earned good grades just fine without any assistance.

Instead of just accepting the doctor’s decision, I proceeded to explain how I felt like I wasn’t reaching my full potential and had hit a wall — no matter how much time or energy I put into an assignment, it never seemed to reflect my

best effort.

When she responded with, “Why don’t you just not try as hard and accept the lower grade if you’re straining yourself?” I informed her I wasn’t going to let ADHD serve as an excuse to do poorly in school and lower the high standards I set for myself.

Although I understood where the doctor was coming from, I left the appointment enraged that after months of mind-numbing tests and a sea of questionnaires, the one person meant to provide a solution dismissed my needs since I failed to fit a stereotype.

The initial frustration evolved into determination to receive the assistance I knew I needed.

Self-advocating originally proved challenging since I was debating with the chief of a psychiatric unit at a local hospital, based on my gut feeling and simply knowing myself. There were instances where agreeing with her were tempting — just so the prolonged process would come to an end — but I preferred dealing with a grueling process rather than living with the regret of knowing I didn’t receive the help I knew I needed.

Self-advocation requires a strong, passionate voice as well as the confidence to address people in power. Although getting professional advice is always helpful, there are times where following one’s gut feelings produce the most beneficial result.

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Dorms for the departed Local columbarium houses those who ‘urn’ to stay in The City — forever

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s children play in Rossi Park, San Francisco’s own Pompeii hides within the Neptune Society Columbarium just behind Geary Boulevard in the Inner Richmond.

The Columbarium is one of the few options for San Franciscans who want to remain in The City post-mortem, due to the closing of public cemeteries early in the last century.

The Columbarium stands tall, with bold, classic Roman architecture that can be daunting to passerby. With multiple floors housing thousands of cremated remains since its opening in 1898, visitors are surrounded by the dead from top to bottom.

“The neo-classical design of the Columbarium reflects the platonic symbolism of the circle as the image of divinity and eternal life,” art history teacher Sonia Evers said, “a fitting image for a place of burial and hope for the afterlife.”

The Neptune Society Columbarium is the last remaining part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, which moved to Colma in 1923.

After the company took over the

Columbarium in 1980, it began large-scale renovations on the decaying building.

A traditional columbarium provides individual space for storing urns in spaces called niches. The Columbarium has 8,000 filled niches and recent expansion provides room to store an additional 5,000 urns.

“Customers are constantly coming,” Emmitt Watson, Columbarium caretaker and historian said. “They can have a service and their cremated remains here.”

Before the Gold Rush, few cemeteries existed within San Francisco. Throughout the 1800s, various fraternal and religious groups including the Catholic Church on Lone Mountain built cemeteries that were filled and ultimately abandoned.

The Yerba Buena Cemetery, located on the present day site of the Main Public Library, was abandoned soon after its construction due to poor quality of land. As one of the oldest cemeteries in San Francisco, 5,000 to 9,000 bodies occupied Yerba Buena Cemetery before its removal.

The construction the “Big Four” cemeteries took place in Laurel Heights in the mid-19th

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HIGH-RISE HOMES The Neptune Society Columbarium on 1 Loraine Court houses thousands of

urns containing the cremated remains of San Franciscans and is one of the public places where residents can be interred in The City. The building is a mixture of Neo-Classical and Greco-Roman architecture. century and included Odd Fellows, Calvary, Laurel Hill, and Masonic. In the 1900s, 23 different cemeteries existed in the city.

The removal of these cemeteries took place throughout the mid-20th century to make room for the growing population. Hundreds of thousands of bodies were moved to Colma,

dubbed The City of Souls. Today, the population of the living is outnumbered by that of the dead by over one million.

As the population grows and available land becomes scarce, traditional burials are likely to disappear completely, according to Watson. Cremation is more sanitary and occupies less land,

leaving more room for a growing community.

“With the Columbarium, you can walk in the building, you can look into that case, and you can see your loved one.” Watson said. “‘Over there is his favorite watch, his ring, his teddybear.’

So you’re kind of looking at two things, life and death.”

Exhibit combines Alcatraz’s history with sculptures, interactive art Kristina Cary Senior Reporter

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hen Advanced Portfolio and American Vision students visit dissident Chinese-artist Ai Weiwei’s @Large exhibit in the former Alcatraz Island prison on Dec. 15, they will have a chance to see art in different contexts.

“There’s a lot of historical and contemporary art context,” Advanced Portfolio teacher Rachel McIntire said. “I thought it would be a really great opportunity for the seniors who are working on their own bodies of work to really look at an artist in such a unique opportunity that we have here locally.”

The exhibit features a blend of sculptures, auditory and mixedmedia installations in four different areas in the former prison.

“I don’t separate the audio from the whole experience,” San Francisco resident Redwing Keyssar said. “I think it’s the reality of this exhibit that’s encouraging the feel of a creative force while attempting to experience what these prisoners felt.”

The installation “Yours Truly,” gives visitors a more interactive

experience by composing letters to prisoners of conscience, prisoners incarcerated for holding religious or political views not tolerated by their governments.

“I hadn’t really thought about coming out here until I heard about the exhibit, because Ai Weiwei is somebody I love and respect,” Palo Alto resident John Hamburger said. “The exhibit has a theme of personal connection — it’s a way to reach out to prisoners of conscience.”

The pieces were designed and partially constructed in Beijing

by Weiwei. San Francisco-based volunteers constructed some of the installations and finished Weiwei’s work.

“Working as a volunteer was a kind of tedious, miscellaneous task,” volunteer Sasha Zirulink said. “You build one panel with individual pieces put on one-byone, which eventually makes a collective whole.”

One of the themes present in the exhibit is activism, connecting to Sacred Heart Schools’ Goal 3 promoting a “social awareness which impels to action.”

“I thought ‘Refraction’ was a strong statement on behalf of

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the people of Tibet,” Palo Alto resident Sandra Park said. “It was especially touching to see that Ai Weiwei added the theme of domestic violence to the sculpture. Also, you couldn’t get near it, and you could only see it through broken glass and bars.”

Senior Dervla Carrey-Jones danced at the exhibit’s opening with fellow Oberlin Dance Collective members.

“All of the dances were based off of Ai Weiwei and his works,” Carrey-Jones said. “We [the teenage ODC members] were dressed in all black as the jail walls. The adult dancers were trying to break through us, since they were dancing as prisoners and trying to escape.”

The exhibit is open until April 27, and there are no additional charges to Alcatraz Cruises ferry ticket-holders.

“We’re seeing a lot of people out here who are locals and people who have traveled in order to see the exhibit,” Ian Craig, a National Park Service volunteer, said. “Now they’re also going to discover Alcatraz and all the layers of history that are out here as a result.”

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A Chinese dragon kite (above) floats above the entrance of the @Large exhibit on Alcatraz Island. Words and music of prisoners jailed for selfexpression fill the cells where visitors are invited to sit and listen (left). The installations reflect the themes of suppression and confinement.

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