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Convent of the Sacred Heart High School • San Francisco, California

Volume 16, Issue 1

Stocking up Food distributors and kitchens prepare for busy holiday season

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A volunteer packages grapefruits for storage at the SF Food Bank in preparation for Thanksgiving. The Food Bank will distribute 1,007,800 pounds of food through its holiday distributions.

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harities like the San Francisco Food Bank and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul are preparing for the holidays by stocking up on supplies and requesting more hands for volunteer work as the demand for groceries and food increases during the downturned economy. Even with a large turnout of volunteers this year, the San Francisco Food Bank lost $592,000 in federal funding for vital social service programs this year due to new rules set by the national Emergency Food and Shelter Program, overseen by FEMA and needs food donations. “During the holiday season, the Food Bank will need to provide more than 36,000 households with food to prepare Thanksgiving meals in their own homes,” media manager Stacy Newman said. “That is the equivalent to 1,007,800 pounds of food.”

The San Francisco Food Bank plans to distribute over a million pounds of food through its holiday distributions this year, according to Newman. The volunteers at the food bank sort through, repack and shelve up to 400 tons of food in their warehouses every week. “I remember volunteering at the San Francisco Food Bank over the holidays sorting through groceries,” senior Aggie Kruse said. “I talked with some of the other volunteers and was really impressed to see how dedicated our community can be.” This year the San Francisco Food Bank will be celebrating 25 years of service, as 63 fulltime employees come together to pull off 131,000 hours of volunteer work and serving up to an estimated 225,000 people, according to Newman. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul aides about 400 and more people every day providing two meals a day, stop-in medical care and clothing for the homeless according to the Multi-Service Center of St. Vincent De Paul. See Holidays p. 2

Prospective students to visit classes during Evening School

Shirley yang reporter

vening School, an open house that shows a C Period class in session, is planned for this evening at 6:30 p.m. for a group of 400 to 500 potential students and their parents. Curriculum coordinator Doug Grant came up with the idea of Evening School in 1995 when he was the head of school. “Since it was difficult to effectively explain how an all-girls classroom experience was different from a coed classroom experience, we decided to give our perspective students and parents the opportunity to view our classes in action,” Grant said. Visitors will be split into

groups of 18 to 25 and guided by teachers and students who don’t have a C Period class. Each classroom visit will last about three minutes. Evening School is designed to be in the later part of the admissions process so parents can compare other potential schools to CSH, according to Grant. The tour remains fresh in their minds while perspective parents are filling out applications. “It’s a way to see the school in action, since none of the other schools do open houses like us,” admissions associate Christie Checovich said. “It’s impressive for the parents to see a wide range of classes, from the freshmen to [Advanced Placement courses].”

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5 Fall sports teams finish off regular season

7 Eye-to-Eye volunteers mentor elementary students

8 Local hot dog vendor reinvents an American staple

Q uick Reads ▶ Head of School Andrea Shurley announced Monday at press time her descision to leave post at the year’s close. “My husband and I are moving closer to my family,” Shurley said. See http://broadview. sacredsf.org/ for more details. ▶ The Fall Sports Banquet will be held on Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. to recognize all of the student athletes who participated in a fall sport.

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Building for Muni’s underground has begun and road barriers run through the heart of Union Square. Construction of the central subway won’t be complete until 2018 and road work makes bus trips and even navigating the sidewalks more difficult for commuters.

Construction alters commute

Rebecca Lee Editor-in-Chief

onstruction surrounding Union Square and throughout downtown San Francisco could pose a problem to shoppers during the upcoming holiday season due to the $1.5 billion Central Subway Project, a light-rail connection of Chinatown to central Market Street and onto the 4th Street CalTrain terminal, which will reroute pedestrians and traffic through spring 2012. The Central Subway segment will reduce travel time between the Caltrain station at Fourth and King streets to Chinatown

from seven to 20 minutes, according to San Francisco MTA’s press release. “Downtown is always really crowded, with lots of honking and cars,” senior Caitlin Martin said. “So, [the holiday season] is already a difficult and stressful time of the year and the construction only makes it worse.” “[The construction workers] are currently doing utility relocation — moving utilities to under the street and under the sidewalk,” MTA spokesperson Paul Rose said. “This allows construction workers to start the digging process for the tunnel.” See Muni p. 2

▶ Cubs Knight Out , a coed evening program, invites the Cubs and Knights to one of the City Arts and Lectures with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer on Nov. 16. ▶ Volunteers taking part in the New Orleans service trip are scheduled to depart on Nov. 17. Students will work with the greater New Orleans community to repair and rebuild homes damaged primarily in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. ▶ Opening night of the student production of “Analiese”, directed by Pamela Rickard will be on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in the Syufy Theatre with additional performances on the 18 at 7 p.m. and concluding with a matinée performance on the 19 at 2 p.m. ▶ The Feast of St. Philippine Duschesne will be held on Nov. 18. Students will partake in this Networkwide festivity with a day-long celebration.

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Parents not required

New Califonia legislation allows teenagers access to STD vaccines without parental consent

Jewel Devorawood Web Editor

mong the more than 140 bills Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last month is Assembly Bill 499 which enables minors to receive services to prevent sexually transmitted disease without parental consent. Current family legal codes §6925 and §6926 already allow teens and minors to consent to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of pregnancy and the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, but these codes fail to include prevention of STDs in general. Prior to the signing of the bill, minors aged 12-17 had to have parental consent to receive the HPV vaccine and the post-exposure prophylaxis medications to lessen the risk of contracting HIV. “In 1964, a minor consent law allowed treatment and prevention of pregnancy,” said Shannon Smith Crowley, founder of Partners in Advocacy and a prominent promoter and supporter of AB 499. “The addition of the new bill will fill the gap in current law.”

The bill covers vaccination of the sexually transmitted infections including the Human papillomavirus, but also covers STD prevention and vaccinations that can prevent common STDs such as Hepatitis B and the human immunodeficiency virus. HPV is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which estimates approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected. The CDC recommends girls and boys ages 11-12 receive the three doses of one of the two vaccines, Gardasil or Cervarix, to build immunity to HPV before teens become sexually active. “I think it’s important that girls respect themselves and stay healthy by protecting themselves,” said junior Madison MacCleod who just her first shot in the series. New research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology links HPV with heart disease and strokes, giving a women a two to three times greater risk for heart attack or stroke if they carry the virus.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States, according to the CSH. Heart disease much like HPV, a “silent disease,” meaning patients are often show no symptoms that they have the disease. AB499 also allows minors to forgo parental consent in obtaining PEP medications which must be taken within 72 hours of exposure for best results in preventing HIV, by reducing the infection rate by 79 percent. The passing of this bill is not without controversy, with California’s Roman Catholic bishops speaking out and urging Gov. Brown, a Catholic, to veto the bill. “This bill is one of the most egregious violations of parental rights, next to the right to provide abortions for minors without parent knowledge,” Bill May, chairman of San Francisco-based Catholics for the Common Good said about AB 499. Skeptics of the bill also say allowing adolescents to be in control of their own sexual health will make condoms will be easier to receive, inevitably promoting sexual activity at young ages.

MUNI adds transportation option From Muni p. 1 The Muni Metro line will run along the same areas as the 30 Stockton and the 45 Union buses. The current above-the-ground bus system will not be removed in the area where the metro will run, but will be added to the T Third Street Line. Plans for the project began in 2003 with the conceptual and preliminary engineering and construction started in 2010 near Union Square. The new line will connect to BART and CalTrain and run through Chinatown, Union Square, Moscone Convention Center, Yerba Buena Center, the Financial District, South of Market Street and AT&T Park, with above-ground stops in the Fi-

nancial District, downtown and Chinatown. “The Central Subway Project will create 30,000 jobs in San Francisco,” Rose said. “It is good for a time when jobs have been scarce and it would be a huge boom for the City’s economic vitality.” Rose said the light rail line, powered by hydro-electricity, is more environmentally friendly than diesel buses currently running through the area. “Not only will it speed up Muni but it should speed up traffic for both cars and pedestrians,” Rose said. “It should also make it safer because there will be less congestion on the streets and it’s a more efficient way to travel.” However, traffic will still be jammed this year for holiday

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Central Subway Project

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shoppers if they decide to buy gifts downtown while others might avoid downtown all together to avoid the congestion. “Some people told us that they were too lazy to go all the way up the street and come back down here because it was a hassle for them,” Rebeca Servantes, store supervisor of the Union Square Ghirardelli Chocolate store, said. The rerouted traffic should not dramatically affect the the store’s revenue during the holiday season because nearby construction has gotten much better, according to Servantes. “When [the construction] started, they completely closed out our side of the street,” Servantes said. “They put up barricades in the middle of the street and a lot of people thought that we were closed because the construction was on our side.” Construction rerouted cars away from Stockton Street next to Union Square and only allows buses and taxis through. The Central Subway Project is currently on schedule to start running in January 2019, Rose said. “Businesses in the area have been affected but we have been working with them throughout the process to ensure that we address their concerns so they can continue with their business as efficiently as possible on a daily basis,” Rose said. “For any issues that come up in this project, we will definitely work with the merchants and residents to address them.”

Consent

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Defendants of the bill such as Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, who was very active in presenting the bill to the senate and other assembly members, say by providing not only resources to teens, health care providers can also counsel healthy relationships and teach ways to better involve parents in teens’ sexual health. “Most parents want to be involved with their teens’ health

care, and the good news is that most are,” said Atkins, “but there are many other teens that can’t or won’t involve their parents for a variety of reasons like personal safety. Currently, those minors have no other options for accessing STD prevention care.” “The bills real benefit”, said Crowley, “is to provide information and education about a virus that impacts many lives.”

Charities need donations From Holidays p. 1 “We served 650 people in last year’s Thanksgiving Dinner at our MSC,” volunteer coordinator Tim Szarnicki said. “This year we hope to have the same result.” MSC is the largest homeless shelter in Northern California, and is newly renovated this year by members of the International Interior Design Associaiton Northern California Chapter. “We are lucky that we can provide all of our own food and labour for this Thanksgiving holiday,” Snarnicki said. “That is a blessing, however we always want people to get involved in any way that they can through volunteering or donations — anything helps.” Food supplies come form a mixture of non-profit organizations, food budget grants and donations, so more donations means fewer hungry people on the street over Thanksgiving according to MSC.

“Volunteering allows us to give back to our community,” senior Aggie Kruse said. “Therefore, spending even just a couple hours at places like the San Francisco Food Bank can make a huge difference, plus you get community hours for volunteering. It’s a win-win situation.” Donations may be made http://www.svdp-sf.org and http://www.sffoodbank.org

SHIRLEY YANG | The Broadview

Donating Fast Facts Needed: Only nonperishable food, such as rice, pasta and canned goods. All food must be edible. Drop Off: Food for the SF Food Bank can be dropped off at 900 Pennsylvania Ave. or to one of the food barrels located across San Francisco. Money: Minimum donation is $2. Every $1 helps the SF Food Bank distribute $6 worth of food.

Source: http://www.sffoodbank.org

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Stressed students struggle with pressure

lasses, tests, quizzes, sports and a social life all fall on the shoulders of a high school student, but sometimes the stress is too much to bear.

The goal of a perfect GPA plus a wellrounded life-style is what high school students strive for, yet from the ages of 14 to 18 years, there is only so much that teens can do. The topics discussed in the hallways and cafeteria focus on whether or not the next day will follow Red or Blue Schedule classes, followed by jubilant cries of those

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students whose schedules are less packed with academics. Almost two thirds of girls in high school believe that the amount of free time they have is “too little” or “not nearly enough,” according to clinical psychologist Roni Cohen-Sandler, Ph.D. Girls in general report far more school-related stress than boys do because they believe that to be successful, they have to be extraordinary

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in every area of their lives: academic, social, extracurricular and appearance. Stress is added on when students pick up more extracurriculars, a way to stand out towards colleges and when a student becomes a senior, the pressure builds on her to finish applications. The application process is made easier with colleges that use one application such as the Common Application, University of California and California State University applications — using the same main format when applying to several schools. Cohen-Sandler says that although all teens report being burdened by too much

homework and tests, girls are 55 percent more likely than boys to say they pressure themselves to get good grades and do well in school. For some students when the pressure builds up she begins to procrastinate even more, in denial that she has that much homework but then rushes during her free period, lunch and Passing Period to complete it. A student needs to know her perfect balance between social, academic, extracurricular life and the amount of stress that she can handle, otherwise she needs to take more off of her plate.

“I have a sinking feeling about this.”

Rebecca Lee

Teen manners falter with texting I hastily reached into my backpack for my Clipper Card as the 30 Stockton bus came to a halt in front of me. Without any hope of finding the card any time soon, I let an elderly woman get on the bus before me instead of making her wait. “You’ll get through life well with manners like yours,” she told me from across the aisle. I never thought of myself as being a polite person and was shocked to be given such a compliment, but with waning manners in today’s teen culture, I could understand her comment. Manners seem to slowly wane as one grows into a teenager as often times manners are more enforced on one as a child. Parents quiz their kids on “What’s the magic word?” or “Did you say thank you?” but a teen would view these questions as annoying, roll her eyes, then probably fend for herself. Manners help one build opinions about another person — even if they are not necessarily strangers. Texting is the most common behavior among teenagers that bring manners into question. Teens text when alone and when they are with others, but many adults view texting in the presence of others as rude,

signaling that the texting teen is not fully engaged with the people in the same room. Such behaviors sometime appear to be more understandable if a teen is conversing with another teen and she reads only a couple of texts, treating them as a phone call she cuts short, but the actions become unacceptable when the encounters become longer. Teens have become accustomed to this type of “multitasking” — instant messaging, doing homework, texting and watching T.V. all at the same time, so texting while talking does not dawn on them that it is disrespectful, yet when teens text and talk at the same time it’s impossible to fully comprehend either one of the conversations. A multitasking person does not have the capability to pay attention to two items at once, no matter what it is, according to a Stanford University study. Menial tasks can sometimes become dangerous when one’s attention is absorbed by something else, including texting when walking. Dozens of times cars have to stop and honk their horns so the texter is not run over. Manners aren’t simply conventions for a polite society, but can help keep us safe.

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You’ll get through life well with manners like yours

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1. Greek economy still depends on E.U. support.

2. “She” is “graduating” with the Senior Class she started with as freshmen.

2. Andrea Shurley leaves at the end of this school year.

3. 49ers are on longest winning streak since the ‘70s

3. 49ers face huge home game against 1st place NFC East NewYork Giants this week.

4. Justin Bieber releases, ”Under the Mistletoe,” his most successful album yet.

4. Justin Bieber is slapped with paternity law suit.

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1. Low-cost flight boosted the number of tourist arrivals.

Social networks lack personal touch

t’s possible in the 21st century to form instant links of communication constantly through cell phones and social networks like Facebook and Twitter, but a crucial element remains absent from all of these electronic connections — physical connection. “I wonder how people got in touch before Facebook” a friend asked me over iChat and surprisingly I found myself unable to think of a response. The answer seemed obvious because it wasn’t too long ago when my generation didn’t use Facebook and I was still able to chill with my friends, yet when thinking about that question, I wondered how communicating with my friends would be possible if I didn’t use Facebook nowadays. Today people can invite and talk to a group of friends online just by clicking on an icon or sending a message, which is

an efficient way of communication but it lacks the key aspect of talking to another person — the intellectual and emotional aspect. Online social networks add in the varied smiley faces to get feelings across cyber space, but hearing someone laugh is much better than getting an “LOL” in a chat box. It is ironic that teens’ use the phrase “get in touch” when talking about letting someone know through text or instant messaging because the dictionary expression means a situation or state in which people actually touch in an act of communicating with somebody – but times have changed. The importance of texting and Facebook is to stay in contact with friends, but what users need to remember is that words on a phone or computer screen

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cannot replace real conversations with friends face-to-face. Eighty-six percent of girl’s text message friends several times a day and fifty-nine percent text several times a day “Just to say hello,” according to Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project Survey. Dependence on virtual communication is frightening and has gotten to the point where social interactions seem to rely on video chats or phone calls, which is good when reaching out to someone, but it doesn’t really fill a person emotionally, as would a hug from a friend. The bonds I have with the people in my life are a result from the in-person experiences I have had with them. I still text them, Facebook them and video chat regularly, but it’s the moments when we get together that mean so much more than those the digital words on a screen.

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Congé Student Council surprised the student body on Halloween with a day off to rollerskate and snack on pizza at Cal Skate in Sonoma. The Senior Class proceeded down the stairs of the Syufy Theatre wearing nun costumes and then sat in their traditional seats in the front rows to start off the Halloween assembly (top, clockwise). Seniors Caitlin Martin and Erika Jesse display their red, heart-patterned Congé socks at Cal Skate roller rink (bottom right). Freshmen Camilla Bykhovsky and Sarah Selzer rap “Super Bass” on stage (bottom middle). Freshmen Sabine Dahi, Erin Hanley and Christina Berardi introduce their “Changa” costumes (bottom left.) Theology teacher Paul Pryor Lorentz with his daughter Benni show off their Star Wars costumes as Han Solo and an ewok (center).

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8th grader interviews 49ers on TV

ElizabethBurkett reporter

n between the fall activities like sports, homework and applying to high schools, CES eighth grader Alison Davis manages to squeeze in a quick i nt e r v i e w with 49ers Davis tight end Vernon Davis. “49ers Total Access for Kids,” a new show on KTVU and cable CSN Bay Area, features kids interviewing players and fans to foster the next generation of 49er Faithful. “I was approached with the idea when my dad, a season ticket holder, got an invitation for teens 12 to 16 to be hosts for the show,” Davis said. Davis said she was excited when she learned she had made the cut to be host on the show. Already a veteran of school plays Davis says she calls on her acting experience to memorize her scripts for the show. “I have to make specific time for everything so I don’t get distracted. I have learned that if I sit down and concentrate for a couple hours it pays out,” Davis said. Davis said she find it “weird” to see her face when she is flipping through the channels on television.

“The video takes are shot beforehand and there are multiple takes, so I never know what’s going to make it on the screen, and what will be cut, and if that funny face or silly joke will be put in.” Davis says she has become chums with the players and feels comfortable to ask questions and joke around with them. Her face lights up with excitement when asked about interviewing the players. “I love interviewing the players — they are really funny and love to joke around, but they also take me seriously as a reporter even though I am less than half their size,” Davis laughs. Davis says being on the show allows for experiences out of the

ordinary and unusual to a normal eighth grader and may have opened up a career path. “This has been an amazing opportunity and taught me to not be afraid to be myself, Davis said. “[It has] heightened my self-confidence and thinking on my feet. I would really like to be a sports reporter when I grow up. I may want to do something in high school if for some reason the show does not continue.”

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Davis interviews former 49ers coach Mike Singletary while on camera at Candlestick Park.

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Senior Aggie Kruse pipets a blend of detergent and smashed strawberries into isopropyl alcohol to extract the fruit’s DNA.

Bio students work with DNA

Rebecca Lee Editor-in-Chief

ive CSH seniors and a group of SHHS students took a tour of the University of San Francisco’s Gladstone Institute, a nonprofit biological technology research laboratory, and extracted DNA from strawberries on Nov. 2. “[My group’s] graduate student guide showed us liver cells infected with hepatitis C and blood cells modified to become cancerous under a microscope,” Aggie Kruse said. “He discussed his work on hepatitis with great enthusiasm and explained lofty concepts in accessible ways.” Students were split into tour groups that learned about different research Gladstone had either completed, such as a daily pill that helps prevent HIV, or are in progress, such as transforming

a skin cell into a heart cell that would eventually create an entire organ. “I really enjoyed talking with the scientists and hearing about all the interesting studies they are doing,” Caitlin Martin said. “The lab I saw looked at the development of a chicken embryo’s heart. We opened fertilized eggs that were 3-days old and we could see the heart beating.” A career panel took place afterwards, where invited independent and public school students were able to ask different level scientists about their jobs. “My favorite part of today was seeing the labs and listening to the graduate students presentations on the work they do,” Meghan Helms said. “I wanted to be a scientist before I went to this, and after going I want to study science even more.”

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Athletes’ food choice can impact fitness

Claire Fahy SportsEditor

day in the life of a student athlete entails waking up early and attending a full day of classes followed by training. Some athletes even fit in extra training before, during or after school, which can all take a physiological toll.

After a workout, students have exhausted their stores of crucial nutrients such as Vitamin B, calcium, sodium and zinc, some of which can be lost in sweat or consumed in metabolic processes of the muscles. “During exercise, nutrients can be depleted especially if good nutrition is not practiced in the days leading up to a workout or competition,” Gatorade states on its website. “After exercise, muscle stores of carbohydrate need to be replenished, fluids need

to be restored and protein is needed to repair muscles and get ready for the next day.” Athletes require hydration and nutrients after working out, but attaining them from the wrong sources can be detrimental and counterproductive. “Foods are so processed it can be hard to get the nutrients you need from them nowadays,” Dr. Oded Heresman, a local pediatrician said. Electrolytes control and monitor the body’s hydration, acidity of the blood, and also affect muscle function. Muscle contraction is dependent upon potassium, magnesium and calcium. According to Heresman, leafy green vegetables and nuts naturally contain potassium and magnesium, as well as sodium and chloride, which are lost in sweat. Fish

and dairy are rich in Vitamin D and the electrolyte calcium. Eggs and beans are natural sources of protein, which can be used as fuel for muscles. “Taking protein shakes is fine,” Heresman said, “but if you eat [protein from] real food, you are better off.” Sports drinks and protein shakes, such as the ones marketed by Gatorade’s Pro Series, are a quick and easy solution to athletes’ needs, but can contain up to half of an adolescent’s recommended daily intake of sugar as well as be a source of unnecessary calories unless an athlete performs long and strenuous training each day, such as training for a long-distance run. “The amount of sodium in sports drinks like Gatorade dehydrates you,” junior Jane Stephens, who runs cross-

Fall Sports Roundup Cross-country Cubs finished up 4-4 on the season, suffering losses to University, Lick, Marin Academy and Urban while defeating Bay, Drew, Dominican, and International High School. The Cubs regular season wrapped Oct. 26 with the Bay Counties League (BCL) #3 Race where the Cubs faced league rival Lick-Wilmerding high school as well as The Bay School and Drew. Nov. 4 marked the beginning of the post-season with the Cubs facing off against their league rivals in the BCL Championship, where they placed fifth out of nine teams. Junior Jane Stephens tied her own school record with a time of 20:29 on the 5k course at Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Varisty now advances to the North Coast Section Championship Nov. 19.

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Volleyball

Golf ended Oct. 3 with a dual match-up against league rival Bay and Drew. “[Varsity golf is] maybe not doing as well [this year], but its more of a good teaching experience, and its lots of fun,” team captain Emily Bloch said.

Freshman: Frosh defeated San Francisco Waldorf High School 2-0 on Oct. 11 to end its season. The Cubs finished 5-1. JV: The team ended its season 11-1 Oct. 28 with a win over LickWilmerding. JV suffered its only loss to University High School 0-2 on Oct. 6. Varsity: the Cubs finished up the regular season in third place. Oct. 28’s senior night saw the Cubs pitted against Lick-Wilmerding in the last game of the season. The Cubs defeated the Tigers 3-0, making its regular season record 8-4. Varisty has “made a huge improvement from last year,” team captain Bianka Quintanilla-Whye said. Varsity fell to Marin Academy in the BCL West semi-finals.

Tennis JV: The team capped off an undefeated season with a 1st-place finish at the JV Tennis Jamboree. Varsity: The Cubs finished up its regular season 5-6. Season highlights included a trip to Santa Catalina Island for the Santa Catalina Tournament Sept. 16 and 17. Varsity faced opposition from Branson, Marin Catholic, Mercy San Francisco, Castelija, and Crystal Springs, among others.

Sailing

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Sophomore Grace Hull warms up for a dual meet against Lick-Wilmerding High School at the Polo Fields.

“There are lots of good sailors and sailors with potenital,” team captain Meghan Helms said. “We have so many talented kids, by the end of the year our team will be feared.” The sailing team swelled this year to 14 sailors, with the addition of new member from both Convent and Stuart Hall. The team plans to travel to Hawaii over Thanksgiving for the Hawaii Invitational and will finish up its season Dec. 10 at the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association’s Anteater Invitational.

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Senior Erika Jesse prepares to serve a volleyball during a recent practice. The varsity volleyball team finished 7-4 on the season. —Tatiana Gutierrez contributed to the Sports Roundup

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country, said. “Instead, before a race I eat a whole wheat bagel and cream cheese, a Power Bar and some type of fruit for lunch. The bagel makes

sure my energy level stays stable and the Power Bar is to keep me full because I can’t eat right before a race.”

Good Call

Modesty Matters

claire fahy

Modesty in sports arena betters fan experience and appreciation

odesty. In a sports era when professional athletes and owners haggle over how many millions of dollars they deserve to be paid, college athletes receive generous endorsements from big-name companies and high school stand-outs get major bonuses and perks for choosing to bring their talents to certain colleges, such a concept can be hard to come by. It’s the little things like celebratory hand gestures that convey an unappealing sense of arrogance to sports fans. Thumping chests and pointing skyward after swishing the ball through the hoop or mockingly polishing the boot of a successful teammate after their goal not only sends a pointed message to the opposition, but to the crowd as well. The average sports fan will never be a college athlete let alone a national star. Many people who tune into games frequently may not even be all that athletic or talented at sports. But through their TV screens, they get the chance to touch greatness along with the athletes they avidly follow. If a player is talented and makes key plays, a fan not only cheers with him, but celebrates along with him as well. High-fives and cheers abound. But if the player starts screaming into the crowd, aggressive-

ly pumping his fist and tearing at his jersey, the fan loses him and becomes turned off by his behavior. The connection is lost. It’s the silent athletes who are most impressive, the ones who calmly do what they know they do best — throw touchdowns, sink 3-pointers, strike goals — and carry on. These athletes receive equal amounts of praise and adulation, but in a more dignified manner. They are held in higher regard because they hold themselves with more respect, and in turn hold more respect for the game. With glossy advertising deals, personal shoe and sportswear lines and endorsements from popular brands such as Gatorade, it’s easy to lose sight of the athlete behind the fame and money. Behind the sponsorship, publicity, and stardom is a regular person who started out like everyone else — a hoop nailed above their garage door, a net assembled in his or her backyard, a cheap baseball glove for Christmas. Most athletes came from humble beginnings and make themselves the top competitors of their field. That’s what’s impressive, that’s what deserves to be seen. Not the hype, but the average boy or girl who pushed him or herself to be the best of the best.

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Real Girl

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Virtual supermodel game brings up sexist themes during play

Rebecca Lee Editor-in-Chief

ophomore Ayesha Sayeed swipes through the virtual clothing choices displayed on the screen for her Top Girl to wear. She buys a new purple dress and watches her avatar’s “Club Hotness” meter increase.

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Sayeed is one of many students who has started playing the game Top Girl on her iPad. “I got hooked on the game because a lot of the volleyball team plays it,” Sayeed said. “It can be a little sexist in the way [the avatars] look and how there’s a hotness meter, but it’s so unrealistic that it’s almost funny.” The hotness meter in the game is a type of experience bar — increasing the avatar’s work hotness and club hotness — in order to gain better jobs and more access to clubs. “The entire idea of an avatar is to create another self,” school counselor Annie Shawe said. “It sometimes allows people to have an alternate identity, of which is a person that they actually want to be and what that does while it is fun and lovely in the setting of the avatar, it still is not real and detracts from someone’s real life and her own realistic aspirations.” A player is able to select everything about her avatar, from the clothing she wears and boyfriend she dates to her hairstyle and skin tone. But one attribute for characters stays the same for

every avatar — her body shape. By default all players have a much smaller waist when compared to their hips and chest. “With a click of a button, a player can look exactly how she wants to,” Shawe said. “It is a quick way to feel in control and powerful, representing to the outside world how she wants to look but that outside world is not real.” Shawe says having an avatar in a game removes the principle of “self ” and “other.” A girl should be able to look at another person and then look at herself and be okay with that difference, however having an avatar it deteriorates those boundaries. “Every little girl, when she’s playing with Barbie, wants to be Barbie — but she’s a doll,” Shawe said. “This is like a virtual Barbie, except you get to be her.” When the game first starts, the player is restricted to only three jobs; assistant, booth babe and model extra. Better jobs are only available to her if she buys more clothing for her closet, with the clothes increase her Work Hotness. The player is then also able to flirt with boys at clubs, who give her avatar better gifts and other benefits once she snags a better

boyfriend. Similar to increasing her character’s Work Hotness, the player must buy clothing that increases he Club Hotness in order for the potential boyfriends to be accessible. “It’s really misogynistic,” senior Annie De Lancie said, who picked up the game after former Women’s Studies teacher Sarah Garlinghouse suggested it, “especially because it judges and rates women on the way they look.” Often times when shopping for clothing or flirting at the club, the avatar strikes several different feminine poses, such as flipping her hair, putting her hand on her hips and having her hands behind her head. The avatar can use these same positions to flirt with a guy after buying him a drink. The game neglects to address the intellectual properties of women, according to De Lancie, who wrote a blog post accessible only to her class about her reactions to Top Girl for Women’s Studies after exploring the game a little. After De Lancie’s avatar started talking to one of the guys she met in Top Girl’s club, a message popped up telling her the she was not hot enough and had not

Inconsistent clothes sizing makes shopping online, in stores difficult

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ollister, Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters have online stores displaying all of their size options for their garments, but students like senior Natalie Sullivan notice that what they see on the model sample photos online are not what they get. “Urban outfitters has a section of amazing T-shirts online,” Sullivan said. “I remember ordering a shirt, but when I tried it on it just wasn’t flattering, which is why shopping using model pictures can be so deceiving.” Online Stores such as Urban Outfitters have sample photos of their products on models that are size one or zero because clothes hang better when they are on someone who has no shape, which allows the fabric to hang straight according to Jane Martin Director of Quality Assurance at Gap inc. “Two days ago I tried on a shirt from Forever 21,” freshman Sarah Selzer said. “It was a long-sleeve shirt that was categorized under my size with a sample picture showing it to be lose, but when I tried it on it was pretty tight on me and really distasteful.” Sample photos on online or regular stores influence a lot of purchas-

ing decisions, which seems strange because customers know that the people in the pictures are company models, yet they continue to buy merchandise based on what they see according to a Hollister sales clerk who’s manager reprimanded him in speaking with the press. “It is funny, I never thought about shopping online that way, but, yes, I guess I do buy clothing due to the way it looks on the model,” Sullivan laughed. “I know that in the end the product will not look the same on me, but I just think ‘Oh well, that looks good,’ and then add it to my wish list.” Online stores allow shoppers to view a number of garments on a model from the side back and view through pop-up windows. Some stores like Hollister, gives the online shopper a choice to see the garment without a model or with model view. “I always look at the model view for their clothing,” Selzer said. “I know that there are photos of just the T-shirt, but that doesn’t help my shopping decisions because it doesn’t show how the fabric will fall on a person’s body.” To get the correct fit that teens want, shops provide size charts and the key is knowing your body measurements in order for the cus-

tomer to be confident in what they wear according to Urban Outfitters. “A lot of people don’t realize this, but the women’s size charts in Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, and Hollister are specific for a reason,” Sullivan said. “Most online shoppers just click the size button, look at the sample picture and then add it to their shopping cart, but what they should do is find out their exact measurements and match it to a size the store has for a better fit.” The sizes range from 0 as extra small, 1 through 4 as small, 5 through 8 as medium and 9 through 12 as large. Many customers who come into Urban Outfitters and are displeased with the way an outfit looks on them because it doesn’t fall right, but its not because of the material or the cut, it’s because the customer really doesn’t know what size actually fits them according to the Fillmore Street Urban Outfitters sales clerk who asked not to be identified. “If the shop had different models for each size — extra small, small, medium and large — I could get a better picture of how the shirt or dress would look on me and make a better decision in my purchase instead of wasting money on an outfit that doesn’t compliment me,” Selzer said.

ordered an expensive enough drink. “I stopped playing because I ran out of points,” De Lancie wrote, “but I was also extremely shocked and annoyed.” The game plays in real time, so if a player is absent for a week, then she also abandons her avatar’s boyfriend for the same amount of time. The game then gives the player a choice to either abandon her boyfriend or buy him a pricey gift, purchased with real money. Although De Lancie says that the game is misogynistic and is far from real, parts of its appeal are understandable. “[Top Girl is] entertaining and a good way to pass the time,” Sayeed said. “I enjoy playing it even though it can seem sexist, but it’s not real and it’s only a game.”

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Top Girl’s “Club Hotness” (left) and “Work Hotness” (right) are attained by how girls dress or treat their boyfriends and can also be attained with real money.

What article of clothing is hardest to fit when you’re shopping? “Jeans. Unlike other clothing items, they aren’t stretchy like shirts or skirts, which have spandex in them. Now, people always wear skinny jeans when other clothing can be loose.” — Gaby Messino, freshman

“Jeans take forever to try on and they never work out.” — Clare Pardini, sophomore

“For my body, its difficult to find a dress that fits and flatters my body.” — Danielle Pulizzano, junior

“Shoes. I have a size 11 foot, so finding a pair of shoes that suits and fits me is the hardest thing to do.” — Colleen Scullion, senior — compiled by Shirley Yang

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Externalizing Encores Female artists self objectify in music

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Kelley said.” Young girls don’t realize what a huge step backwards this is for women’s rights.” Despite prodding from the their mother’s generation, most students still fail to see what’s wrong with this picture. “It seems normal,” Maddie Kelley said, “It has a negative effect on girls our age, but there’s nothing we can really do about it.” Women today are spending less time promoting themselves and their independence from the sexuality they are normally associated with and more time publicly associating themselves with sex and sexual connotation, the relationship blogger of “A Lofty Existence” writes. “It sets up more ammunition in the constant debate in a teenage girls mind about how they look,” school counselor Annie Shaw said. Increased obsession with sexuality and self objectification of

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women in popular music is powerful according to Shawe. It has the ability to completely change the way girls think about themselves. While most girls would not agree with self disrespect and self objectification many female artists are voicing in their music they do agree that the value of the music they listen to, with these objectifying lyrics, aren’t decreased. “What influences your self image is your society,” Maddie Kelley said. “Misogynistic hip-hop is not a major part of society.” Hip-hop and pop music are what students listen to on the dance floor or on the ride to school on FM stations such as The Revolution 92.7, or Wild 94.9. But the lyrics are not what most girls are listening to. “It’s the beat that keeps me coming back,” junior Bianka Quintanilla-Whye said. While the self-objectification of artists like Dev or Rihanna is apparent in their lyrics, their beats are considered more important. A heavy base and a synthesized rhythm have been deemed the new hit formula, adding sexual and female objectifying lyrics, help female artists compete with the high bar of overt sexuality and objectification that male artists have set. Students and listeners do not disagree. “I’m not bothered by it at all,” Maddie Kelley said. “In fact, I like it.”

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A new theme in popular music is taking the Top 40 list by storm. It has a bass heavy beat, explicitly sexual lyrics and a pre-teen audience. Although this new phenomenon packs dance floors, it carries a heavy misogynistic message and is sung by female artists. Singer-rapper Dev from Los Angeles county claimed the number one spot on the Billboard 100 list at Billboard.com in 2010 with her feature in the Cataracs song “Like a G6.” The chorus is based on Dev’s single “Booty Bounce” which has a chorus that repeats “Bet you wanna see this booty bounce,” seven times. “It doesn’t make me uncomfortable, as long as guys recognize that they can’t objectify girls like the song does, it’s fine to listen to that type of music,” senior Maddie Kelley said. She stressed the intrusion of selfobjectification into female artists’ lyrics is common and definitely not alarming. “The political culture of the 21st century is rife with sexist imagery,” professor Karrin Vasby Anderson of Colorado State University writes in her “From Suffragist to Sexpot” study. “Pornification is a phenomenon in which pornographic themes and images seep into our daily lives and mainstream news and entertainment sources.” On the female rapper Lil Kim’s third album, she recorded a song with such a sexually explicit and misogynistic title its cannot be printed. In one of these songs, Lil

Kim states female success comes with self-objectification and promiscuity. “I think that girls in the media have been abused with objectification as sex symbols for the past five to eight years, and for normal girls that abuse has come to be the new norm,” Elizabeth Syufy Kelley (’81), mother of Maddie

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Seeing eye-to-eye After-school art program teams teens, grade schoolers with learning differences

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igh school students partnered with their elementary school buddies crowd around two tables in a dimly lit room, laughing and creating plaster molds over elbows and hands for an art project. Despite the age gap, they all have one aspect in common — learning differences. Project Eye-to-Eye, an afterschool program affiliated with the non-profit organization of the same name, aims to build self-esteem with learning disabled and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder youth by matching young adults with elementary children to act as mentors to empower their learning, according to Project Eye-to-Eye’s website.

“Our goal is to get kids comfortable talking about their learning differences and make them comfortable speaking up for themselves,” senior Quinn Reno, Project Eye-to-Eye club head, said. “We create art projects such as ‘What your ideal classroom would be’ for the kids to express their learning styles through art projects.” The elementary school students learn that having a learning difference does not make them different, just that they learn in different ways than other people, and that there is hope for themselves in the future, according to Project Eye-to-Eye’s website. Reno begins each Tuesday one-hour meeting with a call and response. On this day she asks the students to state what

they’re going to be for Halloween and what their favorite type of candy is. The circle of children respond eagerly, then settle into the art project they began at the last meeting. “So far plastering has been my favorite art project,” St. Vincent de Paul school student Katie Dusanic said. “You get to pick something you’re good at and show that you’re proud of what you can do. We plastered different body parts showing our abilities. I did my hands since I’m fast at typing and I play guitar.” Project Eye-to-Eye began as a small service project in 1998 in Providence, Rhode Island between a group of Brown University students and Fox Point Elementary students with academic labels such as LD and ADHD.

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Sophomore Lauren Baum helps St. Vincent de Paul students with their plastering art project, taping together different body parts.

“This does more than just help the elementary kids,” Reno said. “It helps our students here at CSH, too. It builds community since all grades are welcome to participate.” CSH partners with St. Ignatius High School in working with

St. Vincent de Paul elementary students. “I’ve been coming here since I was in fourth grade,” a St. Vincent de Paul sixth grader whose parents requested for her to be anonymous said. “It’s really fun. I always look forward to coming here.”

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Cart brings back American classic Alice Jones reporter

illmore Street is not lacking in restaurants, but the Let’s be Frank hot dog cart at the corner of Sacramento Street provides a less-extravagant meal with the same amount of flare. With a blossoming company that includes brick and mortar shops as well as carts, owners Sue Moore and Larry Bain have worked to bring back the hot dog’s iconic position in American culture while keeping the dog contemporary with grassfed beef and locally-farmed ingredients. Moore, being an active part of the San Francisco Sustainable Food System, has worked to make sure the ingredients for the dogs are high quality with no nitrates, nitrites, hormones or antibiotics, and has

cut out the excess fat of the typical hot dog. The turkey-filled Bird Dog and a special-order Veggie Dog provide a satisfying hot dog experience for the lunch crowd trying to cut down on red meat — or meat all together. The cart’s four other dogs, the Mutt (beef and pork), Frank (standard dog), Heat (spicy dog) and Brat, are all perfectly juicy and the right size to tide you over until your next meal. Options on the dogs include grilled-on-the-spot onions and organic yellow and Dijon mustard, ketchup, sauerkraut and relish. The daring can try the Devil Sauce, an interesting take on a chutney made with jalapenos, ginger and garlic, giving the all-American hot dog a Middle Eastern twist. A steamed and grilled traditional white-flour bun, specially

made by the Acme Bread Company, is the perfect balance of bun to dog, as well as a successful and delicious first try for Acme as it breaks into other types of rolls. The $5.50 price tag is a little steep for a hot dog, but the dogs are consistently good and justify the price with their delicious taste and local ingredients. Accessible to students with a 5-block walk along Fillmore Street, and combined with outdoor tables snagged from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Let’s be Frank is an easy, tasty lunch for a reasonable price. Let’s be Frank hot dog cart Sacramento & Fillmore streets Thursdays 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. www.letsbefrankdogs.com.

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A Let’s be Frank vendor prepares a Heat and a Mutt Dog while keeping an eye on the grilled onions and buns (above). All hot dogs come with the option of grilled onions and organic condiments (right). Old hot dogs are cut into thin slices, dehydrated and freeze dried to later be sold at dog and cat store George on 2512 Sacramento St. (far right). Let’s be Frank also has a shop on 3318 Steiner St. and another cart at the Warming Hut in Crissy Field.

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At a recent rehearsal for just main characters, sophomore Ayesha Sayeed and SHHS freshman Thomas Namara sat on the darkened Syufy Theatre stage with director Pamela Rickard going over lines for the upcoming fall production “Analiese.” The play focuses on Analiese (Sayeed) and Christian (Namara) who have been friends since childhood, yet have grown apart over the years. Analiese journeys to find Christian, who has been seduced by Nina (Kirsten GunnGraffy), and discovers her feelings for him have become more than a friendship. “I feel like I can relate to my character because she is having normal teenage life questions about love and friendship and

the struggles in growing up,” Sayeed said. Playwright Lynne Alvarez based the play off of the fairytale “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen. “The play has an almost fantastical feel to it because of its influence from the fairytale,” Gunn-Graffy said. “The play is definitely not your normal fairytale. The dark and twisted elements add another dimension to the tale of young love that everyone expects from a fairytale.” The play is relatable to teenagers, yet remains true to the original script according to freshman Stephanie Elliot, who plays Erica. “There is definitely some mature content and ideas that teens should be aware of when they buy their tickets” Elliot said. Performances are scheduled Nov. 17 at 7 p.m., Nov. 18 at 7

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p.m. and Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. in the Syufy Theatre. Tickets are available at the door.

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Petitions from the San Francisco Public Library are displayed under a glass case. The informational panel above it is an early timeline of women pushing suffrage legislation inSacramento.

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an Francisco prides itself on its diversity and inclusive legislation, yet it’s surprising the exhibit The Centennial of California Woman Suffrage on third floor in the San Francisco Main Library has had little exposure, although the exhibit has substantial information about the movement. Encircling the central atrium, the exhibit features documents, photographs and other privately-collected items. The petitions on display give a sense of how many women were voicing their opinion for suffrage, demanding for their right to vote from California legislators — all men. Informational panels sharing narrative stories, along with photos of suffragists such as Selina Solomons, a San Francisco au-

thor and activist, shed light on the women’s lives during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibit also contains witty propaganda posters — both pro and con — about the woman suffrage movement, adding to a visual experience to common beliefs during the era. Political cartoons include images of women writing lists of where their “places” are, crossing off the word “home.” Another piece shows a woman at the bottom of a ladder with different jobs that she could climb up to, limiting her to a governess, nurse or teacher. The exhibit gives a 360-degree view of the suffragist movement and is an excellent resource young women who want to learn more about their history, commemorating Californian women’s actions towards accessing more rights for themselves.