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

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City Target opens

Neighborhood hotspots prep for holidays

New branch of popular chain hits Metreon Emily Seely Reporter

Despite San Francisco’s reputation of being resistant to the neighborhood placement of big box retail stores, posters for the city’s first Target cover buses and billboards across town, advertising the new mall anchor following the Metreon renovation.

“I’ve been to Target once so far, and I really liked being able to shop there,” sophomore Allison Watts said. “Having a Target in the city is much more convenient than going all the way to Daly City, especially because it is right downtown and I can go there if I’m out shopping with friends.”

San Francisco’s retail policy selects which chains and bigbox retail stores can move into the city on a case-by-case basis, according to Regina Dick-Endrizzi, Executive Director of the San Francisco Office of Small Businesses.

“In regards to Target coming into downtown, the sentiment from many was that individuals would be spending money in San Francisco and we would be employing people in the city,” Dick-Endrizzi said. “Shoppers driving to Daly City are spending sales tax dollars that San Francisco could be capturing.”

Sales tax revenues support San Francisco’s schools, parks and libraries, according to DickEndrizzi.

Target also has a track record of community involvement.

“Target takes pride in being a good employer and strong partner in the communities we serve and San Francisco CityTarget continues this tradition,” Mya Walters, Senior Manager of

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Public Relations at Target, said.

“Since 2011, Target has contributed more than $2 million to support the San Francisco-area community, including field trip grants to San Francisco-area schools, a school library makeover at Sanchez College Preparatory School and support for local chapters of the United Way through store grants and employee contributions.”

Metreon has partnered with Mission Hiring Hall and South of Market Employment Center to fill job vacancies, according to the Westfield Metreon website.

Target is a 10-minute walk away from the shops in Union Square, taking shoppers past the flagship Apple Store on Stockton Street and Old Navy on Market Street.

Metreon has partnered with Mission Hiring Hall and South of Market Employment Center to fill job vacancies, according to the Westfield Metreon website.

In addition to Target, a 16-screen movie theater anchors the Metreon, which also includes a bookstore, billiards club, spa, restaurants and National University, the 12th largest non-profit higher education institution in California.

“Having a balance of retails along with small business helps keep balance in the city,” DickEndrizzi said.

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135 4th St. btw. Howard & Mission via Muni 3 Presidio from school, then walk 3 blocks.

▶The newly renovated Metreon boasts a new look and a new host of vendors, including a branch of the new City Target. The City Target opened in early October.

Pets fill store windows Kittens prance around in the decorative window displays, seemingly unaffected by the throngs of people, pressing their faces against the glass of the Macy’s windows. The San Francisco SPCA is marking its 26th annual holiday adoption spree at the Macy’s in Union Square, a seasonal display that boosts SPCA adoption rates for cats and dogs.

Last year’s holiday adoption season was the most successful

yet, according to media relations associate Krista Maloney. Window displays alone found homes for approximately 320 animals and raised $75,000.

“The windows are designed to catch the attention of people who are passing by,” Maloney said. “It’s a unique display, and the only one of its kind that we’re aware of. The more people know about the event, the more who will come check it out and posSee SPCA, p. 2

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QuickReads ▶ Four School Noëls are planned for Friday morning in the Herbert Gym. At his annual gift to the president and heads of schools, kindergarteners through seniors perform carols, with older students singing in the international language they are studying.

Dress uniform is required. ▶ Semester Finals start Monday, Dec. 17 and end Thursday, Dec. 20. Monday exams are English and theology; Tuesday, history and elective; Wednesday, international languages and math; and Thursday, science and second elective. Friday is the annual Sophomore Class Christmas celebration, with an early dismissal around 11 a.m.

Adoption agency capitalizes on holidays Liz Smith Editor- in - Chief

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Shoppers stop to watch the kittens and puppies in their window displays. All the animals are up for adoption from the SPCA shelter.

Follow The Broadview on Instagram Senior MaryKatherine Michiels-Kibler sings “Noël de Notre Dame” along with the Senior Class as part of Noëls practice. The annual all-school Noëls will take place Friday in the Herbert Center at 8:30 a.m.

▶ Christmas Break begins by noon on Friday, Dec. 21 with classes resuming on Monday, Jan. 7. ▶ Blood Banks of the Pacific will conduct a blood drive on Thursday, Jan. 10 in the Stuart Hall HS Columbus Room. Whole blood can be donated from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Faculty, friends and family members can donate.

Students 16 years and older may also donate, but 16 year olds are required to turn in a signed waiver to Campus Ministry. Donations count as service credit. Online registration is available from the Stuart Hall website or at https://www.bloodheroes.com — Liana Lum

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Local stores decorate for holiday season

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illmore Street shops, tending to attract high schools students and their unspent allowances and babysitting earnings, are decked out with lights and filled with decorations attracting passers-by in search for holiday gifts.

Benefit, a skin-care and beauty products company, starts to put up Christmas decorations and release its new products the day after Thanksgiving. Its window features mistletoe, a fireplace and a Christmas tree, inspired

by makeup, beauty, glamour and vanity according to Amanda Storey, Benefit store employee.

“We never do traditional colors — we always use pink, gold and red,” fellow employee Felicia Gonzalez said. “All of our holiday packaging tends to be more in that realm so we can reuse these gifts after Christmas. It’s fun and non-traditional, catching everyone’s eye.”

Marc by Marc Jacob’s down at Sacramento Street, specializing in swimwear, ready-to-wear apparel and a vast selection of

accessories, has windows featuring a realistic-looking UFO surrounded by an array of cacti decorated with holiday lights.

“The visuals team is located in New York where the themes are invented,” a Marc by Marc Jacobs employee, who has requested to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the press, said. “The props are rotated between stores and recycled so that each store window varies in displays each year.”

More than just decorations, Starbucks coffee features holiday specials such as the Caramel

Brulee Latte, Eggnog Latte, Gingerbread Latte and Peppermint Mocha, which are only available during the holiday season, raising the sales by about 10 percent, according to Starbucks employee Amanda Torres. Every year, customers look forward to the unveiling of the red holiday cup, along with Christmas wrappings and other portable mugs for sale.

“I really love how all the stores transform for the Christmas Season,” Torres said. “It becomes a Winter Wonderland here in Starbucks and we truly embrace the Christmas spirit.”

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Starbucks is one of many stores along Fillmore Street that decorates and sells holidaythemed iteams. Seasonal specials raise profits 10 percent.

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Aside from being practical for the SPCA, the holiday windows are a seasonal attraction, according to senior Chiara Figari, who adopted a dog and cat from the organization.

“The windows are a big deal,” Figari said. “My cousins came in from Nevada over the holidays a few years ago and we had to go to the windows.”

The mission to find homes for animals extends beyond just the holidays. In a preemptive attempt to address feral population of cats and dogs, San Francisco SPCA made a commitment just this year to end animal abandonment by 2020.

Dogs and cats coming from abused homes are not uncommon at SPCA. Pets are put up for adoption as either healthy, rehabilitatable, manageable and unhealthy, or untreatable, ac-

cording to SF SPCA 2011 Annual Cat and Dog Statistics and Live Release Rate Including Feral Cats. The majority of the animals up for adoption fall under the former two categories.

“My dog Toby was abused with a fire hose, which made it hard to bathe him,” Figari said, “but that didn’t stop us from working through it. We worked with trainers and it’s been really rewarding. All the animals that I’ve adopted from the SPCA have thrived in their indoor, loving environment.”

Adopting an animal is a lifetime commitment, but one that’s worth it, according to Maloney.

“If you’re adopting a puppy or kitten, that could be upwards of 20 years,” Maloney said.

“Make sure you are financially able to provide for an animal.”

All animals from SPCA are spayed/neutered, microchipped and receive a health check before they can be adopted. The

adoption fees vary, depending on the animal’s age. During holiday windows, adult animals — ones over six months — can be adopted for free directly from the shelter.

Over the past seven years, the organization has placed 2,300 animals in new homes and raised almost $400,000 during the Christmas season.

The holidays are a great time to adopt a puppy or kitten from the SPCA, according to Maloney.

“Adopting not only gives a home to an animal in need, but it also frees up space in the shelter for another homeless animal to come it,” Maloney said. “The holidays are all about generosity and caring, and opening your heart and home to an animal in need is a great way to feel the holiday spirit.”

SF SPCA still needs volunteers at Macy’s in Union Square. through to New Year’s day.

JEWEL DEVORA | The Broadview A woman and her granddaughter look in window displays at resting kittens at the Macy’s in Union Square. The adoption rates increase during the holiday season, with last year’s adoption spree raising an additional $75,000 for the San Francisco SPCA. Every animal in the displays is up for adoption, including some older animals that have no adoption fee. Animals are already spayed/neutered and microchiped.

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Online applications make holiday shopping easier

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Senior Cassidy Lewallen browses a store’s website for Christmas gifts. Students use online stores to browse before hitting stores.

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n one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world, San Francisco teens find themselves using various shopping apps and online stores for pre-shopping as well as purchasing items, especially over the holidays.

“Because we grew up in the center of the technological world we use the Internet more than anything now,” junior Janet Kim said. “I actually prefer to shop online before I go to the store.”

Online shopping has nearly tripled within the last 10 years, according to E-commerce Services, a statistics website for online ratings. Clothing items are the fourth most sold good after books, electronic gadgets and movies. Internet sales this season are estimated to increase 16 percent, totaling about $96 billion in

sales for the holidays, according to Internet Retailer, an e-commerce intelligence website.

“I shop at online stores such as Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters to pre-shop before I go to the store,” sophomore Marie DeTomasi said. “It saves time for me and my parents so we don’t waste time in the store as well.”

The term “Cyber Monday” was coined in 2005 when shoppers returned to their offices on the Monday after the Thanksgiving shopping weekend and used their computers to cash in on more sales online. This year, sales were up 30 percent, with 860,000 live chats and phone calls held to help shoppers with their purchases according to Internet Retailer.

Sixty-two percent of people will use their smartphones and tablets to review and purchase

items by using the Web and store applications according to Internet Retailer.

One of these apps is the San Francisco-based Wanelo, which localizes trending products varying from clothes to appliances and arranges them by popularity among users.

“Wanelo is a way that you can shop for everything,” Kim said.

“You can get stocking stuffers, birthday gifts and clothes.”

Seventeen magazine’s Seventeen Shopping Insider allows users to create shopping lists and find gift ideas based on their likes. A QR code reader is also included to let the shopper scan and find products as well.

“With technology moving forward, and with the holidays coming up, I shared the app with my parents too for things I want,” Kim said.

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ebra Allen lost her 17-year-old daughter to acute alcohol poisoning over the 2009 Christmas holiday. Shelby Allen was active in her school community, a good student and a good friend, but one night of drinking and irresponsible behavior left her dead.

During a presentation in Syufy Theatre, Allen explained the dangers of alcohol poisoning to. Not only is drinking illegal, it can also be lethal. As Allen related her heart-breaking tale, it was not just a mother’s pain that was portrayed, but the unnecessary nature of her tragedy.

The legal drinking age in the United States is 21, meaning no high school student should

partake in drinking alcohol, yet most people still believe that partying and drinking are just another part of the teenage experience. In actuality, this kind of “normal teenage experimentation” can have a deathly price.

Every weekend teens spend the night in the emergency room as a result of a party gone too far. Tweets about blacking out, Facebook check-ins at the hospital and Instagram posts of hospital bracelets further glamorize binge drinking and make light of a serious problem. These stories become the hot topics of gossip and rumors and fuel this skewed teen culture.

Underage drinking is conveyed in almost every teenage

movie, television show and even in some music videos.

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People believe that partying and drinking are just another part of the teenage experience.

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Scenes of red solo cups and kegs are paired with upbeat music and romantic conquests.

Middle-schoolers and freshmen see these scenarios and

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1. She was hospitilized with severe morning sickness.

2. Supreme court takes up same-sex marriage.

2. Cases will not be heard until March.

3. Scutaro and Pagan have been re-signed.

3. Wilson might not be coming back.

4. Taylor Swift is dating Harry Styles.

4. Can’t wait to hear the breakup single.

5. Christmas break is longer this year.

5. We still have to get through finals first.

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invincible, but we are tragically mistaken.

Even if we do get lucky and live, we still put poison in our bodies without knowing the long term dangers of heavy alcohol consumption. Excessive binge drinking raises the probability of alcohol addiction and suppresses the serotonin — the chemical responsible for “happy feelings” — in the brain, causing deep depression among teenagers and ultimately adults.

For more information on Debra Allen and her foundation, Shelby’s Rules, go to; http://shelbysrulesfoundation.com.

Valuing an education

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think this is what high school life is suppose to be like.

What teens don’t realize is that girl throwing up in the bushes, that boy passed out on the floor, or that teenager stumbling around the bathroom completely incoherent are all suffering from alcohol poisoning. Every time someone blacks out, they are toeing a treacherous line between life and death.

Allen’s daughter Shelby went to a party with her friends and ended up in a morgue the next morning. Shelby didn’t think her probably “fun night out” would be her last night out, but few teenagers ever think death could be the end of their partying. We see ourselves as being

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The dangers of drinking

Teens emmulating college behavior unknowingly put themselves in danger with alcohol.

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f you never do anything, you never become anyone.”

So laments Jenny Mellor, a studious and dedicated 16-year-old studying to gain acceptance into Oxford University in the film “An Education.”

Over the course of Jenny’s story, she is derailed by meeting an older man who seduces her with his glamorous lifestyle of clubs, concerts and expensive cigars.

By the time Jenny discovers the man to be a charlatan, she has already thrown her life away, dropping out of school and refusing to sit her A-Level exams.

The foundation of Jenny’s unraveling comes from the simple idea that she feels she is living a superficial life with the sole purpose of getting into college. In that regard, she is not alone.

After years of classes, extracurriculars and homework, many teenagers struggle with the same quandary.

“It’s not enough to educate us anymore … you’ve got to tell us why you’re doing it,” Jenny tells her headmistress as she prepares to leave school and abandon her studies.

It isn’t our teachers who have to tell us the importance of our educations — we have to define that for ourselves. Why do we take the classes we take? Why do we play the sports we play? Why do we involve ourselves in our respective clubs?

It isn’t enough to just go through the motions anymore — we have to know why we’re doing what we choose to do.

We can’t live our lives for our futures — we have to learn to live for the present.

I have been guilty of taking certain classes so as to continue my “rigorous course load,” but have always found a way to appreciate all aspects of my curriculum.

The classes I didn’t intend to take, such as AP Calculus, ended up challenging me and pushing me to accomplish things I didn’t know I was capable of doing while teaching me lessons I wouldn’t have otherwise learned. Math has always been my weakest subject, but now instead of letting it defeat me, I have been pushed to tackle the highest level available.

The extracurriculars I joined in an effort to make myself a more diversified candidate have become hobbies and passions that I would have never discovered had I not been pushed out of my comfort zone.

Maybe we’re supposed to take our education into our own hands — for the right reasons or the wrong ones — and by doing so educate ourselves in ways we never imagined possible.

“Someone else might want to know the point of it all one day,” as Jenny says.

Without the ever-present pressure of getting into college looming over our heads, maybe we as high school students wouldn’t accomplish such meaningful and worthwhile goals like challenging classes or acing tests, which by doing so we become well-rounded people. Maybe that’s the point.

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A ‘fair weather’ Christian

hen it comes to the holidays, unfortunately I am a CEO. For those who are unfamiliar with this acronym, it stands for “Christmas and Easter Only.”

My attendance at church didn’t used to be this way. My dad got us up and out of the house every Sunday morning to listen to our minister, sing hymns and dunk a nice chunk of sourdough bread into grape juice (for the kids) on communion days.

But this faded, down to only the bare bones — the Christian staples — like Christmas. As un-Presbyterian as this is of me, and as disappointed as it makes my dad, it doesn’t mean that Christmas itself has lost its meaning. The holiday is more about family than re-enacting the story of Jesus’ birth, like I did in fourth and fifth grade as the Virgin Mary for two consecutive years at my church.

Those Christmas pageants were fond holiday memories. I like to think that I was the best Mary my congregation had ever seen.

I look back on the pictures proudly, but it’s by no means what I remember — and love — most about Christmas.

Christmas Eve is one of the only times that my family gets together with my cousins and grandmother. When we gather, we always seem to pick up right where we left off, reminiscing about past celebrations and laughing about the same old jokes.

The “kid table” is reserved for my two sisters, our cousin and me, where (we’re pretty sure) the adults sitting nearby look on at us enviously because we’re telling stories, like the time our other cousin so infamously tipped over a potted plant and dumped dirt all over my grandma’s white carpet, or the skits we used to perform

after dinner using weird things like backscratchers that we found in my mom’s childhood room at my grandma’s house.

Now, with my sister home from college, and the knowledge that this will be my last Christmas before leaving home, it’s bound to be a memorable one, but one essentially identical to the past 17.

Christmas loses some of its significance with my lack of church attendance. Only going to church a few times a year means it feels less and less like a community than it would if I were to go more regularly.

Fortunately, when I do go to church at Christmas, the congregation is remarkably welcoming. Belting out holiday hymns with my sisters gets me thinking that maybe it is worth the trip every Sunday.

Who knows, maybe I will become more of a regular. That’s the power of Christmas.

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Culture drives teen drinking

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ast year’s “Project-X,” a movie portraying a high school house party that got out of control, was more than a cliché. The movie opened at No. 2 in ticket sales, and showed the omnipresence that drinking and partying has in high school culture.

“High school is made up of a bunch of different types of people,” Madeleine Bell, a Redwood High School senior said. “For certain people, drinking and partying is all they do. They go through the week looking forward to partying on the weekends.”

Some high school students look at socializing and partying as a way to relieve stress and combat the high level of pressure they deal with throughout the week.

“I think that a lot of teenagers want to rebel against what they should be doing and what society wants them to be doing,” junior Lizzie Whittles said. “Some people just forget about the repercussions their choices have.”

Illegal underage alcohol abuse has augmented the number of teens who have been sexually assaulted and killed or involved in car accidents, and upwards of 1,000 homicides according to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Despite these consequences and health concerns like liver, heart and brain damage, teenag-

ers have started partying at even younger ages.

“More and more young people started partying as young as middle school,” Whittles said.

“They don’t get that even though college kids or the 20-somethings they see on TV are drinking, that it’s not okay for them to drink, too.”

The culture of parties and drinking is attached to what many students wrongly assume is part of the high school experience. This emphasis is driven by the media and the ubiquitous desire to grow up faster.

“It probably comes from all the TV and the movies that we are inundated with,” junior Sophia Kelley said. “A lot of people wish they could party like the characters on a show like ‘Gossip Girl,’ or party like they know college kids do.”

Sometimes the adolescent desire to be socially accepted drives students to make bad decisions and party more often, according to a study conducted by the University of Southern California and Occidental College.

“Kids might not necessarily drink because of social pressure,” Marin Academy senior Michael Jacks said. “They will definitely start partying and putting themselves in situations where alcohol is available just to be part of the ‘in’ crowd.”

Some teenagers rationalize their underage drinking or partying with the idea that college parties are a reality, and they should learn to be in

those types of environments and still make good decisions.

“Socializing in that particular way is definitely not necessary in high school.” Jacks said.

Teenagers have the opportunity to be in these situations when there are more relaxed guidelines in their homes, or if their drug and alcohol education was not comprehensive.

“It’s important to keep open communication with your kids,” Francine Miller, a mother of two teenagers at two different high schools in the Bay Area said.

“Talk to them about alcohol and drugs, try not to lecture, and most importantly be honest.”

Parties are a reality in high school and college culture, but teens should be able to socialize with their friends without feeling as if they have to engage in illegal underage drinking, according to Students for Safe Drinking.

“Drinking isn’t what plays the largest role in high school culture, even though it’s there,” Andrew Corral, a senior at Stuart Hall High School said. “Relationships are really important.

Parties provide a different, relaxed environment to cultivate them in.”

Teenagers sometimes use the high school years as space to rebel, try new things and meet new and different kinds of people.

“If you take partying too far it can literally kill you,” Whittles said. “It’s good to know your limits, but to abstain is the best.”

Binge drinking by the numbers Alcohol has become aggresively promoted through television, billboards and the Internet since 2000.

About 90% of alcohol consumed by youth under the age of 21 in the United States is in the form of “binge drinks.”

One in six U.S adults binge drinks about four times a month and consumes about eight drinks per binge.

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Caffeine and illegal teenag teens more than ever. Thes aggresively through media to teens.

Drinking games that were once only found in college environments are making a strong apperance in high school, drinking games encourage irresponsible and possibly dangerous behavior.

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Energy drinks impact teens Alice Jones Senior Reporter

One student in the anonymous survey, who identifies herself only as a freshman, attributed Red Bull to giving her the energy to do better in school, but Kelson does not recommend these drinks for getting an extra energy source.

“Considering in high school you have to manage a crazy schedule, people should learn to manage without having to get external sources of energy,”Kelson said.

Nutritionists and physicians like Dr. Lisa Dana of Golden Gate Pediatrics warn their patients to stay away from these caffeine and sugar-laden drinks.

“I ask my patients if they are drinking energy drinks and tell them to make sure to stay away from depending on a false sense of energy that can result in an unhealthy crash,” Dana said.

“If I don’t drink them, I get very tired,” Bolli-Thompson said, claiming she only started becoming fatigued without drinking Red Bull after she started consuming the energy drink regularly.

Red Bull contains 80 milligrams of caffeine per 8-ounce can, while Four Loko puts approximately 260 milligrams of caffeine in a 23.5 ounce can according to Go Ask Alice!, a Columbia University health questions and answers resource.

Comparatively, a tall 12-ounce Starbucks Caffè Latte has 75 milligrams of caffeine, and a tall coffee has 260 milligrams.

Energy drinks are not new to the American market, but some new potentially dangerous trends are. Emergency department visits due to alcoholic energy drink consumption have been on the rise since 2005 and have been related to deaths of teens and young adults.

Teens make up half of the energy drink market with nearly 31 percent of American teenagers drinking energy drinks. These 7.6 million teens have jumped up 3 million in three years, according to Simmons Research.

“I started drinking Red Bull my freshman year,” junior Camille Bolli-Thompson said, admitting to drinking an average of two to three Red Bulls a day.

“My best friend started drinking them and then so did I. I got addicted”.

Senior Sara Kelson says started ignoring the “horrible” taste of Red Bull her freshman year, consuming them to stay up late for homework or to get the energy to pull an all-nighter.

“I continued drinking them this year for college applications and a large workload,” said Kelson.

A school-wide poll on Facebook revealed most students do not drink energy drinks, but do consume an average of one to two cups of coffee or tea in the morning to wake them up.

Other students drink electrolyte drinks like gatorade.

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Eighteen state attorneys general are encouraging the FDA to investigate Four Lokos, which along with Joose and Blast, contain alcohol and are being marketed directly to youth. These brands have bright colors, flashy labels with flavors ranging from different fruity lemonades to grape to watermelon.

Four Lokos was introduced in 2005 in convenience stores and have brought hundreds of hospitalizations to primarily teens and college students, according to the Arthur Page Society. The drinks average 60 grams of sugar in it to mask the bitterness of alcohol and can compete with alcoholic malt beverages in sales.

“Mostly young people or homeless buy Four Lokos, probably because of the low price and big size,” according to Ibrahim Habas who owns Gino’s Grocery on Fillmore Street.

Dana warns energy drinks can also lead to several severe physical conditions when used in excess, citing “Energy drinks can harm children” in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“If you have ADHD or are taking some types of medications, your heart rate will already be increased. Adding an energy drink to that can lead to high blood pressure (hypertension), high heart rate (tachycardia) and in some more severe cases, seizures,” Dana said.

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eer Pong, King’s Cup, Flip Cup. Whatever you call them, all drinking games share a common goal — to get their participants drunk. Partygoers who partake in drinking games consume a higher quantity of alcohol than they would otherwise.

“Drinking games, especially beer pong, make drinking seem a little more innocent because it is in the form of a game with many other people and not as hard alcohol,” a sophomore at a San Francisco private school who asked not to be identified, said. Girls are just as likely as guys to take part in drinking games, but are subject to greater consequences than men because women are more likely to be at risk for sexual victimization, ac-

cording to the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Underage drinking leads to risky sexual behavior, according to an article by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Playing drinking games has also been linked to heightened sexual aggression in a similar report by the Indiana State University Department of Psychology.

“Both men and women reported being taken advantage of sexually during or after play, including someone having sex with them when they were too drunk to give consent,” according to the report. “Greater alcohol consumption predicted more sexual experiences in women.”

A private high school junior said that her friends know drinking is dangerous, “but it

doesn’t really matter to them because they think the consequences won’t happen to them.”

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Girls are more heavily affected by alcohol than boys.

on the positive experiences of alcohol are most likely to abuse it, according to a report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. These teenagers’ mindsets shift to a more positive outlook on alcohol after the age of 13, according to the NIAAA report. Twentytwo percent of teenagers binge drink according to the Center for Disease Control.

Girls are more heavily affected by alcohol by boys, because their bodies process alcohol differently. Weight, hormone levels and ethnicity all factor into how much alcohol affects a girl, according to Girls’ Health, a US Department of Health and Human Services website.

“I’ve been in situations where people have had to go to the hospital,” an independent high school sophomore who asked not to be identified, said. “A friend of mine’s first time drinking, she drank too much and ended up having to go to the hospital.”

Not all teenagers are oblivious to the risks of such behavior.

“I think drinking games can be very dangerous,” the sophomore said. “My friends and I don’t normally play them, except for beer pong. But I think

even that can add to the amount of alcohol intake extremely and much more rapidly as well.”

Academic failure, drug use, and risk of developing dependency on alcohol are all possible side effects of underage drinking, according to the Johns Hopkins report. But even more than lifestyle changes are at stake — the report states 5,000 people under 21 years of age die every year from alcohol related issues.

“My friends and I do know the dangers but we don’t care because we are smart about how much we drink,” the junior said.

“Teens really think about what they’re doing before they drink for the first time. After a couple experiences, it is just something that happens. It’s not a decision because you’re comfortable with it.”

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SPORTS&FITNESS

Team’s State title remembered

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Cubs Roundup Basketball Captains Bianka Quintanilla-Whye Izzy Borges Gina Domergue Jaime Hum-Nishikado Lizzie Whittles

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The 2003, Division V state champions pose with their medals at the Arco Arena in Sacramento after defeating Mission Prep of San Luis Obispo, 68-59. The team (left to right) was made up of Liz Brown (’03), Kathy Catani (’04), Jen Hum-Traverso (’06), Stacey Fong (’03), Stephanie Lee (’03), Justine Higueras (’03), Jazmyn Hammons (’06), Holly Hamilton (’03), Jestynn Tatum (’05), Andie Yamagami (‘03), Caroline Curran (’03), Elena DeSantis, Rich Hata, head coach Larry Minnich.

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he clock expired and Convent history was forever changed. The horn not only marked the end of the 2003 State Championship game, but also the realization of the improbable — a victory for the Cubs’ basketball team.

“The highlight for me was when the buzzer sounded,” team captain Liz Brown (’03) said.

“That was it. It felt like it was supposed to happen.”

In that moment, it was not just the legacy of the 10 girls on the team that was created, but that of Convent athletics as a whole. A school that had failed to amount to much in the sports arena was about to embark on a new era of dominance.

“The basketball program was the same before the state championship as it was afterwards,” Doug Grant, who was head of school at the time, said. “The difference was that it created legitimacy in the minds of everyone in San Francisco. All of a sudden we had a reputation as a premier Division V basketball program.

It was the same program, but those players brought attention to our school and our program.”

Fours years prior, such a victory was more than improbable.

The basketball program was in a major state of transition after the splitting of the Bay Counties League into the West and Central divisions, and victories were hard to come by. The squad suffered losses by up to 100 points and was seen as an “easy win,” according to athletic director Elena DeSantis.

“When you love a sport you keep playing it,” Brown, who played point guard, said. “We had confidence in ourselves. By senior year we were all so close, we coached ourselves.”

The team also went through five coaches in four years, which added to the program’s difficulties.

“By our fourth year, we started to understand each other a little better, trust each other and guide each other along the way,” power forward Andie Yamagami (’03) said. “Our coach was in charge of subbing, but we were in charge on the court.”

The road to the State Championship was a long and unexpected one. After having losing seasons for years on end, Brown and Yamagami’s freshman season was the first winning season in over a decade. Their sophomore

year, the team made the BCL West playoffs. By the time they were juniors they had secured the school’s first city championship.

“It was a four-year building process,” Brown said. “People started realizing that Convent had come to play.”

Even after establishing themselves as major contenders, no one predicted a State Championship win for the Cubs.

“No one saw it coming,” Grant, who also served as a coach intermittently, said. “The journey was amazing. We had to win four consecutive games to be the NCS champs, then three consecutive games to be the NorCal champs, and the final State Championship Game — eight consecutive wins against the best teams in the state. Many of those games were nail biters.”

“We have a lot of upperclassmen on the team so I think our leadership will play a key role in having a great team” -Captain Bianka Quintanilla-Whye

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Captains look to lead team to Championship

Jaime Hum-Nishikado Position: Guard Grade: Junior Height: 5’7

Guard Jaime Hum-Nishikado is starting her third year on varsity.

Hum-Nishikado averages 17.2 points per game to go along with 2.0 rebounds and 3.5 steals. She scored nine points in the squad’s most recent matchup against Head-Royce Academy.

Bianka Quintanilla-Whye Position: Guard Grade: Senior Height: 5’7

Senior guard Bianka QuintanillaWhye aspires to reach the BCL championships this season. In Saturday’s game at Head-Royce she scored 13 points. The team came out with a win against HeadRoyce to give the squad a 5-1 preseason record as of presstime.

Isabella Borges Position: Point Guard Grade: Senior Height: 5’5

Isabella Borges is back after recovering from an ACL tear in her right knee and six months of physical therapy. Borges is the starting point guard for the Cubs and averages a total of 7.5 points per game to go with her 3.0 rebounds and 1.2 steals.

Gina Domergue Position: Forward Grade: Senior Height: 5’6

Gina Domergue trained with cocaptains Jaime Hum-Nishikado and Lizzie Whittles before the season started with a personal trainer.

She averages 7.5 rebounds a game and scored seven points in the team’s most recent outing against Head-Royce.

Lizzie Whittles Position: Center Grade: Junior Height: 5’7

Junior Lizzie Whittles is the starting post player for the team. Currently, she averages 6.7 points per game along with her 3.0 rebounds.

Whittles had six points in the Cubs’ victory over Head Royce.

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December 11, 2012

Holly, jolly

Concerts mark season Maya Greenhill and Sarah Selzer Reporters

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SHHS sophomore Singhoi Lao, junior Patrick Wong and senior Eliza Klyce perform a flute piece as part of the Four-School Orchestra (top, left to right). Sophomore Riley McKeon plays her violin during Thursday night’s Christmas Concert. SHHS Junior Steaven Baldoza, junior Elijah Tolentino and sophomore Aaron Tolentino sing with Stuart Hall’s A Capella group (above, left to right).

hoir and Joyful Noise will perform their annual Christmas concert, featuring a mix of traditional and nontraditional Christmas melodies, tomorrow night.

The concert will bring the four schools together in a nonacademic setting to celebrate the spirit of Christmas, according to chorister Serafina Cinti, and perform carols such as “Breath of Heaven,” “Watcha Gonna Call” and “Riu Riu Chiu” to narrate the story of the Virgin Mary.

“The music is about Mary as a young woman, as old as the girls at school here, finding herself pregnant,” choir director Billy Philadelphia said. “Imagine what

she might have gone through.

We’re not just talking about Christmas, reindeer and snow, but about Mary’s Journey.”

Joyful Noise will perform traditionally-themed songs such as “Come, Emmanuel,” “We Are the Light” and “Night of Silence.”

“Although our singing group may be small, we make up for it in enthusiasm and a sense of singing as a family,” Claire Pardini said. “I’m really excited to perform our songs because they’ll be will be a great way to help anticipate the Christmas season.”

The performance is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 11 in the Chapel at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. before the concert.

Boutique raises funds for schools Shirley Yang Reporter

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Junior Kellie La peruses the selection provided by one of the vendors at Christmas on Broadway. The bazaar attracted many students.

Gingerbread workshop raises money for BASH

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lementary school students, prospective students and their parents gathered to decorate gingerbread houses with bowls of white frosting and a colorful array of candy in the Flood Mansion cafeteria, Little Theater and Shakespeare’s Landing on Sunday, Dec. 2.

The Gingerbread Workshop is the biggest annual fundraiser hosted by the Broadway Alumnae of the Sacred Heart (BASH), which uses the proceeds to provide scholarships for alumnae legacy.

“I think that [the workshop’s] wonderful,” said Patty Rosenthal, friend of a CES mother who at-

tended the event with her and her daughter. “It’s a cute idea. The selection of candy is great, everyone is really nice and the kids are having a wonderful time.”

This year’s Gingerbread Workshop was the 20th anniversary of the fundrainser.

The workshop also gave families the option of purchasing a “to-go” house wrapped in cellophane and decorated with a ribbon, with bags of candy and frosting included, to decorate at a later time.

The event was promoted through the Convent & Stuart Hall website, Thursday Notes and fliers featuring a coloring contest for students to win a ice cream party for their class.

The Main Hall hummed with recorded Christmas music and elementary chorus groups singing as shoppers perused tables topped with merchandise of Bay Area vendors for Christmas on Broadway.

“It’s a fun opportunity to Christmas shop,” senior executive partner Sally Michael of J. Hilburn Men’s Clothier said.

“There’s a mix of people who are just coming in to do some holiday shopping and people who are related to the school.”

Christmas on Broadway raises funds for the schools through pop-up shopping boutiques and the evening Cranberry Crush cocktail event and wine tasting.

“We hope to add and contribute to our schools’ scholarship fund as well as continue our annual community building event to kick off the holiday season,” event co-chair Holly Couden said.

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Freshman Cole Fuetsch has her complementary make up done in the Reception Room. Students lined up for the free manicures and make up during the boutique.

Clothing, jewelry, holiday confections, hats, plants and accessories were sold at the event.

Christmas on Broadway replaced the former annual Greens Sale that featured Christmas wreaths, decorations, garlands and flowers, according to Couden.

“As new event chairpersons, we saw more and more work being put into greens with less profits,” Couden said. “We decided to morph greens, into a celebration for the community that raises money as well.”

Convent Elementary and Stuart Hall for Boys students and their parents took part in the annual Gingerbread Workshop in Little Theater and cafeteria last weekend. CSH students earned service hours passing out supplies and helping children transform plain gingerbread houses with icing “glue” and a bag of candy.

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CITY LIFE

December 11, 2012

Foodfor Days Alice Jones

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Grill keeps old SF alive

alking down the 200 block of California Street, it’s hard to miss the glowing, red-neon Tadich’s Grill sign — and once you catch a whiff of the wafting aroma of seafood and cheese sauces, you will let yourself into the timeless restaurant.

Tadich’s menu is from a simpler time, filled with classic seafood and red-meat dishes all with mild spicing, making this a must-visit. Bring your parents, because Tadich’s is pricy — even bring their parents, because they will enjoy the traditional cuisine.

Take, for example, the Oysters Rockefeller — oysters smothered in a spinach cream sauce and topped with a blend of four melted cheeses and baked to perfection. Although cheese and seafood may sound odd, you’ll get a lot of that combination at Tadich’s, and it’ll turn you into a believer.

The Boston Clam Chowder was deliciously chewy — and I would dare say, perfect. It was full of clams — not a bunch of potatoes — in a heavy cream, and had the perfect thick consistency, but wasn’t heavy, having a few potatoes here and there with celery and garnished with Italian parsley. The basket of Tadich’s own sourdough bread — made at Boudin’s bakery but with Tadich’s own special recipe — it is incredibly spongy and makes for good

dippin’ into the many soups and sauces in the entrees or side dishes.

We started our meal with three gorgeous Dungeness crab cakes topped with sun-dried tomatoes and a light salmon aioli in a mild sweet chili pepper sauce. The crab cakes were extraordinary because they were mostly crab — not bogged down by vegetable filler — and were held together by light, crispy bread crumbs. The crabmeat was almost silky and melted in your mouth — remember not to fill up on appetizers because the entrées are generously portioned.

My entrée was the Seafood Cioppino, a house specialty, stuffed with clams, scallops, prawns, Bay shrimp, crab meat, mussels and white fish in a tomato-based sauce. The cioppino is a seafood explosion in an incredible tasty broth and served with garlic bread that has been soaked in a garlic oil.

The crunchy warm outside and a deliciously saturated inside goes well with this lavish dish.

A more decadent option is the Crab and Lobster Thermidor, smothered in a thick cheese sauce with sides of broccoli, brussel sprouts and steak fries. The cheddar cheese sauce has a bite that heightens the lobster’s texture and flavor. The steak fries are more like deep fried potato chunks — adding to the classy comfort food vibe .

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Cioppino, a seafood stew, contains a variety of sea creatures from crab to scallops to steamed mussles.

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everal school groups and clubs are hosting drives to provide for teens and children living in the Western Addition in public housing or whose families have low income, and for the girls in the Philippines who otherwise would not receive gifts at Christmas.

Bins are in front of the Hoffman Library, Main Hall and the Community Service office for donations of unwrapped toys until Friday, Dec. 14.

“Roughly 300 to 500 toys get donated each year throughout all four schools,” community outreach coordinator Sheryl Davis said. “The good thing is that it gives our school community a chance to give back locally.”

Some toys will go to children who attend after school tutoring at CES or who participate in the Schools’ summer reading program during a five-week camp.

“The toy drive is a little bit more intentional and it builds on existing partnerships and relationships,” Davis said. “It actually connects us a little bit more with kids that are already familiar. It’s not so random, and that’s what we like about it.”

CSH is likewise hosting a gift drive for teens and young adults. These gifts include gift cards, makeup and toiletries.

“I feel like a lot of people when they think of toy drives, think of little kids,” freshman Daniella Lucio said. “People our age don’t get enough of what they would like for Christmas.”

Senior Rebecca Siegel is trying to provide clothes for young girls in the Philippines.

Her organization, Beauty Within, focuses on building self-esteem and confidence in young girls. Siegel is collecting T-shirts that will be donated to teenage girls.

HANAE NAKAJIMA | The Broadview “Every girl deserves to have the opportunity to have CES eighth grader Ariana Abdulmassih donates a the chance to be self-confident and self-assured as their counterparts in first world countries,” said Siegel. toy for the annual Heart to Heart toy drive.

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Dungeness crab cakes area popular starter, covered in Panko Bread crumbs and garnished roasted sun dried tomatoes.

Drives active during holidays

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If you are looking for something lighter and more simple, the House Caesar Salad is a good option. The dressing isn’t what you'd expect of Classic Ceasar, lacking the lemony tartness, but it is in Tadich’s tradition of laid-back flavor.

The light, mayonnaise-tasting dressing is well distributed through the romaine lettuce and crispy croutons.

To top off such a great meal, I’m glad I didn't pass up the staffs’ recommendation of the Triple Chocolate Mousse, made with layers of dark, milk and white chocolate mousse served on a large swirl of a raspberry sauce. Sadly, the tart sauce is mostly for presentation and doesn’t add much to the mousse, which is creamy and fluffy and delicious on its own.

Shared, it is the perfect bite of sweetest after a large savory meal.

Tadich Grill is the oldest restaurant in California, proudly serving since 1849. It moved from its original location in 1906 when the earth did, and then it moved again after a failed partnership, changing its menu from a coffee shop serving fresh fish to a real sit down establishment. The staff is darling, using endearments such as “young man” in reference to my father, and overall makes the atmosphere pleasant while offering excellent recommendations with chipper attitudes.

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