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Art seemed like the obvious choice for this term’s issue–it’s all around us, and we felt it was due time to recognize these artists for their work. Besides, art is another form of storyteling. In this copy, you’ll see over ten artists and their art from both within and outside Eden Prairie. We also showcase the inner enjoy their artwork as much as we do! For our upcoming last issue of the year, we’re putting to print a cover topic on the LGBT+ community. Please let us know what topics you want us to cover or if you’d be interested in being interviewed by DM-ing us on our Instagram @enneagles or emailing us! (Contact information is below.) Your editors, Maneeya Leung (64013595@ep-student.org) Elizabeth Alexander (90308973@ep-student.org) Huge thanks to juniors Demi Okulaja and Chloe Desierto for provid-

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Eden Prairie Schools beneﬁts from 22 solar panel arrays BY DYLAN LEUNG & AJIRA PANDEY -

According to Jason Mutzenberg, Executive Director of Business Services, the city of Eden Prairie has already had great incentives to switch to solar, creating a great opportunity for the stalled back on December 19, 2017. Since then, more have been implemented throughout the years, resulting in a total of 22 solar arrays, which cover all district sites. Originally, the school purchased energy from Xcel Energy. Currently, the solar panels are producing about 2.5 million kilowatt-hours annually, which is enough to power 250 to 300 homes per year. The solar panels are engineered to withstand trict also subscribes to solar gardens that act as a secondary source of energy for school buildings. The district saves around $100,000 through solar panels. Mutzenburg, who analyzes the rocket as the district pays the capital investment of the arrays out of the energy generated. Over the next 6 to 12 years, he expects savings to grow by $1,000,000 annually.

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“Currently we are running at about 85% and by 2030 we hope to be 100% solar-powered,” Mutzenburg said. There are two additional arrays being engineered right now that will be installed at EPHS and CMS sometime in 2022. The district is also looking into electric school buses. The process for this has been delayed for about six months, but Mutzenberg said the district is looking to see whether it is the right time to purchase the buses. are taking advantage of them. The district plans to expand their usage of solar panels and look at more options in sustainability.

Cookie store raises price to $1 each BY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

student experiences and opportunities,” Sayles said. Sayles anticipated the backlash. He knows customers will

Outside the cookie store (photo by Maneeya Leung)

Never before has the DECA cookie store changed their prices. For nearly 30 years, students paid 50 cents in exchange for a fresh, melt-in-your-mouth cookie. But this year, things are changing–the price has doubled to reach $1 per cookie. And students are not pleased by this decision. Why on earth would DECA commit such a heinous we were losing a lot of money, said DECA advisor Scott Sayles. “We were only paying for the actual cookie dough, which costs 42 cents. And there are other things that go

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always expect that from a business perspective,” he said. However, he still has hope for the future of the cookie store. In his own words, “It will just be a phase, right? Because in four years, the only thing that students are going to know is the new cost.” Still disappointed? Understandable. But there is a posaround the idea of getting Venmo,” Sayles said.” I know that would be a huge get for some kids.” In other good news, there have been no other big changes to the store. “We want to be very consistent with what we have to offer,” Sayles says. The new price is controversial, to say the least. But Sayles hopes that some of their lost customers “will understand and eventually come back.” Adaptation is necessary for the

Dr. Carlondrea Hines, associate superintendent, brings new leadership to the district in equity BY MANEEYA LEUNG

Racial equity in Minnesota has been talked about for years, Dr. Carlondrea Hines said, but not all the necessary steps for change have been made. As Associate Superindent of Eden Prairie Schools, Hines aims to “provide those actionable steps we take in order to change that narrative and outcomes for our students of color.” Graduating from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a degree in agricultural business management, Hines the rest of her life. She received her master’s in education and taught in schools in Minnesota, Mississippi and Tennessee. After returning to Minnesota and getting four principal ate superintendent for Eden Prairie Schools. “My experience tional settings that students are in and what they’re capable of,” Hines said. out the goals of the mission determined by the school board. Researching the district’s mission and demographics, Hines said, “I felt that I could add value to what was currently happening at Eden Prairie.” From the start of her career as an educator, Hines particishe discussed the role of identity and cultural experiences in the classroom and how her “voice can help create supportive environments of learning for students.” Hines has gained other opportunities to lead professional throughout her career. She participated in training at the Institute of Courageous Leadership, an equity-based organization helping develop leaders in subjects such as racial competence. At Eden Prairie Schools, Hines converses with principals about data regarding the experience of students of color. “Anytime you talk about race,” she said, “people go straight to emotions, and what tends to happen is that the emotions or the behaviors are seen and not necessarily the message.” Through her training and experience, Hines has learned how to broach conversations about race and center herself. Hines said she works with principals to steer their mindset away from potentially defensive reactions and towards

Hines (photo from Eden Prairie Schools website)

“Students can be seen and heard and not have to defend what they are expressing.”

have to defend what they are expressing,” she said. Hines also introduces initiatives inspiring choice for students throughout the district. She hopes to add career cluster and pathways capstone project to the high school in the future. This program guides students to be in the best position for whatever choice they make after high school. She is also piloting a program called Designing Pathways at two elementary schools next year. Her goal is for students to identify their strengths and pursue areas of interest early on in their education. Hines misses student engagement and looks forward to observing students learning. Her favorite part of education is watching students’ “aha” moments and how they process information. “It’s fun to see when students put their voices in the spaces and how adults respond,” she said.

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Hollywood isnʼt so far away BY SOPHIA YOERKS

You’ve probably heard of Marilyn Monroe: a Hollywood star portrayed as a ‘dumb blonde’ and said to have more money and lovers than she knew what to do with. You may have also heard that the ‘dumb blonde’ personality was quite the opposite of who she actually was. Growing from nothing, she changed everything Los Angeles had to death. The city itself changed drastically in her lifetime. We all know Hollywood for its glamor, movie sets, and pocket bag dogs, but what do those actors hide so beautifully underneath? “I absolutely adore Marilyn Monroe. She is an icon,” junior Lily Cooper says. “I also think that, being a model and actress, she shows women that you don’t need to be a ‘socially acceptable’ body to be considered beautiful. She was a very powerful woman and an icon for America.” From the outside, it looks like she had it all in her grasp. The “perfect” actress who “belonged anywhere” and “was worshiped everywhere.” With today’s media, it’s well known that she struggled with anxiety, and mood disorders. These were not helped by all of her grievances and mistakes becoming highly publicized, criticized, and shamed. Although it seems worlds away, Hollywood’s culture is closer than you think. Have you ever realized how fast news spreads in our little Minnesotan suburb? Perhaps you know of someone, but you don’t particularly know ularity among high schoolers. Perhaps you don’t. However, for any situation face with it.

When others attempted to respond to the same question, “Do you feel

not personally, but I know others who do,” referencing the supposed barrier between groups at the high school. It isn’t unknown that there are cliques and friend groups that are tighter than those movie stars who are always seen together in the tabloids. However, knowing this does not diminish the hurt and exclusion one can feel when those roles come into play. “In my opinion, I feel like all of that little group,” Stephan explained. “I would keep an open mind in whatever you choose to be a part of,” Stephan says, relating this back to their personal family experience. “As only with the high school; it pertains to so much more. You can see that even though we may know of someone, we may not actually know them, just as the public didn’t actually know Marilyn Monroe, but acted as if they did. Realizing premeditated judgment is lingering in your mind is a hard thing to come by, but if you try to see it duction studios of Hollywood.

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“People made monolids into a trend in a few East Asian countries? I thought that was really weird and interesting. Rather than making me feel good about my monolids, I was more concerned about the fact that after this “trend” passed people wouldn’t feel beautiful anymore for their natural features. In the West, the “fox-eye” trend is the best example. Non-Asian people used makeup to make their eyes look slimmer and mimic features of Asian eyes. The main problem with the original “fox-eye” trend is how Asian people have been mocked for our “small” eyes since childhood. The hands on the temples stretching out the eye feel almost condescending since many people have mocked me for the shape of my eyes. When I was younger, people would make fun of my eyes and I used to play along because I thought it was a joke, but I realized how racist it was much later in life.

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and monolids. I could never really follow the makeup tutorials for monolids because the makeup would be too thick on my eyes and I could never follow the double-lidded makeup because my eyes… aren’t creased. I’ve had to develop my own techniques and styles and adapt to both styles of tutorials.I’ve been really proud of my eyes because I think they are really pretty. I would never change them because I appreciate them as a part of my facial features.” - Katelyn Liu

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MEDIAVERSITY: Changing the way movies are reviewed BY MANEEYA LEUNG Li Lai was tired of watching award-winning, critically-acclaimed TV shows like “Game of Thrones,” “Narcos” or “The Revenant,”only to feel like they were reviewed in a bubble: “I would be told by critics that these were amazing, and then I would watch them and absolutely not connect with them at all,” Lai said. Whether it be from watching demeaning attitudes toward women or characterizations leaning on stereotypes, Lai could never fully enjoy white American media. tions that were addressing a wide range of topics that I care about,” she said, so she started to create her own. posted in the depths of Tumblr in 2016, Mediaversity is now a “Tomatometer-approved” publication site with 400+ reviews on TV shows and movies written by freelance writers. The reviews on Mediaversity aren’t only unique in their focus on diversity–each review is split into the categories, “technical”, “race” and “gender,” in which they receive ability” and “age” categories are added as

bonus or deduction points for movies and an additional category for TV shows. Stereotypes and poor representation result in deductions, while authentic and well-developed characters earn a higher score. A 5 out of 5 in the “race” category, for example, would mean complex and groundbreaking representation that centers the perspective of POC characters. A 1 out of 5 would signisive stereotypes. The scores are averaged out to give a letter grade A to F.

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Lai feels encouraged seeing more rethe social context of art and also by the more recent landscape of media changing. She emphasized how she is one of many people with the same mission of having media ac-

“We have decades of being entrenched in this idea of how to critique art. How do you do it? In the past, people have always done it in a vacuum,” Lai said. She noticed a feedback loop of critics and artists being of the same demographic. “I personally can’t critique art in a vacuum, I have to put it in social context,” Lai said, noting how discussions about what’s happening around the world in relation to

there’s always room for more–Lai said her overarching goal for Mediaversity was for it to not be needed–“I want all publications to be looking into reviewing media from a more intersectional perspective,” Lai said. Seeing critiques on beloved TV shows for problematic storylines and the Bethel test in every review isn’t for everyone, and Lai is aware of that reality. Her advice is for readers to come in with an open mind. She is as aware as anyone else that media can still be enjoyable while not having the best representation. Case in point, she watched all eight seasons of “Game of Thrones” for enjoyment before giving it a D on Mediaversity. “I want people to know that the goal of it is to put the power in your hands. I’m not here to tell you the answer,” Lai said. “Do

as the movie’s setting.

for everyone and I like that.”

the idea that people are going to get about an entire community of people is equally

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Hamilton: The Best, Worst, and In-Between BY ANIKA LANGE & MANEEYA LEUNG WARNING: This review was written with disregard for “Hamilton” spoilers, although if you are worried about “Hamilton” spoilers in 2022, we cannot help you. A quick intro: Anika has wanted to review the songs from “Hamilton”, “the best musical ever,” for quite some time. However, Anika’s a very busy person with the ENN show and prefers talking over writing, so for both our sanity–her as a non-writer and me (Maneeya) as an editor–we came up with a nifty solution. I decided to help her out by writing out her thoughts for her. What follows are Anika’s thoughts on what makes the best, worst and other honorable mentions of “Hamilton” songs that she voiced in a passionate conversation transcribed or summarized by me. Whenever anyone says a word from a “Hamilton” song, Anika will have to start singing. She thought if she knew all the songs in “Hamilton”, she would get an A in APUSH. Spoiler alert: she didn’t, but she did the rap from “Guns and Ships” while she was eating a sandwich, so that’s a win.

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The underappreciated award “The Cabinet Battles”

“Best of Wives and Best of Women” is a song featuring the sweet exchange between Alexander Hamilton and his wife the night before his duel. Anika does not like this song; her descriptions include “Like, what the hell,” “short,” “pointless” and “dumb.” By this point, our advisor Alex Bauer felt the need to interject his opinions into Anika’s passionate rant. Bauer found the song emotionally impactful considering that Hamilton dies shortly after. “It gets you,” he said mildly, to which Anika responded with a drawn out “ehhhhh.” The song does add to the symbolic sum of 46 songs throughout the soundtrack, symbolizing the number of years Alexander Hamilton lived for, so Anika can see some of the reasoning behind its existence. Otherwise, “no one cares buddy.”

“The Cabinet Battle” songs one and two might’ve been the only songs that helped Anika’s APUSH grade, and Anika said they are also the most underappreciated. These songs are like a timeless roast battle, and all the jokes still hit for Anika. Her favorite line is “Uh–France.” “It doesn’t have all the high notes or the most emotional dramatic impacts,” Anika said, “but they’re important because they make learning about actual historic events fun.”

Best song/Anika’s theme song “Non-Stop” “Non-Stop” is this very insane song about Hamilton’s rise to the top by working non-stop, and coincidentally, the song is Anika’s all time favorite, since her life is, as she claims, non-stop. Anika loves its technical elements–it combines all the parts without sounding stupid and transitions from song to conversation smoothly. This song makes Anika feel powerful and takes her into the moment. On a more concerning note, Anika sometimes sings this song to sleep like a lullaby. Anika, you good?

Honorable mention All King George Songs Anika loves the copy-and-paste beat of all the King George songs, and always gets really into singing the King George songs. Really into it: “Whenever I sing the song in the car, I try to drink a lot of water so I can do the spit part,” she said. condone his actions in real life.

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Tear duct song “Blow Us All Away” Anika doesn’t cry much, but when she does, she’s listening to Phillip’s last gasp in “Blow Us All Away.”

The scariest song Aaron Burr, Instrumental version An instrumental track is supposed to be purely instrumental. On 1:30 of the second track of the instrumental album that only Anika would listen to, there is an exception, and according to Anika, it couldn’t be scarier. After all the cinematic chords and beats, the song strangely fails to erase a verse of rap. Instead, the listener can make out the eerie whisper if they turn up the volume. “If you want to run a haunted house, ‘Hamilton’ edition, play that song through the halls. I would leave. It is terrifying,” Anika concluded.

The best Studio Ghibli movies BY FINNLEY ABBOTT Studio Ghibli is known for its beautiful vibrant colors, meaningful stories, and calming background music. With 22 movies out, the entire collection on HBO Max, and roughly 120 awards won, here’s three that stand out. “Howl’s Moving Castle,” which tells the story of not wanting to grow up. A story that opens a new world of magic that shows stories of growth and growing into responsibilities without necessarily wanting to. “Princess Mononoke” embodies the connection between humans and our environment. Studio Ghibli opens up a world of bloodshed, violence, and family. “Spirited Away,” tells the story of a young girl’s fears and anxieties. It showcases the city of Jiufen, Japan, but in a mystical and magical essence with delicious food that turns people into pigs, with large responsibilities for young children. Each movie is known for its most iconic scenes.

The entire Studio Ghibli franchise has impacted so many people’s lives, including my own in such a positive way. In my opinion, it is well-deserving of the praise it gets.

to Jiufen after she heals him. The forest spirits shaking and rattling is the highlight of “Princess Mononoke.” Debatably, the most iconic is the ending scene in “Howl’s Paradise.”

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AP Art betters young artists, crafts changes for next year BY MARIAM JABRI & ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

t was only recently that AP Studio Art was introduced, but now the AP art route has expanded to

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own thing, and you have a teacher really involved with your personal artistic growth,” said Watkins. “Usually what that looks like is an environment where the student creates, and the teacher is there to start a dialogue and help advance their artwork into something they’re proud of. In class, students complete an array of projects that allow them to hone in on their art techniques. Trying new things is commonplace: “Our teacher really likes us to experiment with style,” said Desierto. Instructors also tend to drill good habits into the students: “I usually jump from work to work, so I was able to plan it out,” said Okulaja. But if there’s one thing AP Art has in common with the other EPHS art classes, it’s that there is a ton of creative freedom. Sometimes, the best art comes from wild inspiration. That’s some of the advice Desierto received: “Look around you. Art is basically tied

so artists can submit anything, as long as it’s within reason. “It’s like a one-on-one drawing experience,” Watkins said. And, by the end of the semester, “you got to pick what you wanted.” Registration for next year may be closed, but if you’re looking for AP credits in the future and have a passion for art, this would be the class for you. “I already like art and AP credits didn’t sound too bad,” Okulaja said. Some, like Desierto, were recommended by teachers: “My teacher was like, ‘You seem passionate, you should take AP Art,’ so I decided, why not?” People shouldn’t be scared that it’s an AP class. If anything, its said, “If you can get into an AP class, I just can’t encourage that enough. It’s a really special feeling to know that you’re capable in a course like that.” After all, “you have nothing to lose by getting to know yourself artistically.”

Pieces 1-4 by Demi Okulaja Piece 5 by Chloe Desierto

What was your favorite AP Art project? Chloe Desierto: “My favorite is the anatomy practices. [The teacher] would put different poses and we’d have to sketch it in one minute. Stressful, but fun.” Jennifer Watkins: “We did one on childhood that was really special. And then there’s just fun stuff, like contour drawing.”

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Speaking your True-th BY SOPHIA YOERKS AND MARIAM JABRI “I love being in a beehive of creativity,” said grew up on the East Coast and was exposed to art at a where he studied painting. For years, he nurtured his

During this time, True did it all: he studied art for a year in China, got involved in street and mixed media art and started an art program in Boston for developmentally disabled adults. Now, True works hard to share his knowledge and experience in the arts with his students. Classes he teaches include drawing, ceramics, and painting. When think it began with just loving, ever since I can remember, really enjoying being in an art room.”

TRUE TEACHING HIS PAINTING CLASS (PHOTO BY SOPHIA YOERKS)

He continues this legacy by setting an environment for his students where they get to create and connect with fellow artists, while also challenging themselves in a meaningful way. Teaching classes has been a staple of his routine for countless quarters. He works together with his students to not only help them create, but help him create as well. “A lot of things that I see students doing will reoccur in my own work,” he explained, “my students really inspire me to see new ways to really look at new kinds of art.” Teaching at the school has taught him some valuable lessons that will continue to expand his visual art journey. Art is hard to teach nomenon that we access with our eyes–that moves us, that makes us feel certain things and understand certain ideas.” Artists are the ones who create art, and each artist has their own staple or signature they include in their pieces.

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thing that I think distinguishes artists is an interest in trying to capture what they’re seeing, what they’re feeling and experiencing in image form,” True said. Creating is a vigorous process and one that is extremely individual to each artist. True tries to teach in his classes that each student will gain their own achievements and that it’s never helpful to compare yourself to others. His lesson applies especially to any sort of art form because like True says, it’s impossible to exactly recreate someone else’s work. To do so, you would need to become them so you would be able to hear their inner monologue. in unimaginable ways. It’s unfortunate to say that True will be retiring after this 2022 school year, but for a good reason. He plans on using his newfound free time to work on his art and other creative endeavors that have been on the back burner for years. He has a bookcase of sketchbooks going back as far as 20 years to draw inspiration from. -

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Finding inspiration for “Anger” “There’s a great public artist named Barbara Kruger who makes very political and really interesting socially engaged artwork. I went to hear her speak one time and I wrote down a note of something she said, and she said, ‘humor can be anger turned on its head.’ “She was referring to when you’re dealing with political subject matter and just sort of hammering people over the head with your ideas of what you think people should think about this topic. Certain issues aren’t spoken about enough and sometimes your frustration at the injustices of the world, the way that the world works, and how it just is so cruel to certain communities–that sometimes that energy, that frustration, that sort of outrage, you can turn that in a way that can be very humorous, and processes like this sort of releases energy. It sort of frees you from the burden of that anger, frustration, and sort of indignation that you have… and so I made this piece. “I wrote the word anger twice. I made one out of modeling clay, and the other one was made out of two by fours. One was on a shelf above the other. I put those together just to see what it looked like. Then I started to think that they als. “I started just pulling and placing random things. I’m at thrift stores. I was in New York, and while I was walking down the street I saw something in the window of this little corner market. It was this little plastic bugle and it was the

“ANGER” ART BY CHRISTOPHER TRUE

attached it in such a way that it seemed as if it were playing the notes down to the lower word. “I also found some other things that were really goofy and playful, almost like toys, and something about the combination of them, the words that both said anger, one was spelled backward, one was forward, and there was something so hilarious and kind of goofy about the whole thing. I had just never made anything like that before. “At that time, I had never known art to provide the experience that I had while making it and the insight about myself, about creativity, and the question of where do these things come from? It all just happened so quickly. When I showed it, people just instantly thought it was hilarious. And it was like it was magic, you know? “So, I think that that’s one of the pieces that really stood out because it just was such a mystery how it happened and the way it happened. I thought of it as walking down the artist in their studio making it work. But it made me realize that the world is kind of the medium. Paint and clay and all are our sort of traditional media, but the entire world and everything in it can become the medium for creating a visual experience, communicating a message, cracking a joke, and I had not understood that before. Then suddenly it was an epiphany to simply realize that everything can be used to

CRISTOPHER TRUE TEACHING STUDENT (PHOTO BY SOPHIA YOERKS)

MARCH 2022

HOCOKATA TI ART FAIR WRITTEN BY MANEEYA LEUNG PHOTOS BY KATHERINE KREGNESS

Wendy Roy – Custom Bead Wendy Roy was living in a camper and stressing over holiday gifts when she found a tupperware full of beads and an instructional booklet by her grandma. She started beading, was invited to a crafts

reoccurs in her work. Her favorite stitch to use is the Peyote stitch, said out of the dozens of grandkids and great-grandchildren that her grandmother taught beading to, only three continue to practice the art. After her grandmother’s death, she thought, “I need to start thinking about teaching this whenever, wherever I can whether the people can pay for it or not.“ Roy teaches beadwork at a local tribal school and on YouTube.

Bill Brien – Bountiful REI’s Brien submerged himself into art after he lost his wife to breast cancer. “What she endured and what she went through–she brought it out in me,” he said. Brien said in cultural tradition, history has been passed down through storytelling, and art is one form of it. Brien’s designs are inspired from his Lakota, Chippewa, Dakota and Metis tribal background, and Brien writes an accompaniment story for each piece he creates. “I leave the stories open enough for people to insert their own trials and tribulations that they’ve gone through–heartache, loss, grief–because I’m not the only one who has gone through that

Megan Schnitker – Lakota Made What started as hobby taught to Megan Schnitker by her grandmother turned into a business that ships worldwide. Schnitker is the business owner of Lakota Made, selling herbal remedies and eco-friendly personal care products. A selection of products come from traditional treatments and have names from the Lakota lanuses today. Using wildly-harvested herbs reconnects people with nature and its role in Indigenous history, Schnitker said. One recipe close to her heart is a tea remedy for feeling under the weather. It was passed down to her by her great grandma and used for trading with northern tribes in the winter.

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Student art at EPHS Junior Brady Steven is a long time art student at EPHS. Classes he’s taken include jewlery, drawing, digital art, and AP studio art. For Brady, art is not only a passion of his but a big part of his life. It helped him get through tough times, including his struggles with mental health. A lot of his ent mental states, and he tries to capture that. Not only is his art a way to deal with his emotions, but it has helped him connect with his family and friends. “Instead of just hiding my emotions away, put them on a canvas and if someone can get any kind of joy out of it, that’s my goal in life” -Brady Steven, Junior

Junior Madison Jensen took drawing I during her freshman year, and is currently taking drawing II. For Jensen, a lot of her pieces come from a place of inspiration over things she enjoys—whether that be a book, tv show, or an interest she has delved in. Take the drawing of the building, 56th Lispenard Street. Jensen’s aim was to capture the dark and depressing emotions from A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. For her drawing above that, Jensen uses the stippling method to draw actor Rami Malek, who she was a huge fan of when creating her piece. Although Jesnen is not planning a career in the arts, she will be taking AP art next year and enjoys art as a pass time.

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Student art at EPHS

“To me, art means freedom to do whatever you want with no rules or regulations” - Madeeha Palsani, Freshman

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Staff editorial: Doodle your feelings BY ALEX BAUER: Yes, I actually chose to teach english BY SOPHIA YOERKS: Taking cat naps whenever I can

BY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: Procrastination is my middle name BY AL AMUNDSON: They lied to us

BY MANEEYA LEUNG: Senior Slide?

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Womens health is underresearched BY MARIAM JABRI

Health care was created by men, for men, and the physical and mental health of women has always been an afterthought. Nonetheless, we live in a world where some people are so consumed by their own misogyny that they refuse to take anything a woman says seriously. If that’s you, leave. This is not a safe space for your stupidity. Now, to understand how deep this issue goes, a history lesson is in order. For decades, women have been excluded from medical research. According to a story from Science Daily, up until the early 90s, women were excluded from drug trial studies if they reached childbearing age, meaning all women in their 20s and 30s. The American Journal of Law and Medicine recognized this problem. In their 1993 issue, they listed numerous past studies that women were excluded from: The “Physicians’ Health” study of aspirin prophylaxis for myocardial infarction with 22,071 men and zero women; a dietary study of recovery from heart attack with 2033 men and zero women; and the study of behavioral link with heart disease with 3154 men and, once again, zero women. This complete lack of study and concern for women’s health is not surprising, considering misogyny’s deep roots in science. A highly-valued ancient Greek philosopher and scientist of his time Aristotle said, “The female is, as it were, a mutilated male.” I know some of you **cough** misogynists **cough** will cry “why bring up the past?” “this

isn’t a problem anymore,” or “classic women always complaining,” but the exclusion of women in medical research in the past is the reason women’s health is under researched today. A recent study done by the University of California, Berkeley, uncovof women in past clinical trials. Researchers revealed that side are more common and severe in women than they are in men. The National Institutes of grant applicants for medical research must include both male and female participants if they want their grant approved. I don’t know what’s more riinclude female participants in the medical research took this long to address. It’s time to take women’s health seriously.

GRAPHIC BY AL AMUNDSON

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Teaching Asian American history BY KATELYN LIU

n the eighth grade, I asked my social studies teacher, “Will we ever talk about Asian history?” The answer I received? “Maybe.” COVID-19 hit, and we never got to Asian history. Now I’m a on my education, I remember learning about enslaved people, the Civil War, parts of the Industrial Revolution, the Aztecs, the Mayans, the rise of the British, French and Spanish empires, and some portions of the World Wars. Never…Asian history. The bits and pieces I know are mostly from what my parents have taught me. Yet, the AAPI community has contributed tremendously to the success of modern-day America. Minnesota U.S. History requirements range from analzying diverse societies that existed in North America prior to contact with Europeans, all the way to analyzing the impact of 21st century technological innovations on society. While the injustices the indigenous populations faced, segregation on society, and how the World Wars impacted the U.S. are important, mentions of AAPI contributions are hardly discussed. We live in cities built by immigrants and families who left their homes to create a better life for themselves. We have naturalized citizenship because of Asian immigrants. So why is it that we don’t talk about Asian American contributions? How come we don’t discuss the hate crimes Asian American immigrants experienced from the moment they arrived on American soil? Why is it that my ancestors are missing from our history textbooks? Christina Huang, a senior at Ridgewood High School in New Jersey, advocated for AAPI history to be a required part of the curriculum in her state. After she lobbied her state senate, education committee and state annex, Huang’s proposal bill was passed with a unanimous vote relatively quickly compared to other bills.

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sentation in history books. From “growing up not learning about Asian American culture and feeling like it was something that I had to hide or keep away and not talk about at all,” she said, Huang was motivated to make this change in her state. If Asian American history can be required in the curriculum statewide, Eden Prairie can teach Asian American history districtwide. EPHS emphasizes the message of “Do I belong?” To feel represented is a part of the sense of belonging. Then, without a doubt we should have a greater incorporation of Asian-American history. Although some topics like Japanese internment camps and the Chinese Exclusion Act are touched on in APUSH, most of the Asian history is taught in 11th or Ancient history. Ultimately, this is pretty late considering that we’ve likely had 12 years of education up until this point with not many mentions of Asian history.

“I think we can balance better–telling a more accurate portrayal of history than what we’ve done with elementary schools for Christopher Columbus,” said John Buteyn, EPHS US History teacher. Buteyn explained that “there’s a lot of ongoing work to make our telling of the story of and be inclusive of multiple perspectives.” While our curriculum isn’t perfect, there is progress to see our school becoming better at targeting multiple perspectives, leaning away from Eurocentric views. With the rise in Asian hate crimes from 2020 till now, talking about the discrimination that the AAPI community has experienced needs to become a priority of our history classrooms. As a school, we must make sure that all of our students feel represented and respected. Talking about Asian American The answer to “will we ever talk about Asian American History?” shouldn’t be a maybe–it should be a

If New Jersey could do it, then Minnesota can do it too.

Based on data from 2019, there are 285,630 people in Minnesota who identify as Asian.

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Walk faster! BY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

emember in elementary school when our teachers made us walk

because it’s clear that we all forgot it somewhere along the line.

in the hall.

PHOTOS BY SOPHIA YOERKS

Facing the facts of the COVID-19 Vax BY ANDREA PORTER -

undergone the most intense safety monitoring in history.

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Eagle Procrastination BY AJIRA PANDEY & DYLAN LEUNG

1. Hint: It’s Bald

The Eyrie staff took our own spin on a two player, magazine edition on Wordle. Get a friend, a pen and your best guesses and read the instructions to play.

2. Hint: Has two cats and eleven chickens

Secret Message BY AL AMUNDSON

To All It May Concern:

Recently, the class of ENN, better known as E

y the

Of ENN Secret Message:______________________________

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