Volume 7 Issue 5
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MAN ON THE STREET: Music 7 STAFF BIRTHDAYS 4 Fashion Police Man on the Street: Halloween
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astros CHEATING SCANDAL 4 Celebrities we lost 8 Disney Monopoly The passing of juice wrld 6 Black Friday lunar newHistory year 3 Puzzles the birth of king day 3
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Sarah Baltazar Jeovanny Barrera Valeria Cabrera Alondra Castro Alyssa Davila Mia Eredia Melissa Estrada Natalia Galvan Jazmin Gonzalez Ernesto Hernandez Isaac Hernandez Bryan Juarez Gagan Nigah David Ramirez
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SAMANTHA VARGAS Staff Writer
The Chinese zodiac goes back centuries. hinese New Year, the most important There is a legend of the Jade Emperor and the 12 holiday in China. Also known as Lunar New Year, it zodiac animals. There are different versions of the falls on January 25, 2020. 2020 is the year of the rat, legend; however, this is the most common: all existrepresenting renewal. ing animals were invited to participate in a race and Lunar New Year was originally a time to honor cross the heavenly river. The first 12 animals to cross household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors. the river would become the zodiac animals. It was also a time to get family together for a feast. It is said the rat could not do it alone, he The holiday is tied to the Chinese Lunar calendar and cheated to be the first to finish the race and cross it is believed that Chinese New Year originated from the river. The next 11 animals; the ox, tiger, rabbit, the Shang Dynasty, when people would hold sacrificial dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog ceremonies in honor of gods and ancestors. and pig became the other zodiac animals. Many families have their own way of celebrat Chinese and Lunar New Year is especially ing their heritage and culture through this special important to particular asian countries including holiday. Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Sophomore, Ivan Chen, he shared his family Cambodia, the Philippines, and Mauritius. tradition for Chinese New Year. The Toyota Arena in Ontario will be hosting “Since my family, out of all my cousins, is the a celebration of Chinese/Lunar New Year with the biggest family, I have cousins come over to my place Agua Caliente Clippers on January 25, 2020 from and we eat a lot of food.” He shared the most impor12:30-3:30 p.m. tant foods for his family: meat, rice and moon cakes.
THE BIRTH OF KING DAY ALONDRA CASTRO & SAVANNA VALENCIA
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ust four days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assasination in 1968, Congressman John Conyers introduced the first motion to create Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Martin Luther King Jr. Day takes place on January 20th, around the time of King’s birthday that is on the 15th. According to the National Constitution Center, it was very difficult creating the federal holiday. In their article “How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Became a Holiday”, they stated, “It wasn’t an easy task for holiday supporters, who had to push hard in Congress to get the federal holiday created.” With the help of Wonder releasing his song Happy Birthday and many others, King’s birthday was approved as a federal holiday in 1983.
Wonder’s song spoke about how wrong it was to not have Martin Luther King Jr. Day, saying, “You know it doesn’t make much sense, there ought to be a law against, anyone who takes offense at a day in your celebration.” He went on to say, “I just never understood, how a man who died for good, could not have a day that would be set aside for his recognition.” However, it was not until 2000 that all states recognized King’s birthday as a government holiday. This was because of the struggle to get individual states to recognize it as a holiday; the National Constitution Center mentioned that there was strong resistance from Arizona. The NFL threatened to move the 1993 super bowl from Tempe, Arizona if the King holiday was defeated at the polls, which after a two-part voter referendum, lost. The NFL held their ground and took the super bowl to Southern California, costing Arizona 500 million dollars in revenue.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday has been celebrated for 37 years
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Astros CheatiNG Scandal ADAM GEORGE Editor-in-Chief
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s of January 7th, 2019, ESPN released an article that revealed that the 2018 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox have also been found guilty of sign-stealing amid the already ongoing Astros investigation. Back in November of 2019, the Houston Astros were accused of using technology during the 2017 Major League Baseball (MLB) season to steal signs from the catcher of the opposing team. Former Astros’ pitcher Mike Fiers reported the teams’ electronic sign stealing to The Athletic magazine. Before Fiers had reported this, the Yankees had become suspicious of the alleged sign stealers themselves during the 2019 American League Championship (ALCS). According to The New York Post, the Yankees were upset during the series because they reportedly were hearing “whistling” coming out of the Astros dugout, giving the implication that they had knowledge or information that would impact the outcome of the game.
In light of the accusations, Astros’ manager AJ Hinch labeled them as “ridiculous” during a press conference after game 3 of the ALCS, and referred to the sign-stealing suspicions as “a joke.” But that’s not all, convinced of his innocence, Hinch also had this to say about the Yankees’ accusations against his team. “And had I known that it would take something like that to set off the Yankees or any other team, we would have practiced it in spring training. It apparently works, even when it doesn’t happen.” On December 14th of 2019, Houston Astros personnel admitted to the electronic sign-stealing. They claimed that the camera in center field at Minute Maid Park (Astros’ Stadium) that was used to relay signs to the dugout was not new and had been approved by the MLB, which was their form of justification. On January 13th, 2020, American Sportswriter Ken Rosenthal tweeted that the MLB had finally taken action against the Astros, penalizing them by suspending general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch for one year, revoking 2020 and 2021 first and second-round draft picks, and a fine of 5 million.
The following OHS staff members are excited to celebrate their birthday this month. Make sure to wish them a happy birthday if you happen to see them!
Mrs. Cortez Hernandez Ms. Guzman
Mr. Nieves Mr. Workman Mr. Jorge
Mr. Zaldivar
Ms. Castaneda
Mr. Franco
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EDITORIAL:: THE FAILURE JUAN GOVEA Editor
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ith the beginning of a new decade, as well as our society’s push for education to all groups of people, questions on the value and effectiveness of our nation’s educational systems continue to rise. In an article titled Fraud In Higher Education, published in late 2019, Walter Williams, an American Economist and Academic Commentator, described the inefficient system of education in the United States. In this article, Williams primarily targeted the failure of education at the high school level. In statements released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2016, studies revealed that only 30% of two-year college students could not progress past elementary arithmetic. The statistic alone expresses our educational system’s readiness to push students into a direction they are not intellectually capable of pursuing, purely for the purpose of revenue and with the help of future alumni through donations and creation of internships. Generally, public high schools spend between 10 and 20 thousand per student according to a recent study from the National Center for Educational Statistics. William’s main argument serves to not only highlight the current education system’s inability to teach our youth, but to show how arbitrary a diploma is in regard to the fundamental knowledge required for higher education.
Another point brought up by Williams is the concept of “Grade Inflation”, a term created in recent years which depicts higher grades such as A’s and B’s that are being awarded to students who do not deserve them, particularly due to lineance and overall lack of academic difficulty of courses. In an article published expressing the thwarting of critical thinking of youth in the United States, “How the American Education System Suppresses Critical Thinking”, Joe David, Author and Educational Satirist, explains that due to the dilution of necessary course material such as mathematics and English along with the ignorance to indoctrinate challenging work has created a generation of high school and college aged people who are not prepared for higher education and lack necessary future life skills. The incompetence of our country’s future was emphasized in an article published in a 2016 news forum, “Study Finds College Students Remarkably Incompetent”, which found that a staggering 50 percent of four-year college students cannot complete everyday adult tasks such as filing taxes, applying for loans and time managment. Revelations depicting the true extent of our nation’s mediocrity when it comes to properly educating our nation’s future begs the harrowing question, “And these people are our country’s future?”
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The Passing of Juice Wrld ALYSSA DAVILA & MIA EREDIA
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merican rapper Jarad Anthony Higgins, known professionally as “Juice Wrld,” passed away on December 8th, 2019 as a result of a seizure. He had inspired so many people around the globe to live lives with purpose. “I didn’t really listen to his music but when I did it made me feel better. His music influenced many people as well as me to continue the situation.” stated Lesly Lopez, a sophomore here at Ontario High School. She feels comforted when listening to Juice Wrld’s music knowing that others can understand what she’s going through. Some students express their feelings with music which is why Juice Wrld meant a lot to them. Isabella Caudillo, a sophomore at Ontario High School said, “He had gotten me out of a dark place[s] in my life … He was my inspiration to keep thriving in life, to continue even if
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times are tough,” stated Caudillo. She has dealt with low points in her life where she was having trouble coping with her low spirits. She also states, “his music really had an influence on me because he reminded me that I have self worth.” She felt like she couldn’t understand what her self worth was prior to this. “I was upset when I found out he had died because he had so much ahead of him,” Lopez stated. He was coming out with new music that his fans were looking forward to, but knowing that they won’t be able to listen to it is heartbreaking. Juice Wrld’s story, while tragic, can be seen as a valuable lesson about use of substances in both the hip hop industry as well as in teenagers. Today, the usage of drugs has become more normalized within our culture. A major downfall of this, however, is that the possible effects of excessive
drug usage aren’t talked about. An example can be seen through the fact that Juice Wrld died due to a drug induced seizure. In fact, substance use hasn’t been an uncommon cause of death among hip hop artists for several decades These stories should be taken as lessons by youth that substance use is still a dangerous activity that can have some terrible, and even fatal, effects. “I think his music did leave an impact on hip hop culture because so many people liked him for many reasons, he helped a lot of people when they were feeling down in life, he impacted people to live life to the fullest,” expressed Lopez. Caudillo also proclaimed, “his passing was very upsetting, but I now know he’s in a better place. It’s hard to hear that one of your favorite artists has passed, but it’s good to know that people are still honoring him.”
PICTURE BY XXL MAGAZINE 17% of high school students drink, smoke, use drugs during the school day. About 17% of American high school students are drinking, smoking or using drugs during the school day, according to a new study by the National Center on addiction and substance abuse.
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The Young Americans
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EMILY PERALTA Editor
or the fourth year in a row, Ontario High School has held a workshop with the Young Americans College of the Performing Arts located in Corona, California. It is a group of forty young adults who travel to different high schools around the world to promote and share the love of music, dance, performance, academic education, and cultural interaction. This year the workshop took place from January 10th to the 12th, giving students three days to learn an entire show while learning many new things about the world of performing arts. This yearly event was started by our very own choir teacher, Mrs. Krauss. Although the first year was a bit rough with getting students to participate, as the years have gone by more and more students participate in it. After the initial three days, students fell in love with it. Krauss said, “They don’t know what it is but once they do they say ‘I want to do this every year.’” Choir students are required to do this and fundraising is done in order to cover the cost fee of forty dollars. However, anyone can participate in this event. Students who can’t fit performing arts into their schedule, but would love to participate in this great, intense and fun three day workshop can. YA’s make you shine in where you do the best. Dancers will dance and singers will sing. The Young American Workshop is truly like none other. “So the workshop is not just about singing, dancing, and acting, but it’s about learning how to appreciate the beauty in each other, how to appreciate the beauty in yourself and how to be confident on stage, even if you may not be perfect at the number that you are about to do but having the self-confidence” Krauss stated this with not only the experience of a choir teacher but from being a former YA herself. From seventh to twelfth grade, Mrs. Krauss took different workshops with the Young Americans. The number of workshops she did let her know that she had a future career in the performing arts. With a high 4.17 GPA out of high school, she did not apply to any colleges or universities. She knew that she had to become a Young American. Krauss spent three years as a performer but is still currently involved with them as a teacher and through this workshop.
When she started as a YA, Krauss had high hopes of having a career as a Broadway performer but as time went by, she slowly realized it wasn’t just the singing and performing parts that she loved but also the teaching part. “I became a YA because I thought I wanted to hone my craft as a performer but then ended up falling in love with being a teacher.” Her experience as a Young American was amazing. Krauss traveled to thirty-two states, seven different countries, all while doing her favorite things: performing and teaching. The experience also wasn’t just that of a tourist but YA’s lived the culture through staying in people’s homes. Mrs. Krauss highly recommends participating in this workshop and thinking of becoming a YA. Being a YA is an experience like none other you perform, teach, and earn world experiences. You travel to new places and meet new, different people through the students and other YA’s.
Man on the Street:MUSIC NOEMI CHAVES & VIRIDIANA SALGADO Editor-in-Chief & Editor
Questions 1. Who’s your favorite artist? 2. Who’s an overrated artist? PICTURE BY: ADAM GEORGE 3. What’s your favorite song? 4. If you could tour with a band/artist who would it be
Andrea Soto, 9 1. Lil Peep 2. Drake 3. “Star Shopping” - Lil Peep 4. YG, cause he’s fine and it would be really fun
John Royal, 10
1. Garth Brooks 2. Kanye 3. “Hurricane” - Luke Combs 4. My Chemical Romance, they seem chill
Christopher Casteneda, 11
1. Aries 2. Tyga 3. “April 18th” - Aries 4. Aries, they are my favorite
Michelle Nunez, 12 1. Selena 2. Justin Bieber 3. “You Should be Here” by Kehlani 4. One Direction, just cause 7
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Goodbye mrs.Beck NICOLE CHAVEZ Editor
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hirty-five years ago, Brenda Beck began working at Ontario High School. Starting off as a student teacher, Beck grew as she learned through experience. She says that the PE Department and staff here in general are like family to her. Ms. Beck particularly enjoys working with incoming freshmen students, stating,“there’s enough little kid still in them that I can do things like chariot races on blankets and they’ll be cracking up laughing.” Ms. Beck has the honor of working with handicapped students. Ms. Beck helps host a special needs prom every year at OHS where special needs kids from all over the district come to Ontario and have a good time; Beck says that having the opportunity to do this for 15 years is amazing and always the highlight of her year. Beck hopes that the one takeaway her students gain from her is to
not sell themselves short. She knows that somebody can come in and be scared and shy as a freshman, then come out their senior year as a completely different person that’s grown in their self-confidence and drive, ready to conquer the world. Although every year she has
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had the opportunity to switch out of OHS and into another school,
PICTURE BY: OHS STAFF Ms. Beck had never considered it, stating,“the people that I interact with, my students, the love for what I teach. It’s a passion of mine, I love playing. Here at my job, I get to play every day, then when you add the fact that I’m surrounded by good people here every day at Ontario like my colleagues, there’s love.” This love for her career has kept her here Ontario High School for 35 glorious years, and although she is retiring, Beck reassures everyone that this does not mean she won’t come back to visit, as she says “This is my home away from home, I’m a Jag for life.”
CelebriTIES WE’VE LOST As we have entered a new decade we can’t help but look back at those who didn’t make it this far. SARAH BALTAZAR Staff writer
Here are some memorable mentions of those we lost this past decade
2010
2011
Gloria Stuart (100)
Amy Whinehouse (27) Steve Jobs (56)
2014
2015
Robin Williams (63)
2012
2013
Whitney Houston (48) Michael Clarke Duncan (54)
Paul Walker (40) Cory Monteith (31)
Leonord Nimoy (83)
2018 Mac Miller (26) Stan Lee (95)
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Scott Wilson (76) Verene Troyer (49)
XXXTentacion (20)
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2017
Prince (57) David Bowie (69)
Mary Tyler Moore (80) Lil Peep (21)
2019
Luke Perry (52) Cameron Boyce (20)
Juice Wrld (21)
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