Volume 7 Issue 3
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DAVID DOBRIK
THE OFFICE
LEBRON JAMES
HAM
MEMES
AMERICA BASEBALL
DOGS
CALIFORNIA
DIGITAL FILM
DODGERS
MY GRANDMA GLASSES IN&OUT
MY MOM FILTERS
SPOTIFY
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PHYSICS
REDUCED LUNCH
AP CHEM
FORTNITE
LOVE SNAPCHAT TRIPPIE REDD SHOTTA
THE SUN JAGS ME AMAZON
PENS VIRI BILL GATES
MCCONNELL
CHEER GEL
CHRISTMAS
FRIENDS
CANES
FAMILY
OPRAH
MR.GEORGE
DISNEYLAND CARS
MARIO KART SAD SONGS
DRAKE
BOOKS
GOD’S PLAN
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LGBTQ
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FRIED CHICKEN
MARIAH CAREY
MATHCAMILA
CHETNEYAP BIO
PIGS
DABABY
DAMIAN
PETS
PIZZA
SHARKS
DANCE
OLIVE GARDEN FOOTBALLGIVENS TURTLES CHICKEN ALFREDO
GOD
CROCS
COFFEE
MY HEALTH
AP LIT
VINE
LOADED DIAPER
MY HOUSE EMOJIS ACT UP SEAWORLD
EXTRA CREDIT
WALLOWS
JNN HUMUS
NATURE
SOFTBALL
EDUCATION
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DOGS NONI
LIFE
WRESTLING DANIEL VARGAS
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Editors
EDITORIALS
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Dumbing Down of America
Brianna Reyes Lissette Sanchez Vanessa Serrano Aleeyah Terrones Savanna Valencia Samantha Vargas Guadalupe Velazquez Jessie Virgen
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Our Mission The JagWire Staff is dedicated to providing fair and accurate information of universal interest with the intent to stimulate thought-provoking conversations.
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Fair Pay to Play
HUMAN INTEREST
Traci White
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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SPORTS COMMUNITY
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Veterans Day VANESSA SERRANO Staff writer
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eterans Day is a public holiday that is celebrated in the U.S. and in 52 other countries to recognize the people in our Armed Forces. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a disorder when a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a horrifying event. Veterans often suffer from PTSD by going through a traumatic event that caused them to fear for their lives, see horrible things, and feel helpless. People in the Armed Forces with PTSD try to exercise, manage their stress, take care of their body, connect with others, and etc. To overcome the effects of PTSD, veterans can seek for help. On the internet, they can search and find many websites that can give information on where they need to go. Veterans day originally known as Armistice day was made on November 11 for honoring people who have served in the United States Armed Forces, “ On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their
families who have November 11th sacrificed so much so that we can live free,” says Dan marks the day Lipinski. that the major David Hernandez is a fellow veteran serving combat in World in the Marines. While Hernandez hasn’t experienced War I ended. In PTSD himself he has a friend who does suffer from it 1919, President and he knows the dangers of getting it. Woodrow Wilson “There are risks you take when you joining named Novemthe armed forces like possibly get mental health issues ber 11th Armisuch as PTSD, anxiety, or depression,” said Hernandez. stice Day. He explained that he’s seen the struggles that his friend had faced. “To deal with the trauma, my friend takes medication to lower his PTSD. People in the armed forces can take therapy specifically for their conditions”. The hotline veterans can contact for their crisis is 1-800-273-8255.
ONTARIO FEST IVAL OF THE ARTS JESSIE VIRGEN & LIZ SANCHEZ Staff writers
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he City of Ontario’s Community Life and Culture Agency hosted the second annual Ontario Festival of the Arts. The event was held on Saturday, October 19, 2019, from 11am-7pm, with over 50 artists’ booths selling functional, decorative and fine arts. Last year the festival attracted over 3,000 people; this year it was expected to attract over 3,500 art enthusiasts (as of this time it is unclear how many people went to the festival). There was a mini walking tour of historic buildings in the Ontario Arts District and a variety of music was played, such as, but not limited to, a mariachi band, symphony orchestra, blue grass, and drumming. The Ontario Festival of the Arts festival was created to help establish a central place for residents and visitors to find all the art and culture within the
city of Ontario. According to ontarioarts.org, the festivals goal is to, “enrich lives by engaging the community in arts and cultural experiences within the City of Ontario.” It’s the festival organizers’ main goal to introduce art and culture to the residents and visitors of the City of Ontario. This was a great opportunity for artists to get recognition and get their work out there for others to see. On the city’s website, ontario.gov, “The Festival of the Arts will create a marketplace for functional, decorative and visual artist to display and sell their work.” This gives new and upcoming artists a larger platform, whereby they have the opportunity to achieve fame and a chance to be in the spotlight for the art community. According to the festival web-
site, Ontarioarts.org, “Artists will keep 100% of their sales transactions – the festival will not take a commission on sales.” This will greatly help lowly recognized artist to have an opportunity to sell their artwork, and without losing money.
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MLB Violence in the Dominican Republic
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ADAM GEORGE Co-Editor In Chief
n the 160 years that the Major League Baseball Organization has existed, there have been more than 400 players to come from the Dominican Republic. These players have consisted of hall of famers such as Pedro Martinez, Vladimir Guerrero, and more. In recent years though, violence in the Dominican Republic has lead to the injuries and, in some instances, death of numerous Dominican players upon their return to their home country. In June of 2019, former ten time All-Star David Ortiz was shot in Santo Domingo Este in the Dominican Republic while he was vacationing with his children. Ortiz was critically injured from the attack, resulting in the removal of his gallbladder and part of his intestine. When asked about the shooting in an interview with CNN, Ortiz said, “I never had that feeling before, so it was crazy to describe.” While Ortiz was lucky enough to have survived the attack, others haven’t been so fortunate. In December of 2018, former player Jose Castillo and current player Luis Valbuena were killed in a car crash caused by highway bandits who then proceeded to rob them. Although both Valbuena and Castillo were not from the Dominican Republic though, as they were from the neighboring country of Venezuela, and had been visiting at the time. In 2012, the homicide rate in the Dominican Republic
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22.1 per 100,000 people, but by 2017 it had signinfiicantly declined to a rate of 14.9 per 100,000. Regardless these statistics rank this nation relatively high in the world for this category, and account fot the violent crimes that these players and innocent people are afflicted by. As these unfortunate injuries and fatalaties continue, the organization and fanbase of the teams they represent are impacted along with the entire Major League Baseball community as a whole.
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Alondra Castro and Alyssa Davila DAVILA ALONDRA CASTRO AND ALYSSA Staff Writers
n October 10th, 2019, the screening of the film Angst, hosted by JMW advisors Mrs. Perales and Mr. Michel, was screened at Ontario High School in the auditorium. Angst is a film made to bring awareness to mental issues, but most prominently anxiety, how students deal with it, and how it affects their life on a day-to-day basis. This movie is not just for teens, it’s for adults and parents too. Even if someone doesn’t have anxiety Angst gives people a perspective on how people with anxiety feel. “It helped me understand more things about myself and about how others have anxiety,” Alejandra Benitez said. It had a huge impact on certain students who have anxiety and don’t want to show it, but the movie helped them realize that it is normal to have anxiety. Students have a rough time preventing and controlling anxiety and anxiety attacks, and it also helps like doing exercises such as staring at your hand and then flipping it over and putting it on your lap to prevent you from feeling so anxious. “It showed me things I can do to help or control my anxiety and prevent an anxiety attack,” said Claudio Romero. “We do have guidance counselors you can always go talk to, from
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S.
“We do have guidance counselors you can always go talk to, from there, your guidance counselors can come and determine what you need maybe just to talk to them one on one and get some guidance; however, if you think you need more help than that, we do have therapist trainees on campus who are going to grad school to become therapists and are supervised by a licensed therapist,” Hayes stated. If someone is dealing with anxiety or any troubles, there’s always help whether it’s at the school with counselors or therapists from the community. “If we feel like that student needs more than that, we’ll refer to the community where we have great partners,” shared Hayes. “Some mental issues are minor, like scratches, where you can just ignore it; others that are worse, you should go and meet Anxiety develops from genetics, brain chemistry, with a doctor because it’s serious. That kind life events, and personality. of normalizing analogy can help and support Guenther is a psychologist here someone who has something in common with them,” says Curtis. at Ontario high school located in room Guenther then stated, “We all need 142. Sudyka is a family and marriage to help each other so that we can acknowltherapist located in Restoration Counedge mental health and say this is happenseling in Redlands. Mondragon is a ing and that it’s okay. It’s something we need social worker at the Behavioral Health Commission in San Bernardino County. to deal with, so it validates and emphasizing Hayes is a marriage and family therapist the need for us to speak up.” at the Winter Psychotherapy Group. Curtis is the Executive Director for NAMI Pomona Valley. “Not only can it help students with this emotion that is difficult to control, but it also helps parents understand how and why their children feel this,” said Robert Grijalva. After the screening, there was a panel of mental health experts including Erica Guenther, Mike Sudyka, Troy Mondragon, Cathy Hayes, and James Curtis.
AN OPEN LETTER FROM JNN Dear Jaguars,
In the last year, the Jaguar News Network was involved with the Public Broadcast Service, or PBS, as one of their associated high schools dedicated to informing our public and school audiences of current events, topics, and more. As a result, our journalism staff had devoted a lot more time towards working for PBS as well as the continuation of the weekly Jag Reports, and less time on the school magazine. While we had continued publishing on our online magazine, we had put the monthly printed issue on hold, and rather continued to focus on our PBS assignments. The drought has finally come to an end though as we shall now continue printing and distributing our magazine in the following months. Sincerely, Jaguar News Network Staff
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Editorial: Dumbing Down of America JUAN GOVEA
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or the past century, there have been varying debates on whether or not we, as a society, have ultimately failed to reach the quota on critical thinking, selfthought and high performance of intellectual standards (Intelligent Quotient Tests for example). The term, “Dumbing Down” originated in the early 1930’s, but was brought into light through Charlotte Istebyt’s publication, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, and refers to the idea of there being an oversimplification of many aspects of the American individual’s in key intellectual areas such as education, media and literature. Along with this belief, there is another term, ‘Systematic Brainwashing”, which primarily emphasizes the belief that there is a focus on deliberately lowering intellectual standards, especially through the educational system in order to create a society of an easier controlled individuals for the government and world leaders. Recent studies present concern in regards to our nation’s educational system, particularly its effectiveness in teaching literacy. In a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education in 2016, approximately 19% of high school graduates are functionally illiterate, and 21% that cannot read above a 5th grade reading level. Even in primary schooling, we see deterioration of creativity and individuality with the implementation of educational standards
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such as Common Core that focuses on collective thinking, which, as a result, sacrifices individual thinking at an early age. Main arguments against the implementation of Common Core back in 2009 was the belief that there was “take over” of education by the federal government, taking away individualistic and creative teaching standards, and replacing them with a robotic, standardized approach. Apart from education, social media plays a major role in how we perceive the world around us. Social media alone contributes to about two and a half hours of an individual’s daily agenda and, as an outcome, limits communication and social interaction between people. In a study conducted by Pew Research, it is estimated that nearly two-thirds of adult Americans use social networking apps. The alleged overuse of social media negatively affects rudimentary communication skills including face-to-face interactions, emotional responses, and the ability to hold a basic conversation. With modernization there comes a slow and inevitable decline in human intelligence. In a series of studies ranging from 1970 to 2009, Norway’s Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research was able to conclude that there was a steady decline of about 7 IQ points by generation in Norwegian men and suggests this effect can be applied worldwide. The question of whether education, social media or even music for instance, overall affects intellect is up for interpretation, but overwhelming evidence tends to favor a decrease in intelligence.
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Man on the Street: Thanksgiving NOEMI CHAVES & VIRIDIANA SALGADO Co-editor in Chief & Editor
1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving memory? 2. Favorite Thanksgiving food? 3. What are you thankful for? 4. Turkey or Ham?
Natalie Bolanos, 9 1. Spending time with family. 2. Corn 3. Softball 4. Turkey
Kevin Guardado, 10 1. Meeting with family 2 Ham 3. Friends and family 4. Ham
Victoria Alvarez, 11 1. My uncles playing guitar in the house 2. Stuffing 3. Friends and family 4. Turkey
Damiann Arias, 12 1. 2016 both sides of family came together 2. Mac and cheese 3. Noemi Chaves 4. Turkey
FAIR PAY TO PLAY ADAM GEORGE
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n September 30th, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the “Fair Pay to Play” Act, which, when enacted, will allow for college ahtletes of the state to earn money through endorsement deals without losing their eligibility for NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). According to The New York Times, for the longest time the principle had been to merely cover the costs of athletes for attending a university. This brand new bill will allow numerous college athletes to receive payment for their “name, image and likeness through endorsement deals, sponsorships, autograph signings and other similar income opportunities,” according to The Washington Post. The Fair Pay to Play Act will come into effect starting January 1st, 2023, which will give the NCAA as well as the rest of the United States an opportunity to decide how they will respond. Despite the governors’ signing of the new bill, the President of the NCAA, Mark Emmert, has long advised against it. The act, he had said, “would force the NCAA to declare college athletes from California ineligible and thus make their teams ineligible to compete for NCAA championships.” The NCAA warns that the potential of the law to be able to force colleges and institutions to pay their athletes may bring the end of college sports the way they are organized today. This law can allow for college athletes to sign the same type of contracts or endorsement deals as professional athletes, and the NCAA cannot take any affirmative action against them. According to The Washington
Post, this would create a type of “Olympic-style income model” in the state of California, upon which, colleges will not be forced to share their sports-generated revenue, but their athletes are still permitted to earn money under their own name.
Back in early September, the “NCAA Board of Governors” sent a letter to Newsom stating, “If the bill becomes law and California’s 58 NCAA schools are compelled to allow an unrestricted name, image and likeness scheme, it would erase the critical distinction between college and professional athletics and, because it gives those schools an unfair recruiting advantage, would result in them eventually being unable to compete in NCAA competitions.” It will be interesting to see what action the NCAA will take towards college athletes and institutions in regards to the act, but as for now, there is nothing that they can do in their power to have the bill revoked.
The NCAA has regulated student athletes from over 1200 North American Institutions since 1910.
While there are many positives for these NCAA athletes, the act still comes with its limitations. In regards to the income that they can receive, a specific provision was instilled to prevent athletes from signing contracts that would conflict with one shared by their college or institution. In the upcoming years the law will wait before becoming enacted, the NCAA will continue to express its strong opposition, just as it has done before and after the signing of the act.
Of the 2 million plus athletes apart of the NCAA, less than 2 percent will go on to play professional sports.
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he day after Thanksgiving, millions of Americans go hunting at their favorite retail stores for deals. The term “Black Friday” was coined due to the amount of traffic accidents and acts of aggravated assault caused by shoppers such as the death of 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour in 2008 who was trampled to death by a crowd of Walmart shoppers “He was a young man full of life — and suddenly it was taken by people being greedy for stuff on sale,” his cousin, Ralph Damour, told the NY Daily News. “It never should have happened.”
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Total spend for Black Friday weekend is predicted to reach roughly $59.6 billion, according to estimates by GlobalData Retail.
The Walmart supervisor ordered Damour and other employees to guard the front doors from the impending crowd. Soon before the store opened, as a result of the pressure from the crowds, the doors fell on top of him. The Damour family’s Thanksgiving will never be the same. “It’s very difficult to cope,” his cousin added. “I never shop on Black Friday. That would be dishonoring his memory.” Many stores are starting Black Friday even earlier. This year, stores such as Best Buy, Macy’s, and Target will open on Thanksgiving day at 5:00 PM. Other stores such as Bass Pro Shop open as early as 8:00 AM on Thursday. While some are excited to hear the deals are starting earlier, others choose not to join the crowds. Freshman Alondra Gonzalez will not be among those shopping on Black Friday because, “it’s a lot of people and it’s a long line,”.
Some stores claim that Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving is disruptive and takes away from the family atmosphere. “We think Thanksgiving is a day for families and for people we care about,” Jill Renslow, the Mall of America’s senior vice president of marketing, told The Associated Press. “We want to give this day back [to families] .” While keeping the Thanksgiving atmosphere alive may be one concern of retailers, causing them to stay closed on Thanksgiving, money may also be a contributing factor. “The significance of Black Friday has waned in recent years as retailers have started launching their post-Thanksgiving sales earlier, with many now starting them on Thanksgiving Day,” Shelley Kohan, Vice President of Retail Consulting at RetailNext, told Business Insider. “Retailers are hoping that by holding off on Black Friday sales until the day after Thanksgiving, they may be able to keep the shopping frenzy alive,” Business Insider.
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