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Livingston family starts GoFundMe for son’s birth family in Haiti JOHN ROMA ‘17 | Staff Writer Hurricane Matthew devastated Southern Gulf states and Haiti on Tuesday, Oct. 4, terrorizing the region. The impact spread far away from the disaster zone and hit hard, especially one particular Grosse Pointe Family.

The Livingston Family took Hurricane Matthew to heart when they found out that their son Reggie’s birth family’s home and livelihood was destroyed. The family took it upon themselves to help in any way they could and started a GoFundMe with one goal in mind: to raise $25,000 to $30,000 to help build them a new home and buy land to help them rebuild their life.

“With the money raised, we plan to get his (Reggie’s) family a temporary place to stay and then eventually build them a house to replace the one destroyed by the hurricane,” Reggie’s brother, Oliver Livingston ’17, said.

Reggie joined the Livingston family back in 2006 through an organization called Healing the Children.

“Reggie has been a part of my family since he was six months old and he is now 10 years old,” Oliver said. “He is in 4th grade at Richard Elementary and doing better than anyone ever thought.”

According to the Livingston’s GoFundMe page (A Home for Reggie’s Family in Haiti), Reggie was nine months old when he came to receive treatment for hydrocephalus, which is the build-up of spinal fluid in the skull.

According to the page, over a six month period, Reggie had gone through five crucial surgeries in order to release the pressure in his brain, bringing him back to good health. Reggie was then returned back to Haiti to be with his biological family.

About a month later the Livingstons received a call that Reggie was sick and needed further medical treatment. When Reggie came back to Grosse Pointe, it was clear to the Livingstons that he was in need of long term treatment. With the blessing of Reggie’s family, the Livingstons adopted him and gave him the care he needed, according to their GoFundMe. With the support of the community, the Livingston family has raised about $24,000, with 228 people donating in just nine days. The family raised their goal to around $30,000 due to the rate of interaction with the community.

“We are overwhelmed with the generosity of the community and so thankful for their support,” Reggie’s Mom, Janie Livingston said.

Reggie is excited about the fundraiser and is looking forward to meeting his biological family very soon. As the Livingstons tackle this battle with mother nature, Reggie is fully aware of what is going on, and helping in any way possible.

“Reggie understands that his family is in need of help right now,” Oliver said. “He has never met his Haitian family and hopes to meet them in the near future.”

Along with all of the money the Livingston family raised to help out, they plan on helping in an even bigger way. The family plans on going down to Haiti and helping oversee all of their hard work.

“We plan on going down to Haiti this summer or even sooner if we possibly can,” Mrs. Livingston said, “We want to help out as much as possible and extend our connection between our family and Reggies family.”

Reggie’s birth family is aware of all that the Livingston’s are doing to help them and are very appreciative. With all that happened to their home, the family is overwhelmed with happiness.

“His (Reggie’s) family is so thankful and blessed,” Mrs. Livingston said.

The Livingston family has made a large impact on multiple lives with the fundraiser that they are doing to help Reggie’s Haitian family. If anyone feels compelled to help out their cause and reach their goal, donations can be made on the family’s Gofundme page, A Home for Reggie’s Family in Haiti.

New Chick-fil-A brings large crowds to Somerset

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Freshmen end with a 9-0 season, the first South team to do so in thirty years

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MAC WELSHER ‘17 | Staff Writer The Blue Devil freshman football team concluded their season last Thursday with a blowout 29-0 win over Warren Mott.

While Head Coach, Tony Cimmarrusti, knew his group was special right from the beginning, he did not know how successful his team was going to be against some of the bigger schools, he said.

“I didn’t know that we would be able to beat two Red (Conference) Teams, and be undefeated in the White Conference, it was a tough schedule we had,” Cimmarrusti said. “To beat two Red teams like Romeo and Warren Mott was incredible.”

One the other hand, Owen Chen, Kevin McCarron and Nick Fannon, all ’20, were not surprised by the teams success, and put winning above all else.

“I honestly thought that we were going to be a good team because we have a great group of guys and our minds were set on winning,” Fannon said.

Many of the players of this team has also been together since the Red Barons youth football organization, where they first learned how to play football before high school, according to Chen.

“The majority of us have played together for about fouryears, and we have always performed well,” Chen said. “I knew that we would only get better this year because we have lost important games in the past, and have been through things as a team to make sure those things never happen again.”

Chen also explained another main part of the team’s recent success was the fact that they were a tight knit group with great chemistry.

“I think that the main reason that we had such great success this year was because we came together as one so well,” Chen said. “We have been through the bad and the good in previous years as one team, not individuals. We were able to perform as one unit and win as one unit.”

In addition, Cimmarrusti pin pointed not one, but four factors that made this team achieve greatness and develop them as football players. He described his team as passionate, hard working, talented and unified.

“Those things working in conjunction with each other really allowed us to develop these kids, and take them to another level athletically,” Cimmarrusti said. “Their work ethic and ability to focus and their passion for the game just really carried them.”

However, a lot can change from freshman to senior year.

Even though the team went undefeated freshman year doesn’t guarantee them anything when everyone’s bodies physically and mentally mature at the varsity level.

Cam Malleg ‘20, the team’s Quarterback, said he believes that offseason training and getting in the gym will play a crucial role in the upcoming years.

“I think we’ll have lots of success on JV and Varsity if we keep working during the offseason, getting stronger, and most importantly, staying together as a team,” Malleg said.

Finally, the most confidence of any person in the Blue Devil football organization is their coach, who said he believes the sky’s the limit for them.

“I think this team will end up in the state finals at Ford Field one day,” Cimmarrusti said.

#itsnotok storms social media, sparks conversation JACQUI MERCIER ‘19 | Staff Writer Whether it be the case of a teenage boy attempting to flirt and crossing the boundaries of the girl they like, or a future presidential candidate partaking in “Locker Room Talk”, women all across social media are standing up against sexual assault and conversations suggesting it. And many women have decided it is not ok.

Prior to arriving A lot of men aren’t that way on the “Days of and actually respect women.

Our Lives” set to be GWYNETH RENNELL ‘18 featured in a 2005 cameo, the current republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, was recorded partaking in an obscene conversation containing jokes of and bragging of instances of sexual assault alongside television host, Billy Bush.

Although this three minute clip was recorded 11 years ago, these tapes were just released to the public by “Access Hollywood” on Friday, Oct.7.

“Tapegate” opened the doors to spread awareness against sexual assault and demeaning dialogue for feminists across the country, resulting in an immediate reaction on social media, with the hashtag #itsnotok trending on Twitter.

Celebrities and people alike utilized Twitter as an outlet to speak up, using Trump’s tapes as the basis for a movement against sexual assault in all forms. Whether it’s jokingly tickling a woman without her permission or men discussing sexual behavior for entertainment, many women have had enough.

Multiple celebrities including George Lopez, Zendaya and Lena Dunham, to name a few, took advantage of their popular Twitter and Instagram accounts to voice their opinions.

“Trump should be forced to have gender reassignment surgery, just for fun. He can find out what it’s like to be on the other side of him,” television host, Chelsea Handler tweeted.

Although many side against Trump, on the other hand, many defended the comments he made.

“I wasn’t offended by the things Trump said because it was a long time ago and all guys say something similar to that at some point in their lives,” Jacqui Knapp ‘19 said.

While addressing his situation, Trump described the conversation he had partaken in as “Locker Room Talk”.

Cameron Shook ‘18, kicker for the Varsity football team, believes Trump’s reference to his language as “locker room talk” is explained against athletes.

“Certain things he said I think could have been interpreted against us athletes,” Shook said.

While the #itsnotok movement is based primarily on Donald Trump, it has grown to fight all forms of unwanted sexual behavior, both verbal and physical, which both undeniably take place in high school.

The Grosse Pointe South code of conduct prohibits activity of sexual nature unwanted by one party that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment on school premises or at a school-sponsored activity or trip.

Punishments for such behavior can range from a simple warning and or intervention to expulsion and potential notification of the police if the school sees fit.

“I was disgusted and shocked that Trump had been passing it off as normal locker room banter, because that’s almost offensive to men, saying that that’s just something guys do,” Gwyneth Rennell ‘18 said. “A lot of men aren’t that way and actually respect women.”

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ABI DUE ‘18 | Social Media Manager Chick-fil-A, a popular fast food chain throughout the South, has now brought the phenomenon to The Somerset Collection in Troy.

Opening in 1946, Truett Cathy created Chick-fil-A’s boneless breast chicken sandwich. Since the first restaurant was opened in a suburb of Atlanta, Chick-fil-A has grown to become the largest fast-food chicken restaurant chain in the United States.

According to the Chickfil-A website, there are many popular items, although the most popular is their Original Chicken Sandwich.

The Chick-fil-A at Somerset opened Thursday, Oct. 13, and although it’s been open for over a week, there are still crowds of people waiting in line a week later.

Ryan, a woman waiting in line at Chick-fil-A, had been there for a half an hour, but still had most of the line to go through.

“We really like Chick-fil-A, and the last time we had it was four years ago on our honeymoon, so we’re excited,” she said.

Molly Astfalk ‘20 has also been awaiting the opening of Chick-fil-A. “I think people are really happy about Chick-fil-A coming to Somerset because it’s not something we’ve been able to get all the time without driving pretty far,” Astfalk said.

Astfalk said she has had Chick-fil-A numerous times, but hasn’t tried it at Somerset yet.

Not only is Chick-fil-A different than other fast food restaurants because the only meat they serve is chicken, but they’re schedule is unusual too, Astfalk said.

Unlike McDonald’s, Chickfil-A is only open six days a week, with Sunday being their day off.

“Truett Cathy believes that all franchised Chick-fil-A Operators and their restaurant employees should have an opportunity to rest, spend time with family and friends, and worship if they choose to do so,” the website states.

Chick-fil-A is located on the third floor of Somerset in the food court, next to Mrs Fields and Sbarro.

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Speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues Last week, seven bumblebee species were declared endangered, National Public Radio reports.

The Guardian reports that 22 percent of the Great Barrier Reef has died from bleaching.

The World Wildlife Fund reports that the planet is losing its forests at an alarming rate -- about 48 football fields worth every minute.

The world turns, icebergs collapse into an endless ocean, and species die on a scale that seems way beyond our power. Though the extinction of the black rhino seems so far away from us, we still have the responsibility to be aware of what’s happening to our planet.

We in Tower believe that while the decline of bees, the steady rise in the earth’s temperature, the precarious thinning of the ozone layer, may seem like tragic inevitability that is beyond our power, it is important to be educated in our impact on the environment.

It is imperative for us as a school, as a community, as a species, to care about what we do to our environment. For students, it’s a matter of insuring

can at home. Recycle your cans and bottles. Recycle paper. Dispose of batteries and other products harmful to our environment at local waste collection locations. Turn out the lights after you leave a room. Acts like reusing grocery bags and carpooling friends may seem miniscule, but help the environment in greater ways.

Another way to educate yourself is to read articles from sources that specialize in environmental reports. Organizations like National Geographic and World Wildlife Fund make it their life’s work to deliver comprehensible information to the public of our effect on the planet.

South has its own Conservation Club. Attend a meeting. See what you can do to help in your own community. Be invested in your own community’s environmental care. Image if every community was invested in its own environment. We’d create an ever larger ripple effect that will change the world for the better.

It’s so easy to simply ignore the problems that are daunting in our planet. In our daily lives, we do not

a decent future. As future leaders in our community, and future voters, our knowledge of the environment around us is crucial in decision-making in legislation that will affect our community, and therefore our environment.

“We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children” a profound Native American proverb states. We have undoubtedly had a harmful and even irreversible impact on our planet. The past is affecting the planet that we will inherit. To act now and do what we can will help the earth that the future will inherit.

To insure a future, we must be sustainable. BP Global reports that consumption of renewable fuel is increasing. 2.8 percent of global energy consumption came from renewable energy last year, a full two percent higher than a decade prior. This is a prime example of our need to continue research and investment in alternative energy.

Another solution is to start small. Do what you

physically see the rising of ocean levels or the pollution of the atmosphere. It’s hard to comprehend the human race, a group of people dwarfed in size compared the massiveness of the planet -- to have such a decisive role in its future.

In this issue, we shed light on the problems that plague our planet: the endangerment of bees. The slow death of the Great Barrier Reef. These recent events are a reflection of our dire need to act now in our endeavors to help the planet. We urge you to read these articles, and in turn become more cognisant, and more caring towards our effect in the environment.

To be indifferent on our effect on the environment, to close one’s eyes and plug one’s ears to the problems looming in our planet, will only further the problems we already face. The headlines these past weeks, in this issue, serve as a reflection of our need to increase our attention to our impact on the only habitable planet known to us.

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s a foreign exchange student from Germany living in the United States, I spot a lot of different habits, behaviors and mentalities.

The German and the American culture differ in many ways, even if they are probably not that far from each other in comparison to other ones. Even if I travelled in the past and did exchanges, for example to Thailand, which has a very different culture than the Germany, it is a very interesting experience to actually live in a country that is geographically and culturally far away from your homeland.

I want to tell you something about the differences between the American and the German school system.

First of all, we just have an elementary school and a middle and high school in one. The elementary school, which lasts four years, is usually a comprehensive school, but the continuing school is divided into three different levels. The middle and high school with the highest level and the highest education is called “Gymnasium”, and it lasts eight or nine years. The school with the middle level is called “Realschule”, and lasts six years. The one with the lowest level is called “Haupt-“ or “Werkrealschule”, and lasts five years. On the one hand, I like this system, because every student’s type of study is adjusted to their speed and level. Intelligent and interested people don’t have to be bored by having no possibility to use their potential in a class of people who have a slower learning speed than they do. These students,

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Exchange student shares the difference between American and German schools

who need more time and learn slower, shouldn’t get stressed or even depressed in a class of faster working students. On the other hand, everybody has the same chance in America (in Germany, the graduation you do at different level schools count different and you don’t always have the possibility to go to a university) and people learn how to deal with others that are different than they are.

In the following article I will compare the American highs school system to the one of the German “Gymnasium”.

Something I really like about the American school system is the freedom you have to choose your classes according to your interests. As an exchange student who will be obligated to repeat the 11th grade, which is the grade I am enrolled in here at South, and only has two classes I must take, I can choose five other ones. A normal American high school student might not have that much freedom as I do.

The freedom to choose classes goes together with the big offer of classes, which is obviously connected to the size and level of a school. We don’t have drawing, painting, ceramics, photography or other subdivisions of art, we simply have “art” as a class in German schools. At some schools, you might have the possibility to do stuff like this after school, but it doesn’t exist as a class. The same applies to sports, music, history and many other subjects. German teachers are obligated to teach what the state instructs them to and can cover every possible electives, depending on the grade. Compulsory classes for all German middle and high school students are physical education, art, music, religion (Christianity or ethics), history, chemistry, physics, math, english, economy and politics. You have the choice between French or Latin in 5th grade and Spanish or sciences in 8th grade.

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In Germany, all the students of one grade are divided into “Klassen”, consisting of usually between 20 and 30 people. You stay together with your “Klasse” for all of your periods except for a few like religion, where protestant, catholic and ethics is separate.

On the one hand, this is very nice, because you get to know each other very well and are able to develop a close relationship to these people, even if they are people you would usually not be very close with. On the other hand, I do also like the way it is in the U.S., because you get to know a bunch of people and can decide who you like and who you want to be friends with. If you don’t like your “Klasse” or are getting bullied, you don’t have to stay together with these people the whole day.

More over we have a different schedule everyday, which is connected to that we usually have one class for two periods (one period = 45 minutes). You have different classes every day and school ends at different times depending on the day. In 10th grade, I had school until 12:40 p. m. three times a week and two times till 4:40 p. m. The higher the grade, the more afternoon school you have.

In a German school you can’t change a class just because you don’t like it or don’t like the teacher. The schedule, which is more or less the same for all students of one grade, is fixed and the only possibility to change a class is to change your “Klasse”, so the group you are staying together for almost the whole day, or even the school. But you need a valuable reason for doing that. Personal preference is not part of it.

In addition, your class has a main room you stay in for the majority of your classes.

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JOHN FRANCIS ’18 & ANTON MIKOLOWSKI ’17 | Supervising Editors This past week for Donald J. Trump shows that he is still behind, and there are two weeks to go in the election.

Headlines this week for the Republican Nominee have been about his speech about the possible first 100 days in office. It added to his policy-orientated plans and as an effort to try to look more presidential.

One of the top Trump campaign officials, Kellyanne Conway, has admitted that Trump is behind on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.

“She (Hillary) has tremendous advantages,” Conway said. “She has a former president, happens to be her husband, campaigning for her, the current president and first lady, vice president, all much more popular than she can hope to be.”

With his team showing that they know Trump is behind, it starts to take away from the idea that the polling is rigged against Trump.

Some people, like Wayne Root, entrepreneur and author of “The Murder of the Middle Class” say that Trump isn’t going to lose.

Root argues that just like the Brexit vote, the establishment and poll-backed candi-

date or option will actually lose.

She walked out onto the Las Vegas stage for After all, writing off Trump has been the intense night ahead, clad in a pale white proven wrong through this whole election. suit, breaking gestures to an ecstatic audience.

It’s easy to remember how many people were The third and final presidential debate took amused by Trump entering the race and place on Oct. 19 at the University of Nevadidn’t take it seriously. How did that work out da, Las Vegas-- a city made from scratch and for all of those tenacity of WEEKLY pollsters? Exwill, just as MICHIGAN actly. the careers POLLS One supof candiport to a dates HilTrump-Pence lary Clinton Via realclearpolitics.com win is that the and Donald most accurate Trump have poll of the 2012 election, IDP/TIPP, has been called.

Trump winning 43 percent to 41 percent.

Moderated by Chris Wallace of FOX, ClinAs long as the Wikileaks continue to ton kicked off the debate with her views on the slash at Clinton, the mainstream media0 Supreme Court and its role as a balanced body can’t help but give all attention to Trump’s of justice. trip-ups. It’s important to remember that While Trump said he planned to repeal the leaks are more policy-orientated rathObamacare, Secretary Clinton sought to adjust er than Trump’s scandals, which are more and expand the notion of universal healthcare character based. in order to benefit the masses.

The conclusions to be made are obviousIn addition to the whims of the masses, ly up to the undecided voters on Nov. 8.

Clinton teased a mention of collaboration on platform issues with former presidential rival,

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now endorsing force, democratic socialist candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

The secretary was questioned on the affiliation of the Clinton Foundation, but retorted with quandaries concerning the Trump Foundation and its infamy.

The debate also explored other political stances, such as the backgrounds of both candidates, Clinton’s longing for an expanded and powerhouse middle class, immigration and foreign affairs (including a comment concerning Clinton’s dream of a common hemispheric market, as well as Clinton referring to Trump as a would-be puppet of the Russian Federation) and ad-hominem retorts.

Trump, during the debate, referred to Hillary Clinton as a “nasty woman” and illegal immigrants, collectively, as “bad hombres”, which stirred a cutthroat rebuke from social media internationally.

Celebrities such as Ashly Perez, Michael Scott and Pedro Pascal have reprimanded Trump for his actions, and merchandise has already been put to the presses with plays on the phrase “nasty woman” and “bad hombre”.

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A look into the problem of rapidly declining bee populations and what we can do to solve it

KAITLIN NEMEH ‘18 | Staff Writer the fruits that we eat are the direct result of pollination, queen Another one bites the dust. that is one of the big things that they do for us,” McNamara bee behind.

On Oct. 3, seven bee species were said. “Without those bees we are going to be running into But the bees are officially added to the endangered fewer apples, other fruits, and things like that. not extinct yet, and there i s species list for the U.S. Hawaiian yelWith an absence of bees in our lives, we would over something that we can be done to keep low-faced bees are at the greatest risk of time experience many changes. them around. becoming extinct. An endangered spe“The food supply is going to change gradually and pricThe conservation club at South has potencies is defined as any species that is likely es would go up because there would be fewer,” McNamara tial to help save the bees. to become extinct, including a large portion, said. “It’s supply and demand, smaller supply and a greater “We haven’t really thought about it before but or even all of its kind. demand, so there’s some economics we could start to think of a way to incorporate bees Species are observed involved there.” into some of the things that we do,” Abby Martin ’17, and analyzed to deterJogan also see the concern in the Conservation club president, said. “It could be relevant Without those bees we are mine if they are endangered economy with less bees in the world. to today and the club.” going to be running into fewer are could potentially become “If the bee population continues to Currently, the conservation club’s main task is to reapples, other fruits, and things extinct in the future. fall, the price of honey could rise to cycle, Martin said, but they could look into ways of exlike that.

“A lot of research goes unprecedented levels.” Jogan said. panding and helping the bee problem become more SHAWN MCNAMARA into it,” Shawn McWe would see our food supply be- well known.

AP Environmental teacher Namara, Earth science come one of the biggest changes and “Hopefully it will raise awareness to the bees and and AP Environmenthe availability of certain foods would it will bring attention so people will just become tal teacher, and conservation club advisor, decrease, because they help pollinate, McNamara said. more informed of it and can help find solusaid. “There are population studies that Without realizing it, we as humans are contributing to tions,” Martin said. go on, and they try to get an estimate of the extinction of bees more and more everyday.

Jogan agrees with Martin, and thinks that population sizes.”

“We use products with pesticides, but they are not educating people about bees could help Many methods of testing and ob- intended to kill the bees.” McNamara said. “A neonicot- protect them. serving can be used to research a cer- inoide is a common pesticide used “I think tain species. to kill certain insects but it turns out people can be“([The researchers)] use a lot of sam- that that is also majorly affecting the come educated Hopefully it will raise awareness pling methods to kind of estimate popula- bee population.” about which bees are to the bees and it will bring attention and once it gets below a certain number Pesticides can be divided into harmful, and which tion so people will just become living, they basically put it on that list as endan- categories, including different genare beneficial,” Jogan more informed... gered.” McNamara said. erations. said. “This would result in The decline of bees could have a catastrophic “There are things called first genABBY MARTIN ’17 less senseless slaughtering Conservation club president impact on the environment, former AP Environmen- eration and a second generation of helpful pollinating bees. tal student Thomas Jogan ’18 said. pesticides, and synthetic pesticides Raising awareness about “There would be much less plant pollination, would fall into that second category, and those are the bees becoming an official endangered species will show which would ultimately lead to a decline in over- ones that would be the neonicotinoide.” people their impact. all plan biodiversity,” Jogan said. “This issue Pesticides are used frequently so the more agriculture “We’re going to start to understand more about could also impact our personal lives.” we used the more farming that iswe done the more pesti- our impact long term but unfortunately we are very Although many people fear bees and get- cides we used that ends up affecting the bees, McNamara short sided and look at the today and the tomorting stung by them, they contribute great- said. row,” McNamara said. “We usually don’t tend to ly to our environment and to our lives, Many solutions could be recommended to help de- look proactively as much as we should. I hope says McNamara.. crease the number of bees terminated, one of them being, that we’re gonna look at how our decision “Bees are pollinators, so a lot of switching to a more natural way of removing bees. impact other species.”

“We could switch from more synthetic second generation pesticides to more natural based pesticides,” McNamara said. “We could also find alternative ways to manage pests and there are even natural ways that we could be considered, like planting strategies and agricultural strategies, that don’t involve chemicals.”

Bees can also become extinct from a more natural way, such as colony collapse disorder. This is where a majority of bees disappear in a colony, and leave their

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helped the time go by.”

Along the entire course of the run, family members and others could Two Sundays ago, Oct. 16, the city of Detroit held its 38th annual marathon, sponsored by the Detroit Free Press. The event has been go- tune in to watch and could stand along the barriers to cheer on and watch runners sprint by. This was a very encouraging part of the run for ing since 1978.

The race, which had a starting time of 7:00 a.m. Sunday morning, runners whose family was watching or who were not feeling confident.

High said she ran with her friend Hadley Griffin ‘17. The two sewas filled with about 26,000 runners from across the Metro-Detroit area and the United States. The runners ranged in age, with were par- niors, who both run cross country, set a goal to clock in under two hours. ticipants in the marathon as young as age 16 to over 70.

“We wanted to do the whole thing without walking,” High said.

The winner of the full marathon was Alan Peterson. Peterson reMargaret Costello ‘18 ran the full marathon. Costello said she set ceived $4000 for winning the race with a time of 2:19:20. Peterson was the first runner to finish out of a total of 3,216 other runners. When her goals before she ran the race and finished the marathon in 4:12:17.

Costello also managed to finish second Peterson finished, he beat the second out of 14 female 19 and under runners. place winner by five minutes.

“The hardest part was around mile 15,” Runners could do the 13.1 mile “The most challenging part of the race Costello said. half marathon, the 26.2 mile full According to Costello, cross country marathon or the 5k run. Among the for me was probably the finish. Runners was something that helped her train for crowd that ran the half marathon who run the long distance races can the marathon. Running every day after were South students and staff. The experience something called hitting the school was something that helped her half marathon proved to be the more wall.” prepare and get into shape for the 26.2 popular race this year with a larger mile run, especially since most cross overall number of runners.

Will Frame ’18 country practices consist of an average of One of the runners was Will Frame three miles every day for practice.

‘18, who decided to run his first half Principal Moussa Hamka also ran his first ever full marathon on marathon alongside his mom.

To prepare for the race, Frame said he trained to get in shape and set Sunday. Hamka made a memorable finish as he cartwheeled over the line with a time of 3:54:20. certain goals before he ran.

“I was just so happy and I had so much energy and I wanted to finish “I ran cross country my sophomore and freshman year but couldn’t fit it into my schedule this year,” Frame said. “My goal for the race was strong,” Hamka said about his spontaneous finish.

Besides running with his cousin, Hamka also ran for a charity called just to finish without stopping or walking.”

Both Frame and his mom finished the race strong, with an overall Zaman International, a charity dedicated to addressing the basic needs of women and children, both locally and internationally. time of 2:07:15.

“We just bring awareness and we raise money for women and chilAlthough Frame ran a great race, he felt that he would have had some challenges along the 13.1 mile excursion. Before he ran the race, dren so it was pretty cool,” Hamka said.

Hamka wore a shirt advertising for Zaman, which prompted fellow Frame had an idea of what part of the race was going to be the most runners to ask about the charity. difficult and challenging part.

“How effective the shirt was was amazing; it brought a lot of aware“The most challenging part of the race for me was probably the finish,” Frame said. “Runners who run long distance races can experience ness I think to the cause that I was running for, which I thought was something called “hitting the wall,” where their body feels like it can pretty cool,” Hamka said.

Hamka said he had a great run and is looking into doing more marshut down and they can’t take another step. This happens near the end athons while he is on a “runner’s high” after the race on Sunday. of the race.”

“At the finish line, my daughters were there and they were cheering The race includes a course that is mapped all the way from Downtown Detroit to Canada with destinations such as Belle Isle and the me on; I’m a stick of butter, so I melted,” Hamka said. “To hear them Ambassador Bridge in between. The scenery of Detroit and Canada is cheering me on...it just made my day.”

Hamka said some of his favorite parts of the run were the Ambassaa distraction from the excursion for most runners. Runners could enjoy different places, such as Mexican Town, the tunnel from Detroit to dor Bridge and Indian Village.

“The course was great, and I liked it. Detroit’s just a cool city,” HamCanada, Belle Isle and downtown Detroit, where most of the race took ka said. place and where most of the spectators gathered.

While no date has been set for next year’s marathon, it can be as“It was really interesting to see parts of Detroit,” Marie High ‘17, who ran the half marathon, said. “We ran to Canada and back, sured there will be plenty of runners.

“It was a great experience,” Hamka said. which was interesting, and then we went through Mexican Town and we went downtown, so definitely having all the cool things to look at OLIVIA MLYNAREK & SYLVIA HODGES ‘19 | Staff Writers

FREE PRESS FINISH |The 38th annual Detroit marathon was

held on Sunday, Oct. 16. It held 26,000 runners with a winning prize of 4,000 dollars PHOTO BY OLIVIA MYLYNAREK ’19

PHOTO FINISH|The race is sponsored by the Detroit Free

Press. Principal Moussa Hamka ran his first full marathon at the Detroit marathon.

PHOTO BY SYLVIA HODGES ’19

IS THE GREAT BARRIER REEF DEAD? IAN DEWEY ‘18 | Staff Writer In the past week, there have been many qualms over the internet about how the Great Barrier Reef is supposedly dead; however, many people seem to misunderstand the differences between “dead” and “dying.”

What sparked this controversy was the publishing of a sort of “obituary” for the Great Barrier Reef by Outside Magazine, according to CNN. The story traveled throughout the internet, sparking controversy.

But, as it turns out, declaring a reef “dead” isn’t really acceptable scientific procedure, according to AP Environmental Science teacher Shawn McNamara.

“It’s not dead, you can’t declare a reef dead necessarily,” McNamara said. “It’s probably in poorer shape than it was before, absolutely. All the reefs around the world are experiencing stress.”

However, just because the reef isn’t dead doesn’t mean that it isn’t dying. And according to McNamara, there could be several reasons for the continued destruction of not just the Great Barrier Reef, but all reefs.

“It could be habitat destruction,” McNamara said. “And climate change, even though it still is controversial; the effects of climate change are still observed in the oceans.”

Although climate change seems to be a major factor, the destruction of the reef seems to be more related to carbon-dioxide content than actual change in temperature.

“As the oceans observe more carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide plus water make carbonic acid, which will dissolve some of the reef structures,” McNamara said.

The destruction of reef structures isn’t just due to direct destruction, but also to upsets in the ecological system.

“Changes in the pH of the water, and temperature change is going to affect some of the marine life,” McNamara said. “The foundation of marine life is phytoplankton, and the algae basically, and part of the coral reef system is the actual symbiotic relationship between the coral polyps which are animals, and the plankton which are plants.”

According to McNamara, a disruption in this symbiotic relationship can lead to some rather serious implications.

“So, you have this mutualistic relationship, but if the phytoplankton are driven out, and they leave, then the coral are left alone and they turn into this white color, which is called coral bleaching,” McNamara said. “When they talk about the great barrier reef being dead, what they’re basically reporting is that they’re seeing more coral bleaching and the pH of the water is changing making the water more acidic.”

While the Great Barrier Reef is currently in the process of being destroyed, it is certainly not

“dead.”

“The reef is under attack, basically,” McNamara said. “The reef has been under attack for decades now, but sometimes people raise awareness by saying things like that it’s officially dead, or things like that.”

In fact, according to McNamara, there is no definite point in which a reef is considered “dead.”

“There’s no way, shape or form to have a specific tipping point, a point of no return for that, because we’re talking about science here, science is debateable, right, there’s all sorts of theories, hypotheses, but we do know that it’s under stress,” McNamara said.

McNamara is not the only person aware of the social media flare ups. Many students have been aware of the controversy as well, including Gretchen Brockway ‘19.

“It [Great Barrier Reef] is like my favorite place on earth. I went there over Christmas,” Brockway said. “I got really worried when I found out that it was dead, so I did some research on it, and it’s not actually dead, but it looks dead because it’s gray, and like discolored, but only 20% of the bacteria died on it, so that’s why they’re saying ‘oh, it’s dead’.”

In fact, the social media controversy might actually make matters worse, according to Zachary Babiarz ‘18.

“I just know that it’s not dead and I think people saying that it’s dead is actually making things worse, because then people believe that there’s not a chance to save it,” Babiarz said.

As for solutions on saving the reef, there are ways to curb its destruction, according to McNamara.

“There are ways to slow it, but you have to look at the source of this distress; if it’s climate change, then you gotta have to at the carbon sources,” McNamara said. “And are there some ways to curb the carbon emissions from areas that could be polluting it?”

But carbon emissions isn’t the only problem that needs to be considered.

“If it’s habitat destruction then you’re talking about creating more marine sanctuaries,” McNamara said. “Places that are off limits to things like motor boats or prop boats and things like that.”

However, with all of these solutions comes a price.

“If you for instance say that we need to curb carbon emissions then you’re talking about producing less energy,” McNamara said. “Or if you’re talking about making an area a marine sanctuary, well that could be a tourism spot, or it wcould be a fishery.”

If people want to help the Great Barrier Reef, sacrifices need to be made, but it certainly isn’t impossible, according to McNamara.“So with every solution comes a trade off; there is no perfect solution. But it is possible to curb or to slow down the breakdown of the reefs.”

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CAUGHT IN THE MOMENT

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS | Jacob

Hinkle ’18 #1 and Logan Mico ’17 #11 played Warren Mott this past Friday.

South falls 6-3 with a 4014 loss against Mott.

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ONEGP What is the school doing to be more unified?

MARGOT BAER ‘18 | Staff Writer “I think the hashtag is a good implementation lthough “BEAT NORTH” shirts cover the into our system to attempt to unify the Grosse halls of South, the district is still making ef- Pointes, especially after the ‘Unite the Farms’ scanforts to bring unity to the schools. The idea dal,” Daniel Kuhnlein ‘17 said. for #OneGP is not a new concept for the district.

After last year’s issues at South surrounding “There were several meetings last year when Dr. racism, a fresh start at unifying the Grosse Pointe (Gary) Niehaus first arrived involving bringing the schools is exactly what the district and overall comcommunity together, and through the course of munity needs, but there is still work to be done, acthose conversations and some of our strategic plan- cording to Caroline Mancus ’18. ning, the One GP hashtag came to be,” Principal “I feel there is still discrimination towards stuMoussa Hamka said. dents that don’t meet Hamka said he Mr. Hamka’s or the is making a strong school board’s staneffort to bring the We have had some struggles and dards,” Mancus said. community together.

Hamka said he I think we will continue to work to- believes “We have had South is an some struggles and I wards a more inclusive environment. amazing school, but think we will continthere is always room MOUSSA HAMKA ue to work towards to work on making it Principal a more inclusive enmore of an inclusive vironment,” Hamka environment. said. “That was one “I think we could of the emphases that we placed during our class always work on that and we can always do better, meetings in the beginning of the year.” but I do think South is a great place and we do so Students agree that the hashtag is a good way to much to help so that students with all different start a trend of unity within the school system. types of backgrounds and abilities can feel wel-

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come,” Hamka said.

“The hashtag is just the first step to total unity,” According to Hamka, it is clear to see that there Mancus said. “I think the schools should hold more is still tension when it comes to North versus South, crossover events where anyone from any school can and that there is still that come together.” sense of rivalry.

And that is “I think as a district exactly what I think the hashtag is a good there’s always going to be Hamka is trying a healthy rivalry between implementation into our system to to do. the competing schools,” “We are alattempt to unify the Grosse Pointes. ways looking Hamka said. “Any district you go to that has more for the two high DANIEL KUHNLEIN ’17 than one high school, they schools to colwill always be competing.” laborate.

For So far there have been no serious issues between example, with DECA the two high schools will go the rival high schools. on a joint field trip. We have had other such groups “I think there is some healthy competition, but such as our choir or our band and orchestra perwe have got to be careful of and mindful of that. We form together, join North and South. We are always can’t let that competition between us get to a point trying to build those bridges.” where it’s unhealthy and it’s destructive,” Hamka The goal behind unifying the district is to make said. “I think our football games are a great exam- us stronger, Hamka said. ple. We come together, we have five, six thousand “I think together we are stronger,” Hamka said. people from the community and it is a safe, fami- “I think that that’s the main message. Whether it’s ly-friendly environment and both schools have fun.” North or South, whether it’s Mason or Defer, I think According to Mancus, students believe that the we have amazing schools and when you step back hashtag is the beginning of bringing students to- and look at our school district holistically, we are gether. very fortunate.”

PHOTO BY MIA TURCO ’19

Top 6 useful apps you should download COMPILED BY GILLIAN ELIOT‘17 | Staff Writer

ZIG

This app scans who and what you follow on social media and customizes it into one feed. ZIG allows you to read everything from every source as it’s published all at once.

Serial Box Publishing Serials are like books but you can read or listen weekly. Every first episode of the serial is free. They run for 13 weeks and are about 40 minutes long.

Channel This innovative app handpicks the highest rated videos, so you will never miss what is happening in the world again. The videos are put into “stories” and after you’re done watching, you can easily share the story with your contacts at the bottom of the screen.

Kanvas

This app is similar to Periscope and Snapchat.

However, there are many visual effects, filters, GIFs, and stickers that you can add to your livestream. There are six different modes including a GIF recorder, timelapse, slow motion videos, and drawing slideshows.

Slice

Calling all pizza lovers! Slice is a new way to browse pizzeria menus in your area and easily order from them with just a few taps.

Mini Metro

This fairly new game on the App Store has you draw out a subway map for an entire city. They have 11 real cities to choose from to test your planning skills. This app is rated five stars and is $4.99.

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effect of MY VIEW PIPER ESHENBURG ’18 STAFF WRITER

veganism

“Sorry,” said Cassidy Gontko ‘18 said to our waitress., “I can't eat this.”

I roll my eyes so hard I’m pretty sure they hit the back of my

head.

Gontko had been vegan for all of 24 hours, if even, and was sending her toast back because it was buttered. Buttered.

I didn't understand. She had lived off of chicken nuggets, cereal and mac and cheese since we were 11. I didn't think she cared about her health because of that, and she's already thin, so why was she trying to do this?

At the time, the idea of veganism was absurd. Vegetarianism was understandable to me because something had to die for a human’s benefit. But not eating an egg seemed pointless in my mind.

By the end of June of last summer almost all of my closest friends were vegan. Surely, I thought, they will fail soon and be back to eating meat and dairy and eggs. Then it'd finally be back to normal.

I was annoyed we couldn't make regular food or that CJ Crow ‘18 couldn't eat her own surprise birthday cake because it had eggs. I believed everyone was missing out and not enjoying their life properly.

But as it went on I realized my friends

are enjoying life. They were changing their diets to make sure every single thing was enjoying its own life as well.

Some friends went as far as living totally cruelty free, so almost every product they used wasn’t involved in the harm or testing of animals. Gontko has made a point of getting rid of every product she has that isn’t cruelty free.

Although I'm not currently vegan, I’m not opposed to the idea. I have good examples of practicing vegans all around me.

Throughout middle school, I was a vegetarian, but that ended, and now I eat an average diet.

I'm told by all of my vegan friends about how much better they feel; how since they changed their eating habits that they feel much more alert and energized, but I didn't believe because of an opinion based off of someone else's first time being vegan.

The first time I saw a friend go vegan, they didn't completely know what they were doing. By the end of the week they felt faint and sick and ended up going back to a regular diet. It seemed miserable, so when others followed suit I based a lot of my ideas on their changed diet on another's attempt.

Later this person would end up going vegan again and proved me wrong, as they have been vegan for nearly six months.

Another upside for some, was that when people turn vegan it’s possible to lose weight.

The benifits that come with this trendy lifestyle Crow and Gontko lost seven pounds once they went vegan, while Emma from a highschoolers Willard ‘18 lost five. All of this was through their diet change alone. view If a person is following a healthy vegan diet, basically not only eating prepared frozen meals and Oreos (which are surprisingly vegan depending on who you talk to) then the diet is full of fruits, vegetables, and grains. The food is pretty simple and delicious, minus all of the fattening dairy, meat, and egg products.

Although I’m not vegan, I enjoy most vegan foods. Seva is a vegetarian and vegan restaurant downtown my friends frequent and whenever I go I always manage to find something appealing on the menu.

There is a small difference between food containing animal products and food without, though. The only large noticeable difference is fake cheese, but the cheese still tastes good, just different. It also doesn't behave the same when it melts depending on the brand.

To my vegan friends, the fact that cheese is melting differently matters very little to them.

A lot of them chose their diet for the animals that suffer for humans’ benefit. PETA says that 29 million cows will die each year from the food industry, but vegans save 198 animals on average a year from not eating meat.

Presidential Squads: MY VIEW

MAREN ROESKE ‘18

STAFF WRITER

As election season comes to a close and Nov. 8 approaches, it’s a veritable who’s who of big hitter surrogates on the air waves and at campaign events across the country as politicians, billionaires and celebrities rush to shore up support and more importantly, votes.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can’t be everywhere at once, but in an election where a handful of points decide not only who the next president is, but also what party has the stronghold in the House of Representatives and numerous state legislatures (according to fivethirtyeight.com, if Trump loses by 8 to 10 percentage points, Democrats would retake seats in Congress and across the country) and a handful of Supreme Court nominations it is important for their influences to extend everywhere at once. With several swing states in play--most importantly Florida with 29 electoral votes, Pennsylvania with 20, Ohio with 18 and North Carolina with 15--the campaigns are sending out their top surrogates to ensure victory.

The Clinton campaign has been calling in heavy hitters to spread their message, including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama. In terms of a hype man, it’s hard to beat the sitting president, especially one with a high approval rating of 50 percent.

Michelle Obama has been a powerful asset to Clinton in the recent weeks in light of controversies surrounding accusations of sexual assault leveled at Trump after a particularly vulgar video.

The speech she gave on Thursday, Oct. 13 during a Clinton campaign rally was

If I did go vegan, it’d probably be for the sake of the environment. It takes massive amounts of land and water to raise animals and animal agriculture accounts for more than half of global greenhouse gas emission, according to the Worldwatch Institute.

The idea of that worries me. My cheeseburger is partially responsible for deforestation, droughts, and the hole in the ozone layer.

Through writing this and finding more and more facts against beef, I’ve sworn it off again. Maybe I’ll become a full vegetarian or vegan down the road, but for now I am avoiding beef at all costs. The industry makes me so sad and I can’t continue eating it knowing I’m killing my planet.

With the news of the Great Barrier Reef dying and bees on the endangered list, I’m going to do my part in keeping Earth healthy and green and full of fresh water.

Whatever their motivation, based on input from my friends, it gets easier with time to stay vegan and easier to plan on never going back to a normal diet.

who’s helping the future commander-in-chief

talked about on nearly every major news along with Sanders have been visiting on former New York City Mayor worshiping journalists”, as he wrote show and viewed over three million college campuses across the country Rudy Giuliani and conservative radio about in an article for the Boston Herald times on YouTube in under a week. to “lay out the stakes of the election personality Howie Carr. published Oct. 12, to unrelenting Vice President Biden has been for millennial voters” according to Giuliani has been a surrogate for foreign policy (he fully supports Trump’s relatively quiet throughout the a statement released by the Clinton Trump since the beginning of the proposed wall and talks frequently campaign but in recent weeks has Campaign. election and has always been a well- about the eradication of ISIS). become more vocal as the election But the Clinton Campaign is not known figure nationally. But less wellThe closer Nov. 8 draws and the day gets closer. At rallies, Biden--most alone. known is Carr, the man who often is tighter the election gets, surely more of recently in Northeast Ohio, Sept. 2--has Less traditional than speakers across seen before Trump at a rally firing up the surrogates will appear at podiums been stumping for Clinton to drum up the country, Kellyanne Conway and the crowds with his far right beliefs and across the country to support their support and stress the importance of Stephen Bannon, along with media inflammatory remarks on the left. These candidates. registering to vote. Biden slams Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson are the range from the indictment of “Hillaryin his speeches, as he said Trump “was main surrogates for Trump. born with a silver spoon in his mouth The two campaign managers that he’s now choking on because his and Pierson have been filling in foot’s in his mouth along with the spoon.” for the candidate or any other Biden often criticizes Trump’s character high ranking GOP officials. and eligibility to be president with the In past election cycles, those recurring jab, “just imagine giving this officials would normally fill the guy access to the nuclear codes,” which talking positions on the news he used in the Vice Presidential debate networks if many hadn’t been as well as numerous stump speeches. alienated by Trump, such as Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Sanders and Cory Booker all appear was after the fluid tap surfaced frequently on the campaign trail for of Trump speaking with Access Clinton, emphasizing her hardline Hollywood reporter Billy Bush. stance on Wall Street as well as her job As far as classic, on the stimuli, trade and tax reform policies. trail advocates go, the Trump Warren and Sanders are renowned for campaign is mainly reliant their indictments of big banks and lend authority to Clinton’s economic plans,seen by many voters as her Having weaker point facing off against trouble with businessman Trump who has your college experience in the field of trade.

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ACROSS THE POND: South student shares experiences worldwide

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RACHEL HARRIS ‘18 | Supervising Editor ustralia. New Zealand. Japan. China. tries have still retained much of other countries.

Adrian Doan ‘19 has hopped on their own cultures and history, “I think it is really important to experience other a plane within the first decade and a even after Western cultures were places,” Krasner said. “You might just find the place half of his life, and flown across the integrated. that you really love to be, and knowing what other ocean to these countries and more.

One of Doan’s favorite mempeople have struggled and gone through really helps Doan has also been to Canada, Mexico, England, ories of this was when he was in connect everyone in the world.”

Spain, France, Germany and a few small island na- Japan, which he said was likely Mackrell also agrees, and believes that traveltions in the Caribbean. He said he first began tour- one his favorite trips. ing and experiencing other countries help prepare ing numerous countries with his family on trips.

“I remember walking down people for when they leave Grosse Pointe. Living in “I like exploring the countries’ histories, and the back alleys where there are still another country has given her insight into what citdifferent cultures they have there,” Doan said. “I re- markets where people set up izens of other countries experience on a daily basic, ally like seeing different things and seeing different stalls, and everyone was yelling in she said. people and all of the different customs.”

Japanese in big, crowded streets,” “You really get a sense of appreciation for where According to Doan, he typically visits countries Doan said. “It was kind of cool; you came from,” Mackrell said. “You get to see how outside of the United States during the summer. we weren’t really in the city any other people live and how they interact. You get to Doan’s mom is originally from Australia, and his more, we were kind of out in the learn how to interact with people who don’t have LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH | One of the many beaches grandparents still live there, so he visits his grand- country. There was a lot of Japthe same views, or the same opinions as you do, and parents in Australia every summer, and often stops anese architecture. It was really throughout Australia. Doan has visited over ten differit is just really interesting.” ent countries throughout his life. in other countries on the way. cool to be in that environment.”

Doan said that his experiences traveling to many “It’s nice if you go with your family or your Doan hasn’t completely other countries has affected who is, as well as his PHOTO COURTESY OF ADRIAN DOAN ‘19 friends to explore different places,” Doan said. learned the country’s native lanunderstanding of the world around him. and I spoke a lot (of German) while I was there.”

Lily Mackrell ‘17 lived in London, England for a guage while traveling, yet he said he is able to learn “I think you get more open-minded by seeing According to Doan, it is important to see differyear, and said she also enjoys traveling. During the the basic words needed to communicate with other ent cultures and countries. He recommends that a lot of different cultures because you get to think time that she spent away from Grosse Pointe, she citizens. people take initiative and travel in order to have a about how your culture has shaped you, and how was able to realize the disparities between different “Normally, you don’t have enough time to learn further understanding of the world and of people these different cultures have shaped those people, countries. the language,” Doan and other cultures of different countries. and the different ideas they have in these cultures “I learned that said. “You can learn “I think if you stay in the same place, you may and the customs they follow,” Doan said. “When you Grosse Pointe is rea few words here become closed minded and not really able to adapt are in a different culture, you are able to look back at “You can learn a few words here and ally different from and there, but nor- to the rest of the world,” Doan said. “It is good to yours, like how foreigners would look at your own there, but normally you are just there to everywhere else in mally you are just have experiences all over the globe.” culture. You’re able to do that when you travel.” the world,” Mackrell there to learn culKrasner agrees, and believes that she expanded learn culture, and it’s easier to see from said. “We live in this ture, and it’s easier her knowledge of important history and cultures of a short trip.” little bubble. There’s to see from a short so many global issues trip.”

ADRIAN DOAN ‘19 in London that were However, Doan really relevant and we visited Germany talk about in school, and we don’t really talk about this past summer with his German class, and he said them here, even though they are going on.” that visiting Germany helped him learn and underHowever, Doan said while traveling, wherever he stand the language even more than he did before. goes, he notices that there is a large American influ“It definitely was helpful knowing German beence shown in other countries. fore going to the country,” Doan said. “Staying in a “You see celebrities from America and billboards country is the best way to learn the language; you and ads for American companies in other coun- learn it a lot faster. You learn it a lot better by staying tries,” Doan said. “People even look up to America. there for a few months than learning it for years in In every country you go to, you see that mostly ev- a classroom.” eryone speaks English, and in all of Europe, everyDevon Krasner ‘19 also traveled to Germany one learns and knows English.” this past summer with Doan and other classmates.

According to Doan, he observed that many East- Krasner said that taking German at South before ern countries--especially China and Japan--have traveling to Germany was helpful, but being in the somewhat of an obsession with Western culture. country allowed her to further her grasp on differ“There (Japan), it is very different, but it also has ent areas of the world.

Western influences, so it’s cool to kind of see the “Being in German class, I knew basics of the lanbest of both worlds combined,” Doan said. “There’s guage, which helped me to understand some peoSUN ABOVE IN THE LAND DOWN UNDER| The sun sets over a beach in Australia. the ancient traditions, but also there is still modern ple, but being there really helped me to learn more Japan.” of the language and the culture,” Krasner said. “AfDoan visits Australia annually to visit family, and he often stops in other However, one of the most compelling things ter leaving Germany, I knew I learned a lot more countries on the way.

Doan has learned while traveling is that other coun- German words, and I knew the language a lot more PHOTO COURTESY OF ADRIAN DOAN ‘19

A Q&A WITH

Emma Turco In: “MY SOUL TO KEEP” Emma Turco, graduated in 2015 from Grosse Pointe South. The movie is produced by Exxodus Pictures, which already has three more movies filming in Michigan. My Soul to Keep comes out this fall on Netflix.

WHAT’S THE MOVIE ABOUT?

It’s hard to tell because it’s not like a play where you go and practice and see the whole thing. But from my understanding, it’s about a boy who’s living in a basement and no one believes him…and you have to wait to find out the rest.

WERE YOU NERVOUS?

I was so nervous. I’ve done plays forever. I’ve never done anything on film.

It was so different than plays, which is what I’m used to.

WHAT WERE AUDITIONS AND CASTING LIKE?

I was introduced to the audition process a lot later on. They’d gone through a few rounds of callbacks and weren’t happy with who they had, so when I got there they’d sort of been doing a lot. I only went to one callback and got the part, so I didn’t really get the feel of what the process is fully like. But I did have to sing and was asked questions and had to answer in character. I think they wanted to see how I answered. I had to take in headshots and everything.

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PART?

I really liked that I had a lot of say in things I said and did. In plays they have a lot of rehearsals and blocking where they tell you exactly what to do: open a door, close a door, etc. And in movies you’ve never done it before.

Some of it was improv, but a lot of the lines were the same. You could basically make the actions whatever you wanted, though. For example, I had just filmed a fight scene with one of my other “family” members and there were a lot of different takes. All of the lines were similar, but all of the actions were different. The emotion was real because you have no idea what you’re going to be doing in every scene. You would just show up to set and do whatever you thought was good, which was different for me.

HOW WAS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHER ACTORS?

I was part of a family for the movie so that’s mostly who I hung around.

I’m used to high school and middle school plays where everyone is the same age. No one else was really my age except my on-screen boyfriend.

But overall, everyone was so nice and cool to work with...but it was a little weird to work with people different ages than you. Never awkward, just different than plays because you’re not with the other people all the time.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU’D LIKE TO ADD?

I’m so grateful I had this opportunity. If another one came up, I’d take it in a heartbeat.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WORK ON A SET?

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So, it’s a lot different than a play. They call “breakfast” at 4 or 5 p.m., “lunch” was at midnight or 1 p.m., and “dinner” was at 3 or 4 a.m. It could last all night. It worked out because the lighting was right. We wouldn’t have to be there all day that way. If you went in the morning and stayed all day you might not have the right morning light. Same with dinner time scenes and lunch. They wanted day shots and night shots and doing it in the evening worked best.

They wanted as much done as they could have in one filming day. For me, I’d get there at 4 p.m. and I’d go to hair and makeup. Then we would do lighting. We’d run through the scene and they’d change the lighting based on how they wanted it to look. They had weird sheets and stuff like that. There’s so much going on behind the scenes. It looks natural in a movie, but there’s actually so much going on, which was weird to see. It was cool because they would run through the scene and I’d get to look back on it and give my opinion on how I thought it went and looked.

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SPORTS

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Countdown: Grosse Pointe South football team to compete in seasonal playoffs ARIANNA PAGENETTE ’18 | Staff Writer The Blue Devil Varsity football team had their last MAC division game against L’Anse Creuse North High School on Oct. 14, with a final score 21-0.

According to Logan Mico ‘17, winning the MAC division with an undefeated record felt great.

“It was the goal of our season since the beginning,” Mico said.

After winning the MAC division, the team is now in good mindset going into the state playoffs, Mico said.

The team’s first playoff game will be Oct. 28.

The team is going to regroup after this past game against Warren Mott, and prepare for this weeks playoff game against Port Huron Northern, Mico said.

“I’ve had a lot of confidence in this team all year,” Varsity Coach

Tim Brandon said.

Brandon said the team is not perfect and that there have been a few mistakes, but they have a lot of talented athletes.

“We’ve accomplished most of our goals for the season,” Brandon said.

The only goal not accomplished was beating Grosse Pointe North High School, which Brandon hopes to get a chance to do in the playoffs, he said.

According to Brandon, how the teams prepares is dependent on who they play, as it’s all about matchups and opponents..

This Friday, Oct. 28, the Blue Devils will be taking on Port Huron Northern at 7 p.m.

“When the team plays well they can beat any team in the state,” Brandon said. “We just have to make sure we’re ready.”

TOSSIN’ THE PIGSKIN| Grosse Pointe football team crushes the competition with elaborate plays in their last game

PHOTO BY MARGOT BAER ’18

Unique sports in South’s diverse climate “It works out really well, and it’s fun to have an expanded team,” said Brooke Martin ‘17, synchronized swimming team captain.

As a result of participating in a sport that is not as common to have at a high school level, the distance between competitive schools is often large.

“We sometimes turn our meet against Ann Arbor into a tri-meet since there are two TAKING TO THE OPEN LAKE | South sailors coast along the waves different teams and as they participate in intense regatta. schools for them,” said Martin.

PHOTO BY KELLY GLEASON ’16 There are four KELLY GLEASON ’16 | Staff Writer teams total in the Every sport requires travel for away games, but synchronized swimming team’s league, all four of for some of South’s more non traditional sports, the which compete at a state meet at the end of the seatravel is the reason for their success. son. Due to the recent low numbers on the synchro“It’s cool to meet people and travel to new places,” nized swimming team, they have not been scoring said Johnny Walton ‘18, captain of South’s sailing as many points. “It (the state meet) is very difficult, team. Due to the lack of schools located near lakes, but we still place,” said Martin. the state championship winning team often travels As a result of the lack of available competitors as far as across the state to Traverse City, where they and the distance between opposing schools, the macompete against the area’s local high schools. “We jority of the synchronized swimming team’s season definitely travel more than other teams,” said Wal- is training. “The first half of the season is working ton. on individual moves, the second half is the whole The success the sailing team has had is partially routine,” said Martin. attributed to the work they put in as a team. Since In addition to participants across North and there are two sailing seasons, fall and spring, most South, the teams encompass athletes from all of the team bonding happens while at regattas and grades. “I think that people see (figure skating) and practices. In the fall, the team is much smaller and think why not, it’s a no cut sport,” said Caitlin Miller practice is far more frequent, whereas in the spring ‘18, a member of the figure skating team. the practices are daily, said Walton.

The team practices before school at the St. Clair In addition to the races against individual Shores skating rink in preparation for competitions schools, the sailing team competes in a state wide against other schools. “We compete against indiregatta, which will be held this year at Grosse Pointe vidual schools as well as going to district and state Yacht Club. competitions,” said Miller.

“Schools from all over Michigan come here to A no cut sport such as figure skating allows for race, so it should be a good competition,” said Wal- athletes to find a sport they otherwise might not ton. have known about, due to the reduced stress of Due to the change in team members in the fall, weather they are making the team. “If you have nevthe regattas participated in are also different than er skated before, you can be on C team,” said Miller. in the spring, such as a national regatta held at the Having sports and activities that allow students Coast Guard Academy. to explore different areas of interest helps generate Due to the wide variety of activities at South, the drive and success behind the programs. “We some of the more unique sports, such as figure skat- won states last year, our team is very successful,” ing and synchronized swimming have to combine said Walton, “We have a lot of success outside of the into a single team with North in order to have a team as well.” competitive team.

26.2 Crossing the finish line: Hamka’s experience on his first marathon ALLY MACLEOD ’18 | Staff Writer

the finish line, so I had a little fun with it.

My trainings usually consisted of long runs on the weekends, with anywhere from 18 to 22 mile long runs on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and and then three shorter runs about 5 to 7 miles during the week.

Luckily, my training had prepared me for the endurance of the race. I felt pretty strong going across the end.

How did you train for the marathon?

How long did you do that for? How many months did you take to prepare?

I signed up for the marathon the last day it was open, and so I think I trained for about two months.

Would you do it again?

Last night I was searching for marathons that I could drive to. Maybe in Ohio or Kentucky or somewhere a little further South that’s warmer. While I’m still in marathon shape, I’d like to maybe do another one in the next month or two.

How long did it take you to finish the marathon?

3 hours and 54 minutes.

How did you feel when you finished the marathon?

I had this surge of energy, that runner’s high. Certainly it was an accomplishment; it was one of my bucket list items. I’ve always said, “I want to run a marathon, I want to run a marathon,” but I never thought that I would actually get there, and so it was a pretty big accomplishment. I was pretty ecstatic, and so I kind of had an exciting, kind of silly, fun finish.

I ran sideways, did a little dance, ran backwards, did like a somersault cartwheel across

Were there points where you felt like you couldn’t finish?

What place did you finish in the marathon?

Oh boy, I think I came in for my age group at like 64th. Overall, I was 537th.

Did you run as a kid?

No, I was a wrestler and a football player. Up in high school the longest I had ever ran was the two mile run in gym class.

Do you have anything else to add?

I had so much energy. I could have went a lot faster, but I was running with my training partner, who is also my first cousin, and around mile 16 his calf got injured, so from mile 16 to 20 we slowed down and we had to stop a few times to help him stretch, but then at mile 20 I left him because I had to finish and he was kind of slow. I probably could have finished the marathon a little quicker then where I did. Do you know how I started running? Why I got back into it? So my daughter, last year, grabbed at my like midsection, and she goes, “Dad you’re chubby”, so the next day I started running.

So I started to like running just to kind of get in a little bit better shape, so I started back in February. So from February to like, I would say, July it was just like running for fun and just to get in better shape. Then July and August and September were training for the marathon.

South hopes to tack into victory at State Champs this year mostly,” Stackpool said.

“The wind was about five to ten knots for the first day, the second day it was a lot lighter and puffier and the puffs were extreme shifts and it was very frustrating,” Stackpoole said.

To adjust to changing conditions, Stackpoole said every skipper has a light and heavy air crew.

Stackpoole added the format of the regatta was fleet racing with two classes, 420’s, and Flying Juniors, both double handed dinghies.

Fellow co-captain Johnny Walton ’18 said as a captain, he takes extra measures to prep the team.

“We just make sure everyone is focused and ready to go, and paying attention,” Walton said.

South sailing team coach, James Cooper, said 420 TEAM STRIKES AGAIN | South’s sailing team poses in a victorivia email Johnny Walton, Jake Orhan, Blake Stackous stance after their most recent regatta. poole, Christi Schiebner, and Liam Walz have gone PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES COOPER extra lengths to prepare for the regatta.

“Most of the key players in South surge forward JOHN SCHULTE ’18 | Staff Writer to a national presence sailed competitively all summer long. This inWith water on the horizon and wind behind their backs, the South dividual dedication has transformed our team to a higher level. It is sailing team set sail to Connecticut last weekend to race against the these kids dedication and commitment to the sport and our team has nation’s best. raised our level,” Cooper said.

According to co-captain, Blake Stackpoole ‘18, the Lawrence A. Cooper added the team was ready to sail against some of the naWhite Invitational regatta, held at the United States Coast Guard tion’s finest.

Academy, was the platform for South sailing to showcase their abilities “Going into this season (the sailors) have seen the top rated kids, against schools from all over the nation. they have been on the line with them, this is no longer our kids first “There were about ten boats from the New England area, two boats rodeo. Their comfort and talent at this level was key. Then it became from the Midwest, and the rest of the boats were from the southeast,

a question of how we piece together the individual partners,” Cooper said.

Cooper said the team surpassed his expectations.

“Eight place out of twenty. We did great, and had loads of fun. The weather was perfect, the winds were all over the place, shifts were random and varied. So it was challenging,” Cooper said.

With a successful outing at the Lawrence A. White regatta, Cooper, Stackpoole, and co-captain Johnny Walton have their focus on the state championship regatta held at the Grosse Pointe Yacht club.

Walton has high expectations and wants to carry on south’s winning tradition.

“Obviously we want to win the state championships again, we won it the past two year, we want to do it again,” Walton said.

Walton and Stackpoole both said their biggest competition would be East Grand Rapids and Grosse Pointe North.

Cooper said to prepare for states, the team needs to rest after taxing conditions at the previous regatta.

“USCGA was tough, taxing, travel was intense and the kids need a little rest. But good sailors are not made by calm waters. We know this this and we are ready,” Cooper said.

Cooper, like walton and Stackpoole, expects nothing short of success.

“We want first place. We want to be state championships again.

We’ve earned it and we think we are the best team in the state,” Cooper said.

“We have a target on our backs, and that target plans on being all other sailors will see as they look up the race course. South sailing into the State Championship first place Sunset”