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Table of Contents 4 News
Protests at the Statehouse affect teacher unions and subsequently students here.
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New study reveals that U.S. Latino youth face stereotypes.
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Students weigh in on creative April Fool’s day pranks.
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CHS implements new enviromentally-friendly initiatives.
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Reporter Melinda Song suggests some interesting things to do in Indianapolis over spring break.
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Men’s track team enters season under new Head Coach Kenneth Browner.
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The HiLite staff urges students to keep up to date with world news.
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Key Club elections to take place March 31. According to club co-sponsor Katie Gray, elections for next year’s president, vice president and secretary will occur March 31. Elections for class board members will take place after spring break. GKOM scheduled to have final connection session April 14. According to program sponsor Jennifer Powell, the next meeting will serve as a wrap-up with freshman SRTs where GKOMs may reflect on the events of the year. Global Giving looking for Carmel’s best dance crew. Club sponsor Ryan Ringenberg said auditions will occur soon for those interested. The event is tentatively scheduled for May 20. Lifelines plans for Pre-Spring Break Awareness Week. According to Alec Rader, vice president and junior, Lifelines will not showcase its annual car crash simulation this year.
Upcoming Events
March 27: National Honor Society induction April 11: Return to school April 25 to 29: Pre-Prom Awareness Week May 2: Beginning of AP testing
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According to global online travel company Orbitz, Orlando, FL will be the top spring break destination for 2011. Las Vegas is ranked second, followed by Cancun in third.
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Union debate impacts locally
Recent Statehouse controversy over the power of teacher groups hits home with local educators, students By melinda song msong@hilite.org On Feb. 22, House Democrats departed Indiana in response to proposed legislation within the Statehouse, including Senate Bill 575 and House Bill 1468. The Democrats’ flight to Urbana, IL sparked increased political debate across the state, and more specifically, among students at this school. Sophomore Danielle Hrachovec, who said she supported the Democrats’ decision, is a case in point. “Political issues are important to be aware of, especially since we’re in high school, because we’re going to be voting in two years,” Hrachovec said. “So if we don’t start paying attention now to what’s going on, we don’t know what we’re going to be voting for in the next election.” One issue at hand is Senate Bill 575, which limits teacher unions to bargaining only on wages and wage-related
benefits. The bill passed in the Senate on Feb. 23 and has moved to the House. According to press secretary Lauren Auld, the State Department of Education supports Senate Bill 575 because it reflects the interests of students and frees contracts from restrictions that do not benefit students. “We want to refocus these collective bargaining contracts on things that would benefit students,” she said. “For example, if you have a teacher that was hired on the exact same day as another teacher, and the administration has to unfortunately get rid of one and they can’t decide, they flip a coin or add up the last four digits of that teacher’s social security number. If one is better than another, that’s certainly not putting the best interests of the student first.” However, Mark Shoup, spokesperson for the Indiana State Teacher’s Association, said the ISTA disagrees with
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National Honor Society to conduct induction ceremony March 27. According to assistant sponsor Tony Willis, the 252 juniors who have been accepted to NHS will be officially inducted at 1 p.m. on March 27 at this school’s auditorium. School board to determine calendar for upcoming school years. School board president Tricia Hackett said parents and teachers are welcome to submit suggestions for changes to the 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 school year calendars. Senate plans spring events for second semester. According to Senator and sophomore Ryan Cason CHS Senate will host March Madness, Brain Game and a new event, Field Day, this spring. Chess Club expects club T-shirts to arrive. Scott Klutz, club president and senior, said the club has submitted its T-shirt order forms. Additionally, it ordered extra T-shirts for those interested. For more information and stories, visit HiLite Online at our website:
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VOTE to protect: A protestor stands inside the Statehouse on March 17. Since the House Democrats left Indiana on Feb. 22, protests about bills limiting the power of workers’ unions have been frequent occurrences.
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<< Story continued from previous page this bill and many other pieces of proposed educationrelated legislature due to their “Draconian nature.” “In the history of the state, we’ve never seen an all-out attack on public schools as we’ve seen during this legislative session. This is the first time in many years that one political party has complete control of the state,” Shoup said. “They have control of the House; they have control of the Senate. They are trying to run all these legislative efforts through with no compromise, with no discussion. And that’s why the Democrats left the state. They have no other option to slow this freight train down.” House Bill 1468, which would not allow unions to negotiate with companies and businesses for a contract requiring all employees to pay the union fee, passed 8-5 in the Indiana Senate on Feb. 21. According to an Indianapolis Star article, the passage of this specific bill propelled Democratic lawmakers to leave the state in protest. As the Democrats’ walk-out, the longest in this state’s history,
reaches one month, House Speaker Brian Bosma said he plans to negotiate in an effort to move forward. Hrachovec characterized her and her family as “very Democratic” people who feel the bill in its current condition will not pass through the House with the amount of national and even international attention it has garnered. As far as her political views, Hrachovec said repealing the bill would be for the better. “As it is, we need as much representation from the union as possible,” she said. “I think of the situation as a domino effect because if the unions aren’t made mandatory, then businesses won’t have unions, and people won’t have unions to join.” The Indiana Department of Education is currently not involved in House Bill 1478, according to Auld. However, Shoup said this “right-to-work” bill and accompanying educational reform bills, if completely passed, will have a strong impact on students and public school education. “You’ll see fewer teachers. You’ll see poorly paid teachers. You’ll see at least 200 public schools become private high
schools run by corporations,” he said. “You’ll see more and more kids coming into Carmel from elsewhere because they can come in with tax dollars no matter where they live. You’ll see public education turned upside down. It won’t look anything like it did in the past 10 years.” Students like Hrachovec, whose sister works as an intern at the Indiana House of Representatives, have already felt the impact of these bills despite their preliminary nature. “I mean, it’s a big topic at my house,” Hrachovec said. “With this, it’s been giving us an insight into bills that maybe aren’t getting as much public attention. I think the more I’m learning about what’s going on in the Statehouse, the more Democratic I’m becoming.”
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Lasting traces of Gulf oil spill affect upcoming spring break By Victor xu vxu@hilite.org
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lthough her family traveled to Florida relatively frequently in past years, senior Andrea Czarnick said the oil spill is a major factor in her family choosing not to travel to the Gulf Coast states this spring break. Instead, she and her family will visit Hawaii for the upcoming spring break. “Last year we were happy we went down to the Gulf shores in Florida, and my dad was happy that we were able to fit it in,” Czarnick said. “They took us down to the ocean right before the spill happened. We might have gone this year, but we’re going somewhere else for spring break, somewhere warmer and cleaner.” Jonathon Day, professor at the Purdue Tourism and Hospitality Research Center, said tourism to the Gulf Coast states will most likely be adversely affected by the oil spill. The tourism industry there commands a large proportion of the economy. A report by Oxford Economics estimated that tourism in 2010 along the Gulf was worth $34 billion per year and employed more than 400,000 people. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico last April 20 tore open a well that released up to 185 million gallons of crude oil, making it the largest unintentional oil spill in history, according to a New York Times article published in February. Although the oil well was sealed on July 15, and the majority of the surface oil has dissipated, the long-term effects are still in question. “There was concern that if the oil spill problems continued, it might cost $22.7 billion over a period of several years,” Day said. According to Czarnick, she and her family could not be positive of what aftereffects still existed. According to the New York Times article, 75 percent of surface oil evaporated by August 2010, but several long-term effects may remain for decades. Layers of oil are still being found on the ocean floor and under the sand, and it is unknown what effect the dissolved toxic chemicals in crude oil will have on deep waters and the ecology, according to the same article. Still, Day said he believes the tourism prospects for this spring are relatively promising. The New York Times article reports that studies show the spill’s effect on marshes, wildlife and the waters will not be as damaging
as previously expected. Day said most of the beaches are in acceptable condition. “At this time we can be optimistic,” Day said. “Many destinations have spent the last few months with webcams and other promotion to show they’re in good shape. Locals and frequent visitors who have been to beaches also tell that story to potential visitors, and so the ‘word of mouth’ about the quality of the beaches has been very positive.” Day went on to say that travel indicators are also pointing to a strong spring break season for tourism in the southern states. The New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau estimated a turnout of over one million to celebrate Mardis Gras on March 9, the most in a decade. Day said there were also reports that booking through online travel agencies to destinations such as Panama City, FL are significantly up from last year. Junior Nicholas Lynn said he had little concern about
the Gulf oil spill and plans to travel to Mexico during spring break and Florida over the summer. He usually travels to Florida once or twice per year and said his family does not intend to change its plans this year. “From what I’ve heard, it’s cleaned up, the place isn’t as bad as it initially was and the beaches are safe to swim in now,” Lynn said. He added later that the only precaution he might take would be to swim closer to the Atlantic side of Florida if necessary. Although reports and projected statistics about the turnout in the Gulf Coast states have emerged, Day said he believes travelers’ thoughts will ultimately determine the effect of the oil spill on spring break tourism. “The key issues will be whether people perceive that the beach destinations of the gulf are clean and ready to welcome visitors,” Day said. “We’ll know for sure in a couple of weeks.”
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All Report, No Card Printed report cards will be discontinued after end of third grading period, to be distributed online by andy yang ayang@hilite.org
aspects ironed out before we implemented something new,” Bird said. “We wanted to have a good understanding of how PowerSchool worked, so before we started rolling out to, in our case, 4,400 students. As far as not doing it ave your third nine-weeks report card for posterity. later, I think a common question might be, ‘Why don’t we The report cards that were distributed during just start at the beginning of the school year?’ And, well, SRT on March 21 will be the last printed one that we did iron out those kinks and we feel comfortable with students will receive. Starting at the end of this it. So, since we are comfortable with it, you might as well grading period this school will instead post grades on to (begin the new system) as soon as you can and not waste myCCS, a process that will be similar to looking up grades, that paper if you don’t have to.” according to assistant principal Doug Bird. Junior Eric Zigon said he does not believe that these “It’s actually pretty common,” Bird said. “A lot of differences will have any substantial impact on students or colleges and other school districts, with the technology their parents. of this day and age, they make the information available “Things really won’t be all that different, the only online. The vast majority of our families have computers problem being people who don’t really have too much at home and can access the information there or at work access to the Internet,” Zigon said. “But from a student or at the public library.” perspective, this really sucks because now my parents will Bird also said these changes should not come as a be able to find out my grades even earlier.” surprise as the administration has been considering this Despite the new policy, Bird said parents and students adjustment for quite some time now. who want a physical copy of their report card can simply “We wanted to make sure that we had all of our grading request one from the school and pick it up later, but he believes the number of people who want a physical version will be limited because the electronic report card will contain all the information the printed cards used to have. Bird said that by doing this, the school hopes not only to eliminate costs for the school, but also to cut down on paper usage in order to participate more fully in environmental conservation. “The kind of paper we use to print out report cards is a lot thicker, so yes it helps the cost, but it also helps the environment because you’re printing it out on thinner paper,” Bird said. “For example, I live in Fishers, and my kids go to Hamilton Southeastern; they do electronic report cards, so my wife and I can just pull up the report card for our third grader and get all the information we need. I would only print it out if there’s something that I need to refer to if I was calling a teacher or counselor. I think it’s just going to save quite a bit on paper.” According to Bird, parents and students will be notified about the change with a message on the third grading period report cards, providing instructions on how to access the information later. However, no letter will be sent, as that would defeat the purpose of switching to a paperless report card system. Bird said, “This is definitely a positive thing, it’s just the direction that we’re headed and everything is done electronically. I mean, people buy tickets and a lot of other things online, victor xu / photo illustration so it should not be a problem.”
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The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) last August, but they will go into effect next school year. According to Superintendent Jeff Swensson, 48 states have already adopted them, and they provide higher standards than Indiana’s old ones. These standards will attempt to create national benchmarks for school districts across the nation under a new, critical thinking-oriented curriculum. “Instead of having a curriculum three miles wide, it’s a curriculum that’s half a mile wide but much deeper,” Swensson said. “I think you would find big changes, and interestingly enough, the way the Common Core standards are written just far surpasses what Indiana had come up with.” According to www.doe.in.gov, the IDOE website, the new standards For monthly updates will emphasize from the ease of interstate Superintendent, visit www.hilite.org school transfers and the knowledge and skills necessary to compete for “high-wage, highskill jobs in a knowledge-based economy.” Swensson added that there are evident changes between the curriculum in elementary school today and the elementary school experience current high school students had. “It might be actually interesting to see what seniors, juniors, and sophomores would say when they look at a third grade standard,” he said. “How do they remember reading, writing or (learning) math when they were little compared to what’s being expected now?” According to the IDOE website, the current transition plan allows teachers to continue using the Indiana academic standards during the 20102011 academic year and shift to the CCSS in the 2011-2012 academic year. The IDOE expects a fully-implemented CCSS program by the 2014-2015 school year. According to Swensson, Carmel Clay Schools has been following similar high standards for several years now and is already ahead of the IDOE implementation timeline. The district has already begun training teachers on the new standards. “We’ve already started, and next year this will begin to go into effect, which is already three years ahead of the national timeline,” Swensson said. Student body president Jeremy Weprich said via e-mail the district should continue to improve its academic integrity by further raising the standards, across all levels of learning. Weprich said, “Our students would prosper from increased goals for achievement as they serve to convey personal growth. This would also provide our district’s students with an educational advantage for their futures in the workforce or in higher institutions of learning.”
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new snow day schedule
Snow day make-ups change schedule By melinda song msong@hilite.org
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t the first rumor of inclement weather, students wait in eager anticipation for their home phones to ring with a call from Carmel Clay Schools. This winter, phones rang for this reason five times. According to Assistant Principal Doug Bird, snow days have created scheduling problems. “It’s a state requirement that we have 180 days of school,” Bird said. “So by having the (five) snow days, that means we used the two extra days that we had scheduled into the calendar and now we need to make three up.” As a result, students must now attend school on May 2, a date originally scheduled as a Flex Day, and May 26 and 27, extending the school year by two days.
AP Planning Affected
However, even with the weather that hit states across the nation this winter, national AP exams are still scheduled as normal. This fact has raised concerns among some students that those enrolled in AP classes may be inadequately prepared for their exams. Senior Kevin Vanneman, who is in AP Calculus AB, said losing two days of instructional time is an issue for him. “Everything has to be pushed up,” he said. “So lessons that had to be learned in a week have to be learned before intended to, so it’s going to be hard to learn all that information before the (national) test comes up.” Bird, however, said major concern about insufficient AP preparation is not necessary at CHS. “(Teachers’) instructional time has been cut off a little bit,” he said. “(The loss) probably has the biggest impact on AP classes. Fortunately, those are the highest achieving students, and those students do a really good job of taking a look at what they need to do in order to be prepared for those tests. So I would anticipate, especially since we have two months since AP tests, our students and teachers will do a good job of compensating and making sure we’re prepared as best as we can.” Such is the case for Jacinda Sohalski, who teaches AP Calculus AB and has adjusted her class’s schedule in order to reduce the number of review days and cancel a previously
scheduled midterm. “As far as the AP class goes, we were on schedule enough, (AP Calculus AB teacher Peter) Beck and I have both sat down and kind of laid (the schedule) out,” she said. “We think we’re going to be fine as far as getting all the material in. Obviously, a few extra days of review wouldn’t have hurt anybody. At least we’ll be able to cover everything we need to cover.” She also said that the responsibility for review will now fall more heavily on students, not teachers.
Post-prom Scheduling and Graduation
In addition, attending school on the Monday after prom, May 2, potentially affects the plans of some juniors and seniors. Vanneman, however, said he isn’t too concerned. “Maybe prom won’t be as fun because we have to go back to school,” he said. Other changes that impact seniors during the last weeks of the school year include changes to graduation. According to Bird, graduation is scheduled for May 26, and the administration has no intentions to reschedule the ceremony due to both the Pepsi Coliseum’s availability and this school’s schedule. “Ideally, (the administration) would love to finish school on Thursday or Friday, and then have graduation that Sunday. That would be fantastic. That’s what we would prefer,” he said. “This year, just the way the calendar fell, we needed to schedule graduation during the week.” Bird also added that, as of now, seniors will have to come back after graduation to finish taking final exams. Though seniors could finish the school year
early last year, the State Department of Education’s 180-day mandate for all public school students annuls this option.
Schedule Still in Flux
The adjusted schedule for final exams is still being drawn up, according to Bird, and will be made available to students before spring break. “Finals will be pushed back,” he said. The school’s decision to remove half days from the schedule is in response to a new state policy. “The state has taken a look at not just here at Carmel Clay schools but at schedules throughout the state and has emphasized the importance of all students attending school for 180 days,” he said. “Prior to last year, we were of the mindset of being able to add up those half days to count a pair as one. By doing that, (the number of days) would essentially add up to 182. The state no longer allows us to do that, so in order to have that buffer in there, which we didn’t have last year—that’s why we went to having a full day on Thursday, the last day for (students) and Friday, the last day for staff.” As far as next year, Bird said the schedule will most likely remain the same, with 182 instructional days scheduled, despite the district’s experience with many instances of weather-related cancellations. “Part of the school calendar is tied in with the teacher contract, and that contract prescribes how many days the school district can schedule as instructional days,” he said. Sohalski said though she thought all five snow days were justified for this area, adding more days into next year’s calendar is not a necessary precaution. She said, “This year has just been odd.”
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This new program started requiring visitors to both Canada and Mexico to require passports, but still, though she has been to Canada, Reidy does not own a passport. According to Will Ellery, Historic Travel Club and Junior Emily Reidy has never been to Italy, China or France. Europe Trip sponsor and U.S. History teacher, the She has never been to England, Brazil or Mexico and never expenses involved with traveling are a primary barrier to to Spain, Japan or Germany. In fact, Reidy doesn’t even foreign travel. own a passport. “Flying, especially flying to Europe now, is expensive,” “I haven’t really had the time to go anywhere like he said. “Air fare is continuing to skyrocket, and that is Europe,” she said. “I am very involved with things like prohibitive (to travel). Everything is expensive now, so I marching band and orchestra.” don’t think it is any more expensive than something you Reidy is not alone. According to the Office of Travel make a priority in your life.” and Tourism Industries, only 30 percent of the 308 According to Reidy, expenses play a large role in her million-plus Americans own passports. This percentage, family’s travel as well. which used to just be in the teens, has gone up since the “I have never been on an airplane because my family has Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative was introduced in six people in it,” she said, “so it’s a lot cheaper to go by car June 2009. than to buy six plane tickets.” Sophomore Alexandra Lasbury, on the other hand, has traveled abroad many times. Having been to Amsterdam and Arusha, Tanzania among other places, she said she loves to travel because she enjoys Detroit, Gettysburg, learning about other places. “I travel because I am fascinated by MI nia lva nsy Pen other cultures and want to visit every possible place in the world I can before I die,” she said. “I would say (travel) plays a very large role in my life because it teaches me so many things that can’t be A lack of interest in abroad learned from a book.” Lasbury, who has been out of the 30: Percent of Americans who have a passport country many times, fits in more with 60: Percent of Canadians who have a passport the population from places like Canada and the United Kingdom, where the 75: Percent of British who have a passport Cnn / source percentage of people who own passports Caroline Zhang / grpahic ranges from 60 to 75 percent. She said she feels that Americans aren’t concerned with other countries because some Why Americans tend think that we are superior to them. Ellery, however, said these statistics to stay at home: can be misleading. “Europe is so 1. Distance: The sheer size of the United close,” he said. “For example, our States means Americans will need to travel students travel to places in the states ans Europe farther to visit other places than many like Florida, but the English head just from smaller countries. across the channel.” 2. Cost: Distance translates to higher costs for According to the same study, travel things like airplane tickets. and tourism experts say that there is a lack of interest in international travel 3. Culture: American culture doesn’t emphabecause the United States has so much size going abroad. In some countries, it is tradidiversity to offer, and Reidy feels the tional to take a gap year and visit other places. same way. “There are a lot of other Brandon candis / photo places in the United States that I would Emily and e Junior ly: coverag media local e Thinking 4. Skepticism: Negativ like to go to like the Grand Canyon and assume ans Reidy talks to a friend before band Americ some make dge lack of knowle class. Reidy said constraints on her Boston,” she said. ary and dangerous. unsanit are es countri other and her family’s schedule is one thing As for Lasbury, however, she d. ng abroa
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disagrees with that opinion. She feels that, though there are many different cultures in the United States, the general cultural feeling is relatively the same. “I’ve traveled all over the United States and have never really felt culture shock,” she said, “Only in Africa and the Netherlands did I really get that feeling from a different group of people.” According to Ellery, experiencing places like this are still very important. “People need to make an effort to see the world,” he said. “It makes it a more understandable place and people communicate better, connect better and it breaks barriers. It is important that people realize that and make an effort to travel.” For Lasbury, these experiences have been the most important in her life. “I would say that from my experience, there is nothing like traveling the world and seeing other places,” she said. “Of all my experiences in my entire life time, traveling outside the country has been the most memorable and life-changing.”
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Tanning Tradition According to a recent study, mothers enable their daughters to develop tanning addiction by Olivia walker owalker@hilite.org
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or many teenage girls throughout the Midwest, nothing is more desirable than a “killer tan.” However, many of these tanners are oblivious to the fact that their efforts to achieve that dark brown glow are in turn killing them. More and more studies are coming to light about the disastrous effects of sun tanning and sun tanning booths, but these findings are coupled with spikes in the sun tanning salon business as well, particularly due to their teenage patrons. According to a 2006 Time article, an estimated 2.3 million teens visit a tanning parlor at least once a year, making tanning salons a $5-billion-a-year business. In addition, similar statistics list one of the factors of these rising rates as motherly influence. A study done in January 2011 for Teen Vogue said 40 percent of teen girls who regularly tan are first exposed to tanning by their mothers. For senior Hannah Runge, who has her own tanning booth in her basement, these statistics ring true. According to Runge, whose aunt owns her own tanning salon, had it not been for her aunt and mother, she would not have started sun tanning regularly. “If my mom hadn’t have bought that tanning booth I wouldn’t be tanning. I wouldn’t care enough to go out and pay money to get a tan,” Runge said. For dermatologists, it is not surprising to think of mothers as the gateway drug to a heavy suntan addiction. Underage teenagers are more likely to rely on their mothers for money, rides and other things that are necessary to tan. In addition, many tanning salons have put in place an age limit which requires girls under 18 to provide parental consent before they can enter the tanning booth. Andrea Schroeder, a Physician Assistant at Shideler Dermatology, also attributes to mothers introducing their daughters to sun tanning early as a result of their
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Laying out: Senior Hannah Runge tans inside her home tanning bed. Runge said she started tanning with her mother and aunt. According to several studies, this habit can become addictive.
generation’s mind set about UV rays. “As someone who myself, as a teenager and younger child, I would go lay out with my mom on the back deck I do think that some of that gets passed along as whatever your parent did you’re going to want to do,” Shroeder said. “I do think that, unfortunately, back in their days it wasn’t as much of an issue. They didn’t questions, called the CAGE method really even have sunscreen growing up, so they don’t even see tanning as a harmful thing. I do think that future generations, as we get better and better at educating about the dangers, will be less likely to do it now that they know the risks. Whereas this generation’s mothers, growing up they probably did not think too much of it causing problems or things like that. I can believe that, but at the same time I think a lot of it comes from the media or just from peers.” Someone who can relate to that is sophomore Katie Clark. Although Clark said she uses her mom for rides and money to pay for her sun tanning habit, she said she was more influenced by her own desire to suntan than her NY times / source mother’s influence. Caroline Zhang / Graphic “I started tanning because I didn’t
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want to be pale. My mom doesn’t like that I go tanning, but she supports me by taking me and giving me money. She’s against it though,” Clark said. Regardless of which generation that provided the impact, it is still this generation that is seeing the effects. In June 2010, the New York Times estimated that 3.5 million new cases of superficial but often disfiguring skin cancers, including 68,720 melanoma cases, would be diagnosed that year. Although the dangers are clear, many teens are still taking the risks associated with tanning. For many teens, sun tanning can appear to be a perfectly safe practice, just as long as the user does not “over tan”. However, just like the tan that sun booths provide, appearances are not always as they seem. Harboring the belief that they are tanning wisely, many teens, like Runge, feel safe using tanning booths. “My dad has had spots removed, he’s a redhead, so I feel like for me especially it would be really bad if I did it on a regular basis. Maybe three times a week. Now that cheer is over I won’t tan again until spring break, so I don’t feel like I do it enough to have a problem.” According to Schroeder, even one tan is one tan too many. Harmful effects can take place after just one exposure to the harmful UV Rays magnified by the beds. “There is no such thing as a safe tan or a good tan,” Schroeder said. “Every tan represents damage done to the skin. More and more studies have come out explaining the risks of using the tanning bed and how much higher the skin cancer risks are.”
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Living Latino in America U.S. Latino youth encounter persistent stereotyping, according to new study By Katie Utken kutken@hilite.org
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enior Dahiana Lopez-Rodriguez’s breaking point came in biology. When her class was assigned a lab to do in groups, students said, “Ugh, I don’t want to be partners with her,” and “She doesn’t even speak English.” Lopez-Rodriguez said that incident, combined with her transition to the United States from her native Dominican Republic, was painful and difficult. “That experience changed me dramatically ‘cause I was such an outgoing person,” Lopez-Rodriguez, who moved to Carmel four years ago, said. “My life was always making friends; I always like to talk to people. That’s how I am. But because of that time of my life, that marked me. They were saying all these things, and I’m like ‘I’m here, it’s not like I’m invisible or that I don’t understand English means I cannot understand you.’ That was really something that changed who I was. I became more closed than I was before to people.”
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Outlook of the Hispanic youth
Most young Latinos are optimistic about their futures, but realize they face significant challenges.
Among Latinos age 16 to 25, 89 percent say they believe going to college is important for a better future.
But only 48 percent said they think they will end up going to college.
Seventy-four percent said the main reason they don’t continue their education is the need to support a family.
Racial Profiling
One in 10 Hispanics said an authority has stopped and asked them about their immigration status in the past year.
Pew Hispanic Center / Source Caroline zhang and kathleen bertsch /photo illustration
March 25, 2011 | HiLite.org | hilite | Feature | Page 13 Latinos represent about 5 percent of the population. While they compromise about 15 percent of the population Lopez-Rodriguez’s situation is not an isolated one. An nationwide, Latinos remain a distinct minority in this state October 2010 study conducted by the National Council and school. And for students like Lopez-Rodriguez, that of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and can lead to problems. advocacy organization in the United States, found that “Moving here to Carmel was painful, Latino youth experience pervasive at least for me. I couldn’t speak English, stereotyping based on assumptions but I could understand what people about their ethnicity. said, and one of the things for me Additionally, Latinos as a whole was that this is a huge school,” LopezAccording to a 1976 law: have been singled out in recent months. Rodriguez said. “Then, for me to go Americans with descent or During last spring’s immigration to lunch and sit down by myself with origin from Central or South crackdown, the state of Arizona nobody around, it was like, ‘There’s a lot America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, declared that ethnic studies programs of people here and I feel alone.’ When Mexico and other Spanishfor Latinos, such as the Tucson Unified people don’t want to work with you speaking countries. School District’s Mexican-American ‘cause you’re just different or you don’t program, were illegal, while similar According to the U.S. Census speak their language, that’s tough. programs for African American, Asian “I mean, nobody should exclude Bureau: and American Indian students were anyone just because the way they look Americans who identify themnot affected. or that they don’t speak your language. selves as Hispanic. Compared to Arizona, the state What they should do is try to help them Pew hispanic center / source of Indiana has much smaller Latino out ‘cause it’s really hard moving from populations. According to the Indiana your place you’ve been your whole life Department of Education’s website, 97 Latinos were and you’re just trying your best but it’s not as easy.” enrolled here during the 2009-2010 school year. In a school However, Lorena Flamenco, former English as a New of over 4,500, that means approximately 2 percent of the Language (ENL) teacher here and Lopez-Rodriguez’s student body are of Hispanic or Latino descent. In Indiana, teacher, said she believes Lopez-Rodriguez’s experience is a rare one in Carmel Clay. “I do not recall any Latino students indicating to me that they felt stereotyped,” Flamenco said via e-mail. “Sometimes, it’s hard for students who have felt stereotyped to express this to teachers. However, I have had some students mention to me that they have felt ‘uncomfortable’ in some classes because some students do not want to work with them because of their language skills. The mutual uneasiness goes away when ENL students feel more comfortable with their English skills, and English speaking students get to know them better.” Flamenco added that students in ENL, a program that helps students learn English and aids in their academics, learn from each other’s cultures and ethnic backgrounds, which helps whatever stereotype that might have existed disappear. Like Lopez-Rodriguez, junior Christina Ortuzar, who moved here from Chile when she was 14 years old, said she has felt stereotyped based on her ethnicity. Ortuzar said her counselor would not allow her to sign up for challenging classes, such as honors chemistry. “At least for me, I feel like the stereotypes people make about us aren’t true,” Ortuzar said. “I feel like I’m very educated; I want to go to college and graduate.” Lopez-Rodriguez said she Kathleen Bertsch / photo agrees with Ortuzar about the The first experience: Senior Dahiana Lopez-Rodriguez said she first exstereotype and said people often perienced stereotyping here when some students didn’t want to work with her have a negative image of Latinos. in a biology lab. According to many studies, Latinos experience a significant “If you ask people about amount of stereotyping in the United States. Hispanics, they will say, ‘They
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‘Hispanic’ is...
Latino Youth The Hispanic population in the United States is about 47.4 million, with a median age of 27. Here’s how they identify themselves, their future and their experience in the United States. How young Latinos identify themselves
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just come here to do drugs and take jobs away,’ but they don’t understand our point of view,” Lopez-Rodriguez said. “We come here ‘cause we’re coming for a better life. My parents came here not just because of their job; they came because they want to give us better opportunities. They say we’re lazy and that we’re just here taking peoples’ money. We’re not.” Despite her difficult initial transition, Lopez-Rodriguez said she remains optimistic and has changed who she works around so she does not have to go through the same experience again. “I just think that people, instead of judging others because of the way they look or where they come from, should be more understanding,” Lopez-Rodriguez said. “When we come here without knowing the language, it’s like you have to think about yourself going to our countries, to our school where there is no English for you and you’re just thrown there. I just wish people would put themselves in our shoes before they talk about us and that they actually see the good things about us. I’m taking AP classes and I’m trying to manage my grades. I can be as smart as any other kid here.” Flamenco said she agrees with Lopez-Rodriguez’s suggestions and said cultural education is one of the keys to erasing stereotypes. “Every child should have the opportunity to learn about other cultures, other people, other ways of life,” Flamenco said. “ENL students can be sources of knowledge and can share their cultures with students. The more we learn about ‘different’ people and make friends with them, the less stereotypes we will have.”
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Spring Polls Tell us where you’re going…
Where are you going for spring break?
We polled 73 students about their spring break plans. See how your plans compare.
8% Out of the country 29% Instate
How are you preparing for spring break?
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When you get back, go to our Facebook page and post schoolappropriate photos. Come on, it’ll be fun.
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STUDENT SECTION Splash into Colors
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As the weather gets warmer, junior Nimisha Kumar enjoys participating in an Indian spring festival known as Holi By Sarah yun syun@hilite.org
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very year, junior Nimisha Kumar said she looks forward to participating in one of the most ancient and popular Indian spring festivals known as Holi, which occurred this past weekend. According to www.holifestival.org, a website created by the Society for the Confluence of Indian Festivals, Holi is also known as the Festival of Colors, which marks the end of winter and rejoices the coming of spring. “Holi is basically the celebration of good triumphing over evil and the triumph of the devotees,” Kumar said. “This festival has been a part of India for a very long time, and the original meaning of this festival has been slowly lost over time. There are many legends that are connected to this festival.” According to Kumar, celebrating Holi is just a matter of having colored powder or colored water. People throw the powder and dump the colored water at each other. Sometimes, people get innovative and use water guns with colored water in them to shoot others. Junior Nikhil Dharan, who celebrated Holi this year
with Kumar, believes that this festival is very important to India. “Holi marks the beginning of spring and this season is very important to India because this is the time when all the plants start growing again,” Dharan said. “And just the fact that you can let go of your worries for a while and throw colors at others is important. Holi is a huge part of Indian culture.” Kumar said that the festival is for everyone to have fun. “Anyone can celebrate Holi, but it’s more practiced among the younger generations because it’s basically just running around and having fun,” she said. “Although it is a religious festival celebrated by Hindus, it’s not a huge thing where you go to the temple and pray. It’s just everyone going out into the community and using the powders.” Kumar said there are also many traditional foods and desserts people eat during Holi. People usually make snack foods and desserts such as pakoras, samosas, ladoos and jalebis. “[Holi] was very fun because I got to get out with friends,” Kumar said. “I celebrated for one hour but it went by fast. We threw colors at each other and had fun.”
Aperture club Aperture Club members illustrate their interpretations of a series of challenges through their photography
November 2010
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sara Asten CHALLENGE: Lyrical Portrayal
December 2010
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sam Patterson CHALLENGE: “Word of the Day” Hyaline (adj) glassy or transparent
February 2011
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JOIN THE fun: Juniors Nimisha Kumar (middle) and Nikhil Dharan (right) throw Holi colored powders at each other at Lawrence W. Inlow Park. Holi is an Indian festival that marks the advent of the spring planting season.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sara Asten CHALLENGE: “Inspiration” Parody
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Greyhounds Go
As the federal government struggles to legislate eco-friendly policies, Carmel progresses rapidly.
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unior Mason Yao is all about trash. Every day for the past few weeks, he has spent the last 10 minutes of his lunch period asking students to participate in a simple yet significant act: to recycle. As the founder of the school’s Environmental Club, Yao said encouraging students to recycle is part of the club’s efforts to raise environmental awareness here.
“We’re doing recycling not just because it will help the environment but also because we want to raise green awareness among students,” Yao said. “I think a lot of people are just not aware of what’s going on with the environment, and a couple of friends and I founded Environmental Club so we By Henry Zhu can get the word out and promote greener practices here in Carmel.” According to Leslie Webb, president of the Carmel Green Initiative, one challenge to the environmental movement is the lack of education
concerning the impact of Americans’ current lifestyles on the world. Webb said a main goal of the Carmel Green Initiative, an organization dedicated to helping Carmel become a greener city, is to work with the schools and the city government to raise awareness among the population and its youth in particular. “A lot of people don’t really understand how much the cars they drive and the way they live can harm the environment, and they think it’s a problem we can always solve later, or they believe that there’s not much they can do without going out of their way,” Webb said. “The Carmel Green Initiative is working with the city of Carmel and particularly the schools to educate everybody, but especially the youth, about how their actions affect the environment and how they can make a difference.” Story continued on next page >>
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Page 18 | Cover story | HiLite | hilite.org | March 25, 2011 outdoor air quality standards, and to add insult to injury, Forbes Magazine ranked Indiana as the 49th greenest state in the country in 2008. “Especially in recent years, Carmel and Indiana in general have come a long way, but we’re nowhere near as green as some other cities,” Webb said. “We’re not the worst in terms of environmental protection, but we’re not the best either.”
Red, White and Green?
Yao said he believes that the changes at the school and in the city of Carmel are encouraging signs, but it will take a nationwide effort to change if the current trend toward ecological exhaustion is to be avoided. Grayson Harbour / photos On the national level, however, Yao said he is far less optimistic about significantly greener efforts taking place Plan it out: Members of the Environmental Club anytime in the near future. create posters to promote recycling in the cafeterias. “As the city of Carmel, we’re not doing that great a job Founder Mason Yao said recycling is one of the most of being greener, but as a nation we’re doing an absolutely convenient ways for students to help the environment. horrible job,” Yao said. “I feel like especially at the national level, environmentalism gets too mixed up with politics and all that kind of stuff, and people often forget that it’s a can produce is incredible, and we want to know if this is good cause and that we’re trying to save the earth here.” something that is possible here at the school,” Bird said. Yao is right about the difficulties the environmental “We hope this program will be successful, but that will movement is facing at the national level. Though President ultimately depend on the students and how involved the Barack Obama promised in his most recent State of student body is in this project. We believe that this program the Union address to eliminate billions in tax breaks can help students develop good practices and habits that for oil companies and pledged to have 80 percent of the will help them and everybody else in the long term.” country’s energy come from environmentally friendly energy sources, he has faced vehement opposition from his Carmel Cares << Story continued from previous page political opponents. While recycling in the cafeterias makes a significant As reported by an article in The Guardian, Republicans Green Teens ecological impact, it is hardly the only environmentally responded to the president’s goals by introducing legislation According to Yao, the Environmental Club has been friendly change taking place in Carmel. in Congress designed to strip the White House and the EPA working with the school administration to promote and An article in Indiana Living Green magazine mentioned of their respective abilities to combat climate change and expand recycling in all three cafeterias during lunch. that the city’s Class A biosolids program, known as Carmel enforce air pollution laws to regulate carbon emissions. Yao also said the club has recently received a grant Green, saves the city over $100,000 annually by removing According to Webb, the environmental movement faces from Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program, a local chemical additions so certain biosolids can be reused much more opposition nationally than it does organization that supports student efforts to increase as soil conditioners. In addition, Carmel’s infamous in Carmel. While there is also resistance environmental awareness and efforts in the city, to obtain roundabouts are reported to save residents approximately to environmentalism here, Webb said she the necessary materials for school-wide recycling. 24,000 gallons of gas per year by reducing the time the believes it is easier to focus on the cause at “One of the easiest ways for us as students to help the average driver spends idling. the local level. environment is to recycle what we use Most important of all, however, “There will always be those who instead of just throwing it in the trash is the current ordinance being oppose environmental efforts for can, and it’s been (Environmental considered by the Carmel City whatever reason and choose to spread Club)’s goal to get the school to start Council that, if passed, would misinformation to accomplish their doing that,” Yao said. “We just started result in citywide trash and If we have an entire goals,” Webb said. “However, I promoting recycling during lunch, recycling pickup to promote school of 4,500 kids believe that we are slowly educating and we recently got a $936 grant from environmentalism. recycling instead of the public, especially here in Carmel, Ever wonder where Carmel Green Teen so we can get the According to Webb, the about the importance of protecting throwing things in the your recycled water recycling bins and other things we need initiative would not only the environment.” bottle ends up? trash can, the impact to get it going. If we have an entire encourage more eco-friendly As for Yao, he said the of that will be huge.” school of 4,500 kids recycling instead behavior by making recycling Environmental Club will continue of throwing things in the trash can, the available to every home in to promote the importance of Mason Yao impact of that will be huge.” Carmel, but also save most fiber Environmental Club president and junior environmentalism both at school According to Assistant Principal residents money by reducing and in the community while hoping Doug Bird, the school previously only their trash disposal fees. the national government eventually recycled cardboard in the cafeterias and “(The Carmel Green takes action to become greener. had sporadic recycling of paper. Though many teachers Initiative) believes that if this ordinance is passed, “There might not be much we may still have recycling containers in their classrooms, it will encourage citizens in the Carmel area to students can do on a national level, food/beverage Bird said such efforts by previous groups and clubs were recycle instead of throwing things in the trash. Each but we can definitely have a big impact containers short-term measures that have largely subsided. household would be supplied with recycling totes, by just recycling at school and being Furthermore, Bird said the administration hopes to and all recycling would require the household to more consciously aware of how much recycle glass, plastic and aluminum products with the new put things in the right containers and leave it out energy we use,” Yao said. “Some program while expanding the recycling of paper as well. for pickup,” Webb said. “With the ordinance under people might think that recycling The recycling in the cafeterias is a test run to see how the consideration and the high school recycling at packaging one bottle is insignificant, but when students and teachers respond. least on a limited level, Carmel has been making that accumulates to everyone in the “Right now we’re starting on a smaller scale to see great progress on the recycling front.” school, the city, the nation and the how the school reacts and also because we currently only Despite the positive progress, however, non-food containers world, it makes a big difference.” have the capability to recycle so much material before it both Yao and Webb said there is much more film sheet cam.ac.uk / source becomes overwhelming. The amount of waste a population Carmel can do. Hamilton County failed to meet Danielle yin / graphic other of over 4,500 people—basically the size of a small city— the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s
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It’s Not Easy Being Green
In contrast to both Yao and Webb, junior Nick McLaughlin said he does not view the environment as a top priority. McLaughlin said although he acknowledges the long term effects of current ecological trends, he believes there are more urgent issues of higher concern. “I think the environment is an important issue, but right now we need to focus on more pressing matters like the economy first,” McLaughlin said. “In our current state, I feel like we have to devote our resources to addressing the problems that we need to solve quickly. We’ll have to address the environment eventually, but I think it’s a better idea to address it when the economy’s better, and we don’t have so many other problems to deal with.” Across the nation, McLaughlin’s sentiments are echoed among many who oppose environmentalism. The article from The Guardian cited the national deficit and the need for budgetary cuts as the primary reasons for Republican opposition. Republican spending proposals would slash the EPA’s budget by 30 percent, the largest of any government agency, and abolish funding for sewage treatment in Florida and salmon protection in California. From Pennsylvania’s decision to remove restrictions on natural gas drilling in state parks to Wisconsin’s refusal to
Join the effort Earth Hour Join 128 other nations in turning off your lights on March 26 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Carmel Earth Day and Arbor Day Celebration April 23 Noon to 4 p.m. Carmel Utilities Waste Water Treatment Plant 96th St. and Hazel Dell Parkway • • • •
Tour the Wastewater Treatment Plant. Visit informational displays and booths by city departments, various community organizations and businesses. Learn how to plant a tree and receive a free tree seedling for your yard. Take home free Carmel Green soil conditioner. Carmelgreen.org / source
2010 March 2001 Pres. George W. Bush announces the United States will not adopt the Kyoto Protocol. Danielle yin and Laura peng / graphic
continue funding curbside recycling, economic conditions are taking precedence over the environment not only in Washington but in the states as well. Webb said opinions such as that of McLaughlin have valid points that groups like the Carmel Green Initiative often have to address. In response, she said the environment should still be a top priority for most Americans because social or economic problems are often linked to environmental concerns. Furthermore, Webb also mentioned that the scale of such ecological challenges will require action on a national or global level that will in turn necessitate government involvement. “The environment is often not the top priority for most people, and that can make it difficult to convince them to be more eco-friendly when they are going through economic troubles,” Webb said. “However, a lot of economic problems like gas prices are linked to our use of energy, and developing renewable energy sources can be helpful for the economy. We believe the environment should be a top priority because it affects all aspects of our lives, including our economic well-being.” New research from the United Nations Environmental Programme seems to support Webb’s claims. According to a recent report by the organization, investing resources in greener technologies is more likely to benefit than harm the global economy. The study stated that an investment of two percent of global gross domestic product would result in higher rates of economic growth than would otherwise occur decades from now. Furthermore, the data also showed that widespread national recycling could save the United States over $5 billion in reusable materials. McLaughlin said his opposition to environmentalism is rooted in its potential costs. He said although he believes
Earth Hour-Earth Day Art View contest entries at the Arts & Design District in downtown Carmel from March 26 to April 22 and at the World’s Smallest Children’s Art Gallery on May 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Drop it in: Sophomore Bryan Gilmer (right) of the Environmental Club reminds students to recycle. The club has been working with administration to promote and expand recycling in all three cafeterias. cassie dugan and henry zhu / photos
there are more important issues, he also supports many of the smaller measures, like recycling, that would help the environment while requiring few economic resources. “I think recycling and being more energy-efficient are good habits for people to have because it helps the environment, and it doesn’t require you to go out of your way to do something,” McLaughlin said. “While I don’t think we should be spending a lot of our resources on helping the environment right now, I still think the little daily things are good because it doesn’t cost us anything to recycle or turn off the light when we’re not using it.”
Looking Forward
Ultimately, Yao said he hopes the Environmental Club’s recent activities will not only encourage students to recycle but also to be more aware of the environment in their daily lives. Yao said the club hopes to expand beyond recycling in the future to help the community become a greener place. “It’s good that recycling has started, but Environmental Club’s main goal is to help kids here understand how each of our lives can impact the environment either positively or negatively,” Yao said. “If you think about it, there’s really no cause greater than the place where we live. We literally only have one Earth, which is why I believe the environmental cause should be paramount.”
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Entertainment submitentertainment@hilite.org | twitter.com/Hilite_news
Opening this weekend:
• Sucker Punch • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules • Miral
More Online:
To read Melinda Song’s review of Carmel Community Players and the group’s plans for spring, visit www.hilite.org
‘Spring’ into break
Staying home for spring break? Don’t worry, central Indiana has more entertaining things to do than meets the eye. Compiled by Melinda Song
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Emily puterbaugh / photo
ARTY SMARTY: Seniors Sally Whitaker and Aaron Lennie check out a piece of art in the modern gallery at the IMA. The IMA museum and grounds offer free admission.
For: Artsy Folk Pricing: Free general admissions, slight cost for specialty exhibits Location: 4000 Michigan Rd. Phone Number: (317) 923-1331 Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday: Noon to 5 p.m.
Main attraction: “And the Whole Yard Said Amen” One highlight at the IMA that falls during spring break is “And the Whole Yard Said Amen.” Theaster Gates and his ensemble, The Black Monks of Mississippi, will perform a response to the visual art of Thorton Dial, who used art and inspiration from the southern United States to explore political and social issues. The performance on April 8 at 7 p.m. will merge black spiritual music inspired by the gospel with blues and Eastern chanting traditions to create a musical collage effect that parallels the impact of Dial’s art. An additional appealing event that is perfect for any hands-on, creative museum visitor is the
museum’s drop-in art making at the Star Studio. Take advantage of your free time during spring break to stop by from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Plus, you can return home with a work of art inspired by a current collection at the museum. The museum and grounds consist of the IMA itself, Virgina B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park and the Oldfileds-Lilly House & Gardens. Visit the IMA for films, lectures and other specialty exhibits. The museum houses a collection of over 50,000 works of art, while the 100 acres that surround it provide free nature walks and outdoor art exhibitions for visitors.
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Crown Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery For: Historical Buffs Pricing: $3 for students Location: 700 W. 38th St. Phone number: (317) 925-3800 Hours: see crownhill.org/events for specific dates and times
CLOSE TO HOME: Graves sit at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. The site is home to the grave of James Whitcomb Riley and John Dillinger.
Hill’s most famous tour, presents the history of the facility. In addition, the tour shows the graves of interesting people buried there and highlight certain monuments throughout the cemetery. During spring break, Crown Hill is offering a tour for all those who are not satisfied with their historical pursuits here. See your studies in U.S. history come to life at Crown Hill’s new “Civil War Tour” at 3 p.m. on April 10. All tours start at the Gothic Chapel at the 38th Street Gate in Indianapolis.
If you are looking for unconventional forms of entertainment, Crown Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery is the place you want to visit. The third largest non-government cemetery in the United States, Crown Hill offers themed public walking tours that take visitors through its 555 acres of land. “Cemetery Art and Architecture at Crown Hill” gives you a visual history of how Victorians viewed death. Another popular tour, “Crown Hill’s Actors, Artists, Architects and Musicians,” brings you to the grave sites of some of Indianapolis’s ragtime musicians and the city’s first artists. Plus, you will get to see the eastern side of Crown Hill, which is usually not included in other tours. Finally, the “Heritage Tour,” Crown
Netheads For: Gaming fanatics Pricing: $6/hour (non-member), $10 for a membership Location: 1017 W. Main St. Phone number: (317) 8156635 Hours: Thursday 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday 3 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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NOTHING BUT NET: A bank of computers sit at Netheads in Carmel. The facility specializes in bringing together gamers for interactive playing on different gaming systems.
Netheads, an Internet café and game center that emphasizes “social gaming,” is a unique facility new to Carmel. Customers can play over 70 of the newest multiplayer and interactive games on its 45 computer, Xbox and Wii stations. But don’t think titles are restricted solely to “Halo: Reach” or “Call of Duty: Black Ops.” Netheads offers a wide variety of games in action, racing, sports, strategy, puzzles and other genres.
And, if your stomach starts grumbling as you battle it out on Wii’s “Super Smash Bros. Brawl,” the facility also offers burgers, shakes and other food at its cash register. Groups are especially welcome to the facility. A Netheads party may not have the same atmosphere as spring break on the beach at Puerto Vallarta, but for video game lovers, it can be your own version of paradise. Plus, Netheads will reward you for your good grades. With a $10 membership, you can get one free hour of play for every A on your report card and a free day of play for straight A’s. Most appealing are the center’s hours. Open until 11 p.m. on Thursday and 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, Netheads is the perfect place for late-night entertainment.
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A different kind of movie night Sneak some knowledge into movie night with these engaging documentaries compiled by Meredith Boyd mboyd@hilite.org
Inspirational
Fast Facts Films at your fingertips: All of these documentaries can be found on Netflix. iTunes also has an extensive documentary library.
Films for Free: Hulu.com offers a wide variety of documentaries online for free, as long as you don’t mind a couple ads.
Films down the street: The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) shows documentaries, independent films and old movies at its screening room, the Toby, all year round. From June to August, the IMA also shows films at its outdoor amphitheater. See imamusuem.org for the movie schedule.
Other Notable Documentaries: “Inside Job” won this year’s Academy Award for feature documentary. “Gasland,” “Restrepo” and “Wasteland” were all nominated.
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Top Documentaries
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On Aug. 7, 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped off the southern Twin Tower of the World Trade Center and into mid-air with only a steel wire between himself and the ground, a dizzying 110 stories below. To truly appreciate the gravity of this situation, it is important to note that at the time, the Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in the world, not to mention the stunt Petit performed was completely unauthorized and illegal. The documentary, “Man on Wire”, does a phenomenal job of putting the viewer right in midst of the action as it jumps between the careful undercover planning of the walk, the night of implementation and finally the breathtaking walk in thin air. “Man on Wire” puts an emphasis on doing things just for the pure joy and beauty of it, a welcome breath of fresh air with so many documentaries detailing the world’s steady march to destruction.
Quirky
“The Parking Lot Movie” follows the lives of the slackers, college students and retired college professors who work at a pay-to-park lot called the Corner Lot in Charottesville, Virginia. While this may sound like a mind numbing documentary, “The Parking Lot Movie” is not only witty but also surprisingly deep. From philosophizing about the meaning of life to turning parking gates into art and exacting revenge on snooty customers, there is never a dull moment in this documentary as present and former workers recount some of their more interesting moments on the job. At the same time, as the documentary progresses it becomes clear that while entertaining, this documentary also contains underlying themes of basic human respect and a sense of entitlement. Because, after all, as the cover says, “It’s not just a parking lot. It’s a battle with humanity.”
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The mark of a great documentary is that it leaves the viewer with more questions than answers. “Exit through the Gift Shop” does just that. This Academy Award nominated documentary follows Thierry Guetta, an offbeat Frenchman with an OCD like tendency of filming everything all the time, as he accidentally stumbles into the world of street art. At first Guetta is content with merely filming the exploits of street art greats such as Shepard Fairey (creator of the iconic Obama poster) and the infamous Bansky as they produce their graffiti-like art on walls and billboards around the world. Soon that isn’t enough. So, he dives headfirst into his own street art endeavor. Funny yet frustrating, “Exit Through the Gift Shop” leaves viewers contemplating the fine line between art and worthless junk.
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SWEET JAM: (from the left) Katsaropoulos, Grove, Lyon, Muldowney and Libby practice their music. The band’s name was inspired by the members’ mixed taste in music. Conner GOrdon / Photos
Entente-rtaining
Each issue the entertainment section takes a look at a student band. This time it’s the Entente compiled by kush joseph kjoseph@hilite.org
Entente Members: Reid Libby: bass, Matt Lyon: drums, Alex Katsaropoulos:
guitar/vocals, Alex Grove: piano and keyboard/vocals, Thomas “Tommy” Muldowney: guitar/vocals
Genre: Alternative Rock Venues: Referendum concert, Poolhouse Rock, Fishers Freedom Fest, ES Jungle, and more
Follow them: facebook.com Lofty Ambitions: Katsaropoulos said, “Our goal is to sell ourselves to rock and roll
Name Game: “In WWI The Triple Entente was made up of France, Eng-
land and Russia who all had different backgrounds. And we all have very different music tastes, so we thought The Entente would fit,” Katsaropoulos said.
Real Deal: “We do almost all original music. If we do covers, we like to do it our own way,” Katsaropoulos said. Practice Makes Perfect: The band tries to practice once or twice a week in Katsaropoulos’s basement.
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Men’s Track Record: 0-0 Upcoming: Tuesday v. Hamilton Southeastern at HSE Notable: Kenneth Browner replaces social studies teacher Will Ellery as head coach. This will be his first meet.
woMen’s Track Record: 0-0 Upcoming: Wednesday v. Hamilton Southeastern at HSE Notable: Team looks to repeat as State champions this season.
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n the span of the past three years, the men’s track team has been through two different coaches. Chuck Koeppen, who led the team to the State title in 2000, coached his final year of men’s track in 2008 and was replaced for two years by social studies teacher Will Ellery. With the 2011 track season under way, social studies teacher
softball Upcoming: Tuesday v. Hamilton Southeaster at home at 5:00 P.M. Notable: Defeated Hamilton Southeastern 14-1 last season in a game which was called due to mercy rule after six innings. Record: 0-0 Upcoming: Tuesday v. Hamilton Heights at Hamilton Heights Notable: This game marks the first away game of the season for the team.
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Kenneth Browner plans to take the reins of the men’s track team as its new head coach. Despite the numerous coach switches, Browner said he does not think the athletes on the men’s track team will have difficulty adjusting. “One thing I’ve noticed about the student body here at Carmel is that they just do what they’re told,” Browner said. “They don’t ask a lot of questions, but just do it and believe it and have faith that it’s going to work for them. I don’t think (the coaching switches are) going to affect what I need to get done here at all.” Ellery said he resigned at the end of last season because of family responsibilities. “My kids are all involved in baseball and soccer and basketball, and now I have a fourth one who needs a lot of attention just being a newborn,” Ellery said. “(My children) are of an age that you have to make some decisions – it’s either you get to participate in their events or do your own. You have to make some difficult choices, and (resigning) is just simply a choice I had to make.” Browner, who is currently president of the Indiana Association of Track and Cross-country Coaches, has a lengthy resume of experience. Browner has also been at Lawrence North High School for 20 years, serving as its men’s track coach for five, and he said he thinks this experience will benefit him. “I think being track coach at Lawrence North will definitely add to things that I can plan to do because every setting is different,” Browner I want to do a said. “All that experience will allow me lot more teamto at least make a quicker adjustment building because to what needs to be done here.” Additionally, according to Ellery, I want these guys he and Browner have known each to believe in one other for years. Ellery said he has another as they’re talked to Browner quite a bit and has going to believe in helped Browner with the transition the coaching staff. from Lawrence North to Carmel by dealing with organizational aspects Kenneth Browner and introducing him to the athletes. Track and Field Head Coach “(Browner) certainly knows what he’s about,” Ellery said. “He knows how he wants to go about coaching here and he’ll just carry on the way he would were it his own team from last year.” Senior Justin Batten, who ran varsity for the men’s track team last year, said he thinks the team will ultimately be able to manage. “It’s been tough not having consistency, but we had a really good coach last year with Coach Ellery so I think it’s still fine,” Batten said. “It hasn’t been that hard for me to get along with the coaches, and I’ve talked to Browner and he’s a really good guy so I don’t think adjusting should be a problem.” In his bid for a State championship, Browner said he plans to run the team a little differently than Ellery did last year. “I want to do a lot more team building because I want these guys to believe in one
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<< Story continued from previous page another as they’re going to believe in the coaching staff,” Browner said. “I’m also going to make sure (the athletes) understand not only the events but the mechanics, the biomechanics and all the other things involved in track and field.” Batten said he thinks Browner’s new approach will help the athletes get used to the inconsistency in coaches on the men’s track team. “It’s a good thing he has a lot of good feelings about this team,” Batten said. “I think this approach he’s looking to take won’t be as easy as usual, but it will be fine because we’ve had a lot of changes in the coaching at Carmel.” Ellery said, no matter what, there will always be aspects of the men’s track team that need improvement. “Track’s a little different in that it’s a team sport in terms of scoring but it’s made up of a bunch of individual efforts,” Ellery said. “(Browner) has some tremendous pieces back, but there are also great challenges in that there are a couple teams in the state that are fantastic and still loaded, so he’s going to have his hands full.” Browner said he plans to ensure that this school scores as high as possible in all events this season. “I just want to change the mindset a little bit,” Browner said. “Carmel’s always been known as the distance school, and track’s kind of been the thing that we do to get ready for cross-country or football.” Batten, however, said the team focused more on other events last season, and he thinks that focus will pay off this year. “We’ve been really distanceoriented in the past, but I don’t think that’s much of an excuse anymore,” Batten said. “We had a lot of our other athletes showing up in the tournament last year, so I think we can expect as much out of them as the distance guys this year.” In the end, though, Browner said he sees a lot of potential for this year’s track season. “I’ve got a pretty good coaching staff that Coach Ellery left behind and I see a lot of potential in who’s coming back from last year’s team,” Browner said. “I just want the community and the kids to understand that they give out a trophy in June, and we’re going to try to win it.” “I think the track team, even with the new coach, will be different,” Batten said. “But we have a lot to look forward to this year and it will be a really successful season, and we’re looking to carry on a good tradition through this year.”
Upcoming Meets • Tuesday v. Hamilton Southeastern at Hamilton Southeastern at 5. p.m. • April 14 v. North Central at Carmel Stadium at 4:30 p.m. • April 15 Flashes Showcase Meet at Franklin Central at 7 p.m. • April 18 v. Lafeyette Jeff and Noblesville at Carmel Stadium at 5:30 p.m. • April 23 North Central Invitation at North Central at 11 a.m. • April 26 v. Zionsville, Arlington and Heritage Christian at Zionsville at 5 p.m. • April 29 MIC Championship at Ben Davis at 6 p.m. For more on both the men’s and women’s track and field teams, log on to hilite.org Carmelhighschool.net / source
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Alex
Mackall
Rules are Rules. BYU athlete’s suspension impacts CHS.
It is a matter of fact that if every American college had Each school and place of work has its own rules which strict rules against engaging in premarital sex and were it expects will be followed. Without these rules, no such disciplined the way that Brandon Davies may be punished, institutions would ever run smoothly, which is why the number of Americans that attend college would be Davies’ punishment is fair. As a private school, BYU’s extraordinarily lower than it already is. students choose to go there, which means the school has Davies, basketball player and sophomore at Brigham the right to set such rules and to punish those who decide Young University (BYU), was suspended from the basketball to break them. team for the rest of the season on March 2 after admitting to Similar to BYU’s honor code, here at this school, all having sexual relations with Danica Mendivil, his girlfriend students who choose to participate in a sport must sign a and Arizona State University volleyball player. BYU, which code of conduct. Somewhat different than BYU’s honor code, is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the CHS code applies to the athlete’s attendance, academics, has a strict honor code that all students must agree to follow behavior and age, as well as the athlete’s behavior while in while attending the school. When students agree to the code, practice, in the locker room and on the playing field. they agree to be honest, use clean language, abstain from The first line of the CHS code of conduct reads, “The alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse, Carmel High School family strives to create a positive observe dress and grooming standards environment in which all are challenged and, lastly, they agree live a chaste and and inspired to achieve their potentials.” virtuous life. Therefore, just as BYU can make its Davies, the 6-foot, 9-inch forward and students follow an honor code because Just as BYU can make their the school wants to uphold the beliefs leading rebounder for the BYU Cougars, is waiting to hear if he will receive students follow their honor of the Mormon religion, CHS can make any further punishments. The honor code because they want to the student-athletes here agree to carry code counselors at BYU are currently out the code of conduct because the uphold the beliefs of the deciding about his future at the school Mormon religion, CHS can administration and coaches are trying to and in the basketball program following a safe school and a good reputation make the student-athletes create this season. However, a few days after for this school. And just as Davies faces here agree to carry out the consequences for his choice to break being suspended, Davies contacted code of conduct because his teammates and apologized for his the honor code, so too, do athletes here. they are trying to create decisions. It’s possible that Davies’ sudden Members of last year’s CHS basketball disappearance from the team could cause a safe school and a good team are part of that group. some significant setbacks as the Cougars As most here know, during the reputation for this school. enter the post-season tournament. At winter of the 2009-10 school year, a the time of Davies’ dismissal, BYU was hazing-related incident occurred within ranked number-three in the nation and this school’s basketball program in seemed to have a better shot at the final four than they have which four senior athletes were expelled from school. The in any years past. The Cougars, who were expected to be a athletic code of conduct clearly states, “The School Board number one seed in the NCAA tournament before they lost believes that hazing activities of any type are inconsistent Davies, turned out to named a three-seed. with the educational process and prohibits all such activities A similar honors code-related suspension of BYU at any time in school facilities, on school property and at any athletes occurred last school year, dealing with Harvey Corporation-sponsored event.” Just like Davies’ situation, it’s Unga, running back and BYU’s all-time leading rusher, not about what the players did, but the fact they broke this and his girlfriend Keilani Moeaki, a former starting rule. They all signed the code of conduct before the season forward for the Cougars’ women’s basketball team. Unga began and later chose to break this agreement. and Moeaki both withdrew themselves from the school Though there is a lot to be said about Davies’ character on April 16, 2010 before the school’s honor code office for owning up to his mistake and apologizing to his team, could officially review their case. a rule is a rule and the decision has been made. It’s obvious Whether or not this year’s basketball team is going to make through the multiple fan pages of encouraging quotes it to the finals of the NCAA tournament no longer seems to be surrounding the situation on Facebook, Davies’ classmates the debate surrounding the BYU basketball program; rather, and fans are willing to forgive his mistakes in order to see the discussion has shifted to whether it is fair for the school to one of their star players back out on the floor again next suspend Davies from the top-ranked team. season. However, his suspension can be a lesson to athletes There are a million different ways to look at this situation, here as they continue as representatives of this school. but in the end it all comes down to this: the school set a code Rules are rules, and when you agree to follow them you of rules to follow, Davies promised to follow them and then must also suffer the consequences should you decide to he broke that promise. It is that simple. The issue is not about break these rules. It’s as simple as that. whether you agree with his actions, beliefs or decisions, but Alex Mackall is a sports reporter for the HiLite. Contact her rather that he agreed to adhere to the rules in the code and at amackall@hilite.org. proceeded to break them.
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BASEBALL
Baseball regular-season success negated by blind draw By Reuben Warshawsky rwarshawsky@hilite.org
regular season success while reversing its theme of little post-season success. Lentz said, “Our main goals for wo years ago the baseball this upcoming season are to be comteam’s season consisted of petitive every game in the MIC and a first-place Metropolitan to progress in the (post-season) tourInterscholastic Conference nament.” He said he expects seniors (MIC) regular-season finish and a John “Michael” Conner, Clayton first-round loss to Westfield in SecMarrs and William “Billy” Cooke to tional play. Then last provide leadership year its season included this season. a third-place regularIn an effort to acseason finish in the complish his seasonDuring the MIC and another early long goals, Lentz said, regular season exit in Sectional play “in conference play we try to develop against Westfield. our goal is to be comteam chemistry The baseball team’s petitive and put ourpattern of regular seaselves in position to so that we can son success and repeatwin the conference. be prepared for ed failure to advance in WE can use the nonthe post-season. the post-season tourconference games to nament highlight the develop our pitchEric Lentz fact that regular season Baseball Head Coach ing staff and younger records have become alplayers.” most irrelevant in high Lentz said that juschool athletics. nior infielder CamHead Coach Eric Lentz said he eron Cruz and pitcher and junior understands this fact and said, “AlMatthew Lampe will also be key conthough our main goal is to win games, tributors. a big thing for us during the regular He said the team will rely on its season is we try to develop leadership pitching depth this year because quesand team chemistry so that we can be tions linger about who will become prepared for the post-season.” the key hitters in the line-up. The baseball team has finished in the Lampe, who has junior varsity and top three of the MIC for six consecutive varsity experience in basketball and years, but it has not advanced out of baseball, respectively, said, “On both Sectional play since 2000. This season, teams that I played on, the coaches the team will attempt to continue its always stressed that we needed to be
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playing our best at the end of the season. In basketball, the coaches stressed that wins in the beginning of the season were forgotten by the end.” The Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) relies on the blind draw for all high-school athletics. Athletics Director Jim Inskeep said its primary disadvantage is that it does not reward teams for regularseason success. However, Inskeep said the blind draw is justified because its advantages outweigh its disadvantages. Also, it allows teams that have struggled during the regular-season to still have an opportunity to participate in the post-season. And, if teams were seeded based on regular-season performance, subjectivity would arise over how to view a team’s record and its strength of schedule. Although Sectional opponents are determined through a blind draw, thereby dismissing regular-season records, the regular season still provides teams with an opportunity to improve. The more challenging the schedule, the more the team improves. Lentz said, “The big picture is we play each team in the MIC two times. Those games help prepare us for the (postseason) tournament because the MIC is the toughest conference to play in, so it can only help us.” As the new season approaches, Lentz said he already realizes the significance of winning in April—not much.
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Deep Concentration: Pitcher and freshman Calvin Micheels winds up to deliver a pitch during spring training. This season, Head Coach Eric Lentz said the team will rely on its pitching depth as opposed to its hitting.
Early Exits Despite strong regular season record, the men’s baseball team has struggled to make it out of the Sectional tournament 2006 2008 2010 Regular season record: 26-4 MIC place: 1st Post-season: lost to Westfield in Sectional
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Regular season record: 25-5 MIC place: 1st Post-season: lost to Westfield in Sectional
Regular season record: 18-8 MIC place: 2nd Post-season: lost to Noblesville in Sectional
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Regular season record: 14-12 MIC place: Post-season: lost to Noblesville in Sectional
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Regular season record: 15-10 MIC place: 3rd Post-season: lost to Westfield in Sectional
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Students should stay in-the-know with world news to prepare for the future what is going on in the world for our own Last month we witnessed riots in Tunisia that safety. We are an extremely mobile generaled to full revolution in Egypt. We also expetion. According to the U.S. Travel Associarienced the introduction of new labor legistion, members of our generation take 3.9 lation in Madison, WI. These events could leisure trips per year in comparison to our not have happened at a better time. At this parents’ generation who take an average of school, we have started to prepare for spring 3.5 leisure trips. break, traditionally a time for vacationing, We are the generation who wants to go, and these events just emphasize how necessee and explore with little regard to consar y it really is to know what is going on in flict, but that desire to travel must be temthe world. pered with a healthy knowledge of potential The fact is that many students here know risks we may encounter. little about what goes on outside of our semiMany of us don’t realize how much these sheltered lifestyles. We live in Carmel and events outside of our homes really affect many of us really don’t care about what goes our lives, but they do. After Libya began to on in the rest of the world. slide into civil war recently, Sure, most of us know gas and food prices began to about the crises in places soar. When a labor bill was such as Egypt and Tunisia proposed in Wisconsin’s where citizens have demonStudents must congress, state legislature strated against oppressive broke into turmoil. We are leaders and extremely high begin to educate truly affected by what hapunemployment, but only a themselves on pens across the globe just relatively few people know as much as by what happens about small events like the prominent world in Indianapolis. riots in Mauritania and Syria issues in order Outside of world conflict, and the election trouble in it is also important for us to to become wellSudan and Djibouti. Why, remember that we are living after all, should we care? informed adults in a new global economy. For Here’s why: As members of society, we have an obligawith a general the first time ever, we are tion to know what is hapcompeting with people across understanding of pening in the world, and we the globe for job and economcertainly have the means. international current ic opportunities. As places Unlike previous generations, like Israel and China boom, events. we have unlimited access we are facing more competito a wealth of knowledge tion than ever before. and resources. With the Internet, we have Perhaps most important for us to rememfull coverage of world news available at our ber is that, as philosopher George Santayana fingertips. Television stations are available in said, “Those who cannot remember the past increasing numbers as well. are condemned to repeat it.” We must pay Aside from the traditional news sources, attention to what is going on right now in we also have access to a new connectivity the world, so we can prepare ourselves for that has never before been experienced. Sothe future. We don’t want to make the same cial media is definitely becoming a key way mistakes twice. to stay updated on world news. If current Preparing ourselves for the future is too statistics are accurate, almost ever yone important to just disregard current events. here is connected through social networkAs the future generation, we should know ing outlets. So whether you choose to follow what is going on so we can properly prepare CNN on Twitter or become a fan of the New ourselves for the future. York Times on Facebook, you can get upIn order to do this, students should stay dates on a daily basis that will give brief updated with the latest news through news summaries of the news and that will also link you to more information. and social media resources and tr y to unIn addition to staying abreast of news for derstand the scope of how events outside of our own knowledge, we also need to know home affect ever yone.
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How important is it for students to be aware of international issues? “It’s not necessary to know what’s going on, but then it just proves the American stereotype that we never know world issues.”
sophomore Elizabeth pekar
“It’s not important. We have to worry about our own stuff (in America) first.”
sophomore andrew moyer “I’d say it’s very important simply because being aware of international issues broadens your scope of the world and allows you to see things with different perspective.”
junior cameron glascock
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From the Editor
Sara
Rogers Be positive. Nobody likes a black cloud. Everyone knows certain perpetually positive people who 100,000 women and ranked them based on a series of tests can never fail to see the bright side of a situation, the determining their outlook on life. After eight years, those peculiar few that can manage to lift morale in even the rated as pessimistic were 16 percent more likely to die most adverse conditions. than those rated as optimistic. They were also more likely I am not one of those people. As a frequent user of the to develop diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol “I am not pessimistic, just realistic” phrase, I am always and depression. able to find something that could potentially go wrong in I like to consider myself a fairly healthy individual. I any experience. While a little skepticism seems healthy for almost always exercise and eat a wholesome diet. If I ever one’s sanity, new research warns of the managed to forget about the importance dangers of pessimism. of my physical health, there is no doubt A paper published in the March in my mind that the media and my peers Diet and exercise edition of Applied Psychology: would remind me. compete for Health and Well-Being, a major That being said, I am concerned at dominance in the psychological journal, compiled 160 how overlooked mood and disposition different studies, showing “clear and are when determining someone’s health world. Where compelling” evidence for a strong link health. Students today are reminded is ‘having a positive between a negative attitude and heart of how imperative diet and exercise outlook’ in the disease, immune system issues and are to maintaining a healthy life. They rankings? shorter lifespans. compete for dominance in the health The study followed nearly 5,000 world. Where is “having a positive college-aged students for 40 years outlook” in the rankings? after rating each student on a mood and disposition Every day I can read tweets or Facebook posts about scale. Those who were rated as the most pessimistic were my friends going to the gym or loading up on vegetables reported as more likely to die at a younger age than their for that “spring break body.” I can’t remember the last cheerier peers. time someone talked about gearing up for spring break A 2010 study by the Women’s Health Initiative at the with a heavy dose of optimism. When does an optimistic University of Pittsburgh showed a “direct link between mentality get its time in the spotlight? pessimism and declining health.” Researchers followed It’s not likely that the media will ever give mental health
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the publicity it deserves. Society is so absorbed with health in terms of appearance and vanity that one’s disposition, which has a relatively insignificant effect on the exterior, is all-too-often overlooked. Although the pessimism study shows a link between an early death and a negative attitude, the findings are unlikely to make waves. Since society is far from the point where overall well being overshadows physical appearance, it is up to individuals to shift their focus. Pessimism is not a permanent condition. I am not eternally wired to seeing the metaphorical glass as half empty. In fact, there are plenty of ways to teach oneself to see the “bright side” of things. For starters, exercise and eat right. Don’t neglect your physical self. There is something to be said about the positive energy resulting from a physically healthy lifestyle. Avoid the “black clouds.” Having been one myself, I am well aware of just how toxic negativity can be. There’s no greater buzzkill than someone who can only see the downside to things. Don’t be that guy. Some people take up yoga or meditation. Some find happy friends. Some look in the mirror and find contentment. Pessimism doesn’t have to be terminal. It is incredibly easy to have a negative outlook in lessthan-ideal situations. That’s fine, but I like a challenge. Sara Rogers is the editor in chief of the HiLite. Contact her at srogers@hilite.org.
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Guest column
Cathy
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riday, March 11 was our last full day in Japan. My mom and I had been doing touristy things like visiting shrines and eating sushi in and around Tokyo for a few days, and we were nearing the end of our trip. That morning my mind was filled with plans of shopping in Ginza and Asakusa, and I distinctly remember thinking I was going to have a great day. Later that afternoon as my mom and I were descending a metal staircase outside Venus Fort shopping mall, the steps started to tremble a bit. When my mom mentioned it, I had barely even noticed so I told her it was probably just the wind. If only… By the time we reached the ground at the bottom of the stairs, the trembling was much stronger, and it was clear I had been terribly wrong. A tour guide ran out of a nearby bus toward us, shouting that an earthquake was happening, just in case we hadn’t figured it out yet. At this point I had no idea what I was supposed to do or how I was supposed to feel. All my firsthand experiences with earthquakes (all two of them) had been from those tiny, early-morning Indiana quakes that ended as soon as they succeeded in waking me up an hour before my alarm clock. I didn’t know how strong this earthquake was relative to other ones, or where I should go for maximum safety. But the fact that someone native to Japan (and therefore at least somewhat used to earthquakes) was running toward me in a semi-panic crying “Earthquake!” was enough to make me semi-panic.
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My experience in Japan. Thirty seconds I never thought would happen to me. Then a strange noise made me look up, and I realized Because so many people couldn’t get home, hotels there was a set of railroad tracks a couple stories above. On turned into emergency shelters, allowing those stranded in those tracks sat a train stopped right over where we stood, the city to sleep on couches or the floor of the lobby. We and it was rocking violently, tipping dangerously over the opted to stay on the bus and try to reach our own hotel, edge of the railing with each rock. At this point, I was in which was right outside the city, but the drive there ended full panic because I realized if this up taking all night—15 hours instead earthquake got any stronger, things of 45 minutes. could get really ugly really fast for both On our way there, we stopped at a I realized there was a the passengers inside that train and gas station to buy some water, but the set of railroad tracks a also for us standing below. To make convenience store was completely sold couple stories above. matters worse, a huge fire broke out out of food and drink. Drivers started right then a few buildings over. to pull over and sleep in their cars On those tracks sat a Now here comes the cliché line: The around 3 or 4 a.m. when they realized train stopped right over event only lasted 30 seconds, but it felt they wouldn’t be able to reach their where we stood, and it like an eternity. There’s really no other homes that night. The next day when was rocking violently, way to put it. But after 30 seconds, it did we arrived at the airport, it was a mess. tipping dangerously stop. The earth stopped moving. The train The lines were horrendously long as over the edge of the stopped rocking. I stopped panicking everyone tried to re-book canceled railing with each rock. (kind of), and we were eventually able to flights, and there were people sleeping leave the scene unscathed. everywhere inside the terminals. At the time, we had no idea how bad It was the first time I had seen these the situation really was, and we only types of post-disaster scenes in person gradually learned of the true extent of the instead of in pictures on the news. That, damage throughout the rest of the day. The phone lines went combined with the small aftershocks that kept scaring me, down, so there was an absurdly long line at every pay phone made me feel like I was in some kind of bad dream. It didn’t in the city as everyone scrambled to contact their family and feel real. After reading about awful earthquakes in faraway friends. All the highways were closed off for safety inspections, places like Haiti, Chile and New Zealand, I never imagined so traffic in and around Tokyo was impossible. that I would experience something like that firsthand, especially not now in my life when I’m spending most of my time in New Hampshire, far from natural-disasterprone areas. I’m just some girl from Carmel, IN. How did I end up there in this catastrophic event being covered for hours on end by every news station in the world? Yet notice how my story doesn’t even come close to what you’ve been seeing on the news. The earthquake we experienced only had a magnitude of 6.7, the tsunami was on a different coast, and we were able to leave the country before the radiation levels became a serious threat. Needless to say, we were incredibly fortunate. The level of fear that I felt for the amount of trauma that I actually experienced probably makes me a certified wimp, but it only makes me respect the victims of this tragedy all the more. When people ask me about what the earthquake was like, I obviously have an answer because I was there, but I’m almost ashamed to answer because I don’t feel like I have the right to. I just happened to be in the area, standing on the sidelines. But from the sidelines, I saw real damage and fear in a way photos can’t convey. I saw how I could’ve easily not been in Japan at the time of the earthquake, but also how I could’ve just as easily been in the tourist-prone northern region where the tsunami hit the worst. I saw how none of us are exempt from the possibility of experiencing unexpected, scary and sorrowful events, and it’s all the more reason for us to reach out and help others when they do.
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Cathy Chen ’09, now at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, is a former managing editor for the HiLite. Follow her on Twitter @catc0203.
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Dhruti
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Travel abroad. Learn about the world.
As we hear the stories of wars and intolerance that occur glimpse of St. Peter’s Basilica or the Taj Mahal. These around the world these days, it seems that learning about places are breathtakingly beautiful. If someone has the different cultures and accepting different lifestyles should opportunity to go see them, the minor hassles of travel be a priority for everyone in order to stop these tragic should definitely not stop them. occurrences from happening. In addition, the world always offers something for This generation has the opportunity to experience such everyone with so many diverse activities. Artists may a diverse world and dispel the hatred so prevalent within find inspiration while strolling the streets of Florence. it, which is something that I find incredibly important. The beaches of the Caribbean are a perfect get away Traveling to different countries and becoming familiar from daily stressors. Activities such as white water with other cultures are some of the ways that ignorance rafting or rock climbing can seem even more thrilling can be stopped, and I find that my vacations abroad have for adventurous travelers when done in the beautiful taught me valuable lessons about the ways of the world. Kenyan wilderness, and the list goes on and on. My However, having been able to personally experience so point is that the entire world offers so much, and many different cultures from around everyone can find something that the world, I find it surprising that many they would enjoy: Why let a few Americans have not. According to a annoyances or a little bit of fear The ability to observe February 2011 article on CNN.com, out prevent such experiences? the differences and of the 308 million-plus citizens in the The best part of taking a vacation similarities between United States, only a mere 30 percent abroad, though, is the culture you people all across the have a passport. are able to experience when you globe is one I find Furthermore, this number has only travel to a different country. Yes, the useful, as it helps recently increased after the Western United States has a lot to offer, from Hemisphere Travel initiative was big cities to beaches. However, what promote acceptance adopted, requiring all passengers to it lacks is a sense of one, unique and combats have passports in order to travel to culture: America is the “melting pot” ignorance. With such a Canada and Mexico. This means that of many different ethnicities and hostile world out there, even when Americans travel abroad, it nationalities, and while it’s great that doing something like is usually only to their neighbors to the we have integrated so many different traveling abroad can be north and south. cultures into our own, the unique rewarding for oneself I admit travel can never be labeled aspects of other countries get lost. and for others. as “easy.” The difficulties range from Traveling abroad offers a completely packing suitcases so they fall just under different experience, whether it’s the weight limit to spending seven with food, language or even people hours on an airplane next to crying –watching (which is common in babies and then ending up in a country that is completely southern Europe). Travel also allows you to adjust different and unfamiliar. Paying for a trip can be even more your own lifestyle. For example, if someone was difficult, especially now with such a terrible economy. stressed out from work or school, he/she might find a Add to that the risks of flying, such as the chance that the cultural tradition from another country that will help plane might malfunction and the threat of terrorism, and them. Certain practices, such as yoga, meditation, or the walls discouraging people from traveling abroad are even taking a nap in the middle of the day, aren’t allstrongly built. However, for those who travel often, as I American rituals, but could help improve daily life. have, the reality is that those supposed barriers are paper The ability to observe the differences and thin, and they are often easy to break through. My trips, for similarities between people all across the globe is example, have been hassle-free other than an occasional one I find useful, as it helps promote acceptance and flight delay. combats ignorance. With such a hostile world out However, even if I did have more trouble traveling and there, doing something like traveling abroad can be staying in foreign countries, I would still never consider rewarding for oneself and for others. staying at home due to how fulfilling experiences abroad While there are legitimate reasons why someone does can be. Even my most demanding vacations, like my trips not travel abroad, the outcomes of such an experience to India, were worth it due to how I got to witness how life greatly overshadow them. If there is time to travel is lived over there. somewhere, it is a waste to not take the opportunity and For one thing, traveling to a foreign country familiarizes learn about the world while still enjoying a worthwhile visitors with the development of the world. For example, vacation. In the end, there are always a million reasons during my trip to Italy last year, I was able to see different not to do something, but sometimes taking a slight risk paintings and architecture, which helps me with my AP can pay off. European History class this year. Although not everyone finds history as interesting as I do, I guarantee that no Dhruti Patel is a reporter for the HiLite. Contact her at one can deny the wonder he feels when he first catches a dpatel@hilite.org.
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Senior Ty Maguiness plays the accordion. By chris li cli@hilite.org When did you start playing the accordion?
I picked it up back in fourth grade, so I was eight or nine.
Did anyone inspire you to play?
It’d be Weird Al Yankovic. My brother and his friend had this CD of his, called “Running With Scissors,” and I really liked it and kept listening, and eventually I was like, “I think I want to be just like him.”
Have you ever performed on a stage?
There was the tryout for Houndstock. I made it, and they gave me an entire five minute slot. It was sophomore year, and I played in Houndstock, with my set, and that was really fun, and like everyone was clapping with the beat. It was only five minutes, but I destroyed those five minutes.
What are people’s general reactions when they hear that you play the accordion?
The question I always get is, “Is it hard?” And it was at first. “How do you know all those buttons, since there are like 120 of them?” I’ve learned, and it’s easier than it looks. Most people’s reaction would be, they usually think it’s pretty cool; at the same time, I don’t think they’ve ever aspired to be an accordion player.
Do you have a favorite piece?
“Beer Barrel Polka” and “Too Fast Polka” are considered standards for the accordion. There’s one piece called “Tarantella.” It’s got this one fast break in the middle of the song, and it’s just really fun to see how fast I can play it.
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