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VOLUME 111 ISSUE 5 FEBRUARY 21, 2025
IN THE NEWS
SOUTH PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL 1401 FREMONT AVE, SOUTH PASADENA, CA 91030
SPAGHETTI DINNER NIGHT
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SPHS Band and Color Guard will host a Spaghetti Dinner Night on Thursday, March 6 from 6–9 p.m. at the SPHS gymnasium.
Seniors will take their panorama photo on Tuesday, March 11 on the Roosevelt Field from 12:15–12:45 p.m.
RACC NIGHT AT SPHS RACC NIGHT
Regional Admissions Counselors of California (RACC) will present case studies to students on Wednesday, March 12.
Students celebrate Lunar New Year
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onggi stones strewn about a table, the scent of dalgona and fried rice through the air, and the sight of children folding paper lanterns. These were just a few scenes from the SPHS’s Lunar New Year celebration, hosted by the Asian Pacific Islander Student Union (APISU) on Friday, Feb. 7 at the Tiger Patio. The main goal of APISU’s event was to enable students and staff to honor and celebrate Asian culture through food and other festivities. A variety of food was sold across tables, including fried rice, dumplings, and musubi. Crowds of SPHS students lined up to partake in its festivities. Additionally, traditional games such as Korean gonggi and ddakji, along with Chinese mahjong were available for students to play.
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“We have such a large population of Asian students and Asian families within South Pas[adena] … it’s really important that we help honor the tradition of having a Lunar New Year celebration within the high school,” APISU president Nadia Cho said.
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It’s really important that we help honor the tradition of having a Lunar New Year celebration within the high school.
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- Nadia Cho Money raised from the event aided those impacted by the L.A. wildfires. In fundraising, APISU was aided by the support of other programs on campus, such as IgniteHer. “It’s been a while since the fire has happened, but a lot of people are still struggling. If we can do anything to help
SOUTH PASADENA APISU hosted a schoolwide Lunar New Year festival, including a paper lantern making booth. that at the very least, I think [it’s] worth every challenge,” IgniteHer co-president Paige Tang said. APISU additionally operated booths in the Alhambra Lunar New Year event on Saturday, Feb. 8, an annual festival held by the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce. During the event, they helped run two booths, offering festival goers the opportunity to craft their own paper lanterns and practice traditional Chinese calligraphy.
“We were invited by the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce to run a booth to booths again this year… [The event] was mostly just people showing up to volunteer, which was really nice to see [since] people were coming out to really support the community,” Cho explained. The SPHS and Mark Keppel High School APISU chapters collaborated to mobilize student volunteers and gather supplies. In the future, SPHS APISU hopes to combine
Inside the meteoric rise of sports gambling STORY BENJAMIN REGAN ILLUSTRATION NATHAN FRIEZER The potential for widespread legal sports gambling in America arrived in May of 2018 when the Supreme Court voted down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). Since then, the tremendous ascent of the industry has traveled from one state to the next, achieving legality in all but 11 states, of one which is California. Online sports gambling has become so mainstream so quickly because bets are no longer placed under the table or require a trip to Las Vegas, but instead are conveniently entered on an app. People can pick a team to win any given game, but are not limited to these broad bets. Sportsbooks offer prop bets, or bets placed on individual players to go over or under a specific number. For example, the line for Patrick Mahomes’ passing yards
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in the AFC Championship Game opened at 254.5 on DraftKings, and bettors chose whether the Chiefs’ quarterback would throw for more or fewer yards. Some also bet on entirely random details, such as the color of the gatorade poured on the Super Bowl’s winning coach, or gamble on obscure sports they have no interest in. Online sports gambling enables bettors to make these decisions very easily.
EXPLICIT CONTENT IN YA
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Tiger analyzes the dangers of publishing mature content in young adult books, urging publishers to alter their marketing approach in this genre to ensure that consumers make informed choices about their media consumption.
“Online sports betting is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be accessed via computers or smartphones, which eliminates the need for physical betting locations,” Rachel Volberg, Research Professor for University of Massachusetts Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences said. Sports gambling’s path to popularity has also been aided by extensive advertising. A study conducted by the University of Bristol counted 799 gambling references during a single NBA game between the broadcast, official social media pages, and brand logo appearances. Fans cannot go a game without seeing sports betting ads, and leagues are fine with it. To them, the sports gambling surge means more interest in and eyes on their sport. Intentionally shot into the vein of American entertainment, the sports gambling industry has consumers fixated. GAMBLING, see Page 14
PARENTING STYLES AND SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS
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Tiger explores different parenting archetypes, anlayzing the difference between “loose” and “strict” parenting. The SPHS student body weighs in through a poll on parenting style preferences and results.
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efforts with the SPHS DEI initiatives to host a multicultural fair or an AAPI Heritage Month celebration and also contribute again to the Alhambra Lunar New Year celebration next year. “I just hope that we can just pay homage to all of the hard work that the Asian American community has done within the past decades that we’ve been in the U.S. and that we can just really honor the strong community that we have in South Pas[adena],” Cho said.
Emilia Pérez: media analysis STORY RAFA SRIDHARAN
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French movie musical Emilia Pérez follows Mexican lawyer Rita Mora Castro (Zoe Saldaña) as she helps a cartel kingpin (Karla Sofía Gascón), Emilia Pérez, transition. Years later, the film follows Rita as she helps Emilia mend the wounds of her past wrongdoings. Debuted in 2024, the film has been lauded by critics and has received 13 Oscar nominations — more than Schindler’s List, The Godfather, and Titanic. Despite its critical acclaim, Emilia Pérez has been almost universally reviled by audiences. The film has received intense backlash from Mexican and transgender communities who have called it “offensive,” “shallow,” and “tone-deaf.” This Spanish-language film primarily about Mexicans and set in Mexico, was written and directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, a man who neither speaks Spanish nor has any direct experience with Mexico. PÉREZ, see Page 12