April 2014

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Informed - Creative Free April 2014

Local shelter fights growing problem of animal homelessness, abandonment

By Daniel Rustemeyer ’14 Staff Writer According to the Humane Society of the United States, an estimated 83.3 million dogs and 95.6 million cats are owned throughout America. Of those numbers, twenty percent of dogs and twenty-six percent of cats were adopted from an animal shelter.

Shelters across the United States work diligently to provide proper care and also provide homes for rescued or unwanted animals. One such local shelter is the Naperville Area Humane Society which can house up to eighteen dogs and forty cats at a given time.

One goal of the shelter is to provide animals with a healthy, safe environment in which to live until they are adopted. However, because they can only house a limited number of animals, shelter life is not the organization’s ultimate goal.

Ellie Stefanic, Development Director, said, “My role is to help bring as much awareness to our shelter as possible. I work closely with our donors and community partners on ways to grow our organization.

Our ultimate goal is to educate our community on compassion and the importance of the human-animal bond. My days are usually spent at outreach events, working with donors, community partners, and corporate supporters, as well as developing new ways to raise awareness and income for the shelter.”

In regards to the shelter itself, staff members first try to form trust with the animals in order to properly care for and understand the needs of each animal.

“These needy animals are so deserving of forever families,” said Terri Hancock, Humane Education Manager. “Many of them come in scared and it’s our job to get them to trust us. Seeing them become less nervous and more comfortable makes us happy. It’s very rewarding to find them homes. We become their family while they wait for one.”

The sick animals are taken in and given medicine and vaccinations to ensure their own safety and also the safety of the employees. Volunteers come in to provide exercise throughout the day, which involves taking the

dogs for walks and playing with the cats. One of the most important aspects of the work done at the shelter is improving the mental health of the animals, some of which have come from abusive homes.

Carly Jaminski, Animal Care Technician, said, “Being able to help improve each animal’s emotional health while they are here at the shelter is the most important thing. Physical health is very important, but the animal’s emotional health is very compromised in the shelter environment and being able to help make their lives less stressful is just as important.

“Providing daily enrichment for the animals gives them a little break from the stresses of being in a shelter and lets them have fun and keep their minds busy. More than anything, I think the genuine love and care we give them is what helps improve their emotional health and lets them live as stress-free in the shelter as possible until they find their forever home.”

Unfortunately, the “forever homes,” as staff members refer to them, are not available for every dog and cat.

Some go their entire lives without being adopted.

However, no animal at the Naperville Area Humane Society is ever euthanized in order to create space for younger cats and dogs.

“There are two reasons in which we may have to euthanize an animal: severe aggression and terminal illness,” said Jaminski. “One of the main reasons we conduct behavior evaluations on dogs is to test to see if they display any signs of food or rawhide aggression.

If the food or rawhide aggression is too severe where we, as a staff, feel they would too dangerous to place in a home, unfortunately the animal will be euthanized.

“With animals that have a severe illness where it would be more inhumane to keep the animal alive and treat, such as kidney failure, neurological disorders, etc., the animal will also be euthanized instead of having to suffer.”

You can help the cause of the Naperville Area Humane Society by spreading the news, making a donation, or adopting a pet. Every pet that is adopted allows the shelter to rescue and take in more cats and dogs in the future.

Tracing roots of local nature preservation, conservation

By Jamie Casey ’14 Staff Writer “Preserving nature is more about understanding our environment and an opportunity to allow other than humans to exist”, states Director of Horticulture of Cantigny, Joy Kaminsky.

But to understand the essential impact of preservation, you need to understand the lineage of conservation and preservation work first.

There is, in fact, a difference between conservation and preservation. Both essentially have similar ideas, but preservation takes a “hands-off” approach while conservation believes in the use of nature for man.

Going back to history class, there were two main nature enthusiasts: Gifford Pinchot and John Muir.

John Muir, a preservationist, along with the aid of Robert Johnson managed to get Congress to create Yosemite National Park. In addition, Muir established the Sierra Club to protect the new park from encroaching industrialists.

Gifford Pinchot, a conservationist, was named the chief of the Division of Forestry. With the approval of Theodore Roosevelt, Pinchot re-structuralized and professionalized the maintenance of national forests as well as adding to their number and area.

The establishment of nature preserves and concepts of preservation and conservation help combat the increasingly industrial world we are creating.

“By far the biggest problem is climate change, which is driven by increased carbon emissions resulting from our society,” states Marlin Bowles, a conservation biologist at the Morton Arboretum.

The Morton Arboretum is just one of the many nature preserves established in Illinois.

According to Andrew Hipp, a scientist at the Morton Arboretum, “The personal journey of J. Sterling Morton from Michigan to Nebraska and back to Illinois influenced his love of trees and, undoubtedly, his son’s desire to create an Arboretum.”

As far as preservation and or conservation work at Morton Arboretum, Mr. Hipp states, “In our own oak research, we are working with students and other researchers in understanding the taxonomy and distribution of regionally endemic oaks throughout the world, so that we can better save them.”

Heading into Wheaton, Cantigny Park, a balance of a war museum, a golf course, and many beautiful gardens, invests itself in conservation and preservation work.

Ms. Kaminsky relates the history of Cantigny Park. She says the

Name: Austin Krages ’16 Pet’s name: Binxy Adoption location: PetCo Adoption Center Interesting fact about your pet: “At night, he gets crazy and jumps on the walls.”

Name: Grace Houghton-Larsen ’15 Pet’s name: Penny Adoption location: Rottweiler Rescue Interesting fact about your pet: “Her lip gets caught on her tooth and looks like she’s snarling.”

Name: Justin Bell ’14 Pet’s name: Honey Adoption location: Dad’s friend Interesting fact about your pet: “She likes to run around the bush in my yard for no apparent reason.”

Name: Mr. Moran, English teacher Pet’s name: Bella Adoption location: Anti-Cruelty Society Interesting fact about your pet: “Little children think she’s a monster because of her underbite.”

Pictures of pets courtesy of each respective owner.

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FASHION

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By Gabriella Bower ’14 Assistant Editor-in-Chief and Meghan Loftus ’15 Columnist

People often think that style and fashion are synonymous, however, Coco Chanel said it best when she stated that “fashion fades, only style remains the same.” Fashion is trends, runway shows, designers, and avant garde. Style is your personal expression in what you wear every day and how you present yourself to the world. Style is what we strive to inspire through the fashion pages of The Glen Bard. And every fashionista knows that to have good style, you don’t have to be a wealthy celebrity or the Duchess of Cambridge. Designers of today’s day and age also understand that they are in the industry to promote style and are now creating branches of their fashion lines for every type of consumer, Missoni, Phillip Lim, and Vera Wang to name a few. These high-end designers remain passionate about promoting self expression and they prove this to their consumers. Target and Kohls have collaborated with these designers and many more in the past few years to reach out to a new consumer.

Target has partnered with Phillip Lim, Missoni, Jason Wu, Peter Pilotto and Christopher de Vos, Neiman Marcus and Prabal Gurung to encourage the outburst of designers making it into the closets of the working woman or the stay at home mom. Phillip Lim has dresses and jackets on sale at Target for prices ranging from $20 to $250. While this may seem pricy for a Target line, Lim’s leather jackets normally sell for $1850. Missoni sold items from scarves to

dresses at Target. When these items came out, Target’s website crashed and stores were flooded. Jason Wu’s line was another addition. Jason Wu’s line is a very classic, business-chic look.

Lots of collared shirts, blouses and dresses, even some cute briefcase-type purses all for under $60.

These pieces are adorable and perfect for a busy, working women. Peter Pilotto for Target features nearly 70 items, from flirty circle skirts to stylish clutches and swimwear, by Christopher de Vos, with most items retailing for less than $60. Neiman Marcus, like some of these other designers, are more apparent at Targets during the holiday seasons. According to the Huffington Post, Kate Middleton’s avant-garde designer of choice, Prabal Gurung, is giving America an affordable taste of his signature eye-catching prints and bright colors with a limited-edition collection of readyto-wear, handbags, shoes and jewelry for Target this spring,

Target took to the social media to spread its message. Using Instagram, @targetdoesitagain has posts of new items at Target for every age and for every purpose. This blogger posts some really cute pictures and videos that attract customers. Similarly to @ge_fashionista on Instagram, @targetdoesitbest posts affordable outfits or even single garments that are trendy and practical.

This is a great way to stay up-to-date on the current designers at Target and what styles are trending.

Although Kohls doesn’t have an Instagram account completely dedicated to its stylish finds, you will still be sure to find many style steals.

In 2007, the bridal gown guru Vera Wang partnered with this affordable department store to launch Simply Vera Vera Wang, a sportswear and accessories line which remains the biggest partnership in the store’s history. Then, in 2009, Lauren Conrad debuted her second fashion line, called LC - Lauren Conrad, that was and still is sold exclusively at Kohls. The line incorporates Lauren’s favorite fashion staples such as skinny jeans, flowy tops, and fitted blazers for every season and it exudes her classic Cali girl vibe. Retail prices for the LC Lauren Conrad line range from $20 to $60 and represents a more modest-priced line than Conrad’s Paper Crowne line. Vera and Lauren’s affordable lines have been well received by customers, along with the company heads who see that lines like theirs are accountable for nearly 42 percent of total sales in 2008, according to Biz Journals.

Thanks to Target and Kohls, fashionistas everywhere can buy designer labels without breaking bank. But remember, whether you are purchasing your clothes from Neiman Marcus, Bendel’s, and Barneys or from Target, Kohls, and Marshalls, your style is all about self expression, not about the amount of money you spent on a particular outfit.

Photos courtesy of Gabriella Bower ’14

Did you know Facebook purchased Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion in cash and stock?

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Catwalk to Class: The Evolution of Resort Style

Photos courtesy of Emma Goebbert, Athleta, Jolyn.

By Shay Kiker ’16 and Emma Goebbert ’16 Columnists

CATWALK: Resort collections have come a long way from their rich jetsetter roots. Originally created for designers to showcase pieces for wealthy vacationers jetting off to places like St. Barts, resort wear is based primarily off of the platform of wanting to present the fashion market with exotically-themed collections reminiscent of tropical locations.

As much as I like the idea of rendezvousing to exotic

places wearing the most high-quality, trendy pieces of clothing designers can provide, it is honestly not realistic. Lucky for us, Italian fashion brand Salvatore Ferragamo stepped in with his Resort 2013 Collection presented for the first time ever in the infamous Louvre.

This is the most recent tipping point in resort wear because it did not feed a wealthy, jet-setting audience.

Instead, this collection was a lively and colorful vision that fed the average fashionista’s need for trendy, exotic clothes. These styles are not needed just for vacations to the crème de la crème of locations.

Call it a revolution because resort wear has truly taken off as a result. Designers like Carolina Herrera, Peter Pilotto, and Tory Burch have taken bold floral prints, rich

beachy textures like chiffon and woven fabrics, as well as fresh new colors and created collections that really come alive.

This season there was no shortage of bold vacation prints and structural pieces that still had a lightness and airiness about them. The beauty of resort wear is that it is truly inspired by unique and visually stunning takes on locations like Hawaii and Italy. All in all, resort wear has truly been made over into yet another cropping of collections that never fail to awe and inspire.

CLASS: Resort designers’ clothes on the runway seem impossibly far from what a day on the beach looks like.

It’s true there has been a long history in resort wear, but an evolution of this industry is

not only happening on the designer runways, but with lesser-known brands.

Times have changed from when women wore swim dresses, wading in the water. With the expansion of opportunities in water sports, a change in the fashion industry occurred. Women and girls do not just splash around anymore. Many women and girls strike up a game of beach volleyball, catch a wave on a surfboard, get a workout in using a stand-up paddle board, or walk on the beach.

Coco Chanel’s era was all about the pale skin, but the twentieth-century desires bronzed bods and the clothing reflects that. Jolyn, a new clothing company, has been making bank with their new synthetic suits that fit athlete’s needs.

For water polo, swim

clubs, surfers, and triathletes alike, this trend is sweeping the nation.

Instead of the begrudged speedos, Jolyn has come out with a tie-back design in a one-piece and two-piece style. These cute suits are dynamic and slimming for the action sports and let the Florida natives keep their tans during swim season.

Athleta is expanding their product base with “Fit Style” to “Street Style” encouraging the wearing of active clothes and making a run to the office and then a day at the office possible.

Resort style on the runway reflects classic beach prints and flowing layers, but when people are clad for the functionality of beach activities, it now is possible to put every effort into competing and playing while also looking cute.

Photos courtesy of:Pinterest.

Did you know the most expensive swimsuit in the world is thirty million dollars and has over 150 karats of diamonds?

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ENTERTAINMENT

Dancing With the Stars Season 18 predictions

By Jake Buchnat ’15 Staff Writer

The new cast of Dancing with the Stars was announced, which includes two Olympic figure skaters, an improvisational comedian, a Paralympic snowboarder, and a Star Wars actor. Not much is known about how the new cast will perform, but there are already predictions based on background and past experience. Here are my predictions.

The Front Runners:

1.

Meryl Davis Olympic Ice Dancer: It is clear to say that figure skaters are generally great at dancing. Especially female figure skaters. Season 6’s Kristi Yamaguchi smoked the competition having the highest average amount of judges’ points in the history of the show. Plus Meryl is not just a figure skater, she is an ice dancer. She already has a lot of dancing experience on ice. Not to mention, she won the

gold medal in the 2014 Olympics.

2.

Charlie White Olympic Ice Dancer: Along with his skating partner Meryl Davis who is also competing, White won the gold medal in ice dancing in the 2014 Olympics. Charlie will likely be a great dancer as well.

The only factor that gives Meryl the edge over him is that Meryl is very flexible and light, so her partner will definitely be able to lift her, and she will do amazing tricks.

3.

James Maslow- Big Time Rush member: James Maslow was considered the best dancer in Big Time Rush, and he is a member of a boy band. Members of boy bands have historically done well on the show. Both Joey Fatone and Lance Bass of NSYNC made it to the finals. Plus, this guy will get a lot of votes from girls in the audience because he is considered a teen pop star.

4.

Candice Cameron Bure- Actress: From the minute I saw Candice Cameron Bure announced as one of the

contestants, I knew she would make it pretty far. She has the technique of being a former gymnast. She has the performance from being an actress. She has the fans, both old and young as she starred on TV shows of two different generations: Full House and Make it or Break it. Plus, she definitely has the looks. The only thing that will stop her would be her lack of dance experience.

The Middle Tier 5.

Cody Simpson- Pop Singer: Although Cody Simpson is a pop singer, not much is known of his dance experience. Also, he doesn’t have as many fans as some of the other contestants.

But, he will probably pick up the moves and do exceptionally well, until Len Goodman really starts getting critical.

6.

Danica McKellarActress and Author: What a truly unique contestant. She is very pretty, but also believes in math.

I’m sure her math references will entertain the audience similar to

Season 17’s Bill Nye the Science Guy. But she also has performance down because she is an actress. If she picks up the technique, she has the potential of going very far.

7.

NeNe Leakes- Reality Star: The one thing that will for sure happen this season is NeNe bickering with her partner, Tony Dovolani. She has a very loud mouth which will set her back. But aggressiveness can sometimes be very good in a reality competition.

Aggressiveness leads to hard work, and if she listens to her partner, she could have potential.

The Bottom Tier 8.

Sean Avery- Former NHL Player: From the initial cast pictures, he just kind of fades in the background. He does not look very happy to be on the show. He is also one of the most controversial players in NHL history. His behavior on the ice could lead to show-off behavior on the dance floor. And the judges hate show-offs! (Update: ELIMINATED WEEK 2)

Taylor Swift holds her own through writing fortitude

9.

Dyana Nyad- Long Distance Swimmer: Although Dyana Nyad may have the stamina, she may not have much technique. And she doesn’t know anything about performance.

Plus she is probably unknown to anyone who doesn’t avidly read TIME magazine. It is safe to say she will probably be one of the first contestants booted.

10. Billy Dee Williams- Star Wars Actor: No one over the age of 60 has done historically well on the show. And by looking at him, I think this will be a repeat of what happened with season 10’s Buzz Aldrin. He will get the lowest score every week, but survive the first few eliminations due to fans. When the judges get more critical, he will probably be sent home. (Update: LEFT BALLROOM WEEK 3)

11. Drew Carey- Comedian and Game Show Host: There is such a belief as the “comedy curse.” Comedians have done poorly throughout the history of the show.

Pictures courtesy of abc.go.com.

Media needs to ditch singer/songwriter double standard Bizzy Emerson ’14 Staff Writer With her sleek gold hair, couture wardrobe and wide-eyed charm, Taylor Swift’s physical appearance embodies the term “pop star.” Flip through any issue of Us Weekly, and a colorful image of Swift gripping the hand of Young Hollywood’s hottest bachelor will undoubtedly fill the glossy page.

She’s been considered a fashion icon, a Southern belle, a hopeless romantic and a cutthroat diva with no shame in outing her ex-boyfriends’ undesirable traits. However, she is rarely looked at for her songwriting ability.

While it’s true that Taylor Swift upholds all aforementioned traits, she’s also a twenty-four-time nominee and seven-time winner of the prestigious Grammy Award. Beyond the statistics, she very well could be the voice of this generation.

Swift specializes in the topic of love, her delicate country twang echoing in every word. In her sweeping love song, “Enchanted,”

Swift’s voice is dripping in romance, silently begging the object of her affection, “Please don’t be in love with someone else / Please don’t have somebody waiting on you.” She pines after the boy who doesn’t know she exists in “You Belong with Me.” Swift is in the business of sweet relationships and wishful thinking.

With love comes loss, and while many of Swift’s songs guide her listeners’ through the blissful descent into romance, majority of them focus on the inevitable crashlanding. Songs such as “Better than Revenge” and “I Knew You Were Trouble” cast blame, angst, and overall hatred onto Swift’s ghosts-of-boyfriends past.

Perhaps Swift’s greatest lyrical effort of her career is “All Too Well,” an autumnal recount of a relationship that fell apart. While critic after critic will disparagingly accuse Swift of playing the victim in her break-up ballads, it’s beautiful and heartbreaking to hear a forlorn Swift wonder, “Maybe we got lost in translation / Maybe I asked for too much.”

So goes the guessing game – who did Swift pen her latest hit single about? The world has taken a serious shot at Swift’s love life.

She’s dated boys of all ages and backgrounds: from nineteen-yearold polished British boy-band member Harry Styles to thirty-sixyear-old bohemian hipster John Mayer, love is blind for twentythree-year-old Swift. It’s true that Swift has clocked in lots of hours on dates, in relationships, and overcoming heartbreak – but so have both Styles and Mayer.

It’s the old Hollywood double standard: Swift faces a barrage of media scrutiny for stepping out with a boy, yet former flame Mayer gets a slap on the wrist for his misogynistic comments about ex-girlfriends in an interview with Playboy Magazine. Yes, Swift is a kiss-and-tell songwriter, but her emotions are channeled so viscerally and romantically that we are reminded: for a pop star, she is unapologetically human. She is twenty-three, and feeling everything, and reveling in those emotions, from the hollowness of

Taylor Swift won the 2013 Songwriter/Artist of the Year prize from the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Photo courtesy of nsai.com.

moving out of her childhood home in “Never Grow Up,” to the passionate love that can only be characterized by a single word: “Red.” From ages nine to ninety, Swift’s listeners hang on because they can relate – they’ve felt the awkward pinch of falling in love for the first time, and the debilitating punch of heartbreak. They find solace in a girl who went through

junior high and high school, a girl who struggled with confidence; they’re comforted by the girl they see as their friend.

“There’s a certain ‘I identify with this lyric, this lyric is my life’ scream. I guess that’s the scream that I hear in my concerts,” Swift said in a November 2013 profile featured in New York Magazine.

Let the girls scream on.

Did you know Taylor Swift has had 13+ relationships since her music career took off?

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Disney Movies: Out with the old, in with the new?

By Molly Hughes ’16 Staff Writer

For the past several years, viewers of all ages have been inspired and awed by the new animated Disney hits.

Recent Disney debuts such as Tangled and Brave have enthralled audiences with their originality and brilliant messages.

The Blockbuster hit Frozen has been all the hype and excitement of the past few months, and has left every child singing the irresistible, catchy tunes that the whole world has fallen in love with.

The adoration of these hip new films is evident, but they do leave us with one question: do these recent Disney hits exceed our beloved and timeless Disney classics from our childhood?

Is it possible that these films have distracted people from the movies that for so long, captivated their imaginations and embodied their childhoods?

There is no question that these gems have embossed multiple lessons to live by into the heads of the Disney fandom. The dearly loved

classics such as Cinderella and The Little models to children of all ages, but some Mermaid taught us that if we believe in may say they have now been replaced.

Kate Wyant, a sophomore at Glenbard ourselves, dreams can come true.

West, stated, “Old Disney Peter Pan helped us cherish our classics will always hold a childhood, while Andy from Toy Story special place in my heart. proved that there is no shame in growing They were a huge part of up. my childhood and will The older characters of Disney have constantly be a reminder forever played as role of the good old days.”

Like Kate, many believe that Disney’s beloved classics are in no danger of being forgotten.

However, the latest Disney animations have managed to grasp the attention of some and entice them otherwise.

A n o t h e r sophomore at Glenbard West, Bill Dedmond, contrasts his classmate’s opinion by claiming, “The recent Disney animations are

great influences on the kids. Frozen proves that a woman doesn’t need a prince to save her, unlike any of the older films.”

Ideas like these have commonly been expressed during the era of Disney’s progression. New Disney releases have cleverly managed to relate to children while still displaying the general “fairytale” feel to it with the archetypal Prince Charming.

However, this time around the Prince Charming does not necessarily play a vital role in the female potagonist’s success.

While the modern tunes and valuable lessons of recent Disney movies are able to win over the hearts of many fans, a great number of people are loyal to their classics.

Some are driven and enthused by the mere concept of tradition and sentimentality, but some seek new and modern inspiration instead.

The question remains, but now in the hands of our fellow Glenbard West students. Will the beloved classics live on as the superior animated Disney films, or will the recent hits prevail and replace the old ones?

Photos courtesy of Disney.com.

Press Start: Can licensed game find success, steady fan base?

By Ben Buchnat ’15 Staff Writer

In the past, making a video game based off an existing license is like the kiss of death.

In 1982, the video game based off E.T. nearly caused the death of home video games. Traditionally, some of the lowest scores in video

game history have come from licensed games such as Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis, Superman 64, and South Park 64.

Many people automatically wrote off a licensed game before it even came out due to the reputation of past games.

However, the tides have changed. With the release of the

Batman: Arkham series, things began to look up for the licensed game.

Those Batman games have been considered by many as the top superhero games of all time. They have all sold millions of copies and have turned developer Rocksteady Studios into a superstar studio in the gaming world.

The recent South Park game has also generated positive reviews, earning around a 84 out of 100 across all of its platforms. These recent successes have shown that licensed games can succeed.

If these games have proved to do well, why is the perception of licensed games still so bad? The recent Batman and South Park

games are the exception rather than the rule.

Many licensed games are pushed out way too quickly just to make fast money. Until these shady practices and terrible games stop, licensed games will still have a negative connotation.

‘How I Met Your Mother’ vs. ‘Friends’: Too similar?

1. The beverage serving hang out place.

McClearans Bar (HIMYM) vs. Central As a ritualistic How I Met Your Mother Perk coffee shop (Friends). Both hang outs watcher and a dedicated lifelong Friends are located below the apartment of at least fanatic, the anticipation for the upcoming two of the main characters on the show.

How I Met Your Mother series and season 2. Character Similarities. There’s finale allows familiar no denying the ridiculous similarities feelings between the male leads of each show. to beTed Mosby and Ross Geller gin are the nerdy, kind of whiney, hopeless

add) and these two characters are almost always the favorite of the group.

The similarities in background, morals, and humor between Lily and Phoebe are easily comparable.

Finally, Robin and Rachel are both the new girls in the pilot episode who steal a man’s heart and their beauty and selfishness are common motifs throughout both series.

3. Basic Plotlines.

The similarities continue throughout each season with the basic premise, an unrealistic group of young adults living

romantics who fall in love with the new girl in the pilot episodes and eventually become professors teaching that nerdy thing they are so passionate about.

Barney Stinson and Joey Tribbini are hands down the two biggest womanizers to have ever hit television (Barney taking the lead over Joey, of course), each with their popular catch phrases, “How you doin’?” and “Haaave ya met Ted?” Chandler and Marshall are the sweet, lovable guys who marry a female lead early on (both by the womanizer, might I

the good life with their best friends in New York City.

Yeah, yeah, there are specifics like the womanizer (Barney/Joey) marrying the couple who seems to finally have everything figured it out (Monica & Chandler/Lily & Marshall), then who eventually falls for the beautiful, bratty girl (Rachel/Robin) whom the nerdy and whiney boy fell in love with during season one (Ted/Ross). It all seems so familiar. But isn’t copying the highest form of flattery?

While many Friends fanatics throughout

By Madison Matre ’14 Staff Writer

flooding in, but are they too familiar?

Since How I Met Your Mother hit the air in 2005, the criticism due to the comparisons with the 10 year long comedy revolution, Friends, have been unending. Sure, general plotlines, characters, and settings on How I Met Your Mother are evidently and blatantly similar to Friends, but it may not be as bad as it seems. Some of the most commonly discussed similarities are as followed:

the years have been bitterly and immaturely claiming that How I Met Your Mother is just a lesser remake of Friends based off of the simple similarities listed earlier, I, a fanatic myself, gave HIMYM a chance, and boy am I glad that I did.

You see, How I Met Your Mother has filled an empty void in my heart that was left by Friends with its generally similar ideas, but its sense of humor is so different that it can’t simply be comparable to Friends.

Due to my perpetual and borderline unhealthy love for both of these sitcoms and the characters they introduce me to, the years of entertainment they have brought me and countless laughs, I simply cannot pick a favorite. It’s the same justification I use while trying to explain why I don’t have a favorite character in either Friends or How I Met Your Mother; each character (or television show) has its unique flaws and lovable traits In simple terms, I believe the two revolutionary sitcoms are just like dogs.

First off, I love all dogs. I grew up loving Friends, and when it ended I was heartbroken, leaving me to feel as if I had lost six good friends (even if they were 20+ years older than my 9 year old self).

After some time, I found How I Met Your Mother. Although my television best friends were not replaced, the gang on HIMYM was able to fill the absence Friends left in my heart, just like a new puppy. I’ll never forget the old one, but I love the new one just as much in a different way, even if they are the same type.

Did you know Snow White was the first and original Disney princess?

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Lake Ellyn remains a community hub

By Alec Lukins ’14 Columnist

In the late 1800s, many who lived in Chicago were looking to escape city life and moved west to the suburbs. Present day Glen Ellyn is one of the suburbs that sprang up.

The town’s founder named it after his wife, Ellen, and the terrain of the area, glen.

Lake Ellyn was man-made by damming a local brook. A hotel was built on Honeysuckle Hill by the lake. People came from far and wide to visit because the lake was rumored to have therapeutic benefits due to the minerals.

The hotel burned down in 1906.

The lake has continued to be the center of town life for the past century. Many traditions and events revolve around the lake and it has been a local hangout for many kids.

Bob Chambers, the town historian, grew up in Glen Ellyn. Chambers remembers, “I used to go to the Recreation House to play ping pong for a nickel with my friends. That’s right, it’s not the boathouse, it’s the recreation house. It’s a shame kids today can’t do that.”

Bernie Walksler, who has lived in Glen Ellyn and worked as realtor in the area for over 50 years, says, “The lake has always been very popular in the winter. Kids love to go to the Lake and ice skate or play hockey.”

Ice skating has been part of Glen Ellyn

winters since the early 1900s. Kids enjoy skating on the lake and the Boathouse is used as a warming station to get away from the cold.

Pattie Murray, local resident and realtor for 40 years, commented on the traditions of Glen Ellyn saying, “Many of the town[‘s] traditions revolve around the lake. We have the cardboard boat regatta, parade, and fireworks at the lake on the Fourth of July.

We also have the school and the picturesque stadium. There is also an art festival at the lake every year. However, I would like to see the town move more events to the lake as the lake is probably one of the best locations in the town.”

The cardboard boat regatta is one of the favorite events for families every year.

Mitchell Moore, 6th grader at Hadley, talked a little bit about his experience at the cardboard boat regatta saying, “I really like going down to the regatta with my friends and eating the food and having fun. It’s also really funny to watch all the people in their cardboard boats and see most of them sink.”

Glenbard West High School has sat on the Lake since 1920. The football stadium is situated right on the banks of Lake Ellyn. The stadium, Duchon Field, has been voted as one of the best places to watch a high school football game according to ESPN.

A view of Lake Ellyn from Glenbard West High School. Courtesy of The Glen Bard Staff.

Josh Crosby, 6th grader at Hadley, says, “I think that we have one of the best high school stadiums in the nation. It’s a great experience with the lake, football, and friends. You can go down there on Saturdays and see almost everybody in the town. It’s a really cool experience.”

The lake is the centric feature of Glen Ellyn. Nate Peace, graduate student at Wheaton College, says, “After coming to

Wheaton and volunteering in Glen Ellyn, I immediately saw how the lake and the town were intertwined. I thought it was really cool how y’all [sic] have so many events that take place at the Lake.”

Lake Ellyn has a storied history and many traditions that are still around today. The lake continues to be the center of town life and hopefully will continue to be preserved and appreciated in the years to come.

Annexation demands modern solution

By Erik Barillari ’14 Columnist

The Russian Federation, under Putin’s charismatic leadership, officially annexed the C r i m e a n Peninsula this March i n a slow, relatively peaceful process. This type of thing doesn’t happen very much anymore. Up until WWI, land trades were routine, be it by force, trade, or inheritance, sometimes involving hundreds of thousands of armed men. Presently, even the changing of a few square miles for a life or two seems to set off the international community.

Why is territorial integrity so important to modern politicians when land as a resource has really been less and less key to a nation’s success and what can come of this crisis?

Globalism and history have a lot to do with it. Globalism allows for any nation, anywhere in the world to ally, trade, and cooperate with any other nation. Combine this with the incredibly complex web of trade and culture that spans the globe and

you get nations starting to value the status quo.

Minor changes in production, stability, or land in one part of the world can significantly alter markets in another. Stocks on Wall Street tank at the possibility of territorial changes and war outside of Africa.

So in order to not spook said markets, politicians take stability extremely seriously. Every move is calculated; every bit of land and economy is

precious.

Throw in thousands of years of war, persecution, and terrorism, giving conflict an awful taste that cumulated in two massive world wars and the near obliteration of the planet. Paranoia and caution run rampant. Diplomacy, even if underhanded and secret, is always preferred to what may be a relatively short, bloodless war over a shred of land. And war is becoming an ever rarer “luxury” to those who can afford it.

Think about a military like the average industry. There are lots of competitors trying to get the best technology, biggest size, and most

NATURE: original estate belonged to Robert R McCormick, Editor-in-Chief to The Chicago Tribune.

Cantigny, initially called Red Oaks Farm, was his country estate. Influenced by his time serving in the First Division, McCormick changed the name of Red Oaks Farm to Cantigny.

Ms. Kaminsky states Cantigny was officially established as a park when, “[McCormick] left his property and his endowment to all Illinois residents for the enjoyment of the park.”

When asked about Cantigny’s role in preserving nature, she said, “[Cantigny’s] fundamental goal is to allow our guests, our visitors to be inspired by nature.”

efficiency. Naturally, as the average soldier requires more and more investment and resources (a combat US serviceman costs around $1,000,000 a year according to Forbes, up from just under $1,000 in WWII [not inflation adjusted]) and this means that gradually, only the richest, most powerful nations can field effective security.

Today, some smaller nations, such as Iceland and Panama, h a v e

completely given up militaries i n exchange for guaranteed protection from larger neighbors and trade. In Ukraine’s case (which still fields a full conventional military), the government ceded its nuclear arsenal to the international community in exchange for guarantees of “territorial integrity,” or that no part of it would ever be

taken away without government consent.

This is partly why Obama and European leaders are stuck: many want to support the democratic process in Crimea but also want to respect the numerous, important treaties that the Ukraine has made regarding its sovereignty and stop what appears to be a reassertion of Russian aggression. Endorsing the annexation would be an extreme breech of

solution.

Now with Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border, NATO openly planning counter measures to an invasion, roundups in the Crimea, and an unstable new government, the uneasy peace seems ready to break. The West has all but given up on Russia’s Crimean claim, theoretically making any more Western moves increasingly aggressive as to not appear weak.

But the forces preventing a massive war seem t o o

powerful, and nobody wants it. Most likely, a short conflict may occur, seeing the Russians quickly disable Ukrainian capabilities.

Even then it would be unlikely for the West to fight, following the inevitable economic bloodletting and terrorist responses in Russia.

No matter what, though, 2014 will be a trying year for international law, as well as ideologies seeking to limit military/security buildups.

This crisis could further unite the EU or it could leave tens of thousands dead on the eastern plains, or maybe both. Time will tell.

diplomatic law and frighten Eurasian nations into preserving their ever smaller militaries.

In a perfect world, the Russians never would have given Ukraine the territory in the first place (1954) and the mostly non-Russian nation would have considerably less difficulty joining the EU now. It’s simply an old- Drawing by Brendan Sanna ’16. fashioned problem with no modern

Ms. Kaminsky hopes to influence others to start doing more to conserve and preserve nature to cause a ripple effect. She says, “[…] saving one plant, one tree that makes [a] difference.”

On the edge of Glen Ellyn and Lombard is Churchill Woods. Winslow Churchill bought it as a farmland originally, but it was later transformed into a nature preserve.

According to Chris Gingrich, historian at Churchill preserve, “The WPA, or Works Progress Association, in the 1930s built the dam.”

Churchill provides a lot of opportunity to help preserve and conserve nature. Gingrich says, “Volunteers are very

active in maintaining it, collecting seeds […] removing invasive species […] planting native species.”

Krista Kosar, Willowbrook Wildlife Center volunteer, states that Willowbrook was founded in the 1950s when Mrs. Chase donated the land where Willowbrook stands today.

As far as nature projects Willowbrook is involved in, Miss Kosar states, “[Willowbrook] has teamed up with Cosley Zoo and Brookfield Zoo to raise [Blanding’s Turtles] and eventually release them into the wild.”

“Preserving nature is not a luxury: it is essential to being human,” claims Andrew Hipp.

Did you know the earliest example of stage combat was medieval jousting, started in Greece and Rome?

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News you can use: Avoid stress through self-compassion

By Abbey Burgess ’15 Columnist

Do you think of the glass half empty, or half full? We normally fit ourselves into one of these two categories, as either the cynics who enjoy ruining Christmas for little kids, or the people who believe so fervently in the existence of magic they are still convinced at the age of thirteen that their Hogwarts letter was just lost by an incompetent owl. (This totally wasn’t me, by the way. I figured it out by the time I was twelve.)

However, if you are someone with a pessimistic outlook now, this doesn’t mean you have to think this way for the rest

of eternity. Some people are wired to see the glass as half empty, as a person’s outlook and perspective is influenced by factors such as genetic makeup, past experiences, and something called “cognitive bias,” which is how someone interprets their experiences.

While you cannot change genes, or things that have happened in the past, you can learn to think about past experiences differently.

Part of this is achieved through the use of “self-compassion,” which, as silly as it sounds, just involves treating yourself kindly.

Studies conducted by Duke University neuroscience professor Mark Leary show that self-compassionate people are happier and that self-compassion helps people deal with both the little and big stressors in their

life. Eventually, people can train their brains to think positively.

Self-compassion does not mean you only think positive thoughts though. Everyone has both a positive and negative circuit in their brain, as reported

by Elaine Fox, research professor at University of Essex.

The key to gaining resilience and learning is to think positively despite negative thoughts; you should come up with roughly four positive thoughts to counteract each negative one. By doing this, it’s actually possible to change how you interpret experiences by training your brain to focus more on the positive than the negative.

Your brain will learn to look for good even as you acknowledge the bad.

While this just sounds like a super fancy and medical version

of “every cloud has a silver lining,” over time it works.

Engaging in kind behavior, towards yourself as well as others, will help you get rid of some of the continual stream of negativity, and help you cope with daily stressors that might otherwise seem like too much to handle. It will help you put your problems into perspective and stop you from overreacting, which will prevent small issues from morphing into giant headaches.

While all this may seem super corny, and even if all you have gotten out of this may be that you should give yourself a pep squad cheer in the bathroom every morning, if you attempt to focus on the things in your life that make you happy, or the benefits to a certain situation, the negatives or drawbacks will

bother you less.

For example, you can get through passing periods without becoming super frustrated with the people who meander through the hallways, or over how your pencil case spilled all over the floor, if you decide to not focus on the negative of the situation.

Plus, you may actually find yourself in a better mood at the end of the day.

This can only happen if you decide to make an effort to consider things differently and direct your thoughts in a positive direction. All sorts of annoying or irritating things happen throughout each day; instead of allowing them to dominate your thoughts, sometimes you just need to take a deep breath, listen to Elsa’s good advice, and simply “Let It Go.”

of time, visiting stores and businesses in your area is the first step.

Arriving groomed with a smile on your face will already make your potential employer impressed if he or she is working. Ask politely if the business is hiring and if so, find out where you can obtain an application.

Most applications are online today, as opposed to a handout.

When applying either online or on paper take time to think over questions carefully. Write drafts for responses to any long questions you might find. If you can, try to find a

parent or friend to look over your application before you submit it.

Putting the effort into procuring and filling out an often lengthy application will not take you far if it is riddled with spelling errors and thoughtless answers.

Although you might feel you are the best candidate this business has ever seen, keep in mind most local minimum-wage jobs will have many high school applicants. Fill out as many applications as you can because you do not want to miss an opportunity because you were too focused on another.

Finally the interview day has arrived! You get lots of sleep, trim your nails, and shower. But what should you wear? Although it may seem petty or insignificant, your appearance actually will tell your interviewer a lot about you.

Remember, you only will have a few minutes for them to meet you.

Wear dressy, clean clothes you feel comfortable in. Make sure you can sit, stand, and walk easily in them.

Once you arrive at the interview be prepared to shake hands. Maintain eye contact and give a firm shake. Remember to respond confi-

dently to any question. Even if you stumble over ideas or draw a blank, always keep in mind that there is always another job out there. If you can keep your cool, you will leave your interviewer impressed.

Applying for any job is a very mature and responsible choice.

Even if you do your best, there could be someone better fitted for the job or not enough openings.

Keep trying no matter what because the income and experience will not only help you now, but will aid you once you leave high school.

My Two Cents: Searching for, landing that summer job

By Kate Karp ’16 Columnist

As the weather warms and talk of summer begins, it is the perfect time to think about getting a summer job. Although many employers' applications are already due, there is still time to snag a job or plan for next year!

Looking for employment can seem like a very daunting process.

However, if you enter the summer job search with an open mind you, will have better chances at landing the job. Although it requires a lot

Restaurant Review: Glen Prairie in Crown Plaza Hotel

By Justin Kaiser ’17 Staff Writer

Glen Prairie is located in the Crown Plaza Hotel in Glen Ellyn. Glen Prairie is not part of the hotel chain but is an independently owned facility within the hotel. The menu is casual and the prices are reasonable.

The restaurant is known for using locally grown ingredients in its dishes. The most popular dishes are the Mac and Cheese with BBQ pulled pork, duck tacos and braised short ribs.

Daniel Ovanin, the executive chef at Glen Prairie said the restaurant was opened in Glen Ellyn to offer an urban dining experience in the suburbs.

Ovanin’s goal as the chef is to provide customers with fresh, wholesome food. He also likes to know that they are supporting other local businesses and reducing the amount of pollution and waste by buying close to home.

Glen Prairie uses aqua farming for such items as herbs and lettuces. Aquaponic farming has become more popular and is a great way for them to ac-

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cess fresh items in the middle of winter.

The restaurant serves anywhere from 100 to 400 people a day. Ovanin decides to put new menu items by looking at trends. He likes to go out and try other chef’s items. He says he likes “to take classic recipes and then turn up the volume.”

For 2014, the restaurant would like to add outside seating. The customers are asking for it. They will work with the Village of Glen Ellyn to get their support. To gain customers, the restaurant has used Groupon and Restaurant.com. They do plan to offer their own plan called the Prairie club where they reward frequent customers with points or discounted food.

On Thursdays they have a lunch special where a customer gets a cup of soup with half a sandwich for $8. All sandwiches and burgers are served with a gluten-free option upon request.

Desserts include sorbet, gelato or seasonal favorites like pumpkin cheesecake and burnt caramel sorbet. It is great place to celebrate a special occasion.

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Hidden benefits to a teenage obsession

By Maya Billings ’15 Staff Writer

texts helps develop a better ability to understand a passage even if it is worded strangely. Texting increases Today’s teens have evolved a new reading abilities and thus helps kids form of speech that is completely in certain areas of school. their own, and indisputably tied to Zach Miners states in his article, new technology. To many Could Texting older generations, the be Good for current babble of “Tweets” Students, that and “Likes” has become a researchers confusing muddle. Many have found express their confusion that texting and annoyance at young improves people’s inability to students’ effectively communicate ability to in terms everyone can write essays, understand, blaming formal and technology’s harmful otherwise. influence.

However, Any type of this new form of writing is communication has a much better than more positive impact than none at all, negative. and typing Young people have begun even in the altering written speech through so called technology. This phenomenon “pidgin” of “Text Speak” has spread f o r m rapidly. Teenagers’ habit benefits of abbreviating many t e e n s ’ words is a troubling language thought for teachers. skills.

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then carries over to the classroom, benefiting their education overall.

Texting is also helping with certain social situations. Many introverted adolescents find that the stress of some social issues easing with technology.

While face-to-face communication is always best, technology can help bring people out of their shells and make connections.

An article by Maia Szalavitz, How Texting and IMing Helps Introverted Teens, states that researchers have found texting to be a means of relieving emotional stress. The effects are significant; teens can use social media as a way to reach out when in a bad mood and de-stress from it. While of course this is no substitute for direct human contact, researchers speculate that typing out your feelings when no one can see you alleviates some of the embarrassment involved with strong emotional responses. People are often embarrassed to cry in front of others; however, texting and social media allows for the expression of emotion without the attached embarrassment.

This new form of communication has also begun to spread beyond just teens. Texting also has its benefits for the teachers. Many Glenbard teachers have jumped on board the Remind 101 bandwagon. This allows them to text their classes and remind kids of homework assignments, tests and other important information.

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communication have also begun to permeate daily speech. “Lol” and “Omg” have become accepted responses between friends. These new words are becoming a part of our society and altering our language.

English has always been extremely dynamic and draws from many influences. Changes to our language can be a very positive thing because a language that stops adapting will be lost in the shuffle and become irrelevant. By teens altering the way we speak, our language is in fact keeping up with modern times.

Danny Hieber states in his article, Why Languages Die, that we hold onto the languages that are most practical and convenient for modern day communication.

Thus, if English does not adapt to modern times, it is no longer convenient and may not survive. Of course, English is currently the second most spoken language in the world, but that does not make it invincible. The adaptation of the language keeps it current.

So while “OMG!” and “Lol, rofl” may be a tad bit frustrating for older generations, in the fast-paced world of today, text speak may not be a bad thing. While of course it isn’t a perfect method of communication, this new phenomenon is changing the face of English in a positive new way.

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Project i: Youth in

By Shay Kiker ’16 Staff Writer Project Innovation, or Project i, is a new initiative that took place on Thursday, February 27th at Hadley Junior High School.

Claire Wild and I, co-presidents of the new up-and-coming STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Club, launched a project intended to inspire eighth graders. Little did we know it would inspire more than a few incoming high freshman.

The executive board of STEM club includes Maddie Lupori, Sarah Park, Madelyn O’Gorman, Ryan Condon, Colette Bare, Julia Sakash, Alex Lettenberger, Geoffrey Shellady, Will Church, Abbey Simon, and Jack Schoenfeld. These students were extremely dedicated and involved in making the event happen. Mr. Byrne, STEM club sponsor, was also an integral part of our project.

At Hadley, the Glenbard West STEM club executive board hosted twenty-one companies who presented to the eighth grade students. The day was then structured with 25 minute break-out sessions where students’ preferences were thoughtfully considered.

Claire and I had high hopes of grasping

the students’ interests. We didn’t desire for Project Innovation to be another mandatory school function, we hoped the students would be inspired!

Ted Buell from Google did a keynote presentation highlighting videos on Google glass and a new autopiloted car.

Bob Clark a COD professor lit things on fire, demonstrating key scientific functions.

Pete Richter debated the quality of McDonald’s food as he works with Cargill a major food supplier for the McDonald’s corporation.

Additionally, Tom Zurawski showed how bike componentry at SRAM is linked to technology. Other distinguished names on the list included professionals from Northwestern, University of Chicago, U.I.C., The Adler Planetarium, The Field Museum, and BP Oil. The day was characterized by a strong application of STEM, but not limited to that.

The STEM executive board is a group of very well-rounded students at West. Many of the

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Delivery drones drop by

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interferes with the drone’s reliant sensors and, even if the weather is clear, a drone could only travel to Imagine the writing room for Back houses within a 10 mile range of an to the Future II, and predicting what Amazon distribution site. Overall, the world would look like in the year current society and its functionality 2015. Now, this was the time people prove incompatible with this carried brick-sized cell phones and innovation. their technological multitasking While drones may not be used entailed watching MTV on a block

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Parents could send out forgotten lunches to school.

Filmmakers and YouTubers have communication also found ways to get impossible devices, the angle shots by attaching a camera to movie still the flying drone. They have also used never predicted heat sensors to find lost hikers in a smartphones or forest. iTunes. Instead, the movie Mark Zuckerberg, founder of showed hovering skateboards and Facebook, has ideas to transport projectable digital window views.

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Freshies get techie?

By Claire Wild ’17 and Ellen O’Brien ’17 Staff Writers Let’s face it: iPads make school more fun, and as it turns out, improve our academic performance. As proven by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in California, students who utilize iPads in school statistically had a 20% rate of improvement in math test scores over the course of a year, as opposed to kids who used conventional textbooks.

In addition, med students at University of California Irvine scored 23% higher on their national exams than prior classes without the technology.

Administrators for the Glenbards hope to see an incline in grades such as these when iPads are put in the curriculum for next year’s incoming freshman. This change in education for Glenbard West is years in the making and will provide students with useful apps, organization, and easy availability of classroom materials.

From the information given by Mr. Stacy, West’s Facilitator of Instructional Technology, District 87 will be receiving 2,200 iPads complete with cases and attachable keyboards for the class of 2018.

Along with the standard ones, the iPads will be equipped with six major apps, some current students are already using, consisting of Schoology, Notability, Google Drive, Pages, Keynote, and iMovie. As for apps that students want to get, the freshmen will be able to log into their own Apple IDs and download their favorites, too.

Schoology, a learning management tool, has been practiced in some courses this year.

Notability will be utilized as an efficient note-taking and annotation system, helping eliminate paper waste. Discussions and documents will be exchanged through Google Drive, too.

In addition to these apps, multiple textbooks and novels will also be obtainable on the iPads. While the distribution will be unfortunately limited to freshmen only during the pilot year (sorry incoming seniors!), administrators are considering whether or not upperclassmen could receive them in future years.

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embers are a part of several clubs and sports ams and have a variety of interests in classes d careers. Take Claire, for example, who ays tennis year round, is involved in fashion ub and just helped organize a Hundred ollar project for the movie Divergent. She isn’t a geeky kid, but she still loves science.

I’m involved in five different clubs and play two sports at West, yet I still count Math class at the top of my list.

We are looking to prove that there is no stereotype that ust be met in STEM education.

Our goal was to show how broad STEM lds are, so we invited companies that didn’t cessary have jobs where people wear lab ats day-in and day-out. This is not just out a career, it’s about the application of chnical fields all around, all of the time.

We received great feedback from the y and plan to make this event an annual ng. Claire shared her thoughts toward e end, saying, “The main goal of Project

i was to make STEM exciting, interesting, and inviting, and I believe we succeeded in making it so.”

In terms of where we are taking this in the future, at some level we don’t know where it will lead. With all of the enthusiasm behind the event, we also had Illinois State Representative Sandra Pihos by our side throughout. She has invited the executive board to come to Springfield to share our idea and event with the Board of Education.

Once there, Claire and I hope to share our vision of practical STEM with innovative application.

Project innovation starts as an event and we hope will end as a movement.

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So the question remains: will this new technology significantly improve the students’ learning experience? Well, it will certainly make schoolwork easier and more accessible.

Teachers and staff have been working hard over the past year and a half at creating a new Learning and Teaching Management System to solve reoccurring homework and assignment problems, among many others.

From easier interaction with teachers and peers to environmentally green note taking, there is an immense amount of newfound potential for education. The iPads are bound to help with students’ productivity and grades. It will be beneficial to have all the classroom information and more on one single device at students’ fingertips; kids will have their materials with them wherever they venture. Also, when kids are absent to classes, all the things they miss will be accessible from the various required apps, plus assignments can be turned in online. As a trial run this year, iPads were implemented in one of Ms. Bednarick’s Health classes to see how they assisted the classroom.

According to freshman Abbey Simon, the addition of iPads in class “made projects easier and more accessible.”

But will there be any disadvantages? Besides the fact that freshmen backpacks will now be approximately an inch and a half bigger with the iPad case, the only obstacles that will be substantially present are the increased time in front of a screen and the occasional technology glitches. About 60% of teenagers spend about 20 hours a week on average in front of a screen, so managing the time will be up to the user. Internet crashes and machinery malfunctions are going to happen, but that is just a fact of life, and teachers and students will be able to work out these problems. No need to bring out the “my dog ate my iPad” excuse.

As new technology continues to be introduced across the nation, it is clear that it is most certainly not going away – on the contrary, today’s colleges and workplaces are very dependent upon it. The Glenbards are just preparing students for the technology-ridden world out there with useful skills that the iPads will undoubtedly possess.

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Health Hotline: Don’t let ‘spring forward’ make you sleepy

By Alex Levin ’14 Columnist

Most of you probably do not remember Sunday, March 9th as holding to much significance to your lives.

Although it seemed ironic given the snowfall this winter and lack of sunlight, March 9th was in fact the infamous “spring

forward.”

Starting to remember? While we may have forgotten about this annual one-hour sleep loss, our bodies most certainly have not.

For some people, the switch to daylight-saving stime can trigger days or even weeks of sleeping problems.

If turning the clocks forward tends to throw your inner timekeeper out of whack, you can follow steps to help your body

make an easier transition to DST. The first step is to practice good sleeping habits.

Although you cannot get the hour of sleep back, you can accommodate your sleep schedule to ensure that there is no drastic change to your sleep cycle.

It is so important to maintain consistent bed times as well as rising times, even on the weekends.

Another tip is to avoid caffeine in the evening and try to read or listen to relaxing music before bedtime.

Furthermore, the lighter evenings and darker mornings can make it difficult for our bodies to synch up with the time change, but in order to counteract that, you can adjust the lighting in your house so that it is similar to the pre-daylight-savings light.

Pull the shades and turn down

the lamps in the evening and get up into bright light soon after you wake.

Over the course of a few days, move your artificial lighting schedule closer and closer to what’s happening outside to yield the best results.

Don’t let the annual spring forward get the best of you, use these tips to conquer the sleepy slumps!

Recipe Review: Carrot Cake

Madison Chandler Columnist ’14

Yes, carrot cake is the stereotypical dessert that comes to mind when thinking of the Easter season, but it’s a classic that many struggle to master. In the midst of searching for the perfect recipe, I came across many stories of failures in the kitchen. I took notes from bakers on various blogs and websites as this was my first time making a carrot cake. Once I felt well prepared, I tackled a prom-

ising recipe. The bake time is longer than most of the recipes I’ve found in the past but the result proves that it’s well worth it. Impress your relatives during the holiday this month with a treat they won’t be able to stop talking about!

Keep in mind that this recipe makes one 9x13 inch cake. If you’d like to make a layered cake, simply double the ingredients and separate the mixture into two equally sized pans. Make sure to grease or flour your pan(s) before adding the ingredients.

Ingredients Begin by preheating your oven to 350 de4 eggs grees. In a large bowl, 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil beat together the eggs, 2 cups white sugar oil, white sugar and 2 2 teaspoons vanilla extract teaspoons of vanilla.

2 cups all-purpose flour Then, proceed to mix in 2 teaspoons baking soda the flour, baking soda, 2 teaspoons baking powder baking powder, salt and 1/2 teaspoon salt cinnamon. Finally, stir in 2 teaspoons ground cinthe carrots and pour the namon mixture into your pre3 cups grated carrots pared pan.

1/2 cup butter, softened

Bake the cake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

Before you bite into this tasty treat, let it cool onto a wire rack for about 20 minutes.

To add my own twist to the recipe, I made my favorite buttercream frosting to top off the cake nicely.

This simple, four ingredient recipe can be found on simply stir together 3 and ¾ ened butter, 4 tablespoons of the side of a Domino Con- cups of the Domino Confec- milk, and 1 teaspoon of vafectioners Sugar box. You tioners Sugar, ½ cup of soft- nilla. It’s that easy! Use this

Recipe Provided by Tammy Elliot at allrecipes.com.

Photo courtesy of Madison Chandler.

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Ginger’s versatility will spice up your mood

Rachel Warren ’14 Staff Writer Ginger, with its origins in East Asia, is one of many herbs that have been used for

natural remedies for thousands of years. Many of these ancient remedies still exist and are great as simple ways to cure common ailments while saving a few bucks in the process.

First, I must mention that I have no medical expertise and these natural remedies are only for simple ailments.

For anything life-threatening, please, see a doctor.

Ginger has the ability to keep you warm. You might be thinking I’m crazy, but I am totally serious. Ginger has the ability to stimulate the

heart, which means that it gives the heart the right wake-up call to really get the blood flowing, thus making you feel warm.

Try putting freshly grated ginger in

some hot water for a toasty tea or start putting dried ginger, like what you would find in the spices aisle, in your cooking.

Keep this up during the winter and you will find yourself standing comfortably outside wearing a t-shirt and shorts. …Okay, you won’t be doing that, but you will be feeling comfortably warm without punching up the thermostat.

Ginger can not only keep you warm, but it can also fight against colds and the flu (those awful intrusions of our winters). According to Anne McIntyre, a medical herbalist, ginger is a diaphoretic, meaning it causes the body to sweat. With this in mind, eating some freshly grated ginger will cause the body to “sweat out” the infection.

In addition to keeping you warm and making you sweat, ginger can also fight against nausea. So, if you’re dreading long-distance travel— mainly because you can’t stand motion sickness— pack some ginger with you for the ride.

Chewing on a bit of the ginger root will prevent nausea from striking and, if you feel nausea, taking a sip of ginger tea will help keep the nausea

at bay. So, you can travel “over the river and through the woods” without worrying about throwing up all over the car. Everybody wins.

To Grandmother’s house you go?

Her delicious cooking will stuff you like Thanksgiving turkey. If you don’t want to lie immobile on her couch waiting for the food to digest, try sipping some ginger tea.

Man! Ginger works for everything!

In all seriousness, ginger helps the digestive system secrete digestive enzymes so that the food gets broken down quicker and more efficiently.

Also, your body will absorb more nutrients. This will also make you more awake since your body now has the essential nutrients it needs to stay active.

I could go on and on and on about the numerous benefits of ginger, but I’d prefer not to bore the heck out of you readers. As I mentioned earlier, ginger is only one of hundreds, if not, thousands of natural healing remedies.

So, while you’re at home, set some ginger aside for the next time you’re feeling cold or slow-poke sluggish. Of course, make sure you leave enough for the cookies.

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Accepting the caffeine we think we deserve

By Hannah Zego ’14 Staff Writer Editorial With a Starbuck’s or Caribou located every half mile or so, it isn’t so hard to tell that over 100 million Americans drink coffee daily.

Recently I had gone into a Starbuck’s before work and ordered a cup of less-than-coffee for myself with a few extra espresso shots.

In my defense, I would have “literally died” working a 4-hour shift at noon.

At least that’s what would have happened to the middle school girls who ordered their mint double-chip mocha pumpkinspice peppermint lattes with extra whip, claiming that they “literally needed this” all week.

Yes literally, they did not figuratively need it.

My concern is how much caffeine they THINK they intake from a drink with a title longer than a New York Times bestselling memoir.

Regardless of health magazines giving mixed reviews on whether or not to drink it, it ends up being the last resort for many.

It seems now that kids as young

as 11 years old can’t seem to get their engines running without the coffee that they think they are drinking.

More and more kids are choosing to drink “coffee” in our modern society, when really they could receive the same amount of energy from a Ziploc bag of fruit in their lunches.

I don’t think we give Starbuck’s enough credit for putting some coffee in their cups of sugar and syrup.

Those baristas really are something.

As of this year, 60% of Americans say they need a cup of coffee to start their day, which is kind of sad and scary altogether.

Now let’s think of how many kids actually witness their parents sleepwalk to the kitchen, brew their coffee, and THEN wake up.

It’s a huge influence as well as a never ending cycle.

Luckily, my fate was predetermined in being a coffeeaddict at the age of three since my parents are originally from Ethiopia, the coffee capital of the world.

At around eight years old, I realized that roasting raw coffee beans, grinding them, and making coffee over the stove was NOT

the norm. Yup, there was a machine for it.

Confession: to this day I still cannot work a coffeemaker and probably never will.

“Hannah, there’s a coffeemaker in the break room, why bring your own?” my boss asks when I work early morning Saturdays.

Yes. Throwing money at my embarrassment won’t work forever, but when I find a YouTube tutorial on how to work one, perhaps I can make some money-saving changes (or end up with second-degree burns and a broken coffeemaker).

I am 100% guilty of falling for the coffee trap.

But I will do the right thing (blame my parents).

I will learn to use a coffeemaker. I will train myself to be a morning person.

I will stay true to these goals. No seriously, as soon as I have my coffee.

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Did you know originally coffee was eaten by African tribes?

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What will your ‘Forever’ look like?

By Bizzy Emerson ’14 Staff Writer

The end of the first semester summons in a weird form of nostalgia for seniors.

It’s the time when we start looking back – for better or worse – and evaluating our high school experience.

Were we sufficiently studious?

Did we have enough fun? Were we well liked by our peers, our teachers; did we have a good relationship with our parents?

In her December 2013 Editor’s Letter on Rookiemag.com, Tavi Gevinson went through this questioning process.

Gevinson came to the conclusion that these formative years, between thirteen and seventeen, can be effectively categorized as Forever, because when you’re a teen, as she says, “It’s hard to imagine ever not feeling this way, being this person, having this life.”

Make no mistake – Gevinson asserts, “Forever is not about being the best years of your life, just the most Forever-y.”

Gevinson’s love letter to being a teen is magical, and oddly beautiful.

In a diary-entry format, she lists off all the mystical and awful things she recalls from her high school years in Oak Park, Illinois. By the end, I was doing that gross sobbing thing – not shedding a tear or two, but full-on weeping, as if I had just left a matinee screening of Titanic in 1997.

My personal Forever, just as Gevinson’s, is coming to a close.

Yet I’m not mourning the loss of this poignant time in my life.

Instead, I’m staring blindly into the past four years, wondering: was my Forever not Forever-y enough?

And that thought makes me feel inadequate and, as I already stated, awkwardly tearful.

Gevinson sat next to Vogue editor Anna Wintour at New York Fashion Week. She’s been a contributor to Harper’s Bazaar, and a speaker at TEDxTeen. She lives less than 40 minutes away from me, yet she’s appeared on Forbes “30 under 30” list -- twice. Plus, she’s had some of the most Forever-y teenage experiences imaginable, the kind of things you only hear about in YA novels and low-budget indie films – taking clothed baths, falling in love in the cigarette smoke of a New Year’s Eve party, emulating My So-Called Life through her various oddball friendships. Despite all this, Gevinson’s Forever is not glamorized in the slightest, rather, it is gritty and highly desirable, something she has worked to attain.

What have I done?

Eaten too much pizza, watched 30 Rock instead of doing math homework, cried while filling out college applications and gotten into vapid text arguments with friends.

My Forever is somewhat statistical – when I turned on my hindsight vision, all I saw was schoolwork, or feeling grotesquely bad about myself. Where did I go wrong?

My Forever is characterized by the bad moments. As a naturally pessimistic person, I couldn’t really imagine it any other way. That’s not to say my Forever hasn’t been wonderful – it certainly has. But my brain is filled with tiny file cabinets, and the miniscule drawers that are located front-and-center, right behind my eyeballs, are overflowing with these once-negative, now-beautiful memories that I wouldn’t trade for the world.

I remember being awake at four in the morning, studying for an AP Euro test. I had gotten home two hours prior from the midnight showing of The Hunger Games, and my eyes were tear-filled as I realized that not

even the determination of Katniss Everdeen could help prepare me for the looming exam. I ended up getting a C. I remember feeling like the only person in Glen Ellyn over spring break, watching way too much Glee, and feeling totally alone, but being okay with it.

I remember getting my Italian eyebrows waxed before a school dance. They were too thin and too arched, and I used eyeliner to make them look a little more normal. The dance ended up being only okay, but I danced to “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction with someone I cared about in the dark of Biester Gym, and it made me feel better.

I remember leaving a Hitters football game to watch Breaking Bad, and feeling sad, and weirdly shunned, because I wasn’t interested in something that the community loved so much.

I remember realizing that my sister was my best friend after she left for college. When she came home, we drove around looking at Christmas lights and laughed hysterically about when I had surgery during my sophomore year. While I was recovering, she learned how to play “My Heart Will Go On” on the recorder to help me feel better. It was the worst thing I’d ever seen, but also the funniest.

I remember going to my job at Noodles & Company, pumped up with antibiotics for strep throat and running a questionable fever. I didn’t get home until 11:00 at night, and I threatened to quit my job, but I needed a source of income to fund my Etsy addiction, so I kept scrubbing floors.

I remember driving home from a One Direction concert, feeling totally and completely alive, and then finding out one of my favorite

actors had died. We parked our big SUV in a Steak ‘N’ Shake parking lot and listened to the police press conference from Vancouver, where they announced that it was, in fact, Cory Monteith’s body that had been found in a hotel room. Two days later, we went to a funeral for one of our childhood friends. We learned that being young and good-looking doesn’t mean you’re invincible.

Gevinson’s Forever “wasn’t perfect, but therein lies its perfection,” she says.

I think we can all say the same about our Forevers. Forever is meant to be messy, and emotional, and, as Gevinson puts it, “remarkably peculiar.”

The moments, as horrible as they

were, are followed by a concession.

There is a reason that these moments are important – they’ve made me into the totally wacky, idiotic, technical and anxious person I am today.

They’ve left me with a little spunk in my personality that can only be explained as odd, with a Forever-y quality blended in.

So, revel in your past. Think about the good, and think about the bad (but don’t dwell on it!). Your Forever is forever unique to you. You’re a senior! Celebrate!

Unless, of course, you’re avoiding your math homework by watching 30 Rock, in which case, slap me five, and then get back to work. You’ve only got so much of your Forever left, so make it count.

College Correspondent: You’re accepted! Now what?

Bailey Bystry ‘14 Columnist

Here we are at the end of a

4-year long road paved by hard work, long nights, good laughs, and defining moments. And what do we have to show for it? A whole lot of sleep deprivation, an expensive caffeine addiction, an inFaith Bischoff, right (Hope)- The deciding factor for me was when I visited and went to chapel there.

I just knew that’s the place I wanted to be. I really love the Christian base. I really like the occupational therapy program and the opportunities they give you. I like the town; it reminds me of Wheaton. It just seems like the perfect place.

Amanda Hlavity, left (ISU)—I want to become a teacher. [ISU has a great program for that.] And it’s not too far, but not too close.

Riley Conway, right (ISU)— I really liked the campus; it was smaller and it really felt like a really close-knit community.

finite number of Word documents, a couple of you-had-tobe-there stories to tell our next round of friends, and—oh yeah—a few Letters Of Acceptance in the mailbox.

It’s spring. It’s decision time. If you have yet to take the plunge and commit, welcome to the club! Unfortunately, there are no real hacks, tips, or tricks that can be given to relieve the stress of The Choice. However, we can always learn from our peers. Here’s what members of the best senior class in the history of the universe (objectively speaking, of course) had to say when asked, “What made you decide?”

Madison Matre, right (undecided)— Well, with this winter: location and weather. But also, unfortunately, money. You grow up thinking you can go where ever your heart desires, and then you get here and it’s like oh, does my heart really desire to be in debt for the rest of my life?

With some of these schools, it’s awesome to get into, but is it worth it to go? Is it really worth it to go to this school with a little bit of a better name for years of debt? But then there’s like state schools for so much less money and still a great education. I’m undecided.

Lindsay Dahlgren, right (William & Mary)— I visited last year and I loved the campus, because it’s really pretty. And I really like how old and traditional the school is. And also I’m studying International Relations, so it’s very close to D.C. with great connections out there.

Tom Berlin, left (Iowa State)— Well, the thing is for my major—meteorology—not too many schools have it, so the fact that Iowa State has a great program for it is big. I went there and I just loved the big campus feel they had. Everyone seemed excited to be there. It seemed like a real energetic campus. Another thing is that it’s far away from home, but it’s not too far away. And they have a lot of extracurriculars that I think I want to try.

Trevor Light, right (Indiana)— Basically, it was between U of I and Indiana, and what tipped the scale for me for Indiana was their extremely reputable business school and getting direct admission to it.

Gabriella Bower, left (NYU)— My dad went to Kentucky which is a cool school like typical college town, typical college campus. And that’s what I thought I wanted for a while, but then I visited NYU and just had this gut feeling like this is where I’ll supposed to be.

Courtney Gasiecki, right (undecided)— I’m looking for good study abroad opportunities. I can tell already that’s going to be one of my favorite things about college.

Maddie Lupori, right (Mizzou)— When I made a pros and cons list, I realized for me Mizzou is my best choice. For instance, it has the top journalism school in the country.

And ultimately, there is a ton of Greek Life; it’s an awesome campus, new facilities. It’s in the SEC. It’s just a really exciting atmosphere.

Kyle Miller, right (undecided)—I’m looking at what programs are offered at the university, and whether I feel like I belong. Someplace out of state and in the city. Kyle has since chosen Northeastern University, a top school in the heart of Boston.

Nick Barella, right (Notre Dame)—There’s a beautiful campus. It has the number one ranked undergraduate business school in the country and also a very cool sports program and great intramurals.

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What’s happening around West?

Student Council’s Food for Change drive raised $756 dollars for the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry! Way to Go!

Photos courtesy of Tricia Markby and Glenbard West High School.

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Everyone is a winner through sheltering, naïvety Madison Matre ’14 Staff Writer

In our society, we strive to be safe and comfortable. We like to see people happy and feeling good, and it’s uncomfortable for us to be or deal with someone when they are upset.

So naturally, we have began phasing these feelings out by simply avoiding the problem.

It starts in little league—

everyone wins a trophy, and the rules enforce equal playing time. Even schools are beginning to take this approach, getting rid of grades all together and replacing them with measurements such as “meeting, progressing, or not meeting.” As mom and dad fear their child feeling disappointed after a tough loss, the child is falsely rewarded with a trophy representing a “Great Job, you

still Win!” and we wonder why the upcoming generations are being nicknamed “a generation of babies.” There is a fine line between love and encouragement and sheltering, a line many modern parents seem to have crossed.

We can’t only blame the parents; after all, they only want what’s best. The rapid increase of technology seems to play a major role in the

babying of generations. There are more ways than ever before to “protect” children from any harm they may encounter; GPS tracking and parent-controlled cell phones are just a few among many, and countless videos about the effects of bullying make the world seem cruel. While it may seem fine sheltering them now, what happens when they’re forced out into the real world? Jobs

can’t just be handed to them; they will fail and encounter bullies and will not understand how to deal with any of it. In no means do we need to bully the upcoming generations, but let’s refrain from all the coddling, sheltering, and helicopter parenting that gives them the humiliating nickname of “babies.”

‘Ban Bossy’ or affirm assertiveness, either way, empower women

By Bailey Bystry ’14 Columnist What do you get when you combine Jane Lynch, Diane Von Furstenberg, Condoleezza Rice, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, the Girl Scouts of the USA, and Beyoncé?

Answer: An amazing viral video and the birth of a surprisingly polarizing social movement.

“Ban Bossy, a 68 second video, features the aforementioned cast and more encouraging viewers to

“take the pledge and ban bossy” on banbossy.com in order to embolden young women to not be afraid to be leaders.

The PSA’s premise is centered around the fact that, statistically, young girls are more likely to be called bossy than their male peers. Not coincidentally, girls ages 5-12 are twice as likely as boys to worry that leadership roles will make them seem bossy.

According to the Ban Bossy website, between elementary and high school, girls’ self-esteem drops 3.5 times more than boys’; and in the classroom, girls are called on fewer times and interrupted more often.

The video is the result of collaboration between the

Girl Scouts of the USA and Sandberg’s foundation Lean In, an online community giant dedicated to encouraging career women in their pursues.

Encouraging cute, little, pig-tailed five-year-old girls to be The Leaders of Tomorrow is clearly something we can all get behind, right?

Wrong.

Very wrong.

The PSA has sparked an incredible amount of controversy and media backlash, mainly due to the fact that it has been lumped in with the partisan “Word Police” battle, in which many conservatives claim that liberal media bias has created unnecessary, burdensome cultural sensitivity in everyday discussion that impedes upon independence and free speech.

A recent Fox News article introduced the topic, saying, “So some popular girls got together and decided they are no longer going to use a particular word, and they decided we can’t use it either.” Another top headline: Bossy liberal feminists have just invented another ridiculous reason to be offended.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of frankly horrific YouTube comments that diminish my faith in humanity.

How did this happen? How did we go from “Encourage Susie and Keisha to lead!” to “Breaking: Feminazis take stab at world domination” in 68 seconds?

The movement was mislabeled.

The New Yorker, The Chicago Tribune, and Slate all agree that banning the word "bossy" doesn't get to the root of the problem.

Well, of course not! The point of the PSA was not

to literally banish the word “bossy” from the American social vernacular, but to create awareness around the fact that discouraging assertiveness in young girls is detrimental to their confidence in their leadership skills.

The Bossy conversation extends as far out as to apply to grown women in the workplace. Like a certain other b-word, "bossy" reveals an asymmetry between the way we treat men and women at the office.

Both Forbes and Business Insider ran with this angle in their recent articles on this hot button issue. According to BI’s interview with Georgetown linguist Deborah Tannen, bossy isn’t just a word, it’s a frame of mind.

Calling a woman "bossy" is "just a way of expressing a negative reaction" to women being assertive and speaking with authority, Tannen says.

To avoid sounding bossy, women learn to soften their speech with politeness. Rather than saying "do this," they might say "let's do this" or "what you could do" or rephrase their statements as questions and suggestions.

Instead of saying, "Have this on my desk tomorrow," she says "Could you please have it to me tomorrow?"

This trend is also seen in the high school and college classroom, where American female students are seven times more likely than their male counterparts to apologize for asking the teacher a question. “Sorry, could we see that again?”

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‘Like’-obsessed teens in need of unplugging Generation Y, also known as the millennials, is defined as the group of persons born in between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. Known for being family-centric, achievement-oriented, and team-oriented, Gen Y is more infamous for being tech-savvy, tech-obsessed, and attention-craving. “‘Like’ my Instagram,” “‘Favorite’ my status” or “My profile picture only got 25 likes?” are things commonly in the thoughts of millennials.

But why are we like this? And why does so much of our popularity derive from various forms of social media? More importantly, do we gain self-confidence from being “liked” electronically?

First, we must understand why our generation is unlike any other.

Sure we have positive attributes, every generation does. But could positive skills such as being tech-savvy be our Achille’s heel? Generation Ys were born into an emerging world of technology and have grown up surrounded by smart phones, laptops, tablets and other gadgets. But with this luxury comes the obedience and extreme attachment to being plugged in 24/7. It makes us prefer to communicate through e-mail and text messaging rather than face-to-face contact.

Judging people becomes less about personal appearance and more about the appearance of their profiles. on Facebook, on the amount of likes on Instagram, and the ratio of followers to those being followed on Twitter. Some may say this is more superficial than how people previously used to judge each other.

According to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, teens have a median of 79 Twitter followers and 300 Facebook friends. No longer is someone just popular at school, but they are Vine famous, Twitter verified, and/or constantly making it on the Instagram Popular page.

Simply ruling the school isn’t enough anymore, you have to rule the cyber web as well. Wow, talk about pressure! But why?

Casey Lewis wrote an article in Teen Vogue titled “Follow Me” and stated, “We feel the need to have a bustling social media presence for several reasons, from the practical (building up a professional network for the post-grad job hunt)

to the competitive (accumulating more followers than the varsity cheerleading captain).”

With all of this said, it’s safe to say that teens often do derive a portion of their self-esteem from social media and their popularity within that realm.

However, there are pros and cons that come with this pressure and sense of competition. One pro being perhaps the likelihood of posting something reckless or embarrassing may decrease. However, the stress that comes with second-guessing one’s self is growing.

It is important to remember, “Social media can be entertaining and useful, but it can also be an anxiety inducer. When it stops being fun, it’s time to logout,” as stated by 2013-2014 Lewis later in her article.

Editorial Staff Remember that.

So what is one to do?

Maddie Lupori ’14 After all, we are stuck in Editor-in-Chief Generation Y, surrounded with multitudes of social Gabriella Bower ’14 medias, and with an inZach Myers nate social thirstiness for Assistant Editors-in-Chief “likes.”

For starters you can Erik Barillari ’14 unplug. In a recent HuffAdvertisement Manager ington Post article, it was stated that children 8 to Alex Levin ’14 18 years old spend an Graphic Designer average of 7 hours a day behind screens (iPhone, Steven Hanna ’15 TV, computer, iPad, etc).

Front Page Editor If you cut down on the amount of time you allow Madison Chandler ’14 for social media checkCenterspread Editor ing, then you will not be so obsessive about a Bailey Bystry ’14 “like-checking” routine.

Entertainment Editor Then you can start seeing perspective.

Lauren Crowe ’15 Features Editor You will soon realize face-to-face communicaAndrew Roberts ’14 tion is fun, real life emoSports Editor tions are way better than emojis, and that the memLuke Domask ’14 ories captured in the picAbbey Burgess ’15 tures you take are more Genevieve Kristofek ’15 important than the filters Josh Leone ’15 you put on them.

Kelsey Neumann ’15 Photo courtesy of Huffington Post.

Meghan Loftus ’15 Maddie Howard ’16 Emma Goebbert ’16 Katie Karp ’16 Shay Kiker ’16 many options. Chicago State of an affordable education, University, Eastern Illinois a stellar sports conference, Ms. Mohr University, Governors State and close proximity would be Mrs. Slowinski University, Illinois State ideal.

Ms. Kammes University, Northeastern On the other hand, however, Faculty Advisers Illinois University, Northern the school wouldn’t be Illinois University, Southern changing except for the sports Illinois University Carbondale, conference. Sure, it may draw state school. We want to keep Southern Illinois University better athletes and perhaps our best students here in Edwardsville, University of dedicated fan followers. But Illinois. So we’re looking at it.

Illinois at Chicago, University this wouldn’t change much Can we do this?” of Illinois at Springfield, and otherwise.

Maybe.

Western Illinois University to “There’s an annual trek, As senators are trying name some public institutions. probably thousands of kids on the shoes of Big Ten These fairly affordable, from the [Chicago] suburbs Commissioners for size, I quality universities are often head to Iowa, head to Indiana, question whether this whole times overlooked. But would head to Missouri, head to ordeal is even practical. being added to the Big Ten Kansas, head to Michigan Perhaps the extra donut in the conference really change State,” Connelly explained to baker’s dozen is overkill. But much for any given school?

ESPN.com. “That drains us maybe, just maybe, adding a I’m not so sure. On one of talent and requires many thirteenth school to the mix hand, the Big Ten atmosphere of [their] parents to pay out- is the free and satisfying treat is so appealing to some of-state tuition, which far waiting to be tasted. students that the culmination exceeds what they spend at a

Iffy Illinois addition to the Big Ten Maddie Lupori ’14 Editor-in-Chief There is not much that compares to the Big Ten. Between the school spirit, huge fan base, and altogether prestige, the Big Ten boasts a lineage of legendary names and ongoing tradition of developing strong leaders.

Dating back over 120 years, the conference has grown and envelopes a dozen schools.

But why not make it a baker’s dozen?

According to CBS and ESPN, some Illinois lawmakers are looking into the possibility of adding an additional Illinois college to the Big Ten conference.

Senators Matt Murphy of Palatine and Michael Connelly

of Naperville have introduced a bill that establishes a task force study to weigh the options and possible outcomes.

With University of Illinois admissions greatly steepening and Northwestern being a private university (the only of its kind in the conference), the two senators would like to think that the addition of a second Illinois public college would strengthen the appeal of in-state schooling.

“We’d really like to model something after Michigan,” Connelly said. “You have Ann Arbor, which is really an elite school. Michigan State is also a very good school, but it’s the kind of school that kids with 29s, 31s, 32s [on their ACTs] are getting into.”

In Illinois, there are so

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NFL Redskins controversy gains national attention

By Maddie Howard ’16 Staff Writer

supports Snyder in his stance stating that the Redskins have done their best to respect the tradition and history of Native Americans by representing the team name in a positive light.

The Washington Red Skins are not the only organization to have a mascot based on Native American roots.

“A friend of mine was the last chief Illini mascot before the University of Illinois was forced to get rid of him,” says Glenbard West Guidance Department member Diane Erl. “He had to go to two weeks of training on an Indian Reservation to learn how to perform the tribal dances and ensure the school was not

offending Native Americans. Yet the university still got rid of him.”

At Coachella Valley High School in Southern CaliDaniel Snyder, owner of the NFL Washington Redfornia, their mascot is “The Arab.”The Americanskins, faces harsh criticism regarding the team name Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee wrote a letter as being a racial slur and offensive to Native Ameriof complaint to the school, claiming the name was can culture. disrespectful and established a stereotypical view of President Obama recently addressed the issue sugArab culture. gesting Snyder consider changing the name if it was Coachella has decided to keep the mascot but offending a sizable group of people, turning what an change the appearance of the mascot’s costume. athletic’s issue into a national debate by increasing According to the Associated Press, “Oregon’s the attention of the public.

Board of Education decided to cut state funding to Snyder maintained his stance stating that he would schools that fail to retire their Native American masnever change the name and that the cots, while Wisconsin passed a law in franchise was not looking to disrespect 2010 that forces schools to drop raceor disparage any racial group. based mascots if a complaint is filed and In 2004, a study was done over a the practice is found discriminatory. majority of the states that concluded Daniel Snyder argues the Washington roughly 90% of Native Americans had Redskins continues to hold memories no objection to Redskins. and meaning for the club and that the “I think they should leave the names original owner, George Preston Maralone. My father-in-law told me that a shall, named the franchise looking to long time ago, Blackie Wetzel, a memhonor the Native Americans. The franber of the Blackfeet Tribe, gave the chise has existed for 81 years.

Redskins permission to use that name.

Name change requests have been I don’t find it offensive,” says Montana brought about in the past by advocates resident and Blackfeet Tribe Reservafor racial equality, but none as large or tion member, Jodi Calf Boss Ribs. impactful as the current situation have “I don’t consider the name offenarisen for years. Although Snyder has sive. I think it’s an honor,” says Tony made it clear he has no intentions of Sinclair, another Blackfeet Tribe Reschanging the name, he will face further ervation member. judgment as more become aware of the NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, Protestors stand outside FedEx Field, the home to the Washington Redskins.

President’s stance.

Baseball debates, predictions with Zach, Luke

By Luke Domask ’14 and Zach Myers ’14 Staff Writers Most dominant pitcher?

Luke: Clayton Kershaw. Ever since he entered the league he has been the most dominant left-handed pitcher in the MLB. He inked a $215 million contract extension in the off-season to stay with the Dodgers which makes his arm the most expensive one in the history of the sport, and for good reason. He has won the NL CY Young twice i n the last three years and posted a 1.83 ERA and 16 wins last season. Expect more of the same for the next 5 to 7 years barring any injury; he’s the best in the game.

Zach: Following the hype from overseas, especially from Masahiro Tanaka, I believe the Ranger’s ace, Yu Darvish, will conquer opposing teams with his strike out power.

Last year Darvish totaled 277 strikeouts with 13 wins. I expect Darvish to continue his reign as one of the game’s best pitchers this year and even outshine his fellow Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, who in my opinion is grossly overhyped. Also expect his win total to be improved as the Rangers added Prince Fielder to their arsenal.

Best overall Player?

Luke: Mike Trout. While many may argue Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers because of the historical numbers he has had at the plate the past two seasons (Includes the Triple Crown award in 2012) Trout simply does it all for the Angels and is more valuable. Not only is he the best defensive player in the AL, he can hit for power, average and get on base at will.

And when he does get on base, he’ll steal them, a lot of them.

Zach: Going against Luke’s pick, Miguel Cabrera is the best overall player in the game. Even though Cabrera has an obvious lack of speed, no one can match his production at the plate.

Cabrera backed up his Triple Crown run with a 2013 season that included

an average of .348, 137 RBIs, 103 runs scored. I’ll give Luke the fact that Trout steals a lot more bases, but Cabrera has shown year after year that with Hall of Fame offensive numbers and solid defense, he is the best overall player.

(He also threw in 3 stolen bases last year. Just for fun.)

Best rookie?

Luke: Xander Bogaerts, Boston Red Sox. Having been thrown into the fire in last year’s ALCS and World Series, Bogaerts has been the number one prospect in the Red Sox organization for some time now, this year he will be an everyday starter. He showed great plate discipline and can hit for average along with power. His athleticism, range, and arm will give the Sox a dominant shortstop they have been looking for since Nomar Garciaparra.

Zach: Did you see that? Even though you didn’t see this speed demon, you will know his name as the season continues. Billy Hamilton is one of the fastest players to ever enter the majors. Last year Hamilton was given 14 at bats by the Reds and went 7-14, posting an average of .500. He added to his small chance by scoring 4 runs and stealing 6 bases. These numbers are incredible because he was only given three starts toward the end of the season. If you are watching a Reds game and see a red blur whizz on your screen, think Billy Hamilton.

Overachieving team?

Zach: Washington Nationals.

As a strong team two years ago, the Nationals had trouble following up their franchise’s best season. Even though their ace, Stephen Strasburg was not as good as he was in 2012, I fully expect him to come back in a strong way this year. Backing up Ste- phen Strasburg in the rotation, is Jordan Zimmerman who posted a record of19-9. With a 1-2 combo of Strasburg and Zimmerman the Nationals won’t have any lack of pitching.

To complement their pitching, the Nationals have an offense headed by veterans Ryan Zimmerman and Jayson Werth. If both of these all-stars pick up their power, and Ian Desmond gets on base, watch out for the Nationals in a very weak division.

Luke: Oakland A’s. Every year for the past three years, some team in the

AL West goes out and signs a guy for a $200 million contract. It started with Albert Pujols, then Josh Hamilton and now Robinson Cano to the Mariners. Yet even with their $70 million-something budget (Lowest in the MLB) GM Billy Beane and the A’s continue to win the AL West with pitching, defense and timely hitting. Is it overachieving if you continue to dominate a Division you’re not supposed to win? Absolutely. Chalk up another overachieving year for the boys in Oakland.

World Series Prediction Zach: Okay this is my LONG shot prediction. As a loyal fan for the Lovable Losers, I am choosing the Chicago Cubs over the Texas Rangers in seven games. You can never stop wishing, and even this year I hope the Cubs can put a solid pitching staff on the mound like they did last year. Also if key players like Junior Lake, Anthony Rizzo, a n d Starlin Castro all come together with power and on-base consistency, the Cubs can make a run for it. It may seem like an empty wish and that everybody has heard the same words from Cubs fans the last 106 years, but this season is different. I hope in October I’m not saying, “Wai ’till next year.”

Luke: Dodgers over Detroit Tigers in 6 or Oakland A’s over the Pittsburgh Pirates in 7. Since it’s too early to make a sure prediction, here are my two m o s t likely options. The Dodge r s have the most talent of any team with Puig, Kemp, Either, Hanley Rameriz, Kershaw and Grienke to name just a few. While the Tigers led by the pitching of Verlander and Schwarzer and the bat of Cabrera can take them far. Meanwhile, I can absolutely see these two smaller market teams making it to the World Series. Sonny Gray and Yoenis Cespedes are the two best players you have never heard of, but will, lead the consistent A’s to the World Series where they meet the upstart Pirates who have 2013 NL MVP Andrew McCutchen and a plethora of young talent.

Did you know that in 1982 the average ticket price for a baseball game broke $5 ?