volume 76 | december 21st, 2018 | city high school
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SIZING DOWN: breast reduction at City
IN FOCUS
ADHD treatment
THE SPICY STORY OF FOUR JUNIORS
BRINGING THEHEAT
Welcome to the final issue of 2018. We’re halfway through the year and through our publications. It’s been a wild ride so far, and we can’t wait to see where we go from here. In this issue, we’ve taken a little bit less of a serious tone. Our cover story is “Bringing the Heat,” a heartwarming tale of four juniors who make a mean hot sauce. We have a profile of Shoshanna Hemley, a sophomore who has travelled the world. We have a fashion editorial examining the streetwear phenomenon, and an analysis of what ADHD medications do to a person. We hope you enjoy this issue, we know we enjoyed making it. See you in 2019!
Contents
dear Readers,
4 bringing the heat
14 on the street
by Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos & Zoe Miller
by Alison Kenaston & Emme Perencevich
Four City High juniors dive into the spicy world of entrepreneurship with their homemade hot sauce business.
From Gucci to Supreme, this editorial highlights the hype behind streetwear, an international phenomenon.
18 Soups for sharing
8 In focus
by Zoe Miller & Lottie Gidal
by Mira Bohannan Kumar
Help cure your winter blues with these warm, springy soup recipes.
ADHD is a disorder surrounded by confusion. Little Hawk reporters take a look at the facts, the fables, and the frequency of ADHD in teenagers.
12 sizing down by Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos and Jesse Hausknecht-Brown The Little Hawk follows the stories of City High students and their breast reduction journeys.
20 around the world by Maya Durham Shosanna Hemley has lived across the globe. Now, she’s back in Iowa City with some tales to tell.
22 winter horoscopes by Reese Hill Are you an Aquarius? Maybe a Virgo? Find out what’s in store for you this winter according to your sign!
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bringing the HEAT By Zoe Miller and Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos
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n a haze of fumes the Capsaicin Bros dice, blend, and sanitize. Heat fills the room. After the work is done, their product Death Wish is what’s left. Mitchell Wilkes ‘20, Paul Cornell ‘20, Anthony Murphy ‘20 and Noah Weaver ‘20 make up the Capsaicin Brothers. Their product, Death Wish, has grown in distribution throughout the City High community. It all started when Wilkes decided to plant a ghost pepper. Then he moved to Carolina Reapers and Death Wish was born. Wilkes described growing as a pretty simple practice. “You don’t really need to do anything. You just put [the peppers] in the ground and they grow. If you get them in the spring, they’re ready in the fall to be picked,” Wilkes said.
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The plan to create a product first began with Wilkes and Murphy. From there they enlisted Cornell because of his culinary experience. One year into the process, Weaver joined the group. “It’s always nice having interns because they can run and get you coffee,” Murphy joked. “It was more of a social thing to start with. Adding more people meant the more the merrier. It created a little more of a fun environment. And then when someone was busy we still have a third person to hang out with.” Just as the group has grown and adapted, so has the hot sauce. It started out with the name Mouth Melter. Each year, the Capsaicin Bros send out a survey to try and find the right name for their sauce. The first year, the winner was Mouth Melter. The second year, it was Death Wish. The Capsaicin Bros worked to make the hot sauce a blend of sweet and spicy. “A lot of people like this season’s Death Wish more than Mouth Melter--for the spice, not the flavor,” Murphy said. “Last year we focused on getting a sweeter flavor, like a habanero hot sauce, but this year Mitch really wanted to make it pop and have it be the spiciest hot sauce. The feedback on the spice over the flavor was good.” The sauce certainly pops; while there are fans of the sauce, many find the spice almost overpowering. “It burns the nostrils,” Beth Fettweis, an English teacher at City High, said. “My whole mouth is on fire. I think there might be a sore on my tongue. Oh, I'm sweating!”
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The Carolina Reaper is the world’s hottest legal pepper. Origi“I started crying in the middle of Spanish,” Daphne Knoop ‘20 nating from China, it has on average a heat of 1.5 million Scoville said. “I tasted it for a solid 25 minutes and I was crying for a solid units (the scale used to measure heat). The pepper competes with 20 minutes.” Dragon’s Breath peppers and Pepper X, the world’s hottest pepper, As the Capsaicin Bros have worked with the peppers, their which has a heat of 3.18 million Scoville. knowledge has grown. Through research they’ve found that the way “My whole mouth is burning,” AJ Lehman said. [Lehman’s po- people taste spiciness is not actually through their taste receptors, sition. “How do you even eat that? I’m crying. Oh my God I didn’t but through their pain receptors. know a Carolina Reaper was in there.” “It’s the chemical in hot things that make them spicy. It tricks Murphy, Cornell, Wilkes and Weaver recommend adding the your neurons into thinking that there’s actual heat,” Murphy said. sauce to certain dishes in order to add a little spice. The bottles sell out fast, snatched up by teenagers eager to try “Last year, I put [the hot sauce] on more foods because it was spice. The Capsaicin Bros each get a share of the bottles, which they more flavorful than the spice,” Murphy said. “This year I generally sell for five dollars. Wilkes also sells the dehydrated peppers for two only put it on certain dishes, like tacos or enchiladas.” dollars. The total usually comes out to a profit of $25 for each of It’s a long process until the product is complete. The hot sauce is them. made by first growing the peppers throughout the summer. Then the “I sold my share of the bottles in the first two or three days,” Capsaicin Bros get together at Wilkes’s Wilkes said. house to make the sauce. They sanitize While most of the guys are content “MY WHOLE MOUTH IS BURNING. HOW DO to keep things small with the business, the bottles by boiling them. The whole process takes about an hour. They cut Murphy wants to go bigger. YOU EVEN EAT THAT? I’M CRYING.” up the peppers, then boil them down, “We have something going here that then blend them with the other ingrecould be a product. I think if we took -AJ LEHMAN dients, and tweak the taste as they go. it to a market, like a farmers’ market or “Last year we definitely focused more a co-op, and expanded how we make it on the flavor, but this year we were fowe could make it into a business that cused on the spiciness of it. We had to would profit,” Murphy said. accept that if you want to make it spicy The Capsaicin Bros have had many you aren’t going to take actual flavor responses from customers, but the most from it. We had to make that trade-off,” memorable one was about someone who Cornell said. ate a full dehydrated pepper. The consumer feedback has also im“One guy last year ate a whole peppacted the hot sauce. per straight up. He was on the ground “We got a recommendation from one throwing up and I think he actually did of our cross country coaches, Salinas, have to go to the hospital. Most people who recommended apple cider vinegar taste the hot sauce and have an approprito give it a better flavor,” Weaver said. ate amount, but some people overload,” The Capsaicin Bros have done their Weaver said. homework to make sure that the hot The Capsaicin Bros have learned a lot sauce has an extensive shelf life. through this business venture. “We needed to make sure the hot “[I’ve learned how] simple yet diffisauce would be stable for a long time,” Cornell said. That was kind cult it is to make a business,” Murphy said. “Although it’s not a of the whole point of selling hot sauce instead of peppers, because big business or something permanent I like to treat it as one. It’s a the hot sauce would last a whole lot longer. So it was about making good way to bond with friends and get connected to people I rarely sure the pH was low enough and adding enough salt.” talk to when they buy the product. I also realized that since we will The acidity allows the hot sauce to last longer. Though it may be graduating soon this will most likely have to end after next year. seem like a smooth process, there are a lot of steps--some easy, some I don’t know if I should say it taught me how to let go or that all difficult. things good come to an end, but it’s definitely something sad to “We make it in the kitchen. When you wash out [the blender], the me.” fumes get into the air and it’s pretty horrible,” Wilkes said. In the end, it all comes down to the four guys behind the hot Each of the Capsaicin Bros have different focuses. Wilkes is all sauce. about growing the peppers. He is the leader of the project. Murphy “Teamwork wasn’t really an problem with us from the beginning comes up with clever names and ways to get out information about since we all know each other beforehand,” Murphy said. “There Death Wish. He is also the unofficial model of the group and poses were a couple of bumps along the way; like choosing the names, with the bottles of Death Wish for their ads. Cornell focuses on the recipe, and how we want the sauce to turn out. The photos are alflavor, and Weaver works with liability forms. Each person who tries ways a time-consuming struggle, trying to find the perfect photo the hot sauce is supposed to sign the release waiver. It alerts them for advertising. The best thing it’s taught me is that no matter what of the heat of the hot sauce and cautions them to eat it carefully. we’re doing, it’ll be fun, since it’s all a social thing in the end.”
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argaret Glenn ‘20 has known for the better part of a decade that her brain works in a different way than most. “As a kid, I always spaced out when other people didn’t. I had trouble staying organized when other people didn’t. I had trouble focusing on things. I had trouble completing tasks,” Glenn said. “I started noticing that around fourth grade, fifth grade, and I remember telling my mom about it and so she took me to a...therapy/testing [facility] and I was put on the scale for ADHD. Everyone is kind of on the scale, in my experience...but some people are farther down than others.” Lanny Tygrett, a licensed independent social worker who works with clients who have ADHD, said that some of Glenn’s challenges with focus and task completion are often seen in ADHD children. Their cause: a difference in the way ADHD brains process stimulation. “ADHD is misfiring and understimulation of the brain,” Tygrett said. “If they’re not stimulated in what they’re doing, their brains will see it somewhere else, be sparked by something else.” The provision of stimulation by sources other than schoolwork can lead to distractibility and inattentiveness in class, which Glenn saw in her own life. “I would really zone out and I would miss important things in class...and I’d have no idea what I was doing on my homework and my grades would start dropping because I was paying no attention in class,” Glenn said. “You’re kind of in an avalanche of unfinished tasks...and suddenly you’re thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I have to finish these,’ you’re in a total panic. It’s just a complete avalanche.” Tygrett said that some young people with ADHD don’t receive any aid–aid that could help them “level the playing field.” “Many kids go undiagnosed–especially girls, especially those with inattention [the type of ADHD which results in lack of focus], and they’re struggling and it’s a big challenge to meet expectations,” Tygrett said. “The way it’s treated by others or perceived, the way a particular kiddo is treated...they slip through the cracks.” Glenn managed with these symptoms on her own for several years, but when she reached the seventh grade, she found herself searching for a way to alleviate them. She eventually decided she wanted to take medication for ADHD and went to her parents with this request. “I was like, ‘I want a solution to this,
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because this is what it’s going to be like for the next...six years.’ I was originally denied,” Glenn said. “My mom told me she wanted me to go to therapy first, because she didn’t exactly like the idea of me on medication, but that just did not work because we couldn’t really find a good fit for me.” After a while, though, Glenn was able to meet with a therapist she felt really understood her more than the others she had tried. “They’re all trying to help you, but there’s also this kind of click, ‘Hey, I can talk to you and you can help me, but I can also tell you about my problems and issues,’ and when I found somebody that could help me, give me advice without being my parent, that was...this awesome thing to me,” Glenn said. “It’s...a feeling of relief, as well, because you have someone to talk to.” As she entered high school, though, Glenn was still struggling to cope with the more difficult effects of her ADHD. She petitioned her parents to take medication once more. This time, her request was met with a different response. Glenn attributed this in part to her existing connection with her therapist. “My psychiatrist and my therapist said to my parents, ‘This is...your decision, obviously, because she’s your child, but it’s also hers because she’s the one that is going through all of this. If she wants to go on meds, I think you should try that, because she’s saying this doesn’t work, even though you believe this works, it may or may not,’” Glenn said. “I can put the words out that I want to say and my parents just see me, and they see, ‘That’s just our kid,’ but if my therapist says to them these things, they’re talking to an adult, and they’re...getting this from a professional sense.” Her parents were swayed. In freshman year, Glenn began to take medication for her ADHD. “Right away, it works. When you first take it, it starts working, it’s great, but then your brain starts to kind of develop an immunity to it, so you have to kick up the dose or you have to get a different prescription--there are a ton of different medications for ADHD, but...in my case, my psychiatrist tries to find a perfect fit...where you’re not not on meds but you’re not totally ‘drugged,’” Glenn said. The journey to finding a medication, Tygrett said, is often tough but rewarding. “ADHD and depression are the two diagnoses I recommend medication for most. Finding medication is trial and error,” Tygrett said. “It’s a challenging process to
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“ADHD KIDS, THEY’RE REALLY FISH AND WE TRY TO MAKE THEM CLIMB TREES, RATHER THAN SEEING WHAT THEY CAN DO IN THE WATER.” LANNY TYGRETT, LISW RPT
find the correct medication, but when it works, it works, and it’s very helpful.” Glenn found that medication was as good as its word, aiding her to achieve higher in school. “When you get a new prescription for your glasses and you go, ‘Hey, I can see things now,’ it’s kind of like that. It’s like, ‘Hey, I’m not zoning out as much in class. I’m actually paying attention to things. I’m actually finishing tasks, I’m actually finishing homework without going on to something else.’ I’m doing better in my lifestyle because I’m not flitting from one thing to the next.” For Glenn, medicating her ADHD was the most effective solution to the problems it posed. When others take the same course of action, though, medication can hurt more than it helps--like in the case of Theo Prineas ‘18, who believes that the benefits of his ADHD are erased under the influence of treatment, and the pros medication provides don’t outweigh the cons. Prineas, like Glenn, was diagnosed with ADHD in elementary school. “I wasn’t performing very well in school, and my parents were really concerned,” Prineas said. “I did well on a couple of very specific subjects in which I showed a lot of interest, yet in most of my classes I was not doing too well. I always scored well on the book reports but I never scored well on math, and I never scored well on science, because I just hyperfocused on books.” Hyperfocus, Prineas explained, is an intense focus on one topic--a tendency common to people with ADHD that is the opposite of inattention. Prineas’s own tendency to hyperfocus was one of the first things that clued him in to his ADHD. “There was a time in...third or fourth grade when I was reading ‘The Hobbit.’ It was during SSR and my teacher called SSR time over but I didn’t hear her because I was too focused on my book,” Prineas said. “That’s hyperfocus, basically.” Many hold a very particular image of ADHD—as something that is symptomized by a short attention span and little ability to focus. However, hyperfocus and attention dynamics like it illustrate that this image isn’t always accurate. Prineas considers ADHD and in particular his tendency to hyperfocus to have both positive and negative effects. “ADHD is an acronym for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but I don’t think of it as a disorder. I think of it as a difference in the way I think and the way I react to stimuli. There are a lot of useful
things that come out of it and a lot of really difficult things that come out of it,” Prineas said. “I have never gotten less than an A in English because I just think about it all the time, but other classes like math I wasn’t so great at. Sometimes my teacher would be talking and I would want to pay attention... but I couldn’t bring myself to pay attention because it was not interesting to me.” Tygrett said that the brains of those with ADHD often are not meant to function within today’s systems of traditional schooling. “The quote I often refer to from Albert Einstein is, ‘If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid,’ and ADHD kids, they’re really fish and we try to make them climb trees, rather than seeing what they can do in water,” Tygrett said. “We expect them to be organized, expect them to write papers, to get their ideas on paper, but if they’re excited they stream idea after idea. It’s difficult to get that down, but if you talked to them they would know so much.” Prineas and his family made an immediate attempt to remedy his difficulties with subjects like math through medication. “Our first move was to put me on medication. It was called Concerta, and it had some side effects. We would put me on it during the week and take me off on the weekends, and I just kind of zombified during the school week. I would be all placated and calm and self-contained. I wouldn’t really initiate a lot of action, I wouldn’t initiate contact with other people. I would just...go off and sit on my own. Also, I lost my appetite. I couldn’t hyperfocus because I didn’t do anything, and I felt sick all the time, and I couldn’t eat enough. There was nothing good about medication for me, ” Prineas said. “Eventually we just decided that that was not a feasible option for me. There were too many side effects that I couldn’t deal with, my parents couldn’t deal with.” These symptoms aren’t uncommon for children on ADHD medication, Tygrett said. “Medication can bring a flat affect,” Tygrett said. “Their brightness and energy level seems to dull...along with increased anxiety and increased aggression...it’s hard to see in kids, for parents and for me.. Medication is not the right solution for everyone, but it is highly effective when the right medication is found.” Despite the adverse effects Concerta had on Prineas, he said that there are a few changes it created that were beneficial. “I will say about the medication that I did do better in school with it. I got better marks
in elementary school on medication,” Prineas said. “I’m definitely twitchier [without medication]. I have a lot of nervous energy, so I’ll sit down somewhere and immediately start jiggling my knee or tapping my fingers. A lot of the time people think I’m ignoring them because I’m doing that or being rude and tuning them out, but it’s really just a side thing that’s happening and it helps me focus.” Prineas, like Glenn, said his parents played a role in his decisions regarding how to best manage and treat his ADHD. “I think my mom played a really big part in the decision to take me off medication. She was the one who did the most reading about how to deal with ADHD and how to raise a kid with ADHD. I just wasn’t exhibiting good symptoms,” Prineas said. “After they took me off, my parents took me out of school. They homeschooled me and I learned how to learn in my own way. When I came back to school in junior high, I had that style of learning to fall back on that I hadn’t had before and I did better in school. I’ve managed to cope with it in my own way. I do think that for some people medication is really helpful, but it wasn’t for me.” Tygrett agreed that creating environments that work to help her ADHD clients grow and develop skills in their own way, as well as giving them self-confidence, is important. “Medication is only a piece of the puzzle,” Tygrett said. “[My work with clients is] very skill-based, practicing skills related to organization, managing impulses, really listening and hearing what is being said. With children...there is a significant focus on what they’re doing well.” Prineas stressed that understanding the way his brain functions and coming up with solutions to the problems his ADHD can cause has been the most valuable way for him to work with it. Whether those solutions are alternative learning styles, medication, or other strategies, he said, they can lighten the load of the worse symptoms of ADHD and maximize the strengths it provides. “If you look at some of the most intelligent people of the last hundred years, a lot of them struggled with some subjects in school and did well in others. A lot of them have been diagnosed with spectrum disorders,” Prineas said. “If there’s a topic I’m really interested in, then I’ll pursue it to the ends of the earth and that’s the hyperfocus. But if there’s a topic I’m not interested in ...I can’t focus on it. I think being able to understand that and being able to learn in your own way is really, really important.”
“I DON’T THINK OF IT AS A DISORDER. I THINK OF IT AS A DIFFERENCE. BEING ABLE TO...LEARN IN YOUR OWN WAY IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT.” THEO PRINEAS ‘18
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By Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos & Jesse Hausknecht-Brown
Some City students’ cup sizes are farther along the alphabet. Some think this is a blessing, but it can also be a curse
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he first thing Ali Herdliska ‘20 does after school each day is relieve her constant back pain by lying down. After eight hours of sitting in a desk at school with five-minute breaks every 49 minutes, four pounds of breast tissue weighing down on her neck and back, she is finally free. “I feel like I’m constantly hunching over,” Herdliska said. 50% of women with DD breasts or higher feel constant pain, according to Everyday Health. Herdliska has a 34DDD cup size. Coming from a family with bad backs, this extra weight adds to her already existing pain. “Once I hit double or triple D’s my back started hurting,” Herdliska said. “Then I was like, ‘Okay, I actually have to consider [surgery] because I can’t sleep at night because it hurts so bad.’” The most common age at which to get a breast reduction surgery is in one’s 20s or 30s, but the never-ending pain is too much for some to take. “I couldn’t [deal with it],” Deborah* said. “My shoulder grooves were actual divots in my skin at this point; they were always red and it was deep.” In the summer of 2018, Deborah made the decision to discuss reduction mammaplasty with her doctor, the removal of breast tissue to relieve pain—a procedure that would change her life forever. In just the fourth grade, she started wearing training bras. A few years later, Deborah wore a D cup. PHOTO BY NINA LAVEZZO-STECOPOULOS
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of breast tissue was removed during Deborah’s surgery, weighing 1.2 times as much as one brick and leaving her with a cup size of 34B.
“Once a month, maybe twice a month, I would go to Victoria’s Secret just to [check my size],” Deborah said. “Every time I went there, they said, ‘Oh, yeah, new cup size, new band size.’ Just what I needed.” The summer of seventh grade, Deborah went up to an H-cup size. “I didn’t really know what was happening,” Deborah said. “I just kind of let it.” In the heat of the summer, Deborah’s developing discomfort led to a conversation with her mother about this change. Large breasts run in Deborah’s family, but hers were abnormally large, having gone from a D to an H in less than a year; now, she was combating problems her mother never knew about. “I couldn’t find bathing suits that fit or that looked appropriate,” Deborah said. “Summers sucked.” Deborah’s problems were no longer just about physical discomfort; now she was feeling more self conscious. Until the eighth grade, Deborah attended Regina where she was dress-coded multiple times for as little as a single undone button on her uniform. “I would get dress-coded and put on this baggy sweatshirt, a men’s extra large,” Deborah said. “Girls would usually get dress-coded on their skirts or something, [but] I would always get dress-coded on my top.” Set apart from the rest of her classmates, Deborah began thinking about her image more. “Dressing appropriately for one’s boobs doesn’t cross a lot of people’s minds, but it always crossed mine,” Deborah said. After being sexualized at a young age, teachers and fellow students’ comments had a huge effect on her self confidence and style. “I’ve been doing that my whole life, wearing compressive bras and baggy clothes on top of that so it doesn’t look like I have huge boobs,” Deborah said. Many things contributed to Deborah’s decision to have breast reduction surgery, including intense neck and back pain that was only relieved with hot showers. The main reason was a simple thing: walking up or down stairs. “I’m not out of shape or anything,” Deborah said. “My boobs would go up and down no matter how much support I wore, so I would grab books out of my bag and hold them in front of me so I could put compression [on them].”
“THIS IS SOMETHING BEING TAKEN OFF ME... WHAT IF I DON’T LIKE IT AT THE END?” ALI HERDLISKA ‘20 Finding people to sympathize with about these issues was hard for Deborah. Once she left Regina, she noticed more people in the same situation as her but found that other students couldn’t formulate their feelings and pain into words. Herdliska has always talked about the topic with her aunt, who has never gotten the procedure but would love to and supports Herdliska with any decision. “I remember being in a lot of pain. It gradually started from a little, middle-of-the-back pain and rose to my shoulders,” Herdliska said. “If I get a size bigger, I am a hundred percent getting a breast reduction surgery.” After bringing the subject up with her family, Herdliska was recommended to begin reporting the pain to her doctor before requesting information about the surgery. One concern of Herdliska’s is having to catch up on missed work after being gone from school after the surgery. After spending a couple of days in the hospital, it takes two to six weeks to fully recover from breast reduction surgery, with one to two weeks home from school or work. The cost and final result is also a worry for Herdliska. “This is something being taken off me...what if I don’t like it at the end?” Herdliska said. “What if insurance doesn’t cover it? It’s just all these thoughts and it’s scary.” According to Patrick Hawkes a plastic surgeon at the University of Iowa, insurance will cover the procedure as long as it meets the insurance policy on the issue. Herdliska is not in any rush; for the moment, she is trying to adjust to the pain. “It’s just always there,” Herdliska said. “So I better just get used to it rather than complain about it.” Herdliska wears a 34DDD—around four pounds of breast tissue. Six pounds of breast tissue were removed during Deborah’s surgery, when she went from a 34H to a 34B. In the month leading up to the procedure, it was all she could think about. “I got a little nervous that people would be able to tell, though,” Deborah said. Due to this concern, Deborah’s doctors recommended to continue wearing sweatshirts and oversized clothing. Deborah rejected this notion. “I kind of want to embrace it, but I also didn’t want to because I don’t want people to say I did it for vanity reasons,” Deborah said. “I did it for my health, to get a better life out of it.” Deborah said she has gotten a better life out of it. From being able to wear bralettes to walking up the stairs without a textbook handy, she recommends looking into the procedure if going through similar issues. “I feel a lot more confident in my everyday life...with everything,” Deborah said. *Name changed to protect source’s anonymity.
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orn out of surf-skate culture, streetwear has blended high-class fashion labels and more established brands since the late 1970s. In 1994, James Jebbia founded a small startup in downtown Manhattan. Almost 25 years later, that startup—Supreme—is worth over a billion dollars. The juxtaposition of athleisure brands like Adidas and high-end names like Gucci or Louis Vuitton is what gives streetwear it’s classic, laid-back, Californian look. Brands coming out of Asia, like Bathing Ape (BAPE) and Comme des Garcons, have brought Asian style into the United States’s mainstream. Companies merge cultures and couture to create unique looks perfect for anywhere, from the sidewalk to the runway. With products that sell for thousands of dollars, brands like Supreme have people buying the brand and reselling for huge markups. People are willing to buy anything with the classic Supreme logo. Since the brand’s creation, the logo has become so iconic that bricks engraved with it resell for thousands of dollars on eBay. New drops sell out within hours, with low supply and high demand. Supreme has broken the business cycle and
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rebuilt it into an empire. The queues just to enter Supreme’s stores are never-ending, and some people are willing to sleep on the street while waiting in line to buy new drops. Supreme has mastered their marketing to portray exclusivity, while keeping products just affordable enough for teenagers to buy. Other companies, like Stüssy, founded in 1980, started by selling graphic tees. Still one of the best brands for surf-skate fashion, Stüssy is the grandfather of the modern streetwear brand. BAPE, a Tokyo brand, owns another iconic logo, the BAPE head. This December, BAPE held its 25-year anniversary and BAPE HEADS SHOW in Kanye York’s Hulu theater at Madison Square Garden. Since 1997, BAPE has held this concert for fans, with past artists ranging from Kanye West to Wiz Khalifa. Collaborations with artists, athletes, and other labels increase popularity and demand for the products and the labels that take part in them. The influence of streetwear on fashion in the US is in part due to the fact that it is accessible for people to buy: not super cheap, but reasonable. Contrary to popular opinion, you just have to be there for the launches.
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INGREDIENTS: 1 tablespoon coriander seeds 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, more for serving 1 large white onion, peeled and diced (2 cups) 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped 5 medium carrots (1 pound), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces (2 cups) 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt, more as needed 3 tablespoons white miso 1 small (or half of a large) head cauliflower, trimmed and cut into florets ½ teaspoon lemon zest 2 tablespoons lemon juice, more to taste Smoky chili powder, for serving Coarse sea salt, for serving Cilantro leaves, for serving
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Step 1: In a large, dry pot over medium heat, toast coriander seeds until fragrant and dark golden-brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a mortar and pestle and coarsely crush. Step 2: Return the pot to medium heat. Add the oil and heat until warm. Stir in onion; cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and lightly colored, 7 to 10 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook 1 minute. Step 3: Add carrots, crushed coriander, salt, and 6 cups water to the pot. Stir in the miso until it dissolves. Bring mixture to a simmer and cook, uncovered, 5 minutes. Stir in cauliflower and cook, covered, over medium-low heat until the vegetables are very tender, about 10 minutes. Step 4: Remove the soup from the heat. Using an immersion blender, purée the soup until smooth. (Alternatively, you can let soup cool slightly, then purée it in batches in a food processor or blender.) If necessary, return the puréed soup to the heat to warm through. Stir in the lemon zest and juice just before serving. Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with chili, sea salt, and cilantro.
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LEMONY CARROT & CAULIFLOWER SOUP
WHITE-BEAN PARMESAN SOUP INGREDIENTS: 1 pound dry cannellini beans, soaked overnight and drained 8 ounces Parmigiano Reggiano, hard rinds cut off and reserved 1 cup wheat berries ¼ cup olive oil 1 large onion, finely chopped 1 fennel bulb, cored and finely chopped, fronds roughly chopped and reserved
MOROCCAN TOMATO SOUP INGREDIENTS: 5 medium cloves garlic, smashed, peeled and minced 2 ½ teaspoons sweet paprika 1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin Large pinch of cayenne pepper 4 teaspoons olive oil 2 ¼ pounds tomatoes,
cored and cut into 1-inch pieces ¼ cup packed, chopped cilantro leaves, plus additional for garnish 1 tablespoon white-wine vinegar 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice Kosher salt 4 stalks celery, diced
RECIPE: Step 1: In a small saucepan, stir together the garlic, paprika, cumin, cayenne and olive oil. Place over medium-low heat and cook, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside. Step 2: Pass the tomatoes through a food mill fitted with a large disk. Stir in the cooked spice mixture, the cilantro, vinegar, lemon juice, 2 teaspoons salt, celery, and 2 tablespoons water. Add more salt as desired. Refrigerate until cold. Serve garnished with cilantro leaves. All recipes courtesy of New York Times Cooking. PHOTOS BY LOTTIE GIDAL & ZOE MILLER
3 celery stalks, sliced 1/2-inch thick 6 garlic cloves, roughly chopped 1 teaspoon fennel seeds 1 teaspoon red-pepper flakes 2 sprigs fresh rosemary ½ cup dry white wine 6 cups chicken stock or broth Leaves from 1 small bunch flat-leaf parsley, chopped Juice of 1 large lemon
RECIPE: Step 1: Put the soaked, drained beans in a 5- to 8-quart slow cooker, season with salt and pepper. Add the Parmesan rinds and the wheat berries. Step 2: Warm the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, season generously with salt, and cook until softened. Add the fennel. Continue to cook, stirring often, until the fennel is softened and the onion is lightly browned. Add the celery and garlic, and cook, stirring, until just softened. Add the fennel seeds and red pepper, and cook, stirring constantly, until combined and fragrant. Add the rosemary and the wine and let the wine bubble until the pan is almost dry, about 2 minutes. Step 3: Transfer to slow cooker. Add the stock, and season with salt unless using a fully salted broth. Stir to combine, and cook on low until the wheat berries are tender and the beans are creamy, about 8 to 10 hours. (Cooking time varies depending on age of beans). Step 4: Before serving, remove and discard the rosemary sprigs. Stir in the parsley, lemon juice, and reserved fennel fronds. Add salt and pepper if necessary. Serve in bowls topped generously with grated Parmesan.
around the By Maya Durham
WORLD Shoshanna Hemley has lived across the globe. Now, she’s back in Iowa City with some tales to tell
hoshanna Hemley ’21 has traveled the “[France] was a very separate part of my for Hemley, though. world. She has spent her entire life childhood,” she said. “It was very surreal. “They were all really, really, really rich in four countries, moving between Honestly, it was like a Wes Anderson mov- and fairly conservative,” she said. Hemley France, Singapore, the ie.” spent her childhood surrounded by liberals, United States, and the For the next four years, spending many years in Iowa City’s liberal “IT WAS NOT LIKE Philippines—and now, she was back in Iowa City. bubble. She developed a passion for politics, THE PRIVATE SCHOOL she’s landed in Iowa City. “I spent [my child- and was frustrated by a sense of isolation in Hemley was born in EXPERIENCE YOU WOULD hood] playing with the Singapore. the Philippines, but re“I was able to see that there it wasn’t fully EVER SEE IN A MOVIE OR other kids in a little located within a year to creek,” she said. “Just like conservative...after the Parkland shooting. A TV SHOW. IT’S PRETTY Iowa, where her aparents a children’s book, really. I In Singapore, protesting is illegal and I wantINDESCRIBABLE.” worked at the University lived through ‘Where the ed to hold a march in support of the ones of Iowa. She then moved Wild Things Are.’” in America,” she said. “But that wouldn’t to France at the age of seven, and went beIn sixth grade, her dad’s job took their have been possible. We couldn’t walk out. tween America and Singapore until this family to Singapore, a polar opposite to Io- The school was guarded by gates surroundyear. wa’s cornfields and relative quiet. ing and you had to have an ID and a pass “That’s a lot of culture shock,” she said. “I was going to an American private to go out. You couldn’t leave the school. A “Especially at such a young age.” school, so everyone’s parents were in the oil walk out would not have been possible. So The first wave of shock hit her in first industry and they’re from a senior and I organized grade, when she moved to France—a brand- Texas or they were lawyers a sit-in instead. I got to “I SPENT [MY new country, a brand-new language, and a from New York. I was the see their liberal-ness shine brand-new culture. only Midwesterner there,” through.” CHILDHOOD] PLAYING “My first day of school in France and she said. “It was a big Now, she’s back home WITH THE OTHER KIDS my last day living in France were so weird,” school because it was evand at City High to finIN A LITTLE CREEK.JUST ish her high school career. she said. “One of the kids, wrote me a little ery grade; the high school note and during recess all the kids gathered itself was fairly small and LIKE A CHILDREN’S BOOK, “Being back here is around me and they passed me the note and it was a huge...hive mind, really—it’s exactly what REALLY.” it said ‘je t’aime,’ which means I love you, and...it was not like the I wanted and what I was but I didn’t know what it meant because I private-school experience missing,” Hemley said. didn’t speak French yet.” you would ever see in a movie or a TV show. “There’s so much more freedom, so much At such a young age, Hemley took a It’s pretty indescribable.” more diversity and variety. Everyone’s suwhile to adapt to another world. The people were the biggest difference per different and I just...I needed that.”
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Winter Horoscopes by The Little Hoax DISCLAIMER: The Little Hoax and its horoscopes are a satirical blog. (…Or are they?) Follow this advice column at your own discretion.
By Reese Hill
Aries (March 21 - April 19): You may find that your usually energetic attitude is hampered during these next few months, experiencing lethargic tendencies and a general repulsion at all things society offers. At first, perhaps you assume that this is just the usual seasonal depression. I regret to inform you that it definitely is not. You have been infected by a parasite sent to Earth from higher beings. The assimilation will be complete by early March. Taurus (April 20 - May 20): In the spirit of the season of giving, you may be in an unusually helpful mood. Do not hesitate to give somebody the shirt off your back. Actually, just give them your back. Spine and everything. They’ll need it more than you do.
Gemini (May 21 - June 20): The holiday season is a wonderful time for Gemini, with all the twofaced family at social gatherings and the icy wind matching your warmth-deprived soul. Take this as a compliment. The energy you absorb from tense family dinners and killer winter blizzards endows you with so much power you’ll have risen to god status come spring.
Cancer (June 21 - July 22): Significant changes are in store for Cancer this season as the new year approaches. You thought you went through puberty already? Well. You were wrong. Leo (July 23 - Aug 22): It’s true, Leo – everything in life really does happen for a reason. So adopt a laissez-faire policy this winter, and just let whatever happens happen. Don’t be concerned by the awful grades you may receive, the rodent infestations, or any impending murder charges. It’ll all make sense soon enough.
Virgo (Aug 23 - Sep 22): Don’t let the holiday cheer blindside you to the perils and dangers that you have yet to face. Do not go near the red icing, no matter what. You’ll thank me later.
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Libra (Sep 23 - Oct 22): Be wary of wolves in sheepskin. Some might try to take advantage of your understanding nature during these weeks of forgiving. But you know better than to forgive those cowards who hurt you before. That girl who picked you last for the kickball team in second grade? She’s far from changing her ways. And don’t think for a second that you don’t deserve revenge.
Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21): It’s the perfect time for you to start exploring new passions and wild modifications to your current lifestyle! After the first weekend of January, you may begin searching for a hobby to take up. If you need any suggestions, you may just have a hidden talent for making animal noises. Join a competitive mooing team and watch your social life soar!
Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21): You may be in a place right now where you are full of many aching doubts and impossible decisions. Perhaps you have a lot of questions you’ve wanted to ask the sky. Well, the universe is just as confused about what you’re doing with your life as you are. It’s probably hopeless at this point.
Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 19): You must obey the following tasks precisely. 1) Stash packing peanuts beneath your best friend’s mattress. Make sure you are not seen. 2) Run from the men on the street. They will try to turn you. Do not let them. 3) Eat all of the flour in your house. 4) Sit and wait for further instructions.
Aquarius (Jan 20 - Feb 18): With the stars in your corner, your creative juices will finally begin flowing again! Prepare to slam all your projects out of the park. Unfortunately, these aren’t the productive creative juices—although you’ll finally finish that crocheted iguana vest you’ve been dreaming of, it is unlikely any of your academic assignments will reach completion.
Pisces (Feb 19 - March 20): Your financial life is going to boom with a sudden flowing income of moolah. Ride this high where it takes you. However, it may also blind you to the rapid disintegration of your social life and the disappearance of those you were close to. Not saying your friends secretly sold you to Satan on your behalf, but that’s pretty much what I’m saying.
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