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SICKLY SWEET

IN FOCUS: A LOOK BEHIND VAPE CULTURE AMONG MINORS

In a scene from the movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” the graceful and elegant Audrey Hepburn laughs in between drags of a cigarette draped between her fingers. Like the pearls around her neck, her white teeth glisten an unnatural white, and the shades covering her eyes add a mysterious feeling to her aura.

Since 1961, the year the movie was released and the beginning of the peak decade of cigarette culture, society has glamorized smoking. This crafted sentiment that smoking is “cool” has transgressed passed cigarette culture and into the contemporary vaping culture. In the survey sent in the upper school, 33 percent of respondents answered that they think their peers vape because it “makes them look cool” or “they think it looks cool.”

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MUSIC REVIEW

IN DEFENSE OF TAYLOR

Like many other teenage girls, I was an avid Taylor Swift fan during the singer’s days of acoustic guitars and long golden curls. Like any Swiftie at the time would, I rocked out to her iconic country-pop hits like “You Belong with Me” and “Love Story.” To this day, I am still a proud Swiftie. I followed carefully as Swift’s style evolved, venturing into dubstep in her “Red” album and synthpop in “1989.” Just as I had with previous albums, I listened to each of her songs on constant repeat.

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SEXIST VALLEY

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CULTURE IN THE FOLLOW US TECH INDUSTRY Congrats to 2017 NSPA

After Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned amidst a sexual harassment scandal on June 20, Dara Khosrowshahi, the current CEO of Expedia, was offered the job. Although Uber is trying to turn a new leaf, the scandal exposed a major problem with the hostile work environment for women in Silicon Valley, the heart of the booming tech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. For Hockaday students aspiring to enter the industry, this poses a major issue that can’t be solved with a simple shift in leadership. Rather, the culture among not only bosses but employees in Silicon Valley needs to change.

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In response to the hurricane, members of the Hockaday community traveled to the Houston area to aid in storm relief efforts. Among them, Self Defense Teacher Meg Hinkley, along with Emergency Medical Technicians, firemen and law enforcement officers, took a seven-day trip to Houston to assist the Texas Search and Rescue, a branch of FEMA. Hockaday’s Balfour Yearbook Consultant Mickey Mehrens took a similar trip with his friends to extricate those trapped in their homes.

“No one knew what to do. There was water coming up so fast to places it had never been, so everybody was taken by surprise. That was one of the reasons it was as catastrophic as it was,” Mehrens said. “There was literally not enough time in the day to help the numbers of people that needed to be helped.”

As they rescued people for typically 20 hours a day, the two took in the severity of the trauma Harvey caused.

Of the spectrum of emotions Hinkley saw in the people she rescued, she said that the most predominant one was numbness. She recalled one woman who told the first responders how she did not think this was the way she was going to say goodbye to her home. All her pictures and memories were in the house; she thought she would be there forever.

Although sad, most people were grateful.

Mehrens shared memories of a lady, who recently moved from New York City, and found new respect for people from Texas, especially with the way that the community helped each other in a time of need.

In a breakfast discussion to Upper School students and faculty on Aug. 30, Service Learning Director Laura Day encouraged members to truly think about how they would react in this situation.

“There are no boundaries to how people would try and help, and she was very moved by that and extremely thankful,” Mehrens said.

A large issue with the hurricane, however, was that many individuals didn’t leave until their homes were severely endangered. People like Hinkley and Mehrens tried to help these people evacuate their homes.

Mehrens, equipped with his 24-foot Boatright aluminum boat; 200 gallons of fuel; many life jackets; water bottles; diapers and clothing and food donations, navigated through Houston’s flooded streets. He visited a woman’s house on Aug. 28 and 29 and tried to get her out because water was quickly rising in her area. In the end, the woman did not leave until they cut her out of her attic at 2 a.m. on Aug. 31.

“Whether we helped people out of their homes with a foot of water in them or we had to cut people out of their attics, they were saying they wished they would have paid attention and taken the advice to leave earlier,” Mehrens said.

Adding to the emotional trauma of the flood, Hinkley also noticed the demographics of people who were most affected.

“I didn’t before realize the close tie of elevation level was to poverty level,” Hinkley said.

“It is the people that cannot afford to lose everything that are the ones that do.”

The greatest financial devastation in times like this is for families who don’t have flood insurance but need to repair their homes.

For hundreds of thousands of Houstonians who had to evacuate, Houston set up 47 shelters. Dallas also set up several shelters across the city, including a mega center that held 5,000 evacuees.

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We think about the coat drive and we think about the food drive, Harvey is now a word that is associated with it.

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at UT Southwestern Medical Center, said people felt a variety of responses.

“Everybody has a different story and a different reaction to it,” Orsak said. “Some patients I met with relocated to Houston after they were hit by Katrina and were now affected

by Harvey.”

But with a storm of this magnitude, organizing relief efforts can be a challenge. Unable to save or accommodate every individual, Mehrens said there were major problems during the storm.

“The one thing that could make everything better is better organization. In the scope of things, nobody can image that much water was going to come around and even if they did, it could be so difficult to plan for,” Mehrens said. “As the days went by, however, the communication did get better, just from a trial and error process.”

Community Service Board Chair and senior Shreya Gunukula said that the Community Service Board’s goal is to bring people together. Whether a student calls the Houston area home or has family or friends from the affected cities, many students have some connection to Harvey.

“At first glance you wouldn’t think there is a lot to do in North Texas because Harvey didn’t hit here, but all of the overflow from the people who had to evacuate their homes came here,” Gunukula said.

Hockaday donated 20 laptops to shelters for FEMA that displaced children could use in shelters and 10 boxes of necessities to DISD partners for evacuees. From donated money collected in collection boxes, Hockaday has provided supplies for those in the Dallas Convention Center. The shelter officially closed on Sept. 20.

“Harvey is now integrated into everything we are doing. We think about the coat drive and we think about the food drive, Harvey is now a word that is associated with it,” Gunukula said.

Habitat for Humanity as well as other development organizations still send groups over 12 years later to rebuild homes in New Orleans that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Day reminded students and faculty to think long term in the ways to help.

“Let’s remember that a year from now there is probably more help needed than there is now,” Day said.

Despite the long term devastation, Desjardins is empowered by his city as he believes Houston is a longstanding diverse and resilient community.

“From the ugly and uninhabitable swamp it [once] was to becoming one of the most welcoming and hospitable places in the country, grit is in our historical DNA,” Desjardins said.

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As a Category 4, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Aug. 26, tore through Houston and its surrounding areas, lingering for over 96 hours. This storm dropped 9 trillion gallons of water across the Southeastern United States and caused $180 billion in damage. Harvey, the record breaking and devastating “once in a thousand year storm,” destroyed 12,700 homes and caused 507,000 to register for Federal Emergency Management Agency monetary assistance.

ence school St. John’s in Houston took in 37 inches of water. However, since the school was mostly spared from damage, it opened their doors to 100 Red Cross medical students and police officers from Lubbock and Fort Worth.

Fifteen percent of the faculty and student body bore serious property damage, and St. John’s Headmaster Mark Desjardins said that the community worked to support the city as well as one another.

“Maverick Nation responded by volunteering in relief shelters, getting in boats and rescuing home owners, organizing work crews or just showing up in areas at the greatest time of need to lend a hand,” Desjardins said.

The school provided monetary assistance to the school’s students and faculty who were in need, using funds for extenuating circumstances such as floods, fires and wind damage.

“We realized each of our community members are processing this devastation in different ways,” Desjardins said.

After offering psychiatric help to individuals at the convention center, Dr. Catherine Orsak, mother of senior Mary Orsak and professor

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Hurricane Harvey Devastates Texas Coast, Hockaday Reaches Out to Help

FLOATING RESCUE | Two members of the National Guard conduct a rescue mission as Yearbook Consultant Mickey Mehrens snaps a picture of the scene.

Irma & Jose After Harvey, Hurricane Irma and Jose quickly formed in the warm waters of the Atlantic.

Hurricane Irma barrelled into the Florida Coast after striking islands throughout the Caribbean on Sept. 10. Irma closed the University of Miami for over two weeks.

While causing less damage than Harvey and Irma, Hurricane Jose loitered in the Atlantic for over two weeks, finally dissipating on Sept. 21.

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The Fourcast asked Head of School Dr. Karen Warren Coleman about the school's response and relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey.

Q. As the first big, national event that has occurred as the Head of School, what was the response from Hockaday like?

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A. As we began to receive reports about the impending hurricane, I was pleased by the outpouring of support, care, and consideration from the Hockaday community before, during, and after the storm. Our friends and colleagues at schools in the Houston area had barely begun their academic years and were displaced from their homes and schools when Harvey hit, and immediately the network of ISAS Heads of School came together to learn more about what was happening in real time.

We formulated options and plans to assist any fellow schools, students, and families who may have been directly impacted by the disaster and kept our lines of communication open to support them.

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Q. How have you personally seen the Hockaday community helping hurricane relief efforts?

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For many of us Hockadaisies, the place we spend most of our time is our school. This past summer, our most familiar place in Dallas--the Hockaday campus---experienced some slight but quite influential changes. Here is your guide to new Hockaday campus features: 1. Flatscreens Make Our Classes Smarter The new advanced flat screens in classrooms, including that of Upper School math teacher Karen Sanchez, makes the teaching experience easier. According to Sanchez, the new flat screens enhance her ability to teach efficiently as she can walk around the classroom freely, interacting with students while using a tablet connected wireless to her screen.

“I think more teachers should start using the flat screens,” Sanchez said. “The flat screens provide two options for the teachers.

They can not only use the wireless feature of it, but the tablet can also be plugged into a laptop when the wireless feature is not function. Besides, the new board is a lot brighter

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Summer Research Students Host Poster Symposium On Sept. 12, students gathered to share their posters from their summer research projects. The symposium was held in the Ownby Family Lobby, with cookies and Hockapunch and students stood next to their posters while guest circulated around the room.

and allows students to see more clearly.”

Besides all the teaching advantages of the new screen, Director of Technology and Information Resources Jason Curtis said that the installation of the flat screens also helps the community in other ways as well.

"The new flat screens are not only more advanced but also help to save the school more money,” Curtis said. “They are cheaper than the old ones we were using.”

Upper School History teacher Tracy Walder views the new flat screens in her room as something that solved many of her technical issues.

“It’s very nice to have a board that actually works properly,” Walder said.

2. One door creates more spaces New doors to separate the boarding lounge areas from the residents’ rooms were installed over the summer. The doors separate each of the four boarding halls from the bridges and living rooms.

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3 Outreach Meshea Matthews wanted to find a way to create some space between the rooms where girls typically rest and the lounges where boarders usually study and have fun.

“The new doors are also way to give the boarders a more collaborative environment so that they can bring their friends and enjoy their personal spaces,” Matthews said.

3. Keep us updated Being installed in one of the most convenient and obvious locations, the TV screen in front of the Upper School office will be put into use to keep students updated with announcements and events.

According to Upper School Student Council President and senior Samantha Watson, the TV screens will mainly be used either by the different boards of the Student Council, especially the Athletic Board when they need to announce athletic events and scores.

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A. Immediately after Hurricane Harvey hit, hundreds of offers of support by our parents, students, faculty, staff, and alumnae came into the School. I received several calls and emails from our families offering their support, and we developed a response plan to assist those in need including our faculty and staff who have family in the area. At the onset of the crisis, we partnered with the American Red Cross to help the victims. I saw all divisions collecting change to support the victims by purchasing items for local shelters. At the direction of Service Learning Director Laura Day, we created drop-off locations at Hockaday where goods and necessities could be collected, and I know students worked many hours throughout the weeks following the disaster at the Convention Center shelter and distribution centers. The eye-opening experiences that our students and teachers have shared from their efforts at the shelters have been life changing and have reinforced how important it is to be grateful for each day and not take their homes and families for granted. Likewise when we reached out to support our alumnae in the Houston area, and subsequently to alumnae in Florida who may have been impacted by Irma, their responses were filled with gratitude, love, and appreciation.

Q. Did you personally join in on any relief efforts that you would like to mention?

A. Yes, I have worked closely with the division heads and department directors to identify programs for supporting those in need here on campus, and I have contributed to the donation houses and brought supplies for the victims. Daily, I continue to work with Laura Day to identify and support our efforts at the shelters and distribution centers, and we are in constant communication with our DISD partner schools who need our assistance with families relocating from the Houston area. Additionally, I continue to work with my fellow Heads of School at the ISAS schools to accommodate any needs or schedule changes to help all of our students.

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Community Service Board Attends Retreat

Club Fair Hits the Hallways

Student Council Hosts a Carnival

The Community Service Board, accompanied by Director of Service Learning Laura Day and Form II Dean Alejandra Suarez, gathered at Wesley-Rankin Community Center on Sept. 15 for their annual community service retreat. Each member of the board brought food that is traditional in their home and exchanged dishes with the families at Wesley-Rankin.

The Board also learned about the housing crisis in West Dallas.

This year, Club Fair was held in the history and English hallways in an effort to reduce work for the maintenance staff. Students were allocated a single desk to set up posters and signs advertising their clubs, but the tight fit proved difficult for much browsing.

Deemed “not a mixer,” the carnival themed Student Council mixer was held on Sept. 23 in Metzger Plaza.

There were popcorn and cotton candy machines along with carnival games to uphold the theme. Students came dressed in their best costumes and enjoyed the music provided by a DJ.

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On July 7, 2016, peaceful protests of with her mother and grandmother and thrived police brutality against African Americans de- in high school, where she served as class presvolved into a bloodbath after a radical sniper, ident. Hall then attended Grambling State frustrated by the killings of unarmed black University in Louisiana and graduated with a men, opened fire on the police protecting the degree in criminal justice in 1994.

After she returned to Detroit, Hall protesters in Dallas. The deaths of five officers that night augured the multitude of setbacks planned on becoming a lawyer, but after she the Dallas Police Department has faced in enrolled in a graduate course at the University the last year. For example, the Police and Fire of Detroit Mercy taught by then Detroit Chief Pension Fund faced bankruptcy, and the police of Police, Benny Napoleon, Hall decided to force lost more than 500 officers due to the join the police department.

Napoleon told the instability of pensions.

Dallas Morning News on However, the July July 22 that he “knew that appointment of Chief U. someone as smart as she Renee Hall—who will be was would be able to rise the city’s first female police GIRLPOWER relatively quickly through chief—has brought much the ranks,” and Hall acneeded optimism to the complished just that. downtrodden force as well However, James as to the African-AmeriCraig, the Detroit Chief of can community who has Police who promoted Hall desperately sought more to deputy chief, encourjustice in policing. aged Hall to find a chief Mayor Mike Rawlposition even if it meant ings welcomed this new leaving her hometown. arrival to Dallas, tweeting When Hall became a fi“I am pleased to welcome nalist in both Dallas and to our new Chief of Police it is a step Kansas City, her mother U. Renee Hall. I knew that forward for diversity. told her, “Dallas — that’s we would get many great where you’re going to be.” candidates, and we did beHall beat out 6 other qualcause of the great opporANDEN SUAREZ ified candidates (including tunity. We needed an exStudent Diversity Board Chair 3 internal candidates) for cellent leader, and we got the job in Dallas. a proven one. I’m pleased Hall, who started on with our choice.”

Sept. 6, welcomes the chalHall joins the Dallas Police Department after working for the De- lenge of her new position in a released statetroit Police Department for 18 years where ment, “I stand eager and ready to roll up my she rose through the ranks to earn the posi- sleeves as we continue our journey in making Dallas the safest community in the country. I tion of deputy chief. truly appreciate the warm welcome and exMeet U. Renee Hall pressions of love received, and I am so proud Six months after Ulysses Brown and Bon- to call Dallas my new home.” nie Hall welcomed their third child, Ulysha Renee, in 1971, Detroit police found fellow of- One Small Step for Hall, One Large Step ficer Brown, 28, dead with gunshot wounds to for Women Hall’s appointment marks the first time his chest and shoulder. Police never identified the killer and believed that he died during an Dallas has appointed a female to serve in the position of Chief of Police. She joins the small armed robbery.

Despite this traumatizing experience, U. club of women at the helm of police departRenee Hall has fond memories of growing up ments across the nation. For example, a 2013

With President Donald J. Trump plastered across headlines all summer you may have missed that Dallas appointed a new police chief - who happens to be an African American woman.

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EACH TIME A WOMAN OF COLOR EARNS A LEADERSHIP POSITION,

A WARM WELCOME | Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall addresses the 354th Graduating Class of the Police Academy at the Hall of State at Fair Park on Sept. 22

Hall now joins the rank of what has been referred to as the “Female Mount Rushmore”

of Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson, Sheriff Lupe Valdez, and Chief Public Defender Lynn Pride Richardson.

These four women all shattered the “brass ceiling” and pioneered the way for women to enter their fields. Lupe Valdez became the city’s first female Dallas County Sheriff in 2004, and Johnson’s predecessor Susan Hawk was elected as the first female Dallas County District Attorney in 2014.

Only time will tell whether Hall will usher in a new era for women and for the African-American community. In the meanwhile, Hall is ready to boost morale in Dallas: “We are starting a new chapter in Dallas. We are going to have some great times here in Dallas. ... We are going to be a place to be.”

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survey of the 50 largest police departments showed that only five have female chiefs, according to the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives.

Senior and Chair of the Student Diversity Board Anden Suarez remarked, “I was both thrilled and a little surprised [that the city appointed Hall]. I had been awaiting the announcement, hoping that they would appoint a person of color, but I wasn’t entirely confident they would.”

Suarez’s apprehension is not unwarranted. As of 2015, only 11.5 percent of Dallas police officers were women.

Despite her initial concern that Dallas would not appoint a black female to this position, Suarez has great hopes for Hall’s tenure as chief.

“Each time a woman of color earns a leadership position, it is a step forward for diversity,” Suarez said. “However, Chief Hall’s appointment is even more significant given her line of work ... Any step towards diversifying law enforcement is a step towards better local and national race relations.”

Upper School English teacher Summer Hamilton echoed this sentiment. Hamilton has long understood the police prejudice against the African-American community and hopes that Hall will bring a more nuanced approach to escalations of force and provide more justice after police brutality against the African American community. But unlike Suarez, Hamilton, who is black, lacks the same optimism due to her long experience encountering systematic racism.

For example, during her 20s, Hamilton spent many restless nights with nightmares that her outspoken brother and father would face injustice at the hands of the police. Now that anxiety has returned since she has a son in middle school.

Hamilton initially “did not want to talk to him about society,” but since many of his friends were white, she had to inform him that “he had to be on his best behavior” because he would be held to a different standard than his peers.

Hamilton would love to see Hall radically alter the police department and rid the system of its inherent racism, but she does not believe one appointment will change everything. On the other hand, she sees this appointment as a win for African-American women who now see themselves more represented in leadership positions.

First Female Police Officer Before Hall shattered the brass ceiling in Dallas, Sergeant Marie Owens became the first known female police officer in United States when she joined the Chicago Police Department in 1891, almost 30 years before women had the right to vote.

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New optional community service opportunity planned for the upcoming months.

It is a unique experience that serves a dual purpose: educating students on what life is like at lower-income schools and allowing girls to dedicate time to help others.

For the past four years, Hockaday’s Annual Day of Service has promoted a sense of schoolwide unity as the entire school joins together to serve the Dallas community either off site or on campus. It was first established in 2013 with Hockaday’s Centennial celebration; however, due to an unusually-busy school year calendar and Hockaday’s long-term commitment to host the 2018 Independent Schools Association of the Southwest Fine Arts Festival, the Day of Service had to be postponed this year.

“I’m really excited that our school is hosting ISAS,” Director of Community Service Laura Day said. “I was cool with [postponing the Day of Service] because I am very supportive of ISAS and know how much work it is going to be for the community to try to add another event that would be a huge demand.”

As the 2017-2018 chair of the Community Service Board, senior Shreya Gunukula noticed

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the absence of the Day of Service on the calendar.

“Being a lifer and having this be my 14th year at Hockaday, [the Day of Service] is a really powerful day to look at the ‘community’ part of community service, and really focus on inclusivity and service learning,” Gunukula said.

Although Hockaday’s conventional Day of Service is not taking place this year, the school still found a way to contribute to the community and a new community service opportunity is currently in the works. Scheduled to take place in 2018, this new event will occur on a Saturday and will be an optional event for students to participate in.

Plans are currently being organized and run by the nonprofit organization United To Learn, whose sole focus is to arrange service opportunities that benefit the Dallas Independent School District elementary schools.

Courtney Flanagan ‘91 serves as the liaison between Hockaday and United to Learn.

She has been with the organization since last spring, when its founder Abigail Williams approached her.

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As far as what kind of service will be done at these 24 different locations, tasks at each school will vary. In order for the projects to be more effective, the head of each elementary school is going to determine projects that they feel would most benefit the school, whether that is painting hallway walls or reading to the children.

Senior Quinn Brodsky, who is one of the two heads in charge of the William L. Cabell Elementary School tutoring program through Hockaday, said that often times, the DISD schools struggle with large class sizes and a limited amount of teachers to control these classes. This results in students more frequently struggling in class because they are not able to receive the attention that is required for them to progress. Ultimately, they begin to fall behind other students their age who attend private institutions and have more personalized education experiences.

“One of the bigger issues in DISD is that there are way too many students and not enough teachers,” Brodsky said. “From my experience with Degolyer and Cabell, you will go into a classroom where there will be one teacher and 30 students. One teacher can’t control all of those kids.”

Because some children begin to lag behind at such a young age, these DISD students have an academic disadvantage for the majority of their time in school.

The hope is that this new community service event in March will benefit the schools.

Above all else, they are simply in need of volunteers to provide an extra hand, wherever that may be needed.

And although it is not on the schedule this year, there are plans to bring back Hockaday’s traditional Day of Service in the future.

FILLING IN THE GAPS | Sam Taussig ‘16 reads “I think a lot of people benefited from it to a group of DISD students during the [Day of Service], not only the people that we Day of Service in 2015. were serving but the girls that were volunteering,” Gunukula said. “It was really a nice day “United to Learn is an action-oriented for everyone to step back and learn about ornonprofit,” Flanagan said. “It is a public-private ganizations that we don’t normally go to and partnership between the volunteer with their friends DISD elementary schools all day.”

THE HISTORY and the SPC schools in Head of Upper School the Northwest quadrant of Terry Murray believes that DISD.” whether there is a Day of Ultimately, United To Service or not, communiLearn is working to plan ty service will continue to a larger scale event that is be an integral part of the to take place on Saturday, Hockaday community.

March 3. The event, unofMurray said that he is ficially named “United in often asked, ‘What is Hockthe Community Day,” will aday?’ from people who include students from both don’t know the school.

Not only the people public and private institu“I always come to a that we were serving, tions in Dallas. couple of things,” Murray Although final plans but the girls that said. “One is that we are have not yet been conall girls, but service is alwere volunteering firmed, Flanagan believes ways in the top three. Even that the project will include when I just come out [in as many as 24 different the hallway] at lunch and SHREYA GUNUKULA Community Service DISD elementary schools see all of the girls signing Board Chair across the quadrant. out, I realize we are putEssentially, students ting in significant hours in from various SPC schools will travel to the DISD our service learning program.” elementary schools to provide volunteer work around the campuses. Each school will ideally have a team of 12 to 16 members, depending on the turnout.

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PLAN ON IT! SAT Testing Oct. 7 Coat Drive Begins Oct. 2

Hartman Fellow Assembly Oct. 12

Senior Halloween Oct. 28

PSAT for Forms II and III Oct. 11

Senior White Blazer Photo Oct. 3

Fall Break Oct. 9

Installation of Dr. Coleman Oct. 15

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Senior Makes YouTube Debut and Scores (nearly) 1MILLION Views With a synchronized rhythm and filled with zealous passion, senior boarder Dana Choi moves her hands as the tips of her fingers glide and flow through the air, effortlessly. Her quick feet stomp along with the beat, her body pops and locks in harmony and her head twists and turns simultaneously. And people are watching.

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he videos on 1MILLION Dance Studio’s You Tube channel have already racked up 800k views combined and counting.

1MILLION Dance studio in Seoul, South Korea is a staple in the dancing world and a mega hit on YouTube. Choi was lucky enough to be chosen to dance in two of their famous dance videos.

After attending classes at 1MILLION for the past three years, Choi was featured in two videos this summer. Besides the “Nights With You” video, she has also been featured in “Gold,” which was choreographed by Ara Choi, Dana’s former dance instructor at 1MILLION. “Anyone can join since they offer beginner classes, but people come around the world to just be a part of the studio since it is so famous,” Choi said.

Aspiring dancers and non-dancers alike flock to 1MILLION Dance Studio’s popular YouTube channel to study the choreography, spot their favorite instructors or just gawk at the flawless skill set of the dancers.

With its six million and counting subscribers on YouTube, the studio has an international following. Many members of the Hockaday community have been introduced to 1MILLION work through Choi’s videos.

Junior Cindy Lu, a 1MILLION YouTube subscriber and a fan of Choi’s, appreciates the group’s creative and varying posts as they show all different types of skill levels in their video tutorials.

“I love watching their videos and seeing how much work they put into making their passion a reality,” Lu said. “I know Dana danced there this summer from her Instagram posts, and I was immediately surprised that I knew someone who would be on a well known YouTube channel.”

To be chosen for a video appearance the dancer must have , and the dancer gains more popularity in the dancing world.

“In fact, in some very rare cases, these dancers end up becoming choreographers at 1MILLION,” Choi said.

But despite her hip-hop moves, Choi was trained as a classical dancer since the age of 4. Her interest switched from ballet to hip hop around the end of her freshman year.

“At some point in my childhood, I started to watch these hip hop dancers on TV, and that’s when I started to be interested,” Choi said.

Although Choi admits she is a shy person, the stage gives her the confidence to perform. And she brought this confidence to the Hockaday dance floor since her freshman year.

Hockaday dance teacher Christie Sullivan ‘95 noticed Choi’s interest right away.

“Freshman year, she did a duet that was totally different and creative, with her movement and choreography choices. It was a modern jazz style, that I had never seen from her before,” Sullivan said. “She truly blossomed and her ideas and views about music and choreography, changed too.”

However, Choi is not the only Hockadaisy that has graced 1MILLION hallowed floors. Her roommate Heidi Kim ‘17 joined her after Choi convinced Kim to take some lessons at 1MILLION while they were home in Korea last summer.

Kim already was well-acquainted with 1MILLION through its YouTube channel

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and wanted to expand her novice skills.

“I danced for Hockadance during my junior year of high school and a little when I was younger, but not competitively. I performed at Coffeehouses, but it was really just for fun,” Kim said.

After she took classes casually for a few weeks, Kim picked up the pace and went from two to five classes a week.

Choi and Kim frequented the studio together and bonded with other dancers and YouTuber's who all shared the same passion for dance.

“1MILLION is like its own little multicultural world inside Korea,” Kim said. “Even though some instructors can speak English fluently, and others can just say ‘one, two, three,’everyone can understand and dance together perfectly.”

One of their favorite memories was when they both danced together to the pop hit “Swish Swish” by Katy Perry and were chosen to dance with the instructor instead of the crowd.

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to dance with the instructor, since she analyzes everyone and picks the ones who stand out, so it was a great experience to share with Dana,” Kim said.

After a summer of dance at 1MILLION, both girls headed back to America in August.

“It’ll be hard going back to my daily routine and not getting ready for dance class at six in the morning,” Kim, who is now attending New York University, said.

After the program, Choi headed back to the Hockaday campus, while Kim settled in another dorm room in the Big Apple.

To her surprise, Choi’s personal and social life due to dance has boosted her confidence.

“I can't even describe how much I love performing choreography in front of an audience or in front of the camera,” Choi said.

“Especially when I choreograph hip hop for Hockadance’s spring concert, I get so excited when people acknowledge and compliment on my hard work. It makes me want to bring something different and creative every year.”

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Hip Hop Tops the Charts If you take even a cursory glance at the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, it becomes obvious that the Hip Hop and Rhythm and Blues genres dominate today’s music industry. No longer do Rock&Roll bands such as ACDC, the Eagles and Journey make chart-topping songs. For the first time in history, the total music sales of HipHop/R&B has exceeded that of Rock. (Note: some songs included in the chart under Rock are also categorized under Pop and Alternative.)

In honor of this milestone, we analyzed every song on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart for the last two months to show just how popular HipHop has become.

Rap music entered the mainstream with artists like Tupac and Biggie in the 1990s and has become the predominant genre for millennials. Today, musicians like DJ Khaled, Lil Uzi Vert and Migos are household names.

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Rock Latin Country Hip-Hop/R&B Pop START OF SOMETHING NEW | *Each circle represents a song that made the Billboard Top 100 list. The size of the circle is porportional to the number of weeks a song was on the Billboard Top 100, with the largest circle portraying 47 weeks (James Arthur's "Say You Won't Let Go" and the smallest circle depicting 1 week.

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FASHION FINDS | Say Yes to the Shirt Every Friday, the Class of 2018 swarms into school with their unmistakable red and white baseball shirts. These shirts, each with a saying or nickname on the back, embody the diverse personalities of the senior class. Ever wonder about the meaning of some of this year’s senior T-shirt names?

The Fourcast picked some of our favorite ones and uncovered the story behind them.

(Wo)mankoff: Michelle Mankoff

Come to the SDB Forum: Anden Suarez

@kitkatp: Katherine Pollock

More Nike, Less Adidas: Mo Oni

#tnguyenning: Elaine and Elise Nguyen

sin(vi)/cos(vi): Tanvi Jakkampudi

Senior Michelle Mankoff altered her last name to on her senior shirt for both a playful pun and a bit of a feminist twist. Mankoff loves that this senior tradition is a chance for people to both get creative and share a bit about how they identify.

Student Diversity Board Chair Suarez added a little humor to her shirt because she often says these five words in the hallway. It also holds meaning to Suarez because SDB has been a big part of her Hockaday experience.

Since her Pre-K teacher coined this nickname, Pollock has carried it around with pride. From making it her Middle School screen name to having her friends call her "Kit-Kat," she wanted her shirt to represent this aspect of her youth.

Senior and border Oni drew inspiration from her Nigerian name, spelled “Morenike.” Most American people, however, say ‘More Nike,” which prompted her to poke a little fun at the mispronunciation with her senior shirt.

Identical twins Elaine and Elise Nguyen put a clever twist on a popular social media hashtag with their Vietnamese last name. As the matching shirts make it harder to tell the twins apart, they make it much easier to pronounce their name!

No worries if you haven’t taken Precalculus or Calculus yet, we’ll help you out. Sin(vi)/cos(vi) is equal to tan(vi). In other words, her name! “It’s pretty cheesy but a lot of people think its funny,” Jakkampudi said.

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The brains behind the 1998 romantic comedy classic “The Parent Trap” and the leading actress in return-to-your-roots drama “Sweet Home Alabama” team up in “Home Again,” the latest rom-com to hit theaters.

As I walked into the theater and the opening credits began to play, my excitement and anticipation grew. Nancy Meyers, director and producer of movies like “Father of the Bride” and “The Intern,” and her daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer collaborated to produce Meyers-Shyer’s debut film. I have seen every single Nancy Meyers movie, so I expected no less than the best from this one.

Rom-com superstar Reese Witherspoon stars as Alice Kinney, a newly single mom of two that moves across the country to live in her late father’s house.

Even with a seemingly original return home, right from the opening credits, my excitement level dwindled as the cliches started with a montage of her father’s entire life scrolling across the screen. Within the first two minutes, “Home Again” already checks a requisite item of

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The only thing that would make the movie more predictable would be Alice meeting a starving artist film-making trio that decides to live in her house, which then creates a love triangle. Oh wait, that is exactly what happens.

While “Home Again” utilizes every single romantic comedy trope known to man, the one bright spot among the five different montages across the 97 minute movie is both the set and costume design.

Meyers, Meyers-Shyer and their production team expertly designed both the set and the costumes. From the mission-style house formerly owned by Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck to the bright green grass in the what seems to be the seven acre backyard, the set at times takes away from the actual scenes.

As the trio of boys bond with Alice’s two daughters in the backyard, I paid more attention to the blues and pinks in the flowers behind their head, rather than the transformation of Harry (Pico Alexander), George (Jon Rudnitsky) and

Teddy (Nat Wolff) into father figures.

The set design in the majority of Meyers’ movies coincide with these feelings. In fact, Architectural Digest has written over a dozen articles about Meyers’ films and its quintessential portrayal of the Pinterest-worthy home.

Not only did the set design inspire me to strive for a social-media ready room, but the costume design rivals no other. Harry, George and Teddy wear a plethora of blues that when placed into the scene with the greens, yellows and blues of Alice’s house once again distract from the cliched-filled scenes.

“Home Again” definitely did not meet my high expectations that Meyers and other movies had previously set. The lack of originality prompted a boring 97 minutes that ended with me twiddling my thumbs and instead looking in the background of the scene for the architecture.

Stay home instead of seeing “Home Again” and watch one of Nancy Meyers’ other works.

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Now, Taylor Swift is making headlines again for the announcement of her newest album: “Reputation.” Of course, when she first announced her lead single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” I was ecstatic to hear new music from my favorite singer, especially after a long threeyear silence.

And I do not think that it was only Swifties like me who were interested in where exactly Swift had gone. Given the magnitude of Swift’s fame, former fans and general pop listeners had to be at least a bit intrigued about “Reputation.”

When “Look What You Made Me Do” was released on the night of Aug. 24, Swift had the attention of literally millions. To say that the release of this lead single was controversial is an understatement, as it drew vastly polarized reviews from listeners.

I am genuinely a fan of this lead single. From the first seconds of the song, the elegantly dark opening to the song immediately drew me in; Swift’s voice throughout is stronger and more mature than ever. In the verses, Swift’s extensive background as a songwriter is clearly evident through lines like “I don’t like your perfect crime / How you laugh when you lie.”

Perhaps the most divisive section of the song

is the chorus, a spoken section that repeats the titular “Look what you made me do.” I admit that I was taken aback the first time I heard this— surely, I thought, the chorus would have been an opportunity for Swift to exercise more creativity in her lyrics and melodies. However, the more I have listened to the song, the more natural the chorus sounds. When Swift’s music video for the song was released on Aug. 27, the synchronization with the scene cuts and the rhythm of the chorus made sense.

Many have criticized Swift’s lead single as merely a petty diss song, as the singer subtly references several of her famed celebrity feuds.

This happens, for instance, in the line “I don’t like your tilted stage,” which may be a reference to a Kanye West performance.

However, these criticisms seem to be the latest in a long history of criticisms against Swift.

When Swift almost exclusively sang love ballads in albums such as “Taylor Swift” and “Fearless,” she was portrayed by the media as a ditzy, lovesick girl who could not keep a single boyfriend.

In my opinion, if Swift can make any topic of her choice into a chart-topping song—which she has a knack of doing—then clearly, Swift’s versatility proves her prowess as a star.

It is not as though Swift is oblivious to the multitude of criticisms launched at her—that she tends to play the victim in any conflict or that she has created a fake, bubbly persona for herself. In the “Look What You Made Me Do” music video, Swift takes these criticisms into her own hands and owns them, mocking herself in all of

the previous eras of her career. With this video, Swift, shaking off the world’s over-analysis of her character, demonstrates she is still in control of her own reputation, and rightfully so.

What about the fact that Swift dares to reinvent her own reputation? Or, as she declares in her lead single, that her old self is “dead”?

In order to progress in their careers, musicians need to grow, evolve and challenge themselves. Swift is moving into this darker and fiercer phase of her career confidently and successfully - her lead single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and its music video broke Youtube Vevo record for most views in 24 hours. The world is her stage, more now than ever, and as her listeners grow older, they should understand that their star is growing as well.

However, for those stubbornly nostalgic listeners, “Reputation” promises notable glimpses of Swift’s recognizable style. The dreamy, romantic chorus of Swift’s second single, “...Ready for It?” (released on Sept. 3) is highly reminiscent of the lighter pop style of her previous album, “1989.”

The lyrics in the rap-sing verses of “...Ready for It?” are sharp and clever, typical of Swift, with word plays like “And he can be my jailer / Burton to this Taylor” alluding to famed lovers Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

There is no denying that the era of acoustic guitars and golden curls is over. But “Reputation” marks a new age of Taylor Swift, and it is one that I cannot wait to experience and enjoy.

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Black and white composition notebooks line the tables, giant mathematics holy-cards tower over tables and plastic globes hang from the walls. Your stereotypical conception of a public school comes to life. Except, there’s a twist.

Public School 972, a schoolroom themed restaurant in Addison, is definitely worth the drive with its fun decor and American-style dishes. Located on 14854 Montfort Drive, it takes about 13 minutes to get to the restaurant from Hockaday. However, if the drive is too long for your schedule, you have the option to go the restaurant’s identical counterpart Public School 214 in Uptown Dallas. The strategic names of the two restaurants depend on the area code in which they are located.

Flourishing vines and flowers blossom upon the outdoor walls of Public School 972.

Just past these walls lies an immense patio that overlooks a glassy pond, which provides an aesthetic backdrop to take the Instagram worthy picture that you desire. On the other hand, if you opt to sit inside to eat, the restaurant is heavily decorated with school-themed supplies that may even give you various flashbacks to your Hockaday classes. The menus are inspired by composition notebooks, and there are even board games stacked on the wall for some in-dining entertainment.

The restaurant’s appetizers almost live up to its decorations. After careful contemplation, my friend and I decided to order the Brussels Sprouts and the Chorizo Mac & Cheese.

Topped with baked potato chips, the Chorizo Mac & Cheese not only packs enough cheesy creaminess into every bite but also contains a spice factor. By the time I finished this decadent appetizer, I had already downed three glasses of water.

The Brussels Sprouts also didn’t disappoint. As a healthier option to start off a meal at Public School, the dish is packed with flavor, including a spicy twinge. Bacon and Lemon Gremolata, a herb condiment with garlic, parsley and other fragrant ingredients, adds to the intense flavor of the sprouts.

With a good beginning to my dining experience with the decorations and appetizers, I had high expectations for the main course. I decided on the Pan-Seared Salmon with harissa vinaigrette, a dressing typically made from red wine vinegar, sriracha sauce and tomato paste, as well as the Roasted Chicken & Quinoa Salad.

The salmon, lying on a bed of asparagus and zucchini, is satisfying to the eye, but it didn’t leave a lasting impression on me as it didn’t have the particular flavors that make a dish standout.

When the server brought out the Roasted Chicken & Quinoa Salad, I was genuinely surprised at how large the portion was. From the very first bite, the dish left my mouth craving more. Each serving was healthy and light.

Emma Name, owner of the popular Instagram food account @nameats, commented “The restaurant’s vibe was fantastic! The food mixed with the vibe of the restaurant definitely put Public School 972 on my top 10 restaurant recommendations list.”

The one area the restaurant should improve upon is their customer service. Service was slow, and our waitress seemed underwhelmed and unhappy when she arrived at our table to serve us. In addition, when my friend asked another server about an item on the menu, the waiter was misinformed.

But the food and environment made up for the lack of hospitality. Hockaday girls might not experience public school life often but can quite literally get a taste of it at Public School 972.

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The royal babies are coming. Social media royalty Kylie Jenner is five months along and expecting her first child with rapper beau Travis Scott. Across seas, Kensington Palace made an official announcement of Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton’s pregnancy via Twitter on Sept. 4. Although its gender has not yet been revealed, this third royal child will be fifth in line to the throne, behind Prince Charles, Prince William and the other royal children, George and Charlotte.

Gomez undergoes kidney transplant

Girl Scout Gets Crafty Junior Meghna Jain earns her Girl Scout Gold Award by working with Studio Art to make art for Promise

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As she stood in front of the Studio Art I cause the kids have learned a lot respectability.”

As a result of Jain’s work with the library, class in February 2017, then sophomore Meghna Jain instructed the class to paint their canvas Belmarez wanted to continue the work with Jain one solid color. Jain then asked them to look to create art to adorn the counseling rooms.

“What I like about it is that she has actuaround the room and draw a blind contour with a sharpie of some of their classmates, cre- ally been very considerate to our population,” ating colorful canvases to adorn the counseling Belmarez said. “[She] tried to find out what we rooms at Promise House, a shelter for teenag- need rather than what she thinks would benefit the agency.” ers in Dallas.

After she decided to complete her Gold Jain, a Girl Scout since Kindergarten in her troop through Hockaday, started her work Award Project through furnishing these rooms for her Girl Scout Gold Award Project during at Promise House with artwork, Jain—a Studio Art student herself—asked the summer of 2016 when Form I Dean and Studio Art she partnered with Promise teacher Emily Bemenderfer House. Her vision was to if the class could participate. furnish the therapy areas THEPURPOSE “As part of the Gold with artwork that would inAward, you need a leadcrease the comfort level of ership component, so we those at the shelter as they came up with teaching the went through counseling art classes with the Studio sessions.

Art I girls with a project But this is not the first that they could do so that I time that Jain has partnered could lead them in it,” Jain with Promise House. She said. worked with them through Jain’s work in plana previous Girl Scout projning and approaching her ect in 2016. with the nearly completed “For my [Girl Scout] plan that aimed to combine Silver Award, I did a project what she thinks would her love for art and her inat Promise House too. We volvement in Girl Scouts imbenefit the agency. renovated the library there,” pressed Bemenderfer.

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“We talked about PALOMA BELMAREZ Since the start of Jain’s Promise House Exec. Asst. where might be a good Silver Award Project, Paloplace and we realized that I ma Belmarez, an executive could incorporate the projassistant at Promise House, has worked closely with Jain to plan and help ect into the Art I curriculum,” Bemenderfer said.

“It would be a good leadership opportunity for her find projects that would improve the space.

Belmarez was hesitant at first because not her to lead the class.”

After Bemenderfer and Jain decided that all of the remodeling projects always turn out the Studio Art I class would be the best fit to as planned.

“In her case, she was thorough and intuitive help with her project, Jain solidified her plan into what our population wants,” Belmarez said. and started teaching it to the class.

“She gave most of the instructions, and I “The library is still in the same pristine order be-

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just facilitated after she was finished and help them through it,” Bemenderfer said. “She was pretty much in charge and I just helped her where she needed it.”

Sophomore Alexandra Orchid has worked with Jain through various art classes outside of Hockaday and participated in the Studio Art I class last year. Orchid enjoyed participating as Jain’s project impressed her.

“I thought it was really interesting how she decided to come up with this project and do it for Promise House, involving art,” Orchid said.

“I work with her out of school in art, so I thought it was really cool that she was doing it and that I knew her through that before the project.”

Ultimately, Bemenderfer believes that the most powerful element of this project for her students was that they were not able to keep the finished product.

“Because of their mixed experience with some of the issues that the kids at Promise House might be going through, I think that affected their interaction with their own project and that they tried to incorporate colors that they were able to associate with emotions,” Bemenderfer said.

Bemenderfer believed that her students were more considerate when painting this artwork than when creating it for themselves as they took into account what those at Promise House would want to see while in counseling sessions.

“They didn’t necessarily choose something like ‘this is my favorite color and I am going to put it in my room,’” Bemenderfer said. “It was something like ‘I am going to use these blues because they reflect sadness or yellows that reflect happiness.’”

And Belmarez has noticed that the paintings have had an influence on the counseling sessions, not only serving as a talking point to initiate conversations, but also as a calming aspect for the residents.

“Some of our residents are actually asking for duplicate artwork for other rooms, so it is really a great thing that she has done,” Belmarez said.

Selena Gomez and good friend Francia Raisa both recently underwent kidney transplants. This past week, Gomez announced on Instagram that she received the transplant over the summer due to her ongoing struggle with Lupus. The singer supposedly made the announcement because she wanted to let her fans know why she had been laying low for the past few weeks. Raisa served as her donor, and underwent the surgery alongside Gomez.

Gomez’s fans have been very supportive of the entire process, and have been tweeting support and encouragement for her after learning of the transplant.

Fenty Beauty Hits the Market Rihanna released her new makeup line, Fenty Beauty, earlier this month Sept. 7.

The name of the line is onymous of the singers real name, Robyn Rihanna Fenty.

This new up-and-coming beauty line is bent on offering a wide variety of color accents to be promote the idea of “shade inclusivity”, including a total of 40 different shades of foundation. Not only does it offer darker shades, but caters to a crowds with very fair skin as well. Because of its extreme popularity in the short time it has been available, Fenty Beauty has been predicted to beat sale’s of Kylie Jenner’s popular makeup line, Kylie Cosmetics.

GaGa Gets Diagnosed In a recent announcement, singer Lady GaGa revealed her diagnosis of fibromyalgia. She is putting a positive spin on this setback, however, as she released a Netflix documentary “Lady GaGa: Five foot Two” on Sept. 22. In the film, she talks more about the struggles she has faced to raise awareness and support of the illness. It also serves as an exposé for the struggles which celebrities face living under a constant spotlight.

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Eats and Treats: Highland Park Soda Fountain 3229 Knox St.

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APPEALING TO USERS The e-cigarette industry is a big business. Bis Research, a global market intelligence firm, reported that the global e-cigarette market was worth an estimated $8 billion in 2015. The United States accounts for 43 percent of that amount, the largest e-cigarette industry in the world. By 2025, the e-cigarette industry is predicted to quintuple in value and be worth $46.9 billion.

While the industry grows in monetary value, it is also increasing its influence among youths. In 2015, the number of minors using e-cigarettes was at its peak. It began its decline in 2016, but both in 2015 and 2016, the use of e-cigarettes exceeded the use of cigarettes and other tobacco products. As of 2016, over two million youths use e-cigarettes in the U.S. How has the industry, specifically in the United States, gotten to this point? And how do they plan to satisfy the prediction? With persuasive and direct advertising.

In JUUL commercials, young adults dance around while colorful geometric shapes flash across the screen. Words like smoking, breakthrough and satisfaction blink on and off the screen, sending viewers into a psychedelic daze.

According to a 2014 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey, more than 18 million youths were exposed to e-cigarette advertisements that year. Whether it be on television, in movies or on billboards such as one on the Dallas North Tollway, the ads utilize the same themes: independence, rebellion and sex.

These themes, which are also used to advertise conventional cigarettes, intrigue youths. In an anonymous and voluntary Fourcast survey sent to the Upper School, 94 percent of students said that they knew someone under the age of 18 who vapes.

Form IV Dean and Upper School health teacher Rebekah Calhoun believes that minors are attracted to vaping for this reason. “[Vaping] makes users feel more mature,” Calhoun said. “They see themselves as being cool and sophisticated. Vaping has an added mystique because you can do it and no one knows you’re doing it because vapor dissipates quickly, so you can do it at school without getting caught.”

In addition to the thematic approach to advertising, e-cigarette companies have adopted different flavorings to appeal to younger customers. JUUL has seemingly harmless and fun flavors like Mango, Creme Brulee, Fruit Medley and Cool Mint. In an interview with Dr. Brian King, the Deputy Director for Research Translation from the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, King said that two-thirds of the youths who use e-cigarettes report using flavored varieties.

Flavoring is also the most common cited reason for why people start using e-cigarette products. Senior Ali Hurst, a strong advocate against vaping, has never tried vaping, and never wants to. But she believes that the flavoring in vapes targets teenagers.

“No one wants to be smoking tobacco [vapes]; people prefer mint, mango, vanilla. It’s like choosing a toothpaste flavor at the dentist. They make it kid-like,” Hurst said. “The flavors make vaping more accessible and more desirable for teens. No adult person who used to smoke cigarettes are out looking for berry flavored vapor-- those things are marketed specifically for teenagers.”

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Electronic cigarettes, commonly known as “e-cigs,” “vapes” or “vape pens,” are battery powered devices that work by heating up an e-liquid, or “e-juice.” By inhaling the vapor into his or her lungs, the user experiences a head rush, a state that is colloquially called being “buzzed.”

E-juice contains nicotine (the amount varies from brand to brand), flavorings, propylene glycol and glycerin. However, other toxins can be released upon heating up the e-juice, including carcinogens like formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and acrolein, ingredients which have proven to be highly addictive.

E-cigs have three main components: a cartridge or reservoir, which is filled with e-liquid, a battery and an atomizer. Most of the time, companies combine the atomizer and the cartridge into a “cartomizer,” which means that they are disposable and therefore easier to use. The atomizer heats the e-liquid to its boiling point, resulting in a cloud of white smoke or vapor, which is where the term “vaping” comes from.

Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik, who was looking for an alternative way to quit smoking, created the first e-cig in 2003 . That same year, he filed the first patent and in 2004, the first e-cig was manufactured in Beijing.

Since then, e-cigs have skyrocketed in popularity. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, e-cigs are “the most commonly used form of tobacco among youths in the United States.” E-juice comes in a variety of flavors, ranging from plain tobacco to fruit and candy, thus appealing a wide audience.

A particularly popular e-cig among teenagers is the JUUL. Created by PAX Labs, JUUL is a discreet, slim device designed to fit in the palm of the user’s hand. Founders James Monsees and Adam Bowen created the JUUL as an alternative to smoking, with the intended audience of adult smokers who wish to wean off cigarette dependency. However, that—and the fact that being in possession of these products is illegal for minors—hasn’t stopped high schools students in the United States from getting a hold of one.

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Out of 145 responses to the Fourcast survey, 67 percent of students replied that they knew of a minor who has used a JUUL. The JUUL has become a staple in the lives of many high schoolers across the nation.

THE RULES The Texas Cigarette, E-Cigarette and Tobacco Products Law is “a comprehensive approach to reducing children’s access to e-cigarettes and all tobacco products.” Selling cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products to a minor makes the employee “criminally responsible for the violation, which is a Class C misdemeanor.” The punishments of Class C misdemeanors include up to a $4,000 fine or up to a year in jail.

And PAX Labs adjusted their policies accordingly as of Aug. 23: now, when the delivery service drops off the order, they must ensure that the customer signing for the package must be at least 21 years old.

Vuse Vapor is an another e-cigarette company that produces a popular vape among minors: the Vuse Vibe. Teresa*, a Vuse Vibe user, did not have to go through intricate schemes to purchase her e-cigarette, because she asked an older friend to buy it for her.

“They have Vuse Vibes at 7-Eleven and you can just go in and ask for one. Sometimes they will check your ID, but sometimes they won’t,” Teresa said. “Every single 7-Eleven has them.”

Fifty-two percent of responders said that their friend simply asked an older friend to purchase the product for them.

“Even if you’re under the age of 18, someone 18 or older can easily go and buy products [for you] at a vapor store,” Hurst said. “It’s not an odd request.”

WHY DO STUDENTS VAPE? In a scene from the movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” the graceful and elegant Audrey Hepburn laughs in between drags of a cigarette. Like the pearls around her neck, her teeth glisten an unnatural white, and the shades covering her eyes add a mysterious feeling to her aura.

Since 1961, the year the movie was released and the beginning of the peak decade of cigarette culture, society has glamorized smoking. This crafted sentiment that smoking is “cool” has transgressed passed cigarette culture and into the contemporary vaping culture. In the Fourcast survey, 33 percent of respondents answered that they think minors vape because it “makes them look cool” or they “think it looks cool.”

“It’s a social aspect,” Nate*, JUUL user since Nov. 2016, said. “When I bring my vape out at parties, I can make friends and connect with people that I otherwise would not have talked to.”

When all the parties are over and everyone goes home, e-cigarette users have found ways in which vaping legitimately assists them. Nate, in addition to vaping for the social aspect, started vaping due to the circumstances of a taxing year.

“Last year especially was a very stressful year for me in my personal life, with my family and regarding relationships,” Nate said. “I also had untreated anxiety from the seventh grade, so [vaping] helped a lot to calm me down. I’m on medication for my anxiety now, but I still vape because it’s fun.”

Dr. Sidarth Wakhlu, a psychiatrist who specializes in addiction at UT Southwestern Medical Center, acknowledges the alleviation of anxiety, but stresses that it is only temporary.

“Nicotine blocks the perception of anxiety. The problem is, the effect of nicotine wears off, and the anxiety comes back with a vengeance,” Wakhlu said. “On top of anxiety, people have withdrawals, which makes the anxiety worse. Long-term, it worsens anxiety symptoms.”

REPERCUSSIONS The specific long term effects of vaping are unknown. What scientists do know, however, is that the addictive properties of nicotine combined with developing adolescent brains leads to expedited addiction.

Wakhlu believes that minors are especially susceptible to addiction.

“The neural circuits and pathways double up between the ages of 21 to 24. That’s why we have a legal age for drinking. If you use chemical substances that disrupt these pathways, that’s what lead to addiction,” Wakhlu said. “People tend to act first and think later.”

This information is not novel. Now that a new, more appealing alternative has hit the market, teenagers are flocking towards it with the idea that “it’s better than smoking.” But it’s not.

In the Fourcast’s survey, 22 percent of students said that they knew of someone who started vaping at age 14. Forty-four percent of students said they knew someone that smoked three to six cartridges a week. One cartridge is the equivalent of one pack of cigarettes.

Four and a half packs. Starting from age 14, what kind of damage can that do? Scientists don’t know. And that’s what makes vaping potentially more dangerous than smoking.

There aren’t anti-vaping advertisements plastered across billboards around the world. The general public isn’t educated on how vaping is just as bad as smoking, if not worse. The excuse that vaping is “better than smoking” is no longer valid; a multitude of research proving that vaping results in damaged mouth cells, slower healing times for wounds and a recurring “smoker’s cough” is readily available on the Internet.

Teenagers have the mentality that quitting is as easy as “running over your e-cig with your car” or “stop[ping] cold turkey,” Teresa said. But according to Waklhu, recovery is different for everyone.

Another part of trying to quit smoking, vaping or any drug use is withdrawals. Nicotine withdrawals are especially difficult, due to your brain being used to the increased surges of dopamine you get while smoking or vaping.

“In nicotine, people go through benzodiazepine withdrawals, which include anxiety and drug cravings, low pulse rate, fatigue, insomnia. These symptoms are uncomfortable and drive you back to the drugs. You have to vape or smoke again to feel better, because your brain feels better from the dopamine surges,” Waklhu said.

But users don’t have to try quitting on their own. There are multiple ways to quit available, including seeing an addiction specialist who can prescribe medication.

“If they’re making an effort on their own and they’re not successful, then they should get professional help,” Waklhu said. “Your own efforts and desire to quit also plays a major role.”

ON QUITTING All anonymous people interviewed for this story said they plan to stop vaping either in college or before college. Josh, JUUL user of eight months, said he was willing to part with his JUUL when it’s not “going to be as popular as it is now.”

When asked how he was prepared to stop, Josh paused, as if he’d never thought about it before.

“I don’t know how I will quit,” Josh said. “But I know I’ll have to.” * All minors interviewed for the story were anonymous and fictional names have been used.

For help to quit smoking or vaping, contact the quit smoking 24/7 helpline: 800.QUIT.NOW (800.784.8669).

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United to Learn Unifies Public and Private Schools A product of strong public elementary schools, Founder and Executive Director of United to Learn Abigail Williams was raised by a single mom who worked three jobs continually. Williams’ mom decided it was important to teach her children to understand that education was the only thing that would change the cycle of poverty.

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Everyone should be clearly informed of the challenges that exist within our public schools and where they can get engaged to make a difference.

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prove student literacy in third grade, a milestone marker, by working with the schools in order to deliver the necessary resources to the campuses.

Only thirty-seven percent of third graders in elementary schools neighboring Hockaday and St. Mark’s read at a level where they are ready to proceed after graduating from high school. This statistic, reviewed by United to Learn in 2012, struck Courtney Flanagan ‘91 to join the leadership of United to Learn this past spring.

To build connections between the public and private sectors, school liaisons like Flanagan work with the principals of the DISD elementary schools to find out what the principals would like to see from the service learning programs enacted by the private schools.

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A staple of the Hockaday community since 1970, Ed Long has become synonymous with the school itself. Few members of the community are unfamiliar with Long’s contributions to campus, including his development of the course History of Art and Music as well as his leadership of the Upper School orchestra. However, during his 47-yearlong tenure, Long has accomplished far more than most students know.

In his last year before retirement, The Fourcast hopes to share some of Long’s stories.

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In the early 1980s, Long and Upper School History teacher Steve Kramer performed in a “travesty version of Swan Lake renamed Duck Pond.” Kramer played the part of the prince while Long dazzled in the role of the swan. The dynamic duo performed this ballet every four years at the faculty talent show until 2007. Long has abandoned his classic role, stating “These days after my hip replacements, ballet is just too, too much.”

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Despite the proliferation of laptops on campus now, Hockaday once did not have a single computer. By the 1970s, Hockaday began to share a computer with St. Mark’s, allowing each school to have access for half of the day at an off-campus site. Long eventually convinced the school to purchase its own 128 kilobyte dial up modem after negotiating up from the original offer of a 64 kilobyte one. (For comparison, a 16 gigabyte iPhone has over 160,000,000 kilobytes.)

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In addition to purchasing a computer for the school, Long served as the registrar for several years during the 1970s where he wrote the first code that produced the schedules for all students.

Long said that he could not die because no one on campus understood the code.

During the 1970s (the decade from which Long admits many of his stories originate), Long invited a federal prisoner - although, not a violent offender - to campus to debate a student about capital punishment during a former Hockaday tradition known as Humanities Days. Who won the debate? Long concedes that while the prisoner performed surprisingly well the student did emerge victorious.

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Constitutional conventions are not only found in American history textbooks. Rather, Long and Director of Activities Sudie Duncan invited members of the community to help draft a Student Council Constitution during the mid-1970s. Initially, the Constitution provided the Student Council with the authority to handle all minor disciplinary issues, but after one year, the Student Council abandoned this role because it became overwhelming for the students.

DELIVERY DAY | Founder and Executive Director of United to Learn Abby Williams (far left) delivers schools supplies to Tom C. Gooch Elementary school along with Assistant Director of Debate and Forensics and seniors Eliza Parker, Katie O’Meara and Shreya Gunukula (from left to right).

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illiams said, “I’m a perfect example of what could’ve been a statistic. I believe that every citizen should be engaged with our public school system to the best of their time, resources, and availability. Everyone should be clearly informed of the challenges that exist within our public schools and where they can get engaged to make a difference.”

Thus, Williams, who has two sons at St. Mark’s, wanted to find a way to provide that same opportunity to others and accomplished this when she found P3 (Public Private Partnerships) Network in the 2012-2013 academic year. Last spring, Williams renamed the organization United to Learn because it better suited the vision of a united community.

United to Learn is a coalition of 24 public schools and 12 private institutions along with third party members who are interested in investing time or resources to developing opportunities for students in North Dallas. “[United to Learn] found that the problem in the North Dallas community was that there was passion and interest for being engaged in our community,” Williams said. “However, it was difficult given the limited budget and sometimes staffing within our public schools to make that bridge happen effectively.”

United to Learn serves as the infrastructure between the public schools and the private institutions in North Dallas. Together, they identify the resource gaps that exist in the community and how United to Learn can make it easier for different organizations to be engaged and get involved.

Specifically, United to Learn focuses on three separate high school feeder patterns: Hillcrest High School, Thomas Jefferson High School and W. T. White High School.

“Obviously, our enclave within North Dallas has some of the most affluent and wealthy individuals as in the greater Dallas community,” Williams said. “Yet, within our public school system in that same geographic concentration, almost 9 nine out of 10 of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch.”

United to Learn’s strategic planners decided on four key pillars to focus on: social and emotional health, campus environment, literacy and advocacy and awareness. The first two pillars serve as the foundation that allow the other two pillars to be effective.

“If school is going to be their home away from home, then that time at school needs to make them feel like they are valued and often our surroundings are what tell us we’re valued,” Williams said. “If the school is a quality facility with the resources that you need, then there’s an inherent message there.”

This past summer, senior Katherine Pollock interned at United to Learn after she learned about the organization when volunteering at Everette Lee DeGolyer Elementary School through Hockaday community service. Since United to Learn is still fairly new, Pollock worked on setting up the database and checking in with the elementary schools to see how they used the reading grant given

by United to Learn at the beginning of the last school year.

“After reading and writing the grant reviews, I grasped how crucial the reading grants were in allowing their reading programs and scores to grow,” Pollock said.

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with elementary schools like DeGolyer and Tom C. Gooch Elementary School.

“The main focus is working together and delivering the resources that these campuses need to truly improve student literacy by third grade,” Flanagan said. “Everyone in the Hockaday and St. Mark’s community can help in one way or another whether it’s donating books or funding the school libraries or working with a student on a Saturday morning.”

Recently, United to Learn finished their first network wide school supply drive where teachers from the partnered elementary schools sent in a list of the resources that they needed. The lists were then sent out to schools and organizations so they could donate the specific supplies or any amount of money.

“Every item that was requested by our teachers will be fulfilled because the community absolutely rallied and came together and saw a need that they could fill,” Williams said.

One of the organization’s upcoming projects involves establishing a standard training program for volunteers from all United to Learn private partner schools like Hockaday and St. Mark’s. Flanagan wants the high school students to learn how to reliably measure the progress of the elementary students through the end of the year, which will help the kids improve their reading levels.

Williams doesn’t think there’s one solution to solving the challenges that exist in public education, but if everyone invests time, resources and availability, then there will be progress.

“There’s a lot of complicated problems in education in the United States, and that’s true for DISD,” Flanagan said. “But [third grade reading scores] is one simple metric that is a big lever to push on and address a broad range of those complicated issues.”

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Camouflaged in a sea of blue and silver, Upper School parent Max Swango doesn’t hesitate to join into the chants and cheers, raising the overwhelming decibel count in Arlington’s AT&T Stadium. With his family by his side, Swango would never miss the opportunity to support the Dallas Cowboys, a team that he has rooted for 51 years, 4 months and 3 weeks. In other words, his entire life.

Whether the Dallas Cowboys are winning or losing, true fans never break the tradition of cheering on America’s Team surrounded by friends and family, all of whom sport the iconic blue and silver jerseys.

Until the arrival of quarterback Dak Prescott and running back Ezekiel Elliott, the Cowboys did not hold a great track record. However, despite this bump in the road, millions of fans, like Swango, continued to stand by a team that they had grown up with.

“Being a Cowboys fan is in my blood,” Swango said.

“You find out who the real fans are when they are losing.”

Like Swango, Upper School mathematics teacher and Form III Dean Jessica Chu has stood by the Cowboys since she was in high school. Continuing to cheer for the team through their ups and downs, she and her husband even wrote in their wedding vows to attend at least one Cowboys game every year. Chu also never forgets to bundle up in a Cowboys blanket, her personal good luck charm.

“I’m the type of fan that doesn’t care if they’re winning or losing,” Chu said. “I always stick with them.”

Since the age of 7, senior Michelle Mankoff, another Cowboys aficionado, has spent every game day watching with her parents and grandparents. During the game, the Mankoff’s munch on takeout in their family room, and no one makes a sound. All eyes are focused on the game.

“We are all silent during the game and only talk during commercials and in between plays,” Mankoff said.

“It’s a very intense watching atmosphere but enjoyable for members of my family.”

The Swango family also sticks by their traditional pre-game routine, which includes tailgating hours before kickoff. With the construction of the new AT&T Stadium, Swango has watched game day evolve from a day focused solely on football to a much more entertaining and dynamic pregame and post-game experience. In the end, the highlight for Swango is spending time with his family.

“Game days are all about being together as a family,” Swango said.

Jerry Jones Jr., the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of the Dallas Cowboys, has felt a noticeable shift on game day in the new stadium. By installing the biggest video board in the NFL, Jones hopes to draw fans away from their flat-screens and bring them to the stadium to experience the roar of the crowd in person.

“Even though it’s about the game and the competition, at the end of the day, the NFL and the Dallas Cowboys are entertainment companies,” Jones said.

However, while building the stadium, the Jones family felt a constant challenge to make fans proud.

“We wanted our fans to go there and when they left say ‘I’m proud that that’s the Dallas Cowboys home,’” Jones said.

The Jones family seems to have accomplished their goal. With its state of the art design and cutting edge technology, the stadium is always packed with 80,000 screaming fans.

“The team is owned by the fans, and it’s the fans that make the team what it is today,” Jones said.

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Have you ever wondered what occurs behind the closed door of Head of Upper School Terry Murray’s office? We did, too. The Fourcast sent Magazine Editor Mary Orsak to shadow Murray and to learn more about how Murray spends his days (Spoiler alert: it involves a lot of Diet Dr Pepper!). Read the story below to get a play-by-play of Murray’s schedule on Sept. 14.

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7:40 A.M. GOOD MORNING | Murray arrived at Hoak Portico to drop his daughter MC, a sixth-grader at Hockaday, off at school.

Already dressed in her Physical Education uniform, MC sprinted off to PE class before Murray even got the chance to grab his bag from the trunk.

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SNACKS & CHATS | Advisory commenced, and Murray employed his detective skills to help advisee and junior Ariyanna Easter find her missing wallet.

The immediate crisis was averted when a freshman announced she had found the wallet, but Easter opened it to find her debit card and cash missing. Murray, after taking copious notes, promised to review the security tapes to track down the missing money.

DEEP BREATHS | After answering a few quick emails and walking through the senior hallway to chat with the students, Murray headed to Clements Auditorium to attend the launch of the Lower School Mindfulness and Social Emotional Learning Initiative. Christopher Willard and Julia Evans - both experts in mindfulness and psychology and speakers at the event provided Murray with a gift: a gong to help with meditation in his office.

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12:35 P.M. MASHED POTATOES & STRESS | Over a lunch of mashed potatoes and chicken fried steak, faculty members assembled to tackle the topic of mindfulness in Upper School as they discussed the results of a faculty-wide survey about the levels of stress Hockaday teachers endure. One common theme emerged: assemblies take up time teachers could use to meet with students and work on grading and lesson plans. Assistant Director of Debate & Forensics Jordan Innerarity asked that the school consider whether “there [is] quality or worth in our meetings.”

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1:07 P.M. THE INTERVIEW | As part of an initiative “to build a quality list of subs [substitute teachers],” Murray interviewed a prospective Spanish substitute teacher. After a few preliminary questions about her work experience, Murray provides her with a tour of the Upper School. First stop?

Alejandra Suarez’s classroom - both to show the interviewee a typical Spanish class and to say hello to her long-time friend.

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IN THE CLASSROOM | Murray observed two classes during B period: freshman English with Beth Dies and statistics with Christine Sigurdsson. After receiving feedback on his performance from the faculty last year, Murray has taken the initiative to spend more time in the classroom and less time in his office.

GOOD EATS | Upper School Attendance Coordinator Jessica Kramer and Book Store Manager Dara Williams suggested Murray try The Purple Pig in Chicago when he visits on Sept. 16 for his niece’s wedding.

Murray responded, “I am assuming meat is involved?” Kramer and Williams ensured Murray the menu included plenty of “cheese, swine and wine.”

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PLAN AHEAD | Murray met with Learning Support Coordinator Lori Ott to discuss the plans for the Sept. 15 meeting of the Learning Support advisory board, a seven member group which aims to “make sure the students are getting all the support they need.”

CAN I GET A QUOTE? | Murray admits that after his annual press conference with The Fourcast staff he receives many interview requests because his love for talking often leaves him to divulge things he may otherwise keep to himself. Staff writer Charlotte Dross spoke to Murray about the decision to not hold a Day of Service this year in order to provide teachers with more class time.

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FAMILY TIME | After receiving a text from his wife that she had arrived with his two sons, Murray hurried to the Lower School library to hang out with his children before he took his eldest son, Charlie, and MC to a soccer game. Murray chatted with his sons about a fantasy basketball draft, the Megalodon shark and their respective days while MC expressed her astonishment that her father allowed a student to shadow him (especially during “his top-secret meetings”).

VANILLA & SPRINKLES | Although the Student Relations Board did not serve Murray’s favorite flavor of ice cream, chocolate chip, Murray did enjoy a cup of vanilla while chatting with two members of the Hockaday security team about their tattoos.

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5:15 P.M. GOAL! | Murray departed from Hockaday with the twins - Charlie and MC - for his son’s soccer game, providing his youngest son, Joseph, with his welldeserved alone time with his mom.

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Hockaday hired music historian Andrew Penney as the new History of Art and Music teacher.

melody fills the History of Art and Music Hockaday course for all Upper School students.

In preparation for Long’s retirement at the classroom. Students wonder and giggle, trying to find out if this song is either pavane, a slow end of this year and his involvement with the planning of ISAS, Long needdance, or galliard, a fact-paced ed someone to co-teach the dance. As the music stops, the class with him. new History of Art and Music THEFUTURE While this is Penney’s teacher Andrew Penney refirst time teaching regularly in veals the answer and some stua school, his experience with dents cheer while others shake playing trumpet for 15 years their head. and his work on earning his The history department master’s degree in History of welcomed Penney as its newest Music and Literature as well member to co-teach the History as Trumpet Performance at of Art and Music class alongside Southern Methodist UniverEd Long, Nancy Penn Penson sity proved himself to be an ‘41 & John G Penson Distinso it’s fun just to ideal candidate for this job. guished Teacher in Fine Arts talk to him.

Penney’s growing interest in and Dean of Upper School, who history also made him choose is expected to retire at the end of the History of Music and Litthe 2017-2018 school year.

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The history of the HAM HAM Teacher “I find him very congeclass can be traced back to nial, fun and we teach music 1971. Long, who taught HAM in his previous school, Brownell-Talbot School together. We share a lot of similarities, so it’s fun in Omaha, Nebraska, combined World Cultural just to talk to him,” Long said.

This year, HAM is divided into two secHistory and History of Art and Music into one curriculum. In 1974, HAM became a required tions: art and music. Long teaches art for one

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quarter during A period, while Penney teaches music during C period. Next quarter they will switch, with Long teaching art C period and Penney teaching music A period.

HAM will also run in a similar format next year, as it will be taught by two teachers and divided into the two sections of art and music.

Penney liked the opportunity to teach music history as the History of Art and Music is not a typical class taught at most high schools.

“I can’t wait to teach the romantic period in music. The romantic period has many of my favorite composers,” Penney said. “I am very excited to be able to share them with the class and see the reactions.”

Penney’s class is heavily based on student interactions with the teacher. He frequently en-

gages in discussions with students about the material he provides and also uses interactive tools such as videos, slideshows and Socrative, a program that includes various activities, games and quizzes to promote classroom engagement.

Sophomore Velayzia Standifer said that Penney has especially bonded with his students, even remembering a time when Penney used the term ‘lit’ in front of the class.

“I fear being not as thoughtful as I should’ve been preparing the class and leaving them bored or only worried about their grades,” Penney said. “I rather [would like] them to be focused on how cool the material is.”

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Fourcast’s 40 Questions with Andrew Penney Want to know more about the new History of Art and Music teacher Andrew Penney outside of the classroom? Check out The Fourcast’s video interview, inspired by Vogue’s 73 Questions, with Penney by scanning this QR code. See him do a celebrity impression, reveal his favorite singer and even give a musical performance!

BOARDER LINE We talked to three boarders, Cathy Ma, Radina Temelkova and Maria Sailale to get an inside look of the Residence Department.

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Junior Radina Temelkova (middle), a boarder from Sofia, Bulgaria, has been in the United States for a month and a half now, first in Boston and then at Hockaday. As of now, Temelkova wants to stay in the States longer than a year but is not sure if she will continue her studies in the United States or return to Bulgaria after her junior year. However, one certainty is how much she misses her two-year-old brother.

“He’s the only thing I really miss, actually,” said Temelkova.

How did you end up coming to Hockaday?

I applied to an organization called ASSIST, and they assigned me to go to Hockaday. ASSIST is an American organization which gives scholarships to European students to experience the American educational system and lifestyle for one year.

What are the main differences between Bulgarian and American culture?

Bulgarians eat healthy and party a lot. In Bulgaria, people are not so friendly, so that’s why I decided to study in the United States.

Have you ever been to Dallas or anywhere in the United States before you came here?

I’ve been to California and New York, but I’ve only been to Dallas to go to Puerto Rico when I was in the fourth grade.

What has been your favorite place you have visited in Dallas?

Fat Straws. It was the first place I went when I arrived in Dallas. I’m not a huge fan of bubble tea, but the atmosphere there makes it special. I am so stressed about my daily study hall, classes and chores while on campus, but when I go to Fat Straws I feel so relieved and energetic. This is my daily dose of pleasure. I always order a latte with extra bubbles.

EVEN THOUGH almost 8,000 miles separate Sophomore Cathy Ma from her parents in China, they are connected through their electronic photo frames in each of their bedrooms. One of Ma’s favorite photos is a shot from her trip to Ningxia, China to visit the painting of Chairman Mao. “The position my mother and I were doing meant ‘follow Chairman Mao,’” Ma said.

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BOARDING HALL WARS The boarding department held its annual Hall Wars on Monday Sept. 4 to mark the beginning of the school year with a unification event. The four boarding halls competed against each other in field day activities, including a sack race, water balloon toss, egg race and tug of war.

Upper and Lower Trent tied for the win in the one hour and 15 minute competition.

“It’s nice to have everyone integrated because there are some faces that you never encountered if they are on a different floor or different hall,” House Council President and junior Maria Sailale said.

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Living in the heartland of football, it is easy to see that the most commonly celebrated familial bond when it comes to athletics is that between a father and son. If you need any more proof, watch out for the three generations of Jones men presiding over the next Cowboys game.

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he stereotypical father and son bond, however, is not the only valuable relationship between parent athletes and their kids. As society has become more accepting of female athletes, a bond between mothers and daughters in sports has become more visible.

Director of Physical Education and Interscholastic Athletics Tina Slinker has witnessed this change.

“I think, as sports have gotten so much more popular [for women] in the past couple of decades, girls are getting that support from their mother that boys get from their dads,” Slinker said.

Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 prohibited discrimination in any federally funded education program based on gender. This piece of legislation, while beneficial for all in that it provides full access to educational programs, was also extremely important in granting full athletic access to girls and women in school.

Athletics has always been one of Hockaday’s Cornerstones, but Title IX helped girls in all schools across the country reach their full potential in sports. Slinker sees the effect of this legislation on that generation.

“Now you have a lot of moms that actually played sports in high school and maybe even college and it’s more accepted now for women to continue in sport after they finish that level,” Slinker said.

This athletic generation of mothers can be seen at Hockaday, and their daughters have followed in their footsteps.

Senior Fernanda Treviño-Suarez and her mother, Form II Dean and Upper School Spanish teacher Alejandra Suarez, share a love for tennis. Suarez began playing tennis as a teenager in Mexico and continued after moving to America. Although both she and her husband played tennis competitively, they did not want to force the sport on their children.

“We never asked or told our children to play tennis. When they were young we supported every sport that they wanted to do,” Suarez said. “We wanted them to be happy and do something.”

Three years ago, Treviño-Suarez decided to quit gymnastics and pursue the family sport instead. Tennis soon became a passion that she shared with her mother. Although the mother-daughter duo have only played in one tournament together, they love to compete with one another.

“We are both very competitive, so when I beat her, it’s a big deal. I brag about it,” Treviño-Suarez said.

Suarez recently switched her focus to paddle tennis, a fast-paced game popular in several Spanish speaking countries, and her prior experience in tennis helps her to further understand her daughter both on and off the court.

“Being able to sympathize and to see when she’s not doing her best, it’s another way that I can be a part of her life,” she said.

Suarez and Treviño-Suarez have been able to relate through this common athletic experience, yet it does not dominate their strong mother daughter relationship.

“Honestly I think [our relationship] is bigger than just tennis. I think it’s just another activity we do together,” Treviño-Suarez said.

Similar to this tennis duo, Film Studies and Journalism teacher Glenys Quick and her daughter, junior Adoette Vaughan, share

As sports have gotten more popular [for women], girls are getting that support from their mother that boys get from their dads Tina Slinker Director of Physical Education

a love for running. Quick began her extensive successful running career when she was 16, setting a junior record in the 1500 in New Zealand her first year. Eventually, she traveled across America and the world to compete in marathons. Although she no longer competes, running is still a daily activity for Quick, and it has rubbed off on Vaughan and her sister, Tala Vaughan ‘16.

“From the time they were babies, they would see me going out for my run every day,” Quick said.

Vaughan began seriously training in the seventh grade, and she has been running competitively ever since. Because Quick understands the intimacies of competitive running and training, she is able to connect with her daughter on a deeper level through the sport.

“I think the main thing is that I understand how she’s feeling with racing and training, the more emotional side of it,” Quick said.

Last summer, the pair attended the United States Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon to watch the competition and formation of the

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“It was certainly a bonding experience.

It was just the two of us together for 11 days, staying in a little hotel room and sitting next to each other at the track meet,” Quick said.

Like Suarez and Treviño-Suarez, while Quick and Vaughn have been able to connect through running, their entire mother-daughter relationship does not depend on their shared sport.

“Running has been a great part of my life, and for Adoette too, but it’s not the only thing in our lives. We’ve got other things too, but it’s a lovely thing we share,” Quick said.

Assistant Head of Upper School Joni Palmer spent much of her adolescence playing soccer on a competitive club team, and her mother, although not a soccer player herself, was Palmer’s biggest source of support.

“She never missed a game of mine that I can remember,” Palmer said.

Through her extensive travel for soccer tournaments, Palmer and her mother spent a lot of time together in her athletic pursuits.

“I had a lot of time in the car with her, I had a lot of late nights with her trying to catch up on homework,” Palmer said. “She was a big supporter of my academics as well.”

Palmer has a 4-year-old daughter of her own. While Palmer and her husband both played sports at the collegiate level, they do not want to put excess pressure on their daughter to participate in athletics. As of right now, her athletic career consists of a preschool tee ball team.

“I want her to be able to be excited about a sport once she gets to that point and I’m aware that these early experiences can impact the way she sees sports,” Palmer said.

Soccer was an extremely important part of Palmer’s life, but she understands that athletics are not the only ways in which mothers can bond with their daughters.

“She may decide that sports aren’t for her and that’s great,” Palmer said.

Although sharing a passion for a certain sport has helped mother daughter duos like Suarez/Treviño-Suarez and Quick/Vaughn bond with one another, it is clear that no matter what activity their daughters choose, mothers will be eager to foster a strong relationship.

“Whatever [Fernanda] is involved in, I’ll figure out a way of bonding and being informed,” Suarez said.

Famous Mother-Daughter Athlete Duos: Nastia Liukin and Anna Kotchneva: Along with being the mother of Liukin, a five time 2008 Olympic medalist, Kotchneva was a successful gymnast herself, winning the 1987 World Championship in rhythmic gymnastics.

Ronda Rousey and AnnMaria de Mars: This pair of judokas have accomplished important milestones in their sport, with de Mars being the first American to win gold at the World Judo Championships in 1984 and Rousey following in her mother’s footsteps to become the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in judo in 2008.

Lashinda Demus and Yolanda Rich Demus: Lashinda Demus, a silver Olympic medalist and American 400 meter record holder, has a unique bond with her mother.

Along with being mother and daughter, Lashinda and Yolanda Rich Demus are athlete and coach.

ON THE RUN | Junior Adoette Vaughn goes for an afternoon jog while her mother Glenys Quick gives advice from the sidelines.

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Even with a 10 game winning streak to open the summer, the Texas Rangers have been all but mathematically eliminated from the hunt for a World Series ring as they finish a subpar season.

Since the 2016-2017 school year ended on May 24, the Rangers have not been less than seven games behind state and division rival Houston Astros in the race to clinch the American League West. This divide resulted from the Astros’s best season since 1999 and the Rangers’s worst season since Jeff Banister became manager following the 2014 season.

Most of the Rangers’s struggles can be attributed to the team’s lack of a solid pitching core. I know that I sound like a broken record (see the April 2017 edition of this column), but in order for the Rangers to increase their wins, they must solve their pitcher issues.

The team was left with only one strong starter, Cole Hamels, after Yu Darvish’s trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers in July. In the offseason, Jon Daniels and the entire Rangers front office must work to sign reliable pitchers, which could include Darvish’s return to Arlington as he becomes a free agent this fall.

With an unreliable group of pitchers that ranks in the bottom half of the American League in terms of ERA, the Rangers’ offense has continued to be the only reason that the team has won any games.

As stalwart third baseman Adrian Beltre finally returned from the disabled list on May 29, the team saw an increase in morale and production. Additionally, before his return to the disabled list at the very end of August, Beltre achieved a milestone as he drove a double into left field for his 3000th hit. Beltre is only the 31st player in Major League Baseball’s history to have over 3000 career hits.

While Beltre hit this milestone, his production has not been at its typical levels due to his stints on the disabled list. This has led to the Rangers’s reliance on younger players like Rougned Odor and Joey Gallo to kickstart their production.

Odor and Gallo currently lead the team in total home runs with 30 and 38 runs respectively. In fact, Gallo has the third highest number of home runs in the American League, only behind New York Yankees rookie sensation Aaron Judge and Khris Davis of the Oakland A’s.

Unfortunately for the Rangers, their reliance on the long ball is not sustainable. Gallo has been in a batting slump all of September, only hitting two home runs, and Odor has had a batting average of .164 throughout September. Both of these numbers spell disaster for the Rangers, leading to the their subpar 2017 season.

While you most likely will not see a playoff game at Globe Life Field in 2017, get excited for the offseason to see what Daniels and his team does to increase the Rangers’ number of wins and their productivity.

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FIND A HEALTHY FIX Although she doesn’t follow a strict diet, Coutee-Mccullum limits her sugar and junk food intake. She also loves exploring the city for new places to dine.

Her Pick: Kona Grill, 8687 North Central Expressway What She Orders: Avocado egg rolls Other Favorite Spots: Pappadeaux

Campbell Swango Senior Campbell Swango heads the UpRachel Grabow per School Athletic Board. On top of playing Upper School Mathematics teacher field hockey, soccer and lacrosse, she runs six Rachel Grabow, who is also a swim coach, to nine miles every Saturday morning. Swanruns approximately eight marathons or Irongo makes sure she eats three man Triathlons per year. hearty meals a day to fuel her Grabow participates in through practices and runs, mostly endurance events. especially since she is curIn terms of diet, she’s EATSMART rently training for the Dallas all about quantity. After Half Marathon. “[You need] a training one day, she had really healthy balance. You to explain to a waitress need proteins, veggies and that the second entree, a carbs, I make sure to get all club sandwich, is not for a those in,” Swango said. friend but for herself. She has also been a vegan for Her Pick: Dive Coastal Cui11 years due to health sine, 3404 Rankin St. and ethical reasons and is What She Orders: Dive known for her tasty vegan You need proteins, wrap without the tortilla advisory treats. When she veggies and carbs.

Other Favorite Spots: Eateats out, Grabow’s top pick zi’s Market & Bakery, Flower is Spiral Diner & Bakery, Child and Zoës Kitchen a vegan restaurant near CAMPBELL SWANGO Athletic Board Chair the Bishop Arts District Tina Slinker that serves typical comfort Apart from her role food favorites, including as the Director of Physical nachos and meatball subs.

Education & Interscholastic Athletics, Tina Slinker can Her Pick: Spiral Diner, be seen six out of seven days 1101 N Beckley Ave. per week working out at the Hill Family FitWhat She Orders: A burger, club sandwich ness Center. In her diet, Slinker tries to make and milkshake healthy choices during every meal and doesn’t Other Favorite Spots: True Food, Cosmic opt for too many carbs. However, for the most Café and Pizza Lounge part, Sinker doesn’t follow any diet plan. “I don’t try to be so strict [with my diet] that if I Justice Coutee-Mccullum mess up one day I just fall off the discipline of Junior Justice Coutee-Mccullum has run it,” Slinker said. track for nine years, and for the past six years, she has had Olympic training on her mind. Her Pick: The Capital Grille, 500 Crescent During the summer, Coutee-Mccullum trained Court three to four times a week. For preworkout What She Orders: Steak and a side of brusmeals, she loves a bowl of oatmeal and her sel sprouts mother’s homemade chicken tetrazzini to Other Favorite Spots: Woodlands Amerikeep herself energized during track meets. can Grill, Pei Wei and P. F. Chang’s

YOU NEED A REALLY HEALTHY BALANCE.

Kathy Fechtman Much of Kathy Fechtman’s work as the Fitness Director and as a mother of two revolves around her love for fitness. In her own time, Fechtman engages in an array of workouts six days a week, including resistance training, running, hiking, biking, snow skiing and yoga. She balances diet and fitness and eats according to her exercise routine. When she kickboxes, she usually stacks up on complex carbs, but when she’s about to head to yoga class, she goes for a bowl of oatmeal.

For taste preferences, Fetchman also avoids red meat.

Her Pick: Mudhen Meat and Greens, 900 S Harwood St. What She Orders: Stuffed Avocado Salad, Crack Coffee Other Favorite Spots: Mr. Mesero, True Food Kitchen, Eddy V’s, Sushi Star and Rodeo Goat Rebekah Calhoun Health enthusiast, Upper School Health teacher and Form IV Dean Rebekah Calhoun prides herself on being active every day either running, cross training or yoga. When Calhoun was younger, she participated in road races, and her current goal is to complete a full marathon. Her health philosophy is all about moderation and balance. “If you exercise regularly and you eat sensibly and in moderation, I don’t think you have to count calories or only eat certain things. I’m big on trade-offs,” Calhoun said. Although her favorite restaurants, both of which are Mexican, are not known for particularly healthy food, they do offer many balanced choices.

Her Pick: Mi Cocina, 11661 Preston Road and La Hacienda, 17390 Preston Road, What She Orders: Bean Soup (Mi Cocina) and Beef Fajitas (La Hacienda) Other Favorite Spots: Zoës Kitchen, Corner Bakery Cafe and Mattito's Feeling inspired by these delicious and healthy eateries? Feeling motivated by the biggest fitness enthusiasts of Hockaday? Next time you feel hungry after a workout, make sure to check out one of these restaurants on this list!

Michelle Chen | Staff Writer

TIPS & TRICKS |

The Frozen Fix Whether you prefer a pint of Ben and Jerry’s or a Häagen-Dazs fudgesicle, frozen treats can be addicting. However, you can leave the calories behind and get what you're craving by substituting your Ben and Jerry's for an all-natural, homemade ice cream.

All it takes is a blender filled with frozen bananas and a few scoops of peanut butter to create a healthy and simple alternative.

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Marathons might not be your thing, or maybe your mile time hasn’t changed since the eighth grade. Perhaps the Ironman Triathlon doesn’t sound very appetizing—I meant appealing— to you. It’s okay if you’re a devout foodie who buys Blue Bell by the gallon. Fitness doesn’t have to be your lifestyle, but we gathered some of Hockaday’s biggest fitness enthusiasts—from coaches to students—to share their favorite Dallas spots to fuel themselves for games, workouts and record breaking moments.

Katie O'Meara | News Editor

Suggestions to maintain a balanced lifestyle

It's All in Your Head

Kombucha Kicks Away Your Cravings

Bake It 'til You Make It

In 2015, Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar proved that stress can trigger powerful sugar cravings. So if you find yourself stressing over college apps or tests, go to a quiet and dark room to practice some meditation.

Joining a local yoga studio can also help to reduce your daily stress and in turn reduce sugar cravings.

This fermented tea drink found at most grocery stores is a quick and easy way to satisfy a sugar obsession.

Try out Holy Kombucha’s green apple ginger or revelation raspberry flavor for your daily sugar fix. Bonus: Holy Kombucha is brewed right here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Don’t stick to the recipe. Swap out sugar for a more natural alternative, like honey or pure maple syrup.

Greek yogurt can also be a substitute for butter, sour cream or cream cheese in many cases. In recipes like chocolate chip banana bread, try out chopped up nuts or fruit instead of chocolate chips. By using healthier ingredients, you can still enjoy all of your favorite sweet treats, everything from chocolate cake to cookies.

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Whether it’s on Bachman Lake or on the It’s early September on a Tuesday afternoon in the Hockaday Higginbotham Natatori- ergs at the Hockaday gym, the crew team rows um. A group of girls laugh and yell as they throw with a strong focus on team effort. This year, they’ll be rowing under the ball to one another. Meanthe instruction of Hooper, while, their coach referees the whose background in crew game. This is crew practice. includes rowing at Southern During the first week of NEWFACE Methodist University as a crew season, the team had to National Athlete Collegiate take a swim test to make sure Scholar and working as it was safe for everyone to row SMU’s Assistant Rowing on the water. Coach HoopCoach for 10 years and the er thought it would be more Head Novice Coach for 3 enjoyable to play water polo years. together.

Despite the fact that “It was a great way to the crew team has to drive learn everyone’s names and all the way to Bachman just have fun as a team,” junior Lake for practices, the team Meredith Jones, a member of has been successful, with the crew team, said. the varsity quad winning Now it’s a Later in the season, as the State Championship just little more dynamic. the Hockaday crew team sat last spring. The team hopes around in a circle, new coach to continue that success Jessie Hooper, who came to this year. While a transition JESSIE HOOPER Hockaday at the beginning Head Crew Coach from one coach to another of the 2017-2018 school year, can always change up the demonstrated the proper form dynamic of a team, the crew on an erg. Armed with a clear team members are hopeful. practice schedule, a love for “This definitely feels like a positive transiproblem solving and an accomplished background in crew, Hooper is ready to lead the team tion,” junior Parker Waters said.

Since Hooper’s arrival, crew now plays into a new season.

WHEN YOU WORK SOMEWHERE FOR A WHILE YOU GET INTO A RHYTHM.

THE URGE TO ERG | Senior Cheryl Hao prepares to start her 3000 meter steady state erg piece.

games and participates in bonding exercises to get closer during practices, and every session always ends with a huddle.

One routine Hooper implemented was “kudos sessions” after erg tests, where girls give their teammates shout-outs and compliments.

Throughout September, the rowers will be preparing for the majority of their regattas, which take place in October. Coach Hooper favors cross-training as the team focuses on cardio and endurance twice a week, instead of always practicing on the water or the ergs.

Since the team is very young with almost half of the members as novices, one of Hooper’s main goals of the season is to have a foundation of good technique that they can build on with the power they gain from endurance training.

Furthermore, after working at SMU for many years, Hooper enjoys the challenge of working somewhere new.

“I’m learning where Penson Gym is, where the toolbox and the boathouse is,” Hooper said.

“When you work somewhere for a while, you get into a rhythm, but now it’s a little more dynamic.

I love the problem solving aspect of coaching.”

To anyone interested in starting crew, Hooper’s advice is to stick it out, especially with the bonds you make with your teammates. In fact, five of Hooper’s bridesmaids rowed with her in school, and Hockaday’s assistant crew coach, Amber Cortese, also rowed with her in college.

“The lifelong friends you make from crew and the bonding you form over really hard practices are so worth it,” Hooper said.

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PLAN ON IT! JV Field Hockey vs. Trinity Valley 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12

Varsity Field Hockey vs. Highland Park 5 p.m. Oct. 2

Varsity Field Hockey vs. Highland Park 5 p.m. Oct. 24

JV Volleyball vs. E.S.D. 5 p.m. Oct. 27

Varsity Volleyball vs. Fort Worth Country Day 6 p.m. October 19

OKC Crew Regatta Oct. 7

JV Volleyball vs. Home School 5 p.m. Oct.17

Cross Country North Zone Meet Oct. 27

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Made in the USA, A Terrorist is a Terrorist The very country that gave rise to the Nazi movement doesn’t understand why we seem to have so much trouble controlling a new trend in white supremacy. And frankly, neither do we. Following the events of Charlottesville in mid August, Germany and other European nations were baffled that a country that capitalizes on freedom and once fought the Nazis now allows an evolved version of them to spread their views all across the country.

By Shreya Gunukula | Views Editor

fter Trump released a statement that condemned “all sides” instead of just focusing on the violent neo-Nazis, Germany’s De Welt and France’s daily Le Monde described Trump’s “complacency” in the face of alt-right movements.

With such a diverse staff, it is understandable to see why The Fourcast would not only condemn the white supremacy movement but also speak out against President Donald Trump’s reluctance and inability to mark the rally in Charlottesville and other white supremacist hate groups as examples of domestic terrorism. But this isn’t about politics or Trump; this is about our country as a whole putting up a united front against radical extremist groups.

Many people are quick to blame Trump’s election for the rise in neo-Nazism.

And to a certain extent, they are correct.

Having a president that has made bigoted, xenophobic comments has given unofficial permission to not just neo-Nazis, but hate groups all across America to spread their message. The concept that many people are missing, however, is that these hate groups existed long before Trump, and mitigating their presence will take much more than just protesting our president.

After the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville where citizen Heather Hayer was murdered, President Trump stated that “all sides” were at fault. Referring to both extremist right and left groups, Trump’s comment was extremely ill timed after a specifically right wing rally, but not exactly incorrect for hate groups in general. In order to help stop the presence of radical groups, we need to recognize that they are not just limited to the ones that have made national news.

Many people have heard of Ku Klux Klan or ISIS driven protests and terrorist acts in America; what they may not know about, however, is Antifa: a leftist anti-fascist group that has committed violent acts in the name of their cause. With little to no mainstream coverage on the actions of Antifa, groups like the KKK feel that they are being unfairly prosecuted for hate crimes. In order to combat hate groups, we must be able to remove political affiliation and present information about these organizations in an unbiased manner.

We must be able to definitively label any violent hate groups as perpetrators of domestic terrorism.

Shreya Gunukula Views Editor

Preferably, the FBI would release a government sanctioned list of hate groups that would help the general public target specific organizations that are being violent or threatening. However, since the FBI tends to be a little out of reach for citizens, we can focus instead on using our voices on social media to publicly boycott and ostracize any hate group, from either side, that perpetuates violence and racism.

In addition to removing biases, we must also be able to definitively label any violent hate groups as perpetrators of domestic terrorism. Regardless of race, ethnicity, or motivation, any hate crime targeted at a specific group of people is terrorism.

With Trump making such a big show about having a “war on terror,” we need to be comfortable with the fact that part of this war could be fought on our home turf against terrorists in this country. Even though domestic terrorism may seem like a label, it could push government officials to at least ban violent

hate groups from taking further action.

Again, ideally, the FBI would remove foreign terrorism as a charge and instead replace it with a blanket statement of just plain ol’ terrorism. The government needs to start making Americans accountable for their actions, whatever the cost.

Although fair media coverage and a new labelling of hate groups could help the government take down more violent branches of white supremacy, it will not remove their right to spread their views. The existence of people with anti-Semitic and racist views is not limited to the United States. Instead, their allowance in sharing these views and even acting on them is protected unabashedly by our infamous free speech amendment. With the presumption that hate speech will never be outlawed by this president or any future presidents, we must therefore work on urging government officials, on all levels, to denounce the existence of hate groups and label any acts of violence as terrorism.

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We Love It, We Love it Not

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In honor of National Coffee Day on Sept. 29, we're putting plain black coffee up against fancier coffee, everything from lattes to frappuccinos. Each type has its pros and cons, but which one is the best cup of joe? It's going to be a brew-tal battle.

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FANCY COFFEE Every morning I make a run to Starbucks and listen to the barista call out the orders. Very rarely do I ever hear them yell “black coffee.” Coffee is no longer the plain, boring drink that it once was. With all the espresso drinks offered at coffee shops now, including lattes, frappuccinos, macchiatos and more, coffee has been revamped to fit more refined tastes.

In a survey conducted by The Fourcast, out of 122 Upper School students who responded, around 90 percent of the students preferred “fancier” coffee over black. Not only is it more popular, but you also have the option of multiple drink variations, as well as add-ons like syrups and sweeteners. With fancier coffee, you get to expand your taste palette.

Within these elevated espresso drinks, there are both iced and hot versions, and they come in a variety of flavors including salted caramel and strawberries and creme.

And these coffees can be seasonal. Fall means the return of Starbucks' cult favorite, the Pumpkin Spice Latte. During the winter season, fancy coffees like peppermint mochas and gingerbread lattes are also festive drinks that can automatically get you in the holiday spirit.

Fancy coffee also doesn't make you as hyper and jittery as black coffee. You can drink fancy coffee drinks all day long, even while you are cramming for a last minute test at midnight. There tends to be less shots of espresso and therefore less caffeine in drinks like lattes or mochas. You’ll still get a burst of energy with the sugar, but it won’t have as an intense of an effect as straight caffeine would.

A cup of Starbucks black coffee has 235 mg of caffeine, while their milk based “fancy coffee” has 75 mg of caffeine. Black coffee has almost three times the amount of caffeine than fancy coffee. Having less caffeine makes the coffee less addictive. Too much caffeine can lead to anxiety and unhealthy sleep patterns.

Rather than drinking a cup of coffee that won’t allow you to sleep all night, wouldn’t you rather drink a more flavorful cup of coffee that lets you sleep within the next hour or two?

Fancy coffee also has a milder taste than black coffee. I know many people, including myself, dislike the taste of black coffee because of its bitterness. By simply adding a dash of vanilla or caramel syrup, you can add a flavor punch to an otherwise boring black coffee.

When you are trying to decide at a coffee shop which drink to order is almost like a fun game. Most shops will allow you to order preset menu coffee items or customize your own cup of an espresso drink.

With fancy coffee, there also comes a certain coffee culture on social media sites. If you ever browse through the Explore feed on Instagram, chances are that there is a trending picture of fancy latte art.

Want the perfect Instagram photo opportunity? Visit a cute coffee shop and pose with your cup of coffee.

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It is tiring and overwhelming to balance academics, sports, extracurricular activities and a social life. It’s no wonder why Hockaday girls love coffee so much.

I’ve appreciated the idea of coffee since the frappuccinos from Starbucks became popular with my friends in Middle School. However, I never felt that I was benefiting from the true effects of this sugary coffee drink. I could tell that the caffeine wasn’t kicking, and I felt tired, bloated and sick from all the processed sugar. A few years later, I tried my first cup of black coffee, and everything improved.

To be frank, I first felt like I was getting punched in the throat by its bitter tang. Eventually, I’ve come to appreciate black coffee as pure sunshine in a cup. I may not always brush my hair in the morning, but drinking my black coffee is a part of my morning ritual.

Along with about 12 percent of the 126 Hockaday students surveyed, up to 35 percent of Americans drink their daily coffee black, according to Statisticbrain.com. Despite the minority percentage, black coffee drinkers are in the advantage; black coffee contains more caffeine and it costs less.

According to the Mayo Clinic, black coffee cuts post workout muscle pain up to 48 percent, adds more fiber into your diet and possibly reduces your risk of cancer.

With fall just around the corner, cozying up to a warm pumpkin spice or vanilla latte sounds like a delicious treat. And it’s totally acceptable to enjoy one of these beverages every once in awhile. However, considering each latte contains about 400 calories and 15 grams of fat, I wouldn’t want to drink one on a daily basis.

Many people tend to buy these fancy lattes and frappuccinos for a breakfast drink or an afternoon pick-me-up, but these sugary drinks actually contain very minimal caffeine. Black coffee has one and a half times the caffeine content as lattes and two times the amount as frappuccinos. Buried under syrups, sugars and milky bases, the caffeine in fancy coffee drinks truly has no effect on the drinker.

And if the slightly horrifying sugar content doesn’t ward you off fancier coffee drinks, the cost might do the trick. On average, the cost of lattes, mochas and frappuccinos at Starbucks hits around $5 per cup, whereas the priciest black coffee only reaches $2.65.

If I were to treat myself to two black coffees a week, I would spend about $200 a year, but if I were to do the same with frappuccinos and lattes, I would be spending over $300 more.

And black coffee is convenient, with a Keurig-type coffee maker all it takes is the touch of a button.

For me, I like to compare black coffee to a warm hug for your insides!

Eliana Goodman | Staff Writer

Almost October One month down of school and we are (relatively) unscathed by first quarter.

Fall Break School may not be too stressful just yet, but that doesn't mean we couldn't use some R&R. Oct. 9, we're coming for you!

Senior Halloween To scare or be scared, those will be the options on Oct. 27 as seniors decorate hallways with the theme of....well, you'll just have to wait and see!

Sunshine While some are grateful for any remaining Texas heat in this month, others are left wondering what happened to autumn and sweater weather.

Early Deadlines Seniors can't really catch a break right now, with trying to meet important college deadlines in early November, all while battling senioritis.

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Sexist Valley: Culture in the Tech Industry An atmosphere of sexism hurts women in Silicon Valley, and this needs to change.

Before Kalanick’s leave of absence, which ultimately lead to his resignation, an email dubbed the “Miami Letter,” which was sent by Kalanick in 2013, was published in Recode, a technology news website. The inappropriate email which contained a profane sexual rulebook for an upcoming company trip to Miami, is just one of many examples of the atmosphere of sexism and sexual harassment at Uber, which fired over 20 employees due to their harassment claims.

The culture doesn’t just stop with Uber.

In a study called “The Elephant in the Valley” conducted by Trae Vassallo, Ellen Levy, Michele Madansky, Hillary Mickell, Bennett Porter, Monica Leas and Julie Oberweis, 60 percent of women working in Silicon Valley tech companies said they experienced unwanted sexual advances. The “Google Manifesto,” published by Google engineer James Damore, details why exactly women shouldn’t be engineers.

"I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership," the manifesto read.

Although Uber’s change in leadership is a step in the right direction, more needs to be done on company wide levels. The high level executives aren’t the only ones spreading this culture.

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Employees on all levels perpetuate the culture not only by sexually harassing women, but by excluding, gaslighting and not taking them seriously.

Granted, there are initiatives like diversity conferences and training sessions in place for tech companies, but the numbers haven’t changed much. Platforms like Project Include, a non-profit that “uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry”, according to its website, are advocating to increase diversity and inclusion in tech companies.

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and former Vice President of Google, founded Lean In, a non-profit organization inspired by her bestselling book with the same title. The book offers personal stories and advice to help women achieve their goals while the nonprofit supports gender equality through conferences, online initiatives and more.

However, the Silicon Valley is still a long way off from being a welcoming workplace for women.

At Hockaday, I am surrounded everyday by brilliant girls who I know are going to change the world. I know many of them aspire to do this within the tech industry. I don’t want the misogynistic culture in this industry to stop any of my peers from entering this industry because they are just as capable and talented as any man. This is what Silicon Valley is risking: the minds that could produce the next iPhone or Facebook. This is why the culture needs to change.

Morgan Fisher | Business Manager

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With Fall comes football and with football comes cheerleading. Cheer is as old as the game itself, and as the St. Mark’s Cheerleaders rev up their fall season, some follow in their mother’s cheerleading footsteps. The mothers of both freshmen Elizabeth Roosevelt and and Avery Savage, cheered during middle school through college. Elizabeth Roosevelt’s mother, Kim Roosevelt cheered for Hanover college from 1988-1989. Avery Savage’s mother, Kimberly Savage, cheered from 1983-1989 at Forest Meadow Junior High and Lake Highlands High School. Savage loves that she can share with her daughter a passion for dance, which was always important in her life. “I loved cheering at all the football and basketball games as well as the pep rallies, and now, watching Avery down on the field smiling and having so much fun warms my heart," Kimberly Savage said.

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