March 16, 2017 Krier Issue

KRIER Volume 43 • Issue 4 • Kaneland High School • 16 March 2017

DOES KANELAND RECYCLE? Does Kaneland recycle?

Unnecessary treatment, inhumane and outdated

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Fight, flight, freeze page 10

Conquering the outdoors page 16

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Letter from the Executives

Our world is an ever changing place. The relationship between people and nature is a complicated one.

This issue of the Krier wants to explore that relationship. Between vacations, recycling and global warming, there is a wide variety of things to talk about.

We hope this makes you think about our relationship with the Earth, all the facets of it and how it all fits together.

Kaitlyn Becker Ava Mandele Caitlyn Rawers

Entertainment

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Savory pizza places around Kaneland

News

School Board vacancies sought after

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Opinion

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Overdramatic or nonchalant: Debating over irreversible environmental damages

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Experiencing the great outdoors

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Global warming: does it really matter?

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Conquering the outdoors

Vegetarian lifestyles protect to world

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Working with others towards won goal Maggie Burger rows to the finish line

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KHS athletes share advice for signing day

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FIGHT, FLIGHT, FREEZE

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DOES KANELAND RECYCLE?

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SAVORY PIZZA PLACES AROUND KANELAND

BY MATT CUSHMAN, VANESSA PITTS, Editors

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ith quick service in Sugar Grove, Genoa’s provides great pizza and happy smiles. The slice was medium-sized and had a good amount of sauce on it, although the cheese was rubbery and the pizza was a little greasy. The price was $2.57, the cheapest of all the pizza places, and it provided a thin crust which did not have much flavor and was crunchy. Overall, the pizza was rated a 3 out of 5 stars due to the rubbery cheese and the thin crust, but it was given a high rating because of the price and the good service.

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he Elburn Paisano’s, which recently expanded to Sugar Grove, is one of the many pizza places located near Kaneland. The pizza costs $3.48, and it did not have that much grease on the slice, and had good tasting cheese and sauce spread evenly throughout. Although the pizza was a bit smaller than the rest and had a crust that was really thin and hard, this pizza got a 4 out of 5 stars because of all the better features on it.

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mbrogi’s, which opened over summer in Elburn, provided good quality pizza for $3.50, and they had fast and friendly service. The pizza slice was a decent size and it was very thick. The crust they use for their slices is double dough so it’s easier to hold the slice and keep together but it was too tough to chew. The sauce on it was good, but there was not enough of it. The cheese was good and it wasn’t super chewy and there was also very little grease on the pizza. Overall, Ambrogi’s was rated a 4 out of 5 stars due to the crust being too hard and the pizza not having enough sauce.

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he Elburn Rosati’s provided friendly service, but the pizza was not as good as the others. The slice was large and there wasn’t much grease, but there was no flavor on it. The cost of the slice was $4.05. The crust was the softest out of all the slices tried, and the cheese was very hard to chew, was bland and flavorless. There was enough sauce on the slice, but there still was not enough flavor overall. Rosati’s was rated a 2.5 out of 5 stars. The service they provided was good, but the pizza wasn’t pleasing.

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SCHOOL BOARD VACANCIES SOUGHT AFTER

FOUR CANDIDATES RUN FOR EMPTY SEATS IN KANELAND

The four candidates answer questions during the forum on February 16th, 2017.

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he Kaneland Education Association (KEA) and Kaneland Citizen Advisory Committee (KCAC) hosted a candidate forum to ask questions to the four community members running for the three positions up for grabs on the Board of Education.

Incumbents running are Pedro Rivas and Shana Sparber. The forum also included community members Aaron Lawler, a professor at Waubonsee Community College and Noah Lilly, who’s lived in Sugar Grove for 10 years and has 19 years of public education experience.

Throughout the forum, all four candidates discussed the importance of personalized learning, balancing the budget, having high quality teachers and putting the students first before anything else.

“Teachers make the biggest difference in student’s lives. Having quality teachers increases student achievement,” Lilly

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said in response to a question concerning teachers and how the decrease in the budget has caused the administration to cut teachers over the years.

Sparber also added that teachers influence success.

“Kaneland needs to retain the best of the best to teach students and it all comes to working with the budget,” Rivas said.

All four candidates also stated throughout the forum that one of the biggest concerns for the school district is that they worry that students aren’t college, career and community ready.

“Kaneland needs to have the best quality education to make the students ready for college and the corporate world,” Lawler said.

The four candidates believe that to help students who don’t feel college, career and community ready, Kaneland needs to personalize their learning.

“One of the biggest concerns I keep hearing over and over is that students

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don’t feel college, career and community ready once they graduate,” Sparber said.

“With the Kaneland 2020 initiative, we can help students by personalizing what they’re learning.”

The Kaneland 2020 action plan is driven by the college, career and community ready mission statement. It is also to “personalize learning with rigor, relevance and relationship.” The school board emphasizes the importance of personalized learning in order for the students to achieve success.

It also adds that personalized learning “is our top priority, supported by a culture fully aligned to our District core values and expertly implemented by the best professional learning community to serve our diverse student learning needs.”

All four candidates seem optimistic for the future of the Kaneland School District.

Election Day is on Apr. 4. To look for early voting polls or to register to vote, go to kanecountyelections.org for more information.

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OVERDRAMATIC OR NONCHALANT:

DEBATING OVER IRREVERSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES

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BY BELLA VARGAS, Editor

ince the industrial revolution, the world has been struggling with how to deal with the climate change crisis while still improving economies.

Recently, large corporations have been ignoring the irreversible effects they are having on the environment and that needs to change.

By placing influential businesses, such as the fossil fuel industry, over the well-being of the environment, we as a nation are speeding up the process of global warming.

With an increase in drilling, fracking and other methods of extracting fossil

fuels and natural gases, temperatures across the globe have been steadily increasing due to an excess amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.

According to NASA, “The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 400 parts per million in the last 150 years.”

Humanity as a whole is putting more focus on how to make money quickly as opposed to the long-term effects of our actions on the environment.

Scan the QR code below to read the rest of Bella and Kaitlyn’s opinion online at kanelandkrier.com

BY KAITLYN BECKER, Executive Editor

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very time I drive past a “Save the Earth” bumper sticker, or hear about a new celebrity advocating for the environment, I can’t help but think I’m supposed to feel guilty for not placing the environment above all else.

However, I don’t feel guilty.

Most will argue that large corporations using natural resources are causing irreversible changes at a magnitude too high, and are interfering with the natural state of Earth. The environmentalist movement today fights to keep the Earth in an unchanging environment, making sure

people leave no trace whatsoever. What they fail to understand is that while it is important to be mindful of the environment, a changing climate and other so called “environmental crises” are not the end of the world, literally.

In fact, it seems that a so called “manmade crisis” is actually just a biological process that may actually benefit people and the state of the Earth. One major argument against the very economically beneficial use of fossil fuels is that the carbon dioxide being released is causing global warming.

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KRIER Kaneland High School 47W326 Keslinger Rd. Maple Park, IL 60151 (630) 365-5100 ext. 71236 www.kanelandkrier.com Member IHSA, Quill & Scroll, NSPA, NISPA KEMPA NISPA Silver Certificate 2013 IHSA State Finalists 2013 NISPA Golden Eagle for Krier Online 2015 IJEA Second Place for Krier Online 2015, 2016 IJEA Third Place 2015, 2016 Subscription rates: Five issues, two supplements School-delivered, $15; Home-delivered, $32 EXECUTIVE STAFF Ava Mandele Caitlyn Rawers Editor-in-Chief of Web Editor-in-Chief of Print Lucas Rotter Kaitlyn Becker Executive Executive Dylan Mondi Special Project Editor

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Testing products on animals is cruel and inhumane. nimal testing is nothing new, it was first used 400 years ago to discover how blood circulated. Nowadays, it is used to test product safety for humans but is unnecessary and inhumane in a world where we have technology to create alternatives. In many countries, such as India, Norway and Israel, effective organizations like People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have banned animal testing, but in America we still use this horrid method that leaves helpless animals with trauma.

When animals are being tested for products they are often placed in isolated cages or sometimes crammed in with too many animals. According to Physicians Committee Responsible for Medicine, when animals are held captive for long periods of time it can lead to abnormal or aggressive behaviors, even self injury.

This kind of environment is neither safe for the animals or the people working with them.

According to Animal Welfare Institute, some of the tests that are performed on animals are force feeding rats to determine its effect on the human body, or dripping liquids into the eyes of innocent rabbits to determine how some shampoo may irritate our eyes, or even rubbing a chemical ingredient on the bare skin of animals, just to see what a mascara might do to our eyes.

As a country, we are very technologically advanced and have the resources to find alternatives such as; organ chips, computer modeling rather than using caged animals as an experiment. According to Wyss Institute, organ chips are lined with human

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living cells that can revolutionize product developments mimicking the effects on the human body, unlike animal testing.

In addition animal testing is expensive and a waste of government money. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration, testing on animals is time consuming and expensive, whereas organ chipping is quick and just a small chip meaning it is inexpensive to make and can be done in a short amount of time. Organ chipping would also be an effective way to test a product or chemical, since they contain human cells creating a more accurate reaction on the human body. Organ chipping is just one of the few alternatives but in many cases the alternative is the cheaper option.

The Government would be saving billions of dollars if animal testing was banned, but what we have to take into consideration is that animal testing is a whole industry. According to Navs.org in 2015, the National Institute of Health (NIH) spent 10 of their 22 billion dollar budget on animal testing experiments and 47 percent of NIH funded grants have an animal testing component tied to them. When trying to determine the income from animal testing, NIH does not release specific numbers.

Something everyone can do is search for brands like Lush Cosmetics that pride themselves in not animal testing their products. Other brands that do not animal test are Pantene, Axe and even Urban Decay makeup. Perhaps with new technology there will be a higher demand for researchers and the use of alternative methods to animal testing.

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EDITORIAL POLICY

Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Editorial Board and are not necessarily the opinion of Kaneland administration, staff, students or parents. The Krier Editorial Board consists of designated Advanced Journalism students: Jessica Tiv, Dylan Mondi, Caitlyn Rawers, Annika Berger, Ava Mandele, Justin Erlandson, Bridget McCracken, Karina Sanchez, Amanda Malawski, Bella Vargas, Matt Cushman, Vanessa Pitts, Julia Janis, Kaitlyn Becker, and Lucas Rotter. Students make all publication decisions.

Letters can be sent to the address above or e-mailed to krier@kaneland.org. Letters must be signed (names may be withheld under extraordinary circumstances as deemed by the editorial staff), and must be under 300 words. The editorial board has the right to work with writers to edit for clarity and length. Any material that is potentially libelous, obscene or disruptive will not be published, at the discretion of the editorial board. All decisions to publish or not publish letters are made by executive editors. The Krier has been an open forum since 1974. As an open forum, we restrict editing to staff members only; prior review and editing are prohibited by people outside the staff.

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EXPERIENCING THE GREAT OUTDOORS

“The mountains are calling and I must go” -John Muir

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BY JULIA JANIS, Editor

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rom the salty waves of the ocean to the red rocks of the desert, these different landscapes are open to the public to be enjoyed. People should visit outdoor areas more often, as these lands are preserved for a reason.

What originally started in the early 1900’s as simple preservation laws, has turned into much more. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created the National Parks Service(NPS). Thanks to the NPS America’s greatest natural landscapes are being protected.

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The NPS preserves not only parks but sites, monuments and beaches. Other organizations include the National Forest Service as well as state governments that create state parks and monuments.

“I think everyone should visit places such as national parks. It’s a great way to learn history and to get away from crowds in cities,” social studies teacher Javier Martinez said.

State parks work similar to national parks, except their main purpose is to make money for the state, according to protectourpubliclands.org. Forest preserves are also available and are more common than parks.

National parks reached an all time high in tourism with 305 million visitors in 2015 according to the NPS. “Going to these places cause people to have a new passion and it inspires them, and I would like a lot of people to experience that emotion. There was this coastline in Oregon where I observed a group of sea lions in their natural habitat. It wasn’t like a zoo or an aquarium.

This was personal and up close. It was amazing,” sophomore Savannah Anderson said.

Students have opportunities to visit places even like forest preserves and parks. Parks in Illinois, like Starved Rock, are free to enter, making it easy for students to step away from technology and enjoy the great outdoors.

“There’s more you can do outside, and it’s very relaxing. You can hang out

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with your friends too and it makes going more fun,” sophomore Lindsey Norman said.

Traveling to these places does not limit visitors to just the usual activities like hiking and camping. Many people also enjoy photographing the fantastic views. In certain regions, tourists can also explore caves, row down a river, cast a line or hike up mountains.

“There’s a reason why there was a movement in the early 1900’s. Even if you don’t like camping, it’s a good way to make friends with strangers. It’s nice to reset and get a perspective, to get away from social media too,” teacher Kelsey Flanagan said.

Places like White Pines and Starved Rock are two of the closest parks and can be made into day trips. Activities include hiking, eagle watching and kayaking at Starved Rock according to starvedrockstatepark.org. While at White Pines, visitors can camp and even do some cross country skiing according to dnr.illinois. gov.

“We used to look for arrowheads from the Indians and we actually ended up finding one,” Norman said.

“I’ve always been interested in nature.

I’ve visited a lot of parks and forests, but Yellowstone is something I remember the most because of this scenic road trip I went on with my family,” Anderson said.

America’s landscapes are a privilege.

Enjoy the beauty of it all and don’t let it go unexplored.

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hit by a bullet.

According to Officer Sarah Conley, these odds are not great and can be reduced by using ALICE a new national response system to school shootings.

“The average person that comes in through the building when we are in lockdown, it’s a shooting hit rate of 70 to 80 percent. That’s not good. That’s because we are all sitting, but if you’re a moving target it drops to less than 10 percent.

That’s what we want to teach you guys.

We want you to run first and evacuate if you can. You don’t have to wait for anybody just go,” Conley said.

Instead of being quiet and hiding, the new way to react during a school shooting is to distract and confuse the shooter.

“We are always taught to shut off the lights, be super quiet, don’t move. No, be loud and obnoxious, chuck staplers, chuck your math book. Take anything you have and chuck it at this guy because it screws up the decision making process,” Conley said.

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e quiet! Turn off the lights! Lock the doors! Hide! This was how students and staff were taught to deal with school shootings in the past. Protocols for dealing with school shootings have drastically changed.

In the past, students were told to be quiet during school shootings; however, new research has shown that this is the wrong way to behave.

The reason why being quiet was established as the right way to behave, according to hartlake.org, during a school shooting was because the lockdown

method was proven to be successful for drive by shootings. People were instructed to remain where they were because of the threat outside. Lights were turned off to prevent shadows and getting on the floor away from windows allowed students and staff to be below the level of the bullets.

However, new research has shown that this lockdown drill does not work.

According to the kcaw.org, 80 percent of targets were hit during a lockdown drill.

This means that victims who were sitting down and hiding were very likely to get

The reason being is because law enforcement might not be able to get to the school in time. According to ALICE, the majority of school shootings only last for a duration of five to six minutes and first responders typically enter the building after the shootings are over.

In fact while waiting for the authorities to arrive, students and staff are virtually susceptible to attacks. This means that students and staff are defenseless while waiting for first responders to arrive.

“We are sitting ducks,” Conley said.

ALICE prompts students and staff to use their fight or flight response in order to escape and survive in any situation and location.

“That’s the great thing about ALICE because they are teaching you what you can do in anything. There are companies that are teaching this, it’s not just schools. That’s why I want to teach you guys all this because it’s not just gonna serve you while you’re here, but out in the world and for anything,” Conley said.

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DOES KANELAND Recycle?

BY ANNIKA BERGER, AVA MANDELE, Editor, Editor in Chief

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t’s no surprise that school is the place where children are taught about recycling, turning the faucet off when they brush their teeth, and flicking the lights off when they leave a room. For years, schools have been models of how effective and environmentally sound practices should work. So why do many KHS students question the effectiveness of the school’s recycling practices?

Most students at KHS have probably heard rumors pertaining to the speculation that “we don’t recycle,” and it turns out that there is some truth to these.

The current situation is that even though there are bins specifically for recycling, the contents were being thrown in with the garbage and disposed of together, in a trash dumpster, essentially undermining recycling practices.

Director of Athletics and Building & Grounds Administrator, Peter Goff, says the recycling used to be well managed, but has fallen short in past years.

“I knew that my first year here, because if you go take a picture of those recyclable cans out there, they’re always full, and then, I don’t know what happened, on year two, last year, this year, I have not seen it,” Goff said.

Goff would be willing to do what is necessary to make recycling a priority again at the high school, however did not comment on specific actions steps he would take to be proactive in finding a solution to the problem.

“I would be all in favor of doing whatever that I needed to do to help with that process [recycling in the school],” Goff said.

Mark Payton is the District Director of Buildings and Grounds, which includes overseeing the job of removing waste and recyclables in the school. Payton believes the responsibility of recycling ultimately falls on the custodial staff. Payton admits the school’s recycling practices are not perfect, but once the

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issue was brought to his attention, he has attempted to make an effort to refine custodian training to include separating recyclable goods from trash.

“So I reviewed this with the head custodian and the custodial supervisor; and they’re going to re-train everybody, to make sure that they’re all doing it correctly. They believe most of them were, but

there may be a couple that were not,” Payton said.

However, in past years the task of recycling has fallen on students. Members of student council were responsible for collecting recycling bins and this process worked well when member had plenty of extra time to collect the bins.

The combined effects of switching to an eight period day and lack of student interest, student recycling was pushed to the back burner.

KHS teacher Cindy Miller was previously the

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student council adviser and facilitated student recycling.

“The student council used to recycle ev-

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ery Friday morning, they had recycle tubs, and each class was assigned a hall,” Miller said.

Miller considered recycling a necessary

part of the school function and a crucial part of community service at Kaneland, and wishes that there was still an effort to properly recycle at the high school.

“I mean, that’s not just a janitorial or maintenance job, it’s a little school pride, and the fact that we all need to be doing something to help the environment. Recycling was our thing to do, to help,” Miller said.

Student Council President Kristen Siebert has been involved since she was a freshman.

Siebert believes the old recycling practices helped students get more involved in keeping their school clean.

“Doing it [recycling] as a freshman was especially impactfully because it made me feel like we were actually doing something instead of sitting around and doing nothing and plus the teachers really liked it,” Siebert said.

Miller proposed that students not rely so much on the custodial and maintenance staff and begin volunteering their time again to get the recycling done.

“It was very difficult to get the kids to do it every Friday morning, I think that maybe we switch that to Thursday morning, when there’s kids here, that are sitting in the cafeteria, ya know,... and even if they couldn’t do that during that time, there’s enough representatives, they could all take turns so they didn’t have to miss their [student council] meeting,” Miller said.

However, Miller believes students involved in recycling efforts should go beyond just student council members. Miller believes that for the recycling efforts to be effective all extracurricular groups should do their part.

“Why couldn’t every club take a week? There could be a calendar set up at the beginning of the school year, sports and everybody, not just DECA club, GSA, or Student Council.

That their job is to recycle as part of the community and love that we have for Kaneland,” Miller said.

Payton agrees that student participation in the recycling efforts would be helpful, however still feels the responsibility of recycling needs to falls in the hands of the custodial staff.

“It’s certainly in the job description of the custodians to take care of it [the recycling], but

I think it was a matter of students wanting to participate in that process,” Payton said.

Payton is not wrong, according to HB-4159, an act passed in 2008 in regards to solid waste in school, all Illinois public schools are required to provide a waste reduction plan that covers 15 years and is updated every 5 years.

This plan is required to include a procedure to dispose of recyclable materials in the school's waste stream.

In addition, public schools are also supposed to seek out products and supplies that contain the highest amount of recyclable material to promote Illinois Public Schools being greener institutions.

According to Associate Superintendent, Dr. Julie-Ann Fuchs, when ordering supplies that pertain to the entire district such as copy paper, the administration actively searches for environmentally friendly materials when economically feasible.

Although, there seems to be a disconnect between administration and the high school environmental policies regarding recycling, several department chairs have said they were never told by building or district administration that they should be seeking out supplies with recyclable materials.

“We [the district administration] regularly reviews things when we purchase them and when it’s economically and practically feasible we try to use recyclable materials,” Fuchs said.

Fuchs expressed that recycling and conservation in the high school is a more independent practice that usually does not involve the administration and relies on environmentally conscious teachers.

“Many of our teachers are environmentally conscious or aware and so we expect that they’re good stewards of our Earth,” Fuchs said.

Principal Jill Maras is aware that Kaneland could be doing a better job of making sure all of the practices within the school are environmentally friendly.

“I think it’s huge [recycling in schools] and it should be more important than the emphasis we put on it, because I think this a training ground for what we want to be doing in life,” Maras said.

Maras also encourages teachers to use less paper by utilizing online resources and doing classwork electronically whenever possible.

According to lessismore.org, school waste is up to 80 percent recyclable, so when schools recycle properly, they can have a huge impact environmentally. It is clear that Kaneland has a long road ahead to making a truly green district.

“We create a lot of waste because of the volume of people and the time that we’re here, anything we can help, we should,” Fuchs said.

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GLOBAL WARMING: DOES IT REALLY MATTER?

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VEGETARIAN LIFESTYLES PROTECT THE WORLD

BEING VEGETARIAN IS BENEFICIAL FOR YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

BY CAITLYN RAWERS, Editor in Chief

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y adopting a vegetarian diet, you could save money, get healthier and prevent cruelty to animals.

But one major reason for going vegetarian is for the positive impact on the environment.

According to chasinggreen.org, going vegetarian, even part-time, can reduce your carbon footprint, save water and land.

For example, it only takes 0.4 pounds of carbon dioxide to produce: a cup of broccoli, a cup of eggplant, four ounces of cauliflower and eight ounces of rice. In contrast, it takes 10 pounds of carbon dioxide to produce one 6 ounce steak.

Carbon dioxide acts as a thermal blanket over the earth. It traps heat inside the atmosphere, according to nasa. gov. By becoming vegetarian, less carbon dioxide is released into the air, therefore slowing down the effects of global warming and climate change. This is because food production in the meat industry produces more carbon dioxide than food production in a vegetarian industry.

According to Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security [CCAFS], the amount of greenhouse gases coming from livestock accounts for 14 percent of the total emissions. While many people be-

lieve meat is the best way to meet protein requirements, there are many other foods that are full of protein and vegetarian.

It is very possible to meet daily protein needs on a vegetarian diet by eating nuts, legumes and soy.

Even if you are unwilling to go completely vegetarian, eating a few meat free meals every week will help the environment and help you save money. According to time. com, a vegetarian can save up to $750 in a year just by cutting out meat.

The simple math adds up. By being vegetarian, you can save 21 cows, 14 sheep, 12 pigs, 1400 chickens and an acre of trees in your lifetime. Every vegetarian makes a difference.

A simple way to start the switch is to dedicate to ‘Meatless Mondays,’ so on Mondays you only eat vegetarian meals.

Once this becomes comfortable, start adding more days to the list and look up vegetarian recipes for inspiration.

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espite Kaneland not having an official hockey team, several students have managed to find teams to play for.

The Fox Valley Hawks are a combined team that takes five schools (Geneva, St. Charles East and North, Batavia and Kaneland) and serves as their official team since there wouldn’t be enough players from those schools to create a full team.

Currently Kaneland only has three players on the varsity roster, which is a low number compared to the two St. Charles schools which have a combined 11 out of the 19 players on the roster.

There is always room on teams for players to play, and it all starts with just getting out there.

“If they have interest they should start small, lessons, small teams, even pond hockey during the winter, it’s never too late to start which is a common misconception I hear,” junior Hawks defenseman Tyler Nance said.

The Hawks are currently coasting through the season with a 16-3-4 record which is currently 3rd in their division behind the DuPage Stars and the Renegades. They have just

one more regular season game until the start of the AHAI Combined Varsity Tournament which features 32 high school varsity teams.

The Hawks are different from most high school sports where they have just two practices a week, but they can have as many as three games a week.

“Hockey has been a very positive influence on my life. I’ve met a lot of good coaches and people and it has made me a better person,” senior Hawks forward Brock Williams said.

Another option for local players is the Cyclones based out of Geneva, IL. Unlike the Hawks they are not affiliated with any high school team, but instead are an amateur youth hockey club which is considered a AA level team, the second highest level of hockey.

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big part of my whole life. It has taught me what it’s like to be part of a team and work with others. It has also helped me unlock my own potential and work ethic.

Dealing with wins and losses has helped me greatly emotionally as well,” Cyclones player Evan Lekkas said.

For players like senior Jake Hummel, hockey has been a way of life since they were little.

“I started to play when I was four, I had friends that played, I had been a Blackhawks fan my whole life and my dad wanted me to play,” Hummel said.

Hockey is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States partially thanks to the success of the Chicago Blackhawks who have won three Stanley Cups this decade. According to USA Hockey the membership in 2015-16 was 622,833 participants (including players, coaches and officials) compared to just 558,476 in 2009-10.

“I’ve noticed that more Kaneland kids have been playing hockey ever since the Blackhawks have gotten good. Another way to have them start playing starts in elementary school. We have a local juniors team nearby called the Chicago Steel in the USHL. If we introduce young students to that team, that may help,” Lekkas said.

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or 17 year old Maggie Burger, rowing is more than just a hobby. Back in November, Burger became a member of the St. Charles Rowing Club.

“My mom rowed in college, and that's what made me want to start,” Burger said.

She is not involved in any other sports or clubs, since rowing takes time and dedication. Burger practices five times a week out of a warehouse in St. Charles, and competes about once a month, and more in the summer.

Rowing is not connected with school at all, but sometimes interferes with it.

“Sometimes when we go to competition for the weekend, it makes it hard to do homework,” Burger said.

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Burger hopes to get a scholarship for rowing to participate in college and maybe continue on afterwards.

“Most people think that rowing is all upper body strength, but it’s your legs that do all the work,” Burger said.

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KHS ATHLETES SHARE ADVICE FOR SIGNING DAY gan and Alabama. These colleges usually have the most popular sport teams and are the most common attended.

Division 2 schools are mid sized schools that usually have their athletes take athletic and educational scholarships. Some of these schools include Albany and Winona State.

Division 3 schools such as the University of Chicago and Hamilton University are the lowest NCAA level and do not offer athletic scholarships.

Picking a college to play for can be stressful. This was the case with Gussman. Gussman is going to college for wrestling. He had a couple options on the table before committing to Campbell University.

“I had the University of Virginia looking at me, but we lost contact. I picked Campbell University because they are known as a business school and that’s what I want to study along with wrestling,” Gussman said.

When choosing a college, it is very important for all students, especially athletes, to keep in contact with the coaches so they will notice you more. A great way to keep in contact with coaches is to talk to the recruiters at least once a month.

Keeping in contact will remind the recruiters of your talents and be on their highest ranked players list that some colleges call their “100 list”. This list re-

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National Signing Day, which is usually the first Wednesday of February, is the day most 17-18 year olds cannot wait for.

Senior Nicole Sreenan plans to study nursing and is going to run track at Grand Valley State University (GVSU).

“I love the coaches, and I’m going to be training for 4 years or more with them. It all comes down to who is willing to work with you and your major. My goal for college is to get a degree. I’m expecting it’s going to be pretty laid back with more homework,” Sreenan said.

An important factor that influences the college choice is the division their sports are in.

Senior Colin Gussman is going to a Division 1 school, the highest level someone can attend. There are three different levels for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Division 1 is the highest which usually consists of the larger universities such as Ohio State, Michi-

minds the recruiters and coaches who their top prospects are.

Having connections with players on the teams or the coaches can also help to sell yourself. An athlete should go out and make themselves known. Establishing connections is a great way to build chemistry with the team. You can establish connections by going to the universities events or talking to some of your possible teammates.

Sreenan, who is going to a D2 school, says to showcase your talents and abilities. According to NCAA.org, only six percent of high school athletes make NCAA sports and only two percent of those move on to professional. Showcasing your abilities will make the recruiters notice you are the best need for the team. This will grab the attention of the recruiters depending on the needs they have on their checklist.

“I think it’s very important to sell yourself as a college athlete. You have to show the recruiters what you can do,” Sreenan said.

Gussman’s advice to younger athletes is to have a social connection with the coaches to sell yourself better. This is the key to grabbing the recruiter’s attention.

“You really want to make yourself known. Put videos out there of your talent, and keep in contact with coaches monthly,” Gussman said.

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