Panorama March 2020

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Read more about the price of success on pages 12–17.

03.11.20, Vol. 68, Issue 7, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, 1201 S. Warson Rd. Ladue, MO 63124

STAFF Editors-in-Chief

Jackson Bry Katie Shaw Bradford Siwak

Head Design Editors

Cassie Beisheim Anna Liner

Managing Editor

Sydney Crump

Head Copy Editor

Alexander Fu

Print Photo Editor Managing Photo Editor

Nicole Kalishman Burke Howe

News Editor

Rhea Patney

Features Editors

Katie Holland Erin Turkieltaub

In-Depth Editor

Grace Hu

Opinions Editor

Ethan Willick

-Katie Shaw, Jackson Bry and Bradford Siwak

Arts & Entertainment Editors

Hugh Chan Caroline Tyrrell

Sports Editors

Domenic Fenoglio Jacob Korn Grace Hensley

News Staff

Lucy Lochmoeller Marissa Mathieson

Opinions Staff

Caroline Edgar Tariq Lashley Charlotte Woodhill

Arts & Entertainment Staff Sports Staff Business Managers

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Sports Photo Editor

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EDITORS’ NOTE

Jamie Korenblat Sophia Liu Clayton Coughlin Thomas Margulis Jason Pummer Jake Tackes

Staff Writers

Max Eastman Hansika Sakshi

Staff Artists

Nicole Gorrell Danielle Zhang

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In the highly competitive environment of Ladue, a vast majority of students go on to higher education, many of whom pursue highly selective universities. It is against the norm to go straight into the work force or follow any other life trajectory. It’s no secret that our educational system is geared towards the wealthy. From the College Board, that has just raised the deposit on AP exams, to the ACT, that now lets students retake specific sections, standardized testing allows those with more money to retake exams, hire expensive tutors and buy test preparation books. Violins that cost more produce a more melodious sound; expensive soccer cleats last longer than cheap ones. Time is money as well. Those who spend time studying and practicing have

to sacrifice other aspects of their lives, including jobs that would help their families.

These trends are well-known, but we wanted to analyze the cost it takes to truly stay competitive in an environment like Ladue — or in other words, how much money and time our version of success costs. We chose to focus on academics, extracurriculars and sports for two main reasons. Firstly, they are all a means by which students are often evaluated and each have a threshold of socially accepted success. Secondly, these aspects can be quantified through hours and dollars. With all of this information, we hope to enlighten our audience about what it takes to stay competitive and successful, an issue that takes up many of our lives.

COVER STORY While deliberating what to make our cover for the March edition, the idea of a piggy bank signifying wealth immediately crossed our minds.

After obtaining a piggy bank, we realized that breaking it and having one of our artists draw money flying out would make the picture look meaningful. We decided to break it with a trophy in order to signify how striving for success in high school sometimes breaks the bank. Putting the destroyed pig and trophy on the back cover tied everything together.

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NEWS 5. A new Missouri law changes school start dates for future school years.

6–7. A look into Ladue students who are involved in politics and information about the Democratic canidates.

FEATURES 8–9. Robert Snidman discusses the various professions he had before he became a teacher.

10. Kyle Gyawali solves Rubik’s Cubes and is competitively ranked in Missouri.

IN-DEPTH 12–17. The dollars, sweat and lack of sleep that goes into making a competitive and successful Ladue student.

OPINIONS 18. The coronavirus is no excuse for racist comments and xenophobia.

19. Why trips to volunteer in other countries are not truly helpful.

20. A look at why anger is a waste of time and a useless emotion.

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A&E 21. Unique places for Ladue students to visit while staying in St. Louis for spring break.

22–23. Finding the best pies in St. Louis in honor of Pi Day.

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SPORTS 24-25. Despite only being a sophomore, Sydney Frelich is named captain of the varsity girls soccer team ahead of their upcoming season.

26. Despite receiving multiple Division I offers, senior Mason player decides to focus on academics in college.

27. Four Ladue students reach a milestone in their careers by getting to 1,000 points.

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POLICY Panorama is a monthly newspaper that strives to inform and entertain students, staff and community members and to uphold professional standards of accuracy and fairness. The publication hopes to engage the student body by eliciting dialogue among students.

It aims to reflect the diversity of the population it serves and to observe the journalistic principle of doing no harm.

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ymous and cannot be used against you. Panorama welcomes letters to the editors. Please bring signed letters to room 1311. Panorama reserves the right to revise submissions as long as original intent remains unaltered.

Panorama is produced 9 times per school year by the newspaper class of Ladue Horton Watkins High School at 1201 S. Warson Rd., St. Louis, MO 63124. The publication lab is located in room 1311, (314)-993-

6447 ext. 5844. Read more stories online at laduepublications.com.

Follow @laduepublications on Instagram and @laduepanorama on Twitter. Editor-in-chief photo by Sunny Lu. Correction: The February issue mistakenly credited Nicole Gorrell’s art on page 18 to Joanne Sung.

Cover and back cover photo illustrations by Katie Shaw and Bradford Siwak. Art by Anna Liner.

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NEW MISSOURI LAW ALTERS START DATE First day of school pushed back two weeks for future academic years

HANSIKA SAKSHI staff writer

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ecently, Ladue administration altered the calendar for the 2020-21 school year due to a new Missouri law. July 11, 2019, Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed a bill called HB401, which pushes back the start date for public schools. This law states that the first day of school must be no earlier than 14 calendar days before Labor Day. A previous law allowed for school boards to hold an open meeting and vote for an earlier start date based on their own needs.

Tourism industries lobbied for this new law in hopes of increasing their revenue. Since students will now have a longer summer break, businesses at the Lake of the Ozarks and in Branson are expecting more visitors. Their high school employees will be able to work for longer as well.

Changing the start date also comes with disadvantages. As winter break cannot be moved due to

winter holidays, this law makes the first semester of school shorter than the second, affecting semester-long classes. The days of AP testing also cannot be changed, which creates less time for teachers to review for AP exams.

“From an AP perspective, this can create a disadvantage for [students],” physics teacher Richard Witt said.

“We have a set amount of material to cover, and if we are starting two weeks later, that’s like losing two weeks of the school year in preparation for [the AP] test.”

In order to accommodate for the days lost at the beginning of the school year, changes to the calendar needed to be made. Dr. Amy Zielinsky, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, helped make these calendar changes.

“The new start date is Aug. 24,” Zielinski said. “We had to remove a professional development day in September to ensure the high school met required state hours. We pushed back our spring break by a week since we will be going a week

A letter to the editors

In response to the December editorial Mike Schlueter As I read the December Panorama, I had to chuckle at the fact that Panorama went from an article on vaping to a “should my parents micromanage me” article. The irony was thick.

I try, in every single situation, to be completely honest with my kids. I think that as soon as you lie to them (about anything other than, perhaps, Santa), you run the risk of losing credibility. As a lawyer, I can promise credibility is important in everything.

So, let me be honest—you have no idea what you are talking about. Now, before you unleash your hatred toward this dad statement, let me continue. Neither did I for many years. Neither did my parents and neither will your kids. It is not a matter of how smart

longer in May. We are still able to have students finish the school year before Memorial Day, and snow days and school hours are not affected.”

The new law also comes with some advantages. The three month summer it causes may benefit current juniors such as William Pan. “This law really gives us [rising] seniors a benefit [for] college because we have a lot more time to work on college applications,” Pan said. “Other students [can] also enjoy a long summer.”

The law is pushing many teachers to change how they structure their course. Many will work on unit planning to accommodate for the imbalance of the semesters and the fewer days before AP exams.

“I think the new law provides challenges to the district but nothing we cannot overcome,” Zielinski said. “Allowing for choice in determining the calendar has been the tradition for my entire time in education, so adjusting that mindset forces us to think differently, which isn’t a bad thing.”

you are; it’s simply a matter of life and experience. I pay a lot of attention to my kids and their friends. They are not dumb. They are good, friendly kids who have no idea what they are talking about.

Life experience is irreplaceable. It is what takes all this knowledge you are gain- Read the ing in high school and allows you to use it editorial to make good decisions. here.

So, back to the irony of a vape article followed by a helicopter parent article. I am the furthest thing from a helicopter parent. I believe in giving young adults rope, hopefully not enough to hang themselves. How much rope you give is what keeps parents up at night.

Technology has created a situation where nothing is private. You are the most at risk generation; listen to your parents, grandparents and coaches. There is a reason they watch over you and have you going to Ladue.

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ith the presidential primaries currently taking place, many have been paying close attention to politics. As a result, students have become involved in campaigns, hoping to make a difference.

“I definitely think it’s beneficial to get involved in politics and vote,” junior Giselle Grench said. “It’s good to be involved as much as you can and get others involved. After I’m a student judge, I will definitely make sure to recommend this experience to others, so they can learn too.”

Students who get involved in politics stay informed throughout multiple elections, helping them learn about current events. Last year, senior Sean Ferguson became involved with politics by helping former canidate Andrew Yang’s campaign.

“I am very actively interested in politics,” Ferguson said. “I make sure to watch the debates and read the newest articles about the caucuses, primaries and the 2020 race. I worked on Andrew’s campaign for about five months as it grew from a small grassroots campaign to a serious contender for the nomination. I worked with a team of originally about 15 other people, which expanded as we worked.”

A typical day helping Yang’s campaign was spent communicating with the team about important issues, handling replies and using a platform called Help Scout that organized responsibilities across the team.

“Campaign volunteer work is necessary for a candidate to really get a foothold in a sea of other candidates,”

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Ferguson said. “I think I helped Andrew Yang, just by working bit by bit, to get as far as he did. I also think I helped clarify his message to hundreds of people over the Internet.”

Whether it is staying informed or helping someone read a ballot, being a student judge for a day can help the voting system run smoothly. Student judges help by handing out ballots and informing the public on how to fill out a political ballot.

“It is the responsibility of the people at that location to make sure they are taking care of [the voting process], that everyone can vote and that the process runs smoothly,” social studies teacher Molly Beck said. “There are all sorts of things, and the only way this works is through volunteers and paid workers.”

By taking the time to assist individuals and helping the system run, students hope to help in upholding others’ rights to have a say in the government.

“These volunteers and workers make sure that people get access to their constitutional rights,” Beck said. “I think, essentially, it’s upholding everyone’s right in a democracy because everyone has the fundamental right to vote.”

However, being involved in politics and helping spread a message isn’t limited to student judges or campaigns. There are a number of other activities that encourage students to get involved in the elections.

“At Ladue, we have [a lot of clubs that] seek to bring people together by just talking about issues that all of us are facing,” Beck said. “Community organizations and activist groups that are issue based, or any clubs and organization at the high school level, can allow you to take action on issues that you care about both at school and in the larger community.”

Students at Ladue can easily begin their journey in politics by asking a social studies teacher for suggestions or staying informed through the media. By taking the first step, students have plugged into an area of interest and gotten involved.

“Everyone can make a difference by getting involved in politics,” Ferguson said. “If you fight for what you believe in and try to find the government representative — in this case Andrew at the presidential level — that fights for you and others, you can help change the world.”

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Joe Biden, former Vice President under Barack Obama and senator of Delaware, announced his running in 2019. He won South Carolina’s Caucus with 48.4 percent of votes and believes in addressing climate change and abolishing the death penalty.

Michael Bloomberg, a former New York mayor, founded the Bloomberg L.P., a financial data company, in 1981. He has spent over $400 million on advertising for his campaign and believes in requiring background checks for guns and two free years of college.

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Bernie Sanders ran for the democratic presidential nomination in 2016 but did not win. He is currently a Vermont senator and took first in the Nevada Caucus with 46.8 percent of votes. Sanders believes in cancelling all student debt and healthcare for all.

Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator, established the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, a government agency responsible for financial consumer protection.

Warren believes in a fair immigration system, as well as free healthcare for all.

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the man, the myth,

AP US Government and politics teacher Robert Snidman shares how he got to this point in his career SYDNEY CRUMP managing editor

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or most students, having Robert Snidman as their teacher is an iconic part of the AP U.S. Government class. Most of his students also know that before becoming a teacher, Snidman had a variety of careers, like joining the U.S. Air Force and working as a lawyer. Snidman’s different jobs have added to his knowledge of the government and how it operates.

As a 13-year-old boy, Snidman got his first job as a paperboy delivering Newsweek and Time magazines. He gained an interest in current events from his time as a paperboy. Snidman grew up in Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he worked jobs like escorting students to their dorms at night and running an ambulance for athletes at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

“In 1984, the Olympics came to [Los Angeles] and [University of California, Los Angeles] was turned into an Olympic Village because they had dorms, and they had workout fields,” Snidman said. “I got to work in the Olympic Village because we had a little clinic there.”

Snidman also spent a whole summer on a kibbutz, a collective community focused on agriculture, in Israel picking bananas for about $1 per week – though his housing and food were provided by the kibbutz. Snidman estimates that he picked over a ton of bananas during that summer.

“I had a machete, and I would chop [the bananas] off the tree and then haul them to the truck,” Snidman said.

After graduating from law school, Snidman decided to join the U.S. Air Force and work at Yokota Air Base in Japan doing work in criminal law, environmental law and domestic relations. From there, Snidman’s wife Elizabeth Snidman, a Ladue graduate whom he met while on active duty at Scott Air Force Base, thought it was time to return to St. Louis and settle down. Snidman eventually worked at the Juvenile Public Defender’s office in the city of St. Louis.

“I was there [for] two years at the Youth Advocacy unit of the Missouri State Public Defender’s office, and it was a wonderful crew who worked there,” Snidman said. “After that I got interested in teaching because I worked with teachers in the city.”

ABOVE: Robert Snidman works at his desk during a prep period. He has taught at the high school as a social studies teacher for 15 years. “You’ll find at many high schools, there are lawyers teaching there because it is so related to being a lawyer,” Snidman said.

(Photo by Sunny Lu) FAR LEFT: Snidman poses for his last official U.S. Air Force headshot.

(Photo courtesy of Robert Snidman) BELOW: Snidman holds a shadow box containing his medals and ribbons from the U.S. Air Force at his retirement ceremony January 2016. Snidman was a reservist at Scott Air Force Base from 1999-2016. “In my last four years [at Scott Air Force Base], I was the Staff Judge Advocate, which is the top lawyer for the unit,” Snidman said.

(Photo courtesy of Robert Snidman)

Though junior Anna Reis, one of Snidman’s students, enjoys learning about government and politics, her favorite part of AP U.S. Government is all the jokes and stories Snidman tells every day. Reis thinks his jokes lighten up some of the topics she finds boring.

“I think my favorite experience with him, in general, is just all the jokes he makes and his attempts to use what we call hip language — today he said ‘salty,’” Reis said.

Snidman’s first teaching job was at Hazelwood Central High School, where he started their AP U.S. Government program. Social studies teacher Christopher Saxton sat in on Snidman’s interview for a teaching position at Ladue 15 years ago. At the start of Snidman’s career as a teacher at Ladue, Saxton was his mentor. He believes Snidman has grown into a wonderful teacher.

The two have worked together on Ladue’s Mock Trial team for many years. Saxton coined the nickname “Matlock” for Snidman, citing that he looked like the fictional criminal defense attorney.

“One of my favorite stories about Mr. Snidman is that kids call him ‘The G.O.A.T.,’” Saxton said. “And he didn’t know what ‘G.O.A.T.’ was, and he got very upset, but then we told him what ‘G.O.A.T.’ was — the greatest of all time — and he became very happy.”

During Snidman’s time as a lawyer, he had to clearly explain situations to commanders, and he finds that it helped him explain material to students. His many careers before teaching contribute to the classroom experience he is able to provide for students.

“The great thing [at Ladue] is [that] every year is different kids and different things going on in politics, so [teaching] never gets old,” Snidman said.

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ABOVE: Kyle Gyawali quickly solves his cube with ease. He has spent much of his time practicing his skills. “At some point I hope to go to the U.S. National Championships,” Gyawali said.

RIGHT: Kyle Gyawali demonstrates how he cubes. He has competed in several cubing competitions. “I really enjoy solving this puzzle and trying to go faster,” Gyawali said.

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Junior Kyle Gyawali masters skills on Rubik’s Cube MAX EASTMAN staff writer

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alking into the Student Union at Illinois University at Urbana-Champaign, junior Kyle Gyawali feverishly scrambles and unscrambles his three-by-three Rubik’s cube. Kyle’s immense speed and precision leaves many of the people in the auditorium stunned. After finding his way to the checkin table, he takes a seat in the stands and continues his elegant display of both mental and physical nimbleness. Following the inspection of the cube, his time starts, and he loses himself – even if only for mere seconds – inside the intricacies of the cube.

Kyle Gyawali is a cuber who competes in many events and has been doing so for almost three years. There are several different events available for Kyle to compete in. A skewb is similar to the Rubik’s Cube as it has a cubical shape but differs in the movement of the axes, which pass through the corners of the cube.

“I compete in two-by-two, three-by-three, four-byfour, five-by-five, six-by-six, seven-by-seven, three-bythree one-handed, three-by-three blindfolded, skewb, pyraminx, square one, megaminx and Rubik’s Clock,” Kyle said.

Along with being multi-faceted, he performs very well in many of his events. Kyle achieves his goals with practice day in and day out.

“In three-by-three one-handed, I am first in the state of Missouri for average [time],” Kyle said. “For normal Rubik’s Cube, I am third, and for two-by-two, I am second, along with skewb.”

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Becoming a nationally ranked cuber did not come easily. He spends many hours practicing, even in school.

“It’s usually all he does during homelab,” English teacher Kimberly Gutchewsky said. “So that’s how he spends his 20 minutes every homelab.”

As a nationally ranked cuber, there are many aspects of cubing that affect his life outside of competition.

Kyle strives to share his knowledge of the activity with other people.

“He has tried to teach me once or twice for the twoby-two event because the three-by-three event would be too hard,” Millie Gyawali, Kyle’s sister, said. “I like that because it’s really nice that he wants me to be able to do it.”

Another aspect of cubing is the massive cubing community that is present at almost every major competition. There is a feeling of unity when old friends from past competitions reunite.

“By the end of my first competition, I had a whole group of friends who live in Kansas City,” Kyle said.

“After my second one, I had friends from St. Louis and some from Wisconsin and Ohio – just all over the place.”

There are many different reasons for why people begin to cube, but oddly, it seems like there are very few for why they stay: either they are in love with the puzzles, or they are in love with the community. For Kyle, the latter is true.

“Everyone there is super nice and accepting,” Kyle said. “You can average 45 seconds on three-by-three, and you can still have a really in-depth, friendly conversation with someone who averages nine seconds or eight seconds.”

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how wealth affects various aspects of education for Ladue students

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01. ACADEMICS GRACE HU in-depth editor

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nder the harsh glare of white LED lights, senior Eyob Tewelde sits among rows of tables at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters. Eyes squinted, his focus is directed on the sheet of equations in front of him. The only sounds breaking the churn of the air conditioning are the occasional scratching of a pencil on paper and the rapid taps of his fingers on his computer keyboard.

Tewelde will continue his homework routine for another couple of hours until the sky darkens. His efforts have not gone unnoticed. This fall, Tewelde will be attending one of the selective universities he has been accepted to, with options that include The University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.

Tewelde is one of many high-achieving students that shape the Ladue School District. Due to Ladue’s reputation as a extraordinarily competitive school in the St. Louis area, achieving academic success in the form of acceptance to a highly selective school is no small feat. While stellar GPAs and Advanced Placement-studded course loads may appear to come naturally for some students, rarely are the costs — whether they be monetary or time-based — discussed.

Not only has the cost of attending college increased each year, but the expenditures necessary to get into college have risen as well. In addition to built-in costs such as supplies, standardized testing and college application fees, optional costs such as AP tests, which cost $100 each, have become fixtures in the image of academic competitiveness. In fact, the College Board reported that 2.8 million students took at least one AP exam in 2019. Most Ladue students end up taking more than one AP exam annually, which can accumulate to an exorbitant sum. “[I spent] $100 during sophomore year and $500 junior year,”

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senior Kashish Dhawan, who will be attending Northwestern University in the fall, said. “I already paid the deposit of $40 per test this year, so that’s $160 [so far this year.]”

Additionally, services such as tutoring and college essay editors add an extra cost for students who wish to achieve the score or acceptance they desire. This extra aid can cost a significant sum, and this cost can put a strain on those who do not have extra money to spend on enhancing their education.

“There are fee waivers, but if you can’t pay for a tutor, if you can’t pay for books — if you can’t pay for that, then of course you’re at a disadvantage,” Dhawan said. “If you have trouble paying for the AP tests, that’s not fair.”

While money is a highly quantifiable cost of education, another important aspect of academic success is time. The burdensome process of preparing and completing college applications has become increasingly arduous. The Pew Research Center reports that students are applying to 10.2 percent more colleges than they were in 2002, meaning that the time spent on applications has also increased. Tewelde, while not having spent nearly as much money as other students of similar academic caliber, is an example of how much time students often spend on college applications.

“The week of the early action deadline, I went to the library every day,” Tewelde said. “I did one college a day … I spent two or three hours on each one.”

Despite the expenses involved with earning the components of academic success, it appears that many students believe that the benefits of their work have outweighed the costs.

“I really wanted to get into The University of Chicago, so my acceptance was worth it,” Tewelde said. “I did [everything] perfectly.”

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s senior Anna Zhong elegantly pulls her bow across the strings of the violin, a melody of soft, harmonious notes emits from the instrument. Suddenly, her fingers slide up on the string, and her bow movements become more violent and dynamic as the piece switches from delicate to vivacious.

Zhong is rehearsing Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D Minor ahead of her solo performance at Powell Hall with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra March 15. Having played the violin for 12 years, Zhong is among the most accomplished of young classical musicians in St. Louis.

“I like the violin because it allows me to express myself,” Zhong said. “Also, I have been able to meet so many people through my experience with the violin.”

However, Zhong’s path to musical excellence has been defined by various expenses required to develop and maintain her violin skills. Rehearsals, lessons and travel demand frequent costs.

“I do weekly lessons,” Zhong said. “Sometimes people who take violin seriously may do even two lessons per week, and chamber music — there’s a fee —

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and the enrollment for the Youth Orchestra has a fee as well. And of course, the instrument is a huge part of it.”

These costs are not only limited to violin; many extracurriculars necessitate exorbitant amounts of time and money for participants who hope to be competitive. Junior Gabe DiAntonio, who is a nationally qualified debater, has participated on Ladue’s Speech and Debate team since he was a freshman and has experience with the dedication needed for the club.

“I work on debate before school, during classes if I think I can get away with it, at lunchtime and after school for two and a half hours,” DiAntonio said. “Then I might listen to political podcasts while eating, and before I go to bed I’ll do more debate if I’ve done my homework.”

For those who wish to truly excel at extracurriculars such as debate and music, practice during the school year may not be enough.

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“The most useful thing that debate camp does is teach you a massive amount about that topic right before it actually starts, which gives you a massive advantage,” DiAntonio said. “The first camp I went to was a bit over $1,000, and the other one was maybe twice that.”

Success in extracurriculars can greatly bolster a student’s college application. This benefit may drive students to dedicate gargantuan amounts of time and money into their activities in hopes of out performing their peers.

“Music is a huge part of my college application,” Zhong said. “It shows that you’re passionate about something and that you put a lot of time into it.”

The costs of activities may seem slightly daunting to both parents and students. These fees raise questions over inequality within the opportunity for success in various extracurriculars.

“Debate has quite a few barriers to entry,” DiAntonio said. “If you work after school, or if your parents work after school, then you don’t have a way to get to and from tournaments.”

Although the various inequalities in extracurriculars may seem bleak to those who are disadvantaged, it is important to note that individual success is self-defined.

Scott Cornwell, a Ladue college and career counselor, offers a more optimistic view on the state of competition within extracurriculars.

“Some people have more time, and some people have more money,” Cornwell said. “This isn’t going to change, but how people choose to spend their time and money can change. The definition of success is very individual. There is not one ideal up to which we must all live.

Ultimately, how we individually define success defines us.”

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ith practice on Saturday and Sunday, frequent out of town tournaments, 15 hours of practice per week and an average of five hours of sleep every night, the life of senior tennis player Jeremy Ouyang is hectic. Ouyang has to deal with the responsibilities of high school and sports. This commitment has made him the top tennis recruit in the state of Missouri.

On top of all the time he has spent training, Ouyang’s parents have invested a significant amount of money in equipment and travel.

While his rackets and bag cost over $1,000 retail combined, this cost pales in comparison to his travel fees. For tournaments across the country, Ouyang’s parents must pay for gas, hotels and food.

“Usually [for a tournament] we will drive for five to seven hours, and then get a hotel for three nights,” Ouyang said. “[It costs] around $110 a night.”

While this spending is not necessary to play tennis at a recreational level, the competition is much higher at the events Ouyang attends.

In addition, he practices at Creve Coeur Racquet Club, a top facility, to hone his skills. He sees this as a main component to becoming a strong player.

“It depends on where you are because who you practice with has a lot to do with how good you

end up being,” Ouyang said. “So if you’re somewhere where there’s a lot of good players, and you don’t have money to pay for lessons, you should be fine — if you’re practicing with people that are better than you all the time.”

Because of constant travel — none of the 15–20 tournaments Ouyang goes to every year are local — Ouyang finds it hard to connect with his friends. Instead, he has chosen to use a large part of his four years of high school working to improve his tennis skills over being with friends.

“Since I’ve been out of town every other weekend the past three years, it’s been tough,” Ouyang said.

“I can’t really do anything on weekends. We practice from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., so I don’t [go out] before that because why would I?” While Ouyang chose to dedicate his free time to tennis, senior Carlos Puyo went through a period in his youth where soccer, his sport of choice, was too much for him. Even at a young age, commitments to soccer prohibited him from pursuing his other athletic interests. “[I was in] fourth and fifth grade,” Puyo said. “[Practice] was three or four times a week. And I was 8 or 9 years old. I wanted to play baseball and basketball as well. Not being able to play those because of soccer being every single day seriously burnt me out.”

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“If I could go back and tell my younger self, I probably wouldn’t quit just because I could have been really good,” Puyo said. “I played with a lot of the kids that are on the best team in the city now. If I would have stuck with it, I probably could have been with all them.”

Ultimately, Ouyang does not regret choosing to put his time and resources into tennis. He understands and accepts that in order for him to succeed at a high level, he must invest himself fully.

“You don’t have to spend as much money as I have, but the time is definitely necessary,” Ouyang said.

“But it’s good to have something that you want to get better at every day.”

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PANO PERSPECTIVE The coronavirus is no excuse for racist comments 28 of 29 Panorama staff members agree, all statistics as of March 2

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e as humans are inevitably afraid of the unknown. From childhood to adulthood, our imagination often gets the best of us. These kinds of irrational thoughts trick our brains into believing that what we don’t immediately recognize should be viewed as a threat. However, what begins as a harmless fear of the unknown oftentimes develops into a much more severe issue — xenophobia.

In recent years, xenophobia has become a buzzword in politics. However, while we as Americans are getting used to hearing it, we are not doing enough to help fight it. Case in point: the Wuhan coronavirus. As the coronavirus continues to obtain a massive amount of media coverage, it is crucial that we consider the role that xenophobia plays in the information we consume.

We must acknowledge how the red scare and American anxieties over decreased cultural and scientific relevance have played into our perspective.

Throughout February, major media outlets flooded their front pages with coronavirus updates. What these articles often fail to mention is that there is still much unknown about the virus. When looking into many different sources, one will find that much of the information being spread is not as one-sided as it may seem.

Although the Chinese government initially suppressed information that could have slowed the virus’ spread, it also built two hospitals dedicated to the coronavirus in 10 days. As with any new illness, creating a cure does not occur overnight. Alongside this, the high number of cases can also be caused by a lack of preparedness.

Comparing the coronavirus to influenza can help put things into perspective. According to the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, in the U.S., the flu has led to around 19 million illnesses, 180,000 hospitalizations and 10,000 deaths this season. The coronavirus, however, has led to around 80,000 infections and fewer than 3,000 deaths around the world, many fewer than the flu. There have been fewer than 10 deaths in the U.S. so far, with confirmed case numbers below 100.

On top of all this, the Washington Post reported that around 80 percent of coronavirus cases are mild.

Without concrete information and ability to combat the disease, weariness is only natural. Nevertheless, there is no reason for one to assume that this disease’s development should justify any sort of racist action. We as a student body and as a country have an obligation to realize that although this disease is frightening, it should not in any way be tied to Chinese people. It is this type of ignorance that has led to numerous horrific consequences for innocent Chinese individuals. A Chinese man in Australia died of a heart attack when people refused to give him CPR due to fear of him having coronavirus. According to the commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services, New York Chinatown businesses have lost 40 percent of their revenue. These events are a brutal reminder that our own bias and fear has an impact on everyone.

The best way to combat the xenophobia and misinformation surrounding the coronavirus is simple: we must make a conscious effort to be informed. Simply reading the news would reveal that this is a global issue.

While it is easy to space out and blame the pandemic on one culture, the reality is that viruses don’t discriminate and neither should we.

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Help that actually hurts

The truth behind voluntourism MARISSA MATHIESON news staff

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very year, millions of individuals from wealthy nations travel abroad hoping to make a difference, seeking personal growth or looking to form a connection with the less fortunate. This current phenomenon — coined as voluntourism, a portmanteau of volunteering and tourism — has exploded in popularity, especially among students hoping to pad their résumés or spread their message.

The voluntourism industry prides itself on creating travel with a purpose. While this activity may seem beneficial, in reality, it does more harm than good.

Although the volunteer travel industry comes with noble intentions, the majority of voluntourists often arrive unskilled and untrained, leading to a minuscule contribution. For example, those who attempt to build a structure, such as a house, aim to bring joy to those in need, yet, not

only do the buildings fall apart, but the community members are left to pick up the tourists’ messes. A study, done by Kurt Alan Ver Beek, a professor at Calvin University, examined Americans who traveled to Honduras to build houses. They found that the work made a minimal difference, and the homes they built cost $28,000 more than they would have if the community built them.

For many voluntourists, the top destination is an orphanage — a noble aspiration that can actually harm children rather than help them. In Cambodia, according to the UN, the number of orphanages has been growing due to the rising voluntourism trend. Sadly, recent studies from Lumos, a group that seeks to end child trafficking, reveal that donating to or visiting an orphanage while volunteering abroad has been closely linked to child trafficking.

In most cases, children are bought from their homes by child finders who pay $50 to $100 per child. A family may give away their child

with the hope that the kid will gain a better life or education — when the reality is, operators will do anything to meet the high demand for children in orphanages.

This demand comes from a huge rise in tourists wanting to volunteer in orphanages. For example, another study published by Lumos found that an orphanage in Haiti keeps children malnourished, in filth and with no money because donations from tourists ended up in the director’s bank account. In addition, a 2006 survey by Unicef in Liberia found that 98 percent of children living in these orphanages were not actually orphans. Thus, this contributes to the continued malnourishment, death and abuse of children across the majority of these voluntorism destinations.

The effects, although undermined by the voluntourism industry, can only be stopped by focusing on one’s own community. When volunteers take steps to change problems in their own country or donate money to trustworthy organizations, only then can change come on a larger scale. If untrained volunteers are unequipped to deal with problems in their own country, it’s fair to say they shouldn’t help elsewhere.

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ALWAYS BOILING OVER Why hatred is always a waste of time in our lives copy editor

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oo often, I hear students express how much they hate someone else. His actions, her words, their very existences ­— some students say they cannot stand it. In what is probably one of the most volatile and vocal generations, I feel that this public service announcement is important: if you are hating someone or something for more than a day, you are wasting your brain capacity.

Allow me to set a baseline for what might inspire negative feelings.

For someone to be unlikable, they must have an expressed quality or belief that is so disagreeable that it noticeably bothers someone else.

That someone feels as if his mental bubble has been threatened and reacts accordingly to regain balance.

This reaction could range from some spoken words to a physical altercation. Consistently disagreeable behavior can change temporary annoyance to long-term contempt.

I once had people in my life who I thought deserved to be hated: those who invaded my space, gripped me like a vice, dragged my self-worth through muck and left me quivering with silent rage. In my eyes, they were living weapons whose sole purpose was to provoke me and ruin my day. The worst part was the feeling that I could never win or drive them away. That unexpressed emotion is then left broiling inside, needing an outlet, and it obviously is projected in the worst ways.

Only in retrospect did I realize how completely irrational it was — not only the idea of hating but also being explicitly annoyed, offended or having any inkling of resentment

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for more than a moment. It’s pure ignorance to hold onto feelings that put one in a needlessly sour mood, and to think that there is enough space in the world to have a safe bubble to protect one’s precious beliefs shows a lack of awareness for how the world works.

Your space will be invaded and threatened constantly; are you really going to be bothered by people who so much as look at you the wrong way? That constant state of tension will drain an individual of all their drive to do anything else, which then leaves them bitter at this habit of “laziness,” once again inspiring the deadly circle of blame and projection that introudces a localized cycle of mental degradation.

No one wins by resenting. There will be many others beyond high school whom you will clash with.

They will come from many different backgrounds and upbringings that cannot be fully comprehended.

Accepting that there are aspects of people you will never understand is the first step in becoming a more tolerant person. By acknowledging the unknown, I realized that, beyond my bubble, humans of all kinds are toiling and slogging through an increasingly global society, and meeting people who oppose all my views is the price of the global network.

So, instead of being hung up on someone whispering about you, cheating on you or saying something offensive, go blow off steam without hurting anyone. Hang out with friends, play video games, watch Netflix or do homework like the totally diligent student you are. Your noggin is worth more challenging and engaging with the world than mentally retreating into a dark corner like a feral beast.

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Laumeier Sculpture Park

Cost: Free

Laumeier Sculpture Park is a beautiful spot for taking pictures and walking on the trails. This iconic park is known for its beautiful sculptures, including a giant eyeball and a red sculpture that resembles enormous logs attached to one another. Laumeier also houses an indoor museum called The Aronson Fine Arts Center. At the park, there are three trails ranging from 0.10 miles to 0.77 miles long. If you don’t feel like walking, you can admire the larger-than-life art. In addition to the beautiful sights, the park hosts multiple events every month. This month, there are several clay throwing classes. Whether you come to this park for a walk or to admire the art, there is always something exciting happening.

Cost: $22.99

Meramec Caverns Located an hour from Ladue in Sullivan, Missouri are the well-known Meramec Caverns. The caverns are also known as Missouri’s “buried treasure” because of the variety of the jewels in the caves. When I visited the caverns, I was fascinated with the beautiful crystals. I would recommend going to the caverns, as it feels like a mini road trip to see something unexpected without paying too much money. Walking through the caves feels like you’re in another world, with each crystal more eye-catching than the last. The caverns are open year-round, with guided tours lasting an hour and 20 minutes. The caverns also include zip-lining over the Meramec River, which reopens in March. Taking account of the experience, the Meramec Caverns are a must-see.

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Cost: Free

St. Louis is known to go all-out for holidays that dive into its history, and St. Patrick’s Day is no exception. The St. Louis St. Patrick’s Day Parade is an annual event downtown. This year, the parade is March 14 at noon. This is a must-see event, as everyone is in the holiday spirit and dressed up in eye-catching green. It is special to see so many St. Louisans have so much enthusiasm for this day. While the parade is a one-day event, there are other celebrations that last all weekend. There is an Irish dinner the night before the parade at the Hilton Hotel and the St. Patrick’s Day three and five-mile runs, which host more than 8,000 runners each year. The parade includes more than 120 units, such as marching bands, floats and cartoon character balloons. I recommend coming down to this popular event, as St. Louis goes crazy for St. Patrick’s Day. LADUEPUBLICATIONS.COM

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arch 14, 1988, astrophysicist Larry Shaw created the first ever Pi Day to celebrate the influential constant on an annual basis. The number pi — π — approximates 3.14159 and trails on indefinitely without a pattern.

Defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, pi appears in various formulas in fields like medicine, math and physics, making it useful for numerous calculations.

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Originally born in Washington D.C., Shaw went on to earn his degree in astrophysics at Reed College in 1961. Shaw worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley in astrophysics. He ultimately settled at the Exploratorium, a museum for science, art and technology, for 33 years until his retirement in 2005. Shaw specialized in creating exhibits where he gained recognition for his cosmos and spacethemed displays.

Sugarfire Pie’s namesake offering provides a complex twist on the native St. Louis gooey butter pastry. Topped with powdered sugar, my immediate thought after the first bite was that it tasted rather overcooked and dry. However, the contrast of sweet and rich elements of the pie ultimately made up for the underwhelming texture.

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Sugarfire Pie’s Mississippi Mud looks just like it sounds: a chocolate pie with a fudgelike texture. As I took my first bite of this pie, I knew instantly that I would be unable to finish the whole slice. The pie had an overwhelmingly rich chocolate taste, too much for one person to handle. The pie would be much more enjoyable if it contained a thicker crust to balance the overbearing chocolate.

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LEFT: Sophomore Sydney Frelich juggles a ball Feb. 27.

Frelich was voted captain by her fellow teammates. “I let the players vote on who the captains should be,” head coach David Aronberg said.

“They voted her in as one of our four captains. From my experience, the kids make great decisions on who they want their leaders to be.”

BELOW: Sophomore Sydney Frelich shoots a ball Feb. 27.

Frelich had two game-winning goals her freshman season. “Scoring my first Ladue goal was very cool,” Frelich said. “It was an overtime winner of our conference games.

It was pretty exciting.”

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“Sydney has a very high soccer IQ and is very versatile,” Aronberg said. “She can literally play all of the positions on the field at an extremely high level. In fact, last year, she played every position for us at some time LUCY LOCHMOELLER or another.” news staff Her fellow captains see Frelich as a strong teammate.

Having played with her last year, the captains know printing down the field in a blur, the then freshFrelich very well after building a strong relationship man Sydney Frelich beats her defender and with her on and off the field. rushes to the net for the game-winning goal in “I love Sydney,” Ott said. “I like playing with her. I overtime against conference rival Northwest Cedar Hill know what she is going to do before she does it, and March 26, 2019. Then, it happened: she scored her first [that’s] a great connection to have on the field. I think goal on the varsity girls soccer team. she is a great player, and she brings This year, Frelich is going to a lot to the team, especially in lead the team as a captain – a midfield.” rare occurrence for a sophomore.

At the end of last year’s season, She will have help from the other Frelich was voted as one of the captains: junior Grace Christee I do see myself as a leader, but four captains for this year by her and seniors Elizabeth Loynd and Taylor Ott. I’m only a sophomore. It will be teammates. Aronberg believes that she was chosen because the team “From last year’s experience, I interesting and kind of weird to saw Frelich as an example of leadfeel like I have respect from most have to lead people that are older ership and of how to play the game of the older girls,” Frelich said. “I the right way. also have a lot of respect for them than me on the team.

“I think it might be a little tough as well, so I don’t think it will for her to be a captain as a sophbe challenging to lead the other omore in the beginning, but right players. We already work together -Sydney Frelich, 10 now – from what I have seen – she really well as a team and get along has done a great job,” Ott said. great.”

Aronberg agrees with Ott, and he expects Frelich to Frelich started playing soccer when she was 5 years develop her leadership skills the same way she grew her old. Her parents signed her up because all four of her athletic skills last season. She is not the captain screamolder brothers played as well. From there, Frelich fell in love with sport and has not stopped playing since. As ing out commands at practice but rather the one always in the right place doing the right thing. she matured, she went from playing on a recreational “She leads by example,” Aronberg said. “I think she’ll team to a top soccer team in the area. grow into the role of being a more vocal leader as she “I used to play for Olivette when I was little,” Frelich gets older, but the girls know that she knows what she said. “On Gallagher, I played for a classic team for a bit, is talking about and naturally follow her.” and I’ve been playing on Elite for a few years now. I’m Aronberg sees potential in Frelich to not only do currently on the Elite Club National League team.” great things for the team in her upcoming high school As a freshman on varsity last year, Frelich had to season but to go even further in soccer if she chooses quickly learn to work with a group of older girls whom to. This is high praise for a 16-year-old sophomore. she had never played with before. She was quickly able “I think she is someone who will play in college if to make this adjustment and contributed greatly to the she wants to,” Aronberg said. “The talent, skill and athteam’s performance. leticism are all there, so it will be a matter of her finding “At first, it was kind of scary because I felt awkward a school that’s the right fit for her. I wouldn’t be surbeing a freshman on varsity,” Frelich said. “I was scared prised if she has a major impact on the next three years to hog the ball too much or take time away from the of Ladue soccer, both as a leader and on the field.” upperclassmen. It was really intimidating, but the team Frelich does have some nerves going into the upmade me feel really welcome, and I fit in with them. coming season, as her team will be looking to her for By the end of the year, I was having a lot of fun playing support and leadership. Despite this, she is excited and with the team.” ready to compete with the team behind her.

Head coach David Aronberg views Frelich’s prowess “I think it might be awkward at first, just because I’m and resourcefulness on the field as a special talent for having to lead juniors and seniors, but overall, I think someone her age. In his 15 years of coaching, only one it will all work out,” Frelich said. “I can’t wait for the other sophomore has been captain – when there were season to start. I’m excited to see what happens.” no seniors on the team. sports editor

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Senior Mason Player decides to end his athletic career after high school KATIE HOLLAND

Senior Mason Player practices for his upcoming final track season. Player has been running track since his sophomore year and looks back fondly on the time he has spent in the program.

“I know I’m going to miss my teammates — just going to practice every day and making jokes and dancing with them,” Player said.

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n his sophomore track season, senior Mason Player came tantalizingly close to breaking several school records, including the 100m dash, 200m dash, the 4x100m relay and 4x200m relay. He injured himself during his junior season but hopes to return this year to break them. Player is also an all-state wide reciever for the football team.

This fall, Player plans on attending the University of Kentucky, where he will study either kinesiology or physical therapy. His plans do not include playing sports at the collegiate level, despite offers from numerous Devision I colleges across the country.

“I’m not going to play any sports in college,” Player said. “With the major I want in college – I wouldn’t have enough time to juggle [academics] and sports.”

Although Player’s decision to not pursue Division I collegiate athletics is final, he knows he’ll miss many aspects of high school sports.

“My teammates and my coaches really helped me throughout high school,” Player said. “It’s going to be hard moving on from football and track, especially since I’ve been playing football basically my whole life.”

Player’s football coach Mike Tarpey saw and respected Player’s ability to lead his teammates on the field. Tarpey

sees these skills as transferable to other elements of Player’s life outside of football.

“Mason led our team by example,” Tarpey said. “He enjoyed not only his own success but watching others succeed as well. I look forward to seeing Mason be extremely successful in his life based on the characteristics he displayed and developed during the four years I worked with him.”

Ladue track coach Nicholas Buckvar also took notice of Player’s potential to perform at the collegiate level.

He believes Player will prosper in anything he pursues.

“I hope that in the future, Mason takes the lessons he has learned through sports and applies them to all areas of his life,” Buckvar said.

Teams to keep an eye out for during March Madness Jacob Korn predicts which teams could make a deep run this March Madness University of Maryland Baylor University Seton Hall University

The Maryland basketball team must be taken seriously in the debate about our next March Madness champion. The Terrapins are currently first place in arguably the toughest and deepest conference in all of college basketball, the Big Ten. They are known for having one of the top defenses in college and could definitely be a contestant in the tournamnet this March.

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Baylor has six top 50 wins and has beaten a top five Kansas in their home stadium by 12 points.

The Bears are known for having a top five defense, and their offense, led by star guard Jared Butler, knows how to score. This team overall ranks second in the nation.

It wouldn’t be a surprise to see the Bears as one of the last teams standing in the tournament.

The Pirates are one of the top teams in the Big East conference and have been a dominant force throughout the regular season. The team is led by Myles Powell, who is one of the most explosive offensive players in the entire country. He is averaging around 21.2 points per game and shoots his field goals at roughly 40 percent. This team has what it takes to go far in March.

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FOUR BASKETBALL SENIORS REACH 1000 POINTS PLAYMAKER SHOT CREATOR Mia Collins grabbed 822 rebounds during her career. Her

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