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April 18, 2018 VOL 80 NO 6
A DANCE OF PENZANCE
MCPS parent arrested for child pornography By Gilda Geist
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MCPS parent Jonathan Oldale was arrested on federal charges of producing child pornography, according to a letter sent to the community by Superintendent Jack Smith on Friday, April 13. According to the letter, the material “involved dozens of school-aged children, many of whom attend MCPS schools.” The letter and said that Oldale recorded minors during parties he hosted at his house. At least 30 children have been identified in the videos so far, according to WJLA. He is currently detained, according to police report. Oldale was also arrested in Oct. 2017 for conducting nonconsensual surveillance of an individual at a gym, according to Bethesda Magazine. At the time, he was also accused of hiding a camera in a bathroom at Silver Stars Gymnastics. “I am outraged by this behavior and I know that our community finds the allegations in the charging documents as disturbing and upsetting as I do,” Smith said in the letter.
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Body image in athletics
A different approach to education
By Arshiya Dutta
By Leila Jackson
Sarah, a junior, has been a swimmer for as long as she can remember, and for the past couple of years, it has been a core component of her life. Practicing 6 days a week, sometimes twice a day, she often jokes that she spends more time in the water than she does on land. Her hard work has paid off, as Sarah has climbed up to becoming one of the top female swimmers in the region. What most people do not know about her swimming, however, is that it has triggered her dangerous relationship with food, which affects all aspects of her life.
An internal battle
The “student-athlete grind” is not a secret to most people— students juggle strenuous sports schedules and intense academic
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workloads. But for some people, like Sarah, this lifestyle had dangerous physical and mental effects. “In freshman year, I was borderline anorexic,” she says. “I was absolutely crazy about it. I would wake up early and work out extra before school, and then I’d go to practice after school and I barely ate anything all day.” Since the eighth grade, Sarah has suffered from body dysmorphia, a condition in which people have a distorted perception of their body image as severely flawed. Even before her life revolved around swimming, Sarah felt like her body was abnormal. “I recently have noticed how body dysmorphic I used to be before swimming, too. I just thought I was fat when I clearly was not. It was unbelievable,” she says.
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When junior Adelaide Harris first stepped onto Agnes Scott College’s Georgia campus on a warm February day, she immediately knew that it was the school for her—the classes sparked her interest, the people were friendly, and the campus felt like a second home. The classrooms were filled with attentive students and engaging professors, but unlike her classes at Blair, the students were all women. Like Harris, senior Alix Swann quickly felt welcome when she visited Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) around the country. Swann liked that she shared similar experiences with the large number of students at HBCUs, such as having previously
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