BY GRETA NESS Being an athlete means representing not only yourself, but representing the school you are a part of. I have noticed that some schools change their girl’s sports teams names to a “female” version. For example, the Edina Hornets changing the name to “Hornettes” and the Minnetonka Skippers changing to “Skipperettes.” What is up with that? In a school, there is one
All athletes should be called the same
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student body, and everyone should be called the same thing, regardless of gender. In our world today, where there is such a fight for gender equality, having different names separating girls and boys sports does not make things better. All activities and sports should be referred to the same when representing the school. Regardless of what other schools may choose to name their teams, I am proud to be an Eagle.
BY ISABELLE FELTON
he nation’s largest drugstore chain ”, CVS,” announced in January something that will change modern beauty standards for the better. They announced that they would stop retouching photos for its store beauty brands. Instead they are beginning to use the original photos in effort to create more realistic standards of beauty customers. Starting this April the company will “no longer change or enhance a person’s size, shape, proportion, skin or eye color, wrinkles or any other individual characteristics in imagery created for their stores, websites, social media and marketing materials, according to a statement released by CVS. This is a positive step in the right direction, showing all people that it’s okay to have flaws and that in real life, people are not perfect and retouched. With young girls especially, today’s beauty standards can be extremely unrealistic and hard to live up to. Girl’s go to extreme measures to live up to these standards, but when they can’t achieve this unrealistic perfection they begin to hate themselves for it. It’s so unhealthy the way that Photoshop changes the way we view beauty standards. All imagery on photos used in advertisements will now carry a “CVS Beauty Mark,” showing shoppers that the photo had not been altered.
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BY ELIZABETH BUSE
or the love of poetry, why is someone making a mockery of it? Rupi Kaur poured her raw thoughts and emotions into a beautifully written book that took her many tireless days and nights of writing. She perfectly crafted the final result of her book Milk and Honey, all for it to be parodied into a book by two college students. Each page in Milk and Vine, by Emily Beck and Adam Gasiewski, is a different Vine reference.
Now, I do understand the Vine appeal. It’s hilarious. But, it is possible to be funny without disrupting something or someone. If you want to make a Vine book, fine. It could be really funny. But why do you have to connect it to a poetry book? And next time don’t copy someone’s title, format, cover, graphics, and style. Rupi Kaur is magnificent writer who deserves much more than her work being made fun of. Her story is personal and deep as she writes about heartbreak, pain, love, etc. Such an exquisite book should not have been turned into sarcasm in any form. It is a clear disrespect to Rupi Kaur and her fans.
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