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March 5, 2018
Treble choir to perform tonight page 2
THE LOOP UPCOMING EVENTS
MARCH 5: Choir Concert
Volume 16, Issue 2
New Coach, Stronger Team page 3
SPOTLIGHT
Why students’ voices should be heard on gun violence policies page 7
Recovery
How 45 minutes changed his life page 4 & 5
- 5 p.m.
MARCH 19-23: Career Fairblock lunch
MARCH 24: UIL Academics District Meet
MARCH 28: Midterm Exams MARCH 29: Midterm Exams/ Student Early Release
MARCH 30:
Holiday
PTSA DONATES $600 TO LIBRARY FOR NEW BOOKS The Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) has donated $600 to purchase new books for the library. “When they come in, I’ll put them on display,” librarian Liz Harrison said. “It’s nice, because it’s a lot of books on new careers, non-fiction books, some with opposing viewpoint that the English teachers will use.” Because the majority of AP classes are required to read non-fiction books, rather than fiction, the librarians are going to use more money on buying non-fiction. “It’s very exciting,” library assistant Kathy Lemay said. “I think it’s wonderful the PTSA would support the library, and basically all the students by letting us buy the books.” - Aparnna Manoj, News Editor
Sick Statistics 10
Influenzaassociated pediatric deaths were reported between Jan. 28, 2017 - Feb. 3, 2018.
7.7
The infection rate is now percent, which equals the peak of the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic.
63
children and teenagers have died of flu and its consequences this year.
17,101
A total of laboratoryconfirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported between Oct. 1, 2017 and Feb. 3, 2018
Photo by Tatiana Calzado
TRAUMA - Senior Rahil Baharia stands in front of the home where he and his family were victims of an armed robbery on Dec. 9, 2016. Since the burglary took place, his family moved and Baharia has been taking medication to help cope with PTSD.
NEWS
School offering new courses next year YASMIN HAQ DESIGN EDITOR
New courses will be offered for the 2018-2019 school year due to increasing student interest in different electives. Many electives are being offered for the first time this year as well. One new class that will be offered in the 2018-2019 school year is Interior Design II. It will be taught by Interior Design I teacher Jacqueline Rans. Rans is piloting Interior Design II with a student who is in Interior Design I for two periods. Rans said the student works on their own projects, independent from the Interior Design I curriculum. “I’ve worked with the interior design teacher from The Colony High School, and he’s doing the same thing,” Rans said. “He has a couple of Interior Design II students in his Interior Design I course and we kind of worked together over the summer on the curriculum. We’re both piloting it [this] spring to hopefully have a full class in the fall.” New courses from the course description guide were added to the to course selection sheets this year. These classes include Principles of Education and Training, Human Growth and Development, Interior Design II and Practicum in Fashion Design. “If there is sufficient student interest, as measured by the number requesting the course, and if the master schedule of classes and staffing all come togeth-
er, the courses will be offered,” Career and Technology department head Diane Weaver said. AP U.S. history teacher Travis Fitzgerald is also teaching the World after World War II elective this semester. Last year Fitzgerald agreed to teach the course since enough students wanted to take the class. He said he hopes the class becomes something he will still teach in the future instead of a one-time class. “There’s actually no official course or textbook, but there’s a lot of different things put together so I’m hoping it’s not just a one [time thing],” Fitzgerald said. “I don’t want to make all this content [and only use it once].” Counselor Tracey Shinkle said she gives the department heads the course description guide before students select their courses, so they can choose new classes to put on the course selection sheet. While the course selection sheet is exclusive to Hebron, the course description guide is shared between all high schools and is a catalogue of all classes approved by LISD. Once a class is put on the course selection sheet, the class will make it to the master schedule if enough students choose it and there is a teacher to teach it. If a teacher wants to teach a course that is not listed in the description guide, they can write the curriculum for the class and get it approved for the course description guide. History teacher Leah Bouas wrote the cur-
riculum for the African and African American History course. It is actively taught at school and available to all high schools. “In fall of 2014 the district wanted to start including more social studies nine week electives,” Bouas said. “There were a number of us from different schools that came in and had topics to propose and lots of them got approved.” Bouas said her class is actively taught at Hebron because of student interest in the topic. “In our school, there seems to be a want and a drive to learn about African and African American History,” Bouas said. “It seems to be something that students [at Hebron] are interested in.” Rans said the teachers want to look into offering courses students are interested in. She said if they were to put every course in the description guide on the course selection sheet, it would be interesting, but would probably dilute the amount of students in each class. “I think that’s what the new superintendent wanted to do, he wants to put everything out there and see what makes,” Rans said. “But what’s scary about it is teachers have been teaching Nutrition for the past 10 years [and] all of a sudden nobody wants that course anymore and they want [another course] well then she/he would have to adjust to what the students want.”I think that’s what the scary part is for teachers.”
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Treble choir to perform tonight before SWACDA convention YUSRA WARIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The treble choir will be performing its six-piece concert at Saint Monica’s Church at 7 p.m. on March 5, before its performance on March 10 in Oklahoma City at the Southwest American Choral Directors Association (SWACDA) convention. To be selected to perform at the convention, choir submitted recordings from three different years. Choir applied for the convention at the end of last school year and was notified of its acceptance this summer. “I was surprised when I got the call that we’ve been selected,” choir director Rachel Forester said. “It was kind of crazy, that feeling, and then I thought, ‘wow, we are going to have to prepare to be the best and show the rest of the convention that Texas choirs are awesome.’” The choir is given a 25-minute time slot at the convention and will be singing six multicultural pieces: “Bloom,” “Satamasho,” “Gloria in Excelsis,” The Tree of Peace,” “Tota Pulchra Es,” and “Хвалите Имя Господа (Praise the Name of the Lord).” “What I like to do is celebrate the diversity of Hebron in the music that I pick,” Forester said. “Hebron is one of those schools [with] so many nationalities, and I want to bring that to the forefront of what people see.” The all-woman’s choir consists of 55 students from Acapella and Belle. Junior Shraavya Chitoor said she enjoyed the experience of working on the music as well as the other students from Belle.
Photo by Yusra Waris
SWACDA students go over a Russian song, “Praise the Name of the Lord,” during their Tuesday lunch rehearsal. Forester said she picked diverse songs like this to showcase the diversity of the school.
“It’s such a unique privilege,” Chittoor said. “The experience so far has been highly rewarding. I have not only had the opportunity to leverage and further my leadership skills in our section practices, but have also built a close bond with the other girls in the group.” Students began rehearsing for the convention in October. They have spent 30 minutes every day in class, block lunch every Tuesday and every Wednesday morning to prepare. “I really enjoy the music we’ve been working on, and working with [Acapella] has definitely challenged me more than being in Belle,” junior and technology officer Sonal Verma said. “Not only that, but since there’s only so many rehearsals we could
After Big Event cancellation, Day of Service to be held April 7 ALYSSA ABRAHAM
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NEWS
SPORTS EDITOR
Photo by Maleeha Ahmad
Participants of the 2016 Big Event gather outside Career Center East for the kickoff. This year, The Big Event will be replaced by the Day of Service.
teams and volleyball teams were all active school organizations in the Big Event for the past three years. “For all of NHS, it’s all about service,” Cummings said. “Not everyone in school gets to take part in what we do. This is a way for [various] groups and organizations from [Hebron] to give back to the community. It’s just our way of saying thanks to our community. Each organization is going out and finding their opportunity to serve.” The Carrollton Giving Garden, Metrocrest, Pass
The Hat, Seven Loaves and visiting nursing homes are among the service activities planned by different organizations on the Day of Service. “It’s a great opportunity to give back to the community and show appreciation to the people who support our school and help fund our organizations,” NHS parliamentarian Bruce Moe said. “Since it’s a Hebron event, it’s a good way to meet new people and hang out with friends while at the same time, [make] a positive impact through volunteer work.”
Seven Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) students will participate at the International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 21-24 after placing in the state convention in Dallas on Feb. 20-22. Of those students, seniors Isaac Ke, Rahul Venna and Anthony Allam advanced in Sports and Entertainment Marketing Operations Research. This is Ke’s second year qualifying for ICDC. “Going to internationals both years makes me feel grateful for the opportunity to compete with other talented, business-minded people,” Ke said. “I feel the experience and the strategies we’ve gained from our past experience at ICDC will help us to be more calm and collected for this year.” - Yusra Waris, Editor-In-Chief
STUDENTS ADVANCING SENIORS Bharrath Kaimal Shyam Patel Rahul Venna Anthony Allam Isaac Ke Alan Jacob SOPHOMORE Amogh Bhatnagar
English teacher Donna Friend wins AcDec Coach of the Year SYDNEY GRAY
REPORTER
The school will host the HHS Day of Service on April 7 after the removal of LISD’s Big Event. Due to the dissolution of the three zones in LISD, The East Zone’s Big Event was canceled. However, Hebron will continue giving back to the community by hosting the HHS Day of Service. “All the [National Honor Society] officers and I decided that we did not want to get rid of the Big Event,” NHS adviser Julie Cummings said. “We wanted to, at least as a Hebron campus, still continue to incorporate that day of service in our yearly events, as a way to still give back to the community.” Cummings said this year, NHS will offer the Day of Service to multiple organizations of the school. Student Council, Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA), football
fit in, the rigor and pace has increased. It was different at first to hear different voices behind me and work with a different group than I’m used to, but I’ve gotten used to it.” The choir is one of two treble choirs representing Texas at the regional conference. Forester said she is looking forward to representing the Texas choirs. “I just want the girls to have fun and sing out,” Forester said. “I’m looking forward to hearing them do that because if they do that, their minds are going to be blown and the audience’s minds are going to be blown. It’s [important] we please ourselves with the work we’ve done, because when we please ourselves, we get the message across [and] the audience is going to love it.”
DECA students advance to internationals
Academic Decathlon coach Donna Friend received this year’s Coach of the Year award for her work with the team this year. Friend said that without the hard work of her students, she would not have been able to win this award. “In the beginning, we thought this year in Ac Dec may be a rebuilding year since so many seniors [graduated] last year, especially three 4-year competitors,” Friend said. “However, this year’s team has defied all initial impressions or worries. They are the highest scoring team ever in [the school’s] history, and the three category leaders - [junior] Brendan
Glascock, [senior] Amna Yasin, and [senior] Karina Sanchez - are also now the three highest scoring decathletes in their respective categories. So, to say it’s been exciting is an understatement.” Friend was nominated secretly by her students and coach Travis Zuber. Friend said she was surprised to find out she had been nominated, and even more surprised she won. “I was absolutely shocked,” Friend said. “This particular award means so much to me because my Ac Dec family wrote beautiful words to nominate me. It wasn’t a competition I entered and won; it was an honor that others bestowed on me, and I am so moved by their kind words and huge hearts.”
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March 5, 2018
New coach, stronger team
UPCOMING SPORTS EVENTS
Football coach helps lead girls’ soccer team to success in second season
Photo by Tatiana Calzado
Head girls’ soccer coach Bobby Vaughn stands in front of the players instructing them while in the weight room. Vaughn became the head coach of the team a little over one year ago.
it was the right decision for myself and the team,” Vaughn said. “I really wanted to make the season memorable for all OPINION/ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR the players and the seniors. I felt like they A year ago, the girls varsity soccer team [would appreciate] someone who cared was without a coach, and someone need- about the team and their success stepping ed to step up and take the position. Coach into the coaching position.” Bobby Vaughn took Vaughn said he exthe job, with 20 years pected the first seaof experience coaching son to be difficult, football, a completely “Coach Vaughn was the one who because the team did different field than girls stepped into an impossible role not make the playsoccer. in 2016, even and ignited hope and desire into offs After the sudden dewith several Diviparture of the team’s a bunch of lost high school girls. sion-1 commits. head coach, there was “We experienced a rushed decision to Brooke Weatherford, senior midfielder some bumps in the have Vaughn take over. road that first seaWith Vaughn as the son,” Vaughn said. new head coach, last “I had to get to know year’s girls varsity socthe girls and had to cer team went further in the playoffs than get to know me and my coaching style. the previous year, and his impact the team We had some key injuries that could have has helped lead them to a successful start changed the course of the season. After this season. As of Feb. 27, the girls soc- losing Gabby Duca (Alabama commit) the cer team was ranked No. 11 in the state by girls were worried and [hopes for playoffs] Max Preps. were gone. We came together, other play“[Taking the head coaching job] felt like ers stepped up and we made the playoffs.”
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Senior and midfielder Brooke Weatherford said the team had mixed emotions at first and a few concerns about having a new coach. “We were all a little worried about getting a football coach as the new girls varsity head soccer coach,” Weatherford said. “But we also ... hoped that he would at least be better than our previous coach. We all held our breaths leading up to meeting our new head coach, hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.” While the team’s expectations may have started low, Weatherford said Vaughn exceeded hers and many others’ expectations. “Many believed that after the [departure of our last coach] our soccer program was doomed for failure,” Weatherford said. “Coach Vaughn was the one who stepped into an impossible role and ignited hope and desire into a bunch of lost high school girls. Many believed after the seniors of the previous year had graduated, our program would die.” Vaughn and the team were able to make it three rounds into the playoffs, better than the previous year. “After a great season, I knew I wanted to continue to be the head coach,” Vaughn said. “I learned that girls are tough and strong and they listen. I feel like this team is closer group. The seniors are leaders. The seniors are in charge and they took pride in leading the team.” While Vaughn’s coaching style is different, Weatherford said his style and hope are what brought the team success. “Vaughn is a very strong believer in the underdog,” Weatherford said. “His belief is what has brought a bunch of average players into becoming a great team. This season, coach Vaughn has really pushed all of us to give 100 percent all the time. Coach Vaughn has really pushed all of us to be the best athletes we can be, which is a big factor in our current and future success.”
MARCH 6:
• Softball v. LD Bell (home) - 5 p.m. • Girls soccer v. Trinity (home) - 7:30 p.m.
MARCH 9:
• Boys soccer v. Lewisville (home) 7:30 p.m. • Girls soccer at Lewisville - 7:30 p.m. • Track Lancaster Meet of Champions at Lancaster High School • Tennis tournament at the Colony - 8 a.m.
MARCH 13:
• Softball at Flower Mound - 7 p.m. • Baseball at Byron Nelson - 7 p.m.
MARCH 16:
• Baseball v. Byron Nelson (home) - 7 p.m.
MARCH 19:
• Baseball v. LD Bell (home) - 7 p.m. • Girls soccer v. Southlake (home) - 7:30 p.m.
Softball to play LD Bell tomorrow SYDNEY GRAY SPORTS EDITOR
The softball team will play against LD Bell at home tomorrow evening . Head coach Jason Gwyn said LD Bell is a good team and the game will be difficult. “Our district is very tough from top to bottom, and there aren’t any automatic [wins] out there,” Gwyn said. “Last season, it came down to the last game of the season for us to make the playoffs, and we could’ve finished anywhere from second, where we did, to out of contention altogether. LD Bell was another team that was right there at the end, and they gave us two very tough games during the district season.” Last season, a majority of the team consisted of seniors, so Gwyn said this year he expects the juniors and seniors to step up and be leaders. “This year’s team is very ath-
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The softball team huddles around the pitcher’s mound. They were discussing a strategy prior to the start of the inning.
letic and very skilled,” Gwyn said. “Most of the players have a club background and are used to competing at a high level, so that mixed with the experience they gained last year by competing at the varsity level has really helped establish a baseline for skill level and allowed them to focus on certain smaller skills that will just make them better overall. The team is very well-rounded and each of the athletes bring something unique to the team that helps them establish what their
role is and how they can help us win.” Junior first baseman Madison Butler has been playing softball since she was four, and she has been on varsity since her freshman year. Butler said she knows LD Bell is a good team, but she believes her team will come out with a win. “I think the LD Bell game is just another game we have to show up and show out for,” Butler said. “District games are really hard because we play teams that are
really good. I think as long as we’re working hard then we will be prepared for the games that really matter.” Gwyn said the team has been practicing to become a stronger team in general, but since the LD Bell game and district games are coming up, the girls will begin to prepare specifically for their opponents. “We will look at the rosters and see who is returning and how they performed against us last year, as well as how we did against them,” Gwyn said. “The coaching staff keeps taking notes and keeps charts during our games and we will prepare a game plan for LD Bell and spend some time going over that with the athletes as we prepare.” The team will continue to practice every weekday until 5:30 p.m. in order to prepare for the competition they will face this season. Gwyn said he is proud of the team’s work ethic as they show up to practice every day ready to learn new skills and to become a better team. “Because this is the second year
with me for most of them, they know what the expectations are and they’ve been able to meet and even exceed those expectations regularly,” Gwyn said. “These athletes have done an amazing job at being consistent every day and becoming very efficient and diligent with their workouts and practices. If they get credit for nothing else, they absolutely deserve credit for their incredible work ethic.” Junior pitcher Audrey Faulks has been on varsity for three years, and said she is proud of her team and her coach’s hard work in preparing for the game and for the rest of the season. “Coach Gwyn has helped us to become mentally and physically prepared for any obstacles that may try to block our path to success,” Faulks said. “He has talked to us about keeping our negative thoughts out of the game, and he has greatly shaped the energy and direction of the team this year. Practice can be very long, but very little time is wasted, and our practices prepare us to endure the long district games.”
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How 45 minutes chang Senior opens up about how home burglary impacted his life TATIANA CALZADO OPINION/ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
His hands were tied behind his back. He could hear the groans of his father as he was getting beat by two people. He saw his mother walking around with a gun pointed behind her head, trying to find any money or valuable items to give. On Dec. 9, 2016, senior Rahil Baharia’s home was invaded by five men at around 3:30 a.m. The five men were wearing black shoes, black jackets, black pants and black ski masks covering their faces. The invaders broke into the house through the backyard door. “The first thing I heard was a crash,” Rahil said. “I didn’t know what it was at first, but within about 10 seconds there were three people in my room. Before I knew it, there was a flashlight and gun pointed at my head.” The intruders came upstairs to Rahil’s room first. His parents were downstairs, and even they did not have enough time to see what the crash was. The intruders immediately asked Rahil where the money was kept. “I told them, ‘I don’t know, I’m only 16, I don’t know where my parents keep the money,’” Rahil said. “They just kept asking, and then they covered my face with a blanket and kept a flashlight on me; just in case I wouldn’t be able to see so I couldn’t see their faces. Two (of the intruders) went downstairs to talk to my parents and one of them just stayed in my room.” Rahil’s mother, Rozina Baharia, would eventually ask to see her son. Once the intruders permitted her to see Rahil, she told him not to worry and that everything would be all right. They then proceeded to take off some laces of shoes in Rahil’s closet and tied Rozina’s hands and feet. “What would I do if they hurt or killed my husband, son, or both?” Rozina said. “I had fear that something bad would happen to my family.” The intruders led Rozina downstairs. Rahil, left alone, could hear his father, Malik Baharia, getting beaten up downstairs. “That was probably the hardest part because I couldn’t do anything at that moment,” Rahil said. “I was alone in my room just tied up. Eventually, I
kept asking if I could go see my parents. They picked me up and put me by the top of the staircase and turned me around so I couldn’t see anything, but I could see my dad getting beat. I could just hear him groaning. Then I see my mom walking around with a gun held behind her; she was just leading the way to where the money was.” The intruders were in the house for a little over an hour. Rahil is not sure why his house was targeted, but said the intruders were convinced there was a safe in the house. “One guy picked me up and put me over his shoulder,” Rahil said. “At that moment I thought I was going to get taken; I didn’t know what was happening. They put me in my parents’ room. My dad was on the bed with a pillow over his head and my mom was tied up in the corner. They put me down in the bathroom. Once I saw the pillow over my dad, I thought, ‘they’re going to shoot him.’ That was probably the scariest thing; I almost witnessed the death of my parents.” The intruders took any cash, jewelry and watches given by Rozina and Malik. Soon after Rahil and his parents were placed in that room, the intruders left and told them not to move. “One of the guys came back two min-
to our house. We had to tell the story over and over again every time someone would ask. It was annoying; we didn’t want to share what we had just been through. We didn’t want to keep reliving it.” At first, Rahil said he had not processed what he had been through. It wasn’t until a few weeks after the incident when Rahil realized how traumatizing it all was. “I started going to therapy,” Rahil said. “I was diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety and depression. Then I stopped going to therapy, just because I convinced myself I was fine, even though I wasn’t.” Rahil said he tried to stay out of his home as much as he could because it reminded him of what had happened. He would sleep in his parents room for a few months because he was scared to sleep alone. “I thought I was going to die that day,” Rahil said. “I just think that it’s crazy that in one day, your whole life could change.” The case was closed a couple months after the incident. The five intruders were never caught because little to no evidence was found. “It doesn’t make me feel any more safe,” Rahil said. “Five guys got away with assault [and] armed robbery. They’re still out in the world; they could easily do that to someone else. It’s crazy that [authorities] would close the case so quick.” Rahil and his family moved out of their house at the end of last school year, and right before the new school year. Rahil decided to start going to therapy again; he was prescribed medications for his anxiety along with antidepressants, and was also given sleeping medicine. “I would have bad dreams, and any little sound would keep me up,” Rahil said. “Even now, with my sleeping medicine, I still wake up at that same time around 3:30 - 4 a.m. When I wake up at that time, it’s really hard for me to go back to sleep.” It has been difficult for Rahil to find
“I thought I was going to die that day,” Rahil said. “I just think that it’s crazy that in one day, your whole life could change.”
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utes later, to check if we had moved and none of us did,” Rahil said. “We still waited another 10 minutes just to confirm they had left. Then, my dad got up from the bed and cut himself loose, he came over to me and cut me loose and then we called the police.” Once the police arrived, Rahil and his family were questioned. The police also searched the perimeter for any evidence the intruders left behind. CSI was also called, but no evidence was found. “It was frustrating,” Rahil said. “After it happened, a lot of families came over
people who can relate and help him. “I had a few people I could talk to but no one really understands what I’ve been through,” Rahil said. “Even my therapist kind of gave up on me. She said my situation was so unique that she didn’t know how to help me. Most people who suffer PTSD are usually war veterans. Someone being robbed at gunpoint in their house, it’s not some-
thing that happens e Rahil said he is w be the same again. he will not suffer as “I’m always goi back to normal,” R times I get worse, so fectly fine. I’ve ne being my normal sel always going to be
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everyday.” worried he will never Still, he hopes that s much as he does. ing to hope I’ll get Rahil said. “Someometimes I feel perever gotten close to lf again. I guess I’m e living in fear and
Photo provided by Rahil Baharia
Rahil (right) stands with his mother, Rozina (middle right), father, Malik (left) and sister, Rida (middle left). All were present during the burglary except Rida.
Photo illustration by Tatiana Calzado
Rahil is prescribed medication for PTSD along with depression and anxiety.
Did You Know?
• 2,000,000 home burglaries are reported each year. • 30% of all home burglaries are through an open or unlocked window or door.
Illustration by Brittney Fang
that is no way to live. I can pretend all I want, but inside I know I’ll never be the same person.” One thing Rahil has learned through his experience is to appreciate every good thing that comes his way. “My point of view [on] life completely changed,” Rahil said. “You never really know when its your last day; your days are numbered. Something
that went through my head [during the attack] were all the regrets I had. I was given a second chance. I regretted that I didn’t take an opportunity to do some things, I regret not saying ‘I love you’ to my parents enough. I’m not going to live with regrets. Every day, I tell people how much I appreciate them, because I really don’t know when my last day could be.”
• 66% of all burglaries are home break-ins. • Police usually only clear 13% of reported burglaries due to lack of evidence and witnesses. • Every 15 seconds a home invasion is committed. • 65% of home burglaries happen between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. - Compiled by Tatiana Calzado Statistics from Safeguard theWorld
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Coming Up... March 8:
Marvel’s Jessica Jones
March 7:
Life Sentence
Things to do over spring break Check out what students are doing over spring break:
March 9:
A Wrinkle in Time
Sophomore
Junior
“I’m going to Pensacola, Florida for the first time. It’s like the first time in a while that I’ve been able to go somewhere for spring break because my parents are usually busy. I’m looking forward to going to a beach that is actually nice because the beaches in Texas are kind of gross.”
“I’ll be waking up really late and hang[ing] out with friends all day. It has been pretty bad after winter break how we had to do all our tests. I like how the new schedule is going to be for next year, so that’s going to help out a lot. I think it will help out a lot of juniors next year.”
Celeste Karraker
March 13: Rise
March 13: Devil May Cry
Jesus Alvarez
March 16: Tomb Raider
March 16: March 20:
Assassins Creed Rogue: Remastered
March 20:
Attack on Titan 2
Valkyria Chronicles
March 21: Krypton
Senior
“I’m going to Austin to visit an actor’s [company] called ‘The Family Business.’ My friend is going with me and [along with] one of my friend’s sisters and we are going to stay at a lake house. Hopefully I’ll get to see the actor since he is in one of my favorite TV shows, ‘Supernatural.’”
“My plan is just literally running, running and more running. I’m also going to a comic convention. I have actually not decided [who I’m going to cosplay as] yet, [because] I’m still trying to plan with my cousin.”
Lauren Santaella
Love, Simon
March 21:
Sophomore
Three must-visit coffee shops in North Texas
Summer Moon Coffee
March 23:
Pacific Rim: Uprising
March 23:
Sherlock Gnomes
March 27: Far Cry 5
Best for hanging out with friends
March 28:
The Americans
March 29:
Ready Player One
April 6:
A Quiet Place
Best for relaxing
Persona 5 The Animation
George: Coffee + Provisions
From the white and wooden interior, George: Coffee + Provisions offers a spacious, but also peaceful environment - something I appreciated the most beside the coffee. You can choose from the booths, couches, small tables or larger rooms to enjoy your coffee whether you’re on your own, with a friend or a group of friends. Not only is the look of the coffee shop appealing, but the coffee is, too. I ordered a honey roasted latte, at little pricey at $5.00, but it was worth it. For the aesthetically pleasing interior and the scrumptious coffee, I know George: Coffee + Provisions will replace Starbucks as my go-to coffee shop.
Liberation Coffee Company’s modern, clean environment offers tons of work space for studying or doing homework with its desks and patio tables outside. While music playing inside the coffee shop, it was quiet enough to where I could study and focus on work I needed to complete. I ordered an iced coffee, and was pleased with the flavor and richness of the coffee - one of the best iced coffees I have ever tasted. - Shalu Kattuvelil, Feature Editor
May 4:
Avengers: Infinity War
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Summer Moon Coffee is located in Downtown Frisco, which perfectly fits the old, but modern vibe of the coffee shop. As I walked in, I saw the rustic interior and popular brick wall and was welcomed by friendly staff members who walked me through the cold brew, hot coffee and their sweet “Moon Milk.” I decided to order one of the more popular drinks, a Summermoon latte priced at $4.25. When I order lattes, I have to add in more sugar, but the Summermoon latte was sweet and creamy on its own - something I’ve always looked for in coffee. With delicious coffee and an atmosphere for hanging out with friends, I’m over the moon for this coffee shop.
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Editorial: Students’ voices
should be heard on gun violence
Humanities department sends letters to Parkland After the shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl., the Hebron humanities department sent in student-written letters to the students who returned to school in the last week of February. “As a teacher, I’ve been in drills and real lockdowns,” English teacher Jeannette Rooks said. “Anytime you go through the drills, you feel that tension of “what if?” and then when you really see it happen, you can’t help but feel for those people. Then for them to have to go back to school and confront that, just made really want to reach and try to sympathize and empathize to the best of our abilities, about what an awful and unnecessary tragedy that was. We know when it happens, it could be us, and so we have to feel that concern for them.” - Aparnna Manoj, News Editor **If you want your opinion to be heard on gun violence, go to PBSNewsHour Extra tinyurl.com/yanvoxhe
BY THE School resource officer Kevin Stiles stores his gun in his duty belt while at the school on Feb. 26.
This year, there have already been several all-too-familiar examples of incidents with guns in schools, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fl. being the most recent. Since then, families and students have come forward to protest against the rise in gun violence. Students are being directly affected by the gun violence, so their voice should have a louder say in government actions regarding gun control, rather than politicians and lawmakers shutting their voices down. There have been 25 fatal school shootings since the mass shooting at Columbine, according to USA Today.
The majority of them have been followed by attempts to amend the gun control policies in place, in order to ensure safety. The mass shootings have affected students and families, so their protests to amend a right that is taking away their lives should be taken more into consideration. In the present day situation, students are most impacted by the lack of gun laws to ensure the safety they deserve, especially in schools. When drastic events, like shootings, occur in society, they are often met with protests or riots. Because of the recent school shootings, some schools have decided to conduct the National
School Walkout on March 14 and March for Our Lives on March 24. Such demonstrations haven’t been met with serious acknowledgment, and if they have, there have been repercussions for them. Curtis Rhodes, superintendent of Needville high school, has threatened the students with a three-day suspension if they participate in the walk-out. Major protests like these are portraying the students’ opinions, and should be met with the proper acknowledgment from the government with active negotiation. To have any changes on this matter, the government has the ultimate say. Although, it is not rational to lower the voting
Photo by Aparnna Manoj
age for teens to have a say in this matter, adults, especially 18-yearolds, can choose candidates that have better potential gun control policies. For this to happen, adults and the government should take the students’ protests more seriously. The new adults supporting this issue should register for voting soon to have a voice. This would secure safety by bringing more attention and support to the changing gun control policies. In order to promote safety in the community, the government should take students’ opinions and protests with the same consideration as they do with legal adults, because it’s the students’ lives at stake.
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Fatal shootings have occurred in the United States in 2018
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of those shootings have taken place in Texas
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North Texas students have been arrested for bringing guns to school this year Compiled by Shreya Rao Statistics from Snopes and Dallas News
Column: Stuck between two worlds YUSRA WARIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Although I was born and raised in Texas, I grew up with the ideals my parents brought from their homelands: my dad growing up in Pakistan and my mom in both India and Saudi Arabia. As most immigrants, my parents aimed to preserve the culture they were brought up with. They sought to create a community of like-minded family friends and often took me back to their homelands to be reconnected with family, so I could be more familiar with where my parents came from. Since I was raised around people like me for a significant portion of my life, I assumed everyone else was like me too: they believed in what I believed in, had a family like mine and understood everything I talked about. Even though I was drastically different from any other student in my class, I thought we were the same. I think my ignorance to this fact allowed me to talk and try to be friends with everyone rather than limit myself to a comfort zone;
I didn’t think much about their judgments of me because I bore my Indian/Pakistani culture proudly and didn’t feel the need to change myself. However, once I started to notice the barriers between my classmates and myself, I began to feel it would be better for me to fit in. One instance that brought me to this conclusion happened during recess, where my friends assigned one day of each week “Girls Day,” where they would all go and play together without me and a couple other girls. I wondered what was different about me that didn’t make me qualified to be a “girl” and hang out with them. Was it my clothes? My hobbies? The only thing that really set us apart was my Asian background. At that moment I realized I didn’t belong, and this difference was the reason why I was excluded from friends I had known for years. After that incident, I watched out for signs that indicated this social barrier; soon enough, everything I initially ignored began to pile up day by day, making the disparity obvious. Immediately, I was desperate to feel included again and began to reject what made me different in the first place and replace it
with what I felt my friends and classmates alism -- and acting for the interests of evwould approve of. I exchanged my cozy eryone -- Asian collectivism. I was choossweaters and T-shirts, some of which my ing between voicing my opinions without family would gift me with when I would hesitation and keeping quiet to avoid convisit them, for the bedazzled, artificial and flict. almost paper thin shirts from Justice, a It’s still an ongoing struggle for me: clothing store that happened to be ‘in’ at whenever I feel like I have attained an the time. I’d listen to less Bollywood songs almost perfect balance between my muland more Disney ones. In the years fol- tiple worlds, something will happen and lowing that incident at I’ll be sucked back into recess, I was willing to the cyclone of dismay. break with the qualities However, I have been “Whenever I feel like I have attained learning to embrace that made me unique and stand out to blend an almost perfect balance between the diverse aspects of my multiple worlds, something will my personality and be in with everyone else. In the end, I achieved happen and I’ll be sucked back into more comfortable benothing. Instead, I lost ing different from the the cyclone of dismay.” confidence and a huge people here and back in part of myself was trymy homeland. This past - Yusra Waris, Editor-in-Chief ing to find a balance beyear, I finally found a tween the norms of my group of friends that unhomeland and those of America. Since the derstand and appreciate me for what makes two cultures differed on multiple matters, I me who I am. While I occasionally still find found it frustrating to figure out what ide- myself astray between the two cultures and als I should prioritize over the other, what while I often have trouble defining who I characteristics I would use to define me. I am, I know whatever path I choose, it will was choosing between thinking and acting be solely determined by what I want to do, for my self-interests -- American individu- not what others want to do.
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Black History Month Celebration YASMIN HAQ DESIGN EDITOR
The Black History Month committee held a Black History Month celebration in the auditorium during block lunch on Feb. 16. There were performances including dances, singing and speeches. “This year’s theme is Sankofa,” English teacher Jason Snipes said. “[It] is a representation of remembering the past and empowering people to know about their history with an eye towards the future.”
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Showtime members jump in the air as part of their dance. The celebration addressed social issues such as racism.
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Students at the event wave their phones back and forth during a performance by junior Hope Word. She sang “Rise Up” by Andra Day.
Showtime performs “Fade” at the celebration. This was the first dance of the event.
SHREYA RAO MANAGING EDITOR
APARNNA MANOJ NEWS EDITOR
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YASMIN HAQ DESIGN EDITOR
Showtime performs “Don’t Touch My Hair.” The event took place in the auditorium and was hosted by the Black History Month Committee.
Attorney Jasmine Crockett speaks about cases she has had in the past. Crockett was the guest speaker for the event.
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