THEHAWKEYE
Hebron High School. 4207 Plano Parkway, Carrollton, TX. www.hebronhawkeye.com. Twitter: @hebronhawkeye. Room 1315.
January 18, 2019
Theater to perform “Newsies” this weekend page 2
THE LOOP
Volume 17, Issue 2
Freshman making an impact on varsity basketball team page 3
New movie recommendations page 6
SPOTLIGHT VAPING
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan. 21: Holiday Jan.19-20,24-26: Newsies Musical Feb. 4-8: Career Week Feb. 9: Hebron’s Got Talent - 7p.m. Feb. 22: Black History Month Celebration
TEACHER SPOTLIGHT: Jeanette Rooks
Being a teacher is hard. Having almost 100 students to grade papers for, getting to school early and staying late and being responsible for the education of America’s future can be exhausting. English teacher Jeannette Rooks escapes the stress by going on trips with her family around the world. Rooks never traveled much as a kid, but when she met her husband, who is also a teacher, they began going on trips together. “When we started dating and got married [my husband] was like ‘you’ve got to go to Europe’ and so we went there on our honeymoon and went to 3 countries,” Rooks said. “Then we had to pick somewhere he’d never been, so we went to China before we had kids.” For their tenth anniversary, Rooks and her husband traveled to Rio and the Buzios peninsula with their kids. “It was one of those things where you assume it’s going to be a city where everyone will speak English, but no,” Rooks said. “We had to figure out a lot by trial and error, but it was really fun because it was an adventure we got to do together.” Even though they try to eat weird local food, such as squid in Venice and shark fin and pig ear in China, Rooks and her family have never gotten sick overseas. One of their worst troubles, however, included a GPS. “When we took our girls to Italy, we drove all around and rented little houses to stay in,” Rooks said. “But there, the addresses aren’t exact like our street addresses: they’re just general areas. So we would put them in our GPS and we’d end up on a farm road by some broken down barn wondering if it was our rental. We would just have to knock on doors and try to find somebody who could help us.”
- Kate Haas, Reporter
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NEWS
Photo illustration by Aparnna Manoj
Prevalence of vaping impacts students and administration YASMIN HAQ NEWS EDITOR
The U.S. surgeon general declared vaping an epidemic among the U.S. youth population on Dec. 18, a little less than a month ago. At Hebron, 83 of the 100 students surveyed at random during block lunch, considered vaping prevalent or very prevalent. In the survey, 73 percent of students said vaping is a problem and 24 percent said it does not matter. “I think [vaping] is fine outside of school, because you’re allowed to do whatever you want, but when you’re in school, you’re kind of affecting me,” junior Shruti Ada said. “So I think it’s a problem.” Out of those who were surveyed, three percent said vaping is a good thing for reasons such as it is “better than narcotics” or the “lesser of two evils.” “It’s very addicting, so it does have a stigma,” senior Claudia Thongdarom said. “It’s not a drug. It’s
not a problem because a lot the design and no smell of of people do it. It’s a good smoke, make it easy to conthing, because if you’re re- ceal from unwanted attenally addicted to cigarettes, tion; 73 percent of students than you can vape because thought it was easy to get vaping is better than smok- away with vaping in school. ing a cigarette. Vaping has Stiles said the adminisno danger. I mean it can tration has had several cashave a danger, but still, if es a week of vaping recentsomeone is ly. This recovering y e a r , from smok“I think [vaping] is fine outside of t h e r e ing a cigah a v e rette, then school, because you’re allowed b e e n to do whatever you want, but cases of vaping is the thing to when you’re in school, you’re kind THC oil do.” found in of affecting me. So I think it’s a student’s Because problem.” of the invapes accreasing cording - Shruti Ada, junior prevalence to Stiles of vaping, and prinsome of the bathrooms cipal Scot Finch, which is a have been closed off, espe- felony in TX. cially during block lunch. Although vaping at age “A lot of the student body 18 is legal, smoking or vagets annoyed but there’s ping on campus, including only certain bathrooms the football stadium, is a open during block lunch,” misdemeanor. officer Kevin Stiles said. “It comes down to people “It’s because people are va- being able to control themping, so it’s harder to watch selves with that, knowing 15 bathrooms, it’s easier to that it’s something they watch two or three.” enjoy doing,” Finch said. According to the survey, “But saying that, we’re not bathrooms and the features trying to make out people of an e-cigarette, such as who smoke or vape to be
evil. They’ve just got something they lack or they’re too addicted to it, so they end up doing it in school. Some people can’t wait.” Along with the rising popularity of vaping, among youth, is a sort of vape culture featuring figures on Instagram and YouTube doing tricks with vapor or reviewing different products. Some celebrities are also involved in vaping, notably Katy Perry and Leonardo DiCaprio. “It’s an art,” Thongdarom said. “Some people will vape and they will literally do some kind of tricks, and it’s so interesting. They do it for fun, they do it for YouTube videos, they make money off of it, and it’s really cool.” Conversely, vaping can be also treated as a joke through the plethora of memes and parodies on the internet such Vape Nation, a comedic skit centered around vaping. “I think most people treat [vaping] as a joke, but it should be taken more seri-
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