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January 18, 2019
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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.”
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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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Vaping BlendED courses to become available next school year impacts students, staff YASMIN HAQ NEWS EDITOR
Continued from page 1 ... a good thing to do because it can lead to other addictions,” junior Brendan Collins said. Originally meant to help cigarette smokers quit, e-cigarettes have possibly taken an opposite role by getting a younger generation hooked on nicotine according to Newsweek. However, cigarette use itself is at its lowest because of increased awareness and health issues. “Everyone knows cigarettes are bad for you,” junior Ally Horn said. “But back then, they didn’t know that and when it came out people just thought it was harmless.” Although e-cigarettes are marketed as safer than conventional cigarettes according to the National Center for Health Research, they still contain nicotine, which is highly addictive. The long term health effects of vaping have not been determined according to John Hopkins
Medicine. “People know what the problems with cigarettes are, but people don’t know what the problems with vaping are because it’s a relatively new thing,” Collin said. “It’s like with any drug. People know that heroin is bad for them, but they’ve got to get their fix.” Finch said vaping has been an issue among the student body; however, he doesn’t consider it an epidemic. “I think you can only, unless they change their habits, try to slow it down or lessen it,” Finch said. “I’m not so naive to think we can fix it all because, once again, when you have an addiction, you want to engage in that addiction, even if you know it’s wrong. We will just keep doing what we can, knowing that we have students here and also staff who don’t appreciate that vapor.”
The school will offer blendED classes for the 2019-2020 school year, which will be available on the course selection sheet. “We just need to catch up a little bit,” principal Scot Finch said. “In the past, we’d offered blendED classes, but the students weren’t interested in them.” BlendED courses usually have class in school a few times a week and the rest is done online. “The difference with it being in high school versus being in college [is that] you’re going to have easier access to the teacher when you’re not in class with them,” Finch said. “So on those online days, [the teachers are] going to be pretty available for you to come and see them to get maybe some of the assistance you need.” In the past, only a few
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like that as much because I’d rather learn everything from a teacher. I think it’s an acquired taste. You have to want to have the outside of class time or alone time.” The classes that would be offered in a blendEd style have not been determined. Finch said the courses offered will depend on what subject the teachers interested in instructing blendEd courses
have expertise in. “We just need to get it going,” Finch said. “I think it’s going to grow like everything else we do here whether it’s advanced placement courses or the dual-credit courses. We continue to expand our offering on those as well. So, we just need to get it going so it can explode like everything else we do here.”
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students signed up for blendEd courses, and it was not enough to become a real class. However, Finch said as many as eight or nine teachers have been interested in teaching blendEd courses in the past. “I hate to constitute a class of ten when our t e a c h e r- s t u d e n t ratio is so high,” Finch said. “Most classes are 25 [students] and over, and then we’ll have a class of ten [with a blended class]. There’s about 20 kids that are missing out on something, so they go into a class that’s larger.” Junior Abigail Mascorro previously took a blendEd course at Creek Valley Middle School for U.S. History. “I think the class is like you’re teaching yourself and it’s not a whole lot of in class instruction,” Mascorro said. “I didn’t really
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The fine arts departments will perform “Newsies” on Jan. 19 at 7 p.m., Jan. 20 at 2 p.m., and Jan. 24, 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. The cast is lead by senior Joseph Hoffman, who plays Jack, seniors Addie Thrower and Caitlin Kresta, who alternate nights as Katherine, senior Sahil Panjwani, who plays Davey, sophomore Macey Newman, who plays Les, and senior Shawn Merchant, who plays Joseph Pulitzer. The show also has an ensemble cast of students from all fine arts departments. “Everyone in the musical becomes really close,” Newman said. “We all support each other and we help each other out. I’ve run lines with people, gone over dances and sung through every song.
It makes the show run better because it’s being done by a group of people who are focused on making the show the best they can.” Newsies is a musical based on the 1992 film, which was inspired by the Newsboy Strike of 1899. “I think that this show is really important,” sophomore Shae Duggan, who plays Race said. “It has themes that are relevant today, especially with the government shutdown, and all of the claims about ‘fake news.’ This is a show that shows how powerful resistance and the power of the press is, and how even kids can make a difference, and that everyone deserves to have a voice and a say in things that affect them.” Hebron is one of the first high schools to perform this Tony Award -winning musical. The rights were released to high schools and commu-
The newsies celebrate forming their union in the dance number, “Seize the Day.”
nity theaters after the touring show closed last March. “I believe that there’s a lot of pressure on this cast,” Hoffman said. “Because this is a really new musical that a lot of high schools haven’t performed yet, everyone will be expecting us to set an example. It’s a great show, one of, if not the best show that Hebron has ever put on.” Choreography was done by seniors Maddie McPherson and Hannah Lee. “My favorite part of the show is the dancing,” junior
Elizabeth Reed said. “That was definitely the most challenging, and rewarding part for me. A lot of the choreography goes really fast and is more difficult that I’m used to. But Hannah and Maddie just worked on it with us until everyone got it, and it looks great.” Senior Dalton Currey, who plays Spot Conlon, said being in the musical taught him a lot of new and different things. “It’s great to see all these artistic people come together and work on something that we all are real-
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ly passionate about, Currey said. “It’s a massive piece of art, and I’m grateful to have been a part of the process.” The cast has been rehearsing since October. The cast and crew meet after school and on Saturdays. “When I’m backstage watching all of my best friends, who I’ve grown up with performing their hearts out onstage I tear up a little bit every time, Kresta said. “It’s been amazing, watching all of us succeed and do what we love.”
Another milestone crossed Freshman continues basketball career while making an impact on varsity
January 18, 2019
UPCOMING SPORTS EVENTS
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JAN. 18:
• Girls basketball at Coppell - 7 p.m. • Boys basketball at Coppell - 8 p.m. • Boys soccer vs. Creekview - 7:30 p.m.
JAN. 19:
• Diving at Southlake Carroll Natatorium
JAN. 22:
Freshman Cammie McKinney poses on the super H in the gym. McKinney is the only freshman on the varsity girls basketball team. say it is definitely harder than middle school ball, but the YUSRA WARIS team really welcomes me.” EDITOR-IN-CHIEF This year, Cammie is one of the two new starters on the basketball team. She was around 5 when she “That’s a huge feat,” basbegan playing basketball at ketball coach Chalisa Branch Little League, 11 when she said. “That is pretty rare, esrealized it was something she pecially in that point guard wanted to continue with, and position because I think it is 13 when she received her first the toughest position: not only college offer from University do you have to know what of North Texas. you are doing, but you have Now 15, freshman Camto know what everyone else mie McKinney serves as the is doing on the offensive end point guard for varsity girls and should be the one combasketball as she continues to municating on the defensive work toward crossing more end as well. There wasn’t a milestones in her basketball decision to be made, it was career. her natural position. She’s the “So far it’s been a good expebest in the program at that porience,” Cammie said. “Besition.” fore I got there, I knew most When Cammie was 5, she of the girls that were on varwas already involved in alsity, so I was coming to a new most every sport except for environment, but [at] the same basketball until her mother, time I wasn’t. I didn’t have to Aarolyn McKinney, suggestreally get to know everybody ed to try it out. because I already knew them, “I think it’s only natuso that definitely helped me ral when a parent plays and with the adjustment. I would loves a sport, they want to introduce their child to it,” Aarolyn said. “You want to share that. I have been blessed in this way. I played basketball and coached for the school I taught at while I was pregnant with Cammie. I was seven months pregnant at practice and one of my colleagues came up to me Photo provided by Cammie McKinney and said ‘That McKinney dribbles the ball in the game against Sanger. Hebron baby is going to come out won 59-34. dribbling a bas-
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ketball,’ and so it was spoken. onship game when she scored Cammie hit the basketball 35 points for the team. court at 5, smiled the entire “Basketball was always easy time she was on the court, and for Cammie,” Aarolyn said. never looked back.” “In both games, it was her Ever since Cammie began poise, mental toughness, and playing basketball, she has determination not to lose, and played the point guard posi- I said to myself, both times, I tion on the team. think she’s got it. Her skillset “When you are younger, po- has always been higher withsitions are based off of height, out much effort. So, a lot [of] and I wasn’t really tall so [the her growth has come in how coaches decided to make me] she now understands the mena point guard,” Cammie said. tal preparation and the com“So I just grew up the whole mitment it takes to train and time learning how to handle get better. Of course, as she the ball and lead the team.” continues to play, her basketSo far in this season, the ball IQ continues to get better Lady Hawks and she is have a winning also evolvrecord of 25ing into a 2 in the dismore vocal trict; Cammie leader.” said the team’s Cammie achievement said growmakes her feel ing up playshe has been ing bashelping with its ketball has success. helped her “Our being communiable to mix cation skills together as a grow and group so early, change her I think, is really as a person. special,” CamHer experiPhoto provided by Cammie McKinney ence mie said. “I playthink we have McKinney, in kindergarten, during her ing in sixth the talent to first year playing basketball for a team. grade, when win district and McKinney played through The Colony. her team make it real far was down in the playoffs. It makes me by 12 with three minutes in a fweel good, and it makes me game and ended up winning feel like I’m contributing, but last-minute, reaffirmed her it’s definitely a team effort.” belief that anything is possiAarolyn said she first re- ble with teamwork. alized Cammie’s potential “You have to realize you are when she played in her first on a team and in order to get National Championship game your work or your job done, in Oklahoma in 4th grade: you have to be able to cooperwith eight seconds left, Cam- ate with them,” Cammie said. mie drove the length of the “It has definitely taught me to court, got fouled and hit the be patient and that everything game-winning free throw happens for a reason. All your with one second left. The sec- wins, all your losses, it’s all ond time was last summer in for a bigger purpose.” the Jr NBA Regional Champi-
• Girls basketball at Marcus - 6:30 p.m. • Boys basketball at Marcus - 8 p.m. • Girls soccer vs. Irving Nimitz - 7:30 p.m. • Boys soccer at Irving Nimitz - 7:30 p.m.
JAN. 25:
• Girls basketball vs. Flower Mound - 6:30 p.m. • Boys basketball vs. Flower Mound - 8 p.m. • Girls soccer at Coppell 7:30 p.m. • Boys soccer vs. Coppell 7:30 p.m.
JAN. 29:
• Girls basketball at MacArthur - 6:30 p.m. • Boys basketball at MacArthur - 8 p.m. • Girls soccer at Marcus 7:30 p.m. • Boys soccer vs. Marcus 7:30 p.m.
FEB. 1:
• Girls golf vs. Marcus at Bridlewood Golf Club 8 a.m. • Girls soccer vs. Flower Mound - 7:30 p.m. • Boys soccer at Flower Mound - 7:30 p.m. • Boys basketball vs. Lewisville - 8:00 p.m. • Girls basketball vs. Lewisville - 6:30 p.m.
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Principal Scot Finch supervises the cafeteria during lunch. This is Finch’s ninth year being a principal at Hebron.
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at the time as I wish we would’ve been,” Finch said. “I always point back to [my coach] as a reason I got into education. He’s the one who set me on that path. But that path didn’t surface for me until a few years later.” After graduating high school in 1981, Finch enrolled at Texas Tech University wanting to be a park ranger. After his freshman year of college, Finch got a job at the Corps of Engineers as a park ranger over the summer, which lasted 25 years, at Lake Lavon. The interest of becoming a park ranger piqued because of his experience with the
outdoors. Finch’s father was a fisherman Talking to his roommate and other guys and they lived near a lake during his child- on the floor, Finch found an interest in hood, giving him access to fishing, boating Christianity. and hunting. In October of 1983, Finch made the deci“I also wanted the job because I could be sion of committing his life to Christianity. with animals,” Finch “It didn’t hapsaid. “But the only pen right away,” animals I dealt with Finch said. “It were humans.” took severDuring his third al months and year in college, talking to peoFinch had a change ple. Me and my of heart. He changed parents went to his major to educhurch to a Methcation because he odist church in wanted to Wylie. My dad do what his had a falling out coach did with the pastor - Joanie Finch, principal of Arbor Creek for him. Beand I don’t know Middle School fore pursuing what happened an educathere. But from tion degree, Finch said people did then on, we didn’t go to church except on not give teachers the respect they the big days like Christmas and Easter.” needed during his childhood, influAfter graduating from Texas Tech, Finch encing him to steer away from that moved to the metroplex. With his teaching job path. degree, Finch got a job at Williams High “Being a teacher was the last School, feeding into Plano East. After five thing I wanted to do,” Finch said. years as a basketball, football and track “Which is strange, given where I coach and biology teacher at Williams, am now.” Finch was hired as an assistant principal While at Texas Tech, Finch’s in Huffines Middle School in Lewisville. roommate was a drum major who Finch later moved onto Lewisville High brought Bibles to school, which School for five years as an assistant princiFinch said he found interesting. pal and received a principal’s job position
April 22, 1963. Life began for principal Scot Finch in Wichita Falls, in a trailer home with round ends. “We were the poor people in the trailer park,” Finch said. His parents, aged 18 and 19, got married soon after his mother graduated high school. In order to live a better life, his dad continued his education in Texas Tech Agricultural College and soon moved to Dallas after receiving a better job. After moving throughout Texas, the family settled in Wylie. “Growing up in a small town changes your outlook on life,” Finch’s wife and principal of Arbor Creek Middle School, Joanie Finch said. “You get to experience so much. [In a small town], everyone has to do everything in order to make things work.” Finch found an interest in athletics while playing Pee Wee football in elementary school. After entering Wylie High School, he played football, basketball and track. It was here Finch met Joe Longino, his head basketball coach and U.S. history teacher. “There was something different about him,” Finch said. “[He was] very outgoing, very dynamic. He cared a lot about me. Through his coaching, the wounds you get in middle school and high school -those started healing.” Because Finch had a strained relationship with his dad, the coaches Provided by Scot Finch he had growing up held his dad’s During his junior year of high school, Scot Finch poses for a place. basketball photo at Wylie High School. Finch was involved “[My dad and I] weren’t as close in track, football and basketball.
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Principal Scot Finch poses for a photo with Hebron staff at a school pep rally.
rham Middle School. hen Hugh Jones, Hebron’s first prinretired over the summer of 2010, h received a phone call from Royce er, former principal of LHS, inng him that a principal job position ed up at Hebron. nch was in the middle of a desert in Mexico with his wife when he red the phone call. We somehow got reception,” Finch “[We got the information] and there a lot of great dates for the I was fortuenough to he position.”
and serving others. “The biggest love is Agape — the sacrificial love,” Finch said. “It’s what’s different in our [school] culture. We worry that we’re too selfish. Sure, we’re selfish sometimes, but overall as a school, I don’t think anyone else that does more service than any other school I’ve been to. Our students are service-oriented.” Finch is also an advocate for kindness, a trait that goes hand-in-hand with serving. The time period and culture during his childhood normalized bullying, but he found kind mentors and upperclassmen h became the that changed ipal of Hethat concept. in 2010 and Using that as rrently in his an inspiration, - Scot Finch, principal year. Finch executes et to steer the kind acts as [at Hebron],” a way to norh said. “I set the course. But I’m really malize kindness. to serve the people here: the students “Life’s pretty hard already,” Finch said. he staff.” “Why do we need to make it harder for ch connects this serving attitude back somebody else because of the way we treat Christian values. He said that the es- them. What skin off my nose is it to help of being a good Christian is sacrifice them have a better day? What do I lose by
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Principal Scot Finch and his wife Joanie celebrate at a school pep-rally. Joanie Finch is the principal of Arbor Creek Middle School.
“I get to steer the ship [at Hebron],” Finch said. “I set the course. But I’m really here to serve the people here: the students and the staff.”
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Principal Scot Finch converses with assistant principals during block lunch. Finch was an assisntant principal at several middle and high schools before coming to Hebron. schools and high schools doing that?” Finch plans on staying at Hebron until retirement. He said he and his wife want to retire around the same time and move to their lake house at Cedar Creek Lake.
“I’m getting to be an old guy now,” Finch said. “And I’m not sure exactly what happens after this. It’s hard to predict the future.”
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UPCOMING MOVIES Some movies never leave after gaining a place in your heart, especially classics. High school students’ childhood consisted of movies such as “The Incredibles,” “Toy Story,” “Ratatouille,” and many more. So, we were thrilled to hear that Disney is recreating childhood favorites into live-action movies: “Lion King,” “Dumbo,” “Aladdin,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “Toy Story 4” this year.
Avengers Endgame: May 24
Aladdin: May 24
Toy Story 4: June 21
Scrunchies, choker necklaces, ripped denim, plaid, wide leg pants and more: these trends have made a comeback into the current generation. Noticing the new trend of bringing back the old, The Hawk Eye staff has compiled a list of throwback songs from the 1980-90s.
The Lion King: July 19
I T BA C W O R H A playlist compiled with throwback songs from the 80s and 90s.
“Eye of the Tiger” - Survivor “Sweet Dreams” - Eurythmics “Come On Eileen” - Dexys Midnight Runners “Wannabe” - Spice Girls “Take On Me” - A Ha “Don’t Stop Believin’” - Journey “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” - Whitney Houston “All Star” - Smash Mouth “Wonderwall” - Oasis “Ice Ice Baby” - Vanilla Ice “Emergency on Planet Earth” - Jamiroquai “Don’t You Forget About Me” - Simple Minds “Never Gonna Give You Up” - Rick Astley “Africa” - Toto “Billie Jean” - Michael Jackson
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Editorial: Teenagers should be
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informed before choosing to vape THEHAWKEYE
HEBRON HIGH SCHOOL 4207 Plano Parkway Carrollton, TX 75010 469-948-2850
With the rise of vaping, a major e-cig- ease of transactions is what allows even arette distributor has also risen: Juul. 15-year-olds to buy the product, makWorth over $15 billion, Juul has taken ing it dangerous. vaping to the next level, dispensing Although marked “safer” than ciganew flavors and different forms of the rettes, the dangers of e-cigarettes and e-cigarette. An object meant to aid in vaping have increased depending on the transitioning to a new life has brought concentration and contents, such as nicforth a societal misotine, sold through conception that vaping Juul pods. During is the new and harmthe adolescent stage, less “in” trend. Rather go through “Rather than falling into humans than allowing sociedrastic developmental pressure influence the trap of propaganda, tal changes and the decisions, teenagers contents sold in the should stay informed teenagers need to decipher Juuls only put teens and weigh the risks beat a higher risk of regood from bad.” fore vaping. duced brain activity According to BBC and a higher chance news, seven million of addiction. people globally were vaping in 2011, New experiences are good for breakand that number has gone up to 35 ing out of the comfort zone, but it should million in 2016. Teenagers are more not hinder health. The various dangers susceptible to the device with the in- of vaping include damaging lungs, increase in number of users. Because of haling metals and ultra fine particles, the higher usage, teenagers are able to addiction etc. These health risks affect buy Juuls in everyday settings, such as teenagers on a greater level than adults, schools — because the sellers have eas- meaning introducing activities such as ier access to these vape products. The vaping only hinders the body’s ability
to function properly. These risks are often not considered because of social media’s impact in promoting the activity. Various social media accounts are seen promoting vaping to the teenage viewers by making it seem enjoyable and harm-free. Just like smoking was a trend in the 1900s, vaping is taking its place in the 2010s. If the risks of vaping were shared more frequently, there would be a better chance for teenagers to not even try it in the first place. Because it is showing up as a fad, teenagers do not think of the long-term consequences, which needs to change. Rather than falling into the trap of propaganda, teenagers need to decipher good from bad. Falling into trends, such as vaping, is what costs most teenagers their health — making them susceptible to even worse conditions later in life. The inflation of vape culture can only be stopped with a negative outlook on it, which can only come from a changed public opinion. So rather than glorifying a detrimental activity, teenagers should learn of the consequences first.
Column: Push for increased media diversity important for representation YASMIN HAQ NEWS EDITOR
As a child, I was the token bookworm. Any sort of fantasy novel I could get my hands on was a gold mine of information and entertainment. However, I didn’t really realize or make the connection that these phenomenal sword-slinging, magic-wielding heroes were all similar: they were white. Influenced by all these heroes and the lure of high fantasy, I loved to create characters and fashion epic tales of good and evil. Although, despite my differing ethnicity and race, all my characters were white. Almost none of the heroes in the books were diverse, so my characters couldn’t be either. But, as I grew older, that all changed, along with the world around me. I’d say around three or four years ago, there was a major push toward representation of all races, ethnicities and orientations in entertainment. Personally, I believe increasing diversity is a great way to appeal to all sorts of
audiences and to expand beyond a single culture or trope. I appreciate variety in media even if it is something as simple as changing the skin tone of a character or the name. This is pretty evident in recent cartoons such as “Voltron: Legendary Defender” or “She Ra and the Princesses of Power.” This establishes inclusion with a younger audience because they are watching all sorts of people save the day. Curiously enough, both of these cartoons are reboots of original cartoons back in the 90s. The best kind of representation is when culture is incorporated into part of the identity of the characters. The character becomes so much more believable and holistic through distinctions in religion, clothing, food, tradition or language. If done correctly, there is nothing better than witnessing or reading about customs so different than your own, and learning how it makes a character unique. Growing up in a setting with distinct traditions and lifestyle, while it may
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not be relatable for everyone, is definitely intriguing. Notable examples of media with this sort of cultural representation include “Six of Crows,” “Black Panther” and “Kite Runner.” Conversely, more mature media can use race to address social issues. For example, Randall in “This is Us” is an African American man who was raised by a white family. Subtle racial differences are briefly addressed in this dynamic throughout the course of his life. Similarly, “The Hate U Give” focuses heavily on racism and inequal-
ity in society. In these circumstances, the color of skin becomes so important, and it’s crucial that it be addressed in media. Despite the pros of diversity, there is nothing wrong with a cast of mainly white people. Sometimes it makes sense in the setting, such as in “Stranger Things.” I’m no expert on American diversity in the 1980s, but I’m assuming it’s nowhere near how diverse it is now. There’s one African American main character in the show, which makes sense. Besides, I don’t question the Harry Potter or Percy Jack-
son books for their character choices because in no way did it lessen the quality of the book. Although diversity is good, there is no reason to force it in every piece of popular media. Diversity in media is a key step to understanding and recognizing individuals different from oneself. Even small efforts like designing a character a certain way plays a role in influencing the audience, and bigger efforts can educate people about one another. It is a step in the right direction.
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Photo Gallery: “Newsies” dress rehearsal A collection of rehearsal photos from the all-school musical, “Newsies”
Newsies wait for the daily headline as Oscar (junior Krishna Nair) opens the gate.
Senior Olivia Kahny plays Crutch in theater’s production of Newsies.
Newsies perform “Carrying the Banner.”
The Bowery Beauties (senior McKenna Chamberlain, junior Lauren Hanifan and sophomore Sofia Solis) perform to the song “Don’t Come A-Knocking .”
Les (sophomore Macy Newman) sells her paper to a passerby (senior Caitlin Kresta).
Jack Kelly (senior Joseph Hoffman) and the Newsies meet Davey (senior Sahil Panjwani). ALL PHOTOS BY YASMIN HAQ
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