22-23 The Whirlwind - Issue 5

Whirlwind WEST ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL • MAY 2023 • ISSUE 5

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IT’S A GIRL WORLD Learn all the hot topics and coolest secrets for girls in our current world! From the most adorable, not back-handed compliments to the trendiest self defense purse items, take a dive into the not-so amazing world of being a girl!

CONTENTS NEWS

Meet the Candidates: Profiles of each candidate running for the school board 04 Boiling Below: An in-depth analysis of the Willow Project and it’s local effects 05

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Back to Bio: From surgery to recovery 06 A Breath of Fresh Air: Benefits and importance of having NARCAN in Albany 07

OPINION

Plastic Planet: A dive into various sustainable lifestyles 08 Trouble in the Mouse House: The problem with live action remakes 10 The Perfectly Imperfect Teenage Dream: What is the teenage dream? Is there a lack of discipline? 11

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When Words Collide: How personality traits change with language 12 Start a New Page: The best genre is the one that gets someone to read 14

SPORTS Sitting on the Sidelines: How athletes deal with injuries 15 Home is Where the Mat Is: Q&A with Ariana Martinez 16

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Physical Education: Whether or not the class should be required 17 The Call to Arms: The importance of culture in team sports 18 An Athlete In The Making: How psychology affects performance in sports 20

ENTERTAINMENT How the Turn Tables: Finding out how DJs work 21 Sticking to a Story: The importance of stickers to students 22 Over Easy: A list of easy recipies to learn! 23 Signature Sound: What kind of music are students listening to? 24

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How to Ruin Rock n’ Roll: Reviewing the forms of Daisy Jones and The Six 25

FEATURES Three Purse Essentials: Self defense items under 30 dollars 27 It’s MORE Than you Think: A breakdown on Feminism and what it means 28 DANG, Girl!: How who gives a compliment changes how it’s recieved 29

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Disgusting Words: How slurs and other derogatory terms impact women 30 Close Up: Explains what ‘male gaze’ is and how it affects people 31 Cover | Mollie Brown, Mika Winder, and Gigi Roldan

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EDITORS’ NOTE

As kids, we often find ourselves being pushed towards different activities, toys, colors, and more based on our gender.

Although this isn’t always the case, it is easy to see the way that society has deemed to be for girls and guys.

Growing up, girls were often pushed towards things like playing with dolls, fashion, makeup, the color pink, to be “lady-like”, and other things that have been labeled as feminine. I clearly see trends in things that are perceived as feminine are often about body image or changing the way one’s body looks in various ways. Nail polish, straightening/curling hair, shaving, makeup, and more practices are all seen as something that girls, and by extension, women do.

On the other hand, boys are expected to be

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Opinion

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Special

Helen Whiteside

Sports

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Arts & Entertainment Marshall Hamel interested in being outdoors, playing with boats, trucks, cars, planes, playing with toy guns (water guns, nerf guns), dinosaurs, sports, video games, and roughhousing. Masculine activities generally are aimed at exercise, being outdoors, and “tough, sweaty” work.

As kids, this can easily shape what we believe we are allowed to do or experience; something as simple as our favorite color can be influenced by gendered colors.

These preset beliefs can cause kids to seem like an outlier if they decide to enjoy the opposite of their gendered activities.

For example, reporter Gigi Roldan often would have more fun in learning about dinosaur toys and running around in the dirt than a more feminine type of play, which often didn’t set into society’s preconceived notions.

These strict stereotypes also may cause people to feel uncomfortable with enjoying things that they like, especially if it adheres to the stereotype. In a society that also highly values individuality, being stereotypical can seem boring or embarrassing. Mollie Brown often felt pressured to be individualistic throughout middle school, and was teased based on the content that she was interested in. She was ashamed to be a Swiftie in an era where being a Swiftie was seen as basic and unoriginal, which led her to stop listening to one of her favorite artists.

Overall, strict stereotypes are harmful to almost everybody, because negativity is associated with those who adhere to and those who reject social standards.

In this issue, we have chosen a very specific design theme throughout our special section. We have referenced a very stereotypical teenage girl magazine, and paired it with stories that highlight the realities of stereotypes and how harmful they can be. Besides being a fun design choice, we hope that this issue will send our readers the message that adhering to a stereotype can be empowering.

Gigi Roldan and Mollie Brown, with support from Fredrick Wagner and Ming Wong The Whirlwind Editors in Chief

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APRIL 2023

Meet the Candidates

SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION CANDIDATES POSITION AND INTENTS WITH THE DISTRICT Story by Legend Engberg and photo used with permission of candidates

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n 2018, Eric Aguinaga won a seat on the school board. During Aguinaga´s tenure he states his main focus in Zone 2 of the district comes down to student and staff safety, fiscal responsibility with the school budget, and reducing class sizes. Though, he states he only ever wanted to serve one term.

“If I felt that there were people that were able to carry on the mission,” said Aguinaga, “then I could say, ‘I would be done.’ I feel there’s three really good gentlemen on the board, but they’re going to carry on the same mission that we’ve been working on.”

With the election coming to an end on May 16, Aguinaga´s seat will be filled by one of three individuals: Ryan Mattingly, Lyle Utt and Benjamin Watts. Another seat, in zone 3, is being fought for by Sean Taylor and Michael Thomson, who is running for reelection.

ZONE 2 ELECTION CANDIDATES

ZONE 3 ELECTION CANDIDATES

BENJAMIN WATTS

LYLE UTT

RYAN MATTINGLY

SEAN TAYLOR

MICHAEL THOMSON

Watts stated that at the top of his list is equity Watts. He stated that he wants to focus on learning about others and their struggles along with their different perspectives. Watts said that he noticed its importance well in the military, after meeting a young man on a bus for basic training, who got shocked at the sight of a cow, he had never seen one before in person.

“A good example of the types of lived experiences that are just kind of foreign to me,” Watts said, “... I want to work with members of the community with parents and students to understand what the challenges and the barriers are and to help develop tools to overcome those barriers or remove the barriers…”

Along with equity, Watts stated that he also wants to focus on learning loss in district students as well as improving access to behavioral and mental health resources in schools which will, in turn, help with that learning loss.

“By addressing behaviors in the classrooms and having professionals who can help students and help teachers know the warning signs of when somebody is going into a crisis.”

Originally part of the budget committee, Utt served on the school board as a member from 2011 to 2018 in the seat later filled by current board member Micheal Thompson. ¨I assisted in the passage of the bond that started the reconstruction and replacement of West Albany High School,” Utt said.

Utt’s main focus if elected to the school board will be on monitoring the board and trying to keep it out of the news; he stated that currently they have too much unwanted exposure. Utt said that this kind of news attention, for example following the non-renewal of superintendent Melissa Goff’s contract and the recent non-renewal of two other district leaders’ contracts, will make it more difficult to retain and hire teachers.

Along with that, he stated the importance of parent involvement with board meetings, especially Spanish speaking parents who he feels should be outreached to more for their involvement.

“If you look at the population of Spanish speaking parents in our district, that’s a huge section,” Utt said. “By ignoring them, you’re not reaching some of those parents and, thus, getting them engaged and keeping their kids on track to graduate.”

For 14 years, Mattingly was the special program director for the district, retiring in 2020. During his time in the position, he oversaw special education in partnership with nursing, having to work with social workers as well.

“I managed those departments, the budgets, the staff and sort of supervise the roles of those,” Mattingly said.

He states that the direction the district is heading in is the right one, but would like more priority when it comes to student learning rather than conflict. Mattingly said that adult problems need to be kept out of schools, such as with the termination of staff.

“That’s been an issue that’s taken up time during the board meetings,” Mattingly said, “which has led to some uncivil conversation. I think there’s been a lot of push and pull on curriculum issues, issues that aren’t really relevant to classrooms.”

With what he states, his whole career being around students with disabilities, Mattingly wants those students to get access to the programs they need, and he wants to help students who struggle in a traditional classroom setting.

“I want to make sure we have options for all kids,” said Mattingly. “so that all kids can find a niche.”

The main goal of his running, Taylor said, is to take care of the community, helping with the future. He wants to make a point that he is not a politician.

“I’m doing this just because I care about the community,” Taylor said, “and my kids are going to be a part of the future of this community.”

Having found his job in contracting and gaining a small business through odd jobs during college, Taylor states that he had to work his way up in his career field to get where he is now. He believes in the worth of not just going straight into a university right after high school.

“I see the value of going to a four year college,” said Taylor, “but I also can see the value of people that either just want to start working right after high school... [or go into] technical school or some kind of career learning along those lines that isn’t necessarily a four year college. There can be immense value in that.”

Taylor said that just having opportunities that concur with a student’s passion and skills is the best way to find out what they love.

When the pandemic occurred, the school board complied with protocols, which included limited contact with individuals leading to the exclusion of in person comments when board meetings moved online. In recent months, the school board has gone away from Zoom meetings and back over to in-person meetings that are open to the public, however.

Thomson says that he wants to help bring back public involvement.

“We have to. We have to figure out a way to allow people to participate” Thomson said. “We had to figure out a way for those people to comment if they wanted to.”

Though there are listening sessions where the community can give input, Thomson stated they are missing transparency with the public and says he wants to help get more community input.

“I get bits and pieces of the other [listening sessions], but I don’t get much, and there’s no record taken, so it kind of just exists in the air and goes away,” Thomson said. “And I just think this is a time especially when we have some contentious issues.”

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A Breath of Fresh Air HOW NARCAN SAVES LIVES AND HOW IT WILL HELP ALBANY Story by Scotty Cummings

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pioids have very helpful outcomes when used in the correct way, but when not, they can be very dangerous and detrimental.

Different types of opioids are safe for prescription use such as; oxycodone, morphine, and codeine, which are pain relievers. However, some opioids are known for being highly addictive and harmful.

Heroin and fentanyl are incredibly dangerous and have become fairly popular in Albany according to the Albany Police Department.

Opioids may affect a person’s mood or attitude toward things in a negative matter. This could change relationships with friends or family who you could be close with.

Senior Spencer Cannaday explained, “When I was struggling with drug use, I was rude to a lot of people. A lot of the time I didn’t want to be rude, it was just because that was how the drug changed and affected me,” explains, who struggled

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These opioids are often used illegally and dangerously, putting the consumer at the risk of an overdose. An overdose is an excessive and dangerous dose of a drug which may possibly include prescription drugs if taken the wrong way. There has been a somewhat recent anti-overdosing nasal spray called NARCAN. NARCAN is a very significant type of nasal spray that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose taking a big step for the health industry.

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cable to them. Learning and understanding that information can be very important when coming up with solutions.

“Being someone who works with teenagers I think it’s really important that people know about NARCAN, how it works, and that they can carry it. Being informed on NARCAN can make a difference in our community,” Ferguson concludes.

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“NARCAN is a medication that you can give to people who are overdosing on opioids that will stop the overdose temporarily,” said Teacher Amber Ferguson, who teaches English at West Albany High School.

Ferguson said the medication may last a short period of time, being 60-90 minutes, which is why somebody might have to administer multiple doses. These doses can be administered by anyone seeing how this is not a prescription drug.

“If somebody who was unconscious and NARCAN was given to them and they ended up not overdosing, it would not harm them and would be better than doing nothing. There is no risk,” Ferguson said.

NARCAN is a medication that can be used to save countless lives. Acknowledge that although there are obvious benefits to NARCAN, there are some people that think it could do more harm than good.

Some people like Cannaday argued that

the access to NARCAN could possibly increase the amount of opioid use present because they would be safer.

Ferguson says NARCAN saves lives, not seeing negatives coming from the recent access to NARCAN encouraging it for the community. “I believe that even though it may increase the chances of survival, there is still a good chance of death.

It’s not 100% certain you will live. It’s still a gamble,” Ferguson says. She wants everyone to know the risk of opioids and how to possibly save someone’s life.

“It’s important to really think about how big an issue opioids are. A lot of the time it’s one of those things that people don’t really think about until it’s directly in front of them or affecting someone they know, and it is really important to consider the dangers of opioids and the significance of NARCAN,” Cannaday explains. For many people it may be easy to disregard issues that seem out of reach or not appli-

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Science teacher Shana Hains recieves fitting for cancer radiation treatment on Feb. 9. Photos used with permission of Chris Hains

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HOW SCIENCE TEACHER SHANA HAINS HAS NAVIGATED HER RECOVERY AFTER SURGERY

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applying to her optic nerve and allowed her vision to return back to normal. Unfortunately, she says this surgery was very invasive and required a long, uncomfortable recovery.

“What I hadn’t anticipated was the concussion side effects,” Hains said.

Since her brain had been displaced in order for the surgeons to complete the procedure, she experienced severe concussion symptoms, including fatigue and fogginess.

The tumor on her brain stem is located near a cluster of important blood vessels, making removal a very dangerous option. For both the meningioma located on her brain stem and her optic nerve, Hains received 30 days of targeted radiation to kill the cancer cells or stop their growth. This method of treatment uses very narrow intersecting beams of high intensity radiation to target the tumor more exactly, while also limiting the damage caused to surrounding cells.

“Where the beams cross, the frequency of the waves amplifies,” Hains said.

After 30 days of radiation, Hains said she expects to have regular MRIs to monitor the status of her tumors.

The taxing effects of both surgery and radiation therapy required Hains to take a significant time off from teaching. She said that although she felt responsible for her students’ learning, especially her AP Biology class, she knew that the time was crucial for her to recover.

After her return, she spoke positively about the community at West, and the support she recieved.

“I was overwhelmed with the amount of love I received from the staff,” Hains said.

She said that after having taught together for upwards of 20 years, the staff was very tight knit, and she was grateful for the letters, blankets, cards, and food she received from some of her close friends and coworkers.

Hains mentioned receiving a mixed response from her students, although many were grateful to return to her familiar method of teaching.

“I’ve already started using it as a teaching opportunity in my classes,” Hains said.

et’s say you have 100 skittles. If tumors would require very precise treatment.

I told you seven of those skittles Fortunately, the meningioma located on Hains’ could kill you, would you still frontal lobe could be removed with a somewhat want to eat any?” science teacher simple procedure. This was not the case with the other Shana Hains said. two.

Discovering a potentially life“Removing the tumor on my optic nerve would be altering condition is understandably too much of a risky option,” Hains said. a very scary experience. When Hains The location of her tumor being so close to the area received the news concerning her MRI where her optic nerves crossed meant that removal that confirmed the presence of three could cause blindness in not only one, but potentially meningioma located near her brain and both of her eyes. Instead of a removal, a small cavity a seven percent chance of going blind, was taken out of her skull in order to make room her first response was to call former for the tumor. This relieved the pressure it had been students.

Science teacher Shana Hains “Jennifer Wu, who is a being secured into radiology neurosurgeon at Harvard [and a former machine on Feb. 9 prior to her first student], responded to my call within administration of radiation treatment minutes,” Hains said. “She walked me CONSULTATION SIMULATION through my MRI and told me a little This step allows the doctor to An appointment is made with bit about what to expect.” find exactly where the tumor is. a radiation oncologist. The Meningioma is a tumor that arises Sometimes patients are asked patient and doctor review their from the meninges, or the layers of to swallow a contrast agent, medical history, and typically tissue that protect the brain and spinal therapy radiation is the chosen or they are immobilized with a cord. Hains first suspected something treatment. custom device. was wrong when she experienced problems with her vision, a common TREATMENT PLANNING DELIVERY & FOLLOW UP symptom for meningioma.

The focus of this step is The patient is placed in the She first consulted her optometrist, planning how to deliver a position for treatment, then who found that her optic nerve was high dose of radiation to more radiation therapists deliver the swollen, which is why she was accurately target the tumor and dose. Treatment normally takes recommended for an MRI. Her MRI protect the surrounding tissue. no more than 20 minutes.

After treatment, another revealed the tumors, one located on appointment is scheduled to her left optic nerve, another on her monitor recovery. frontal lobe, and a third on her brain Information found from the Stony Brook Cancer Center stem. The sensitive location of these

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A digital model of a kidney growing a tumor created by bio-tech company Lazarus 3D, located in Albany.

TEXAS TO Practice Makes Perfect FROM OREGON HOW LOCAL COMPANY LAZARUS 3D IS PAVING THE WAY IN MODERN MEDICINE Story by Mina Clower

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ccording to the National Institutes of Health, 31.5 percent of people come out of surgery with a complication. That means if you look to your left, and look right, and you and the people next to you went into surgery, most likely one of you would come out with a complication. But one company here in Albany wants to do something about it.

A complication is a medical problem that occurs during or after the procedure. It can mean someone might have to receive extra surgery as a result, days in the hospital, and repeated doctor visits. Local company Lazarus 3D’s goal is to help surgeons perfect surgery without having all of their learning experiences happen in the operating room.

The type of model Lazarus 3D makes is a medical device called a diagnostic radiological device.

Smirti and Jacques Zaneveld are the founders of Lazarus 3d, and both studied at Baylor College of OUR GOAL IS VERY Medicine in Texas while getting their DIFFERENT FROM A Ph. D.s in genetics. “That’s where we NORMAL COMPANY. really identified the problem to begin with because we really wanted to know why people are having these complications,” Smirti said. So Smirti and Jacques decided to develop a technology to help prevent complications by giving surgeons more experience with risky or specific surgeries.

“Our real goal is to make one of each of a million different individual specific products that are built to care for just that one patient in a very personal way,” Jacques said.

Lazarus specifically makes products for each patient through computerized tomography scans that allows them to make a replica organ out of a synthetic soft tissue material that mimics human tissue. Through this surgeons are able to rehearse the surgery without putting the patient at risk, and if all goes well, the surgeon can de-

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There are very few Biotech companies in Oregon which might make people wonder, why here? “We want to be in a place that, made us feel good about having a balance and having a connection with nature, ” Lazarus 3D founder Smirti Zaneveld Ph. D. said.

According to Lazarus, there are many people in Oregon that are eager to be working on the front line of such new technology. “In In terms of the two or three large universities that have these programs that are really direct relevance to our needs,” Smirti said.

Along with these reasons Lazarus says that Albany has been a very accepting and welcoming community.“The Mayor of the City of Albany, the City Manager, the Economic Development Office, even other businesses in the city and in the state have been immensely supportive of us and just welcoming and this is not something you get in another place,” Smirti said.

“So it’s really something that’s commendable and something that Oregonians should be very proud of.”

cide to perform the surgery on the patient themselves.

“They’re going to look at the surrounding structures and if they were all intact and everything went as intended, then they are going to be ready to proceed,” Smirti said.

According to Smirti, Lazarus is the only company with FDA cleared technology to rehearse on a soft tissue organ ahead of time. They invented this technology last year. According to Jacques, the process of getting something FDA cleared is time consuming and takes years on average, requiring 21 different steps for clearance.

“Our competitors can make models of hard plastic, but we’re really the pioneers for this surgical rehearsal concept,” Smirti said.

However, they are currently only FDA cleared to print genitals and urinary conditions for patients and hospitals. “That is the limitation of where we are at today,” Smirti said. “However, this is still a pretty significant market. Seventy thousand people get diagnosed with kidney cancer and are surgically treated for it each year.”

Despite this, surgeons using the models produced by Lazarus have already seen a dramatic increase in success. “In every single case, so far, there has been an increase in surgical care with those patients,” said Jacques. On average, orthopedic surgeries that use 3D models are said to reduce operation time by 19.5 percent for kidney cancer and half a day less in the hospital recovering.

Lazarus 3D is paving the way in advancing healthcare and wants to become more accessible and have a greater selection of approved models.They are currently in the process of getting more models cleared.

“What about people who have very rare conditions in their brain, or in their heart, or in their liver, or in their toes? We want to be able to build very good models that are replicas of those patients for those other complex conditions,” Smirti said.

“Our goal is for every surgery in the United States where a doctor would benefit from this technology for it to be available,” Jaqcues said.

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ConocoPhillips, the company that is pursuing the Willow Project, gets the land to build it.

ConocoPhillips began getting all the legal documents they needed to undergo the project.

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Story by Tiana Harris and illustration by Mollie Brown

he Willow project is a plan to drill oil in Alaska project’s environmental hazards. Science Teacher Mike that could produce up to 576 million barrels of oil, Garnier says that the CO2 emissions could make floods but it will also produce up to 239 million metric and droughts worse and could ruin the environment for tons of CO2 into the atmosphere according animals. Animals like polar bears, to the Bureau of Land Management . How penguins, arctic foxes and any and could that much carbon emissions affect all arctic animals would be affected cities the size of our community? by the changing climate.

NOW WE’RE The CO2 amounts from the drilling Aside from the environmental TRASHING YET would cause warmer winters, hotter effects, how will the Willow ANOTHER PLACE summers, forest fires would become project affect our economy? more common, and an increase in the According to Risinger,this greenhouse effect, science teacher project will expand the Lucas Risinger said. fossil fuel industry, “Number one is just more CO2 and Methane put our economy further into the wrong into the atmosphere and [it] will just further direction, and create jobs, but only for a climate change, which is already well short period of time. in the works,” science teacher Ga“I’d much rather that we didn’t reth Engler said, “and plenty of do it, because now we’re trashwhat we’ve done is going to ing yet another place,” Engler happen no matter what if said. “Once you’re [Biden] we stopped today.” going through with it, Animal ecosysof course, there will tems would be probably be some President Biden signed affected by leaks.”

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lobal warming. Climate change, the environment, sustainability and eco-friendly. All buzzwords that have gradually been increasing in academic journals, news outlets, corporations, federal institutions, and the general public.

But should environmental health be anything worth stressing about? “Climate change doesn’t seem to be affecting me nor my personal life, so why should I care?” is a common argument some use, especially more conservatively leaning people, to deny the impact of climate change.

People have debates about all sorts of topics in order to see both sides of an argument. Yet, when it comes to something like the future of our planet, intense division shouldn’t be an option.

Unnecessary debate can give people a platform that would only use it to spread paranoia and misinformation.

The failing condition of our planet has been talked about for decades with a multitude of warnings from environmental professionals whose work has repeatedly been disregarded.

The neglect towards the environment becomes apparent when corporations are allowed to mass produce their products for profit without boundaries and without considering how their actions hurt everyone and everything..

Science teacher Gareth Engler said, “we as taxpayers and world citizens are paying for [the damage caused by corporations] in terms of health, cleanups, and other costs.”

However, since the late 90’s, environmental education has steadily been on the rise. With higher rates of the population becoming aware of the effect they have on the environment.

A large number of people have integrated more eco-friendly habits into their daily routines. Subtle techniques like; turning the faucet off when brushing our teeth, turning the lights off when they’re not in the room, reusable water bottles and tupperware, as well as many other strategies. Yet we, as the general public, are still being pushed as the perpetrator who commits

the majority of damage done to the environment.

“It’s difficult for the average person to take control of the climate crisis, especially, with no government to follow behind,” sophomore Kelsie Buck said.

“You can’t really combat what the government’s doing”.

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environment and include the government to help them get to the point [where they are working for the well-being of all, not just the economy.]”.

In all of the buzz around being sustainable and eco-friendly, the talk around environmentalism has become progressively more political. With people being pressured to take sides on whether or not they would consider themselves to be placed under the label of an “environmentalist.”

Something that some would consider a disdainful label. People forget that whatever harmful thing hits the environment will come to bite them back sooner or later. Engler said,

Despite this, the average person should not become dejected. Though sustainability is placed under the label of a trend at the moment; large brands, one of them being Nike, has launched a subbrand, Nike Grind, that is dedicated to restoring or recycling worn Nike shoes and apparel into new products.

Sophomore Imari Miller said, “When people are [recycling and reusing], they can influence a lot more people…It’s beneficial. The public should advocate for the

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HOW STARTING SMALL CAN LEAD TO BIG ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Story and Photos by Avneet Dhaliwal

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Trouble in the Mouse House THE STYLISTIC PROBLEM WITH DISNEY REMAKES

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ver since the 2010’s Disney has been releasing many if they end up being admired for their art later on. Missing link prominent ‘live action’ remakes of their popular went on to win a Golden Globe award, for example. animated films. With the advance of CGI Disney The problem with Disney remakes is that a story is usually has decided to capitalize on recreating it’s old stories in new animated for a reason. Animation is art. It allows the creators technology. There’s an obvious reason for this phenomenon: to add beauty and specific touches to a movie that couldn’t be mice like cheddar. done any other way. Animation done well makes the movie Disney is a company that makes it’s money through getting feel as thought it is all real, rather than just look realistic. The people to watch its films. The link to artistic merit of a piece of art isn’t judged nostalgia these remakes hold guarantees by how similar it is to life, but by how the theater seats fill up. Who doesn’t much it expresses real human feelings. remember opening up that fat plastic The Scream is visually interesting VHS case? because it isn’t trying to be real. Picasso This animation trend towards realism cultivated acclaim because the subjects was always predictable, ever since Disney said he didn’t paint them, he painted the THE PROBLEM WITH DISNEY chose to abandon it’s signature 2D style essence of them.

REMAKES IS THAT A STORY that built it up in the first place in favor of How many people would honestly newer, less expensive technology that’s rather watch The Lion King remake than IS ANIMATED FOR A REAless tedious to work with but is arguably the original? Its an obvious choice for the SON. ANIMATION DONE harder to look at, especially in the early audience both are aiming for. Compare WELL MAKES THE MOVIE days with movies like toy story. the colors, the storyline, the life of the This could possibly be attributed to characters. How ironic is it that cartoon FEEL LIKE LIFE, RATHER the size of the company which employs animals have more life to them than the THAN JUST LOOK REAL. more than 5000 employees. It seems photo-realistic counterpart? the more people added to a creative While these live action remakes don’t project, the more likely a concept is to have to stop, Disney need to keep testing loose it’s personality and originality the limits of animation. The Aladdin and favor income and speed over art. remake didn’t even have Jafar turn into Comparatively, smaller animation companies such as Studio a giant snake, which is one of the coolest parts of the original Ghibli (182 employees) and Laika Studios (362 employees) movie. These remakes have limited color palettes that aren’t have the ability to take more risk as they make their work based interesting to anybody! Even normal live action shows have on passion. With so much development, Disney has become a good color palettes. corporate god, which eats money to survive. Smaller animation The best of these remakes are the ones that take these studios can afford to put in more care and time, while Disney stories and do something new. Cruella was cool. Cruella knew needs to keep putting out movies as quick as it can. it couldn’t be just another remake because the Cruella remake

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There used to be a time when Disney took more risks with its art. Unfortunately, animated movies that spend a lot of time in production don’t always get their money back. The Disney movie Fantasia, made to showcase the animation skills and musical abilities of the Disney team was an absolute box office flop in the 1940’s, which can also be seen through other works. The most recent movie out of Laika studios Missing Link was a box office flop as well. Animation isn’t always treasured as much as it should be by theater audiences, even

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had been done, so the writers took a spin on the character. The most unwatchable remakes take the worst parts of the original story while taking out all the magic: music, comedic characters, and colorful backgrounds in favor of realism and end up being exactly what they try to be: Dull, serious, and realistic.

They’re betraying their audience, children who need some hope and magic in their lives. Adults, too.

The Perfectly Imperfect Teenage Dream

TEENAGE TIMELINE HOW TEENAGERS HAVE CHANGED OVER THE YEARS

ARE TEENAGERS NOT DISCIPLINED ENOUGH TO HARNESS THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE PERFECT TEENAGE DREAM?

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The term “teenager” had not been used yet. Many were either children or adults, no split between age.

Time was spent working full time jobs that required them to be patient, focused, and full of discipline.

Jobs that may have caused them injury or long term health problems, like working in factories.

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they have to post pictures to prove that Scroll through apps like In- they work out and play their sport at an exstagram, Snapchat, and Tik- treme level in order to feel like their peers Tok, and you will inevitably accept them. Burgeoning student writers come across post after post of teenagers have to come up with exciting in the gym “shredding” their new ideas, even though the OPINION bodies, at late night parties, world feels as though it has couples making out in the been drained of all fresh ideas. corners, and people showing off their Many teens have lost the ability to be name-brand clothes they don’t even like. creative. The media provides us with our These are just parts of the trend of the 21st every thought. On top of this, AI can now Century, and what is a trend when you’re present us with clear versions of our rough not part of it? ideas that we didn’t Over the years, put any effort in. the connotation of Subsequentthe term “teenager” ly, with all of this has gone through comes aggression some changes. The THE STEREOTYPICAL and rebellion. Beword has gone cause things don’t TEENAGE LIFE CONSISTS from referring to a go our way, or we OF BEING ABLE TO DO AS young adult to bedon’t get the things ing associated with ONE WISHES: DRINKING, that we want, we rebellion, aggresSNEAKING OUT, REBELLING, strive to make evsion, and irresponerybody else misHANGING OUT WITH sibility. The stereoerable. Teens today typical teenage life FRIENDS, SLEEPING IN, NOT have it easy, but consists of being also difficult. Many CARING ABOUT ANYTHING, able to do as one are struggling beAND DOING HIGH-RISK wishes: drinking, cause they lack the sneaking out, rebelACTIVITIES. discipline and critling, hanging out ical thinking skills with friends, sleeping in, not caring about to live a stress free life. We want money anything, and doing high-risk activities. and romantic relationships, but also don’t With this in mind, teenagers are stressed know how to go about finding a partner out and putting unnecessary pressure on or even sometimes take care of ourselves. themselves because they don’t express Rebellions in school are more common. their ‘perfect image’ to the world. If the Run-aways and kidnappings are becoming media does not see their new friend group more common. or their new outfit, then many teens beThe saying is that “money doesn’t come self-conscious and can’t function grow on trees,” but we can at least plant because they feel out of place. New ver- the seed of success within ourselves and sions of themselves are made to fit the new give it a chance to grow without the instandard the world has produced for them. fluence of social media, stereotypes, and Those of us that have figured out how to some discipline. Maybe, just maybe, we present ourselves still suffer from the idea can achieve that perfect teenage life we so of not being good enough. Athletes feel greatly desire.

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With the beginning of a new century, attitudes toward unpaid work and extra time began to change.

Employers began six day work days, and on top of that, they allowed two week vacations. This extra time was spent with friends, at musical theaters, or at the beach.

1950s

The Great Depression (1929-1939) had an impact on jobs and work opportunities. The term “teenager” is introduced and teens discover that they can begin working for money since their parents are as well.

Most got to keep the money they earned.

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MySpace, Facebook, and many other social media platforms began to circulate around. So many teens and young adults felt the desire from themselves to document their lives on social media, causing stress and displeasure.

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The idea of getting paid to do daily chores like sweeping and washing laundry (by hand) has not crossed anybody’s mind. Nine to sixteen year olds were expected to do work without complaint.

This is the perfect time for teenagers to utilize the amount of freedom we have. We have no idea where to begin. Work is out of the question, for now. We want to be our own people, but our identity crisis that may lack basis cripples the fighter within us, making us feel insecure and undisciplined.

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re you more closed off in Chinese, funnier in Spanish, or more outgoing in English? This is the reality of bilingual and multilingual people.

Personality is what makes us unique and different from everyone else, but have you ever considered that bilingual or multilingual people could have different experiences in each language?

I, as a bilingual person who speaks German and Spanish, have experienced this — knowing two languages perfectly, but at the same time feeling that you don’t not know any perfectly. Growing up in one culture and speaking that language, but then also living in a completely different culture and speaking a different language, shaped me and my personality.

Children whose parents speak another language normally learn their parents’ language first and then the language of the country they are living in. You would think that those children’s mother language is their parents’, but that isn’t always the case, especially in America.

“I would like to say Russian [is my mother language], but at this point, I feel like English is easier for me,” sophomore Stacy Yakavenka, a Russian speaker, who has spoken Russian for a longer time than English, said.

On the other hand, freshman Jerry Wang, a Chinese speaker, said that “Chinese [is his mother language] because it is cool,” but that it depends on the occasion.

VANISHING OF A LANGUAGE More and more children aren’t learning their relatives’ languages because no one teaches them. Research from the UCLA Asia Pacific Center shows that it takes three generations to lose a family’s native language. It is not only sad that the children don’t know the language, but tragic knowing they are losing essential parts of their relatives’ culture.

Preserving a language is really difficult, especially when you live in a country where there is a lot of pressure to shift to the country’s culture, also known as assimilating. This makes a lot of families not only lose their language but also their culture. A lot of children whose parents immigrated don’t even learn their

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But even the children that do speak their parents’ language often don’t feel that connected to the language, and feel more accepted and understood in English and the American culture.

This makes a lot of bilinguals not feel comfortable talking in their mother language. Speaking in the language of the country where you live is easier most of the time, and they may feel more secure since everyone else also speaks English.

Bilinguals are under the pressure of the community to learn the language of the country they live in and to drop their own culture to be as American as everyone else.

This pressure of fitting in creates the issue that parents don’t bother to teach their children how to read and/or write in their parents’ language.

“I tried to learn [to read and write I FEEL LIKE I HAVE AN in Punjabi] … and then I gave up,” ANGRIER TONE WHEN I AM freshman Ritish Ratanpal, a Punjabi SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN speaker, said; since Punjabi has another alphabet and he never learned it as a child. Ratanpal regrets that he never learned how to read and write in Punjabi.

DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Despite this fact, the experience of bilinguals is different for everyone.

“The feeling [I feel when I am] talking in Punjabi is just different,” Ratanpal said. He would always choose to speak Punjabi with people if he had the choice to do so.

Others, like junior Alex Cortes, a Spanish speaker, prefer speaking English because, as he said, “We are in America.”

I prefer speaking German; it is the language where I feel I can express myself

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the best and where I feel most comfortable with knowing the most vocabulary.

Being secure and feeling comfortable in situations also sometimes make up someone’s personality. For bilinguals, it can slightly change depending on which language they are speaking.

“I feel more comfortable speaking Spanish because some people say [that] my English isn’t very good,”Cortes said.

This occurrence happens a lot where kids don’t feel as comfortable speaking the language where they live because other people say they have an accent. It makes some children more shy and introverted in English than in their native language.

SPEAKING IN A SECRET LANGUAGE The feeling of speaking your mother tongue can give you more security; it is a kind of confidence that you don’t receive in any other language. You can be confident speaking other languages, but feeling comfortable speaking your “mother” language hits different. Speaking your parents’ language is like speaking a “secret language,” Ratanpal said, since no one else understands what you are saying.

I have experienced that feeling, too. When I am with my brother in Spain, we speak in German, so no one can understand us, but when we are in Germany, we speak in Spanish. My mother language is German and it is my preferred language. It is easier to express my feelings and emotions. I feel like in German there are more words to describe how I feel, and sometimes in Spanish or English, there is a lack of words. On some occasions I want to say something and there just isn’t the right word to describe what I want to say; there are synonyms, but not the right words.

“One language doesn’t convey feelings [as] the other [one], so I like change between them,” Wang said.

It is really common to swap words while you are speaking, especially when the person you are talking to knows both languages. You may not find the perfect word in one language, so you just say it in the other language because it fits better with what you are trying to say.

One of the downsides of being bilingual is forgetting words. What happens really often is that you not only forget the words in one language, you forget them in all of the languages you know. Your brain goes completely blank. Then you have to describe the item; however, how are we supposed to describe a bell pepper or a blanket. They are common words that just aren’t in your brain. Wang came back from China and he didn’t remember the word for some animals and forgot how to spell things in English.

“I usually just pause,” Yakavenka said when they completely forget the word in a language.

Yakavenka tries to describe the word and insert descriptive words to explain it to someone else.

A lot of people assume that bilingual people just translate the words in their head. Indeed, bilinguals do that with specific words, but most of the time we don’t.

“I think it is just there,” Cortes said.

Bilinguals have two different languages in their head that they’re proficient in, automatically aware of what a word is without feeling the need to manually translate it in their head.

Being bilingual has a lot of positive sides. Knowing more than one language, being able to communicate with people from multiple countries, growing up in multiple cultures, among other benefits. But bilinguals are also living in-between two worlds, being in a conflict to which country and ethnicity one should belong.They don’t feel one hundred percent accepted in either culture and having a conflict with oneself about which language they would prefer to speak in.

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PARENTS CHECKING KIDS’ GRADES INFLUENCES THEIR SUCCESS

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here are also a lot of other students who feel the way freshman Zyon Moevao does. “When my parents check my grades, I get a little nervous,” Moevao said. Though it can be nerve-wracking, a lot of kids do well in school because of the standards that their parents hold for them. Usually, the reason parents put those standards on their children is because they care about their kids.

For study skills teacher Shanna Turner, checking her kids’ grades weekly is, “empowering [her] kids to make sure they are holding themselves accountable,“. The reason some parents check their children’s grades is because it feels like a sense of responsibility on the parent’s part and instills responsibility within the teenager to stay on top of their assignments.

However this is a good thing because it can keep the student in check and ensure their success.

“The controlling aspect comes from trust being broken,” Turner said. The trust broken mean if they start EMPOWERING MY KIDS acting suspicious and secreTO MAKE SURE THEY ARE tive.

The main reason she HOLDING THEMSLVES checks her kids’ grades is beACCOUNTABLE cause of trust. When parents check grades, it can stress students out. It is building up good stress because they can put a reasonable expectation on their kids that they can live up to. They are also creating a sense of responsibility because students know that their parents are going to check their grades; therefore, they have to make sure it is reaching their parents’ standards.

It can also build their own standards percent of Americans and allows them to develop a good sense high school grades of responsibility that will stay with them are major factor for as they head off to college or into the students to get in to workforce. Turner believes that parents college, according to should guide their kids instead of conThe Pew Research Center trolling them. Parents should encourage

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students to develop their own standards for their grades by offering support .

Study shows that parents’ involvement in checking grades, students grades have a higher level of academic performance.Then parents who are less involved with their children grades . Study also shows that parents’ involvement has a benefit on the relationship between the child and parent . The effect it has on students is that their classroom behavior turns out better when they know their parents are gonna check their grades.

The good habits you develop as a young adult will accompany you as you grow older. Through accumulating responsibilities like checking your grades and being able to fix them without being nagged at by your guardians allows for growth towards independence and immaturity. This independence can apply in the workforce because you have built a good sense of responsibility and ownership of your own work. The stress that builds up from parents checking grades will end up helping students in the long run.

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ver one million books are published each year, adding to the immeasurable number of books already published.

These books can then be picked up by casual readers, or aspiring writers. Those same books could also be added to some reader’s favorites, sometimes making a bridge to new genres for the reader. Books cover a wide range of interests.

These different interests are put into groups based

genre is fantasy. Fantasy is a very broad genre covering many topics and ideas with one connecting factor – the magical and the mythical.

These things are represented in many different ways, so picking up a new fantasy book can be really enjoyable and surprising. You just don’t know how the content will be represented.

Fantasy also covers a lot of interests, so it makes sense that it is the most popular genre.

on similarities making genres. Some people stick There is a lot to explore in fantasy and other to one genre, making many claims and providing genres. Fantasy is the most checked out genre, a multitude of arguments which must imply that it is the best genre. as to why that genre is There are a lot of people who really enjoy OPINION the best, while others try fantasy, making it really popular. It’s also very to branch out by dipping multifaceted so it appeals to a wide range of their toes into many book genres. people. There’s really no downside to not reading No matter what kind of reader someone the most popular genre. It is liked by a lot of is, there is most likely a genre out there for them. people so you can talk about books to a larger The saying “don’t judge audience, and many people a book by its cover” is write in the fantasy genre quite popular, being used making access to more to describe many things. books easier. Just because This same thing can be this is the case doesn’t THE BEST GENRE IS THE said about another aspect mean that many people ONE THAT GETS YOU TO of books – genres. The enjoy a genre that others READ genre determines many wouldn’t even consider things about a book; from reading. These differing LIBRARIAN JEAN GRITTER the flow of the story, to the tastes and opinions lead to formatting of the story. people saying that different For example, when you genres are the best genres. think of horror, you might This is why the best genre is think of killers, gore, nightmares, and clowns. subjective to the reader. It is the reader’s opinion This is how much a genre impacts the way that that makes the best genre, so the genre that gets people view a book. Some people might even someone excited to read and start a new book is avoid a book just because it is in a genre they the best genre. It’s not based on statistics, it’s all don’t usually read. But, on the other end of the that specific reader’s opinion. This is why we are spectrum, genres can really help direct a person able to have a really diverse selection of books. to books that interest them.

People usually write books in their favorite genre According to librarian Jean Gritter around five because they have the most exposure to it. When years ago the school library didn’t look like how people are able to take a new spin on old ideas we it does today. The library has since then been are able to find the book or genre that makes us reworked to make sections for genres and ever want to start a new page. since, the amount of books checked out has gone up.

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In order of top to bottom this is a ranking of most checked book genre out at the school library.

Sitting on the Sidelines HOW DO ATHLETIC INJURIES AFFECT ATHLETES MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY? Story by Fraser Scott

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ports injuries grasp the reality of mental health and psychological issues that appear in athletes after the fact.

To some, sports are their life, their potential career, and a

scholarship or full ride into college. Major or Minor, there are always thoughts of what’s going to happen if I don’t fully heal or can’t go back into the sport ever again?

It negatively impacts your brain and body and can be very damaging to one’s mental health towards rehabilitation outcomes and recovery. Physiological responses include denial, frustration, fear of re-injury, restlessness, reduced confidence, depression and many more.

Often injuries can be found as something common that are a part of sports, with such knowledge there are multiple solutions to quick recovery and boosted confidence and

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much more tiring and strenuous.

Once athletes return to the field it can be hit or miss whether they are shells of their former self however for Freshman Isiah Corr things are looking bright. Corr stated “The recovery time is supposed to be seven months, but I’m looking at a lot less than at”, Some people don’t get this lucky however with their injuries impacting their future careers or even just their day to day lives.

When Freshman wide receiver RJ Fallows broke his leg on the field in a mid-season game against Dallas. He stated, “It took a long time and just being careful not to run or go too fast.”

The recovery was lengthy and took a toll on Fallows seeing his teammates play but him on the sidelines made him feel depressed as he wanted to help out his team.

Many other athletes feel this way as well as Winn saying “In the moment and with other people around me I was happy and motivated but when I was alone I let my head get to me.”

With injuries being this detrimental to athletes physical and mental health, how can we prevent injuries throughout the season? Many athletes do strive to improve their strength hoping to prevent injuries and reduce time spent on the sidelines in the future.

Following his injury Fallows said “I had to strengthen everything back to normal, as my leg had shrunk following the injury.” To this day Fallows is still putting in hard work building muscle and making sure he gets strong to this day.

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team stated, “I was way more ambitious in the first couple of months, but as time went on it sort of just discouraged

Fallows broke his femur after a player from Dallas fell on his leg in the endzone.

me. It really broke me down.”

Impacts of injuries aren’t just on the field they also impact people off the field. With the obvious being that it affects someone physically limiting their mobility to do day to day things.

However it can make athletes feel like they can not

Isiah Corr - Partial Labrum Tear Corr injured his hip due to repetition however he played on it for over a year worsening its condition.

come back to their sport or that they won’t be as good as they used to be, with Winn stating “You get this mindset where you tell yourself that you’re going to work hard, but then you wonder when will I ever get back.” Not only is the process of recovery long and tiring, it is draining mentally.

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Winn injured her ACL after tripping over her ankle at practice.

There are multiple steps in order just to get cleared again and sometimes luck is not on your side, Winn was initially cleared by a physical therapist however once she switched to another, that clearing was revoked for an unknown reason, this made the process of getting back into her sport

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She started her freshman year off doing cross country and wanted to start another sport in the winter. After seeing wrestling as an option, she decided to give it a try and that was how her wrestling journey began.

In the two years Martinez has been doing wrestling, she has been state champion both years, as well as most recently winning the Reno Worlds Championship. Her senior year ended undefeated 46-0.

Even with all these achievements Martinez says that it isn’t as easy as she makes it look. Even though she won the state championship again and kept her title, she wasn’t satisfied with her result.

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I feel a lot of pressure to win and feel that I have no choice but to win. I don’t think that I ever get past this feeling”, Martinez says.

Due to anxiety she gets before competing, she sometimes doesn’t perform how she truly wants to. But winning the Reno tournament was something she felt like she needed to do, and now she is ready to do bigger and better things.

“I know how to settle down a little bit and get into the right mindset to push the pace. I just have to tell myself that there is really no pressure from anyone but myself, and that the only person who will feel different about me if I were to lose is myself,” Martinez says.

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While still looking for a college, Martinez wants one that will truly push her wrestling ability to be it’s truly her biggest achievement the best. Martinez knows she will developing as a wrestler, and learning specifically go to a school for wrestling, lessons that help her. Her goal was to be but she isn’t looking for any ordinary a smart wrestler with the awareness and college. sense she needs on the mat.

Even though she is hard on herself, Ariana doesn’t just want to prove how she still thinks the biggest lesson she amazing her wrestling is to people, but learned during her wrestling career has herself and how much she has gained been that if she truly believes in herself in technique and and sets her mind to smarts while on the something, she can mat. do it.

Martinez is To her, that already thinking means she will be I JUST HAVE TO TELL towards her future accepted into the in wrestling, but MYSELF THAT THERE IS school she really mainly her years in REALLY NO PRESSURE wants to get into. college.

FROM ANYONE BUT MYSELF The most important “For the next thing is that she has four years of my put in the effort and life, wrestling will worked her butt off be a huge part of to get where she is my life. I think that today. once you are a wrestler, you will always With all this being said, the advice be a wrestler. If the opportunity were to Ariana gives to athletes and mainly present itself, I would love to continue wrestlers is, “To other wrestlers and other wrestling after college and take it to the athletes work for what you want. I believe world wrestling scene. Wrestling is really that what you do in the mat room and the important to me, so I want to do it as long effort you give directly determines your as I can,” Martinez says. She will most results in competition.” likely take wrestling to a whole new level after this year.

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hysical education has been around in schools since 1820 but it first became a requirement in the year 1853 in Boston. There are already 4 states in which physical education is no longer required, those states are Alaska, Arizona, Colorado and Hawaii. Here at West Albany High School we are required to achieve a credit in physical education but should we still need that credit?

According to Freshman Dallin Berg, physical education is useful for some students but it’s not for all students.

There are some students who decide to go out of their way to do sports outside of school but there are other students who don’t make that decision and just decide to stay inside all day long. He also stated that physical education is useful to release some energy and you’re not just sitting down all day but overall it’s not a necessary class.

Physical education is supposed to help students with their motor skills and help out with their cognitive skills and reflexes but do we still need

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help with these skills?

Freshman Xavier Cabrera said that there are a lot of students who have physical education but that doesn’t mean that they will participate in it.

He said that “there’s people who are standing there and it’s just kind of annoying.”

There are many students who have

There is a large portion of teens seen that and also get annoyed required than those who who like physical education or feel by that. He said feel like it shouldn’t be like it should be required. that physical required.

Here at West Albany education Physical education has High School 100 should been shown to relieve SHOULD PHYSICAL people voted on be an stress for some teens and if it should be EDUCATION BE REQUIRED it can even help some required and teens feel more confident FOR GRADUATION? 51% voted that with themselves. It can yes it should also help some teens No Yes while 49% focus and help them voted that it improve their problem should not be solving skills. required. The numbers are pretty even but there are more people who feel like it should be optional class like an elective because students who can’t participate due to injury or being unfit could make them feel excluded.

Obesity for people aged 2-19 increased from 17.7% in 2011 and 2012 up to 21.5% in 2017 and 2020.

This could be a big problem for the future because the percentage keeps going higher each year.

Physical education has been around the whole time and it has not prevented this number from increasing but it has slowed down the increase.

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to get their accolades, they’re more worried about their outcomes than the team’s.”

Having a strong team culture means that every team member is dedicated to the team and values each other over the individual.

Head baseball coach Marty Johnston had a similar experience when it comes to his teams, “The most important focus is what we’re

Culture is everywhere, including sports teams. It’s something that teams can develop through hard work and experiences, but it’s something very broad.

“Good culture, to me, is trust, selflessness, and caring,” math teacher and football coach Cole Pouliot said.

“Bad culture is when everyone wants

accomplishing together. It has to be the ‘we’ before ‘me,’” Johnston said.

“It has to be on what we’re able to accomplish together.”

To head wrestling coach Casey Horn, culture is all about family.

“It’s about us... we need to be a family… The goal is that we all take care of and respect each other,” Horn said. “We need to love and take care of everyone in front of us.”

The Call to Arms CULTURE IN TEAM SPORTS AND WHY IT MATTERS: COACHES OPINIONS Story by Joe Wagner Photography by Mia Cavazos-Ang, Richard Meeker, Grace Peña

Coach Casey Horn cheering on his wrestlers.

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Culture is about each team member caring about each other.

Pouliot said, “It’s a culture of caring.

The moment that your group collectively cares about the person next to them instead of themselves. You can take an average team and win state.”

HOW IT AFFECTS PERFORMANCE State Champion teams are made by culture. It’s the secret ingredient of strong teams.

Pouliot said, “The best teams that I’ve coached have had a culture of selflessness and a love of each other,” And it’s because each win isn’t a personal achievement, it’s for the team.

“The teams that win at a high level. They don’t want to win for themselves,” Pouliot said.

“They actually want to win for their teammates, and so that their teammates get to have their experience,” said Pouliot.

Teams are able to achieve a higher level of performance through developing a stronger sense of culture, otherwise they can’t do as well when competing.

Johnston says, “You can have some of the most individually talented teams. But if they’re not able to develop that camaraderie or have the team culture and truly come together, it doesn’t allow them to play off each other’s strengths.”

Players that understand each other have a significant advantage when they have to cover for one another.

And what’s a better way to learn and bond with teammates?

Horn said, “We have to find new ways for everyone to work together, and the best way to do that is family.”

In the professional world, the sense and importance of culture and togetherness is even more important.

Pouliot says, “That’s how high level military forces are, some of those guys talk about how they’re less worried about themselves dying but more about the person next to them dying.”

“When you get to that level of commitment, the sky’s the limit,” said Pouliot.

HOW TO BUILD TEAM CULTURE

Home game against Silverton on March 24th, pictured left to right junior Aiden Metzker, senior Evan Bliss, senior Camden Cyrus, sophomore Drew Rice, junior Mason Linton, and senior Marcus Allen.

Building culture is no easy task.

“The most difficult obstacle every single year of every single team is finding that culture,”Johnston said.

Coaches can try to build culture on their teams, but it’s not something they can force.

“We [coaches] can introduce the idea, and we can stress how important it is,” Johnston said. “But the players are the ones who have to try to create that [culture] themselves.”

Creating culture is a delicate balance between creating opportunities for players to bond and the players themselves trying to form connections.

“It has to be deliberate. It has to be intentional, you have to try to create that [culture],” Johnston said “You have 15 different individuals coming from all different places with unique experiences.”

Personal differences between players can tend to cause friction.

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Pictured above (54) senior Antonio Diaz, (45) sophomore Austin Simmons (40) junior Brysen Kachel, (29) sophomore Kane Damon, and (1) senior Noah Reese.

SOME OF THOSE GUYS TALK

Which makes developing a culture and teamwork a lot more difficult.

Pouliot thought that building culture can be extra difficult for high school teams, as at that age people tend to be more focused on their personal image.

Horn said, “If I forced you to go

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hangout with that crew, you don’t want that... And then you’re going to turn around and notice every annoying thing they do and it annoys you more.”

Ultimately culture is an integral part of teams, but it’s no easy feat.

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An Athlete In the Making HOW SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY HELPS ATHLETES PERFORM

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ports Psychology can often be a crucial part of an athlete’s performance. Studies by doctors of the Midwest Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Franklin, Wisconsin show that an athlete’s mind plays a significant role in improving focus, building self-confidence, and setting and achieving goals. Sports physiologists are increasingly becoming more successful and active in schools and community centers improving athletic performance more than ever before.

Basketball and sports psychology teacher, Drew Halvorson, says, “[Oregon State] is hiring sports psychologists.

Will Massey is the sports psychologist there and he works with every single [sports] program.”

One of the biggest foundations to athletic performance is mental training, utilizing every aspect of an athlete’s brain to reach their full ability.

“Mental Training is the training of your brain to help put your body in a place where you can perform at an optimal level.

So your mind and your body are connected. If your brain says yes, I can do this, your body can do it. If your brain says no, I can’t do this.

Your body is not going to do it”, says Halvorson.

From a young age people are taught that negative mindsets and positive mindsets affect our performance on tests, school, work, and life in general. Mental Training is the exact same thing but specifically for sports, teaching your brain that if you can do it and achieve anything then you most likely will accomplish that goal, and vice-versa.

“What we’re doing is we’re creating a gateway where knowledge kind of flows easily from my brain to my body, and they’re in accordance with each other”, Halvorson said.

Nerves in your brain are interconnected to the rest of your body, having the ability to send down signals to make the mind and body one with each other. “When I’m performing an action, whether it’s shooting a basketball, kicking a soccer ball, my brain tells me hey, this muscle needs

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to contract, this foot needs to go here… It becomes what we call muscle memory”, says Halvorson.

Visualization is key to seeing who’s around you and where your goal is, as well as hearing calls and what the people around you are saying.

Perception plays a significant role in an athlete’s performance not just in the game but mostly in practice and warm-

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ing up when storing the knowledge of what needs to be done when the real game starts.

Mental training isn’t just taught to keep an athlete’s mind focused in a game, but also to prepare you for everything before and after, “It’s not only my performance, but it’s how I get ready to play, what I do after the game to get better…

Sports psychology trains pregame, during the game, and post game. It’s all facets of performance”, says Halvorson. The warmup for the body is similar to the warm-up for the mind, stretching your legs and arms is like stretching your mind and preparing yourself for focus and a positive attitude.

“What we do is we have a ping pong tournament after our unit, and during that ping pong tournament, other members of our class are going to be distracting you so you get a chance to learn about what kind of things can I do to not be distracted? Focusing on the urine now, breathing control, think visualizing things of that nature, and then you get a chance to practice them in a performance setting” Says Halvorson. Important units in the class include one on focus and one on distraction control, two very important factors in an athlete’s performance.

Fun activities including ping pong and more are vital in practicing your perception of the things going on around you and to get your head into the game so to speak.

“I will say in high school the kids who take my class learn to do things like focus, eliminate distractions, they have pregame routines that they build that make their body ready to play as well. And I’ve heard them tell me this is anecdotal evidence. This is my own experience,” Halvorson said.

“There are things that come on in the class that can help them like the crowd cheering loud or somebody cheering their name and they’re not focused or somebody’s saying something about them in the crowd. And they did a great job of focusing or using the tools they learned from class on how to eliminate that distraction,” says Halvorson.

Sports Psychology has affected students positively, helping them perform at a higher level than what they would usually play at knowing the basic knowledge.

Knowing how to block out distraction both visually and auditory has proven to help performance and is recommended to players seeking out colleges or higher level careers.

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Seniors Cale Buck (left) and Calin Cornell (right) DJ the winter formal dance held on January 21st . Buck and Cornell are known as the “DJ Dogs”, and spend hours setting up for dances.

HOW DJ’S MAKE THE CROWD DANCE

also says,“We come up with our own transitions to do between songs, beat matching or two songs that have a similar intro or rhythm to it.”

Aside from all of the hard pieces to DJ-ing, there are fun and rewarding parts too. hile most students are getting ready, going to dinner, and hanging out During the dance, students get to see people enjoying the work and effort of the DJ’s. with friends before school dances, seniors Cale Buck and Calin Cornell “One of the most rewarding parts is when [they] get to turn off the lights and see are spending around 30 hours setting up the stage, sound system, lights, everything all put together,” Buck said. speakers, and playlists for everyone to enjoy the dance. A lot of the work they do before “The most rewarding and relaxing part for Cornell is “the three their shows go unrecognized. hours of calm before you have to clean everything up.”

“People don’t realize being a DJ isn’t just hitting shuffle on In order to keep yourself going, some inspiration is relevant. the playlist and walking away,” Cornell said.

Buck had a former teacher, Carter Roser, to influence him. For CorTo him, being a DJ involves commitment, thinking, and time.

YOU HAVE TO FEEL OUT nell, he says his inspiration came from seeing other people have “You can’t be lazy,” Cornell said. “You have to have plenty THE CROWD. SOMETIMES fun doing it and thought he should try himself. of time to give to it because you’re going to be at the school late “He also enjoys “setting up and organizing things and that’s no matter what.”

THE SONG GOES WELL, about 90% of what it is.”

Picking out music can also be a struggle when trying to figure SOMETIMES IT DOESN’T Mr. Engel, the director of the school DJ’s, says he inherited his out what everyone will like. responsibility from a past assistant principal. He thought it would “People don’t understand how hard and stressful it is,” Cornell said. be a good fit for him because he likes music. Engel says we have students DJ instead of These two seniors put a lot of work and effort into making a fun dance for people paying for one because, “it’s a two for one, students get to transfer their skills from Mr. to enjoy.

Welsh into outside of school activities.”

One of the hardest parts about being a DJ is knowing when to make a transition.

Engel believes Cale and Calin will continue to DJ after high school, considering “they “You have to feel out the crowd,” Cornell said “Sometimes the song goes well, someare currently doing it at the skate rink at the YMCA.” times it doesn’t. If it doesn’t go well you gotta know when to switch it fast enough.” He

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- Yeah (Usher, Lil Jon) - Party In The U.S.A. (Miley Cyrus) - Low (Flo-Rida, T-Pain) - Hey yeah! (Outkast) - Dancing Queen (ABBA) - Fire Burning (Sean Kingston) 21

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HOW STUDENTS EXPRESS THEMSELVES THROUGH THEIR PERSONAL BELONGINGS

TO A STORY

By Marshall Hamel and Ming Wong

AVERY JANE ROMEY

KATE NICHOL

ELIZABETH MURPHEY

Junior Avery Jane Romey says that the turtle sticker on her laptop came with an order of her favorite harem pants. “I have three pairs and I wear them all the time and it came with one of my orders and I just love it,” Romey said. “I love turtles and I love the design on it.

It looks very artsy.” She says that while she’s a purist when it comes to her electronics, her water bottle is full of stickers. “There’s like some funny stickers on there,” she said.

“There’s also like stickers that have Bible verses that mean a lot to me and things that are more deeper in that way.”

Junior Kate Nichol chooses to display stickers which represent specific memories in her life . “It’s like a little souvenir,” Nichol said, “like when me and my family went hiking, or when I went camping with my friends.” To Nichol, stickers act as a perfect memento that serve as reminders of special times, while dually allowing for self-expression. “Some of them are just what I love to do or what I love in general. So like, I have some Mulan stickers, a couple of outerspace and then more of camping on the coast and stuff.”

Senior Elizabeth Murphey says that all her stickers represent something to her. “A lot of people just go like, ‘oh, I really like this sticker,’ but all of mine have some type of meaning stuck to me,” Murphey said. For her, she gravitates towards stickers of places she has been. “I get shirts from different places that I’ve traveled to and so I do that a lot with stickers because if I’m somewhere I’ve never been before or somewhere that I always go to,” she said. “I have a lot of surfing stickers on my car because it shows me and my hobbies and the places I’ve been.”

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EASY AND QUICK RECIPES FOR BEGINNERS

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CREAMY GARLIC PASTA ½ pound pasta of your choice, ¾ cup cream cheese, ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1-2 tbsp minced garlic, ½ cup water, salt and pepper to taste, chili flakes (optional) 1. In a large pot of boiling water, cook pasta according to the package. Before draining, save 1/2 cup of the pasta water 2. Meanwhile in a large skillet add olive oil and garlic, cook on medium low for 2-3 minus until golden brown 3. Stir cream cheese in with pasta water until smooth, and add to the skillet. Turn off heat and Add parmesan cheese 4. Add pasta to the skillet and stir until evenly coated.

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ooking can be a fun and rewarding hobby. It’s a great way to learn new skills, experiment with flavors, and impress your friends and family. Everyone loves a good, home cooked meal, but it’s hard to know what to do when you’re first starting out.

Here are some tips, gathered with the help of Dolly Victorine and some of our West Albany Bistro students on how to get started cooking.

Start with simple recipes: When first starting out, it’s best to stick with simple recipes that don’t require a lot of ingredients or complicated techniques. Look for recipes that have a small amount of ingredients and can be made quickly.

5 cups milk 1 lb elbow macaroni, dry 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese 1. In a large pot, bring the milk to a boil.

2.Add the pasta and stir constantly until the pasta is cooked, about 10 minutes.

3. Turn off the heat, then add the cheddar. Stir until the cheese is melted and the pasta is evenly coated.

4. Enjoy!

MINI QUICHES 6 slices bacon, chopped 1 onion, chopped 5 eggs, beaten ½ cup Bisquick 1 tbsp chopped green onion 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1.Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease 2 mini muffin pans.

2.Fry up the bacon until crisp, if using slices of bacon.

3.Drain, crumble, or dice, and set aside.

4.Beat the eggs. Mix in all ingredients, then spoon in greased muffin pans (fill cups to the top).

5.Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the tops are slightly browned. Allow quiches to cool before removing from the pan with a small knife or spatula.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Use fresh ingredients: Fresh ingredients will give your dishes more flavor!Look for seasonal produce or grow your own herbs and vegetables. Fresh ingredients will overall lead to a healthier, better tasting meal.

Get creative with your leftovers: Don’t let your leftover food go to waste! You can use them to make new dishes, or add them to soups, salads and sandwiches.

Cook with friends: Cooking with friends can be a fun way to learn new recipes, and can help motivate beginners to not give up when first starting. It can be difficult to stick to something hard like cooking, but having someone to do it with can be a great source of motivation, and add a little fun to your cooking experience.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes: Cooking is all about trial and error, and nobody is perfect when they first start off.

Don’t be afraid to learn from your mistakes or try new things.

1 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of sugar, and 1 egg.

1.Preheat the oven to 350°F, and place a sheet of parchment on a baking sheet.

2. In a medium bowl, mix together the peanut butter, egg, and granulated sugar.

3. Roll into 1-inch balls and place on a prepared baking sheet. Flatten each ball with the back of a fork making a criss-cross pattern.

4. Bake for 12 minutes. Cool on a baking sheet for a couple of minutes before transferring to a wire rack.

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Signature Sound

WHAT ARE STUDENTS CURRENTLY LISTENING TO? Story and photos by Yesenia Rosas

SIGNATURE SOUND: PARTYNEXTDOOR BY PARTYNEXTDOOR FAVORITE SONGS: BREAK FROM TORONTO “I associate the album with winter where it’s not snowing but the snow that falls but doesn’t stick.”

Freshman Aileen Alvarado

SIGNATURE ALBUM: HEROES AND VILLAINS BY METRO BOOMIN “When I’m feeling like a lover boy or in moments of disparity I’ll listen to creeping but if I’m feeling dangerous and deadly or ready for competition I will listen to something like Superhero.”

Freshman Jake Ly

SIGNATURE ALBUM: TAKE ME HOME BY ONE DIRECTION FAVORITE SONGS: MAGIC AND I WOULD “I associate this album with Summer, my sister, my 1D friends and my childhood.”

Sophomore Brianna Williams

SIGNATURE ALBUM: AT LONG LAST ASAP BY ASAP ROCKY FAVORITE SONG: EVERYDAY (FT ROD STEWART) “It’s very versatile, it has rap , R&B and hip hop. It has a mixture to it and that’s why I like it.”

Freshman Santana Lazada

SIGNATURE ALBUM: FORWARD / SLASH BY LEANNA FIRESTONE “It’s really relatable for me it’s an understanding that life is going to be okay.”

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DAISY JONES AND THE SIX ALBUM

Aurora 3:25 Let Me Down Easy 3:24 Kill You To Try 5:12 Two Against Three 3:52 Honeycomb 5:32 Regret Me 3:16 You Were Gone 4:16 More Fun To Miss 2:52 Please 3:24 The River 4:54 No Words 4:16

Taylor Jenkins Reid recruited Blake Mills to help write and produce the released album ‘AURORA’ Daisy (Riley Keough) and “The Six” started playing together to make music from the book. They made their first single “Honeycomb,” which is on Spotify with 13 million streams.

This album is the definition of passion. Each voice that you hear is filled with fire and you can feel the chemistry between the singers. Sam Claflin (Billy) and Keough, who are the lead vocalists of the band, they didn’t even have proper training in music before taking on the role, but they sing effortlessly.

Keough had to take vocal lessons to reach the rasp Daisy Jones is known for. Keough and Claflin have voices that complement each other.

The voice of Daisy is dark. The voice of Billy is soothing, and it is clear that he wants to right his wrongdoings.

The push and pull make this an outstanding album.

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grim, broody, and unhinged book written

by Taylor Jenkins Reid has hit every box office, has a TV adaptation, and an album.

It brings a suitcase of emotions to the plate, and it’s worth unpacking. The book is written like a documentary, full of interviews to give the reader a deeper impression of the characters. Her use of interviews reveals the dark moments where drugs take advantage of even the best people. The music industry was a brutal world in 1977, and Reid didn’t miss a single detail.

Jenkins Reid brings her characters to life, specifically Daisy Jones. She’s described as a maniac. But she had ideals and a voice and didn’t want to be an inspiration for someone; she wanted to be her own person. She couldn’t wait to leave her family, so at a young age, she left home and tried to find her voice. She had nothing out yet, but a label recognized her talent and asked her to add color to a band that couldn’t help but be beige.

Brothers Billy and Graham Dunne created a band called The Dunne [pronounced ‘done’] Brothers. They were already a band when they were in their late teens. But after a while, they realized that a small band wasn’t going to cut it.

That’s when they met Karen Sirko, a killer of keys and hearts. After Karen had started to play for the band, she didn’t think the name “Dunne Brothers” was fitting. That’s when the name “The Six” was born. I think the name of the band is a little bland but at the same time, it adds a little mystery.

It sounds like a hit band, and it’s catchy In the book, Daisy was asked to make more music with The Six, which created a “push and

How to Ruin Rock N’ Roll REVIEWING ALL THREE FORMS OF ‘DAISY JONES AND THE SIX’ Story By Kayla Stefan Images from Taylor Jenkins Reid and Prime Video

pull” effect in the band because Billy hated the idea of Daisy being part of the band, if Daisy was going to be making music she wanted some of her songs on the upcoming album. The pull between Daisy and Billy was outstanding. Daisy would make a song that spoke directly to Billy and had so many hidden meanings, and Billy would tear the songs to shreds to have a conversation back with Daisy. Jenkins Reid made sure that Daisy and Billy were constantly trying to make the room feel tense. It was key that the emotion was visible. Even as a reader, I could feel it, and watching it on the screen was intense.

However, in the show, I felt like some of the characters changed. Daisy Jones in the book was reckless and never reliable, but in the show, there wasn’t as much representation of it. Daisy (Riley Keough) was crazy and outgoing, but it almost seemed like she was numb and oblivious to her actions in the show. I had such a big vision of Daisy and for her to be dulled in the show is

heartbreaking.

It threw me for a loop for sure.

Billy Dunne, played by Sam Claflin in Karen is naturally a very private person the show, experienced extreme hardships throughout both the book and the show. She with his wife and kids in the book; it was wanted to keep things to herself, but I do constantly brought up and used against appreciate that the show included a better him. While watching the show, those key bond between Karen and Camila. Camila character traits seemed almost overlooked. is married to Billy Dunne and she is very Instead of being used against him, the othloyal and forgoing, but she isn’t forgetful. ers ignored his struggles and disrespected She remembers all the mistakes Billy has him when he needed help. I hated how the made but understands and knows that they characters were so ignorant and self-abare worth the fight. sorbed.

In the book Camila is almost too underCharacter Eddie Roundtree, standing, she has few moments the bassist in the band, had of rage when it should be Year of some conflicted thoughts and constant. While in the show she brutal arguments with Billy had more of a temper, which in Dunne. Eddie felt overlooked, my opinion is more realistic. I and in all honesty he was. Billy never wouldn’t expect a calm and collected reactook into account anyone else’s opinion tion from someone when you just betrayed besides his own. In the book, it was brought them. up every single time the point of view The show and book have almost exact switched to Eddie’s. It was impossible to scenes and moments laid out, but at times miss that Eddie wanted out of the band, yet the characters were either too much or too at times in the show it would seem as if the little. The actors played their parts beautichoices that were made with Eddie were fully, but that doesn’t stop me from asking, more of Billy’s doing. Eddie expresses his “Could there have been more?” All three hate towards Billy in the book, but in the forms of Daisy Jones and The Six were show, Billy is the one yelling and fighting. phenomenal.

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“I was surprised to see how sharp the knife actually was,” said one buyer on Etsy.

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This pepper spray is popular, but well-deserving! As a brand, Sabre designs and manufactures every type of personal safety tool imaginable, but their pepper spray is far and away the most popular. As the number one trusted pepper spray brand trusted by police and consumers, (sabrered.com), the peace of mind that comes with this pepper spray is invaluable!

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What is feminism? Perspectives

from all views.

Story, photo and illustrations by Emi Ludlow

“Feminism, when it’s applied correctly, is really cool.

It is definitely something that I think that sometimes we’re lacking”. -Sophmore Noah Mortensen

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eminism. The concept is something that no one can quite describe. Sophomore Symeon Braman defines it as “Advocating for women’s rights and equality”, but isn’t it more?

There are many feminists in the world, from the women who marched in the 19th century advocating for the right to vote, to anti-rape chants. Commonly, people confuse feminists as only women when truly they are of all genders.

In its purest form, feminism is for everyone. It’s a concept that can be so personal, yet also very communal. It is meant to better the world.

Unfortunately, it’s often hidden by people who take it past what it is meant to be. The realm of hating men. For example the book ‘I hate men’ written

by Pauline Harmange, was written to let the prejudice against women be heard through a different voice.

From this book a toxic thinking that all men should die appeared throughout social media, instagram users titles hateful titles such as i hate men, and we hate men appear and say that men are the root of all problems, and so on.

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“Everyone says it’s not about making one higher than the other, it’s about making it equal that makes some people uncomfortable but that is a good thing” Sophmore Ethan Leffler “Some things just cannot wait. Men must stand up now for women’s equality.” Rick Goings

“All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights, the world will be a better place”-John Legend This is not feminism, but instead a hate crime against many people that support feminism.

The real enemy is misogyny, which is a dislike or prejudice against women. Something that brought the need for feminism in the first place. There is no one phrase that can describe something so vast, so next time you think of feminism, just remember; it’s more than you think.

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“Misogyny is a cage for everyone—as long as women aren’t free, men won’t be, either.”-Noah Berlatsky

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2013 Malala Yousafzai’s education

2006 Gulabi Gang

1911 International Women’s day began

1993 Declaration of Elimination of violence against Women

1926 Aba’s Women Riot

1960 Mirabal sisters fighting for equality

FRESHMAN IZABEL VIDRIO

“Compliments feel better coming from girls because it’s more meaningful. They understand the time and effort it takes to get ready...I get complimented by girls quite frequently and it makes me feel good about myself.”

FRESHMAN MYA REED

“I get complimented by girls a few times a week, sometimes they’re silly little compliments but they still mean quite a lot.

I’ve been catcalled before and it made me want to cover up, I felt gross. Compliments from guys don’t really feel like compliments, it always feels fake and like they’re joking around.”

FRESHMAN JADE FEE

“I feel like when girls compliment you it’s genuine. She means it and gets how hard you work on your appearance. But when a guy does it, it feels flirty and not sincere. I’ve been catcalled before. I was walking with a group of my friends to a restaurant and there was a group of guys that looked like they were in their 20’s. They kept whistling at us and I’m pretty sure one even barked.”

1946 Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech “To the Women of the World”

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atcalling has been a part of society for many years, but that doesn’t make it acceptable. It’s considered rude because it objectifies and sexualizes strangers, without any regard for equality or value outside of physical appearances. People often mistakenly equate catcalling with flirting, but the two are quite different.

Flirting is a balanced exchange that implies an element of playfulness, while catcalling is done with the intention to degrade and control. Flirting typically occurs in a one-on-one situation, while catcalling is often done by a group of men towards a single woman.

Catcalling is not flirting, nor is it an appropriate way to show appreciation or admiration for someone. It is not okay to tolerate any form of sexual assault, from inappropriate comments, to stalking, to rape.

If we confront the lesser forms of sexual violence, as well as the reasons why these acts occur, we can make a big difference in reducing gender violence in our society. Catcalling is a huge reason why compliments from men can often make girls and women feel uncomfortable.

Complimenting people without sexualizing anyone is easy, theres just a few rules to it: Be unique and sincere. Make sure you mean the compliment and are aware of how they might feel. Make sure your compliment isnt backhanded. Don’t just compliment their physical appearance, this can make them feel like the only thing you notice about them is their body and not the more important things like how their mind works or their personality.

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Freshmen Izabel Vidrio (left), Jade Fee (middle), Mya Reed (right) Photo used with permission of Izabel Vidrio

Hottest compliments that don’t sexualize anyone!

You bring out the best in me I love talking to you You have such and interesting mind You light up every room you walk into You are perfect the way you are I love your style Your smile makes my day You make me feel whole again You look great today I feel safe with you I’m so happy you’re in my life!

You have a kind heart You’re more fun than bubble wrap You’re such a go getter I love how you...

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The history, meanings, and impacts of various derogatory words aimed at women and how they should be used today

By Gigi Roldan

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In a high schoolers’ life they will hear vari- men or by little boys, especially in the gym,” ous kinds of curse words. They can be used they said. to express anger, excitement, disappointment, They can also be used to attempt and show pain, and so much more, all depending on the dominance over women. “Sometimes it’s just context and tone of the conversation. by someone who’s trying to exert power over Curse words often will range from de- someone, like a significant other,” Mayer said. scribing an action that is usually perceived as Based on the ways these words have been indecent, calling somebody a horrible person, used to hurt and shame, should they be conor literally meaning something like feces. But sidered as slurs, or as something else? one meaning is often repeated throughout all “I think slurs are a little silly in general of these words, centering down to one group: because it just gives more power to the word,” degrading and shaming women.

Fisk said. “But to not call it a slur gives more There are many words and phrases that power to the people. I would rather give the specifically have roots in looking down upon word more power than the people.” women. Various words focus on dehumanizMayer feels that the word doesn’t need to ing, sexualizing, and shaming women in var- be labeled as a slur; instead, she feels people ious ways. should consider what they are saying before “I obviously have experience with be- they do say it. “I don’t think that people should ing called [b-word], especially by men to use be saying [slurs] as frequently as they do, and it against women,” junior Noel Mayer said. I don’t think it should be used against some“I’ve also seen it being used against family one,” Mayer said. “People should think more members… like my mom or my aunt, they’ve about what they’re saying.” both been called the [b-word] in a derogatory Although many of these words are assoway.” ciated with a negative tone, many women and Even though these words’ meanings have feminine presenting people have reclaimed changed over time, they are still used in a them, to become a playful or endearing methsimilar way: to demean and look down on od of addressing friends. “I think it’s hilarious women. Even if the person doesn’t identify to call my friends some of the different words. as a woman, these derogatory words are still It’s just a fun way to make these words my thrown at people who look feminine, or even own,” said Junior Lucy Rouse. to shame masculine people.

These words have ingrained themselves “I dress the way I dress, so a lot of the into the English vocabulary, and it is near imtime slurs are thrown at me. I get called the possible to get rid of them. However, we can s-slur for women a lot,” junior Maeryn Fisk educate ourselves on the meanings behind said. Fisk often dresses up in a goth clothing them and realize the harmful effects they have style, causing them to receive a lot of unwant- had on others, and in turn, hopefully stop the ed negative attention. derogatory use of these words.

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WHAT IS THE ‘MALE GAZE’?

Story and illustration by Mika Winder

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hen asked about movies with the best female characters, freshman Ashley Mitchell had an immediate answer.

“My mind goes to the new[est] Little Women movie, the 2019 version by Greta Gerwig. The characters in it are great for representation.

There’s so many female characters and they have such diverse personalities.”

This movie is one of many that have been released in the past few years that received positive reviews from its female audience about its characters. What makes these movies more appealing? Sometimes, the answer lies with the concept of the ‘male gaze’.

For many people, the idea of the ‘male gaze’ is nothing more than a buzzword used to vilify any film or filmmaker that doesn’t create an accurate depiction of the feminine experience. But what is the male gaze in reality? It doesn’t just mean a man looking at a woman.

The male gaze is defined by the Oxford Dictionary of Media and Communication as “a manner of treating women’s bodies as objects to be surveyed, which is associated by feminists with hegemonic (dominant) masculinity, both in everyday social interaction and in relation to their representation in visual media.”

In popular culture, it is a manner of viewing women in films, videos, and images that empowers the viewer (the titular male) while placing the woman in a weakened or sexualized position. It views the woman as an object that exists only for the viewer’s satisfaction.

‘Little Women’ and similar films have been praised for avoiding the male gaze and other similar concepts, but other films are not so lucky.

Senior Ky Barksdale believes that the difference between a sexual woman and a sexualized woman is whether or not it is on her own terms.

“With Margot Robbie, for example, when she was playing Harley Quinn, the producers and directors wanted her to wear super-duper tiny shorts. She didn’t want to wear them… and that’s when I feel like [it’s detrimental], because she wasn’t comfortable and it just sexualized her.”

Despite all this, the male gaze can be easily avoided if precautions are taken in the film-making process. Junior Olivia Kottre believes that making sure women are on the writing board and production team is a simple way to avoid creating unrealistic female characters.

“When we have film and media that is for women, usually produced by women or someone who doesn’t think women are inferior, I feel like that is very empowering. When it is obvious that… she is in control and has made that choice for herself, I think that shows confidence and that is something that I am a fan of.”

She finds it can also be enlightening to examine one’s biases and consider the media you consume in a critical light.

Junior Sam Howard has a unique take. “As someone who is perceived as a man, I always have to look at it from an outside perspective. [Sexualization of women] is especially sad when you see the result of these standards in day-to-day life, in how women exist in a near-constant state of fear and how men are emotionally isolated and perpetrate misogyny and views that lead to rape and sexual assault so frequently.”

In a study by the American Psychological Association Task Force, it was discovered that the repeated viewing of content that contains sexualization of women can lead to increased depression and anxiety in young girls. This can become dangerous over time, since the CDC recently reported that suicide rates among teenage girls is seeing an unprecedented increase.

So what helps certain films avoid this? Mitchell believes that diversity of characters is the key.

“If you can include multiple female characters, it can avoid stereotypes and misrepresentations. I’d also like to see positive representations and more female friendships.”

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