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Page 16Young women are ironing out the leadership gap in key areas of today’s society

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The men’s track team attempts to capture its third consecutive MIC title.

The Boston Marathon bombings leave runners here rethinking their safety during events such as theIndy Half Marathon on May 4.

Buying American-made products is a recent shopping trend that numerous consumers around the U.S. now practice.

Female students at CHS are mirroring today’s advances to bridge the gender gap in leadership roles.

Girl Power

Premiering on May 16 is this year’s spring musical,“Tarzan.”

PERSPECTIVES

Senior art students at CHS showcase their portfolios and explain what inspires them 14

Managing editor Ryan Zukerman evaluates Suzy Lee Weiss’s satire of the current state of college admissions 30

Reporter Lindsey Walker explains the health and lifestyle benefits of a vegan diet 29

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Junior Hunter Hodge plays rugby as a club sport in the fall and spring 32

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OffbeatProm is May 4 at the Fountains. If you plan to attend but can’t dance, don’t fret. We’ve got you covered with the coolest, smoothest and most foolproof moves.

The ToprockDifficulty:Creativity: Since the breakdancing circle is all but inevitable, brush up on your basics and bust out this simple move. Also the favorite of many in Hip Hop club.

The 1/X2

Difficulty:Creativity: Make your calculus teacher proud with this groovy function. Simply extend your arms and wiggle.

Row the BoatDifficulty:Creativity: This five-star move will make you right at home in a dance hall but requires some serious confidence to pull off. To execute, make a rowing motion with your arms in front of you, then jump, swivel and row on your opposite side.

Shim ShamDifficulty:Creativity: This move, which involves a serious shaking of your shoulders, originated in the world of 1930s tap dance. However, it is always in style.

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Photos accompanying the March 22 story “CCS searches for new superintendent” had an incorrect caption. The photos actually depicted community members sharing thoughts during a forum and a Creekside Middle School employee speaking with the meeting leader.

In the news briefs box, it stated, “The Carmel Mayor’s Youth Council will meet on April 19 to discuss High School Night.” This is incorrect; High School Night was scheduled to occur on April 19.

The HiLite strives to correct its errors. If you notice any inaccuracies in this or past issues, please contact [email protected].

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ALTERNATIVES

For those who are claustrophobes, have been rejected or just don’t enjoy uncomfortable formal clothes and sweaty dancing, the HiLite provides a few alternatives to prom.

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Guys could buy an XBox 360 with the money they spend on prom.

Girls, on the other hand could buy half of a front-row One Direction concert ticket.

Need a (better) phone? The iPhone 5 is currently priced at $199 with next-day shipping.

You could watch two or even three movies. Recommendation: Jurassic Park 3D.

Laser tag. Terrible music: Prom? Check. Laser tag? Only the sweet, sweet sound of phasers.

Studying for AP. AP Chemistry and AP Environmental Science exams are at 8 a.m. on May 6? You only have a day left to cram after prom!

Hiking. Crowds are so overrated nowadays, anyway. Go for a late-night hike and enjoy nature.

Anti-prom. Who says you can’t party without prom? Get dressed up and spend the night with your friends elsewhere.

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1. Think ahead when picking a dress. If possible, borrow a dress from someone you know first, or

buy one that can be worn for future formals.

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2. Take time to compare prices of several tuxes. Shop around before you decide to get

fitted, and make sure that the shop will provide all of the necessary accessories, too!

4. Renting a Limo. Be prepared for the bill: Most limos have a four-hour minimum and require a tip, making the total bill around $450. Split the cost among (all 57.5 of) the people you have tried to squeeze into the vehicle.

3. Order flowers early. Talk with your partner a week or two beforehand and try to choose something simple, such as carnations. Don’t procrastinate on this: it’s not your homework.

Still going? Here are a few tips as to how to cut the cost.

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Girls spend about $203 on the

perfect dress, going to 8 stores and

trying out 22 dresses on average.

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a tuxedo, $50 on shoes and

accessories, as well as $24 on their

partner’s corsage.

Renting a limousine costs about

$450 for 4 hours.

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spending about $1078 in 2012,

a 33.6 percent increase from

2011’s average of $807.Parents in the Midwest said that they

planned on spending $696 in 2012.

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April 26Rotary Interact Club members will help special needs kids at the Monon Center by volunteering at “Teen Night Out” on April 26. They will be helping with games and other fun activities.

May 15 to 19The performing arts department will perform Tarzan starting from May 15 to 19. Performances will be around two and a half hours, and tickets range from $8 to $18.

April 28Best Buddies will participate in the Friendship Walk on April 28 at White River State Park Canal in Indianapolis. Registration is free and open for the public on the Best Buddies Indiana website.

April 27Members of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of American (FCCLA) are volunteering at a 5K walk on April 27. The volunteering is part of FCCLA’s Helping Hand programs.

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APE MAN: The cast of Tarzan! rehearses on April 19. The cast will be ready for the opening night of their show on May 15.

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As a result of the changes to the Homecoming dance last fall such as the lights being turned on, rumors have circulated that these changes would also be implemented at prom.

According to prom sponsor Maureen Borto, however, some of these rumors are false, while some are in fact true.

The rumor causing the greatest concern among students was that the lights would be on. However, Borto said the lights will be the same as they have been at past proms.

Of the rumor regarding the theme, Borto confirmed that there will be no theme for prom this year.

“The theme would really only be on the tickets,” Borto said. “Most people would forget the theme by the time of the dance.”

Senior Elizabeth “Liz” Palmer said she isn’t upset that there is no theme this year.

“I didn’t really see a theme (last year),” Palmer said. “It didn’t really affect me.”

The budget for prom this year is also smaller than it has been in past years. According to Borto, the prom budget is based on how much money the Junior and Senior Classes made from magazine sales during their freshman year. The current Junior Class and Senior Class made less profit in their fundraisers than past classes.

Borto added that a major change to prom will be in the schedule.

According to Borto, the dance will run from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. this year as opposed to running until midnight last year. Similarly, post-prom will take place from 11:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. instead of taking place from midnight to 3 a.m. This school made the changes in order to match student attendance patterns.

“Time was changed based on post-prom as most students would leave around 2 (a.m.), ” Borto said.

Another change implemented at Homecoming was an increase in the number of supervisors and parents on the floor.

According to Borto, however, most chaperones at prom, as they have been in past years, will be school officials.

“At prom we have mainly teacher (or) administrator chaperones because it is a school-

Yeah, I think so because they both have the same vibe, I think the lights will be on, but I hope they aren’t.

Senior Cradeja Clary

I don’t think so because it is for the upper classmen, so it will be more mature.

Sophomore Aaron Ibey

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sponsored and organized event, (but) Homecoming is PTO run,” Borto said.

Additionally, there will be a new DJ at prom. As last year a senior played the music, professional DJ Mike White will select the music this year. The music will be censored according to radio censorship rules.

Because of these changes, some students, such as Palmer, have been hesitant about attending prom.

“People will definitely evaluate their decisions (on) going or not because prom is so expensive, and if it’s anything like Homecoming and its changes, then it won’t be worth the large amount of money for prom tickets for a lot of people,” Palmer said.

However, senior Sarah Wilbur said she will still attend prom because it is a different experience.

“I went to prom last year too and it was a lot of fun,” Wilbur said. “I haven’t been to Homecoming since like sophomore year since it’s not that fun anymore, but the people I went with to prom made (prom) better.”

Prom will take place on May 4 at the Fountains. Tickets went on sale Monday for $35 and can be purchased until May 3. Students will need their school IDs to purchase tickets and attend the dance. They cannot buy tickets at the door.

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Prom rumors: lights, theme, time

Yesterday members of the TechHOUNDS traveled to St. Louis to compete with their robot, Flick, in the FIRST Robotics World Championships. The competition will continue through tomorrow.

According to team leader George Giltner, the team expects to do well because the team won first place in the

With two regional wins, TechHOUNDS eye championshipPurdue Boilermaker Regional and the Rose Hulman Crossroads Regional.

According to team member and senior Stephen Thompson, the team ranked sixth, 10th and 15th in the three different robotics ranking systems.

“We have never been this high ranked in the past,” Thompson said. “So that kind of puts a target on our back for people looking out for us and wanting to play defense on us more strongly than they normally would,”

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The TechHOUNDS will be in the “Archimedes” division of the competition.

“The teams are divided up like a NCAA bracket,” Thompson said. “They try to divide the most even competition possible. Since there is no real even ranking system, rookie teams will also be in the same division as the top tiered hall of fame teams. They try to avoid having one big powerhouse division.”

Giltner said the team’s division

placement can play a pivotal role in its advancement through the competition.

“If there aren’t many good robots in our division, we may be paired up with a team that doesn’t do very well and have to go against teams later in another bracket who do perform well.”

“We’ve obviously been lucky. But lucky isn’t as good as good,” Thompson said. “So we are expecting to do a lot better than in years past, but it’s really all up in the air.”

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Lessons from BostonCarmel runners continue marathons despite close encounters, expect more securityBY LINDSEY [email protected]

On April 15 at approximately 2:50 p.m. two crude bombs made from pressure cookers filled with nails, ball bearings and other sharp objects detonated near the finish line of the 117th annual Boston Marathon. At press time, three were killed and over 170 were injured, many resulting in amputations. The news of the blood-spattered scene akin to a battlefield sent shockwaves across the United States and around the world. For senior Cecilia Bouaichi, the attacks hit close to home.

Bouaichi and her family were relaxing in the lobby of their hotel in Boston after her dad had finished the marathon just over an hour earlier when her sister, senior Kelsey Bouaichi, noticed a group of people was forming around the television.

“We walked over to see what everyone was looking at and we saw on the screen that there had been explosions,” Bouaichi said. “At first I just couldn’t believe it but then I thought maybe it wasn’t as big of a deal as it ended up being. I didn’t think it had actually affected anyone at first.”

It wasn’t until Bouaichi saw a photo online of the site where the second bomb went off that she realized just how truly lucky she had been.

“(While waiting for my dad to finish) I went further down from the finish line to try to find an open area and I called (my sister) Kelsey, and said ‘Okay, I’m right behind this mailbox and the store behind me is called Forum.’

“Then when I saw where the bomb was, like, literally I could see the restaurant and the bomb was placed next to that mailbox… it was literally the exact same area; we were a foot or two away from it. If it had gone off just a little earlier, I don’t even want to imagine what would have happened,” Bouaichi said.

However, Bouaichi isn’t the only one who happened to luck out on escaping the deadly blasts. Carmel resident Sandy Moreira has run the Boston Marathon with her husband for the past three years but decided against it this year.

“We had done it so many years we thought we’d just stay home this year. But (if we had been there) we would have been, like, right there (when the bombs went off). We usually run about a 3:30 to 3:35 marathon, and this year we would have been running in the third wave

which starts 40 minutes after the first runners start, so that would have put us (in the area) right within minutes of the bombs going off… Watching the footage, it seemed unreal. I was horrified,” Moreira said.

The suspects for the bombings are Chechen natives Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerian Tsarnaev, who are brothers. Tamerian died in the early hours of April 19 following a shootout with the police and Dzhokhar was taken into custody that evening after sustaining two bullet wounds which left him in “serious condition.” One police officer was

killed and another was seriously injured in the process of apprehending the suspects.

While the Boston Marathon is the oldest annual marathon in the world, the United States’ largest half-marathon is the Indy 500 Mini-Marathon which is scheduled to take place on May 4, less than three weeks after the bombings. According to The Indianapolis Star, race officials began reviewing their current plans and will be beefing up security for

the 37th annual event. Despite Bouaichi’s recent brush with fate, she said she and

her family still plan to run the race.“My whole family does (the Mini-Marathon) every year.

I’ve done it for eight years and my dad’s done it for even longer than that, so it’s such a big thing in our family. I don’t want to

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give that up,” Bouaichi said. “I definitely think there’ll be a lot more security and there might be less spectators. But mostly I bet the cheering will be a lot more to try to keep morale high and to not let it get everyone down.”

Although Moreira will not be competing in the Mini-Marathon, she too said the incident will not end her running career.

“I think we’ll still (compete in more races), but I think we’ll be nervous the first couple of times that we do it,” Moreira said. “We’re planning on running the Marine Corps Marathon in D.C. in October and...because it is in D.C., until we know more about what happened and who was behind this, I think I’ll be nervous about it.”

The day after the attacks, the Boston Athletic Association released a statement on its website, sending condolences to all those affected but promising “resilience and strength” and to keep the tradition going with the 118th annual Boston Marathon next year.

“The biggest tragedy of all this is that when you’re at a marathon you feel that sense that everybody there is achieving something incredible,” Moreira said. “(It’s) hard to think that somebody tainted that. It’s just an appalling tragedy.”

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SAFE AND SOUND: Police surround the Carmel Marathon on April 20. Senior Cecilia Bouaichi, who was at the location of the bombs minutes before the explosions, said she expects more security at future marathons such as the May 4 Indy 500 Festival Mini-Marathon.

Carmel Clay Schools added a fifth phase to their superintendent search in which they will make final reviews of the candidates. Read more on the story online at hilite.org for the most recent details.

According to Indianapolis Public Safety Director Troy Riggs, the Indy 500 Festival Mini-Marathon plans to increase security for the event. However, details of the plan will not be revealed in order to not give away locations of security points.

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Saucedo’s Swan SongRichard Saucedo to retire, Mike Pote selected for new director of bands

At the end of this semester, Richard Saucedo, Director of Bands and performing arts department co-chairperson will retire after teaching at this school for 30 years. Mike Pote, associate Director of Bands and performing arts teacher, will be Director of Bands next year. Despite departure from this school, Saucedo said his musical career is far from over.

“I don’t really feel like I’m retiring,” he said. “I feel like I’m just starting the next segment of my life. I have some neat opportunities that have come my way, and I just feel like it’s probably time for me to move on and try some different things.”

According to Saucedo, his future career includes composing music, judging band competitions and serving as an educational consultant. In addition, he said he will conduct clinics for band directors to promote music education.

“Probably the neatest thing I’ll be doing is that I’ve been asked by a couple schools to kind of be a mentor director for them,” Saucedo said.

Kenzie Gerber, band member and senior, said Saucedo’s departure is bittersweet because students will miss his presence, but they also know he will be pursuing his dreams.

“We’ll miss him for everything he’s done for us,” Gerber said. “You know that he believes in you even from the very start, and

even if you go and you mess up everything, he’s going to tell you, ‘I believe in you, I know that you can do this, just keep working at it.’ He really connects with all of his students, and I think that’s what’s really great about Mr. Saucedo.”

In spite of the legacy Saucedo helped create for this school, Gerber said she thinks the band program under Pote will continue to be phenomenal.

“I think he’s going to keep creating this culture of excellence that we’ve always been taught,” she said.

According to Pote, the selection process for director of bands was a nationwide search with a three-round interview process.

“There were two sit-down interviews and one conducting interview where each candidate worked with one of the bands here for a certain amount of time,” he said.

Pote said he feels prepared for his ascension to director of bands due to the many years of experience he has accumulated here. Also, he said there will not be any radical changes next year because all the members of the band program have helped develop the personality of the band through the years.

“We’re going to probably look at making some changes in who teaches what on a daily basis,” he said. “There will be subtle changes, but for the most part, the overall concepts will be the same.”

Saucedo said he has learned a lot in the past 30 years, but he will best remember rehearsals where everything was

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A LAST DUET: Mike Pote, associate Director of Bands, watches while Richard Saucedo, Director of Bands, plays the piano. Saucedo plans to retire at the end of the semester, Pote will take his place.

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really working and coming together.“There was this energy and excitement I’ve never felt

anywhere else, or in anything else that I’ve done in my life,” Saucedo said.

Gerber said, “He’s a really incredible person. His impact on the school is so profound that I don’t think we even realize or recognize how great it is.”

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Several AP Exams will have new sections, cover new requirements and sections

Exams using new AP curricula to begin in May

As AP exam season begins on May 6, many students will prepare by taking previously released AP exams and by asking their older friends who have already battled the exam for advice on the test.

For senior Rose Thompson, though, this is not a possibility as she prepares for the AP Biology exam. Last year, College Board released a renovated curriculum and exam for AP Biology, AP Latin and AP Spanish Literature that was implemented at the start of the school year. Students enrolled in these courses will serve as “guinea pigs” for the College Board’s plan to eventually rewrite the curriculum and exam for all AP courses.

According to a 2012 U.S. News & World Report article, titled “High School Students Need to Think, Not Memorize,” the goal behind these changes is to better equip high school students for the ever-changing difficulties of college and a competitive world economy. The overall foundation behind these changes is to emphasize “analytical skills, a deeper understanding of key concepts and applied knowledge rather than a simple recall of facts.”

For Thompson, these curriculum changes have positively influenced her AP Biology course by narrowing the focus throughout each chapter.

“We definitely learn a lot more about specific subjects, and it’s really challenging, but I think it’ll help in the long run. I mean we get more knowledge, and it feels good

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Freshman becomes youngest to qualify for science fair

On April 6, freshman Kamna Gupta became the youngest student in Indiana to qualify for the National level of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix from May 12 to 17.

“I feel really excited and nervous and just amazed...This opportunity doesn’t come to very many freshmen at all,” Gupta said.

For her project, Gupta researched limb regeneration in axolotls, a type of salamander native to Mexico. “This (project) would help us implement this kind of research in mammals or even humans to try to regenerate gaps in tissues or even appendages,” she said.

To prepare for the State level, Gupta spent six to eight hours in the laboratory

every weekday over the summer with the help of her mentor David Stocum, former dean of IUPUI, at the IUPUI Department of Biology.

“I think the main thing that separates me from some of the kids (at the State competition) was my interest for the project because I love what I do at the lab. I enjoy learning about regeneration,” Gupta said. “If you show a judge that you really care about your topic and know it inside and out, then you’ll probably progress further.”

According to Gupta, upperclassmen competitors can be intimidating. She said juniors and seniors had the advantage of researching their projects for as many as three years, and that some friends told her she was too young to embark on such a large project when she first began researching.

“They told me, ‘You should probably

start off just observing.’ . . . (but) Dr. Stocum apparently saw potential in me, so he took me on as a student,” Gupta said.

Gupta said she was able to progress in the competition as far as she did because of support from her mentor, parents and teachers, including biology teacher Brandy Yost, who supported Gupta and reviewed her papers.

“I’m really thankful to be a Carmel kid, because you don’t usually get teachers like Mrs. Yost to do that for you,” she said.

As for the National competition, Gupta said she was both excited and nervous.

“I’m excited to go to Phoenix and meet (the world’s smartest people from other places),” she said, “(but) my judge will most likely be the person who discovered my methods, (so) I’ll have to know everything about my topic.”

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to actually be learning in-depth instead of kind of skimming over and being like, ‘Okay, I kind of know about that,’” Thompson said.

AP Biology teacher Jeff Young said he agrees that the new curriculum is more beneficial for students, whereas the old curriculum was unrealistic due to the enormous amount of information students were expected to learn within the course of one school year.

“The difference is that (in) the old AP Bio curriculum you had to learn an inch deep and a mile wide; you had to learn a little bit about every single topic. And now

it’s more like, you’re learning a mile deep but it’s like pick-and-choose which topics you learn in-depth,” Young said.

For AP Spanish Literature, curriculum changes involve a more thematic approach that incorporates art, history and culture into the literature, according to world language teacher Elizabeth Sprague.

Although Sprague said she thinks the revamping is a good change, she said it is still a work in progress that comes with challenges for both teachers and students. She said it is more difficult to prepare students for the AP Spanish Literature exam, as the College Board has not released

any of the rewritten AP exams.“There’s not a big bank of prior test

questions that necessarily correlate with the way that they’ll be tested. There are fewer resources, I would say. They’re out there, but you have to search a little harder to find them,” Sprague said.

Similarly, Young said he is unsure what to expect of the AP Biology exam. However, he said he is not too worried about the students’ test scores.

“It makes me a little bit nervous, but I mean, as long as we’re covering the learning objectives...they should be prepared as ever,” Young said.

SCIENCE RULES: Freshman Kamna Gupta stands with other participants. Gupta qualified for the National level of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix.

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Think of the last time you bought something, whether it be clothing, electronics or accessories. Did you check to see where it was made?

For about five years, sophomore Matthew “Matt” McDonald has been buying his clothes from cafepress.com, a website that ensures a fair price for its products. The website shows in which country each piece of clothing was made, and this allows McDonald to hunt for the label “Made in America.”

“My older brother was very conscious (about where products were made) growing up, and that caused me to look into (it) myself and see if that was something I should be conscious about,” he said.

The consumerism and popularity of American-made goods is on the rise due to more awareness about the benefits purchasing American-made goods can bring to the economy and to the consumer. In 2012, ABC World News launched a full “Made in America” campaign, encouraging the public to buy American by saying that if each person spends only $64 on American-made products, 200,000 jobs could be created that season.

With an outlook similar to that of ABC “World News”, Grey Gordon, economics professor at IU, said one major reason

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I think (buying American-made products) helps American businesses, the American

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for rising consumerism in American-made goods is that

people want to help the economy.“Buying U.S. products means the wages are going to be

local. Whatever portion of the expense going to wages is going to someone in the United States. There’s a direct effect of higher wages for United States workers and indirect effect of profits coming through, like the stock market,” Gordon said. “People want to support the U.S. economy, and they do that by buying U.S. products.”

Likewise, McDonald said if people look only at their own personal budgets and not at what their choices can mean for the rest of the country, then America’s economy will suffer and, in turn, later affect them.

“What’s best for the individual isn’t necessarily best for the society and therefore isn’t always best for the individual in the long run. What people get out of buying cheaper products, they tend to put back in by not strengthening the economy

and not moving forward in that regard,” he said.Although sophomore Matthew “Matt” Klineman is not

as avid an American-made shopper as McDonald, he said he still prefers to buy American-made products to strengthen the economy.

“With the hard times that Americans are facing, I think (buying American-made products) helps American businesses, the American employees (and) the American people,” he said.

Consumers are not the only ones participating in the “Made in America” label surge. Big corporations such as Walmart, Apple, General Electric and Brooks Brothers are experimenting with making more products in the United States. According to a 2013 New York Times article, Walmart claims it will invest $50 billion in the next decade.

In order to explain why more American companies are choosing to bring manufacturing back home, Amanda Michaud, economics professor at IU, said rising labor and

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78 percent of Americans said they would rather buy a product made in America.

80 percent of the group said the primary motivation is to maintain American predominance in the global economy.

60 percent of the 78 percent believe products made in America are of higher quality.

60 percent of all consumers said they were willing to pay 10 percent more for American-made products versus products produced in foreign countries.

20 percent were willing to pay an additional 20 percent for products produced in America.

34 percent of consumers said that clothes and shoes made in the U.S. are “much better” than similar products from foreign countries.

27 percent said that American-made products were “somewhat better” than foreign ones.

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nationalism and pride is growing as well as becoming more conscious about civil rights issues and about the condition of our economy. I think all of those factors are contributing to people more conscious about buying American-made products. In general, (buying American-made) promotes just a healthier society and a more thriving nation.”

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production costs overseas have made it more practical to keep the jobs in the United States.

“Part of the story lies in costs of production abroad. Labor costs in China have risen by an estimated 20 percent in the past four years,” she said via email. “Firms are relocating jobs both back to the United States and to other countries partly for this reason.”

Gordon said he agrees, saying that especially for products that are heavy and expensive to ship, it would make sense that manufacturers are choosing to avert those shipping costs and make the product right at home.

American manufacturers have more of a reputation to keep up with than foreign manufacturers do, according to Gordon. He said he believes another reason why consumers are also buying American-made products is that they have better quality.

“If you purchase from a non-U.S. company, it’s anonymous. The anonymous company does not have much to lose if it uses low-quality materials while the American company might have more of a reputation at home so they’ll put more effort into making better quality things,” he said.

McDonald said, however, that quality isn’t a big deal to him.

“I’m buying it because it promotes good working conditions and the economic benefits,” he said. “I haven’t seen a significant difference in quality.”

Like McDonald, Klineman said while he hasn’t personally noticed a difference in quality, he believes Americans trust the quality of American-made products more.

“People here recognize that China’s products can be cheaply made, and because of that, people tend to view American products as sturdier and more durable,” he said.

McDonald said he also believes patriotism has played its part in the thirst for home-made goods. Public examples support his claim. Last summer when ABC World News revealed that the 2012 U.S. Olympic uniforms by designer Ralph Lauren were made in China,

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AMERICAN SPIRIT: Sophomore Matthew “Matt” McDonald looks at clothes from the CHS Spirit Shop in the store and online. McDonald said he prefers to shop American-made products because doing so benefits the economy.

Think again. According to Consumer Reports, many American-based companies make misleading claims about the origins of their products.

Frozen blueberries claimed to be from Oregon are actually a product of Chile.DENNIS YANG AND HEEJUNG KIM / GRAPHIC

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To ensure that the products you are purchasing are American-made, follow these tips:

• Be cautious when reading labels, since many are misleading.

• Search websites such as americansworking.com, madeinamericaforever.com and madeinusa.org to confirm the country of origin of the products.

Florida’s Natural apple juice contains apple concentrate from Brazil.

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differently, there are just daily challenges and being able to have the patience to work with your sibling and realize that they might need a little more special attention than you get or a little more extra help,” she said.

On the other hand, Klippel said, there are benefits to having a disabled brother or sister.

“I think it broadens people’s horizons and helps them be more accepting and not care as much what people think of them,” she said. “It kind of opens their eyes and makes them more accepting all around.”

Likewise, Samantha said having a brother with a disability has in many ways changed her life for the better.

“I have learned so many lessons from having Michael as a brother. I definitely have learned to be patient, because he moves like a turtle. It’s taught me how to love someone for who they are,” Samantha said. “I don’t really see him as a burden on our family. I’m blessed to have him in my life.”

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Children with genetic disorders can significantly impact family dynamic

According to sophomore Samantha Sharkey, her brother, senior Michael Sharkey, is like any other teenager. He attends basketball games with his friends, sings in choir and loves rap music and Big

Time Rush.However, Michael has Down syndrome, which sets

him apart from the typical high school student. A recent Time Magazine article stated that while disabilities have an obvious impact on the afflicted child, they also take a toll on the household in a more subtle way by presenting unique difficulties to siblings.

However, Samantha said the challenges of having a sibling with a disability are, for the most part, similar to those of having a sibling without a disability.

“It’s just like the challenges you would have with any sibling, just arguing over stuff, like fighting over who gets the television at what time and what do you want to watch and stuff like that,” she said. “Those are the only challenges we really face.”

Kelly Sharkey, Michael and Samantha’s mother, said she faced a little more difficulty in having a child with Down syndrome, as the only prior knowledge she’d had about Down syndrome came from a television show in a series called “Life Goes On.”

“Right away, we just got to know as much as we could about Down syndrome. I wouldn’t be in the career field I’m in

if it weren’t for him,” she said. “It wasn’t like he was different. He was just our baby. It was never like, ‘Oh, you have Down syndrome, so I’m going to love you differently.’”

Samantha said she has noticed people are increasingly accepting of others with disabilities and many embrace Michael instead of excluding him.

“He understands if people use the r-word, ‘retard’ — I hate saying that word — he understands what that means and doesn’t like it when people say that, but he usually doesn’t encounter stuff like that,” she said.

However, according to Samantha, while acceptance of people with disabilities has been growing, some people still treat Michael and her family differently.

“It’s like people look at (people with) Down syndrome and expect them not to be able to do anything, but Michael is actually capable of doing a lot of things that people don’t expect,” she said. “Growing up, I would see people staring. I grew up with him and his friends, and having people with disabilities in my life has become so normal that I don’t see the disabilities anymore. I don’t view them as different, so I don’t understand how people could view them as different.”

Rachael Klippel, president of Best Buddies and senior, said she agrees with Samantha about the trials of having a sibling with a disability.

“I feel like the relationship between the siblings is just like any other relationship,” she said. “They still get annoyed with each other and fight, but they also enjoy each other and like to do stuff together.

“Aside from, obviously, social challenges because people might look at you a little differently or view your family a little

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Students here discuss challenges, rewards of having a sibling with a disability

Did you know?

ALL THE SAME: The Sharkey siblings spend time together cooking and playing. According to sophomore Samantha Sharkey, having a sibling with Down syndrome is the same as having a sibling without a disability.

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Crazy forBY MIRIAM [email protected]

As Pantone, a company specializing in color trend predictions, celebrates its 50th anniversary, students and staff reflect on Pantone’s influence at this school

According to Pantone’s fashion color report, popular color trends for spring will include vibrant pigments like “Poppy

Red,” “Lemon Zest,” “Monaco Blue” and “Nectarine,” an excellent forecast for Jill Nobis, fashion and textiles student and senior. Nobis said she enjoys wearing bold colors, depending on her mood as well as what’s in style at the moment.

“Color has a lot of influence on fashion design choices,” she said.

The Pantone color system, which has its roots in the printing and marketing industries, has spread to areas like textiles and food sciences, according to a Feb. 24 article by The New York Times. Every year since 1999, Pantone, which standardized color names by assigning each color to a number, has announced a color of the year. Artists, interior designers, cosmetic companies and fashion designers—including Nobis—use this color to plan their designs. For example, since 2012, Pantone Universe has partnered with Sephora to release a makeup collection based on the color of the year.

For 2013, Pantone declared the color of the year to be Emerald, or Pantone 17-5641,

which is described as “a color of elegance and beauty that enhances our sense of well-being, balance and harmony.”

Judy Fisher, advanced fashion and textiles teacher, said she was already starting to see Pantone’s influence in her classes’ designs.

“I’m starting to see green come in into the fabrics. I’ve been getting students who are coming in with lots of really pretty green fabrics, and I haven’t seen that before,” Fisher said.

Students will display their garments at a fashion show during SRT on May 23 in the Dale E. Graham Auditorium, according to Fisher. She said students were creating clothing for the fashion show with colors similar to the ones in Pantone’s predictions.

“A lot of students are making really cute, flirty spring-type garments with bright colors, polka dots and stripes,” Fisher said. “Bright green, bright yellow, oranges and hot pinks are really in.”

Nobis agreed that emerald green will trend in spring fashion and will soon be prevalent in popular clothing stores like Forever 21 and H&M.

“You’ll start seeing a lot of emerald soon,” Nobis said. “You might see emerald leggings or bags or emerald sneaker wedges, since sneaker wedges are really big now. Big, bold jewelry

COLOR CRAZY: Senior Jill Nobis works with a fabric during fashion class. According to The New York Times, Pantone assigns a certain color as the color of the year, which fashion designers like Nobis use as inspiration in their designs.

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(and sundresses) will come in green. Emerald’s a good color all year round, but it’s especially good for spring because winter’s been so long this year.”

“I probably will (use emerald in my fashion designs) because I think it’s a really bold and important color, and it’s

2010Color of the Year: Turquoise

The Pantone Hotel is established in Brussels, Belgium, as part of the Pantone Universe. A work of art in itself, the Pantone Hotel’s seven floors each have their own color pallettes to complement guests’ emotions.

2013Color of the Year: Emerald

Pantone, established in 1962 as a small business, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year as the global authority on color with its innovative color system.

2012Color of the Year: Tangerine Tango

To celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee and her 60 years on the throne, Pantone creates a palette fit for a Queen commemorating some her most memorable color choices.

2011Color of the Year: Honeysuckle

Pantone expands to the mobile application realm with two new apps released: myPANTONETM for the Android and myPANTONE 2.0 for the iPhone.

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hard not to use whatever the color of the year is,” Nobis continued. “(People) don’t always sew with that color, but you see it everywhere when you go shopping because big designers will use it.”

Victoria “Tori” Baron, fashion and textiles student and senior, said the popularity of Pantone’s color of the year could also be influenced by seasonal trends and nature.

“Green is the color your eyes see the most because it’s the most used in nature, and it’s everywhere around you,” she said. “I think that especially with spring coming up, green is going to be a really big color with all the flowers blooming and everything coming to life.”

According to Fisher, who does interior design work on top of teaching advanced fashion and textiles classes, emerald green is also becoming more popular in that field.

“You’re going to see it popping up a lot in all your home furnishings, and if you look through Architectural Digest and some of the other design magazines, you’re seeing lots of greens trending in the interior design aspect . . . I think that as students graduate and head off to their college dorm rooms, they should think about introducing color and making their dorm rooms a special home since they’re going to be there all year,” Fisher said. “They ought to introduce a lot of color and have a nice, bright place to study and concentrate on doing well when they go off to school next year.”

This year is Pantone’s 50th anniversary. Since its conception, the company’s color system and trend predictions have made significant impacts on many industries, including the arts, textiles and cuisine. Annually, the company announces a color of the year, which dictates the color trends for the rest of the year.

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STUDENT SECTIONAsk the ExpertJennifer Bubp, art department chair and teacher, explains how to be more artistic.Compiled by Joseph Lee

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How does art influence you?I look around the world and I see everything as art, whether it be how somebody designed the shoes I’m wearing or the chair I’m about to sit in or the spaces I’m about to enter. I look around the world, and I see art and beauty everywhere.

How do you inspire your students?I’m always looking at new and interesting artists. For example in Drawing 2, I’m showing them the artist Jason Taylor, and he does an underwater sculpture garden. It’s those kinds of things. When I’m inspired, it’s easy to inspire students.

In your opinion, are artists born or made?I believe certain people are born with a propensity to look carefully at details, so there is a natural gift there, but I also believe that it takes 10,000 hours to be a master at anything. So if you are determined and put in time and focus, then you can fully master drawing.

How does one become more artistic?You have to begin thinking like an artist. When you go out to eat, you start to analyze the choices made around you, realizing that a designer did that. When you look at a reflection that an object casts on a table, you begin to see the color differences, shadows and the shapes of the shadows. You begin to look at things in ways people wouldn’t pay attention to. I can remember last summer; I was out on a boat at the lake, and I was watching how the light was hitting the water. I could see a pattern being created, and then I began to draw it. Artists see the world differently. We see the things that people tend to miss.

As seniors graduate, they display their best artwork at Carmel’s art show. Compiled by James Benedict, Caitlin Muller and Natalie Maier

When did you start sketching in class?I always have, ever since elementary school. My mom said ever since I could pick up a pencil I’ve been drawing.

What is your favorite sketch?That’s really hard. I guess, just recently in art classes, they were only rough sketches, not to be turned into a final project or anything, but I drew some of the people in my class.

What else inspires you?The simple things in life inspire me. I can pull inspiration from anywhere. Ultimately, God is the ultimate designer, and anything he makes is beautiful, whether it’s in nature or people.

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What type of art do you like to do?I love to do portraits, especially with colored pencil. I’ve never taken painting as my painting skills aren’t really on par with my drawing, but they do some really fun stuff in there.

What inspires you to do art?I have always found that drawing and painting relieves all of my stress and makes me happy. The best feeling in the world is when I finish a piece that I’m especially proud of, and all I want to do is show it to everyone that is willing to look.

Do you look up to or get your inspiration from any other artists?There are so many artists that inspire me, but I draw inspiration mostly from the everyday. Art is unique in that way. You have a unique style that combines elements from many other fellow artists and still be an original.

Are you familiar with any other artists at CHS that have inspired your work?My close friends Franci Figueroa and Andrea Pittman are both wonderful artists, and I love their work. However, their styles are very different than mine.

Do you plan on continuing to do art for the rest of your life?I will most definitely continue to work on pieces for the rest of my life. Art is so rewarding, and I could never give it up.

Bridget Anderson

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How long have you been taking photos?I’ve taken pictures for school since sophomore year and as long as I can remember for everything else.

What is your favorite photo shoot that you have done?I did this really cool one where all my friends dressed up, and we went to this old teahouse in Noblesville, so the photos looked really vintage. It showed how this girl got up and left the dinner table, and then she went into the streets and faced issues like addiction.

Who is your favorite photographer?My favorite photographer is probably Elliott Erwitt. He takes really interesting photos from unusual perspectives.

As a photographer, what are your feelings on Instagram?I actually really hate it. It makes everybody feel like they’re artists, when all they really do is put a filter over pictures that are just from their camera phones.

Do you have any advice for aspiring photographers?Anything can be interesting. It’s just up to you to make it interesting. Really, do what you want and try not to follow too many rules.

Madison Bartlett

What type of art do you like to do?I enjoy doing ceramics.

What inspires you to do art?Art is a way for me to speak. I have a hard time sharing personal feelings, and art is a way for me to share my opinion. I also like to make people stop and think, and art is a good way to make people think.

Do you look up to or get your inspiration from any other artists?Yes, Dali and a couple others, but overall I look to myself and friends for inspiration. I will never be another artist, so I have to aspire to be the best I can be instead of aspiring to be like another artist. I do look at other art to appreciate, and I sometimes get ideas from them, but normally I just stumble upon them when I’m thinking or doodling during the day.

Do you plan on continuing to do art for the rest of your life?Most definitely. Art will always be a part of my life.

Erica Gero

What type of art do you like to do?I love to do portraits.

What inspires you to do art?My family and friends inspire me to do art. They are normally the subjects in my pieces.

Do you look up to or get your inspiration from any other artists?I am very inspired by all the artists in my classes. I also love visiting art museums and seeing pieces by artists such as Rembrandt and Durer.

Do you plan on continuing to do art for the rest of your life?I hope to continue with art for the rest of my life. I haven’t decided yet on a career, but hope to include art in my studies.

Caroline WardWhat type of art do you like to do?I love painting, oil painting, water color. I don’t really like acrylic, but I do it sometimes. Also, multimedia with different kinds of papers. I like charcoal a lot; sometimes I’ll take charcoal and mix water with it. It’s kind of something I made up. It’s like charcoal painting. I like sculptor, mostly ceramic. I’m trying soapstone, and drawing is fun. Pretty much everything.

What inspires your artwork?I’m inspired by other artists, but mostly just people.

Which artists inspire you?I really like Salvador Dali and Rowa the sculptor. I’ve done a lot of stuff reminiscent of Egon Schiele, a french figure drawer.

Are there other artists at Carmel that you really enjoy?There are a lot of artists that are really different from me that I really like. Kajaih Monson does really cartooney stuff that I think is really cool and Alex Mikev does realistic, like photo realism, type stuff which is really cool.

Do you plan on continuing to do art for the rest of your life?Yes.

Francisca Figueroa

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ANYTHINGHE CAN DO,SHE CAN DO, TOODespite a leadership gap between genders in today’s business and political spheres, this generation’s women have greater confidence in their ability to climb the ladder

“My immediate first reaction was, ‘There’s a girl who looks like she has her stuff together’ and that was something that I might want to be and represent as well,” Baranowski said. “I was seeing that and thinking, ‘I can do that.’”

For the next two years, the Speaker of the House was male. But Baranowski never forgot the female who reassured her belief that a

During her freshman year, Meredith Baranowski, current Speaker of the House, walked into her first House meeting and saw a lone female on stage, Sunny Huang ’10, then Speaker of the House.

woman could also be a top school leader just as well as a man.

Baranowski’s term as Speaker comes in a time when the possibility of gender equality in leadership has both shown promise and sparked extensive debate. This school itself has seen a streak of male student body presidents, but females like

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Baranowski are rising to the top positions too. Nationally, leaders such as former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and more recently, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg have become iconic figures in the women’s empowerment movement.

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The Gap

In this generation, girls grow up assuming that there’s equality. Girls grow up more confident and realize that they have the right and ability to

succeed. A lot more doors are open for women nowadays.

Laura FosterAssociate professor of gender studies at IU

Sandberg has faced criticism for trying to be both a woman

in a position of power and a mother, as a controversial article, “Women Can’t Have It All,” asserted in June 2012. In response, Sandberg recently released Lean In, a book that examines the reasons for the stagnation of women’s progress in leadership roles and offers women solutions and advice on how to be more successful. Her book has garnered extensive debate about whether women can truly achieve the same level of success in leadership as that of men.

Barriers to Women’s LeadershipThe argument about women and leadership is no new debate. Forty-four years ago, Lorena Weeks became the first woman to use the Civil Rights Act to win the right to

be promoted. Since then, there have been a multitude of female political leaders, corporate leaders, sports stars and world-changers. Women now make up nearly half of the workplace and have more college degrees than men, according the Pew Research Center. However, the percentage of female chief executives at Fortune 500 companies is only 4 percent, while the percentage of female national leaders is 10 percent. And these numbers are an all-time high.

Laura Foster, assistant professor of gender studies at Indiana University, cites intimidation and a lack of mentoring as factors leading to this gender gap.

“Women in the workplace have really struggled to find mentors that they can look up to. Not just mentors to tell them to do things, but mentors that can help direct projects towards them, speak highly of them and help guide their career,” she said. “Women are just disproportionately not in the top ranks in the companies.”

As for Baranowski, she said a lack of women in certain roles make other women less confident to strive for that position later.

“It comes down to who has held that position before them and if there was a history of women in that position, because then they’ll know if that door is open to them and if they can do that,” she said. “If only men have held (a position) before, it might be different.”

Senior Juliet Martone said it’s critical for women to be educated in the importance of overall gender equality and socioeconomic power if they want to strive for gender equality in leadership. Earlier this year, she traveled to the U.N. Headquarters in New York to attend the 57th Annual Commission on the Status of Women, which provided this kind of education.

“(The conference) helped me gain my independence and realize that I’m more than what some people say and that I want to be a woman leader when I grow up,” Martone said. “Being a high school girl, you have a lot of influences that can hold you back, with insecurities, with different social expectations and with a lot of the derogatory language used in school.”

Baranowski said she believes another factor is that while men are not afraid to applaud their success, women are more self-conscious and less likely to promote themselves.

“Women are more concerned with what others think of them and coming off in a poor light,” she said. “I think that many men would not have any difficulty mentioning (their success), because it is, after all, fact, but women think, ‘Oh, this is going to make me sound like I’m tooting my own horn.’”

According to Foster, another major reason for the disproportional numbers is that women have trouble advancing in the workplace because of family needs.

“Historically, girls have seen their mothers and grandmothers having to choose between work and family, and they might think they have to choose,” she said. “When women enter the workplace and start to have children, they realize they have to make a choice putting either work or family first.”

Martone agreed that women stop reaching

for new opportunities to focus on family.“Women are the caregivers. When women

are concerned about having a child, even 10 years down the road, they might dial it back a bit in work, they might think, ‘Oh, maybe I shouldn’t take this job because I have to start a family and I can’t afford to work all these hours,’” she said.

Where Women Come InAccording to TIME Magazine, Sandberg is credited for building the business side of Facebook. Her colleagues compliment her on her practicality, her ability to make others feel like their contribution is significant and her high emotional quotient, the intuitive knowledge of how people feel.

Foster said while women are not necessarily more sensitive than men, female leaders are important because they have overcome more to gain their position and thus can make different contributions.

“They can bring a different level of experience based upon that they have struggled more through the process,” she said. “Anybody who has struggled through the process and fought their way up, they’re able to see things and mentor others in different ways.”

Senior Lauren Gibson, who started the Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program in eighth grade, said she believes women can bring different perspectives than men.

“Different genders provide different perspectives. A mix of genders in a certain leadership group could definitely help a company become more successful,” she said.

Martone said to fully understand equal leadership potential, people need to get over the misconception and bad stigma of the term “feminism.”

“That’s a huge misconception: when people think of feminism they think of ‘girl power,’ ‘girls taking over men,’ and that’s false,” she said. “It’s about men and being equal, and I think we have the ability to be equal leaders, and that will create the best kind of society if men and women can rule equally.”

Time for ChangeMany corporations and governments have tried to address the gender gap problem, according to TIME Magazine, but it has proved to be a significant challenge. Foster said by talking to the masses and by setting an example, women like Clinton and Sandberg have shed much light on this issue.

“There’s been a lot of progress. There’s more attention on it, there’s more women in the workplace now then there was, and there’s more women with levels of higher education,” she said. “‘I think anyone like

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Percent of Labor Force

Representation in Fortune 500 ( = 10 CEOs)

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College Graduates in 2009 ( = 100,000 graduates)

Representation in U.S. Congress ( = 25 legislators)

Median annual income for full-time worker ( = $5,000)

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Despite having legal equality in education and employment opportunities, men and women remain unequal in leadership positions, economic opportunity and educational achievement.

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Superwomen

Sandberg or Clinton or anybody who rises to that level of leadership and has done a tremendous amount of work should be admired and is a great model.”

Gibson shows this through example. As a little girl, she said she wanted to be the first female president, an ambition that was formerly met with surprise.

“People didn’t think I was completely out of my mind, but they thought I was very ambitious,” Gibson said. “But now, it’s not like that’s out of the question for a female to take that leadership position. As we become a more modern society and move towards gender equality, women are starting to have very high ambitions as well. Look at Hillary Clinton, look at a lot of the important political figures.”

Despite this progress, Foster said change is still very slow. She said for more change to be made, women empowerment advocates like Sandberg should also speak to not only women, but men, too.

“There needs to be more attention on what men can do to help women succeed in the workplace, too,” Foster said. “Until there’s more collaboration between men and women in the workplace and dividing up household duties, then that change is going to continue to be slow.”

However, she said females in this generation are finding themselves in a society that’s more easily embracing gender equality in leadership.

“I love how in this generation, girls grow up assuming that there’s equality,” Foster said. “Girls grow up more confident and realize that they have the right and ability to succeed. A lot more doors are open for women nowadays.”

However, Baranowski said she realizes gender equality in school may be easier to achieve than in the workplace.

“In school, there’s a mindset of

fostering equality and fairness and we have administrators and teachers to regulate that. In the outside world, there’s no one monitoring that and it’s up to each individual person,” Baranowski said.

However, Baranowski said she believes change has been made.

“It’s due to the women that have come

before us and have opened up these doors for us,” Baranowski said. “For women to run for those high positions, that’ll give that acknowledgement that that can be done and those doors can be open.”

As for Martone, she said she will always think women can have it all.

“I think women absolutely can have it all.

They can have the most,” Martone said. “They have the power to make families and have children, they have the power to go to school, they have the power to inform others and better themselves, they have all the power in the world as long as they’re allowed to use it. One of my favorite sayings is, ‘The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.’”

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FRESH VOICES: Above, Lauren Gibson, founder of the Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program and senior, speaks at an award ceremony. To the right, Speaker of the House Meredith Baranowski announces names at the Spring Recognition Convocation. Both Gibson and Baranowski, as female student leaders, said that despite a current lack of powerful female role models, they believe women are just as capable as men in positions of leadership.

Although a leadership gap clearly exists between genders, motivated women have still become highly successful in positions of power. These women are the highest ranked in America in their professional fields on the Forbes’ 2012 list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

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Indra NooyiChairwoman and CEO,

PepsiCoAge: 57

Ranking: 12

Janet NapolitanoSecretary, Department of

Homeland SecurityAge: 55

Ranking: 9

Sheryl SandbergCOO, Facebook

Age: 43Ranking: 10

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Second annual Film Festival to occur May 3For the second consecutive year, this school will host the Film Festival on May 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Dale E. Graham Auditorium.

According to IB Film teacher Jim Peterson, students submit original films comprised of original music, ideas and stories.

Peterson said, “(The film) can be pretty much anything from a documentary to a narrative short story.”

All participants must be in high school and the film must fit the 10-minute time limit. The film festival has doubled its entries from the past year, according to Peterson. “We’re excited that it’s growing,” he said.

Junior Laura Ellsworth is one of the many students participating in the Film Festival this year.

“I think it’s going to be fun. It’ll be interesting seeing everyone else’s movies,” Ellsworth said.

Junior August “Gus” Leagre, also participating in the Film Festival, is submitting a drama film.

“We entered two (films). The other one we made last summer, but we recently updated the editing on it,” Leagre said.

Leagre said he is also excited for the Film Festival and is looking forward to seeing what everyone else has worked on.

According to Peterson, there is a financial award of $500 for the best film plus other caption awards such as best actor and best actress.

Peterson said. “I love watching what other kids from other schools can do; there’s a lot of creativity out there with high school students, and film is becoming a great avenue and outlet for creativity out there.”

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’”

These are the famous opening lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a novel considered to be one of the most favorite timeless and classic pieces in the history of American literature. This iconic book, however, is making its 2013 debut as a film. It is set to take on the big screen May 10, featuring a star-studded cast, and according to Internet Movie Database, a $127 million budget.

The release of “The Great Gatsby” movie has re-sparked the controversy surrounding film adaptations of literature. A study done by PBS suggests that up to 65 percent of films today are based on or adapted from literary works of the past. Reflecting these numbers, debate continues over how much creative liberty film directors should take and how thematically close a film should remain to a book. While a variety of reasons contribute to how directors choose to adapt literature, students and teachers here said the film medium of storytelling could contribute many elements to the literary works from which they are inspired.

Boats Against the CurrentSenior Claire Yerant, who said The Great Gatsby is one of her favorite novels, said she can see why some may criticize adaptations, but she said she is excited to see what the filmmakers will do with the story.

“I think that (adaptations) are a great way to visualize events and themes that occur in novels,” Yerant said. “Even if they aren’t a direct or accurate adaptation.”

According to IB film teacher Jim Peterson, the level of creative liberty that directors take when adapting novels depends largely on the director’s own vision.

“There are some films that are out there that are more religiously adhering to the original book, but there are some that take a lot of liberty to it,” Peterson said. “So I think it just kind of depends on the film and the filmmaker.”

According to English teacher Cristen Cassler, who has been anticipating the release of “The Great Gatsby” movie for months, these creative liberties that filmmakers take can provide additional insight into a story that the literature initially did not have.

“It’s always nice and refreshing to see different interpretations of literature,” Cassler said. “I think that can give us maybe a

‘Great Gatsby’ to premiere May 10BY ARUNI [email protected]

Movie version of classic tale reveals complexity of adapting literature to filmdifferent perspective of, ‘Oh, I didn’t think of the character this way’ or ‘I didn’t think that this part was as important as another part’ that the movie might emphasize.”

Her Voice Is Full of MoneyHowever, Peterson added that another reason that films may revamp books is an attempt to appeal to a wider audience and attract more viewers. Films will often cut scenes from books that may be culturally irrelevant to modern times or films will add scenes to update the story for a new generation.

“It’s the almighty dollar that drives everything,” Peterson said. “So you’ve got to make it wide enough to appeal; you’ve gotta make it commercially viable.”

According to Cassler, however, this attempt to expand the audience base can contribute positively to the original work as well.

“I think that means that more people will be willing to watch it and then hopefully read (the book),” Cassler said. “Because you do have that selling actor that’s going to draw people in. It may hit a wider array of people that may not have been familiar with the book or may not have wanted to read the book.”

Yerant agreed with Cassler, saying the generation of today would be attracted to watching the film version of a story over reading the novel.

“I think it will attract new people to (the story),” Yerant said. “Because if you think about it, more people our age will be excited to see the movie than they would be to read the book.”

A University of Maryland study reflects these views, showing that in 2010, teen leisure reading went down by 23 percent. Consumption of movies and visual media, however, has steadily increased.

The American DreamWith all these variables of budget and audience appeal, some films are acclaimed for their interpretation of the book while others are hopelessly berated. Peterson said the ultimate success of a production could largely be traced back to the original literary work.

“If people agree with what the director is showing, then it’s a great piece of work, and if people don’t agree, then all of a sudden it’s trash,” Peterson said. “It has to do with the connection that people have with the literature; that will have a great impact on whether they like it or dislike it.”

Cassler agreed that the nature of the original literature could contribute to the success or downfall of an adaptation. With a classic work like The Great Gatsby, she said, where many people have read it and have connected with it, creating an equal

representation in film can be intricate.

“I think there are probably bigger shoes to fill and probably higher expectations for the film directors who are going to adapt a classic rather than just a modern kind of pop culture book or series,” Cassler said.

Yerant agreed that classic book adaptations could come with greater responsibility to directors.

“When a classic is changed into a movie, they have to care a lot more about staying true to the book,” Yerant said. “Because people love the book for what it is and not just the plot and the story, so they have to make sure they keep (certain elements) the same (because) people really love the way that it’s written.”

Overall, taking into consideration the history of the classic piece and what he has seen of the trailer, Peterson said he believes “The Great Gatsby” adaptation will receive a strong yet mixed reaction from viewers.

“I think it will split. I think there will be people who really love the (book) and are traditionalists and will hate the film, but there will also be a bunch of people who will see it and say, ‘Oh my gosh...

that really means something now to me,” Peterson said. “It’s either going to be really, really great for English classes, or it’s going to be really, really forgetful.”

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costume designing but also the set, technical elements and performers.

“It just goes to show not only how highly skilled our performers are, but the talent of our technicians behind the scene,” Glickman said. “Costumes, set design, lights and all of the technical elements will be new and different, challenging for sure, but I have no doubt all involved can pull it off to make Tarzan an unforgettable experience.”

According to director Lamonte Kuskye, CHS will be among the first high schools in the nation to perform the musical “Tarzan.” Students are working after school nearly every day preparing

for the production.According to Kuskye, the cast and crew have been

preparing, researching and planning for a long time. He said students are working hard creating the costumes and set.

“There’s been a lot of preliminary work on the set because we’re literally going to create it from scratch,” Kuskye said. “It’s a huge project.”

Taylor Glickman, costume crew student co-head and senior, said the many animal characters in the show create difficulties in costume design. She said the challenge for designers lies in allowing the actors the flexibility they need to perform while maintaining the likenesses of the animals.

The costume designers have been forced to get creative with the patterns they have, according to Glickman. Despite the challenges, however, Glickman said they have made great progress so far.

“It is really raising the bar one more notch. We are exploring new techniques with these animal costumes especially, and I think it just shows how versatile and ever-changing our department is.

“The CHS performing arts department is always looking to go bigger and better, and I’m really excited to help pull it off,” Glickman said.

According to Kuskye, in addition to the costumes, many elements onstage will also be complex and brand new. This includes the set, which he said will be custom-made for the production.

Nick Metken, master carpenter and junior, said students are currently working on creating the complicated set.

“The lighting’s going in, the sound’s going in, we’re just getting ready for the first rehearsals,” Metken said. “It’s all made of wood, it’s custom made from the ground up.”

According to Metken, the set and lighting of the show is unique in that in many ways, the show resembles a rock concert more than a musical. Kuskye said this rock mood is also clearly reflected in the song and dance of the production.

“There’s flying involved onstage, so that’s always difficult. It’s a very, very physical show, so there’s a lot of swinging, climbing, tumbling, all those kinds of things,” Kuskye said.

Kuskye said he is in love with the storyline of the production, which follows the lines of the Disney movie for the most part, although the characters are much more defined and developed.

“The story is similar but expanded,” Kuskye said. “It’s been rewritten since the Broadway production and it is so much better. There’s a lot of depth to it. People need to realize it’s not just that Disney cartoon. There’s a message, one that we want to make sure comes out, and I’m looking forward to that.”

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BY ASTER [email protected]

Students prepare to make spring musical ‘Tarzan’ a ‘swinging’ success

IN THE SWING OF THINGS: Members of the Tarzan cast, playing apes, rehearse a musical number and practice songs from the production. The play set will include vines for the apes to swing across the stage. The cast members are working extensively with a choreographer to perfect scenes.

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Showtimes:May 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Students can purchase tickets at the bookstore or online at totalgatesolutions.com. Prices range from $8 to $18.

‘Tarzan’ Ticket Information

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May 16 at 7:30 p.m.May 18 at 7:30 p.m.May 19 at 2 p.m.

May 17 at 7:30 p.m.

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Wolf was a good album. It really was. But it wasn’t nearly as good as Pitchfork Media (who gave it a 7.8 out of 10) would want people to believe.

The Boy Who Cried, WolfTyler, the Creator’s Wolf released April 2BY PABLO [email protected]

The newest LP from Odd Future frontman Tyler, the Creator showcased an anticipated emphasis on production, a maturation in themes and content, and stellar features that didn’t overshadow Tyler’s verses. However, Tyler’s lyrical style seems to be stuck in the past, and his instrumentals are inconsistent in more ways than one.

Instrumentally, Wolf is a mixed bag. While some tracks (“Lone,” “Answer”) seem to illustrate a monstrous leap in Tyler’s production abilities, they make one question who really produced the record. Tyler himself stated the album would show his influences (hip-hop/jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD) and idols (rapper/producer Pharrell, who is actually featured on IFHY), yet tracks like “Lone” and “Answer” (respectively) seem to be influenced too heavily. Still others (Pigs) feature a sound more reminiscent of Tyler’s past works, like 2009’s Bastard, to no avail. Despite stylistic inconsistencies, Tyler’s evolution is exemplified on tracks like “Awkward,” where Odd Future’s typical dark, muddy bass collides with humming

yet beaming synth lines. His instrumental on “Treehome95,” a neo-soul track with no rapping (and vocal contributions from Erykah Badu), sees Tyler exploring different genres à la Larry Lovestein. Regardless, Wolf ’s production is too spotty to be considered the focus of the album, as Tyler himself previously stated.

Though Tyler’s production has clearly matured, his lyricism hasn’t. His flow is often sloppy, his lyrics are still full of slurs and arbitrary lewdness, and many of the references and jokes seem like they would be more fitting on 2011’s Goblin. While the over-the-top lyrics in “Domo23” have to have been intentional on Tyler’s part, the track contributes nothing to the rest of the album and seems like a failed and out-of-place attempt to be clever. Meanwhile, stunning features like OF members Earl Sweatshirt and Domo Genesis (“Rusty”) contrast sharply with Tyler’s lyrical shortcomings, and stars like Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Tyler’s idol Pharrell and neo-soul queen Erykah Badu can only attempt to mask his garishness.

The themes present throughout Wolf are Tyler’s saving grace. His invented perspective of a drug dealer and the dilemma of saving your family versus saving your community in “48” shows Tyler delving into more socially conscious topics but putting his own spin on them. Talking about the father who abandoned him, but who he still wants to pick up the phone and “answer” when Tyler calls on “Answer” is a powerful image (though dented occasionally by Tyler’s angsty Goblin-esque rhymes).

Though Odd Future purists might say Tyler fell off after his debut album with Goblin or Odd Future’s The OF Tape Vol. 2 released last year, it’s clear he’s making progress into an entirely new sound, one that is hopefully devoid of the tacky, lurid and edgy references to rape and violence of some of his previous works. With such a dramatic and unexpected shift between his last album and Wolf, we can only dream of what Tyler’s odd future might entail.

Members of CHS choirs are preparing for their May 21 concert at the Palladium. The performance will be at 7 p.m. and will feature the same pieces sung by Ambassadors and Accents from their March competition show, according to choral director Lamonte Kuskye.

Kuskye said preparations for this concert will be slightly different from those of others due to the new performance location.

“It’s our normal thing and exactly what we would do, but behind the scenes, we’ve got a lot to figure out just because we’re going to have to feed all the (choir members) here and get their costumes and bus them over to the Palladium, and we’re still trying to work out those details because there’s nowhere to keep them,” Kuskye said.

Emma LaPlante, Accents member and junior, said although it will be

very difficult to organize the students, the experience will be one that she will never forget.

“We’ve never performed there before,” she said. “It’ll be difficult to organize all the kids, but I know it’ll be such a special experience, especially for all the seniors who are graduating. To have their last performance be at such a beautiful concert hall will be amazing, and I’m really glad I can be there to share that with them.”

Kuskye said the concert will also feature an awards program after the performance, which will announce all of the graduating seniors and one outstanding choir member award from each choir. The choir students will choose each of the awards.

“Hopefully there will be lots of alumni at the Palladium, so when

they come up on stage, we can announce all of the seniors and special awards and things,” Kuskye said.

Although the work for the performance

Choirs prepare for May 21 concert at PalladiumBY ANNI [email protected]

AMIRA MALCOM / PHOTO

To have (the graduating seniors’) last performance be

at such a beautiful concert hall will be

amazing.

Emma LaPlanteAccents member and junior will be strenuous, LaPlante said the

choirs have already worked extremely hard for their March competition, and this concert will be one that they will focus on enjoying.

“We’ll definitely be working to keep things sharp, but when we get there, I don’t

think any of us will be thinking about all the little details and trivialities of it,” she said. “We know our whole show by heart, and when we get onstage, my mind will be on how blessed I am to have that opportunity and to be surrounded by such a joyful choir family every day.”

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ALL TOGETHER NOW: Choir teacher Diana Gillespie helps to prepare the Descants members for their upcoming showcase alongside other choirs at the Palladium. Although organizing such a large group of students in a new location will be a challenge, choir directors and members alike are very excited for the May 21 event.

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After winning two consecutive Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference (MIC) championships, the men’s track team looks forward to capturing a third tomorrow.

According to Joshua (“Josh”) Ebikwo, varsity runner and junior, although the team lost most of its seniors this year and therefore lacks senior leadership, the team still has plenty of potential.

“Even though we lost a lot of guys, I think that this team is definitely more group oriented team than we have in the past. It’s going to be a hard competition. But I’m really confident in the way we’ve been training, the way our focus has improved and the way our young guys have really been able to mature throughout the process of the indoor season,” he said.

However, Head Coach Ken Browner said inexperience is just one of the obstacles the team faces. According to Browner, the weather this year has slowed the team’s progress, especially in field events. In addition, how well the runners will transition from indoor training to outdoor training is still questionable.

“Training for outdoors is different compared to indoors. It comes down to spacing, and being indoors becomes crowded

trying to share the facility with other sports.,” Browner said via email. Outdoor training is much more intense because you can train at faster speeds than you can indoors. Because of the tight turns and shorter straightaways indoors, you can never train at fast speeds.”

In preparation for the MIC, Ebikwo said he has been working on acceleration and endurance.

“I’ll be training for everything because we have a lot to look forward to, and being prepared is always a positive thing. I’m doing a lot of things that are sort of new to me.”

According to Ebikwo, the team has primarily been focusing

on the fundamental strategies like positioning and mechanics. He said while his team may not always be the fastest, often the outcome of the race comes down to minute details.

“It’s never ,‘Oh, this team is faster, so they’re going to win,’” he said. “A lot of the times there are teams that are faster than our team, but we’ll practice sound fundamentals such as handoffs and making sure we can finish our races and good passes that other teams don’t necessarily pay much attention to because they rely on speed, and we end up winning.”

Although the men’s track team will be facing tough competition such as Ben Davis and Center Grove, Browner said his goals for the team are the same each year: to win the MIC and be the state champions.

Browner said, “The MIC is one of the toughest conferences in the state, and we cannot take anyone lightly. We are a young and inexperienced team that needs to work hard every day to get better.”

The MIC is one of the toughest conferences in the

state and we cannot take anyone lightly.

Ken BrownerMen’s track and field Head Coach

Men’s track and field team looks to capture third consecutive MIC TitleBY CHRISTINE [email protected]

STARING DOWNSUCCESS

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Junior Josh Ebikwo prepares to start during a recent track workout. Ebikwo and the rest of the men’s track team will compete for their third consecutive MIC Championship tomorrow

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Women’s track and field team aims to carryover success from indoors to outdoor season

The women’s track and field team began its outdoor season with a first place finish at the Hoosier State Relays. The team followed up that win with two more individual meet victories against Ben Davis and Pike, with these meets coming just after its indoor State championship victory this winter. While the victory is an impressive accomplishment for the women’s track and field program, Ariel Hune, track and field member and senior, said the team still has a lot to prove.

“Winning the indoor State championship was a big deal for us but not a huge deal,” Hune said. “The outdoor State championship is more important because it is more publicly recognized and means more to our team.”

The outdoor State championship takes place at the end of the women’s season on June 1. Although the State meet is not until June, Hune says the team will use the

next month to make sure it is completely prepared for the biggest meet of the year.

“It is not too early for us to start looking ahead to the end of the year,” Hune said. “However, we want to focus on each individual meet and not slip up on those.”

The women’s track and field outdoor State championship takes place at Indiana University and will be a completely different atmosphere than the indoor State championship earlier this year. On an outdoor track the turns are tighter resulting in quicker times for the team’s runners. Hune said she competes in a 200-individual medley and said the difference between the indoor

and outdoor atmosphere will have an effect on the feel of the meet.

“In outdoor meets, it feels good to breathe in the fresh air and it contributes to faster times,” Hune said. “While running in an indoor meet it is easier to get choked up and running doesn’t feel as free.”

While the women’s team is confident because of its recent indoor State championship victory, it still has areas to improve. According to Hune, the women’s track and field team earns the majority of its

points in running events and needs to put more of a focus on the field events. However, just because the stakes are higher doesn’t mean the team will train any differently to reach its final goal.

“The training we did for the indoor State championship will be similar to how we trained for the outdoor State championship,” Hune said. “I don’t think we need to change something that worked in the past.”

BY SEAN [email protected]

The outdoor State Championship is more important

because it is more publicly recognized.

Ariel HuneWomen’s track and field team member

and senior

WEATHERING THE STORM: Senior Ellen Schmitz runs through the parking lot once the snow was cleared. Many spring athletes were affected by weather this winter and early spring. A total of 16 spring sporting events have either been postponed or canceled due to poor weather conditions as of Monday.


100 meter dash:

200 meter dash:

400 meter dash:

800 meter run:

4X100 meter relay:

4X400 meter relay:

Long jump:

High jump:

How do CHS records stack up against the world records for each track event? The results are surprisingly close.

Record Resemblance

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Upcoming meets

TomorrowMen’s and women’s track v. MIC Championship at Ben Davis (6 p.m.)

May 3Men’s and women’s track home v. Hamilton County (6 p.m.)

May 7 Men’s track and field v. Noblesville Relays (5:30 p.m.)

May 14Women’s track Sectional at Guerin Catholic (5 p.m.)

May 16Men’s track home v. Sectional (5 p.m.)

Carmel women’s record: 12.56 secondsWomen’s world record: 10.49 seconds



Carmel women’s record: 2:15.26Women’s world record: 1:53.28


Carmel women’s record: 3:52.2Women’s world record: 3:15.17

Carmel women’s record: 18’ 0.5”Women’s world record: 24’ 8.25”

Carmel women’s record: 5’ 8.5”Women’s world record: 6’ 10.25”

Carmel men’s record: 10.73 secondsMen’s world record: 9.58 seconds



Carmel men’s record: 1:52.96Men’s world record: 1:41.01


Carmel men’s record: 3:18.98Men’s world record: 2:54.29

Carmel men’s record: 23’ 4.5”Men’s world record: 29’ 4.5”

Carmel men’s record: 7’ 1.5”Men’s world record: 8’ 0.5”

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We may not be as high scoring as we have been in the past, and

we do not have any superstars, but we have a solid group

of motivated and dedicated players with great chemistry.

Ken TomozawaHead coach of the women’s lacrosse team

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Re-‘Lax’ingBY ARSALAN [email protected]

Both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams won State titles in 2011 and 2012. The teams credit hard work, teamwork, experience and leadership. They agree on

continuing the same success to win their third consecutive State championship.

“Past success doesn’t guarantee future results, but the players are very motivated to perpetuate the success that we have earned the past two years,” Ken Tomozawa, head coach of the women’s lacrosse team, said.

The women’s lacrosse team has been victorious on its quest for the State championship in the last two years. Despite the fact that they have won two years in a row, Tomozawa believes the 2013 season will be a challenging one for the team.

This season, the women’s team will have to face Hamilton Southeastern, Westfield, Noblesville and Guerin Catholic. He describes all of these opponents as very competitive and a challenge to beat in the Regional playoffs. However, Tomozawa said that the women’s lacrosse team is very confident and motivated, which has been a vital factor for the team in the past.

Tomozawa said they have worked hard throughout the season and improved their skills so they can match up with their past successes. He said that the girls are good all-around players, and they don’t focus in only one area.

“We may not be as high scoring as we have been in the past, and we do not have any superstars, but we have a solid group of motivated and dedicated players with great chemistry,” Tomozawa said.

The men’s lacrosse team has had its equal share of success as well. Like the women’s team, the men’s team won back to back State titles in 2011 and 2012. Despite these past successes, Ryan Cason, defender on the men’s lacrosse team and senior, agrees with Tomozawa on the difficulty of achieving a third consecutive State championship. Similar to the women’s team, Cason believed that hard work and teamwork has been a key role recently in the teams’ previous championships.

However, according to Cason, the men’s team has high expectations for themselves. The members of men’s lacrosse team have a strong desire to repeat their previous successes as well. Even though their path seems difficult, Cason said he thinks winning a third consecutive State championship is definitely achievable.

“We have the potential to be better if we work hard,” Cason said. “We can be good as we want to be if we work hard.”

Like Cason, defender and junior Matt Dickson, said that

the men’s team has a very difficult road to State. Dickson said these past achievements push the team to work harder and try to achieve the same level of success as before.

“We want to get the same level of achievement, if not better,” Dickson said.

Tomozawa, Cason and Dickson agree on the same goal; they want to achieve the same success as they have done so in the past.

However, the three agree that improvement is necessary in order to achieve their third consecutive State title. Cason stated that the men’s team needs to improve on their offensive sets and defensive slide packages. Dickson said that the team needs to communicate better on defense.

Tomozawa said he would like to see the girls develop overall and have a deep bench. Tomozawa also said he plans on having a strong well rounded team by resting the starters and giving the bench players enough playing time so they can improve their skills. He said it is important to be an unselfish team so the girls can get a wider distribution of goals and assists.

“We feel it (is) essential to continue to develop the players of the future, by giving all players valuable playing time during the season,” Tomozawa said.

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DOMINATE THE FIELD: Members of the men’s lacrosse team practice together and huddle together during practice. The team won the State championship last year, and defender and senior Ryan Cason said the goal for the team is to repeat last year’s performance and to win another State championship.

Even though the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams were successful during the last two seasons, they have to work harder and improve in order to repeat the same success. Both teams set high expectations as both expect to win the State title. The men’s team is currently ranked 10th overall in the Midwest Regional and the members of the team want to move up in the rankings.

“Our goal is to win another State championship,” Cason said. “Anything less is a disappointment.”

Lacrosse teams attempt to win third consecutive State title

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BY ISAAC [email protected]

With four returning varsity players, the men’s golf team looks to win a state championship this year, according to Andrew Havill, varsity golfer and senior.

The men’s golf team is ranked sixth in the state this year as compared to being ranked lower than the top twenty in the state last year.

According to Chad Carr, head coach of the men’s golf team, the team’s goals for the season are to win one match at a time and for players to improve individually throughout the season.

In order to prepare for this year’s season, both Havill and Jacob “Jake” Brown, varsity golfer and junior, have practiced during the off-season.

“I’ve prepared all winter. I’ve worked out after school and a lot of days I went and hit balls too,” Havill said.

Brown said he has prepared similarly.

Under senior leadership, men’s golf team looks to win a State championship this year

“I’ve played a lot during the winter and the fall and just as much as I can indoors,” Brown said.

According to Carr, Havill is a great player and having someone like him always helps one’s odds of having success.

Brown said he agrees with Carr, adding that Havill is a consistent scorer every tournament and every match.

Brown said, “He’s dependable because he’s never going to shoot a high number. We always know we’re going to have one good scorer and some other guys can step up as well.”

With tryouts postponed due to bad weather and two matches already cancelled due to rain, weather will have an effect on the team this year according to Havill.

Havill said, “We don’t have time to practice or do anything (when it is raining). We have to

spend a lot of time practicing the day after it rains because we have to make up for the practice that we missed.”

This is not the first time that weather has affected the men’s golf season and cancelled games.

I think we have a good chance of winning it. We’ve

been close in years past and I think our team is better than

we ever have been.

Chad CarrHead coach of the men’s golf team

Havill said, “Always at the start of the season, some games get rained out or snowed out in this case. As the season goes on, it gets better.”

Many sophomores and juniors on the team will be assets this year as they will keep improving, according to Havill.

Havill said, “I think we’re just going to keep (improving) our ranking (sixth in the state), because we have a lot of guys that have gotten better that have come back this year.”

According to Brown, since the men’s golf team only lost one player out of the top five last year, he believes the team will have a good year.

“We got eighth (in the state tournament) last year and I think we have a good chance of playing at a high level this year,” Brown said.

Havill said the men’s golf team definitely has a chance of winning State this year.

Carr said via email, “I think we have a good chance of winning it. We’ve been close in years past and I think our team is better than we ever have been.”

According to Brown, if the team plays to its potential it can beat any team in the state.

“We have to play well two days because it’s a two day tournament,” Brown said. “We have to get past Sectionals and Regionals which will be tough too, so it depends on how we play at State and if we all come together.” H

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PERSPECTIVES

Speak Up!

Should gay marriage be legalized?

No, the purpose of marriage is procreation... (and) shouldn’t be compromised by a sexual tendency that one can avoid.

Junior Tom Sheridan

Yes, it honestly should not be an issue.

Senior John Du

Yes, I feel like everyone should be entitled to (marry whom) they love.

SeniorKaylee Moon

I would not do it, but I am not so against it that I think other people should not. If you love someone, go for it.

Freshman Elizabeth Johns

Yes, I think if you love someone you should be able to marry them.

FreshmanSara Keller

SophomoreHenry Curts

Yes, that’s the way God made them. I believe that if they were created that way they should be able to act on that.

COMPILED BY CRYSTAL CHEN, GAVIN COLAVITO

Staff Perspective

Students should take a more active role in asking for changes in school policy, inform themselvesAs far as policy is concerned, the microcosm of our school functions as a trickle-down dictatorship. We, the students, have virtually no power in state and federal regulations, and we often don’t hear about them until they are affecting us. But are we really as powerless as we believe?

When new guidelines take effect that students deem arbitrary or detrimental to the student body or the school in general, such as RISE standards or the 90/10 grading policy, students often grumble and complain among peers and on Twitter, but that’s typically the extent of it. Eventually we buckle under and accept the changes as resolute orders. Now, with new federal guidelines impeding on our lunchtime choices, students yet again take to passing period rants between friends, with no direction or plan of action.

The guideline in question comes from the Department of Agriculture, and it mandates that all á la carte items in the cafeteria be under 200 calories. This will remove popular snacks, such as Cheetos, from the lunch line by the 2014—2015 school year. This move to reduce students’ caloric intake is obviously targeted at America’s current obesity

epidemic, especially with Indiana ranking as the eighth most obese state in the nation in 2012. However, many student athletes rely on these snacks to power them through intense workouts and games. Furthermore, the

majority of students feel they should be allowed to make their own choices about what they put into their bodies. Other students maintain that, even if such food choices are eliminated from this school’s menu, they will purchase those foods elsewhere.

The cafeteria staff recognized this and sent a school-wide email to the staff, urging them to tell their students about the changes and for them to tell the state how they feel. However, not all teachers spoke to the students about it, and the student response to taking any real action has been paltry thus far.

Within the email, cafeteria manager Anne Marie Woerner cites venues through which students, parents and staff may comment on the proposed legislation, even suggesting that teachers offer extra credit for those who actively take part in “a government process that directly affects them.” Woerner also included a letter to students within the email, detailing the manner in which students should go about participating in giving feedback.

Woener states in the letter that students should be specific in their reasoning and list examples for why such

legislation would prove detrimental to any part of the student body if the Department of Agriculture makes a final ruling.

Even with these detailed instructions from cafeteria staff, students, for some reason, are not taking a more active role in their protests. But it’s not as if they have to take to the streets with picket signs and colored banners. Simply a sentence or two by letter, email or through a phone call would suffice. Rather than just complaining and not voicing their opinions, students should take an active role. If enough students respond, those sentences add up and administrators as well as legislators would have no choice but to take notice.

We are the ones affected by policy changes, and thus it is truly our responsibility to speak up about these matters. In this school alone we have over 4,000 voices that are capable of making change. If something is not right, stand up for yourself and your peers. Though we are far from a democracy, we do have a much bigger say in school policies than most of us realize. H

We are the ones affected by

policy changes, and thus it is truly our

responsibility to speak up about these matters.

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OPINION

Friends, not food. The effects of animal product production are vast and horrifying.From Feb. 13 to March 24, I did not consume any meat, dairy, eggs, butter, gelatin, whey or honey. After deciding to try going vegan for 40 days, I embarked on this venture with my heart full of love for all of the animals I’d be saving and my pantry full of soybeans, vegetable soups and lots of peanut butter. But let’s back up a bit. This whole adventure really started about two months earlier when I watched the documentary “Vegucated.”

The film follows three omnivores who agree to go vegan for six weeks, as they reap the benefits and overcome the challenges of a plant-based diet in today’s meat-and-cheese-obsessed society. Along the way, they uncover slaughterhouse secrets and learn about what they’re actually putting into their bodies. The film brought tears to my eyes, yet opened them at the same time. How could I have lived 18-and-a-half years almost completely clueless to what I’ve been consuming? Thus, my goal for this column is not only to get you to consider going vegan or vegetarian, but also to make sure you know how that cheeseburger arrived on your plate and its effects on you and on the rest of the world.

According to the nonprofit organization Vegan Outreach, federal law requires that mammals are stunned before they are slaughtered. This is typically done by sending an electric current through the animal, or by a captive bolt gun shooting a rod into the animal’s brain. For birds, however, there is no federal law mandating this “ethical” treatment. Strung up by their feet, chickens’ and turkeys’ heads are dunked in an electrified water basin; however, several thousand birds survive the electrocution every year and arrive fully conscious to be dropped into the scalding tanks where they inevitably will die by drowning or literally being cooked alive, and these animals won’t look like the fluffy little barn animals from “Babe.” No, they’ll have untreated oozing sores and tumors, they’ll be genetically modified to produce more meat to the point where they can barely move or breathe and they’ll be covered in feces, dirt and bugs from the inhumane living conditions.

As much as you may like to forget it, every day thousands of animals are born with the sole purpose of dying. Your

cheeseburger had a face and a heart and a brain, and when it was finally put out of the miserable conditions it had lived its whole life in, I can promise you it felt pain. In the slaughterhouses, animals are not treated as living creatures, but as products. In an assembly line fashion, animals are murdered, disassembled part by part, processed and packaged into neat little squares or slices.

However, if emotional appeal isn’t really your thing, let’s look at this from an environmental standpoint. Research at the University of Chicago shows that being vegan is the number-one most effective effort in the fight against global warming. You would save more water by not eating one pound of meat than by forgoing showers for six months. You would save 20 times the amount of fossil fuel by choosing a soy-based entrée over meat. Overall, a vegan is responsible for the release of 1.5 fewer tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than a meat-eater every year.

Not only is going vegan one of the best ways to fight global warming, but also according to the Academy of Nutrition and

Dietetics, vegetarians and vegans enjoy a lower risk of death from heart disease, lower rates of type two diabetes and lower body mass indexes. Furthermore, according to the Food and Drug Administration, the meat supply in the United States contains residue of 500 to 600 chemicals, which have given rise to cancer rates, obesity and thyroid disease. The air and water pollution from slaughterhouses have been linked to brain damage, depression and birth defects. The list goes on and on.

There is nothing ethical or beneficial about any part of the meat production process. It is bad for the animals, bad for you and bad for the environment. So try going vegan for just one day. Try ordering a vegetarian meal the next time you’re at a restaurant. Just try it; a little can go a long way. You have all the information—the choice is yours. I’ve made mine.

Lindsey Walker is a reporter for the HiLite. The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach her at [email protected].

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LINDSEYWALKER

I’m the prettiest fl oor duster there is!

Have fun trying to breathe tonight.

Bow down, plebeians.Did someone

say bedazzled?

If Prom Dresses Could Talk

Graphic Perspective

CONNIE CHU / GRAPHIC

Today:The original iPhone

Tomorrow:The iPhone 25

The evolution of ‘mobile’ technology

The future:The iPhone 100

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I think I’ll go to Boston. What can we learn from the most recent national tragedy?Last week, our nation shook in fear and anger as two young men wreaked senseless violence throughout Boston. Even now, exact details are still hazy; it will take weeks for this topic to fade from the national discussion. But though we may not know every minute bit of information regarding these tragedies, we can still draw out lessons that can help reaffirm our faith in the overall good of humanity.

How would I know? I was there—not during the explosions that occurred on the afternoon of April 15 or the early morning of April 19, but before and after them.

An educational Mecca, Boston is home to at least 50 colleges and universities. As a senior, I was taking advantage of the month of April to visit some schools before I make my final decision in May.

The marathon blasts occurred on Bolyston Street, which I remember passing en route to Sunday morning dim sum in Chinatown on April 14. Runners who had arrived earlier were casually tracing the route in preparation for “Marathon Monday,” a beloved Boston tradition.

My second visit to Boston started on April 19; despite the MIT campus shooting and wave of explosions that had occurred the night before, our 6 a.m. flight was not derailed. However, since ground transportation was shut down—law enforcement feared the second suspect, who

She has been hailed as whiny, bratty, fake and malevolent, but Suzy Lee Weiss is my hero.

On March 30, Suzy Lee, a senior at Taylor Alldendice High School in Pittsburgh, blatantly called out college admissions offices around the country for lying to students.

Her method of communication? A witty, satirical column in the Wall Street Journal, titled “To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me: If only I had a tiger mom or started a fake charity.” The funniest part is that she is right.

This year, the harsh truth is, you were lucky to get into one college. The highly competitive applicant class of 2013 truly came to bat. Unfortunately, most of us struck out. Me, I was lucky—other than Indiana University my sole acceptance came from Vanderbilt University.

Am I bitter? Truthfully, I was. But, as I reflected on the entire college search and application process I realized that there was no point in lamenting something I could not change. So I rolled up my sleeves and went to work with my options. Suzy Lee? Not so much.

Look at her. Unlucky? Yes. Bitter? Clearly. Yet she speaks the truth—this competitively subjective game that is college admission is both ridiculous and nonsensical. As

RYAN ZUKERMAN

This year, the harsh truth is,

you were lucky to get into

one college.

was traveling on foot, would use it to escape—the Boston/Cambridge area was largely inaccessible, so we were relegated to our hotel and the surrounding suburban area.

So what can we draw from this “terror attack,” which occurred just as our nation was slowly recovering from the most fatal public shooting in American history?

First, take note of the reaction of bystanders to the explosions. In released footage of the finish line of the Boston marathon, people ran toward the explosions in an effort to help the injured. Runners who had just completed a marathon ran further to Massachusetts General Hospital to donate blood and to notify hospital workers about the incoming wave of injured people. Doctors and EMTs in the race elected to not finish in order to provide first aid to those near the blasts. In contrast, when planes flew into the World Trade Center on 9/11, most civilians bolted.

Second, Americans have come together to ensure that the proper parties receive their punishment. The FBI received at least 2,000 tips in the first few

hours following the Monday bombings, and bystanders with cell phone pictures and videos immediately shared them with law enforcement agencies.

Some, like NPR, have called it the “first truly crowd-sourced investigation.” As more questions continue to be

The Plight of Suzy Lee: Why a senior in Pittsburgh named Suzy Lee Weiss is my hero.

Suzy said, the typical college spiel of “just be yourself ” is only great advice if “yourself has nine extracurriculars, six leadership positions, three varsity sports, killer SAT scores

and two moms.” It should be noted that Weiss faced

an inordinate amount of criticism for publishing her opinion. Many people found her to be insensitive to minorities and overly entitled. College admissions blogger Jon Boeckenstedt even posted a blog called “To All the Colleges Suzy Lee Weiss Rejected,” in which he says Weiss “would have been a shoe-in at almost all of the more than 4,000 colleges she chose not to apply to.”

Sure, Weiss’ comments came off as brash, but being someone who just went through the same process, I can both identify and relate to her satire. As she explained on the Today show on April 4, her piece is a satire; “(it) pokes fun at things that are politically correct. That’s what (she) was trying to do.”

Truthfully, the college admissions process has become such a crapshoot that there is no accurate way to get results. We have reached a point where standardized

test scores are not an application booster; rather, they are now a criteria for college admission.

This year, for instance, more than 25 percent of

Vanderbilt applicants had an 800 on SAT Math and an 800 on SAT Verbal. As these statistics show, the time when high test scores and a solid GPA got you into school is gone, simply because everyone has the scores and everyone has the grades.

Admission, now, is about separating yourself from that highly selective field—a task much easier said than done, just ask Suzy. She had the scores (2120 SAT) and she had the grades (4.5 GPA), yet her internship with the U.S. Senate was not enough to push her through the blockade.

Sure, it is a little bit too late to edit her resume to include “Wall Street Journal columnist” and “Today show contributor.” In fact, at the time these accolades may have made little difference in her ultimate admissions decisions. Yet you can bet that her admissions liaisons at these schools now took a second look at the day that they closed the door on Suzy Lee Weiss.

Ryan Zukerman is a managing editor for the HiLite. The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach him at [email protected].

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answered in the following weeks, the bigger takeaway is the unity of the American populace, in spite of the violence. Americans cooperated with police, stayed indoors, and trusted in the ultimate fairness of our nation’s law enforcement and justice systems. And even though I’m now almost 1000 miles away from Boston, that fact will always make me proud to be an American.

Melinda Song is a managing editor for the HiLite. The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach her at [email protected].

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Scan the QR code here to read the Wall Street Journal column by Suzy Lee Weiss.

MELINDASONG

The bigger takeaway is the unity of

the American populace.

AFTERMATH AT BOSTON: Police and other emergency workers stabilize the scene after two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

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Privacy Please. Congress needs to update its online privacy laws, protect citizens’ rights.Over spring break, I Googled how much a certain pair of shoes would cost. Just once. I began to notice those sneakers popping up in ads across Facebook, Amazon and YouTube. Pretty soon these shoes were appearing on almost every website I was visiting. It was reminiscent of a desperate street peddler chasing after passerby for a sale.

But aside from being annoying, my sole-searching experience has also highlighted the currently vague and outdated guidelines for online data and privacy protection.

On March 12, Google settled a lawsuit with 38 states and the District of Columbia over a controversy involving Google Street View, a mapping program that displays photos of homes, buildings and streets. Vehicles equipped with antennae and surveillance software scoured roads worldwide from 2008 to 2010, but also engaged in the unauthorized collection of personal information, including network identification tags, browsing data and emails transmitted across unsecured wireless networks.

Google ended up paying $7 million as part of the settlement, but that’s pocket change for the $200 billion tech giant. In reality, the company could have been charged much more—but current federal law is very murky or nonexistent regarding digital offenses, and attorneys couldn’t prosecute Google on actions like the collection of personal wireless network information. That’s because the last major law Congress passed on the subject, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), was in 1986. That’s four years before the World Wide Web was invented. Mark Zuckerberg was only two years old. Google itself would be founded more than a decade later.

In its current state, the ECPA nominally restricts some of the government’s ability to intercept electronic data transmitted through computers. However, technology has accelerated at such a pace that cell phone companies, search engines and social networking sites can and do intercept information on peoples’ identities, locations, tastes and preferences. Federal and state governments could do the same, as we saw with the PATRIOT Act.

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Thus, the only logical path is to amend the ECPA to fit the times. The law needs to drop all its ancient loopholes to provide full privacy protections to all online transmissions. Location information should be guarded from governmental and commercial entities. The same stringent requirements to obtain a wiretap should be

applied to digital surveillance requests. The exclusionary rule must apply to both electronic and non-electronic information; if evidence was illegally obtained, it cannot be used in court.

Given the widespread resistance against SOPA and PIPA, I think I can say that many Americans oppose outside meddling in our personal online communications. If we put up a similarly fierce campaign to update the ECPA, it’s likely Congress would relook at the antiquated regulation.

I urge you to contact your elected officials about this matter. You don’t even need to come up with the wording for a letter yourself—the American Civil Liberties Union provides a pre-written message that will be sent to our representatives in Congress if you simply visit the group’s website. The ECPA is in desperate need of reform, and fiascos like Google’s monitoring of network IDs and personal information only emphasize that

fact. It’s inconceivable that a decrepit, decades-old law could effectively govern modern communications, much less stop shoe websites from distributing my footwear preferences to every ad agency in cyberspace.

Victor Xu is the editor in chief for the HiLite. The views in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the HiLite staff. Reach him at [email protected].

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VICTORXU

The only logical path is to amend the

ECPA to fit the times.

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15 MINUTES OF FAME

How did you first hear about rugby?Freshman year some of my friends invited me to come play with them, and since then it’s been my favorite sport.

Was it difficult to learn how to play rugby?No, at first it seemed confusing but once you get out there and play, you get the hang of it really fast.

What rugby club do you play for?I play for Carmel Rugby Club in the spring and Hamilton United Rugby Club in the fall. I prefer Carmel Rugby Club because it’s more competitive.

What position do you play on these teams?I play a variety of positions, such as second row, where you push your own team’s scrum to contest the other team for the ball, and from time to time I also play flanker, which is a position similar to linebacker in football.

What are some of the most dangerous aspects of rugby?Probably the fact that it’s really easy to get injured because we don’t wear pads.

Have you ever been seriously injured playing rugby?Last year I broke my ankle. I was running with the ball, and I got tackled by a guy who wrapped up my legs, and when I fell down I rotated and felt my left ankle snap. I was in a wheelchair for six weeks and had to have surgery.

What is something you would like the school to know about rugby?It’s a great sport, very fun, and if anyone is looking for a sport to play next fall or spring I highly encourage you to come out and play rugby. You won’t regret it.

Padless PlayerBY HENRY [email protected]

Junior Hunter Hodge plays rugby as a club sport

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Learn the basics of rugby by following the graphic belowThe Rules of Rugby

Basic Rules of Rugby• The ball must be ran or

kicked forwards at all times. To pass the ball, it must be thrown backwards.

• Following a penalty, play is resumed in a scrum. Eight players from each team bind together and engage each other for possession of the ball.

A rugby ball is roughly 11” long and 24” in circumference.

The Crossbar Located on the goal line, and three meters off the ground. The drop goal is kicked into it from directly behind where the try is scored.

10 m line

22 m line

Goal Line5 m indication line

15 m indication line

In-Goal AreaIf the ball touches the

ground here (called a “try”), 5 points are awarded and a drop

goal is kicked.

Half-way LineFifty meters on either

side to a goal line. Games are started by drop-

kicking the ball here.

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