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He is more than just a teacher, many of his students said. He is a friend, a role model and a mentor. Dan Oswald (Doc), radio and broadcasting teacher, has been teaching at South and work-ing with high school students for the past 11 years.

This November, Doc was nominat-ed by sophomore Dean Herrera and selected to be WGN’s Teacher of the Month.

“You never expect to win anything, especially as a teacher and so when I was told that it was a student nomi-nation, I was very happy because the nominations that come from students are the ones that mean the most… be-cause the students are the one who are directly affected by what you do in the classroom,” Doc said.

WGN came to South to personally award Doc with the title of Teacher of the Month and to present him with a

check for 1,000 dollars. This money will go towards buying school supplies and any other incidental pieces of equip-ment for the radio studio, Doc said.

As he received the award, many of his students came to watch and con-gratulate him. Ac-cording to Doc, all of his students were excited for him.

“They respond-ed very positively, which was nice be-cause that just re-inforced for me that the intentions with which the nomination was made… and the sentiments behind that intention are shared by a good number of my students,” Doc said.

One of these students, Station Man-ager Maggie Ziegler, was not surprised at all upon hearing that Doc had won the Teacher of the Month award.

“He is just such a great guy and so

deserving of [the award],” Ziegler said. “Whenever you come in [to the radio studio], he will ask ‘How are you?’ And he’s not just making conversa-tion or just asking to be polite, he is

honestly and genuinely ask-ing how you are today. It’s just those little things that he does that really prove and em-phasize the fact that he is just someone that

you can really just go to for anything and that he is more than just a teacher […] for so many students.”

Operations Director Jordan Spald-ing agrees with Ziegler and could not think of anyone more deserving of the award.

“He is a great teacher, but also the thing about Doc is that he is also just a great mentor,” Spalding said. “I think

that’s why he is so well-deserving of the award because he has helped me through a lot of stuff and I think he has done so with a lot of different students and so those students think very highly of him.”

Both Ziegler and Spalding attribut-ed Doc’s winning of the award to his approachable nature and helpful guid-ance, but Noreen Andersen, new mu-sic director, believes that along with those important traits, Doc’s ability to relate to his students is the main reason why he is so deserving of being named Teacher of the Month.

“When a teacher knows how to re-late to their students, their students get comfortable with them, their students love them and their students want them to be known for that, they want them to win awards like [WGN’s],” Andersen said. “They want to let the world know how important that per-son is in their life… I honestly think the reason people step into the studio in WKH�ÀUVW�SODFH�LV�EHFDXVH�RI�'RF�µ

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A sporadic thumping reverberates between the solid gymnasium walls before exiting out the main entrance.

The sound of students squeal-ing with delight converges

with sneakers squeaking against the sheen sur-face of the basketball court. Across the way, a game of dodgeball is being played. At the far

end of the room, students jump and cheer as they score JRDOV� LQ� D� ÀYH�RQ�ÀYH� VRFFHU�

match.Suddenly, students come rushing

in from all corners of the gym—pizza is here! After a satisfying meal and po-

lite dinner conversations, the fun and games proceed. Just as the energy of students fade, the eventful evening comes to a close, yet it seems nobody wanted the night to end.

The Glenbrook United Special Olympics Team celebrated on Nov. 21 after all their hard work and dedica-tion to volleyball this season. Head coach Pa’al Joshi believes it was a great way for the team to form en-during relationships that will last the whole season.

“The [concept] of combining en-gaging [activities] and dinner into one night is wonderful,” Joshi explained. “It’s great for the team to interact with each other in [such positive ways].”

Assistant coach Megan Williams agrees with Joshi and is looking for-ward to another basketball season af-

ter the team’s achievements last year.“In the past, the team has been ri-

diculously successful,” Williams said. “They represent the community very well and it’s really sweet for them to get involved and be recognized for athletics when they normally wouldn’t.”

For some multiple-sport athletes such as senior Hannah Flanagan, bas-ketball is undoubtedly her favorite.

“I really enjoy going to practice,” Flanagan said. “We practice [skills] such as passing, dribbling, shooting and defense.”

As a leader on the team, Flanagan is constantly thinking of strategies and techniques to help her teammates get better at basketball.

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.H\� &OXE� LV� VSHDUKHDGLQJ� LWV� ÀUVW�GBS Random Acts of Kindness Cam-paign, an initiative designed to en-courage acts of goodwill throughout the building, running Dec. 8-19.

The campaign’s primary focus lies in the idea of “paying it forward,” en-gaging in kindhearted acts and using that generosity to spread the spirit of compassion throughout the communi-ty. The event’s initial planning began during the summer prior to the 2014-15 school year in efforts to improve the socio-behavioral climate present at South, according to Social Worker Da-vid Hartman. Remedying the social is-sues turned into a monthly mini-cam-paign taken on by different clubs, and .H\�&OXE�SURYHG�D�QDWXUDO�ÀW�WR�WDNH�on the challenge.

´,W�VHHPV�WR�ÀW�UHDOO\�ZHOO�DQG�WKH\�totally have run with it and are do-ing it,” Hartman said. “It’s clearly the most planned event we have so far.”

The generosity spurred by the hol-iday season inspired Josh Koo, Key Club sponsor, to spread the kindness.He often challenges Key Club mem-bers to start a school-wide movement.

“[The holidays are] the time where people are most generous,” Koo said. “Why don’t we use that notion and take it to the next lev-el? Maybe promote a random act of kindness where we are be-ing overly gener-ous. Why don’t we take this and open [it] up to the entire school?”

GRACE SHINstaff reporter

Stevi Marks, current GBS Variety Show director and retired choral di-rector, has been nominated for the Music Educator Award, becoming a VHPL�ÀQDOLVW� DV�RI�6HSWHPEHU�� DFFRUG-LQJ� WR� WKH� RIÀFLDO� 0XVLF� (GXFDWRU�Award website.

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This award is given to musical ed-XFDWRUV�ZKR�KDYH�PDGH� D� VLJQLÀFDQW�contribution to musical education and to those who demonstrate a commit-ment maintaining music education in schools, according to the Music Edu-cator Award website.

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“I just think she really pushed me to go out of my comfort zone.”-senior Julia Packer

ENROLLMENT DECISION: As of Oct. 27, the District 225 Board of Edu-cation ruled that GBS and GBN are HTXLSW�WR�UHVSRQG�WR�WKH�ÁXFWXDWLQJ�enrollment numbers without hav-ing to change their existing bound-aries delineating the placement of students at each school. That being said, South will still have to look into further facility adjustments to prop-HUO\�KDQGOH�WKH�LQÁX[�RI�VWXGHQWV�LQ�the coming years.

SAFE DRIVERS: From Dec. 14-19, 6RXWK�KHOG�LWV�ÀUVW�DQQXDO�6DIH�'ULY-LQJ� :HHN�� 6SHDUKHDGHG� E\� -RKQ�Skorupa, driver’s edu-cation instructor, the initiative aims to pro-mote safe driving hab-its for all students. 7KHUH� ZDV� D� ÀHOG� WULS� RQ� :HGQHV-day Dec. 17 to Allstate Insurance in Northbrook and an information-al booth set up in the hallway on Thursday and Friday.

FOOD DRIVE RECORD: On Nov. 25, Student Council members broke an all-school record for most cans col-lected during the annual Canned Food Drive. With a previous record of 132,000, the members, along with the help of the student body and Glenview community, reached an RIÀFLDO� WRWDO�RI� �������� FDQV��%HORZ��Student Council members celebrate their success.

PENSION LAW: A ruling on Nov. 21 E\� ,OOLQRLV� MXGJH� -RKQ� %HO]� VWDWHG�that Illinois’s reformed pension law is unconstitutional, supporting the decision to appeal to the Illinois Su-preme Court. The reformed law has been a source of controversy since its approval last year for reducing retir-HH�EHQHÀWV�DQG�LQFUHDVLQJ�HPSOR\HH�contributions.

SOUTH ALUM STAR: Arian Moayed, Class of 1998 South graduate and

Tony-nominat-ed actor, plays character Hamid LQ� -RKQ� 6WHZDUW·V�

movie, Rosewater, a true story about an Iranian-Canadi-an journalist who

was imprisoned and tortured in Iran in 2009. The movie came out in select theaters on Nov. 14.

RISING RANKS: On Nov. 4 the school data site Niche ranked Glenbrook South as number 19 out of 25 top high schools in the nation. Accord-ing to Business Insider, the website ranked over 100,000 schools from around the country based on aca-demics, faculty, resources, diversity and culture.

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MARVELOUS MARKS: Waving her arms excitedly, Stevi Marks, retired South choral director and music teacher, directs musicians from IV[O�.):�HUK�.)5�H[�[OL�;LJOU`�;V^LYZ�T\ZPJ�MLZ[P]HS�VU�4HYJO� ��4HYRZ�^HZ�H�ZLTPÄUHSPZ[�MVY�[OL�.YHTT`�-V\UKH[PVU�4\ZPJ�,K\JH[VY�(^HYK�[OPZ�`LHY��I\[�KPK�UV[�THRL�P[�PU[V�[OL�SPZ[�VM�ÄUHSPZ[Z��Photo by Jackie Cortopassi

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Likewise, Senior Nina Santacrose said the party is both a time to improve her bas-ketball skills and an opportunity to spend time with her team-mates.

“I’m really [glad] I joined the team be-cause it [has allowed] me to meet the best IULHQGV�,·YH�HYHU�KDG�µ�Santacrose said.

Santacrose has been a part of the Glen-brook United pro-gram for four consecu-tive years, and has not only met new friends along the way, but has had the support of her family through it all. Her mother, Meg Santacrose, is grateful that Nina is for-tunate enough to go to a school where

she can play the sports she loves.“Nina has always enjoyed sports,

but with her disability it has been dif-ÀFXOW�WR�ÀQG�WHDP�VSRUWV�IRU�KHU��µ�0HJ�said. “The Glenbrook United Team of-fered her a unique opportunity in high

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Similarly, Nina’s sister, Erin Santa-crose, a Loyola sophomore, notices Nina’s lively mood while she is playing sports. Erin origi-nally bridged to-gether Loyola and South when she or-ganized a similar party for the team last year.

“[This celebra-tion] creates an op-portunity to bridge the gap between Loyola students and some students who have more

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gether, Erin and her mother hope to

encourage acceptance of students with disabilities at Loyola. According to Meg, the event built enthusiasm at Loyola for the mentoring of students with special needs and established a sense of pride within the players.

“The coaches have done a really good job not just teaching [players] the sport, but teaching them team-ZRUN�DQG�FRQÀGHQFH�µ�Meg said.

,Q�DGGLWLRQ��-HQQLIHU�Pearson, District 225 Director of Special Ed-ucation, believes that the district’s admin-istration has played a role in the team’s suc-cesses.

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By connecting GBS, GBN, Glen-

brook Off-Campus and Glenbrook Transition students, a sense of unity has formed between District 225, ac-cording to Pearson. The Glenbrook 8QLWHG�SURJUDP�EHJDQ�ZLWK�-RVKL·V�LQ-spiration to form an all inclusive team.

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7R� -RVKL�� WKH�team is focused on more than their wins and losses. He takes pride in his duty to the stu-dents.

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SUPER SCOOTER: Celebrating his team’s successful volleyball season, Ryan Jennings, Glenbrook Transition student, scooters across the gym at Loyola. Photo by John Schurer

DARING DODGEBALL: Bryan Nash, Glenbrook Transition student energetically throws a dodgeball at the Glenbrook United end-of-season sports party. Photo by John Schurer

Scan this QR code with a QR read-er on your smart phone to view the Niche website!

Photo by Marley Hambourger

STEM scheduled to replace Chem/Phys Program

TAKING INITIATIVE: Surrounded by students on all sides, Key Club leaders John Schurer and Lori Steffel publicize the Random Acts of Kindness campaign at the 2014 Winter Sports Assembly. This was one of many ways the movement was promoted.Photo courtesy of Daniel Krolopp

“I think that the way we started out with Physics gives us a better applica-tion of learning how we can use properties of en-gineering.”-freshman Jonah Frese

CALCULATING & “CHEMPUTING”: Working on complex math problems, sophomores Andrew Patronik and Victor Bienko power through their classwork. This is the last year of Chem/Phys before it switches to the STEM Learning Community. Photo by Jacqueline DeWitt

3Dec. 19, 2014news

Shortly before 5 p.m. on Dec. 14, Iranian radicalist Man Haron Monis entered a chocolate cafe in downtown Sydney, Australia with gun in hand.

In what would be a 17-hour hostage standoff, the so-called “Sydney Siege” gunman held 17 captured at Lindt Chocolat Café. Monis was eventually FRQÀUPHG� WR� KDYH� NLOOHG�two—34-year-old cafe manager Tori Johnson and 38-year-old lawyer Katrina Dawson—and left four injured.

Monis, 50, died upon police intervention. Once a Shiite cleric in Iran, in 1996 Monis was granted political asy-lum in Australia, and since then has faced multiple run-ins with the law. His past charges include sending of-fensive letters to deceased Afghanistan veterans, over 40 incidents of sexual as-

sault and accessory to murder of his ex-wife. He was granted bail and awaited trial for the latter.

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tailed recount of the happenings inside the café published by The Guardian, Monis had declared his presence to be D� WHUURULVW� DWWDFN� LQ�name of the self-proclaimed Islam-ic State. He also is-sued three demands, none of which were

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First, Australia’s Muslim community reacted vehemently against notions that this scene was truly representative of the larger Islamic faith and community. According to SBS World News, the online Twitter hashtag #illridewithy-ou surged online as a

movement to help accompany Muslim ZRPHQ�IHDULQJ�IRU�WKHLU�VDIHW\�ZDONLQJ�in public streets.

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lamic state, without turning democra-cies into police states. Australia could set a baseline for other nations facing the same threat, but the potential for Western governments to become over-bearing is soon to be more prevalent.

PHYSICS FOCUS: Working diligently, sophomore Michelle Omega stays on task [V� ÄUPZO� HSS� VM� OLY� JSHZZ^VYR�� :;,4� OHZ�emerged as the new Chem/Phys of South.Photo by Jacqueline DeWitt

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“It’s not really about how many pictures or posts on Instagram or how many tweets there are, it’s more about whether or not we see a change in *%6�DQG�ZKHWKHU�RU�QRW�RXU�VWXGHQWV�VHHP�KDSSLHU�DQG�PRUH�NLQG�WR�HDFK�other,” Steffel said.

The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Learn-ing Community, an alternative ad-vanced science course to the Chem/Phys course for freshmen, has pro-duced good results so far this year and is poised to replace Chem/Phys—an LQWHQVLYH�VFLHQFH�WUDFN�IRU�JLIWHG�IUHVK-men and sophomores—after this year’s conclusion.

/LNH�&KHP�3K\V��7KH�67(0�/HDUQ-LQJ� &RPPXQLW\� LV� D� PXOWL�\HDU� WUDFN�for freshmen that begins with Chem-istry and Physics, rather than Biology. According to Jeffrey Rylander, Science Department instructional supervisor, the STEM Learning Community is fo-cused on integrating science and en-gineering classes. For each level of a science course, there is an engineering

class designed to go along with it.“[The ultimate end of] the engi-

neering sequence [is] the engineer-ing design and development course,” 5\ODQGHU� VDLG�� ´6WXGHQWV� WDNH� DOO� WKDW�they’ve learned in science and in en-JLQHHULQJ�DQG�WDNH�D�UHDO�OLIH�SUREOHP��develop a solu-tion and actu-ally a prototype of a physical device that is a solution to the real-life prob-lem.”

Physics stu-dents in the STEM Learning community are currently learn-ing about sound waves, accord-ing to Ryland-er. In engineering, they have been able to apply what they’ve learned some-where else, in order to expand their un-derstanding of the topics covered.

´>6WXGHQWV� ZLOO@� WDNH� ZKDW� WKH\·YH�learned [in physics] and put that into some mathematical representations, WKHQ�WKH\·UH�JRLQJ�WR�WDNH�WKHVH�>PLFUR-controller robots] in engineering and [program them],” Rylander said. “So they’ve understood the physics, but it has an actual application where they’re going to program something.”

Freshman Jonah Frese, a STEM /HDUQLQJ� &RPPXQLW\� VWXGHQW�� ÀQGV�LW� EHQHÀFLDO� WR� KDYH� VWDUWHG� OHDUQLQJ�physics as he goes through engineer-ing.

´,�WKLQN�WKDW�WKH�ZD\�ZH�VWDUWHG�RXW�with physics gives us a better applica-tion of learning how we can use [it re-lated to engineering],” Frese said. “[It provides us with] a better understand-ing of math and how it’s applied in re-al-world situations.”

According to freshman William

Sander, a STEM Learning Community student, the class was an appealing op-tion to him because of the new and dif-ferent learning potential it presented during the year.

“I was very interested in science and engineering and the technology

that’s involved with it,” Sander said. “I thought it was a great opportunity for college and all the other career opportunities that we expe-rience in later life.”

There is more than just the engineering component to the engineering

and physics pair, according to Thomas Henderson, freshman Physics teacher. He said it does not matter whether a student becomes an engineer in their future, they will still be able to use what they learned in engineering class.

“Really what we’re trying to create LV�NLGV�ZLWK�D�UHDO�HQJLQHHULQJ�PHQWDO-ity,” Henderson said. “A person may become a surgeon, for instance, and as they’re doing their surgery, they will run into a problem. It’s the engineering PHQWDOLW\�UHDOO\�WKDW�GLVVHFWV�LW��EUHDNV�it apart, decomposes the problem and WKLQNV�>VFLHQWLÀFDOO\@�DQG�VRUW�RI�EULQJV�engineering [to another situation].”

Sander is enthusiastic about the fu-ture of the STEM Learning Program. He hopes it appeals to the interests of incoming students, just as it appealed to him.

“I’m just really excited for what’s to come with STEM, and what’s to come with all the other grades to sign up for it, since we’re the inaugural class,” Sander said.

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Content filtering invites student input, potential to changeAs South has become an increasing-

ly technology-based environment, stu-dents and teachers alike have become PRUH�IDPLOLDU�ZLWK�WKH�FRQWHQW�ÀOWHULQJ�system, known as Securly, that is used to limit material that is considered in-appropriate or irrelevant for education-al purposes.

The Oracle’s Editorial Board sug-gests that the current system in place for students to directly request that cer-tain sites be unblocked––or ‘whitelist-HG·³EH�PDGH� DV� HIÀFLHQW� DV� SRVVLEOH��The prioritization system would not be an easy implementation and may re-quire training of staff to be authorized to whitelist sites. However, opportu-nities for students to be more produc-tive, especially be-cause of increased unstructured time provided by SRT on the block schedule, ZRXOG�EH�EHQHÀFLDO�

Head Librar-ian Christi Shaner said that the sort of system the Oracle has proposed al-ready exists for teachers that have been blocked in trying to access content for lesson plans, but a system with the VDPH� HIÀFLHQF\� GRHVQ·W� H[LVW� IRU� VWX-dents.

As it stands, students can either email the service desk with requests or ask teachers to submit requests to WKH� OLEUDU\� DV� D� PRUH� HIÀFLHQW� PHDQV�of having a site whitelisted, the lat-WHU� RI�ZKLFK� LV�PRUH� HIÀFLHQW�� DFFRUG-ing to Ryan Bretag, director of instruc-WLRQDO� WHFKQRORJ\�� 7KH� FRQWHQW� ÀOWHU�already has an embedded link set up for students to email the service desk to request to have the site reviewed for whitelisting, but few students are aware of this system.

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especially because many of the problems students run into are in times when there isn’t a teacher to request access on their behalf. Senior Georgia Kotsinis, for ex-ample, has been blocked from ac-cessing certain parts of colleges’ websites during her lunch and af-ter school.

,Q� D� PRUH� HIÀFLHQW� V\VWHP��approval would come from the library. More importantly, it would fall on students to sub-mit thoughtful requests to only whitelist sites that would truly be EHQHÀFLDO� IRU� WKHLU� SURGXFWLYLW\�and academic success. The more

requests that would come in for sites that wouldn’t add to pro-ductivity, the more backed up the review system would become for students who

may truly need to have a site whitelisted in a more timely fash-ion.

Not only would this make Se-FXUO\� D� PRUH� FRQVWUXFWLYH� ÀOWHU��but it would also add to the goals that the technology coordinators have of including students in the dialogue around what kinds of sites should be whitelisted.

The volume of research which all students are encouraged to do for school and school-related activities has increased in recent years given the boom of content available online. This rings true inside the building because of District 225’s choice to adopt the “1:1 model”—where every students has a device provided by the school—by using Chromebooks. Considering this hike in encouraged research and screentime, there is likely a wider range

of content that students can explore.“I remember one time one of my

friends [and I were] researching breast cancer for health class and somehow we were not allowed to view certain things, [and] we weren’t allowed to go to certain pages because of any content that might have been viewed as bad, although it [wasn’t] bad at all,” junior Mia Crespo said.

Crespo isn’t alone in her experience. In an Oracle-conducted survey of 192 students, 79 percent of students have

HQFRXQWHUHG� WKH� FRQWHQW� ÀOWHU� DW� OHDVW�once. Bretag explains that the content-ÀOWHULQJ�LV�QRW�GRQH�RQ�D�SHU�VLWH�EDVLV��EXW�UDWKHU�WKH�ÀOWHULQJ�LV�GRQH�FDWHJRUL-cally. This means that Securly looks for certain kinds of content and certain page structures that have been deemed problematic, and lumps them into cer-tain categories. Knowing this, how can students like Crespo access blocked content to remain productive?

While it isn’t normally the case that students can’t access the content they

need to create a constructive and pro-ductive academic sphere, the content-ÀOWHULQJ� V\VWHP� FDQ� KDYH� WKH� DGYHU-sarial effect of limiting productivity. Therefore, improving an existing sys-tem to make it dependent on students’ thoughtful submissions to have these sites unblocked for their own future EHQHÀW�DQG�IRU�WKH�EHQHÀW�RI�RWKHU�VWX-dents would allow for a gained under-VWDQGLQJ�RI�WKH�FRQWHQW�ÀOWHU�DQG�IRU�D�greater access to material valuable in an academic context.

The current system in place for students to di-rectly request that cer-tain sites be unblocked [needs to] be made as ef-ficient as possible.

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Unrealistic expectations of students linked to cause of sleep deprivation; change needed

Positive self-image, self-appreciation of body trumps glorified beauty ideals

LILLY LUDWIGcolumnist

I was on my way to yoga the oth-er day, getting in my namaste-place, cruising in my Prius and humming to Megan Trainer’s, “All About That Bass,” when I found myself paying attention to the actual lyrics for WKH� ÀUVW� WLPH�� ,�was complete-ly knocked off my path of self-intention and awareness and instead found P\VHOI�LQVXOWHG�DQG�D�OLWWOH�LQVHFXUH�

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FAT CHANCE: Showing obvious sass towards an evidently skinny female, an actor in Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” music video refuses to conform to the “silicone barbie doll” standard projected by the model. Photo courtesy of Flickr Images

DANI TUCHMANco-opinions editor

Other than every single Monday in the school calendar, there is no day I detest more than that of my annual SHGLDWULF� SK\VLFDO�� 7KH� FRPELQDWLRQ�RI�VWXII\�QRVHG�FKLOGUHQ�ÁLQJLQJ�WKHLU�germs in the waiting room and revisit-ing my very rational fear of loathsome needles are only a few things to de-WHVW�DERXW�WKLV�GD\��%XW��LQ�P\�UHFHQW��“Mom, you can wait outside the door for this” uncomfortable one-on-one conversation with my pediatrician, I noted the absurdity that comes with being politely reprimanded about my failure to attain the golden 8-10 hours RI�VOHHS�

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do you get a night?”, I am slightly dis-appointed with myself when I answer ZLWK�DQ\�OHVV�WKDQ�VHYHQ�KRXUV�

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ly North Shore newspaper a recent ar-ticle was published that questioned to what extent homework actually aids a student in their learning, and wheth-er or not it’s solely a chore to crowd RXU� VFKHGXOHV�� ´7KHVH� \RXQJ� SHRSOH�have lives [and] need to have the joy-IXO� FXULRVLW\� RI� OHDUQLQJ�µ� *OHQEURRN�North Principal Paul Pyrma noted in WKH�DUWLFOH��´<RX�GRQ·W�ZDQW�WRR�PXFK�KRPHZRUN�WR�GLVFRXUDJH�>���@�OHDUQLQJ�DW�VXFK�D�\RXQJ�DJH�µ

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To love one’s body means to accept it the way it is.

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6 Dec. 19, 2014 opinions

RACHEL CHMIELINSKIco-editor-in-chief

High school is a series of mile-stones and achievements. If we’re not focusing on studying for the next test, we’re looking towards the end of the quarter, the semester, the year or even graduation. As students, we start to put ourselves into a mindset focused solely on achieving goals, and we stop embracing what is more immediately in front of us.

We deprive ourselves of what makes us truly happy, because we have this misconceived idea that if we study hard enough and get the A we need, we’ll be happy. But then there’s the test after that, and the test after that. The list of things to complete never ends.

As a senior, I’ve heard and personally said things along the OLQHV�RI��´,·OO�ÀQDOO\�EH�KDSS\�ZKHQ�,�ÀQLVK� P\� FROOHJH� DSSV�µ� 7KHQ�� RQFH�DSSOLFDWLRQV� DUH� ÀQLVKHG�� LW� EHFRPHV��´,·OO� ÀQDOO\� EH� KDSS\� RQFH� ,� JHW� LQWR�FROOHJH�µ� :KHUH� GRHV� WKDW� NLQG� RI�TXDOLÀFDWLRQ�VWRS"�5HWLUHPHQW"�'HDWK"

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success for our happiness, but our GHÀQLWLRQ�RI� VXFFHVV�NHHSV� FKDQJLQJ��With that formula, we can never truly be happy.

According to positive psychologist Shawn Achor, the majority of our hap-piness is determined by how we pro-cess the world, not by the external world itself. So, the way many stu-dents, myself included, have been liv-ing is the opposite from the way our brain actually works.

Goals are important to push and motivate you, but making them your

sole focus puts you on an impossible pursuit of happiness. If happiness pri-marily comes from within, raising our happiness level only requires a shift in thinking. This shift can even cause an optimal mindset for achieving our goals, Achor said.

“If you can raise somebody’s level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage, [essentially], your brain [with a positive outlook] SHUIRUPV� VLJQLÀFDQWO\� EHWWHU� WKDQ� LW�GRHV�DW�QHJDWLYH��QHXWUDO�RU�VWUHVVHG�µ�

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Just be happy right now! It would be awesome if it were that easy, but for a long time we’ve set ourselves up to think that happiness comes after success. It will take some time to break that habit.

Start out with living in the present. Focus on what you’re doing when you’re doing it. Seems simple, ULJKW"� 7KLQN� DERXW� WKH�last time you ate a meal or brushed your teeth without thinking about your to-do list, or even accomplishing a different task at the same time.

I started this process by focusing on brushing my teeth, every single stroke. Not only did I clean my teeth better, but it was in-

credible to truly just focus on one task. For those few minutes, there weren’t major tests or regrets from the past; none of that mattered, because it wasn’t happening. It had previously only occurred in my head.

The second thing that I tried was ÀQGLQJ� WKUHH� WKLQJV� LQ�P\�GD\� WKDW� ,�was grateful for every day. According to Achor, this trains our brain to start looking for the positive in the world before anything else.

After about three weeks, I really started to notice a change in myself. Throughout this process, I became less and less consumed with success and EDFN�IURP�FROOHJH�DGPLVVLRQV�RIÀFHV�

I’m now focusing more on the tasks at hand, because that is truly all we can do. There is no point in worry-ing about things we can’t change, so we should try to shift that energy into working on what we can change in the moment.

I know that I sure don’t want to look back on my senior year as cross-ing days off of my calendar until let-ters from colleges show up in my mail box.

DANA SIMcolumnist

The monotone school bell gives its ÀUVW�HPRWLRQOHVV�ZDUQLQJ�WR�VWXGHQWV��´*HW� WR� \RXU� FODVVHV� RU� HOVH�µ� )UHVK-men unaccustomed to the hallways of GBS are suddenly thrown into their ÀUVW� FKDOOHQJH�� ,W·V� D� WUDGLWLRQ�� 7KH�smaller of the teenagers struggle to ÀQG�WKH�ZD\�WR�WKHLU�YHU\�ÀUVW�FODVV�RI�high school.

Once the class is located, the high schoolers gather together in their cliques to reunite with friends lost to summer days. Most would strut into the class with some background knowledge of their classmates. John knows that Jake, the smart kid, will be in his history class and that Kate, the best singer from middle school, will be in his biology class.

They then break into their loud conversations.

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how Mark dumped Carol. No way, 0DWWKHZ�JRW�D�QHZ�L3KRQH��"µ

Or at least to the freshman in the corner, it seems loud.

It was quite a culture shock for her. She didn’t know Hannah, Mark, Mat-thew or anyone else. To the freshmen from Attea or Springman, she was a stranger.

I was that stranger.From kindergarten to eighth

grade, I attended Christian Heritage

Academy, a small school that totaled about 400 students. It was a private institution that called for expensive tuition and was grounded in Protestant teachings.

However, as time wore on the feelings of social disconnect that had overwhelmed me faded. I came to realize that despite the required theology classes and dress code, Christian Heritage Academy wasn’t that different from public schools.

For one, the students were still your typical middle-schoolers. We were YLFWLPV�WR�WKH�´&DOO�0H�0D\EHµ�SKDVH�and found ourselves excited at the re-leases of the Harry Potter movies.

Just like other middle schoolers, I wanted to excel in different areas. I wanted to make new friends, learn to drive a car and complain about the GLIÀFXOW�FODVVHV� OLNH�HYHU\�RWKHU�WHHQ-ager.

:LWK�WLPH��,�FDPH�WR�ÀQG�P\�SODFH�in the halls of GBS. The little girl that VDW� LQ� WKH� FRUQHU� RI� KHU� ÀUVW� FODVV� LV�now writing for an award-winning newspaper.

Today, I am a Titan from Glenbrook South. Instead of being pushed away, I bring myself as close as I can to my public school student identity. Keep in mind the possibility of kids that are coming to South from private schools feeling isolated and different, and try to include them. Because in reality, we’re not all that different from the rest.

Happiness resides in present moment

Private to public school adjustment creates social barriers

JUSTINE KIMguest columnist

$FFRUGLQJ� WR� ,OOLQRLV� 5HSRUW�Card, Glenbrook South is 67.5 per-cent white, 17.9 percent Asian, 10.3 percent Hispanic, and 1.2 percent black. Compared to many other high schools in Illinois, South is fair-ly ethnically diverse. You hopefully ZRQ·W�ÀQG�ZRUGV�OLNH�´FKLQN�µ�´IU\-SDQµ�RU�´WDEOHIDFH�µ�WKH�XVXDO�SHMR-rative terms used to insult Asians, thrown around too much at South.

I was harmed by these words when I was younger. If you were to ask 10-year-old Justine Kim what it meant to be Asian, she would look DW�\RX�ZLWK�D�JODUH�DQG�VD\��´'RQ·W�GHVFULEH�PH�DV�$VLDQ��,�KDWH�LW�µ�0\�shame for my skin color, culture and myself was a direct result of the in-sults thrown at me. Seven years later, I feel disgusted not only with P\� ÀIWK� JUDGH� VKDPH�� EXW� DW� WKH�kids who made those horrible com-ments.

I’m glad that we’re past using such words, but even with the large amount of diversity at this hallowed institution, there are still under-tones of a color awareness not only in our halls, but within all of West-ern society.

Obviously, calling someone a ´FKLQNµ� LV� D� UDFLVW� FRPPHQW�� %XW� ,�have experienced a far more subtle form of racism. It’s a backhanded compliment that people don’t even realize they’re giving in our day and age. Asians are proving that they are no longer just immigrants or non-English speakers, but are as capable as any other ethnicity.

I am a self-described leader, student and weirdo. I have gone through high school trying to sep-arate myself from the stereotypes that still plague our society. How-ever, in the process of trying to dif-ferentiate who I am from the other 1.7 million Koreans in the United States, a statement I constantly hear is, “It’s really awesome that you’re Asian and you do [insert activity KHUH@�µ�ZKHWKHU�WKDW�EODQN�EH�ÀOOHG�by Model UN or Comedy Troupe.

:K\� LV� LW� VWLOO� ´XQLTXHµ� WR� EH�$VLDQ� DQG� QRW� RQ� WKH� PDWK� WHDP"�Such assumptions are even more of-IHQVLYH�WKDQ�EHLQJ�FDOOHG�D�´FKLQN�µ�The racist undertones imply that be-cause it’s not within my stereotype to perhaps be in comedy, that it’s an ´DFFRPSOLVKPHQW�µ

I sometimes go along with the jokes made about my facial features, whether it be commentary about the shape of my eyes or the color of my skin, or even when people ask if my uncle is Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. I understand jokes, but hope-fully me and other people of a mi-nority race can be GHÀQHG�E\�RXU�DF-complishments instead of our race.

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JUSTINE IT TO WIN IT: Senior Justine Kim is involved in a variety of activities at South, including varsity golf, Model UN and student council. However, Kim feels she is ZVTL[PTLZ�KLÄULK��I`�OLY�YHJL�PUZ[LHK�VM�her interests. Photo by Dani Tuchman

Nov 5, 2010 7 Dec. 19, 2014featuresSINEAD HENEGHANstaff reporter

“I love being surround-ed by people who have the same passions as me, who really see the value of helping others [...]”-junior Grace Poulos

Peace Corps provides option for students who desire career in service

“It’s not that we are sitting here saying ‘We don’t trust you.’ [...] This is something that legisla-tively we have to address[...].”-Ryan Bretag, director of instructional technology

Examination of policies of content filter, students and faculty express opinions

In this season of giving, some South students are planning their lives around the idea of giving back and helping others as a future career. Ju-niors Tori Brown, Tori Lothian and Grace Poulos each want their journey to a career in service to start with the popular international organization known as the Peace Corps.

Although the holiday season may be short, Brown, Lothian and Poulos are planning to extend the season of giving throughout the year with their service.

“Service is helping anyone in any way,” Brown said. “Even doing the little things on a daily basis is also ser-vice, because you’re helping the other person and making their life a little eas-ier to live.”

Although the three girls are plan-ning to do service work in the future, they are currently partaking in the many service opportunities that South offers. Poulos is on the board of Key Club while also being a part of Interact with Lothian.

Poulos said, “I love being surround-ed by people who have the same pas-sions as me, who really see the value of helping others and don’t just laugh off other people’s poverty or other peo-ple’s strug-gles.”

As well as being i n v o l v e d t h r o u g h S o u t h , Brown and L o t h i a n have par-t i c i p a t e d in mis-sion trips through their church. According to Lo-thian, she and Brown attended a mis-sion trip in Tennessee two summers ago and another service trip last sum-

mer to Kansas.Brown said, “In Kan-

sas, we went to a half-ZD\� KRXVH� DQG� À[HG�up their backyard that was in awful shape. We cleaned it up and made the yard and the house overall a better place to live in.”

All three girls have plans to attend college and major in areas that would further expand their opportunities in helping others, and they intend to further their interests by join-ing the Peace Corps when they are out of college.

“I would love to do at least one two-year session through the Peace Corps,” Lo-thian said. “I love help-ing other people, and that’s what I want to do for the rest of my OLIH��EHFDXVH�,�ÀQG�WKDW�is when I am my hap-piest, and that’s when I feel the most comfortable [with] myself.”

One person who has already pur-sued the Peace Corps is Kerry Gal-son, GBN Acad-emy teacher, who went through the program in her late twenties. Accord-ing to Galson, she had wanted to join the Peace Corps since her sopho-more year in high school.

“Once the Peace Corps represen-tatives showed up at my high school during my senior year, I knew [it] was something I wanted to pursue.”

Galson served in Suriname, a coun-try in South America. There were a lot of prejudices amongst the people, which naturally led to a divide between two ethnic groups, called the Hindu-stani and the Maroons. Galson taught the Maroons English and helped bring the community together.

“A moment I’ll never forget is when the school I was teaching at was canceled for the day, because there was an anaconda in the classroom [due to] the annual spring rainy season,” Galson said.

According to Galson, she realized how grateful she was for the simple things that she often took for granted, such as having access to a fridge or not having to walk half an hour to wash her clothes and dishes.

“It really opened my eyes to the dif-

ferent aspects of life outside American culture,” Galson said.

Brown, Lothian and Poulos plan on serving for the rest of their lives, even after the Peace Corps. According to Brown, she wants to team up with En-gineers Without Borders, a non-prof-it organization, to help make healthy drinking water and basic water sanita-tion accessible to all people around the world.

“It’s important that we, as a whole world, go out and make sure that peo-ple are healthy and have safe water, be-cause we have so much safe water [in Glenview] and we take that so much for granted,” Brown said.

Lothian has a different approach to her career. Lothian wants to be a high school social worker after the Peace Corps.

“High school has been one of the most amazing times of my life, but also one of the most stressful,” Lothian said. “People were there to help me through it and I want to be someone who’s there to help other people.”

Unlike Lothian and Brown, Pou-los wants to remain part of the Peace Corps. According to Poulos, once she is done with her service trip, she wants to move up the ladder of the organiza-tion. She wants to eventually manage a country and be part of the planning of the organization.

“Everyone who wants to be in the Peace Corps knows exactly what they want to do,” Poulous said. “You’re out in a foreign country for two years by yourself for the sole reason of helping others survive. It shows true dedication.”

GIVING GALSON: Participating in the Peace Corps from 2000-2002 in the South American country of Suriname, Kerry Galson, GBN Acad-emy teacher, spent her time volunteering in numerous ways. From teaching kids English (top left) to joining the daily wash ritual (bottom left), Galson learned a lot about another culture (right) while also tackling the village’s needs. Multiple South students who are already involved with service at South aim to join the Peace Corps in their future. Photos courtesy of Kerry Galson

$FFRUGLQJ� WR� D� UHFHQW� QRQ�VFLHQWLÀF�� Oracle-conducted survey of 200 students, 11.5 percent believe that GBS should be able to block certain sites, 36.5 percent believe they shouldn’t and 52.5 percent say it depends.

According to Ryan Bretag, the director of in-structional technology at South, South’s content ÀOWHU��6HFXUO\��OLPLWV�FHUWDLQ�VLWHV�EDVHG�RQ�FDWHJRU-ical restrictions such as inappropriate, explicit, or non-educational material.

Bretag explained that if a website you need is blocked and the website is cleared by your teach-HU�IRU�KDYLQJ�D�VSHFLÀF�HGXFDWLRQDO�XVH��WKHQ�WKH�technology department will be willing to unblock it for you.

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´7KHLU� ÀOWHU� VKRXOG� EORFN� H[SOLFLW� PDWHULDO��rather than material that is legally available to people under the ages of 18,” Nwia said.

Certain sites and social media that are blocked on Chromebooks may be available for student use by going on personal devices, or by not accessing the school’s Wi-Fi network.

2WKHU� VWXGHQWV� PHQWLRQHG� VSHFLÀF� VLWHV� WKDW�they wanted to access while at school, that they are currently prohibited from viewing. One of these students, senior Nate Turk, expressed his

desire to access certain websites.“GBS should block inappropriate sites, but

it doesn’t make sense to block Facebook when Twitter and Instagram aren’t blocked,” Turk said. “Social media is often used for school use. Many clubs and classes I’m in have Facebook groups and Instagrams so there is no [good] reason Face-book is blocked.”

Bretag touched on the topic of Facebook, say-ing they have not had a serious con-versation about opening Facebook since late 2010 to early 2011. Ac-cording to Bretag, at that point the students did not want Facebook unblocked.

“When Dr. Rig-gle and myself were sitting in a room and hav-ing this conversation at Glenbrook North and the students across the board pushed back and said ‘No, no, no, no,’ we were like, ‘Wow,’” Bretag said. “There wasn’t even a divide at that point.”

According to Bretag, the main concern from faculty and staff is ‘What does Facebook bring to the table that other tools do not already have?’

However, he believes it is time for another con-

versation concerning the opening of Facebook. More importantly, he wants students to have the opportunity to grow.

Students who believe that GBS should be able to block sites voiced their opinions as well. Sopho-PRUH�&LQG\�<DQJ�FRQVLGHUV�FRQWHQW�ÀOWHULQJ�WR�EH�acceptable and necessary.

“The Chromebooks are for educational purpos-es, and there’s too much inappropriate content on

the web,” Yang said.Junior Patrick Ten-

er agrees with Yang and believes the school has the right to restrict certain sites from students.

“They should be able to block sites in order to keep students paying attention,” Tener said. “Also, since it is private property and they pay for the Wi-Fi, they

have the right to.”Social Worker David Hartman also expressed

his concern for students’ safety on the Internet.“We want to be really careful to send a message

[about the internet] as globally and individually as possible,” Hartman said. “One of the ways we can globally send the message that the Internet is GDQJHURXV�LV�>WKH�FRQWHQW�ÀOWHU@�µ

Hartman said he understands the desire for

students to use social media sites such as Face-book, but he expressed the possible negative im-pact is too risky.

“Facebook is a really heinous place for some kids,” Hartman said. “The number of kids that get bullied via social media is horrible. If it was easy to get to Facebook from the school, my worry is that kids would be tempted when they get angry >���@�WR�SRVW�SXEOLF�WKLQJV��ZKHUH�WKH�UDPLÀFDWLRQV�get bigger.”

Hartman added that there is validity in the ar-gument that social media can be a coping skill that is taken out of reach while students are at school.

´0D\EH�WKDW·V�D�FRQVHTXHQFH�>RI�WKH�FRQWHQW�ÀO-ter], but maybe in that negative consequence there is an opportunity for growth,” Hartman said.

Bretag explains the school’s reasoning for im-SOHPHQWLQJ�WKH�FRQWHQW�ÀOWHU�

“There is a requirement by the government [to KDYH�D�FRQWHQW�ÀOWHU@�µ�%UHWDJ�VDLG��´,W·V�QRW� WKDW�we are sitting here saying ‘We don’t trust you,’ or ‘We don’t respect you.’ This is something that leg-islatively we have to address, it’s not an option.”

Bretag stresses that the technology department takes feedback, and will unblock sites students are using for academic purpose, as long as it is cleared by the teacher.

“We do everything possible to give [the stu-dents] the access [they] need,” Bretag said. “We do trust [them] and we want to make sure that [they] aren’t leaving us with a world that was so restrictive that [they] couldn’t grow academically and socially.”

TORI BROWNstaff reporter

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Building passions piece by piece: South students expand collections

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MADELINE RUOSstaff reporter

Many students have experienced it: a case of the Mondays. Whether it’s the dark circles under eyes that make people doze off in class, the growing amount of homework that seemingly never ends or the pajamas that are donned in pure exhaustion from the weekend before, Mondays are inevitable. But for mem-bers of Young Life Club, every other Monday night at 8:08 p.m., the ultimate “party with a purpose” has just begun.

<RXQJ�/LIH�LV�D�QRQSURÀW�RUJDQL]DWLRQ�WKDW�H[LVWV�LQWHUQDWLRQ-ally. With over 1.7 million kids involved, what Young Life mem-bers are occasionally doing in Glenview is also happening in Ke-nya, China or even Italy. Although the club is Christian based, according to Heather Gibbs, GBS Young Life leader, it is open to anyone. Monday meetings are reserved for fun games, dance par-ties and enjoying music.

´>$W@�WKH�ÀUVW�<RXQJ�/LIH�&OXE�WKDW�>,@�HYHU�ZHQW�WR��,�ZDONHG�LQ�and they were playing this game where a girl had to make a PB&J sandwich with her feet, and then a boy had to eat it off her feet, and they made me do it,” Gibbs described. “So I walked LQWR�P\�ÀUVW�<RXQJ�/LIH�&OXE�HYHU��DQG�,�was like, ‘What am I doing?’ Then all of a sudden, I’m spreading jelly and pea-nut butter onto bread with my feet and then a boy is eating it.”

Young Life holds Campaigners every Wednesday night, which are centered around reading and discussing the Gos-pel. In addition, at the end of every club meeting, a short passage from the Bible is read and connected to club members’ daily lives. Topics could range from Adam, Eve and the serpent, to a man that had leprosy who was miraculously cured by Jesus.

“Two weeks ago we listened to a song by 21 Pilots and talked about it, and we kind of talked about what they were trying to say in the song,” Gibbs said. “And then we read a story from the Bible that related to it and kind of talked about […] how it relates to not only this song, but how it relates to life in high school.”

According to senior AJ Moen, the importance of being in Young Life stands out above anything else. The message of the club itself is what really matters to its members.

“[Young Life] has given me an opportunity to go deeper into my faith and live it out in a realistic high school setting,” Moen said. “In high school, it is really easy to put a mask on and be someone who you are not, and I think Young Life has given me FRQÀGHQFH�LQ�ZKR�,�DP��DQG�LW�KDV�VKRZQ�PH�WKDW�-HVXV�ORYHV�PH�for who I am.”

According to sophomore Natalie Middaugh, many people who go to Young Life form strong relationships and bonds with their fellow club members. They praise the ability to connect on a higher level with others that are dealing with the same troubles as them.

“You meet new people who, in general, have the same prob-lems and know what you are going through,” Middaugh said.

According to Moen, in addition to Monday and Wednesday meetings, Young Life also has some yearly events. Members can JR�WR�D�VXPPHU�FDPS�IRU�ÀYH�GD\V��JR�EDFN�WR�WKH�VDPH�FDPS�LQ�mid-November during Fall Weekend for three days and partici-pate in a moving lock-in on a Coach bus from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in February. Moen recalls his experience working at a Young Life

summer camp as one of the memorable things he’s had.“I worked at a Young Life camp for a whole month [last sum-

mer], and there were 80 people on the crew, so I made like 80 new friends,” Moen said. “Just being able to serve with them and alongside them and grow deeper in our faith together in that place is something I will never forget.”

According to Angie Nelson, Pep Club sponsor, the club is a place where her children, who are members of Young Life, and all others can feel connected to everyone around them no matter who they are or what circumstances they face. Like Moen, she re-members many memorable times during Young Life events.

“Hannah, my senior, on a Young Life 7 to 7 event, called me at like 3 a.m. and said she had broken her ankle, but she didn’t even want to come home, and she had Devin Maki carry her around,” Nelson said.

Hannah is also a junior leader for Young Life. Hannah start-ed in Young Life her freshman year, and the change to become a form of leadership was a natural transition.

“Since [I started Young Life] I’ve been really involved and it’s one of my favorite things that I do now,” Hannah said. “So, when the opportunity came up to be-come a junior leader I couldn’t deny it. I want to be a Young Life leader when I go to college, so I thought it would be a great beginning to get in-volved in the leadership parts early on. Also, I’m a peer group leader and at Young Life I, some-times, get to lead freshmen in discussion so lead-ing is just something I like to do.”

Also remembering the event, Hannah recalls how she hadn’t originally known her ankle was broken until later that night. However, she chose to continue despite her injury.

“There were four hours until the event was over, so I thought [I] could stick it out,” Hannah said. “And the leaders and my friends carried me around on and off the bus and if I wanted to go somewhere.”

Between all the events Young Life offers, Hannah’s favorite memory with the club’s members was a camp held at a Frontier ranch in Buena Vista, Colorado.

“The camp was in the mountains, so it was so different than Glenview and at night the stars were unreal,” Hannah said. “So it was just totally different than the environment I was used to. Also, camp was just a week packed with things I don’t do on an everyday basis: climb a mountain, horseback ride, ride a me-chanical bull.”

Another event that makes it to the top of Hannah’s club expe-riences is the three-day Fall Weekend, which was held this year at the Lake Geneva Youth camp, and took place from Nov. 14 - 16.

´)DOO�ZHHNHQG�LV�GHÀQLWHO\�P\�IDYRULWH�HYHQW�µ�+DQQDK�VDLG��“It’s three days of really fun activities and even though it’s short I’ve met so many cool people from surrounding areas like New Trier and Glenbrook North and farther places like Hinsdale and Naperville. It just brings everyone together and it’s so fun.”

The positive experiences that Young Life members have are extremely important, according to Gibbs. They gain more adults who truly care about them who they feel like they can talk to, and a safe place to ask hard questions about faith. All of these factors contribute to the over arching message of Young Life.

“I think there a lot of high school students who are looking for somewhere to be loved and don’t realize that they are already loved,” Gibbs said. “You are loved by the God who created you, regardless of who you are or what you do.”

Young Life provides support, faith in an understanding environment

“[Young Life] has given me an opportunity to go deeper into my faith and live it out in a realistic high school setting.” -senior AJ Moen

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FOREVER YOUNG (LIFE): (Top photo) Sporting the Young Life sign, juniors (left to right) Julia Bellair, Casey Kleeman and Kate Maki enjoy Fall Weekend, a weekend long club sponsored event. (Upper Right photo) Sophomore Natalie Mid-daugh hugs fellow club member, sophomore Colleen McPeek, after getting her face splattered in purple powder. (Lower right photo) Hopping over the attendees of Fall Weekend, junior Sean Dolan takes part in one of the many activities. Fall Weekend was held by Young Life in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Photos courtesy of Young Life Glenbrook South Facebook page

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OLIVIA SOTIRCHOS & SASHA VASSILYEVAstaff reporters

The holiday season, typically commencing with the post-Thanksgiving food coma and ending only when the very last glass from the New Year’s day gathering has been returned to the back of the cabinet, is traditionally known as the time for people to give back to those who are less fortunate. This tradition certainly does not fall short when glancing at the community surrounding South.

For the past 15 years, Youth Services of Glen-view and Northbrook has run their annual Hol-iday Gift Program. This program, according to www.youthservices-gn.org, is largely success-ful due to donations of students and clubs at South and North.

According to Karen Paszkiewicz, head of the program, volunteers are given a child’s wish list and asked to purchase the necessities - such as boots, underwear and coats as well as a fun gift that was requested. Paszkiewicz vouches for the importance of these necessities to recipients.

“It’s a shame to hear that a child doesn’t have boots or a coat, because if they don’t have boots, they can’t go out to re-cess,” Paszkie-wicz said. “The children are WKULOOHG� WR� ÀQG�out that when they are in need of boots or a coat, they receive [these items]. Then, they can still go out for recess and be like their other classmates and peers.”

Many of South’s service clubs, such as Inter-act Club and Key Club, as well as individuals, choose to participate in the program yearly. Ju-nior Katie Coy, member of Key Club’s student board, has worked actively with the program for the past three years. According to Coy, her motivation for being involved in the program has shifted over time.

´,� GLG� LW� ÀUVW� EHFDXVH� ,� UHDOO\� QHHGHG� WKH�points for Key Club,” Coy said. “Then, I real-ized it’s a really cool idea, because to wake up and not have anything under your Christmas tree is upsetting.”

Coy is not alone in her enthusiasm sur-rounding the spread of holiday cheer. Sopho-more Jack Whetstone is participating in the program alongside his entire English class - an idea spearheaded by his teacher, Deborah Co-hen. Whetstone, like Coy, realizes the power of

giving back to the community. “Not everyone can afford these things, and

we are so privileged to be able to get as many gifts as we do and have the lives we do,” Whet-stone said. “It’s just so important to make sure we share with other people.”

Cohen, who attests to the fact that she has wanted to get involved with the program for years, decided to extend the opportunity to her entire English class on a complete whim. Ac-cording to Cohen, she decided to ask the stu-dents if they wanted to participate as they were gathered around the door, ready to dart out of the room as soon as the bell sounded.

“I kind of just shouted, ‘Hey, do you want to sponsor a kid?’, and these students who were getting ready to leave the room, not really pay-ing attention, stopped what they were doing, and all enthusiastically shouted ‘YEAH!’,” Co-hen said. “I just thought it was the coolest thing that there is such a genuine interest in helping. I didn’t have to do anything more than that. That’s all it took.”

After all the gifts have been collected and ZLVK�OLVWV�IXOÀOOHG��3DV]NLHZLF]�VDLG�<RXWK�6HU-vices hosts a wrapping party.

“We have different groups that come and wrap [the presents ] , ” Paszkiewicz said. “There [are] quite a few groups from GBS, lo-cal schools, girl scout [troops], boy scout troops [and] church groups [who]

come and do wrapping parties.”According to Paszkiewicz, South’s Key

Club, Interact Club and Unidos have partici-pated in the wrapping parties that Youth Ser-vices host. Additionally, Interact Sponsor Mark Gallagher said Interact has been doing the gift wrapping event for at least 12 years. According to Gallagher, students really enjoy this event, and it gives them a chance to relax from school work and be with friends while giving back to the community.

“I think what we’re hoping is that [students will] catch the bug,” Gallagher said. “Once you EHJLQ� WR� KHOS� RWKHU� SHRSOH� VHOÁHVVO\�� \RX� IHHO�good about yourself. It feels good to help other people and it’s important to give back, not just at this time, but at all times. So, it’s really what we hope [students get from the program].”

Key Club has also participated in the wrap-ping parties. According to Josh Koo, Key Club sponsor, students that participate in the gift wrapping events really enjoy themselves every \HDU�DQG�ÀQG�LW�D�JUHDW�ZD\�WR�JLYH�EDFN�WR�WKH�

community.“We remind [Key Club members] that these

[presents] are for kids that otherwise would not get gifts during the holidays,” Koo said. “It really inspires the kids to be more positive and more genuinely grateful for what they have.”

Coy has participated in the wrapping par-ties with Key Club for the past three years. Ac-cording to Coy, they play music and serve holi-day treats, such as cookies and hot chocolate, while people from the community wrap all the donated presents.

“It’s just amazing to see all these things that [the kids] want,” Coy said. “Some just want hats and gloves and coats, and that’s some-thing that I take for granted.”

The wrapping party is just evidence of the many different ways people can get involved in the program based on interest. Cohen sees all these different ways to get involved and tries to adjust the program in a way where ev-ery single individual in her classroom can be active.

“I’ve tried to give people different ways of being involved,” Cohen said. “If [a student] can give a dollar, give a dollar, if [a student wants] to go shopping and spend the money, that’s another way of being involved that may-be doesn’t cost anything, or the wrapping as-pect. There are other ways to help rather than just giving money.”

With the Holiday Gift Program and spirit of the season in mind, Coy eagerly chats about the gift wrapping party she has attended for the past few years as DQRWKHU�EHQHÀW�RI�SDUWLFLSDWLQJ�LQ�WKH�program. According to Coy, she feels WKDW� DOO� VWXGHQWV� FDQ� EHQHÀW� IURP�programs like this and encourag-es her peers to give this holiday season.

“Give as much as you can,” Coy advised. “Keep an open mind that there are people that need it.”

THE SEASON FOR GIVING:

“It feels good to help other people and it’s important to give back, not just at this time [of the year], but at all times.”-Interact Sponsor Mark Gallagher

The Youth Services of Glenview and Northbrook host an

annual holiday gift drive for families in need. Through

this program, South students join in the spirit of giving.

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Dance Show features variety of choreography, cultural music

PERFECT POINT: Freshman Alexandra Anderson dances in a duet with her older sister, Regina Anderson, in the Orchesis show. The Andersons choreographed their dance themselves and performed the contemporary style dance towards the middle of the dance show.

“Dance show is not to get the crowd going; it’s to get the crowd in-volved in the music and in their dancing.”-Patricia Moulakelis, Coach of De la Cru

GRACIE SANDS &KIERSTEN TERESIstaff reporters

It is not every day that South gets the opportu-nity to see Orchesis, Poms, De La Cru and Latino Heat perform together on the same stage. All four groups were set to perform in the annual dance show, on Friday, Dec. 12. This year’s theme was Allegro, which included a variety of musical and dance styles due to the diversity of the groups performing.

Senior Erika Szafranski, De la Cru captain, loved having the opportunity to perform in a show with the other dance groups. She especial-ly looked forward to seeing Orchesis perform because they are the host of the show, and she

knows how hard they worked to make the dance show possible.

“You get to see more of a diverse group because our school is so used to seeing only De La Cru and Poms, and

now you get to see Orchesis and every-thing they’ve worked for, because

this is their main show, and they put a lot of work into it,” Szaf-ranski said. “I like working with them and seeing what they come up with in their

different danc-es.”

Poms Cap-tain Dani

Levenson encouraged people to come out and support the dance show, because it showcased a variety of different styles. She hoped that the vari-ous types of dances would provide the audience with an amazing show.

“If you like to watch dance, it would be a good show to go to,” Levenson said. “It’s a lot of differ-ent types of dance. So it’s interesting, because it’s more of a variety.”

Levenson be-lieves that the lack of pressure that was present in the performance made for a much-need-ed change in pace for the team. In-stead of competing against the same teams that they are used to, they could relax and support the other dancers.

“Usually we’re competing against the same people all the time, so it’s nice to have a change and see other people dance,” Levenson said.

Patricia Moulakelis, coach of De la Cru, hoped that the audience would become involved in the performances on a deeper level. Her goal was that the audience would leave the performance with a different perspective of what De La Cru is all about.

“Dance show is not to get the crowd going; it’s to get the

crowd involved in the music and in their danc-

ing,” Moulakelis said.Latino Heat, De La

Cru, Poms and Orche-sis each feature their RZQ�VSHFLÀF�GDQFH�

styles that are unlike the

others.“The audience can expect a variety of dances

from Bollywood to a Polish dance,” Orchesis Cap-tain Jessie Wax said. “There is some ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary and tap. We are lucky to be able to share the show with Varsity and JV poms, De La Cru, and Latino Heat.”

Although the Dance Show was a success, cer-WDLQ�JURXSV�IDFHG�VRPH�GLIÀFXO-ties. According to Brian Shaoul, Latino Heat director, Latino Heat initially had some trouble with their professional choreog-rapher.

´2QH� GLIÀFXO-ty was just not being able to LQLWLDOO\� ÀQG� D�choreographer,” Shaoul said. “My two leaders actu-ally did the chore-ography, as they did in previous

years. We were just anticipating to have a professional choreographer this year.”

Junior Maya Patel, Orchesis mem-ber, recalled her years in the dance shows and the different themes and mu-sic that are featured in the show from year to year.

“I love it, because it brings a different aspect to the show and to South.” Patel said. “The dance show altogether [featured] hip-hop, tap, jazz, lyri-

cal, ethnic, ballet contemporary and more. You can expect all types of dancing from all the

groups participating. Each year, there is a dif-

ferent theme, accompanied by new music num-bers and songs.”

Of all the weeks leading up to the show, tech week is the best part of the show, according to Pa-WHO��7KH�ÀQDO�ZHHN�LV�ZKHUH�HYHU\WKLQJ�LV�SXW�WR-gether in preparation for the day of performance. Orchesis Coach Bonnie Lasky shared what makes the dance show, and Orchesis, so special.

“Orchesis is like a family,” Lasky said. “The girls have really bonded and depended on each other.”

According to Lasky, for Orchesis and the whole dance show in general, the collaboration between all of the groups is fantastic.

“It makes the show the Variety Show of Dance,” Lasky said. “The audience loves all the different dance forms.”

Wax shares what she loves the most about par-ticipating in dance show and what she looked

forward to most prior to the perfor-mance.

“My passion is perform-ing and dance, and I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to be a part of it,” Wax said. “For years, South has put on their annual win-ter dance show, cap-

tivating the audi-ence with groups showcasing their talents through all different sorts of dances. It looks like this year will

not be any dif-ferent.”

14 Dec. 19, 2014 a&e

DANCING QUEEN: Senior Lydia Lutz dances Bollywood. According to Senior Jessie Wax, this particular dance is hard to learn, tiring, and takes a lot of practice. Senior Amy Kuply choreographed this dance to the song “Aadungada Yennai Suthi.”

ARCHED ANDERSON: Bent back in an arched lunge, senior Regina Anderson dances with passion and grace. Her performance was to the song “To Build a Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra.

DILIGENT DANCERS: On Friday, Dec.12, Orchesis (left) performs a contemporary style dance with a group of nine girls at the 24th annual Dance Show. The dance was choreographed by sophomore Yael Sheinseld and junior Julia Sonnenfeld, to a song called, “Your Song.” With their hands in the air, another Orchesis group (right) performs a contemporary dance to the song “Breathe Again.” Photos by Marley Hambourger

MEGAN SHEQILADZEstaff reporter

From cartoonists to tattoo artists, color is a crucial component and affects many artistic decisions. If these decisions are made correctly, an eye-catching piece of art can be made.

Art is a large aspect of senior Sammy Gruenberg’s life, but certain colors are absent. Even though Gruenberg is color blind, he creates pieces that are praised by many people.

“[Over] the summer we had to do this piece for AP art and I did wine bottles,” Gruen-berg said. “It’s my least favorite paint-ing, and everyone in class thought it was one of my best pieces. [That] amazed me because I hated it and thought all of the colors were real-ly wrong. It just turned out better than I thought.”

According to Gruenberg, his art career started freshman year when he saw the various op-portunities at GBS.

´2QFH�,�ÀJXUHG�RXW�,�was good at [art],

it made me [strive] to do it more,” Gruenberg said. “I really like seeing the end result of my projects.”

Stephanie Fuja, Gruenberg’s art teacher, recognized his pas-sion in the beginning.

´7KH�ÀUVW�SLHFH�6DPP\�PDGH�LQ�WKH�ÀUVW�FODVV�,�WDXJKW�KLP�in was an acrylic painting of pancakes,” Fuja said. “I was very impressed with his painting. I knew he was color blind and the fact that he could see accurate values and paint them really well was super impressive to me. [That] was when I knew he had a natural gift and talent to create art.”

The road to this had its challenges, many of which Gruen-berg has overcome. His sister, Hannah Gruenberg, amongst other peers, helped him overcome these challenges.

“I would help him with his paintings and help him know which colors to blend,” Hannah said.

According to Sammy, not knowing what colors he is us-ing can cause some insecurities, especially in painting. He tends to work with black and white paintings and drawings.

Nonetheless, Sammy says that he isn’t afraid to use color.”[My color blindness is] a struggle when I’m at home and

having to paint by myself,” Gruenberg said. It’s not something WKDW·V�WRR�KDUG�IRU�PH�WR�RYHUFRPH��$W�ÀUVW��,�VDZ�LW�DV�D�ZD\�bigger struggle. Now, I got past it and I see it as more of a unique trait in myself.”

Although Gruenberg has come to accept this character-istic, there are still times where he is unsure of his art.

However, he points out that the people around him have held an important role in encouraging him.

“He always knew how to draw with pencil, but that was black and white,” Fuja said. “So when

he had to paint or draw in color, that really made him nervous and unsure of himself at ÀUVW��+RZHYHU�� ,� HQFRXUDJHG� KLP� WR� WUXVW�

his ‘own eyes’ and go with it! He did and the results were outstanding!”

G r u e n b e rg hopes to con-tinue to follow his creative pas-sion into col-lege and major in industrial design.

Unique artist:

IMEA Festival showcases South’s musically talentedNICK MORANstaff reporter

Every year, a select group of South stu-dents practice for a chance to take part in the Illinois Music Educators Associa-tion (IMEA) Festival on Nov. 8 and 22. A handful of South’s musicians, all dedi-cated to participate in the festival, try out to represent the school with grand performances throughout WKH� PRQWK� RI� 1RYHPEHU�� ÀOOLQJ�WKH�QHZO\�IULJLG�DLU�ZLWK�WKH�ÀQ-est notes that students from the area have to offer.

,0($� LV� D� QRQ�SURÀW� RUJD-nization consisting of music ed-ucators from across the state. The organization sponsors state wide activities to promote music. Known by many South students through their symphonic and jazz band fes-tivals held in November, IMEA has D� VLJQLÀFDQW� UROH� LQ� UHSUHVHQWLQJ� D�high level of musical talent. Many students, such as Jack Kelly, a soph-omore band student, recognizes ,0($� E\� WKH� GLIÀFXOW� MRXUQH\� DQG�honor to make it into the bands.

“IMEA is the district band and all of the best players from the districts and the state make it into the band,” Kelly said. “It’s a pretty cool title to have, to say you made it into IMEA.”

There are nine districts in which students are chosen to participate in the festival. Each district hosts their own District Festival in which stu-dents work with a guest conductor for a performance.

7KH�GLIÀFXOW\�RI�PDNLQJ�LW�LQWR�WKH�,0($�EDQG�is especially renowned in District 7, the region in

which South and other high schools are placed. According to Aaron Wojcik, assistant band director, District 7 is one of the most compet-itive districts in Illinois.

'HVSLWH�WKH�GLIÀFXOW\��-DVRQ�1RK��D�VRSKR-more band student, said students will keep

on trying to obtain an honored spot in the bands and better themselves.

“For people who strive to be the best, like people who are com-mitted to band and other applied arts, like singing and string in-struments, I think it means a lot for them because they strive to be better,” Noh said.

According to Wojcik, students prepare in numerous ways, ranging

from individual practice and check-ins with directors. Much of the prac-tice would be on music pieces, both technical and lyrical, all major and minor scales, as well as sight reading sheet music. Students who pass audi-tions perform and practice for music festivals hosted by IMEA.

The festivals are performed by mu-sicians who were chosen through an audition process by playing for IMEA judges. Senior Marissa Takaki, a three-time member of IMEA, remembers practicing her bassoon sophomore year after making the symphonic

EDQG� IRU� WKH� ÀUVW�time.

“My sopho-more year, I was third chair [in the IMEA Festival band] and that was a lot of fun,” Takaki said. “You go on a Sat-urday from 8 in the morn-ing until 5 or 6 and you have a few hours of re-hearsal in the morning, then lunch, then another hour or two of rehearsal and then you have a con-cert.”

Wojcik says that after district festivals, students can further progress to all-state performances, based on a rating given to them during the district level concerts. Takaki and a handful of other students across Illinois were selected to per-form at the all-state level for the Illinois Music Education Conference, which is planned to take place in January of 2015.

Takaki was one of six students at South to try out and make an IMEA band. This year, Takaki for bassoon, junior Marc Turenne for clarinet and junior Cassandra +XHUWD�IRU�ÁXWH�ZHUH�SODFHG�LQ�V\PSKRQLF�band; junior Matt Grinde for trumpet and senior Matt Baeckelandt for saxophone were placed in jazz band; and Erik Tomasic

was placed in both for trombone and tuba, ac-cording to Wojcik.

Tomasic was the only student from South to be accepted into both bands, playing tuba for

symphonic band and trombone for jazz band.

“It sort of represents all of the hard work I put in because you’re being acknowledged as a really good

player and among the best in this area,” Tomasic said. “It’s also real-

ly fun to play with other people who are equally as talented.”

According to Tomasic, it took three auditions until he managed to join IMEA his se-QLRU�\HDU�IRU�WKH�ÀUVW�WLPH��$IWHU�making IMEA this year, Tomasic UHÁHFWHG� RQ� WKH� QHUYH�UDFNLQJ�auditions in years past, thinking that one wrong note could sepa-rate him from acceptance.

“I would say to not be as ner-vous as you think you should be because that just makes the situ-

ation worse and you’ll make more PLVWDNHV�µ� 7RPDVLF� VDLG�� ´%H� FRQÀGHQW�

and prepare your piece as well.”While looking back on IMEA, members

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“Having an ensemble prepare concert-ready music in one day is nice because it’s like a different experience,” Takaki said. “It’s what you have to do professionally… and it’s always fun to learn things about yourself and the thing you’re playing.”

15Dec. 19, 2014

BRASS BOYS: Instruments in hand, junior Matt Grinde and senior Erik Tomasic dis-play their musical talent. Both Grinde and Tomasic performed at the Illinois Music Edu-cation Association (IMEA) Festival on Nov. 8 and 22, Grinde on trumpet and Tomasic on tuba in addition to the trombone. Photo by Katelyn Luckey

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Battle of the Bands displays students’ original style

FEELIN’ THE MUSIC: Jamming at Battle of the Bands, lead singer Taz Johnson and bassist Joey Leggetino perform with their band, Belmont. Belmont was one of the runner-up bands at the Battle of the Bands event, hosted by Interact club. Photo by Ashley Clark

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STRUMMING THE CHORDS: Rocking the guitar, junior Joey Sewall performed at Battle of the Bands. Sewall played with his bands Grilled Cheese Murder Scene, Bad Reputation and PsychoActive at the event. Photo by Ashley Clark

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HANNAH MASONco-sports editor In the 2014-2015 school year, the Physical Ed-ucation (PE) Department has expanded their re-sources with the addition of a spin room, Total Resistance eXercise (TRX) workout bands and an ice skating unit, associated with the Glenview Ice Rink.

According to Kay Sopocy, assistant athletic di-rector, talk of these additions began among the department a year and a half ago when it was an-nounced that South would be switching to a block schedule.

“[The PE department] did a lot of discussion about facilities and how we were going to best uti-lize them so that we give students more of a broad view of PE since we have them for a longer period of time,” Sopocy said.

Sopocy also added that the addition of a spin room had been on the department’s “wish list” for a while. According to junior Katelyn Luckey, a student in the PE leader class, she had never used a spin bike, but thoroughly enjoyed the exercise and experience.

“The fun aspect of it is when, for example, Mrs. Sopocy [plays] a video that [is] to the tempo of how fast we should be going on our bikes,” Luck-

ey said. “I think it is a good idea to incorporate the ÀWQHVV�SDUW�RI� LW��ZKLFK� LV� WKH�DFWXDO�ELNLQJ��DQG�then the music that goes along with it.”

A spin bike is different from a regular bike seen LQ�WKH�ÀWQHVV�FHQWHU�EHFDXVH�WKH�UHVLVWDQFH�DQG�LQ-tensity varies throughout the workout, according to Instructional Supervisor Steve Stanicek. On a regular bike a person’s heart rate increases, but then stays constant. On a spin bike, rather, the heart rate is constantly jumping, Stanicek says.

The PE Department also invested in TRX bands. According to trxtraining.com, the TRX bands offer a full-body workout and are used to further develop the core and muscle strength. Ac-cording to Luckey, she believes the bands are ef-ÀFLHQW�� EXW� IHHOV�KHU� FODVV�KDV�\HW� WR�XQGHUVWDQG�WKH�EHQHÀWV�RI�WKHP��based on her own experience.

“We honestly haven’t used [the TRX bands] that much, to the point that we [don’t] know KRZ� WR� À[� WKH� PLV-takes we made be-fore, but we are look-ing forward to using new techniques,” Luckey said.

In the times that Luckey’s class has used the bands, she says they did exercises with the bands, such as using them to practice push-ups and pull ups. However, the bands can be used for a variety of exercise.

“I thought it was unique and better than being on the ground and doing your classical push-up,” Luckey said.

According to Stanicek, the purpose of the ad-ditions dealt with the idea of PE classes spending half of the block on an activity and the other half RQ�ÀWQHVV��

“What we wanted to accomplish [with the

spin room and TRX bands] was to give another ÀWQHVV�VWDWLRQ�µ�6WDQLFHN�VDLG��´:H�NQHZ�WKDW�RQ�the block we weren’t going to play basketball for ninety minutes. We knew that we were going to URWDWH�DQG�WKUHDG�ÀWQHVV�WKURXJK�HYHU\WKLQJ��EXW�we didn’t have enough stations to accommodate what we wanted to do.”

)RU�WKH�ÀUVW�WLPH��WKH�MXQLRU�OHDGHU�3(�FXUULFX-lum includes a three day ice skating unit, at the Glenview Ice Rink. If this unit proceeds well, it might be something other classes are able to in-corporate into their curriculum. According to ju-nior Casey Kleeman, a student in the PE leader class, she enjoyed the experience and the diversity it brought to the class.

“It’s so fun to get out of the school and also to [push] people outside their comfort zones,” Kleeman said.

According to junior E.J. Reyn-olds, another student in the PE Leaders class, he enjoyed the fact that it was an opportunity for stu-GHQWV�ZKR� GRQ·W� SDUWLFLSDWH� LQ� ÀJ-ure skating or hockey to have a chance to skate.

“I think it’s great that everyone can come out and work on their

skating,” Reynolds said. “Most kids don’t have an outlet to skate; so, it’s nice to have that [here].”

According to Sopocy, the PE Department is constantly working at improving the program and will continue to ask more essential questions about what is still needed for the curriculum at the beginning of second semester.

´,� WKLQN� ÀWQHVV� LV� DOZD\V� WULFN\�� EHFDXVH� WKDW�is what we are about,” Sopocy said. “We should EH�PDNLQJ�HYHU\ERG\�PRUH�SK\VLFDOO\�ÀW��DV�ZHOO�as enjoying activities that are lifelong. I think the newer things that we haven’t had before have en-KDQFHG� >WKDW@� DQG�PDGH� WKH�ZKROH� ÀWQHVV� FRP-ponent more interesting for students at the very least.”

PE expands options, equipment under new block schedule

“Most kids don’t have an outlet to skate, so it’s nice to have that [here].”-junior E.J. Reynolds

TYLER AKIasst. sports editor

Before every football season, Quinn Kilgo-

re and his group of college friends meet up in Omaha, Nebraska to do their annual fantasy draft. Except each year, there is new addition to the league: an embarrassing four by four inch tattoo gracing the thigh of the loser as chosen by the winner of the league. The tat-toos have ranged anywhere from a rainbow XQLFRUQ�NLFNLQJ�D�ÀHOG�JRDO�WR�-XVWLQ�%LHEHU·V�face.

As crazy as all of this sounds, their league has gained national fame through features in the New York Times bestseller, Fantasy Life, as well as a spot in their own ESPN NFL Count-down commercial.

However, fantasy sports was not always in the mainstream. They used to carry the “nerd” stigma, only for the fans deeply invested into the numbers and statistics of the game. Ac-cording to the Fantasy Sports Trade Associa-tion, over the past 20 years, the number of fan-tasy users in America and Canada has risen 1400 percent.

Fantasy sports’ sudden jump into the main-stream can be greatly attributed to the people who play them. One such example is Matthew Berry, ESPN’s Senior Fantasy Analyst.

As a former screenwriter, Berry realized the Hollywood life was not for him and turned his childhood passion into a living. Berry, who SOD\HG� LQ� KLV� ÀUVW� IDQWDV\� OHDJXH� DW� WKH� DJH�of 12 (a fantasy baseball league, which he is

still a part of to this day), wrote the aforemen-tioned New York Times bestseller and became a VWDSOH�ÀJXUH�RQ�SRSXODU�(631�VKRZV�VXFK�DV�SportsCenter and NFL Countdown.

Berry’s book reminisces on the most absurd stories that he has heard, or been a part of, over the years of playing fantasy sports and his journey to ESPN. His appearances at countless book signings, The League on FXX, Late Night with Seth Meyers and his own shows (06010 Fantasy Focus pod-cast and Fantasy Foot-ball Now) have drawn the crowds to participate in the “game for sports geeks.”

In the modern era of technology, playing fan-tasy sports has become so simple. There are a multitude of sites that offer a platform for fantasy sports with a comput-er tracking your scores as opposed to the old fashioned, “grab your newspaper and calcula-tor and look up the stats on Tuesday morning method.”

For those who fear their rookie status will hinder them against the savvy veterans, don’t be afraid. The amount of information out there is endless. From yearly draft cheat sheets to talk shows, such as WGBK’s very own Final Fantasy, there are plenty of resources out there to help guide you in the right direction, and to

PDNH�\RXU�ÀUVW�\HDU�D�JUHDW�H[SHULHQFH�I encourage every sports fan to give fan-

tasy sports a try. It’s a great way to prolong friendships past high school as well as pro-vide a nice distraction from life’s rigors. By be-

ing an armchair general manager, you are in com-plete control of your ros-ter and can blame no one but yourself for drafting Montee Ball over DeMar-co Murray.

Fantasy sports also help ease the pain of your favorite team’s struggles. You may own Jay Cutler, who is a statistically good quarterback, but you can sleep easy at night know-ing that you’re not pay-ing him $22.5 million to produce below average results in the standings.

For those of you who already play fantasy football, good luck in your playoff run. Hope-fully I don’t see Justin Bieber on your thigh next week.

You may own Jay Cut-ler, who is a statisti-cally good quarterback, but you can sleep easy at night knowing that you’re not paying him $22.5 million to produce below average results in the standings.

Fantasy sports: it’s a game for everyone

GABBI COZZONEstaff writer

Last season, the GBS Girls Gymnastics team appeared LQ� WKHLU� ÀUVW� VHFWLRQDO� VLQFH� ������ 'HVSLWH� JUDGXDWLQJ� NH\�PHPEHUV��WKH�WHDP�LV�QRZ�FRQÀGHQW�WKH\�FDQ�EH�EHWWHU�DQG�hopefully advance farther than sectionals, according to head coach Steve Gale.

&XUUHQWO\��WKH�JLUOV�DUH�����DIWHU�SODFLQJ�ÀUVW�DW�WKH�*OHQ-brook North invite with a score of 139.3, beating CSL rival, New Trier.

According to senior captain Kaci Castino her favorite ac-complishment of the season so far was bringing home the championship trophy from the GBN Invite.

“New Trier is a big rival of ours so it was extremely re-warding as a team to outscore them,” Castino said.

The team also won their meet versus Evanston with a to-tal of 140 points. So far, the girls are undefeated and hope to keep it that way, according to Castino.

Last season, sophomore Hannah Hartley won the all-DURXQG��YDXOW�� EHDP�DQG�ÁRRU� DW� WKH�&6/�6RXWK�PHHW� DQG�DOVR�KHOSHG�*%6�ZLQ�LWV�ÀUVW�UHJLRQDO�VLQFH�������6KH�DOVR�DW-tended last year’s state meet.

“[They are] more rounded gymnasts, so I feel like they are going to bring a higher skill level to all of us and they are go-ing to push us more,” Hartley said.

According to Gale the team will start off without Hart-OH\�GXH�WR�D�VWUHVV�IUDFWXUH�RQ�KHU�ÀEXOD��*DOH�EHOLHYHV�WKDW�Hartley is the team’s top-all around gymnast, and she is cur-rently working on her bars routine.

“We are going to be down a tad with that, but I would like to beat everyone,” Gale said. “I would hope we would come out on top and perform well.”

This season, the team features two freshmen, Bebe Ha-ramaras and Kiley Kruger. The team is also led by Castino, according to Hartley.

Gymnastics looks to build on last year’s strong finish

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FLYING FLIPS: Julia Stadler performs her routine on the balance beam at a home meet against Glenbrook North on Dec. 5. Photo by Sophia Mason

CENTER ICE: Holding hands at the center of the ice rink, junior PE leaders pose for a photo after a class during their ice skating unit. The new unit was added to the curriculum due to the block scheduling and spanned for three days. Photo courtesty of Emily Weiss

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Swim and dive predicted to continue last year’s successful streakSAM CASEYasst. sports editor

The men’s swimming and diving team has ex-perienced early success by winning both of their ÀUVW�GXDO�PHHWV�DQG�FRPLQJ�LQ�ÀUVW�LQ�ERWK�RI�WKHLU�invites. The team beat GBN in a dual meet, 115-68. Head coach Keith MacDonald said he has high ex-SHFWDWLRQV�IRU�WKH�WHDP�IROORZLQJ�WKHLU�ÀIWK�SODFH�ÀQLVK�DW�VWDWH�ODVW�\HDU��

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According to MacDonald, some of the team’s stars include state returners, seniors Jon Salomon and Aaron Ach, junior Sam Salganik and sopho-more Sam Iida. At the Arrow-head dual meet, Salomon swam the

50 yard freestyle in 20.96 seconds, which was two hundredths of a second faster than his fourth SODFH�ÀQLVK�DW�VWDWH�ODVW�\HDU�LQ�WKH�VDPH�HYHQW�

´,W� >ZDV@� D� OLWWOH� FRQÀGHQFH� ERRVW�µ� 6DORPRQ�said. “I did not have the strongest of state meets last year, so it’s good to be back at it.”

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LI� QRW� EHWWHU� >WKDQ� ODVW� \HDU@�µ� 0DF-Donald said.

On the diving side of the team, Ach came in seventh

place last year at state and is hoping to do better this year. According to Ach, he is planning to ac-FRPSOLVK� WKLV�E\�DGGLQJ�QHZ�DQG�PRUH�GLIÀFXOW�dives in his routine and by being more relaxed at practices.

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have more fun and freedom during practice to try new things.”

According to Ach, he is thankful to be part of a team that has so much depth. He is also grate-ful that the swimmers include the divers as one big team.

“It is amazing for me to feel included in the swimmers’ culture, because it is a really tight-knit group,” Ach said. “They get up and train hard-er in the mornings and harder after school than DOPRVW� DQ\�RWKHU� WHDP� >���@� RU� FOXE� DW� 6RXWK�� >���@�>7KHP@�LQFOXGLQJ�PH�DV�SDUW�RI�WKDW�WHDP�KDV�DF-WXDOO\�KHOSHG�PH�SHUIRUP�EHWWHU�>RQ�P\�GLYHV@�µ

In the GBN dual meet, South won 10 out of the 12 events. At the Spartan Sprint Classic invite, the WHDP�FDPH� LQ�ÀUVW�RXW�RI� VHYHQ� WHDPV��0DF'RQ-ald is happy with the team’s progress so far, but his main goal is for the men to try their hardest at practices so they can be in shape for the end of the season.

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Over winter break the swim team is going on a training trip in Iowa. Their next meet will be at Evanston on Dec. 19.

“New Trier is a very deep team, [which] presents a prob-lem for us, but our stars are equal if not better than theirs.”-head coach Keith MacDonald

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Basketball discovers depth in younger team

McDonaghs actively participate in basketball, other GBS athletics

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After losing nine seniors from last year’s roster, the Titan men’s EDVNHWEDOO� WHDP� LV� ORRNLQJ� WR�ÀQG�VXFFHVV�ZLWK�D�VPDOOHU�DQG�OHVV�H[-SHULHQFHG� WHDP�� DFFRUGLQJ� WR� VH-nior captain Sean McDonagh.

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Gymnasticsvs. Maine SouthJan. 12, 7:00 p.m.

SIBLING LOVE: Off the court (right), siblings se-nior Sean and junior Sarah McDonagh show off their close bond. Sean and Sarah embace tightly in a picture (left) from their childhood. Photo by Ashley Clark (right) and photo courtesy Sarah McDonagh (left)

JIMMY BUCKETS: Jumping high against a GBN basketball player on Dec. 5, junior Jimmy Martinelli (#33) gains possession of the ball for the Titans. Martinelli went on to score the basket that tied the game, and sec-onds later, senior Chase Daniel scored the game winning three point shot (63-60). Photo by Ashley Clark

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Wrestlingvs. Russ Erb tournamentJan. 19, 3:30 p.m. & Jan. 20, 9:00 a.m.

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Men’s Swim & Divevs. EvanstonJan. 16, 5:30 p.m.

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Women’s Basketballvs. TaftJan. 10, 2:30 p.m.

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HANNAH MASON & BRECK MURPHYco-sports editors

Despite losing to GBN on Nov. 26, 6-2, senior captain Ryan Buckingham believes that the rival-ry face-off didn’t show the men’s hockey team’s true potential for this season.

“A lot of things went into that game,” Bucking-ham said. “I think it was nerves for some of the new guys. I think having all of the fans there, it’s a great experience, but [it] adds a different element to the game.”

While Buckingham said that having fans there is enjoyable, he is grateful for the appropriate be-havior, considering the game’s annual presence was in danger.

“This year’s game was important, because the Park Center was considering eliminating that game because of concerns about [inappropriate] behavior,” Buckingham said. “This year, the fans did a great job behaving themselves, so I think there will continue to be North vs. South games every year.

Buckingham, along with the rest of the team, looks forward to playing GBN again on Dec. 20. Buckingham also says that the men have beaten teams that have beaten GBN, such as Providence Catholic and Waubonsie Valley. These games, amongst others, contributed to their current re-cord of 14-9.

Aside from their loss to GBN, the team was more successful against the Loyola Gold team,

winning 3-1 on Nov. 20. According to senior Mike 0RQWHPXUUR�� WKLV� JDPH� ZDV� LQÁXHQWLDO� LQ� WKHLU�VHDVRQ��EHFDXVH�LW�ZDV�WKH�ÀUVW�WLPH�WKH\�KDG�EHDW-en them in three years.

“We just skated really hard that game and kept up with them,” Montemurro said. “We constantly pressured the puck.”

The men also played Providence Catholic on Sept. 13, winning 3-2. Providence is current-ly ranked second in the state, behind New Trier

Green. Despite their past win and best efforts, the

team then lost to Providence in a tournament in Ann Arbor, Michigan over the weekend of Dec. 5. In that same tournament, the men came in third place out of 12 competitive teams, according to Buckingham.

“It just helps to play teams from other areas and play other competition,” Buckingham said. “Also, to bond as a team. You spend the weekend

with [each other], so you really get to know [one another]. We just become more of a unit.”

According to senior captain DK Arenson, the team is built upon the foundation created by ju-nior goalkeeper Matt Grinde. Although the team has Grinde as a strength, they struggle with main-taining their defense, according to senior Johnny Savino.

Conversely, Buckingham believes a strength the team has this season is the depth of experi-ence through returning varsity members. The 12 UHWXUQLQJ� VHQLRUV� KDYH� KDG� PXFK� LQÁXHQFH� RQ�successful play, due to their familiarity with each other on the ice, Buckingham adds.

“I think last year we were a good team,” Buck-ingham said.“ This year we just worked off of that solid base, and we’ve improved off of that to be-come even better. So, hopefully this is the year.”

Along with the experienced players, Coach Jim Philbin is celebrating his 20th year as head coach of the program.

On Dec. 12, the team played Barrington and won 5-2. According to Arenson, the game was succesful as a result of Philbin switching up the lines right before the start of the game.

“I think it reminded everyone that playing time is earned, and [it] got everyone playing a lot hard-er every shift.”

Along with this change, Savino believes that WKHLU�DELOLW\�WR�VFRUH�ÀUVW�DQG�IDVW�ZDV�LQÁXHQWLDO�in the win.

The men next hit the ice on Dec. 20 with their anticipated re-match against GBN.

Hockey loses to GBN, hopeful for upcoming rematch

FIGHT TO FINISH: During their game against Highland Park, freshman Lizzie Shaw (left) dribbles past a Giants defender, senior Madison Kane and junior Sydney Dehorn (upper right) struggle to gain possesion of the ball and junior Caitlin Morrison (lower right) looks for an open player while fending off her opponent. The Titans beat Highland Park twice, once on Nov. 19 and again on Dec. 2, with scores of 69-23 and 59-39. Photos by Ashley Clark

JONATHAN LEEstaff reporter

After going 13-15 last season, including an 0-5 showing in their Thanksgiving tournament, South’s Women’s Varsity basketball team has shown much more determination for success this year, according to Coach Steve Weis-senstein.

The team is currently 9-0, includ-ing a victorious run at the Mundelein Thanksgiving Tournament. The team picked up wins against Highland Park, Glenbrook North and Maine South, all of which were won by 10 or more points, according to Weis-senstein.

Beginning the season with new players and starters, the chemistry was not the best, according to soph-omore Carrie Weinman, starting point guard. But with a few games played together they have grown to

be able to communicate much better, according to senior captain Ashley Oldshue.

“I think our biggest success has been working as a team, and I think last year everyone was kind of nervous, being new to varsity and not knowing each other that well,” Oldshue said.

Another factor that has led to the team’s success has been the help from their assistant coach, Scott Nemecek, who has brought in

new plays and ideas to the court, according to junior Sarah McDonagh.

“I think Nemecek has been a great addi-tion to our team,” McDonagh said. “A lot of his plays that he’s brought to the court KDYH�GHÀQLWHO\�KHOSHG�XV�GXULQJ�JDPHV�µ

Although Weissenstein believes the team has gotten off to a great start this season, he believes much work is still needed. “We can cut down on our turnovers;

I think we had 16 turnovers against Maine South,” Weissenstein said. “There are some times defensively we don’t communicate enough. We kind of predicate our defense on switching a lot of screens. Sometimes we don’t talk, and someone is open because we didn’t switch the screen properly. So we can clean up some of those mistakes, which I think will make

us better.”Weissenstein believes that wins and losses

take care of themselves, as long as the team

concentrates on what they’re doing. For all the games so far, every player has been able concen-trate and play to contribute to the undefeated re-cord.

In the second game of the season, against rival Glenbrook North, every player was able to score in the 81-33 victory, according to Weissenstein. Playing against a rival school, McDonagh believes that it was an important turning point in the sea-son.

“I think although the GBN game was, [not RQO\@�SRLQWV��D�ELJ�GLIIHUHQFH��,�WKLQN�LW�GHÀQLWHO\�ERRVWHG�RXU�FRQÀGHQFH�DQG��DV�D�WHDP��PDGH�XV�D�lot better,” McDonagh said.

Alongside their GBN victory, the Titans defeat-ed Evanston on Dec. 12, with a score of 56-45.

“It wasn’t our best game, but we still pulled it out,” senior Catie Weinman said. “The other team was very physical, but we kept our cool.”

Improving as the season goes on, a lot of the players have been able to contribute immensely on and off the bench, according to Weissenstein.

“[Senior guard] Madison Kane has done a great job coming off the bench, [senior forward] Caroline Caspers comes off the bench, she was our leading scorer against Glenbrook North,” Weis-senstein said. “[Freshman guard] Lizzy Shaw has done a great job coming off the bench.”

$� ORW� RI� H[SHFWDWLRQV� KDYH� EHHQ� IXOÀOOHG�� DF-cording to Weissenstein, but he still has hopes for the girls in the upcoming games and knows that

they’re working their hard-est.

McDonagh believes that the team’s next games are cru-cial to their future success.

“Improving as a team [is important] and also we re-ally want to beat [...] our rivals like New Trier,” Mc-Donagh said.

On Dec. 16, the Titans defeated the 'HHUÀHOG� :DUULRUV�70-31.

The team will par-ticipate in the Whea-ton North Holiday Tournament on Dec. 22, 23, 26, and 27.

This story went to press before the game ver-sus Waukegan last night.

REFUSE TO LOSE: Going up for a layup, senior Caroline Caspers scores two of her 10 points against the Giants. The Titans are currently averaging 57.9 points per game. Photo by Ashley Clark

DUNKIN’ DONAGH: Bringing the ball up the court, junior Sarah McDonagh looks to set up the of-fense against Highland Park. This is McDonagh’s second year as a start-ing player on varsity. Photo by Ashley Clark

Women’s Basketball remains undefeated

GRINDE’S GRIND: As a Stevenson player winds up for a shot, junior goalkeeper Matt Grinde focuses on the save. Although he saved this shot, the Titans fell to Stevenson 4-2. Photo by Marley Hambourger