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El Camino Real Charter High School February 12, 2013Volume 43, Issue 9
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Academic Decathlon competes at regionalsBy RACHAEL COHEN
Academic Decathlon placed fourth overall in the regional com-petition, announced Friday, Feb. 9 at Hollywood High School. Their score permits them to continue on to the state competition.
The team won 51 medals as a whole and 46 individually.
Overall, the team performed well in mathematics and literature, winning a gold medal as a team in the mathematics section of Super Quiz. Super Quiz is a series of 12 questions, two from each subject. Participants are given seven sec-onds to answer each.
Team members say that Super Quiz is the most interactive part of Decathlon because there are spectators.
The Scholastic team—Jenny Chi, Brennan Lincoln and Me-lissa Ngu—all scored a perfect 12 on Super Quiz.
Another challenging event is the impromptu speech, in which decathletes must deliver a one-and-a-half- to two-minute speech about a topic received just a min-ute before.
Decathletes are given three topics to choose from. The topics can be personal, political or fo-cused on a quote.
“I was able to pull a lot of my impromptu from my experience
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A Houston teenager nearly died after smoking synthetic weed made of an herbal mixture with effects similar to marijuana.
Love: Media vs. Reality
Learn the difference between love in the media and love in reality, and how the media heightens expectations of love.
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The Who come together in concert
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Super Bowl Parties
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(Above) Relay for Life members and event attendees dance to kick off the event. (right) Senior Gabrielle Kopera (pictured left) interviews Relay for Life member, sophomore Rachel Hambly as part of “El Camino Reality’s live-streaming of the kick off celebration.
MedalistsMathematics
Language & Literature
Economics
Music
Art
Science
Super Quiz
Speech
Interview
Essay
Gold: Brennan Lincoln, Johnathan Yih (perfect 1000)Silver: Ranbir Dhillon, Jake HehirBronze: Peter Do, Tyler Wong
Gold: Ranbir Dhillon, Julian ZanoSilver: Jenny Chi, Johnathan YihBronze: Peter Do, Brennan Lincoln, Melissa Ngu
Silver: Brennan Lincoln, Melissa Ngu, Julian ZanoBronze: Peter Do, Jake Hehir, Johnathan Yih
Silver: Brennan Lincoln
Silver: Brennan Lincoln, Melissa Ngu
Bronze: Jake HehirSocial Science
Bronze: Melissa Ngu
Bronze overall as a teamPerfect 12: Jenny Chi, Brennan Lincoln, Melissa Ngu
Gold: Jake Hehir, Johnathan YIhSilver: Jenny Chi, Peter Do, Brennan LincolnBronze: Julian Zano
Gold: Ranbir Dhillon, Peter DoSilver: Brennan Lincoln, Johnathan YihBronze: Melissa Ngu, Julian Zano
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(Left to Right) Stephanie Franklin, Jake Hehir, Brennan Lincoln, Julian Zano, Tyler Wong, Jonathan Yih, Peter Do, Jenny Chi, Melissa Ngu, Ranbir Dhillon The team poses with coach Stephanie Franklin after being awarded their medals.
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in Model United Nations,” Chi said.
Although the topics are unpre-dictable, the team did as much as they could to prepare. “We asked each other some personal story-type questions, such as memorable expe-riences and embarrassing moments to get each other talking,” said Ngu.
The impromptu speech, pre-pared speech, interview and essay took place during the first week of competition, on Saturday, Jan. 26.
The second Saturday, Feb. 2, was devoted to Super Quiz and individual subject tests. Each of the subjects has a Russian focus, as Russia is the main theme of the 2013 Academic Decathlon.
Of the seven subjects, the team believes they need to focus on science and history.
Different subjects present unique challenges to each of the decathletes, such as music. Those who have a background in mu-sic are better equipped to answer the questions, which are multiple choice.
“Some questions are geared towards people with backgrounds in music, who know musical ter-minology,” Honors team member Johnathan Yih said.
“The first 12 are listening-based, the next 10 are theory, and the rest are about history,”
Brennan Lincoln said of the ques-tions. Lincoln says that some questions are “friendly” to people without musical backgrounds.
Honors team member Ranbir Dhillon identifies with the de-cathletes without extensive prior knowledge of music. “I don’t have the background in music theory, which makes reading about music and the different techniques hard
Students kick off Relay for LifeBy ELNAZ GUIVATCHIAN
Decked out in purple t-shirts and paint, Relay for Life commit-tee members and volunteers pro-moted the 14-hour walk that will take place in April by hosting a kick off after school on Thursday, Jan. 31.
Students gathered in Anderson Hall, which was decorated in pur-ple, to support the event and to pub-licize the first Relay for Life ever held at El Camino.
Over 600 students and com-munity members attended the kick-off and were able to buy re-lay clothing and sign up for the April walk.
Music played in Anderson Hall while some students and Re-lay club members danced along. Head chairs Danielle Bernstein and Kasey Ex gave speeches on why they relay for life, and how the relay began at ECR.
“Our slogan is Celebrate, Remember, Fight Back,” head chair Danielle Bernstein said as the crowd cheered.
After opening speeches, the chairs showed a promotional
video about the night of the re-lay. The video was followed by speeches from other chairs talk-ing about why they relay and how cancer has personally af-fected them.
“This whole experience has made me a stronger person and, in a way, made me the person I am today,” said Carolina Calderon, who took care of her mother before she passed away from cancer in 2012.
“I think my mom would be ab-solutely amazed with everything I’ve accomplished.”
The club provided free pizza, cupcakes and candy. Outside, hula hooping stations and booths were set up for people to decorate lu-minaria bags in remembrance of those who have lost their lives to cancer, and in celebration of those who have survived cancer.
“I think it is really great that our school is participating in a re-lay for such a good cause,” fresh-man Parisa Hajian said. “The sto-ries that people were sharing were really touching and I think they made everyone realize how im-portant it is that we fight against cancer.”
The Relay for Life club plans
to raise at least $50,000 by the time Relay takes place in April. Out of 120 Relay for Life mem-bers, 112 participants signed up for the relay, and 14 teams have been created so far.
“This is an event that not only raises awareness and raises mon-ey for cancer research, but brings communities together for a good cause,” faculty sponsor Holly Kiamanesh said.
From 1988 to 2009, cancer mortality rates in California have dropped 23 percent due to re-search and prevention.
Also during that time period in California, cancer incidence rates dropped by 11 percent.
The Relay for Life organiza-tion has raised $4 billion so far, all of which was donated to The American Cancer Society for re-search.
Students who want to partici-pate in the relay must sign up by April 5 to participate in the event and raise at least $100 to be able to stay overnight.
The actual 14-hour Relay for Life walk will be held overnight from 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, to 8 a.m. on Sunday.
to fully comprehend,” Dhillon said. “It takes me a long time to get through it all.”
“Music can be hit or miss,” Ngu said.Reflecting on the com-petition, Yih said, “There’s al-ways room for improvement.”
“We could’ve done better. That’s what we always say,” Chi said. “We’re going to give it our all for state.”
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New prank targets celebritiesBy NICOLE KOSOFF
Police charged Chris Brown’s home on Monday, Jan. 22, after receiving a report of domestic vi-olence involving a gun; however, when they arrived, they were sur-prised to find not only that there was no gun and no fight, but also that Brown was not even home.
This prank, in which teenag-ers dial 911 to falsely report gun-men, hostages or other crimes at celebrity homes, is referred to as “swatting,” and has affected numerous celebrities, including Tom Cruise, Justin Bieber, Ash-ton Kutcher, Miley Cyrus and the Kardashians.
Prank calling has been popu-lar among teenagers, including El Camino students, for generations, and is usually seen as an innocent practical joke.
“There is a line that shouldn’t be crossed, but generally it’s all fun and games,” said senior Allison Babiner.
Celebrity swatting, however,
takes prank calling to a whole new level as its goal is to get a S.W.A.T. team to show up to a celebrity’s door, giving the action its name.
Though S.W.A.T. teams do not always show up, the calls demand attention from dispatchers, heli-copters, cyber-crime specialists, patrol officers and detectives.
Not only does this waste money, resources and time, but it leaves people who are actually in need of 911’s assistance helpless.
“Celebrity swatting seems very mean and pointless,” senior Elizabeth Juster said. “Not only does it disturb the celebrities living in their homes, but it also distracts police from other, real threats.”
With teenagers across the na-tion catching onto this trend, find-ing the culprits of these swat calls has become very difficult.
Pranksters will often use com-puter programs to trick 911 sys-tems into thinking the calls are coming from one location when they are really miles, if not states,
Model UN team prepares for Berkeley
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away.No matter how far away the
call is made, police say there is always a trail leading back to the hoaxers, and that detectives will find them.
When caught, the current consequence is prosecution; how-ever, Assemblyman Mike Gatto is pushing for a bill that not only gives swatters up to three years in jail if someone is injured, but also makes them responsible for emer-gency response costs.
As convincing as they are, these calls are getting easier to expose.
“We’re getting much better at deciphering what is real and what is not,” said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
With this ability, police hope to be able to avoid giving swatters the reaction that they are looking for by preventing the dispatch of S.W.A.T. teams or police authori-ties, eventually putting an end to swat calls and restoring public safety.
If you were to “celebrity swat” someone, which celebrity would it be?
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Emma Stone
Rihanna
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Celebrity swatting is when people pull a prank and make a false police report for a celebrity home.
By GOLNAZ GUIVATCHIAN working on their position papers which are similar to research pa-pers about the assigned topics.
ECR MUN has 30 spots for Global Classrooms but only 12 for Berkeley because it is a very competative conference, attract-ing over a thousand delegates from around the world.
ECR MUN has around 50 members so the club’s cabient had to chose the strongest 12 to go to Berkeley based on their pre-vious wins and applications.
“As this is my last year in high school Model UN, I really hope our team shows off its work and wins some awards,” senior and co-president Josh Dahlerbruch said.
Model United Nations meets every Monday at lunch in Karen Ritchie’s room.
Model United Nations (MUN) has been preparing for its two up-coming comferences: UC Berke-ley’s conference and UCLA’s Global Classrooms conference.
Model UN is a club at school that competes in mock United Nations conferences nationwide, using politics and debate.
“I am very optimistic about this year’s Berkeley team,” co-president and Academic Decath-lon member Jenny Chi said.
Global Classrooms is on March 2 and the annual Berkeley conference is from March 9 to March 12.
Last year ECR MUN won the best school award at Global Classrooms.
The members have been
The theme of this year’s Big Event was “Viva the Arts,” and the opening number for the night was “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay. Hosting this year were seniors Riley Boronkay, Kylie Cipolla, Nicholas Robinson and Jakob Bernardino who are pictured above.
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Although most clubs at ECR help local organizations, Project North Korea is working to raise awareness about the human rights issues in North Korea.
“We are the only club on campus with this kind of vision,” club founder and President Jeremiah Kim said.
Kim, a junior, started Project North Korea this year after attending a confer-ence about the human rights issue in North Korea.
“The whole goal of this club is to change the perspec-tive of North Korea from the politics to the peo-ple,” Kim said.
The members sell donuts in first period twice and week. They donate all of their mon-ey from the fundraising to an organization called Liberty in North Korea (LINK).
The club is having a ben-efit concert on March 23 at the West Hills Presbyterian Church.
“Our goal is to raise
awareness and let people know about the issue,” Kim said. “A lot of people, when they think of North Korea, just see the politics, not the people. The people should come before the politics.”
The LINK organization has come to El Camino for a screen-ing and discussion and Kim says he hopes to have them come again soon to raise more awareness about the people of North Korea.
Although Kim is interested in
By GOLNAZ GUIVATCHIAN
Project North Korea
Junior Luis Anthony Rebel-lon has already written two nov-els and a graphic novel, with the intention to create more literary works.
The first novel in his trilogy is titled Ashblood, followed by, Columbian D e m o n . Rebellon also plans to write a pre-quel called Scarlet Eagle.
“I start-ed writing one dur-ing winter break,” said Rebellon, “and it took me about a week and a half to finish it.”
In addition to the trilogy, Rebellon is currently finishing a graphic novel. “I have always had a love for comics and comic books,” said Rebellon.
Rebellon describes his pro-tagonist as a superhero with no outstanding powers. Instead of flying and employing super strength, the superhero in the novels must find his own way of bringing justice.
“All of my books are about a superhero who is hated and mis-understood until the end,” said Rebellon, “until eventually he will find his way into the world.” Rebellon’s style can be consid-
Young novelist writes a trilogy
Lip Sync 2013 will be hosted by Maya Bovshow, Rachel Cantú and Joey Reeves. The hosts were chosen by Se-nior Cabinet, based on their personality, humor and compat-ibility. The event is being planned by senior events coordinator Nick Robinson. “Nick and the hosts have put so much hard work into Lip Sync,” said senior events coordinator Alana Chetlen. “I know it’ll be a great event.”“Burn” slips were sent out on Wednesday, Feb. 6 to warn people who may be the subject of jokes at the event. Some potential burns will be about dopplegangers (look-a-likes), cougars and couples that should’ve been. Slips must be signed and returned by Feb. 11.
By RACHEL LEONARD ered a realistic twist on fantasy.The ability to express and
create a novel takes more than just deep consideration and plan-ning; it takes persistence and hard work.
Rebellon’s passion for poetry turns into a flow of emotions that keeps him on track.
Although he has pride in his work, he prefers to keep
it very pr iva te , except for occasions where he
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family and friends. Rebellon has not yet discussed
the option of publishing his books, or any of his work, but he expects that with the right amount of time, he will be able to share them with everyone.
“I was very inspired by the work of Junot Diaz,” said Rebel-lon, “because he made me want to write a story about a superhero.”
Junot Diaz is Dominican-American writer who has received many awards for his novels, in-cluding The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a recent favor-ite among El Camino students.
Rebellon says he looks up to Diaz for guidance and naviga-tion in his own novels and future work.
Cinematographer speaks to film students
More often than not, a cin-ematographer will say that his life, though full of challenges and bumps, is filled with adventure and opportunity.
Chuy Elizondo, a professional cinematographer, visited ECR’s film and television students to speak about his work in the in-dustry, and to give them tips for creating their own films.
“If you want to go up the lad-der in this business, the first thing you need to learn is to work fast,” Elizondo said. “I’m talking from experience — this is not some-thing you learn from a book.”
By CLARE RAMIREZ Senior Erin Epstein said she appreciated Elizondo’s visit to her film class.
“It was really valuable to have a professional come in and show us what our future could be like,” Epstein said.
Though he gave the students a variety of tips, Elizondo focused mostly on lighting, as his back-ground in cinematography proved to be the most useful in educating the students.
“Lighting creates the mood,” he said. “It is what makes a pic-ture pretty or ugly.”
Elizondo discussed different types of lights, gels and methods used in television and movies.
He also told stories of his more daring adventures, such as his experience with stuntwork and helicopters. He recalls these experiences with laughter and good memories.
“When someone who has ex-perience in show business comes to present to high school students, we really need to take advantage and learn from it,” senior Dash Tranner said.
“A career in film is the most gratifying career you can choose,” Elizondo said with a smile, add-ing that working with great enter-tainers and filmmakers has been the most fantastic aspect of his career.
Chuy Elizondo (above) speaks to Patricia Estrin’s film class about his experience in the movie field. CEA seniors Emily Davine and Hannah Fishman listen intently.
“All of my books are about a superhero who is hated and
misunderstood until the end.” -Luis Anthony Rebellon
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a future in politics, he says he did not start this for himself.
“I started Project North Korea because I wanted to help these refugees in any way that I could,” Kim said.
“A lot of people when they think of North Korea just see the politics, not the people. People should be prioritized.”
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The Project North Korea Club is the first of its kind so Kim designed the logo which features the shape of North Korea in the letter ‘K’. The club has raised several hundred dollars so far.
Photo courtesy of Jeremiah Kim
4 February 12, 2013OPINION
Does the media portray relationships in an unrealistic manner?PRO CON
By YASMIN TORABIBy MADISON SPIEGELIn a television world full of angsty
teenagers, dysfunctional 20-somethings and middle aged messes, there is always a notorious romance that sweeps viewers off their feet. From the moment the two characters are introduced as love interests, the journey begins. From the heated love triangles, agonizing break ups and pas-sionate make-ups, we as eager speculators become entranced with the characters as they fall in love.
Because of these picturesque relation-ships television set up for us, many people develop unrealistic expectations about what love is supposed to be like.
Between Brandon and Kelly from Beverley Hills 90210 and Steve and DJ from Full House to Nathan and Haley from One Tree Hill television romances are iconic and memorable in their own unique way.
As teenagers in high school, however, after growing up watching these shows, expectations for what high school is supposed to be like are completely dif-ferent from the harsh reality. The high school “typical” is ingrained in us from the moment we begin watching televi-sion. We are trained to think that every-one is in a relationship all throughout high school, there are crazy parties every weekend and that our friends are with us all four years.
Television makes high school seem much more dramatic than it truly is. For example, in the hit teen show Degrassi, the main characters go through every
Nicholas Sparks is probably one of the most hated men among women. Why? Because he creates and portrays relationships in a too-good-to-be-true way. But personally, I think otherwise. Relationships shown on television and in movies are of benefit.
Yes, the majority of these relationships end well, but still, these fictional couples fight and break-up just like people do in real life. These portrayals teach us what relationships should be and the lessons we can take from them are endless.
In The Notebook, we journey through time with Noah and Allie and watch as their love blossoms and grows. The re-lationship reaches a hiatus when conflict arises between the two and they go their separate ways for several years.
When they reunite, Allie is engaged and is caught between her fiancé and teenage summer romance. Noah reminds Allie that when deciding between him and her fiance, she should not make the choice based on what everyone else wants, but based on what she wants.
A lot can be taken from Noah’s ad-vice. Instead of focusing on how society will view one’s relationship, one should remember his or her own happiness and wants.
It’s easy to get lost in the opinions of others, but it’s important to set those opin-ions aside and focus on one’s relationship. Is that really an unrealistic point?
Perhaps it is not the portrayals, rather the interpretation of these relationships
stereotypical high school issue in the book. Love triangles, drug habits, school shootings, teen pregnancies, and prob-lems with the law all make high school seem much more intense and problematic than it usually is.
In the popular television show, One Tree Hill, main characters Nathan and Haley are introduced as arch enemies. When Nathan, the token bad boy, asks Haley for tutoring he surprises himself with his unexpected attraction and feelings towards Haley, the sarcastic nerd.
As expected, they fall fast in love with each other, however, their spur-of-the-moment marriage as juniors in high school was unsuspecting to the eager viewers.
As much as we want to believe that the relationships presented to us in televi-sion and books are realistic, the media’s disregard to the hardships that relation-ships face create false hope for a real life happy ending.
In a recent poll of 150 El Camino students, 143 believe that the relationships that are portrayed on television create unrealistic expectations and disappoint-ment in reality.
The television romances that we infuse ourselves with on a weekly basis are addicting and enthralling for a reason -- we like to lose ourselves in a fantasy, one that television depicts so perfectly. Although some people do have picture perfect relationships in high school, the majority of students would rather watch them on television.
that is the problem. Television and mov-ies glamorize everything, so naturally the relationships in these forms of media will be close to perfect.
But even if the nerd doesn’t get the “it” girl in real life, staying true to one’s Star Trek obsessed self and not compro-mising your personality for a relationship is an important lesson.
And even if your boyfriend doesn’t throw pebbles at your window in the late hours of the night, or your girlfriend doesn’t fake her death to marry you despite her family’s wishes, it doesn’t mean you’re loved any less.
Further, having a relationship that’s lasted for all four years of high school is not really reflective of its quality. It is what happens in those four years that makes it a worthy relationship.
Once we start to see past the fluff in these fictional relationships, then we will realize that these relationships are, in fact, possible. We become clouded by crafty scripts, romantic settings and attractive actors to the point where we forget that it is possible to have a love like Noah and Allie.
Even without a book detailing every as-pect of your relationship or a boy serenading you outside your window or a wedding proposal in high school, everyday people can have relationships like the ones on the big screen.
At the end of the day, the foundation for a perfect relationship is the love two people share which is common among both fictional and real relationships.
Media romances are too good to be true Picture perfect love is possible
By CLARE RAMIREZ
I still remember the first time she told me something incredibly personal about her life. It began as a normal conversation, but it soon expanded to one full of meaning and depth.
I’ll call her Lily, to respect her identity. We met years ago in a shared class, but it wasn’t until last year that we fostered our strong bond. In the past, we had never defined our friendship as a close one. In fact, we were never really friends, simply acquain-tances. For that reason, I had always thought of her as a quiet soul, somewhat more on the shy end of the spectrum.
It wasn’t until much later that I realized how slightly inac-curate my knowledge of Lily’s nature was. As months passed, I discovered that she is the type of person that will be more dynamic around her close friends but reserved around strangers, a trait not so unusual among people.
My friendship with Lily continued to blossom, and during
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this time, I observed how closed she sometimes is to the world around her. Only through time and incredible patience would she ever open up and trust some-one completely.
No one can blame her. Like Lily, I have also had moments when I refrained from revealing certain things about my life or simply kept to myself because I didn’t feel the need or desire to share anything. But when it comes to our relationships with family and friends, the same may not always apply.
What stops us from opening up to other people? For some, it may be disdain; for others, it could be apathy. For many, it is fear – the fear of being hurt, betrayed or brokenhearted.
At some point in our lives, each of us has undergone some form of emotional pain and sorrow. The events, places and people that have caused such feelings of distress are irrelevant, but what is relevant is the way those incidents have changed our minds, and more significantly, our hearts.
It was because of Lily that I fully understood how people’s pasts can deeply influence the way they think. When we’re young and naive, we are a lot more daring and willing to take risks. Once something happens that changes our perspective on the world, we become hermits and climb inside a shell, refusing to come out of our comfort zone.
The way I see it, life will constantly give us reasons not to trust people, not to open up, not to nurture particular relation-ships. We all have had our share of experiences that acts as the ba-sis for our insecurity and our fear of the vulnerability that results in revealing our true selves.
“Hey, is that your boyfriend? Did he ask you out, or did you,” I remember a girl in class asking me a couple of years ago. I recall her shocked expression when I said yep, and confirmed that I had asked him.
For some reason, heterosexual dating still seems to be a male-dominated game. According to society, popular opinion, the mainstream -- whatever you want to call it -- men are supposed to ask, pay for the dates, initiate the sex, and generally institute how the relationship is.
My views on dating itself have changed somewhat since I was 14, I no longer believe in relationships with labels, but the tenets of “dating” are part of why I came to dislike it so much to be-gin with.
Out of 43 guys recently polled, 20 said they cared about love, and 23 said they didn’t; while out of 57 girls, 41 said they cared and only 16 said they didn’t. It seems like people kind of care about love.
But how I see it, dating is basically a terrible way to get to know a person. The second you start viewing someone as your “boyfriend” or “girlfriend,” for one, you stop viewing them as an individual.
When you go out to get food or to the mall, you’re not really think-ing about each other as individual, in-tellectual, spiritual beings—you’re thinking about who’s paying.
Interestingly, out of the 100 boys and girls polled, 39 think guys should always pay for dates, 58 say sometimes, and 3 say nev-
er--who might see you out as a couple, should you Facebook your relationship status yet.
I feel like it’s putting an expi-ration date on your knowing that person, and I feel when you start dating someone, for two, you start to stop trying.
A lot of the time, once you “get together” with someone, the mystery is gone, the challenge is gone and it feels done when it has barely started.
It feels like dating is a barrier to really knowing the “significant other” as a person. Platonic friends have to actually care about, main-tain and earn friendship, and don’t have the pressures involved with “dating.”
Friends can do what they want, while in relationships there’s always “Does this mean it’s serious now?”
Thirdly, when you’re thinking about “What if they won’t go out with me anymore?” you’re not getting closer to someone.
I find it an anomaly when two high school kids care enough to take care of each other in a re-lationship, and even when they care, it’s even more rare that they have a clue how to do that.
Also, people in relationships are constantly concerned with when it’s going to get physical, and those people need to reflect some and chill out.
Dating feels like an unappeal-ing, shallow game with little val-ue. If people could only respect each other as individuals, do nice things that the other would enjoy, have good times together and not care about labels or what people think, we could do ourselves a favor by just focusing on making ourselves, and the rare people we find truly special, happy.
By BRIT-EL GIBSON
Why the dating scene needs to chill outSuch fears shouldn’t stop us
from taking chances and risks in our relationships with others. The possibility of being hurt will never go away, but without risks, our lives would be void of the excitement and passion that stems from the adrenaline rush of feeling something new and wonderful.
Fear is a forceful and compel-ling state of mind. It can influ-ence our decisions and control our thoughts, preventing us from acting upon our emotions. The fear of being hurt, however, cannot compare to the fear of the dreaded phrase, “What if?”
One of my favorite movie quotes comes from Letters to Juliet: “‘What’ and ‘If’ are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together side by side, and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life.”
“What if?” It is a phrase that stirs up the worst in our thoughts, a phrase that causes our imagina-tions to run wild. But when we refuse to succumb to its powers of manipulation and intimidation, it is a phrase that can fuel our strength and enable us to be bold and adventurous.
It occurred to me the other day that there are only a few months left until I graduate high school. I started wonder-ing whether or not I was satis-fied with how my high school life was coming to a close, and if I wasn’t, how I was going to change it. Regret is not what I want to take with me when I leave, and I hope the rest of my fellow seniors will read this and feel the same way.
Clichés are not in my normal language repertoire, but carpe diem. Seize the day, my friends, and take a chance on this world.
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February 12 , 2013 5EDITORIAL
Performance enhancing across the boardsive entertainment has become ubiquitous in our day to day lives, but this
popular form of entertainment has been tainted by various forms of performance enhancements over the years, like lip-syncing and auto-tuning.
Most recently, singer Beyonce was accused of lip-syncing during her performance of the national anthem during President Obama’s inauguration. Although the singer’s camp has not confirmed the accusation, the U.S. Marine Band confirmed that she did record a run-through of the song the night before the live performance.
Other singers, including Whitney Houston and Jennifer Hudson, have also performed to a prerecorded track of “The Star Spangled Banner,” though they did so live at the Super Bowl--in 1991 and 2009, respectively.
Various other singers have also been caught lip-syncing to prerecorded tracks--Britney Spears on her live performance of “Womanizer” on X-Factor and throughout her entire Circus tour, Cheryl Cole at a charity event for Stand Up To Cancer, Shakira at the 2012 FIFA World Cup and Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Night Live.
Many singers claim they prerecord their songs for live performances in case of unfavorable weather, complex
choreography and inadequate rehearsal time compromise their singing. Basically, they come up with excuses.
Live performances are bound to be flawed -- that’s what makes live entertainment different from everything else. People pay the extra money to have a unique experience. If they wanted to hear or see a perfect performance, they would just stay at home and watch music videos online, or listen to the recorded and edited tracks.
Another popular performance enhancer is Auto-Tune, a software designed to adjust and perfect the pitch of a singer’s flawed notes in a recorded track. Created in 1996, this software had been kept relatively secret by the music producing industry until, in 2003, previously little-known rapper T-Pain came out with his Auto-Tune production “Buy U a Drank,” which shot up to No. 1 on the charts.
After his sudden rise, T-Pain, with his unique and fresh sound, became known to many, and has continued creating tracks and making the top charts. His auto-tuning experience landed him a job as a consultant on Kanye West’s album 808s and Heartbreak in 2008 which, when completed, had Auto-Tune on every track.
Since then, Auto-Tune has become more popular -- especially with unsigned, musicians.
According to an article on entertainment.howstuffworks.com, “more than 90 percent of [Antares’s] Auto-Tune units are in the hands of hobbyists, amateur musicians and producers looking to smooth out their latest basement recording.”
Rather than being used the way its creator, Harold Hildebrand, had intended, many artists, especially those who produce pop music, have used Auto-Tune to create unnatural, robotic sounds and note transitions.
Perhaps it gives music more magic, but it also detracts from the meaning of music, blending the lines between music and noise.
Instead of recording and rerecording to get a perfect track, singers perform one take and then sound engineers fix the flaws using Auto-Tune. It takes less time, commitment and effort from the vocalists. It also takes less heart and less talented, allowing those who are more attractive and less talent to make it as performers, despite their lack of qualifications.
Music is supposed to be an art. When mediocre voices are cleaned up and made out to be more than they are with Auto-Tune filters, the heart and soul is taken out of the art of singing.
Overall, any method of performance enhancing, whether it is lip-syncing or auto-tuning, is dishonest and unjust.
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AN EDITOR’S INSIGHT:rushing to them. However, this simply isn’t the case.
Some girls preach feminine independence in the form of splitting the check, paying for their own movie ticket, or driving on dates, but in the events leading up to actually going out on a date, they decide to play the role of the damsel in destress.
It’s sad to realize, but life isn’t an 80s movie, or a teenage TV drama. But, that doesn’t mean it has to be any worse, either.
Gender roles reinforced by society’s label of what is feminine, versus what is masculine, has --leaving anatomy aside-- castrated women of their ability to make the first “move” towards a relationship.
For instance, Charming searches the entire country for Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty is left comatose until the prince physically fights his way to kiss her, and to what end? A happily ever after? Please, like that’s realistically ever going to happen.
My respect tends to gravitate towards the more independent Disney role-models, as I encourage others to, as well.
Mulan and Tiana pursued their own dreams, and love found them in the process, however, they were not afraid to address their feelings, once they surfaced.
Though the story lines are particularly far-fetched, the underlying message seems more realistic than the others.
I guess my real point is that girls should live their lives unobstructed by the social misconceptions about the rules of dating, and accept that no relationship is ever truly similar to those portrayed in the media
Take your lives at face value, and appreciate every up, down and plot twist that makes your own story unique.
-Sarah Stigers
We never really stood a chance, did we, girls? As children, we were placed in front of a television which told stories of beautiful women getting swept off their feet by a Prince Charming. As we grew up, we searched for similar stories to fulfill our need for sappy romances in places like music and movies. Even now, I am turning 18 years old and I’m still obsessed with the tragically-beautiful romances seen in One Tree Hill and Boy Meets World (see our current “Pro” by Madison Spiegel, p.4 --my TV drama inspiration-- for further insight on this topic).
But for some reason in high school, girls suddenly decide that it is now their time for men --excuse me, boys-- to miraculously transform into the prince charming’s of their childhood fairy tales.
Well, news flash, girlies, high school romances more closely follow the awkward exchanges of Matt Sereson and Julie Taylor in Friday Night Lights, than the heroic pursuit of Lucas Scott and Peyton Sawyer in OTH.
Boys --like Matt Sereson-- can’t read your mind. They need to be told exactly what you are feeling at all times.
Sometimes, being straight forward isn’t the easiest of things to do, but to the right person, blunt honesty, like in Jane Eyre and the relationship between Jane and Rochester will be appreciated.
In my not-so-humble opinion, I think the preconception girls have is that boys will come
Clare Ramirez/King’s Courier
ith playful pleas of “tell me a story to pass the time!,” a friend messaged me a while
ago when he was volunteering at his nearby hospital. And, in response, I had sent back messages detailing my childhood incidents and similarly silly events, not realizing at the time what he and I were actually doing.
It was so easy to be caught up in our own world, to only look at things from our perspective. Between our present activities he and I started and kept up a conversation; he from the hospital where he was supposed to be donating his time to help and I from my cousin’s house where I was spending time with family.
Remembering these events now, however, I am disgusted. I realize how discourteous we had
been for shifting our attention away from the people who were there keeping us company.
Though we had only been engaged elsewhere for just a few moments, we had shown the people we were with that they were not that important to us all the same.
When we are somewhere, we should give nothing less than our full, undivided attention.
This makes sense - it’s a logical, practically eye-roll-inducing statement. But when I consider the idea, I realize that we have become so used to taking care of our own interests before others’ and seeing the situation only from our eyes.
We do not think that we do this often, but, in fact, we do. For instance, it is all too common for students to think it is appropriate
to be inattentive and inconsiderate towards a teacher during a particularly boring lecture.
There is a difference between being individualistic and being self-centered. There is a thin line between the two, and it is so easy to cross. As individuals, we assert our own opinions and stand by them; as egocentric individuals, however, we consider our own experience before that of others and disregard what others are doing.
If asked about our little conversation, my friend or I might respond that “nothing was really going on at the time,” but I wonder if that answer really reflects what happened. In most situations whenever people use that line, it’s an excuse to put them first.
Have we crossed the line?
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Media’s Effect on Love in Real Life
simply because of miscommunication. In this day and age, di- vorce
is sort of glamorized. It is not as embarrassing as it used to be, and it shouldn’t b e something to b e ashamed of. T h e problem is that di- vorce is becoming something that is expected.
Couples go into marriages not really be- lieving they will be together forever and that is where the mindset of Americans and the way they view love has changed.
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A prime example of disrespect to mar-riage, and one that will be the butt of jokes for years to come, is Kim Kardashian’s mo-mentary marriage to Kris Humphries. The couple filed for divorce after being married for only 72 days.
Come on, “Miss Universe.” Stick it out for at least one year. Now, I don’t think anyone is going to be taking relationship ad-vice from Kim Kardashian, and I also don’t believe it is improving the thoughts of any-one who is on the fence about love and mar-riage.
With marriage beside the point, the me-dia does a really good job of making people think their lives and relationships are more boring than they should be.
Because they are not frolicking on the beach or taking weekend getaways to France, somehow their relationship is inadequate.
Not true. Nothing that is read in the “Star Watch” section of Peo-
ple magazine should be looked upon as truth. I know they are candid photos, but come on. No ordinary civilian is dressed that fashion-forward just to go to the grocery store. Ordinary civilians do not wear
such stylish workout clothes. Why should people compare
any aspect of their lives, includ-ing their love lives, to celebrities? The thing about love and the me-dia is that the media gives people
unrealistic expectations of how love should be.
Love is not always a cheesy, hand holding, sugar coated, Nicholas Sparks in-spired emotion.
Love is an emotion that varies just like every-thing else does, depending on the person the emo-tion belongs to. No one should feel pressured to be like celebrities they see or characters they watch. No one should compare their emotions to anyone else’s because, in reality, there is no comparison.
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“They’re stereotypical and they give a false image of what love is.”
Ivan Enriquez, junior
“I believe the media portrays love incor-rectly because I tried holding up a boom
box to get a girl and it didn’t work.”Sean Grogan, junior
“I believe the media’s portrayal of love effects usso much because we admire the media so much and we want our lives to be like that.”
Michelle Sharp, junior
“I believe the media effects people because causes them to expect happy endings, the
way they do in the movies.”Bernice Tuazon, junior
How do you think the media’s portrayal of love effects the way we view love?
“I think the media gives people unrealistic expectations about love and relationships.”
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The truth is, the culture of romance and love has changed a lot over the past few de-cades. It is no longer the norm for couples to marry straight out of high school. Women who are 25 years old and single are no longer considered “old maids.” And what used to be the most taboo of all -- having a child out of wedlock -- is now somewhat commonplace.
Love and marriage was, is and will al-ways be one of the strongest bonds between two people, as long as it is treated with dig-nity and respect.
Two people who marry for the right reasons and stay faithful to each other can make it through anything and be together un-til death they do part. However, people who marry for dumb reasons, rush into things or completely disrespect their marriage in gen-eral have next to no chance of making it in the long run.
This is where the media and fic-tional characters get in peoples’ heads and morph what society believes is acceptable. For instance, celebrity romances can almost never be trusted or looked upon as a model re-lationship. Most of the celeb-rities with the “perfect partner-ships” that everyone is looking for are actors.
If there is one thing that’s true about actors, it’s that they can act. Nothing to them is true. It seems as though many actors know how to play real people with emotions, but don’t know how to be real people with emotions.
The tabloids take every-thing celebrities do, drama-tize it as much as possible, and place it anywhere people could possibly see it. The worst part is that we all feed into it, we all believe it, be-cause so many people are obsessed with the gossip and drama of celebrity life. It just takes a little force to set off a trigger and then women are accusing their husbands of cheating and divorce is filed
simply because of miscommunication. In this day and age, di- vorce
is sort of glamorized. It is not as embarrassing as it used to be, and it shouldn’t b e something to b e ashamed of. T h e problem is that di- vorce is becoming something that is expected.
Couples go into marriages not really be- lieving they will be together forever and that is where the mindset of Americans and the way they view love has changed.
Why so difficult to find a white roseWhen in this boundless garden of great fairs?
For few are worthy of poetic proseAs the masses walk with their pompous glares,Piercing a man’s chest with disdainful words.
And I wonder whether they know of loveOr understand how their tongues slash like swords.
Thorns cover bodies from minds above.So grueling is this search, till one is found
Amongst other roses, some red, some black.One of pure glance, but with a Siren’s sound
For beauty holds not where the heart may lack.Although these facts stay true, yet fuel one’s fear
They never quell that fire that burns so dear.
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February 12, 20138 Arts & EntertainmentKutcher to portray Steve Jobs in biopic jOBS
Ashton Kutcher is set to play Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the movie jOBS. The film, written by Matthew Whitely and directed by Joshua Michael Stern debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 25 in Park City, Utah.
The film is set to be released for theaters in April, to coincide with Apple’s 37th anniversary, and run continuously until Octo-ber worldwide.
The film, a biopic about co-founder Steve Jobs, will portray the progress Jobs made from a college dropout to an entrepre-neur of one of the biggest com-panies in the world. The film will mainly focus on the early years of the company from 1971 and on-ward, the defining years for the company as well as Jobs.
The movie’s first clip debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, and received negative comments from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
The first clip that premiered on Friday Jan. 25, shows Jobs trying to convince a very skepti-cal Wozniak, played by actor Josh Gad, that the system he has devel-oped could change the means of
technology. Wozniak argues back that “no one wants to buy a com-puter.” Real-life Steve Wozniak told Gizmodo, the clip did not accurately portrait the conversa-tions he had with Jobs.
In fact, Wozniak stated that he was inspired to change technol-ogy and design a “computer that was affordable.”
The clip shown did not hap-pen in real life and Wozniak told Gizmodo that the personalities and attires in the clip were wrong. He stated that he didn’t wear ties back then, seeing as the clip shows Wozniak wearing a suit and tie.
Nevertheless, Wozniak told Gizmodo that “It’s only one clip” and if the film turns out to be en-tertaining, fun, and the meaning is portrayed correctly, that is all that matters.
The movie also faced trouble at the time of shooting. The lead star, Kutcher, was admitted to a hospital, two days prior to film-ing, for pancreatic problems.
In order to get into character, Kutcher had to follow a fruit-only diet, which in result caused his pancreatic levels to fluctuate . Kutcher originally adopted the fruit-only diet in preparation for the role since Jobs followed the same diet.
By MARIAPIA AQUIJE
Stereotypes play a common role in society and it is even a part of the music world. Stereotypes are created for the genre of music people listen to and also for the musical instruments people play.
A person listening to a pianist play a soft piece, may assume that an intelligent girl is behind that piano. People may also assume that the person banging on the drums is probably a tough male who is keeping the beat.
Singers Hayley Williams from the band Paramore and Taylor Swift are two of many artists who help break the stereotype that males are usually the ones who play the guitar. Stereotypically, males also play the drums, but drummers Meg White from The White Stripes and Gina Schock from The Go-Gos have proven that wrong. Chris Martin is the lead vocalist of the band Cold-play, but is also known for play-
Stereotypes within musicing the piano.
By looking at someone, you can see the color of their hair, their height, as well as their fash-ion style. What someone cannot see is what that person is inter-ested in. Unless their t-shirt has Guns N’ Roses written on it, you cannot tell what their taste of mu-sic is just by looking at them. In some cases though, people wear band shirts despite the fact that they have not even listened to some of their music.
Not only do the instruments that people play get stereotyped, the genre of music people listen to get stereotyped as well. People may assume that the guy dressed in all black with the long dark hair is a fan of heavy metal. Maybe he is a hard rock fan, but he also could be really into pop.
Stereotypes within music are pointless because everyone has their own taste in music and everyone en-joys music in their own way.
By SARA SUTHERLAND
The Who stands the test of timeBy RACHAEL COHEN
Long live rock. But for how long? According to the Who fans at Staples Center on Wednesday, January 30, a very long time.
Forty years ago, the Who’s Quadrophenia came out. Today, people of all ages are still rock-ing out to the four-sided story of a boy named Jimmy, proving that rock and roll will live on.
Quadrophenia explores the life of a fictional character, Jim-my, who struggles with schizo-phrenia. His journey to find his identity drives him to ultimately look inside himself and find the answer that he knew all along. The album’s name comes not only from the four personalities repre-sented, but from the new inven-tion of quadrophonic sound the band was experimenting with.
The story is told by the four members of the band, who each contribute a character and an emotion that compose the charac-ter of Jimmy. The concert opened exactly as the album does, with the ambience of waves lapping up onto sand. The musical motifs
were established and the band launched into “The Real Me,” with Roger Daltrey giving the vo-cals his all.
The forty years since the al-bum’s release have not been exceedingly kind on Daltrey’s voice, but the power and intent behind each lyric was compensa-tion enough.
Accompanying the music was an array of visuals. Through-out the concert, circular screens flashed images of world history, referring to the slideshow as the “Family Album,” portraying life from World War II and on. Through natural disasters, deaths, political movements and wars, the thought-provoking imagery told the tale of hardship.
While the Entwistle footage showcased the bassist’s virtuos-ity, Moon’s footage served a dif-ferent purpose. The drummer’s theme within Quadrophenia, bell boy, reflects the bloody lunatic inside of Jimmy and is one of the rare tracks for which Moon con-tributes vocals.
The band incorporated his original vocal tracks from previ-
ously recorded concert footage during “Bell Boy,” included to properly reflect the psychotic, cockney character that Moon so perfectly portrays.
After the complete four sides of Quadrophenia, the band launched into some of the defining songs of the band’s repertoire, including “Who Are You,” “Pinball Wizard,” “Baba O’Riley” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
Daltrey’s vocals may have been waning by the end, especially after the intensity of “Love, Reign O’er Me,” one of the album’s themes and its ballad, but he still managed to deliver what I consider one of the greatest screams of rock n’ roll from the end of “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
Forty years from now, I don’t know what people will be listening to. I do have a feeling, however, that it won’t be Justin Bieber and Kanye West. The magic of The Who and other great bands like them comes from the fact that their music, lyrics and messages were relevant then, are relevant now and will continue to be rel-evant for generations to come.
Three artists collaborate, teen dreams achievedBy MADISON SPIEGEL
One of the many benefits of living in Los Angeles is the con-cert opportunities that so many people do not get to experience. We live in the music industry’s backyard, and it is so magical. On January 18, I experienced the most magical musical experience in my life, and it took place at a small restaurant in Ventura with a 40 person crowd.
My favorite television show, “One Tree Hill,” has given me so much, however, all fans of the iconic show can agree that the musical performances and mo-ments on the show are at the top of their list.
My favorite musical moments from the nine season long show always involved one specific character and artist, Chris Keller, portrayed by the epic Tyler Hil-ton.
Hilton announced that he would be touring with veteran singer/song writer Teddy Geiger and used to be teen heart throb Ryan Cabrera back in October.
Fast forward to the night of the show. My friends accompa-nied me to the Ventura show in hopes that the more intimate ven-
ue would lend us a better chance at meeting Hilton face to face. Zoey’s café emanated a laid back vibe with dim lighting and street art painted on the walls.
Geiger was up first, singing several of his older hits such as “For You I Will,” as well as a few of his new songs that have yet to be released.
Geiger switched off between the keyboard and the guitar while his percussionist, Ryan Vaughn, played a variety of percussion in-struments including the maracas and the box.
About halfway through Gei-ger’s set, he brought up Hilton to play the piano on one of his new songs entitled, “Radio,” a song he wrote while on the road.
Geiger finished off with the title track off of his new album set to be released this year, and later greeted fans with hugs and smiles.
After a ten minute set change over, Hilton warmly greeted fans with his percussionist Jon Sk-aggs, and started off his set with the song, “Kicking My Heels,” a popular hit off of his newest al-bum, Forget the Storm.
Hilton’s earthy voice , ex-tremely relatable personality and lyrics made each and every guest feel as if they connected
with him on a personal level. He shared stories about his time on tour, memories about his favor-ite shows and even fit in embar-rassing tales of both Geiger and Cabrera.
Later in the evening, Hil-ton surprised the crowd with a song that every “One Tree Hill” fan knows all too well, “When the Stars Go Blue,” the anthem that much of the second season drama revolved around, and later sang another “One Tree Hill” an-them, “Missin’ You,” with the as-sistance of Geiger and Vaughn.
He closed his set with an-other popular hit from his new album, “Loaded Gun,” and left the crowd belting at the top of their lungs, creating a friendly atmosphere and an unforgettable concert experience.
Growing up in Los Angeles has given me many wonderful concert experiences, but this one sticks out very prominently in my mind. The big ticket concerts are always fun, but the intimacy of this particular show made the experience worthwhile. The $20 ticket was nothing compared to the priceless experience we had, and Hilton, Geiger and Cabrera’s friendly and down to earth per-sonalities made everything so much better.
Concerts in town February-March 2013
Photo Right: Singer Tyler Hilton sings his sister’s personal favorite song off of his album, Forget the Storm. Photo Left: Teddy Geiger and Tyler Hilton duet together on one of Geiger’s unreleased singles along with the percussionists, Jon Skaggs and Ryan Vaughn. M
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The Who’s comeback tour featured the 40 year- old album, Quadrophenia, a story about a boy named Jimmy who struggles with schizophrenia. All four original band members played at the January 30 concert.
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Ne-Yo & T.I. Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE
February 14, 2013
P!nk & The HivesSTAPLES Center
February 16, 2013
SublimeMalibu Inn
February 22, 2013
Alicia KeysSTAPLES Center
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Edwin McCainThe Canyon Club
March 14, 2013
Maroon 5STAPLES Center
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Teddy Geiger & TraptKey Club
March 30, 2013
Marilyn MansonClub Nokia
February 21, 2013
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Different tastes, same passionBy KYRA MENDOZA
Muse: revolution of love
Photo courtesy of Andrew Cohen
For many of even the most passionate and hardcore Muse fans, it’s been a bit hard to em-brace their latest and drastically different album, The 2nd Law, which is at once funkier, mellow-er, challenging and fearlessly am-bitious. Some actually called the album too ambitious, and to be fair, such an experimental, radi-cal album is arguably not suited to casual home listening. It needs to be fully experienced in person to be truly appreciated.
On Jan. 23, a Wednesday night, I’m not sure if anyone re-ally knew what to expect. The opening band, English natives Band of Skulls, sounded basically like they listened to a lot of Jack White, although vocally it’s un-clear whether they were stoned or just have unique English accents. The band had a nice, woody, ga-rage-blues sound, and were nice to wait with.
Half an hour or so later, though, the lights dimmed for the second time and the beginning of
By BRIT-EL GIBSON
It’s fair to say that people have different tastes in music. People have their own favorite song, band or singer, and people relate to their type of music in their own way.
But what is it about different types of music that draw people to it? Why do people like the mu-sic that they like?
“I think that music speaks to people in different ways,” says junior Alexei Mendoza. “I per-sonally like hip hop and rap be-cause the beats are sick and there are so many different rap artists out there to listen to.”
Hip hop and rap are common genres of music these days, but some people argue that there are better genres out there.
Junior Analisa Crosthwait says she is open to every type of music.
“Every genre has artists or bands that stand out to me. I en-joy giving everything a chance because music can surprise you sometimes,” Crosthwait says.
Another student express-es that “Music has a way of letting people escape from the world for a little while. It’s so relatable some-times,” junior Marcus Maduena says. “I like all kinds of music because all kinds have s o m e t h i n g special about them.”
Students feel like mu-sic is their escape. It makes them feel better and there are all different kinds, from heavy metal and smooth jazz to rap and coun-try. There is a type of music for everyone, and even multiple types for some.
“Music is more than just words and a beat. It’s a real art with depth and mean-ing,” says Mendoza. So
Muse’s “Unsustainable” began to flood through the arena. “...New energy cannot be created and high grade energy is being destroyed. An economy based on endless growth is...unsustainable” and everyone lost it.
Muse live is a combination of intense, riveting rock and roll and political rally. Muse make no secret of who their enemies are-- the feds, banks and corporations.
Truly, this show felt thrill-ing and epic. Muse played some of their newer and funkier num-bers, including “Supremacy” and “Panic Station”, while also treat-ing the audience to some older tunes-- a fiery “Star Spangled Banner” leading into “Hysteria”, “Bliss.” They played “Animals,” which embodies the band’s anti-establishment sentiments of this album in one song.
Muse made history when singer/guitarist Matt Bellamy jumped into the audience and fin-ished a song in there, a first for the band. Generally, they seemed more comfy with the audience, getting people to wave their arms
and overall just interacting more.Mind-blowingly enough, after
some teasing, suggestive chords, Muse actually broke into a sear-ing, gorgeous performance of “Plug In Baby”, a rarely-played, incendiary rock and roll track of pure sex off their second album-- the first notes alone drew raw, animalistic, impassioned screams from the cores of various fans, in-cluding that of the writer.
This show, the first night of Muse’s three-night stay at Staples, seemed designed to thrill; and while the feel on The Resistance tour was mightily name-appropri-ate, this tour felt like a revolution in a different way- not just righ-teous anger and condemnation of corruption, but love. Yeah, they yell “No one’s gonna take me alive,” but Bellamy softly, sweetly said “This song is for my love,” before “Madness”--singing without his guitar, even getting on his knees to belt it out.
Ultimately, I love the new Muse, a 20-year-old band of are-na gods who aren’t afraid to get funky.
This tour, Muse’s notoriously grand stage featured an inverted pyramid of lasers and LED screens -- an upside-down “all-see-ing eye,” intentionally selected by the band to reflect their strong desire to turn the power structure of the world upside-down.
El Camino’s favorite genres of music
“I would get a tramp stamp of Winnie the Pooh.”
-Luka Joncichjunior
“I would want something per-sonal. Something that reflects
my morals.”
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is that why so many people like music? Does everyone feel that way?
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fans who feel that strongly
about music, but differ-ent genres appeal to different people.
“ I t h i n k the fact t h a t t h e r e are so m a n y d i f -f e r e n t kinds of m u s i c
is why it’s so ap-
pealing to everyone,”
says Maduena. “There truly is a
type of music for everyone.”
With a student
body as diverse as El Camino’s, there were naturally all different opinions from the hundred stu-dents the King’s Courier polled about their love of music.
The majority of these stu-dents chose hip hop / rap as their favorite genre, as 23 students out of the 100 surveyed chose that combined genre.
Rock followed at a very close second with 22 votes.
Pop, R&B, and country got fewer votes.
Other genres that popped up as favorites included dubstep and house music, but support for both was minor.
Some students said this style of music is popular for parties, but they aren’t favorites outside of that atmosphere.
Students from all grades were surveyed, so there was a wide range of answers and opinions.
Hip hop, rock and pop are genres that are always popular with every generation.
They have prevailed through every decade since they began and are still going strong, con-tinuing to be the favorites of stu-dents today.
Vox Pop:
10 SPORTS February 12, 2013
Girls Water Polo’s Season comes to a close
El Camino Real’s varsity wa-ter polo team took on Granada Hills Charter High School, for the final game of the regular season, on Wednesday, Jan. 30, with an away game. The final score of the night was 18-6, with El Camino losing to Granada Hills.
Senior Taylor Barrett scored three out of the possible six goals, while manag-ing one steal for the team. F o l l o w i n g Barrett was senior Emily Gilbert, with two goals and four steals, while senior Taylor Grossman scored one goal, and managed two steals for the team.
Freshman Courtney Kanovsky had a total of five saves for the night.
Although the team lost, they still stayed optimistic. “I thought the game went generally well,” says junior Dyani Garcia, “we played like a team.”
The team’s confidence proved to be their biggest weakness for the night. “We didn’t go in with
confidence,” says Barrett, who is the teams’ sprinter and point/set. “We need to learn to not go into the game scared.”
The team is now working to improve their confidence and pay more attention to the game, as well as the players. “We could have played better in the game,” says Barrett.
The team’s strongest point was the players’ ability to co-
operate with each other and stick together when some of the players had to leave during the game. “The team meshed together and worked harder than ever be-
fore,” says Barrett.The team is now preparing
hard for playoffs. “We are striv-ing to play better and harder,” said junior Dyani Garcia, adding, “Not striving, we will play better and harder.” The team’s practice routine includes a warm-up of eight laps, plus sprints and scrim-mage.
The regular season for water polo has ended, and the team is getting prepared for playoffs.
By MARIAPIA AQUIJE
Wrestling defeats Granada Hills; finishes undefeated in League Duals meets
Ethan Milman/King’s Courier
The wrestling team faced off against Granada Hills Charter High School yesterday for their final league dual meet of their season before their regional tour-nament, followed by the L.A. city championship.
The team managed to de-feat the Highlanders with a final score of 60-12. This win marks another year of the conquistado-res wrestling an undefeated sea-son in league dual meets.
Winning their matches by pins were 120-lb. Austin Cameling 126-lb. wrestling team Captain Josh Adad and 132-lb. wrestler Wayne Weckhurst. Adad would finish the league dual meets undefeated for the second time.
Winning their matches by de-cision were 113-lb. sophomore Abbas Khan and 145-lb. senior Ashkon Mesbah, who would also go undefeated in league du-als. The rest of the team’s points were generated from forfeits as
was just important for the wres-tlers.
Being seniors, Adad and Sea-mus Sullivan know exactly how to describe how they managed to hit success.
“Four years from training with [Fischer] and putting in the hours to train outside of the mat helped a lot,” Adad said, “When you do what you can when you aren’t around the team, you will get better.
Co-captain Sullivan seemed to agree with Adad. “Just team practices aren’t enough,” He said. “You need to put more into it on your own.”
Now that the league dual meets are over, the wrestlers are now preparing for the regional
tournament, which they will be participating in next Saturday.
The wrestlers seem to know that they need to improve even more to hit the goals that they want to achieve.
For each wrestler to move on to the city championships, they will have to place within the top eight at regionals.
the Highlanders only had seven wrestlers, five short of a complete lineup.This win was a milestone for long-time coach Terrence Fisch-er. It marked the 395th dual meet that he would coach for the Conquistadores.
Of these 395 matches, Fischer
has managed to coach his team to win 295 these, which is about a 74 percent winning percentage, one of the highest in the entire area.
This didn’t come easy to Fis-cher. It would only come after years of exposure to the sport.
This win wasn’t only an ex-ample of success for Fischer, it
By ETHAN MILLMAN
League Standings Boys Basketball
1. ELCO 25-2 (10-0) 2. Birmingham 12-11 (6-4)
3. Granada Hills 13-13 (5-5) 4. Taft 12-13 (5-5)
5. Chatsworth 2-8 (11-19) 6. Cleveland 9-17 (1-7)
Girls Basketball
1. ELCO 18-6 (9-1) 2. Granada Hills 18-8 (8-2)
3. Taft 11-10 (6-4) 4. Birmingham 10-10 (4-6)
5. Cleveland 6-20 (2-8) 6. Chatsworth 6-20 (1-9)
Boys Soccer
1. ELCO 15-3-4 (7-1-2) 2. Taft 13-9-4 (6-4)
3. Birmingham 8-5-6 (3-2-4) 4. Granada Hills 10-13-3 (4-5-1)
5. Cleveland 4-12-4 (2-6-2) 6. Chatsworth 4-9-3 (2-6-1)
Girls Soccer
1. ELCO 13-4-3 (10-0) 2. Granada Hills 12-4-5 (8-2) 3. Cleveland 15-8-6 (4-5-1) 4. Birmingham 7-8-6 (3-6-1)
5. Chatsworth 10-10-1 (3-6-1) 6. Taft 3-13-3 (0-9-1)
“Just team practices aren’t enough. You need to put more
into it on your own.”
-Josh Adadsenior
“The team meshed together and worked harder than ever
before.”
-Taylor Barrettsenior
A few good minutes with
Taylor Barrett
Q. Were you overall happy with your play and your team’s? What did you guys do well and what could you have done better?A. “Yes, my team worked hard and I think that we should have been in the finals. I think that our communica- tion got a lot better from the start of the season to the end.”
Q. How much improvement have you seen amongst your team?A. I have seen a team that did not know how to swim become the team today that got to the play offs. You spend so much time with them that they become your family. I think the team will take this experience and make the best of it.
Some of the members of the wrestling team smile while holding their first-place trophy from the Tournament of Future Cham-pions at North Torrance. The varsity team will be participating in their regional tournament this weekend followed by the L.A. City Section championships.
Photo Courtesy of Taylor Barrett
11SPORTSFebruary 12, 2013
By ISABELLA CHAVEZ
Girls soccer plays
for breast cancer
awareness
Girls soccer took on Chats-worth on Feb.1, winning with a score of 4-1. “The game was very intense the whole way through. As usual we fought hard and tried our best,” junior Jamie Permulth said.
“The games are always good and exciting. I love to support girls soccer as they take on rivals like this,” sophomore Alex Ar-daki said.
Through-out the game Jackie “Jack Jack” Altschuld scored three goals against Chatsworth. Peyton Cline also scored a goal as well. The opposing team scored one goal against ECR.
“No matter what happens in the game, we always go into the game with a mindset to play smart, think strategically, and try our best to win,” Cline said.
What was different about this game was that girls soccer wore a
Beyond the Sideline
By Ethan Millman
As a proud athlete and teammate I have learned that team’s success isn’t solely based upon a super-star lineup. In most cases a team’s strength can be af-fected by its weakest link. For many teams, that link is chemistry.
Trust in each other, whether it is from coach to athlete or teammate to teammate, is the epitome of success in a team.
Every coach of any sports team knows there are many things that tie into a team’s success. But too many of them overlook the importance of team chem-istry. This brings many teams from many sports into question. Is their little amount of success based on a lack of trust. There have been many teams through-out sports history that just could not find a way to win. The most recent in this seemingly endless list is the Los Angeles Lakers.
With a starting lineup where very player has been on the prestigious all-star team, most analysts were raving about how fantastic their season would be. But then the pre-season began. They only won a single game. Fans and journal-ists alike were blaming now former coach Mike Brown.
It wasn’t too long un-til the lake organization. Would fire Brown and hire Mike D’antoni. Still no positive results.
One would think the Lakers’ issues come from more than just coaching weakness. What if a team of all-stars just didn’t get along? It seems very possi-ble considering the Miami Heat is able to be the team to beat even with three su-per-stars all in their lineup.
Although there are teams with no chemistry, there are also teams with great chemistry. An ex-ample is the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ra-vens. In an interview on ESPN, Linebacker Ray Lewis had described hav-ing a relationship with his team as if they were all his brothers. That doesn’t seem like much of a coin-sadence.
If all teams could merely grow a trust that the great ones all have, any sport would be more worth watching.
Boys basketball defeats Taft in league re-match
Boys basketball defeated Taft 70-51 at home on Friday. This was the last game of the league season and senior night.
The gym was a full house filled with parents, Taft students, and many Elco students wearing white to support the team. Even the front of the gym was crowded with students and parents who couldn’t enter because the game was sold out.
Varsity coach David Rebibo said he was happy his team won the overall game but wasn’t com-pletely satisfied with the first through third quarters, but he said they played a good fourth. “We missed some assignments and did some poor things down the stretch,” said Rebibo.
The boys have been doing very well this season. Rebibo said that this year it’s a very special group and season, and that the sky is the limit for the team.
“I feel we ended on a good note this year. I wouldn’t change much,” said shooting guard Cris Francis.
Francis is a senior and this was
his last league game. He admitted the night was bittersweet but is proud of the overall performance of himself and his team. “I think we all came together --played as a team-- and that’s what’s made us so successful this season,” said Francis.
Point guard Maleke Haynes said, “I felt confident in our game plan and I felt we executed it well tonight.” Haynes scored a total a 12 points, four assists, and six re-bounds Friday night.
“As far as the season goes I think we did good. We could have done better with our two losses but we can only get better for later on and future seasons,” said Haynes.
The team will now move on to play offs. The first team they will play is Canoga Park High School on Thursday here at Elco at 7 p.m.
The team has been ranked number two in Los Angeles City Section Division 1 with a record of 25-2 this season.
If you weren’t able to attend the game it will be aired on Time Warner Cable’s SoCal channel 103, Wednesday at 10:30 p.m.
The girls soccer team smiles during their team pictures. The team is currently ranked first in league with a perfect leauge record of 10-0. They are done with the regular season and are advancing to the first round of the playoffs, which begin this Thursday.
By BREONNA RANDALL
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
-Babe RuthBreonna Randall/King’s Courier
Point Guard Maleke Haynes takes a free-throw shot during the Conquistadore’s rematch against the Taft Matadores. After defeating the Matadors forthe first time in 13 years last week, the team managed to pull out another win against Taft, improv-ing their record to 25-2, placing first in City. The team will be playing Canoga Park tomorrow and Thursday for their final games of the season before the Conquistadores advance to the playoffs hoping to be as sucessful as last year.
(Left) Senior Kora Chan attempts to go for a layup during their game against Chatsworth high School. Chan would help lead her team to a 57-29 victory against the Chancellors followed by two more wins against Granada Hills and Taft. (Below) The conquistadores huddle together during their Chatsworth game before getting back into action.
Nora Murphy/ King’s Courier
Photo Courtesy of Jackie Altschuld
different jersey that said “Camino vs. Cancer,” the jersey that they wear every year to support breast cancer.
Thirteen minutes into the game, Jackie Altschuld (#12) had already scored two goals.Girls soccer has recently been taking
on schools with major wins over the opposing teams. “We never go into a game cocky or arrogant. We always play humble with high ex-pectations to all do well,” sopho-more Morgan O’ Connor said.
“I’ve been playing soccer my whole life and what I’ve learned
is to never expect too much out of a game. Our team just gets to-gether and does what we do best,” Permulth said.
Over all the big defeat over Chatsworth ended in 4-1. The next game takes place Friday against Taft.
Breonna Randall/King’s Courier
12 SPORTS February 12, 2013
By NICK SHAHBAZYAR
Young bowler shares views on game, life outside lanes
Senior Ben Schlesinger is an avid bowler with an average game of 200 and a high score of 268. He has been bowling on and off throughout his lifetime and started getting serious about it two years ago.
When Schlesinger joined a youth/adult league in his fresh-man year, he found that he had great passion for the game, and his competitive nature inspired him to get serious.
“I realized that the competi-tion is really strong, along with the fact that you can enter tourna-ments and earn scholarship mon-ey,” he says.
Schlesinger usually prac-tices a couple of times per week; however, it also depends on the amount of schoolwork he has.
“I always put school as a first priority because my future de-pends on how well I do in school, not bowling.”
Schlesinger’s idol is Norm Duke because he has bowled a to-tal of 58 perfect games -- a score of 300 -- and has inspired Schle-singer to perform at a high level. “He has been bowling for over 30 years, making me realize that I can be just like him: bowling several perfect games within my
lifetime,” he says. Schlesinger is interested in
bowling as a profession. His main concern, however, is that he does not have a high enough bowling average.
If he could bowl profession-ally for a company, he would choose Hammer because it is one of the top bowling product com-panies.
He is currently in a bowling league called the Junior Trios. He’s also on a traveling team called JAT, Junior Amateur Tour, where the best bowlers in South-ern California compete for schol-arship money.
He says he would enjoy it if El Camino had its own bowling team. “It would allow us to get together and compete in tourna-ments, and just have some team bonding.”
In his free time, Schlesinger hangs out with friends, goes to the gym and bowls some more. Schlesinger also enjoys watching football, basketball and baseball. His favorite teams include the Steelers, Lakers and Angels.
He believes that in ten years, he will be in business and com-peting in several leagues and tournaments. “I see myself as a businessman. Possibly getting my plans together to open my own restaurant,” he says.
The dynamics of a Super Bowl partyBy SARAH STIGERS
Football is a game of complexity. This complexity can resinate in the form of strategy and plays, but is not strictly contained to the game itself, as it often spills over into the social-sphere of foot-ball fandom.
A Super Bowl party is a unique social experience. Generally, there are four dif-ferent types of people who are part of an ecosystem that is necessary to adequately celebrate this hallowed, unofficial Ameri-can holiday.
The first of these four types are the posers. These people are the last-minute additions to the ever-growing band wag-ons that surround the two teams in the Super Bowl, and usually know enough about the game to be dangerous. They’ll claim, “Alex Smith is really hot right now. Wait, did I say Smith? I obviously meant Kaepernick,” or “Man, that Flacco boy is a stud. He makes such a good duo with Jim Harbaugh.”
Spotting a poser is fairly simple. These people will be the ones who are the most enthusiastic over even the smallest gain of yards. Phrases like “Kaepernick to Gore for a gain of 5! What a fake?” that merely mimic the announcers’ run-ning commentary, often employ the vo-cabulary of a poser due to their lack of actual knowledge of the teams.
However, there should be no actual fault that is handed out to the posers; get-ting sucked into the excitement and hype of the Super Bowl is easy, and amusing.
The next type are the partiers. These people have no shame in admitting that they have no knowledge or interest in the game of football, but are simply looking to have a good time, whether or not coach Jim Harbaugh did have a second-half comeback only to ultimately lose to his brother John and the Ravens, 34-31.
Thankfully, American society allows these people one Monday a year where it is socially acceptable to go to school or work closer to a zombie than a human.
Yet another aspect of this fragile envi-ronment are those hyperaware of pop cul-ture. They’ve heard nothing but endless stats and projections since the final scores of the NFC and AFC Championship games, but are particularly prone to pay-ing close attention to the sporadic teasers of Beyonce’s half-time performance, and the hype surrounding which commercials are predicted to be the most entertaining.
Common phrases from this group consist of, “I’d rather be watching the Puppy Bowl. Have you seen those hedge-hog cheerleaders?” or “If Destiny’s Child does a reunion tour, I’d be the first one to buy tickets.”
And the last type of Super Bowl party-goer is the actual fan. However, there are two sections to this last type; there are the fans, then there are the real fans.
The fans are the people who know football. They know players, teams, stats, rules and enjoy watching any game, but they have unfortunately already been dis-appointed by brutal losses that their team of choice had encountered earlier in the season, but often chose to root for the team that had less of a role in eliminating their team from the playoffs.
The fans often compare their own be-loved team to the ones who play in the Super Bowl, for instance, “You know, the Ravens had a great year, but if the Steelers hadn’t had so many injuries, I’m sure they would have made it a better bat-tle for the AFC.”
The difference between the fans and the real fans is the key aspect that the real fans were lucky enough to watch their favorite team make a season-long run to the Super Bowl. The real fans cringe and shout during every down, and appreciate that Joe Flacco was the sixth quarterback in NFL history to throw three touchdown passes in the first half, or that Ray Lewis played his last game as a Super Bowl champion.
In reality, if one of these types of people were missing from the dynamics of a Super Bowl party, the entire premise of fun, friends and rivalry on Super Bowl Sunday would fall apart.
Four Elco soccer players signed letters of intent as an indication that they will be playing for the universities of their choice.Seniors Carly McBeath, Jackie Altschuld, Alex Marquez and Stevie Manios gathered in front of coaches, family and friends at nutrition on Wednesday, Feb. 6, to sign their letters.Principal Dave Fehte and assistant principal Dean Bennett were present to see McBeath sign for San Jose State, Altschuld for University of San Diego, Marquez for Converse College, and Manios for University of New Mexico.Manios says he is “super excited” to play for the University of New Mexico, adding that he hopes it will take him to the professional level.“[University of New Mexico] is the top soccer school in the country, and the facility is amazing for sports with its good coaches and players,” Manios said. “It is so I could try a new style of living.”Altschuld says she likes both the academics and soccer program at the University of San Di-ego, and that the location was also a factor in her decision.“I’m really excited [to play], and I want to try and win a national championship.”
Soccer players sign letters of intent