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New schedule intended to create balance

A modified schedule incor-porating the elective period into the block schedule, adjusted course requirements for gradua-tion, and a limit on the number of Advanced Placement courses students may take are scheduled to go into effect in the 2015-2016 school year as an attempt to cre-ate a more balanced learning environment.

“Our design thinking day on Jan. 9 helped us come to this,” Head of School Rachel Simpson said. “In addition to eight sched-uled blocks we had a ninth peri-od ‘elective period’ that everyone was scheduled into. Electives are now being incorporated into an eight block schedule day so that students may really elect to take the class.”

Electives courses will have more meeting time and count towards students’ grade-point averages, according to Simpson.

“I wanted to really bring it to the question of how do we make this an elective that is primarily for the freshman and the sopho-more in the service of creative voice and expression,” Simpson said.

Despite the elimination of a ninth block, the basic frame of the school day will still be from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., yielding an ap-proximate 23 additional hours of instruction time over the course of the school year, according to Simpson.

Perhaps one of the biggest changes to the curriculum is the recommended limit of five AP classes, a policy which does not apply to the Class of 2016, according to College Counselor Rebecca Munda.

“We typically offer 15 AP classes,” Munda said. “When colleges see that they typically expect students to take the most challenging course load, and if we don’t have any guidelines in place, then that is setting the expectation rather high. We are now putting students in a posi-tion where there is not that pres-sure to take an extreme amount of APs to be competitive for col-lege admissions.”

Many students think the new policy will create a better bal-ance and a less pressured envi-ronment, according to junior Jill Cardamon.

“It will provide a less-stressful atmosphere,” Cardamon said. “As a junior I’ve already sur-passed the recommended num-ber of APs, but I don’t feel as though I’ve had a lot of balance with those classes. I think the new schedule will help students manage their course loads.”

Munda says students should not feel they need to take five AP courses. The limit is in place as a guided maximum, not a recom-mended value.

“While a lot of people feel the school is restricting us too much, I think the limit is going to be beneficial overall,” junior Willa Hegarty said. “It will help students who are working hard to get an appropriate amount of recognition by colleges. Even still, five APs is pretty impres-sive.”

Physics is added to the gradu-ation requirements for juniors who are not enrolled in AP Biol-ogy. Students who take AP Biol-ogy as a junior will take physics as a senior, according to Simp-son.

“This is to ensure that students have a full science background.

We want to expose students to the three essential scientific fields,” Simpson said, referring to biology, chemistry and physics.

In lieu of a Women’s Studies elective course for just seniors, the subject matter will be incor-porated into all classes next year.

“The faculty will embed the topics of Women’s Studies across the curriculum, making it a sig-nature part of our program in which all students participate,” Simpson said in an email to par-ents and students last week re-garding next year’s course flow.

As of the 2015 Fall Semester, the only four-year course re-quirements are English and the-ology, giving seniors more flex-ibility in their schedules.

“By senior year we want se-niors to have completed as many graduation requirements as pos-sible, which means that they are afforded a program with more elective choice,” Simpson said.

The goal is to create a chal-lenging curriculum allowing students to explore their inter-ests, according to Simpson.

“There’s going to be a lot of flexibility so students can really start to figure out what they want to do and pursue it, without hav-ing the requirement to take a class a student might not be interested in,” Cardamon said. “It provides more of a balance, students will have a lot more options in structuring their curriculum.”

2 RAISING RENTSRent rises for Pacific Height

vendors

3 CLOWNING AROUNDAlumna directs documentary in

refugee camp

6 A YOUNG DIVIDEGender stereotypes forming

at an early age

8 SAILING ALONG Sailing team to raise their state

ranking

12 GONG HEY FAT CHOY Chinese New Year celebrations

to take place in Chinatown

A revised schedule, limit on AP courses, altered graduation requirements set to take place in 2015-2016 school year.

Madeleine AinslieManaging Editor

QuickReads

Inside

►►PUT I T AWAY Head of School Rachel Simp-

son is encouraging students to put away their electronics while in the hallways. The simple act of putting technology away will im-prove face-to-face connections between students, according to Simpson.

►►DESIGN THINKINGIn keeping with the spirit

of innovation started at the Design Thinking day in Janu-ary, Convent & Stuart Hall is offering two $2,500 Launch Grants to students who come up with the most promising and creative proposals for a new product.

►►BECOME A MEMBERProspective students in 10th

through 12th grades can now ap-ply to become a part of the Na-tional Honor Society. Members are selected based on scholar-ship, leadership and citizenship, as well as recommendations from their teachers and advisers.

►►RAISING FUNDS The 2014-2015 Annual Fund

concluded with the highest participation between all four schools of any year to date. Ninety-six percent of families contributed, raising $1,867,375.

►►RETREATS Freshmen will be having their

retreat at Mountain Home Ranch Resort instead of the traditional overnight at school. Sopho-mores will be going to the Marin Headlands Hostel, Juniors to URJ Camp Newman and Se-niors to Bishops Ranch for their annual overnight retreats.

Even as residents are making attempts to save water Califor-nia is facing unforeseen con-sequences of the state’s 3-year drought with long term effects on the iconic Redwood trees and its waterways.

Water conservation should be a main priority due to decreases in resources, according to Sam-uel Sandoval, assistant professor and University of California Co-operative Extension specialist at UC Davis.

“If you look around at your neighbors, how many times have you seen the sprinklers?” Sando-val said. “How many times have you seen water running on the pavement out of the backyards? How many people have you heard are taking shorter showers or are using back up water?”

Despite Sandoval’s observa-tions that not all residents are conserving water, California’s

water conservation has risen to 22 percent last December, ac-cording to California’s State Wa-ter Resources Control Board.

“I have been taking show-ers that are five minutes long or less,” junior Amanda Joa, who has been actively conserving water with her family since Oc-tober, said. “My family also tries to conserve water by using water from old water bottles to water plants instead of turning down the hose or pouring it down the drain.”

Joa says conserving water has become a routine.

“It was difficult at first because some other family members are not doing that we are doing like not letting the faucet run or not flushing, but we just remind them,” Joa said. “It took a while, but we got into the habit.”

The government should put prevention policies to save water

Dry spell creates environmental issues

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HANG LOOSE Junior Chloe Lovato misses her wave at Stinson Beach while surfing with the Onda Linda Surf Club. The Surf Club is hosting the ocean cleanup and guest speaker tomorrow for Service Day.

Kendra Harvey Video Editor

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Neely Metz Senior Reporter

On an ordinary school day morn-ing, students and teachers alike would crowd into Tully’s Coffee on the corner of Jackson and Fill-more streets, eager for their favor-ite morning beverage to get them through the day — until Tully’s unexpected closure in November, forcing former customers to walk an additional three blocks for a caf-feine fix.

The closure of Tully’s portrays the fate meeting many businesses in Pa-cific Heights as rent prices for com-mercial leasing fall prey to the City’s latest tech boom, and landlords in-sisting hefty rent increases.

“The Tully’s closure really struck me,” senior Sabrina Mendiola said. “I used to go there every now and then to grab either a snack or my morning cup of coffee. Now I have to walk all the way to Starbucks, Noah’s or Peets coffee — which can be a hassle when they are full or busy.”

Pacific Heights is considered by many to be one of the most exclu-sive and expensive neighborhoods in San Francisco. The average ask-ing rent price per square foot is cur-rently $45.57 depending on the size and quality of the space, and has gone up 9 percent from year to year, according to a LoopNet statistic.

“The rent is affecting businesses from making ends meet,” Mendiola said. “Throughout my years at Con-vent I have noticed a lot of stores closing, mostly restaurants and clothing stores.”

Employment in San Francisco is at record-high levels for the increas-ing population, according to a 2014 SocketSite study. With escalating

employment, with many jobs being well-paying positions in tech, the discretionary income for the City is among the highest for cities in the country, according to City Data.

More discretionary income means more money available to be spent on purchases outside of necessities, such as new property, which can provide an influx of citi-zens to popular neighborhoods like Pacific Heights, raising rent as the demand for property persists.

“Discretionary income could come into play,” real estate agent David Bellings said. “That’s where people decide instead of living in one part of the city to move to an-other part of the city that’s more expensive, or they might buy a big-ger condominium or a bigger house that they wouldn’t normally buy be-cause they have more discretionary income.”

San Francisco has an estimated population of 825,000 and is among the 20 fastest growing cities in the country despite its limited size, ac-cording to World Population Re-view.

A dense and growing population, a high demand and limited supply for property and a large portion of the demand attributed to wealthy “techies” all contribute to rent ris-ing in the City, according to Bell-ings.

“A lot of why rents go up and why real estate prices go up in any city is supply and demand,” Bellings said. “Because we have limited resources, limited land and limited places to build, the supply doesn’t go up that much. But the demand seems to be increasing more and more and some of that is attributed to the tech boom.”

Rent control is a restriction on the amount that landlords can raise rent per year, but only applies to certain types of property. Unless business owners live in the build-ing they are leasing, rent control does not apply to commercial prop-erty. Once the particular lease has expired, the landlord can raise the price of rent to any desired amount, according to the San Francisco Ten-ants Union.

Landlords can hike up the rent to test the amount that tenants are willing to pay, forcing business owners to decide whether to con-tinue paying or to vacate the prop-erty, according to Bellings.

“Unless you negotiate 30 years or something, eventually that time frame ends and eventually in that time frame that you’ve been rent-ing, the rents will have gone up sig-nificantly and the landlord is free to do whatever they want with market rent,” Bellings said. “It could cause closure. Or they could move to another part of town, and that can affect your business and can cause closure in that regard too.”

The increase in closures of busi-nesses in Pacific Heights has caused a loss of community in the neigh-borhood, according to Mendiola.

“Pacific Heights lost the feel of a community because so many stores that have been there forever and are closed due to rent,” Mendiola said. “It’s an endless cycle. I used to be surprised that a store was opening or closing on Fillmore, but now I’m not because it happens so often.”

Meanwhile the former Tully’s location remains unoccupied with messages from former customers and loose brown paper covering the windows.

Rent increase leads to vacancies

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COFFEE BREAK Juniors Anneka Dorresteyn and Natalie Podell sit outside a vacant Tully’s Coffee after school drinking Starbucks. Tully’s Coffee has been closed since No-vember, and has remained empty since.

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DROUGHT Oakland resident Sue Marek walks her dog Buddy on the designated pathway surrounding Lake Chabot. Lake Chabot was one of two lakes in the Bay Area affected by algal blooms.

in place, according to Science department chair Ray Cinti.

“When a species is in danger, we start to realize its value and how its loss would be so detri-mental,” Cinti said. “We should now realize ‘Wow, water is pretty precious and we have taken it for granted.’”

If the current season of warmth and dryness continues, Redwood trees will not be able to continue producing more sap-lings, according to Cinti.

“The coastal Redwoods are able to get about 30 percent of its water supply from absorbing water directly from fog in their needles,” Cinti said. “It is not too dangerous for the adult trees right now. It’s effect is really on the saplings, and there is more concern for if this persists.”

The lack of rainfall over an unusually dry winter season is expected to continue to cause

unusual environmental changes. Three dogs have died from ex-

posure to algal blooms in Oak-land’s Lake Chabot in December and February, and the cyano-bacteria buildup that produces harmful toxins was also discov-ered in nearby Lake Temescal.

“In the whole 80-year history of the park they never had it,” public information supervisor Carolyn Jones said. “The ones at Lake Temescal are now gone, but we still have to be careful.”

Temperatures averaged 57.0°F in San Francisco this winter, the highest in recorded history and is likely to cause another bloom in warm summer months be-cause lack of rain and warm weather.

“At this point we are hoping and waiting for the drought to end so this can go away,” Jones said.

Dogs and owners should avoid direct contact with the algae or

water, according to Jones. “My dog doesn’t like water

so we just keep him on the trail away from the water,” Oakland resident Sue Marek said about keeping her dog Buddy safe.

Park officials have posted warning signs at the entrance of Lake Chabot and along walking trails as well as a notice on their homepage to bring awareness to the issue.

“We put up more signs, put up signs in Spanish and did a huge outreach to caution people to please keep your dogs out of the lake,” Jones said.

Large groups of people all sav-ing a little water at a time will create a difference, according to Sandoval.

“We can stop and look at our-selves and see what we use water for,” Sandoval said. “I think there is more that we can do. It is the power of the people that can re-ally make a change.”

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Drought causes hazardsThe 3-year California drought, despite water conservation,

causes algal blooms, danger to wildlife and local flora.

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The war-torn Zaatari refu-gee camp on the Syrian border is an unlikely place

for clowns with their bright out-fits and red noses contrasting the bleak, dust-covered tents as they perform for children, bringing a rare smile to their faces.

Directed by Reilly Dowd (’08), “The Language of Laugh-ter” is told through the lives of two women, 27-year-old Slova-kian clown Timea and 26-year-old refugee and mother of three daughters Hanadi. The independent documen-tary film focuses on the relationship between clowns and refugees and the impact of hap-piness.

“The moment I heard about the Red Noses ‘Emergency Smile’ mission, I knew it was a story worth telling,” Dowd, who is currently seeking funding for editing, said. “So many people asked me, ‘Why would you risk your life for a story?’ There are endless amount of headlines about politics, terrorism and kidnappings, but we never hear about the beautiful stories or people who are impacted. With this documentary, I am trying to put a human face on the statis-tics.”

Red Noses International Orga-nization typically sends “Clown-doctors” to work in European hospitals to bring laughter to the sick and suffering. Having expanded to 250 Clowndoctors located in 11 countries, the or-ganization launched its crisis-in-tervention program, Emergency Smile, in 2012.

“On one end you have these clowns and the other end you have refugees, people who are suffering and in desperate need of laughter,” producer Srdjan Stakic, who worked with the U.N. for 10 years using enter-

tainment for educational pur-poses, said. “This concept of providing laughter to people is very unique.”

Dowd, who worked for CNN, ABC News and Al Jazeera America after studying interna-tional politics and journalism in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, stayed alone in Zaatari for two weeks in Oc-tober to shoot videos for a pitch. After organizing a team for her first film, she returned with a

crew to the camp where they spent the month filming.

“Spending a month at the same location, you build trust, rela-tionships that really make a difference,” head of photography Thierry Humeau,

who has covered war zones and social unrest for television net-works such as National Geo-graphic and Al Jazeera, said. “Time is essence in filming a documentary, and that’s how you build a storyline and dis-cover characters.”

More than 3 million refugees have fled war-torn Syria, and over 100,000 Syrian refugees live in the camp. Most expect to stay for only a few weeks.

“Three years later, you see peo-ple starting to accept the camp as home, pouring cement foun-dations and putting real hinges on their doors,” Dowd said. “At the same time, there’s just a lot of boredom in camp and not much entertainment.”

Dowd lived with Timea while the team spent most of the time filming her daily life and perfor-mances. Other times they re-corded Hanadi and her life with her daughters.

“Over the course of the month, Hanadi and Timea be-gan developing this incredible relationship, even though Timea speaks no Arabic,” Dowd said. “We went to Slovakia after Jor-

dan and shot Timea doing her typical clown work in hospitals. We wanted to get a sense of her daily life in hopes of mirroring it with Hanadi's life in the camp.”

The documentary team faced security obstacles, shooting permit approvals and increased challenges while filming in ground zero, the world’s “most dramatic humanitarian crisis,” according to the U.N.

“As a documentarian, if you really want to be honest and truthful about the story — you roll up your sleeve and go where it is,” Stakic said. “As a producer, I had to say ‘If you want to take this amazing opportunity to tell an amazing story, things are go-ing to happen, and you’re going at your own risk.’”

Dowd said she was driv-ing with her producer and two nongovernmental organiza-tion workers through a secu-rity checkpoint just outside of the camp when she witnessed a shooting.

“I was really surprised because you’d think in broad daylight, where there are women and chil-dren around, you wouldn't see that,” Dowd said. “It was a sober-ing moment and reminder that, yes, there is an inspiring human story we are focusing on, but danger also comes with the ter-ritory of being in that part of the world.”

Communication was also a challenge with some women, ac-cording to Dowd, who hid their faces out of fear or were unable to talk because a male figure or spokesperson would be there

speaking for them.“Hanadi was unique in that

she was willing to share her sto-ry and show her face on camera,” Dowd said. “Her father passed away the first day she got into camp, and her husband was ar-rested in Syria about three years ago, so in many respects, she is truly an independent woman.”

The crew worked closely with the NGO Mercy Corps, and

some crew members report they were personally impacted by the stories they witnessed.

“There’s so much beauty in this part of the world,” Dowd said. “What we saw was an amazing amount of resilience and humanity.”

Dowd also had to keep in mind cultural sensitivities and respect cultural norms while paying attention to certain shots, the building of a story arc and worker salary.

“I’m familiar with both war and with being an immigrant, not knowing when you’ll see

your family again,” Stakic, who was born in Yugoslavia and left alone for the United States when he was 16 during the first years of the war, said. “I’m complain-ing about how cold it is when it’s 60 degrees out while a friend I just made is living alone with her three kids, and it’s freezing out there. It puts everything in per-spective and shows you what’s important.”

The film crew noticed that despite the camp’s harsh living conditions, refugees had a con-nection to each other on a very personal level, a lifestyle that those in the Western world do not have, according to Stakic.

“These are real people who just want to go to school or fall in love or just want the best for their kids,” Stakic said. “I hope this film will show just a glimpse of these people, who are like us but are living in different cir-cumstances.”

Due to the film crew’s almost unlimited access to the campsite, Humeau said he believes they were able to break new ground.

“The real challenge now is editing,” Humeau said. “It’s a tedious job that takes time, and there are hundreds of ways to edit the film and tell the story, some good, some bad.”

The next step is spreading the word before post production and start applying to film festivals. Dowd has launched a Kickstart-er campaign which runs until March 16 to raise $30,000. Cur-rently $7,308 have been raised.

“This is a call to action,” Dowd said. “It’s a beautiful story that hopefully we can share with the world. But we need to raise some additional funds to make it happen.”

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FILMING Reilly Dowd (’08) films a Syrian refugee family for her documentary “The Language of Laugh-ter” in Zaatari Refugee Camp. Dowd has started a Kickstarter campaign to finish her film.

Members of a newly formed campus club made peanut butter

and jelly sandwiches for bag lunches filled with chips, an apple, a drink and cookies on a recent Sunday afternoon and then distributed the bags to the homeless in the Tenderloin.

Students in Action, a ser-vice-oriented club created by the Jefferson Awards Founda-tion, plans to have weekly to bi-weekly service opportunities on weekends for its members, according to co-head of SIA Isa-belle Armstrong.

“You teach your peers how to lead and how to interact with others,” Armstrong said. “It's much more than service, but service is our core.”

SIA has operated at Stuart Hall for over a year and is both stu-dent lead and student managed,

according to SHHS faculty mod-erator Ray O’Connor.

“Last year our service direc-tor presented the program to me and asked me if I would be interested in starting something like it at Stuart Hall,” SHHS SIA leader Julian Moreno said. “We spread over to Convent because we think the message of service to others and really engaging with service in a positive way is powerful.”

Moreno introduced Students in Action to Convent in early February during an assembly, inviting the girls to start their own chapter.

“When Julian came to present it, I saw it as an opportunity to play a larger role in the commu-nity service locally,” Armstrong said. “We are only focusing on charities in the city.”

Focusing service efforts local-ly follows the Students in Action goal of trying to “create maxi-

mum impact,” according to SIA’s website.

Despite working with Stuart Hall on its One Less Hungry Project, the Convent chapter is looking for other commu-nity service organizations with whom they can partner.

“We have the capability to join so many different charities and functions and do so many things at once while still aiming to-wards our goal which is service and community helping others,” Armstrong said.

Active in 300 schools across the United States, Students in Action was created in 2006 by the Jefferson Awards Founda-tion to develop student leaders while helping the community.

“Students in Action is a great way to connect with the youth of the United States, volunteer, and give back to others in the com-munity,” Moreno said.

Shooting for happiness

Alumna makes movie on Syrian border focusing on the impact of happiness.

Liana LumNews Editor

Grace AinslieReporter

New club promotes service

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CLUB MEETING Juniors Victoria Oestermann, Laurel Cinti and Isabelle Armstrong (left to right) lead a club meeting for Students in Action, a new club to promote community service.

What we saw was an amazing amount of resilience and humanity. —Reilly Dowd

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Making the safe call

Teens exempt from legal consequences when calling medical assistance for

friends passed out from binge drinking.

Teenage lore is filled with stories of young women whose first time binge

drinking could have been their last had they not been rushed to the hospital for alcohol poison-ing. And with good reason.

Adolescents between the ages of 12 and 20 consume about 11 per-cent of all alcohol in the United States — over 90 percent of which is consumed via binge drinking, according to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention.

“Big events or parties are where most underage drinking hap-pens,” an 18-year-old high school senior who asked not to be iden-tified said. “People lose track of how much they drink, and it can get scary when they begin to wob-ble and slur their words. Drinking games don’t help either, because then getting drunk becomes a competition.”

Consuming alcohol is illegal in California under the age of 21, ex-cept in the presence of consenting family members.

Drinking games often contrib-ute to binge drinking, the con-sumption of four drinks in two hours for women and five for

men, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

“The main problem is that when kids start drinking, especially if they have not eaten or are thirsty, they drink a lot of alcohol and do not realize they’ve had too much until they’ve reached a level of poisoning,” Laura Catena, emer-gency medicine doctor at Univer-sity of California, San Francisco and California Pacific Medical Center, said. “The less you drink on a regular basis, the slower you metabolize alcohol — and since most kids are not regular drink-ers, they can get drunk very easily — especially small thin women.”

Inexperienced drinkers can easily consume life-threatening amounts of alcohol without real-izing it.

“People lose their inhibitions when they drink, and they may not realize that they are drinking too much,” Catena said. “They might go quickly from talking to passing out and not breathing well, because alcohol is absorbed within 30 minutes.”

Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, changing mood and behavior and making it more difficult to think

clearly and move with coordina-tion, according to NIAAA.

“The main reason teens drink is because of the effect it has on them,” a 16-year-old high school sophomore said. “It has reached a point where a lot of teens do it and, in a sense, it has become normal.”

Individuals who participate in binge drinking and consume too much alcohol may need imme-diate medical attention. Minors who are present at the scene and call for help do not need to worry about legal ramifications under the California Business and Pro-fessions Code 25667 that grants the caller immunity from crimi-nal prosecution.

The minor must call 911 for someone in need of medical as-sistance due to alcohol consump-tion, be first to report an incident to 911, or remain on the scene with the person who has alcohol poisoning until medical assistance arrived, according to the code.

“It is good to know that if any-thing were to go wrong, I could call for help and be protected by law,” senior Quinn Moslander said. “I think most teens’ biggest worry is getting in trouble and getting caught, so that is why some might hesitate to call.”

Warning signs of alcohol poi-soning are, but not limited to, con-fusion, vomiting, slowed breath-

ing to less than eight breaths per minute, lowered body tempera-ture, and unconsciousness ac-cording to the Mayo Clinic.

“If you were ever concerned and don’t know if someone drank alcohol or took a drug, and they are not so sick that you would need to call 911, you can always call the Poison Control Center,” Catena said. “They might tell you to go to the hospital, but that is the place you can always call for information.”

The California Poison Control System is open 24 hours, seven days a week and can be reached at (415) 502-8605 or by calling 911 and asking to be redirected.

Academic stress stimulates depressionDepression can stem from overwhelming school work and activities.

High school often tests students limits, but in certain cases

the stress of homework and extracurriculars become too much to handle for teens and can become detrimental to their men-tal health.

Five percent of teenag-ers, aged 13 to 18, suffer from a depressive order, with only 30 percent of those receiving treatment, according to the John Hopkins Adolescent Depression Awareness Program.

“Depression is when you are sad,” a 16-year-old high school student who has been clinically diagnosed with depression and asked not to be identified, said. “Either for a reason, or not a rea-son, for a long period of time and there is little to nothing that can be done to get you out of that. It’s like you are drowning, and you can see everybody breathing just fine.”

Symptoms of depression can include sadness, anxiety, irritabil-ity, restlessness, loss of interest in activities that previously provided joy, problems with focus or sleep, and suicidal thoughts or actions, according to the National Insti-tute of Mental Health.

“Often times I see depression playing a role in teenagers’ abil-ity to focus and to feel motivated towards school,” Morgan How-son, licensed marriage and family therapist, said.

Depression is a medically diag-nosed disorder with multiple dif-ferent variations, including major

depression, dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder, or SAD and bi-polar disorder, according to Mayo Clinic.

Women are 70 percent more likely than men to experience depression at some point in their lifetime, and by age 15, girls are twice as likely as boys to have had a major depressive episode, ac-cording to the NIMH.

“You’ll have friends or people you connect with who say that they’re there for you even if it’s every two hours,” the 16-year-old said. “You want so badly to accept that help, but you start asking yourself if they really mean it and you get self-conscious.”

Depression can often lead to suicidal thoughts or actions. The strongest risk factor for suicide is depression and 15 percent of those who are clinically depressed die by suicide, according to Sui-cide Awareness Voices of Educa-tion.

Teens suffering from depres-sion are encouraged to partici-pate in school to stay busy and use school as a distraction from their negative feelings or behav-iors, according to Mental Health America.

“If it were really obvious that a student was down or not her normal self, I would ask how they were feeling, and if the response seemed severe enough, I would take it to the people suited to deal with that, like Mrs. [Annie] Egan,” sophomore history teacher Michael Stafford said.

Depending on the severity of ones’ depressive symptoms, de-pression can make it impossible

for a person to carry on her nor-mal activities, including sleep and focus.

“There will be weeks when I can’t get out of bed,” the 16-year-old said. “It’s pretty hard because I need to get out of bed in order to get to school, and I will miss incredible amounts of school, but the idea of just having to be there is too overwhelming.”

Almost 50 percent of those who are clinically depressed are also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, according to the Anxi-ety and Depression Association of America.

“Depression and anxiety are separate, but they often are diag-nosed together and likely to arise at the same time,” school counsel-or Annie Egan said. “If you have anxiety around school, and anxi-ety is not stress, but it’s an irratio-nal level of strain around some-thing, if you are not doing well in school and are anxious about an assignment, that can bring on the depression.”

A consequence of unwatched, or undiagnosed depression can be suicide.

“Your safety is hands down the most important thing,” Stafford said. “We will drop anything to make sure everybody is safe and well taken care of.”

Students seeking help or some-one to talk to can meet with Egan, who has a confidentiality policy unless there is concern for immi-nent harm to self, harm to others, or harm to the student by another person. She is reachable by her school phone extension, email and by dropping by her office.

Julia-Rose Kibben Senior Reporter

Camilla BykhovskySports Editor

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Unlike her friends who spend their after school hours participating in

school productions, running on the track and swimming laps for the swim team, senior Caro-line Lo works once a week in a Tenderloin shelter, loading her student-run kitchen database with kitchen stock, recipes and volunteer information.

Lo’s weekly visits to the shel-ter kitchen is for her Girl Scout Gold Award, bestowed onto high school students who find a sustainable solution to a prob-lem in the world or in their own community. Lo is changing her corner of the world at Raphael House, where she previously volunteered through National Charity League.

“Raphael House is a transition house that helps families in the San Francisco area get back on their feet by providing housing and food,” Lo said.

Lo, who has been a girls scout for 10 years, sat down with Ra-phael House’s head chef and the director of finance who togeth-er concluded the shelter most needed a stronger organizational system for the kitchen.

“I have been researching dif-ferent kitchen software for res-taurants, chefs and cafeterias,” Lo said. “I look for what they offer and see if the software matches the needs of the Raphael House. I am currently in the process of talking to software representa-tives. My next step would be to purchase the software, load all

the information and then teach the Raphael House how to use the database.”

Scouts must complete a sev-en-step process that takes them through identifying an issue, creating and presenting a plan, and educating and inspiring others.

“All the steps are equally im-portant because they build a lot in terms of development,” Kamaria Belgrave, National

Awards Program Specialist, said. “The steps teach girls how to re-search during the investigation, teach peer to peer engagement as they develop their team, they enhance presentation skills, and teach organizational skills when scouts learn to plot out a plan of action.”

“To earn your Gold Award you have to create a proposal with a timeline of action, finance tracking sheet, connections and then present your gathered ma-terial to the Girl Scouts Organi-zation of Northern California,” Lo said. “They then discuss the

project and give feedback, which takes three months. After it is ap-proved, you can start the project, which needs 80 hours onsite.”

In addition to helping the community, Gold Award recipi-ents benefit from their experi-ence by distinguishing them-selves in the college process, being seen as leaders, learning time management skills and building a network, according to girlscouts.org.

“My Gold Award is a proj-ect that combines what I have learned about service and what I have learned about leadership,” Lo said. “It takes a lot of dedica-tion and time to organize and orchestrate a project like this. I’ve also become more apprecia-tive for organizations like the Raphael House. The volunteers and staff take time out of their day to help the families, always with a positive attitude.”

The Gold Award, previously known as the Golden Eaglet and First Class award, is approach-ing its 100-year anniversary, celebrating young women who have distinguished themselves as leaders since 1916.

“A lot of colleges really look for this form of leadership in an application, giving Gold Award recipients an edge against other young women who have not strongly impacted their com-munity,” Belgrave said. “It helps develops girls as a person and as young women. It really propels these young women forward in life teaching them a number of critical skills needed for adulthood.”

Going for the gold Senior creates kitchen database for a transition home

for prestigious Girl Scout award.

Refined harmonies and pit-ter patter of tap shoes are flooding the Syufy The-

atre during rehearsals for next week’s spring musical.

Set during the Great Depres-sion, “42nd Street” chronicles the story of aspiring actress Peg-gy Sawyer (Cat Heinen) and ac-complished performer Dorothy Brock (Christina Braa) who are both working hard to make it big in on Broadway.

“I love how sassy and mean I get to be, senior Christina Braa said about playing Brock. “She’s just so ridiculous, it’s outra-geous. I get to do things that wouldn’t get to be acceptable. I get to throw champagne in my stage boyfriend’s face.”

Sawyer gets her break in “Pret-ty Lady,” the Broadway musical within the show, when Brock in-jures herself.

The cast of 31 has been re-hearsing since early December, working on acting, singing and dancing.

“Most of the leads are called everyday of the school week and towards the end we have a full day rehearsal on a Saturday,” Braa said. “I will probably spend more than 100 hours preparing for the play.”

Unlike the salsa moves in the two previous musicals “West-side Story” and “In the Heights,” dancers are sharpening their rhythmic dancing skills.

“I’m really enjoying learning tap,” ensemble member Bella Kearney said. “It’s something

that I won’t get to do anywhere else.”

The large ensemble fulfills di-rector Pamela Richard’s goal to have as many students as pos-sible participate in the show.

“Its not about just a few peo-ple, and that is the challenge of picking a musical,” Richard said. “For me it is how to give as many people as possible enough to do to make them really excited.”

The musical runs one and half hours to two hours with a 15 minute intermission, according to stage director Sabrina Men-diola.

“I’m hoping that a lot of peo-ple come to see it” Braa said. “It has lots of energy.”

“42nd Street” plays on March 12 and 13 at 7 p.m. and March 14 at 3 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door.

‘42 Street’ opens next week

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MUSICAL REVUE Sophomore Sabrina Chaffee, who plays Mag-gie, rehearses a solo in the opening number (above). Senior Marie de Tomasi, freshmen Francesca Petruzzelli and Natalia Mella, and sophomore Bella Kearney practice a tap dance routine for the open-ing number (right). Director Pamela Rickard demonstrates an ex-pression as the cast rehearses during a scene in Act One (far right).

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2/3 of every Girl Scout cookie purchase is put to use by Girl Scout counsels.

Girls Scout’s world- wide family has 10 million girls and adults members in 145 countries.

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The 2015 Oscars were marked by acceptance speeches calling on the

audience to address social issues. Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette’s speech shed light upon the issue of wage inequality be-tween men and women, making Facebook’s Trending news for the day.

The average woman in the United States will make around $37,791 this year compared to $49,398 made by the average man, according to the U.S. Cen-sus Bureau.

“Women are affected, obvi-ously, in a negative way because they are not being paid as much,” Stephanie Román, a research as-sistant at the Institute for Wom-en’s Policy Research, said. “When you look at the poverty numbers, there is a much greater percent-age of women in poverty than men, which contributes to the problem.”

F u l l - t i m e female work-ers make only 78 cents for every dol-lar earned by men, causing the wage gap to hit 22 per-cent, accord-ing to IWPR.

“There is an idea going around that the statistics around the issue are exaggerated or manipulated in a way to make the issue seem big-ger than it is,” senior Zoë Baker said. “The fact that men are still being paid more than women for the same job is unacceptable.”

The issue spurs from occu-pational segregation, where a woman in a male-dominated work field will not make as much as her male counterparts, while a man in a stereotypically female field will make the same or even more as his female counterpart, according to Román.

“It’s something that hinders women’s economic and financial status,” Román said. “It is harm-ful to women’s economic security as well as their families.”

It is a cycle, where women are not paid equally to men, then fall into poverty, causing their children to become part of the cycle as well. Single women with children are more likely to be in poverty than married couples with children or single men with children, according to IWPR.

“This is especially pressing

and important for women who are single mothers who maintain households,” Román said. “The fact that there is a gender gap, and the fact that women aren’t being paid equally really affects the fe-male head of the household.”

Women hold 48 percent of the jobs in the workforce, yet they only hold 25 percent of all STEM jobs — jobs in science, technol-ogy, engineering and math — ac-cording to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

“There are a lot of educational issues that may happen along a women’s educational career where she might feel like science and math class are not a welcom-ing place for women,” Román said. “This might prohibit her from having an occupation in a STEM career because along the way of getting to that place there have been all of these different things that happen.”

The rate of change in the equal-ity gap has r e m a i n e d stagnant in the past years, partially relat-ed to the eco-nomic reces-sion, but also due to poli-cies, accord-ing to Ramón.

“At the cur-rent pace of change, it will take 81 years to achieve gender parity

in the workplace, more than 75 years to reach equal remunera-tion between men and women for work of equal value, and more than 30 years to reach gender balance in decision-making,” according to the Call to Action document generated at the an-nual UN Women conference in Beijing.

In President Obama’s 2015 Economic Report one of the key issues to tackle this year is wage inequality. The report outlines the economic issues that Con-gress should address.

“Women can put pressure on their local and elected officials and their Congress members who represent them to make pay equity a priority,” Román said.

Not one country has yet achieved equality, according to a press release from UN Women at the 2015 International Women’s Day in Beijing.

“Convent has educated me on how widespread gender inequal-ity is and has given me the tools such as confidence to fight it and stand up for myself,” Baker said.

Editor’s Note: As a staff, we are opposed to running quotes from anonymous sources, but we also believe we have a responsibility to protect our sources when they dis-cuss personal, sensitive topics, even when they agree to go on the record. We thank our sources for their can-dor and without them this story would not have been possible, but we have chosen not to run our in-terviewees’ names in this article.

Going out to dinner and a movie has become almost as outdated as using a flip

phone. Teens are opting to hook up rather than go out on dates as a part of the growing hookup cul-ture that creates a double standard in which women are considered promiscuous and men are praised for their endeavors.

“Everyone is looking to relate,” Dr. Michael Swetye, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, said. “It’s a basic human instinct and we do it from the time we’re born as little babies. We look for attachment and connection and continue to do so through our friendships and family relationships and eventually it can happen in romantic relation-ships.”

Hook ups are casual sexual en-counters between two people who are not currently in a relationship. Hook ups can range anywhere from “making out” to sexual inter-course, according to the American

Psychological Association. “Sometimes having a boy-

friend or a girlfriend can be too much work and commitment,” an 18-year-old high school girl said. “Generally, you don’t have feelings for the other person, so there aren’t any strings attached.”

These brief encounters are more about satisfying a physical need than searching for a future partner, according to the APA.

“When just hooking up with someone I feel like it’s not neces-sarily real or passionate,” a 17-year-old high school girl said. “It’s just used as a form of pleasure.”

Thirty five percent of 187 par-ticipants in a study asking them to describe their feelings after a “typi-cal hook up” said they regretted the hook up and felt disappointed,

according to the U.S. National Li-brary of Medicine.

“Say if you’re at a party and the guy you just hooked up with now won’t talk to you or make eye con-tact with you at all, that’s when a girl, I would say, would feel used because there’s just none of that ex-tra attention,” the 18-year-old said.

Only two percent of respondents said they felt desired or wanted af-ter their hookup, according to a U.S. National Library of Medicine study.

“Emotional intimacy can be complicated and very frightening to people,” Swetye said. “Espe-cially teenagers, who are new to romance, can be frightened. They may not be conscious of it, but they can be frightened by emo-tional intimacy. Hookup culture is probably a way that some teens are consciously or unconsciously avoiding real emotional intimacy. When hooking up, they imagine they are being mature and intimate simply due to the physical contact, but in reality it’s immature and su-perficial.”

Sixty four percent of teenage boys say that they have been “in love,” compared to 60 percent of teenage girls, according to Stage of Life.

“It’s more meaningful,” the 17 year old, who has been dating her boyfriend for over a year, said. “I get to form a relationship with someone for a long period of time and get to know them as a person, opposed to a short period of time

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Women hold 48 percent of the jobs in the workforce, yet they only hold 25 percent of all STEM jobs.

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Hookup culture becomes the norm, causing a double-standard for many women

A modern and often cavalier relationship can lead to a deeper connection, but often results in women being shamed for hooking up while men are applauded for their promiscuity.

Gender-oriented occupational inequity

affects women, children

Gender prejudice in the workplace affects poverty rates and leads

to male dominated fields.

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Pink-themed toys dominate the Girls’ Toys tab of the Toys R Us website. A pink

Cadillac-branded model denotes the Bikes and Ride-ons, and a pink “Hello Kitty” boombox indi-cates the electronics section. Only the “Frozen” merchandise dis-rupts this pink online landscape, yet clicking on those section tabs reveals little-to-no Frozen mer-chandise at all.

“When I was really young I didn’t like pink, and I wore it be-cause I saw pink everywhere,” ju-nior Julia Praeger said. “But when I got older, gender stereotypes really didn’t affect me because I had an older brother. I did a lot of things like watch shows like ‘Yu-Gi-Oh’ and ‘Naruto,’ and play ‘Pokémon.’ I was very tomboyish.”

Most children are exposed to gender stereotypes through the toy industry, where sex-based stereotyping has grown to “un-precedented levels” during the past generation, according to then-sociology doctoral candi-date Elizabeth Sweet in an ar-ticle she wrote for the New York Times in 2012.

“When I was younger I played with baby dolls and play kitchens,” s o p h o m o r e Gia Monachi-no said. “Now that I’m older, I feel that in a way they’re im-posing gender roles early on in life and saying that girls have to play house, clean the kitchen and take care of kids.”

Children become more aware of “boy” and “girl” interests and can differentiate between gender stereotyped toys by the age of three, according to the American Academy of Pediatric’s.

“Bennet’s really attracted to all things that are stereotypically feminine — pink things, prin-cesses, queens,” philosophy teach-er Paul Pryor-Lorentz said about his 3-year-old daughter. “My wife and I try intentionally to create a gender-neutral environment, and it’s interesting how even with that she’s attracted to those things. It could also be that she’s genuinely attracted to that aesthetic, which is fine.”

Pryor-Lorentz said his daugh-ter started being affected by ideas about gender roles when she started to be able to understand sentences.

“She’ll take offense if I say that she looks handsome when she’s getting ready for church on Sun-days, because she says, ‘they tell me at school that you’re not al-lowed to say a girl is handsome or a boy is pretty,’” Pryor-Lorentz said. “Her notions of gender iden-tity are rigid, even though that’s not necessarily the environment

that we’ve created for her.”It can be hard to find gender

neutral products for children, such as clothes in red, yellows or greens, according to history teach-er Michael Stafford, who has two daughters, ages two and five.

“When you go to the clothing store, all of the girls’ clothes are pink and all of the boys’ clothes are blue,” Stafford said. “You have to look really hard to find stuff that your kid can wear that is not specifically geared towards frilly girls or rambunctious boys — and this is before the kid is even notic-ing it.”

Stafford, who teaches the Re-sponses to Oppression class, says that gender-based stereotypes directed toward children are a form of oppression aimed more at young girls than at boys.

“Gender stereotypes aimed at girls are one of the reasons we have a need for feminism,” Staf-ford said. “This indoctrination and these stereotypes are set at a very early age — that girls can only go so far, that girls can only ac-

complish this much, et ce-tera. That’s stuff that my wife and I are both strug-gling against, since we’re both femi-nists.”

Some toy c o m p a n i e s are seeking to change that heavily-biased at-m o s p h e r e . Named “Peo-ple’s Choice” and “Most

Educational Toy” at the 2014 Toy of the Year Awards, founder and CEO Debra Sterling launched the toy company GoldieBlox “to inspire the next generation of fe-male innovators,” according to the company.

“Goldie and her friends are a group of diverse, quirky charac-ters who work together to solve problems by building simple ma-chines,” the company wrote in a press statement. “They’re each interested in different areas of STEM, providing girls with con-fident and positive role models.”

GoldieBlox states its goal is to close the gender gap in STEM-related career fields and “disrupt the pink aisle” through products featuring stories and interactive construction toys for girls, ac-cording to the company.

Despite GoldieBlox’s revolu-tion in toys aimed at young girls, much of the toy industry is still heavily mired in sex-based expec-tations for young kids.

“A conversation that each of us needs to attend to at some point is ‘what has the effect been of the way that I was raised — how has that shaped my sense of my self and of my world and what it means to be a person’ because it does for all of us,” Pryor-Lorentz said. “For better and for worse.”

without really getting to know the person.”

The 17 year old who was only hooking up with her boyfriend at the time said she was victimized for being with him.

“There was a lot of gossip going around the school because I was with him,” she said. “One girl even mentioned it to my face and said, ‘I can’t believe you’re with him — that’s so gross.’”

Women are often shamed and considered promiscuous after their hookups, but men are re-vered by their peers, according to the 18-year-old.

“There is definitely a double standard,” she said. “A girl isn’t hooking up with a lot of guys to be gossiped about, it’s just natural. Both guys and girls are doing this for the same reason.”

Forty seven percent of women and 34 percent of men express an interest in starting a relationship with their most recent hook up, according to the APA.

“Men may have more of an abil-ity to shut down the emotional and attachment aspects around physi-cal intimacy relative to women,” Swetye said. “This may be part of the reason that in teen culture we see a celebration of hooking up by the boys and a shaming of it by the girls.”

This double standard can be at-tributed to possible pregnancy, ac-cording to Swetye.

“There is a biological setup for

men to be less emotionally invest-ed in sexual intimacy than women because of the biological reality of pregnancy,” Swetye said. “Since women give birth to the child they are typically the primary attach-ment figure. There are many sys-tems within the female physiology

and the female brain that are wired for bonding and attachment.”

Although these brief encoun-ters are considered a norm in the media because of movies like “No Strings Attached” and “Hooking Up,” healthy relationships require more than just physical intimacy, according to Swetye.

“Healthy relationships involve an integration of one’s emotional

life with the romance piece of it, along with physical intimacy,” Swetye said. “It takes a lot of matu-rity to know how to integrate those and to really understand what a rich emotional life with another person involves. Hookup culture keeps things superficial — it does not promote learning how to build a mature emotional life that is blended with physical intimacy.”

The Catholic Church teaches that sexual relations or only ac-ceptable in marriage, according to the Rev. Dave Pettingill.

“Sexual relations is such a sacred and marvelous thing that it needs to be nurtured to be given its full meaning,” Pettingill said. “The full meaning the Church believes is in marriage because people have to come together first of all spiritu-ally, emotionally, psychologically and then their sexual expression become the sacrament of all those other comings together.”

If teens are feeling uncertain about their relationships, Swetye urges them to seek out a trusted adult.

“Teens who are feeling con-fused or frustrated by a romantic relationship should try to find a trusted adult with whom they can talk about it,” Swetye said. “Some-one who doesn’t judge or criticize, but listens and offers a mature per-spective. It could be a favorite aunt, or teacher, or parent — anyone trustworthy who seems to have a healthy emotional life.”

Kristina CarySenior Reporter

Gender stereotypes affect childhoods

Hookup culture becomes the norm, causing a double-standard for many women

A modern and often cavalier relationship can lead to a deeper connection, but often results in women being shamed for hooking up while men are applauded for their promiscuity.

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Juice cleanse advocates claim fasting while consuming only juices can lead to an

improved lifestyle, but it may not be as healthy for the body as promoters of the practice make it out to be.

Senior Sabine Dahi tried a three-day cleanse, but began experiencing unwanted effects from her choice of more sug-ary juices rather than vegetable juices.

“I just started off doing it just to see if I could do it,” Dahi said. “By the third day, I just felt com-pletely dizzy because I switched out a lot of my juices for sweeter ones because I couldn’t drink some of the green ones that were in my package. I read afterwards that that was a bad idea. I was ba-sically on sugar for three days.”

A juice cleanse consisting mainly of fruit juices containing high quantities of sugar causes a boost in blood sugar levels and excess insulin within the body, without the required fiber need-ed to balance out the insulin, ac-cording to Salter.

“If you consume too much , your body spikes too highly in insulin and often times it can be followed by a crash,” Rhiannon Salter, who is certified in nutri-tion from the Tufts Friedman School of Public Health said. “If you’re having a juice, I would always advise accompanying it with fiber to help avoid and prevent such stark crashes and spikes.”

Although a juice cleanse is of-ten claimed to be tool in nutri-

tion consumption, minor weight loss and detoxification of the body as well as important com-ponents of a balanced diet are lost when the food is juiced, ac-cording to Fit Day.

“They can be a healthy addi-tion but not on their own, they’re not a complete food,” Salter said. “I’ve watched a lot of my friends try juice cleanses, and they end up being really hungry, pretty miserable and kind of grumpy because they’re not getting all of the food groups.”

Pursuing a juice cleanse with-out including whole foods into the course does not achieve the suggested daily intake of 14 grams of fiber for every 1,000 calories, according to the USDA Dietary Guidelines of 2010.

“With juice cleanses, all of the vegetables and fruits are put into a juicer and the pulp and fibrous materials get left behind when the juice is extracted,” nu-tritionist Kristina Todini said. “So while you may be drinking the juice from six apples and a

pound of spinach, the fiber is left behind. Fiber is very important for your digestion and for slow-ing down your body’s absorption of the high amounts of sugar from the juice you are drinking.”

Juice bars are increasingly ap-pearing in multiple locations all around San Francisco including Pacific Heights, the Mission and the Financial District, offering juices containing mixtures of fruits, vegetables and spices.

“We have different categories like greens, fruits, citrus, roots and signature blends,” senior Lian Radcliffe, who works at Pressed Juicery said. “Pressed Juicerys’ goal is really just to make healthy juices that taste good and are affordable.”

Pressed Juicery claims its cleanses work in removing tox-ins caused by an unhealthy food regimen, according to Radcliffe. “What cleansing is aimed at is to give your digestive system a break,” Radcliffe said. “Your body is constantly working to digest your food, and it takes up to six or eight hours to digest just one meal. It also helps speed up your metabolism.”

Juice cleanse side effects, in-cluding weight loss and frequent trips to the bathroom, can be falsely interpreted as a detox ex-perience, according to Todini.

“Your body naturally detoxes itself, and there is no evidence to substantiate the claim that juice is detoxifying,” Todini said. “Your body has its own natural detox system, the liver and the kidneys, and it will detox what-ever you ingest. The detoxifying claims probably stem from the

fact that juice cleanses restrict eating whole foods, and follow-ing this diet will cause water weight loss initially. As soon as you begin eating whole foods again, you will gain the weight back.”

The bulk of fruits and veg-etables in a healthy and balanced diet should be provided by the whole food itself and not by juic-es, according to USDA Dietary

Guidelines of 2010.“I wouldn’t suggest a juice

cleanse,” Todini said. “Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables, drinking six to eight glasses of water, going outside and getting some exercise, eating healthy fats such as avocados or other vegetable oils, and getting pro-tein sources either from meat or from plants would be the best cleanse.”

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Placing 19 out of 30 at their last regatta, the Convent and Stuart Hall sailing

team anticipates another suc-cessful season to move up their state rank.

The sailing team is currently ranked 17th out of 64 teams in the state, improving its 30th ranking spot from four years ago in the Pacific Coast Interscholas-tic Sailing Association.

“Their ranking is a great show-ing that effort, hard work, com-mitment and practice all pay off over the years,” sailing coach Brent Harrill said. “Nationwide, our district probably has the top five schools in the country and it is very competitive.”

Captains Paloma Palmer, Hannah Baylis and Will Paulsen, who have all been on the team since their freshman year, make sure everyone is informed with the times and dates of all regat-tas and practices, according to junior Paige Dunlevy.

“It’s a lot of coordination get-ting everyone to practice and traveling as a team,” senior Claire Mohun said. “It takes a

lot of really strong communica-tion and you just have to keep in touch with everyone and they’re very good at making sure that happens.”

The seven schools in the City with sailing teams use a fleet of 14 boats owned by the St. Fran-cis Yacht Club.

“Each school has their indi-vidual team, but there are only two coaches at the yacht club,” Mohun said. “We have practice the same day, are all coached to-gether and all sail together. We’re more of a Saint Francis Yacht Club team, but when it’s scored we are one team — Convent and Stuart Hall.”

Sailors not only need to have physical and mental strength, but they must factor in that they’re playing with Mother Na-ture whenever they go on the water, according to Harrill.

“Sailing takes a lot of under-standing of the weather and wind patterns, as well as the the geographical locations that you’re sailing in,” Harril said. “We experience different tidal currents in every different ven-ue we go to and the state of the waves and water all affect the de-

cisions you need to make.” Sailing forces sailors to focus

on the task at hand, forget about anything else that is not relevant at the time and takes a lot of mental skill.

“Sailing forces me to only con-centrate on what’s going on in the boat and what’s happening in the present moment,” Dun-levy said.

The teams current ranking of 17th in California, was is the ranking the team ended with last year.

“Hopefully we can move up from our current ranking and finish a few spots higher and achieve a better state result than last year,” Harrill said.

The team still has two more statewide competitions in which it can better its ranking, a regatta in Santa Barbara March 14-15 and the league championships hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club April 18-19.

“Rankings matter, but over that I hope that we can learn better tactics and get better as a team overall because in the end, that is what will lead to us mov-ing up in the rankings,” Dunlevy said.

Juice cleanses may not rid the body of toxins and may cause more harm than good.

Sailing up the ranks

Neely Metz Senior Reporter

Ariana Abdulmassih Senior Reporter

The coed sailing team continues to aspireto increase its standing among California teams

The pulp and fibrous materials get left behind when the juice is extracted.

— Kristina Todini

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Bea D’Amico/The Broadvie

PRESSED JUICES Caroline Morgan samples a citrus juice while Vincent Yannicelli puts together her three-day juice cleanse at Pressed Juicery on Union Street (above). Juice cleanse suggested guidelines (left)outline options for individuals considering the solid food-free regimen and the prices for one, two and three-day fasts. Cleanse advocates claim juice-only fasts nourish, detoxify and refine the body, however many nutritionists say the lack of fiber in pressed juices increases insulin and can cause sugar spikes and crashes in the blood system. Fasters lose water weight that is regained once they reintroduce solid foods.

Alyssa Alvarez/The Broadview

SETTING SAIL Coming in from practice, junior Paige Dunlevy takes down a sail while bringing her FJ off of the water and onto the dolly to de-rig it at the St. Francis Yacht Club on San Francisco Bay.

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Soccer

Basketball

Track Swimming

Badminton

Fencing

Sailing

Varsity

vs. University 2/3 32-48

vs. Lick-Wilmerding 2/631-32

vs. Marin Academy 2/1041-26

vs. International 2/1331-35

vs. Lick-Wilmerding 2/1834-47

vs. Sonoma Academy 2/2556-36

vs. University 2/2831-47

JV

vs. University 2/3 (no results posted)

vs. Lick-Wilmerding 2/66-46

vs. Marin Academy 2/1025-34

vs. International 2/13 (no results posted)

Sunset Invitational 3/6TBD

Norcal 7 Gold 2/7

Cubs Team- 15th

Cubs Team 2 18th

PCISA 4 Golden Bear Gold 2/21-2/22 19th

Norcal 9 2/28

vs. Drew 2/252-6

vs. International 3/33-2

vs. Head Royce 2/240-10

vs. Gateway 2/264-2

vs. SF Waldorf 3/34-0

vs. Drew 3/3TBD

vs. School of The Arts 3/5TBD

OFFENSE Senior Sabine Dahi fights for the ball with San Francisco Waldorf defender as senior Quinn Moslander awaits a pass at Crocker Amazon Field (above). Senior Christina Berardi prepares to receive the ball and offensively attack the other side of the field (left). Berardi serves as the team captain. The team is in its pre-season, having won two of its first three matches. The regular season starts March 18.

The Cubs 2-1 record in preseason soccer has the team feeling confident it

is off to a better start than last year’s team which only won one preseason game.

“I think there is a higher level of intensity this season,” senior Sarah Niehaus said. “Compared to last season, I just think there is more focus this year. With one big team, we always have enough people for drills and it gives us more options.”

The team lost to Head Royce in its first game of the season 10-0, then came back to beat Gate-way 4-2 and beat San Francisco Waldorf 4-0 this past Tuesday.

“I want to help the team feel more confident about who they are,” Coach Ricardo Azucena said. “We are not the biggest or the strongest, so I am hoping to re-ally try to get in the girls’ heads and help them emotionally and men-tally develop and become stronger.”

New coaches Azucena and Joel Snyder both started playing at an early age and together have been coaching for over 30 years. The duo is co-coaching varsity, as the squad is not large enough to also have a JV team.

“I think there is a higher level

of intensity this season,” Niehaus said. “Compared to last season, I just think there is more focus this year. With one big team, we always have enough people for drills and it gives us more options.”

Talent is throughout the field and overall the team is well bal-anced, although it might be a low in terms of strength and

numbers when rotating in the bench, according to Snyder.

“There’s some promising sup-port there,” Snyder said. “I think if we keep a solid pace going then we can supplement with our bench and hold a good game. Our objective is to do well in league and see if we can build on our strengths.”

The team has a lot of dedica-

tion, talent and potential based on the commitment of players within the team, according to Azucena.

“We have some good, strong leaders,” Snyder said. “We are looking for them to help make other players around them bet-ter, so we can have a good team management of the ball and move up and down the field with some pace and control and cre-ate opportunities.”

With only three seniors on the team, few of the seven freshmen are in the starting lineup.

“Starting with different people that I haven’t played with before is hard,” Ballest-Cordero. “It was interestingly rough at first but now I think that we are all start-ing to work together better as a team.”

The preseason continues until March 13 with a matchup against Bentley Friday and another game coming up against Drew next Friday. The regular season begins March 18 with a league game against International High School at Crocker Amazon.

“We are getting used to how we play as a team,” Niehaus said. “We have been working on for-mations in practice that will help us move the ball around more in the games.”

Alyssa Alvarez Senior Reporter

After my usual warm-up run at Lincoln High School, I glanced across the field and saw a group

of girls with flags secured around their hips, throwing around a football while executing offensive and defensive plays.

Being a student athlete for most of my life, it never crossed my mind that a girl could play a sport predominantly played by boys. The girls played just as rough as I have seen boys play flag football, all while smiling and enjoy-ing themselves just as much as any guy would.

I have been taught from a young age that male dominated sports- like flag football- are only be played by boys just because they were are “too dangerous,” but watching these girls play sparked a new appreciation.

Female tennis players, figure skaters and gymnasts showcase great athletic potential but they are commonly cel-ebrated only for their “feminine” attri-butes of grace and glamour. Girls who choose to wrestle, play rugby or com-pete in basketball are shamed because “masculine” sports take away the wom-an’s femininity.

We should not focus on a wom-an’s beauty, but rather her skill when watching women’s athletic events. No one should determine which sporting events are deemed “gender appropri-ate” for girls. If a woman wants to play a

sport, she should have the right to play it.The social, cultural and athletic pres-

sure on females who participate in “op-posite” gender sports needs to decrease so girls can feel confident when taking on athletic opportunities presented to them.

Ronna Heaton, a 15-year-old wres-tler recently claimed the title of the first girl to ever compete in South Dakota’s State Wrestling Tournament, placing seventh overall. Heaton’s successes lead her to travel to Sweden as a part of an Olympic Wrestling Development team. Heaton says she hopes to compete at the international level while getting interest from many colleges that offer women’s wrestling programs.

Title IX, the federal law prohibiting in education and athletics on the basis of sex, has given young women like He-aton the right to grapple with the boys, but this is not enough. Title IX contin-ues to make sure girls have access to equal opportunities in playing whatever sport they like, but it should further in-spire women and men to break the ste-reotype that women are too “feminine” to play male dominated sports.

Male or female intimidation shouldn’t stop a girl from participating in some-thing she’s passionate about. Pushing for athletic gender equality will lead us one step closer in bridging the gap be-tween the sexes in sporting universe.

STEP INTO THESE SNEAKERS

Sarah SelzerSports Editor

Women defy gender stereo-types in male dominated sports.

Pre-season Varsity

Play like a girl

Preseason and regular season game strategy presents new opportunities.

New soccer season brings new coaches

SPORTS ROUNDUP

I want to help the team feel more confident about who they are.

—Ricardo Azucena

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Alyssa AlvarezThe Broadview

KEEPIN’ IT RIEHLE

Madison RiehleEditor-in-Chief

10 | Thursday, March 5, 2015 The Broadview and Broadview.SacredSF.org OP-ED

1. Students clean up Ocean Beach tomorrow during Community Service Day.

2. Narbonne High

School’s girls basketball team wore pink to raise awareness for breast cancer.

3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.

4. Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech addresses women’s wages and social equality.

5. We’re having the warmest winter in San Francisco’s recorded history.

1. Residents and tourists continue to abuse local beaches.

2. The girls were

kicked out of the postseason for a uniform violation, which was later rescinded.

3. House Speaker John Boehner sidestepped Obama administration protocol.

4. Estimations are women will reach wage equality with men in 44 years.

5. The drought continues.

Colloquialisms misrepresent clinical words

The misuse of the terms surrounding depression, and other disorders, can be insensitive to persons who suffer from clinical depression and whose sadness goes beyond simply feeling unhappy.

Major depression is one of the most common mental illnesses and is char-acterized by a persistent state of feeling sad. It can severely affect an individu-al’s thoughts and behavior, and health, according to the Stanford School of Medicine.

An estimated 25 million Americans suffer from clinical depression each year, and 50 percent of all people who commit suicide suffer from major depression, ac-cording to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The overuse of the word to describe less serious situations has caused the word to lose much of it is severity, ac-cording to the Mental Health Treatment online directory.

KISS co-founder Gene Simmons

made headlines last year after making an insensitive comment about depres-sion during an interview for the web-site Songfacts.com. Simmons remarked about “a putz, 20-year-old kid” who says ‘I’m depressed, I live in Seattle” before saying an expletive followed by “... then kill yourself.”

Recognition of depression can be af-fected due to a participant’s prior experi-ences with depression, its “narrow clini-cal conceptualizations,” and the use of the word colloquially, according a study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

One of the main types of depression is bipolar disorder, which is also casu-ally misused to describe a person who frequently changes her mind. Its over-use has also caused it to lose much of its severity, as seen through Kylie Jenner’s 2013 Twitter post, “I miss my black hair I’m so bipolar.”

One in four people with major depres-sion are undiagnosed, according to the

U.S. National Institutes of Health. Indi-viduals who regularly express feelings of despondency should check to make sure they’re not clinically depressed.

The frequent use of clinical terms to describe less serious situations has caused the rise of colloquial connota-tions, all of which inconsiderately make

light of another person’s hardship. Students need to take the first step

by eliminating the use of these words in a cavalierly manner in conversations in order to educate each other to their true meaning to create a more accepting society.

“It affects me because I want to take more than five APs and I feel like now I can’t without having to go through a long process of applying formally for classes that I want to take. “

— Hailey Long, sophomore

“I think it’s sad because it’s not allowing students to take classes that they might want to take. It’s restricting things in a way that they don’t need to be restricted. ”

— Clara Phipps, junior

“I think if you’re a student who wants to take a certain amount of AP classes, and you’re at the academic level where you can, you should be allowed to take them.”

— Katie Newbold, sophomore

“Capping the amount of APs is actually a good idea. By capping it and restricting certain courses, it makes students choose to take classes that they’re actually interested in rather than not.”

— Sabine Dahi, senior

“I expect students to do better in the APs because they will have less classes, less stuff to deal with and less stress.”

— Katerina Doricko, junior

HOW DO YOU THINK THE NEW AP POLICIES WILL AFFECT STUDENTS?

Most — if not all — teens have experienced hardship at some point in their lives,

causing them to fell disheartened. Frustrated, they may inappropriately use the adjective “de-pressed” to describe this feeling.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Looking past self-judgementOvercoming self-consciousness is not easy.

As a fourth grader, I had an overwhelm-ing sense of confidence. My long, thick blonde hair defined me from everyone

else, and I flourished off the compliments I would get from my family and friends. I truly saw nothing wrong with myself.

My image was shattered when we had to weigh ourselves and take measurements of our bodies for science class. My partner told me, with conviction, that I had bulky, flubbery, “man” arms. Then she proceeded to weigh her-self and I realized that I was nothing like her — I was heavier and more wide set. Looking around I felt, for the first time, out of place and different in a way that I didn’t like.

As the girls in my class grew up and matured, I remained a brace-faced, pale, awkward girl through middle school, hoping that my baby fat would disappear.

By high school I was pushing myself to go to the gym multiple times a week, eat fewer carbs, lighten my hair, tan more, shave constantly, get manicures and spend a frivolous amount of money on makeup.

The girl next to me wasn’t my friend; she was a mirror that made me realize how I could be

perceived as unusual, and it hurt.My looks often times took precedence over

school work or studying, and any slight remark on my appearance sent me into overdrive to reverse what someone else thought was wrong with me.

It has taken me 18 years to not only accept that I am the way that I am, but also be proud of myself.

This realization came with the understand-ing that happiness doesn’t come from a tube of mascara or someone’s remark on new clothes.

When I became tired of changing myself for other people, I found friends who accepted me for the way that I am, not for how I made myself up to be. I still enjoy working out, by my mo-tivation has changed. I work out to feel better, not to hope that it changes someone’s perspec-tive on me.

With a new mindset my grades, anxieties and outlook on life changed drastically. Being able to cut out the noise made it easier to hear what is truly important.

I am now able to appreciate that I may be dif-ferent from the girl next to me, but that doesn’t make me any less beautiful.

Rachel Fung/The Broadview

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Blood and guts never really turns my stomach, so I didn’t think twice when I agreed to go see “American Sniper” with

my dad. I walked into the theater expecting to watch a typical all-American war movie, but was shocked by the film’s emotional intensity.

I struggled to watch the opening scene when U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, “the most lethal sniper in U.S. history,” is forced to execute a mother and her son who were about to throw a grenade at U.S. Marines.

Kyle’s hesitation to pull the trigger served as some comfort that he understood the gravity of his actions, but watching a 12-year-old boy get shot in the head for obeying his mother was sickening.

As Kyle is shown on rooftops killing hundreds of people, I couldn’t move past the idea of what it must feel like to take someone else’s life.

Although the Iraqi people are depicted as sav-ages, they are still mothers, fathers and children.

Kyle suffered from post traumatic stress dis-order, but this component could be easily dis-missed if the audience was completely desensi-tized from the severity of murder.

I watch my 9-year-old and 5-year-old brothers play the first person shooter game “Call of Duty:

Ghosts” and brag about the targets they kill and witness their amazement with the digital splat-tered blood and the collapse of their “enemy.”

Little boys playing war with Nerf guns is significantly different than being desensitized by playing hours of violent video games, that turn people into targets, dehumanizing their us-ers by making killing others enjoyable and en-tertaining.

These games equate guns to toys and make killing more of a pastime than a last resort in warfare.

Kyle doesn’t find satisfaction in killing people but finds fulfilment in protecting his country. He is willing to do this job and suffer from both the physical and emotional repercussions of war for the safety of others.

He never killed anyone until he was truly convinced someone was a threat to U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians, as opposed to video games where a player can kill as many enemy soldiers as they want even if it doesn’t help them ad-vance.

Kyle’s actions were heroic and he understood there isn’t a restart button in reality, but partici-pating in endless hours of killing is only practic-ing a complete disregard for human life.

Taking a shot at reality

Viiolent video games numb feelings towards taking human lives.

Pro/Con: Young drivers navigate the cityDrivers increase chances of accidents when they step into the driver’s seat.

Driving during teen years provides responsibility and freedom.

Although teen driving is convenient and fosters independence and re-sponsibility, it is also dangerous,

costly and time consuming. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading

cause of death among teens, with the risk of crashes being three times more likely with drivers between the age of 16 and 19 than with drivers aged 20 and older, ac-cording to Centers for Disease and Con-trol Motor Vehicle Safety.

These high accident rates are associated with inexperience. Beginning drivers, no matter how prepared, tend to underesti-mate or fail to recognize dangerous situa-tions because their reaction times and im-pulse decisions are slowed and inaccurate.

Even after months of practice, begin-ning drivers driving other teens are easily distracted. MSN Autos states that death rates increase with each additional pas-senger.

Car crashes involving teen drivers can be attributed to unwise decisions, like drinking under the influence and ignor-ing the seat belt requirement, according to

the CDC study. Texting and using distracting apps like

Snapchat divert teen attention from the road as 21 percent of those involved in fatal crashes were distracted by the use of cellphones, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

During the school week, lack of sleep causes slower reaction times and thus in-creases the chances of getting in an acci-dent.

Although young people ages 15 to 24 represent only 14 percent of the United States population, they cause accidents that cost $19 billion or 30 percent of mo-tor vehicle injury costs for males and $7 billion or 28 percent for females, accord-ing to the CDC.

Adding on to this is the high cost of car insurance for beginning drivers who are charged a premium for inexperience and increased accident incidence. The Insur-ance Information Institute states that teen driving insurance raises a family’s annual premium by an average of 84 percent or $2,000.

Besides such dangers, driving is time consuming. Finding parking before school starts or during passing periods for students who don’t have parking lots at their school causes distraction and an in-creased probability of getting tickets and class tardiness.

Under California law, learning how to drive requires 30 hours of Driver’s Ed and 50 hours of training with a licensed driver over 25 years old, 10 of which hours must be at night. An additional six hours of training are required with a professional, paid instructor.

While the inability to drive seems like a disadvantage to teens, refraining from driving is environmentally friendly. With car services like Uber and bus stations located all over the city, transportation is equally accessible and convenient.

The cost of driving outweighs the bene-fits, and teens can always get their licenses at an older age.

Liana LumNews Editor

In a city where a different event hap-pens every weekend, the ability to drive to different venues is an impor-

tant aspect of freedom and convenience.Teens who drive save time by not hav-

ing to wait for buses or other forms of time-consuming transportation. Such forms of travel are not always reliable with their unpredictable and infrequent arrival times.

Cars are also much safer than public transportation or taxis services, since stu-dents can lock car’s doors and immedi-ately depart from any location or situation that seems potentially dangerous.

Riding buses can also be uncomfort-able, as more people shove to make room for themselves in crowded spaces. It’s not uncommon to find oneself uncomfortably cramped against multiple individuals in-vading the personal area of others.

Sudden changes in arrival times for bus lines make it difficult to find alternate ways to locations when one isn’t able to drive.

Even with taxis or driving services, teens do not always have money on hand to pay for high rates. San Francisco taxi rates are $3.50 for the first 1/5 mile, $0.55 for each additional 1/5 mile and $0.55 for each minute of delay which can add up to a high fare.

Families with an extra driver have more convenience for giving extra rides to sports practices, piano lessons or tutoring sessions.

California has no tolerance for teens driving under the influence, and any blood alcohol level over 0.00 percent can result in license suspension for up to five years. Along with this, drivers may not have passengers who are not immediate family under 25 unless they are accompa-nied by an adult and drivers have a curfew.

Car accidents among teens has de-creased 68 percent since 1975, mostly

because of these stricter rules, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Teens having more strict rules on driv-ing regulations allows for them to be sure they need a license.

Only 44 percent of teens get a license within a year of eligibility, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Getting a license has many values that can be overlooked.

Teens should have a license because it gives more freedom and independence to teens, and with safety laws, it is very man-ageable and safe for teen drivers and their families.

Kendra Harvey Video Editor

12 | Thursday, March 5, 2015 The Broadview and Broadview.SacredSF.org CITY LIFE

Whether you call them hammer pants, soft pants or stretchy

pants, they’re all the same.These fun flowing pants,

popularized by the rapper

MC Hammer, are making a comeback. They’re perfect for lounging at home or go-ing out on the town, the pants come in all colors, patterns and styles.

It’s Hammer timeWhat’s pumping in The City

Loose-fitting “hammer pants” are com-fortable options at home or on the go.

Pulse

Rachel FungHall & Heart: Drawn to Life

Over a million people are expected to make their way to Chinatown this

Saturday for the Chinese New Year festivities and commemora-tion of the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Chinese New Year celebra-tions began on Feb. 19 and will continue through the annual Chinese New Year Parade on March 7. This will celebrate the Year of the Ram.

“It brings everyone to-gether,” Karen Eng, Public Re-lations Director at the Chinese New Year Parade Office, said. “It's not just the Asian commu-nity, but we bring so many peo-ple from outside the Bay Area who travel to see the parade.”

Over the two-week span, many Chinese families prepare their homes in preparation for the New Year. Some practice Feng Shui, the act of balancing energy by moving or replacing items in the home, including purchasing new plants which symbolize growth.

“We have a Feng Shui consul-tant come and assess our house and see if we should replace any furniture, or if we should move any furniture to have better luck for the new year,” freshman Eri-ka Wong said.

The Chinese Historical Soci-ety, one of many organizations which is coordinating celebra-tions, plans for the afternoon of March 7 to be filled with lion dancing and a showing by artist Frank Wong, who creates mini dioramas of his youth growing up in Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s.

“Our organization in general is really here to be able to pro-vide information and history about the Chinese in the United States,” Lenora Lee, who works at the Chinese Historical Society, said. “We celebrate the Chinese culture and how it has evolved and we celebrate the achieve-ments and struggles of the Chi-nese who came early on.”

With over 5,000 participants in over a hundred different groups the annual parade is ex-pected to have 2 million viewers,

making it the largest parade and celebration of its kind, according to the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade website.

In addition to the marching bands, lion dancing, corporate and community floats, a train float commemorating the Chi-nese who worked on the Trans-continental Railroad will make its debut on Saturday.

The Mandarin students re-cently incorporated the Chinese New Year festivities into a week-long celebration in class.

"Our teacher brought lion heads with a costume and every-thing, so we got to learn how to lion dance," Wong said.

Mandarin teacher Yuhong Yao assisted the high school stu-dents in making traditional Chi-nese lanterns which they gave the kindergarteners, whom Yao also teaches. High school classes also learned the ancient skill of dumpling making.

“The dumplings make the whole family come together,” Yao said. “This is what Chinese people eat together to celebrate Chinese New Year.”

Chinese New Year Parade to conclude celebrations

Community ushers in Year of the Ram.Fiona Mittelstaedt

& Asha Khanna

Fiona Mittelstaedt /The Broadview

CELEBRATION Chinese lion dancers perform on stage at the Flower Market Fair festival on Feb. 14 (top right). The Flower Market Fair allows families to prepare for the New Year with fresh procduce for their celebrations. Musicians perform during a lion dance event (above). Instruments used during lion dance perfor-mances include gongs, sym-bols and drums. Festival goers on Feb. 14 walk down Grant Avenue, one of the streets closed off for the Flower Mar-ket Fair.

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