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Future first generation college students find support through the application process in a support group run by guidance counselor Diane Bourn.

Suicide and other mental illnesses are taboo topics. Several people who have lost close friends and family to suicide share their stories and efforts to increase awareness.

The last Prospect football team to win a state championship celebrates 10 years since the victory this year. The team reunites Oct. 16.

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S enior Jane Perry* started sweat-ing when she handed her ID to the store clerk. Perry saw he was sus-

picious, and after inspecting the ID he asked her multiple questions like, “Why are you here if you live in Mississippi?” Perry knew she had to convince him, so she planned a story ahead of time. After checking out her purchase, a bottle of alcohol, Perry grabbed the ID with shaky hands and quickly left.

Although Perry is a 17-year-old student at Prospect High School, her ID says she is a 21-year-old from Mississippi. When she en-ters a liquor store, she identifies as a recent graduate from the University of Mississippi visiting her parents who live in the area.

Perry is a part of the 14 percent of seniors who own fake IDs, according to a Prospector survey. Fake IDs have become more accessi-ble because of the internet, but according to school resource officer Scott Filipek, buying IDs online can result in harsher legal conse-quences.

Students like Perry are buying fake IDs mostly to purchase alcohol, although Per-ry’s original intention was to go to places that require people to be 21-and-over in the city. Since she received the ID, she has used it to purchase alcohol for her friends and has only used it to buy herself alcohol twice. Ac-cording to the Prospector survey, 38 percent of seniors have bought alcohol from some-one with a fake ID. She has yet to use the ID for the reason she bought it, and she regrets

purchasing it.“I don’t think I’ve used it to its worth,”

Perry said.Perry continues to use her ID despite the

risks because of the profit she receives sell-ing alcohol to peers. Perry bought her ID for a little under $100, but she has made double to triple that from her sales.

However, if caught, Perry and other fake ID owners can be charged with a Class 4 felony, the equivalent of assaulting a police officer or stalking someone. This charge can lead to one to three years in prison and fines up to $25,000. Underaged people without IDs can still face ID-related charges if they bor-row a 21-and-over license from someone who looks like them to enter a 21-and-over estab-lishment. If either the owner of the ID or the borrower are caught, they can spend a year in jail and receive fines ranging up to $2,500.

In addition to possessing an ID, owners can face further charges if caught selling alcohol to underaged friends, which is a common motive behind why the ID owners buy the IDs in the first place. Senior Aman-da Smith* buys alcohol from someone she knows with a fake. Last year she and her friends decided they were going to buy alco-hol for a Halloween party they were attend-ing, so Smith texted a friend and asked if he knew anyone with a fake.

He had a friend who owned one, and Smith has bought from the mutual friend since. While Smith was unaware he sold alcohol before she bought some from him, she soon discovered he was well-known in her grade for selling alcohol. According to

Fake ID owners carry large riskBY DIANA LEANECopy Editor

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WiSTEM Club creates off-shoot group available to all

Senior Katie Gravagna was sitting in Science Olympiad when her friend turned to see if she had seen the Schoology post. After Science Olympiad, Gravagna checked Schoology while waiting to get picked up to go home. Gravagna was shocked because the post said that Women in STEM (WiSTEM) would open to males. She was upset because she thought the club should focus on helping women.

The Oct. 1 post stated that WiSTEM was taking away the gender requirement and opening it to all Prospect students. Physics teacher and WiSTEM sponsor, Katie Page, posted, “STEM: not just for girls anymore.”

Later in the day, Gravagna was talking with two of her friends about the change. They suggested someone post their thoughts on expanding the club to a Schoology discus-sion on the WiSTEM page, so Gravagna did.

Gravagna felt that opening the club to males undervalued the students that were in the club already because they were nev-er asked about the change. She has nothing against males in STEM but was upset be-cause women are already the minority in STEM fields.

Senior Shreya Thakkar started WiSTEM Club last year with the help of Page. Their goal was to have women in the field come in to talk to all students, hopefully showing them what opportunities are available and

encourage girls along the way. The club caught on at Prospect and had

six speakers come in last year in addition to one speaker panel so far this year. Schoolo-gy updates on the club, discussions and op-portunities are posted almost every other day. The panel this year consisted of three astrophysicists from Northwestern Univer-sity and was attended by nearly 40 students

and community members, including about 12 boys.

Thakkar thought that allowing boys to ac-cess the Schoology page would just provide them with more opportunities, not change the function of the club. She and Page talked it over, ran it by administration and decided to open the club up. After the change was an-nounced, a poll of 42 members showed 57 per-

cent wanted to expand the club, 21.5 percent wanted to keep the club as is and 21.5 percent were indifferent to the change. However, many members and faculty disapproved of the change, worrying that opening the club would detract from the club’s original inten-tion.

Senior Katie Gravagna thought she would leave the club after it decided to wel-come males. Gravagna first joined WiSTEM this year because she thought that it was em-powering for women.

“It loses that uniqueness and the perse-verance that it had before when it was like, ‘Yes, we are going to help Women in STEM,’” Gravagna said. “Now it’s just kind of like, ‘Science is cool.”

Gravagna is thankful for what the club offers but has done other events outside of school for women in STEM. Even if she left the club, she would still attend events out-side of school.

“It is awesome that Prospect has some-thing like this, and then when you turn it into STEM club, well it’s like, ‘That’s why we have Science Olympiad,’” Gravagna said.

Conversely, senior Ariel Maret wanted to expand the club. Maret believes the purpose of the club is to give more people more op-portunities, and that’s what opening the club up would do for males.

According to Page, although opening the

BY JORDAN DUSHANENews Editor

SECRET IDENTITIES: Fourteen percent of seniors have fake IDs and visit places that require people to be at least 21, and 38 percent of seniors buy alcohol either on their own or from someone with a fake ID. If caught, the IDs can lead to consequences with the school and with the law. (photo illustration by Cassidy Selep)

COME ONE, COME ALL: Women in Stem Club debated opening the club up to males in early October. Instead they decided to create an off-shoot group that shares oppor-tunities with everyone at Prospect while keeping Women in STEM club as is with the focus on girls. (photo illustration by Cassidy Selep)

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grade for selling alcohol. According to Smith, he charges $10 to $15 extra when sell-ing alcohol in order to make a profit.

While the extra cash can outweigh the po-tential legal consequences for some fake ID owners, people who purchase the IDs online also face potential financial and personal is-sues; these issues stem from the trust they place in the ID makers. Many ID makers live overseas, yet with a few taps of a mouse, the buyer can easily send all personal informa-tion necessary to make the ID to the maker.

Perry acquired her ID through a former senior that knew someone in China. Perry sent her name, info and photo to the senior who then sent the info overseas and pur-chased the ID.

Up to this point the worst legal charge is a Class 4 felony, but Filipek warns situations involving overseas shipping can become more serious.

“These IDs usually come from overseas, and now you’re crossing federal lines [and] state lines, [and] the Postal Service may get involved with the federal agencies,” Fili-pek said. “If it’s big enough, if it’s serious enough, you could be facing charges [from federal agencies] that go beyond either Mount Prospect or Arlington Heights.”

Filipek was involved in a case where the Postal Service flagged a suspicious box and contacted the police. The box was full of fake

IDs, so after the box was delivered, whoever received the box was charged.

According to lifelock.com, many overseas fake ID makers use the IDs as a cover for an identity theft ring. The customers send the makers everything about them needed to steal an identity – including their signatures – and though the customers receive what they paid for, they lost something of greater importance: their identity.

Since a lot of fake ID owners are under 18, they frequently don’t monitor their bank ac-counts. Years later when they apply for jobs, loans, etc., they discover the fraud. By that point the thief could have taken out major loans without paying off the debt or caused other damage; the damage could result in a terrible credit score in addition to other fi-nancial consequences.

According to Filipek, once the underaged person receives the ID, the chances of being caught are still high. If the package makes it through the Postal Service’s process without raising red flags, the fake ID users can still be caught if they have their purses or wallets checked. Filipek has found IDs this way, and although he may not have been searching the wallet for that reason, the owner still has had it confiscated and faced consequences.

Because of the possibility that liquor stores will confiscate IDs, Perry knows which stores she can and can’t go to. To be safe, Perry goes to the same three stores, and because her face is familiar to the clerks,

she no longer gets carded. According to Fili-pek, liquor stores are hesitant to sell alcohol to anyone who may not be 21 because they could lose their liquor license and revenue from alcohol sales.

If a student’s fake was confiscated and the police were notified, the police would report it to the school. From there, Prospect would enforce code violations. According to Dean Mark Taylor, if students are arrested, they face a Level A co-curricular code violation,

and depending on their number of viola-tions, the consequences could increase. Fili-pek sees about two cases annually involving a student being caught with a fake.

Filipek understands why teenagers want them, but he knows that most fake IDs aren’t convincing and that the student has a high chance of being caught.

“[Fake IDs] definitely [are] not worth the risk of getting caught,” Perry said. “[They’re] a lot of hassle to go through.”

club up would not have changed the function of the club as it was, she and Thakkar realized that there is something to be said about the outward ap-pearance of the club. Keeping that exclusively for girls helps their goal of en-couraging girls to study STEM. So they decid-ed to keep the club as it was for girls and cre-ate a different Schoology page called “STEM Stuff” where all students can see opportunities in the STEM field.

“We need Women in STEM to equal that gender gap,” Gravagna said. “[The gender gap is] abysmal. It’s horrible.”

After the final decision was made, Gravagna decided stay in Women in STEM. She is happy that the group listened to the people

who spoke out about the change.Boys have always been allowed

at guest speaker events, the only major change that is coming right away is now boys will be allowed to participate in the Mentor Match-

ing Engine.The Mentor

Matching En-gine is a pro-gram for stu-dents to do an independent re-search project. As they work on their proj-ect, students are mentored by STEM pro-fessionals.

Each men-tor has to work with their men-tee for at least

an hour each week. Page refers to the Mentor Matching Engine as “a sophisticated science fair.”

Maret says Women in STEM programs like the Mentor Match-ing Engine have helped grow her interest in the field.

“We got to meet some really inspiring scientists and got to see

how far you can with your degree,” Maret said. “You can really do anything with a degree in a STEM field.”

Maret needed the resources of Women in STEM, like the field trip to Argonne labs, to help her decide what part of STEM she wanted spe-cialize in. She has decided on engi-neering.

When Thakkar started the club, she believed that by having women come in, students could see all the opportunities out there for girls in STEM.

The club was made to give fe-male students a support system. The reasoning behind it is when they hit a roadblock later in life during a STEM career, it will be a lot easier to keep advancing in their career because they had the support system from the begin-ning.

“I hope that it enlightens them to all the things they can do, re-gardless of gender,” Page said.

Originally, Thakkar didn’t think that it would have a big im-pact on Prospect, but she hoped it would. Now, after the change and people’s passionate reactions to the possibility of expanding the

club, she sees how much people care about Women in STEM.

After sitting down and talking about the idea last year, Page and Thakkar realized how many re-sources have been created to help women in STEM careers.

“It filled the need for the girls in this school who are interested in STEM fields [as] a place to find resources to really cultivate their love for science and technology,” Page said.

The club mostly takes place on Schoology and only meets at speak-er sessions. The club rarely has meetings other than when Page meets with Thakkar.

When Page gets notified of different opportunities, she will post the events on their Schoolo-gy page. They also use discus-sion boards to communicate events and other opportu-nities that are going on in the

club. Page believes opening the club

to males is important because a lot of boys have expressed interest in joining the club.

Women in STEM is giving all students at Prospect a chance to learn more about the STEM-field with speakers they have come and the other resources Page shares with students.

“[Administrators and teachers] really like it because they know STEM fields are really where the world is headed,” Page said. “Ev-erything is science and technolo-gy, so it’s just so important to have avenues into those fields.”

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prospectornow.com 3NewsOctober 16, 2015

When Conan O’Brien took over “The To-night Show” in 2009, his run was short-lived, lasting a little over seven months. What peo-ple didn’t know was O’Brien’s conflict with NBC affected a Prospect alumnus.

Class of ‘85 graduate Chris Gou-mas was the art director for “The Tonight Show” when the news broke that the show was being tak-en off the air.

While this would seem like a dif-ficult time for Goumas, he took advan-tage of the situation to push the envelope.

The staff of “The Tonight Show” knew they were being taken off the air regardless, so they ignored the fear of crossing the line and created some of the most memorable jokes in the show’s short run, resulting in

some of the most impactful moments in Gou-mas’s career.

In addition to working with O’Brien, Goumas’s career has included an Emmy Award as well. To honor his accomplish-ments, Goumas was given with the award

of “Distinguished Alumni” along with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer

Todd Heisler. They spent their day talking with Prospect classes and attended the Homecoming Coro-nation Assembly Friday, Oct. 9.

Goumas won two Emmys while a part of “The Ellen Dege-

neres Show” as an art director. How-ever, the meaning of the trophy is more

important than the trophy itself.“It’s great to be nominated, [and] it’s

great to win,” Goumas said. “It’s a great ex-perience, and then [the trophy] goes on the shelf ... We call it an honor, and what it does

is, for me, [it] shows people in the industry how hard we worked.”

Heisler feels similarly about his Pulitzer Prize, but has bittersweet feelings toward his award. When he won the award as a part of the now defunct Rocky Moun-tain News, Heisler covered the funerals of local Marines being brought home from the Iraq War.

Since his prize-winning photos captured the emotion and tragedy of the event, he felt it would be inappropriate to hold a celebration.

“Awards are great, but they belong on the shelf, and I think that’s where they should go,” Heisler said.

Instead of opening a bottle of champagne and celebrating like most Pulitzer winners, he celebrated quietly with select friends and family.

Given their accomplishments, Goumas and Heisler brought back their experiences

to inspire students. Heisler credits being multilingual

for his success as a photographer for the New York Times and encourages students to learn as many languages as they can. He has taken his knowl-edge of French, German and Spanish

to learn and communicate with people on the job.Goumas has different advice for students.

He says students should learn to have a good time, learn to listen, be courageous and be faithful to the people around them.

When he learned he was being nominated for the “Distinguished Alumni” Award, Gou-mas wrote a message for students.

“Life is a wonderful gift. Try to leave the world a little bit better than when you ar-rived,” Goumas said.

Homecoming memories live onWorth a thousand words

BY PAUL EVERS

Staff Writer

Distinguished graduates visit, give advice to students

Senior Tyler Ekker braces himself

for the balloon to pop. Ekker and

his friends won one the games

during lunch.

Football wasn’t the only sport

with a homecoming game. Senior

Ross LaCamera sends in a corner

kick in an attempt for an assisst.

Waiting in anticipation,

seniors Eryk Soltys and

Kendall Neumann stand on

stage during the coronation

ceremony. Neumann ended

up winning Homecoming

Queen.

Junior Syed Zulqadar shows off his funky moves during lunch.

Several students cheered for Zu-

lqadar as he took center stage

during lunch.

The second annual “Color the Knight” was

a success during the Homecoming football

game against Rolling Meadows. 1200 stu-

dents gathered to throw colorful powder into

the air before the kickoff.

Keeping with tradition,

seniors left their mark by

making blue handprints

all over a white banner

that will be displayed

during graduation.

Senior Morgan Locigno is all

wrapped up! All of this mummifica-

tion paid off when her team won the toliet paper game during lunch.

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When a teacher hands back a test, I peek out the corner of my eye to see how my peers did. If that doesn’t work, I’ll stretch out my back, conveniently allowing for a better view at my friends’ papers. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll some-times take the easy route and just ask how they did.

I make a mental ranking to compare myself to everyone else, and I sure do hope to rise to the top. Only after I finish that rou-tine do I look at what mistakes I made.

But the thing is, I never do that all con-sciously; it’s become second nature because everyone has been pre-occupied with out-studying their peers since middle school.

School’s purpose has been lost. It’s no longer about proficiency and appreciation for various sub-jects; rather, it primarily nurtures competition.

Historically, competition has led to great feats. Just look at the space and arms races (check out “We’re number one!” for more ac-complishments propelled by com-petition). But there’s a stark differ-ence between historical precedents and what we’re experiencing as high schoolers.

While we’re learning the basics of sciences like physics and chem-istry, scientists in these races were using prior knowledge and liter-ally making up rocket science as they went.

Competition can be healthy when it is used as a quick solution for motivation, but that line is very easy to cross, albeit unconsciously.

According to school psychol-ogist Dr. Jay Kyp-Johnson, com-petition causes stress, which can

be OK in short bursts, not extended periods of

time. This in turn re-

leases cortisol into the brain that destroy synapses where nerves communicate.

According to Psychology To-day, competition is often followed by jealousy, cynicism and self-de-nial. Further, according to the Journal of Personality Assess-ment, feelings of self-worth are

dependent on competi-tion, and your “value” is proportional to how many people you’ve beaten.

Oftentimes, my peers’ competitiveness is overwhelming and discouraging. I find myself struggling to concentrate because I’m preoccupied with the competition.

Instead of actually studying, I sometimes sit in front of my text-book until 2 a.m., brooding about how I’ll match up to my peers. That shouldn’t be a concern in high school. We should be explor-ing our interests and challenging ourselves to learn our limits.

But impending college applica-tions don’t allow that.

This past week alone, I’ve sat and stared at my college list an hour each night.

I feel the pressure to apply to se-lect schools just to prove my worth to not only my friends, teachers and family, but even myself.

Even during my freshman year, I started perusing College Confidential forums and creating a false perception of what it takes to get into some schools: being at the top of your class, being a part of countless activities and taking all AP courses is a basic prerequisite, and if you create some organiza-tion or are published in scientific journals, you’re golden.

Because of the selectivity of col-lege admissions, we find ourselves looking to do anything that would look appealing on an application, and if you end up liking the activ-ity, that’s an added bonus, where-

as we should be approaching activities from the com-

plete opposite s t a n d -

point.We learn in an unhealthy envi-

ronment; one inflicted on us by our school district in addition to the overhanging thought of college.

We constantly want to be the best. We’re a top 10 school in the state. We have national honors. We seem to be modernizing without end. And where does it end? When we cave into the stress?

Although it’s not common per se, pockets of competitive high schools some-times experi-ence extreme measures. Since last year, three teens committed suicide in New-ton, Mass., three more in Fairfax County, Va. and another four in Palo Alto, Calif. (For informa-tion on suicide prevention, go to the In-Depth section, pages 8 and 9.) A Palo Alto student, Carolyn Wal-worth, wrote an editorial last year pleading for an end to her school’s ex-cessive competi-tion and stress.

While I can’t say I studied for the ACT, interned for professors at prestigious universities or stud-ied through the summer to skip as many course levels as possible all during my freshman year, her sentiment holds true. There’s no passion in learning when we’re competing.

Last year, I would try to pack my brain with historical facts just in an attempt to compare with my peers. I can’t come close to regurgi-tating that information now.

Studying felt like a chore, and consis-tently fall-i n g

short of my friends’ scores, I became discouraged and more stressed when the next test ap-proached. Only once I disregard-ed the abundant competition did I start to appreciate studying histo-ry — too bad that happened during the last few months of school.

Our education needs to take priority, and that cannot happen when the school district is focused on winning awards.

The focus should be on coop-eration, en-richment and developing a genuine interest for learning.

A c c o r d i n g to a University of Minnesota study, 60 per-cent of students learn better in a cooperative environment, compared to only seven per-cent who per-form better in a competitive en-vironment and 33 percent who are indifferent.

A l t h o u g h teachers are responsible for much of the class-room envi-r o n m e n t ,

minimizing competition is up to the

students. Regardless,

competition is un-a v o i d - able. We’ll encounter it as we enter the job market if not sooner, and thus we need exposure to it. But that does not need to oc-cur with a sacrifice of our ed-ucation.

Killer competition comes before education

BY KRZYS CHWALA

Editor-in-Chief

H omecoming week is made out to be the most exciting time of the year. With promises of school

unity, lively school-sponsored events and iconic dress-up days, a lot of hype surround-ing it is inevitable. However, because of the minimal Homecoming celebrations, the week was a shadow of its former self.

The last Knightgames before took place in 2012, and the last powder-puff games took place over a decade ago. When students this year tried to organize a powder-puff event on their own, administration stopped the event.

When administration heard about junior and senior girls organizing their own pow-der-puff football game, they notified Mount Prospect and Arlington Heights park dis-tricts and police departments. They also threatened any participants or spectators of the game with code violations through an email blast to parents.

The reason for the email, although not specifically stated, was because a pow-der-puff game organized by students at Glen-brook North in 2003 went bad because of alco-hol use and hazing.

However, hazing hasn’t been a part of Prospect culture for the past few years. No senior sit downs have occurred in two years, a big shift from the half-dozen that the class of 2013 instigated. Froshing has been wide-ly eliminated, and unity among the student body is felt even outside of the football sta-dium.

We, the Prospector, believe students have demonstrated that they’re capable of conducting themselves properly, and they deserve to earn back the trust that was lost because of the behavior of previous classes.

The student body is being punished for actions they did not partake in, and adminis-tration is holding them to the low standards

set in previous years.Their course of action was appropriate

after the chaotic Knightgames in 2012, but when students wanted to hold a powder-puff game this year, administration should have been more receptive to working with stu-dents to make it happen.

Rolling Meadows and Hersey both hold an annual, school-sponsored powder-puff game and haven’t had any considerable is-sues regarding students safety, the primary concern expressed in an email to parents.

Although the school has seen poor out-comes of Homecoming events in the past, as soon as the class of 2016 walks across the graduation stage in June, Prospect will have a clean slate.

They are the last who experienced the misbehavior that occurred at the 2012 Knightgames. Administration needs to take advantage of current school unity and rein-state the traditions surrounding Homecom-ing week before they simply become a mem-ory.

Ghosts of Homecoming’s past

We’re number one!The United States is very

competitive, and this has

prompted us to

excel in various

international

events.

FIGHT IT OUT: Students compete in high school rather

than focusing on passion and education.

Nobel

Prizes:

The U.S. has

357 Nobel

laureates,

followed by the

United Kingdom’s 117.

Olympic Medals:

We have, in total, 2680

medals, followed by Russia

with 1868.

Space Race:

Neil Armstrong was the

first man to step foot on the moon

in 1969.

Lack of trust between administration, students

puts damper on Homecoming excitement

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prospectornow.com 5OpinionOctober 16, 2015

While working out, there is a simple way to notice if someone is working hard: by checking his/her muscles. However, don’t look at how large the muscles are, but instead at the veins on them. If the veins are clearly able to be seen, that person pushed himself or her-self.

The circu-latory system helps oxygen transfer to the muscles. During any form of exercise, the body needs to deliver the necessary amount of oxygen. Devices such as heart rate monitors allow people to see how hard they are exerting themselves by measuring their heart rate. These heart rate monitors have been used for people competing in sports or training for marathons. The next step has been achieved through using these heart rate monitors in school.

Throughout history, students have been able fly under the radar and weasel out of working in gym.

They can make every workout personal. Everyone has a different body. To ensure each person push-es themselves equally requires a personal goal. With the heart rate monitors measuring the student’s beats per minute, it can show the percentage of effort someone is ex-

pelling.Teachers no longer have to

make a call based on an opinion for someone’s grades. The heart rate

monitors show exactly how hard someone is working and can grade without bias.

Not every teach-er uses the heart rate monitors for grading, but the monitors can help students. If a stu-d e n t w a s

walking during cardio, he/she would be seen as “lazy” or “not trying.” With the monitors, the stu-dent walking may have been over-working and des-perately needed the breath and the teacher could see that and not view the student as a slacker.

“Even during the class, it can help motivate stu-dents more by looking at their heart rates and see how hard they are actually working,” PE teacher Carrie Black said. “Rather than judging subjectively, it’s less ob-

jective way to look at the class.”While some students may not

like this, what are they going to do? Complain about actually having to work?

Freshman Maggie Heil does not like the heart rate monitors.

“They are one, uncomfortable, and two, they are a drag because you have to remember them on certain days, and [three], if you are already in a sport, it is harder to get your heart rate up, and that

affects your grade,” Heil said.

The heart rate monitors can show that it is harder for those in shape to get the percent required, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it is a great thing. Everyone will be achieving the same benefits, but that means some stu-dents will have to push harder, possi-bly doing more. In the end, PE is about being healthy and

getting exercise. After reaching the teacher’s

recommended heart rate, students then have to work at a certain level for a duration of time. Their

grades are based on how well they keep their heart rates at that lev-el, which is a fairer way to base grades.

Prospect is a school that is con-stantly stepping into the future.

First using iPads for academics and now with the heart rate moni-tors for gym, students are growing mentally and physically with these devices.

*Name changed for confidentiality

In the eyes of Jessica Drew* lies her greatest fear, eyes. Witnessing anyone touch, mess with, or put contacts in their eyes is something that instills not only fear, but complete disgust in Drew.

Fear: it hinders the minds of the mass-es as we take in various forms of media as

well as expe-riences that cause us to feel fear. With Halloween just around the bend, there is no doubt that c r e e p y , c o s -tumes will be out and about, f r i g h t e n i n g

small children and increasing the heart rates of those who are frightened by a little costume makeup.

However, what many fail to realize is that fear is entirely avoidable. People allow them-selves to be afraid and, more often than not, their fear is entirely irrational.

According to psychology teacher Daria Schaffeld, there is no legitimate reason for fear to hinder the human mind unless prompted by circumstance.

For instance, if you were attending Hog-warts during the time of Voldemort’s full return while Snape was running the institu-tion and Death Eaters lurked in abundance, then you would have significant reason to hold fear. You would hold the fear that you may be killed for being a “filthy mudblood” or that “He-Who-Shall-not-Be-Named” would take over.

That would exem-plify fully sensible fear.

However, the fears that people tend to car-ry with them are not fully rational. Those would be the fears that the Boggart reveals to Dark Arts students, but just as Professor Lupin taught that eradicating those fears was “Ridikulous”-ly simple, it is just as simple to eliminate such fears in reality.

If I were to encounter a Boggart lurk-ing the corridors of Prospect, I am certain

as to what it would morph into: a clown. I am absolutely terrified of clowns. Whether it be on TV or on a bill-board, my heart feels as though it is crawling out of my trachea after just seeing one.

This is likely due to a single miserable ex-perience. When I was in elementary school, my camp counselor told everyone a story about the “Killer Clown.” My little ears were un-knowingly hearing the tale of the mass-mur-derer, John Wayne

Gacy. Why my vaguely moronic camp coun-selor decided to tell a bunch of small chil-

dren that story, I do not know. But it is really where my fear of clowns initiated, and it has only worsened.

The same applies for Drew, since an ex-perience is what resulted in the initiation of her fear. When she was in elementary school a particular student in her class would flip his eyelids, and thus the discomfort and eventual fear of eyes was formed. Now, so much as seeing someone place contacts in their eyes puts Drew in a frenzy.

Such circumstances elucidate irrational fear. We allow ourselves to permit a singular experience or the media to dictate how we feel about a certain thing. We permit natural human instinct through evolution as well as our surroundings to initiate fear and hinder us.

Fear may not seem easy to face. It can truly be crippling for one to attempt to face their fears. Realistically though, fear is easy to eradicate.

If I wished to eliminate my fear of clowns, I would have to go about it in minuscule in-

crements in a comfortable environment. Per-haps I would first look at images of clowns whilst listening to some Frank Sinatra. Then once I no longer feel my heart crawling up my trachea from looking at Stephen King’s “It” and Gil Kenan’s “Poltergeist”. I may take a bigger step. This could entail watch-ing “It” in broad daylight whilst in the com-pany of friends. Once I am comfortable deal-ing with that, perhaps I will be ready to go to a circus and watch what once was my worst fear pile out of a tiny little car like the bundle of buffoons they are.

Realistically, clowns are just people who paint their faces in strange ways and wear expensive shoes that are 12 sizes too large. I almost feel foolish being afraid of something like that, probably because it, like many fears, is irrational.

It is fully possible to face your fears. Whether you fear eyes, clowns or getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth (see Fear ≠ Phobia), that fear can be addressed.

Heart monitors pump life into PE

Have no fear, odds are it’s irrational

BY BRIDGETTE JASINSKI

Executive Opinion Editor

NOT CLOWNING AROUND: Irrational fear hinders the minds of the masses. It is easy to allow minor bad experi-

ences into major fears. However, if one is willing to try, conquering fear is rather simple. (photo illustration by Cassidy

Selep)

“Even during the class,

it can help motivate

students more by

looking at their heart

rate and see how

hard they are actually

working. Rather than

judging subjectively,

it’s less objective way

to look at the class.”

Carrie Black,

PE Teacher

I <3 MONITORS: The new heart rate monitors in gym class have

students split on whether or not they like them (cartoon by Celso

Soto).

Fear ≠ Phobia

There is a common miscon-ceprion that fear & phobias are synonymous. A phobia is intense fear that keeps one from living normally. Some particularly unique phobias are listed below.

arachibutyrophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth

ailurophobia: fear of cats

chrematophobia: fear of money

BY JAMES ESTRELLA III

Opinion Editor

6 Features October 16, 2015 prospectorow.com

Senior Amanda Dziadus was at school when she got a text from her mom. Attached was a photo of an envelope marked with a predominant red bird. It was from Illinois State University; Dziadus had been accepted into her first choice college.

For Dziadus, this letter symbolized her determination to be-come the first person in her family to grad-uate college.

“If I [graduated], I feel like it would set the tone for future family members,” Dziadus said.

Out of the 545 students in the senior class, 13 percent are first genera-tion college students. One way Prospect is able to reach out these students is through a support group run by college coun-selor Diane Bourn.

From second semester junior year through senior year, the group meets six times and takes a more in-depth ap-proach on specific aspects of college preparation such as writ-ing a college application and finding out if they qualify for financial aid. Afterwards, the students can go home and explain every-thing they learned to their parents, since the

process might be new to them as well.Bourn relates to the first generation stu-

dents as she is one herself. “It’s certainly a lot different [being first

generation] today than it was back in my day,” Bourn said. “When I was in high school, the philosophy of my parents, in particular my dad, was women did not need to go to college. Girls needed to maybe get a

job for a few years, get married and spend the rest of their lives raising kids. By tell-ing my parents I want-ed to go to college, I think I was a little bit of an oddity. But, I did it and I never looked

back and never regretted it.”

Bourn be-lieves that the college pro-cess is more

difficult for first generation stu-dents.

“I think a lot of times they are a little bit over-whelmed be-

cause [of] the fact they haven’t

had a lot of help at home,” Bourn

said. “They don’t have parents who have gone through the

process, and they don’t often

reach out to us and say, ‘Hey, I need a lit-tle more help,’ so we always try to reach

out to them. Colleges are always looking to fill their classes with diversity, and diver-sity can take on many different forms, [one example being] socio-economic diversity. It adds value to a college, and that’s why col-

leges are interested in hearing about it and having it. [On college applications] they’ll ask you if you’re [first generation], and if you are, say it.”

Bourn believes one of the best ways first generation students can prepare themselves is by actively seeking help.

“I want to establish trust and support,” Bourn said. “I want group members to real-ize I’m there to help. I want them to feel com-fortable popping their head into my office and saying, ‘Hey Mrs. Bourn, I’ve got a ques-tion about this or that.’ I want my office to be approachable. I want the college and career center to be approachable. Hopefully we’ve created that environment.”

A member of Bourn’s group, senior Jen-nifer Hoening, believes being involved in it has been helpful with the college process, since she has felt lost on her own.

“I always knew I was going to go to col-lege, and I knew there wasn’t any other op-tion,” Hoening said. “You really need a de-gree to do anything these days. I couldn’t just walk into a hospital and say, ‘Hey, I want to be a nurse.’ You need to learn how to do it.”

Dziadus is also member of Bourn’s sup-port group and she believes it has helped her in more ways than one.

“Without the [support group], I would feel so much more stressed about [the col-lege] process,” Dziadus said.

Dziadus was not originally going to be a first generation student. Her older cousin, Brenda Holst, was going to be the first to graduate, but she passed away in a car acci-dent during her senior year of college.

“In a way, there’s a small amount of pres-sure for me to graduate college, but at the same time I’d feel really accomplished to be the first one in my family to do it,” Dziadus said.

While they aren’t pushing her to go, Dzia-dus’ family is very eager to see her journey through college and to help her in any way possible.

“I’ve asked her if this is what she wants to do, and this seems like it is,” Amanda’s mother Cathy Dziadus said. “I’m extremely proud of her.”

For now, Amanda is set on graduating, so she can become a grade school teacher and give back to other students, like her teachers had done for her.

“There would need to be something major to keep me from graduating,” Dziadus said. “If I don’t graduate, I won’t be a teacher. My goal is to graduate and pursue my dream.”

Amanda knows being first generation isn’t easy, but she’s not going to let that stop her.

“Every step that I take is a new adven-ture,” Amanda said. “Sure, there are bumps along the way, but [I’ll] get over them.”

BY CALEY GRIEBENOWFeatures Editor

When Starbucks employee Heather Whitlock was working at a loca-tion in Chicago, she saw a mid-

dle-aged man come in twice a day, five days a week, and order a grande quad soy caramel macchiato with splenda and extra caramel sauce. Each of those drinks has four shots of espresso, which means that he would consume eight shots of espresso a day; this equals about 600 mg of caffeine. The Ameri-can Dietetic Association recommends a per-son consume no more than 200 mg of caffeine a day.

While that man’s caffeine consumption was extreme, he was certainly not alone in his coffee intake. According to Huffington Post, Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, which is equivalent to 146 bil-lion cups of coffee per year. This makes the United States the leading country in coffee consumption.

Whitlock, who has been working in the coffee industry for four years now, has her own reservations with coffee and its effects.

Several years ago, when she was up late working on a webpage, Whitlock and a friend had pot after pot of coffee, allowing them to stay up until 2 a.m to complete their assign-ment. When she got home, although she was exhausted, Whitlock couldn’t fall asleep.

“I was brain tired, [and] I was tired from working all day and night, but my body was like, ‘Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go,’” Whitlock said. “I woke up the next morning, and I felt like I was up drinking all night. It’s almost like a hangover.”

She has since cut back her coffee con-sumptions by switching to decaf in the after-noon, partially because of the side effects and

partially because her doctor informed her that she has skipped heartbeats and sug-gested she cut back on her caffeine.

There is some debate over whether caffeine is di-rectly relat-ed to caus-ing skipped heartbeats; since caf-feine is a s t i m u l a n t and speeds up heart rate, some doctors recommend sim-ply drinking coffee in moderation, which is not harmful.

Despite the negative ef-fects of caffeine, Whitlock believes coffee has

something valuable to offer.“Starbucks has a theory

about coffee,” Whitlock said. “By sharing a pot of coffee [with someone], it opens up this line of communication. It puts everyone at ease.”

Physics teacher Mark Welter is similar in his thinking about coffee. He drinks it because it’s calming and he likes the taste. It has become a part of his routine each morning to brew multiple cups. Most days, he has three to four cups.

Welter doesn’t experience the withdraw-al effects, but this is because he never stops drinking coffee.

“I can’t remember the last day I didn’t even have at least one

cup of coffee,” Welter said. “It’s been that long.”

However, unlike Wel-ter, who does not reach for coffee to be produc-tive or to stay awake,

junior Brendan McGovern feels like he needs

coffee to get his home-work done late at

night. R e c e n t l y ,

when McGovern had two import-ant tests, one in AP US History and the other in AP Language, he drank a medium black coffee at 9 p.m. to stay up

until mid- night to study. He end- ed up getting 100 percent on the AP Language quiz and only one wrong on the APUSH quiz.

“I definitely give credit to coffee, ” Mc-Govern said. “It gave me that extra push I needed to stay awake. I probably would have done worse [on the quizzes] if I didn’t drink coffee.”

While coffee enables McGovern to stay up late, he sometimes feels jittery and gets headaches and stomach aches after drinking several cups. For others, side effects of coffee can include weight gain, anxiety and worsen the effects of insomnia, according to Health Magazine.

For McGovern, the benefit of being able to stay up late outweighs the negative effects of caffeine. Still, he wishes he was not depen-dent on coffee to complete his school-related work.

“It’s like a sign of weakness, needing coffee to function,” McGovern said.“I don’t know how people get through the day with-out it.”

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Former President Bill Clinton

Television PersonnelOprah Winfrey

First LadyMichelle Obama

ActorSamuel Jackson

Starbucks CEOHoward Schultz

First generation college students create legacies BY FLYNN GERAGHTYExecutive Features Editor

First to show up, last to

give up

First isn’t always the worst! Heres a few first generationcollege students you might

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COLLEGE BOUND: Senior Amanda Dziadus poses with her family in her Illinois State gear. Dziadus is not only going to her first choice college, but is also determined to be the first person in her family to graduate college. (photo by Michael Dziadus)

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prospectornow.com 7FeaturesOctober 16, 2015

When junior Elisabeth Rohde was choos-ing her classes for her sophomore year, she faced a major decision. She wanted to take a French class, but she also wanted to take a photography course. This wouldn’t have been a problem, but she was also passionate about show choir. Show choir participants are required to take a choir class during the school day.

Faced with a difficult choice, Rohde de-cided to take a road that very few Prospect students take. She decided to opt out of her lunch so that she could take all three cours-es.

According to Assistant Principal for Student Ser-vices Luke Pavone, only 54 students in the school made this decision for the 2015-2016 school year. This is less than three percent of the student population. Losing a lunch can cre-ate problems for students, which is why the number is so low.

The process of opting out is an arduous one. Stu-dents who wish to take an extra academic course need to get a permis-sion slip signed by their parents, and then have a private discussion with Principal Michelle Dowling. Dowling helps determine whether the student is academically and mentally fit to add another course to their schedule.

This option is usually chosen by students in the fine arts department, such as Rohde. These students are required to take an extra class during the school day as a part of ex-

tracurriculars, such as orchestra and show choir. They are not required to get a parent signature to opt out. Other students who in-stead want to take an extra elective or AP class have to fill out a permission form and get a parent’s approval.

However, even if a signature is not re-quired, students may still run into obstacles with their parents regarding the issue.

Rohde had difficulty convincing her par-ents that she should opt out. Her mom want-ed her to have time for schoolwork during the day because she knew that sophomore year could be difficult with the increased workload.

Eventually Rohde worked out an agreement with her choir teacher wherein she could do homework during the class if she ever felt stressed or needed the time. She also talked to her AP World History teacher and ate lunch in that class. But, according to counselor Mary Pinski, her parents’ concerns were certainly valid.

“You don’t have that rest time, that time to go and get help from a teacher, work on homework, go to the KLC [or]

see your counselor,” Pinski said.Pinski emphasizes that the real problem

isn’t food, but a loss of flexibility in the stu-dent’s schedule, especially if a student gets sick. They can experience some difficulty with getting back on track. In this situation, they would need to make time for taking a test that they missed or learning the day’s lesson.

Rohde had trouble adjusting to the packed schedule when she first opted out.

“I didn’t feel like I had that much more homework at night,” Rohde said. “But I had to manage my time a little bit more because I didn’t have that nice buffer period to do homework or study. It was...stressful.”

However, Rohde found that it was worth it for her in the end. She knew that she had to muscle through the transition if she wanted to pursue all of her interests.

Additionally, opting out of lunch can have adverse health effects. The School Nu-trition Association warns that if students don’t sit down for a healthy midday meal, they won’t have the concentration and focus to get through the rest of the day.

The combined difficulty of the increased workload and reduced time can leave these students exhausted and performing worse than their potential success.

Counselor Lynn Thornton states that in most cases, the kids who make this call are either in a music class or seniors who need to fit in requirements before they graduate. Rare is the student who wants to simply add another course to their schedule. She strong-ly advises against opting out.

“What we’re really working on is kids making healthy choices,” Thornton said. “To have an eight-period academic day is not a healthy choice.”

BY RILEY LANGEFELD

Executive News Editor

Lunches prove vital for schedules

When sophomore Annie Walsh was 11, she was eating her grandma’s cookies on their boat. According to Walsh, her grand-ma is good at not using ingredients Walsh is allergic to, but when Walsh bit in, her heart started racing and she became panicky.

Her grandma had accidentally grabbed a bag of non-gluten free cookie dough, which led to Walsh having an allergic reaction. She had to be rushed to the emergency room to be treated and made a full recovery. Not all people are this lucky, though.

Last September alone, two high school students died of food allergies in the US when they did not receive proper care in time. These events, as well as people’s igno-rance to food allergies, led Walsh to create Allergy Awareness Club.

Walsh believes food allergies are a prob-lem at Prospect because people do not know enough about them. One thing that most people are not aware of is that food allergies becoming more prevalent.

According to the Centers for Disease Con-

trol and Prevention (CDC), food allergies among children rose 50 percent from 1997 to 2011. What’s most alarming to health of-ficials is that there is no clear answer as to why these numbers are increasing.

“Science doesn’t know why more people are getting food allergies,” school nurse Cheryl No-vak said. “It’s a mystery.”

Club sponsor Tracy Van Hoy states that some of this mystery can be at-tributed to the fact that food is not the same as it used to be because of all the ingredients we put in them.

Mystery or not, there are currently around 30 to 50 students at Prospect with food allergies. Walsh is no stranger when it comes to food allergies. Her allergies range from beef and eggs to gluten and nuts. One of her favorite snacks is gluten-free pretzels.

According to Walsh, Prospect is pretty good when it comes to food allergies and

teachers help. They do a good job of making sure to create a safe environment for all stu-dents. According to Novak, Prospect teach-ers are aware of students with allergies.

“If I know of a student that has a food allergy, the teachers are made aware.” Novak said.

This lets the teachers know what kinds of foods should not be allowed in the class or used for any reason. According to No-vak, students with food allergies are also encour-aged to carry their medi-cation on them.

Even though teachers and nurses know what to do in case of an aller-

gic reaction, students are not always very aware, according to Walsh. That’s where Al-lergy Awareness Club comes in.

“I am hoping to spread awareness and make sure that other people know more about food allergies,” Walsh said. “That way they can keep others safe [who have food al-

lergies].”One way that Allergy Awareness Club

will be raising awareness for food allergies is by participating in Haunted High School. The club is going to be promoting the Teal Pumpkin Project. Children will draw teal pumpkins and learn about food allergies.

On Halloween, children who have food allergies usually cannot participate in trick-or-treating like other kids. In order to give these children the same experience as oth-ers, people can put a teal pumpkin outside of their house to signify that they have non-food alternatives such as pencils and neck-laces for kids who cannot have Halloween candy.

By offering kids with allergies non-treat alternatives, kids who normally can’t enjoy Halloween can enjoy the holiday like every-one else. When allergy awareness month rolls around in May, Walsh is planning on having an awareness week at Prospect.

“All it takes is one kid to have a serious problem for [allergies] to be a big problem,” Van Hoy said. “What everyone else brings into the building can cause a severe reaction, so we have to take [allergies] seriously.”

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News Editor

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F ormer Prospect student Steven Taylor and his fam-ily cut down a Christmas tree together every year on the day after Thanksgiving. When they did it in

2010, they didn’t know that it would be one of the last family outings they had together before Steven committed suicide on Jan. 6, 2011.

Now every year on the day he passed away, his family hon-ors his memory by burning a Christmas tree in their back-yard. According to Steven’s older sister Lucy, burning a tree is fitting because Steven loved fire. She remembers that Ste-ven and his twin brother Peter would always have bonfires with their friends.

“It’s kind of a personal, quirky thing [that we do] ... but it works for [Steven],” Lucy said.

As the years passed, the tradition has grown as family friends now bring their own trees to burn. The family wants the day to be a celebration of Steven’s life, but last year was harder than the past couple.

“I can’t speak for everyone else in my family, but this year’s been hard for me just to realize ‘Oh my god it’s going on five years,’” Lucy said. “It kind of hit me all at once, but we [still want to] remem-ber the happy times.”

As the end of the fifth year without Steven approaches, his death is still dif-ficult for Lucy to grasp.

“If you had told me before that this was going to happen to me, I would have never believed you,” Lucy said. “I [still] catch myself thinking, ‘You know, I can’t believe he’s gone.’”

According to a 2012 survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control, 16 percent of high school students have con-sidered suicide within the previous year. Although Prospect hasn’t had a student commit suicide in four years, it is a topic that demands discussion.

‘15 graduate Jenny Robinson* dealt with suicidal thoughts and depression her freshman year of high school. Suffering from mono and a concussion, Robinson had to stay in bed for multiple months, leading to feelings of loneliness and hope-lessness. She lost weight, wouldn’t eat and felt stressed, but she still refused to recognize that she suffered from depres-sion, especially because of her outgoing personality.

“[Depression] really took over my life, and I started really taking everything to heart,” Robinson said. “It was really un-expected for me, and it was hard for me to come to terms with that what I was going through was really a mental illness.”

Because Robinson didn’t get the help she needed, her de-pression spiraled into self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Even-tually her depression blocked her ability to see that her life had a future beyond her current state.

“I remember just laying in bed at night hoping I wouldn’t wake up in the morning,” Robinson said. “I kept on wanting to handle it myself. I didn’t want to keep going to therapy or counselors or have to vent about it to my friends.”

After a near suicide attempt, Robinson’s parents found out about her suicidal thoughts and admitted her to the hospital. She stayed there for a month and went through intense thera-py focused on staying grounded and living in the present.

Like Robinson, Lucy never expected to have to deal with suicide because she was a part of a loving family. However,

losing Steven made her more aware of how prevalent the issue actually is.

“Our society really does a pretty bad job addressing the is-sue of depression and suicide,” Lucy said. “I think it’s getting a lot better, but depression and suicide have always been that kind of topic that people try to shy away from.”

Physics teacher Michelle Tantillo lost her close friend Neal, a veteran, to suicide last November. She and Neal had been friends since childhood, and she was the last one to see him before his passing, so it was especially difficult for her to accept the loss. Because of his death, Tantillo has tried to be more open with talking about suicide and mental health issues.

“There’s such a stigma associated with mental health is-sues,” Tantillo said. “I suffer from depression, and it’s a mat-ter of talking to people and telling people, ‘Here’s who I am and how I’m going to function today.’”

Functioning after Steven’s death was hard for Lucy as well. At the time, she ran track at University of Alabama at Birmingham, but after Steven’s death she lost all motivation to go back to school. Her parents were key in en-couraging Lucy to get back to her life. She went back, but throughout the se-mester, all she could focus on was sur-viving, and she didn’t take time to re-flect until the summer of 2011.

“It’s just hard because that whole first year I was like, ‘I can’t be doing this. I need to be sad,’” Lucy said. “After that first year [of school], I really came to terms with the fact that I just had to keep going and pursuing the things that made me happy.”

Lucy doesn’t think she’ll ever have a worse day than when she found out Steven died, and as a result doesn’t use the phrase “bad day” anymore. Moving on with her life without Steven was one of the hardest parts for her.

“It’s an awful realization to make that life keeps happen-ing, [that] it doesn’t stop when a horrific tragedy occurs,” Lucy said. “It was one of the absolute hardest things to wrap my mind around: that life just keeps on going.”

Tantillo also struggled to accept Neal’s death, and now tries to be there for anyone who is hurting. She now openly talks about suicide and depression in class, offers to talk to anyone who needs it and stresses to her students to put their well-being first.

“If you need to focus on just getting through the day with-out stress, without losing it, without anxiety, then focus on that,” Tantillo said. “That’s going to be a bigger thing at the end of the day than learning Newton’s Laws, for example. That’s certainly important, too, but if you can’t pull your life together, then who cares if you can understand concepts in a classroom?”

Seeing the devastation when Hersey student Gina Gianco-la committed suicide in Oct. 2011 jolted Robinson to seek help and see how much she meant to family and friends when she was struggling with depression.

“If [anyone] thinks that they don’t have a future and that nobody would care if they didn’t show up to school the next day or if they were not on this earth anymore, [they should know] there are so many people that really do care and really do love them,” Robinson said. “I know they may not realize that because I know the mindset that they are in, [but] they just have to realize that them hurting themselves hurts other people.”

1) National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

1-800-273-8255

Calling this line will transfer you to a trained crisis worker who listens to peoples’ problems and directs people to mental health services in their area. The calls are 100 percent confidential and people can call not only about suicidal thoughts but any mental health crisis.

2) Prospect counselors

According to a ‘15 Prospect graduate who struggled with suicidal thoughts, Prospect counselors were a good re-source for her. They keep all conver-sations confidential, unless someone is at risk of getting hurt.

3) To Write Love on Her Arms

Physics teacher Michelle Tantillo participates in suicide prevention walks and fundraisers. One of her favorite suicide prevention organizations is “To Write Love on Her Arms” because of their encouraging message on their blog at twloha.com.

Resources for mental health support

Lucy also wants people who are struggling to know they matter. Now that she is seven years out of high school and has dealt with loss, Lucy has realized what is truly important in life.

“You realize how many people a single life touches when they pass away. All of the sudden you’re at these funerals and hundreds of people show up, and you’re like, ‘Oh my god,’” Lucy said. “It really puts into perspective how important a single person is to so many different people [and] how much you really are loved even if it’s hard to see it or realize it.”

The saddest part for Lucy is that Steven was in therapy and knew he was loved by his family, but his depressed state of mind took over. While she knows mental health is a real issue, it’s still hard for her to fully accept that he’s gone.

“Everyone wants him here. Everyone misses him,” Lucy said. “Everyone has value. I just think it’s so tragic for some-one to think they aren’t important enough to be on this earth

Suicide leaves lasting effect on family, friendsBY SHREYA THAKKAR & GRACE BERRY

Editor-in-Chief & Associate Editor-in-Chief

“Suicide is not [a death] that you

will ever wrap your brain around

because there’s always that,

‘Why?’ and you don’t have that

answer. It was more of a choice

than a sickness that took him.

Even though it really is a sickness,

it’s a depression. It’s a mental

health issue.”

Michelle Tantillo, physics teacher

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9In-DepthOctober, 16, 2015

Junior Dana Iverson laid down on her yoga mat at the end of her hot power fusion yoga class at CorePower Yoga. She let her mind go free as she relaxed in Savasana, a popu-lar yoga pose where a person lays down on their yoga mat. Her yoga instructor came around with a lemon scented cloth and put it over Iverson’s forehead while Iverson lis-tened to her yoga instructor recite a quote about positivity and letting go of the negative energy in life.

Iverson took her yoga instructor’s mes-sage to heart and practiced being positive with all things in life like in her yoga class-es, school and dance class. By Iverson prac-ticing yoga, more nutrients, oxygen and blood are brought to her brain, which cre-ates a feeling of relief for her.

Iverson has loved practicing yoga since she started doing it this summer. She decided to attend yoga classes be-cause her friend, junior Grace Berry, told Iverson she saw amazing benefits in her dancing from yoga. Iverson want-ed to improve her dancing skills like Berry, so she decided to give yoga a shot.

Practicing yoga teaches people like Iverson to control their breathing, which can make their minds calmer ac-cording to the Mayo Clinic. The number of people attending yoga classes in the United States has risen from 15.8 million to 20.4 million since 2008.

According to the American Psychological Association, a survey of 1,018 showed that 31 percent of teenagers say stress makes them feel overwhelmed, 30 percent feel sad or depressed from stress, 36 percent feel tired from stress and 23 percent skip meals due to stress. People partake in exercises like yoga and running to relieve stress since both exercises make the mind and body feel healthier emotionally, mentally and physical-ly.

Every week Iverson attends a yoga class at CorePower Yoga in downtown Ar-lington Heights.

“I’m a very energetic and ex-troverted person, so yoga has helped me harness a lot of my hyperactivity,” Iverson said. “At home sometimes I can have a little bit of anxiety because, like a lot of students at Prospect, I take hard classes and [am] involved in a lot of extracurric-ular activities. [Yoga] helps me bring myself back down to earth because sometimes I forget what is happening around me.”

Iverson will never skip a yoga class regardless of how busy she gets with her homework or activities because she believe she needs the mental break throughout her day.

According to Iverson, when she gets home from yoga, she has a fresh mind set and will finish her homework almost two times faster than she would if she did not attend yoga.

Besides having a fresh mind set after yoga, it has also taught Iverson that exercise is not all about burning calories, but about coming to a relaxed state mental-ly and physically.

Besides doing yoga, Iverson is a member of Orchesis and the Competitive Dance Team at Prospect. She be-lieves that practicing yoga has complimented her danc-ing by relaxing her muscles and preventing her from getting an injury.

“[Yoga] increased my well-being in the sense that yoga class and the in-structors bring a specific message that they want you to practice, [like positivi-ty],” Iverson said. “I don’t just bring [the messages] to yoga class anymore, but I bring them to school or dance class [where they] give me little motiva-

tions throughout the day to keep trying to strive to be the best person I can be.”

Senior Alec Heyde, a four year cross country runner, also believes exercise relieves his mental and physical stress.

Heyde joined cross country freshman year to be in better shape, but realized over the years that it’s not only made him more fit but also created a friendship between his teammates.

“[Running] relieves stress off my mind because it gives me another home,” Heyde said. “When you’re there ... it’s not meant to create stress, but to think of it as something fun.”

From experience, Heyde knows that stress can take a toll on both someone’s mind and body and encourages stu-dents to find a way to cope with stress. Heyde’s way of cop-ing with stress is running and going to sleep at a reasonable hour because he thinks that both are ways to clear some-one’s mind.

“People don’t realize how physical stress can be until they have worked their bodies to the limit,” Heyde said. “[Students do not] realize when they are thinking about

stress that it’s all going to be OK in the end … and [that] they never [actually] had to think

about those things that were stressful. I think that

running is a mode in which people

can get to that place of thought.”

Christine O’Grady, a yoga instructor at Willow Yoga, became a yoga instructor four years ago because she loved sharing yoga with others and seeing people become health-ier both mentally and physically from it.

“Both the mental and physical [aspects of yoga] come together as one,” O’Grady said. “So if you work on your

mental [health] you feel better physically, and when you feel better physically, you feel better mentally.”

O’Grady feels that high school students should try yoga, so their minds can feel

healthier from all of the sleep they are not getting; according to SleepFoundation.

org, only 15 percent of teenagers get the recommended 8 to 10 hours of sleep.

This makes O’Grady feel that teenagers need “time to decom-

press, notice how they’re feel-ing, [notice] what they’re

feeling and need some time to relax.”

W i t h O’Grady having a freshman daughter at Pros- pect, she and Iverson both know the stress Prospect students go through due to it being a competitive school and teachers challenging students in class.

“I think it’s important to really put an hour of your day, or every other day, to take a step back and gauge where you are physically and mentally [so you can] get yourself back on balance,” Iverson said.

Iverson and O’Grady both wish people would try yoga, and O’Grady made this wish a reality by instructing

yoga to the girls’ cross country team for the past four years. She began instructing the team because former coach Dave Wurster saw a flyer of O’Grady teaching yoga classes to runners and asked if she

would want to do it for the team.

I v e r s o n , H e y d e and O’Grady have

been practicing their exercises for a long time now and all plan to continue practicing their ex-ercise for as long as possible.

“All I can say is I’m never not doing [yoga again],” Iverson said. “I will be doing yoga

for the rest of my life because I know I can not do dance for the rest of my

life, but I will be able to do yoga until I am 85.”

HoPe is Real help is real your story is important HoPe is Real help is real your story is important you're a being not a burden You're life is an occasion You are

worth the effort You'll Need coffee shops and sunsets and roadtrips, airplanes, and passports, and new songs and old songs, but people more than any-

thing else . You'll need other people, and you' will need to be that other person to someone else, a living, breathing , screaming invitation to believe better things.

You were created to love and to be loved, you were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and to be known. you need to know your story is

important, and you're part of bigger story. You need to know your life matters. You'll Need coffee shops and sunsets and roadtrips, airplanes, and passports, and new songs and old songs,

but people more than anything else . You'll need other people, and you' will need to be that other person to someone else, a living, breathing , screaming invitation to believe better things.Mental Health demands discussionYoga provides escape from stressBY JACK RYAN

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3) To Write Love on Her Arms

Physics teacher Michelle Tantillo participates in suicide prevention walks and fundraisers. One of her favorite suicide prevention organizations is “To Write Love on Her Arms” because of their encouraging message on their blog at twloha.com.

“[To Write Love on Her Arms enforces] that, ‘Hey, you matter in the world. Your story is im-portant,’” Tantillo said. “Giving value to some-body who feels like, ‘I’m a nobody. I’m a nothing,’ this organization really helps to push in that direction.”

Resources for mental health support

anymore.”For Tantillo, losing Neal to suicide has been harder to ac-

cept than losing her aunt to Parkinson’s and her uncle to a heart attack all last fall.

“Suicide is not [a death] that you will ever wrap your brain around because there’s always that, ‘Why?’ and you don’t have that answer,” Tantillo said. “It was more of a choice than a sickness that took him. Even though it really is a sickness, it’s a depression. It’s a mental health issue.”

Tantillo stresses the importance of talking to someone and accepting yourself in battling mental health struggles.

“We [need to] keep plugging into everybody’s minds ‘It’s OK, you’re awesome who you are, be who you are, be proud of who you are,’” Tantillo said. “‘We’re in this together. We’re going to fight this together. … We’ll get through it. It’s just life.’”

photo by Cassidy Selep*The student pictured is a model. He is not experiencing signs of suicide.

10 Entertainment October 16, 2015 prospectornow.com

Why do you think it’s important for art to be present in society?

“Because if it’s original stuff, it usually tends to make you think.”

What makes an artist successful?

“Appreciation ... When people view your art [and] they have an emotional or mental response to it. They feel something, it’s not just ‘oh that’s a cool picture.’”

“How I define my personal success in art is to be able to be really proud of what I make ... to be truly proud of a piece is enough to deem myself successful.”

Modern art inspires young artistsBY Marci Kiszkiel

Associate-Editor-in-Chief

It doesn’t take an AP art student to recognize the work of the greats. The refined strokes of oil that line the skies of “Starry Night” could come from none other

than the hand of Vincent Van Gogh. Those quirky and col-orful spray-painted characters full of expression, though usually faceless, are naturally the work of Keith Haring. Of course, it’s never hard to identify the work of Frida Kahlo,

considering so much is self portraits. One thing connects these artists: none of them are alive

to see the influence or inspiration they give us today. It’s an unfortunate fact of life, but most artists’ works don’t see great commercial success or enjoy the spotlight until after the artist has passed.

Although social media can speed up the process, accord-ing to smithsonian.com it takes most artists three to five

years after they begin releasing their work to be noticed.Though you may have not seen the ceramic work of Shio

Kusaka or the cassette-tape and paint fusions of Gregor Hil-debrandt, artists are still out there and creating incredible works of art. Someday you might find these artists become household names as today’s modern artists become the next generation of art legends.

Is it important to support artists while they’re still creating art?

“I like how he uses different-found

objects to make something cool

because that’s not easy at all.”

Tyler Ekker, senior, AP Art student

However, senior Tyler Ekker does not see

mainstream success for Hildebrandt, because

he believes commercial success in art depends

on how well it will sell as interior design. “People like pictures, not abstract things

where they have to use their brain,” Ekker said.

Photos courtesy of artsy.net

“Yeah because ... the more moral support they have, they are going to make more art. If they’re not making more [art] then people don’t get to enjoy it.”

While senior Veronica Holloway adores the Japanese influence in Kusaka’s art, she doesn’t predict much mainstream success for the artist. “With vases, people don’t appreciate them as much because you can get a cheap vase that looks somewhat similar to [hers] but without the same artistic value for nothing at World Market, Holloway said. “An artist

can see the difference between the World Market [vases] and these,

but not everybody is going to be an artist and usually

the people buying these aren’t going to be artists.”

“I love [her art] ... A lot

of times, you wouldn’t

think that a vase

would be something

very expressive or [used

to]tell a story but some of

[her pieces] really do.”

Veronica Holloway, senior, AP Art student

“Yes, because I think a lot of times artists don’t get recognized until after they pass ... having that bit of encouragement or support while they’re alive could maybe encourage them to go bigger or bolder. “

Tyler Ekker, AP Art student

Veronica Holloway, AP Art student

“...Art gives life to the world. Without those bits of art or expression, we are simply surviving. With art, sports, movies, etc. We are living.”

Eva Matcuk-Gaiownik, AP Art student

Pae White

Pae White is a visual artist that creates huge installations using a variety of media. She’s used materials like glass, tapestry, tin-foil and ceram-ics. An increasing number of private collectors have been taking notice of White’s unique work.

Galleries featuring her work:1. 1301 PE Gallery in Los Angeles.2. Kaufmann Repetto Gallery in

Milan.

Shio Kusaka

As a ceramic artist, Shio Kusaka creates unique por-celain and stoneware vases with a blend of influence from western and Japanese culture.

Galleries featuring her work:1. Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, New

York and Tokyo.2. Anton Kern Gallery in New York.

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“Definitely ... It’s nice to have success after you die but that’s not the point ... The point is to reach people ...The best part is when you can actually communicate with someone even if you don’t really know that it’s happening.”

“To encourage people to do it ... It just makes it more accessible. If you see it everywhere instead of just in a museum, it becomes less high-society and more reachable for everyone.”

“I’m most interested in how

she does it ... I can’t always

break it down into shapes

like she seems too.”

Eva Matcuk-Gaiownik,

senior, AP Art student

“I would say you’re successful if you make something you’re satisfied with and you feel expresses what you wanted to say. If you’re happy with it, that’s success.”

Senior Eva Matcuk- Gaiownik believes White’s art is practical enough to appeal

and be sold to people, leading to more commercial success for the artist. “People like stuff that looks cool,” Gaiownik said. “That’s a big

reason people buy art.”

Gregor Hildebrandt

Berlin based artist Gregor Hildeb-randt uses recorded cassette tapes, VHS tapes and vinyl LP’s in his paint-ings and sculptures, which reference litera-ture, film, poetry and music.

Galleries featuringhis work:

1. Bass Museum in Miami.

2. Almine Rech Gal-lery in Paris, Brus-sels and London.

3. Galerie Perrotin in Paris, New York

and Hong Kong.

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back at the film trilogy

As the “Back to the Future” date comes nearer, some companies are taking steps to commemorate the date.

‘All I want is a Pepsi’

Pepsi has released a line of “Pepsi Perfect,” the fictional flavor seen in the movie’s 2015.

Nike has released a line of self-tying shoes, as seen in the film.

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A s a 6-year-

old, se-nior Lillian

Hermes real-ly wanted one

toy her parents couldn’t get her: a

hoverboard, as seen in “Back to the Future

2.”“I was frustrated [that

hoverboards weren’t real] because as a 6-year-old, [mak-

ing a hoverboard] seems like a very simple process,” Hermes

said. “What kid wouldn’t want a hoverboard?”

The hoverboards are depicted in the film, which is set in 1985, when

time traveling protagonist Marty Mcfly goes 30 years into the future to Oct. 21,

2015, a day fast approaching. The original film in the trilogy came out in 1985, while the

second installment, which included a futuris-tic 2015, came out in 1989. With the date on the

horizon, people can now reflect on the accuracy of the film’s predictions.While Hermes wasn’t crazy about the economic dis-

parity depicted in the 2015 the film is set in, she would still rather live in that one.

“Granted, I wouldn’t want to still be using fax machines,” Hermes said, referring to the wall-mounted fax machines lit-

tered throughout the 2015 McFly household.However, world history teacher Dave Schnell saw the first film

when it was released in theaters back when he was 11 and is not as enthusiastic about the 2015 depicted in the second installment.

“I just thought the future seemed, for lack of a better word, cheesy,” Schnell said. “It wasn’t a future I thought looked like a good

place to be.”Schnell specifically had problems with the over-the-top nature of the

wardrobe in the film, but he was interested in one of the less flashy gadgets: the dehydrated Pizza Hut pizza that could be rehydrated from the size of a

coaster.While Schnell finds it unappealing, sophomore Sydney Hoelter likes some of

the advancements seen in the fictitious 2015.“They have a lot of advanced technology that’s pretty [amazing],” Hoelter

s a i d . “I’ve never met anybody who doesn’t like ‘Back to the Fu-ture.’”

Like Hermes, Hoe-lter is also fascinated by the hoverboards and agrees the movie’s popu-larity can be attributed to the film’s relatability.

“Sometimes having no idea of what’s going on, being in a completely new place, just trying to adjust and just trying to find your way,” Hermes said. “I think everybody has been in that kind of po-sition at some point.”

Schnell thinks that viewers connect to the films for a much more fundamental reason.

“I think that the story is just a great sto-ry,” Schnell said. “Getting stuck back in time, making sure your parents get together, making sure you’re born, all that; I love the elements. Who doesn’t love a good time travel story?”

However, Schnell’s enthusiasm is not equal for the whole trilogy.

“I thought [the original ‘Back to the Future’] was really good and really well done, but I thought the second ‘Back to the Future’ was not very good,” Schnell said.

Schnell’s main problem with the film is the future sequence which, as mentioned earlier, he believes took him out of the film.

Hermes, on the other hand, is a fan of all three movies, as are both of her parents. They often watch the films together.

“They were the ones who introduced me to the movies anyway,” Hermes said. “And the movies themselves in a weird way are about fam-ily, so it just makes sense to watch them together.”

While Schnell loves “Back to the Future,” he has not yet shown it to his kids. Because his son is 4, Schnell thinks his son is too young for the films, and they would bore him. As for his daughter, she has not been wild about the other movies from that era that Schnell has shown her.

“I think it would be interesting to see if my daughter did like it, but I think she might have to be a little bit older,” Schnell said. “But it definitely has a timeless-ness about it. It’s still just a really good, simple story.”

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JOINER’S RECOMMENDATION-

“Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman

Genre- Fantasy

Summary- A man tries to save a girls he finds bleeding on the street. In the process, he discovers that an entire world, known as “Lon-don Below”, living right below his feet in the abandoned tunnels and subways of London.

“There’s this kind of mythical, subterra-nean London he has to navigate,” Joiner said. “[The book] is very strange.”

Joiner says she thinks high schoolers

would enjoy this book because it brings a “punky” twist to a story with an “Alice in Wonderland” feel.

“It’s got edge to it,” Joiner said. “So if you like that sort of a hero’s story and you like a good adventure, but you want…something that’s a little bit eccentric and off-kilter, that’s how it is.”

Joiner had read other books written by Neil Gaiman, but “Neverwhere” is one of her favor-ites due to how unique it is.

“It’s one of the most creative ideas,” Joiner said. “The world he creates in London Below really speaks to my idea of make believe plac-es.”

KRUSE’S RECOMMENDATION-

“Watership Down” by Richard Adams

Genre: Fantasy

Summary: An allegory about human nature, this book focuses on a young rabbit who predicts the end of his warren and leaves his home in search of a new one, en-countering many obstacles along the way.

First receiving the book as an Easter gift as a child, Kruse has enjoyed the book from a young age.

“It has some exciting parts to it if you can get past the part that it’s about talking animals,” Kruse said.

Despite how good Kruse thinks the book is, she understands why “Watership Down” might have fall-en out of the mainstream.

“Every year, new books come out, new lists come out, stuff gets promoted, people’s careers rise and fall,” Kruse said. “Stuff kind of falls by the wayside after a while.”

“A High Wind in Jamaica” by Richard Hughes

Genre- Historical Fiction

Summary- Two groups of children who are heading home to En-gland from Jamaica are kidnapped by pirates, forced to compete with each other for their survival, and having to resort to violence and even murder.

“It’s kind of like ‘Lord of the Flies,’ except that the children become wild,” Buczinsky said. “It’s kind of cool that they’re wild and not just horrifying like “Lord of the Flies.” People are uncomfortable with the idea of evil in children, and they’re especially uncomfortable with the idea that we like [reading about] evil in people, to some extent.”

Despite being one of her favorite books, Buczinsky would not recom-mend this book to everyone.

“Some people might find the issues that it explores threatening,” Buczinsky said. “You have to have a really good, quirky sensibility to read [this] book.”

One of the main issues the book explores is how humans have do-mesticated themselves and become separated from wild animals, which Buczinsky believes many people might not like to think about.

“[The domestication of humans] is a good thing because if we were wild animals, we wouldn’t be able to live together,” Buczinsky said. “But it’s also a bad thing in that we lose something precious when we domesticate ourselves. There’s something that’s wonderful about a wild hawk that you just don’t have in a chicken.”

BUCZINSKY’S RECOMMENDATIONS-

“Stoner” by John Edward Williams

Genre- Historical Fiction

Summary- A man named Wil-liam Stoner is trying to live the life of a scholar to break away from his

roots and becomes increasingly dis-appointed with himself and his life as he tries to live what society deems a proper existence. Trying to make him-self happy, he marries into a “proper” family, forcing him to move out and be away from his parents, and his chance at love is destroyed by a scandal. This story explores what it means to be alone and live in solitude in a deep, in-spiring way.

“It was so incredibly good that I was like, ‘Who published this?’” Buczinsky said. “‘How come I’ve never heard of this book?’”

Buczinsky says that reading “Ston-er” led her to discover an entire list of incredible books using New York Review Books (nyrb.com), a compa-ny that publishes old books that have been taken out of print. She also used

NYRB to find another one of her favor-ite books, “High Wind in Jamaica” by Richard Hughes.

Buczinsky believes, despite how much she enjoyed “Stoner,” it definite-ly isn’t a quick, casual read.

“I would recommend it to people who are pretty sophisticated readers,” Buczinsky said. “The style is gorgeous. There’s a lot of poetry, and that in itself might really appeal to people who are really good readers.”

Buczinsky also says that the com-mon reader might not enjoy the book because of how atypical it is. It doesn’t have a happy ending, and the main character is very untraditional be-cause he finds the love of his life while having an affair. Buczinsky believes that many people with traditional American values might not think that is right.

However, despite how uncommon “Stoner” is, Buczinsky still thinks the book tells a great story.

“When I put the book down and walked away, I was still wrestling with the issues that were in the book,” Buczinsky said. “It gave me a lot to chew on.”

BY CASSIDY DELAHUNTY

Entertainment Editor

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“Personally, I believe that after watching the first episode [of ‘Hotel’] they’re being really bold this season. Obviously the show is really twisted, but there has never been anything so explicit. ... I really think that Ryan Murphy this season is really pushing boundaries”

Kendall Neumann, senior

A fter searching through Netflix and Hulu without success, ‘96 Prospect graduate and “Glee”

creator Ian Brennan searched through You-Tube to find his favorite horror movie of all time: “Jacob’s Ladder.” He first watched the movie when he was 12 years old at a sleepover.

“[‘Jacob’s Ladder’] is a terrifying, really, really scary movie,” Brennan said. “I remember see-ing it … and I was like, ‘I should not be watching this at all.’ It was really creepy.”

According to Bren-nan, his new show “Scream Queens” was inspired by the hor-ror movies he watched growing up, specifically the slasher themes from “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13th.” Co-creator Ryan Murphy, who created “American Horror Story” along with Brad Falchuk, mentioned in an interview with Entertainment Week-ly that Brennan, Murphy and Falchuk were “obsessed with ’80s/early ’90s slasher genre.”

As Halloween approaches, the popularity of horror-themed shows has gone through the roof. According to Cinema Blend, The fourth season of “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” had 10 million viewers on the night of its premiere, making it the high-est-rated FX show of all time. According to deadline.com, “Freak Show” topped the pre-vious installment, “Coven,” by 38 percent in total viewers. Though there are currently no stats for the most recent season of “Ameri-can Horror Story,” “Hotel,” senior Kendall Neumann believes this season brings even more horror to the table.

“Personally, I believe that after watching the first episode [of ‘Hotel’] they’re being re-ally bold this season,” Neumann said. “Ob-viously the show is really twisted, but there has never been anything so explicit. ... I re-ally think that Ryan Murphy this season is really pushing boundaries.”

According to The Wrap, even after Hal-loween passes, it does not look like this popularity will die out. They said, “There are plenty of people sitting in rooms think-ing about the next big horror franchise, but they aren’t thinking about the next big Hal-loween horror franchise.” This means that horror is making a comeback, but instead of focusing it around Halloween, writers and producers are creating them year-round.

As the popularity of these shows have grown, channels like MTV and FOX also aired horror-themed shows. MTV aired an adaptation of the Scream movies called “Scream: The TV Series” in June of 2015. According to deadline.com, the show was renewed for a second season.

“I think watching horror shows specifically is entertaining b e c a u s e it is

something that you don’t [finish] in an hour and a half,” Neumann said. “It is something that you can look forward to the next week or the next season for.”

On Sept. 22, FOX released the premiere of “Scream Queens.” Brennan said that com-bining the comedy of “Glee” and the horror and suspense of “American Horror Story” was waiting to be created. According to Brennan, the mix between horror and come-dy was something that hadn’t been done yet.

“In the horror genre, even when it isn’t trying, [it] can be really campy and funny,” Brennan said. “It seemed like a good heightened envi-ronment for our partic-ular sense of humor. It just felt like a good fit [for “Scream Queens”.] ‘A serial killer in a soror-ity house.’ Just hearing that phrase is really cool. There is just so much you can do with that.”

Senior Micaela Ry-an’s favorite holiday has always been Halloween,

and for her, that meant watching scary movies. Her fresh-man year, a friend made her sit down and watch the first season of “American Hor-ror Story.” Ryan re-ceived an a d r e n a -line rush that in-trigued her.

Ac-c o r d -ing to p s y -c h o l -o g y

teach-e r D a r i a S c h a f -feld, the part of the brain called the amygdala creates the fear while the hy-pothalamus de-cides whether to fight through the fear or flee from it. These brain parts work together to develop every-

one’s personal feelings towards fear. Some people’s reaction towards fear is positive. That positive feeling reinforces the idea of watching horror.

For Ryan, fear was always something she enjoyed. The enjoyment Ryan received was caused by adrenaline. According to Schaf-feld, adrenaline is the hormone that gives you an increased heart rate, pupil dilation and feelings of excitement. Though adrena-line does accompany fear, it also accompa-nies happiness, anger, frustration and ex-citement. According to Schaffeld, when one finds enjoyment from being scared, they will continue to seek that enjoyment.

Senior Natalie Carioti, who also watches “American Horror Story,” enjoys watching horror shows in her free time.

“There is something special in wanting to scare yourself,” Carioti said. “It is nice to feel vulnerable and just have the entire story in the hands of the writers and … know that you have no control over the characters, and sometimes bad things happen. It is scary, but it is awesome at the same time.”

Both Ryan and Carioti noticed the in-creased amount of people that watched the third season and believes many more will be tuning in for “American Horror Story:

Hotel.” As an increasing number of viewers tune into hor-

ror-themed shows, more are having positive

reactions to the horror. Accord-

ing to Schaf-feld, viewers

are either w a t c h -

ing the s h o w s b e -c a u s e t h e y f i n d the un-realis-tic sit-uations e n t e r -t a i n -ing, or t h e y

are ex-c i t e d a b o u t

the fear it causes

them. On the con-

trary, Brennan believes that

horror TV shows are much easier to watch because we live in an age of im-

mediate access. A c c o r d -

ing to

BY ISABELLE ROGERS

Executive Entertainment Editor

HORROR SHOWS SPARK INTEREST

Brennan, most mid-budget cinema isn’t be-ing turned into movies anymore. They are being turned into TV shows because the TV market can do more with less money, unlike the higher budget range dominated by the movie market.

“In movies you sort of have to beginning, middle, end everything,” Brennan said. “It has to be a self contained story. What is so great about TV, and why it is experiencing such a golden age, is that long form story-telling is really the most satisfying. ... Now that so many people have cable, Netflix, Showtime and HBO, they have all these high quality, high budget things where they don’t even have to leave their house to watch.”

Do you like scary movies?

As a kid, my older sister and I

would spend our summers riding

bikes to the library and gather-

ing as many Halloween movies

as we could carry. The following

days would consist of locking

ourselves up in the basement and

binge-watching movies for days.

These are the top Halloween mov-

ies I’ve seen.

1) Scooby Doo on Zom-

bie Island (1998)

Rating: NR

2) The Shining (1980)

Rating: R

3) Rosemary’s Baby

(1968)

Rating: R

4) Hocus Pocus (1993)

Rating: PG

5) Beetlejuice (1988)

Rating: PG

6) The Ring (2002)

Rating: PG-13

7) American Psy-

cho (2000)

Rating: R

8) The

Exorcist

(1973)

Rating:

R

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Under the Friday night lights of George Gattas Memorial Stadium, Allen Daniel stood with his team-

mates. It was an Aug. 2005 night, and Pros-pect just got blown out by 20 points against the Downers Grove North Trojans. However, unlike his teammates, Daniel could do noth-ing to affect the outcome of the game.

Afflicted with Down Syndrome, Daniel could never play football, but that did not di-minish his role on the team.

“Our program has always been about developing a family,” then-assistant coach Mike Sebestyen said. “[Daniel] was fam-ily. [Allen] didn’t ever play a down of high school football for us, but [Daniel] was a fam-ily member.”

Although playing in a game was out of the question, the team still wanted to give Daniel a high school football experience. In order to do this, the team lined up on the 10-yard line and handed off the ball to Daniel. In front of empty bleachers, Daniel scored his first touchdown.

The play became a tradition. Following every game that season, the team would walk out to the 10-yard line and help Allen find the back of the endzone. However, while no spectators saw Allen’s first touchdown, 1,500 people were cheering him on following the conclusion the team’s last game–a 20-14 victory in the State Championship.

“Those moments have always stuck in my head,” then-head coach Brent Pearlman said. “The first play running the touchdown and the last play running the touchdown; they were so different. So much had hap-pened. It bookended the whole year for me.”

Ten years have passed since the Knights were State Champions, and the players will be returning to Prospect for a ceremony during the Oct. 16 football game against Elk

Grove and to celebrate their journey to the top.

However, while the players finished as the best in Illinois, their path to the champi-onship seemed unlikely.

In 2004, the program ended their cam-paign with a 4-5 record. With the memory of the 2001 and 2002 championship teams still burned in players’ minds, the team was feel-ing the pressure to rebound in 2005, accord-ing to Pearlman.

Pearlman and then-assistant coach Mike Sebestyen believe the team responded to the challenge by working harder than any previ-ous team. However, following the week one loss, the team’s faith waivered.

“Our guys were down. I think they start-ed to possibly doubt their ability to [win],” Pearlman said. “I think we went through a couple of weeks where we had to build some of that [confidence] back up. We had to re-invest into believing what we could do … If someone said they didn’t feel it, they’d prob-ably be lying.”

The team continued to struggle offensive-ly for the next two games. They managed to beat a weak Conant team by one score and then had to rely on their defense to vanquish Barrington 10-0.

Going into week four, Pearlman decided it was time to make a change at quarterback by reinstating Matt Bowman, the 2004 start-er. The team responded by beating Schaum-burg 16-3, and from that point on, there was no looking back.

“I can’t really explain it, but it just felt right,” Pearlman said. “Everything just snapped into place that week. It wasn’t a huge win, but you could just see that the per-sonality of the team start to come together.”

The squad finished the regular season 8-1.

According to instructional assistant Scott Winters, who was a senior wide receiver in 2005, the rough start spurred the team’s strong finish.

“We found out that we needed to be ready to play every week,” Winters said. “We [weren’t] going to just go out there and show up and [think] teams are going to let us beat them. We [had] to work harder for it. In the end, I think it was a blessing in disguise.”

While the State Championship game was the team’s primary goal entering the play-offs, Pearlman believes the team had extra motivation to stay alive.

“That team was a family,” Pearlman said. “[We wanted] to keep that together. [The players] loved going out to practice every single day, so a lot of our talk would revolve around extending our life as long as we could.”

The team continued to prolong their time together until they finally reached the end of the road: the State Championship.

The Knights were facing the Mount Car-mel Caravan, a Catholic football power-house. According to Pearlman, Prospect was the heavy underdog, but the team remained undeterred.

“I would liken it to being backed into a corner by a dog,” Pearlman said. “We had to make a decision to come out and fight.”

As the team took the field to kickoff, the Mt. Carmel receiving team ran through the Prospect players. Pearlman believes this act of contempt lit a fire inside the team.

“I felt that [in] that moment, it all clicked in,” Pearlman said. “Our kids decided, ‘That’s it. We’re winning.’ You could feel it.”

By the end of 48 minutes of play, the clock expired and the Knights secured the 20-14 victory, which Winters describes as a surre-al moment.

“I just remember running out there with my helmet in the air looking for someone to hug,” Winters said.

After a tumultuous journey, the Knights left Champaign with a new piece of hard-ware. Though the road to the top was note-worthy, what stands out most to Pearlman about 2005 is the way the team won.

He considers the 2005 Knights the least talented of his three championship teams, but what they lacked they made up for in other ways.

“They won just on willpower and togeth-erness,” Pearlman said. “That team was bound together. They would have done any-thing for each other.”

According to Winters, their connection has not faded. Whenever they get together, as they will Oct. 16, the team carries on as though it was still 2005.

However, while Winters is looking for-ward to seeing his former teammates again, he misses the camaraderie when he saw

them on a daily basis.“When you went to practice or to play a

game or came back early Saturday morning, you really felt at home,” Winters said. “This was where you belonged. There was just this comfort level that was there.”

Football remembers championshipBY MIKE STANFORD

Copy Editor

ON TOP OF THE WORLD: The 2005 championship football team celebrates with their trophy in Champaign fol-

lowing their 20-14 victory over Mt. Carmel. The Knights will celebrate the 10-year-anniversary of their championship

during the Oct. 16 game against Elk Grove. (photo courtesy of Mike Sebestyen)

MOVE THE CHAINS: Running back Evan Daniel reaches for extra yardage

in the 2005 7A State Championship game against the Mt. Carmel Caravan.

The team won the game 20-14, securing their third championship in five years. (photo courtesy of Mike Sebestyen)

BREAKING NEWS!: This is the

back page the Prospector ran in 2005

following the Knights’ State Champi-

onship.

“They won just on willpower and

togetherness. That team was

bound together. They would have

done anything for each other.”

Brent Pearlman,

‘05 head coach

In memory ofCurtis Thomas

The 2005 championship team lost a teammate in 2012 when lineman Curtis Thomas lost his battle with brain cancer.

According to his mother Pat Thomas, although Curtis did not get much playing time, he devoted himself to the team, and winning the state championship was the highlight of high school

for him.“It meant

more to him than if he had received any type of academic acknowledg-ment,” Pat said. “When Curtis came

home [from Champaign], he was floating on air. I know my words don’t describe how he felt.”

When teammate Scott Win-ters learned of Curtis’s death, he was distraught.

“You hear the cliché all the time, ‘It’s like losing a brother,’” Winters said. “It really was. He was a guy that for four years we went through a lot together. It’s never easy, but Curtis was awe-some. I loved him to death. [I] think about him a lot.”

When the team reunites during the game against Elk Grove Oct. 16, Winters believes his absence will be felt.

“You miss that energy, that laugh he had [and his jokes],” Winters said. “He’d give you a hard time about anything, but he was also the nicest guy you have every met. We’ll definitely miss him on Friday, and we’ll definite-ly be thinking about him. We’ll miss him for a long time.”

prospectornow.com 15SportsOctober 16, 2015

BY JACK ANKONY

Sports Editor

T he dog days of August is where it all began. Senior running back Bobby Jarosz and his teammates

were ready to take on “hell week,” as they call it. The week consists of running hills at Melas Park, small conditioning groups called “pods” and team building courses. The team approached the hills on the first day, and according to Jarosz, this is where the heart and soul of the team was built.

“It may be tough and all, but when you do it together as a team, it gets a lot eas-ier,” senior defensive back DeAngelo Rober-son said.

Jarosz explains that without having “hell week” the team wouldn’t be the same.

“When times are tough, it shows you who your real teammates [are] and who’s going to back down,” Jarosz said.

According to head coach Mike Sebestyen, this summer training helped the team come together and see who was cut out for the job.

“You are learning about yourself as a team and as a player,” Sebestyen said. “Peo-ple [some parents or students] might crit-icize that [summer training] is too much time, but you really can’t make that judge-ment until you have been through it.”

After a summer of hard work, the Knights used the groundwork formed in the summer to build the team going into the season.

The Knights are currently 2-5 with wins against Hoffman Estates and Rolling Mead-ows, and losses to Jacobs, Fremd, Palatine, Hersey and Wheeling. Sebestyen thinks the team has had success especially in the run-ning game, even if some of the games haven’t gone their way.

“We all want to have that success of win-ning football games,” Sebestyen said. “But high school athletics [are] about develop-ing people for your program to learn how to work together, how to become better in-dividuals [and] how to become better adults for society. It’s another classroom. It’s more than football.”

Comparing football to a classroom can be seen through the hours of film the team watches. One aspect they have focused on is their running game.

It has been clear, if the casual fan were to watch the game, that the Knights want to run the ball. Jarosz credits the success to the lineman creating gaps, senior quarterback Matt Drew reading the defense well and the backs running hard.

“People know we are going to run the ball, and our offensive linemen say, ‘Great,

we don’t really care, try to stop us.’ That’s [what] they take a lot of pride in,” Sebestyen said.

According to Se-bestyen, it may seem like Jarosz and junior running back Andrew Shafis are the only

running backs, but the Knights have a lot of depth in this position. With Shafis out for a few weeks with a broken foot, Sebestyen thinks they have about five to six able run-ning backs, including Drew, Jarosz, Shafis, junior Drew Compton, junior Dante Cecala and junior Stu Isteefanos.

With injuries becoming like an epidemic for the Knights, they often have to rely on their second, third and fourth string play-ers, like with their defensive backs against Wheeling on Oct. 2.

So far this season Shafis, junior Jack Pruban, senior Kyle Zielinski and senior Wojtek Koziol, to name a few, have been in-jured.

In the Wheeling game, the team started eight different players out of 22 total starters than they did the week before.

“Guys like Bobby [Jarosz], Joe [Siracusa], Luke [Wrede], Matt Schultz and Matt Drew have done a very good job of keeping the kids rallied even with injuries,” Sebestyen said.

With all of the injuries, one player that has been a constant for the Knights is Drew who is starting at quarterback for the third year in a row. Sebestyen believes Drew has developed a lot since he started his first game for the Knights. His decision making, awareness and ability to run the ball have gotten much better, Sebestyen explains.

According to Roberson, there is much more behind the team than their record. He believes there has never been a time this

year when the Knights have given up. Last year the Knights lost to Rolling Meadows, 46-13, but this year Roberson said no one was scared or intimidated, a testament to their fighting spirit. Prospect beat Rollling Mead-ows this year 26-21 in thrilling fashion, tak-ing the lead with eight seconds left in their homecoming game.

“In the tougher games this season, we are going to see who is going to ride-or-die, that’s what it’s all about,” Sebestyen said.

Running the EastFootball overcomes

injuries, uses run

game to fuel season

Like a scene out of a classic sports movie, the varsity girls’ tennis team was playing their di-visional rival and division cham-pion, Hersey, on the road. After a hard fought set of matches, the score was 3-3 with one match left. In the fourth doubles match, se-niors Caroline Trefelner and Gia-na Galle would have to play their very best.

“It was what I would call sud-den death tennis,” varsity coach Mike McColaugh said. “It was a hard fought battle.”

After losing the first set 2-6, they rallied to win the next two sets 6-3 and 6-4 respectively.

However, it wasn’t the fact that the team played well against the defending MSL champion, it was the fact that they worked together as a cohesive unit.

Every member came out to play, watch and cheer on their team in the final game.

“It’s just that they generally en-joy playing with each other,” Mc-Colaugh said. “It’s only been a few months, and they’ve gelled well together.”

The team’s chemistry is why McColaugh thinks they have done well during this year’s season. They ended up 4-1 in conference, placing second in the division at the end of the regular season.

The team is young and con-sists of a good mixture of all class-es making this one of Prospect’s younger teams.

“Some of these girls are new, and they have just jumped in to play their best,” McColaugh said.

While this team is young, they are anchored by senior Natalie Ly-sik. Lysik has been on the varsity squad since she was a freshman.

Lysik has played first singles four years which is the highest sin-gles position one can play.

“It feels unreal to be here at the end,” Lysik said. “The only thing I can do is just finish out strong and play the best I can.”

So far Lysik has kept that goal by consistently training and listen-ing to her coaches. By doing this Lysik has had the number one spot on the singles roster. Lysik said that all it takes is just getting out

there and playing over and over again.

It’s that constant drive that keeps this team going, according to McColaugh. To him it’s impres-sive that they are friendly in a com-petitive sport like tennis.

“Tennis is naturally a com-petitive solo sport,” McColaugh said. “But these girls have fun and just support each other no matter what.”

With such a young team the fu-ture is wide open.

Although they did not win the east this year, McColaugh sees promise in this young team. Pros-pect has not won the MSL East since 2004, but McColaugh believes that as long as this team develops by practicing the same core skills they’ve worked on all season, the potential for success is there.

“It’s always about improving [and] working hard to get better,” senior Janeta Yancheva said. “I started the year as third singles and moved up to second singles, and it’s hard. The competition is better, and I have to be better.”

While the season has come to a close, both McCo-laugh and Ly-sik believe the real challenge is the long, n i n e - m o n t h off-season

“It’s a long break, but even then it’s not

a break,” Lysik said. “It’s a lot of hard work to come out and keep working to improve.”

With the end of the season, the team has high hopes to continue succeeding and keep improving both as a team and in conference.

“We have gotten better throughout the year and we have to keep working on our skills and strengths.” McColaugh said.

BY BEN DOJUTREK

Sports Editor

GROUND ATTACK: Junior Andrew Shafis avoids tacklers in the Knights’ game against Jacobs High School on Aug. 29. Prospect has shown great depth at running

back this season, having five to six able running backs, according to coach Mike Se-

bestyen. The Knights lost this closely contested game 26-24. (photo by Cassidy Selep)

EYE ON THE BALL: Senior Natalie Lysik smashes the ball over the net in the Power 8 Tournament hosted by Prospect on Sept. 19.

Lysik, a leader on the team, finished with a team best 14 wins as a singles player. (photo courtesy of Michael Dziadus)

Girls’ tennis maintains consistency, teamwork Season stats

•9-2 in dual meets

•4-1 in the MSL East, 2nd in

the East

•Tied for 5th in the MSL

conference tournament, and

5th overall in the MSL

•Senior Natalie Lysik won a

team best 14 matches at 1st

singles.

•Junior Hannah Haeberle

and senior Karina Petruno-

va finished 5th in the MSL at 1st doubles.

People know we are going to

run the ball, and our offensive

linemen say, ‘Great, we don’t

really care, try to stop us.’

Mike Sebestyen, head coach

A s the girls volleyball team went into the Knights invite on Sept.

26, their goal was to win it all, and they did. The biggest moment of the meet was beating Palatine, a team which earlier in the season handed the Knights their first con-ference loss in straight sets accord-ing to senior defensive specialist Kelly Prete.

Not only did Prospect beat Pal-atine, they reversed the pattern beating them in straight sets. For Prete, the win indicated the team’s progression throughout the year. The same way, head coach Laura Gerber was very proud of the way the team played.

“We played against some really good teams and [the girls] adjusted their play depending on the team,” Gerber said. “Some had really good hitters, some had really good servers, so they were able to make adjustments on the court to be suc-cessful.”

The team finished fourth in the division last year and came into this year with new variables: a new coach and a new class of nine seniors. But junior outside hitter Kaeli Meyers was confident that the team was capable of success. Before the season even started, the girls’ won the summer league as well as getting on the same page. The summer league had different teams from around the area includ-ing conference rival Hersey.

“We just clicked right away as a team, so I knew we’d do good this year,” Meyers said.

As of Oct. 12, the team is 20-7 overall and 7-1 in confer-ence. A major story this sea-son is the battle for that confer-ence, specifi-cally the East division.

Prospect ’s only division loss came against Hersey on Sept. 29. The match was close through-out, but in the first game the team came out flat due to nervousness, according to Prete. The first game ended in a big win for the Huskies winning 25-14. In the second game, the team played like themselves, according to Prete, and pulled away with a commanding victory 25-17. The third game was back and forth throughout, but the Knights came up just short losing 25-22.

According to Gerber, the loss against Hersey as well as the overall success of the team so far

drives the girls to continue to com-pete each day. She describes each practice as intense with every girl wanting to continue what they have started this season.

The first Hersey game allowed the team to focus on covering the block, meaning defending the ar-eas where Hersey players are look-

ing to hit the ball.Much of the

training is be-ing led by Ger-ber who is in her inaugural season as head coach. Accord-ing to Meyers, Gerber’s coach-ing style is very similar to for-mer head coach Gabrielle Lo-vin’s style last year. She feels both coaches are determined to win, put the players first and bring energy to the program. Gerber focuses greatly on turn-ing the girls into strategic hitters and teaching them how to place the ball well.

Gerber feels her drive is to cre-ate success not only on the varsi-ty level, but in the lower levels as well. The coaches at all levels are teaching their players the same skills, so that when the girls get to varsity, they will already have the experience. Gerber is proud of the way this year’s varsity team has been an example.

“[The varsity] girls work real-ly, really hard. A lot of them play

year round,” Gerber said. “I think it teaches the other girls that if you work hard and continue to improve as a volleyball player, it makes the whole thing successful.”

The last few years have been a transition period for the team ac-cording to Meyers. She feels the coaching changes make the team stronger as they stick together through the changes. According to

Meyers, the transition has helped girls stick together and find their leadership roles.

Gerber also is aware of each person’s ability to be a leader in their own unique way.

“As a group they’re all really strong kids,” Gerber said. “So, [there are] a lot of chiefs, [and] very few indians on this crew. Ev-erybody has a strength.”

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015

Athlete: Matt Cozine

Year: Senior

Sport: Cross Country

Best three-mile time: 15:17

Q.

A .

Coming into the season, what were you looking forward to most?

Probably just experiencing every-thing with the team we have. We have six returning guys from last year, and we are all really close, so every workout is fun, and every meet is just amazing.

Q. What are the team’s goals, and how have they changed as the season has progressed?

Breaking fifteen [minutes for] three [miles] is the number one goal, and that has not changed at all. Going into the season, winning conference was a team goal, but now that we have a pretty good shot at winning conference that would be great. And after that, going to state is probably the biggest goal.

What has your time running at Prospect taught you?

My coach [Mike] Stokes has taught me the most about respect, being independent, just listening to others, and a lot of life lessons.

Cross country is usually thought of as an individual sport, but how do you think it has become a team sport as well?

In the meet against Buffalo Grove this week, it was really completely won by the team. Everyone really did their job, and that’s how we ended up winning he east as a team

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Volleyball transitions into period of success

BY DEVIN PRASAD

Executive Sports Editor

With help of new coach, leadership, team works toward conference title

We just clicked right

away as a team, so I

knew we’d do good

this year

Kaeli Myers, junior

Girls battle against

Hersey

The girls’ volleyball team

pulled out a close game

against the Huskies Sept.

29. Here’s how the Knights

did it:

•Kills leader: Kaeli Myers, 9

•Ace leader: Sammy

Withey, 3

•Assists leader: Michelle

Haaning, 23

•Blocks leader: Brenda

Kendziera, 3

•Percent of serves in lead-

ers: Kaeli Myers, Maggie

Porwit, Kelly Prete, all

100%

CHASING SUCCESS: Senior Michelle Haaning (top) serves the ball against Elk Grove in the team’s homecoming game on Oct. 6. Haaning, the team’s setter, had 23 assists. Senior libero Nikki Giam-marino (bottom left) sends the ball over the net, contributing to the victory against the Grenadiers. (photos by Cassidy Selep)