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Christmas Issue!

Our first edition of the Tempe Times was a promise of more to come and now we have delivered our Christmas Edition with a lot more fun and interesting reading.

We have proved that Tempe Times is not your conventional newspaper; it’s the interactive, non-biased magazine that everyone has been waiting for. After readers gave feedback on their enjoyment of the unprecedented level of interactivity in the previous edition, we have packed in even more interactivity. In an age where the printed word is struggling to eclipse the onslaught of digital content – we want our audience to READ about our school community as well as the world-at-large.

This time, we’re featuring a greater range of quality articles – whether they’re school-oriented, local or world news. The Tempe Times team will deliver the finest and most interesting articles of new trending topics, including exclusive scoop on local-boy-make-good Jarryd Hayne, the value of education in schools, the future of technology, the latest on Australian politics and also savvy science articles that will be sure to shock you.

The Tempe Times team, consisting of 30 students, has collaborated to bring you this amazing va-riety of content. We have divided ourselves into different departments to elevate efficiency and allow our personal interest and skills to excel fully. We have a team responsible for the layout/de-sign, a team doing editing and a host of reviewers and writers. The result of such collaboration is one of the best editions of the Tempe Times.

We want to wish all of the Tempe School Community a very happy Christmas break!

Regards from the Editorial TeamNoor Ijaz, Calvin Ching, Steven Luu, Felicity Giang

Welcome Tempe Timers

Tempe was selected to compete in this year’s Archibull Prize. But what exactly is it?

2015 is the third year of Art4Agriculture’s multilayered initiative to bring together rural and city secondary schools in learning about Australia’s primary industry- agriculture, all with the chance to win $1000 for the school. The Archibull Prize fosters two way conversations between rural and urban Austalia.

To win, Tempe needed to use art, design, creativity and most importantly teamwork to showcase its assigned primary industry; cotton on a life size fiberglass cow. All competing schools needed to submit a multimedia blog, documenting the entire design process. After the cow and blogs are completed they are sent to the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW in Homebush. The cows will be displayed at the Royal Easter Show.

As part of the Archibull Prize, each school is assigned a young farmer, to guide, educate and inspire students involved. Tempe High school was lucky enough be given Dwayne Shubert, a passionate cotton farmer who was the 2014 Young Famer of the Year.

Dwayne, from Gunnedah gave a presentation to stu-dents involved in the prize, where he shared his story on how be followed his dreams to become an agronomist.

When asked about his passion for agriculture he said, “In a world where information sharing is often only the touch of a button away, sharing the stories of the people behind the clothes we wear and the food we eat is becoming a lost art… I am passion-ate about sharing how rewarding my career is with the wider community…”

Each Wednesday a selected group of dedicated art students from years 8-10 have given up their after-noons to work on this prize. One student Clayton says “it is great to be able to work with such creative students on this great project.”

Tempe has commenced its blog which is already live online. The plans for the cow will not be re-vealed until the cow is completed.

Lilian Macpherson

Photographed by Clio Davidson-Lynch

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Grades have been primary form of communicating and reflecting student mastery for many years. By giving each student a grade, people are forcing students to believe that the destination is more import-ant than the journey. Some students may feel more pressured to cut corners, or take courses which they think may give them a good grade, and sacrifice ethics in order to get that grade. Hence, the true picture of a student’s learning gets lost as students lose interest in learning itself and focus on their overall grade as people tend to lose interest in whatever they have to do to get the reward, and so most students view assignments as chores. Grades also reduce the quality of most students’ thinking. A series of studies show that students given numerical grades were significantly less creative than those who received qualitative feedback but no grades. The more the task required creative thinking, the worse the performance of stu-dents who knew they were going to be graded.

Grades are not valid, reliable or objective. They do not properly reflect what a student understands and can do in that particular course. Being given a grade will also not help the student improve in that course making it subjective, as the result is uninformative. In most educational contexts, grades only measure two types of intelligence: linguistic and logical-mathematical. There are at least five other types of in-telligence but these types are not tested and would not help students to gain a place on the honor roll. Basing grades on just two types of intelligence can be problematic as some people think grades measure self-worth and potential; in other words, grades erroneously reflect who students are and what they will become.

Parents certainly deserve to know how their children are performing at school, but grades should be replaced by meaningful narrative feedback. Qualitative summaries of progress which help students understand the learning outcome. Conferences to discuss student progress are also a great alternative education system.

Give a student an F, he’s learnt nothing. Give him an A and what has he learnt? Still nothing. Somewhere along the way, grades became the most effective way of communicating student learning, but is this true?

The variability of student grades varies from teacher to teacher, school to school, and state to state. Teachers may be grading on a curve so that students are set against each other, creating competition. They may also grade too stringently through giving zeroes, consequently lowering self-esteem. This type of grading helps to sort students by ranking them or induces them into doing things they are not interested in. Eliminating grades altogether will help students become more proficient and enthusiastic learners.

Grades also have a significant impact on self-esteem as poor grades lead to a greater decrease of self-es-teem creating instability which in turn increases depressive symptoms for students. A student’s self-es-teem is a very precious commodity.

Low self-esteem can lessen a student’s desire to learn, their ability to focus, and her willingness to take risks. Teachers can nurture students’ self-esteem through a continual process of encouragement and sup-port. This means showing appreciation for the things students do well, and comment on their progress and accomplishments. Giving students with low self-esteem grades could further lower their self-esteem, leading up to a pessimist attitude and depression.

De-GRADing EducationKerry Chen

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That is a great definition for what we want our educa-tion system to be like. A system which doesn’t mould the individual but instead guides them, serves notas a stationary lamp that only shines one path but atorch that we can use to find our own, something that doesn’t become a daily mindless chore making us into zombies. All we really need is a great navigator, that’sit! But, does our education system really achieve this?Let’s have an imagination exercise. Say it is 12 AM and you have a homework that is due tomorrow but you know it won’t be checked, so would you stay up allnight doing your work or just go to sleep? For most people, it will be an easy answer. And it is expected, right? First off, people are naturally in-built to ignore work and more importantly, doing it late at night, you will probably feel like a mindless zombie brushing your teeth. Even if people do it, 96.5% of the time, it will be a rushed and third rate work. But now think about this. Students feel that way most of the time at school. Why? Because no one wants to do homework

late at night if it serves no easily foreseeable purporp se.e. But, if there is an important test tomorrow, then it it issanother story altogether. This is the “primitive-hu-man mindset” that we have evolved into our core. We want what we do to get us closer to achievingsomething we want. And no it absolutely cannot be in-visible. An anonymous senior student cried out “Man,why do we even need Shakespeare in our life? Seri-ously, I spend more time analysing it than the time Ispend sleeping.” If you have done Shakespeare, you can probably relate. Otherwise, think of it as playing flap-py birds…..pointless. Anyways, Mr Dias has respond-ed to the cries and given a statement in regards to the question, “Shakespeare is full of the passion of life –you have cunning murder, plots, intrigue and romantic love! That is just in the first act!!! There are so many life lessons in the works of this old Bard. That is for sure! ”The great scientist, Albert Einstein said, “Never keep anything in your mind that you can look up.”And what is one thing people do a lot before tests

(exception-Maths-sometimes)? To answer this ques-tion, I utilised a larger sample space- the internet re-search sites. Surprisingly or maybe not, according to“teacher-vision”, “UCLA- researchers”, “2011 Timesresearch article” and “Stanford university site”, this is the most common response from students- CRAM. Yes, cram! To elaborate, 90% of the secondary school students in America will cram, increasing in fre-quency as they move on to higher levels of educa-tion. Furthermore, this is what Stanford University site stated, “Cramming in college pretty much goes hand-in-hand like peas and carrots.” Considering thisresponse, it might make you wonder just how funda-mentally erroneous the base of our education system is? You start remembering information since you started school, information- to put it nicely doesn’t af-fffect your mental need….ever, like a painful chore; it is no wonder that students usually relate schools with “taking out the garbage on a cold winter morning”.DoeDoes ts he high school system serve as a good naviga-torto ? DDespespiteit everything, school definitely serves this pururpose. e. OvOver the course of six years, we are briefed

on every major career choice, believe it or not, fromwriter to a teacher to a surgeon to a film reviewer toa sport scientist. It is hard to accept but when you put it into this respect, then the Shakespeare, repetition of facts and wide aspect of study all makes sense. We are taught all these to be introduced to a particular field though one or the other is stressed upon more.Given the model of our school is more biased to-wards providing us with choices over other thingsand that is why, relevancy to life isn’t always the firstthing that comes to mind when extensively analys-ing Shakespeare. Schools should also accept that every student strives to be an individual of their own making who can push humanity towards a bet-ter future. So is school playing its part? Yes and no.To end with, a quote from Mr Dassaklis, our prin-cipal, “Our present schooling system is based on 19th and 20th century models which are not ful-ly compatible with 20th century needs. Having saidthat I believe that there has been significant change in the last decade and that our students are better equipped to face the challenges that confront us.”

Education’s purpose is to empower students to find their own paths to

their own dreams; to create life-long learners who are prepared for both the modern world and its future; and to empower individuals to make a posi-

tive impact in the world

By Vivek Mishra

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It was 11pm on Sunday (26th of July) when al-most fifty students set out on a three day trip to the Snowy Mountains. It was long drive, more than six hours with only two stops at McDon-alds and another one at a petrol station. Through-out the drive there were good and bad times, love-ly and boring scenery and quiet and noisy times.

We arrived at the “Snowy Mountains Coach and Mo-tor Inn” in Berridale at around 6pm. We were shown to our rooms which were very small. They had four bunk beds, a super small bathroom, a sink and refrigerator.

Heating up the Chilly MountainsWe had dinner at 7:30pm, which was only fish or beef with some other stuff. It wasn't of the highest quality but it wasn’t too bad either. It was just normal beef or fish. Soon after, we collected our snow equipment after dinner. There was a huge warehouse which contained skis and snowboards and another room which had clothing of all sizes, from childsize to larger adult sizes.

There was a small desk just along the wall and this was the place we had hotpot! We brought every-thing! From beef to lamb to dumplings, meat balls and mushrooms. We had a portable induction stove

(brought by Bruce) and a huge pot to hold every-thing. Water from the tap tasted weird so we used the water coming out of the shower head. The whole thing was cooked by Bruce and he was referred to as “our five star chef ”- Steven Luu and that, “[Bruce] Cooked everything in the hotpot and was not sure if it was cooked. But we really didn’t mind, so we just kept eating”. Bruce cooked everything for us. “I basi-cally brought everything, no one helped me out and I had to cook everything” said Bruce Ji. We asked him how the food was and he replied “The food was indeed very good because it was cooked by me”. On the second and last night, we had another hot-

pot, but it wasn’t a hotpot like the night before. It was a full spicy noodle hotpot. We had seven packets of noodles and at the end we were all full. Bruce our “five star chef ” chucked four chilli sa-chets into the soup and it became extremely hot-spicy. It was a very hot night in a very cold area.

Overall we had a lot of fun in the snow, feeling the cold wind and the hot sun at the same time.

By Justin Chau

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You’ve probably all heard the word “Leadership” before in many dif-ferent contexts. This word can bring to mind many different im-ages. It can vary according to dif-ferent people around the world in different circumstances. But generally, leaders help others and lead them in the right direction.

Leadership in schools does not only have to be through being part of the SRC, but can also be achieved through support for other

students in academic, cultural or sporting projects and events. Stu-dents will become more engaged in class and gain higher academic achievement through leadership training for teachers because they will know how to provide support

and create an engaging environ-ment for the students. Leadership not only provides people with a sense of direction, but also influ-ences students to do academically well. There is a great deal of chal-lenges that students face at school each day including overwhelming stress due to homework, as a re-sult having good leaders provides the support the students needs.

The demands leaders in schools face everyday are very multi-di-mensional and sometimes contradictory. Student lead-ers also have to live up to par-ents and teachers expectations.

Student leaders are an important part of the schools community be-cause they help improve our learn-ing environment second only to the quality of teachers which accord-ing to a 2010 survey, was declared that leadership in schools out-stripped matters including science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, preparation for college and future careers, and

dropouts from school. Hence

making school leadership a high priority.

Researchers at university of Minnesota and Toronto found that there is a strong link be-tween improved student achieve-ment and school leadership.

"Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished."-Lisa

Cash Hanson, CEO, Snuggwugg

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By Kerry Chen

er. It was revealed that while activity was some-times higher in certain regions, both sides were essentially equal in activity. Does this mean that you should trash that app that tries to deter-mine if you’re left or right brained? Not neces-sarily. Neuroscientists say yes but despite all the evidence, it’s still quite a controversial matter.

Take a 30 second test to determine if you’re left brained or right brained here;

http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/

scientific approach as well as Ms Evangelinos, head of the CAPA department, for a more ab-stract approach on the matter.“How do you feel about the theory of left/right brained dominance? Do you think it’s true and do people tend to favour one way of thinking over the other?”Mr Murphy: “It’s quite obvious that this theory is simply not true. Nothing is as simple and clear-cut as that. There are always lots of environmen-tal and genetic factors influencing how a person thinks and it’s always changing and developing over time. There will never be one source which explains everything.”Ms Evangelinos: “I definitely agree that people do have a disposition to be more analytical as opposed to emotive. In creative arts, obviously we like to stimulate the creative and emotional side of the brain. The big picture is that society needs all types of people with lots of different passions because it creates a diverse com-munity. Imagine culture without diversity! As educators I believe that we should stimulate both sides of the brain in order to let a student develop.” In one study, over 1000 participants had their brains scanned in order to discover whether or not one side was more dominant than the oth-

abilities. As a result, it was thought that certain abilities were linked to a certain side of the brain. In the 1960s, scientists studied epilepsy patients whose connections between the left and right side of the brain had been severed. This research showed that when the two sides of the brain couldn’t communicate with each other, they became unaware of each other and thus each side responded to the same question differently. For example, when one patient was asked what his dream career was, his left brain responded with “accountant”, whilst his right responded with “race car driver’. These ideas gained public attention and over time, devel-oped into the theory “Right/Left brained domi-nance”.Many people have contrasting views on wheth-er this theory is true or not. We asked Mr Mur-phy, head of the Science department, for a

The brain is split down the middle into two sides; left and right. The theory of left/right sided brain dominance suggests that the left side of the brain is in control of more logical and analytical processes whilst the right side is in charge of creative and artistic processes. Ad-ditionally, it’s also believed that people favour one side of the brain over the other. This means that if someone is left brained, then their way of thinking is based on logic and facts, whilst someone who is left brained will take a more creative or abstract approach to things. For example, a left brained person would prefer subjects such as math and science whilst a right brained person would prefer subjects such as art or music. The root of this theory dates back all the way to the 1800s when it was discovered that an injury to one side of the brain caused a loss in specific

You know how in Chinese Whispers where one phrase slowly becomes another as it gets passed around? Well, sometimes science based ideas seep out into the open creating room for people to manipulate something which was once based on genuine evidence into something which is more interesting and fun- just like the theory of left sided and right sided brain dominance.

Presentation of Brain OrientationSherry Liu

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The media creates an image of them in our minds and gives them a colour, a language, a religion and a nationality.

To Khadeja, and the 15 000 who have died, who is the true terrorist in their eyes?

Khadeja Fahat, a 14 year old Islamic student, gets surprised by something different everyday ranging from “Why did you have to attack the twin tower? “ to being interrogated about whether she has a gun or a bomb in her bag. Within months, Khadeja changed from an optimistic child who was passion-ate about learning, to someone who just wanted the day to be over and done with. One might think that she can just turn a blind eye, however, when her best friends who once supported her suddenly turned away; then to give up or to give in cuts like a double edged sword. Her suffering is inevitable.

For centuries, humanity has been attempting to promoting a fair, equal and safe global village where we can share prosperity and provide and receive assistance from each other: an ideal al-most close to Karl Marx’s communism, but never reached there. All the talks of national ‘dreams’ and ‘isms’ dominate international social and political campaigns. But does the world really resemble the way we portray it? The surveys conducted by human rights activists showed the increasing rates of 14% in 1995 to a daunting 40 % today, of the global population being discriminated at least once in their lifetime. You may ask why there are such ominous people. But anyone can be a terrorist in his or her own ways. Therefore, why do terrorists have stereotypes? The media creates an image of them in our minds and gives them a colour, a language, a religion and a nationality. Why do we believe that all Middle Eastern people are devils and are hungry for war? Action speaks louder than words. Discrimi-

The key to a fairer and a better world, and the solution to the problem is clear; we need people to stand up to unfair acts and just say no. The moment we give up on others is when we lose the definition of being a human. If we don’t live in unity and support, we will lose hope and security. As a bystander of any means of discrimination and bullying, a voice must be raised to stop this horrific issue. Not merely in the Tempe community, but everywhere else we go. Imagine if you were put in the same scenarios as the victims. Would you be confused at why the public is just walking by, pretending there is nothing going on? We can stop it one by one, society can. No one else can but you, it starts from you and the power of your voice and encourage someone else’s life.

Terrorism through a KaleidoscopeBy Steven Luu

nation will only stop if we act and help the ones who are troubled. As the old saying, bad things happen only if good people allow it, and this should start with the people among us.

Are countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq the only sources for terrorism? The twin tower attack, which caused over 3000 deaths, was the epitome of

terrorist attack. The bombing of Afghanistan, on the other hand which killed over 15 000 innocent civil-ians was seen as destiny? The word ‘terrorism’ means the unauthorized use of violence to reach a particu-lar goal, usually politically. The bomb was explained with reasons that have yet to be proven correct, so was it “authorised” as such? How were the citizens who were bombed involved “politically? Violence doesn’t solve violence, it merely extends it.

Shirley Chisholm, America’s first black congress-woman, once said, “In the end antiblack, antifemale and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing; antihumanism”.

Injustices at Tempe High may not seem significant or impactful, but assisting those in our local area would tumble onto more people and infect the world with a positive message. A revolutionary message for humanity. At the end of the day, we are all the same and are striving for a common key to a common lock- a joyous life.

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The future of food is here. GMOs are big, juic-ier, nutritious and delicious. GMOs are organ-

isms that have had their selected genes ‘extract-ed’ from their precursors or another species and

integrated into them, or have their genes altered by microorganisms, chemicals, or radiation. Basically, in

simple words, any method that involves changing an organ-ism’s DNA. This can provide benefits for our crops, such as their

resilience against the earth’s climate, insects and infectious weed, bigger crops, longer-shelf life, and more nutritional and useful crops. Advances in biotechnology allow us to increase crop resistance. Strawberries that can grow in the snow, potato plants killing Col-orado beetles instead of Colorado beetles killing them, and cot-ton plants resistant to glyphosate, are just some only made pos-sible because of new biotechnology (for example, gene guns). Just by using these methods, humans can grow crops nearly any-where we want, including here in Australia. Australia has patch-es of arid land and this can be problematic for farmers. Drought is a common killer for crops here in Australia. In rural places, such as Gulargambone, drought has resulted in economic hard-ship for farmers, decrease in agricultural production, loss of jobs, and loss of businesses. Nevertheless, with the development of new drought-resistant GMOs, we now have a large range of different crops that are being sold in markets around the world. This can re-ally help to grow crops more easily for farmers living in Australia.What is the difference between GMO corn and non-genetical-ly modified corn? Surprisingly, GMO corn is much larger than non-genetically modified corn. Before, corn was so small that it was just slightly larger than the size of a pea. After years of genetically modifying corn, humans made it into a giant mutant piece of food. With larger food, we are able to increase agricultural production, feed more people, use less land, and expand the global economy. In terms of the use of less land, we minimised our impact on the environment. Agricultural land can cause problems such as deforest-ation, pollution, soil degradation, and irrigation. If we are using less

land to feed the world, we can reduce these problems and develop a more sustainable and cleaner environment. Inevitably, all fruits and vegetables will rot. However, non-GMO food can’t even last for a week making them a rip-off. On the other hand, GMO food can last for weeks because they ripen more slowly. You can simply leave your GMO food on the shelves long before it rots. In addition, GMOs have the potential to become useful and change lives. In the Golden Rice Project, a team of re-searchers and scientists have been able to genetically mod-ify rice to increase the amount of vitamin A within it. This allows them to be able to assist the poor inhabiting devel-oping countries. Vitamin A deficiency is common for peo-ple living in these countries. Furthermore, side effects can be severe, resulting in poor eye vision and diminishing im-mune system which leads to susceptibility to diseases. The Golden Rice Project, aims to improve the lives of these peo-ple and integrate vitamin A into their daily diets - elim-inating or minimising the risks of vitamin A deficiency.Other than nutrition, ohter benefits include immunity. The HBV virus is deadly, causing high fever and damages the liver. This virus is an ancestor of liver cancer, and it’s responsible for being the greatest single cause of cancer deaths. In the 1990s, a new form of plant has been created. Bananas and tomatoes ob-tained a vaccine for hepatitis B. However, this doesn’t need any needles or other special medical equipment, it’s as simple as eating a piece of cake. Charles Arntzen, the scientist who made this new development, estimated “hundreds of thousands of lives can be saved every year” because of these new fruits.

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Eating disorders are becoming more and more com-mon in today’s society. The media has created these unrealistic “ideal” body types for both men and wom-en. With social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram, many teens are constantly being surround-ed by these unrealistic images of women and men, which makes them think they have to be exactly like them. For females, the media has created the “perfect body” as being skinny, having large breasts and a large butt, and also having a flat stomach. And for males, the “perfect body” is having a six pack, being mus-cular, but also being skinny and fit. Both of these so called “ideal body” types are unrealistic, and even so, it takes a lot of work to get that body that the media portrays as “perfect”.

Many teens today are becoming more and more sub-jected to these images that the media portrays as the “perfect body”. They start to compare how their body looks to how the models look. They see that their body does not look the same or similar in anyway, become insecure and unhappy about their bodies and start wanting to change themselves to look more like these models. Teens start developing eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia and binge-eating because they are unhappy about their bodies and want to change.

Those who suffered anorexia (also known as anorexia nervosa), often see themselves as overweight, even when they are clearly underweight. They become obsessive over their eating habits, the food they eat, and how much they weigh. They begin weighing themselves repeatedly, portioning food carefully, and eat very small quantities of certain foods. Some may engage in activities such as binge-eating which would then be followed by extreme dieting, excessive exer-cise, self-induced vomiting, and/or misuse of laxa-

tives, diuretics, or enemas.

Bulimics have recurrent and frequent episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food and feel a lack of control over these episodes. This binge-eating is followed by behaviour that compensates for the over-eating such as self-induced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics, fasting, excessive exercise, or a combination of these behaviours. Unlike those with anorexia, people who are bulimic usually maintain what is considered to be a healthy or normal weight, whilst some are slightly overweight. But like anorex-ics, they too fear weight gain and desperately want to lose weight, and are intensely unhappy with their body size and shape. Bulimic behaviour is often done in secrecy because it is often accompanied by feelings

of disgust or shame. This binge-eating and purging cycle can happen anywhere from several times a week to several times a day.

People who have binge-eating disorder often lose con-trol over their eating habits. Unlike bulimia, binge-eat-ing is not followed by purging, excessive exercise, or fasting. As a result, people who have binge-eating disorder are often overweight or obese. People with binge-eating disorder who are obese, are at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure. They also experience guilt, shame, and distress about their binge-eating, which can lead to more binge-eating.

Eating disorders are treatable medical illnesses which frequently coexist with other illnesses such as de-

pression, substance abuse, or anxiety disorders. Some symptoms can become life-threatening if a person does not receive proper medical treat-ment. Anorexics are 18 times more likely to die early compared with people of similar age in the general population. Males are less likely to devel-op these eating disorders but it does happen. The symptoms that are shown in males are similar to those that show up in females, but the treatment is targeted more towards females.

Like females who have eating disorders, males also have a distorted sense of body image. For some, their symptoms are similar to those seen in females. Others may have muscle dysmorphia, which is a type of disorder marked by an extreme concern with becoming more muscular. Unlike females with eating disorders, who mostly want to lose weight, some males with muscle dysmor-phia see themselves as smaller than they really are and want to gain weight or bulk up. Males are more likely to use steroids or other dangerous drugs to increase muscle mass.

A lot of people in today’s society do not under-stand the dangers of eating disorders and the effects it can have upon the people who are diag-nosed with it and those around them. We need to be more educated about this and be more aware that these things do exist. Shaming people for how their body looks is only a way to induce this kind of illness making them more obsessed with their body image. No one’s body is the so called “perfect” size or shape, accept everyone for how they look because we are all beautiful in our own way, no matter our size.

Sandy Zhu

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I feel insignificant with the skyscrapers towering over me as I can no longer feel the autumn sun striking on my skin. Each building is breathtak-ing, different from each other. The architecture ranges from vintage styled buildings to modern-ist glistening glass. As I walk down the avenues and sidewalks, the streets seem so jam-packed. The cars honk, deafening my ears and the beam-ing with yellow taxis zipping through the streets overwhelming to the The Big Apple! The City that never sleeps! The city of lights! This is New York.21 Students and five chaperones flew on a long haul flight via LAX (Los Angeles). We touched down at JFK at 5:45pm. Settling into our hotel, we were all exhilarated for the next 10 days where we would explore NYC inside-out!We had an early morning and made our way to the American Museum of Natural History which is a magnificent museum filled with artefacts from around the world. It was quite interesting to see the dioramas that were set up. From here we travelled to Rockefeller Centre and then strolled down to the lights and action; Times Square. No area in the world can beat this bedazzlement of lights, people, stores and more. The next day we saw feats of marvellous architecture, the Guggen-heim Museum and the Frick Collection. Follow-ing this an unexpected turn happened where we came across the Pope and one of our own, Fenella Palanca, was approached and interviewed by a NBC news reporter.Another morning we took a ride out in the har-

bour to take in that picturesque view whilst boat-ing out to the Statue of Liberty. It was something which could only be taken in, up close. Contin-uing on the ferry we boated to the Ellis Island of immigration where we admired the architecture and understood the immigration history of the US. From here most of us went to do some dis-count shopping at Century 21. Whilst Mrs. Evan-gelinos and myself took a climb to the top-end of New York. This was my highlight where I admired the view from the One World Trade Centre. This was something new for me at the tallest point of the city where you can see the harbour, the Em-pire State, all of lower Manhattan and the historic Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges.The next day we shopaholics separated into two groups for shopping as we explored the city. We went by Bloomingdales, Macys, Tiffany’s, The Apple Store, Nike town, Victoria’s secret and Saks Fifth Avenue .And at the end of the day we soaked in the view from the Empire State. This tower is amazing in its own way. From the deck you can see most of upper Manhattan, Central Park, Times Square and more. The lights and the buzz of the city, all very evident from the centre of the city.On various outings we delved into the museums. Ranging from the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan museum of art and the 9/11 Me-morial and Museum. They are all unique in their own way. The museums were so vast in size and we explored many pieces of art from Van Gogh to

Picasso to Banksy. Furthermore the 9/11 museum was an interesting journey to comprehend.Another beautiful stroll was the one down the highline which was adjacent to the water’s edge. Quite a trendy area which was once a railway track but now a pocket of greenery with several cafes and food carts. Madison Square Garden was another new experience for most of us. It is the state of the art event arena famous for its massive concerts and big games. Tonight we headed back down to Times Square and have dinner. We were watching the spectacular Disney Broadway Show -Aladdin.

Some say it was amazing and one of the best Broadway shows they’d ever seen. Luckily you all can take it in as well as the show heads down under late 2016.

Our final day was visiting the Brooklyn Bridge on a cold, wet, dreary morning as we strolled halfway and took our snaps. From here we also continued the theme by catching the subway to Grand Cen-tral Station. The architecture was quite unique!

Overall this was an ecstatic experience where we all learnt a lot .On behalf of the students , Mrs Evangelinos, Mr Greene, Mr Shaw, Dr Pinning-ton Wilson and her husband we are grateful for the adventures experienced in one of the world’s greatest cities! I would encourage all of you to make NYC a top priority on your bucket list!

NEW YORK NEW YORK....

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Noor Ijaz

A new super strong yet lightweight material has just been invented by scientific researchers of Caltech materials. This new revolutionary material will change how we make our metallic products. The only problem is the fact that they have no idea how to get the material into a max production cycle; the only way as of right now is to use a 3D printer.The new type of material, made up of nanoscale struts crisscrossed much like the Eiffel Tower, is one of the strongest and lightest substances ever creat-ed. By carefully designing these struts scientist were able to create a material that can recover after being crushed, similar to a sponge. The lead scientist Julia Greer believes that the new material will be used for making planes, trucks maybe even battery electrodes.In our conventional materials, we imagine it to be strong, heavy and have high density, but with the na-noscale some of these do not apply. Ceramics for ex-ample are strong but also heavy, but when ceramic fails, it tends to end catastrophically, and in the worse cases shattering like glass. But on the other hand, nanoscales are strong, light and never break due to the struts and

The STRONGEST yet LIGHTEST

metaljoints which make the material rigid yet when it is hit, the nanoscales will recover very much like a sponge.Nanoscales will change the way we manufacture our vehicles and metal products. For example, humans use a car every day to allow them to travel between places in a shorter amount of time, but as peo-ple become drunk or lose attention when driving, things might go wrong. Airbags have been designed to keep the driver safe but the car is pretty much a wreck. With nanoscales, the car will recover after the crash as the material has a slight spring effect fixing up all of the dents which may have occurred.Planes give people them the freedom to travel between countries in less than a day, but due to the recent plane attacks and plane disasters people have been afraid to fly and plane companies have suffered huge financial loss. Nanoscales however, can turn this all around, if planes were all made out of nanoscales then planes crashes will have no effect on the people inside as the plane will not split up instead it will stay together in one peace and the nanoscales will absorb the im-pact of the landing and spring back up like a sponge.

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By Jordan Mock

We are all practically attached to our smartphones, with their unlimited features and hours of fun with games and the consumption of media. However, other than the fun we get out of them at home, there are some handy apps that would truly put the information and resources you need at your fingertips. Check out these five neat and useful apps to make school life easier in no specific order.

01. Class Timetable - Free (iOS and Andriod)By Ice Media Creative

Class timetable is one of the simplest apps to use on this list. It allows you to keep track of classes and add events to your week’s schedule with ease. Add classes and the time to cre-ate a timetable that is colour coded according to the different subjects. Add premium features to allow push notifications to remind you what the next class you have is and it also supports the Apple Watch.

02. Desmos - Free (iOS and Andriod)By Desmos

Desmos allows you to explore maths; plot functions (graphs), create tables, add sliders, animate graphs and more. This is especially useful when grasping the workings of the parabo-la, hyperbola and other functions.

03. Wolfram Alpha - $2.99(iOS and Andriod)By Wolfram Group LLC

The app is like Google on steroids and Wikipedia pages summarised. It is built after 25 years of development that is the best source for instant ex-pert knowledge and computation. It accesses thousands of domains and you can enter questions in natural language. It can solve your maths, data, physics, chemistry and many more types of questions. You can easily access demographic informa-tion in an understandable form.

04. Office Lens - Free (iOS and Andriod)By Microsoft Corporation

Office Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. It can also convert images to editable Word and Powerpoint files to maximise pro-ductivity. Snapping photos of white-boards or worksheets prior to exams are a necessity. Ensure you get the most out of those images with office lens to take clear and perfect pic-tures as it crops out the unnecessary background instantly.

05. Any.do - Free (iOS and Andriod)By Any.DO

Use Any.do to capture everyday tasks, organise big projects and share lists with people around you. From planning an awesome vacation to organising a big project or sharing a shopping list with your parents. It seamlessly syncs between your mo-bile, desktop, web and tablet. Stay on top of your week with reminders and lists for assignments and exams. Best of all, you are able to collaborate your ideas with classmates for group projects.

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Wi-Fight the Wi-Fi?

Felicity Giang

All modern day mobile phones, laptops and tablets are equipped with what some would call ‘legend-ary technology’, as it allows us to access the Inter-net without the need for a flimsy, obstructive cable. Regardless of your age or status in a school envi-ronment, you have either seen or used the wireless internet provided by your school. So many people take for granted the technology, the way it works and how it actually does so much more harm than good.

Wi-Fi is now the increasingly popular mode of ac-cessing the Internet, utilising radio waves and us-ing wireless adapters and transmitters, to allow users to enjoy the Internet in its glory. So... that’s what you’ve been told. But have you ever won-dered what wireless connectivity really does? What it can and WILL do to you? To put this in simple words: Wi-Fi is extremely dangerous - exposure to electromagnetic radiation is deadly and yet, people spend at least 6 hours of uninterrupted transmis-sion. Tempe High School has recently implemented a new Wi-Fi-based system into the school for conve-nience’s sake, multiplying the amount of receivers and exposure to students and staff. Ultimately, high artificial EMFs (Electromagnetic fields) have been known for disturbing the human body’s natural energy field which can lead to stress and fatigue.

If you don’t believe the evidence, other govern-ments and organisations have already identified the problem and have acted upon it. New guide-lines have been issued regarding Wi-Fi use in schools by the Israeli Ministry Of Education. As of 27 August 2013 the guidelines will stop the installa-tion of wireless networks in classrooms prior to the first grade and limit the use of Wi-Fi between first and third grades. Teachers will be required to turn off mobile phones and Wi-Fi routers when they are not being used. Schools in England, Canada and France have dismantled their Wi-Fi and reverted to a wired system due to health symptoms experi-enced by some children and also due to several in-creasing concerns raised by parents and teachers.

In Austria, the Austrian Medical Association has pressed for a ban of Wi-Fi in schools. The Pub-lic Health Department of Salzburg has advised schools not to use Wi-Fi. The Council of Europe has called for a ban on Wi-Fi use in schools and recom-mends wired internet connections in schools. All these safety precautions are being taken, and yet, Australian schools - our school in particular - en-courages the use of Wi-Fi and wireless technology.

Australia is home to a general lack of awareness about the possible long-term health impacts caused by Wi-Fi. As mentioned before, Wi-Fi uses radio waves - or more specifically, microwaves - which are used in militant weaponry and warfare. Barrie Trow-er, a Royal Navy microwave expert, was interviewed to talk about the health effects of Wi-Fi and other forms of microwave radiation. When introducing the topic of Wi-Fi in schools he states, “I think anyone who puts Wi-Fi into a school should be locked up for the rest of their life.” He has had several experiences with microwave radiation - one instance being de-fusing a bomb underwater, and was warned that if the bomb was brought above the surface, it would do serious damage to the brain and general well-being. He continues, “...because they haven’t looked at the research and whatever incentive they have, it is not worth the genetic problems that parents are going to face with their children when they’re born.” Trower goes onto explaining how the embryo inside the womb of a pregnant woman is extremely vul-

nerable to radiation - as their natural protection has not fully developed at that stage, and microwaves can almost guarantee a genetically deformed child.

Now that the dangers have been established, imag-ine how many more places transmit the invisible killer, other than government schools. Not only does most Wi-Fi heath damage comes from cable modems and DSL routers but when they don’t get turned off at night: they stay on. This connects your machines to the internet whether you’re surfing or not…and flooding your space with EMFs 24/7. Have your devices ever picked up internet signals from your neighbours? From several adjacent hotspots? Consider the amount of harmful radiation com-pounding all around you, then multiply that by the amount of signals your device can receive.

It’s purely your decision to continue using Wi-Fi, but at what cost?

“I think anyone who puts Wi-Fi into a school should be locked up for the rest of their

life.”

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Outbreak of Opal

Clayton FengOpal cards, the one and only thing that is setting new ground for public transportation, has been used widely around the suburbs of Sydney. Peo-ple are beginning to embrace the introduction of opal cards and enjoying the benefits of cheaper, more convenient travel. But is that really the case?

Opal cards refer to the smart-card travel ticket system by inputting money in and using it for travelling around on public transportation. Once an opal card is tapped on the opal card reader, it starts your journey and you would have to tap off at the end of the journey, for the opal card read-er to calculate the fare and deduct it from your value stored inside the opal card. The effective-ness of an opal card is once you have tapped for eight journeys, all the journeys would be free of charge. But the catch is that each journey has to be 60 minutes apart. The origin was from the idea of T-cards, as it was later revealed as a smartcard system project, but was not actually put through, as it encountered many problems. But throughout the years, our technology advanced and t-cards were modified to replace the various ticket ma-chines used by private bus operators. The name, Opal, was chosen as it was Australia’s national gemstone, and uniquely Australian.

“Are opal cards really helping us out, or is it something that the

government can use in order for communities to like them and

gain back trust?”

Opal cards are efficient for saving money, hence the popularity. Opal cards were designed for occasional travellers, because if you score eight journeys or trips, you would receive the rest for free. This saves money and you would be able to go to anywhere just for free and you would not have to buy tickets every single day that are more expensive than an average opal card fare. On top of this, there is also the off-peak opal cards discounts. This discount can also save you a bit of money, in which you could use

the money for your other journeys. This discount allows you to have 30% taken off the original full price Opal fare, but only on these conditions: on the weekends or public holidays and before and after the weekday morning and afternoon peak hours for trains, mainly covering 7-9am and 4-6:30pm. This means you might want to get in early for work to receive such a discount and come home a bit late.

“The feedback I have been given is very positive and people tell me they love never having to queue up to buy a ticket ever again” –

Gladys Berekiklian, transport min-ister.

But if something good was supposed to happen, then something bad MUST happen, hence, the government is starting to remove all the weekly, monthly or quarterly tickets that allowed consum-ers savings before the opal card was introduced by 1st January 2016.

This is disappointing, as some of these tickets es-pecially the quarterly, have given better discounts than the opal card. On top of this, even if it was discounted from having free trips after the eighth journey, one journey consists of travelling from bus to train or to ferry within that one hour, meaning whoever is using only one mode of transportation would benefit, in comparison to those who are us-ing several type of transportation.

But since opal cards have just been introduced, there has been countless of opal card readers’ maintenance done, that stops the opal card read-ers to accept the opal card, thus opal card users would get a free trip. This is bad, as the opal card would lose its effectiveness in terms of its own sustainability.

“The marketing campaign for Opal that highlights the appar-

ent financial savings for commut-ers making single trips is mis-

leading to people who use these periodic tickets and urgently

need to be corrected by your (Mr. Berejiklian) department” - Penny Sharpe, the opposition transport

spokeswoman.

Opal cards have proved their effectiveness in soci-ety by showing us, cheaper and efficient ways to use transportation. But in order for cheaper trans-portation, this system sacrifices cheaper discount-ed tickets available to be purchased in jobs such as MyMulti.

So it’s your say, Australia, are opal cards really ben-efitting us?

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BYOD (bring your own device) is a scheme which allows students and staff to use personal mobile devices on the school wireless network. I’m sure you’ve heard of it, the scheme has now been rolled out across schools in Sydney. Now, there’s a lot to consider when determining if implementing BYOD in schools is the right move. The concept of “bring your own device” (BYOD) is a growing trend for businesses as well IT. There are a variety of benefits to allowing users to supply their own PCs and mobile devices, but there are also some concerns.

It is essential that students and teachers alike understand these concerns, in order to embrace BYOD with confidence. BYOD is a popular scheme because it offers freedom, to students and to teachers. It means that they can bring their own laptops and tablet PCs in their places of work for educational purposes. Whilst the idea is much appreciated by most, it comes with many draw-backs and has to be dealt with particular caution. In this article, we look at how students in schools are welcoming the idea, its pros and its cons.

For teachers who are concerned about the ex-pensive costs of equipping every single student with a device, student-owned devices reverse this problem. Furthermore, schools won’t have to be responsible for maintenance or repairs. Students find that being able to bring your own device boosts morale and their willingness to learn. This maximises productivity and satisfaction of every-one in the learning environment.

Nevertheless, BYOD isn’t completely free. Schools will still have to build or improve networks to manage the large number of devices in use. What about the students who aren’t financially able to afford devices? Parents of lower socio-economic backgrounds will be stressed about purchasing new, pricey devices for their child’s education. Just as students may be teased about not having the right uniform, they can be teased for not having a device.

With BYOD, devices always stay with students, whether it’d be at home or at school. This means that learning can happen at any time and any place. Teachers, however, have voiced their con-cern about the possibilities of students using their devices for the wrong purposes – social network-ing, gaming etc. Having these devices in the class-room could act as distractions and severely hinder learning. Some students may even find that BYOD makes school life harder.

Overall, BYOD is a cost-effective way of bringing technology into schools. With its advantages, it also brings its disadvantages. Students may wel-come the idea, but parents and teachers may not.

iSchool: E-learning on the uprise

Reviewed by Wylie Yang Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a 2012 car racing game that is part of the Need for Speed franchise. This game is developed by Criterion Games, pub-lished by Electronic Arts, and released in 30th Octo-ber 2012. The open world racing game is available on a variety of different platforms including Micro-soft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, iOS, Android, and Wii U. The subtitle ‘a Criterion Game’ makes this version different from its 2005 original.

Set in an open world environment and integrated with a nonlinear gameplay, it allows players to roam around freely and accomplish objectives in any sequence they choose. There is also high quality graphics being used, combined with decent sound effects, to make a more lively and realistic feel for the player while they’re playing the game. However, this open world is quite limited. The whole map is quite small and there is not a lot to do. More special ‘side missions’ could have been added to make the game more interactive and more original.

When you start out, you’ll start off with a cool racing intro and a small tutorial. The tutorial needs more work, in order to further expertise the player. The

gameplay is not bad, but the controls had brought it down – the problem is with the left joystick on controllers of the console platforms. All the left joystick has to do is to make the car steer but the game has given it other jobs to do. With the left joystick having a way to switch between perspec-tives, it becomes annoying. Sometimes when the player tries to steer the car, the control easily sens-es the player tapping forward or backwards with the joystick. This makes a back and forth effect of switching quickly between the points of view. As a result, the player may not be able to see where he/she is driving to.

Even though this game may not be the best game in the world, it can be fun to try to upgrade your cars and reach the most wanted list. This game is a fun racing game and unfortunately there are crucial improvements that needed to be made.

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In 2012, Klei entertainment put forth a bench-mark for the genres of “true” stealth and action game with their new instalment, “Mark of the Nin-ja”. This is not an ordinary stealth game where you impulsively bludgeon your foes, leaving a trail of carnage like a Kool Aid man breaking through the wall. This game teaches you what it truly is to be a ninja- to be one with the shadows waiting patient-ly, furtively in the darkness for your unsuspecting prey who you assassinate with knockout finesse. In this eerily shadowy world prowling through breathtaking 2D Asian urban landscape to Eastern European castles, you are on your way to exact re-venge on the killer of your fellow brethren- your ninja

clan. And like a true ninja, you fight for “total hon-our”. Of course, what is a journey, without a partner in crime, even better, a strikingly mysterious female partner who occasionally joins you in on your quest and serves a major role in the “twist”? Additionally, your persona is cursed with a red mark that gives di-vine powers but comes at the heavy cost of one’s sanity -another major element of the ‘twist’. The skulduggery chapter (yes, it’s divided into chapters) becomes a milestone in the story, after which it just keeps build-ing intensity, unfolding a beguiling and elegant cho-reography. It ends beautifully with an unforgettable dilemma of morality in which ‘you’ will be involved. The story’s appeal lies in this sudden transition from

a simple linear plot to something else altogether.One of the stark differences between this game and any other stealth game out there lies in the fact that you can’t simply overpower your opponents in direct combat. They are- to be fair- quite equal in their close quarter combat and also, their bullet is disturbingly accurate -compared to what you have compiled from movies over many years, that ‘bad-guys’ have impecca-ble aim that hits everywhere but their target. Remem-ber, that you are just as weak as you are powerful. In essence, you are not a Kool Aid man, so, rushing into a field is not an ideal option. The point reward system of the game praises you for following the ‘ninja way’ cre-ating even more incentive for stealth. But the strongest lure for being surreptitious is the sadistic pleasure that emerges from taking your foe down in unscrupulously creative and original ways. This is done by exploiting the system that follows constant physical laws – and then just dissolving your existence into the darkness together with the sin of murder that you committed.Enhancing the experience of this 2D plat for-

mer is the fluid control and movement mechan-ics. The smooth motion from the ninja cat walking, cat- sprinting, cat wall climbing and fly squirrelling between platforms with grappling hooks and just dangling down from a pole like Spiderman, em-anates this beautiful “kinetic poetry”. This poem is simple, but succinct like a flowing river induc-ing the ambient serenity of crashing ocean waves. Also, the simple cartoon graphics works well with the fluent and tense background music to establish familiarity and doesn’t place too much demand on your brain. The dark lighting and tone of the over-all settings and scenery is a powerful declaration of the journey through a treacherous world where ev-ery step can kill you emphasising the need for stealth. Mark of the Ninja opens up a whole new fron-tier in the stealth action genre unparalleled in its splendour. A milestone for stealth games to come. Each and every chapter is a sandbox that can be solved in your own unique and peculiar style. So follow your own Ninja way and be imaginative.

By Vivek Mishra

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Reviewed by Tim ChenDark Souls II is an action survival RPG game. It is the third game in the souls series, developed by From Software. An excellent sequel to the original game, Dark Souls, Dark Souls II contains all the parts that made the original such an amazing game, while im-proving upon the other parts of the original.

As you delve into the game, you find yourself in Majula in the fallen kingdom of Drangleic. As you journey through Drangleic, you discover that there is a mysterious curse that turns humans hollow over time – an undead that has no control over themselves with no memories whatsoever roaming Drangleic without reason. You travel through Dran-gleic, fighting many types of different creatures and foes with the best of your ability, finding friends that will aid you in your mission trying to find an answer, a cure to this mystery.

Dark Souls II has a captivating open-ended storyline and progress through the game is affected by the player’s decision. As you finish the game, you are left with so many questions about the storyline, a storyline which provokes thought and will leave you hanging for more Dark Souls. As you progress through the game, you may choose the type of character or combat class you are, from the strong warrior to the powerful magician with

dark magic. There is an endless variety of weapons you can use, corresponding to your combat class of your character. You will be captivated in the amazing combat me-chanics in Dark Souls II and the in-depth storyline.

An amazing game, a must play if you do so have the money to purchase it. It is available for $40 on Steam and is playable on PC, PS3, PS4 and Xbox.

Career:Born in Lake Grace, Western Australia, Nat was a footy fanatic ever since he was a young kid. With a population approxiamately around 500-600 peo-ple, Nat was a kid that was shining through that patch. He would verse adults as a young kid but it didn’t scare him one bit. As he grew, Nat’s skills became more efficient till he reached the level of playing in the U18’s Western Australia Champion-ship squad.

After being selected as pick 20 during the Nation-al Draft of the AFL, Nat’s career would begin to unfold. He was picked for the Fremantle Dockers team, residing south of Perth. With a good start in the 2010 season, he picked up a Rising Star nomi-nation. The Rising Star award was awarded to the best 1st year player perfomance of the year. During the 2011 and 2012 season, he took another leap towards his playstyle as he was compared to one of the greats of the AFL, James Hird.

His 2013 season was stonger than previous ones, winning the Doig Medal and the Geoff Christian Medal. The Doig medal being the Best and Fairest of the Fremantle club and the Geoff Christian Med-al being the best player in WA. In 2014, Nat again flew to new places winning the MVP of the AFL, the Leigh Matthews Trophy. He was also part of the All Australian squad, the best players selected for each

Nat Fyfe winning the 2015 Brown-low Medal at age 24

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Medalposition. Due to suspension though, he was ineleigi-ble to win the Brownlow Medal.

His 2015 season is the best one yet. Not only being part of the All Australian Squad and winning the Leigh Matthews trophy again, Nat won the Brown-low Medal, the most prestigous award in the AFL. Polling 29 votes in the first 14 rounds, Nat Fyfe went on to take the award with 31 votes, soundly beating fellow WA player, Matt Priddis.

Fremantle Dockers’ fortune in having Nat Fyfe - The AFL MVP

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SAM PERRETT

Date of Birth: 14-05-1985Nicknames: Pez, SammyHeight: 180cmWeight: 92kgPosition: WingRep. Honours: New ZealandJunior Clubs: Burleigh Bears Previous clubs: Sydney RoostersFG Debut: Sydney Roosters v New Castle, Alli-anz Stadium, 06/07/2012 (Rd 18)Club Debut: v West Tigers, Allianz Stadium, 06/07/2012 (Rd 18)Sam Perrett, of Maori descent, was born on the

14th of May 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand and moved to Australia when he was 13. Ten years ago, Perrett was only a minor player, playing only 3 matches for the roosters. Two years later in 2007, his performance through-out the years were enough to be selected as, in the New Zealand squad for the historic 2007 All Golds Tour.In the 2008 NRL season, it was announced that Perrett had signed a contract extension with the Roosters, keeping him at the club until at least the end of 2012. But this did not last, because in 2012, Perrett joined the Canter-bury-Bankstown Bulldogs mid-season and was an immediate success. His debut game was against the West Tigers and went on to play every game for the rest of the season including the 2012 Grand Final. In 2013, Perrett scored 18 tries in 25 games.Sam Perrett ran 3,720 metres with the ball in 2008, more than any other player in the com-petition. Amazingly, he is a great singer, along with his brother Lloyd Perrett who also plays for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and younger brother Will Perrett, X-Factor contes-tant.

Should MMA make its way into high school?

James Vu

“A lot of people think it’s too ag-gressive or violent, but after a while, they see a different per-

spective”.

In 2008, in a high school located at Winchester, Mas-sachusetts, a student was being punched, kicked, take downed, submitted and choked by another student, with the school’s consent. This took place in one of the many training sessions of the Win-chester High Mixed Martial Arts club, which may be the only high school MMA club in America, or even the whole world. This club raises a controversial is-sue, Should MMA make its way into high school?

This was said by Marcelo Siqueira, who was a na-tional karate champion in Brazil. He has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and studied at the fa-mous Chute Boxe mixed martial arts academy in Curitiba, Brazil. He runs a martial arts centre in Somerville, which is near to Winchester, and makes regular appearances at the high school club. He believes that clubs like these can benefit students tremendously, as it offers an opportunity to re-lieve aggression and stress. However, this isn’t like in the movie Fight Club, as the first lesson in MMA is self-discipline. The training sessions are also conducted in a safe environment and the club has not have a serious injury since the formation of the club. So if it’s safe, promotes self-discipline

and relieves tension and stress which can benefit prior to an exam, then it MMA really should make its way into high school. Another thing that MMA clubs promote is self-defence, which can solve one of the major problems in high school: bullying.

Bullying is a serious problem in high school and I be-lieve MMA clubs can solve this issue. At first, it may seem like it will promote bullying, as the students will be armed with knowledge on how to fight, but it may well stop it. Mentioned earlier, the first thing a student learns about MMA is self-discipline. The idea of bullying will be punched out of their heads be-fore they even begin putting on gloves and hitting the pads. Therefore MMA students will not use their power to bully someone else, as they will be afraid of the consequences from their seniors and trainers who are light years above their rank. If the bullied learns MMA, it would be self-explanatory on how bul-lies will act if they know that the students they bully can fight better than them. Overall, MMA clubs cer-tainly can make bullying any more of a serious issue.

The year is 2015, and many schools in America have adapted the idea of MMA clubs, such as Minden High School in Nebraska. This idea spread like wildfire, so how come Australia still don’t have a single high school MMA club? MMA should become a high school sport and I believe Tempe High should have one.

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How are you related to Jarryd Hayne?I am married to his father. So his father and I married and his father and I have three younger children, 12, 10 and 5 and they are Jarryd’s little brothers and sis-ters.

What was your first meeting with Jarryd like?It was very exciting and Jarryd was only 4 at that time. It was at a Western Suburbs football game and I met him in the change room after my husband finished playing his game. It was around 1992 when we first met, so it was a long time ago.

What is your relationship between you and your stepson like? How do you support him?We have a really loving family relationship, he’s a really good big brother to his little brothers and sisters. When I had to go to back to work on a Thursday, I didn’t have child care so Jarryd would look after the kids for me. So we operate as a normal family. He has fights with his little brothers and sisters, sometimes he fights with his dad and I and then we are all happy again. We’re a normal family, a very normal family.

How do you feel about Jarryd’s move to the NFL?Very excited but we were very sad when he told us that he was leaving. Actually, the night he told his father was the night he won the Daily MC. He was a bit delusional after winning and he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do, and he just got back from America, Seattle. From that point we knew that he was not happy and that he wanted a new challenge. When he finally told us, our youngest boy cried for 3 hours and we were sad but we were happy because there was nothing better than following your dreams and walking away from something and living what your dreams are.

Was this a choice made by Jarryd himself or

did you, as his family, have an influence?It was all made up by himself. So he’s loved the NFL ever since he was a teenager and he’s loved MADDEN and played NFL on the streets with his little brothers and sisters. He then decided that that’s what he want-ed. He wanted a new challenge and NRL wasn’t giving him the challenge he wanted. He won the Daily MC twice and decided he needed a new focus in life and he came up with the decision himself. He didn’t want to talk to us about it because it was kept secretive but when the news came out, when he spoke to us then we were all happy for him.

How do you feel about his successful career? DO you have any words you would like to say to him, like when was the last time you saw each other?We face time every two day and we do it with the time difference. So the best time for us to face time him, de-pending on where he is, we normally call him at 7:30 in the morning, just before Jarryd is going to sleep the day before. SO the kids’ face time and they talk about what going on in the day. His youngest brother reads him his primary school reader. Nearly every second day we face time each other and we stay in contact with each other that way. They also facebook each other, instagram each other and all that sort of stuff. His younger brothers and sisters are always in con-stant contact with him.

What was Jarryd like growing up as a kid?He was very athletic and he was always playing foot-ball in the street. He was always thinking about foot-ball, always wanting to become athletic. He went to an athletics school carnival and has the personal best for the 100m hurdles, he still holds that record. (For the school?) NO, for the district I think, the little athletics district.

Have you been hearing the latest news about the former NRL Legend? If you haven’t you must have had your head in the sand not to hear the entire buzz around Jarryd Hayne. His swift entry from NRL to the NFL had ev-eryone talking in both America and Australia. We, as part of the Tempe Times, took an interest in this move from an Aussie sport to an American sport. So we searched far and wide for clues or hopefully any scoops about this move, but we didn’t find any. While we were searching, we didn’t know that our saviour was under the same roof as us. Ms Regan, a teacher at Tempe, was Jarryd Hayne’s step mum! So we booked in an exclusive interview with her and this is how it went.

When he was making the decision to play football, his choices were rugby league or he was going to try and become an Olympic hurdler for Australia. He decide not to follow hurdles anymore and go with playing Rugby League.

So you guys didn’t know about his NFL dream?We knew that he really loved NFL but we didn’t think that he would take the steps to actually become an NFL player. It started when Parramatta said they wanted to take the team to Seattle and Jarryd couldn’t make that because he committed to the Australian team. So he went prior and went by himself to Seattle and that’s when he realised that that’s what he wanted to do. He did a few things a bit secretly, that we knew about. He trained with UTS grid iron team and no one knew about that. UTS were a very good grid iron team and didn’t tell the media that Jarryd was secretly train-ing with them. So he trained with the UTS grid iron team and that was kept all very quiet.

Alright, thank you very much for your time Ms Regan and we wish you and Jarryd all the best.What we can take from this interview is that we, as Aussies, can make an impact to other sports interna-tionally as Jarryd Hayne did. We have one last message to say. We, as part of the Tempe Times would like to wish Jarryd Hayne all the best in his future and his career of NFL and hopefully you, as a student from Tempe High, do so too.

Jarryd was a legendary football superstar in Australia!. Stay tuned to see him take on the world platform!

JARRYD HAYNE’S Super Step Mum

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LINSANITYA Lin-credible story of a rising superstar

Josh Tran When it comes to basketball and the superstars, people usually think of African Americans and Caucasians. It is easy to understand that Asians are nowhere to be found in a game which re-quires skill and athleticism.

In fact, since the establishment of the NBA in the USA - a multicultural country, we haven’t seen many Asian players making much impact on the league except for Yao Ming’s nine-year dynasty. The stereotype has affected many careers, includ-ing Jeremy Lin’s. However, Lin has worked really hard to destroy the racial stereotype that led to the delay of his opportunity to show off his pure and versatile talents.

Jeremy Lin, 26, is the NBA’s first American-born of Chinese and Taiwanese decent. Standing at 6’ 3” and weighs 201 lbs. (91 kg), Lin matches other point guards in the league not to mention out-weighs them. However, Lin went undrafted in 2010 and signed with the Golden State Warriors as a free agent. He barely touched the basketball and averaged only 2.6 points per game during the season. He was released and picked up by the Houston Rockets a few days later. Unfortunately,

they released him before the start of the season. He then signed a non-guaranteed contract with the New York Knicks.

Guess what? On 4 February, a 25-point perfor-mance against the New Jersey Nets awarded him the chance to start for the foreseeable future. “We should have kept Lin” - Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted his regret. Later on, he scored 136 points in 5 seasons, a magnificent NBA all time record.

How could nobody know about him? In High School, Lin failed to receive a single scholarship offer from Division I collegiate basketball pro-grams across America, despite being one of the best players in the state of California. He chose to

attend Harvard, a school known for its academics rather than sports, where he was guaranteed a spot on the basketball team. “I’m not saying top-5 players in state automatically get you offers, but I do think my ethnicity did affect the way coach-es recruited me. I think if I were a different race, I would’ve been treated differently.” He said in an interview in 2008. Lin became a popular star at Harvard, finishing his four- year career with an astonishing 1483 points, 487 rebounds, 406 assists and 225 steals. However, excelling at Har-vard didn’t gain much attention of NBA scouts. If not for racial stereotyping, everyone would have known about Jeremy Lin a long time ago.

People see Asians as fragile and nerdy people. Lin proved them wrong by leading his team to a 6-0 straight win, averaging 27 points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds. He hit the game winning three point basket against the Toronto Raptors and scored 38 points against NBA living legend Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Within two miraculous weeks, Lin has not only broken records, sold jerseys and won games but he has gained a much extraordinary achievement. It’s safe to say that he has done something that will forever change the impression people have about Asians not only in basketball, but in all of sports. Man, that Lin-derella story is Lin-sane.

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Aussie Power rocked the US when Andrew Bogut became the first ever Australian to be selected as the NBA #1 Overall Pick (Milwaukee Bucks) in 2005. Matthew Dellavedova, an Australian back-up Point Guard was phenomenal in the Finals. After 6 thrilling games, victory had come to the big man. However, Delly had shown that he could overcome harshness and shine when the team needs him. He is a true role model of a back-up point guard, and for Australian young guards

Patty Mills (right) and Aron Baynes (left) are the Third and Fourth Australian to ever win a NBA Ring. Mills is the the first person of Torres Strait Islander descent to ever play and win a NBA title with the 2013-2014 San Antonio Spurs after defeating the Miami Heat 4-1. Mills scored 17 points in 18 minutes, out-scored the Heat 15 points in the third quarter.

I don’t know how people see Aussie ballers in the NBA but there is one thing I know for sure: they are killing it. We are putting the spotlight on many of these extremely talented Australian players.

Exum, Ingles, Bairstow, Dellavedova, Bogut, Mills and Baynes. Wow these players look very promising. 3 rookies had had an amazing season last year.

Meanwhile, 3 veterans had already won a NBA Ring. Maybe this is the en-couragement for all Australians who have a dream of playing overseas, in

the NBA. They have done it, you can do it!

Australian Superstars,The Down Under takes over

the States’ Basketball

Australian Finals: NBA 2014-2015

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In the past few months Indigenous AFL Superstar, Adam Goodes, has been racially vilified by the entire AFL com-munity, apart from the team he plays for and their sup-porters, the Sydney Swans. After the Indigenous Round, was played, an annual round to support AFL players of indigenous background, Adam was taunted by fans and supporters from other clubs. He was consistently booed by the crowds whenever he ever got close to the ball or even touched the ball. For a strong 8 rounds, Adam continued to disregard all the chants and racial com-ments but even for the champion, there was a limit.

In round 9, the Indigenous round was held as to remark and celebrate the Indigenous Australians playing AFL. The Sydney Swans were against the Carlton Blues on a Friday night footy clash. Adam Goodes was in the line up, being selected to represent his Indigenous Herit-age. As the game went under way, the star finally scored a goal and celebrated it by doing an Indigenous dance taught to him by the Indigenous NSW/ACT AFL Under 15’s team. He hit his elbows a few times and pretended to throw a “spear” as it looked, into a bunch of Carlton fans who were presumably slurring Goodes beforehand.

After this Incident occurred, the racial abuse towards Adam started. The next week, when the Swans played against Gold Coast Suns, the taunting continued but worse. Nearly every time he received the ball, he was booed and was constantly tried to be put off his game. The Swans star managed to get through this with the support of his team mates. Though it seemed like it would be a one week thing, it actually turned out to be an even worse turn of events. The star would have to face weeks and weeks of constant booing and racial slurs sent in by the crowds from the opposition teams. The only team supporting and cheering on Adam when-ever he got the ball was obviously, the Sydney Swans.

Adam took the matters into his own hands after sometime. It was suggested that because of the “threatening” war cry dance from round 9, Adam was constantly booed. He de-fended himself stating that the only reason he did the war cry dance was to show pride to his Indigenous heritage. Even with this statement he was still booed on the side-lines. This is where things have gone a bit too far. The team mates of Adam, took things into their hands, pleading the

whole AFL community not the boo Adam as he did no wrong. Even the opposing teams pleaded to their own fans not to boo the star as he was a legend of the game, ranking in the top 10 for most professional AFL games played. Things didn’t turn out well when the jeers, the taunts, the racial slurs and the booing increased massively.

The AFL department had enough, asking all supporters to stop the horrendous chants, but it continued to go on and on. Then a feud occurred with popular faces of Australia as well as the non-popular. People had decided to either side with Adam, or go against him. Shane Warne, a legend cricket bowler for Australia, decided to go against Goodes. “Everyone gets booed. They can boo whoever they want,” Shane Warne tweeted. This was one of many sportsmen who went against Adam, but there were also many who sided with and started a twitter tag, #IstandwithGoodes.

Even with all this support behind his back, Adam fi-nally reached his limit when playing against the West Coast Eagles in round 17. Before he could even touch the ball, the crowd’s boo could be heard instantly. No sight of cheering at all, just around 40,000 people shout-ing “BOO”. He was racially abused clearly as well when 2-3 people were told to leave the arena for racial com-ments. His fellow Indigenous team mate, Lewis Jetta, had enough of these chant. After scoring a goal against the Eagles, Jetta turned to the crowd and replicated the In-digenous war cry dance that Adam did against Carlton. “Enough is enough. Adam is a legend of the game and should get the respect he deserves after playing AFL for the past 15 years or so.” This was Jetta’s comment towards the supporters of the West Coast Eagles supporters.

Happy that Jetta was thinking of him when he replicat-ed the war cry dance, Adam tried to leave on a good note. But even so, it was just too much for him to han-dle. He decided to take a week break, unsure of want-ing to play some more footy because of the voices of the crowds. The Swans, as one, stood together at a training session, to talk to the media and direct a message to all of the AFL community. A message was also sent from one of the head people of the AFL, “If you boo Good-es, you are a racist.” People defended their action stat-ing that they only boo because of his bad attitude to-wards the game, but this was obviously not the case.

People also this statement of being racist to Adam by refer-ring to an event that occurred between the Sydney Swans and the Collingwood Magpies in 2013. In the match, Adam Goodes pointed out to a security guard, a 13 year old girl, for racially abusing him by calling him an “ape”. Goodes, in-furiated with the comment, set off the ground not to play for the following couple of weeks. The supporters are us-ing this as an excuse of booing Goodes, saying that it was wrong for him to point out a girl for racially abusing him.

In round 18, the players of the AFL showed their respect to Adam in various ways. For some teams, they had an In-digenous player alongside their respective captains for the beginning toss to decide which team would kick to which side. The Western Bulldogs and the Richmond Tiger wore their aboriginal jerseys again to show respect to his indig-enous heritage. Captain of Western Bulldogs, Robert “Bob” Murphy wore the respective jersey of 37 (Adam Goodes jer-sey number) at the coin toss. Indigenous players either did a tribal dance or pointed to their skin when they scored a goal to show respect to Adam. A few teams had the aboriginal flag colours taped on their wrist, number 37 written on their shoulders and even the aboriginal flag painted on their arms.

Adam was filled with a warm heart after seeing such imag-es. Though he had thought of not playing AFL anymore, he decided to go back to playing the next week after seeing the message sent by the players of the AFL. It was an anxious wait for Adam to play at an away game against the Geelong Cats. There was tension of knowing if either the Geelong crowd will either cheer and support Goodes or go back to insulting him and racially abuse him. But things went smooth and even though the Swans lost that match, Adam was welcomed back with a big warm cheer from all the sup-porters in the crowd from both the Cats and the Swans.

ADAM GOODES RACIAL CONTROVERSY By Vijaya Sainju

“Even for a

champion, there

was a limit...”

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Sydney Swans Season 2015 review

In the 2015 AFL Season, our Sydney Swans managed to pile their way up to the semi-finals until suffering a defeat at the hands of North Melbourne Kangaroos. At the very start of the season, they flew high above other teams trying 1st place with Fremantle Dockers after 3 rounds. They lost the next two rounds resulting their drop to 6th place. Though they lost twice, they pulled through rest of the first half of their sea-son not losing another game.

By the half-way mark in the season the Swans were coming in second place with a win loss ratio of 9-2. Round 12 was their week break off AFL, hoping to have a strong second half sea-son. But things went rocky for the Swans as they lost their third game to the Richmond Tigers in round 13.

They led the Tigers by 26 point at half-time but lost their composure to lose by 18 points in the end. They regained their attitude and won the next 2 games but the 2 games after, the Swans took a couple of big hits. Losing to Hawthorn Hawks by a whopping 89 points and a 52 point margin the week after against the West Coast Eagles, the Swans became uneasy.

Round 19 suffered another loss to the Geelong Cats, but the Swans managed to steer their

way through to the top 4, after winning the last four rounds. Finishing strong at the end of the season the Swans finished on 4th spot with a win/loss ratio of 16-6. Through injuries of key players Swans were unable to hold onto their finals dreams after losing to Fremantle in the quarter finals and then North Melbourne in the semi-finals.

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wishes the Tempe School Community

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Merry Christmas everyone and stay tuned for the upcoming issue of The Tempe Times in 2016!

Wishing our Tempe High School community a safe and happy break!