PAGE 4 NEWS PAGE 13 ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 7 SPORTS FUTURE OF DON PERRY FRESHMAN SENIORS’ WRITES TROUNCES CHROME- BOOK ON MUSIC IN TENNIS BOOKS CAREER the Carmel Sandpiper VOLUME XXXV APRIL 2016 www.thesandpiper.org photo by BROOKE PORTER FUNDRAISING Comittee works to make Sober Grad reality BY ARI FREEDMAN This spring, CHS students and parents have come together to create the fundraising efforts necessary for Sober Grad Night to be a success for this year’s graduating seniors. This has resulted in a series of fundrais- ers put on by the Sober Grad Committee, the formal nonprofit body in charge of coordinat- ing the fundraisers and the Sober Grad event itself, according to Larry Hayes, the commit- tee’s fundraising and communications coordi- nator. For at least the past 20 years, Sober Grad is an event that has been happening annu- SENIOR LACROSSE player JACOB JOHNSSON MUSCLES ally the night after graduation, according to Hayes, and Sober Grad Committee co-chair HIS way past PALMA DEFENDERS ON MARCH 21. Gerard Mattimoe stresses its importance. “Sober Grad prevents our graduates from HEALTH drinking and driving,” Mattimoe says. “This keeps the graduates and the community safe on graduation night, which is statistically the Calif. bill constricts next era of smokers most dangerous night of a student’s life.” BY ZAC FILE will do it for you if you just pay approved by the California The largest of these fundraising events them extra.” state Legislature is the Holman Ranch Food Fest, which, as of “From my own experience Indeed, for most CHS students on March this paper’s printing, was scheduled to take and from what I know, most peo- photo courtesy of GOOGLE under 18, accessing myriad 10, which place Thursday. ple who are underage just talk to tobacco-related plans to raise “April 7 at Holman Ranch [was] our 21- people who are 18 or over 18 and products the minimum legal age plus event, and [it was] our major fundraiser,” they will usually hook you up with that of smoking from 18 to 21. Mattimoe says of the event. “We [had] live whatever you want,” says one CHS The legislation is intended to music from Johan Sotelo from ‘American sophomore, who prefers to circulate accomplish much more than sim- Idol.’ Local award-winning chefs [prepared] remain anonymous, the country is only ply abating the use of cigarettes food and the silent auction [included] every- regarding the a phone call to an upper- among minors. Along with signing thing from hotel stays to personal training and ease classmen or an adult away. Senate Bill 7, the California state even a tour of an exclusive private car mu- o f However, the simplicity that Legislature passed Senate Bill 5, seum.” ob- taining has traditionally accompanied the which classifies e-cigarettes as to- According to the sponsor information vari- ous tobacco process of acquiring tobacco prod- prod- ucts. “If it’s not your ucts as a minor could be challenged SMOKING SOBER GRAD friends, there’s a lot of people who in Senate Bill 7, a recent measure CONT. ON 2 CONT. ON 2 TECHNOLOGY Terms of service contain unpredictable wildcards BY ANNA GUMBERG agreeing to when they click that accept a topic of mystery. No one ever really terms and conditions, but it turns out button at the bottom of the page. knows what they’re signing away when that our digital privacy should be a In 2004, a software company In an increasingly technological they click that accept button. bigger concern. called PC Pitstop promised to award world, more of our everyday activities The public often speculates, though, Most websites’ terms and condi- $1,000 to the first tions include waiv- user who read their ers and disclaimers, entire terms of ser- like those seen when vice. One man actu- accessing the Wifi ally read the terms provided at many of service after ACCEPT DECLINE Starbucks cafes. Be- 3,000 others had fore being permitted overlooked the cash to go online, Wifi prize ‘easter egg,’ embedded deep within the end user license agreement. include the use of devices, almost exclu- wondering if their first-born children and TERMS But the vast majority of applica- sively involving the Internet. The terms bank-account passwords were promised CONT. ON 2 tion users have no idea what they’re and conditions of a given application are somewhere in the depths of Facebook’s 2 NEWS www.thesandpiper.org APRIL 2016 THE SANDPIPER Smoking dangerous part of [tobacco-related explains a CHS senior who prefers STAFF CONT. FROM 1 products],” CHS Health teacher to remain anonymous. Editors-in-chief: Delaney King, Michael Matt Borek says. “For underage Even considering the legisla- Montgomery bacco products, thus subjecting people, the front part of their brain tion’s good intentions, Borek has them to the same age restrictions is still developing—the decision- little hope in its ability to enact re- Copy Editors: Jack Ellison, Zac File, Ari as tobacco products. making portion—which leaves them alistic change. Freedman, Anna Gumberg, Michael Mont- It’s easy to see why legisla- at greater risk for addiction.” “Just like we have high under- gomery tors are diverting their attention Borek, however, is more con- age drinking rates, you’re still going to cracking down on e-cigarette cerned with the fact that we really to have people smoking at young Layout: Delaney King, Melissa Pavloff, use among minors. The Centers don’t know the long-term effects of ages,” he says. “Raising it to 21 Julia Sudol for Disease Control reports that, vaping. might make it harder for some of according to the 2014 National “If you had to choose between those fringe kids, but I still see un- Design: Aaron Kreitman Youth Tobacco Survey, current e- vaping and smoking, it’s probably derage people being able to get pret- Staff Reporters: Kim Burns, Joyce cigarette use among high school better to vape because you’re not ty much whatever they need.” Doherty, Jack Ellison, Zac File, Ari Freed- students increased from 4.5 per- getting the carcinogens from burn- Senate Bill 7 does not call for man, Anna Gumberg, Delaney King, Aaron cent in 2013 to 13.4 percent in ing tobacco leaves, but you’re also members of society to be grandfa- Kreitman, Ryan Lin, Michael Montgomery, 2014, rising from approximately heating up some synthetic substance thered in, instead opting to immedi- Evan Patel, Melissa Pavloff, Julia Sudol, 660,000 to 2 million students. to a certain temperature that creates ately enforce age requirements for Connor Suess The students of CHS appear a vapor, with no regulation of what purchasing tobacco products among to be no exception to this trend. those substances are.” all citizens under 21. The only mem- Advisor: Mike Palshaw “For me, blunt wraps are the Whether it’s vaping or smok- bers of society exempt from the pro- main product I buy, but in our ing, targeting underage use of tobac- posed stipulations of the bill are ac- The views expressed in The Sand- grade, a lot of people vape,” says co products is particularly important tive members of the military. piper are solely those of authors and the same sophomore, referring to are not intended to be viewed as those in the scheme of stemming tobacco If you find that you are cur- of the Carmel Unified School District use of e-cigarettes. use. rently a frequent user of tobacco administration, Carmel High School The sophomore goes on to The 2013 National Survey on products who is over 18 but under ROP administration or the adviser. note that most minors can simply Drug Use and Health determined 21, you don’t have to start panicking go to local smoke shops to buy that 90 percent of adult smokers immediately, but your days of casu- flavored E-Liquid and accesso- begin while in their teens or earlier, ally walking into the gas station and WANT TO SEND ries for their hookah pens since and two-thirds become regular, dai- buying a pack of stoges or a can of some employees at smoke shops ly smokers before they reach the age chew may be coming to an end. US A LETTER? will sell to consumers even if of 19. they are not 18. Though the anti-tobacco legis- The Sandpiper staff welcomes contribu- Despite the fact that the new tions from the student body in the form lation still awaits advancement to of letters to the editor at sandpiper@ legislation may not serve as a the desk of California Gov. Jerry carmelunified.org. Letters should be no panacea for the widespread prob- Brown, where it is expected to be more than 200 words and must be signed lem of underage tobacco use, it’s signed into law, there has been an with the author’s full name. The Sand- hard to argue that the bills were unsurprising amount of criticism piper staff reserves the right to edit all not created out of concern for the and debate regarding the effective- letters for clarity, length, libel and taste. well-being of present and future ness of the measures enacted by the generations. legislation. Carmel High School P.O. Box 222780 “We’re well aware that “For me personally, I don’t care Carmel, CA 93922 smoking is harmful to lungs, Convenience stores at gas stations 831-624-1821, ext. 3723 at all because I am 21 according to [email protected] but it’s the addictive qualities of my fake [ID], so I can just buy dip feature a multitude of tobacco nicotine that to me is the most or vaping stuff myself anyways,” related products.