April 9, 2021 Vol. 59 No. 5 Image By Jaime Chen This Year’s Musical Huang, Liu, and Kim: It’s Time To Cancel At Newport: Theory of Advocating for Boys’ Hospital Playlist Daylight Savings Relativity Volleyball Page 20 Page 17 Page 8 Page 9 4333 Factoria Blvd. SE // Bellevue, WA // 98006 2 News April 9, 2021 APRIL - MAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Easter Sunday Easter Monday ASB Executive Board Election Week 2021 Virtual STEM Fair 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Tax Day Spring Break 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 Springfest Spirit Week First Week of In-Person Hybrid Schedule 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cinco de Mayo Atlanta Shootings Shine Spotlight on Anti-Asian Hate Crimes “Nothing is off the table for our investigation,” said the past year, there was a 149% increase in hate KATHERINE CHANG Hampton when asked if the police were going to crimes against Asian Americans despite the Editor classify the shooting as a hate crime. decrease in overall hate crimes. Many of these Captain Jay Baker was originally the hate crimes stem primarily from false claims spokesperson for the case but was removed after pertaining to COVID-19 and China that spread The fight for racial equality has always been one intense criticism of his initial updates. Baker violence and harassment like wildfire throughout of America’s longest and most grueling struggles. seemed to amplify Long’s narrative by describing Asian communities. In order to combat this, On March 16, Robert Aaron Long, 21, proved him as ‘having a really bad day.’ Not long after, President Joe Biden has urged Congress to pass once again that racism is far from gone when he Baker’s Facebook page was discovered, in which the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, and said that the rampaged three Atlanta area spas and killed eight he promoted and praised a racist T-shirt that read bill “would expedite the federal government’s people, six of whom were Asian women. This “COVID-19: Imported Virus From Chy-na.” response to the rise of hate crimes exacerbated tragedy sparked nationwide outrage and began The Atlanta police later determined that during the pandemic.” While the past year has to shed the long-needed light on anti-Asian hate Long committed the shootings because of his been one tragedy after another for many minority crimes. sex addiction. However, experts, such as Vivian communities, there is new hope for change now Robert Aaron Long opened fire at Young’s Truong, a historian and post-doctoral fellow in that their hardships have captured the global Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, killing four Asian studies at Vassar College, say it is hard to spotlight. people and injuring another, before driving to disentangle race from the killings, and Atlanta and killing four more at Gold Spa and many Newport students seem to agree. Aromatherapy Spa. Authorities arrested Long on “It was very obviously racially charged his way to Florida where he reportedly intended attacks, and the people defending him to carry out more shootings at spas. Xiaojie Tan saying he “had a bad day” or that it was (49), Delaina Yaun (33), Paul Andre Michels (54), just because he had a sex addiction are Daoyou Feng (44), Yong Ae Yue (63), Hyun Jung part of the problem,” said Akira Junya Grant (51), Soon Chung Park (74), and Suncha (10). Kim (69) were identified as the deceased victims Although media coverage of anti- soon after the shooting. Many of them were Asian racism has only recently surged, described by their relatives and acquaintances Asian Americans agree that it’s nothing as hardworking immigrants that were “good,” new. “It’s been going on since the first “kind,” and “honest.” Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Asians arrived in America,” pointed out Charles Hampton Jr. said that they were still Rachel Wu (11). According to the Center unsure of Long’s motive and that it was too early for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, in just Image Courtesy of Google Images. Mourners gather at memorials for the to say whether Long “specifically targeted” victims. Atlanta shooting victims. April 9, 2021 News 3 Covid-19 Variance on Wellbeing and Academics MAGGIE MALLEY Reporter A great variance exists in the impact of Covid-19 on teenage students and their mental wellbeing. When checking up on friends you probably have noticed that some are absolutely thriving and in a great mental Image Courtesy of Google Images. Voters await their turns to vote. state, perhaps passing or even exceeding their expectations in online class, some are experiencing the complete opposite. Our survey with Newport students revealed that 32 percent of students had no change in their mental well-being, 34 percent worsened in their mental wellbeing, Georgia Election Laws and 27 percent stated that their mental wellbeing had improved. These GAVIN FRITZ highly divided responses tell a lot about how diverse the needs can be for Reporter a student. As far as academic performance which can take a great toll on mental wellbeing, NPR News observes that students excelling in the online On March 25th, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a sweeping election environment tend to be the ones that “focus better when they are not voting bill into law after it passed the Georgia House and Senate along party around classmates.” They also state that for students with ADHD, it lines. The bill covers much of Georgia’s election laws and is currently surrounded benefits having the “assignments, readings and instructions…laid out by controversy. It establishes new ID requirements for absentee voting, makes on [a] computer” and helps avoid them “missing assignments.” Andrea handing out food and water to voters waiting in line to vote illegal and allows Parrish, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and the for state officials to intervene in local election locations, expands requirements director of development and learning systems at the IDEALS Institute, for early voting on weekends, shortens early voting time and time to register for also stated that children with autism have also thrived in the changed early voting, and massively reduces absentee ballot drop boxes. Brian Kemp, the environment. She states that this could be because “the social component Governor of Georgia, said “this new law will expand voting access in the Peach is…taken out in a lot of ways” and that there is little “expectation for face- State.” to-face communication, so a lot of children…prefer it.” According to Forbes, a group founded by Stacy Abrams has sued the state of Jeffrey Myers (12) described navigating the online school Georgia over this new election law claiming that it violates Section 2 of the Voting experience with ADHD as a mixed bag. He found that it was “way Rights Act by making it harder for Black Georgians to vote. They also claim that the harder mentally but easier physically.” By that he explained the impact law violates the first and fourteenth amendments of the constitution by creating an of online education for him as having an improved impulse control, undue burden on the right meanwhile struggling to get into the zone and headspace for schoolwork. to vote. Many have reacted Nolan Ayres (10) shared how positive of an experience the online in outrage after hearing environment can be on students such as himself. Overall, he shared about the restrictions this that he is “doing a lot better than [he] ever [did] in [in-person] school,” bill will place on providing because the “nervousness that comes with school and social scenarios is food and water to voters nowhere to be seen.” This has enabled Nolan to “focus more on school waiting in long lines to and finish all assignments on time.” Joey Winter (12) also found vote. In many parts of himself excelling academically in the online setting. Winter shared that Georgia, lines to vote can although his grades and academics appear to have improved, his “work often stretch for hours. ethic has gotten way worse.” He feels that he has “been able to get away These long voting lines also with doing less work than normal.” Unfortunately, his overall “attitude disproportionately affect towards school has gotten way worse.” The variance in experience here is the Black community in fascinating but might have a deeper indication in our education system as Georgia. In Fulton County, a whole and how it might need more variance in itself to match the needs Georgia, a population of of its diverse student body. 208,000 people had access to ten ballot drop boxes. Under this new law, that county will be restricted to a maximum of two ballot dop boxes. President Biden referred to this bill as “sick” and “Jim Crow in the 21st century.” Corporations have begun to take a stand in their opposition to the new law, with the MLB moving their All-Star game out of Atlanta, and many other companies threatening further Image Courtesy of Google Images. boycotts. 4 News April 9, 2021 The CARES Act Impact on Landlords Maggie Malley Gowrishankar (12) stated that simply, “I have no thoughts, I give it a compromise and delay.” This, she Reporter the situation has been “good for thumbs up.” said, is because she does “empathize the struggling people, bad for the One interviewee available that with those struggling due to the explorative people.” She was grateful dealt with the negative impacts of pandemic.” Between her two tenants, that it offered shelter and “needed being a landlord under the CARES “one pays rent as best he can and Amidst the pandemic, almost “10 covid-19 relief” but felt that it was Act happened to be my mother, communicates regularly.” The other, million Americans are behind on difficult and a potentially “bad Joyce Malley.