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Government Heightens Meet Ryan, O’School Most “Green” Claims Rockstar Mayhem Festival Expression on Unfair Tobacco Restrictions Dorm Counselor Unsubstantiated Comes to Chicago Computer Policy Page 4 Page 10 Page 3 Page 17 Page 13 Volume 5 North Korea Threatens U.S. Issue 1 JULY 21, 2009 With Nuclear Weapons By Nick A. North Korea is boast- ing about their weapons of mass destruction. On May 25th 2009, North Korea tested their second nuclear weapon near the Kilchu area. North Korea is also holding a shooting practice in the waters northeast of Wonsan from June 25 to July 9-10, which falls within the date that North Korea said they would fire a nuclear missile at Hawaii: July 4th, Inde- pendence Day. They also told Ja- pan’s coast guard to watch guard of the Wonsan region. U.S. officials say that the A North Korean Soldier North Koreans’ never said Continued on page 3 Lollapalooza 2009 Schedule is Announced By Tommy The lineup for the 2009 Lollapalooza was an- nounced on June 18. The 3-day music festival, which will occur from August 7 to August 9 at Chicago’s Grant Park, will have two headine acts to end each day. The headline acts will per- form at the South Stage and the Budweiser Stage. The six headline acts this year will be Depeche Mode, Kings of Leon, Blue October performs at the 2008 Lollapalooza Continued on page 15 2 What is your opinion on the o’school restructuring? A lot of cool people won’t be able to work here, or will at I don’t agree with it. I just got here, but as soon as I start least be influenced by this in their decisions to quit working making that connection with staff, they leave. Some of the here. I also think the thing about people having go to college staff have been working here 6+ years and it is unfair to them to work here is elitist. & us to go through that. -MacK MacKenzie –Stephanie Not sure what to think. I feel like it’s harder to form solid relationships w/ part- -Anonymous timers, so I like that every part timer is given the chance to become full time if they wish, but (no offense to them) I’m I’m surprised to hear about some of my favorite staff mem- happy with the restructuring. The main problem for me is bers leaving. that some full time dorm staff have to leave. -Tommy -Danica I think that the school will be very different when it is over, To me, it’s quite a major change, which in most cases, is both good and bad because some staff are leaving and it is Really overwhelming. –Billy sad + hard. - Shelby I think that change is going to be hard for everyone, at the end it will work out and everything will fall into place. A lot of former staff are leaving and the effect is quite pro- –Kayla B. found. –Kyle The student newspaper of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School SEniOR ADvisORS InvOlvEMEnt EDitORS Michelle Pegram Nick A. Michelle Zarilli PHOTO EDitORS Assistant ADvisORS Stephanie, Matt U. Geoff Keegstra COPY EDitORS Jillian Swinford Alan, Tommy If you are interested StaFF WRitERS COntEnt EDitORS in contributing to our George, Mackenzie, Alan, paper, please submit your Mackenzie, George articles, poems or artwork Matt U., Stephanie, Nick CORE LAYOut DEsiGN A., Shelby, Tommy to Michelle Pegram or By Ryan Michelle Zarilli. Your work will be The Yellow Door Chronicles and the YDC logo are copyright © 2005-2009 by the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School. All rights reserved. reviewed by the YDC All text not covered under the above notices is copyright of its respective author and is used under permission. team for future issues. Continued on page 2 Volume 5 Issue 1 3 “Green” Marketing Campaigns Mislead Consumers national & world By Alan During the past cou- ple of years, various companies and manufacturers have been claiming to be “green,” making efforts to help lower or remove their carbon footprint and im- pacts on nature. According to TerraChoice.com, however, a vast majority of these claims are baseless, often manipulated into sounding better than they really are, and sometimes completely fabricated for the sole purpose of misleading consumers. According to The Guardian, a UK newspaper, a “Green” Companies Polluting the Environment whopping 98% of green claims are false. A few main contribu- cleaning product manufactur- Airlines such as Easy- tors to this greenwashing, or ers, banking groups such as Citi, Jet have been saying that their whitewashing with “green” lies and the cosmetology industry. aircraft are better for the en- are airlines, auto manufacturers, Other examples include Kmart, vironment and atmosphere Tender Corp., and Dyna-E. than previously, but there are Continued on page 4 North Korea Threatens U.S. With Nuclear Weapons By Nick A. continued from page 1 what the consequences would be that America will continue to pro- for trespassing vessels. tect South Korea with a “nuclear The missile was a Tae- umbrella” project. It was signed a podong-2 missile, which is able week later. to launch 4,000 miles from the Also, in order to protect Dongchang-ni site located at America, president Obama has in- North Korea’s northwestern coast. creased Missile defenses in Hawaii. Intelligence analysts do not be- The United Nations is also lending lieve that North Korea would be a helping hand by urging North able to hit Hawaii from that dis- Korean authorities to refrain from tance for Hawaii is 4,500 miles taking any further measures, which away. may deteriorate the already serious In order to protect South situation, despite previous threats Korea, South Korean president from North Korea of worse actions Lee Myung-bak, flew to Ameri- to come. ca on June 15th to get a written A Korean destroyer ship, Sejong the Great The main reason North Ko- promise from president Obama rea started threatening the U.S. is Continued on page 6 4 The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act By Shelby that the warning covers most of in the U.S. and the world. the product. Another big part Right before the new law On June 22, 2009 Presi- of this act will reinforce how was officially passed, President dent Obama signed the Fam- and where tobacco companies Obama noted that it “represents ily Smoking Prevention and market their products and change that’s been decades in Tobacco Control Act. This what crowd these ads speak to. the making.” During George W. act gives the Food and Drug Although the number of Bush’s presidency, the legisla- Administration the right to tobacco related deaths have de- ture talked about making simi- regulate what tobacco indus- creased in the past years, they lar changes, but Bush threat- tries put into their products; are still considerable in num- ened to veto any law passed. flavored tobacco products in- ber. In recent years, more than Obama strongly believes This law may prevent cluding menthol or fruit fla- 400,000 Americans die annually that this new law will save people from smoking. vor and misleading labels on from smoking-related ailments. lives, especially those of teenag- cigarettes that say things such or before their 18th birthday.” Cigarette smoke contains ers. According to CNN, right as “mild,” “light,” or “full-flavor,” In addition to the ban of fla- over 4,800 chemicals includ- before Obama signed the new will soon be taken off shelves. vored tobacco, it will no longer ing ammonia, natural flavors law he stated, “Each day, 1,000 In addition, tobacco com- be legal for tobacco companies and lead. Of those chemicals, young people under the age of panies will be required to print to advertise at sports venues or 69 are proven to be cancer 18 become new, regular, daily the general health risks larger print their logos on clothing causing. Smoking is the most smokers, and almost 90 per- and with more information, so and give them away, because preventable cause of death cent of all smokers began at these acts target younger crowds. Continued on page 6 “Green” Marketing Campaigns Mislead Consumers By Alan continued from page 3 no statistics that help back up their claims. actuality made things worse, being more le- Despite being a reputable bank hold- GreenwashingIndex.com calls EasyJet out nient with airplanes and their fuel usage. ing company, Bank of America subsidiary on this. Another example would be The Auto manufacturers are also a large play- MBNA has had its part in greenwashing, Airbus A380, which was marketed as be- er in the greenwashing scene. They market according to ClimateChangeCentral.com. ing “a cleaner environment inside and out,” their hybrid electric/gas cars as being “green” They say that for every transaction made though it is actually a very polluting plane. and “clean,” but no car is good for the envi- by their customers, a portion of the money The Bush Administration even addressed ronment. This is a classic example of a lesser made from the transaction fee will go to this issue with the Clear Skies Initiative, of two evils. work towards “carbon offsets”, but in reality which was supposed to heighten restric- Toyota in particular is responsible for less than half a percent of their revenue is tions on emissions from aircraft, but in all perpetuating many of the lies in the “green” used for this purpose. auto field; the Toyota Prius is advertised as Lastly, the cosmetology industry has being good, or at least neutral for the envi- been using terms and buzzwords like “natu- ronment, but in reality it is not, still using ral” and “organic” in their advertising, even gas and containing materials that are harm- when those claims may not be true.

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