North Current The MAY 2014 | VOLUME 55 | ISSUE 5 where in the world are seniors going? see pages 14-15 rampant commercialism! pages 22-25 mascots unmasked! see pages 12-13 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL 3 table of contents high fives 2 Table of Contents 3 Editorial 4 Stu’pinions 5-7 Opinion 8-10 Current Events 11 News Briefs 12-13 Features 14-15 Double Truck 16-17 News 18 Sports 1. Chris Allison eating celery with Mitt Romney: He was a nice 19-20 Entertainment guy. 21-23 Health and Fitness 2. Zonkeys: Zebra + donkey = 2 cute 23-25 Advertisements 4 us 3. Last issue: Woohoo! Mission Ac- complished! editorial board 4. Challenge Day: Sending you Chelsea Hammersmith | Co-Editor-in-Chief photo credit: john de leon, ’14 peace and love. Joe Simkus | Co-Editor-in-Chief Nice weather? Blam! Chris Anders | Entertainment Editor 5. Spring: Joe Simkus | Sports Editor Marisa DiPaolo | Features Editor the North CurrentMAY 2014 | VOLUME 55 | ISSUE 5 deep sixes Sydnee Gee | Opinion Editor EDITORIAL POLICY Karina Gandhi | Health & Fitness Editor The is an open forum with no prior review or restraint. It is produced five times Anisha Monga | News Briefs Editor North Current SK ANY HIGH SCHOOL GRAD- of people, they are all gone by the time a year by staff members as an extracurricular activity. The editorial board has determined an Breanna Wishnow | Current Events Editor uate about their high school you graduate. Your fond memories are editorial policy to maintain a responsible, ethical student newspaper. The following guidelines Nirav Virani | News Editor experience, and you are met just that: memories. A warm feeling in- are taken from the editorial policy. Individuals wishing to examine the complete policy may Kiah Vanderbrink | Asst. News Editor request it from an advisor or read it in the staff manual. with the same old clichés: side that you cannot quite trace back to Kyle Berry | Photo Editor EDITORIALS: Editorials represent a consensus of opinion among members of the editorial “Four years never flew by so fast.” “These its source. Cameron Kirk | Cartoon Editor board and will not be signed. Editorials express the opinions of the North Current editorial Aare the best years of your life; make the When you graduate, the people you are Alex Wozniak | Business Manager board and do not necessarily reflect the views of the advisor or administration. most of them.” The same rehashed, re- surrounded with on a daily basis sudden- Rebecca Gemkow | Advisor ADVERTISING POLICY: The agrees to accept all ads meeting the guidelines of Carolyn Rehak | Advisor North Current used, and recycled material. Yet as un- ly disappear and scatter across the coun- our advertising policy. No ad may be sexist, racist or poor in taste. Jennifer Buck-Castaneda | Advisor original and lazy as it seems, I as a soon- try to the schools of their choosing. Your 1. The end of Colbert (not re- CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES: The North Current will avoid sensational treatment of news but will to-be graduate of Glenbard North High daily routine and rituals, the things that We salute you Mister Colbert; we never avoid a topic simply because it is controversial. The North Current reserves the right of School cannot sum it up any better. keep you going every morning and every ally): fair interpretation on controversial stories. will truly miss the Report. staff writers Whether you love school or hate it, night get flipped on their head once you Kyle Stankoskey, Dielle Ochotorena, Ariana OBSCENITY/LIBEL: Stories or statements of a libelous or obscene nature will not be printed. No. No way. Hammersmith, Catherine Kim, Kiah Vander- Obscenity and libel are determined according to the legal guidelines. whether you relish in academic success leave. Make them last. Four years gone 2. Starbucks Wine: brink, Kristin Maglabe, Anthony DiPaolo, AWARDS: NISPA Golden Eagle ’93, ’95, ’96, ’97,’98, ’99, ’02; EIHSPA Best Overall Paper in State or cringe at the sight of your grade point in the blink of an eye. Please make them 3. Coming up with titles: It only Filasha Finley, Shawn Karim, Taylor Den- ’95,’99,’04; Best design paper ’02; NSPA Pacemaker Finalist ’94, ’97; NSPA All-American ’93, ’94, average, high school and everything it en- last. reminds us how uninventive we are. ning, Melinda Troyka, Libby Simkus, Chris ’95, ’96; NSPA 1st place; ’02, ’03; NSPA 1st Place Quill and Scroll ’93, ’94, ’99, ’01, ’03; 1st place compasses seem but a fleeting memory When your four not-so-long years of Allison, Asheena Siddiqui, Tony Jacob, Alana Worse every year. KEMPA,’97, ’02, ’03; All KEMPA ’94, ’95, ’04; Gallup Award ’95, ’96, ’02, ’04; ASPA 1st Place ’99, by the end of your senior year. I swear it high school come to an end, hold on to 4. AP Tests: Reynolds Why ’02; Gold medalist CSPA ’04 was just yesterday that I walked through what memories you have. No matter how 5. PSAE Test Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday? Weird Fri- AFFILIATIONS: JEA/NSPA, Northern Illinois Press Association, KEMPA, Quill and Scroll, East- Door Eight after a warm, relaxing summer far you may move and how long you may ern Illinois High School Press Association, American Scholastic Press Association, Columbia break. And the day before that, I swear I be gone, these memories will serve as a days are the worst. Scholastic Press Association was entering Glenbard North for the first token of your youth, so make them last. 6. Last issue: We have very mixed photo credits SPONSORS: Sharon Anderson, Nicole Bachara, Erica Bray-Parker, Andrew Burkemper, Eric feelings about this. Day, Don Depa, Carolyn Fitzgerald, Chris Fridlund, Joyce Fridlund, Carol Gebka, Mark Glenn, time as a young, eager, slightly lost fresh- Kyle Berry | Front Cover Laura Johnson, Kristin Kane, Justin Kerwin, Nathin King, Cindy Maloney, Joe McKeown, Kristen man. Four years seem long when you are John De Leon | Back Cover Meyers, Deb Novak, Jill O’Donnell, Dorothy O’Malley, Nancy Pearson, Carolyn Rehak, Kim Sax- taking them day by day, but in retrospect, cartoon credit: Bilal Rizvi | Model ton, Paulette Sokolowski, Bev Vosicky, Miriam Walton it almost feels like nothing at all. Those cameron kirk, ’14 four years, dozens of classes, hundreds THE NORTH CURRENT | MAY 2014 | VOLUME 55 | ISSUE 5 THE NORTH CURRENT | MAY 2014 | VOLUME 55 | ISSUE 5 4 OPINION OPINION 5 sydnee gee Racist Against White People? opinions editor E HAVE ALL HEARD IT. A mean losses for the other. Americans, white people are three times Stu’pinions white person and a person What the people who believe this more likely to live in deep poverty, re- of color get into a heated fail to see is that reverse racism does verse racism will be a real and pervasive (Don’t worry. It’s just a contraction for student opinions.) debate about race issues, not and cannot exist. Australian-based issue, entrenched in our society. Until kyle berry john de leon and the person of color will point out the standup comedian Aamer Rahman ex- then, there is no system of oppression in Wdeplorable racism illustrated in George plains it perfectly to the Huffington Post. America that actively works to oppress photo editor staff photographer “For 3 years we’ve been lost Zimmerman’s acquittal, while the white Covering issues like colonization, im- and subjugate white people. When a per- person will criticize affirmative action perialism, slavery, inequality, privilege, son of color expresses prejudice or racial puppies trying to find our way, but now and the inequality shown when a black war, cultural superiority and internalized biases towards a white person, while it is we are the top dogs; we run this kennel!” student is picked over a white student racism, he sums up the fact that the only unfair and possibly even bigoted, that in- who has the same creden- dividual is acting alone, and -Peter Nicieja tials. As said white person it is wildly inappropriate to proceeds to explain how call this reverse racism and hypocritical it is for the per- claim that it is racism on par son of color to be so racist with anything like the insti- “In theatre, it’s really cool to have in such a culturally accepting tutionalized racism that per- underclassmen look up to you. We society, suddenly the issue son of color will come into aren’t just any ol’ bag of potato chips of reverse racism is brought contact with. to the forefront of the de- Racism in its most truth- in the pantry anymore. We are the bate. Furthermore, perhaps ful form is when prejudice BEST bag of chips in the pantry. the white person will ex- and power combine to the #Tasty” claim that while people of point where discrimination color face less discrimina- is ingrained in the attitudes -Sean Jones tion, white people face just and ideals of a society, as much. contributing to the implicit Therein lies the problem and explicit oppression of racial issues in the twenty- of the rights and liberties first century. In May 2011, of a group of people. This What is your favorite part the journal Perspectives on intolerance within social Psychological Science pub- structures is allowed to lished a study done by Tufts run rampant because of University’s School of Arts enforcement in laws and about being a senior? and Sciences and Harvard media biases, institutional- Business School which found izing prejudice. It is present that both white and black in every aspect of life, from “Knowing you are setting an example people agree that anti-black the perceptions of jurors in racism has decreased over the last sixty way reverse racism can exist is if people criminal cases and funding for public for the underclassmen.” years.