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EARTHQUAKE OLD VS. NEW IS CHEERLEADING SURVIVOR WORKS HIP HOP: WHAT A SPORT? 2 TO ACHIEVE GOALS 3 DOES PIKE THINK? 4 PIke High School 5401 W. 71st St. Indianapolis, IN 46268 ike Hi-Life December 2016 Vol. 75 Issue 3 Is the dress code fair? Many believe it disproportionately targets girls, while others think it’s OK HALEIGH STINER guys, it should be stricter for things like sagging, what kind Editor-in-chief of logos and symbols and The dress code policies words are written on them,” at many schools around the science teacher Ms. Danielle country have caused a lot of Lord said. controversy. Pike also has a Brown, who personally has dress code that some people been called out for wearing disagree with. Many people leggings with a jacket, agrees find the dress code sexist. with Ms. Lord. “(The dress code) is mostly “I feel like it should be less focused on (girls),” junior Dar- focused on females,” Brown ling Brown said. said. “In general, it’s just kind For example, Brown said, of unnecessary.” the rules about showing Certain students feel it shoulders and wearing leg- Sarah Medrano / Hi-Life should just be enforced dif- Juniors Michael Condon, Kiran Patel, Monica Pineda and gings target females more ferently. Anisha Mahenthiran wear hooded sweatshirts without the than males. “I don’t really think the hoods up, abiding by the school dress code. Junior Elizabeth Bowers dress code specifically should said, in reference to the dress as girls cannot wear leggings like junior Natalie Benedict, be changed. I just think the code, “The sexualization of without proper coverage. the rules over skirt and short way we enforce it should teenage girls needs to cease.” “For women and young lengths can be overly confin- be changed,” junior Aiden The dress code includes ladies particularly, we have to ing. Werner said. He said a copy rules about wearing leggings, be very careful with how we “If I were to wear the things of the dress code should be skirt and short lengths, and present ourselves,” she said. short or average height girls posted in every classroom, showing shoulders. Many “You want to make sure you’re wear to school, I would have so students are always aware people feel that these rules covered.” ISS because I’m tall and things of what the administration target female students more. Science teacher Ms. fit me differently,” she said. expects. Assistant Principal Ms. Deborah Calhoun believes the Some people believe Ms. Lord still feels that it is DeDee Nathan disagrees with dress code is fair. She said that the dress code needs to be a necessary rule to have. this. She believes the rules she loves having a dress code. changed. “I think [the dress code] is Pike has in place are equal for “Having a dress code helps “I do think the dress code there for a reason,” said Ms. both genders. For example, students feel included,” she should be more geared Lord. “If we didn’t have it, boys cannot wear leggings said. toward males as well because students would push things without proper coverage, just For girls who are taller, they do break some rules. For to unreasonable extremes.” News 2 december 2016 Overcoming the odds Senior who survived an earthquake in her native Haiti finds success here BY JANAY WATSON “Everything I do now is for Reporter her,” Douge said of her mother. While her mother is still in “It was literally the most Haiti, Douge works hard in scariest moment of my entire school so that she can give life. In that split moment, it back to her for all of the hard was complete chaos.” work and love that her mother Senior Kernisha Douge en- gave to her. dured great tribulation while “She stays focused,” study in Haiti, the most traumatic hall instructor Mr. Erik Daven- being the earthquake that port said. “I don’t have to ask ripped through the entire is- her to get busy. She’s a hard land and killed approximately worker.” 220,000 people and injured Douge works an after- 300,000 more, according to school job in an effort to save Oxfam.org. money to buy her mother’s Douge, who was born in plane ticket. On gradua- and grew up in Haiti, said tion day, Douge anticipates that many of the Haitians had anxiously to share the great never learned about earth- accomplishment with her quakes and had never seen Sarah Medrano / Hi-Life mother, which they both have one. This humanitarian crisis- Kernisha Douge, left, talks in the hallway with a friend. worked so hard for. She is causing event left more than dedicated to seeing it through 1.5 million people homeless. As a young lady with such “He didn’t come soon to the finish. Douge said that the after- faith, Douge did not lose enough,” Douge said. “There are times I want to math involved many “white hope, but rather learned from Though, after he did, give up,” Douge said. people coming to help.” the experience. things began to get better for For English teacher Mr. Rod- Everyone was grateful for the “It humbled me,” she said. their family financially. Still, ney Smith, three things that assistance. Growing up in Haiti was there were struggles, but they set Douge apart from other “We had food and water never too blissful for Douge. overcame them together. students are her “drive, ambi- from officials, but it was first Where Douge comes from, Her family worked hard to tion, and goals.” come, first served,” she said. people had no choice but to ensure that Kernisha could Mr. Smith said that her Many people endured hunger work for what they needed. get an education, which was connection to her roots and and lack of resources because Here in the United States, not a privilege many children her desire to give back to her “it was never enough,” Douge those things tend to be taken in Haiti had. community is something that said. for granted, she said. “We had to use our re- a lot of Americans lack. Although she and her “Money was not some- sources. My mother’s main “But she didn’t grow up in family suffered greatly from thing that came easy,” Douge priority was school,” she said. that society,” Smith said. “She this natural disaster, which said. Many children in Haiti were taught me that people need took place on Jan. 12, 2010, She was raised by her not able to attend school. to be proud of their culture. If Douge and her family were mother for a great part of her Douge’s mom wanted more you want to improve yourself, still thankful that things were life. It was not until she was for her daughter, her only that has to be connected and not worse. 8 years old that her father child. This is the reason she engaged in your family roots “We were blessed nobody showed up in her life and is able to go to school in the in our house was hurt,” she began to help support the United States and live with said. family. her extended family. SEE KERNISHA ON PAGE 6 News december 2016 3 A musical debate: Old or new rap? Students give their opinions about which one they like better and why BY JADA OWENS is so terrible. He says three notes in different patterns, Reporter ‘Old rap has meaning ‘This generation is like (in) ‘My Way.’” to it, but new rap has stuck on choruses New artists are losing the In the 1800s, people meaning of what music was from Western Africa began nice beats.’ that make them feel supposed to be, Offut said. rhythmically telling stories “The beats are just made and beating on a drum for good and turn up.’ (by) computers. There’s no accompaniment. Caribbean -Junior Calib Overton real instruments. There’s no folk singers were also telling -Senior David Offut band playing right there. It’s stories using rhyme. These po- just pointless. All the people ets started the foundation of are just doing it for money. I rap, which today is a popular people don’t care about the rap better. can’t really take them serious,” music genre. lyrics in music anymore.” “I like both. It depends on he said. Rap was meant to tell He feels that this genera- the mood,” he said. “At parties, Offut thinks that some stories and create lyrics using tion’s rappers have respect for I like new hip-hop.” rappers respect the past and poetry. Did rap lose its pur- those that have come before He feels like this genera- some don’t. pose? Has the new generation them. tion’s hip-hop is the same. “Some people do, but of rap dismembered what was “It’s not that they respect “The new rappers in XXL some people don’t, just be- created before it? Students them. It’s just they don’t disre- magazine are hype right now, cause they weren’t in that era at Pike High School revealed spect them,” he said. but next year no one’s going of time,” he said. their opinions on new versus He can’t decide if he likes to listen to them,” he said. “Lil Junior Machai Robertson old rap and which they prefer. new or old rap better. Uzi is one person that will still believes this generation just Junior Calib Overton said “Old rap has lyrics and be hype next year.