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SO LONG 2020. YOU WON’T BE MISSED. The Vantage Point A Hudsonville HS Publication JANUARY 2021 5037 32nd Avenue Hudsonville, MI 49426 ISSUE 3 How teenagers lives change over quarantine Teens are forced into isolation after their social lives are put to a halt students the stay at home order take care of my siblings at the not as easy to do when everyone Sean Monroe hasn’t been too bad of a change, same time while my mom goes is in the same zoom class. For but for some students it has only to work,”said sophomore Allysa classes like AP environmental Staff Reporter amplified Bravata . While science which utilizes labs and their many students hands on learning, the switch to Covid-19 has had already find online online has had a major impact on an impact on everyone’s lives present school an easy the way students take the class. over the past year, whether problems and free way With the recent shutdown the it’s not having family dinners at home, to skip class environmental students have to go at restaurants or having to see “ Being others are out and do the labs on their own family members over zoom forced struggling to then come back to class to ask meetings, things have changed. to stay keep up and questions and review the results The change for some people home and stay learning. which can be hard for students hasn’t just been the outside having Online learning with tight schedules, according to world, but their home lives have nowhere for many is senior Katelyn Smith. On the other changed as well. “Covid has to go harder than side it may give students who definitely made me closer with my because traditional don’t have anything else to do, a family and I think that just being everything courtesy of www classroom reason to go outside and do some Life at home almost forced to spend more time is closed Students stay home during covid-19 learning school work. Online classes may with them has made me realize shutdowns and resort to social media to contact has not friends. because some not be as effective as in person how much I appreciate them. helped people learn learning but as the covid cases It has also made me a lot more me keep my sanity over the last better with hands on paper and rise it’s something that has to be patient in my day-to-day life,” said few weeks. It’s hard to keep up pencil work and the ablility to ask done to ensure the safety of the senior Caden Sieggreen, For some with school work when I have to personalized questions which is students. Gender norms are moving in a new direction The revolution of gender standards in 2020 is staying strong in 2021 is most widely spread by Gen Z on makeup. Not only is this feminine these celebrities have received Alexa Beltz TikTok, a creative video-sharing movement being seen on Tiktok, backlash. Harry Styles was platform. During Halloween, but it also can be seen through a involved in the most recent case Staff Reporter several boys began to create multitude of public figures. of this. In his Vogue photoshoot videos of he wore a dress, which caught With social reforms themselves Many the attention of many other changing the way people think dressed celebrities public figures who critiqued him in 2020, the normalization of in maid have for not appearing to dress as a men wearing skirts and nail costumes, expressed “manly man.” Even though many polish is just a couple of the and from their others have also criticism. Harry things that have revolutionized there it gender Styles and many more have calmly gender norms in current society. took off. fluidity in responded to the criticism and Recently, the idea of men wearing The trend fashion, haven’t backed down from their traditionally “feminine” clothes gained which has interest in dressing fluid. Other and accessories has generated a popularity been all smaller public figures, like creators massive amount of support. and over the on Tiktok or Instagrammers, have Although men encouraged media. also experienced the backlash expressing their femininity has men to courtesy of www While that came with dressing gender been seen before from LGBTQ+ publicly Challenging gender norms Harry Styles poses in a gender fluid as well as people out of the members, it has been more express dress for the cover of Vouge. fluidity public eye. Gender fluidity can accepted and encouraged by their has be seen throughout history, but people of all genders and all interest in traditionally feminine gained lots of traction when it the widespread acceptance is sexual orientations now than in ideas like wearing dresses, comes to public acceptance, it what has made it so revolutionary the past. This wave of acceptance skirts, crop tops, nail polish and hasn’t been easy, as many of today. This page layout design & editing by Sean Monroe 2•JANUARY 2021 NEWS & VIEWS KelsieColumnist Sparks Game show loses lifetime host week before he died. The news Merv Griffin asked him to be the of Trebek’s death broke hearts Jada Doerr host of Jeopardy!. throughout the nation. Following Trebek’s career as a HARK TO Staff Editor the death of the beloved host, game show host was historical; many celebrities, fans, and SPARK he set many records and touched contestants(including all three many people’s hearts. Trebek Zac Baker Greatest of All Time tournament earned five daytime Emmy awards Staff Reporter contestants) expressed their for his work as a host. Trebek sadness, love, and thanks for received a personal achievement This is senior year Trebek. when he passed Bob Barker, the for some of us. The year On November 8, Starting in January host of The Price is Right, as the without normal football games, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek 2021, Jeopardy! will have a new person to host the most game homecoming, pep rallies, college passed away at 80, after his long season for the first time without show episodes. Through all of tours, maybe prom, and possibly battle with Stage IV pancreatic Trebek. Instead of hiring a long- this success, a normal graduation. Instead cancer. term replacement, they will try Trebek stayed of having normal traditions, we Over the several interim hosts, starting humble, always now have masks, SAT’s, and the 37 different seasons, with Ken Jennings, the most mentioning that constant fear of shut down. The Trebek hosted over winning player in Jeopardy! history he was enjoying class of 2020 was recognized 8,200 episodes of the and the winner of the Greatest his life, loving for being the class at home. But show Jeopardy! Even of All Time tournament. The his job, loving what about the students in self- though he spent all executive producer mentioned the show, and quarantine? What about eagle of these years as a that Trebek wanted the show to having fun virtual? What about all of us? television host, Trebek’s keep going, because he believed courtesy of www getting to know 2020 graduates still had half of success did not come in it. Beginning on December 21, Legendary legacy Trebek hosted all of the show’s their senior year, but since the easy. Trebek was initially Jeopardy! will honor Trebek by Jeopardy! for nearly 8,200 episodes, participants. class of 2021 is at home now, studying philosophy spanning 37 seasons. airing his 10 best episodes. In will we ever go back? We are when he changed his Over Trebek’s 35 years 2018, Trebek debated retirement, missing out on key things that mind and decided he wanted to as the host of Jeopardy!, he left but he ended up signing an make senior year special. I am be a journalist. He then worked a legacy while becoming one of extension through 2022. missing out on all the original as a reporter for a broadcasting the most cherished figures in Producers mentioned that he plans I had. Being able to go to corporation for a while. While in American television. Trebek was loved the show because of how the homecoming dance with my his mid 20’s, Trebek decided once supported by all of his friends it tested people’s intelligence. friends and coming home feeling again to switch his career path; and family, and he is survived by Even when Trebek was battling gross, being able to dance in a this time to a game show host. He his wife, Jean, and their three cancer he still showed up to beautiful dress that doesn’t fit originally started at a show called children.The show will not ever work because of his love for the right at prom, sitting next to all Reach for the Top, and then he be the same, but Trebek paved a show. He filmed new episodes of my peers in a hot event hall later hosted the game show called path for the future hosts of the up until October 29—just over a listening to graduation speeches, Jackpot. In 1984, producer host show. while my parents waive from the crowded stands. These events Raterink reflects on science trip weren’t perfect but they were of COVID-19, such as shortening experience so great,” said good enough for me and I took Baron Davis the trip to two weeks instead Raterink. them for granted. I know we of three weeks, but that didn’t With an impact that won’t get any of these memories Staff Reporter stop Raterink from taking full would stay with him forever, back.