THE KNIGHT TIMES - October 2016

A Gatsby Homecoming 

Week of celebration 

features tailgate, fun, 

and football 

Page 4 

Presidential Election 

Arguments for the 

candidates 

Pages 8-9 

Photo by Teagan Ashworth. 

Images courtesy of flickr.com. 

THE KNIGHT TIMES 

Official Student Newspaper of Episcopal High School 

October 2016 4650 Bissonnet, Bellaire, Texas 77401 www.ehshouston.org Volume 32, Issue 3 

Career diversity 

marks success of 

EHS graduates 

Alumni prepare seniors for professional world 

The second annual Alumni Leadership Day provides important insight 

SYDNEY HUTCHINS 

Staff Writer 

Among the many alumni of Episcopal 

High School that have accomplished extraordinary 

goals resides a professional 

USPA polo player, a product development 

engineer at Boeing, and a content writer 

and editor. 

Kristy Outhier is a professional USPA 

polo player from Houston who graduated 

with the Class of 1991, went to Tulane University 

and Texas A&M University, and 

received a B.A. in International Studies. 

She keeps 12-18 horses fit and prepared for 

competition and brings 6-8 horses for each 

game. Kristy plays late in the afternoon 

and doesn’t get home to her children until 

after dark. To be a professional polo player, 

according to Kristy, “you must have integrity, 

honesty, and will.” Polo is easy to get 

involved in, and there are many amazing 

polo teachers and programs at the Houston 

Polo Club. Pursuing this sport requires no 

experience or horse. 

John Deforest of the Class of 2004 is a 

thriving product development engineer 

who works for Boeing’s commercial production 

system. He graduated from the 

University of Arkansas with a B.S.I.E in 

industrial engineering and a B.S. in math, 

a M.S.E in engineering from Purdue, and a 

M.B.A from the UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan- 

Flagler School of Business. He deals with 

projects ranging from $1M - $5M, which 

benefits the 777X program and the 737 

MAX. After he gets help from a supplier, 

he takes prototype equipment and matures 

it so that it is ready for adoption into an 

airplane production system. John’s advice 

for someone entering into the field is to 

“always plan two steps in advance; be flexible, 

constantly look for new opportunities; 

get comfortable being uncomfortable; and 

don’t get complacent.” 

Allison Daniel is a content writer and 

editor for mindbodygreen. A graduate of 

Belmont University, she received a B.A. 

in songwriting. Allison says her days are 

incredibly diverse, but usually involve a 

combination of potential contributors, editing 

submitted work, brainstorming ideas 

for content with her team, and optimizing 

all post titles. Allison says getting internships 

in media “is about pursuing your 

goals and always updating your profile.” 

These distinguished alums, along with 

other successful EHS graduates, made the 

second Alumni Leadership Day quite informative. 

Seniors were able to meet and get 

firsthand information from former Knights 

who have gone on to not just successful but 

significant and fulfilling careers. 

Eileen Smith ’08 (left) and Mindy Wooldridge Samuelson ‘05 speak to the seniors about how to pursue the right career path in 

the fields of medicine and science. Photo by Ashleigh Teel. 

LAUREN PORTER 

Staff Writer 

Alumni Leadership Day is an important 

time for seniors to view potential career 

paths they might be interested in and get 

important insight into post-college job opportunities. 

They also learned how to make 

the right career path choices. The annual 

event offers students many career fields 

of their choice for panel attendance. This 

year, the panel length increased, giving students 

more time to ask questions and take 

advice from the over 50 alumni present. 

Students were able to attend three panels 

and hear from alumni about their experi- 

ences in various fields. Prior to Alumni 

Leadership Day, students determined 

which career topics interested them. The 

career choices showcased included law, 

medicine, journalism, sports, business, and 

many more. 

During panel sessions, seniors were 

encouraged to ask questions and learn as 

much as they could from the alumni. The 

alumni this year ranged from the first ever 

graduating class at Episcopal to very recent 

Class of 2011 graduates. 

Another important part of Alumni Leadership 

Day was the Chapel service. This 

year, the service was held on a different 

day than the panels to allow for more time 

during panel sessions. Speaking at the 

Chapel was James Lloyd, a Class of 2002 

alumnus who ran for Congress. He shared 

his advice for building experience in a career 

field and taking advantage of the endless 

opportunities Episcopal has to offer. 

Alumni Leadership Day remains an exciting 

time for seniors to begin thinking 

about the fast approaching reality of leaving 

high school and jumping into the professional 

world where career opportunities 

await them. The day allows seniors to gain 

a little more knowledge about what is to 

come in the professional world and prepare 

them for the obstacles that alumni had to 

overcome in their own lives.

2 FEATURES 

Episcopal High School The Knight Times 

Volume 32, Issue 3 

Immersion in Italian culture life-altering for senior Rockrise 

HUNTER MEGARITY 

Staff Writer 

Senior Christina Rockrise recently completed 

a year of educational immersion in 

Italy. This month’s spotlight focuses on 

Christina and her experiences in Europe. 

How did your year abroad in Italy affect 

you? 

My year abroad was a an eye-opening 

experience which had many effects on me, 

such as making me feel more independent, 

helping me feel connected to the history I 

had been learning in school, and teaching 

me the do’s and don’ts of traveling. Most 

importantly, it brought me out of my shell 

and forced me to experience something 

outside my comfort zone. I taught myself 

to stop worrying about my language skills 

when speaking to Italians and learned 

that being shy in a foreign country limits 

your experience. Talking to people, asking 

questions, and being involved can lead to 

incredible things, like getting free dessert 

in Greece or a new friend from Sicily who 

keeps in touch with me. You get out what 

you put in, and that is the most important 

thing I learned while living in Italy. 

What are some of the differences in the 

Italian and American school systems? 

I actually attended an American school 

while abroad. The program I went 

through, SYA Italy, takes applications 

like any other school and accepts people 

who then go to small, makeshift American 

schools in the middle of a medieval 

town. However, I did attend a local Italian 

school for five days to get a feel for life as 

a student in Italy. Italians go to five years 

of high school, and each school has a specific 

focus, such as arts, sciences, or math. 

The last year of high school is spent as a 

giant review year, going over everything 

they’ve learned in order to prepare for a 

test called La Maturità, which determines 

if they graduate. One great thing about 

the schools is that most of them get out 

around 12:00 or 1:00 so students can go 

home to eat lunch with their families. I 

enjoyed having most of the day to myself 

and being able to hang out with new Italian 

friends or getting cappuccinos with 

friends from my American school. A difficult 

part of the school system is how they 

teach; it’s so incredibly different. Some of 

my teachers in the American school were 

actually Italian professors and would expect 

us to learn like their Italian students. 

They throw information at you, and you 

take incredibly detailed notes and are 

expected to have it memorized by the next 

day in preparation for daily oral exams. 

It’s all rather anxiety-inducing for someone 

who has never, and will never, be able 

to learn that way. I find it incredible how 

students can do that, and do it well. 

Was it difficult immersing yourself into 

the Italian culture? What were the challenges 

you faced in the immersion? 

Contrary to popular belief, Italian life isn’t 

that different from American life. Everyone 

does the same basic things, but the 

fact that Italians are such an ancient people 

gives it little things that are different. 

For example, the entire city has a huge 

wall around it, dating back to the medieval 

times, for protecting citizens from 

invaders. They had ancient sarcophagi that 

they used for benches in public spaces, 

and everyone was constantly finding 

ancient artifacts right in their backyards. 

It was obvious that the world around me 

was incredibly ancient, but I was often 

distracted from immersing myself by the 

modern technology I had brought with 

me. It connected me to my life back home 

and acted as a tether to my comfort zone. 

As time went on, though, I adjusted to life 

in Italy and I was able to try to be more 

involved with my host family, with town 

events, and searching for new food. So. 

Much. New. Food. 

Everything my friends and I ended up 

doing was related to food, coffee, and 

especially gelato. I talked more to my host 

family and spent time with them, watching 

movies, going to themed markets, and 

learning about their family. I tried really 

hard to be a part of Italian society while 

I was there by riding the bus, eating at 

local restaurants, shopping at markets, 

and involving myself in the arts such as 

ceramics and learning their ancient sculpting 

skills. Because of those things, I could 

blend into Italian life and experience it 

as if people didn’t know I was American. 

I could be a part of their world and their 

history, and that is true immersion. 

Overall, how would you sum up your 

experience in Italy? Would you recommend 

it for other students? 

COLLINS HOWELL 

Staff Writer 

The third and final Presidential Debate 

on October 19 marked the last time the two 

candidates would come together to argue 

their points. Trump needed a big comeback 

after being down in the polls and suffering 

through mainstream media allegations. 

Chris Wallace was the mediator and 

got credit for being the best so far. The 

debate’s topics were the Supreme Court, 

fitness for office, foreign hotspots, debt 

and entitlements, immigration, and the 

economy. Some of the highlights included 

Trump’s reference to Clinton as a nasty 

woman. Clinton delivered her own shots, 

saying that Vladimir Putin would prefer 

EHS SPEAKS OUT 

What is your favorite Halloween costume? 

Overall, my experience really altered how 

I viewed myself and the grandness of the 

world. It expanded my view of this world 

we live in, and I am grateful I had the 

opportunity to go. I conquered my fear of 

learning new languages (I was terrible in 

Spanish class when I was at EHS beforehand. 

Always have been.), got to travel 

all over Europe with my friends and no 

adults, and experience that freedom, and 

really learned more about myself. The 

academics were hard, coming out of my 

shell was hard, the feeling of disconnectedness 

from my home was hard, but it was 

all worth it for what I learned. It is a year 

of my life that no one except those who 

experienced it with me will ever understand. 

What I learned isn’t really tangible, 

but it’s something that has made me able 

to look at my life in a different light. For 

this reason I would recommend it; this 

time abroad can really make you think 

about yourself and find out what you are 

capable of. It is a challenge but is really 

worth the outcome. 

Collie’s 

Corner 

Trump - a puppet. Trump also had to go 

on the defensive when Clinton referenced 

several allegations brought by women who 

said he had sexually harassed them. 

One of the biggest headlines of the evening 

was when Trump, asked if he would 

accept the election results if Clinton won, 

said he would rather leave everyone in suspense 

regarding his reaction. 

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Bennett Inoff 

“Banana” 

Iman Lloyd 

“Princess” 

Chase Gray 

“Groot” 

Weston Stanley 

“The Hulk” 

Mrs. Blackburn 

“Wonderwoman” 

Laily Mortazavi 

“Ladybug” 

Zach Green 

“Orange” 

Bryce Bagwell 

“Softball Player” 

Presley Zylman 

“Cheerleader” 

Mr. Mitchell 

“Batman”

FEATURES 



Episcopal honors its founders during special Chapel 

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ISABEL YOUNG 

Staff Writer 

Founders Day is an opportunity for 

the entire EHS community to honor the 

school’s original founders and give them 

recognition for the efforts they put forward 

in establishing the high school. 

The tradition of Founders Day reaches 

back to the school’s inception over 33 

years ago. It is very important to honor 

these visionaries and bring to the surface 

the story of their dream. 

In the mid 1970s, Bishop Benitez was 

talking with one of the soon-to-be founders. 

At this time he was working at St. 

John’s the Divine and asked the future 

founder if St. John’s had any type of 

Christian doctrine in their mission. They 

did not, and then this conversation paused 

for nine years when Benitez called the 

future founder back and told her he had 

found a property for EHS. She was eager 

to be a part of starting the school. So when 

ISABELLA GOODMAN 

Staff Writer 

A coffee bar has always been on the 

minds of EHS students, and particularly, 

Student Council representatives. In a 

recent move to make the concept a reality, 

Senior Class president Forrest Pressler 

put together the newly-formed Coffee 

Committee, which had its first meeting 

September 21. 

In committee, the group discusses pertinent 

topics relating to the coffee bar. They 

question concerns such as hours, menu, 

and atmosphere of the coffee bar, desiring 

to thoroughly deliberate and bring many 

advancements to the coffee front. 

Student Council has been working on 

this project for over a year, and in the 

early stages, it was a struggle to get the 

green light. Some of the initial issues concerned 

hours of operation, machines, and 

work that would need to go into having 

a coffee bar, but students worked hard to 

resolve these issues. This resolution led to 

some definitive answers. 

Projecting a temporary coffee bar to 

people think our school got started in 

1982 or 1983, conversation was underway 

years prior. 

In the ceremony during Founders Day 

Chapel, the keynote speaker was Founding 

Trustee John Austin, whose account of 

those early years of discussion brought the 

past alive. 

Linda Underwood, another benefactor of 

EHS, was specifically recognized with the 

Edward C. Becker Award. Mrs. Underwood 

received a lengthy standing ovation 

in response to her contribution, a moment 

that demonstrated the student body’s respect 

for and understanding of the efforts 

made by the forefathers of the school. 

Dean Colello acknowledged the importance 

of the event: “We need to continue 

to do the job of explaining (to students) 

what Founders Day is all about. It’s about 

those folks that paved the way for you and 

me to be here. I think that once we get that 

message out better, it will mean more to 

our students.” 

Coffee bar becoming a reality 

open in early November, students have 

been working to meet with coffee roasting 

companies, trying to get the physical 

equipment, along with much more behindthe-scenes 

work. The coffee bar will 

probably be open most of the day and will 

also likely include smoothies and food options 

after school. The temporary location 

will be in the concession stand located in 

Crum Gym. 

One concern was with the competition 

that could foreseeably ensue with the 

school store or the cafeteria, which serves 

breakfast in the morning. Since the coffee 

bar is not allowed to sell the same things 

as the school store, and an effort to keep 

revenue within the store, the committee 

has decided to stock fresher and healthier 

alternatives to what is being sold in the 

school store. Students also will not be 

able to pay with cash, and instead will use 

either vouchers, like cookie cards, or their 

school ID numbers. 

The Coffee Committee will meet every 

three weeks and is still open for students 

to join and offer ideas on making this the 

latest EHS feature. 

Drexel jams out on the bagpipes 

Founding Trustee John Austin speaks during Founders Day Chapel on behalf of 

the original founders of EHS. Photo by Mauro Gomez. 

WILL EDENS 

Staff Writer 

Have you ever wondered how Coach 

John Drexel knows how to bump those 

bagpipes as he leads the football team into 

battle? 

Mr. Drexel went to St. Thomas Episcopal 

School for lower and middle school in 

Houston where he was taught the bagpipes. 

The girls were taught how to do the 

Scottish jig while the boys were taught the 

bagpipes. He refined his talents with the 

pipes from 4th through 8th grade. 

He played in some competitions as 

a middle schooler and picked up a few 

awards along the way. With a few refresher 

courses, he now leads the Knight 

varsity football team out onto the field 

playing their battle song. Students look 

forward to see Mr. Drexel on the bagpipes 

to further exude school spirit. 

Coach John Drexel leads the team out 

onto the field from the locker room with 

his bagpipes. Among the songs he plays 

are “Scotland the Brave,” “Amazing 

Grace,” and “America the Beautiful.” 

Photo by Robert Mason.

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Students have a night of 1920s fun at Gatsby-themed Homecoming 

Following a week of spirited dress, the Homecoming game Friday night featured many activities. King and Queen Marco Rodriguez 

and Margaret Martin were crowned at halftime, the student section was alive with cheering fans, and Tex-Mex Tailgate 

was held prior to the game at Simmons Field. Photos by Teagan Ashworth. 


Staff Writer 

Homecoming is a time to support our 

Knights through all opportunities: Spirit 

Week, Tex-Mex Tailgate, the Friday Night 

game, and the Homecoming Dance. Students 

initially show support by dressing 

out during every theme day of the week in 

preparation for the game. 

The week started with a patriotic 

theme, and students were encouraged to 

go all out, and many did, showing off 

all-American outfits. Tuesday presented 

the opportunity for students to wear 

their favorite team jerseys. While some 

showed off their favorite Houston teams, 

there was a large array of different teams 

exhibited. On Wednesday, our school 

colors were proudly displayed with a Blue 

Out. On Thursday, students were decked 

out in their favorite throwback attire. This 

included past sports uniforms and clothing 

from decades ago. Finally, on Friday, students 

were encouraged to wear their Great 

Gatsby Homecoming shirts to cap off the 

week of themed dress. 

The Tex-Mex Tailgate was also on 

Friday, and many clubs showed up to 

contribute to the event. Clubs such as the 

Cooking Club, BBQ Club, Spirit Club, 

and Math Club showed up with food 

to get the event started. This continued 

until game time, and the student section 

was full to show support for the Knights 

as they played All Saints. The theme of 

the game was neon, and students stayed 

throughout, chanting and cheering on the 

Knights, who played hard. Despite a loss, 

resolve was strong and the school exhibited 

massive encouragement. 

On Saturday, the Homecoming dance 

took place in Crum Gym. The theme 

was Great Gatsby, and students from all 

grades represented their best 20s apparel. 

During this time, the Homecoming Court 

was also announced. For the Freshman 

Class, Margaret Murray and Tanner Witt 

were chosen. Tyler Donovan and Harrison 

Holmes represented the Sophomore Class, 

Aidan Cook and Judy Roberts were featured 

from the Junior Class, and Margaret 

Martin and Marco Rodriguez were the 

ultimate seniors chosen. 

The week was an opportunity for 

Episcopal High School students to come 

together and show support for each other. 

Haunted House to return next Halloween 

JORDAN PYTOSH 

Staff Writer 

This year, the EHS Interact Club will 

not host the Haunted House for their Halloween 

fundraising project, focusing on 

raising funds for research in polio. While 

an alternative remains in the works, there 

will most likely be a project to compensate 

as a replacement. 

Junior Chris Pollard’s family, the usual 

supplier for the Haunted House, was unable 

to provide the equipment necessary 

to set up the project this year. Many of 

the animatronics and props integral for 

the Haunted House come from a source in 

Dallas, and the person responsible for this 

setup was unable to come to Houston. 

However, another possibility is that 

faculty sponsor Mr. Tom Wright does not 

want EHS to “get tired of the Haunted 

House.” By hosting it every other year 

instead of yearly, he believes those in 

attendance will appreciate its importance 

and value for the noble cause of eradicating 

polio. 

The infinity rocks, located along the Convent circle, were designed as a place for students 

to relax and remember the legacy of Andrew Kaufman. Photo by Will Edens. 

Infinity rocks memorialize alum 

Students enjoyed visiting the haunted house and are highly anticipating its return 

for next year. Photo by Photo J. 

WILL EDENS 

Staff Writer 

Next time you walk across the front of 

the Convent, take a look at the garden area 

just east of the main doors. There, tucked 

away among the growing bushes and 

small trees, you will find a modest memorial 

in honor of Andrew Kaufman. 

Andrew, an EHS member of the Class 

of 1995, suddenly died the day after his 

graduation from meningitis. The memorial 

includes trees, a fountain, and a collection 

of rocks placed in an infinity symbol. The 

tree is called the Tree of Hope, and the 

rocks have a mes-sage branded into them, 

beginning with “Lie still with me.” After 

Andrews’s death his family and friends 

decided to construct this memorial in 

front of the school. Andrew’s sister, Laura 

Kaufman who was in the Class of ‘91, designed 

the memorial for her brother. There 

are benches surrounding the memorial as 

well, and the family intended it to be a 

place for students to relax and remember 

Andrew.

SPORTS 



Dennis Byrd’s life stands as a testament to determination 

GAVIN GEIB 

Staff Writer 

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Dennis Byrd, the former Jets defensive 

lineman with one of the most inspirational 

stories in NFL history, was killed Saturday, 

October 15, in a car crash. Byrd was 50 

years old. 

Byrd is best known for how he responded 

when his promising career came to an end 

on November 29, 1992, against the Kansas 

City Chiefs. That day at Giants Stadium, 

Byrd collided with teammate Scott 

Mersereau while trying to make a sack. 

Byrd, then in his fourth NFL season, suffered 

a fractured vertebrae and damage 

to his spinal cord. Doctors weren’t sure if 

he’d walk again, but within months, Byrd 

had defied the odds. The impact of the collision 

broke the C-5 vertebra in Byrd’s 

neck, leaving him unable to walk for a 

few weeks. After a vigorous rehabilitation, 

Byrd returned to the Meadowlands 

for the Jets’ opening game the following 

season and walked to midfield as an honorary 

captain. No one has worn No. 90 since 

Byrd. His number was retired in a 2012 

ceremony. 

In 2011, Byrd helped inspire the Jets 

to one of their most impressive postseason 

wins. Former Coach Rex Ryan asked 

Byrd to speak to the team the night before 

a playoff game against the New England 

Patriots in Foxborough, Mass. The next 

day, the Jets stunned the Patriots, and several 

players said that Byrd’s speech played 

a key role. 

His remarkable story was the subject of 

the television movie Rise and Walk: The 

Dennis Byrd Story. The crash happened 

late Saturday morning when a 17-year old 

driving a 2000 Ford Explorer crossed the 

centerline and hit a 2004 Hummer H2 driven 

by Byrd, according to multiple reports. 

Byrd was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Byrd will be remembered as an inspirational 

figure who impacted many. 

After suffering a paralyzing injury in 1992, the Jets defensive lineman rose to walk again, becoming an inspiration both within 

the game and beyond it. Photos courtesy of brandsoftheworld.com and sportsillistrated.com. 

Durant’s OKC exit tarnishes 

his formerly solid reputation 

Joey Streller presents 

HUNTER MEGERITY 

Staff Writer 

Kevin Durant is known as one of the most 

talented players in the NBA. He is revered 

for his ability to not only shoot from the perimeter 

but also manufacture some vicious 

slam-dunks. This year, KD abandoned the 

Oklahoma City Thunder, took the easy 

way out, and sided with the Golden State 

Warriors, an NBA powerhouse. 

Followers of both the NBA and Durant 

are ashamed of his decision to leave his 

old team to try to win a championship instead 

of working harder to try to win with 

the Thunder. Last year in the playoffs, Durant 

and the Thunder were up 3 games to 

1 over the Warriors, but the Warriors hit a 

hot steak and ended up knocking out the 

Thunder. 

During the offseason, Durant signed a 

2-year, $54,000,000 contract. Tayjon Martin, 

a junior at EHS, is very disappointed in 

Kevin Durant’s character and his decision. 

He told The Knight Times, “I will never 

wear my Kevin Durant jersey again.” He 

is also mad that “he took the easy way out. 

He had the chance to prove his true character 

and make a run to the playoffs with 

his team. I can’t wait to see Lebron James 

and the Cavaliers whoop the Warriors this 

year.” 

Clearly, Kevin Durant has angered his 

fans, and he has a lot to prove this year if 

he ever wants his fans to be as loyal as they 

once were. 

Photo courtesy of tyisports.com. 

Fantasy football season is always an exciting 

time of year, but only if your team is 

good. Some leagues have a buy-in, and the 

winner of the league gets all of the buy-in 

money. Some leagues also have punishments 

for the person who gets last place. 

Just ask senior James Braniff if you have 

any question about last place punishment. 

The first place prize and the last place 

punishment make the fantasy season that 

much more competitive. At this point in 

time (Week 6), my fantasy team is 2-4. I 

have gotten blown out a few times, and 

I have an unfortunate loss to frat star 

Matt Brown to whom I tied and lost the 

tie breaker. The tie breaker in our league 

goes to the person who has the most bench 

points. 

The run for first place in our league is 

pretty close with Matt Brown in first place 

with a record of 5-1 and then a four-way tie 

for second place between Michael Podsednik, 

Connor Aaronson, Bennett Inoff, and 

Probationary Blues 

Jax Murphy. Last place is Camden Miller 

who is 0-6, but he is planning a comeback 

this week. 

One thing that can’t be argued about 

Probationary Blues - my topics are jejune, 

mind-numbing, and plebeian. Next week: 

Washing the Dishes: Does dexterity count?

6 ENTERTAINMENT 



Snowden shockingly accurate 

ANTHONY SMALL 

Editor-in-Chief 

It has been said that true patriotism is 

willingness to challenge the government 

when it is wrong. Few men in American 

history embody this characteristic more 

than Edward Snowden, the former NSA 

contractor who leaked classified information 

regarding the United States’ warrantless 

spying of hundreds of millions of 

citizens. His disclosures sparked intense 

debate over mass surveillance and government 

secrecy, both of which would have 

never entered the public forum without his 

courageous actions. 

Oliver Stone’s film Snowden depicts 

the journey of this computer genius, an 

originally idealistic CIA employee and 

NSA contractor, who goes through the 

process of discovering the lies, corruption, 

and unconstitutional/illegal activities 

rampant throughout the government. 

Snowden’s response to this revelation 

should not only make you not want to put 

in prison but actually inspire you to want 

to do the same thing if you were in his 

position. 

Although Snowden is not a documentary, 

the movie encapsulates almost 

everything an American citizen should 

know about the National Security Agency. 

While dramatizing the events, the wellproduced 

and entertaining film delves into 

the cold, hard truth of federal surveillance. 

Snowden reveals that, under the guise of 

fighting foreign and domestic terrorism, 

the U.S. government actually spies on its 

citizens more than every other foreign 

nation combined! Snowden showed the 

world that the NSA carries out effectively 

warrantless spying while warrants for 

every individual the government spies on 

are issued through a secret court system 

known as FISA. Additionally, the 

whistleblower leaked the fact that the 

NSA performs keyword searches that sift 

through the real Internet (digital telecommunications 

like emails, texts, phone 

conversations), not just data that posted 

publicly. Another unsettling revelation by 

Snowden’s disclosures is that the NSA 

can look through any computer/phone 

Voltron’s successful reboot 

DRE GUTHRIE 

Staff Writer 

This year has been an excellent year 

for animation in television, from Steven 

Universe, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil, and 

Gravity Falls to The Amazing World of 

Gumball, but unfortunately, there hasn’t 

really been an American cartoon series 

meant for an older audience once Young 

Justice was canceled. That is, until Voltron: 

Legendary Defender came along as a 

Netflix Original series and really brought 

back what audiences have been missing: 

an animated cartoon with real character 

development as well as the fun of cartoons 

that we used to watch growing up. 

While initially successful in the 1980s, 

Voltron’s reboot is equally as compelling 

as its predecessor. Photo courtesy of latimes.com. 

Snowden superbly captures everything 

that an American should know about 

the NSA. Photo courtesy of fortune.com 

webcam without the user’s knowledge. 

Moreover, Snowden reveals that computer 

chips in power plants, dams, and other vital 

national infrastructure across the world 

have been pre-loaded with kill-switches, 

which he suspects were used to shut off 

the power grid and Internet in Syria multiple 

times over the past few years. However, 

most importantly, Snowden exposes 

a great deal of the true agenda behind government 

orchestrated mass surveillance by 

proving that this data is used to carry out 

blackmail and population control. 

The film concludes with Snowden’s 

plea from asylum in Russia that citizens 

and governments around the world work 

together to achieve a better balance 

between national security and information 

privacy. While the establishment will 

continue to make the case that Snowden 

should be charged with treason for exposing 

their illegal activities, Americans who 

think Snowden should be executed might 

have a change of heart. Once they witness 

the course of events from Snowden’s perspective, 

as well as the fact that his leaks 

did more to expose the erosion of one of 

our most sacred Constitutional rights, the 

fourth amendment, than any other person 

in U.S. history, they will recognize that 

Snowden is a true American patriot. 

Voltron, in essence, is Power Rangers 

for an older demographic. A group of four 

student space pilots, Pidge, Keith, Lance, 

and Hunk, encounter the Galra Empire, 

which was believed to be in hiding for 

long periods of time. In order to defeat 

them, they form Voltron, a 100-meter high 

robot composed of five different robotic 

lions that only they can control. With the 

help of Shiro, a revered pilot who was 

captured by the Galra and had his memory 

erased, they team up with Princess Allura 

and her butler Coran in order to protect 

their solar system from danger. It sounds 

like something I would have watched on 

Saturday mornings while eating a bowl 

of cereal, and that’s what’s so wonderful 

about it. It’s incredibly nostalgic to watch 

something like this, and, unlike Power 

Rangers or anything like that, the characters 

are incredibly lovable and fairly 

humorous. 

Now that it’s greenlit for a second season, 

we’ll get to see deeper into the pain 

that Shiro went through, Pidge’s need to 

prove himself as an important member of 

the team, and Keith’s willingness to be a 

leader beside Shiro. It’s a satisfying watch 

if you’re longing for something to remind 

you of older shows, and, fortunately for 

you, it’s worth all the time you give it. 

KNIGHTS 

ON WAX 

If you are a rock music fan, you’ve most 

likely heard of Led Zeppelin. The band’s 

popularity spans almost five decades, 

influencing a range of artists from Black 

Sabbath to Cage the Elephant. Despite the 

band’s greatness, few appreciate their first 

self-titled debut album. Led Zeppelin I 

legitimized blues rock in an era where the 

music scene was distant from the genre, 

since few bands embraced the rawness 

and pure finesse of the blues. There was 

no album, before or during 1969, that 

brought upon such an onslaught of cosmic 

instrumentation and searing vocals quite 

like this one. Led Zeppelin I sparked a 

reinvigoration of hard rock as we know it. 

The semi-metallics of Zep’s rhythmic 

Led Zeppelin I is the pinnacle of the 

blue rock genre, remaining great over 

4 decades later. Photo courtesy of 

en.wikipedia.org. 

blues on this album provides a unique 

reexamination of blues and folk music. 

For example, “Dazed and Confused” 

reinterprets the Jake Holmes song of the 

same name, but adds a solo where guitarist 

Jimmy Page uses a violin bow on his 

guitar instead of a pick. “Black Mountain 

Side” incorporates a sitar into a seemingly 

Native American style folk melody. 

Even the guitar’s sound on “I Can’t Quit 

You Baby” and “You Shook Me” is more 

organic and smooth than the typical blues 

melody, focused on blending each note in 

sequence. My personal favorite song is 

still “Babe I’m Gonna Love You,” where 

the band reinterprets Willie Dixon into a 

rock masterpiece with a mix of folk guitar 

and rock rhythms. The post-verse breakdown 

stands out on this song as well. 

As a whole project, however, Led Zeppelin 

I is undeniably a pure example of 

all-out rock and roll. Even now, the production 

and arrangement of Led Zeppelin 

I sounds ahead of its time. Throughout 

its nine tracks, the album hardly falters 

in creating a bombastic, at times even instrumentally 

narcissistic, blues sound. The 

best evidence of such greatness is actually 

on “Good Times Bad Times” and “How 

Many More Times,” the intro and conclusion 

to the album. With the first song, we 

are introduced to the sound, a re-interpretation 

of blues themes with that trademark 

stadium rock arrangement. The conclusion 

invokes the same impact, but as the 

finisher, it gives the album a full circle and 

solidifies Led Zeppelin’s merit in producing 

blues music, one that remains timeless 

even today. 

Examining 

some of the 

best albums 

ever made 

with JORDAN PYTOSH 

Ready to Die was an album released in 

1994 under the Bad Boy label, made by 

the Notorious B.I.G. Born Christopher 

Wallace, the rapper, also known as Biggie, 

was born in Brooklyn, in the Bedford- 

Stuyvesant projects. Despite growing up 

fatherless, poor, and in a life of crime, the 

rapper’s story of rags to riches maintains 

cohesion and credibility over this album. 

In modern introspection over hip hop’s 

history, Ready to Die is one of the greatest 

works of East Coast hip hop, serving as 

the utmost ‘complete’ album. Rather than 

focus on pompousness of success or the 

stereotypical ‘hustle,’ Biggie examines 

the entire package of his life from intro 

to finale. In analyzing content, “Everyday 

Struggle” and “Gimme the Loot” produce 

impeccable analyses into Brooklyn street 

life, but then “Big Poppa” acknowledges a 

laidback materialism of his own penultimate 

success. The title track, “Ready 

to Die,” is one of the biggest anomalies, 

combining intense brag rap lines and horrorcore 

level pessimism. 

More than the lyrics, one must never 

ignore this album’s production, as it provides 

its words and flows with a greater 

merit. In the catalogue of songs on this 

tracklist, each has a different tone and 

style to match the lyrics. A multitude of 

producers, including Bad Boy associate 

Puff Daddy, Easy Mo Bee, Lord Finesse, 

and the acclaimed DJ Premier, contributed 

their own styles of production as a 

backdrop. Whether the smooth grooves 

of Miles Davis on “Suicidal Thoughts” or 

the funky soul of Leroy Hutson on “The 

What,” every sampled sound fits with 

what Biggie spits on each verse, and on 

Many rappers cite Ready to Die as their 

favorite rap album. Photo courtesy of 

en.wikipedia.org. 

some tracks, the hook. The greatest combination 

is on “Warning,” where an Isaac 

Hayes sample displays a robbery anecdote 

with two smooth verses before a comedic 

skit. 

Since its release, critics maintain optimal 

praise for this work, many putting 

it as one of the greatest of all time and 

giving its creator a similar title. Biggie’s 

accessibility to any crowd, even those that 

were not rap fans, was almost undeniable, 

especially emphasized with his excellent 

flows on each track and what he talked 

about. It is this ability that has given him 

such esteem in the rap game, one still 

strong over two decades later.



MF Sushi serves up goodness 

ENTERTAINMENT 

Bookends 

& 

Weekends 

with Dre Guthrie 

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: 

Parts One and Two, it, well, it… exists. 

Through all of the hype surrounding the 

play and the release of new HP reading 

material that rabid fans could sink their 

teeth into post-Deathly Hallows, Cursed 

Child didn’t excite me or irritate me, it 

just is a thing that you can read. But, before 

a Potter nerd comes around to tear 

my eyes out over it, I have very explicit 

reasons for my apathy. Trust me. 

First and foremost, this was not 

written by JK Rowling, and you can 

definitely tell. Second, as it is meant to 

be performed onstage, the whole ‘book’ 

is meant to be read as a script, and these 

two factors bog down my enjoyment 

of reading it to an extreme degree. Essentially, 

Cursed Child is about Harry’s 

young son Albus grappling with his 

father’s legacy in the Wizarding World, 

7 

while his father comes to terms with 

being an adult. If that sounds boring 

to you, that’s because it is. Sure, it’s 

wonderful fun to return to my old childhood 

stomping ground of wizards and 

witches and magic, but it doesn’t have 

any magic to it, figuratively speaking. I 

was never once convinced that I wanted 

to live in this universe at all when reading 

this play, and while the dialogue 

warmed my heart at some points, it felt 

terribly flat compared to what I know 

Mrs. Rowling can produce, even when 

she isn’t the writer. 

If I had never read any of the other 

Harry Potter books and gave this play 

a try first, I would read it, put it down, 

and immediately forget all of what 

I’ve read. But, because I’ve grown 

up dreaming about one day receiving 

my owl-letter to Hogwarts and riding 

broomsticks for fun, I feel like I’m less 

enthused more than ever to encounter 

more Harry Potter than before I read it. 

Without spoiling any of it, the plot feels 

an awful lot like some twelve-year-old 

girl’s work, the one in your class in 

middle school who couldn’t imagine 

Harry Potter ending, so she made up her 

own ending and posted it online. 

So, seriously, don’t get your hopes 

up. Yeah, it’s just… okay. If you want 

to read it, fine, be my guest, but, if you 

were dreaming of a new beginning, my 

suggestion is to write your own or keep 

on looking. 

MF Sushi, under the instruction of chef Chris Kinjo, has been a successful and delicious 

Houston restaurant that lovers of fish and foreign cuisine alike can enjoy if 

they’re looking for a good meal. Photo courtesy of www.houstoniamag.com. 

JORDAN PYTOSH 

Staff Writer 

Since its opening in 2015, chef Chris 

Kinjo’s MF Sushi has generated great 

acclaim. The restaurant, located in the 

Museum District, serves authentic Japanese 

cuisine with fresh fish imported from 

markets in Japan. 

One of the most notable aspects about 

MF Sushi is that it offers an assortment 

of both pan-Asian fusion and traditional 

Japanese cuisine. These range from miso 

soup and eggplant to the esoteric yet 

delectable jellyfish salad. A notable dish is 

the Ikai salad, a squid and vegetable mixture 

that incorporates soy and fish flavors. 

As a person who eats there often, I value 

MF Sushi as a highly sophisticated yet 

slightly eccentric addition to Houston’s 

community. The restaurant stands out with 

the complex flavors it brings to seemingly 

simple dishes. Each nigiri, for example, 

incorporates a diverse palette of flavors 

with uniquely fitting sauces and garnishes. 

My favorite dish is the salmon head, marinated 

and grilled then served whole. 

Not only is the food excellent, but also 

MF Sushi’s prices are affordable as well. 

Of course, dishes with expensive ingredients 

cost more, but generally the range is 

between $9 and $13 for this high quality 

food. So if you like sushi and want something 

new, try MF Sushi. 

In the latest Harry Potter installment, the elder versions of our trio, Hermione, Harry, 

and Ron, from left to right, discuss plans. Photo courtesy of theguardian.com. 

Austin City Limits’ Fifteenth Anniversary satisfies attendees 

COLLINS HOWELL 

Staff Writer 

This year’s 15th anniversary of the Austin 

City Limits Music Festival will leave 

memories as one of the most outstanding 

of the music festival’s rich history. 

The festival went on for two weekends, 

repeating most of the same artists both 

weekends. Some of the big names who 

performed were the Chainsmokers, Kygo, 

Willie Nelson, Mumford and Sons, Kendrick 

Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Flume, Radiohead, 

Major Lazer, Cage the Elephant, and 

Chris Stapleton. 

Weekend One kicked off the festival 

with huge attendance. Flume and Major 

Lazer lit up the first night of the festival 

with an amazing light show and musical 

performance. 

The next day Schoolboy Q drew the 

majority of the festival’s crowd to his 

performance which he ended with one 

of his new hit songs “That Part,” which 

really got the crowd involved. Most then 

moved over to see the Chainsmokers con- 

cert, even though people had been waiting 

there for hours on end to get a good spot. 

The Chainsmokers blew the crowd away 

with a breathtaking performance. They 

even incorporated Cold Play and Red Hot 

Chili Peppers songs into their track list 

that led into some thrilling bass drop. The 

performance also included them playing 

their new single “All We Know” which is 

available now everywhere. 

Sunday wrapped up the weekend with 

outstanding performances by Chris 

Stapleton, Oh Wonder, Willie Nelson, and 

Mumford and Sons, whose lead singer 

even came into the crowd to sing. The 

attendance to the Willie Nelson concert 

was one of the biggest attendance ACL 

has ever seen. An aerial photo showed 

just about the entire festival at his performance. 

Actor Matthew McConaughey got 

the crowd pumped up right before bringing 

Nelson out. 

The 15th anniversary of Austin City 

Limits was outstanding, and many are 

already looking forward to next year. 

Early bird tickets are already on sale! 

During ACL’s fifteenth anniversary concert, thousands of avid fans showed up for 

hours of great music, enjoying every moment of the day, while anticipating the 

chance to get upclose and personal with members of their favorite bands. Photo 

courtesy of redbull.com.

8 ELECTION 2016 



A Case for Donald J. Trump 

ANTHONY SMALL 


Setting all politics aside, what has really 

happened this election cycle? The vast 

majority of media pundits, die-hard liberals, 

and country club Republicans seem at a total 

loss for the political phenomena that has 

fueled the emergence of a Trump candidacy 

as they have all been blind to its building 

momentum over the past few decades. According 

to both Wall Street Journal-NBC 

and McClatchy-Marist research, over 70% 

of Americans think our country is headed 

in the wrong direction, so the public is ripe 

for a change – a real change. In the Republican 

primary, Donald Trump, a man with 

zero political experience, defeated fourteen 

governors and congressmen and set a record 

for the number of votes received in a GOP 

primary. That not only says something about 

Mr. Trump, but more importantly it says 

something about the desires of our nation – 

that the public is ready for this message of 

change. Mr. Trump is its deliverer. The fact 

that Americans went so far as to cast a record 

number of votes to nominate somebody who 

many find very unappealing and polarizing 

should be a massive wake-up call to every 

politician and big business interest. Over the 

past year, the American people have been 

demanding a fundamental transformation of 

our governing system – if they are not going 

to get it from a polished, career politician, 

they are going to get it from a crude, brash 

businessman. 

Donald Trump is a man who has everything 

in life and voluntarily decides to 

wake up each morning and see every news 

channel, every entertainment network, every 

late night talk show, every newspaper, 

every magazine, and every social media 

corporation viciously attacking him. We 

can acknowledge that some of the criticism 

and opposition he endures is due to things 

he says; some of this, he brings upon himself. 

But you have to ask yourself, does his 

behavior warrant the level of vilification he 

suffers, the likes of which this country has 

never seen in modern political history? What 

kind of person could possibly withstand this 

kind of onslaught voluntarily? It takes somebody 

with an extraordinary ego, confidence, 

arrogance, courage, and defiance to survive 

in this environment. This person has to be 

offensive, provocative, and audacious, because 

a calm, sensible person without these 

characteristics would have folded up his or 

her tent and gone home a long time ago - 

much less even enter the race to begin with. 

This individual has to be wealthy, used to 

success, and possess a winning mindset because 

he has to face enormous odds against 

a 200+ year-old ingrained political system 

that now openly crushes populist resistance 

with a unified, bipartisan front. For months, 

top GOP officials openly declared that Mr. 

Trump would not, under any circumstances, 

be their nominee. After years of politicians 

force-feeding the American public what they 

think it wants, voters revolted and nominated 

Trump. The American people want change, 

and the only medium they see to achieve 

this desired result is the vehicle of Donald J. 

Trump. Maybe the next election will have a 

more polished, socially digestible candidate, 

but it took somebody like Mr. Trump to pave 

the way for that individual to succeed and 

break the formidable barrier between the political 

class and everyday America. 

If this were any other election year, I would 

be writing an argument in favor of Republican 

policy positions to make the case for my 

candidate. While I can still do that, this election 

is not simply just a choice between two 

sides of the same coin. Instead, November 

8 is an opportunity for the voters to choose 

between credos bigger than mere party principles. 

This election, American citizens have 

a distinct choice between Americanism vs. 

globalism as well as between change vs. the 

status quo. 

Voting for Donald Trump is a referendum 

against the American political, cultural, and 

globalist establishment. Never before in 

modern political history have the big banks, 

big businesses, mainstream media, Hollywood, 

and both political parties carried out 

such a massive, concentrated effort to bring 

down a single candidate, dwarfing previous 

measures taken against Barry Goldwater and 

Ronald Reagan. Whenever I turn on cable 

television or read the newspaper, I see an 

endless barrage of attacks on Mr. Trump so 

great in number that it seems as if objective 

journalism and media balance have been 

thrown out the window. Opponents of Mr. 

Trump’s candidacy overwhelmingly cheer 

on this onslaught perpetrated against the 

businessman turned Republican nominee for 

President; however, I personally suggest that 

those very opponents ask themselves why 

the “establishment” is in such a combined, 

strident defiance against this man. Is it because 

he is the most evil, racist, and misogynist 

human being to run for the Presidency 

in the past fifty years? Some detached pundits 

and rank-and-file liberals may argue so. 

Others may point to his career – appointing 

the first woman to ever be in charge of constructing 

a skyscraper in 1980 who praised 

him as “the least sexist boss I ever had,” 

working with the Rainbow PUSH Coalition 

in the 1990s to empower minorities in under-privileged 

communities, whose leader, 

Jesse Jackson, honored Donald’s “reaching 

out and being inclusive” and serving as an 

“effective builder of people,” and the fact 

that he sued the city of Palm Beach in 1997 

for allowing private clubs to discriminate 

against Jews and African-Americans – I digress. 

Now, are these ad-hominem charges 

really the true reason why the entire political 

class has been in an all-out panic mode over 

Mr. Trump’s candidacy for the past year and 

a half and why American billionaires oppose 

him 20-to-1? Or is it the fact that Mr. Trump 

is singlehandedly taking on vested interests 

of the deep state, the true masters pulling 

the strings in our federal government, and 

vowing to purge the corruption infecting our 

pay-to-play federal government like a degenerative 

disease? At bare minimum, all of the 

above has establishment politicians and pundits 

on both sides of the aisle reeling in fear 

that their gravy train will come to an abrupt 

end. 

After years of broken promises and preservation 

of the status quo in Washington, 

the lies and corruption of the media-political 

complex finally reached a critical mass 

last year with the national debt spiraling out 

of control, annual trade imbalances totaling 

over $500 billion, interest rates remaining 

below 1% for far too long, and GDP growth 

of barely over 1% according to data from the 

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Additionally, 

the federal government continues to 

turn a blind eye to unsolved problems like 

illegal immigration, ISIS, and the “giant 

sucking sound” of jobs moving out of the 

country. Furthermore, the Iran nuclear deal 

and the U.S.’s formal opposition to the Assad 

regime shows that the government continues 

to carry out failed foreign policies of 

the past - how did trusting North Korea to 

inspect their own nuclear development facilities 

and the policy of regime change in Iraq 

and Libya work out again? Even worse, this 

endless foreign adventurism and destabilization 

of the Middle East has fostered the rise 

and proliferation of radical Islamic terrorist 

groups in addition to creating a massive 

refugee crisis, all of which contribute to the 

erosion of domestic civil liberties. As a result, 

deeply concerned Americans flocked to 

populist, anti-establishment candidates in the 

primaries. While Bernie Sanders was cheated 

out of the Democratic nomination largely 

due to superdelegates, an outright antithesis 

to democracy in itself, Mr. Trump managed 

to prevail with Republicans despite the tidal 

wave of opposition he faced. 

I have been supporting Mr. Trump since 

July of 2015 since he has been the only candidate 

addressing issues that have been left 

out of the mainstream political consensus 

for years from a common sense, business 

perspective. The success of his candidacy 

has been a repudiation of decades of endless 

spending, trade deficits, and war carried out 

by both parties at the expense of American 

citizens. 

Mr. Trump has been described as the 

“blue-collar billionaire,” a term that illustrates 

his strong business background, 

knowledge of conditions necessary for a 

business to thrive, and a fundamental understanding 

of the concerns of American labor. 

With his background in the private sector, 

Mr. Trump will bring exceptional negotiating 

and managing experience to the White 

House to deal with Congress, foreign nations, 

and his cabinet. Moreover, he can successfully 

execute a pro-growth agenda that 

benefits employers and employees alike as 

lower taxes, optimization of regulations, and 

renegotiations of our one-sided trade deals 

with other nations will both expand business 

and job opportunities. The most important 

issue to the American voter is the economy, 

which affects every citizen’s ability to make 

a living wage to provide their family with 

financial security, medical assurance, and a 

sense of well-being. Donald Trump has spent 

his entire career creating businesses that employ 

tens of thousands of people across multiple 

industries, states, and foreign nations. 

As a result, he fundamentally understands 

the challenges, obstacles, and frustrations 

that small to medium size businesses, which 

employ the majority of Americans, face on 

a day-to-day basis. Business owners live 

and die by being able to operate efficiently 

and eliminate waste, a concept alien to our 

current government. In Presidential election 

history, there has never been another major 

party candidate who possesses these attributes 

to the degree of Mr. Trump. For many 

years the American people have wanted real 

change, a businessman in the White House, 

and common sense in Washington. If you 

elect another career politician, rest assured 

this is not what you will get. 

Mr. Trump is the peace candidate. He 

recognizes that it is not the job of the United 

States to serve as the world police, which has 

many previous Bush-era neocons and GOP 

war hawks fleeing to the other camp this 

election cycle. Skeptical of adventurism and 

regime change, he has consistently opposed 

obsessive meddling in the affairs of foreign 

nations. Thus, Mr. Trump has put forth an 

America First foreign policy in which the 

U.S. builds up its military and negotiates 

from a position of strength with foreign powers 

as well as reconsiders its Cold War alliances 

in a 21st century world. With only five 

out of the twenty-eight member countries of 

NATO paying the required 2% target for defense 

spending, Mr. Trump seeks to redefine 

the military alliance’s objectives and expectations 

to ensure that certain nations are not 

allowed to be freeloaders. Most importantly, 

he favors détente with the Russians and finding 

common ground with Putin in the fight 

against ISIS. Ultimately, Mr. Trump fundamentally 

understands that actively enforcing 

a no-fly zone in Syria means starting World 

War III with a nuclear power, something the 

Democrats fail to recognize. 

Mr. Trump is not a career politician. He 

does not test every word he says with focus 

groups and polling data, which inevitability 

leads to some comments that generate media 

outrage. Donald Trump may say things 

you find shocking and even appalling, but 

actions speak louder than words. Trump did 

not put our country in almost $20 trillion in 

debt. Trump did not destabilize the Middle 

East with meaningless $5 trillion wars and 

fruitless attempts at regime change. Trump 

did not arm, fund, and train ‘moderate rebels’ 

who turned out to be ISIS. Trump did not 

bankrupt the Social Security and Medicare 

systems and turn their financial status into 

a mountain of IOUs. Instead, establishment 

Democratic and Republican politicians have 

carried out these disgraceful actions over 

the past few decades, yet it is they who are 

horrified and offended at the ‘audacity’ of 

Mr. Trump’s campaign. I have a message for 

these individuals: it is the American people 

who are offended by your systematic lack 

of concern for the future of this nation. The 

“establishment” political class created the 

vacuum for an individual like Donald Trump 

to rise to prominence in the political realm, 

and they have no one else to blame for Mr. 

Trump than themselves. His success proves 

that the balance between political corruption 

and public accountability has once again

ELECTION 2016 



9 

reached equilibrium. 

While the mainstream media has attempted 

to warp Mr. Trump’s campaign into that 

of a demagogical maniac with no strategy 

or direction whose sole intention is to seize 

power to satisfy his ego, I call on Americans 

to transcend past this elementary level 

‘analysis’ of a Presidential candidate. Donald 

Trump is by no means the perfect candidate 

or a perfect individual. He has never presented 

himself as the second coming of George 

Washington – that’s not the point. Instead, 

his basic proposition has been that he will 

bring his no-nonsense, brawler personality 

to fight on behalf of the American people 

against special interests, tax-exempt multinational 

corporations, and all other manifestations 

of government corruption. Mr. Trump 

is the change candidate challenging a rigged 

system and a government full of all talk, no 

action politicians who no longer fight for the 

interests of their constituents. 

On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump turned 

over his lucrative business ventures to his 

children in order to devote his time to run 

for the Presidency of the United States. Instead 

of standing up to the entire political 

world order and facing an endless stream 

of personal attacks every single day of this 

campaign, Mr. Trump could instead be living 

out the twilight of his life at his penthouse 

in Trump Tower, in his estate at Mar-a-Lago, 

or on one of his many golf courses. Instead, 

Donald Trump stepped into the political arena, 

putting the entire history of his public 

image on the line, which anyone, regardless 

of political affiliation, should acknowledge 

as brave. Moreover, he self-funded his campaign 

through the primaries and has raised 

most of his campaign contributions from 

small donors. Many voters complain that 

Presidential elections are a choice between 

the lesser of two evils. As evidenced from 

the overwhelming negative perception of 

both candidates in opinion polls, a large percentage 

of the voter base today thinks this 

election is the prime example of such a decision. 

However, I completely disagree. In 

the past, Americans have had the choice between 

two establishment politicians propped 

up by the same corporate special interests. 

As legendary songwriter Pete Townshend 

noted, “meet the new boss, same as the old 

boss.” This year, Americans can vote for a 

candidate who courageously faces unrivaled 

opposition from the political class, GOP establishment, 

Democrats, United Nations, 

Hollywood, corporate media, multinational 

corporations, and foreign bankers. 

Mr. Trump has said he is running because 

in his heart he thinks he can make the United 

States a better country. If you believe that, 

even just a little bit, you have to ask yourself 

why so many politicians, pundits, and public 

figures are attacking and obstructing his every 

move? Do you believe that establishment 

politicians actually care about your concerns 

as a voter? I certainly do not! Mr. Trump’s 

candidacy has answered these questions by 

bringing out and exposing the individuals 

within our government who care about prosperity 

and security only for themselves. As 

flawed as he may be, Mr. Trump wants to 

build an administration to address real problems 

facing our nation. 

The majority of people in this country think 

we are headed in the wrong direction. If you 

want four to eight more years of the status 

quo, you have a clear option of whom you 

should vote for come November 8. However, 

if you want to give someone a chance to 

try to enact real change in our government, 

Mr. Trump is your choice to Make America 

Great Again. § 

A Case for Hillary R. Clinton 

DRE GUTHRIE 

Staff Writer 

What has really happened this election 

cycle? The answer to that question depends 

heavily on your point of view. To extremists, 

it’s either a complete fulfillment or a complete 

ruin of their political and social fantasies; 

to news reporters, it’s an opportunity to 

latch on to myriad sources of controversy to 

improve ratings while having their objectivity 

questioned; and to those who really matter, 

the voters, it’s often been an outpouring 

of confusing and angry rhetoric, a flood of 

spiteful memes, endless discussions about 

email scandals, and, most importantly, division 

and polarization of the body politic. It’s 

thousands of times easier to turn away from 

the cacophony of chaos and pretend that, 

magically, the country will sort itself out into 

a logical, comforting place with a snap of the 

fingers, but that’s very unlikely to happen. I 

believe, however, that Hillary Clinton will 

protect our national interests, and instead of 

continuing on with the chaos, she will “go 

high when they go low,” as Michelle Obama 

so eloquently stated during the Democratic 

National Convention this year. 

People of color make up one-half of the 

Democratic voting base. According to a 

2016 Pew Research Center Poll, over 30% 

of registered voters in this year’s election 

are young Latinos or African-Americans, a 

fairly significant one to win over in order to 

win the election. Considering the growing 

number of violent incidents between police 

and this segment of the population, it is vital 

to address the racial and cultural issues still 

troubling America. Mrs. Clinton has spent 

much of her early career as an attorney, as 

First Lady, and as a Senator sponsoring legislation 

to end racial profiling, protect the 

rights of women and children, and reform a 

criminal justice system with odd priorities. 

America has 5% of the world’s population, 

including 25% of the world’s prisoners, and 

many of those are non-violent offenders. 

How does such a high rate of incarceration 

serve our national interests? Clinton argues 

that we must bridge racial and cultural divides, 

build trust among the racial groups 

that comprise the fabric of America, because 

we as a nation cannot afford to let violence 

and suffering continue. The United States is 

a nation founded on ideals of equality and 

freedom, and Clinton believes that by treating 

all citizens fairly and focusing law enforcement 

efforts on violent crimes, we can 

begin to heal the ongoing divisions in the 

country, as opposed to deepening the divisions 

by stoking fear of immigrants and refugees 

and throwing up walls, as her opponent 

has consistently argued for during the campaign. 

America has suffered through a lengthy 

economic recession (the worst downturn 

since the Great Depression), and while 

growth in GDP and jobs has been steady 

recently, it has also been slow. Clinton believes 

that committing significant resources 

to rebuilding the aging infrastructure of our 

country is both necessary and wise, as doing 

so creates jobs, brings income to businesses 

where the projects are taking place, 

and moves us forward as a modern nation. 

Furthermore, investments in American manufacturing 

and clean energy projects bring 

similar economic advances while reducing 

our dependence on foreign oil even further 

and helping battle the growing threat posed 

by climate change. To fill those clean energy 

jobs, Clinton argues that we need to improve 

our educational system both for young people 

(by lifting the burden of tuition at public 

colleges for those families making less than 

$125,000) and by re-educating workers in 

industries that are dying out. Clinton has received 

immense criticism for her statement 

that she would “put a lot of coal miners out 

of work,” but what was lost in the rush to 

criticize her was the rest of the statement 

explaining how important it was to retrain 

workers for the realities of a more modern 

and efficient economy. Clinton’s policy 

statements show thought and depth, but this 

election has been anything but thoughtful or 

deep, revolving more around tweets than tax 

reform, more around style than substance, 

and Clinton suffers here, precisely because 

it is substance she values. She’s not here 

to entertain or titillate – she’s here to make 

America better, since we are already pretty 

great now. 

Health care has been a contentious topic, 

especially since the enactment of the Affordable 

Care Act (Obamacare), and Clinton 

plans to strengthen and tweak the existing 

structure that has allowed so many Americans 

to acquire insurance. According to The 

Atlantic, America is easily the largest democratic 

nation that lacks universal health care 

for its citizens – even the likes of Saudi Arabia 

and Russia have universal care, and Clinton 

states clearly that affordable health care is a 

basic human right. She will address the issue 

of rising drug costs by promoting competition 

and allowing drug imports from abroad, 

while holding the pharmaceutical companies 

accountable for profiteering, especially those 

which receive federal money for drug research. 

The revelations of skyrocketing costs 

for EpiPens and other lifesaving medications 

have brought this problem into such sharp 

focus that even Congress managed to notice 

it and actually hold hearings. Clinton is also 

committed to supporting those who have 

served our country by reforming the VA system, 

thus eliminating roadblocks to access 

services and provide better support for veterans 

and their families through mental health 

services, education and financial assistance. 

Too many veterans struggle to integrate back 

into society following combat tours, and it is 

time to bring our considerable resources to 

bear on problems like PTSD. She will also 

expand non-military service opportunities by 

growing existing programs like AmeriCorps 

and CityYear and creating a National Service 

Reserve (similar to the military’s National 

Guard and Reserves) to encourage part-time 

service in local communities across America. 

Let’s turn finally to foreign policy initiatives, 

an area where Hillary has been bombarded 

by unfounded criticism; she has been 

blamed for everything from the deaths of 

Americans at Benghazi to being an enabler 

of Iran, and even as a founder of ISIS itself. 

Eight investigations into Benghazi failed to 

determine that she had made significant errors, 

and, as Secretary of State, she laid the 

groundwork for a deal with Iran that hugely 

limits its ability to pursue nuclear weapons. 

If she had founded ISIS, after all, wouldn’t 

she be wearing a veil instead of a pantsuit? 

Clinton believes that being strong abroad 

begins with strength at home, with support 

for our allies and partners from NATO to Israel 

to Asia, and by using all tools available 

to us, including diplomacy, to address the 

real threats posed by ISIS, China, and a revitalized 

Russia led by Vladimir Putin. Mrs. 

Clinton proposes assistance to local forces in 

Iraq and Syria in fighting ISIS as well as continuing 

to foster diplomacy between warring 

Sunnis and Shia in that region, who continue 

to fan the flames of extremism that ignited 

ISIS in the first place. America has a long tradition 

of seeking diplomatic solutions, and in 

our current world where anyone can shoot a 

missile or send a text to another country in 

the blink of an eye, shutting ourselves off 

from possible diplomatic gains in the face of 

adversity solves nothing. 

That’s the crux of our worries as a nation, 

isn’t it, the fear of the unknown? We 

don’t know if ISIS will suddenly storm into 

our country; we aren’t sure when the next 

shooting will shock and dismay us or when 

the next sudden fluctuation in the global 

economy occurs due to conflict in Syria, or 

Britain’s exit from the European Union, or 

events we can’t even imagine today. As average 

citizens of this republic, we don’t have 

much direct control over the outcomes of 

our leaders’ decisions, but what we can do 

is elect candidates qualified to make sound 

decisions and capable of making tough calls. 

No matter how many emails we have to skim 

through from Wikileaks or how many times 

her opponent paints her as a “nasty woman,” 

Hillary Rodham Clinton has shown for decades 

an ability to make meaningful changes 

for many Americans with an unwavering will 

that does not flinch under pressure. That’s 

why I urge you: join with ‘Her’ and let her 

lead us steadily forward into the future. §

10 SPORTS 



Knights on 

the grind to 

get the W 

SYDNEY HUTCHINS 

Staff Writer 

As the cross-country teams’ season 

comes to a conclusion, there were multiple 

improvements over the past three meets. 

At the 36th St. John’s Maverick Ramble 

this season, the Knights had seven seasonal 

records broken. Sophia Maldonado placed 

seventh and Will Worthington placed 

eighth to represent the varsity teams. The 

meet featured boys’ seasonal records from 

Will Worthington, Charlie Wailes, Jackson 

Fall athletes look for a championship 

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL 

The girls volleyball team began SPC 

play with a win over St. John’s 3-2 on 

Tuesday, September 27. Following St. 

John’s, the girls went up against their 

other rival, the Kinkaid Falcons, and got 

a big 3-2 win. Although the girls let go 

the first two games against Kinkaid, they 

made a come back in the next three in 

order to earn a 2-0 standing in the SPC 

Tournament. 

The following week, the girls volleyball 

team took on the SPC Austin teams. 

Friday afternoon, the girls faced St. 

Stephen’s, a 3-0 team, in the SPC Tournament. 

The girls battled it out, taking the 

second and fourth sets, while St. Stephen’s 

won the first and third. In the fifth game, 

the girls fought hard, winning with a score 

of 17-15. 

The next morning, the girls played St. 

Andrew’s, getting another win 3-1. The 

preparing and is ready to take on SPC 

rivals like ESD and St John’s during the 

three-day tournament. While the team is 

preparing, they are also looking back to 

last year. The 

At the end of last season, the team and 

Head Coach Shelly Edmonds, made a goal 

to get one game farther in this year’s tournament 

than last year, a goal that Edmonds 

believes is “very achievable.” 

Regardless of the outcome of this 

weekend’s tournament, it’s easy to see 

that the team has come very far from the 

end of last year’s season, and according 

to Edmonds, “this season has helped us 

build a great team atmosphere, and we are 

definitely stronger and more cohesive as 

this season comes to a close.” 

FOOTBALL 

The Episcopal football team has been 

keeping the train rolling in the month of 

October. The Knights started with an SPC 

championship rematch against the Kinkaid 

Falcons. Entering the game with what can 

Mylana Byrd and Naomi Aganekwu 

go up for a big double block versus St. 

John’s School. Photo by Amber Hatfield. 

defending SPC Champions Greenhill. 

After returning to Houston, they soundly 

defeated Kinkaid (3-0). 

The boys volleyball team’s final matches 

before SPC are a tri-match against 

Kinkaid and St. John’s on November 1. 

FIELD HOCKEY 

Sofia Maldonado runs for the finish line. 

Photo by Photo J. 

Williams, Jake Klucznik, Austin Wills, 

Liam Griffin, and Richard Taylor, who 

beat their second best times this season by 

at least 15 seconds or more. 

To spice things up this year, EHS had 

a new end of the season TAPPS/SPC JV 

Championship. Brett Hauser and James 

Dickson both broke their seasonal bests. 

Also, Nico Zanotti had a personal best as 

well, beating his second best time in his career 

by a minute. This ends the season on a 

good note for the JV team. 

The SPC South Zone Championship 

meet was a definite success this year with 

five seasonal records and seven personal 

bests for the varsity teams. At this meet the 

Knights had four people place top twenty 

for both teams: Gwyneth Bryan fourth, 

Will Worthington thirteenth, Sophia Maldonado 

nineteenth, and Victor Netland 

twentieth. The varsity girls team showed 

major development over the past year 

as Isabelle Hornung and Kelsey Benitez 

both had at least a two-minute or more 

improvement from last year’s best time. 

Liam Pugh, Sydney Hutchins, Maldonado, 

Bryan, and Hornung all had seasonal bests. 

Also, William Butler, Ivan Bastidas, Victor 

Netland, Derek Creacy, Luke Williams, 

Kelsey Benitez, and Sophia Henry all had 

set their personal bests. 

There are promising signs for the varsity 

teams heading to the SPC Championship 

next month. 

Harrison Williams goes up for a big 

serve. Photo by Madison Miller. 

girls entered their fifth SPC game on 

October 18 against John Cooper with a 

4-0 record in the tournament. The girls 

fought hard losing the game, resulting in a 

5-1 record. 

The girls additionally had Senior Night 

on Thursday October 20th. Seniors Sammi 

Snyder, Naomi Aganekwu, Alex Pearson, 

Gigi Hanna, and Grace Geib were honored 

prior to their game verses HCYA. In 

this game, the girls won 2-1, giving them 

a season record of 18-7. 

BOYS VOLLEYBALL 

After a successful August and September, 

varsity boys volleyball worked to 

continue their momentum into the final 

stretch of the season leading up to the 

SPC Tournament. To start the month, the 

squad handedly defeated St. Stephen’s (3- 

0). The team also participated in the Fort 

Worth Country Day Tournament where 

they beat Trinity Valley (2-1) but lost to 

Gabrielle Small dribbles the ball down 

the field for a goal. Photo by Miranda 

Greenwalt. 

The girls field hockey program is readily 

anticipating this weekend’s SPC tournament 

in Austin. The girl’s varsity team has 

been hard at work since early September 

Jaylen Waddle runs the ball down the 

field toward the endzone. Photo by Victor 

Velasco. 

best be described as a bad taste in their 

mouths from last year, they wanted to get 

atonement for that loss. The team gave 

Kinkaid a taste of their own medicine by 

converting two onside kicks and dominated 

the Falcons in the second half, winning 

by a score of 69-28. 

This was also the Knights’ Pink Out 

Breast Cancer Awareness game. The 

Knights then played the Episcopal School 

of Dallas for Senior Knight. This is always 

a good rivalry as it is the Episcopal 

School of Houston versus the Episcopal 

School of Dallas. 

The Knights handily defeated ESD 

with a score of 62-14. The senior football 

players, cheerleaders, and trainers were 

honored at halftime.

ARTS 



11 

Arts Day Houston gives freshmen 

a feel for the city’s arts offerings 

Avery Edwards let his wizard costume and cello do the work during the annual 

Hauntcert. Photo by Jack Hernandez. 

Hauncert celebrates fall season 

JORDAN PYTOSH 

Staff Writer 

On October 25, after over two weeks of 

rehearsals and a teaser, many congregated 

in Benitez Chapel for the annual Hauntcert 

performance. Arranged by faculty 

members Mr. Estes and Mr. Ashby, the 

show featured both Halloween-themed 

pieces and non-Halloween songs performed 

by Episcopal’s various music 

groups. 

As a celebration of the Halloween season, 

various performers donned costumes 

for their show, a unique aspect of the 

performance. The Chorale, along with 

Midknight Blues, performed songs from 

Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Hunger 

Games, and two by William Shakespeare 

in commemoration of his death. A distinct 

segment of the choir’s performance was 

their version of Coldplay’s song “Viva La 

Vida.” 

The band performed the Sorcerer’s Apprentice 

piece from Fantasia, originally 

composed by Paul Dukas, and Johann 

Sebastian Bach’s “Tocca” and “Fugue in 

D Minor,” among multiple other songs. 

Along with these, the orchestra played 

horror-themed string pieces, including 

Reynard Burns’ “Tango Noir” and Erika 

Svanoe’s “Haunted Carousel.” 

After the show was a reception, where 

treats were served for those in attendance. 

Overall, the Hauntcert achieved showcasing 

the musical ability of those in both 

vocal and instrumental performance and 

showed great promise for performances 

from the music department throughout the 

rest of the school year. 

AVERY CLAIRE PRASHER 

Staff Writer 

On Wednesday, October 12, while the 

sophomores and juniors took the practice 

ACT and the seniors had the day off, the 

Freshman Class ventured off campus to see 

some of Houston’s art scene during the annual 

Arts Day Houston field trip. 

In order to expose the ninth graders to 

some of the culture Houston arts offers, 

faculty took the students on four busses, 

divided into two groups, to some of the 

interesting sites Houston has to offer. One 

group started with Hermann Park. Here, 

the freshmen participated in a scavenger 

hunt. Each advisory group was given a 

map that designated different sculptures 

and gardens where a photo had to be taken. 

The other group began their day at The 

Match were they watched three elaborate 

dances that told stories of love, and then 

the dance company taught all the students 

some contemporary dance moves. The two 

groups then traded locations. 

The next stop on this adventurous day 

included a trip to Studio Movie Grill for 

lunch where the students watched some 

of Episcopal’s ETV clips, broadcast class 

outtakes, and PhotoJ photos matched to 

music. Ms. Gready’s advisory, which had 

won the scavenger hunt, received dessert 

to acknowledge their win. 

The day concluded with a short stay at the 

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and all the 

freshman loved it. 

Members of Mrs. Holter’s advisory stand infront of one of the scavenger hunt sights 

at Arts Day Houston. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Kate Philbrick. 

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12 ACADEMICS 



Pillar News 

College Counseling 

offers workshops 

AVERY CLAIRE PRASHER 

Staff Writer 

Science Department plans numerous activities 

As college application due dates begin to 

make their appearance, the college counseling 

office is hosting several workshops 

throughout the year. 

During these workshops, students have 

the opportunity to work on their applications, 

resumes, and essays with the help of 

the staff. Each senior is required to have 

one-on-one conferences with their counselor 

to discuss the status of their applications 

and to receive any help if needed. 

Meetings stress the weight that grades 

and extracurricular activities of junior year 

play into the process. In the second semester, 

juniors will take a college prep class 

during Interim Term in order to broaden 

their information about the process of applications. 

Juniors are then required to 

have a follow-up conference. 

PSAT and ACT 

prepares students 

LAUREN PORTER 

Staff Writer 

Practicing standardized testing is an 

important part of preparing students for 

the testing process and making sure they 

can receive the best possible scores. This 

month, sophomores and juniors took a 

practice ACT, and on Wednesday they will 

take the PSAT. 

The PSAT and the ACT are two tests with 

very different agendas and assessments. 

The ACT measures the capability of students 

and their academic achievement 

through what they have already learned in 

school in English, math, reading, and science. 

However, the PSAT determines which 

students can be eligible to be National 

Merit Scholars and offers two math sections, 

one reading section, and a writing 

mechanics section. 

Beloved classroom 

mainstay missing 

Knight the Fish is a blue and black colored 

male veiltail betta. Photo by Lauren 

Porter. 

LAUREN PORTER 

Staff Writer 

This month the beloved Episcopal legend 

Knight the Fish went missing. He disappeared 

on Wednesday, October 5, and has 

not been seen since. Knight was a calming 

presence to anyone who has been in Mrs. 

Foster’s classroom, and the environment is 

just not the same without him. 

If you have any information on the 

whereabouts of Knight, please see Mrs. 

Foster in A101. 

Cristina Wyatt performs a chemistry experiment. Photo 

by Kaylee Blackburn. 


Staff Writer 

The Science Department has an ongoing 

schedule of special events planned for the 

school year, created so students can learn 

about science through diverse and innovative 

methods, but in this case, outside of 

the classroom. Among the ways that these 

opportunities are provided is through the 

Science Club. 

The Science Club, which has existed 

in some shape or form for years at EHS, 

is now being led by a group of division 

leaders all uniquely interested in different 

kinds of sciences. The club runs by divisions 

so that the entire club does not have 

to meet every time someone is interested in 

doing something. 

Instead, all those interested in a particular 

science can meet and discuss their topic 

of choice. So far, there are already several 

divisions in place, but students are allowed 

to create one if they cannot find one that 

interests them. 

Four divisions have been established as 

of late. Senior Will Worthington and others 

are leading the Astronomy/Astrophysics 

Division, which will meet to talk about 

stars, galaxies and everything else in the 

universe. Junior Cristina Wyatt leads quantum 

mechanics and her group will meet to 

talk about subatomic particles and strive to 

explain some more complex concepts. She 

also leads the Chemistry Division, which 

will gather to perform experiments and 

talk about the elements and other chemistry 

related topics. Biology, led by Isabella 

Goodman, will meet to talk about biology 

and the basis of life. 

The Science Club had a Halloweenthemed 

meeting October 19, which involved 

a chemistry display with the help of 

Mr. John Flanagan and the Chemistry Division. 

The club will meet once a month and 

will likely have themed meetings based on 

their month, such as the Halloween theme 

for October. The Science Club is also looking 

to have distinguished speakers from 

different science fields come and speak, as 

well as to teach about how to have a career 

in a scientific field and apply the things we 

learn about in school to real life. 

Next month, the Science Department 

plans on bringing the Houston Fire Depart- 

One experiment that the students performed involved the recreation 

of a Fourth of July charcoal worm. Photo by Amy Gready. 

ment to visit EHS to show students how to 

practice safe Thanksgiving habits. Specifically, 

the firemen will demonstrate the adverse 

effects of placing a frozen turkey in a 

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Religion 



Students of Service bring level of care to the Houston area 

ISABEL YOUNG 

Staff Writer 

At Episcopal High School, the Students 

of Service (SOS) program provides to 

many different people and places around 

the city of Houston. They hold many opportunities 

for everyone involved to find 

what fits for each of them so everyone can 

have a chance to get involved in community 

service work. A few of these programs 

are Star of hope, Interfaith Ministries, 

Women’s Home, and Nehemiah Center. 

Project manager Nicole Betts oversees 

EHS’s involvement with The Star of 

Hope, a Christian- based community that 

helps homeless people. It encourages them 

to make life changes through structured 

programs that focus on spiritual growth, 

education, jobs, life management, and recovery 

from substance abuse. The most recent 

service event for this partnership was 

Thursday, October 27, at 3:15 in Room 

A10. SOS members filled bags with candy 

to take to the children. 

The project manager of Interfaith Ministries 

is Grace Geib. Interfaith Ministries 

believes that through service and dialogue, 

it’s possible for diverse people to know 

each other and find common ground, 

while still embracing personal beliefs and 

cultures. 

Through this area of service, EHS focuses 

on Meals on Wheels for Greater 

Houston Refugee Services and Interfaith 

Relations. When EHS serves for Meals on 

Wheels, a home delivered meal is provided 

to senior citizens and their spouses in 

FCA shares a Christian message with everyone 

ALEXANDRA PEARSON 

Staff Writer 

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes 

serves as an international non-profit Christian 

sports ministry based in Kansas City, 

Kansas. FCA was founded in 1954 by basketball 

coach Don McClanen. He wanted 

to provide the opportunity for athletes to 

endorse Christian fellowship. 

Athletes and coaches then began to give 

financial support and witness to Christ 

in order for the club to form. McClanen 

wanted to reach outside of the playing 

field and into the playing field of life. The 

FCA organization holds athletic- focused 

and spiritual-focused camps each summer. 

Beyond this, FCA exists to serve local 

communities by equipping, empowering, 

and encouraging people to make a difference 

for Christ. 

Team EHS gathers near City Hall prior to the start of Race for the Cure. Service opportunities like this are the cornerstone of 

student service. Photo by Amy Gready. 

the Houston area. 

The Women’s Home project leader is 

Morgan Thompson. The Women’s Home 

works to provide women without means 

access to tools, such as clothing and shelter, 

to help them get back on their feet. 

The organization exists primarily for 

athletes, but at EHS, FCA is extended to 

all students. Meetings are available to students 

of all faiths and backgrounds, despite 

the Christian foundation and teachings of 

the organization. 

Led by teachers Matt Fox and John Drexel, 

the FCA group meets each Friday in Mr. 

Drexel’s room. An EHS faculty member, 

peer, or guest speaker leads the members in 

a bible study. There is also juice and donuts 

provided in the morning. 

Through FCA, the teachers and upperclassmen 

have created a mentoring 

program in which older students assist 

younger students in their walk with Christ. 

Many times, older students will meet with 

the students they mentor for breakfast or 

an after-school snack to discuss scripture. 

This year a group of upperclassmen gathered 

over the course of first period until the 

end of Chapel to hear from pastor Jeremiah 

Morris. Morris gave a lesson to the group 

Faith at work through Moms in Prayer program 

13 

EHS volunteers sorted and hung clothes to 

sell in the Cottage Shop that funds the organization 

on October 22.. 

Sophie Allen is the project manager of 

the Nehemiah Center, which works with 

at-risk families and their children to provide 

them with a safe environment. Children 

ranging in all ages get to eat meals, 

play outside, and do their homework. As 

EHS volunteers, students tutor the kids and 

play with them to keep them entertained 

before going home. 

Photo courtesy of timeline.fca.org. 

on discipleship and ministering to those in 

their community. 

Photo courtesy of siouxcenterchristian.com. 

ELLIE RAGIEL 

Staff Wrtier 

Every Friday morning at 8:30, the mothers 

of students from all grades file into Anderson 

Lecture Hall to gather in prayer for 

the Episcopal High School community. 

Known as Moms in Prayer, this international 

organization strives to make the 

lives of all children better through prayer 

and has been active at EHS for a while 

now. These mothers meet every week for 

an hour to pray for our students, staff, trustees, 

and any upcoming events like Homecoming 

or final exams. 

Each week they concentrate on a different 

attribute of God’s character, like Father, 

creator, salvation, and many more. 

Once a year they also have a special meeting 

when they walk to the four corners of 

campus and pray specifically for each Pillar 

of EHS. 

According to Meredith Barineau, an active 

member of Moms in Prayer, “It’s really 

special” to be able to come together as 

moms who are all “passionate in prayer for 

our school.” 

Although they pray for the community as 

a whole, the mothers who take part in this 

organization will agree that it is being able 

to pray for the needs of their children and 

all the EHS students that is really rewarding. 

Moms in Prayer has special prayer 

boxes located in the back of the Chapel and 

in the library where they encourage students 

to leave a short note with any prayer 

needs they might have. 

If you have any special prayer requests, 

leave them in one of these boxes and Moms 

in Prayer will lift it up for you.

14 OPINIONS 



Creation of superteams is damaging for the NBA 

GAVIN GEIB 

Staff Writer 

This past offseason, the Oklahoma City 

Thunder’s Kevin Durant made possibly the 

worst free agent decision in NBA history. 

Here’s why. Last postseason, the Thunder 

was up 3-1 against the Golden State Warriors 

in the Western Conference Finals and 

ended up losing. Then, the Warriors went 

up 3-1 against the Cleveland Cavaliers in 

the Finals and also lost. To top that off, 

last year the Warriors won the most regular 

season games in NBA history (73), and 

if they would have won one more game in 

the NBA Finals, they would likely be regarded 

as the best team in NBA history. 

And Kevin Durant wants to join this team? 

A Most Valuable Player, seven time All- 

Star, winner of four NBA scoring titles, the 

NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and holder 

of two Olympic gold medals wants to join 

this team? After coming one game away 

from beating them? And then the Warriors 

Kevin Durant holds up his new Warriors’ jersey. Photo courtesy of thebigleadcom. 

being one game away from winning it all? 

Although the Warriors are favorites to win 

the championship this year, this decision 

hurts Durant’s legacy as well as the NBA, 

and here’s why. 

First, in the words of sport analyst Stephen 

A. Smith, the NBA regular season is 

“ruined.” I personally might be interested 

in watching the Warriors at the beginning 

of the season, but if their preseason games 

are any indication of how they will do this 

year, they are going to be up 40+ points every 

game, and that is definitely not interesting 

to watch. The Thunder also lost their 

best player, so watching them is also going 

to be less interesting. 

It is my prediction that TV ratings for the 

NBA are going to decrease this year. All 

the good players are going to select teams, 

while everyone else is just filling out teams 

to beat. In a seven-game playoff series, almost 

always the best team is going to win, 

and because of this we already know that 

there are only four or five teams that have 

realistic chances of making it to the Finals. 

This is not what professional sports should 

be like. The competition is completely 

gone. 

Additionally, NBA fans pretty much 

know that the Warriors are going to be the 

number one team in the Western Conference 

and will probably be in the Finals. 

This Warriors team is so good that it ruins 

competition. This isn’t the NFL or MLB 

where you could have three really good 

players and still have a losing season. 

There are only five players on the court in 

basketball at any given time. One or two 

good players can lead their team deep into 

the playoffs or a championship. We’ve 

seen this time and time again. We saw this 

last year with the Kevin Durant and Rus- 

sell Westbrook, and now the Warriors have 

three players on the first All-NBA team? 

This is absolutely absurd. 

The reasons Kevin Durant has cited for 

deciding to go with the Warriors include 

the fact that he likes how the Warriors play 

and that he wants to win an NBA championship. 

Nowadays, the media judges the 

merit of a player so much on how many 

championships he wins. I think this judgment 

is completely wrong and is a topic 

for another editorial, but clearly Durant is 

desperate to win an NBA championship 

because of how he thinks it will improve 

his legacy. However, winning a championship 

with this Warriors team will not elevate 

his legacy at all. The Warriors were 

one game away from winning it last year. 

They are already an incredible team. Even 

if Durant stayed in OKC and did not win a 

title, I would still think more of him than if 

he won a title or several titles with his new 

Warriors team. 

This is probably harsh, but I will probably 

think less of Durant if they win a championship. 

I already hated the Warriors before 

Durant joined, and now I really hate them. 

In my eyes, Durant should have stayed in 

OKC, and grinded it out another year to try 

and win a title. The Thunder already has 

the players in place to make a run. And 

don’t even bring up Lebron. His situation 

and decision was completely and utterly 

different from this dreadful decision. 

Hey! Papparazzi! Leave them (sic) kids alone! 

DRE GUTHRIE 

Staff Writer 

It’s inevitable that, at some point, 

you’ve run across a gossip magazine or 

news website or feature on a broadcast 

about celebrity children, and, in a sense, I 

get it. If you’re interested in the lives of 

today’s latest and greatest, you’d probably 

be interested in their home lives, including 

their families. I typed celebrity children 

into Google and received over 75,000,000 

results in less than a second, so it’s obvious 

our fascinations span more search engine 

pages than anyone would ever want to read 

in a lifetime. 

Celebrity culture is blaring in our faces 

24 hours a day, and, fair enough, I believe 

that if you earn enough money to buy yourself 

several multimillion-dollar homes, you 

can’t complain much when people want to 

watch your actions for fun. With celebrity 

children, it’s different. 

For instance, imagine if Brad Pitt was 

your father. You’d be living in the lap of 

luxury, certainly, could ask for whatever 

you wanted, and would not be in want of 

anything. Your playhouse in your backyard 

could be a larger-than-life castle if 

you wished for it, and the coolest person 

you could imagine would show up to your 

birthday party just to see you. 

It’s hard to imagine a five-year-old who 

wouldn’t be interested in being spoiled 

because children naturally turn away 

from what they hate and run toward what 

they like: it’s human nature. I bet you’re 

thinking how wonderful such a life would 

be when hearing that Blue Ivy wore an 

$11,000 dress to the 2016 MTV Awards or 

that Suri Cruise gets to visit the Clintons 

with her mother. 

But that’s not fair. They didn’t choose 

to become famous; they were born into it. 

Blue Ivy and Suri didn’t personally request 

to grow up around celebrities, life just happened 

to turn out that way. As children, 

they’re constantly exposed to large sets 

of cameras carried by shouting men and 

women who want to record their entire 

lives for an audience they don’t know; nor 

do they understand precisely why hordes 

of reporters want to take pictures of them 

while walking out divided between their 

Suri Cruise faces a horde of papparazzi. Celebrity children find themselves the subject of pubic fascination on a daily basis. 

Photo courtesy of nydailynews.com. 

divorcing mother and father, or even know 

what it’s like outside of this celebrity bubble. 

So my request for you is simple: give 

them a chance to grow up. 

By taking the clickbait on the Internet 

and looking at what the latest Pitt-Jolie kid 

is up to, or by wondering what a celebrity 

mom decided to dress their new baby up in 

for Halloween, you inadvertently are reinforcing 

the system of paparazzi bothering 

children in order to get a scoop. And I’m 

sure every one of you have a little brother 

or sister or cousin or family member or 

neighbor who’s still a kid, and I’m even 

more sure that you want a child to grow 

up happy and healthy and unbothered by 

the world around them until they’re old 

enough to understand a problem’s ramifications 

clearly. 

So, whenever you are skimming through 

the world wide web for any interesting 

celebrity news for gossip’s sake, consider 

what celebrity father Ben Affleck said in 

an interview with Playboy a few years ago: 

“My kids aren’t celebrities. They never 

made that bargain.”

OPINIONS 



The tech barons of Silicon Valley: A digital Gilded Age 

15 

ANTHONY SMALL 


In the late 19th century United States, 

a national society of small, rural farmers 

transformed into an urban, industrial 

machine dominated by mega-corporations. 

Mark Twain, noting that everything 

seemed glossy on the surface but deeply 

corrupt below, coined the term “Gilded 

Age” to describe this era. With the railroad 

and mining industries booming and factories 

rising on every corner in the Northeast, 

millions of Europeans flocked to the U.S. 

to carve out their piece of the American 

pie. With no precedent for such an explosion 

of the capitalist economic engine, 

wealth and power became increasingly 

concentrated in the hands of a few captains 

of industry. Government rules for the private 

sector were behind the times, and the 

feds rarely had the power to enforce existing 

or newly created regulations. These 

conditions fostered the rise of a select few 

industrial tycoons that singlehandedly 

ruled entire markets. The monopolistic 

practices, shady business transactions, and 

questionable political dealings of these fiscal 

titans like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew 

Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and J.P. 

Morgan led them to be known as robber 

barons. These men exerted colossal control 

over American business and politics 

for years with philanthropic organizations 

and political initiatives, and it took decades 

to enact significant change to combat the 

crony capitalism throughout the nation. 

Fast-forward to 2016 and America once 

again faces another Gilded Age with the 

exploding rise of Silicon Valley’s fortune 

and influence on American society. Similar 

to the past, massive wealth has fallen 

into the hands of a few companies who 

command the digital sphere. Through lobbying 

groups and philanthropic organizations, 

tech magnates wield influence comparable 

to, and even greater than, that of 

John D. Rockefeller in his prime. Although 

these industry figureheads like to portray 

themselves as progressive, utopian-minded 

agents of change, industry behavior 

points toward the fact that “robber barons” 

would be a more fitting description. Yet, 

according to Gallup polls, the majority of 

Americans view the computer industry in 

an overwhelming positive light when these 

very mega-corporations have created, at 

minimum, borderline monopolistic business 

models much greater in scope than 

companies in other, more traditional industries 

like banking, real estate, and oil 

and gas. However, according to the same 

research, Americans view these latter industries 

in an overwhelmingly negative 

manner. To better understand this apparent 

dichotomy, a brief history of the computer 

industry is essential. 

When tech entrepreneurs rose to prominence 

in the 1980s, and even to this very 

day, the culture of their businesses has been 

that they are new and innovative corporate 

structures not beholden to traditional practices. 

In terms of outward appearance, this 

is largely true. Employees of tech companies 

more frequently don casual dress and 

tend to have a much more casual style in 

general. Moreover, the advent of personal 

computers and interactive software has created 

a formidable bond between the consumer 

and producer that simply does not 

exist in other industries. Lastly, these tech 

firms have incessantly branded themselves 

as working to “change the world” and 

“create a better future” instead of simply 

existing as an entity to make a profit. And 

for the most part, this claim is largely true, 

as these computer companies have fundamentally 

transformed our modern world. 

As a result, all of the aforementioned factors 

combine to create an environment in 

which the public views Silicon Valley as 

inherently less power-hungry and corrupt 

as well as largely exempted the tech 

elite from criticism carried out on more 

conventional industries. For example, 

Occupy Wall Street protestors paused to 

mourn multi-billionaire Steve Jobs’ death 

although when their entire protest movement 

was about justice for the 99%. While 

I do acknowledge that Jobs was obviously 

relatable to their plight as a previous hippie 

himself in the 1960s, the corporate actions 

of Apple prove starkly antithetical to the 

Occupy movement. Ultimately, this selective 

protesting has stifled the public debate 

on the anti-trust ramifications of tech companies 

and even emboldened Silicon Valley 

to further increase the occurrence and 

sheer scale of their questionable exploits. 

In terms of transparency and ethics 

within corporations, Silicon Valley is all 

talk and no action. While their public image 

emanates of inclusiveness and internationalist 

progressivism, corporations 

like Facebook, Google, and Apple fail to 

practice what they preach. To begin, Silicon 

Valley has a documented deficiency of 

women and minority leadership and employment. 

Furthermore, a few years ago 

Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe settled an 

employee lawsuit against an industry wide 

wage-fixing scheme for hundreds of millions 

of dollars, which proves outright that 

they colluded to keep the working man’s 

wages down. Another unsavory business 

practice is the industry wide outsourcing of 

jobs to lower paid foreign guest workers to 

‘replace’ a largely non-existent lack of native 

tech workers. For example, Facebook 

has lobbied significantly to maintain this 

steady inflow of cheap labor to the region. 

In spite of this unscrupulous activity, Silicon 

Valley has faced relatively no retaliation 

from organized labor. 

Many of these companies, like Google 

and Facebook, have been caught violating 

their user privacy terms of service. These 

companies routinely perform unethical 

and immoral data collection and tracking 

of consumers and have faced little consequence 

in the United States. Specifically, 

Google has been exposed collecting user 

IP addresses and every online action with 

spyware programs without user permission. 

For example, Google was forced to 

settle the Wi-Spy case after being caught 

illegally acquiring hundreds of gigabytes 

of Wi-Fi data from various unprotected 

user networks in filming for its Street View 

program. Lastly, Facebook tracks users 

significantly more than they realize - even 

when they are not on the site. 

Another corrupt activity of tech elites 

is aggressive tax avoidance. In general, 

there are three ways for these tech tycoons 

The tech giant oasis - Silicon Valley. Image courtesy of siliconmaps.com. 

to largely exempt themselves from taxes. 

The first one, a tactic dating back to the 

Gilded Age, is to set up a tax-exempt philanthropic 

trust and funnel money to groups 

that questionably can be defined as charitable 

contributions. For instance, Zuckerberg 

has pledged 99% of his $45 billion 

fortune to charity. However, what many do 

not know is that the money remains unable 

to be taxed in his philanthropic LLC whose 

stated mission is to “advance human potential 

and promote equality,” which, in terms 

of being considered charitable contributions, 

very subjective. While he does admirably 

give significant amounts to charity, a 

considerable percent of the money is being 

used as if it were a tax-free lobbying foundation. 

Secondly, these mega-corporations, 

armed with legions of the best lawyers in 

the country, can seek out legal loopholes 

in the tax code. For example, Facebook 

paid zero taxes on over $1 billion in profits 

in 2012 by taking great advantage of tax 

deductions. In this case, it is obviously the 

fault of the government for failing to recognize 

loopholes. Lastly, the multinational 

tech companies also avoid paying tax by 

offshoring billions of dollars in profits to 

tax-exempt safe havens even when the 

companies are based in the United States! 

They intentionally do not move the money 

back into the U.S. to avoid taxation, so 

when it comes time to reinvest capital to 

build office, factories, and infrastructure – 

where do they do it? Not in the good ‘ole 

MR. DAN BINDER 

Guest Writer 

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights 

speaks directly to the necessity of a robust 

and vibrant free press, and now more than 

ever, do we have it! 

Between Fox News, NPR, Telemundo, 

BuzzFeed, the Associated Press, Tomi Lahren, 

Infowars, and more, there is an abundance 

of diverse journalistic voices available 

at the click of a button or the swipe of 

a screen. With the advent of platforms like 

Twitter and Facebook, more people than 

ever before can share their ideas, experiences, 

and perspectives with the world, and 

one could argue that any concept of ‘the 

media’ that doesn’t include amateurs as 

well as professionals is not fully grasping 

the reality we live in. However, when we 

talk about the media, we generally refer to 

the larger, more professional entities – the 

newspapers, television or radio networks, 

and news agencies that have established 

large audiences for themselves. All of 

these entities strive for professionalism 

and excellence, and they all work to adhere 

to the traditional principles of journalistic 

U.S.A. but instead in these foreign countries 

where they keep the money. Ultimately, 

the fact that our government allows this 

type of behavior is just more evidence that 

we are living in another Gilded Age. 

While these Silicon Valley mega-corporations 

like Alphabet (owner of Google) 

have failed to be charged with significant 

antitrust violations in the U.S., the European 

Union, Russia, and United Nations 

have been working to crack down on their 

monopolies. For instance, Google has been 

charged in foreign countries for violations 

of anti-monopoly laws by promoting their 

own systems while discriminating against 

their competition in their search engine 

results. These deceptive practices are antithetical 

to American trust code and should 

be further investigated, as no single entity 

should be allowed to control search, advertising, 

and their own systems within the 

same user interface. 

The 19th century Gilded Age elicited a 

strong cultural backlash with the rise of 

populist politicians at and after the turn of 

the century such as Democrat William Jennings 

Bryan and Republican Teddy Roosevelt. 

With remarkable success of populist 

politicians like Bernie Sanders and Donald 

Trump who have railed against corporate 

monopolies this election cycle, we seem 

to be witnessing the past repeat itself as 

a smaller and smaller amount of corporations 

and individuals disproportionally impact 

our lives. In conclusion, I’m not trying 

to lay 100% of the blame for this current 

economic environment on Silicon Valley 

or even degrade them as an evil entity, as 

I recognize that the computer industry has 

made revolutionary changes and immense 

contributions to our society that have made 

life both easier and more efficient. All 

I’m articulating with this opinion piece is 

that there is a serious need for this topic 

to be acknowledged and understood by all 

Americans so a real debate can take place 

between citizens, Silicon Valley, and the 

government to work toward a solution. 

The bottom line, which most Americans 

fail to grasp, is that Silicon Valley megacorporations 

are just as ruthless as other 

mega-firms in other industries, and thus 

should be regulated and held accountable 

for their breaches of antitrust legislation 

and infringements on civil liberties by both 

the citizenry and the federal government. 

Total objectivity unrealistic in media 

objectivity. Unfortunately, true objectivity 

is in fact quite hard to practice, as the nature 

of the industry and the limitations of 

time, space, and financial backing force editors, 

for example, to choose which stories 

to cover, reporters to choose which sources 

to quote, producers to choose which stories 

to run first – even when it comes to matters 

of global importance, like our upcoming 

presidential election. 

Despite the best of intentions, even the 

grand media institutions with decades or 

even centuries of practice inevitably fall 

short of true objectivity. Simply put, ‘the 

media’ are not perfectly objective, and it is 

unrealistic to expect perfection. This is exactly 

why the skills we learn at Episcopal 

High School are so important – skills like 

critical thinking, source evaluation, independent 

research, etc.. 

A citizen who is equipped with these 

skills can rather easily do her own digging 

on the internet, through scholarly 

resources, and via other mechanisms. To 

expect the media to simply deliver truth to 

a passive consumer is misguided – a truly 

responsible citizen will do his or her own 

share of the work.

16 KNIGHT SHIFT 



Best Food Tweets of All Time 

Went to the Texans game but they ran out of chicken tender baskets. 

#leaving 

I try to find the good in every single situation. Wait. That was a 

typo I meant “food.” I try to find the food in every situation. 

Is your name Patty because you sure are making me melt . 

#workseverytime #pattymelt #whataburger 

Usually when I’m getting full after I eat, I rub my tummy. That 

helps make more room for more food. #perseverance 

My future plans are lunch. Long-term? Dinner. #whattimeislunch 

Is cereal a soup or a salad? #justgivemeacookie 

Top 10 Worst Trick or Treats 

1) Advice 

2) Chocolate without the wrapper 

3) Salad (Sauce) 

4) Raisins 

5) Weight loss pills 

6) Half eaten apple 

7) Caramel covered onion 

8) Packaged carrots without ranch dressing 

9) Left side Twix instead of right side 

10) Anything but a Snickers 

A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef #Iwanttogocamping 

Hot or Not??? 

• Dressing up for Spirit Week --- Basic school uniform 

Image courtesy of clipartpanda.com. 

(Celebrity Sighting) 

• Trick or treating ------------------ Halloween on a Monday 

• Football games ------------------- Empty student sections 

• Presidential debates ------------- Constant arguments 

• Post season baseball ------------- No Astros 

• Russell Westbrook --------------- Kevin Durant and Warriors 

• Chicken Tender Day ------------ People cutting the lunch line 

• Spotify ---------------------------- Apple music 

• Fantasy Football ----------------- Adrian Peterson injury 

• NFL -------------------------------- Rodger Goodell 

• Sweater weather ----------------- Bipolar Houston weather 

• Kanye coming back concert --- Couples going to Needtobreathe 

concert 

Hunter Hernandez and Ted Cruz share strikingly similar characteristics- their “lucsious” 

locks of hair for starters. Hernandez told The Knight Times that his doppelganger 

Cruz has motivated him to possibly run for class president next year. Hopefully 

for Hernandez, his election results will NOT be similar to the outcome Cruz 

had this past election cycle. Photo by Hunter Megarity. 

What are Those? 

Tayjon Martin wasted no time 

jumping right back to the center 

of attention. This month he decided 

to go with the “spot ‘em 

and dot ‘ems.” 

Mr. Lerch jumped into his size 17 

gameday shoes and made a statement 

in the Chapel. 

Everyone can literally SEE the reason 

Mia Holstead is featured in this 

month’s newspaper... In the spirit of 

Halloween, she is not going to let 

anyone walk by without noticing 

these. 

Taylor Ferguson stomps her way 

to school rocking her worker 

boots. All she needs to do is strap 

them up. 

Photos by Hunter Megarity and Will Edens.

THE KNIGHT TIMES - October 2016

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