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INSIDE<br />
Features 2<br />
Entertainment 8<br />
Sports 9<br />
Opinions 10<br />
Houston<br />
Hockey?<br />
Freshman<br />
Connor Baily<br />
competes on ice<br />
Global<br />
Warming<br />
Debate continues<br />
over climate<br />
dangers<br />
Lacrosse<br />
Squared<br />
Boys and girls<br />
LAX hoping to<br />
turn corner<br />
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Page 6-7<br />
Page 9<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>KNIGHT</strong> <strong>TIMES</strong><br />
Official Student Newspaper of Episcopal High School<br />
April <strong>2018</strong> 4650 Bissonnet, Bellaire, Texas 77401 www.ehshouston.org Volume 33, Issue 8<br />
STUCO reveals<br />
new outerwear<br />
rules and options<br />
EHS Onstage ventures Into the Woods<br />
Spring musical presents a twist on children’s classic stories<br />
PATRICK BAYOUTH<br />
SYDNEY HUTCHINS<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Student Council has recently unveiled<br />
a new and improved outerwear policy approved<br />
by the Deans’ office, which gives<br />
students more options as to which jackets<br />
they can wear to school. After much anticipation<br />
and rumors about the rule change,<br />
Student Council displayed each new style<br />
in their fashion show during a recent Chapel<br />
reveal. Permitted styles include sweatshirts,<br />
hoodies, cardigans, pullovers, zipups,<br />
and crew neck sweaters.<br />
The policy not only allows students to<br />
wear a wide variety of styles but also accepts<br />
the use of either solid black, solid<br />
white, solid dark gray, solid light gray, or<br />
navy blue outerwear.<br />
Any logos on a student’s outerwear must<br />
not exceed the size of a quarter and college<br />
logos are not permitted. Outerwear also<br />
may not be longer than a student’s shorts<br />
or skirt.<br />
Student Council has been working with<br />
the deans on these rule changes for months<br />
and hopes the student body will greatly<br />
appreciate the changes. In addition to the<br />
While portraying princes looking for their princesses, Clayton Reid and Will McKinnie perform their duet “Agony” during the<br />
musical Into the Woods. Photo by Mauro Gomez.<br />
An example of an outfit that follows the<br />
new outerwear policy. Photo by Lauren<br />
Porter.<br />
new outerwear policy, there seems to be<br />
a possibility of a slight uniform change<br />
since Parker School Uniforms has closed.<br />
There have been many possibilities regarding<br />
the new uniforms, including a sportier,<br />
more comfortable design for the shirts and<br />
bottoms. Decisions regarding current uniforms<br />
and dress codes have not been made<br />
yet; however, the deans are actively meeting<br />
about this issue. The deans hope to issue<br />
guidelines before summer.<br />
ANGEL STRINGER<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Battling the lack of a theater for rehearsal<br />
on campus due to ongoing construction,<br />
members of EHS Onstage persevered<br />
and presented the spring musical Into the<br />
Woods before captivated audiences at Dunham<br />
Theatre on the Houston Baptist University<br />
campus April 18-20.<br />
Into the Woods is a theatrical twist on<br />
many of Grimm’s fairy tales, mixing the<br />
plots of several stories and their characters<br />
while examining the results of their various<br />
journeys.<br />
The amazing program, under the direction<br />
of Mr. George Brock, came together<br />
despite the logistical nightmare. Mr. Garmon<br />
Ashby served as musical director, Ms.<br />
Kristina Burgess provided the choreography,<br />
and Mr. Paul Revaz orchestrated the<br />
stagecrafting.<br />
The Stephen Sondheim musical combines<br />
the plots of several Brothers Grimm and<br />
Charles Perrault fairy tales like “Little Red<br />
Riding Hood,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,”<br />
“Cinderella,” and more. Tying it together is<br />
the story of a baker and his wife and their<br />
quest to begin a family.<br />
“The logistics of doing a musical in a<br />
theatre that you are accustomed to working<br />
in and know like the back of your hand<br />
is difficult enough,” reflected Mr. Brock.<br />
“Having to move into a theatre one and a<br />
half times the size of your theatre and construct<br />
scenery for that space and light that<br />
space and make the whole thing work in<br />
10 days is a challenge that is almost insurmountable.<br />
The students and faculty and<br />
staff managed this difficult feat and made<br />
it look easy.”<br />
Senior Clayton Reid added, “Sondheim’s<br />
music and writing is notoriously difficult,<br />
and to have our actors not only grasp it but<br />
excel in performance was phenomenal.”<br />
EHS Onstage completed its performance<br />
season with one-act plays April 27-28.<br />
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Theater Department delivers musical despite site issues<br />
Musical from Page 1<br />
Cast<br />
Narrator - Quinn Ogle<br />
Cinderella - Gwendalyn Diaz<br />
Jack - Austin Wills<br />
Jack’s Mother - Hanna Nyberg<br />
Baker Ethan McAlpin<br />
Baker’s Wife Payton Herbert<br />
Cinderella’s Stepmother - Bella Ray<br />
Florinda - Charlotte Baird<br />
Lucinda - Elizabeth Barineau<br />
Granny - Grace Rampaul<br />
Little Red - Alison Newton<br />
The Witch - Jillian Branch<br />
Cinderella’s Mother - Caton Murry<br />
Mysterious Man - Liam Griffin<br />
Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince - Clayton Reid<br />
Rapunzel’s Prince - Will McKinnie<br />
Steward - Price Palmer<br />
Rapunzel - Paris Bailey<br />
Giant - Lani McHenry<br />
Milky White - Chandler Levinthal<br />
Milky White - Addie Elmer<br />
Ensemble - River Reinersten-Forehand,<br />
Lani McHenry, Bridget Kearney, Alena<br />
Haney, Kate Donaldson, Elise Branch<br />
Crew<br />
Production Stage Manager – Ian Evans<br />
Assistant Stage Managers – Amelia<br />
Traylor, Emma Walker<br />
A look around Math Corner<br />
BLAIR BARINEAU<br />
Guest Writer<br />
On Thursday, April 12, over 50 EHS<br />
students attended the <strong>2018</strong> Engineering<br />
Design Showcase and Poster Session held<br />
in the Tudor Fieldhouse at Rice University.<br />
The evening included poster presentations<br />
from over 90 teams from different<br />
disciplines who described their projects<br />
and answered questions regarding the use<br />
of mathematics and science in engineering.<br />
This was an opportunity for students to<br />
learn more about STEM, in particular, applied<br />
mathematics and industry-sponsored<br />
engineering projects. The EHS students<br />
were able to speak one-on-one with<br />
graduate and undergraduate students and<br />
engineers and even vote for their favorite<br />
project for the people’s choice award.<br />
A sophomore math student explained,<br />
“It was neat to see innovations that will<br />
affect our lives in the future and it was a<br />
great way to explore many different types<br />
of engineering, and its real world implications.”<br />
It has been a very exciting year for the<br />
Math Club. Congratulations to next year’s<br />
Math Club officers: President - Anna<br />
Moise; Internal Vice President - Blair<br />
Barineau; External Vice President - Emeline<br />
Birdwell; Secretary - Gloria Ni; and<br />
Social Media Coordinator - Garret Sisk.<br />
In addition, next year’s Mu Alpha Theta<br />
Officers are Ellie Ragiel as President and<br />
Ashley Chandler as Vice President. We<br />
hope to see you next year for even more<br />
exciting STEM activities!<br />
Dresser – Lizzie Barringer, Sara Faulconer<br />
Deck Crew – Sarah Andrews, Madeleine<br />
Berckley, Caroline Campbell, Pate<br />
Herrold, Emily West<br />
Spotlight Operator – Catherine Andrews,<br />
Will Nakfoor, Ken Pereira, Harlan<br />
Solsbery<br />
Light Board Operator – Eric Nagueh<br />
'SU P with Soph<br />
SOPHIA HENRY<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Sadly, this is the last masterpiece I will<br />
ever write in the newspaper as I will be<br />
graduating (maybe?). I will leave you with<br />
my legacy of advice filled with tricks and<br />
tips on how to survive high school.<br />
1. Treat every day like it’s tomorrow and<br />
tomorrow like it’s yesterday so you live in<br />
an infinite loop.<br />
2. When you see upperclassmen, know<br />
they care less about everything than you,<br />
so do not be afraid.<br />
3. Learn to fly so you can get to class<br />
faster.<br />
4. Be a trend setter and wear khaki skirts<br />
to #standout…<br />
5. … but don’t #standout tooooo much because<br />
then you will be shunned into a box<br />
and shipped to Steve Harvey’s front door.<br />
6. Introduce yourself to every teacher until<br />
you reach Bowser, then use your shiny<br />
star to take him down.<br />
7. Wear heels or a suit to school one day<br />
Students practice for the musical in the<br />
Band Hall. Photo by Celine Waxham.<br />
and act like you are going to a corporate<br />
job. Then every B or lower grade will be<br />
a determinant as to whether you lose your<br />
job and cause your family to starve.<br />
8. Focus all your free time on learning to<br />
focus; then focus on how to focus better<br />
while still focusing on focusing.<br />
9. Goof and gaffe.<br />
10. Join newspaper! It’s a hoot and a holler!<br />
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The Snake Man cometh<br />
ISABEL YOUNG<br />
Staff Writer<br />
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Your Spanish Corner<br />
Thomas Davis, otherwise known as the<br />
“Snake Man” around campus, came to the<br />
EHS student biology classes to share his<br />
love of reptiles.<br />
Mr. Davis visits Episcopal every year<br />
when the freshmen study reptiles in biology.<br />
The students look forward to this day<br />
because they get to pass around and hold<br />
different types of snakes. This helps some<br />
students overcome their fears of the scaly<br />
reptile while getting up close and personal<br />
with the animal.<br />
To start the presentation, Mr. Davis<br />
gives an introduction to the different types<br />
of snakes and talks about where they can<br />
be found. The students learn that venomous<br />
snakes thrive just a few miles from<br />
where they live because all poisonous<br />
snakes live in Houston. These consist of<br />
the moccasin, rattlesnake, copperhead,<br />
and cottonmouth. Although they exist in<br />
the city, Mr. Davis did not bring these<br />
snakes to show the classes. The snakes he<br />
brought were harmless and friendly.<br />
He taught the students how to identify<br />
poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes so<br />
they can be aware if they ever see a snake<br />
outside of the classroom. Students learn<br />
that they can differentiate among these<br />
snakes by color, and he reminded the<br />
students of the popular rhyme, “Black and<br />
yellow kill a fellow, red and black, it’s<br />
okay Jack.”<br />
The students and teachers enjoy Snake<br />
Day because it is a unique and fun way<br />
to learn and coincides with their unit on<br />
reptiles.<br />
Prom delivers memories<br />
GABRIELLE DUCOTE<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The EHS Senior Prom was hosted at<br />
Life HTX on April 21. The venue was<br />
chic and unique and featured an array<br />
of photos and videos projected onto the<br />
walls, including one of the members of the<br />
Senior Class of <strong>2018</strong> with their banner.<br />
The evening began with everyone on the<br />
dance floor thanks to a great DJ. Hip Hop<br />
Harry (Philbrick) busted his moves, and<br />
the grade had a great time dancing and<br />
singing along together. A photo booth was<br />
also available.<br />
The second part of Prom involved the<br />
conversion of the dance venue into a<br />
casino, complete with a buffet, for the remainder<br />
of the night. Whataburger “Hubchubs,”<br />
Raising Cane’s chicken strips, and<br />
an assortment of River Oaks donut holes<br />
Freshman Rachel Barker holds one of<br />
the many snakes the Snake Man brought<br />
for the students to hold. Photo by Trinity<br />
Watts.<br />
satisfied the hungry group.<br />
Casino tables filled the space as well so<br />
prom goers could play blackjack. Each<br />
student was given raffle tickets and an<br />
amount of play money to begin and was<br />
able to cash in winnings at any point in<br />
exchange for raffle tickets toward enviable<br />
prizes. Some of those included printers,<br />
TV’s, clothing and jewelry items, dorm<br />
room necessities, a MacBook Air, Beats<br />
headphones, Google Home devices, an<br />
iHome, and much more. The grand prize,<br />
a moped, was won by Will Edens. Many<br />
students went home from Prom with raffle<br />
prizes, making the night that much more<br />
memorable.<br />
Prom was a success that capped off the<br />
many dances and special events the Senior<br />
Class of <strong>2018</strong> spent together over four<br />
years of high school. It was an evening<br />
filled with future memories.<br />
LAUREN PORTER<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
Hola a todos, este mes El Rincón Español<br />
discutirá el tema del cinco de mayo.<br />
Mucha gente cree que el cinco de mayo es<br />
el día en que México ganó su independencia<br />
de España, pero la fecha de ella es el<br />
16 de septiembre. Cinco de mayo celebra<br />
el día en que el ejército mexicano luchó<br />
contra el ejército francés de Napoleón<br />
y ganó. La batalla se llama la batalla de<br />
Puebla y causó la unidad nacional entre<br />
el pueblo mexicano. El día festivo es<br />
reconocido en los Estados Unidos como<br />
una celebración de la cultura mexicanaamericana,<br />
sin embargo el día no es una<br />
fiesta nacional en México. Cinco de mayo<br />
es un día muy divertido–celebra este<br />
día mientras que celebres la historia de<br />
México.<br />
NHS welcomes junior inductees<br />
LAUREN PORTER<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
The Benitez Chapter of the National<br />
Honor Society (NHS) inducted new members<br />
this month.<br />
The National<br />
Honor Society<br />
induction<br />
was held in<br />
the Alumni<br />
Center in the<br />
Hildebrand<br />
Athletic Center,<br />
and parents as<br />
well as current<br />
senior NHS<br />
members came<br />
to watch the<br />
induction. The<br />
current officers<br />
of NHS gave<br />
speeches explaining the mission of the<br />
National Honor Society and the history<br />
behind it.<br />
National Honor Society members must<br />
show leadership, morals, and service to<br />
be inducted in the chapter, and they also<br />
must maintain a 3.75 GPA to remain in<br />
the society.<br />
After the speeches, the newly admitted<br />
juniors were called to the podium to<br />
receive their<br />
certificates.<br />
After the<br />
distribution of<br />
the certificates,<br />
the inductees<br />
repeated the<br />
NHS oath<br />
and enjoyed a<br />
specially decorated<br />
cake and<br />
refreshments.<br />
The officer<br />
elections for<br />
next year were<br />
also held this<br />
month, with Mark Nylund elected President,<br />
Carter Kardesch as Vice President,<br />
Claire Kardesch as Secretary-Treasurer,<br />
and Sophia Haugh as Parliamentarian.<br />
New members of NHS were inducted into the organization<br />
during a ceremony in the Alumni Center.<br />
Photo courtesy of Lauren Porter.<br />
EHS SPEAKS OUT<br />
If your life were a novel, what would it be called?<br />
SAM HOLDEN<br />
“My Mom’s a Reverend<br />
and It’s Ruining My<br />
Social Life”<br />
SANIA PETTIES<br />
“Volleyball is Life”<br />
HARRISON HOBBS<br />
“I’ve Been Tired for 17<br />
Years and Counting”<br />
TANNER FOX<br />
“Tired and Hungry”<br />
MRS. SUCCI<br />
“Quiet: The Power of<br />
Introverts in a World<br />
That Can’t Stop Talking”<br />
MOLLIE HANNA<br />
“The Book of Mollie”<br />
COACH FOX<br />
“Light From Dark”<br />
SOPHIA HAUGH<br />
“Sophunny”<br />
ALISIA CRUZ<br />
“Latin Alisia”<br />
HARRISON MANLEY<br />
“Swole is the Goal”
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Freshman competes in unlikely Houston sport - ice hockey<br />
SYDNEY HUTCHINS<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Of all the places you would expect ice<br />
hockey to be played, Houston would be<br />
the last, but freshman Connor Baily is doing<br />
just that.<br />
How did you get involved in ice hockey<br />
living in Houston?<br />
Originally, I’m from Washington D.C.,<br />
and my father went to Lehigh University<br />
and was roommates with the goalie of<br />
the ice hockey team there, so he decided<br />
to join the team as well. Since my father<br />
played ice hockey, it was the first sport<br />
I ever played, and I have been on skates<br />
since I was 18 months old. I just fell in<br />
love with the sport after that.<br />
Where do you find a place to practice<br />
and play ice hockey in Houston and<br />
who do you play for?<br />
There are four ice rinks in Houston, so<br />
some weekends I’ll play at all four. Currently,<br />
I play for Ridgepoint Hockey and<br />
sub for the Houston Junior Wild team. I<br />
practice Monday to Friday about two to<br />
three times a week, and I have about three<br />
to four games on the weekends.<br />
Have your teams had any success this<br />
season?<br />
Yes, recently my team won the state<br />
championship.<br />
Far right, Connor Baily, standing with his teammates, holds the championship trophy,<br />
which his Ridgepoint hockey team captured recently. Photo courtesy of Connor<br />
Baily.<br />
Choices addresses drug abuse<br />
CAMI PYNE<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Choices counselor Mrs. Sam Scharff addressed<br />
the fastest growing area of minor<br />
drug abuse, prescription drugs, as part of<br />
the Choices topic of the month.<br />
Seventeen percent of teens have tried<br />
designer drugs. These synthetic drugs are<br />
incredibly dangerous and can lead to death<br />
or hospitalization.<br />
Though the numbers are dropping for<br />
A Complete and<br />
Utter Lack of Witt<br />
heroin, ecstasy, and methamphetamine use<br />
among high schoolers, 14-year-olds are<br />
demonstrating a greater likelihood to take<br />
prescription drugs than they are to drink<br />
alcohol because of their accessibility.<br />
With four billion prescriptions filled<br />
each year, a third of the medicine remains<br />
unused, which leaves it vulnerable to<br />
prescription abuse.<br />
Preventing abuse includes safekeeping,<br />
storage and disposal, monitoring prescription<br />
drugs, and education.<br />
Connor Baily is originally from Washington D.C. and has been skating since he<br />
could walk. Photo courtesy of Connor Baily.<br />
Spring Coffee House pours<br />
out a cup of talented Knights<br />
ELLIE RAGIEL<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Even though there was no caffeine<br />
in sight, the HAC driveway was abuzz<br />
on Tuesday, April 9, for Spring Coffee<br />
House. Bad weather caused the performances<br />
(which are given outside) to be<br />
pushed back this year, so students were<br />
treated to the beloved A 2nd Cup coffee<br />
on the original date and then enjoyed food<br />
truck fare while watching the performances<br />
the following week.<br />
5A lunch performances included Trey<br />
Hernandez’s tribute to Hurricane Harvey<br />
victims with a mash up of Coldplay songs;<br />
Cami Pyne’s acapella version of Leaving<br />
on a Jet Plane by John Denver; and a rendition<br />
of Wagon Wheel by the Bradshaw<br />
Bunch – which included Kenny Otah on<br />
drums, Rohan Asthana on the violin, and<br />
vocals by Grace Neblett. Senior Clayton<br />
Reid also grabbed the mic to make a PSA<br />
about….well, nobody really knows.<br />
During 5B lunch, Antonio Cruz and his<br />
saxophone made a touching Promposal<br />
to his longtime girlfriend Sarah Venker;<br />
Pablo Villas wowed with a drum solo to<br />
Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer; and the<br />
Bradshaw Bunch once again took the<br />
stage to perform Wagon Wheel – this<br />
time with Cami Pyne on vocals. The most<br />
anticipated performance, however, was<br />
the return of Fall Coffee House favor-<br />
ite Sophia Henry, decked out in a black<br />
turtleneck and beret, performing her slam<br />
poetry.<br />
Despite some original technical difficulties,<br />
<strong>2018</strong> Spring Coffee House can only<br />
be described as a great success, and was<br />
an amazing way to kick off Dude Be Nice<br />
Week this month.<br />
Taylor Ferguson uses her voice to show<br />
what she’s about.<br />
PRESTON WITT<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Buenos días mis amigos intelectuales.<br />
This article of knowledge has been a treat<br />
for me to write this semester and I enjoy<br />
opening the minds of every individual,<br />
similar to Gandhi. Writing this not only<br />
helps others gain the intellect of a super<br />
genius like myself, but also allows me to<br />
take my mind to its limits. In this month’s<br />
issue I will be blowing your mind with<br />
questions that will boggle your cerebro,<br />
a.k.a. your brain.<br />
Is a hot dog a sandwich?<br />
If you pinch yourself and it hurts, are you<br />
too strong or too weak?<br />
Will we ever see the fries at lunch again?<br />
Are eye brows considered facial hair?<br />
Do you realize the year 2000 is further<br />
away than the year 2030?<br />
Isn’t saying something is indescribable,<br />
describing it?<br />
Left to right, Iman Lloyd, Hannah Nyberg, Pablo Vilas, and Gabrielle Small enjoy<br />
Coffee House performances and the food. Photos by Miranda Greenwalt and Cydne<br />
Harrell-Malveaux.
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Environmental group offers ways to<br />
curb the effects of global warming<br />
ELLIOTT JONES<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Global warming has a horrific effect on our<br />
planet, and it is only worsening with the dangerous<br />
amount of carbon dioxide we generate. The pollutants<br />
from power plants and fossil fuels are constantly<br />
causing the temperature around the globe<br />
to rise, resulting in the melting of the polar icecaps<br />
and the destruction of the ozone layer.<br />
Although the President has decided not to act<br />
on this inevitable global issue, as demonstrated<br />
through his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement,<br />
a global agreement to control the amount of gas<br />
emissions produced, there are several ways we can<br />
act upon global warming. The National Resources<br />
Defense Council (NDRC), a United States<br />
non-profit international environmental advocacy<br />
organization, provides 12 ways we can help this<br />
crisis.<br />
1. Tell your friends, family, and state representatives<br />
about global warming. Make them see the<br />
danger this has caused and will cause to our planet<br />
and encourage them to make a change, either to<br />
their daily routines or through the establishment of<br />
laws that limit carbon production.<br />
2. Power your house with renewable energy. This<br />
can be done by joining a new energy company<br />
that generates most of its power through the use<br />
of wind or solar energy. If that is not an option for<br />
you or your family, look at your electric company<br />
and see if they offer ways to use renewable sources;<br />
most do now.<br />
3. Seal any drafts and fully insolate your homes.<br />
Air conditioning and heating are the some of the<br />
biggest uses of energy that account for about half<br />
of an average home’s energy use.<br />
4. Buy appliances that are energy-efficient. If you<br />
are looking to buy a new fridge, dishwasher, or<br />
washing machine, buy ones that have an “Energy<br />
Star” label. Those are the most efficient in<br />
reducing the carbon dioxide produced from these<br />
appliances.<br />
5. Believe it or not, reducing the amount of water<br />
you use can significantly reduce carbon pollution.<br />
Take shorter showers, turn off the faucet when<br />
brushing your teeth or hands, and buy Water-<br />
Sense-labeled appliances. The EPA even estimates<br />
that 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per<br />
year would be saved if just one out of every 100<br />
Climate change is a direct result<br />
of natural and man-made gases<br />
ISABELLA GOODMAN<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Climate change theory is backed by many<br />
scientists, and there is a great deal of evidence in<br />
support of it.<br />
Climate change is caused by a layer of greenhouse<br />
gases: water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane,<br />
and nitrous oxide. These gases act as a blanket<br />
homes converted to water-efficient appliances.<br />
6. Eat all of the food you buy and purchase less<br />
meat. According to NDRC, 10% of U.S. energy<br />
use comes from growing and processing food.<br />
The less you buy in a certain amount of time, the<br />
less energy is being used up. Because livestock<br />
products are some of the most resource-intensive<br />
to produce, cutting down on the amount of meat<br />
you eat will significantly help this crisis.<br />
7. Buy better, more energy efficient lightbulbs.<br />
LED lightbulbs use less than 80% of the energy<br />
of a conventional incandescent. Not only that but<br />
buying a 10-watt LED bulb will save you $125<br />
over the lightbulb’s life.<br />
8. Unplug fully charged devices and appliances<br />
that you do not use that often. The amount of<br />
electricity Americans use per household adds up to<br />
the output of 50 large power plants. By using your<br />
outlets less often or even plugging in multiple devices<br />
to power strips, you can drastically decrease<br />
this statistic.<br />
9. Drive a fuel-efficient car, such as an electric,<br />
hybrid, or gas-smart car, to save money and gas.<br />
By doing this, Americans will spend $80 billion<br />
less on gas and cut their emissions in half. If the<br />
U.S. can meet the 2025 clean car standards, which<br />
means a car or truck will average 54.5 miles per<br />
gallon as opposed to the current national average<br />
of 28.1 miles per gallon, we will be able to consistently<br />
save gas and reduce emissions.<br />
10. Get car maintenance more often. Americans<br />
could save 1.2 billion gallons of gas per year if<br />
we kept our tires inflated properly and boost miles<br />
per gallon from 4% to 40% just by going to get<br />
our cars checked. This simple task can help our<br />
environment incredibly.<br />
11. If you have the chance, live in a more walkable,<br />
smart-growth city or town. Public transportation<br />
significantly decreases the number of cars<br />
on the road, money spent on gas, and air pollution.<br />
Trains are also more environmentally friendly in<br />
comparison to planes.<br />
12. Decrease your carbon profile or footprint, or<br />
the amount of carbon dioxide emitted due to the<br />
consumption of fossil fuels by a person or group.<br />
Purchase items from carbon offset companies<br />
(clean power) in order to add to the nation’s energy<br />
grid in place of power from fossil fuels.<br />
around the Earth, and as a result, this ecological<br />
cover traps heat.<br />
There have already been observable effects on<br />
the environment, such as glacial shrinking, ice<br />
breakage, and extreme weather. Many scientists<br />
believe that these effects will keep happening, as<br />
well as many others.<br />
Future effects could include wildfires, droughts,<br />
and more intense tropical storms.<br />
Artwork by Mckenzie Minx.<br />
Global Warming:<br />
Catastrophic reality or<br />
Earth’s natural cycle?<br />
Scientists debate the speed of change<br />
LAUREN PORTER<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
Global warming has been the topic of many<br />
scientific debates, with some scientists concluding<br />
that global warming does not exist.<br />
The most popular theory many scientists believe<br />
is that the current climate change is simply glacial<br />
advance and retreat. According to NASA, there<br />
have been seven periods of glacial advance and<br />
retreat in the past 650,000 years, and the last period<br />
was marked by the Ice Age. Scientists believe<br />
these climate changes are caused by variations<br />
in the earth’s orbit that alters the amount of solar<br />
energy the planet receives.<br />
Many scientists agree the earth is heating up at a<br />
faster rate, but the dividing factor among scientists<br />
primarily lies in the longevity of this change. Scientists<br />
who do not believe in the imminent danger<br />
of climate change think that there is a severe overreaction<br />
to the warming of the planet. Advocates<br />
that spread global warming misconceptions cause<br />
many in the population to panic about the state of<br />
the earth.<br />
A recent Duke University study debunks the<br />
myth that global warming is rapidly changing the<br />
state of the earth, as researchers found that climate<br />
change is not necessarily progressing as quickly<br />
as it could. Researchers found that the earth could<br />
start warming at a much faster rate if the amount<br />
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere steadily<br />
increases without offsetting variations in aerosol<br />
concentrations. However, the earth is not at that<br />
stage yet, so the most important action against<br />
climate change would be preventing abundant<br />
amounts of greenhouse gases.<br />
Overall, scientists do not disagree on the fundamental<br />
fact of climate change, but rather the<br />
longevity and effects of this naturally occurring<br />
phenomenon.<br />
Climate concerns adding to the<br />
growing list of conspiracy theories<br />
ISABEL YOUNG<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Although it is very hard to debunk global<br />
warming due to the scientific proof that has been<br />
presented confirming its existence, there are some<br />
people that still will not accept the facts of the environmental<br />
catastrophe that is taking over Earth.<br />
Some people believe global warming is part of a<br />
conspiracy to increase economic areas; others just<br />
do not want to accept the facts that soon the polar<br />
ice caps will melt and the animals living in Artic<br />
regions will die. The conspiracies differ, but Keaton<br />
Patti’s Rebunking Conspiracy Theories: Global<br />
Warming attempts to give voice to the conspiracies<br />
while putting minds at ease about their legitimacy.<br />
In the book he gives examples of people that<br />
believe global warming is a myth while explaining<br />
Image courtesy of newsguardians.com.<br />
their thought processes.<br />
For example, John Coleman, co- founder of<br />
the Weather Channel, states the opposite of what<br />
science says is happening. He claims that the polar<br />
ice caps are actually increasing in size and polar<br />
bear populations are expanding. He says it is “the<br />
greatest scam in history.”<br />
Another argument he discusses is that global<br />
warming is beneficial for the planet. A little crazy,<br />
right? How can this problem that many are concerned<br />
about actually benefit us. Well, some people<br />
believe that warmer weather means plant growth<br />
will increase and help farming in Northern areas.<br />
Some think that the government made up global<br />
warming to spark the financial gain of the environmental<br />
industry. Although these theories are<br />
intriguing, global warming remains an environmental<br />
concern.<br />
The Solar Spark<br />
Image courtesy of solarspark.co.uk.<br />
Image courtesy of garydavenport.org.
8 Entertainment<br />
A Quiet Place scores big Cardi B leads the way in <strong>2018</strong><br />
with horror film enthusiasts with new hip-hop album release<br />
ELLIOTT JONES<br />
Staff Writer<br />
After only a few weeks in theaters, A<br />
Quiet Place is already making headlines<br />
as “one of the year’s best” horror films,<br />
according to critic Jackie K. Cooper.<br />
After scoring<br />
a 97% on<br />
Rotten Tomatoes<br />
in its first<br />
week, the film<br />
has people<br />
sprinting to<br />
theaters to see<br />
what many are<br />
calling <strong>2018</strong>’s<br />
version of Get<br />
Out, a successful<br />
horror/<br />
thriller from<br />
last year.<br />
Written and<br />
directed by The<br />
Office star John<br />
Krasinski, his<br />
lead character,<br />
Lee, joins his<br />
real-life wife<br />
Emily Blunt’s<br />
character, Evelyn,<br />
in a story<br />
about a young<br />
family living in<br />
a post-apocalyptic<br />
world in<br />
the year 2020.<br />
Only communicating<br />
through<br />
sign language,<br />
they and their<br />
three children<br />
must avoid being killed by creatures who<br />
feed off of noise by being completely<br />
silent. However, this is not as easy as it<br />
seems. With Evelyn expecting a baby<br />
and children who are trying to enjoy their<br />
adolescence by playing with toys, the fa-<br />
mily frequently has extremely close calls<br />
with these vicious monsters, leaving the<br />
audience completely captured with every<br />
scene.<br />
The blockbuster horror/thriller film<br />
keeps audiences on the edge of their seats<br />
and eyes glued to the screen for the full 90<br />
John Krasinski directs and stars in the new horror/thriller release<br />
A Quiet Place. Image courtesy of teaser-trailer.com.<br />
minutes. The acting is phenomenal, especially<br />
from the children, and the suspense<br />
can make nerves go haywire.<br />
You do not want to miss A Quiet Place,<br />
which is more than dumb jump scares and<br />
clichéd plots.<br />
PATRICK BAYOUTH<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Among the new music that has been<br />
released recently, the most talked about<br />
and anticipated is Cardi B’s new album<br />
Invasion of Privacy. Released on April 6,<br />
her first studio album is blowing up. New<br />
music by Drake, as well, is seeing plenty<br />
of play<br />
With notable feature performers like<br />
Chance the Rapper, Migos, 21 Savage,<br />
and SZA, Invasion of Privacy appeals to<br />
hip-hop fans across the globe. Singles<br />
“Bodak Yellow” and “Bartier Cardi,”<br />
which broke chart records, are featured on<br />
the album.<br />
At only 25 years old, Cardi B and her<br />
career are just beginning to take off as she<br />
is sure to be one of the faces of hip-hop in<br />
the near future.<br />
Drake also dropped his new single<br />
“Nice for What,” which is currently the<br />
#1 song in the United States and the #2<br />
song in the world behind his other notable<br />
single “God’s Plan.” Drake, the most<br />
streamed artist on Spotify, always creates<br />
a stir when he releases a new piece. The<br />
new single sounds like his older music<br />
which listeners are excited about, and this<br />
is arguably his best song yet.<br />
Looking ahead, the future release of<br />
Post Malone’s new album on April 27 is<br />
much anticipated.<br />
Cardi B’s album Invasion of Privacy has already gone gold with a little help from<br />
numerous artists. Image courtesy of bellanaiija.com.<br />
Make Mother’s Day<br />
a culinary experience<br />
with these restaurant<br />
suggestions<br />
Six-year-old Cami Pyne in the big kitchen, learning the skills that she would soon<br />
share with the EHS community in Cooking with Cami. Photo by Mrs. Pyne.<br />
Cooking with Cami<br />
CAMI PYNE<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
This month will be my favorite recipe<br />
for chocolate chip cookies (when Tiff’s<br />
Treats breaks the bank).<br />
Serves around 30-40<br />
• 4 1/4 cups all- purpose flour<br />
• 2 teaspoon baking soda<br />
• ½ teaspoon of salt<br />
• 1 ½ cup of real butter<br />
• 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar<br />
• 1 ¼ cups packed brown sugar<br />
• 2 teaspoons vanilla<br />
• 3 eggs<br />
• 1 to 2 bags of chocolate chips<br />
1. Preheat oven to 375*, beat the granulated<br />
sugar, brown sugar, and butter in an<br />
electric mixer.<br />
Beat in the vanilla and eggs until well<br />
blended. Beat in the flour, baking soda,<br />
and salt. If you are feeling bold, you can<br />
do this in a huge bowl hand mixed. Stir in<br />
the chocolate chips.<br />
2. Drop tablespoon sized cookie dough<br />
balls on cookie sheets, about 2 inches<br />
apart.<br />
3. Bake 8-10 minutes or until light<br />
brown. Make sure to cool before consumption.<br />
Young and Hungry<br />
ISABEL YOUNG<br />
Staff Writer<br />
This month on Young and Hungry, I<br />
will be reviewing the brunch bests in<br />
the Houston area in honor of Mother’s<br />
Day. Brunch is one of my favorite meals<br />
because it combines breakfast with lunch,<br />
and you can get eggs and waffles or a<br />
burger and fries…or both.<br />
Some of my favorite brunch spots are<br />
Emmaline, Tiny No. 5, Adair Kitchen, and<br />
Liberty Kitchen. You cannot go wrong<br />
with any of these brunch spots, and I am<br />
sure you will enjoy a lovely brunch with<br />
your mother wherever you go. Let me<br />
give you some recommendations to ensure<br />
your taste buds a sweet time.<br />
If you are feeling like something along<br />
the line of dessert, I suggest the pastry<br />
cream-stuffed French toast or the mascarpone<br />
pancake stack from Emmaline.<br />
If you are wanting something savory, the<br />
eggs benedict or the Emmaline burger will<br />
not disappoint.<br />
At Tiny No. 5, the West U Special or<br />
Southside Special are a great combo of<br />
sweet and savory and will start your day<br />
off right.<br />
Adair Kitchen will also be a great spot<br />
for you for Mother’s Day brunch, and<br />
some favorites from there are crispy<br />
chicken and waffles or a classic omelette.<br />
Some of Liberty Kitchen’s brunch favorites<br />
are Dixie Chicken Fried Sliders and<br />
the pancakes.<br />
Hope some of these brunch dishes inspire<br />
you for your Mother’s Day.
Sports<br />
BASEBALL<br />
SOFTBALL<br />
Sports<br />
Brief<br />
The varsity baseball team had a very<br />
successful <strong>March</strong> and the start of SPC<br />
play. The Knights began SPC against our<br />
neighbor school in red, St John’s. The<br />
offense for the Knights was hot, putting<br />
up five runs in the first inning, and the<br />
Knights’ pitching behind sophomore Tanner<br />
Witt earned them a 10-1 victory over<br />
the Mavericks.<br />
With a SPC Championship rematch, the<br />
Knights took on their rivals, the Kinkaid<br />
Falcons. Behind the outstanding pitching<br />
and offense of seniors Justin Fox and Jack<br />
Grams respectively, the Knights earned<br />
themselves a 5-4 win over the Falcons.<br />
Next, the Knights took on John Copper<br />
for the first place seed in SPC. Behind the<br />
offense of Peter Geib, Tanner Witt, Colton<br />
Rathjen, and Antonio Cruz, the Knights<br />
earned an undefeated record in SPC play<br />
for the month of <strong>March</strong>.<br />
The Knight Times 9<br />
Girls lacrosse prepares for final SPC push<br />
ELLIE RAGIEL<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Heading to Dallas this<br />
weekend for the SPC<br />
tournament, the<br />
girls varsity lacrosse<br />
team is<br />
looking back on a season<br />
full of highlights under<br />
head coach Jessica Adams.<br />
The team, which placed fifth<br />
in last year’s SPC rankings, hopes<br />
to gain one of the top seeds at this year’s<br />
tournament. Coach Adams, along with<br />
assistant coach Emily White and senior<br />
captains Anna St. Denis, Sophia Maldonado,<br />
and Merrie Afseth, has led the team<br />
to an impressive SPC record, despite the<br />
setback of a personal injury at the start of<br />
the season.<br />
This month the girls had a notable win<br />
against Houston Christian at home<br />
on<br />
April 12. With<br />
an impressive<br />
10-9 win in<br />
overtime<br />
against Memorial as well as a 15-1 sweep<br />
of Friendswood already under their belt,<br />
the team is looking optimistically toward<br />
the SPC Tournament and is excited to play<br />
long time SPC rivals in Dallas next week.<br />
Additionally, girls lacrosse celebrated<br />
their Senior Night this month, when they<br />
paid tribute to the team’s four seniors -<br />
St. Denis, Maldonado, Afseth, and Kylie<br />
Jones, - after their win against GCGLA<br />
storm on April 17.<br />
EHS varsity softball has an outstanding<br />
record of 27-1 and 2-0 in SPC play. The<br />
team has had critical triumphs over top<br />
public school teams all across the South.<br />
Their recent victory over Kinkaid ended<br />
with a dominating 10-0 score. They also<br />
attended the Schulenberg Tournament and<br />
came out undefeated.<br />
Seniors Alexis Aboulafia, Sarah Venker,<br />
Daryn Grams, Sarah Mouton, Isabelle<br />
Ross, and Abby Corder have been working<br />
tremendously on and off of the field.<br />
TRACK<br />
The track teams’ <strong>2018</strong> season had an<br />
incredible start and they look to keep their<br />
momentum rolling into SPC. In his new<br />
role as head track coach, Coach Isaiah<br />
Coleman has transitioned smoothly.<br />
With exceptionally strong performances<br />
in the Texas Relays and Victor Lopez<br />
Classic, the teams have made their names<br />
known across the state. Led by seniors<br />
Omar Denmon and Kansas Watts, the<br />
teams looks to bring home the gold next<br />
week at SPC.<br />
TENNIS<br />
The varsity boys and girls tennis<br />
teams are finishing up the last remaining<br />
matches on their schedules before preparing<br />
for SPC.<br />
The girls have gone undefeated in their<br />
season thus far, with a recent 3-2 win<br />
against Emery Weiner and 5-3 against St.<br />
Agnes.<br />
The boys team redeemed itself after a<br />
rough two loss start to the season, beating<br />
St. Thomas 5-2 on April 3.<br />
These teams, as well as the school, are<br />
very hopeful and confident that they will<br />
beat SPC rivals St. John’s and Houston<br />
Christian in the weeks to come in order to<br />
hold their seed in the conference.<br />
GOLF<br />
The Knights girls and boys golf teams<br />
are having a stellar year so far and are<br />
hungry for the SPC Championship.<br />
The boys team, led by juniors Jack<br />
Matthews and Jack Panus, had two recent<br />
tournaments. On April 17 they traveled to<br />
the Quail Valley Golf Club and on April<br />
24 they participated in the Meadowbrook<br />
Farms Golf Club Tournament.<br />
The girls golf team, captained by seniors<br />
Mary Hellen Kennedy and Margaret Runnels,<br />
will participate in these tournaments.<br />
Senior Sophia Maldonado and junior Finty Milton reach for a stray ball during a varsity lacrosse game. Photo by Parker Vining.<br />
Lacrosse team ends season in tough SPC tourney<br />
LAUREN PORTER<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
Knights lacrosse had many exciting<br />
games to close out the season and demonstrated<br />
true athleticism at SPC.<br />
Senior leadership this season has been<br />
very strong, with captains Harrison<br />
Hobbs, Ford McCann, Marshall McCann,<br />
and Noah Dahlberg leading the way. One<br />
of the highlight victories of the season<br />
was against Houston Christian on Senior<br />
Night. Senior Night celebrates the seniors<br />
on the<br />
team and their<br />
future<br />
endeavors in<br />
college.<br />
There<br />
were<br />
also gift<br />
cards to Chickfil-a,<br />
Whataburger, and<br />
Starbucks that were awarded to<br />
attendees as prizes.<br />
During the game, the boys played stellar<br />
defense and brought home a 10-7 victory.<br />
However, the season has been tougher<br />
than most for the boys, as they had a close<br />
loss against St. Thomas and a loss against<br />
St. John’s. The team looks to strengthen<br />
their offense by utilizing new methods for<br />
next year.<br />
On the defensive side, senior Charlie<br />
Buckner and junior Holt Johnson have<br />
been essential parts of the team as goalies<br />
and have blocked many potential goals.<br />
Before SPC, the boys had one final game<br />
against Ridge Point that resulted in a 10-6<br />
win. The SPC Tournament resulted in<br />
three games for the Knights, the first being<br />
against Epis-<br />
copal School<br />
of Dallas, which resulted in a heartbreaking<br />
loss, 22-1. The boys then played<br />
Greenhill and came up short, 13-5. However,<br />
the boys finished the season strong<br />
with a 16-6 victory over St. Stephen’s.<br />
Freshman Gannon Amendola uses his excellent stick skills to evade a defender on his way to the goal during varsity action.<br />
Photo by Amelia Traylor.
10 The Knight Times<br />
Opinion<br />
Debate remains on the subject of finals in spring religion courses<br />
ANGEL STRINGER<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The EHS community faced hardship at<br />
the beginning of the school year due to<br />
Hurricane Harvey and its resulting flood<br />
damage. The effects were far-reaching, and<br />
among them was a change to midterms,<br />
which were cancelled in every class due to<br />
loss of time to cover material. While finals<br />
will be administered for the end of the year,<br />
I believe that the religion final should be<br />
cancelled for the students in those spring<br />
semester classes.<br />
By Episcopal High School’s credit requirement,<br />
all students must take four semesters<br />
of religion in order to graduate.<br />
The courses are a semester long, and due<br />
to Harvey, the students that took the course<br />
first semester did not have to take a final.<br />
So why should spring semester students?<br />
Finals are tough, stressful, and count for<br />
twenty percent of a student’s average, not<br />
to mention the test is at least 100 questions<br />
and is subject to a time limit. Rather than<br />
Safe injection<br />
sites invoke<br />
ethics question<br />
CAMI PYNE<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Heroin and other opioids are taking the<br />
country by storm and taking thousands of<br />
lives every month with them. Many cities<br />
are losing people by the day and are turning<br />
to drastic measures to save lives, such<br />
as “safe injection sites.”<br />
The concept of safe injection sites came<br />
out of Vancouver, where one of the biggest<br />
heroin problems in the world exists. Since<br />
then, cities like Seattle have started a similar<br />
process in order to save lives. But what<br />
exactly are safe injection sites and what effect<br />
do they have on the surrounding communities?<br />
Safe injection sites are sites where people<br />
can inject heroin safely with clean needles<br />
and medical professionals to observe users<br />
to make sure that they do not overdose. If<br />
they do, to reverse it with drugs like naloxone,<br />
an over-the counter chemical that can<br />
reverse an opioid overdose.<br />
California is presently attempting to pass<br />
legislation that would allow safe injection<br />
sites that exist in tents with medical equipment<br />
and a “bring your own drugs” policy.<br />
Seattle is in the process of adding safe injection<br />
sites due to its horrendous amount<br />
of opioid deaths in the past three years.<br />
Three safe injection sites have already<br />
been approved for Seattle yet not one has<br />
been implemented.<br />
Vancouver has over 700 people come in<br />
per day to use heroin, and among those,<br />
4,000 people have overdosed yet not one<br />
has died. For this Canadian city, safe injection<br />
sites are actively saving lives.<br />
The heroin epidemic has killed more than<br />
52,000 Americans in 2015 alone. Sadly,<br />
this number is rising, along with the rise of<br />
the drug fentanyl and the lacing of heroin<br />
with it, making it 10 times deadlier.<br />
Safe injection sites will help with the<br />
fentanyl crisis as these locations will test<br />
heroin and other opioids for trace amounts<br />
of fentanyl, which could easily kill someone,<br />
prior to their use.<br />
Ultimately, the sites will bring addicts<br />
to their area, individuals who are clearly<br />
unstable, causing community members to<br />
feel uncomfortable. This could also lead to<br />
an increase in crime in an area and a clear<br />
and present danger to residents, all while<br />
saving lives.<br />
It’s up to you… is this ethical?<br />
just cancelling the final, I’m sure students<br />
would rather take an in-class test or do a<br />
project like those during first semester.<br />
EHS Knights work hard and are stressed<br />
about upcoming exams. Please take it into<br />
consideration. Stand out, work hard, be<br />
Knights!<br />
JOSHUA SMITH<br />
Guest Writer<br />
No one enjoys standard methods of testing.<br />
Whether an essay or multiple-choice<br />
test, we would prefer to listen to beautiful<br />
music, watch a performance, or hang with<br />
friends to identifying the pluperfect tense<br />
of “swim.” Yet, testing in some manner is a<br />
proven method to evaluate students’ shortterm<br />
retention and comprehension of material.<br />
If testing is such a good method of evaluating<br />
students, then the issue is what reason<br />
is there for not giving a test in religion<br />
courses for Spring <strong>2018</strong>? Some will argue<br />
that since Fall 2017 students did not have<br />
to take a final for their religion classes, neither<br />
should Spring <strong>2018</strong> religion classes.<br />
To require Spring <strong>2018</strong> students to take a<br />
religion final is not fair.<br />
There is at least one reason to reject such<br />
an argument. The goal of education, in essence,<br />
is not “fairness.” Rather, it is to lead<br />
one out of ignorance and to enlighten. Last<br />
semester, the best way to reach this goal<br />
of education was through the appropriate<br />
reductions in workload. This semester, to<br />
reach that same goal, no such reductions<br />
are warranted. For this reason, it seems<br />
clear that final tests in religion classes<br />
should be given in Spring <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Algorithms changing Wall Street trading strategies<br />
JACKSON WILLIAMS<br />
Guest Writer<br />
Algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading,<br />
algo trading, black box trading, and<br />
more are all investing strategies becoming<br />
ever more prevalent in our high-tech world.<br />
Algorithmic trading is automated trading<br />
by computers which are programmed to<br />
take certain actions in response to varying<br />
technical trends and market data. These<br />
programs are able to make trades at speeds<br />
not humanly possible, use historical data to<br />
find patterns in stocks and other financial<br />
assets, help predict future prices, and more.<br />
For example, some algorithmic trading<br />
programs might slice up large buy or sell<br />
orders to try to receive the best price. Splitting<br />
up the order into smaller orders and<br />
executing them at different times helps the<br />
Image courtesy of themedallion.ndahingham.com.<br />
trader receive a better price and can help<br />
hide their trades so others don’t recognize<br />
their strategies. Other types of algorithmic<br />
trading programs use a specific set of rules<br />
to execute trades based on a strategy. This<br />
is very helpful because it eliminates the<br />
human emotions of greed or fear and follows<br />
commands based on rules instead of<br />
feelings.<br />
Nasdaq estimates that fifty percent of<br />
stock trading volume in the U.S. is currently<br />
being driven by algo trading. Investopedia<br />
claims algorithmic trading and<br />
high-frequency trading are dominating the<br />
trading world. They credited sixty to seventy<br />
percent of U.S. trading to high frequency<br />
trading during 2009 – 2010.<br />
While there are a multitude of pros to<br />
algorithmic trading, people worry they<br />
can cause irregular volatility and “flash<br />
crashes.” These situations are caused by a<br />
domino effect of programs setting off one<br />
another. Many programs set stop-losses,<br />
which are orders to sell an asset at a specified<br />
price in order to limit a loss. If there is<br />
a large dip in an asset’s price, an algorithmic<br />
trading program would see this dip and<br />
sell the asset, making the price go down.<br />
As the price goes further down, more algo<br />
trading programs sell the asset automatically.<br />
While this is also what can happen when<br />
humans sell stocks, humans cannot sell<br />
these assets nearly as fast as algo trading<br />
programs can. This rapid sell-off is what<br />
gives the “flash crash” its name.<br />
Machine learning, artificial intelligence,<br />
increasingly fast computers, and more are<br />
leading the way to revolutionize algorithmic<br />
trading and the way we invest.<br />
image courtesy of digitaledge.org.
Opinion<br />
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Technology may be to blame for Instant Gratification Generation<br />
SOPHIA HENRY<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Older generations are quick to call us<br />
lazy as they discuss their more interpersonal<br />
lives without cell phones and social<br />
media. They tell us of their fond memories<br />
of playing outside, writing love letters,<br />
and eating without technology at the table.<br />
This was a time before people could hide<br />
in their rooms and indulge in binge watching<br />
TV shows or gaming until 3 a.m. While<br />
past generations may refer to us as lazy,<br />
perhaps we are just more efficient or have<br />
a higher need for instant gratification.<br />
Today, anything can be delivered within<br />
moments: packages, food, clothes, flowers,<br />
furniture, groceries, answers to Google<br />
questions, and even a date. This contributes<br />
to a lack of patience as “we want what<br />
we want, and we want it now,” without any<br />
delay and minimum effort.<br />
Commercials are even becoming obsolete<br />
with Netflix, Hulu, Youtube (if one uses adblock),<br />
and pre-recorded shows; therefore,<br />
companies such as ABC and NBC have<br />
developed features to prevent their viewers<br />
from fastforwarding, but one can always<br />
pay more money to skip them. Ramesh Sitaraman,<br />
a computer science professor at<br />
the University of Massachusetts Amherst<br />
and researchers at Akamai Technologies<br />
Inc., who works with companies such as<br />
Major League Baseball and Fox Broadcasting<br />
Co to deliver faster videos, says<br />
that a video should start working within<br />
the first “two seconds” or people will begin<br />
to “abandon [the] video.” They studied<br />
over 23 million online streams and found<br />
that after two seconds, every proceeding<br />
one-second delay results in a 5.8 percent<br />
increase in viewers leaving the page.<br />
A society that experiences instantaneous<br />
feedback will slowly possess less and less<br />
patience. A graduate fresh out of college<br />
will join the workforce with disappointment<br />
as they are passed over for raises and<br />
promotions, and a lack of positive reinforcement<br />
may cause a struggle in staying<br />
motivated. Without the expected constant<br />
fulfillment, millennials feel frustrated as<br />
they lack a degree of patience for the “good<br />
Intellectual property rights<br />
can open tricky legal doors<br />
job” to come quickly. This instant gratification<br />
replaces lasting satisfaction with fleeting<br />
pleasure as we receive constant notification<br />
on our phones through text messages<br />
and social media updates. Instagram’s recent<br />
update even notifies users if people<br />
have commented on a photo they simply<br />
liked.<br />
The diagnosis of attention deficit disorder<br />
has skyrocketed in the last decade, and<br />
adults are beginning to be prescribed medication.<br />
In 2003, twelve percent of American<br />
children ages 5 to 17 were diagnosed<br />
with ADHD, and those numbers increased<br />
to 43 percent in 2011. This means that 5.8<br />
million children in the U.S. have ADHD.<br />
One must consider the cause of this enormous<br />
jump. Is it our instant gratification<br />
culture or a problem rooted in diagnosing<br />
kids too soon?<br />
Will our short attention spans prevent us<br />
from ever learning patience?<br />
ISABELLA GOODMAN<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Intellectual property is outlined as any<br />
product of human intellect that the law<br />
protects from unauthorized use by others,<br />
and can be protected through trademarks,<br />
patents, and copyrights. Intellectual property<br />
can be hard to clearly define, unlike<br />
physical property, because it pertains to<br />
ideas and concepts. Since the conception<br />
of intellectual property laws, there have<br />
been disagreements and controversy as to<br />
what constitutes intellectual property and<br />
who can reap the benefits.<br />
The first article and eighth section of the<br />
United States Constitution states that Congress<br />
issue copyrights, allowing people the<br />
exclusive rights to their creations. There<br />
have been countless high profile intellectual<br />
property cases where two entities fight<br />
over an idea that is potentially worth millions.<br />
In 2008, the creators of Barbie went<br />
head to head with a rival doll maker, Bratz.<br />
With similar designs and increasing popularity,<br />
the two went after each other; ultimately,<br />
the creators of Bratz were forced<br />
There are students at EHS<br />
who are making creations<br />
worthy of patents and copyright.<br />
to both remove all stock from shelves and<br />
pay $100 million. In Michael Baigent and<br />
Richard Leigh vs. The Random House<br />
Group, the writers of the non-fiction book,<br />
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, argued<br />
that Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code<br />
infringed on their intellectual property.<br />
While Brown did not outright plagiarize<br />
their work, the two claimed that there was<br />
non-literal copying of a substantial portion<br />
of their book, and more specifically that<br />
he copied the manner in which their book<br />
had been written. The court decided that<br />
although Brown had clearly drawn from<br />
their book, he did not necessarily infringe<br />
copyright. One of the most famous cases<br />
of intellectual property law is the Napster<br />
case. Napster was a pioneering, file-sharing<br />
site where users could download songs<br />
for free instead of purchasing CDs. Popular<br />
bands signed to major labels, such as<br />
Metallica, were vocal in their animosity<br />
toward Napster. The site gained a huge following<br />
and as a result, garnered the attention<br />
of the Recording Industry Association<br />
of America (RIAA), who sued the emerging<br />
tech startup. Napster never owned the<br />
rights to the music that users were uploading<br />
and sharing; those rights belonged to<br />
the artists and their studios. Napster agreed<br />
to pay a $26 million settlement, and users<br />
now must pay licensing fees.<br />
While the idea of intellectual property or<br />
a personal disagreement as to who owns it<br />
may seem a distant possibility to a teenager,<br />
there are students at EHS who are making<br />
creations worthy of patents and copyright.<br />
In Mr. Duncan’s Computer Science<br />
Projects class, students are encouraged to<br />
follow their passions in computer science,<br />
whether that means creating apps, websites,<br />
and algorithms, or mining bitcoin. As<br />
a result, some students have questions as<br />
to the ownership of their ideas. If they created<br />
something in an EHS classroom, with<br />
an EHS computer, on EHS Wi-Fi, is it still<br />
solely theirs? If their product is believed<br />
to have monetary value, is EHS entitled to<br />
some form of financial compensation?<br />
The answer is a little complicated and<br />
would differ on a case-by-case basis. You<br />
will not find any clear-cut intellectual property<br />
guidelines in the Student Handbook<br />
because there are none. According to Mrs.<br />
Evelyn Cambria, the Director of Finance<br />
and Operations as well as the Chief Financial<br />
Officer of EHS, a creation is solely the<br />
student’s, and he or she would be encouraged<br />
to apply for a patent. For instance,<br />
when John Wall (’14) created wearable<br />
technology, he was encouraged to continue<br />
his work outside EHS. There are several<br />
students who have taken their technological<br />
creations and projects to college and<br />
beyond. Teachers, on the other hand, operate<br />
under a different guidelines. If a teacher<br />
creates something that is considered to be<br />
under the scope of his or her job, it not only<br />
belongs to the teacher but it also belongs to<br />
the school. If the teacher wanted to pursue<br />
the marketing of his or her idea, it would<br />
be the property of the school.<br />
As we move further into the age of technological<br />
advancement, intellectual property<br />
is something to consider. We have<br />
seen time and again a single idea leading<br />
to a billion-dollar enterprise. Intellectual<br />
property can be a tricky thing to deal with,<br />
and if you end up on the wrong side of an<br />
intellectual property battle, it can be damaging<br />
both financially and to the integrity<br />
of your business.<br />
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Head of School<br />
Ned Smith<br />
Assistant Head of School<br />
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Publications Coordinator<br />
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Episcopal High School<br />
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Editor-in-Chief<br />
Lauren Porter<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Sydney Hutchins<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Cami Pyne<br />
Staff Writers<br />
Ellie Ragiel<br />
Isabel Young<br />
Isabella Goodman<br />
Angel Stringer<br />
Sophia Henry<br />
Preston Witt<br />
Patrick Bayouth<br />
Elliott Jones<br />
Daniel Davis<br />
Gabrielle Ducote<br />
Photographers<br />
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The staff encourages the submission of letters, editorials, and story ideas from the community<br />
but reserves the right to edit and/or use said articles.
Answers: Mr. Drexel - C; Mrs. Succi - D ; Mr. Smith - A ;<br />
Mr. Milani - B; Mrs. Adams - F: and Ms. White - E<br />
e: ___________________________________________ Date: ___________________<br />
KT Crossword<br />
12 The Knight Times<br />
Knight Shift<br />
KT Crossword<br />
1<br />
2 3<br />
4 5<br />
6<br />
1.<br />
Hot or Not<br />
Making your Instagram<br />
If you don’t know<br />
caption, “#ifyouknowyouknow”<br />
7 8<br />
9<br />
Listening to Cardi B’s new album<br />
Siri interrupting the beat drop,<br />
10<br />
Across<br />
3 Canyon Goheen (5A) and Emeline Birdwell (5B) won this<br />
annual library competition known as the _____Off<br />
4 cowboy boot enthusiast, facial hair aficionado, and<br />
possible spy<br />
7 it was hard to scroll through your meme feed this month<br />
without seeing this tech exec./possible robot<br />
9 delicious condiment; word that follows Cinco de<br />
10 EHS's favorite type of poetry<br />
on your way to school<br />
Using a dongle with your<br />
headphones<br />
Going to Prom<br />
telling you to turn right on Bissonnet<br />
(do you really not know<br />
how to get to school by now?)<br />
Apple headphones that look like a<br />
toothbrush in your ear<br />
Someone mistakenly writing a<br />
Down<br />
1 yodel in the aisles of this store and you, too, can become<br />
internet famous<br />
2 the best branch of the arts pillar<br />
5 a small device used to attach normal headphones to new<br />
iPhones (Ellie Ragiel approves this message)<br />
6 where you can find most upperclassmen on any given<br />
Sunday night<br />
8 real name for the Bissonnet driveway; you learn this in<br />
Algebra 2<br />
1. 4th floor C is haunted<br />
Top 10 Episco-Myths<br />
Prom-posal on your car<br />
Senior speeches on inspirational, Mr. Framel giving you a speech<br />
life-changing moments<br />
about The Knight Times deadlines<br />
(Celebrity Sighting)<br />
2. 3rd and 1/2 floor C is like the train platform that takes you to<br />
Hogwarts<br />
3. Mr. Binder’s beard is fake<br />
4. The coffee in the breakfast line is free<br />
5. Freshman Service Day is voluntary<br />
6. Daniel Davis’s hair is a wig<br />
7. Recycling.<br />
8. The dongles in the school store work<br />
9. The Chess Club is actually a secret society<br />
10. Ms. Sheila has a radar gun brain function<br />
Yodel-ey-he-hoo! Junior Pate Herrold (known among friends as Lil’ Pate) shares a<br />
striking resemblance to Lil’ Hank Williams, the young boy known around the globe<br />
as the yodeling Walmart boy after a video of him singing “Lovesick Blues” in the<br />
store went viral. But while Lil’ Hank took the stage at Coachella this month, Pate<br />
prefers to stay behind the scenes with Mr. Rivaz’s stagecraft class. Photos by Daniel<br />
Davis and courtesy of @lilhankwilliams.<br />
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Teacher Trivia<br />
Mr. Drexel Mrs. Succi Mr. Smith Mr. Milani Mrs. Adams Ms. White<br />
A. This teacher<br />
grew up in<br />
Chocolate Town,<br />
USA where he or<br />
she attended<br />
Hershey<br />
Elementary,<br />
Hershey Middle<br />
School, and<br />
Hershey High.<br />
B. This teacher<br />
speaks fluent<br />
Japanese after<br />
spending<br />
several years living<br />
in Tokyo and also<br />
used to partake in<br />
exotic sports like<br />
bunjee jumping.<br />
C. This teacher<br />
went to college<br />
with Steph Curry<br />
and one time sat<br />
next to him in the<br />
training room while<br />
they were getting<br />
their ankles taped.<br />
D. This teacher<br />
won a state-wide<br />
piano contest when<br />
he or she was 8<br />
years old in their<br />
home state of<br />
Oklahoma.<br />
E. This teacher has<br />
a black lab named<br />
Wriggley that has<br />
several nicknames<br />
like Wriggles,<br />
Wriggs, and Baba<br />
Ghanoush.<br />
F. This teacher is<br />
named after the<br />
character Jessica<br />
Kringle (Mrs. Claus)<br />
from the Christmas<br />
Classic, “Santa Claus<br />
is Coming to Town.”<br />
She was a<br />
schoolteacher!