People React To Being Called Beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW8BDgLpZkI

     An integrated arts project created by former ChiArts student Shea Glover ‘15, has recently become something of an internet sensation six months after initially being uploaded to Youtube. Her viral video captured the reactions people had after being told they’re beautiful. The mixed reactions, ranging from being flattered to not knowing what to say to threatening to cut Glover if she repeated what she said, produced a truly unique and moving video that now has nearly 8.2 million views on Youtube. In addition to this, the video has been featured in dozens of online publications including People.com, Attn.com, Mashable.com, Cosmopolitan.com, and Seventeen.com.

     In the description Glover writes, “I conducted an independent project, which evidently turned into a social experiment halfway through, regarding beauty at my performing arts high school in Chicago. I want to clarify that my intentions were not to get a reaction out of people. I was simply filming beauty and this is the result. Here it is.” Though the initial goal of the project may not have been to get a reaction out of the people Glover found beautiful, the resulting reactions created a powerful social experiment worth watching.

     Shea has capitalized on her new-found “internet fame” by starting her own movement called #breathebeauty in an attempt to change the way people, particularly young people like herself, perceive and express beauty. Most recently, Shea has created a video called “You Are Not Your Likes” featured on the Huffington Post’s website. In this video Shea encourages millennials and really all people to not let social media determine your self worth. Check the video out below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B9T00P2wsI

"Girls Tennis duo wins State" Correction

The WY girls tennis team placed 6th in the State championship bracket. Oni Jones ‘16 and Camryn Salter ‘18 scored 7 points, the most points for WY’s team, but finished with a record of 4-2. Although Oni Jones and Camryn Salter won games downstate in the IHSA girls tennis double state championship bracket, they did not win the 1st place championship as the title of the article implies. We regret and apologize for any confusion created by this error.

December Issue Beacon Review

     Once again, I believe the quality of The Beacon as a whole went up, although we still had some major problems with this issue. The biggest problems with this issue were in the formatting of the News and Features pages and, or course, the "Girl Tennis duo wins State" article on the sports page. As we now all know, the WY girls tennis team did not win state, however this title was still published in The Beacon. Although mistakes like these should never happen, we can only move forward from this by fact-checking and verifying everything we publish rather than simply asking one person about a story. On the News and Features pages, both the "Interest in Ethnic Studies class grows at WY' article and the "Staff Picks Holiday Playlist" article chose really horrible backgrounds that washed out the text on top of them and made the articles hard to read. In order to fix this, we are going to have to print our test pages in full color as well as be mindful of our color choices when creating the paper in InDesign. Besides these errors, however, I was only able to find one grammar mistake in this issue (a missed comma in Claire's article), and I found no spelling errors in the rest of the issue. My two favorite stories were Claire's "CPS students take action in wake of budget crisis" article and Lydia's "An interview with a college admissions officer" article. Despite Claire's small typo, her article was really well written and interesting. I think it showcased WY's students in a very positive light and was well supported with facts and quotes. Lydia's article was also very interesting to me and I think it probably caught the eye of many seniors going through the college admissions process. Although there is still some things we need to work on as a staff, I think this was our best Beacon issue yet and that the quality of our paper will only increase from here.

Who would you choose to be president in 2016?

What are you going to do this winter break?

What is your favorite thing to do in the snow?

What is your favorite season?

What’s your favorite book to cuddle in the cold weather with?

Cole Rodby ‘16

• Bill Clinton
• Work on my mixtape
• Count the snowflakes
• Paprika
• “Captain Underpants” by Dav Pilkey

Mahalia Dalmage ‘17

• Mariko Dennis
• Listen to some bangers via B96
• Change its color
• Winter
• “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” by Atul Gwande

Justin Chen ‘19

• Kanye West
• Hibernate
• Be buried in it
• Summer
• “50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James

Millie Klamen ’16

• Aunt Jemima
• Hang out with with Bonnie Klamen
• Eat it…?
• WNBA post-season
• “Ferdinand Uses the Potty: Overcoming Bed-Wetting Fears (Growing with Love)” by Jason Tucker

Abhinav Goel

• Not Donald Trump
• TBD
• I prefer to be indoors
• Autumn
• “And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie