RAVES GREENER ON

& by EMMA
HODES

It’s officially fall

THE OTHER SIDE...
which means
Pumpkin Spice
Lattes are back for

Environment suffers daily

the season! The
famous Starbucks
coffee is made with
a mix of fall spice

from mindless plastic use

flavors, steamed
milk, and espresso
has been a favorite
among autumn
lovers since 2003. by GRETCHEN Editor, Golden Fleece
WATERS gwaters.communications@gmail.com

We’re headed back to 2006 with
these trendy foam shoes. Having
been out of style the past nine years,
it’s about time for these iconic shoes
to make a comeback.
Less than five percent of plastic produced the fact that we don’t recycle at all.
is recycled, worldwide. Yes, I get it, you don’t When you search for the definition of sus-
really care, but if you are my generation or tainable living on Google it says, “...a lifestyle
younger, you might want to start. that attempts to reduce an individual’s or
According to planetexperts.com, by the time society’s use of the Earth’s natural resources,
2050 rolls around, more plastic, pound for and one’s personal resources.” It continues to
pound, will exist than fish in the oceans. Okay, describe how one would go about pursuing this
so you don’t care about marine wildlife? What lifestyle from transportation to energy con-

RONGS
about those amazing beach trips every summer sumption, and the effort to reduce the “carbon
break? What if those waves of footprint” each person has on the
ocean blue turn into carpets planet.
of garbage? Hopefully, now I Editorials Learning more about sustainable
have a bit of your attention. represent the living has made me realize how
For a long time, recycling much EACH person impacts the
did not matter to me. I went viewpoints world around them.
about my daily life throwing of individual Many people believe their ac-
away water bottles, the wrap- tions won’t make a difference, that
pers to my food and packag- authors and their lifestyle could never change a
ing for other products. It was not those of place globally. With this mindset,
not until I started researching there will never be real change. If
and becoming more interested the Golden we think this way, nothing could
in this new idea of “sustain- Fleece Media possibly get done. But imagine
able living” that I started real- if each person knew they had an
izing just how important all of Group or its impact, maybe then, could we do
this is to our generation. staff. something.
In the past 10 years, the The place in which you live
With the changing seasons comes world has produced more should not stop you from making
allergies due to the temperature plastic than in the last century. The rates at an impact either. My family goes to Target
and pressure changes. We all which we produce material goods are becom- way more than we should, but every trip we
know the feeling of a runny nose ing extremely alarming. Maybe the next step take a bag of our plastic products from the
and a sore throat, and that time is of recycling would help lessen the blow of the past couple days or weeks to make sure it is
beginning. consequences, but it just doesn’t seem to be the going where it matters, rather than adding it to
current fad for every community. Even if we another landfill.
For seniors, as a nation make a change and start to recycle, Even if you don’t care all that much because
deciding chemicals can be very harmful and difficult ‘you won’t be here in 100 years,’ just think
where they to properly dispose of, and about one-third of about the generations you who will be left to
will apply to
college and the waste recycled escapes bins and factories clean up after what you left undone.
filling out the through natural causes. Maybe next time you run to Starbucks you
applications This is not to say that we should not be recy- can bring a cup with you (and get a discount
itself is one cling because we do need to start somewhere. with that). Maybe you can bring your own bags
of the most If everyone properly disposed of recyclable to the store or for once in a lifetime you will
stressful parts waste, we could focus on more environmental- recycle that water bottle so it can one day be
of their final ly-safe ways to recycle rather than focusing on used again.
year of high
school.

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OPINION
 RAMB
HOW DO I
FIT IN? LINGS
What is your
favorite

Complete equality of sexes

Thanksgiving
tradition?

still falls short in sports “My favorite tradition

is probably just
by MADI Editor-in-Chief getting all of my close
BEDDINGFIELD mbeddingfield.communications@gmail.com family together and
being able to see
everyone at the same
time.
How do I fit in? This is a question I am all-female broadcast team for the game against Sara Sellers
constantly asking myself about where I fit in to the St. Louis Rams and Minnesota Vikings.
the stereotypes in today’s society. As a woman, This broadcast however, was only available for “I help my Mom
I’m “supposed” to wear dresses, love the color Amazon Prime users, but according to Melissa cook and we
pink and shop constantly. But I don’t. I love my Jacobs, the NFL Editor of Sports Illustrated, it sit there and
jeans, my favorite color is green, and I love to was hard to find. starve and watch
watch baseball. With the positive comments came a lot neg- Christmas movies
Women are often viewed as inferior to men ative ones and Storm fought back about these while we’re waiting
when it comes to the world of comments in an interview with for the food.”
photos/Allie-Grace Poupore/Sgolden fleece

sports. When someone has a Morning Edition. Emily

question about sports, the typical Editorials “I think it’s extremely myopic Guevara
first response is to ask one of the to think that….. the NFL or
boys, not one of the girls. And represent the really any sport is only for men,”
even in today’s culture, which is viewpoints Storm said. “For my favorite
ever-changing, women are still of individual I feel that it is very moronic Thanksgiving
not seen as professionals working for anyone to say that women tradition we goto
in sports authors and can’t participate in sports com- my cousins house
And the stereotype doesn’t not those of mentating or broadcasting. It is and my entire
just affect professional sports. like saying men can’t cook, clean family comes and
Out of the 20 varsity sports the Golden or be a good parent. The disre- we all eat turkey.”
offered at Roberson, 16 are Fleece Media spect and stereotypes does not Juliet Smith
coached only by men, and three stop at the review, but continues
are coached only by women. That Group or its in the Google searches.
leaves only one varsity sport that staff. When I search “Female Sports “My favorite
is coached by both a male and Commentators ESPN” multiple Thanksgiving
female. Girls teams like tennis, articles and videos titled ‘Top tradition is getting
cross country and soccer are all coached by 10 Hottest ESPN Female Anchors,’ come up, really full and
men, but there are no male teams coached by but when I replace the word female with male watching football
females only. I get different results. There are no videos on with family.”
Slowly, more professional teams are starting the first page of results. Rather, articles titled Zack Brasier
to have some change. But it is slow and unusu- ‘The Best Sports Personalities on ESPN’ and
al. And if it is slow at the pro level, how long ‘25 Greatest SportsCenter Anchors in ESPN
will it take for that mindset to reach the world History’ come up, why is that? “My favorite thing
of high school sports? As we have stepped a few feet forward with about Thanksgiving
For nearly 100 years, the NFL has used women in the sports world, there are still miles is eating leftovers.”
male-only groups of commentators with mixed to go. Girls do not be afraid to call the plays at
hosting groups coming on the scene just a few the football games and boys do not be afraid Zharius
years ago. It was not until Sept. 28 of this year cheer on the sidelines. How do I fit in? Actual- Looper
that there was an all-female broadcast team ly, better than I thought because I get to decide
used to call an NFL ‘Thursday Night Football’ how I fit in. There are already plans of action
game. in place to help me better fit into the puzzle, “Having my family
Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm changed but the more people working, the faster it can come over, eat
the sports broadcasting world just weeks ago. be completed. food, and play
games.”
Kremer and Storm were a part of the first
Clara Nichols

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