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Put down your pencils

Due to AP testing taking place around the nation, student and teacher stress seems to be at an all time high. This stress doesn’t come on its own and it most definitely isn’t lessened with the help of College Board. In fact, College Board seems to be founded on the principles of instilling stress in students and fear in teachers. On a yearly basis student’s tests are cancelled for an innumerable amount of reasons, ranging from a vibrating cell phone to eating during the exam. Since every test is worth the ridiculous price of 95 dollars and a majority of students are taking 2 or more tests, it’s important to follow these rules when prepping and taking the exams. Rule 1) Have a mental breakdown the night before. Cram, cram, cram. Since your teacher was only able to fit half the AP coursework into the year make sure to stay up the night before to cram in the other half. Rule 2) Know your last name Don’t be that kid that everyone has to wait around for because you don’t know where your last name is located in the room. Rule 3) Eat as much as you can for breakfast This way if the FRQ stresses you out too much you can just throw up all over it and pray for a 5. Rule 4) Make an educated guess  By educated guest that means pick the one that sounds the best. Rule 5) Catch up on sleep  You would think this would be the first rule but no. Studies have found that not understanding the free response question leaves a lot of time to catch up on the crucial sleep you missed out on while trying to cram in the second half of the AP coursework your teacher never got to fit in. All jokes aside, AP testing is a difficult and stressful season for all, so the best thing to do is to review what you’ve learned and not stress out over a couple of tests. In less than a week, it’s all over and things go back to normal. Read more at: http://scotscoop.com/48891/featured/put-down-your-pencils/#sthash.FY0kggLk.dpuf

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Hillary Clinton faces a real challenge

Yes, there really is another person running in the democratic primary besides Hillary Clinton. His name is Bernie Sanders and he is one of only two independent senators in the nation as well as a self proclaimed democratic socialist, according to CBS News. His platform is founded on increasing minimum wage, equal pay for women, reversing climate change, taking on wall street corruption, and making college affordable for all. However, unlike many other candidates, Sanders’ platform isn’t just empty words. Sanders has his previous actions as U.S. Senator to back it up. Sanders has been fighting for LGBT+ rights since the 1990s. He has also been a big supporter of campaign finance reform, which is ironic since he’s running against Hillary Clinton. Clinton is the first democratic presidential candidate to fully embrace super PACs, which are independent groups that can accept unlimited checks from donors in support of Clinton’s campaign. He’s even written a bill to improve veterans’ health care and lives after coming home, along with basic democratic ideals such as voting to punish crimes in alternative rehabilitative ways, and advocating for bettering public school education. When it’s time for the presidential elections many Americans end up skewing away from their party if it means that they will be helping to make history. Many Republicans voted for democratic candidate Barack Obama on the 2008 ballot because he would be the first black president. With the possibility of Clinton being the first female president it seems that someone else winning the democratic primaries would seem far fetched. However, if elected Sanders would be our first Jewish president, which is still a major step forward in changing the stereotypical presidential prerequisites. Sanders seems to have an all around solid platform, appealing to the democratic voters. The only issue is that he doesn’t have the immense amounts of funds that Hillary does, so unless there’s some grassroots support he doesn’t have a chance. If you would like to support Senator Sanders you can check out his website at https://berniesanders.com. Read more at: http://scotscoop.com/48872/featured/hillary-clinton-faces-a-real-challenge/#sthash.KyxxLbP4.dpuf

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The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

Paying for nudity on Snapchat

Elena Mateus Staff Writer

With Snapchat’s new installation of Snapcash, trading micro-payments for raunchy pictures is now incredibly simple.

On Nov. 17, 2014, Snapchat, the popular media messaging service, announced the integration of Snapcash, a peer-to-peer payment system through the payment service Square.

With the new installation, users who are 18 and over that are located in the United States can connect their debit cards to their account and instantly send money to friends.

 By simply typing the dollar sign, the amount, and pressing the new green pay button, money is deposited directly into your friend’s bank account. 

It’s as straightforward as it is potentially dangerous. 

With Snapchat being primarily image sharing accompanied by short messages, it won’t take long until sexual aspects will come into play.

 According to a study done by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 20 percent of teenagers have sent or posted nude or semi nude photos or videos of themselves. As sending nude pictures under the age of 18 is illegal, Carlmont has seen problems with students sending sexually explicit content. 

With regards to sending nude pictures, Vice Principal Jennifer Cho said, “Just because you’re sending pictures on Snapchat doesn’t mean that someone didn’t take a screenshot. The Internet is forever. You no longer have control over your own personal privacy to someone else and then once that’s out there you don’t know if its going to come back at all, ever, or not.” 

Third party apps like “Snapkeep” and “Snapgrab” are being made solely to allow users to screenshot pictures received on Snapchat without sending a notification to the sender.

 “There are already problems with the amount of nudes being sent around, but what worries me with Snapcash is how easily innocent, stupid acts can turn into the addictive act of earning money with minimal efforts,” said senior Yunus Evsen. 

With Snapchat’s circumventable age verification and semi-anonymous account system, minors potentially have the ability to sell, send, and receive nude pictures.

Picture this: a boy and a girl begin Snapchatting innocently, and one thing leads to another. Sooner or later, one of them asks for a naked picture. Assuming that both parties are, or claim to be, over the age of 18 and have money on their debit card, this can be made possible for a price. 

Senior Nathan Rosenthal said, “Snapchat has already gotten people used to the idea of sending sensitive material to others under the motive of an innocent flirt and false sense of security. Now they raise the stakes by adding cash incentives. Not to mention, sending inappropriate pictures under 18 is illegal by itself.”

 According to a poll of 198 students conducted by Carlmont Journalism, 90 percent of students use Snapchat. Of those 198, only 14 percent are over 18. “As a student, Snapcash definitely complicates things and you certainly don’t want to be in a position where someone wants to throw you some money for a picture that can be a charge against you,” said Cho. 

California’s obscenity laws protect minors from pornographic exploitation through possession, transport, distribution, and sale of pornography with the involvement of minors. Sending out nudes under the age of 18 is distribution of child pornography, and receiving nudes as a minor or from a minor is considered possession of child pornography.

 “Snapcash is going to bring a lot of unwarranted negative attention just because there is money affiliated with Snapchat now. With the money and naked pictures being sent around it’s going to create an industry for both pornography and child pornography,” said Rosenthal. 

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Complain less, vote more

We live in an age of all time high political apathy for the younger generation, which entails us having record low voter turnouts. People complain about campaign finance roofs and how the rich have the power to control elections. About how internet rights are being de-neutralized, how privacy rights are at an all time infringement, and how securities are destroyed. How Guantanamo is still open, how due process isn’t in effect, how national healthcare is a mistake, and how political parties are polar factions. How the Supreme Court of the United States is ruling in favor of corporations and wealth, how congressmen are corrupt, how the President of the United States is injust. How our foreign policy is terrible, our domestic policy is ignored, and how our economic policy is shot in the leg. And that’s all true. All these things are viable issues to worry about, but here’s the catch- we let them happen. In a government such as the one today which is by the people, for the people, and in a republican democracy, it is only the people who have devolved into the nation. Corporations, individuals, Political Action Committees, factions– they only take advantage of what’s there, there isn’t upward mobility in the level of injustice. Our responsibility as a nation is to take back what is ours. To encourage young minds to challenge everything around them. We need to make our voices relevant and heard. Educate ourselves. Educate our peers. Debate. Inspire. Discuss. Scrutinize. Support. Deny. We need to stand together as a nation of men and women who will hold each others hands and lift one another up. But also look into one another’s eyes and have an honest understanding of where each person comes from, their problems, and their views. Modern academia is so geared towards boxing up social complexes and demographics and theories to analyze groups– that we forget humanity. America needs to look in the mirror and find the humanity in itself. And then, all these problems can be challenged as a United States. We need to learn the wealth and price of being human. The value of life, and all it gives us. The worth of our neighborhood and soil. After all, what else do we have if not humanity. Read more at: http://scotscoop.com/41850/opinion/complain-less-vote-more/

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For some students, nearly 180 days of seemingly endless homework and countless hours of studying all come down to one test: the Advance Placement (AP) test.

The AP Examinations are administered every May to test the culmination of college-level work done by students in a high school setting. Students are tested on the rigorous curriculum developed and outlined by committees of college and AP high school faculty.

Junior Omid Afshar said, "The whole year you basically study the concepts that are expected to come up on [AP] test. The whole curriculum of the class is devoted to prepare for that one test."

Numerous colleges and universities give college course credit based on student's performance on AP test scores. Based on a five point scale, most colleges give credit if a student scored a three or higher.

According to Total Registration, in 2013, 65 percent of students passed their AP test scoring a three or higher.

Students, like sophomore Tyler Luk, believe the AP classes are a beneficial program. "For kids who want to get ahead, AP classes let them challenge themselves and give them a higher GPA," he said.

Luk is referring to the extra grade point added to student's GPA from AP classes. AP classes are five points, whereas regular classes are four points; thus, the student is able to exceed a 4.0.

For some, this is an important factor in the decision to take an AP course. Sophomore Claire Grundig said, "I took AP Euro mostly to get an extra point for my GPA, and I like history. It wasn't so much about the college credit for me."

The testing environment this year at Carlmont has been defined by the warm weather and the duration of the test.

Carlmont math teacher, Kim Callan said, "With AP test, there is a lot of pressure. It's a very long test."

Grundig said, "It was really hot in the Scot's Gym, which is where we took the test, and I think that made the testing more difficult."

Despite the fact that AP classes are particularly formulated to prepare students for the test, students worry about their resulting scores.

"The AP Euro test was harder than I thought it would be. Hopefully I didn't just waste 90 bucks on buying it," said sophomore Erin Alonso.

Others students are confident in their scores.

"I'm not that worried about failing. I'm just glad I took AP Euro. I really like the class and Mr. Waller," said sophomore Seena Sebt.

Whether it is for an extra point on your GPA, to receive college credits, or to get ahead, rigorous AP classes will continue to be readily available for students up to the challenge.

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