NEWS

LEAVING CHS: Head Coach Mo Moriarty discusses his resignation as the varsity football head coach at this school. He has accepted a position as offensive coordinator of the football team at Indiana University, a team he left five years ago to take the job at Carmel. ARJUNA CAPULONG / PHOTO

On March 1, Mo Moriarity resigned his position as this school’s football head coach to take on the position of offensive line and tight ends coach at Indiana University. Before coming to Carmel in 2005, Moriarty served for three years at IU as tight end coach under former Indiana University football Head Coach Gerry DiNardo.

Moriarity has accomplished much in his tenure at this school. In his five-year stint with the Hounds, Moriarity has led the football team to a 58-14 record and four consecutive Class 5A State Championship appearances, along with a State championship victory against Pike in 2007. Read more »

SPORTS

FIRED UP: Freshman lacrosse player Jenna Turner heads down the field, attempting to catch a pass from a teammate. The women’s lacrosse team practices at the Off the Wall sports facility after school.

When freshman Jenna Turner started her first year of high school, she decided to take the path less traveled by her older brother and sister throughout their high school careers. She decided to play lacrosse after running varsity track in middle school. Unlike her siblings, who had both competed in varsity sports, Turner instead turned to a club sport not sponsored by the school. By doing this, she joined a seemingly growing number of athletes choosing to forgo traditional school sports in favor of club sports. Read more »

FEATURE

With increasing teen pregnancy rates and media portrayal, pregnant teens face skewed perceptions

By Darlene Pham
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PLAY DATE: Junior Anna Redmond plays with her son, Carter. Redmond said she doesn’t approve of how the media portrays pregnant teens because it depicts the situation as glamorous. LIZZY GRUBBS / PHOTO

Like most teenagers, junior Anna Redmond had been free-spirited with no one to look after but herself. On September 14, 2008, however, the day after her sophomore Homecoming, Redmond received a phone call that would change the course of her life.

“(The father) called me and was like, ‘I think you’re pregnant’, and I was, like, ‘I don’t know about that,’  “she said. “(The pregnancy test) was positive, but it took a while to really understand it.”
Anna’s situation is far from unusual. According to a January report from the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group in New York, the pregnancy rate among teenage girls has jumped for the first time after more than a decade of decline. The numbers have started to increase more than 3 percent in the mid-2000s after a period of decrease since the 1990s. Read more »

ENTERTAINMENT

Special effects prove to be bigger money-makers than even the most popular movie stars

By Ellie Seta

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Prior to the 21st century, movie stars such as Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks dominated the film industry. But then in 1997, a phenomenon known as “Titanic” came crashing into the movie business, single-handedly revolutionizing the way future movies would be created. This new emphasis on special effects created a tremendous buzz and resulted in almost $1.8 billion in gross sales in the worldwide box office. In the last decade, digital spectacles have become a much larger draw than any of the famous actors and actresses who previously ruled the box office. Read more »

OP/ED

By Hilite Staff

It’s ironic that tragedy always seems to bring people closer together. This remains true in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. A country which already sat in the ravage of poverty now sits in rubble and hopelessness.

The response that has come from not only the United States but countries around the world has been unbelievable. These countries rightfully deserve commendation for their contributions, but they must remember that recovery will take years; everyone, CHS students included, should do his or her part to continue to help even though the earthquake itself has started to fade from our immediate memories. Read more »