Olivia Haynes
Current Age: 20
School: Guerin Catholic
Hobbies: anything with friends, reading, swing dancing, photography, writing, Life Teen, Bible Study, retreats, drawing,yearbook, clubs at school, movies and of course Y-Press :)
Favorite Color: blue
Favorite Book(s): too many to pick just one
Favorite Movie(s): see above
Favorite Food: Italian, if I had to choose
Favorite YPress Story: interracial dating or serbian youth
Stories by Olivia
Mixed martial arts lures youth By Olivia Haynes, 17, Keenen Brannon, 14Chris Lytle, 34, is an Indianapolis firefighter and father of four. Aerial Womock, 7, is a second grader at Hattie B. Stokes Elementary in Lebanon and is interested in art. Both participate in mixed martial arts, a sport that is growing in popularity among professionals and youth alike.
From home to classroom By Olivia Haynes, 17, Rebekah Taft, 17, Michael Wang, 17When Josiah Kaufman was a freshman at Carmel High School, he would bring his lunch every day. When the period was over, he would help his friends return their lunch trays out of "courtesy," he said.
Soon, he began helping other students clean up. "It became this thing where I went all around the cafeteria and started picking up everyone's trays when they were done. It was so funny.
People were like, 'Why in the world are you doing this?'" Josiah was just being nice. It also was his way of adapting to new people and a new school system. It was Josiah's first year in a public school.
What a Texas sociologist found By Joi Officer, 14, Warren Stokes, 17, Olivia Haynes, 17George Yancey, an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Texas, studies interracial dating and marriage. He shared some of his findings with Y-Press.
Many date outside their race By Joi Officer, 14, Olivia Haynes, 17, Warren Stokes, 17Several Indianapolis teens – be they Indian, black, Latino or white – said they would consider marrying outside of their race, now that they have been part of the interracial dating scene.
Raymond Jami, who is black, and Rocio Mendez, who is Latina, have been dating for more than three years.
Inclusive classrooms By Olivia Haynes, 16, Shelby Helton, 16, Jessika Officer, 15Emerson Barnett believes that he is successful today, in part, because of mainstreaming. Being included in typical classrooms allowed him and his classmates to face his cerebral palsy head-on.
Movie spurs Ugandan relief By Jordan Denari, 16, Olivia Haynes, 15, Shelby Helton, 15Most people watch a movie, critique it, and then move on.
For Jenna Knapp, 19, it wasn't that easy.
Jenna first saw the documentary "Invisible Children" during her senior year of high school, when a college friend brought back a copy from California.