Well, "not asking for help" is not the same as "not wanted to be widely known as a Burke". For an adopted child, "not wanted to be widely known as a Burke" is generally equal to "not wanting to be associated with them". Besides, the article is generally about Burkes' donation to the university, which is the thing that she is grateful about. Plus, like I said, it doesn't matter what Sage thinks, the paper is going to write what they want.Ok, maybe "not wanting to be associated with them" was not the right way to phrase it (I'm gonna play the 'not a native English speaker card' here in my defence).
But she explains, that she does not want to ask for their help and even declines when they offer help as she want to be independant and her own person.
Now having her appear in newspapers with them would kind of go against that, since she would then be widely known as "a Burke" and no longer as the"Sage, president of the HOTs and (probably) honour student"
And I just went to check the newspaper article at the start of all this, Sage is not named because she is not on the photo, and only the people in the photo are named. We are also only shown half of the article, maybe they talk about the adoption in the second part that we can't see and name Sage.
Soo TLDR, I did not think that "not wanting to be associated with" was necessarily a bad thing, and the argument does not really hold in the first place since we have only half the article and Sage being named in the part we see wouldn't make sense anyway
The fact that Sage is not in the photo really shows that the article is not realistic, which is my point. Sage is practically the equivalent of Tybalt in the college hierarchy - president of a sorority/frat (out of the only 5 such organizations on campus). When she is such an important figure, not including her along with the rest of the family will get the paper in trouble - they will get so much flak from feminists, etc. for ignoring an essential member of the Burke family. (As you are aware, there are quite a few active feminists around the school.
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